Blake Bartlett

Investor

📍 Greater Boston, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2023
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Jun 2023
Parabola is transforming the way companies operate by empowering non-technical teams to automate complex data processes with ease. With powerful collaboration and documentation capabilities, users leverage Parabola’s drag-and-drop interface to access, manipulate, and act on their data, regardless of where it lives. By empowering teams to solve the problems they’re already experts on, Parabola helps businesses of all shapes and sizes improve operations, drive revenue, and ultimately operate with excellence. Parabola is proud to serve companies like Flexport, Sonos, Uber Freight, and Durex and is backed by OpenView Partners, Matrix Partners, Thrive Capital and many other amazing investors.
Board Observer
Apr 2023
The leading enterprise platform to build AI Agents for Customer Service - used by 4,000+ businesses from scaling startups to the Fortune 500. Book a demo with our team to learn how your business can provide better customer experiences at scale.
Board Member
Apr 2022
Toucan is an immersive learning tool that is the most efficient way to learn new concepts while going about your day. 🇪🇸🇧🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵🇰🇷🇺🇸🇮🇳🇮🇱🇨🇳🇸🇦
Investor
Jun 2021
Speechify is a text-to-speech app that makes it easy for the world to access information. 20+ million people now use the Google Chrome extension and iOS and Android mobile apps. Our amazing users are students, professionals, and productivity lovers. Many of them have learning differences like dyslexia and ADHD, while many just want to read faster and listen on the go. With Speechify you can turn any book, document, or website into audio, and listen while you’re in the car, doing laundry, walking your dog, making dinner, working out, skydiving—whatever your daily routine is! Speechify also powers Medium, the Star Tribune, The Direct, and more. Easily add text-to-speech to your website. Cliff Weitzman, our fearless CEO, founded Speechify in 2017 in a dorm room at Brown University so he could share with others the incredible text-to-speech software he’d been working on. Cliff has dyslexia and he was frustrated with how much time and energy it took for him to read. Advanced TTS technology was a total gamechanger, it allowed him to finish his readings 3x faster than a normal reader and to better comprehend and retain information. At Speechify our goal is for reading to never be a barrier to learning for anyone. Nothing should hold you back from learning information quickly and effectively. Speechify has grown to employ over 100 team members spread out across the globe in just a few short years. Were proud of the incredible team with members who were previously leaders and senior engineers at companies like Snapchat, Apple, Spotify, Amazon & Uber. We all love and prioritise ownership, delivering value with speed, learning as much as we can and making our users feel empowered. Our Leadership Principles: https://bit.ly/3uxj4uO Check out open jobs here: https://careers.speechify.com/ Download our iOS app: https://apple.co/39batpR Try our free Chrome extension: https://bit.ly/3PW3L7X
Board Member
Nov 2020
Web development has advanced in leaps and bounds in the last decade, but front-end testing has not. Testing sucks. It’s the part that every developer dreads. It’s often harder to write a passing test than an actual feature. We want to spend our time building cool things, and we need tools that match how we build modern applications. Therefore we built a revolutionary new testing tool from the ground up. We have created a product that we love and actually use ourselves. Our team is highly experienced and passionate about solving problems. We’re lucky enough to have some of the best minds in the industry. Being open source, Cypress is evolving faster and better than if we worked on it alone. Now developers can ship their software faster and more consistently, with confidence. We believe testing needs a lot of love, and we are here to foster a tool, a service, and a community that can teach and benefit everyone.
Investor
Mar 2020
The only SMS Revenue Platform for ecommerce stores. Helping Shopify brands make SMS their #1 revenue channel.
Board Member
Sep 2018
Highspot helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams by turning strategic initiatives into business outcomes. Our unified sales enablement platform gives revenue teams a single solution to elevate customer conversations and drive repeatable revenue, bringing together native content and guidance, training and coaching, and engagement intelligence – all supported by actionable analytics.
Investor
Aug 2017
Zipwhip is the leading business-texting platform in North America, helping more than 30,000 organizations engage their customers and drive growth through texting. Zipwhip has text-enabled more than 5 million landline and toll-free phone numbers so that businesses can reach their customers immediately, on the channel they prefer. Organizations can text-enable their business lines in minutes and seamlessly fit texting into their existing workflows using Zipwhip’s out-of-the-box software or customizable APIs. And with the most direct carrier connections of any texting provider, Zipwhip offers the fastest and most reliable message delivery in the industry so you know your customers get the message every time. Your customers are only a text away: https://www.zipwhip.com. www.twitter.com/zipwhip www.facebook.com/zipwhip www.instagram.com/zipwhip
Investor
Aug 2017
At Calendly, our vision is to take the work out of connecting with others so you can accomplish more. Our scheduling automation platform helps individuals, teams, and organizations globally automate meetings by removing the back and forth with scheduling. Our platform enables companies to close deals, hire candidates, build relationships, and grow their business — faster. More than 20 million users across 230 countries use Calendly to simplify meetings and collaborate more effectively and efficiently.
Board Member
Jan 2015
Expensify helps more than 12 million people around the world track expenses, reimburse employees, manage corporate cards, send invoices, pay bills, and book travel. All in one app. So whether youre working for yourself, running a small business, managing a team, or closing the books for your clients, let Expensify handle your spend so you can stay focused on success.
Board Observer
May 2014
Pantheon is the WebOps platform for websites that deliver extraordinary results. We believe in putting the magic of the internet in everyone’s hands. That’s why we’re so passionate about helping developers, IT, and marketing develop, test, and release website changes faster and more reliably so they can build and maintain websites that create value for their organizations. Our cloud native software makes it easy to securely manage a single website or thousands of websites across multiple teams in one platform. Last year we announced $100 million in Series E funding from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, at a valuation over $1 billion. We are also backed by $100M of venture investment from Sageview Capital (Avalara, Demandbase), Scale Venture Partners (ExactTarget, Box, DocuSign, Bill.com), Foundry Group (SendGrid, Mapbox), as well as Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital, and Floodgate. Follow us to see how Pantheon is powering the open web, running sites in the cloud for customers including Stitch Fix, Okta, Home Depot, Pernod Ricard, and The Barack Obama Foundation. We’re proud to provide the speed and agility web teams need to win in the dynamic world of digital marketing.
Board Observer
Mar 2013
Catchpoint is the Internet Resilience Company. The top online retailers, Global2000, CDNs, cloud service providers, and xSPs in the world rely on Catchpoint to increase their resilience by catching any issues in the internet stack before they impact your business. The Catchpoint platform offers synthetics, RUM, performance optimization, high fidelity data and flexible visualizations with advanced analytics. It leverages thousands of vantage points (including inside wireless networks, BGP, backbone, last mile, endpoint, enterprise, ISPs and more) to provide unparalleled observability into anything that impacts your customers, workforce, networks, website performance, applications, and APIs.
Board Observer
Jun 2012
Tealium helps companies collect, govern, and enrich their customer data in real-time to power AI initiatives and delight customers in the moments that matter. Tealium’s turnkey integration ecosystem supports more than 1,300 built-in connections from the world’s most prominent technology experts. Tealium’s solutions include a real-time customer data platform (CDP) with intelligent AI data streaming, tag management, and an API hub. Tealium’s data collection, management, and activation capabilities enable enterprises to accelerate operating performance, enhance customer experiences, drive better outcomes, and support global data compliance. Named as a Leader in the 2024 & 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Platforms™, more than 850 leading businesses globally trust Tealium to power their customer data strategies.
Board Observer
Jun 2011
Sprinklr is the definitive, AI-native platform for Unified Customer Experience Management (Unified-CXM), empowering brands to deliver extraordinary experiences at scale — across every customer touchpoint. By combining human instinct with the speed and efficiency of AI, Sprinklr helps brands earn trust and loyalty through personalized, seamless, and efficient customer interactions. Sprinklr’s unified platform provides powerful solutions for every customer-facing team — spanning social media management, marketing, advertising, customer feedback, and omnichannel contact center management — enabling enterprises to unify data, break down silos, and act on real-time insights. Today, 1,900+ enterprises — including Microsoft, P&G, Samsung, and 60% of the Fortune 100 — rely on Sprinklr to help them deliver consistent, trusted customer experiences worldwide.
Board Observer
Jun 2011
Wayfair is the destination for all things home: helping everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home. From expert customer service, to the development of tools that make the shopping process easier, to carrying one of the widest and deepest selections of items for every space, style, and budget, Wayfair gives everyone the power to create spaces that are just right for them.
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2023
Board Member
Jun 2023
Parabola is transforming the way companies operate by empowering non-technical teams to automate complex data processes with ease. With powerful collaboration and documentation capabilities, users leverage Parabola’s drag-and-drop interface to access, manipulate, and act on their data, regardless of where it lives. By empowering teams to solve the problems they’re already experts on, Parabola helps businesses of all shapes and sizes improve operations, drive revenue, and ultimately operate with excellence. Parabola is proud to serve companies like Flexport, Sonos, Uber Freight, and Durex and is backed by OpenView Partners, Matrix Partners, Thrive Capital and many other amazing investors.
Board Observer
Apr 2023
The leading enterprise platform to build AI Agents for Customer Service - used by 4,000+ businesses from scaling startups to the Fortune 500. Book a demo with our team to learn how your business can provide better customer experiences at scale.
2022
Board Member
Apr 2022
Toucan is an immersive learning tool that is the most efficient way to learn new concepts while going about your day. 🇪🇸🇧🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵🇰🇷🇺🇸🇮🇳🇮🇱🇨🇳🇸🇦
2021
Investor
Jun 2021
Speechify is a text-to-speech app that makes it easy for the world to access information. 20+ million people now use the Google Chrome extension and iOS and Android mobile apps. Our amazing users are students, professionals, and productivity lovers. Many of them have learning differences like dyslexia and ADHD, while many just want to read faster and listen on the go. With Speechify you can turn any book, document, or website into audio, and listen while you’re in the car, doing laundry, walking your dog, making dinner, working out, skydiving—whatever your daily routine is! Speechify also powers Medium, the Star Tribune, The Direct, and more. Easily add text-to-speech to your website. Cliff Weitzman, our fearless CEO, founded Speechify in 2017 in a dorm room at Brown University so he could share with others the incredible text-to-speech software he’d been working on. Cliff has dyslexia and he was frustrated with how much time and energy it took for him to read. Advanced TTS technology was a total gamechanger, it allowed him to finish his readings 3x faster than a normal reader and to better comprehend and retain information. At Speechify our goal is for reading to never be a barrier to learning for anyone. Nothing should hold you back from learning information quickly and effectively. Speechify has grown to employ over 100 team members spread out across the globe in just a few short years. Were proud of the incredible team with members who were previously leaders and senior engineers at companies like Snapchat, Apple, Spotify, Amazon & Uber. We all love and prioritise ownership, delivering value with speed, learning as much as we can and making our users feel empowered. Our Leadership Principles: https://bit.ly/3uxj4uO Check out open jobs here: https://careers.speechify.com/ Download our iOS app: https://apple.co/39batpR Try our free Chrome extension: https://bit.ly/3PW3L7X
2020
Board Member
Nov 2020
Web development has advanced in leaps and bounds in the last decade, but front-end testing has not. Testing sucks. It’s the part that every developer dreads. It’s often harder to write a passing test than an actual feature. We want to spend our time building cool things, and we need tools that match how we build modern applications. Therefore we built a revolutionary new testing tool from the ground up. We have created a product that we love and actually use ourselves. Our team is highly experienced and passionate about solving problems. We’re lucky enough to have some of the best minds in the industry. Being open source, Cypress is evolving faster and better than if we worked on it alone. Now developers can ship their software faster and more consistently, with confidence. We believe testing needs a lot of love, and we are here to foster a tool, a service, and a community that can teach and benefit everyone.
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