Portfolio

HWVP’s goal is to help every company find its own path to success.

Introduction

Success in enterprise software is hard work, and we work hard to tilt the playing field in favor of our companies.

At HWVP, we strive to help every company in our portfolio find the maximum success and full market potential. We join our company’s path towards success early—usually as the first institutional investor—and almost always before the product or product/market fit is established.

Hopin Acquires Streamable and Jamm to Advance Video Innovation


Today, I am excited to welcome video hosting service Streamable and video technology company Jamm to the Hopin family.

Earlier this month, in my letter announcing our Series C, I talked about the future of Hopin as a multi-product company motivated by a vision to create a world of better shared experiences. That includes events—but also the various other ways in which people will come together, make connections, and form communities in the years ahead.

Our acquisition of Streamable and Jamm—two of the most forward-thinking teams in the video technology space—is our down payment on that future.

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Farewell, MuleSoft

From the Founder Ross Mason

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I have resigned from MuleSoft, the company I founded in 2006 on top of the Mule project I created in 2003. This is a big move for me; to step away from the company that I grew from a line of open-source code in my bedroom to a publicly-traded company on the NYSE in 2017. And a year later was acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 Billion - one of the largest enterprise software acquisitions of all time.

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It's hard work to go from this early stage to a successful IPO or acquisition—we know because we have done it ourselves and we have done it along side some of most successful recent companies like Mulesoft, Omniture, Five9, Sonatype, XANT, AspireIQ and Aria Systems. These companies have had incredible success and defined the markets they created.

Mulesoft reached IPO.

Insights

Success Stories

While many of our companies have found great success, here are a few stories of our most notable investments.

Five9

Category Leading Cloud Call Center Company

Five9 has grown to be a $3.5B high growth public company by creating the cloud category for call center software while disrupting legacy on-premise providers. HWVP was the lead / first investor and largest shareholder through their IPO (and beyond).

MuleSoft

Connecting the world’s applications, data and devices

HWVP funded Mulesoft as their first investor as a two-person startup and remained their lead investor through their IPO and acquisition by Salesforce for $6.5B. The company was an open-source pioneer that was the first to realize the power of APIs and connecting data – which lead to their astounding growth and capital efficiency.

Sonatype

World leader in automating DevSecOps

Sonatype is a high-growth, capital-efficient company helping Global2000 customers innovate faster and automatically control open source risk. They are on the forefront of the modern software development movement that allows software to be released orders of magnitude faster than previous eras. HWVP is the lead and first investor.

InsideSales

AI-powered SaaS platform for sales teams in a post-CRM world

InsideSales leverages a proprietary dataset of over 100B sales interactions that unlocks a shared AI-driven performance improvement for sales leaders at enterprise companies like Cisco, Infor, Caesars Entertainment, Bank of America, and CenturyLink. HWVP is the first investor in the company after seeing the power of AI and data applied to this category.

AspireIQ

Connecting communities of Brands, Influencers and Content

AspireIQ is the category leader in enabling marketers and content creators to build the brands of tomorrow. Traditional brands and their traditional marketing channels are being rapidly displaced by new brands with strong online presences – enabled by AspireIQ. HWVP is the company’s Series A investor.

Aria

Recurring revenue management for enterprises to monetize their business

Aria Systems is the category leader for enterprise companies like Telstra, MindBody, VMWare, Allstate, Audi, Comcast, and Experian that need to enable their businesses with a modern subscription business model. HWVP is proud to be the first investor in Aria Systems.

Our companies tell our story best.