Rally Tech Partners

The insider advantage.

A nationwide network of leaders and visionaries drawn from the most influential companies in tech.

Rally Tech Partners act as a flexible extension of our team, selectively applying their expertise to strengthen the capabilities of our portfolio companies at each phase of their journey.

The power of many.
With expertise spanning marketing, sales, leadership, finance and engineering, Rally Tech Partners work directly with our early-stage companies to provide targeted guidance, inspiration and connections when and where it counts.

Phil Soran
Founder Xiotech, Compellent and Flipgrid
"The Rally partners helped us navigate through the tech recession following the 2000 .com bubble burst and again through the 2008-2009 recession, during which we went from pre-product to IPO and eventual sale to Dell. These are the best VCs I have worked with—and I have worked with a few."
Eva Tsai
Marketing Executive Google Cloud
"The Rally portfolio includes an exceptional group of founders and teams building technologies that are changing the way the world works. I’m proud to be one of the 100+ Rally Tech Partners helping them go further faster."
Jonathan Yaffe
Co-Founder & CEO AnyRoad
"The Rally team and their network of Tech Partners have been extremely valuable as we've grown. They've supported us in strategy and have even provided customer intros that significantly increased our revenue after our Series Seed."
Tore Steen
CEO CrowdStreet
"One of the Rally Tech Partners is a key customer, another has partnered with us on deals and introduced prospects and yet another has really helped us to pivot our marketing strategy."
Juan Jaysingh
CEO Zingtree
"We’re excited that Rally led our first institutional round of capital. Rally’s hyper-focus on enterprise software, Managing Director Justin Kaufenberg’s experience as tech startup CEO to successful exit, and Tech Partners like Noah Eisner and Kevin Kennedy adding value before the deal even closed, were critical aspects in our decision."
Noah Eisner
Founder Coupa Software
"I was attracted to Rally because of their mission of being active, value-added investors. As a Tech Partner, I dig in with founders where it matters most and make a truly meaningful impact."
Greg Dehn
Founder & CEO Kaleidoscope
"The deep respect the Rally team has for founders and entrepreneurs has been obvious since day one. Our relationship is based on honesty and trust."
Tom O'Neill
Founder & CEO Parallax
"The support and guidance that the Rally Ventures team has provided have been critical to our success. We've learned a ton working with these leaders in B2B Tech and leveraging the decades of experience on the team."
Rally Tech Partners
Eric Allman Research Engineer at The Ubiquitous Swarm Lab, University of California, Berkeley Ryan Barretto President at Sprout Social Neel Bhatia Operating Partner, Talent and ESG at Arcline Investment Management Steve Bourne Creator of the Bourne shell and the adb debugger; Author of The Unix System Marc Brown Corporate Vice President, Corporate Development, Global Head of M&A and Strategic Investments at Microsoft Julie Bushman Former CIO and Executive Vice President of International Operations at 3M Jeanne DeWitt Grosser Head of Americas Revenue and Growth at Stripe Chris DiBona Director of Open Source at Google Noah Eisner Founder of Coupa Software Bruce Felt CFO at Domo Ben Fried CIO at Google Zach Halmstad Co-founder at Jamf Jack Jia Founder and CEO of Musely Kevin J Kennedy CEO at Quanergy Tom Killalea Board Member, Capital One; Former VP Technology at Amazon Anna Klombies Chief People Officer at Total Expert; Former CPO at SportsEngine Ben Laurie Principal Engineer at Google Research and Machine Intelligence; Wrote Apache-SSL Bill Magnuson Co-Founder and CEO at Braze Bethany Mayer Independent Board Member; Former CEO of Ixia Cosmos Nicolaou Principal at CloudEng Phil Soran Founder of Xiotech, Compellent and Flipgrid Scott Taylor Board Member, Strategic Advisor and Former Chief Legal Officer Eva Tsai Marketing Executive at Google Cloud Michael Viscuso Co-Founder of Carbon Black
Brian Bell CEO at SportsEngine Elizabeth Benz SVP of Revenue-Sales and Customer Success at Jamf Doug Berg Multi-Time Startup Entrepreneur and Investor Joe Biller Managing Director at 3x5 Partners Greg Blasko CTO at Yardstick; Co-Founder of SportsEngine Archie Black CEO of SPS Commerce Mike Bollinger Founder of TECHdotMN and Livefront Thomas Goodmanson President and CEO at Calabrio Chris Heim Executive Chairman at HelpSystems Robert Higgins Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Causeway Media Partners Deepak Kamra General Partner at Canaan Partners Aaron Kardell Founder and CEO of HomeSpotter Chris Key Chief Product Officer at Mandiant Dan Kinsella Former CFO, SportsEngine and Jamf Dan Mayleben CEO at 2ndWave Software Will McIntosh EVP, NBC Sports Digital and Consumer Businesses at NBC Sports Group Marshall Kirk McKusick Computer Software Consultant and Contractor Matt Meents CEO and Co-founder of Magnet360, Founder and CEO of Yardstik George Neville-Neil Director of Engineering Operational Security at JUUL Labs Brian Provost CEO at Ascentis Theo Schlossnagle Founder and CTO at Circonus Nick Schneider CEO at Arctic Wolf Donna Wells Former President and CEO at Mindflash Technologies Joe Welu CEO and Founder of Total Expert
Chad Abraham Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Piper Sandler Samy Al Bahra Co-Founder of Backtrace I/O Elie Antoun Former President and CEO at MediaQ Jim Bandanza COO and CRO at Capsule8 Chad Becker President and CEO at MetaFarms Ian Bonner Executive Chairman at VizExplorer Roeland Boonstoppel Owner at Amber Venture Partners BV; Partner at Monserrate Ventures BV Jay Borenstein Rally Venture Partner; 25+ Years of Tech VC and Operating Peter Bourne CEO at Bright Wolf Patrick Bourke Investor and Advisor Ivan Brockman Partner at PJT Partners Mark Burns Partner at True Search Scott Burns CEO and Co-Founder at Structural Collin Bushman Automation Leader at Cargill Rich Butwinick Founder and President of MarketingLab and SellCheck Michael Carrel President and CEO at AtriCure Ari Chaney Co-founder, Principal at 13.8, Inc. and Cellular Research, Inc. Ted Chervin Founding Partner and Board Member of ICM Partners Mark Copman Vice President and General Manager, Stationery and Office Products Division at 3M Daren Cotter Founder and CEO at InboxDollars Art Coviello Rally Venture Partner; Luminary Security Executive; 30+ Years of Tech Operating Bill Crane Former VP of Engineering at LinkedIn Mark Cree CEO and Founder of InfiniteIO; Founder of NuSpeed Tony Daffer Managing Partner at Provenire Capital
Kevin DeNuccio Technology Chief Executive and Venture Capital Investor Sean Donaldson CTO at NTT Managed Services - America's Shawn Douglass CEO at Amberdata John Drew General Partner at TCV Timothy Eades CEO of vArmour Rick Ehrman CEO at VNN Staffan Ericsson Venture Partner at Vesbridge Partners Mark Evans Former Head of Marketplace Intelligence Group at Google Mark Floyd Venture Partner at TDF Ventures Rafi Golberstein President at PACE Loan Group Patrick Gordan Executive Managing Director at Leader Ventures John Guider Co-Founder of Compellent Technologies Zenas Hutcheson Rally Venture Partner; 30+Years of Tech VC & Operating Nick Ilitch Executive Advisor and Mentor Dale Jantzen Board Director of Canary Foundation Michael Jennings Rally Venture Partner; 30+ Years of Tech Operating Andrew Johnson VP, Revenue of Branch Dennis R. Johnson Management Consultant at Dennis R. Johnson & Associates Galen G. Johnson Board Member at American Investors Bank Jack Judd Former CFO at Proto Labs and Compellent Adriana Karaboutis Group Chief Information & Digital Officer at National Grid Montgomery Kersten Independent Board Member and CEO Advisor Carson Kipfer Co-Founder of SportsEngine Josh Krsnak President at Hempel
Atam Lalchandani Advisor/Board Member at Sierra Angels Len Landale Senior Vice President ERP and Applications Hosting at Secure-24 Demetrios Lazarikos Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Blue Lava David Lenhardt Former President and CEO of PetSmart Jim Leslie Co-Founder of Flipgrid Mark Lewis CEO at Solos Health Analytics John Lilly Managing Member of Lateral Capital Management Don Listwin President and CEO at RapidAI Alexander Lloyd Managing Director of Accelerator Ventures Shekhar Mandal Partner at Cyras Partners Abel Mathew Co-Founder of Backtrace I/O John Michelsen CEO at Ant Brains Shridhar Mittal CEO at ZIMPERIUM William Murphy Former SMD and CTO at Blackstone Hany Nada Co-founder and Partner at ACME Capital Jann Ozzello Wilcox Former CIO for Pohlad Companies Vincent Pangrazio EVP, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at SiTime Marc Parrish Investor and Advisor at Adapt.io Tom Peterson Rally Venture Partner; 30+ Years of Tech VC Josh Pickus CEO of Net Health Systems; Board Member at Conversica Rafat Pirzada Co-Founder of Cyras Rob Potter VP Worldwide Sales Mandiant Validation Solutions; Former CRO at Verodin Dmitry Pushkarev Founder of Cluster K Adam Rothstein General Partner at Disruptive Technologies
Marty Sanders CTO at Arctic Wolf Networks Mike Shapiro VP Software Engineering, EMC / DSSD EMC Al Shipp Former President and CEO at 3VR Alnoor Shivji Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Azure Biosystems Chris Smith CEO and Co-Founder at Kipsu Mike Snyder CEO and Founder of WEB Products Kevin Spreng Corporate Finance and Start-Up Lawyer at Fredrikson & Byron Colin Stewart Managing Director/Vice Chairman at Morgan Stanley Mark Tanoury Partner at Cooley Godward Sunil Tomar Founder and CEO at Brillus Dave Toth Founder of NetRatings Tom Wadlow Founder and Principal at TW.COM James Waldo CTO at Harvard Rob Weber Co-Founder of NativeX; Co-Founder and Managing Director of Great North Labs Sven Wehrwein Director and Audit Committee Chair at Atricure, Proto Labs and SPS Commerce

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Tech Partners FAQ

Learn more about the experts that help our portfolio companies achieve deep market alignment.

The Rally platform includes a dynamic group of more than 100 Rally Tech Partners—visionaries, technologists and executives — with deep sector expertise. Rally Tech Partners work directly with our early-stage companies, helping them navigate the most direct route to success.
Tech Partners work directly with our early-stage companies to provide targeted guidance, inspiration and connections. And as investors in our fund, every Tech Partner has a personal stake in adding significant value from Day One.
There are currently over 100 Rally Tech Partners. The group is comprised of current and former senior business leaders, technologists, CEOs, investors and entrepreneurs.
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