DiscoveryMN Angels is a formal angel investor organization that invests in promising startups led by students, alumni, faculty and supporters of the University of Minnesota.https://discoveryangels.com/

Simplify and streamline your control lifecycle with advanced automation, industry-leading AI, and pre-built business processes based on decades of lessons learned in the industry. Rapidly configure to meet your unique business requirements and then ruthlessly automate every phase of the control lifecycle.

We help startups scale faster by organizing exclusive investment access for their strategic ecosystem. https://syndicategroup.com/Graphiant.com

Pre-seed and Seed Investor. https://www.groovecap.com/groove-capital-minnesotas-first-check-fundCyft.aiPuebla.ioDigiphy.it

Gopher Angels, Minnesota’s largest and most active angel investor network.https://gopherangels.com/Pearcommerce.comPuebla.iogobuncha.com

LeanIX acquired by SAP (November, 2023, $1.3b)LeanIX’s Continuous Transformation Platform® is trusted by Corporate and Product IT for hundreds of enterprises that require comprehensive visibility and superior governance. Global customers organize, plan and manage IT landscapes with LeanIX’s automated and data-driven approach. Offering Enterprise Architecture – with SaaS-, Cloud- and DevOps Management, LeanIX helps organizations make sound decisions and allocate resources with complete confidence.https://news.sap.com/2023/09/sap-to-acquire-leanix/

DivvyCloud acquired by Rapid7 (April, 2020, $145m) Cloud automation for public and private clouds. Any enterprise scaling its use of public and hybrid cloud should deploy DivvyCloud to improve security, reduce cost, and ensure compliance.The value of DivvyCloud software has been proven with enterprise customers like General Electric, Discovery Communications and Fannie Mae, among others. DivvyCloud is differentiated in the market with its native multi-cloud policy automation; its patent-pending data harvesting technology; and its platform-first strategy that allows customers and partners to leverage the DivvyCloud platform to develop their own cloud management solutions and products.

Puppet Enterprise is the leading platform for automatically delivering, operating and securing your infrastructure – no matter where it runs. With Puppet you know exactly what is going on with all your software. And you get the automation needed to drive change with confidence. • One of the few Puppet global field reps that exceeded their quota for FY 2017• New logo wins: Securian Financial, Schneider National, UMB Financial, Merrill Corporation, MGIC and Commerce Bank• Existing customer add-ons: CDK Global, Aegon and Renaissance Learning • Lead the Twin Cities Puppet Meet-up group • Instrumental in promoting and securing Puppet’s sponsorship of DevOps Days Conferences• Developed relationships with partners: ColumnIT, Ahead, Cognizant, Accenture, Cisco and others

The Apcera trusted cloud platform is a highly secure, policy-driven platform for cloud-native applications and microservices—as well as legacy applications. Apcera lets dev and DevOps teams use any modern tool or software they want while giving IT the assurance that their infrastructure is safe and secure.With Apcera, companies can innovate at speed with full confidence and trust.

Enstratius acquired by Dell Software (May, 2013, $20m~) Cloud Manager provides cloud governance, automation and independence for enterprises. Think of Cloud Manager as the enterprise console to the world of cloud computing.Cloud Manager is available as software-as-a-service, or as on-premises software that enables you to control the cloud from within your own data centers.• Created and built-out a new sales organization through direct and partner channel sales• Closed largest enterprise sale in company history • Collaborate and use DevOps tools such as: Chef, Puppet, ASM and others• Exceeded $1 million in new revenue goal for 2013 and 2014• Key sales executive pre-Dell acquisition (Enstratius acquired by Dell in May, 2013)