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1E and the $720 million case for fixing IT before it breaks
A frozen checkout, a tired laptop, another help-desk ticket. 1E built a business around these small failures. Now TeamViewer is betting on its ability to make them disappear.
Adaptiva Deleted 1,500 Servers. Now It Wants to Put Patching on Autopilot
The Kirkland software company turned spare capacity on ordinary devices into an enterprise delivery network. Its next act is harder: convincing security teams that machines can patch machines without losing the human veto.
Action1 Gave Away the First 200 Endpoints. Then Revenue Grew 4,512%.
The Netwrix founders put $20 million of their own money behind a boring problem, narrowed the company to patching, and made the full product free for 200 devices. The wager turned routine maintenance into one of software's more unusual growth stories.
JumpCloud Put the Company Directory in the Cloud. Now It Wants the Whole IT Stack.
JumpCloud began by automating access to servers. The bigger business appeared when its founders realized the directory - the dull, indispensable list behind every login - could become the control plane for modern work.
Liongard’s Bet: The MSP Tool That Turned Stale Documentation Into a Living Map
MSPs used to document a client’s network and watch the truth expire. Liongard built a business by turning that slow leak of accuracy into a continuously updated asset-intelligence layer - useful when the rollout discipline is as good as the software.
Lakeside Software Put a Black Box on the Corporate Laptop - Now It Wants IT to Fix Problems Before Anyone Complains
Most help desks wait for a ticket. Lakeside Software built SysTrack to watch the machine, reconstruct the failure and give IT a chance to act first - a useful idea whose value depends less on another dashboard than on changing how support teams work.
N-able
N-able built a half-billion-dollar subscription business by helping managed service providers do the unglamorous work that keeps small businesses running. Now it is stitching monitoring, security and recovery into one open system - while learning that resilience is a promise tested in public.
Amelia
The enterprise AI agent that answered phones before chatbots were cool - a 26-year-old New York company that became SoundHound's play for the voice-first future of customer service.
Modern
Modern is a San Francisco startup building an AI-native IT function - a single platform where always-on agents automate help desk, access, hardware, on/off-boarding, security and procurement inside the tools teams already use, such as Slack, Teams, email and voice. Founded in 2026 by Seb Poole and Aleks Tomovski and backed by Y Combinator (P26), it positions itself as a ServiceNow alternative that resolves requests end-to-end rather than routing tickets, claiming 80%+ automation of inbound IT requests.
Automox
Automox is a cloud-native IT automation and endpoint management company that helps organizations patch, configure, and secure Windows, macOS, and Linux devices from a single platform. Founded in 2015 in Boulder, Colorado, its agent-based, server-free approach automates patch management and vulnerability remediation across distributed fleets, and its Otto generative-AI assistant lets IT teams build automation scripts (Worklets) in plain language. The company serves more than 1,500 customers across 30-plus countries and has raised roughly $154 million, including a $110 million Series C led by Insight Partners in 2021.
SuperOps
SuperOps is an AI-native IT management platform that folds professional services automation (PSA), remote monitoring and management (RMM), unified endpoint management, service desk, patching, and documentation into one system. Founded in 2020 by Arvind Parthiban and Jayakumar Karumbasalam, it targets managed service providers (MSPs) and in-house IT teams, pitching a single pane of glass that replaces the 10-15 tools an MSP typically stitches together. Backed by $54.4M in venture funding, it added an agentic AI assistant, 'Monica,' and expanded from MSP tooling into internal IT teams with a cross-OS UEM product.
Arganteal Corporation
Arganteal Corporation is an Austin, Texas software company that helps enterprise and government IT teams design, deploy, and manage complex infrastructure across hybrid cloud environments. Its patented tools - ADepT for workflow automation and ASCOT for discovering and classifying operational scripts - turn scattered scripting knowledge into reusable, platform-agnostic automation libraries. The company pairs that technology with professional services, claiming to cut deployment time by as much as 90%, and counts the U.S. Air Force among its longstanding partners.
Omnissa
Omnissa is an independent digital work platform company spun out of VMware's End-User Computing business after KKR's roughly $4 billion acquisition closed on July 1, 2024. Led by CEO Shankar Iyer, it builds the autonomous workspace: a unified platform spanning Workspace ONE (unified endpoint management), Omnissa Horizon (virtual desktops and apps / DaaS), and Omnissa Intelligence (analytics and digital employee experience), increasingly stitched together with trusted, AI-driven automation. The company serves more than 26,000 customers worldwide, including a majority of the Fortune 500, with about $1.5 billion in annual recurring revenue and roughly 4,000 employees.
XOPS
XOPS (legal name XperiencOps, Inc.) is a Menlo Park-based autonomous IT company that emerged from stealth in August 2025 with $40M co-led by Activant Capital and FPV Ventures. Billed as the first 'Active System of Intelligence,' its platform builds a living knowledge graph of an enterprise's fragmented IT estate and deploys a legion of goal-oriented software robots that coordinate existing systems - ServiceNow, Workday, Okta, Intune - to drive desired states across employee, device, and software lifecycles. The pitch: declare the outcome you want, and XOPS continuously converges your systems toward it, no tickets, no human middleware.