The companies on this year's Forbes Cloud 100 are worth an aggregate $820B and 97% will have > $100M ARR by the end of year. We're thrilled to see Cato Networks, Dialpad, Gusto, Plaid, and Vanta listed among the world’s top private cloud computing companies.
Acrew Capital
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Palo Alto, California 7,944 followers
Early stage venture capital firm. We partner with teams uniquely suited to solve big problems.
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Defining the future of venture.
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- 11-50 employees
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- Palo Alto, California
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- 2019
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Exciting news for Bilt Rewards! The team welcomes new investors and $150M in equity, bringing its balance sheet to $400M in cash and no debt. Expansions into healthcare, gas, and groceries are now underway as the company continues to grow their merchant rewards network even further. Proud to support Ankur Jain and team!
Today evening's big news is that Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Vanderbilt University, and University of Illinois Foundation have all joined Bilt Rewards' cap table. Ontario Teachers' not only sees a great consumer and merchant product, but also sees Bilt's value proposition to real estate owners & property managers (given their ownership of real estate businesses). The company has another $150MM in additional equity, bringing its balance sheet to $400MM in cash (with no debt). They will continue being profitable this year on an EBITDA basis. Bilt has members in all 50 states and they are spending $30B annualized (a figure that is growing very quickly). It pays to be a Bilt rewards member at tens of thousands of local neighborhood merchants. They have 21K restaurants on their merchant rewards network & 3.5K fitness studios. They are expanding into healthcare, gas, and groceries. In an ecommerce world, Bilt is bringing back the joy of buying locally. Good news for the team (cc: Ankur Jain, David M. Wyler, Daniel Seder, Zoe Oz, Brandt Smallwood, Sean Walsh). Glad for Acrew Capital to be an investor.
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In June, Forbes announced their 2024 Midas List and 20% of the people named are All Raisers including Alfred Lin, Ann Miura-Ko, Brian Singerman , David Frankel, Hans Tung, Jenny Lee, Kirsten Green, Lauren Kolodny, Mamoon Hamid, Mar Hershenson, Mary Meeker, Mike Speiser, Murat Bicer, Navin Chaddha, Pat Grady, Pejman Nozad, Reid Hoffman, Roger Lee , Satish Dharmaraj, Shawn Carolan, We love to see our All Raisers getting recognized for their brilliance and hard work. 📣 Congratulations to all those named to the 2024 Midas List! https://bit.ly/3Y4gufk #midaslist #venturecapital
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Exciting to see Prima be selected to join the Endeavor community. This leading network for high-impact organizations highlights the team's potential for growth and innovation. We look forward to seeing them scale even faster in their mission to simplify manufacturing in Mexico, congrats Juan Pablo Ramos, Daniel Autrique, and Patricio Servitje!
#BreakingNews 🚀 Juan Pablo Ramos (Co-CEO), Daniel Autrique (Co-CEO) y Patricio Servitje (CFO) de Prima han sido seleccionados como Emprendedores Endeavor en el Panel Virtual de Selección Internacional #47. Prima nace para ser un integrador confiable de manufactura y cadena de suministro en #México. Dada la baja tasa de cumplimiento del ecosistema de #manufactura (~30% frente al 95% en economías avanzadas) y la alta fragmentación (más de 500,000 fábricas), el punto de partida resultante para la manufactura en México es de alta ineficiencia y de baja fiabilidad. Prima aborda estos desafíos mediante un enfoque centrado en #tecnología, integrando la cadena de suministro y gestionando cada etapa del proceso. ¡Bienvenidos #Emprendedores Endeavor y muchas felicidades por este gran logro! Noticia traída a ti con el apoyo de Mastercard. #entrepreneurship
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Huge congrats to Christina Cacioppo and the entire Vanta team on their $150M Series C! Their customer base that has doubled to over 8,000 is a testament to their customer-first approach, and we look forward to their next milestone.
Thrilled to announce we’ve raised $150mm Series C at a $2.45bn post valuation led by Sequoia Capital alongside all our existing investors – Y Combinator, CrowdStrike, Atlassian, HubSpot, Workday, and Craft Ventures – and new investors Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan. The terms on this round are exactly as we aim Vanta experiences to be: straightforward and clean. I couldn’t be more proud of how we’ve put customers first since the Series B two years ago. That daily work shows up in this round and in our output metrics: Vanta now has over 8000 customers, almost 2x as many as last year – we’re adding customers faster than ever before; our customer growth outside of the US is faster than inside; and Trust Management is starting to catch on. We didn’t need to raise this round – we had ⅔ of the Series B in the bank – but we chose to in order to better serve our customers: 🤖 We’re building AI and LLM-enabled features for our customers first, not for ourselves. Questionnaire Automation is actually really good – 80-90% answer approvals! – and Trust Center chat quite useful. Smart Recruiters saves 20 hours each week with a streamlined security review process. 💼 We are squarely displacing legacy GRC tools, which is quite impactful; there are lots of legacy workflows for software and automation to improve. Modern Health saves over 100 hours annually on security and compliance with Vanta. 🐣 We are still, and always aim to be, the best place for a nascent-but-ambitious startup to kickstart their security and compliance programs. incident.io built trust with huge enterprises when they were just three founders around a kitchen table because of the work they did in Vanta. Thank you to our customers, past and present, for supporting us and teaching us what’s most important to you. You improve us every single day. Thank you to Vanta’ns, past and present, for taking a bet on us with your time and careers. From our early days as “the llama company” to the slicker Trust Management Platform we’ve become, none of this would have happened without you. It remains the privilege of my career to hold a megaphone to your work.
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These are the top four things you need to know about hiring top technical talent. 1. Your candidates may not be on traditional job sites so consider more dev-focused channels to source talent. 2. Soft skills matter. Replace coding questions with questions on problem solving to understand a candidate's process for tackling challenges. 3. Address their most pressing needs: salary, work-life balance, and remote work. 4. Don't view AI as a negative in the interview process. Top candidates are likely using the technology to become more efficient. Check out the full guide alongside critical considerations to differentiate your hiring strategy from CoderPad CEO Amanda Richardson in the comments.
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Congrats to Shlomo Kramer and the entire Cato Networks team for being recognized as a SASE leader by Gartner! This recognition serves as a testament to the way their customers and partners have embraced their pioneering SASE platform, helping drive growth 2x as fast as the market and a near-perfect rating on Gartner Peer Insights.
Reality has gravitational pull. Eventually, old, legacy solutions will be eclipsed by better tech, a better architecture, a true platform. What is best for customers ultimately wins the day. The history of technology has demonstrated this over and over. A shift is happening in IT Security. Gartner’s recognition of our SASE leadership is just the latest indication. I see this shift every day in the transformational impact Cato is making for our customers and partners. We pioneered SASE nearly a decade ago and have shaped it since through our true SASE platform and the unique and complete experience Cato brings to enterprises worldwide. As proud as I am of Cato being named a SASE leader, I'm even prouder of the way our customers (and soon to be customers) and partners have embraced Cato’s true SASE platform. You are why Cato grew more than 2x as fast as the market last year. You are why Cato has a near-perfect rating on Gartner Peer Insights, with our Cato SASE Cloud Platform scoring more than 10x the reviews than the other two players Gartner counts as “a leader” in SASE. You, together with my fellow Catonians who have been committed to delivering the perfect SASE experience since day 1, are transforming IT Security. And we are just getting started. #WeAreSASE
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Incredibly proud to announce that we’ve led NALA Money’s $40M round! With their mission to build the global payment rails for the next billion in Africa, Nala has already attracted tens of thousands of users who remit tens of millions of USD into the continent each month. Their rapid growth and profitability is a testament to the visionary leadership of Benjamin Fernandes and his team, whom we've proudly backed since their Y-Combinator days. We're honored to be joined by an incredible group of co-investors, including existing investor and board member Sheel Tyle from Amplo, Ryan King Co-Founder of Chime, Lexi Novitske, CFA from Norrsken22, Sterling Snow from Pelion Venture Partners, HOF Capital, Nyca Partners, DFS Lab, and DST Global, alongside many other enthusiastic supporters. As our Founding Partner Lauren Kolodny told TechCrunch, “We believe Nala will be the leader in remittances for the next generation of Africans who are expected to account for 35% of all the world’s youth by 2050. The team has deep local knowledge, fintech expertise, and unique community building know-how to build the cross-border payment rails for the next billion.” CC: John Gardner, CFA, Tom Porter, Charlie Liao
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If you want to differentiate your hiring strategy, there's two key elements you can’t afford to overlook. We asked Amanda Richardson, CEO at CoderPad, and member of our executive community, Crew of Leaders, what founders need to know about hiring top technical talent. Use this guide to learn how to structure interview questions, source potential candidates, and get up to speed on key considerations.
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My co-founding partner at Acrew Capital, Lauren Kolodny, premiered on the Midas List last year as number 100. This year, she found herself at number 68. We don’t put great stock in these types of accolades — but I’d be remiss if I didn’t take a moment to say a few things. When I first appeared on the Midas List, I was one of two women. This year has the most female representation in the history of the list. Out of 100 investors, 13 are women. Appearing on The Midas List is a good feeling. Having your once-mentee turned partner appear on The Midas List might be a better feeling. I founded Acrew with Lauren for a lot of reasons. I’d seen her in action and I admired her guts. Even as an early career investor, Lauren stood up for companies that she believed in. We led a Series A in Chime because of her thesis work and her conviction — even when most others turned it down. That experience and others like it cemented for me the importance of generational diversity — Lauren, a millennial, grew up in a different world than I did and she could spot things that I might have missed. Our fund now boasts gen x-ers, millennials and zoomers — and we’re better for it. We practice VC as a team sport and Lauren’s achievement reflects not just her success but the tenacious, innovative and decisive nature of our entire crew. On average, the venture firms represented on the Midas List this year were founded 33 years ago. Only 10% were founded in the last decade. I think it’s safe to say that our five-year-old fund is far out-punching its weight. Congratulations, Lauren. There are big things in our rear view mirror but even bigger things ahead.
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