Joseph Ansanelli

Co-founder and Exec Chairman, Gladly

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2014𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United States
9
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6
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2
Mid stage
0
Late stage
18y
Years active

Portfolio

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Jun 2014
Grand Rounds Health is now Included Health, delivering integrated virtual care and navigation. We’re on a mission to raise the standard of healthcare for everyone. We break down barriers to provide high-quality care for every person in every community — no matter where they are in their health journey or what type of care they need, from acute to chronic, behavioral to physical. We offer our members care guidance, advocacy, and access to personalized virtual and in-person care for everyday and urgent care, primary care, behavioral health, and specialty care. It’s all included.
Board Member and Investor
Feb 2013
At Trifacta, we’re focused on building software that helps individuals and organizations unlock the potential of their data by providing a new approach to how data is explored and prepared for analysis. Whether you’re trying to improve the efficiency of an existing analysis process or utilize new sources of data for an analytics initiative, Trifacta’s data wrangling solutions will empower you to do more with data of all shapes and sizes.
Board Member and Investor
Feb 2013
Sumo Logic turns insights into action by enabling customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its Sumo Logic SaaS Log Analytics Platform.
Board Member
Aug 2010
Pipewise helps consumer marketers increase the lifetime value of their web and mobile customers. We combine customer data analytics with event-triggered, personalized communications to bring customers back, get them to spend more, and grow your business. Pipewise is backed by Benchmark Capital, Floodgate, SVAngel, Felicis, and an experienced team of advisors.
early stageInternet
Co-Founder & Investor
Jun 2010
Group Photo Sharing We like taking pictures, and so do our friends. At group events, like a party or a soccer game. It's so easy. Yet, when groups share photos, they share them everywhere. Through social sites and photo sites, as well as lots of emails. It's so frustrating. We decided to create ZangZing so groups can share photos of one event in one place. Simply and beautifully.
Investor
Dec 2009
MobileIron is redefining enterprise security with the industry’s first mobile-centric security platform for the Everywhere Enterprise. In the Everywhere Enterprise, corporate data flows freely across devices and servers in the cloud, empowering workers to be productive anywhere they need to work. To secure access and protect data across this perimeter-less enterprise, MobileIron leverages a zero trust approach, which assumes bad actors are already in the network and secure access is determined by a “never trust, always verify” model. MobileIron’s platform combines award-winning and industry-leading unified endpoint management (UEM) capabilities with passwordless MFA (Zero Sign-On) and mobile threat defense (MTD) to validate the device, establish user context, verify the network, and detect and remediate threats to ensure that only authorized users, devices, apps, and services can access business resources in a “work from everywhere” world. Over 20,000 organizations, including the world’s largest financial institutions, intelligence agencies, and other highly regulated companies, have chosen MobileIron to enable a seamless and secure user experience in the Everywhere Enterprise.
Investor
Sep 2009
Lookout, Inc. is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader delivering advanced protection for the most vulnerable element of any enterprise security strategy — human error and manipulation. Cloud-native by design, the Lookout platform offers rapid, scalable deployment and simplified security operations, defending the frontline of human-centric attacks—the mobile device. Attackers now target the human element more than ever, with mobile devices providing the most direct path to their victims. Using social engineering techniques that exploit basic human instincts like trust, curiosity, and urgency, they deceive users into revealing sensitive credentials, allowing them to slip past legacy security solutions. Lookout Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) continuously monitors mobile endpoints for signs of human-centric attacks, as well as traditional malware, software vulnerabilities, and other anomalous activity. It uses advanced threat detection techniques, including artificial intelligence (AI) and behavioral analysis, to identify threats before they escalate across the enterprise.
Investor
Aug 2009
Smartlings AI-Enabled Translation Platform, Neural Machine Translation and Language Services empowers teams to create multilingual websites, marketing communications, web and mobile apps and customer experiences. Grow your business faster, with the #1 translation management platform.
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2025
Executive Chairman and Co-founder
Sep 2025
Uniquely powered by Customer AI, Gladly is the only CX platform that puts the customer —not tickets — at the center of every conversation. Trusted by the world’s most customer-centric brands, including Crate & Barrel, Ulta Beauty, and Tumi, Gladly delivers radically efficient and radically personal experiences. Learn more at www.gladly.ai.
2014
Investor
Jun 2014
Grand Rounds Health is now Included Health, delivering integrated virtual care and navigation. We’re on a mission to raise the standard of healthcare for everyone. We break down barriers to provide high-quality care for every person in every community — no matter where they are in their health journey or what type of care they need, from acute to chronic, behavioral to physical. We offer our members care guidance, advocacy, and access to personalized virtual and in-person care for everyday and urgent care, primary care, behavioral health, and specialty care. It’s all included.
2013
Board Member and Investor
Feb 2013
At Trifacta, we’re focused on building software that helps individuals and organizations unlock the potential of their data by providing a new approach to how data is explored and prepared for analysis. Whether you’re trying to improve the efficiency of an existing analysis process or utilize new sources of data for an analytics initiative, Trifacta’s data wrangling solutions will empower you to do more with data of all shapes and sizes.
Board Member and Investor
Feb 2013
Sumo Logic turns insights into action by enabling customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its Sumo Logic SaaS Log Analytics Platform.
2012
Partner
Jun 2012
We are the first partner for founders. Over 80% of our investments are the first check: Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A. Many start on a whiteboard. Focused on AI-first companies. We partner selectively, care deeply, and strive for excellence. We back founders who are building disruptive enterprise and consumer software companies such as: Airbnb (Nasdaq: ABNB), Abnormal Security, Adept AI, AppDynamics, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), CATO Networks, Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN), Discord, Dropbox (Nasdaq: DBX), Figma, Inflection, Instabase, LinkedIn, Meta (Nasdaq: Meta), Nextdoor (NYSE: KIND), Okta (Nasdaq: OKTA), Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), Roblox (NYSE: RBLX), Rubrik, and Workday (NYSE: WDAY).
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