Quest Innovation Accelerator

How We're Different

We believe that investing should be simple. The venture capital process shouldn't be complicated by unclear intentions and dysfunctional politics – it should be streamlined and transparent. We differentiate by our:

• Enterprise Know-how
  We offer operational expertise that comes from experience as a major player in the technology world.
• Market Expertise
  We specialize in a wide range of software markets. We understand the technology and drivers that are the foundations of your firm.
• Transparent, Streamlined Process
  You should focus on growing your business instead of jumping through finance hoops for venture funding. We'll let you know where you stand and move fast.

How We Invest

We invest in innovative companies that are solving critical problems. Our early focus has been cloud applications, application development, collaboration, infrastructure and systems management.

• Seed Stage Firms
  With global data doubling every 18 months, the world is facing a Big Data challenge – which creates a Big Data opportunity. Our seed stage investments are shaping this revolution.
• "Enterprise-ification" of Consumer Applications
  As consumer productivity applications grow, they enter the enterprise creating the next wave of need for IT management. We invest in early- and expansion-stage consumer firms poised to enter the enterprise.
• Growth Organizations
  Ventures based on disruptive technologies and innovative business models have the potential to redefine a market. We provide growth capital to help these firms realize their fullest potential.

Investment Portfolio

AppHarbor is a fully hosted .NET platform-as a-service solution that helps thousands of developers and businesses instantly test, deploy and scale .NET applications.

AwayFind is a web application that escalates your most urgent emails. When you receive an urgent message, AwayFind will notify you, or delegate the message to someone you specify.

Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost-effective and widely deployed business intelligence suite in the world, enabling better decision-making through highly interactive web-based reports, dashboards and analysis.

Mavenlink is an entirely new way for businesses and consultants to work together. Project collaboration, budgeting, time tracking, and invoicing are all seamlessly integrated in one place.

Rule.fm is a cloud-based productivity platform that unifies business asset management in a collaborative environment. Manage your business the way you want within one online application.

SecureAuth makes the cloud safe for organizations of any size by simplifying access as well as reducing the risks of unauthorized access, phishing, and the misuse of portable enterprise identities.

Skydera provides hybrid cloud automation solutions for secure management, monitoring, provisioning, log management and scaling for small-to-medium- sized enterprises.

Smarsh is the managed service leader in secure, cloud-based archiving solutions for compliance and records retention, proactive litigation readiness, and mail server data management.

SmartBear Software provides affordable, enterprise-class tools that enable code quality, QA efficiency, and application performance anywhere – from desktop and mobile devices to the cloud.

STEALTHbits Technologies unlocks your Microsoft infrastructure and allows you to measure and manage multiple aspects of your IT environment from a single, unified platform.

Symplified provides the trust fabric of the cloud by enabling you to extend and enforce identity and access management policies across web, cloud and mobile applications.

WSO2 delivers the only complete, open source middleware platform. WSO2 middleware’s revolutionary, componentized design yields a lean, targeted, cloud-native solution for enterprise applications.