Investors

Cardinal Venture Capital

Cardinal Venture Capital is dedicated to investing in early-stage software companies in four specific focus areas: Digital Media, Financial Technology, Mobility and Software-as-a-Service. By focusing all our efforts on a few areas that we know really well, we have built up significant expertise and strong networks in these areas as well as a portfolio of market leading companies. We bring all of this to bear as a hands-on partner that helps entrepreneurs build successful companies, and we balance the number of companies we invest in to make sure that we can dedicate significant time and resources to each.

Clairmont Capital

Clairmont Capital is an independent fund manager comprised of the former investment team of RBC Venture Partners, the venture capital arm of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Clairmont manages the portfolio investments made by RBC Venture Partners.

Investment activity is focused on the financial services industry through two early-stage venture funds specializing in financial technology and software for the financial services vertical market.

Clairmont Capital provides more than just equity financing. In addition to providing financial support to investees, they bring the breadth and depth of business and technology expertise of a global financial services player, market leadership and compelling brand recognition that translates into revenue traction for growing companies with convincing business plans. Their strategic and financial value equals competitive advantage for their investees.

Monitor Ventures

Monitor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to commercialize technology into world-class products and services.

Founded in 2002, the Firm leverages the investment, operating and entrepreneurial experience of its partners with its privileged access to the resources of the Monitor Group to accelerate portfolio companies’ path to customers, capital and profitability.

Norwest Venture Partners

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a global venture and growth equity investment firm that manages more than $3.7 billion in capital. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, NVP has subsidiaries in Mumbai and Bengaluru, India and Herzelia, Israel and Hong Kong. NVP makes early to late stage venture and growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors including: information technology, business services, financial services, infrastructure, technology enabled services and consumer. NVP has actively partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 50 years and has funded nearly 500 companies since inception.

ONSET Ventures

ONSET Ventures, Adaptive Planning’s founding investor, specializes in providing start-up, follow-on, and intellectual capital to entrepreneurs and early-stage technology ventures, to help transform world-class ideas into sustainable and valuable businesses, through a process of “venture craftsmanship.” The firm has partnered with start-ups since 1984 and has more than $1 billion under management. ONSET Ventures is located in Menlo Park, California.