Venture capital fund · 4 deals

OpenView

Boston

Disclosed deals

Every published round OpenView took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
Deputy	Series B	7 Apr 2022	$81m	Participant	Square Peg Capital Insight Venture Partners EVP	Square Peg Capital, Square Peg Capital portfolio
BuildKite	Series A	20 Aug 2020	$28m	Lead	General Catalyst	Startup Daily (Fri 18 Sep 2026), Startup Daily (Tue 5 Aug 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 4 Mar 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 16 Nov 2022), TechCrunch Australia (Tue 20 Apr 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 20 Aug 2020), SmartCompany, TechCrunch Australia (Tue 18 Aug 2020)
Deputy	Series B	28 Nov 2018	$111m	Participant	Square Peg Capital EVP IVP	Startup Daily (Tue 19 Mar 2024), SmartCompany (Mon 25 Feb 2019), SmartCompany (Thu 21 Feb 2019), Techboard (Tue 19 Feb 2019), Techboard (Wed 6 Feb 2019), Startup Daily (Thu 17 Jan 2019), SmartCompany (Mon 17 Dec 2018), SmartCompany (Mon 3 Dec 2018), Startup Daily (Thu 29 Nov 2018), TechCrunch Venture
Deputy	Series A	Jan 2017	$33m	Lead	-	Startup Daily (Tue 19 Mar 2024), SmartCompany (Mon 25 Feb 2019), SmartCompany (Mon 17 Dec 2018), SmartCompany (Mon 3 Dec 2018), Startup Daily (Thu 29 Nov 2018), TechCrunch Venture, anthillonline.com

Portfolio

Companies OpenView has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
BuildKite		20 Aug 2020, Series A	1	1
Deputy		Jan 2017, Series A	3	1

Funds

Fund closes reported for OpenView, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for OpenView yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies OpenView has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal OpenView did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of OpenView is recorded as having been acquired.

People

Name	Role	Sources
Ashley Smith	Venture Partner	Startup Daily, TechCrunch Australia
Mackey Craven	Partner	Startup Daily, TechCrunch Australia

Coverage

Stories naming OpenView. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

Series B US$21m

We raised a $21m Series B! Now what do we do next? | Buildkite

Buildkite announces a US$21 million Series B with Airtree and OneVentures leading; founder Keith Pitt reflects on nine years building the company, its Test Analytics product, and plans for new developer tools.

buildkite.com Thu 2 May 2024 BuildKite General Catalyst OpenView AirTree Ventures OneVentures Keith Pitt Tim Lucas

3 deals

Casual worker management platform Deputy is back from the brink to become a shy unicorn

Deputy says it is now worth more than A$1.1 billion after US staffing group Express Employment Professionals put in A$37 million, making the Sydney workforce-tech firm Australia's newest unicorn.

Startup Daily Tue 19 Mar 2024 Deputy Atlassian Canva Linktree Salesforce ServiceNow Workday EVP Express Employment Professionals OpenView Square Peg Capital Ashik Ahmed Howard Leibman Silvija Martincevic Steve Shelley

Also Forbes Australia·Crunchbase News

Series B US$81m

Investment notes: Deputy US$81m Series B

Square Peg's investment note explains its reasons for backing Deputy's US$81 million Series B with IVP, Openview and Equity Venture Partners, describing the workforce scheduling platform's growth, customers and team.

Square Peg Capital portfolio Thu 7 Apr 2022 Deputy Gelato Messina NASA Qantas EVP Insight Venture Partners OpenView Square Peg Capital Ashik Ahmed Steve Shelley

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After a decade of bootstrapping, Octopus Deploy raises $172.5M from Insight Partners

Deployment automation firm Octopus Deploy takes its first outside capital after ten years bootstrapped, selling a minority stake to Insight Partners. Linked coverage notes Insight's fund close and Buildkite's Series A.

TechCrunch Venture Tue 20 Apr 2021 BuildKite Octopus Deploy Insight Partners OpenView Michael Triplett Paul Stovell Sonia Stovell

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Melbourne-based CI/CD platform Buildkite gets $28 million AUD Series A led by OpenView

Australian CI/CD platform Buildkite raised a A$28 million Series A led by OpenView with General Catalyst participating, valuing it above A$200 million. Its first raise since 2013 seed funding; two new board members join.

TechCrunch Venture Tue 18 Aug 2020 BuildKite General Catalyst OpenView Ashley Smith Jean-Michel Lemieux Keith Pitt Lachlan Donald Mackey Craven

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18 deals

Good tidings we bring: The 10 biggest capital raises of 2018

A year-end roundup of Australia's largest 2018 startup capital raises, covering Judo Capital, Deputy, Airwallex, Inflazome, SafetyCulture, Culture Amp, Canva, Havven, Athena, Ansarada and Data Republic, with investors and earlier rounds recalled.

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Australian scheduling software company Deputy brings in $81M amid rapid growth

Workforce management firm Deputy closes an $81 million Series B led by IVP, its largest Australian Series B, after a $25 million Series A in 2017, with plans to expand engineering and product teams.

TechCrunch Venture Wed 28 Nov 2018 Deputy EVP IVP OpenView Square Peg Capital Ashik Ahmed

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