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NASA and the U.S. Army run IT support on software built in Buenos Aires $35M - InvGate's first funding round, raised after 14 profitable years 70+ countries served, 1,400+ clients 2026 Data Quadrant Champion in Midmarket ITSM $0.21 per node/month - how InvGate priced its way worldwide NASA and the U.S. Army run IT support on software built in Buenos Aires $35M - InvGate's first funding round, raised after 14 profitable years 70+ countries served, 1,400+ clients 2026 Data Quadrant Champion in Midmarket ITSM $0.21 per node/month - how InvGate priced its way worldwide
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The IT company from Buenos Aires that quietly ended up running NASA's help desk

IT Management is evolving. InvGate enables you and your organization to streamline service operations, optimize IT spend, and enhance Asset Lifecycle Management.

Somewhere inside NASA, a technician submits a ticket - a laptop won't boot, a piece of ground equipment needs a software license, an account has to be provisioned. The request lands in a system that routes it, tracks it, and closes it out. That system was not built in Silicon Valley or Seattle. It was built in Buenos Aires, by a company most people outside IT departments have never heard of, called InvGate.

InvGate makes software for the people who keep computers working. There are two products, and the split is clean. One tracks what a company owns - every laptop, server, virtual machine, cloud instance and software license. The other runs the support desk that handles what goes wrong. Between them they cover most of what an internal IT team does on a given day: know what you have, and fix it when it breaks.

The pitch is not that this is new. Companies like ServiceNow and BMC have sold IT management software for decades. The pitch is that most of it is bloated, overpriced, and takes half a year and a small army of consultants to install. InvGate's founder ran into exactly that wall, and decided to build the version he actually wanted.

01 - OriginA frustration with a price tag

In the late 2000s, Ariel Gesto was running IT operations at a large media company in Argentina. He was 27, trained as an IT engineer, and staring at enterprise software that he found unwieldy and, more to the point, absurdly expensive. His read was blunt: this stuff was out of reach for maybe 90% of organizations. Not because they didn't need it - because they couldn't afford it or stomach the rollout.

So in 2009 he built the first version himself, a tool to give a business visibility into its own asset inventory. He called it InvGate, short for Inventory Gateway. The name has stuck around long after the company outgrew that first product, which is a nice tell about where its head is - the inventory came first, the empire came later.

Enterprise software was unwieldy and overpriced - out of reach for 90% of organizations. The observation that started InvGate

Gesto co-founded the company with Liliana Gary, now its president. What they did next is the part that makes the story unusual: nothing dramatic. No blitzscaling, no early venture round, no burn-the-cash-to-grow. They built a product, sold it, made money, and reinvested. For fourteen years.

02 - The two productsIntelligence and execution

InvGate frames its lineup as two halves of the same job. Asset Management is the "system of intelligence" - the part that knows what's true about your infrastructure. Service Management is the "system of execution" - the part that makes things happen. It's a tidy way to describe why a company that does IT asset tracking also does help-desk ticketing: you can't fix what you can't see.

System of Intelligence

InvGate Asset Management

Tracks hardware, software, virtual machines and cloud instances. Handles device inventory, software license management, and a configuration management database (CMDB) - the map of everything a company owns and how it connects.

System of Execution

InvGate Service Management

A service desk and ticketing platform for incidents, requests, changes and problems. Includes a no-code workflow builder and, since 2024, an AI Hub that classifies and routes requests to cut the manual grind.

The AI Hub is InvGate's version of the feature every software company is shipping right now, but with a specific, unglamorous job: read an incoming ticket, figure out what it's about, send it to the right place, and suggest the next step. Not a chatbot demo - the part of the workday that IT teams would happily hand off.

The expertise behind both products is deep in one narrow area. InvGate does not try to be a general software company that happens to sell to IT. It sells ITSM and ITAM, holds ITIL tool accreditation for its service desk, and has spent fifteen years absorbing the specific frustrations of the people who run internal support. That focus shows up in small places - free seats for ticket submitters, a no-code builder so admins aren't hostage to a vendor, pricing that a manager can approve without a committee.

03 - Who uses itSpace agencies and car makers

For a company that stayed quiet for most of its life, the client roster is loud. InvGate powers service desks and asset tracking for organizations in more than 70 countries, and the named customers skew toward the kind of institution that does not pick software casually.

NASAKPMGPwCToyotaAllianzMotorolaCollins AerospaceU.S. ArmyAES

The customer base runs across government, defense contractors, aerospace, healthcare, education, banking and technology - organizations that range from a few hundred assets to a million. One published case is Element U.S. Space & Defense, an aerospace and defense contractor that unified its IT service management and asset management on InvGate after an acquisition left it juggling systems. That's the recurring pattern: a company merges, inherits two of everything, and needs one platform to make sense of the mess.

2009
Founded
70+
Countries
1,400+
Clients
~260
Employees

04 - The money storyFourteen years, then a check

Here is the number that makes investors sit up. InvGate did not raise a funding round until 2023. Fourteen years in, profitable, growing around 60% a year, and it had never taken outside money. Then Riverwood Capital led a $35 million growth round, with Endeavor Catalyst joining in. It was the company's first institutional financing.

Most software companies raise early and often, trading equity for speed. InvGate did the opposite, and the round it eventually took reads less like a lifeline and more like a company that had earned the right to be picky. Profitability is leverage, and InvGate spent a decade and a half accumulating it before spending any.

A different funding curve
2009–2022
$0
2023 round
$35M
Est. revenue '23
~$30M
Bootstrapped, then boosted. Nearly a decade and a half of self-funding, then one growth round. Revenue figure is a public estimate for 2023.

05 - The wedgeCheaper, faster, yours to change

InvGate competes in a crowded field - ServiceNow at the enterprise top, Atlassian's Jira Service Management, Freshworks, ManageEngine, Ivanti and BMC all fighting for the same buyers. Its answer to "why you and not them" is consistent, and it's mostly about friction. Faster to deploy. No six-figure consulting bill to get started. A tool your own team can reconfigure as it grows, instead of filing a request every time something needs to change.

The pricing carries the same message. Asset Management starts at roughly 21 cents per managed node per month - about $1,250 a year for up to 500 nodes. Service Management is priced per agent, and the people who only submit tickets don't count against the bill. That kind of transparent, low-floor pricing is how a company in Buenos Aires ends up selling into 70 countries without a giant field sales force in each one.

Help our customers help their customers through capabilities designed to optimize IT service delivery and support. Liliana Gary - Co-Founder & President

06 - Where it sitsThe mid-market lane

InvGate's natural home is the middle. Too big for a spreadsheet and a shared inbox, not big enough to want a multi-year ServiceNow implementation. Analysts have started to notice: the company was named IT Asset Management Company of the Year for 2025 and, in 2026, a Data Quadrant Champion in Midmarket ITSM. On Gartner Peer Insights it carries a 4.8 out of 5, with 94% of reviewers willing to recommend it.

The business model underneath is ordinary B2B SaaS - subscriptions, per agent and per node, sold self-serve and direct. What's less ordinary is the discipline. A company that stayed profitable through its entire bootstrapped stretch tends to build software the way its customers want to buy it, because it never had a war chest to paper over the gaps.

There's also a geographic footnote worth pausing on. The best-known enterprise software tends to come from a handful of American cities, and the assumption baked into a lot of buying decisions is that serious infrastructure comes from those addresses. InvGate is a counterexample built out of Argentina, staffed by a largely local engineering team, selling to space agencies and banks on other continents. Its stated culture - "simple by design" - is less a slogan than a constraint it chose early and never had the budget to abandon.

07 - TimelineHow it got here

2009
Inventory Gateway is born
Ariel Gesto builds the first InvGate asset tool to give organizations affordable visibility into their IT.
2012
The service desk arrives
InvGate expands into ticketing and service management, becoming a two-product platform.
2023
First outside capital
A $35M growth round led by Riverwood Capital, with Endeavor Catalyst - after 14 profitable years.
2024
AI Hub launches
AI-assisted classification and automation land across both products.
2025–26
Industry recognition
ITAM Company of the Year, then Data Quadrant Champion in Midmarket ITSM.
Slow, then all at once. The gap between the first product and the first funding round is the whole story.

What InvGate has built is not flashy. IT asset management and service desks are the plumbing of a company, invisible until they leak. But plumbing is a good business - everyone needs it, nobody wants to rip it out once it works, and the bill arrives every month. From one media company's IT department, InvGate turned that plumbing into a platform used across more than a thousand organizations. It just took its time getting loud about it.

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