Alex Ott

Founder, Owner at CrossContinentalVentures

📍 Berwyn, Pennsylvania, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2016
Operator-angel🌍 United States
9
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2
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15y
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Investor, Board Member
Feb 2016
Celonis makes processes work for people, companies, and the planet. The Celonis Process Intelligence Platform takes the data from the systems you already use, and presents you with a living digital twin of your end-to-end processes. It’s system-agnostic, without bias, and provides everyone with a common language for understanding and improving processes. Because when processes work, everything works. Since 2011, Celonis has helped 1,000+ of the world’s largest companies to realize value across the top, bottom, and green line. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide. Find out more at www.celonis.com.
Investor, Board Member
Dec 2015
From smartphones to connected cars, location data is changing the way we live and the way we run businesses. Everything happens somewhere, but visualizing data to see where things are isn’t the same as understanding why they happen there. CARTO is the world’s leading cloud native Location Intelligence platform, enabling organizations to use spatial data and analysis for more efficient delivery routes, better behavioral marketing, strategic store placements, and much more. Data Scientists, Developers, and Analysts use CARTO to optimize business processes, and predict future outcomes through the power of Spatial Data Science.
Investor
Mar 2013
Paxata, a DataRobot company, is the pioneer of self-service data preparation and leading data fabric provider that transforms data into information to empower every person, process, and system in an organization to be more intelligent. Its Adaptive Information Platform provides business leaders and analysts with an enterprise-grade, self-service data preparation application to deliver better customer experiences, improve operational efficiencies, and comply with regulatory requirements. Built on Apache SparkTM and optimized to run in hybrid, multi-cloud environments, Paxata leverages algorithmic intelligence and distributed computing to deliver an immersive business consumer experience that accelerates and automates the data-to-insight pipeline. DataRobot is the leader in enterprise AI. Together, we’re building the industry’s first end-to-end platform for enterprise AI to maximize business value by delivering AI at scale and continuously optimizing performance over time. DataRobot’s enterprise AI platform democratizes data science with end-to-end automation for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models. As enterprises move to a multi-cloud, hybrid world, it’s imperative an underlying data fabric that combines enterprise scale, security, and governance is a core part of the enterprise AI infrastructure. Combining AI-enabled data prep from Paxata with enterprise AI capabilities from DataRobot will supercharge your ability to transform data and deliver better outcomes all within one platform. Paxata has offices in Redwood City, New York, Ohio, and Texas. Visit www.paxata.com or engage on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube.
Investor, Board Member
2012
Accurate, Private, and Secure AI-Driven Enterprise Intelligence at Scale We are the Enterprise GenAI Platform of choice for the heaviest regulated industries. Our precision-engineered AI empowers organizations to enhance quality, accelerate speed, and reduce costs—safely and at scale. Recognized by Gartner as a visionary company, Squirro is a leading enterprise-ready generative AI provider specializing in search, insights, and automation. Our mission is to develop and deliver cutting-edge AI products that augment human intelligence, automate processes, and provide actionable insights for enterprises across industries. With over ten years of experience, Squirro expertly combines AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, generative AI, and symbolic AI, such as knowledge graphs. Our Differentiators: -Privacy: Robust access and permission controls to protect your data at every level at scale. -Security: ISO-certified with flexible deployment options to keep your data secure. -Accuracy: Knowledge graph integration and advanced algorithms for precise, deterministic insights that you can trust. -Scalability: Proven performance on over 10 TB of data with 10k+ users. Our platform scales effortlessly to meet enterprise demands. Squirro is trusted by central banks and over 30 industry leaders, including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, Standard Chartered Bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Henkel. 🏆 Our Central Banking FinTech RegTech Award Winning Engagement: https://www.centralbanking.com/awards/7958739/artificial-intelligence-initiative-european-central-bank
Investor, Board Member
2012
On August 23, 2023, Ping Identity and ForgeRock joined together to deliver more choice, deeper expertise, and a more complete identity solution for customers and partners. For more information, visit www.pingidentity.com or follow Ping Identity on social media. ForgeRock®, the leader in digital identity, delivers modern and comprehensive Identity and Access Management solutions for consumers, employees and things to simply and safely access the connected world. Using ForgeRock, more than a thousand global customer organizations orchestrate, manage, and secure the complete lifecycle of identities from dynamic access controls, governance, APIs, and storing authoritative data – consumable in any cloud or hybrid environment.
Investor, Board Member
2011
Take notes. Do online research. Save time. Start today - with Memonic (www.memonic.com) When it comes to managing all the information you find online, there are many ways to go: you can clip, you can bookmark, you can copy and paste, and you can print. But those are exhausting, and have limitations. So what is the best way to go? The answer is Memonic. Memonic, the online note-taking specialist, will make your life easier and save you hours a week. Capture the essential of any webpage, e-mail, word or excel document - and automatically save them to your own personal online notebook. A recent review by Macworld awarded Memonic four stars out of five, and stated that they prefer Memonic to note -taking app giant, Evernote! How does it work? 1. Capture: enjoy the best web clipper and a user-friendly experience – letting do much more than just clip. With Memonic, you can read later, take a note, bookmark-, gather- and much more 2. Organise: Once you’ve clipped, organize your information – and forever find (and easily search for) your snippets (text, papers, pictures, and more) again - anytime, and anywhere 3. Share: work anywhere. Memonic is compatible on the Web, Windows, PC, Mac, iPhone/iPad and any Smartphone – including Android. You can work offline, too! And best of all, you can work with friends, in groups. Invite colleagues to work with you, or friends to check out your collection. There’s no limit to what you can do. Check it out now : www.memonic.com
Investor, Board Member
2011
Flow Stream Solutions removes the hurdles of building real-time applications that require intelligent data collection, event processing and data distribution. Flow provides a multi-tenant, cloud-based platform designed to act as a kind of enterprise switchboard for real-time data—eliminating the need to piece together the myriad of technology components required to make data-in-motion immediately actionable. Developers of all skill levels can collect real-time data from multiple sources, execute in-memory event processing rules with just a few lines of javascript, and push the right data to the right people, places and apps. Flow provides a range of well documented APIs to deploy all functionality and object management (XMPP, Websockets, MQTT, REST) within any context or end-user interface. Whether for internet-of-things, mobility solutions, business intelligence or enterprise communications, it’s all about intelligently channelizing and conditionally routing real-time data to make information immediately consumable and actionable.
Investor
2011
GrabCAD is Stratasys’ Premiere open software platform for additive manufacturers, engineers and designers who wish to scale their additive manufacturing production capabilities. GrabCAD’s software platform consists of 3 core software solutions: GrabCAD Shop, GrabCAD Print and the GrabCAD Software Development Kit. Beyond this, our ecosystem of software partners furthers our ability to lead the way in the large scale additive manufacturing industry. Additionally, the GrabCAD Community is the largest online community of professional engineers, designers, manufacturers, and STEM students on the planet. The Community is a place for thought-leadership and education for the latest in engineering, design, and manufacturing, a place where professionals can show off their skills and encourage others to learn the same.
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2016
Investor, Board Member
Feb 2016
Celonis makes processes work for people, companies, and the planet. The Celonis Process Intelligence Platform takes the data from the systems you already use, and presents you with a living digital twin of your end-to-end processes. It’s system-agnostic, without bias, and provides everyone with a common language for understanding and improving processes. Because when processes work, everything works. Since 2011, Celonis has helped 1,000+ of the world’s largest companies to realize value across the top, bottom, and green line. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide. Find out more at www.celonis.com.
2015
Investor, Board Member
Dec 2015
From smartphones to connected cars, location data is changing the way we live and the way we run businesses. Everything happens somewhere, but visualizing data to see where things are isn’t the same as understanding why they happen there. CARTO is the world’s leading cloud native Location Intelligence platform, enabling organizations to use spatial data and analysis for more efficient delivery routes, better behavioral marketing, strategic store placements, and much more. Data Scientists, Developers, and Analysts use CARTO to optimize business processes, and predict future outcomes through the power of Spatial Data Science.
2013
Investor
Mar 2013
Paxata, a DataRobot company, is the pioneer of self-service data preparation and leading data fabric provider that transforms data into information to empower every person, process, and system in an organization to be more intelligent. Its Adaptive Information Platform provides business leaders and analysts with an enterprise-grade, self-service data preparation application to deliver better customer experiences, improve operational efficiencies, and comply with regulatory requirements. Built on Apache SparkTM and optimized to run in hybrid, multi-cloud environments, Paxata leverages algorithmic intelligence and distributed computing to deliver an immersive business consumer experience that accelerates and automates the data-to-insight pipeline. DataRobot is the leader in enterprise AI. Together, we’re building the industry’s first end-to-end platform for enterprise AI to maximize business value by delivering AI at scale and continuously optimizing performance over time. DataRobot’s enterprise AI platform democratizes data science with end-to-end automation for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models. As enterprises move to a multi-cloud, hybrid world, it’s imperative an underlying data fabric that combines enterprise scale, security, and governance is a core part of the enterprise AI infrastructure. Combining AI-enabled data prep from Paxata with enterprise AI capabilities from DataRobot will supercharge your ability to transform data and deliver better outcomes all within one platform. Paxata has offices in Redwood City, New York, Ohio, and Texas. Visit www.paxata.com or engage on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube.
2012
Next Principles, Inc.
Investor
2012
Investor, Board Member
2012
Accurate, Private, and Secure AI-Driven Enterprise Intelligence at Scale We are the Enterprise GenAI Platform of choice for the heaviest regulated industries. Our precision-engineered AI empowers organizations to enhance quality, accelerate speed, and reduce costs—safely and at scale. Recognized by Gartner as a visionary company, Squirro is a leading enterprise-ready generative AI provider specializing in search, insights, and automation. Our mission is to develop and deliver cutting-edge AI products that augment human intelligence, automate processes, and provide actionable insights for enterprises across industries. With over ten years of experience, Squirro expertly combines AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, generative AI, and symbolic AI, such as knowledge graphs. Our Differentiators: -Privacy: Robust access and permission controls to protect your data at every level at scale. -Security: ISO-certified with flexible deployment options to keep your data secure. -Accuracy: Knowledge graph integration and advanced algorithms for precise, deterministic insights that you can trust. -Scalability: Proven performance on over 10 TB of data with 10k+ users. Our platform scales effortlessly to meet enterprise demands. Squirro is trusted by central banks and over 30 industry leaders, including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, Standard Chartered Bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Henkel. 🏆 Our Central Banking FinTech RegTech Award Winning Engagement: https://www.centralbanking.com/awards/7958739/artificial-intelligence-initiative-european-central-bank
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