IVP
I've been working at IVP as a software engineer since 2020.
IVP is a venture capital firm. Since 1980, IVP has invested in ~400 companies and ~130 have gone public. Our newest fund is fund 18, a $1,6B vehicle.
IVP often first invests in Series B or C rounds. Each year, we evaluate approximately ~10,000 companies, meet with ~1,000, consider term sheets for ~100, and invest in ~10.
IVP portfolio examples by first invested year:
- 2008 Netflix video streaming
- 2009 Twitter real-time social network
- 2011 Dropbox file sync across devices
- 2015 Slack work group chat
- 2015 GitHub collaborative code hosting
- 2015 Datadog cloud monitoring
- 2015 Uber ride sharing
- 2017 Amplitude product analytics
- 2017 Discord community group chat
- 2017 Grammarly writing assistant
- 2017 MasterClass online classes from world-class experts
- 2018 CrowdStrike cybersecurity
- 2018 HashiCorp cloud infrastructure tools
- 2020 Aiven managed open source databases
- 2020 WHOOP fitness wearable
- 2021 Hello Heart mobile hypertension management
- 2021 Figma collaborative UI design
- 2021 Superhuman email productivity
- 2023 DeepL AI language translation
- 2023 Perplexity AI search engine
- 2024 Glean AI search across all your company's data
There are ~50 people at the firm. The team helps companies grow and go public. See some lessons learned in the SaaS Fundraising Handbook and Three Paths to Going Public.