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Roger Hurwitz reposted thisRoger Hurwitz reposted thisLast month, Volition Capital announced that we co-led an $80M Series B investment in PetScreening. Below, check out some of the key reasons we’re excited about this investment as well as the full Why We Invested article. https://lnkd.in/esJrF_wu
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Roger Hurwitz reposted thisRoger Hurwitz reposted thisCreatio’s CEO, Katherine Kostereva, sat down with Yahoo Finance to discuss the future of AI, no-code, and the evolution of software development. In the interview, Katherine shared her insights on the business automation landscape and Creatio's vision for transforming the industry through no-code and AI. Read the interview to learn more: https://lnkd.in/d4tQUtZK #Creatio #nocode #genAI2 ways AI will change the software industry - an interview with Katherine Kostereva, Creatio CEO2 ways AI will change the software industry - an interview with Katherine Kostereva, Creatio CEO
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Roger Hurwitz shared thisHappy New Year. Psyched to be partnering with so many great entrepreneurs. To an even better 2024.Roger Hurwitz shared thisVolition Capital is excited to share our 2023 Year In Review. 2023 was a landmark year at Volition Capital highlighted by the launch of Fund V with $675 Million in capital commitments, 11 new investments, 4 follow-on investments, and 2 realizations. Inside the Year in Review, we dive deeper into these accomplishments, share a letter from our Partners with reflections on '23, highlight our updated corporate values, and so much more. Thank you for a great 2023 and to an even better 2024! https://lnkd.in/eNqkmMxc
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Roger Hurwitz shared thisThink through any fundraise carefully.Roger Hurwitz shared thisIn this week's edition of The Volition View, Volition Capital Founding Partner Roger Hurwitz shares his thoughts on why raising more capital isn't always better, and how to compete against well-funded companies.
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Roger Hurwitz shared thisThank you Tanya Dua - it was funRoger Hurwitz shared this🚨Welcome back to VC Wednesdays. This week, we have Volition Capital’s Roger Hurwitz, who backs SaaS companies. Read on for more. 🚨 ✒️ How has your background made you a more discerning investor? Accounting gives you the full perspective on financial statements and all its elements – it's like one big puzzle. But I was always frustrated by looking backward at previous data to understand what happened at a specific point in time. I wanted to get involved in what's going forward, not backward. That’s how I stumbled into investing. ✒️You’ve said that you ‘see value in opportunities others may not immediately see.’ How? You don't always see growth in financial statements. You can have a flat business, but then when you peel the onion, it could be a perpetual model moving to a SaaS model. It could be that the company does $10 million in revenue each year, but perpetual licenses are going down from eight to four and SaaS is going up from four to eight. I don't want to diminish absolute growth, but it doesn't tell you the whole story. ✒️What’s an example of that? Securonix initially started as a perpetual license model. When we got involved, it was pivoting, and it was very early days in the on-prem subscription model. If you just looked at the absolute numbers, you'd say revenues are flat and profitability is declining. But if you peeled back the layers, they had migrated a bunch of customers from a perpetual to subscription-based model. ✒️What do you look for in a founder? The difference between a great investment and a so-so investment is a lot of decisions along the way, and making trade-offs to be ahead of the curve. I'm very much focused on founders with whom I have alignment, chemistry and true partnership, because you have to pivot. Another thing is, can that founder or core team serve as a nucleus to attract and build a team? ✒️More venture capital is going to bridge rounds versus primary rounds this year. How are you approaching investing? It’s all relative. If you look at valuations over a five-year period, they're healthy; but over a two-year period, they're down significantly. If you made an investment in 2021, you've overpaid relative to today – so the question is, has the company grown into it? Founders need to control their own destiny, but the only way you can do that is if you've built your business to not be dependent on others. Down rounds and bridge rounds happen when they haven’t been able to do that. ✒️What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received, and from whom? Someone I really value is Alan Patricof, who gave me advice that has resonated with me for a long time. “There's five things in every investment and they all count equally: management, management, management, product and market.” If I have an A+ team in a B+ market with a B+ product, I'm in. If I get an A+ market and an A+ product with a C+ team, I have no interest. #VCWednesdays #vc #venturecapital #startups #TechonLinkedIn
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Roger Hurwitz shared thisTime for the accountants to make some changes.Roger Hurwitz shared thisThe first edition of The Volition View is live! This week's newsletter features a piece from Volition Capital Founding Partner Roger Hurwitz where he shares "A Fresh Perspective" on the recent events at Silicon Valley Bank. Also Inside: -Portfolio news from Creatio, Black Kite, Duffl, and Burst Oral Care -A Year in Review: The Rule of 40 -Volition Founding Partner Larry Cheng's appearance on StrictlyVC And much more. Make sure to give the newsletter a read and subscribe as well to receive future editions straight to your inbox. Have a great start to the week! -The Volition Team #growwithvolition #growthequity #founders https://lnkd.in/e4kVCX-d
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Roger Hurwitz shared thisAs we navigate these uncertain times, here are a few tips for entrepreneurs to consider to capitalize on your opportunity.Roger Hurwitz shared thisWhen you look at current events, it’s easy to comprehend why the bull market run may be coming to an end. We’ve already experienced significant market volatility. While the Nasdaq has been down almost 20% this year, it has been worse for high-growth technology stocks. Check out Roger Hurwitz's most recent piece on what's happening in the markets... and what it means for Tech Founders. #volitionviewpoints #techstocks #techfounders #marketvolatility
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Roger Hurwitz shared thisThriled to be partnering with the Qure4u team.Roger Hurwitz shared thisWe're thrilled to announce our latest investment in Qure4u, the all-in-one care platform that digitizes key aspects of the patient journey. A big congratulations to Monica Bolbjerg, MD, and the entire Qure4U team! #growwithvolition #digitalhealth #digitalhealthinvestments #healthtechQure4u Announces Close of $25M Growth Equity Investment to Accelerate Innovation in Digital Health SolutionsQure4u Announces Close of $25M Growth Equity Investment to Accelerate Innovation in Digital Health Solutions
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Roger Hurwitz posted thisWe are honored and excited to be partnering with Katherine and the team at Creatio. https://lnkd.in/dUUc8Qj
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Roger Hurwitz liked thisHuge milestone for Saviynt! 🚀 Hot on the heels of crossing $300m in ARR and launching Zuma (our platform AI and NHI Identity Security), we officially opened a new office in the Bay Area last week! It was unbelievable to have 90 of the brightest minds in one room across Product Management, Engineering, AI Data Science, GTM, and Operations. At Saviynt, we are being very deliberate about building a talent-dense culture—a place where we can attract the best and give them the room to do their best work. We have now built the industry's leading Identity Security platform for AI and NHI, tied with human context: • Zuma Insights: Discovering every AI and NHI, creating a complete access graph, running scans, and flagging alerts. • Zuma Enforce: The industry's most advanced runtime access authorization gateway/plugin, which checks for identity governance policies, intent, and behavior anomalies. • Zuma Lifecycle: Ownership management, JIT access grant, access certifications, and SoDs across Humans, Agents, and NHIs. Super exciting times ahead!Roger Hurwitz liked thisWe've opened the doors to our newest office, this time in the Bay Area! 🤝 Our new office brings together top Engineering and Product talent to build the future of identity security under one roof. The Bay Area team has already shaped so much of what Saviynt is becoming. This office gives them more room to build and more reasons to do it together.
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Roger Hurwitz liked thisRoger Hurwitz liked thisYou can have the best AI triage and investigation engine in the world. But if the detection signal is weak, or missing entirely, there is only so much AI can do. The challenge with detections isn't how many you have. It's whether they're effective. I think that comes down to four things. Coverage — are we detecting the threats and techniques that matter? The one we all already measure. Silence — which detections never fire, and is that because nothing happened, or because they can't? Noise — which detections fire constantly and produce little security value? Decay — are detections keeping up as threats, data, infrastructure, and our own environment change? A detection rule can map perfectly to MITRE ATT&CK and still be querying a field that stopped being populated in March. It exists. It's mapped. It counts toward your coverage number. But it can't fire. Silence is the one I find most interesting, because it's the only one that doesn't announce itself. A noisy rule creates pain every day, so it gets attention. A broken silent rule sits unnoticed for months, until the day you actually need it. The opposite is just as problematic. A detection can fire thousands of times and generate little security value. It works technically, but creates more noise than signal. This is why I think there's an opportunity to expand how we think about AI in the SOC. We tend to think about AI after an alert is generated. Triage it, investigate it, determine whether it's a threat, decide what to do. But there's an equally important opportunity before the alert: continuously improving the detection layer itself. Assess coverage. Identify gaps. Test whether existing detections actually work. Tune what's noisy. Validate what's silent. Evaluate new threat intelligence against the detection estate. Create new content where needed. Measure the results. Then do it again. Assess → Test → Optimize → Deploy → Measure → Repeat This is what I've started thinking about as detection health. And by test, I mean prove it. Run the detection against real historical telemetry. Check the data and the fields it depends on. Simulate the attack where appropriate. Fix the logic and run it again. AI makes this possible at a scale that wasn't practical before. It's one thing to periodically review a few dozen rules. It's another to continuously assess and improve thousands of detections against a changing environment and threat landscape. Maybe the next measure of detection maturity isn't how many rules you have, or even your theoretical MITRE ATT&CK coverage. Maybe it's how much of your detection estate is effective, efficient, and continuously improving. Because even the best AI investigation needs the right signal to investigate. And a detection isn't valuable because it exists. It's valuable because you can prove it works.
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Roger Hurwitz liked thisRoger Hurwitz liked thisNew keys. New cities. Bigger ambitions. 📍 Our Dallas team just moved into a bigger home. Chennai has been buzzing since summer. And Pune, you’re next. Two continents. Three cities. One DataBahn team. Every new office represents more than growth. It represents the incredible people building with us, the customers and partners betting on us, and the belief that keeps pushing us forward. Grateful for how far we’ve come. Even more excited about where we’re going. And we’re just getting started. The doors are open. Come build with us. Come see us. 🤝 #DataBahn #TeamDataBahn #CyberSecurity #Hiring
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Roger Hurwitz liked thisRoger Hurwitz liked thisCelebrating the new regional Creatio hub in Munich! We’re expanding our presence in DACH with the opening of our new Munich office, our 12th global office. Organizations across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are moving beyond AI experimentation and modernizing their operations for the AI era. With customers including PSI Software, Lohmann GmbH & Co. KG, and Dunapack Packaging - Prinzhorn Group already using Creatio, we’re strengthening our local presence to help more organizations put people and AI agents to work together. The new Munich hub will bring us closer to customers and partners, deepen collaboration, and support the region’s growing demand for AI-native CRM and workflow solutions. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dGjrvei8 #Creatio #AI #AgenticAI #DACH #Munich #CRM
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Roger Hurwitz liked thisRoger Hurwitz liked thisFT Partners is pleased to announce our role as financial advisor to Eftsure – the payment assurance layer for enterprise finance, and a portfolio company of Level Equity – on its acquisition of RELISH. Founded in 2020, Relish is a US leader in AI-powered vendor data validation, workflow automation and invoice processing serving the enterprise market. The combination brings trusted vendor data, invoice validation and independent payment verification into one global payment assurance platform. The combined group now serves more than 4,000 corporate customers globally, protects more than $288 billion in payments annually, actively monitors 11 million vendors and provides coverage across 190 countries and territories, with the ability to verify accounts covering approximately 85% of the world’s banked population. See more details in our transaction profile below or here (for professional / institutional use only): https://lnkd.in/gsW7KDKK Congrats to the Eftsure and Relish teams!
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Roger Hurwitz liked thisRoger Hurwitz liked thisيسرّنا الإعلان عن توقيع مذكرة تفاهم بين ريتشوير و Creatio خلال LEAP، بحضور المهندس حمزة أبو ستة، الرئيس التنفيذي لريتشوير، والسيد Alex Donchuk، نائب الرئيس الأول للقنوات العالمية في Creatio، لاستكشاف شراكة استراتيجية في الربط والأتمتة، وتوحيد الخبرات والتقنيات لتنفيذ مشاريع المؤسسات وبناء عمليات أعمال أكثر ترابطًا وقابلية للتوسع. A partnership built around better-connected businesses. At LEAP, Reachware and Creatio officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore a strategic partnership focused on integration, automation, and connected enterprise ecosystems. The signing ceremony was represented by Eng. Hamza Abusitta, the CEO of Reachware, and Mr. Alex D., the SVP of Global Channels at Creatio. The partnership will focus on exploring enterprise projects as one team, combining technologies, capabilities, and expertise to help businesses build smarter, more connected operations at scale. Reachware × Creatio Better connected. Better together. #Reachware #Creatio #LEAP2026 #Partnership #iPaaS #Automation #Integration #SaaS #EnterpriseTech #DigitalTransformation
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Roger Hurwitz liked thisRoger Hurwitz liked thisHere's the thing about AI leadership content right now - there's a lot of it, and very little comes from someone who's actually accountable when an AI initiative goes sideways. I wanted to be around people who are. When I built out the AI governance framework at Apptega, the hard part was never writing the controls. It was getting CISOs and practitioners to tell me honestly how governance was actually being implemented inside their orgs - not how it looked in the boardroom deck. Those conversations taught me more about where AI governance breaks in practice than any framework assessment could. That's the gap the AI Exec Board is built to close. It's a limited and vetted, off-the-record group of senior executives who actually own AI outcomes - not vendors pitching a platform, not spectators with a take. Just operators comparing notes on what's working. Looking forward to bringing what I've learned in AI governance and cybersecurity into this room. Thanks to Phillip Petrella Jr. for the nomination, and AI Exec Board for putting this awesome group together.
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Roger Hurwitz liked thisRoger Hurwitz liked thisSaviynt hits $300m ARR and launches Zuma AI identity security platform Saviynt has surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and launched Zuma, a dedicated enterprise AI identity security platform. The solution provides visibility, runtime protection, and governance for AI agents and non-human identities, addressing the security challenges of rapid corporate AI adoption. Saviynt’s financial achievements reflect the growing demand for modern identity security, especially with the challenges caused by the rapid utilization of AI. Saviynt developed Zuma after working closely with some of the world’s leading organizations and understanding that AI agents, LLMs, AI-based applications, and non-human identities are multiplying across business functions, yet often without effective oversight. With the launch of Zuma, enterprises can now implement a complete, real-time, intent aware identity security solution purpose built for AI. “AI is fundamentally changing the identity security equation,” said Sachin K Nayyar, CEO of Saviynt. “Enterprises are no longer securing only human users. They are now responsible for AI agents and non-human identities that can decide and access systems at machine speed. Saviynt’s momentum reflects the urgency we are seeing from customers around the world, and Zuma represents a major step forward in helping them embrace AI with confidence and control.” #Saviynt #ZumaAI #AIIdentitySecurity #Cybersecurity #AgenticAI #IdentitySecurity #NonHumanIdentities #AIGovernance
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Roger Hurwitz liked thisRoger Hurwitz liked this📺 Creatio on CNBC: Three Key Trends Reshaping the CRM Landscape! Creatio CEO Katherine Kostereva joined CNBC to discuss how AI is transforming the enterprise software landscape and how Creatio’s latest solutions are keeping pace with these global shifts. According to Katherine Kostereva, three key forces are reshaping how businesses approach enterprise software: 🔶 The widespread adoption of AI agents across large enterprises; 🔷 The shift from legacy CRM systems to faster, more flexible, AI-powered solutions; 🔶 Creatio’s “Unlimited” pricing model, which is setting new standards in the industry. Creatio is at the forefront of these changes, as reflected in the company’s Q1 2026 results: 🌍 Creatio serves thousands of organizations across more than 100 countries; 📈 Quarterly new contract volume reached 255% of the prior-year level; 💰 The number of customers generating more than $1 million in annual revenue for Creatio doubled. “We’re at the beginning of the largest enterprise software replacement cycle in decades. At Creatio, we remain committed to pushing the boundaries of AI innovation and helping customers unlock value faster,” said Katherine Kostereva, CEO of Creatio.
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