9 SaaS Startups in Sunnyvale

January 24, 2023

SaaS startups have become the darling of Venture Capital investors, especially in Sunnyvale. Over the past decade, software has proverbially “eaten the world” and SaaS companies have scaled to become unicorn corporations in staggering amounts of time.

In this article, we are examining 9 VC funded SaaS startups in Sunnyvale .

Druva

Data management and protection are provided by DruvaTM for the cloud era. The AWS-based Druva Cloud Platform provides business data resilience that is globally accessible, endlessly scalable, and wholly autonomous. By relieving themselves of the burden of unneeded hardware, capacity planning, and software administration, customers may save expenditures by up to 50%. By turning backup data into an asset that is more open and accessible thanks to Druva's proprietary cloud architecture, users can streamline governance, boost cyber resiliency, and obtain crucial insights that help them find opportunities and hasten decision-making.

Company details:
Founders:
Jaspreet Singh, Milind Borate, Ramani Kothandaraman
Founded:
2008
Based in:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Website:
Druva
Industries:
Cloud Data Services, Cloud Security, Compliance, Data Storage, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$147,000,000
Series H
19 April 2021
Total funding:
$475,000,000
Investors
Hercules Capital, Neuberger Berman Group, Viking Global Investors, Sequoia Capital India, Nexus Venture Partners

env0

Env0 is a maker of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software that provides environment provisioning, cloud governance, and workflow tools to enterprises to assist them manage cloud infrastructure. With env0, developers, SREs, data scientists, and even sales and support workers have a method to move complicated workloads into controllable cloud environments. It was created to empower the whole team. The env0 platform is the first cloud management platform created to provide self-service in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform with full governance and cost control.

Company details:
Founders:
Ohad Maislish, Omry Hay
Founded:
2018
Based in:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Website:
env0
Industries:
Cloud Data Services, Information Services, Information Technology, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$17,000,000
Series A
24 June 2021
Total funding:
$23,800,000
Investors
Boldstart Ventures, Crescendo Venture Partners, Guy Podjarny, Grove Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund

Illumio

Illumio is a cloud security business that use adaptive segmentation to block cyberthreats from illegal communications. This data center and cloud security firm is run by seasoned professionals with extensive virtualization, networking, and security experience who formerly worked for market giants including VMware, Cisco, Juniper, McAfee, and Nicira. It was founded in 2013 and has its corporate office in Sunnyvale, California.

Company details:
Founders:
Andrew Rubin, PJ Kirner
Founded:
2013
Based in:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Website:
Illumio
Industries:
Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Data Center, SaaS, Security
Latest funding:
$225,000,000
Series F
24 June 2021
Total funding:
$557,500,000
Investors
Andreessen Horowitz, Juniper Networks, General Catalyst, Accel, BlackRock

Influ2

The first person-based marketing platform, Influ2, invented an innovative method of account-based marketing. The technology gives B2B marketers the ability to pinpoint specific decision-makers, discern their intentions, and monitor interaction on an individual basis. The company serves more than 75 large and medium-sized businesses throughout the world, including Fortune 500 B2B companies like NVIDIA, Capgemini, and Episerver. With more than 50 workers on staff, Influ2 has offices in NY and CA. Every user's engagement is tracked by Influ2. Having access to this data enables B2B marketers to create campaigns that are more intelligent and compelling and generate 4–7 times more leads. Users of the Influ2 platform may create an audience, post customized messages and images, and keep track of all interactions at both the account and individual levels. Prior to submitting a lead form, leads are identified using the behavioral scoring model. Marketers can view every individual who has interacted with their campaign by name, company, and other relevant information thanks to Influ2's person tracker. The solution works with several CRM and marketing automation systems, including Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Creatio, Outreach, and ActiveCampaign.

Company details:
Founders:
Dmitri Lisitski, Vladimir Mikhalko
Founded:
2017
Based in:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Website:
Influ2
Industries:
Advertising, B2B, Brand Marketing, Digital Marketing, Enterprise Software, Lead Generation, Marketing, Marketing Automation, SaaS, Social Media Advertising
Latest funding:
$8,000,000
Series A
26 October 2021
Total funding:
$11,400,000
Investors
VentureFriends, Rally Ventures, One Way Ventures, AVentures Capital, Murat Abdrakhmanov

Oloid

OLOID replaces outmoded access control systems in workplaces with the next generation of mobile access. OLOID integrates quickly and effortlessly with current technology as well as users' lifestyles, enhancing the working environment. OLOID intelligent technology gives users more control, convenience, and confidence over how access is managed at work. The business, which is based in Sunnyvale, California, was founded in 2018.

Company details:
Founders:
Madhu Madhusudhanan, Mohit Garg
Founded:
2018
Based in:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Website:
Oloid
Industries:
SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$12,000,000
Series A
8 February 2022
Total funding:
$32,434,159
Investors
Plug and Play, Honeywell Venture Capital, Emergent Ventures, Okta Ventures, WestWave Capital

Playvox

Playvox's powerfully simple workforce engagement management (WEM) solutions transform customer care. We deeply understand that exceptional employee engagement produces extraordinary customer experiences, and we love creating solutions that help our customers unlock the full potential in every employee and every interaction. Playvox powers the world's fastest-growing brands. Our agent-empowering suite of workforce management, quality assurance, performance, learning, customer AI, and gamification lives seamlessly in the modern support operations ecosystem with platforms like Amazon Connect, Salesforce, Slack, ServiceNow, and Zendesk.

Company details:
Founders:
Oscar Giraldo
Founded:
2012
Based in:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Website:
Playvox
Industries:
Application Performance Management, Customer Service, Enterprise Software, Quality Assurance, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$25,000,000
Series B
27 January 2021
Total funding:
$34,000,000
Investors
Alchemist Accelerator, Five Elms Capital, FCP Emprendimiento e Innovación SP

RAPIDFORT

RapidFort is a cloud-native cybersecurity company that helps clients optimize and secure their cloud workloads automatically. The company provides organizations with a platform to continuously monitor and minimize their software attack surface. An immediate benefit of RAPIDFORT’s solution is that, even before the workload arrives for production deployment, there is a clear understanding of which packages and vulnerabilities are in use by the workload, reducing vulnerability remediation and patch management backlog by 80% on average.

Company details:
Founders:
Mehran Farimani, Rajeev Thakur
Founded:
2019
Based in:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Website:
RAPIDFORT
Industries:
Cloud Management, Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Information Technology, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$8,500,000
Seed
16 June 2022
Total funding:
$10,750,000
Investors
Plug and Play, Global Founders Capital, Forgepoint Capital, Felicis Ventures, Bloomberg Beta

SecurityAdvisor

By utilizing and integrating with current technologies customers have already invested in, such as endpoint, cloud, email, or web security tools, SecurityAdvisor offers personalized, contextual, and real-time security awareness coaching to end-users. It also extracts context about the risks faced by each individual user from these tools. Its major goal is to produce measurable security outcomes, such as a decrease in the monthly endpoint infection rate or the average amount of spam or email-borne malware that high-risk users encounter, or a decrease in data leakage occurrences. By interacting with dangerous users and publishing a monthly outcomes and cyber risk reduction report, SecurityAdvisor accomplishes these results.

Company details:
Founders:
Rohan Puri, Sai Venkataraman, Santhosh Purathepparambil
Founded:
2018
Based in:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries:
Cloud Security, Cyber Security, SaaS
Latest funding:
$7,300,000
Series A
2 February 2021
Total funding:
$7,300,000
Investors
SixThirty, ClearSky, Crosslink Capital, Cyber Mentor Fund

SuperAnnotate

SuperAnnotate is the world's leading platform for building the highest quality training datasets for computer vision and NLP. With advanced tooling and QA, ML and automation features, data curation, robust SDK, offline access, and integrated annotation services, we enable machine learning teams to build incredibly accurate datasets and successful ML pipelines 3-5x faster. By bringing our annotation tool and professional annotators together we've built a unified annotation environment, optimized to provide integrated software and services experience that leads to higher quality data and more efficient data pipelines.

Company details:
Founders:
Davit Badalyan, Jason Liang, Tigran Petrosyan, Vahan Petrosyan
Founded:
2019
Based in:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries:
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$14,500,000
Series A
12 July 2021
Total funding:
$17,500,000
Investors
Runa Capital, Plug and Play, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, Fathom Capital, SmartGateVC

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