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Top 8 Active IT Tech Investors in 2025: Complete Guide for Founders

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"IT tech" is broad, but investors don't think in vague labels — they think in theses:

  • Cloud & infrastructure software
  • DevOps & developer tools
  • Cybersecurity / IT risk
  • Data & analytics / AI infrastructure
  • Horizontal B2B SaaS

At the same time, capital is coming back: SaaS funding rebounded in 2024, with global SaaS investment up 7% year over year and expected to grow double digits in 2025.(OpenVC) Cloud and enterprise remain the core of that.

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When you build your investor list, use three filters:

1. How to Pick the Right IT Tech Investors (So You Don't Waste a Year)

A. Know your layer in the stack

  • Infrastructure / DevOps / data platforms → look for firms with explicit "infrastructure software," "IT infrastructure," or "deep tech" practices (Battery, DCVC, Sapphire, Jump).(Battery Ventures)
  • Security / IT risk → target cybersecurity-first firms like NightDragon, and infra investors who do a lot of security (Battery, Insight, Bessemer).(NightDragon)
  • Horizontal B2B SaaS / tools → firms that publish "State of the Cloud / SaaS" content (Bessemer, Sapphire, Insight) are signalling very clearly where they live.(Bessemer Venture Partners)

Your deck should make it instantly obvious which bucket you're in.

B. Match stage & check size

These firms span from pre-seed to late-stage:

  • Pre-seed / Seed → Quiet Capital, DCVC (selectively), Battery (selectively) (Quiet Capital)
  • Series A / B → Battery, Bessemer, Sapphire, Jump, DCVC, Insight
  • Growth / late-stage → Insight, Sapphire, NightDragon, Battery, Bessemer(Insight Partners)

If you're at $30–50k MRR and trying to raise a $30M growth round, you will just bounce off the wrong doors. Be brutally honest about where you are.

C. Decide what kind of help you actually want

  • Operating support & GTM playbooks → Battery, Bessemer, Insight, Sapphire all have big platform teams and tons of GTM / product content.(Battery Ventures)
  • Deep-technical help & hard-science POV → DCVC, NightDragon, some of Battery's infra & industrial tech crew.(DCVC)
  • Hands-on early-stage builder energy → Quiet Capital, Jump's earlier bets, earlier-stage DCVC.(Quiet Capital)

If you're clear on "I want X besides money" (e.g. "distribution into legacy enterprises", "Fed / defense access", "SaaS pricing help"), it becomes very obvious who should be in your top 20 list.

2. The 8 IT Tech Investors You Should Know in 2025

Ordered roughly by how central they are to IT / enterprise tech, not by AUM.

1. Battery Ventures – "All-In on Infrastructure & Software"

What they are:

  • Type: Multi-stage tech & software-focused firm
  • Stage: Seed → growth & buyout
  • Focus: Infrastructure software (cloud, DevOps, data, security, AI), plus industrial tech and life science tools(Battery Ventures)

Battery explicitly describes itself as a technology and software-focused investor, with a dedicated infrastructure software practice that covers cloud, DevOps, data, security, and AI-powered enterprise apps.(Battery Ventures)

They also run a published industrial tech & tools practice, giving them a strong view into IT that intersects with hardware, manufacturing, and scientific tooling.(Battery Ventures)

Best fit if you:

  • Are building infrastructure software (DevOps, observability, data infra, security, AI infra)
  • Have early-to-meaningful revenue and want a partner who can follow through multiple stages
  • Want access to ex-operators from companies like MongoDB / Palo Alto Networks who sit inside their infra practice(Battery Ventures)

What to highlight in your pitch:

  • Architecture and infra-level differentiation (what makes you fundamentally better / safer / more scalable)
  • How you slot into the enterprise IT buying stack (who owns you: CIO, CISO, VP Eng, data team, etc.)
  • Early signals of repeatable sales motion (expansion, land-and-expand, usage growth)

2. Insight Partners – Scale-Obsessed Enterprise Software Investor

What they are:

  • Type: Global software investor
  • Stage: Late seed → growth / pre-IPO
  • Scale: Over 800 total investments, $80B+ regulatory AUM, and 500+ portfolio acquisitions as of end 2024(Insight Partners)
  • Focus: Enterprise software across sectors: healthcare, cybersecurity, AI, data, vertical SaaS, etc.; thought leadership in enterprise tech.(Insight Partners)

Insight is one of the most prolific software-only investors globally and publishes in-depth reports like "State of Enterprise Tech", surveying hundreds of leaders about infra, AI, and digital transformation priorities.(Insight Partners)

They're also actively leading AI/cyber deals in 2025, e.g. a recent $25M round for AI-powered security platform Reco.(Business Insider)

Best fit if you:

  • Are at strong Series A+: meaningful revenue, growing quickly, selling into mid-market or enterprise
  • Are in IT-heavy categories: security, DevOps, data tooling, SaaS used by IT and ops teams
  • Want a very structured scaling partner (hiring, sales excellence, pricing, international expansion)

What to highlight:

  • Cohort metrics (retention, net dollar retention, expansion by segment)
  • Pipeline by segment and sales efficiency (payback, CAC, deal cycles)
  • A credible path to $100M+ ARR in a huge category

3. Bessemer Venture Partners – Cloud & SaaS Benchmark Setter

What they are:

  • Type: Multi-stage VC with a major cloud/SaaS franchise
  • Stage: Seed → growth
  • Focus: Cloud / SaaS, infrastructure, data, and devtools; co-authors of the industry's Cloud 100 and State of the Cloud benchmarks.(Bessemer Venture Partners)

Bessemer has spent more than a decade defining cloud benchmarks via their Cloud 100 ranking (with Forbes + Salesforce Ventures) and deep annual State of the Cloud reports.(Bessemer Venture Partners)

They are consistently listed among top SaaS investors for 2024–2025 in multiple "SaaS VC" lists.(The CFO Club)

Best fit if you:

  • Are a pure-play SaaS / cloud company (horizontal or vertical)
  • Have strong recurring revenue and ambition to be a category leader
  • Want investors who literally wrote the benchmarks for SaaS metrics

What to highlight:

  • Your Cloud 100–style story: category, why now, why you
  • Metrics against Bessemer's public SaaS benchmarks: NDR, growth, burn multiples
  • Evidence that you can own a category narrative (content, community, ecosystem)

4. Sapphire Ventures – Enterprise-Only Growth Specialist

What they are:

  • Type: Enterprise-focused VC
  • Stage: Growth & expansion
  • Focus: Expansion-stage enterprise software; especially AI/ML, data, analytics and B2B SaaS; $2.4B+ deployed across 60+ active AI-focused investments by 2023.(Sapphire Ventures)

Sapphire describes itself straightforwardly as an enterprise VC firm backing expansion-stage software companies it believes can become category leaders.(Sapphire Ventures)

They publish State of SaaS Capital Markets and AI trend reports, positioning themselves as a capital + insight partner for later-stage enterprise teams.(Sapphire Ventures)

Best fit if you:

  • Are in the $10M+ ARR zone or headed there quickly
  • Have clear product-market fit with enterprise customers and strong retention
  • Want help navigating late-stage growth, strategic M&A, and IPO windows

What to highlight:

  • Enterprise footprint: logo quality, multi-year contracts, upsell motion
  • Clear category narrative and wedge vs incumbents
  • How AI / data is woven into your product and defensibility

5. DCVC – Deep Tech, Data & Infra Heavyweight

What they are:

  • Type: Deep tech VC
  • Stage: Early → growth
  • Focus: "Deep tech venture capital" solving hard problems across infra, data, AI, cybersecurity, climate, and industry.(DCVC)

DCVC publishes annual Deep Tech Opportunities Reports describing the challenges it targets and the infra / data-heavy solutions it thinks can create "abundance and resilience."(DCVC)

They often back companies at the intersection of core infrastructure + AI + physical world, e.g. industrial sensing, security, cloud infra, data platforms.

Best fit if you:

  • Are genuinely deep technical: foundational AI, new infra, cybersecurity, or data systems
  • Have a credible technical moat (IP, algorithms, hard engineering)
  • Can connect your tech story to a big systemic problem (security, infra reliability, climate, etc.)

What to highlight:

  • Technical roadmap + why this can't be quickly copied
  • Validation: pilots, PoCs, design partners in tough verticals (defense, industrial, healthcare)
  • A clear bridge from "hard tech" → scalable business model

6. Quiet Capital – Day-Zero Friendly, Infra-Literate Generalist

What they are:

  • Type: Early-stage VC
  • Stage: Pre-seed → Series A (day zero emphasis)
  • Positioning: "Builders who invest in remarkable founders from day zero," with a broad tech portfolio that includes many infra / SaaS / devtools plays.(Quiet Capital)

Quiet Capital is cited in 2025 IT infrastructure VC rundowns as a top firm backing infra and enterprise-focused founders, particularly at early stages.(Rho)

Best fit if you:

  • Are at pre-seed or seed with a technical founding team
  • Have a wedge in infra / SaaS / data but may not yet have big revenue
  • Want pragmatic, builder-centric investors who aren't scared of messy early product

What to highlight:

  • Founder–market fit: why you deeply understand this IT problem
  • Early signs of "this will stick": design partners, open source traction, early paid pilots
  • A credible 18–24 month plan from zero → repeatable motion

7. Jump Capital – Data Infrastructure & Enterprise-First

What they are:

  • Type: Thematic VC
  • Stage: Series A → growth (with some earlier bets)
  • Focus: Fintech, data infrastructure, enterprise software, plus crypto & digital assets.(Papermark)

Jump positions itself as a specialist in data-driven technologies, with strong emphasis on IT infrastructure, data infra, and enterprise software coming out of hubs like Chicago.(Papermark)

Their portfolio includes infra-heavy companies handling custody, digital assets, and next-gen data tools.(Jump Capital)

Best fit if you:

  • Are building data infrastructure primitives (pipelines, observability, governance, AI data tooling)
  • Serve fintech, financial infra, or other data-intensive verticals
  • Are at or near Series A/B and want an investor who really understands data strategy

What to highlight:

  • How your product fits into the modern data stack / AI stack
  • Proof you can sell to technical but risk-averse buyers (banks, large enterprises)
  • Strong metrics on data usage, stickiness, and expansion

8. NightDragon – Cybersecurity, Security & National-Scale IT

What they are:

  • Type: Sector-focused VC / growth equity
  • Stage: Growth & late-stage
  • Focus: Cybersecurity, security, safety, and privacy — plus adjacent IT infra & defense tech.(NightDragon)

NightDragon describes itself as "the leading venture capital firm for cybersecurity, security, safety, and privacy" and is growing an ecosystem around national defense, critical infrastructure, and public–private collaboration.(NightDragon)

They partner with accelerators like Capital Factory to back companies in defense and dual-use tech, co-investing and hosting events around topics like "Defending the Next Horizon."(NightDragon)

Best fit if you:

  • Are in security / cyber / defense / critical infra IT
  • Have real deployments or pilots in government, defense, or regulated industries
  • Are raising Series B+ and need help with complex go-to-market and public-sector relationships

What to highlight:

  • Real-world deployments, especially where failure is unacceptable (utilities, defense, critical infra)
  • Certifications, compliance posture, and partnerships with primes / integrators
  • A roadmap that shows how you'll become mission-critical infrastructure, not just a point tool

3. Five Quick Tips for Pitching IT Tech Investors in 2025

You're already ahead of most founders just by building a targeted list — so let's tighten the pitch.

1. Anchor your story at the IT buyer level

These investors think in terms of who in the org owns your budget:

  • CIO / CTO → infra and platforms
  • CISO → security & risk
  • VP Eng / DevOps → tooling, reliability, productivity
  • Head of Data / AI → data infra, MLOps, AI infra

Make it explicit:

"We sell to the VP of Infrastructure in mid-market SaaS companies; pain is X; they measure success as Y."

That instantly tells them you understand the IT org chart.

2. Show systems thinking, not just features

Especially at infra and deep-tech funds, you win when you show you understand:

  • Upstream and downstream tools you integrate with
  • How your product changes processes (not just "makes X faster")
  • Failure modes, security implications, performance characteristics

Bring one clean architecture slide and talk them through how your product sits in a modern IT stack.

3. Benchmark yourself against SaaS / cloud standards

Investors like Bessemer, Sapphire and Insight have made their SaaS benchmarks very public.(Bessemer Venture Partners)

Even if you're early, show:

  • Gross margins, retention, NDR trajectory
  • Sales efficiency (payback, CAC), even if estimated
  • Where you expect to land vs "best-in-class" SaaS in your stage

You don't need perfect numbers — you need self-awareness and a plan.

4. Tie IT infra back to macro trends

The macro tailwinds are on your side:

  • SaaS funding is rebounding after a reset, with enterprise & infra leading the way.(OpenVC)
  • AI is driving a huge wave of spend on data centers, IT infra, and AI tooling.(Reuters)

Use one or two credible external stats (not hype) in your deck to show you're surfing a real wave, not inventing one.

5. Run a tight, "grown-up" process (even at seed)

IT investors in 2025 are seeing fewer but more serious companies. You stand out if you:

  • Have a clean data room (deck, metrics, architecture, security posture, key contracts)

  • Propose a simple process:

    Week 1: intro & product demo → Week 2: deep dive w/ tech & GTM → Week 3: partner meeting → Week 4: decision

  • Send concise follow-ups with actual progress (new logo, new metric milestone, new integration)

It signals that you're the kind of founder who can handle enterprise buyers and future growth rounds.

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Conclusion

Raising capital from IT tech investors in 2025 requires matching your layer in the stack, stage, and value-add needs to the right investors. The investors on this list are actively deploying capital, but they're selective. Bring clear technical differentiation, systems thinking, and SaaS benchmarks—not just features.

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