We (Vertex Ventures US) have been investors in Very Good Security (VGS) from the very beginning: we led the seed round in 2016 and have participated in both VGS’s Series A and B financings. …

Our Seed partnership with OpsLevel Today I am excited to share the news of Vertex US’s partnership with OpsLevel’s founders John Laban and Ken Rose. I could wax poetic about John Laban and Ken Rose’s engineering prowess from experiences building innovative products at DevOps GOATs PagerDuty, Amazon, and Shopify. …

As we continue to navigate how the world has changed, companies around the world are making decisions about how the workplace must change, too. We held a virtual breakfast with People leaders from Earnin, Evisort, HashiCorp, LaunchDarkly, Tulip, Very Good Security, Vir Bio, and more, to learn about how their…

Vertex Ventures US is an upstart venture capital team in a world filled with staid, stalwart funds. We enjoy creating and investing in enterprising founders challenging big markets through software and data to take advantage of the shift from human speed to machine speed business. Vertex Ventures US is recruiting…

Like so many others, I am outraged at the senseless violence, police brutality and unequal treatment endured by people of color in America. We cannot stand by in the face of clear injustice. Black Lives Matter. These are not truths that we are just realizing today. I call upon my…

Since 2015, we’ve been investing early (often first!) in enterprising founders who have envisioned and prescribed technological solutions for transforming work and improving how business gets done. …

Today, our portfolio company Very Good Security (VGS) announced a Series B led by Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division. We are incredibly proud of the VGS team’s progress and the product they’ve built since we initially partnered with them in 2016. …

We took a bet on Shahar, Noam, Jeff, and Ram before SpaceIQ was even a rough idea. We knew the team was special and worked with them to figure out what their next project would be. They exhibited the grit and curiosity we find compelling about early-stage teams. After a…

We learned through conversations with many F500 companies that current firewalls weren’t sufficient protection against content-based attacks, particularly for encrypted traffic (e.g., SSL). Despite some cloud vendors offering point-solutions, there were no platforms that (1) met performance requirements, (2) were easily managed, and (3) could span local networks and multi-cloud…