Recursive Ventures

Recursive Ventures is a San Francisco-based micro venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology startups, with a focus on data and artificial intelligence. Founded by Itamar Novick, the firm operates as a solo capitalist model, combining founder insight with support from experienced founders, operators, and go-to-market specialists to accelerate momentum and smart capital for growth. The company pursues pre-seed and seed investments in the United States and Israel, spanning consumer and business technology sectors. Decisions are designed to be fast, and portfolio companies receive hands-on guidance to help with product development, market strategy, and scaling. By leveraging its network and emphasis on rapid, founder-friendly support, Recursive Ventures aims to help early-stage teams bring disruptive data-driven and AI-enabled solutions to market.

49 past transactions

Perspective AI

Seed Round in 2025
Perspective AI uses artificial intelligence to moderate interviews and analysis to gather quality customer feedback.

BuildPass

Seed Round in 2024
BuildPass is a digital construction management platform that unifies critical construction-site workflows into a single system, connecting builders, subcontractors, and workers to improve safety, quality, and on-time delivery. The platform centralizes ticket and document management, inductions, site diary, toolbox services, medical information, and SMS communication, enabling real-time collaboration and reducing on-site issues. By integrating stakeholders in one place, BuildPass aims to streamline site operations, enhance safety compliance, and improve overall project efficiency.

Cimphony

Seed Round in 2024
Cimphony is an AI-powered platform that supports businesses at every stage of growth. From incorporation to fundraising, employment compliance, and more, Cimphony streamlines legal processes, allowing clients to focus on building their company.

Dono

Seed Round in 2024
At Dono, we are on a mission to redefine real estate transactions by addressing the core challenge of uncertainty in property ownership. Our advanced data search platform, powered by generative AI, unlocks seamless access to billions of public records, transforming the way title companies, Lenders, Insurers, realtors, clients, and attorneys navigate real estate deals.

Tomato.ai

Seed Round in 2024
Tomato.ai is a technology company that specializes in enhancing voice communication for offshore agents. Its core product uses artificial intelligence to "soften" accents, improving intelligibility and trust during conversations. Additionally, Tomato.ai offers advanced noise cancellation solutions to ensure clear communication. The company's software aims to facilitate more efficient agent calls, enabling businesses to hire more offshore agents, increase sales, reduce churn, and improve overall job accessibility.

Mesh Security

Venture Round in 2024
Mesh Security operates a cybersecurity platform offering real-time visibility, control, and protection. It unifies security data, tools, and infrastructure into an adaptive framework, focusing on identifying critical risks and providing actionable analysis.

Clarity

Seed Round in 2024
Clarity is an artificial intelligence cybersecurity company focused on combating AI-driven misinformation and deepfakes. The company offers a platform that utilizes collective intelligence technology to detect AI manipulation across various media formats, including video, audio, and images. By providing adaptive and explainable detection capabilities, Clarity aims to uphold the integrity of digital interactions and ensure the reliable flow of critical information for businesses. The company's solutions are designed to enhance the resilience of vital democratic institutions, enabling clients to effectively differentiate between authentic content and hyperrealistic generative AI media.

Aption

Seed Round in 2024
Aption provides equity pooling solutions for founders, executives and early employees to protect startup equity value.

Prosal

Seed Round in 2023
Prosal makes it easy to find relevant RFPs

Perspective AI

Seed Round in 2023
Perspective AI uses artificial intelligence to moderate interviews and analysis to gather quality customer feedback.

Tomato.ai

Seed Round in 2023
Tomato.ai is a technology company that specializes in enhancing voice communication for offshore agents. Its core product uses artificial intelligence to "soften" accents, improving intelligibility and trust during conversations. Additionally, Tomato.ai offers advanced noise cancellation solutions to ensure clear communication. The company's software aims to facilitate more efficient agent calls, enabling businesses to hire more offshore agents, increase sales, reduce churn, and improve overall job accessibility.

Clarity

Funding Round in 2023
Clarity is an artificial intelligence cybersecurity company focused on combating AI-driven misinformation and deepfakes. The company offers a platform that utilizes collective intelligence technology to detect AI manipulation across various media formats, including video, audio, and images. By providing adaptive and explainable detection capabilities, Clarity aims to uphold the integrity of digital interactions and ensure the reliable flow of critical information for businesses. The company's solutions are designed to enhance the resilience of vital democratic institutions, enabling clients to effectively differentiate between authentic content and hyperrealistic generative AI media.

Dono

Seed Round in 2023
At Dono, we are on a mission to redefine real estate transactions by addressing the core challenge of uncertainty in property ownership. Our advanced data search platform, powered by generative AI, unlocks seamless access to billions of public records, transforming the way title companies, Lenders, Insurers, realtors, clients, and attorneys navigate real estate deals.

Storytell

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Storytell develops an artificial intelligence powered content creation platform that helps businesses create storyboards and transform content, including internal meetings, into stories. The platform uses AI and machine learning to distill valuable moments from everyday content, enabling companies to engage customers through storytelling.

COVU

Seed Round in 2022
COVU provides insurance brokerage services for independent agencies and their clients, delivering customized coverage through data-driven, unbiased risk management and radical transparency. Founded by a team of experienced insurance, finance, and technology professionals, the company aims to help everyday people and growth-focused agencies reduce risk and manage insurance smarter. COVU combines AI technology with human expertise and real-time service to support agencies in managing the business side of insurance and delivering an exceptional customer experience, enabling individuals and professionals to identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks.

Tomato.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Tomato.ai is a technology company that specializes in enhancing voice communication for offshore agents. Its core product uses artificial intelligence to "soften" accents, improving intelligibility and trust during conversations. Additionally, Tomato.ai offers advanced noise cancellation solutions to ensure clear communication. The company's software aims to facilitate more efficient agent calls, enabling businesses to hire more offshore agents, increase sales, reduce churn, and improve overall job accessibility.

CultureScience

Pre Seed Round in 2022
CultureScience is a cloud-based platform focused on employee experience management, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The platform aggregates data from various operational tools, providing businesses with insights into team time, capacity, and client demands. By detecting common causes of burnout, CultureScience aims to enhance workplace culture and improve employee retention. It delivers valuable information through weekly Burnout Reports and user-friendly dashboards, highlighting aspects such as available focus time and after-hours email activity.

DataJoy

Seed Round in 2021
DataJoy is a developer of a revenue intelligence platform that integrates data across various organizational functions, including marketing, sales, product, and finance. The platform utilizes machine learning algorithms to analyze this unified data, providing insights that help companies understand and enhance their revenue performance. By tracking key performance indicators and detecting anomalies, DataJoy enables organizations to make informed projections and optimize their strategies for growth. Ultimately, the company aims to assist businesses in building a repeatable, profitable, and predictable revenue model.

Estuary

Seed Round in 2021
Estuary facilitates real-time data integration by connecting diverse sources such as databases, warehouses, and SaaS tools. Its platform enables businesses to transform these systems into real-time services without significant engineering effort.

Brightflow AI

Seed Round in 2020
Brightflow AI is a financial intelligence company founded in 2019 by Jeffrey Priebe and Robbie Bhathal, based in Walnut, California. The company specializes in providing small and mid-sized business owners with tools for cash flow forecasting and financing. Its platform allows users to monitor cash flow from their Shopify and Amazon stores, offering real-time insights into cash inflows and outflows through visual representations such as bar charts and graphs. By delivering comprehensive financial insights, Brightflow AI helps businesses enhance their financial understanding and develop informed financial plans.

Lendai

Seed Round in 2020
Lendai is a fintech company founded on June 1, 2019, in Miami, Florida, focused on revolutionizing the financing landscape for non-US residents investing in the US residential real estate market. By leveraging artificial intelligence and advanced digital solutions, Lendai addresses the challenges faced by foreign investors in accessing financing. The company employs a unique triple digital underwriting system to bridge the information gap prevalent in the global financial services sector. This innovative approach allows Lendai to offer a streamlined, efficient online financing process, enabling its clients to easily achieve their financial goals.

Deduce

Seed Round in 2020
Deduce provides identity and cybersecurity solutions that protect businesses and their customers from unauthorized account access, data leakage, and identity fraud. The company uses real-time risk algorithms, behavioral analytics, and a broad network of consumer identity data to detect abuse across account creation and login workflows, reduce fraud, and improve user experience by minimizing friction. Based in Philadelphia, the company builds independent identity graphs for cyber risk and trust, enabling visibility into threats and user behavior across multi-context digital forensics, including identifying AI-generated identities that could evade traditional fraud services. Deduce supports new account opening processes and ongoing account protection through threat intelligence and alerting, helping organizations secure customer identities while accelerating legitimate activity.

Raise Commercial Real Estate

Seed Round in 2019
Raise Commercial Real Estate, formerly known as HelloOffice, Inc., is a commercial real estate brokerage firm based in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. Established in 2015, the company specializes in assisting startups and high-growth companies in finding suitable office spaces. Raise Commercial Real Estate offers a comprehensive range of services, including planning (financial analysis, legal, zoning, and site selection), buildout (workplace strategy, project management, and architecture), and operations (move coordination, furniture, office management, and lease administration). The company also provides document management and commute analysis services. By combining experienced brokers with user-friendly software, Raise Commercial Real Estate aims to streamline the process of securing commercial real estate for its clients.

Ever Loved

Seed Round in 2019
Ever Loved is an online marketplace and planning platform for funeral services and products. It connects families with providers, presents options, and facilitates sharing details with friends and family. The platform enables raising funds to cover funeral costs and aims to simplify the planning process, reduce stress during an emotional time, and honor the deceased. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, Ever Loved brings together funeral providers and related products in one place to streamline coordination and decision making for end-of-life arrangements.

WEVO

Seed Round in 2019
Wevo, Inc. is a marketing technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2016. It offers a user experience research platform that leverages artificial intelligence and crowd sourcing to optimize digital experiences before they go live. Wevo provides digital marketers with tools to test and enhance website conversion rates, helping them understand why visitors may not be converting. The platform generates actionable recommendations and diagnoses web pages by identifying specific issues that hinder customer engagement. By delivering synthesized quantitative and qualitative insights, along with scores and benchmarks, Wevo enables research, product, and marketing teams to make informed decisions with reduced risk, significantly streamlining the user research process. The company holds multiple patents related to its innovative technology.

Deel

Seed Round in 2019
Deel is a payroll and compliance platform designed to simplify hiring, paying, and managing a global remote workforce. The platform combines contract creation and templates, payroll processing, tax compliance, and localized benefits administration in a single interface, enabling employers to onboard international employees and contractors efficiently. It provides tools for payments, invoicing, receipts, and customer support, along with guidance on local labor regulations and tax requirements. Deel supports global contractors by facilitating contract generation, onboarding, and compliant payment workflows, and helps organizations manage cross-border teams across multiple countries. By integrating hiring, payroll, taxes, and benefits, the platform aims to streamline international talent management and payroll operations, reducing administrative burdens and risk for businesses expanding worldwide.

Aura Health

Seed Round in 2018
Aura Health, established in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in digital mental well-being solutions. The company develops a mindfulness meditation application for iOS and Android users, focusing on stress and anxiety management. Aura's platform offers personalized content and fosters community engagement by connecting users with therapists and coaches globally.

Cherre

Seed Round in 2018
Cherre operates a cloud-based platform that collects, resolves, and manages both public and private real estate data. The company provides tools for document analysis, price evaluation, asset reporting, and real-time data dashboards, catering to agents, investors, insurers, enterprises, and service providers in the real estate industry. Cherre's platform enables clients to automate workflows, optimize processes, reduce risks, and identify opportunities by enhancing data quality and governance. The company partners with major data providers and solution providers to create an ecosystem that supports comprehensive data needs for its clients. Founded in 2016 and based in New York, Cherre aims to improve decision-making confidence through better data management.

Watchful

Convertible Note in 2018
Watchful develops a platform for real-time data filtering, tagging, and routing. It empowers engineers, analysts, admins, domain experts, and data scientists to control their data effectively. The company's solution accelerates AI development by automating the creation of labeled training sets without manual labeling. Incorporated in 2016, Watchful is headquartered in San Francisco.

Improvado

Seed Round in 2018
Improvado is a data integration and analytics platform that aggregates advertising data from multiple sources into unified dashboards and analytics tools. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the company provides middleware software that collects data from social platforms and other marketing channels through a single access point, enabling real-time viewing and visualization. The platform supports data extraction, loading, and transformation, and offers dashboards, marketing metrics, and an API for programmatic access. By cleansing and normalizing raw marketing data, Improvado helps revenue teams reduce the time to insights and make informed decisions across campaigns and channels. The solution integrates with various visualization tools and marketing platforms, consolidating disparate data into a coherent, actionable view.

Digital Assets Data

Seed Round in 2018
Digital Assets Data Inc. is a financial technology and data company focused on providing enterprise-grade software and data feeds tailored for the cryptocurrency market. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company serves a diverse clientele that includes crypto hedge funds, family offices, research firms, banks, and sovereign entities. Its offerings encompass a comprehensive suite of data and information technology solutions related to various crypto assets, such as currencies, platforms, applications, side chains, security tokens, and initial coin offerings (ICOs). By delivering subscription-based services, Digital Assets Data enables its clients to effectively track and manage investments, conduct thorough due diligence, and make informed trading decisions.

May Mobility

Seed Round in 2017
May Mobility, Inc. is an autonomous vehicle company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing and deploying autonomous vehicle technology to enhance public transportation systems. May Mobility operates a fleet of six-passenger electric shuttles that navigate through traffic using mapped and closed-loop routes. By analyzing city traffic and commuter patterns, the company identifies bottlenecks and optimizes transit routes for various communities. Its services aim to reduce human error in driving, lower pollution levels, and provide economic benefits to both communities and riders. Through its innovative approach, May Mobility seeks to create a safer, greener, and more efficient transportation environment.

TapResearch

Seed Round in 2017
TapResearch, Inc. is a research technology company based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2013. The company specializes in connecting respondents to surveys through mobile apps and games, providing research services that include mobile sampling technology, programmatic sampling, and audience networks. TapResearch's platform allows users to participate in surveys while earning rewards, making the process engaging and accessible. This extensive Audience Network connects tens of millions of individuals with market research opportunities, allowing businesses to gather critical market insights efficiently. TapResearch has become a vital resource for many organizations, including well-known firms, by facilitating the collection of consumer opinions across a wide range of mobile applications and games. Through its innovative approach, TapResearch aims to enhance the research experience for both clients and respondents.

SafeGraph

Seed Round in 2017
Founded in 2016, SafeGraph specializes in collecting, processing, and maintaining high-precision datasets covering millions of points of interest across the US and Canada. Its data includes business listings, building footprints, aggregated foot traffic, brand affiliations, and other key business details, supporting market analytics, investment research, site selection, and more.

Placer.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Placer.ai offers a location analytics platform that helps retailers, commercial real estate developers, hospitality operators, and economic development teams gain insights into foot traffic and consumer behavior for any property. The platform analyzes anonymized location data from multiple sources to support competitor analysis, trend visualization, and dashboard-based decision making. Users can evaluate site performance, inform site selection and marketing strategies, and optimize store performance by understanding the factors driving foot traffic and sales. Founded in 2016 and based in Los Altos, California.

Orro

Series A in 2016
Orro designs and manufactures responsive lighting systems that adapt to natural light patterns and user presence. Its smart switches integrate with popular smart home devices like Alexa and Google Home, enhancing living environments while potentially increasing property values and reducing energy expenses.

Placer.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Placer.ai offers a location analytics platform that helps retailers, commercial real estate developers, hospitality operators, and economic development teams gain insights into foot traffic and consumer behavior for any property. The platform analyzes anonymized location data from multiple sources to support competitor analysis, trend visualization, and dashboard-based decision making. Users can evaluate site performance, inform site selection and marketing strategies, and optimize store performance by understanding the factors driving foot traffic and sales. Founded in 2016 and based in Los Altos, California.

Armory

Seed Round in 2016
Armory operates an open-source deployment platform, commercializing the Spinnaker tool originally developed by Netflix and Google. Its products include Hosted Spinnaker for cloud-based management, Armory Deploy for on-premises installation, and Armory Elevate for preventing bad deployments. Founded in 2016, Armory is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Hint Health

Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2013, Hint Health develops a comprehensive platform for direct care providers. Its tools automate membership management, billing, and offer an integrated electronic medical record system, enabling providers to efficiently deliver patient-centered care while competing directly with insurance-based models.

Siftery

Seed Round in 2016
Siftery is a database platform designed to assist businesses in discovering, purchasing, and effectively utilizing software. By allowing companies to list their software stacks, Siftery facilitates comparisons among similar businesses to identify differences and make tailored recommendations. This enables organizations to gain insights into the software landscape, helping them to find solutions that best meet their specific needs. The platform aims to enhance the software discovery process, ensuring that businesses can make informed decisions regarding their software investments.

Peerspace

Series A in 2015
PeerSpace, Inc. operates a marketplace that connects companies and individuals with short-term workspaces. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the platform allows users to search, message, and book a diverse range of spaces, including corporate and private event venues, photo studios, conference rooms, and unique locations like converted warehouses and sports car museums. The service caters to a broad clientele across major U.S. cities, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Austin, and Chicago. By streamlining the booking process, PeerSpace enables clients to easily access various locations for purposes such as off-site meetings, film and photography shoots, or social events, while providing hosts the opportunity to monetize their under-utilized properties.

Abra

Series A in 2015
Abra is a cryptocurrency platform established in 2014, designed to provide a straightforward and secure environment for individuals and businesses to buy, trade, and borrow against cryptocurrencies. Based in the United States and operational in over 150 countries, Abra facilitates easy conversion between cryptocurrencies and various local fiat currencies. The platform serves a diverse clientele, including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, registered investment advisors, and institutions, offering customizable services that allow users to manage their crypto portfolios effectively. With over two million customers and $9 billion processed in transactions, Abra has positioned itself as a trusted solution in the cryptocurrency market, earning recognition as one of the top five crypto wallets. The company is supported by prominent investors, reinforcing its commitment to creating an open and accessible global financial system.

HoneyBook

Series B in 2015
HoneyBook, Inc. is a business software company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2012. It offers a clientflow management platform designed for independent business owners, particularly in the event planning sector, including wedding planners and related vendors. The HoneyBook platform simplifies the management of client interactions by integrating tools for communication, contracts, invoicing, and payments, allowing users to streamline their business processes. With over 100,000 service-based businesses in the United States and Canada utilizing the platform, HoneyBook has facilitated more than $9 billion in transactions. The company also has a presence in Tel Aviv and employs remote staff worldwide, emphasizing its commitment to enhancing the client experience and operational efficiency for entrepreneurs and freelancers.

Zendrive

Venture Round in 2014
Zendrive is a mobility data analytics company that uses smartphone sensor data to monitor driving behavior and traffic dynamics, producing actionable insights to improve road safety for passengers and drivers. The company’s AI-powered platform analyzes signals such as speed, location, direction, acceleration, speeding, hard braking, and phone usage, and can detect collision events. It enables safety improvements through behavioral coaching and incentives and supports timely interventions in moments of truth. Zendrive serves transportation stakeholders including on-demand and commercial fleets, leveraging data to help manage safety as mobility shifts toward shared and on-demand transportation. Headquartered in San Francisco, Zendrive was established to advance safety through data and analytics.

Honk

Seed Round in 2014
Honk Technologies offers on-demand roadside assistance via a mobile app. It connects users needing help with nearby professionals for services like towing, tire change, jump start, fuel delivery, and lockout. The platform improves response times, enhances customer satisfaction, and provides data insights for insurance companies and fleet managers.

Tile

Series A in 2014
Tile gives everything the power of smart location, locating more than six million unique items every day. Leveraging its vast community that spans 195 countries, Tile’s cloud-based finding platform helps people find the things that matter to them most. The company is based in San Mateo, CA and is backed by Francisco Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and GGV Capital. For more information, please visit Tile.com.

Credible

Seed Round in 2014
Credible Labs Inc. operates an online marketplace that enables consumers in the United States to compare financial product offers from various lenders. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, the company provides a range of services, including student loans, student loan refinancing, personal loans, credit cards, and mortgage refinancing. By answering a few questions, consumers can receive personalized, prequalified rates without affecting their credit scores or sharing personal information until they are ready to proceed with an offer. Credible aims to empower users to take control of their financial decisions by simplifying the borrowing process and promoting fair and unbiased financial solutions. As of 2019, Credible operates as a subsidiary of Fox Corporation.

Automatic

Series A in 2013
Automatic's mission is to empower drivers with knowledge about themselves and their cars so they can be safer and drive smarter. Automatic believes that drivers should not have to buy a new car to have a better driving experience, and that the phone in their pocket can bring the future of driving to today's automobiles. Automatic is based in San Francisco, California, but its team comes from every corner of the world. The team obsesses about creating beautiful and well-engineered products that make a real difference in people's lives. Its members are big on ideas, low on ego, and love working together.

Life360

Series A in 2011
Life360 is a global platform designed for busy families, enabling them to stay connected and protected through its mobile application. It offers services such as private location sharing, location history tracking, driving safety features, crash detection, roadside assistance, and emergency alerts. With nearly 100 million monthly active users across over 140 countries, Life360 is the world's largest family-focused social network.
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