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Profile

Tola Capital was founded in 2010 in Seattle, WA, and while you may not have heard of us, we’ve been helping enterprise software companies become category leaders and generating great returns for our investors.

Profile

Founded in 2010 in Seattle, WA
Funding globally at seed and early stage
We have raised $688M
Invested in over 50 portfolio companies

Our Principles

Product focused

Working closely with our companies on their product roadmaps to realize the highest returns over time.

Hypothesis-based strategy

Identifying needs and solutions that drive transformational change in large markets.

Long-term

A structure and approach that enables us to invest in companies for the long haul.

Selective investing

Building value and creating relationships with founders that last.

Investing locally and globally

Unconstrained by location, investing in great companies all over the world.

Where We Invest

We invest in companies using intelligence to reimagine and reinvent workflows and outcomes for the enterprise of the future.

Enterprise software is moving from assistance to execution. The most compelling systems fuse context, reasoning, and action into core workflows.

As agents grow more autonomous and long-running, reliability becomes a new engineering discipline, requiring better ways to build, evaluate, observe, and control them.

AI is reshaping what the data layer must provide and how it operates, requiring infrastructure that is real-time, composable, and machine-usable.

The bottleneck is shifting from training to serving intelligence efficiently at runtime. Compute optimization, model routing, and runtime systems are becoming critical.

The next frontier is embodied intelligence: models built for generalization and infrastructure that accelerates learning across data, simulation, and deployment.

As software gains agency, governance must expand from access to action, enabling deployment of autonomous systems with confidence.

Our Values

Multiple perspectives matter

We bring the investment and operating experiences of our full team to our portfolio.

Patience matters

When investing in companies, we believe that the long view is the right view.

Experience matters

Our team has decades of success in building global product and platform businesses.

The world matters

We have always had a global view of the software market and continue to see great ideas and software.

Timeline

2010

Tola Capital founded

By ex-operators focus on cloud computing opportunity

Investments in 15 companies including

APT

hybris

OSIsoft

Milestones
SAP acquires hybris, Mastercard acquires APT, SoftBank acquires OSlsoft shares

2015

Fund I - Investments in 15 companies

Clipchamp
Convercent
Glia
Pulumi
Robin

News & Exits

Investment team expands, Cisco acquires ParStream, Red Hat acquires 3scale.

2020

Fund II - Investments in 12 companies

Klarity
Nooks
Simpplr
VergeSense

News & Exits

Microsoft acquires Clipchamp, OneTrust acquires Covercent.

2022+

Fund III - Investments in 15+ companies

Crogl

Holistic AI

IngredientAI

MaxInsights

News & Exits

CyberArk acquires Zilla Security, Reliant AI

acquired by Cohere