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Kapil Venkatachalam

Partner at FTV Capital

United States

Overview 

Kapil Venkatachalam is a Partner at FTV Capital, specializing in B2B software and tech-enabled services, with a focus on venture capital and private equity investments. Notable highlights of his career include serving as a General Partner at TCV and making successful investments in companies like Rave Mobile Safety and EtQ, which were later acquired by prominent industry players. Venkatachalam has an impressive track record of investing in successful companies at various stages, such as Kore.ai in Series D and RaveMobileSafety.com in private equity, demonstrating his expertise in identifying and nurturing high-potential ventures.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2022 - Current

    Since 1998, FTV Capital has been partnering with successful and motivated management teams to accelerate transformative growth leveraging its Global Partner Network to drive significant value to innovative companies.

FTV Capital is a growth equity firm focused on enterprise solutions, financial services, and payments and transaction processing.

  • General Partner

    2006 - 2022

    Founded in 1995, TCV provides capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry.

TCV provides investment capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry.

  • Investor

    2021 - 2021

    Attentive empowers leading brands and organizations to create meaningful interactions that inspire action through real-time, personalized mobile messaging.

Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform that facilitates businesses with AI powered SMS and e-mail marketing solutions.

Raised $863,000,000.00 from Irving Investors.

  • Director Board Of Directors (Acquired by Motorola)

    2019 - 2021

    Rave Mobile Safety, a trusted safety software partner, provides the leading critical communication and data platform trusted to help save lives. Used by leading education and healthcare institutions, enterprises and state and local public safety agencies, the award-winning Rave platform protects millions of individuals.

Rave Mobile Safety provides Critical Communication and Collaboration technology for public safety, school safety and corporate security.

Raised $46,000,000.00 from TCV and K1 Investment Management.

  • Chairman Board Of Directors (Acquired by Hexagon AB)

    2017 - 2021

    Founded in 1992, EtQ is the leading Quality, EHS, Operational Risk and Compliance management software provider for identifying, mitigating and preventing high-risk events through integration, automation and collaboration.

EtQ is an enterprise quality and compliance software focused on. FDA compliance.

  • Investor

    2012 - 2020

    Alarm.com is the leading platform solution for the connected home. Its cloud-based services enable home and business owners to intelligently secure their properties and automate and control a broad array of connected devices through a single, intuitive user interface.

Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.

Raised $588,000,000.00 from TCV.

  • Investor (Interest acquired by Hellman & Friedman)

    2012 - 2020

    Genesys is the market leader in omnichannel customer experience (CX) and contact center solutions in the cloud and on-premises. Genesys is trusted by over 4,500 customers in 80 countries to orchestrate more than 100 million digital and voice interactions each day.

Genesys provides omnichannel customer experience (CX) and contact center solutions in the cloud and on-premises.

Raised $1,480,000,000.00 from Zoom, Salesforce Ventures, ServiceNow, D1 Capital Partners, BlackRock, Hellman & Friedman, Permira and Banneker Partners.

  • Investor

    2011 - 2019

    Rapid7’s security data and analytics software and services help organizations reduce the risk of a breach, detect and investigate attacks, and build effective IT security programs. Rapid7 is trusted by more than 3,900 organizations across 90 countries, including 30% of the Fortune 1000.

Rapid7 is a cybersecurity company that helps organizations detect and respond to security threats effectively.

Raised $350,500,000.00 from JANA Partners.

  • Director Board Of Directors (Acquired by Dassault Systems)

    2014 - 2018

    For more than 25 years, IQMS has been designing and developing manufacturing ERP software for the repetitive, process and discrete industries. Today, IQMS provides a comprehensive real-time ERP software and MES solution to the automotive, medical, packaging, consumer goods and other manufacturing markets.

  • Investor (Acquired by AVEVA)

    2011 - 2017

    OSIsoft, a global leader in operational intelligence, delivers an open enterprise infrastructure to connect sensor-based data, operations and people to enable real-time and actionable insights.

OSIsoft is a manufacturer of application software for real-time data infrastructure solutions.

Raised $139,500,000.00 from Tola Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund, Kleiner Perkins and TCV.

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