Ken Elefant
Founder of Sorenson Ventures
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner and Co-Founder
2017 - Current
Alongside Rob Rueckert, Ken co-founded Sorenson Capital’s Ventures practice in 2017, where he is the managing partner. The firm’s Venture strategy focuses on investing in B2B software companies that are pre-revenue up to $5M ARR. Sorenson supports entrepreneurs through every stage of their journey to accelerate revenue growth and further their product leadership position. The firm’s investments in product leaders include Amplitude, BambooHR, Bridgecrew, Couchbase, Fastly, Harness, and Socure. With offices in Lehi, Utah, and Palo Alto, California, Sorenson is proud to partner with entrepreneurs from coast to canyon. To learn more about Sorenson, please visit: https://www.sorensoncapital.com/ .
Sorenson Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early and growth-stage B2B software companies.
Investor
2022
Planera is a Construction SaaS platform. The solution provides the power of sophisticated project scheduling software, yet is as easy to use as a Whiteboard or Excel.
Planera offers collaborative CPM scheduling software that simplifies project management.
Raised $18,900,000.00 from Brick & Mortar Ventures, Firebolt Ventures, Prudence, Sorenson Capital and Sierra Ventures.
Investor
2020
Observability for Analytics & Artificial Intelligence
Acceldata ensures data pipeline and analytics quality with observability solutions, enhancing accuracy and reliability for businesses.
Raised $105,560,000.00 from Prosperity7 Ventures, Sanabil, March Capital, Insight Partners and Industry Ventures.
Investor
2022
VulnCheck is the vulnerability intelligence company helping enterprises, government organizations, and cybersecurity vendors solve the vulnerability prioritization challenge.
VulnCheck is a cyber Intelligence platform that delivers threat intelligence services to government organizations and cybersecurity vendors.
Raised $7,950,000.00 from Sorenson Capital, Oliver Friedrichs, Lux Capital, IQT, Sorenson Ventures, Aviso Ventures and Dave Cole.
Investor
2021
Talon is the leader in browser-based security for the hybrid workforce, allowing employees to work from anywhere and on any device without compromising security and privacy.
Investor
2021
Acquired by Zscaler in 2024. Agentless segmentation for enterprise IT and OT environments
Zero Trust Isolation Platform that confines ransomware to a single device.
Raised $13,400,000.00 from Engineering Capital, Cervin Ventures, Sorenson Ventures, Storm Ventures, Robert Tinker, Josh Leslie, Anuj Kapur and Manoj Apte.
Investor
2019
Acquired by Palo Alto Networks in March 2021. Codified cloud security, built to be simple.
Bridgecrew is a developer of a codified cloud security platform used to help organizations deploy cloud security engineering.
Raised $18,100,000.00 from DNX Ventures, Operator Partners, David Hannigan, Sorenson Capital, Kevin Mahaffey, Battery Ventures, David Tsao, Ely Kahn, Homeward Ventures and Tectonic Capital.
Investor
2018
Continuous and Real-Time SaaS Attack Surface Analysis and Remediation Platform
CyCognito is a leading exposure management platform that is fully-automated & highly scalable, driven to create positive business impact
Raised $153,000,000.00 from Thomvest Ventures, Harpoon, The Westly Group, Heritage Group, Dan Scheinman, Geodesic Capital, Accel, UpWest, Sorenson Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Investor
2019
Acquired by Microsoft in July 2021. The Leader in Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM).
CloudKnox develops a multi-cloud permissions management platform that protects critical cloud infrastructure resources and identities.
Raised $22,750,000.00 from Titanium Ventures, Wipro Ventures, Wipro Ventures, ClearSky, Dell Technologies Capital, Sorenson Ventures, Foundation Capital and Secure Octane.
Investor
2017
Acquired by Motorola Solutions in July 2021. Access control for the modern workplace.
Avigilon Alta offers a cloud-native video and access control security suite under Avigilon.
Raised $63,000,000.00 from Touchdown Ventures, Allegion Ventures, Okta Ventures, LPC Ventures, Greycroft and SENTRE.