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.

Josh Pickus
CEO Net Health Systems
“The deeper the bench, the stronger the team. Rally Tech Partners bring expertise in every conceivable area to ensure Rally companies have the deepest bench and the strongest team.”
Theo Schlossnagle
Founder and CTO Circonus
“In my experience, the single most valuable input on problems is a fresh perspective. Having superb and experienced talent on the sidelines provides that advantage, resulting in a more perspicacious and savvy entrepreneur.”
Rafat Pirzada
Co-Founder Cyras
“Rally Ventures doesn’t fit the typical VC mold. The first thing that comes to mind about Rally is their integrity. They open doors at the highest levels for customers as well as other investors. When obstacles present themselves, Rally opens the doors to help entrepreneurs through.”
Ian Bonner
Executive Chairman VizExplorer
“Successful companies are built by driven, focused and empowered people. Rally Ventures and its extended Tech Partner network fast track the identification and empowerment of driven and focused entrepreneurs. The result: successful companies!”
Alnoor Shivji
Co-Founder and CEO Azure Biosystems
“Rally Ventures and its unique Tech Partner platform provide a deep bench of knowledge and experience that can assist entrepreneurs with most facets of the business. They are willing to spend time to understand the issues and recommend solutions. Rally Ventures, along with its powerful Tech Partners platform, have been there for me and my team to guide us to success.”
Elie Antoun
Former President & CEO MediaQ
“It’s all about people. Our relationship with Rally is based on trust, respect and forthrightness, with no agenda beyond the health of the company and its people. It’s so simple—Rally helps companies focus on the real problems they face. It does not get any better if you are entrepreneur.”
Casey Ellis
Co-Founder Bugcrowd
“Rally Ventures is a true value-add venture firm. The partners are engaged and wired into the enterprise market; the Tech Partners platform provides an instant ecosystem of veteran founders and entrepreneurs. If you value the idea of standing on the shoulders of giants, I recommend Rally.”
Dmitry Pushkarev
Founder Cluster K
“Rally Ventures is truly a value-add investor. Not only did they help us with defining some of the key strategic directions of product, but they also introduced us to an important customer (which has become an investor) and their network of technology partners. I can’t think of a better investor for an enterprise-focused SaaS startup.”
Rally Tech Partners
Chad Abraham Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Piper Sandler Larry Abramson Principal at PwC Eric Allman Research Engineer at The Ubiquitous Swarm Lab, University of California, Berkeley Elie Antoun Former President and CEO at MediaQ Jim Bandanza COO and CRO at Capsule8 Chad Becker President and CEO at MetaFarms Brian Bell CEO at SportsEngine Neel Bhatia Operating Partner, Talent and ESG at Arcline Investment Management Greg Blasko CTO at Yardstick; Co-Founder of SportsEngine Ian Bonner Executive Chairman at VizExplorer Roeland Boonstoppel Owner at Amber Venture Partners BV; Partner at Monserrate Ventures BV Peter Bourne CEO at Bright Wolf Steve Bourne Creator of the Bourne shell and the adb debugger; Author of The Unix System Ivan Brockman Partner at PJT Partners Marc Brown Corporate Vice President, Corporate Development, Global Head of M&A and Strategic Investments at Microsoft Mark Burns Partner at True Search 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 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 Chris DiBona Director of Open Source at Google Sean Donaldson CTO at NTT Managed Services - America's Shawn Douglass CEO at Amberdata Timothy Eades CEO of vArmour Rick Ehrman CEO at VNN Noah Eisner Founder of Coupa Software Staffan Ericsson Venture Partner at Vesbridge Partners Mark Evans Former Head of Marketplace Intelligence Group at Google Bruce Felt CFO at Domo Mark Floyd Venture Partner at TDF Ventures Ben Fried CIO at Google Rafi Golberstein President at PACE Loan Group Patrick Gordan Executive Managing Director at Leader Ventures John Guider Co-Founder of Compellent Technologies Dale Jantzen Board Director of Canary Foundation Jack Jia Founder and CEO of Musely 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 Kevin J Kennedy CEO at Quanergy Patrick Kennedy President at Loyolan Ventures Montgomery Kersten Independent Board Member and CEO Advisor Tom Kieffer Founder of Virteva Tom Killalea Board Member, Capital One; Former VP Technology at Amazon David Kinsella Head of Business Operations at Scale AI 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 Ben Laurie Principal Engineer at Google Research and Machine Intelligence; Wrote Apache-SSL 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 Bill Magnuson Co-Founder and CEO at Braze Shekhar Mandal Partner at Cyras Partners Bethany Mayer Independent Board Member; Former CEO of Ixia Marshall Kirk McKusick Computer Software Consultant and Contractor John Michelsen CEO at Ant Brains Shridhar Mittal CEO at ZIMPERIUM William Murphy Former SMD and CTO at Blackstone George Neville-Neil Director of Engineering Operational Security at JUUL Labs Cosmos Nicolaou Principal at CloudEng Vincent Pangrazio EVP, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at SiTime Marc Parrish Investor and Advisor at Adapt.io John Peters President and COO of Voltage Security Josh Pickus CEO of Net Health Systems; Board Member at Conversica Rafat Pirzada Co-Founder of Cyras Dmitry Pushkarev Founder of Cluster K Marty Sanders CTO at Arctic Wolf Networks Theo Schlossnagle Founder and CTO at Circonus 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 Phil Soran Founder of Xiotech, Compellent and Flipgrid 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 Scott Taylor Board Member, Strategic Advisor and Former Chief Legal Officer Sunil Tomar Founder and CEO at Brillus Dave Toth Founder of NetRatings Eva Tsai Marketing Executive at Google Cloud 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 Donna Wells Former President and CEO at Mindflash Technologies

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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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