Rod Favaron

Operating Partner @ Elsewhere Partners

📍 Austin, Texas, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2023
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Mar 2023
As the world becomes more connected, our lives and businesses are more vulnerable. Foresite Cybersecurity offers a new way to protect your digital world by providing simple, affordable, and scalable solutions that ensure your business’s safety. Whether your business has just started out or is looking to boost your current security model, Foresite provides an easy-to-manage process that streamlines your risk reduction and cybersecurity operations. We dont just sell security. We don’t just sell security — we provide solutions.
Board Member
Sep 2022
LeanDNA is disrupting the manufacturing industry with APEX, the first inventory optimization and execution platform that synchronizes workflows and operationalizes data by connecting systems, sites, and suppliers to provide prioritized actions and recommendations that help optimize inventory and resource utilization. With industry-proven results, APEX users can expect to see on average a: 14% reduction in inventory 32% shortage reduction 18% improvement in on-time delivery As one of Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing private companies, LeanDNA has been successfully implemented across 27 countries for leading manufacturers in several industries: Aerospace & Defense Automotive Electronics Industrial Medical Devices LeanDNA hires the best people and has been recognized by Built In Austin as one of the best places to work for three consecutive years. Want to achieve new milestones? Visit www.leandna.com.
Board Member
Jul 2019
TalentGuard’s AI platform transforms talent insights into personalized upskilling and mobility solutions, driving growth for both employees and organizations. By dynamically aligning employee skills and aspirations with the evolving needs of the company, TalentGuard ensures a symbiotic growth trajectory, empowering both the workforce and the enterprise to reach new heights of success and innovation. This unique blend of technology and personalization positions TalentGuard at the forefront of nurturing and developing top-tier talent, essential for shaping the future of businesses in an ever-changing corporate world. OUR VISION: A world that works at its highest potential. Imagine if every employee and company had exactly what they needed to achieve their greatest hopes, goals, and dreams. The outcome would be extraordinary: Total fulfillment in the workplace and grand ambitions lived out every day. That’s the kind of world we want to live in—and the one we seek to create. We help companies truly see their people—their skills, credentials, performance scores, preferences, career aspirations and more—in order to realize the full potential of their workforce. Armed with this valuable data and the predictive power of AI, companies can pinpoint the best path forward not just for each employee but for the entire organization.
Board Member
Jun 2019
Vyopta, a leader in digital experience management for collaboration, has facilitated effective virtual collaboration for over 40 million people. Teams can't perform well if they cannot effectively collaborate. Great digital experiences when collaborating are crucial to support team innovation, sales, and customer services. The Vyopta cloud platform provides unique insights to IT and users regarding technology, space, and user to obtain exceptional user experiences when collaborating from anywhere and using any device and UC/collaboration application. This is crucial for optimal user engagement, productivity, and well-being. We serve hundreds of large enterprises and managed services providers (MSPs) around the world.
Board Member
2015
Upland Software (NASDAQ: UPLD) helps global businesses accelerate digital transformation with a powerful cloud software library that provides choice, flexibility, and value. Our growing library of 30+ products delivers the "last mile" plug-in processes, reporting, and job specific workflows that major cloud platforms and homegrown systems don’t provide. We focus on specific business challenges and support every corner of the organization, operating at scale and delivering quick time to value for our 10,000+ customers. Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion: At Upland, we recognize the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion for our team members, our customers, and the communities which they represent. We are committed to educating ourselves and doing the necessary work so we identify opportunities to create impact where it matters most to our team members and to build a richer sense of community for all. Because at the end of the day we want everyone to feel seen, respected, and heard.
Board Member
2013
Clover Sport is the leading innovator in enterprise point of sale systems, robust back office management tools, and rich insights engines for the multi-site food & beverage industry. Our approach helps more than 175 professional & collegiate sports venues and national restaurant chains accelerate their profit, efficiency, and guest experience well beyond the levels achieved with legacy solutions. Clover Sport makes this happen with tablet POS terminals and a cloud-enabled open API platform broad enough to serve the full spectrum of today’s needs and agile enough to rapidly support future requirements. The company has deployed tens of thousands of devices at a cost, pace, and ease of integration never before possible.
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2023
Board Member
Jun 2023
Portnox offers cloud-native zero trust access control and cybersecurity essentials that enable agile, resource-constrained IT teams to proactively address today’s most pressing security challenges: the rapid expansion of enterprise networks, the proliferation of connected device types, the increased sophistication of cyberattacks, and the shift to zero trust. Hundreds of companies have leveraged Portnox’s award-winning security products to enforce powerful network access, endpoint risk monitoring and remediation policies to strengthen their organizational security posture. By eliminating the need for any on-premises footprint common among traditional information security systems, Portnox allows companies - no matter their size, geo-distribution, or networking architecture - to deploy, scale, enforce and maintain these critical zero trust security policies with unprecedented ease.
Board Member
Mar 2023
As the world becomes more connected, our lives and businesses are more vulnerable. Foresite Cybersecurity offers a new way to protect your digital world by providing simple, affordable, and scalable solutions that ensure your business’s safety. Whether your business has just started out or is looking to boost your current security model, Foresite provides an easy-to-manage process that streamlines your risk reduction and cybersecurity operations. We dont just sell security. We don’t just sell security — we provide solutions.
Operating Partner
Jan 2023
Elsewhere Partners, a tech-focused private equity firm, invests in growth-ready lower middle market software companies around the globe. Elsewhere’s team of experienced investors and software operators tailor growth plans for each unique portfolio company and offer complementary support across go-to-market, product, talent, finance, and strategy functions. Based in Austin, TX, Elsewhere has invested in 17 companies throughout North America, Europe and Israel since its inception in 2016. To learn more, visit https://elsewhere.partners
2022
Board Member
Sep 2022
LeanDNA is disrupting the manufacturing industry with APEX, the first inventory optimization and execution platform that synchronizes workflows and operationalizes data by connecting systems, sites, and suppliers to provide prioritized actions and recommendations that help optimize inventory and resource utilization. With industry-proven results, APEX users can expect to see on average a: 14% reduction in inventory 32% shortage reduction 18% improvement in on-time delivery As one of Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing private companies, LeanDNA has been successfully implemented across 27 countries for leading manufacturers in several industries: Aerospace & Defense Automotive Electronics Industrial Medical Devices LeanDNA hires the best people and has been recognized by Built In Austin as one of the best places to work for three consecutive years. Want to achieve new milestones? Visit www.leandna.com.
2019
Board Member
Jul 2019
TalentGuard’s AI platform transforms talent insights into personalized upskilling and mobility solutions, driving growth for both employees and organizations. By dynamically aligning employee skills and aspirations with the evolving needs of the company, TalentGuard ensures a symbiotic growth trajectory, empowering both the workforce and the enterprise to reach new heights of success and innovation. This unique blend of technology and personalization positions TalentGuard at the forefront of nurturing and developing top-tier talent, essential for shaping the future of businesses in an ever-changing corporate world. OUR VISION: A world that works at its highest potential. Imagine if every employee and company had exactly what they needed to achieve their greatest hopes, goals, and dreams. The outcome would be extraordinary: Total fulfillment in the workplace and grand ambitions lived out every day. That’s the kind of world we want to live in—and the one we seek to create. We help companies truly see their people—their skills, credentials, performance scores, preferences, career aspirations and more—in order to realize the full potential of their workforce. Armed with this valuable data and the predictive power of AI, companies can pinpoint the best path forward not just for each employee but for the entire organization.
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