Tokyo Black

Tokyo Black is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It focuses on investing in early-stage technology companies.

Ben Porterfield

Co-Founder

Keenan Rice

Executive

22 past transactions

Depot

Seed Round in 2024
Depot is a developer-first build platform that uses cloud computing to speed up the software building process. It integrates with the existing container tooling ecosystem to remove compute bottlenecks and simplify learning curves, helping engineers ship features and iterate faster. The company additionally offers an image-building platform aimed at accelerating core product development, featuring optimized build computing, a speed-up system, and a drop-in replacement that speeds up Dockerfile builds and other related tasks.

Knapsack

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Fast, on-device AI. Carve your own path with a secure, on-premise, open-source GPT. Semantic search and chat with ultimate privacy and security.

Nagish

Series A in 2024
Nagish develops an AI-driven communication platform designed to enhance accessibility for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. The platform facilitates real-time speech-to-text and text-to-speech conversion, enabling users to communicate via phone using text instead of voice.

UserHub

Pre Seed Round in 2024
UserHub is a company that specializes in user monetization solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) firms, focusing on seat management. Its platform offers a range of features, including express and enterprise licensing, billing, and plan upgrades. Additionally, UserHub provides a hosted portal that facilitates seat unlocking and upselling, allowing businesses to enhance their sales of software licenses. By streamlining the monetization process, UserHub helps SaaS companies increase their revenue by effectively managing user seats.

LeakSignal

Seed Round in 2024
LeakSignal is a data plane security platform designed to safeguard microservice and serverless environments. By leveraging machine learning, the company identifies and prevents the exfiltration of sensitive data, thereby helping organizations protect their valuable information and adhere to regulatory requirements. LeakSignal focuses on microsegmentation, API security, and data loss prevention in transit, addressing the challenges posed by the rapid growth of microservices and service mesh architectures. Through its innovative solutions, LeakSignal provides essential insights and controls, enhancing the security posture of businesses operating in complex digital environments.

Knock

Series A in 2024
Knock helps product and engineering teams send notifications to their customers.

Gradient

Seed Round in 2023
Gradient develops AI models tailored for enterprise use, offering customizable, efficient large language models alongside a development platform. This empowers businesses to harness AI's potential and optimize their operations.

Roadway

Seed Round in 2023
Roadway is a technology company that specializes in providing AI-driven actionable analytics tools for growth marketing teams. Its primary product is an AI-driven platform that instantly visualizes data, builds dashboards, and automates reporting, enabling clients to measure, take action, and improve efficiency. The platform also offers the flexibility to integrate with existing infrastructure.

Middleware

Seed Round in 2023
Middleware provides a unified cloud-native observability platform for DevOps teams, engineers, IT operations, and business users. It offers real-time monitoring of metrics, logs, and traces across cloud infrastructure, enabling efficient issue identification, diagnosis, and resolution.

Depot

Seed Round in 2023
Depot is a developer-first build platform that uses cloud computing to speed up the software building process. It integrates with the existing container tooling ecosystem to remove compute bottlenecks and simplify learning curves, helping engineers ship features and iterate faster. The company additionally offers an image-building platform aimed at accelerating core product development, featuring optimized build computing, a speed-up system, and a drop-in replacement that speeds up Dockerfile builds and other related tasks.

Cycle

Venture Round in 2023
Cycle is a flexible platform designed to adapt to unique product team workflows. It integrates customer feedback into product delivery processes, enabling teams to close the feedback loop with every release.

WiseLayer

Seed Round in 2023
WiseLayer is a company that creates AI-powered digital workers specifically designed for finance and accounting teams. The company offers a suite of specialized AI agents, including Angela, who focuses on accruals and revenue recognition, and Dennis, who addresses discrepancies and financial anomalies. In total, WiseLayer provides six AI agents that assist with various financial tasks such as bank reconciliations, fixed asset depreciation and amortization, lease accounting, and prepaid expenses. Additionally, WiseLayer develops an early warning system that employs artificial intelligence and analytics to help companies identify and address potential financial issues. This system includes pre-built tools that notify clients of known and emerging problems, enabling them to resolve issues swiftly through automation and reduce operational stress.

Surfboard

Seed Round in 2022
Surfboard is a company that specializes in scheduling and workforce management through its innovative customer service software. It has developed a team planning tool that enhances the collection of customer feedback, making it both seamless and interactive. The platform integrates automated customer experience tools to facilitate root cause analysis and monitor daily trends. This enables enterprises to gather valuable insights and feedback, which are essential for improving products and shaping future operational plans. Surfboard's focus on enhancing customer engagement and optimizing internal processes positions it as a key player in the workforce management sector.

Cuvama

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Cuvama is a B2B sales enablement platform that helps sales and customer success teams uncover customer pain points, sell based on outcomes, and reinforce success. Its value-selling approach empowers providers to connect with customers on value, driving better buying experiences and stronger customer relationships.

Hex Technologies

Series A in 2021
Hex is a software company that provides collaborative data science and analytics. They provide individuals to learn and organizations to know things so they can make better decisions. Hex brings together SQL, Python, R, and no-code in powerful notebooks and allows users to publish projects as interactive data apps that anyone can use with one click.

Wasp

Seed Round in 2021
Wasp is a programming language for building full-stack web applications. Wasp is a simple configuration language for building enterprise web apps with less code and best practices. The company was founded by Martin Sosic and Matija Sosic in 2020 and is headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia.

MaestroQA

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2013, MaestroQA is a New York-based software company specializing in quality assurance solutions for customer care teams. Its platform integrates with CRM systems, offers customizable scorecards, and provides real-time feedback to enhance customer support and drive growth.

Charm

Seed Round in 2021
Charm develops an open-source coding platform, with tools to improve the visual appearance and store data, to read command markdowns while coding. It currently sells three products, including Glow, an open-source terminal-based markdown reader that allows developers to view documentation such as readme files directly from the command line. It also renders markdown to make the text easier to read and allows users to create a private, encrypted documentation library. Toby Padilla and Christian Rocha founded Charm in 2019.

Steadybit

Seed Round in 2020
Steadybit is a developer of a chaos engineering platform designed to enhance the resilience of software systems and protect clients from significant failures and errors in production. The platform enables users to conduct experiments that analyze system performance, proactively reduce downtime, and improve visibility into system vulnerabilities. By identifying weaknesses in a safe manner, Steadybit helps organizations detect issues early, thereby saving time and increasing overall system security. The solution is easy to install and is available in both SaaS and on-premises formats, making it adaptable to various system landscapes.

ChartHop

Series A in 2020
ChartHop, Inc. is an information technology company that offers an organizational management platform designed to enhance data-driven strategic planning for businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, the platform integrates key organizational data, enabling leaders and team members to visualize various metrics related to employees, such as location, gender, salary, and team structure. By providing visual charts and consolidated insights, ChartHop allows organizations to analyze costs, employee demographics, and departmental performance without the need to source data from multiple locations. This functionality not only fosters transparency within the organization but also aids in driving alignment and accountability, ultimately leading to improved organizational health and efficiency.

Meroxa

Seed Round in 2020
Meroxa develops a platform for real-time data streaming infrastructure. It automates tasks like change data capture, monitoring, and data loading, enabling developers to build responsive stream-processing applications.
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