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Ivanti
Inside the Utah software company that quietly runs the plumbing behind millions of corporate laptops and phones - and learned the hard way what happens when the plumbing springs a leak.
EasyVista
Inside the quiet French software company that has spent three decades making corporate IT support less painful - and is now betting on AI to do the boring parts.
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.
Torii
Torii is a SaaS Management Platform (SMP) that helps IT and finance teams discover, optimize, and govern the software running across their organization. Founded in 2016 by three serial entrepreneurs, Torii pioneered a discovery-first approach that surfaces shadow IT - and, more recently, shadow AI - through browser extensions, SSO, direct integrations, and financial data. On top of that visibility it layers spend analytics, license optimization, and no-code automation for tasks like onboarding, offboarding, and renewals. Headquartered in New York with R&D in Israel, Torii counts customers such as Instacart, Bumble, and Palo Alto Networks, and was named a Leader in Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant for SaaS Management Platforms.
Riverbed Technology
Riverbed Technology is a San Francisco-based IT software company that helps large enterprises see, optimize, and troubleshoot the digital experiences their people and customers depend on. Originally famous for the SteelHead WAN-optimization appliance, Riverbed has reinvented itself around AI-powered unified observability - stitching together network, application, and end-user telemetry, then layering predictive, generative, and agentic AI on top to spot problems and increasingly fix them automatically. Founded in 2002, taken private by Thoma Bravo in 2015 and again by Vector Capital in 2023, it serves thousands of global organizations across finance, government, healthcare, retail, and beyond.
NinjaOne
NinjaOne is an Austin-based software company that makes an automated, cloud-native endpoint management platform used by IT teams and managed service providers to monitor, secure, patch, back up and control laptops, servers, mobile devices and SaaS data from a single console. Founded in 2013 as NinjaRMM, it now serves more than 30,000 customers and manages over 5 million endpoints, and in 2025 raised $500 million in Series C extensions at a $5 billion valuation while remaining founder-led and debt-free.
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.
Tanium
Tanium is a privately held cybersecurity and systems-management company that built its business on a simple, stubborn idea: you should be able to ask a question of every computer in a large organization and get an accurate answer in seconds. Its Converged Endpoint Management (XEM) platform uses a peer-to-peer 'linear chain' architecture to query and control millions of endpoints in near real time, collapsing the gap between security teams and IT operations. Founded in 2007 by BigFix veterans David and Orion Hindawi, Tanium now secures more than 33 million endpoints for dozens of Fortune 500 companies, major banks, retailers, and government defense agencies, and is pushing into autonomous, AI-driven IT operations with products like Tanium Atlas.
BigPanda
BigPanda is an AIOps platform that uses machine learning to correlate noisy IT alerts from hundreds of monitoring tools into actionable incidents, helping enterprise operations teams detect, triage and resolve outages faster. Founded in 2012 and based in Mountain View / Redwood City, it serves large enterprises including Intel, PayPal, Workday and Gap.
ControlUp
ControlUp is a digital employee experience (DEX) and autonomous endpoint management platform that helps IT teams see, score, and fix problems on every desktop, virtual session, and SaaS app before users start filing tickets. Born in Israel in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves more than 2,000 enterprise customers and was named a Leader in the inaugural 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DEX Tools.
Oomnitza
Oomnitza is a San Francisco-based Enterprise Technology Management platform that gives IT teams a single, accurate picture of every asset in their organization — hardware, software, SaaS, and cloud — with 98%+ data accuracy and 1,500+ pre-built integrations. Founded in 2012, the company helps enterprises reduce costs, enforce compliance, and automate IT workflows across the full asset lifecycle, from procurement to offboarding.