John Ives

General Partner at Tahoma Ventures I Continuity Fund

📍 Boulder, Colorado, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 28 investments📅 29 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Sep 2020
Data-driven API security. Continuous API scanning to detect & respond to attacks in real-time. Get all the details. Purpose-built for API traffic with complete request and response details: * Runtime data capture * API traffic details across all REST and GraphQL attributes * Hot data layer for immediate retroactive analysis
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May 2020
Company Six builds technology that advances the awareness and protection of those who put themselves in harm’s way. We've Got Your Back.
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Jan 2020
Rebric is now Compliable. http://linkedin.com/company/compliable
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Jan 2018
Copper Labs unlocks real-time data from existing electric, gas, and water meters wirelessly and at a fraction of the expense and effort of traditional smart meter deployments. Using this information, Copper Labs helps utilities across North America support a data-driven transition to a low-carbon economy, increase resilience in the face of a changing climate, improve equity, manage demand, and deliver an exceptional customer experience
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May 2017
IronCore Labs, the leading provider of data security for modern cloud applications, makes products that help software developers and businesses rapidly add data protection and application-layer encryption into the heart of their software. Whether navigating Privacy Shield challenges, GDPR mandates, customer security requests, or just handling sensitive data safely, IronCore Labs removes the traditional obstacles to keeping data private and secure, while accelerating time to market for advanced security features.
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Apr 2017
Facing growing threats and a rapidly expanding attack surface, understaffed and alert-fatigued organizations need more efficient ways to eliminate their exposure to vulnerabilities. Automox is a modern cyber hygiene platform that closes the aperture of attack by more than 80% with just half the effort of traditional solutions. Cloud-based and globally available, Automox enforces OS & third-party patch management, security configurations, and custom scripting across Windows, Mac, and Linux from a single intuitive console. IT and SecOps can quickly gain control and share visibility of on-prem, remote and virtual endpoints without the need to deploy costly infrastructure. Automox dramatically reduces corporate risk while raising operational efficiency to deliver best-in-class security outcomes, faster and with fewer resources.
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Mar 2016
Section is a Cloud-Native Platform as a Service (PaaS) that continuously optimizes the orchestration of global infrastructure to run distributed applications at the right place and time, always. There are thousands of major data centers distributed across the United States alone - many of these data centers powering “Cloud Compute” capabilities. Today every DevOps team has to go through a largely arbitrary process to choose which location on the planet is the right location for their code and then deploy and manage that location. Meanwhile, microservices, containers, and Kubernetes (K8s) help to free apps from infrastructure, enabling them to work independently and run anywhere. But deploying and managing many K8s clusters across locations and providers is incredibly complex. Section solves for both of these challenges by enabling DevOps teams to simply deploy and manage cloud-native applications adaptively across an open global infrastructure footprint. Sections computational approach via their patented Adaptive Edge Engine pairs intent with demand and resource availability to ensure that applications are always running in the most optimal locations.
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Dec 2014
Bold Metrics Inc. (BMI) has created a suite of AI technologies that allows brands to accurately predict customer body measurements and relate them to garment specifications. Using our cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, retailers and brands are ditching conventional sizing solutions and leveraging our technology to reduce returns and increase conversions. Ultimately, our goal is to revolutionize the apparel industry by giving brands the power to use this data to unlock body-relative apparel design. Historically, apparel sizes have been generated in the absence of customer-driven body data. This has led to a worldwide apparel waste problem caused by a high rate of returns coupled with a bad consumer experience around fit and sizing, often amplified online. Along with garment sizing optimizations, the downstream experience becomes more customer-driven, leading to a significant reduction in returns and happier customers. We are a venture-backed well-funded company and work with some of the world’s largest brands, retailers, and clothing manufacturers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Our office is located in San Francisco, CA.
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Sep 2014
Kentik is the network observability company. Our platform is a must-have for the network front line, whether digital business, corporate IT, or service provider. Network professionals turn to the Kentik Network Observability Cloud to plan, run, and fix any network, relying on our infinite granularity, AI-driven insights, and insanely fast search. Kentik makes sense of network, cloud, host, and container flow, internet routing, performance tests, and network metrics. We show network pros what they need to know about their network performance, health, and security to make their business-critical services shine. Networks power the world’s most valuable companies, and those companies trust Kentik.
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Sep 2012
October 24th, 2014 "As of today, Revolv is now officially a Nest company. Their experience connecting devices around the home will help us continue to grow Works with Nest and bring the conscious home to life." Visit www.revolv.com for more information.
Board Member
May 2012
TempoDB is the time series database service. We make it possible to store and instantly analyze the massive streams of measured data that break traditional databases. TempoDB was a member of the inaugural TechStars Cloud class of 2012, a startup accelerator focused on internet infrastructure.
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May 2012
TempoDB is the time series database service. We make it possible to store and instantly analyze the massive streams of measured data that break traditional databases. TempoDB was a member of the inaugural TechStars Cloud class of 2012, a startup accelerator focused on internet infrastructure.
Board Member
Oct 2011
Kozio, Inc. delivers a comprehensive hardware design verification and test solution for embedded design. A design team is challenged to quickly verify design correctness, performance and reliability when the first prototypes arrive. Typically the verification process is not well defined or incomplete leading to time-to-market delays and costly field failures that can damage a company’s reputation. With Kozio’s Verified!™, the design verification process is well defined and extensible. Verified! provides a software platform to quickly verify design correctness, performance and reliability. Embedded design validation is performed in hours, not weeks or months, accelerating time-to-market with reduced risk and better allocation of engineering resources. Kozio is located in beautiful Colorado with easy access to world-class hiking, skiing and mountain biking. Longmont sits at the foot of the Rockies with Boulder, Denver and Estes Park (Rocky Mountain National Park) all with a one hour drive. Kozio is a small and growing company with a customer list that includes Texas Instruments, GE, Polycom, Honeywell, Harris and Cisco. As embedded designs become more complex with increasing time to market pressure there is a growing need for a standard design verification and test solution. Kozio defined embedded design verification and is currently delivering a unique solution that spans engineering, production and shipped products.
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Oct 2010
Ambiq® was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low-power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of pioneering ultra-low power technology, innovative companies around the world are developing differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, reduce overall system power and maximize industrial design flexibility. Our mission is to enable intelligence (artificial intelligence (AI) and beyond) everywhere by delivering the lowest power semiconductor solutions. We enable our customers to deliver artificial intelligence compute at the edge where power consumption challenges are the most profound. Our technology innovations, built on the patented and proprietary subthreshold power optimized technology (SPOT), fundamentally deliver a multi-fold improvement in power consumption over traditional semiconductor designs. We’ve powered over 270 million devices today. As we see the shift in devices move from “smart” to “AI,” our technology and solutions have evolved to accommodate the power requirements needed to enable feature rich devices that are always on, high performing, secure, accurate, energy efficient, and just as important practical. Our leadership in powering devices made for edge AI has helped technology innovators across wearable, smart home and buildings, industrial, healthcare, and other sectors deliver intelligent devices that can do more while consuming less. For more information, visit www.ambiq.com.
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Aug 2010
We are pleased to announce that Dassault Systemes has acquired Pinpoint from Tuscany. Pinpoint development, sales and support operations are now part of Dassault Systemes Corporation (www.3ds.com). Dassault Systemes is excited to now have Pinpoint as part of its semiconductor design collaboration solution. The globalization of semiconductor design is requiring design teams to reinvent the way that they collaborate. Email, screenshots, and “throwing the design over the wall” are no longer effective means of communication between designers. Intelligent ways of sharing design data are needed to facilitate collaboration amongst members of globally dispersed design teams. Designers need “Instant ON” access to the latest design data to make informed design decisions, without the need to invoke expensive design tools and wait for the latest version of a design to load. RTL designers and physical designers need to be able to communicate effectively with each other without having to be experts in each other’s design domains or design tools. Pinpoint provides a level of Design Intelligence that has been missing from semiconductor design flows to enable collaborative design. Existing Pinpoint clients will now benefit from integrations into Dassault Systemes semiconductor solutions and support from its worldwide network. Pinpoint will be integrated with Dassault Systemes leading design data management and IP management solutions to provide a comprehensive collaborative design environment. Pinpoint R&D will be integrated with Dassault Systemes R&D to provide an expanded development team for leading edge semiconductor solutions.
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Sep 2020
Data-driven API security. Continuous API scanning to detect & respond to attacks in real-time. Get all the details. Purpose-built for API traffic with complete request and response details: * Runtime data capture * API traffic details across all REST and GraphQL attributes * Hot data layer for immediate retroactive analysis
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May 2020
Company Six builds technology that advances the awareness and protection of those who put themselves in harm’s way. We've Got Your Back.
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Mar 2020
MBio Diagnostics is now LightDeck Diagnostics! LightDeck Diagnostics believes in a new approach to healthcare, where fast, accurate, simple, low-cost diagnostic tests will be run wherever and whenever they are needed, without compromise. The company’s proprietary LightDeck® platform combines an advanced laser waveguide with novel materials and patented manufacturing techniques to deliver lab-quality results anywhere, in minutes. LightDeck is introducing a portfolio of in vitro diagnostic panels, the first is an on-the-spot test for COVID-19. The LightDeck platform is currently commercialized in veterinary diagnostics and for environmental testing. Learn more at www.LightDeckDx.com Platform Technology The LightDeck platform consists of a robust, portable fluorescence analyzer and disposable, multiplex test cartridges. The LightDeck® platform was designed to meet customer requirements: • Quality: Highly sensitive tests that deliver lab-quality results • Quick: Actionable data in as little as 5 minutes with a simple procedure • Quantitative: More data to inform treatment decisions • Multiplex: Multiple related tests for better precision plus internal quality control to maximize safety The test procedure is simple enough that an untrained user can perform testing almost anywhere. Panels can be configured to run multiple related tests simultaneously to help diagnosis or rule-out a specific condition. Internal quality control runs with every test to ensure quality and not report questionable results.
Tahoma Ventures I Continuity Fund
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Mar 2020
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Jan 2020
Rebric is now Compliable. http://linkedin.com/company/compliable
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