When was Trinity Ventures founded?

Trinity Ventures was founded in 1986.

Where is Trinity Ventures' headquarters located?

Trinity Ventures' headquarters is located in Menlo Park ( United States ).

How big is Trinity Ventures' investment team?

Trinity Ventures has a team of 17, including 12 partners.

How many companies has Trinity Ventures invested in?

Trinity Ventures has invested in 244 companies, including Auth0 & New Relic.

Which companies has Trinity Ventures invested in lately?

Funnel & Pivo are the latest investments by Trinity Ventures.

What sectors does Trinity Ventures focus on for investments?

Top sectors in Trinity Ventures' portfolio are Enterprise Applications (114 investments) and Consumer (49 investments).

What stages of companies does Trinity Ventures typically invest in?

Trinity Ventures primarily invests in Series A and Series B stages.

How many exits has Trinity Ventures been involved in?

Trinity Ventures' portfolio has seen 7 IPOs and 129 acquisitions.

How many unicorns are there in Trinity Ventures' portfolio?

There are 10 unicorns in Trinity Ventures' portfolio.

Trinity Ventures - 2025 Investor Profile, Portfolio, Team & Investment Trends - Tracxn

Trinity Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1986. It is primarily based out of Menlo Park, United States. As of Aug 2023, Trinity Ventures has invested in 244 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Consumer and Retail. Most recently it led the $2M Seed round of Pivo along with Y Combinator. This round also saw participation from FoundersX Ventures and other investors.

Overall, Trinity Ventures portfolio has seen 10 unicorns, 7 IPOs and 129 acquisitions including key companies like Auth0, New Relic and Zulily. A lot of funds co-invest with Trinity Ventures, with names like Bessemer Venture Partners sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.

Trinity Ventures has team of 17 people including 12 partners.

Key Metrics

Team Members

Schwark Satyavolu, Noel Fenton & 15 more

Portfolio Count

Auth0, New Relic & 244 more

Portfolio Sectors

Enterprise Applications, Consumer & 34 more

Portfolio Locations

United States, India & 9 more

Rounds of Entry

Series A, Series B & 8 more

Portfolio IPOs

AGS Transact Technologies, ThredUP & 5 more

Portfolio Acquisitions

Mark Forged, Zulily & 127 more

Portfolio Unicorns

Genies, CommerceIQ & 8 more

Portfolio Soonicorns

Earnin, Branch & 17 more

Trinity Ventures has a portfolio of 244 companies, including 10 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Vigo Video and Grin Scooters.Their portfolio spans across United States, India, United Kingdom and 8 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Retail and 33 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Series B and 8 more. Here is the list of top investments by Trinity Ventures:

1. Auth0

Platform offering identity and access management solution. The product offered by the company is an enterprise grade customer and employee identity management system for organizations. It is a cloud-based identity and authentication management platform that enables developers to securely integrate authentication and authorization capabilities into the web, mobile, and legacy applications.

Key facts about Auth0

Founded Year: 2013
Location: Bellevue (United States)
Last Known Valuation: $1B as on May 21, 2019
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $333M
Employee Count: 626 as on Dec 31, 2021
Investors: Founders Circle Capital, Meritech and 17 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series F, Jul 14, 2020, $120M
Highlight: Acquired

2. New Relic

Cloud and AI based platform offering enterprise observability solutions. It offers features such as web application monitoring, ruby monitoring, web performance monitoring, PHP monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, Kubernetes monitoring, container monitoring, docker monitoring, and digital customer experience management. It enables user access to a subscription based pricing module.

Key facts about New Relic

Founded Year: 2008
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $196M
Employee Count: 1,683 as on Dec 31, 2022
Investors: JANA Partners, DAG Ventures and 14 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, May 2018, $500M
Highlight: Acquired

3. Zulily

Online shopping platform using flash sales. The product catalog includes clothes, shoes, toys, gifts, home improvement items, etc. The company offers time-limited daily deals on most of its products. Its app is available for iOS and Android platforms.

Key facts about Zulily

Founded Year: 2009
Location: Seattle (United States)
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $135M
Employee Count: 2,866 as on Dec 31, 2021
Investors: TrueBridge, Greenspring Associates and 5 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series D, Nov 15, 2012, $85M
Highlight: Acquired

4. Taulia

AI-based electronic invoicing and supply chain management solution for businesses. It features solutions to provide dynamic discounting, supply chain finance, cash forecasting, invoice automation, supplier management, and more. It offers a web-based invoice management solution that allows you to choose an early payment option using their working capital or third-party funds.

Key facts about Taulia

Founded Year: 2009
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $220M
Employee Count: 185 as on Dec 31, 2022
Investors: DAG Ventures, QuestMark Partners and 25 Others
Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Mar 11, 2021, $6B
Highlight: Acquired

5. Aruba Networks

Developer of cloud based enterprise networking equipment. It provides enterprise networking, security, and mobile engagement solutions. The products include access points, controllers, WiFi analytics, network management, and outdoor mesh. The features of the product include policy management, policy firewall, intrusion protection, and VPN services. It creates and maintains policies based on user roles, device profiling, and multivendor authentication sources which are used by third party IT systems to monitor analyze current and archived per user access sessions.

Key facts about Aruba Networks

Founded Year: 2002
Location: Sunnyvale (United States)
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $86.5M
Employee Count: 871 as on Dec 31, 2022
Investors: WK Technology Fund, Matrix and 8 Others
Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Jan 01, 2021, $1.16M
Highlight: Acquired

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Trinity Ventures has invested in 246 companies over the last 27 years, with an average of 5 new investments annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Pivo and most recent follow-on round was in Funnel.

Here are Trinity Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends:

Year	No. of Investments
Year	1^st Round	Follow-on	Total
2025 (YTD)	0	0	0
2024	0	0	0
2023	0	1	1
2022	2	4	6
2021	1	14	15
2020	5	12	17
2019	11	10	21
2018	9	15	24
2017	5	14	19
2016	10	9	19

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Trinity Ventures has made 86 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $8.24M, 46 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $16.6M and 40 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.96M.

Here are Trinity Ventures' investments by stage:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Series A	86
Series B	46
Seed	40
Series C	15
Series D	2
Others	5

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Trinity Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer, Retail and Vertical SaaS. Notably, it has invested in 197 Tech companies, 157 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 100 Software companies and at least 79 companies focusing on Saas.

Here are Trinity Ventures' investments by sector:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Sector	No. of Investments
Enterprise Applications	95
Enterprise Infrastructure	48
Consumer	40
Retail	28
Vertical SaaS	26
Others	153

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Trinity Ventures has made most investments in United States (179), followed by India where it has made 4 investments.

Here are Trinity Ventures' investments by geography:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Country	No. of Investments
United States	179
India	4
Ireland	3
United Kingdom	3
Germany	2
Others	6

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Trinity Ventures has not made any investment in 2025 so far.

Here are the most recent investments by Trinity Ventures:

Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
Aug 18, 2023	Funnel	United States	Series B	$32M	RET Ventures
Nov 21, 2022	Pivo	United States	Seed	$2M	Precursor Ventures [+9]
Nov 18, 2022	InfluxData	United States	Series E	$51.3M	Princeville Capital [+7]
Nov 10, 2022	Brightside	United States	Series B	$33M	Obvious Ventures [+3]
Aug 25, 2022	Tradeblock	United States	Seed	$8.9M	Courtside Ventures [+1]

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Trinity Ventures has 10 unicorns in its portfolio - Genies, CommerceIQ, Contentful and others. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Genies. It became a unicorn in 2022, 8 years after Trinity Ventures first invested in it.

Here is a list of unicorns in Trinity Ventures' portfolio:

Tracxn Score	Company	Short Description	Founded year	Sector	Location	Company Stage	First Investment/ Acquisition Details
71	Genies	Provider of a mobile application and SDK to create 3D avatars	2011	High Tech [+1]	Los Angeles	Series C	chv{qow
71	CommerceIQ	Provider of SaaS and AI-based analytics software for e-commerce businesses	2012	Retail [+1]	Mountain View	Series D	h{yuxr{
55	Contentful	Cloud-based content management platform	2012	Enterprise Applications [+1]	Berlin	Series F	kjpvskj
66	Side	Provider of online brokerage services for diversified properties	2017	Real Estate and Construction	San Francisco	Series D	emzelps
69	Turo	App-based P2P car rental platform	2010	Consumer [+5]	San Francisco	Series F	lxnxing

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7 of Trinity Ventures' portfolio companies have become public. AGS Transact Technologies got listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE), Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), in Jan 2022 at marketcap of $283M and ThredUP got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) at marketcap of $168M.

Here are Trinity Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:

Company	IPO Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
AGS Transact Technologies	Jan 31, 2022	-	-	-
ThredUP	Mar 26, 2021	Jul 07, 2010	Series A	$1.4M
Enovix	Jan 05, 2021	-	-	-
Bright Horizons Family Solutions	Jan 25, 2013	-	-	-
Alchemist Group	Jul 31, 2007	-	-	-

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129 companies from Trinity Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Mark Forged in Apr 2025 by Nano Dimension for $116M.

Here are Trinity Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:

Company	Acquisition Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Mark Forged	Apr 28, 2025	2016	Series B	$20M
Zulily	Mar 18, 2025	Aug 04, 2010	Series A	$6M
Weights & Biases	Mar 04, 2025	Jun 01, 2018	Series A	$5M
Duetto	Jun 27, 2024	Apr 19, 2012	Seed	$2.1M
CR2	May 24, 2024	May 17, 2005	Series B	$12.6M

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Trinity Ventures has a team of 17 members including 12 Partners, 1 Venture Partner and 4 Principals located in United States, India and 1 more locations. Trinity Ventures' team sits on the board of 1 company.

Here is a list of top team members in Trinity Ventures:

Name	Designation	Location	Board Memberships	Contact details
Schwark Satyavolu	Partner	San Francisco	-	2 Emails
Noel Fenton	Partner	Menlo Park	-	1 Email
Patricia Nakache	Partner	Menlo Park	-	1 Email
Ajay Chopra	Partner	San Francisco	-	1 Email
Larry Orr	Partner	Palo Alto	-	1 Email
Shane Reihill	Partner	-	-	-
Ashwin Deo	Partner	India	Pipeline FnB	-
Mukesh Pawar	Partner	Nashik	-	-
Sandrina Postorino	Partner	Sydney	-	-
De Addington	Partner	United States	-	-
Thomas Mathew	Partner	Bengaluru	-	-

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Over the past 27 years, 905 investors have co-invested in Trinity Ventures's portfolio companies.

Invested before Trinity Ventures: Y Combinator, SV Angel and 159 others have invested in rounds before Trinity Ventures. There are 12 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Trinity Ventures and 6 companies where SV Angel has invested before Trinity Ventures.
Top Co-investors of Trinity Ventures: 288 investors entered a company along with Trinity Ventures. These include investors like Bessemer Venture Partners (6 companies).
Invested after Trinity Ventures: A total of 456 investors have invested in Trinity Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Insight Partners (10 companies), Sapphire Ventures (7 companies) and Goldman Sachs (6 companies).