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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
Our Principles
Product focused
Hypothesis-based strategy
Long-term
Selective investing
Investing locally and globally
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
Patience matters
Experience matters
The world matters
Timeline
2010
Tola Capital founded
By ex-operators focus on cloud computing opportunity
Investments in 15 companies including
APT
hybris
OSIsoft
Milestones
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