About

Ben Gorman is a Venture Partner at F-Prime Capital, where he focuses on early-stage investments in enterprise software and frontier technologies. Prior to joining F-Prime Capital, he was a managing consultant at IBM, providing internal strategy and analytics consulting to IBM’s business units and geographies. The primary focus of his work was transforming the company’s go-to-market to better leverage data, analytics, and technology. Over the course of his tenure, he gained experience on the ground in 10 countries across 4 continents.

Ben is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where he received degrees in Economics and Statistics.

  • Ashby exists to deliver a new standard of recruiting software to enable hiring excellence. It’s all-in-one recruiting platform enables high growth companies to hire more efficiently by combining features for the entire recruiting process, from sourcing to offer, with advanced analytics and automation. Learn more at www.ashbyhq.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2020

    • Team

  • Benchling is the leader in cloud-based informatics for life science R&D. The company offers a unified R&D platform purpose-built for biologics, including solutions for Lab Notebook, Molecular Biology, Bioregistration, Sample Tracking, Requests and Workflow Management. Benchling is used by over 100,000 scientists globally throughout multinational pharmaceutical corporations, emerging biotechnology companies, and major research institutions. Learn more at https://benchling.com/.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
      • Health IT/Services
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2018

    • Team

  • Canary Technologies is modernizing the hotel tech stack, with the first mobile web end-to-end Guest Management System, digitizing everything from post-booking through checkout. Trusted by thousands of hotels in more than 65 countries, including Four Seasons, Choice Hotels, Standard Hotels and Ace Hotel Group, Canary’s solutions help hotels eliminate paper processes, boost revenue with upsells, raise staff efficiency, ensure PCI compliance, improve the guest experience, and reduce chargebacks and payment fraud. Learn more at canarytechnologies.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2020

    • Team

  • Funnel’s product is a Data Core used by 800 forward-thinking organizations across a wide set of industry verticals to automatically import marketing data and make it Business-Ready. The Swedish Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company was founded by Fredrik Skantze and Per Made in 2014. Funnel has 140 employees and offices in Stockholm and Boston. Learn more at funnel.io.

  • Lighthouse (formerly OTA Insight) is the leading commercial platform for the travel & hospitality industry. We transform complexity into confidence by providing actionable market insights, business intelligence, and pricing tools that maximize revenue growth. We continually innovate to deliver the best platform for hospitality professionals to price more effectively, measure performance more efficiently, and understand the market in new ways. Trusted by over 65,000 hotels in 185 countries, Lighthouse is the only solution that provides real-time hotel and short-term rental data in a single platform. We strive to deliver the best possible experience with unmatched customer service. We consider our clients as true partners—their success is our success. Learn more at mylighthouse.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      London, England, UK

    • Year Invested

      2017

    • Team

  • Logixboard is the digital partner for freight forwarders to succeed in today’s highly competitive market. Our web-based platform empowers freight forwarders to do their work more efficiently, increasing customer satisfaction, and unlock the power of their data. Logixboard is a recent graduate of Techstars and is based in Seattle with offices in Bogota, Colombia.  For more information, visit www.logixboard.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      Seattle, WA

    • Year Invested

      2019

    • Team

  • Notable is an AI powered healthcare company that puts appointments on autopilot. By analyzing historical patterns of practice, Notable proactively automates away hundreds of manual repetitive tasks like adding diagnoses, orders, templates, billing codes, and more. Learn more at www.notablehealth.com.

  • Odaseva partners with the largest and most sophisticated organizations in the world to accelerate their trust in business-critical cloud applications. Fortune Global 500 industry leaders use Odaseva technology to back up and restore data, ensure data privacy and regulatory compliance, and use data to drive operational agility. Engineered for Salesforce by Salesforce experts and endorsed by Salesforce Ventures, Odaseva is trusted by 30+ million users and has received 100% five-star reviews over eight years on the Salesforce AppExchange.  Learn more at www.odaseva.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      Paris, France and San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2020

    • Team

  • The unique makeup of the Optimus Ride team includes over 30 years of shared experience on the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research in self-driving technologies, electric vehicles, mobility-on-demand and other transportation systems. The team also has a decade of industrial and entrepreneurial experience spanning manufacturing robots, medical robots, shared vehicle fleet management and urban design. Building on this significant knowledge, the company will continue to leverage the latest advances in complex sensor fusion, mapping, computer vision and machine learning to ultimately deploy a new form of transportation system that enables safe, sustainable and equitable mobility access. This company was acquired by Magna in 2022.

  • Percy works at the intersection of design, development, and deployment. Their product is the world’s first truly continuous visual testing platform, helping enable product teams to ship software faster and with confidence in every visual change to their application. Learn more at percy.io.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2019

    • Team

  • The Protenus healthcare compliance analytics platform uses artificial intelligence to help partner hospitals make decisions about how to better protect their data, their patients, and their institutions. Learn more at www.protenus.com.

  • RiskLens is the leading provider of quantitative cyber risk management software. Its platform is recognized as a mission-critical business application for cybersecurity and risk teams across the Fortune 1,000. RiskLens empowers large enterprises and government organizations to manage cyber risk from the business perspective by quantifying that risk in monetary terms. Clients depend on RiskLens solutions to better understand and communicate their cyber risk exposure in financial terms, prioritize their risk mitigations, measure the ROI of their security investments, and meet regulatory demands calling for the quantification of cyber risk. RiskLens is the only cyber risk quantification software purpose-built on FAIR, the standard quantification model for information security and operational risk. Learn more at www.risklens.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Acquired
    • Location

      Reston, VA

    • Year Invested

      2019

    • Team

  • RiskRecon is the only continuous vendor monitoring solution that delivers risk-prioritized action plans custom-tuned to match your risk priorities, providing the world’s easiest path to understanding and acting on third-party cyber risk. Partner with RiskRecon to build your scalable, third-party risk management program to realize dramatically better risk outcomes. RiskRecon was acquired by Mastercard in 2019.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Acquired
    • Location

      Salt Lake City, UT

    • Year Invested

      2017

    • Team

  • Silq is on a mission to bring radical visibility and real-time data from the factory floor to brands around the world. We power sourcing, manufacturing and shipping for apparel, footwear, home goods and accessory brands. Our on-site experts provide real-time updates into the production process directly from the factory floor. Paired with Silq’s proprietary technology platform, brands are able to accelerate speed-to-market and improve product quality. Our customers include direct-to-consumer (DTC) and wholesale fashion and apparel brands such as Barry’s, Mightly, Mizzen+Main and Lambert in addition to design and production houses such as Pinpoint Merchandising and Stars Design Group. Learn more at www.onesilq.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2022

    • Team

  • Simon Data is the first and only enterprise customer data platform with a fully-integrated marketing cloud. Moving beyond the limitations of both categories, Simon’s platform empowers businesses to leverage enterprise-scale big data and machine learning to power customer communications in any channel. Simon’s unique approach allows brands to develop incredible personalization capabilities without needing to build and maintain massive bespoke data infrastructure. Learn more at www.simondata.com.

  • Stage is on a mission to empower builders and innovators to create enduring technology. Stage is a dynamic monetization platform for early- and growth-stage software companies. Starting with flexible plans and paywalls, the platform gives product teams the ability to understand, measure, and capture value from customers with confidence. Stage was co-founded by CEO Patrick Despres-Gallagher and CTO Kaiser Leib in October 2021 with remote operations and hubs in California and Montana. Patrick was previously one of the early Product Managers at Loom and RapidSOS as well as a family office investor focused on enterprise software. Kaiser was previously an early Software Engineer at Juniper Square and SoFi. Learn more at www.heystage.com and follow them on Twitter and LinkedIn.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2022

    • Team

  • Threat Stack enables growth-driven companies to scale securely and meet complex cloud security needs by identifying and verifying insider threats, external attacks, and data loss in real time. With a comprehensive approach to intrusion detection, Threat Stack empowers security and operations to better manage risk and compliance across their entire infrastructure, including cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and containerized environments. Threat Stack was acquired by F5 Networks in 2021.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Acquired
    • Location

      Boston, MA

    • Year Invested

      2017

    • Team

  • Vendr is an end-to-end SaaS purchasing & renewal management platform. They manage your software purchases and renewals, so you can manage your business. Learn more at www.vendr.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      Boston, MA

    • Year Invested

      2019

    • Team

  • Warmly is the first AI-fueled pipeline acceleration platform that harnesses the power of existing sales enablement and intent tools to automatically identify high propensity website visitors and alert them to sales for real-time engagement. It’s the first such solution purpose built to meet the business and budget needs of SMBs. Learn more at www.warmly.ai.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2020

    • Team