WestWave Capital

Congrats to Zingly.ai, Gaurav Passi and the entire team on their launch. We are proud to be investors from Day 1. This is once in a decade style opportunity. It's 2024, and You and I, as customers, still continue to struggle with 1-800 numbers, ineffective AI Chatbots and spelling our names, account numbers and other info over and over again ... It's time to change all that. Zingly lets a business's customers drive the experience they want as they want it (quick answer from AI or a real conversation with human agents or a hybrid), how they want it (text, audio, video), and from any device without having to repeat info over and over again - all from a single personalized Zingly Room. Sounds obvious! But the best ideas are the simple obvious ones! #FutureOfCX #AIRevolution #CustomerExperience #Startups #Entrepreneurship #VentureCapital https://lnkd.in/gV9mk7je

I'm excited to announce my latest blog post, "My Journey to WestWave Capital," now available on Medium! In this article, I explore my journey to becoming a partner at WestWave Capital - from building and scaling two unicorn startups as a tech executive to engaging with inspiring and motivated founders as an investor. Whether you're curious about a career in VC or embarking on your own entrepreneurial journey, I believe you'll find valuable insights in this post. I would love your thoughts and feedback, and if you find it inspiring, please feel free to share it with your network! I look forward to connecting with many of you! #venturecapital #startup #startupfunding

Hard to contain my excitement in any way coming off of what amounted to extremely hard work from EVERYONE at Theta Lake and our partners at Zoom as we announce: Zoom Compliance Manager powered by Theta Lake!!!! 🎉 Thank you to all our partners at Zoom and everyone involved in making this a reality! We are all so excited to be innovating in the field together to provide SO much value (and happiness) to our joint customers. Mitch Ricks Jared Dennison Colby Nish Adi Regev Aakash Alurkar Fred K. Gary Sorrentino Rishi Patel Robert Wall Eugenio Bayo Steve Jacob Mike Hayes Eric S. Yuan (he / him / his) Kentis Gopalla Cheryl Bolotin Harry St. John Lisa Ayers TJ Alvino and so many others that I wish I could cram into this post! Hats off to our product and engineering team under Kannan Appachi and Dan Nadir, our rockstar sellers, FTS and CSMs under Anthony J. Cresci and Brandon Landin, our marketing team under Kathryn Lodato's leadership, Jeremy Baker's team, Brian McTeague's team, and of course Marc Gilman's legal and regulatory team - where this all derives from! Huge shout out to our Alliances ninjas getting us to this monumental milestone Emily Carter and Steve McNear And finally - thank you - to our fearless founders Devin Redmond and Rich Sutton for their steadfast vision of a more productive yet compliant world! "Zoom Compliance Manager integrates the proven compliance solution from Theta Lake, a leader in digital communications governance providing modern communication compliance and security solutions. Through Zoom-specific enhancements, customers will have the compliance benefits of Theta Lake with a frictionless Zoom experience via the administrator console. " If you're attending #EnterpriseConnect, come to Booth 2026 to find out about our work with #Zoom and many more updates we'll be announcing! https://lnkd.in/g9mAer8Z #ZCM #RegTech #UC #Collaboration #Compliance #FSI #FinServ #EC24 #EnterpriseConnect #Zoom #Partnership #UnifiedCollaboration #ThetaLake #Security #IT

From a big idea to a reality! We are finally here. Last year, when my co-founder Asif Awan and I started thinking of disrupting a very large and growing Infrastructure as Code market, many thought that was not possible. We made it possible! We focused on making complex technology simple, easy, fast and secure.  Today I’m excited to announce the launch of appCD! We are on a mission to remove the burden of infrastructure as code by auto-generating it from application code with golden standards (policy, security and compliance standards) applied. I’m excited for the appCD journey. Already it has been filled with late nights, countless lines of code, and unwavering dedication from our team. Thanks leadership team Cesar Rodriguez, Kunal Dabir, Danielle Cook, Lauren Rother, founding engineers Taylor Becker, Sean Gahagan, Sabith K Soopy, Yusuf Kanchwala and all team appCD for believing in us and our mission. Let’s revolutionize the #developerexperience together by disrupting the application deployment: Generative Infrastructure from Code so you can be more profitable, secure, and productive. As we launch, we also announce our $6M in seed funding by notable venture capital firms Thomvest WestWave Capital Firebolt Ventures and Secure Octane. I want to thank Umesh Padval Gaurav Manglik Cherian Mathew Mahendra R. for their belief in appCD! You can try appCD today or learn more at www.appcd.com #aws #azure #devops #infrastructureascode #terraform #cloudsecurity #cspm #platformengineering #cloud #developerproductivity #developertools

Hello World! says Fractl Inc. A programming language that is more natural for humans and Gen AI in order to build entire applications (Yes really!). Congrats to Ranga Rao and the entire Fractl Inc. team on their launch today. This is a bold vision and we at WestWave Capital are proud to back the company. As a programmer, this project is specially close to my heart. I saw the evolution of Java and other programming frameworks that made developer life easier over the last three decades. However even with modern programming languages and frameworks, developers have to repeat writing the same code over and over again. With Fractl, you have to only code you business logic. You you use Gen AI to do it with natural language or use a nice visual designer or get your hand dirty with code directly. And for the advanced users, you can even go down to the open source language and add your own libraries and connectors. Fractl automatically generates all the lower level code and distributed services including security, auth, RBAC, logging, persistence, APIs, etc. for you so you don't have to write the same boring code again and again. More on the launch here.

🚀ANNOUNCEMENT: We are delighted to announce that Hyundai Motor Company (현대자동차) and Kia Corporation, a leading global automotive OEM conglomerate, became a strategic investor in Koop Technologies! Our company plans to work with Hyundai and Kia on increasing the adoption of robotics-based products and services through proprietary risk evaluation and convenient delivery of new insurance coverages. “I’m convinced that next-generation automotive OEMs will reinvent themselves to become robotics OEMs, and Hyundai and Kia are clearly trailblazing in that direction. This strategic investment will allow Koop to expand its engineering, product, and distribution capabilities and partner with Hyundai and Kia on building a whole new category of financial services for robotics, starting with insurance and risk management,” said Sergey Litvinenko, Co-Founder & CEO of Koop. “The strategic investment in Koop reinforces Hyundai and Kia’s holistic approach to commercializing robotics, where financial services, including insurance and risk management, are central to reliable deployments. We are happy to partner with Koop to bring new robotics products to market in the near future,” said Dr. Yunseong Hwang, Vice President and Head of Open Innovation Execution Group at Hyundai Motor Group. Read the full press release https://lnkd.in/e5TAFdtP #new #strategic #funding #investment #robotics #AV #autonomousvehicles #automation #AI #artificialintelligence #insurance #insurtech #underwriting #OEM #Hyundai #Kia