Browser Use
Seed Round in 2025
Browser Use is a technology company specializing in web accessibility software for AI agents. It enables AI agents to interact with websites by extracting interactive elements, managing multiple browser tabs, and supporting custom actions. The company's software combines visual understanding with HTML extraction, allowing developers to build capable web-based AI agents using various large language models.
Plume Network
Series A in 2024
Plume Network develops a blockchain platform specializing in onboarding and managing diverse real-world assets. With over 180 projects on its private development network, it offers an end-to-end tokenization engine and collaborates with financial infrastructure partners to simplify asset onboarding and facilitate seamless integration with decentralized finance (DeFi) applications.
Stack provides with loyalty points as an onchain primitive, along with simple tools for managing points programs.
Deep Infra
Seed Round in 2023
Deep Infra specializes in serverless machine-learning inference, offering a platform that simplifies the deployment of AI models. It supports various applications such as token classification, text-to-image generation, object detection, and more, with a pay-per-use pricing model.
Tableland
Series A in 2023
Tableland is a decentralized relational database designed for web3 developers. Built upon SQLite, it enables creation of complex data models for decentralized applications, games, NFTs, and more.
Character.ai
Venture Round in 2023
Character.ai develops an open-ended conversational platform where users can create characters and engage in dialogues. The company focuses on neural language models to power these interactions, facilitating creativity, learning, and entertainment.
Forward Networks
Series D in 2023
Forward Networks, founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in developing software for network verification and automation. The company offers open-source tools like Beacon and Mininet to manage data centers and wide-area networks, along with Forward Essentials, a web application that provides real-time network state access, helping engineers and operators swiftly identify and resolve network issues. Their core product is an innovative platform delivering network visibility, policy verification, and change modeling, designed to minimize costly outages by enabling users to visualize complex networks, debug problems quickly, verify policy correctness, and predict network behavior before implementing changes in legacy, SDN, or hybrid environments.
Character.ai
Seed Round in 2023
Character.ai develops an open-ended conversational platform where users can create characters and engage in dialogues. The company focuses on neural language models to power these interactions, facilitating creativity, learning, and entertainment.
Aztec specializes in developing privacy-focused technologies for Ethereum-based transactions. It is renowned for creating PLONK, a leading standard in zero-knowledge proofs, enabling fast, private interactions on the public blockchain. The company's research team has made significant contributions to Layer 2 solutions on Ethereum and possesses extensive expertise in deploying intricate cryptosystems within Web3 environments. Aztec Network recently unveiled an advanced version of zk.money, showcasing its Aztec Connect SDK's ability to facilitate seamless integrations with prominent DeFi protocols like Lido and Element Finance. The company is currently working on building a secure, encrypted blockchain secured by Ethereum.
Kumo.AI is a software-as-a-service platform specializing in artificial intelligence tailored for contemporary data management. The platform is designed to analyze relationships and patterns within data, leveraging machine learning to facilitate predictive modeling. By integrating seamlessly with modern cloud data warehouses, Kumo.AI supports a variety of graph formats, including nodes, edges, and properties. This functionality empowers scientists and analysts to generate faster, simpler, and more accurate predictions, enhancing decision-making processes across various industries.
Halliday
Seed Round in 2022
Halliday automates workflows across systems, enhancing player onboarding and engagement in Web3 games and virtual environments.
Certora develops automated software security technology. It supplements programming experts and manual auditors by detecting vulnerabilities before deployment and during operation. The platform provides mathematical proofs of correctness daily for defined properties, ensuring the absence of security vulnerabilities.
Loop Crypto
Seed Round in 2022
Loop Crypto develops an online payment platform that aims to simplify cryptocurrency transactions and enable autopay with cryptocurrency. It provides a payment gateway called Loop to facilitate autopay for non-custodial wallets, based on a web3 native non-custodial payment processor, delivering a settlement method that is designed to be safe and secure in a web3 environment.
Cerby, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and based in Alameda, California. It specializes in developing tools and applications aimed at managing access for disconnected applications and addressing the risks associated with Shadow IT. Cerby offers a comprehensive access management platform that leverages identity providers to automate security tasks and improve identity and access management processes. This platform eliminates the reliance on manual tools and compensating controls, streamlining tasks such as offboarding and two-factor authentication enrollment. With its patent-pending access orchestration engine, Cerby provides organizations with passwordless authentication capabilities and enhanced visibility over applications that do not conform to standard protocols. By automating these processes, Cerby enables identity teams to extend access, minimize security risks, and reduce operational costs while adhering to zero trust principles.
Founded in 2021, POAP is a New York-based company specializing in digital collectibles. These collectibles serve as records of life experiences and are powered by blockchain technology.
MomentRanks
Series A in 2021
MomentRanks is the premier nonfungible token (NFT) resource platform, offering analytics and tracking tools for NBA Top Shot collectors. MomentRanks is committed to providing an unmatched user experience, with educational tools that allow even the most inexperienced newcomers to NFTs an opportunity to launch their collecting journey and engage with the NFT community.
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Parcel provides a crypto treasury management platform that facilitates mass payouts and money streaming for organizations through a single transaction. The platform ensures secure handling of organizational data by employing end-to-end encryption on the interplanetary file system (IPFS) and Filecoin. It utilizes a deterministic method for calculating encryption keys via signatures created with an Ethereum private key. This technology enables businesses to receive payments in real-time, simplifying payroll processes and the management of organizational documents.
CodeSignal
Series C in 2021
CodeSignal is a cloud-based skills platform that helps organizations discover, assess, and develop technical talent. It provides custom tests aligned with interview processes and assessments that test more than data structures and algorithms, enabling employers to screen engineers more effectively. The platform also supports AI-powered learning solutions and strives to broaden access to opportunities by tapping into underrepresented candidate pools, helping teams save engineering resources and increase speed-to-hire. Used by major companies and learners worldwide, CodeSignal has powered millions of skills evaluations and supports both hiring and development initiatives across tech, finance, and other industries.
Evidence
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Evidences is an open-source business intelligence platform that enables developers to create polished data products using SQL and markdown, eliminating the need for drag-and-drop interfaces. It offers version control, high-performance data infrastructure, enterprise security, automatic scaling, and a growing component library for charts and graphs.
Unit21 Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that develops a no-code platform designed to streamline risk and compliance operations for businesses. The platform features an application programming interface and a dashboard that enable users to detect and manage money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across various industries. In addition to risk detection, Unit21's solutions encompass case management, transaction monitoring, identity verification, operations management, as well as analytics and reporting capabilities. The company emphasizes security, employing best practices to safeguard its systems against potential threats.
Yield Guild Games
Series A in 2021
Yield Guild Games is a decentralized organization focused on investing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) used within virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. Its mission is to foster the largest virtual world economy, optimizing community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing profits with its token holders.
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Certora develops automated software security technology. It supplements programming experts and manual auditors by detecting vulnerabilities before deployment and during operation. The platform provides mathematical proofs of correctness daily for defined properties, ensuring the absence of security vulnerabilities.
Styra, Inc. is a technology company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in developing a cloud-native authorization platform that enables organizations to enforce and monitor authorization policies across their applications and infrastructure. The core offering, the Styra Declarative Authorization Service, provides context-based admission control to enhance security, streamline compliance, and minimize human errors in cloud-native environments. Styra's platform incorporates features such as policy design, validation, distribution, monitoring, and auditing, allowing users to implement authorization policy-as-code effectively. By utilizing declarative models, the platform helps prevent security drift and errors before deployment. Styra's solutions are compatible with various technologies, including microservices, containers, and multi-cloud environments, ensuring comprehensive security management for modern application development.
Cyral, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Redwood City, California, that specializes in cloud security solutions for data layer protection. Founded in 2018, Cyral offers a cloud-native service designed to monitor and enforce policies across various data endpoints utilized by services, applications, and users. Its platform provides organizations with enhanced visibility into data access, safeguards against data exfiltration, and establishes a unified privilege management layer, all without disrupting existing workflows or sacrificing agility. Cyral’s solution addresses a wide range of security threats, including database password spraying and SQL injection attacks, while ensuring compliance and facilitating efficient audits. By leveraging features such as Identity Federation and Zero Trust, Cyral enables businesses to manage data access securely across multiple repositories, identify users behind shared credentials, and enforce data segmentation to mitigate risks associated with logic and configuration errors. The platform ensures real-time monitoring of data activities, allowing organizations to respond swiftly to potential security incidents.
Rome is a comprehensive development toolchain designed to streamline the coding process for developers. It integrates multiple tools into a single application, supporting programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS. The software allows users to manage dependencies, check for errors, run tests, and bundle code through a unified command-line interface, enhancing overall efficiency. By consolidating functionality and minimizing the need for extensive configurations, Rome provides developers with a cohesive experience that simplifies code processing, error display, task parallelization, and caching.
Gro builds products, called protocols or autonomous programs, for a more simple and friendly DeFi experience. Gro empowers people to easily create and share wealth, by combining the best of decentralized and legacy finance.
Replit is a browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) founded in 2016. It enables collaborative coding across platforms using over 50 programming languages. Users can build apps and websites, share projects, create communal workspaces, and execute code via containers, all within a browser on any operating system.
Walnut.
Seed Round in 2020
Walnut is a company that provides a unique platform aimed at enhancing sales experiences through codeless and customizable product demonstrations. Founded in 2020 by entrepreneurs Yoav Vilner and Danni Friedland, Walnut is based in New York City. The platform allows sales representatives to create and run live demos without needing back-end support, even when the actual product is unavailable or still in development. By integrating seamlessly with existing CRMs and data sources, Walnut's drag-and-drop solution empowers sales teams to take full control of their demo processes. This innovative approach not only saves time and resources but also aims to improve conversion rates by offering a fail-proof demo experience.
CodeSignal
Series B in 2020
CodeSignal is a cloud-based skills platform that helps organizations discover, assess, and develop technical talent. It provides custom tests aligned with interview processes and assessments that test more than data structures and algorithms, enabling employers to screen engineers more effectively. The platform also supports AI-powered learning solutions and strives to broaden access to opportunities by tapping into underrepresented candidate pools, helping teams save engineering resources and increase speed-to-hire. Used by major companies and learners worldwide, CodeSignal has powered millions of skills evaluations and supports both hiring and development initiatives across tech, finance, and other industries.
Unit21 Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that develops a no-code platform designed to streamline risk and compliance operations for businesses. The platform features an application programming interface and a dashboard that enable users to detect and manage money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across various industries. In addition to risk detection, Unit21's solutions encompass case management, transaction monitoring, identity verification, operations management, as well as analytics and reporting capabilities. The company emphasizes security, employing best practices to safeguard its systems against potential threats.
Liquity
Seed Round in 2020
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing platform operating on the Ethereum blockchain. It facilitates interest-free loans by using Ether as collateral.
Nebulous
Seed Round in 2020
Nebulous, Inc. is a technology company focused on developing blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company is known for its flagship product, Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that utilizes blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace. Additionally, Nebulous offers Skynet, a decentralized content delivery network (CDN) and file-sharing platform tailored for developers, along with SiaStream, which provides affordable storage solutions for media files, enabling fast streaming. As a core contributor to the open-source Skynet project, Nebulous plays a significant role in advancing the decentralized web ecosystem.
Sia is the leading decentralized cloud storage platform. No signups, no servers, no trusted third parties. Sia leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace that is more robust and more affordable than traditional cloud storage providers.
Uniswap Labs
Series A in 2020
Founded in 2018 by Hayden Adams, Uniswap Labs develops decentralized finance (DeFi) products. It specializes in creating user-friendly platforms for secure, peer-to-peer digital asset swapping, with a focus on accessibility and empowerment of liquidity providers and traders.
Opyn is a decentralized protocol specializing in optimizing options trading. It enables users to earn premiums or express views on assets by trading options on ETH and ERC20 tokens. Opyn offers European, cash-settled options that auto-exercise upon expiry, with oTokens being ERC20s tradable on compatible decentralized exchanges.
Keep
Venture Round in 2020
Keep Network, established in 2017 and based in George Town, Cayman Islands, specializes in creating interactive links between public blockchains and private data. The company's core product, tBTC, is a decentralized bridge enabling users to securely and anonymously transfer their Bitcoin to the Ethereum network, facilitating participation in decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. Keep Network's technology, an off-chain container for private data, allows smart contracts to leverage the full power of public blockchains while maintaining data privacy.
YOLO is an app to send and receive anonymous messages on Snapchat.
Gabi Personal Insurance Agency, Inc. is an online insurance broker founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company offers a free digital tool that allows consumers to compare auto and home insurance rates from various providers, including both established companies and newer entrants in the market. Gabi's technology continuously monitors insurance rates, providing unbiased advice to help customers find optimal coverage at the lowest prices. By connecting to a customer's existing insurance accounts, Gabi's application utilizes intelligent algorithms to streamline the process of comparing policies and facilitates easy switching between providers. This approach saves consumers time and money while ensuring they receive the best possible insurance products tailored to their needs.
Cyral, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Redwood City, California, that specializes in cloud security solutions for data layer protection. Founded in 2018, Cyral offers a cloud-native service designed to monitor and enforce policies across various data endpoints utilized by services, applications, and users. Its platform provides organizations with enhanced visibility into data access, safeguards against data exfiltration, and establishes a unified privilege management layer, all without disrupting existing workflows or sacrificing agility. Cyral’s solution addresses a wide range of security threats, including database password spraying and SQL injection attacks, while ensuring compliance and facilitating efficient audits. By leveraging features such as Identity Federation and Zero Trust, Cyral enables businesses to manage data access securely across multiple repositories, identify users behind shared credentials, and enforce data segmentation to mitigate risks associated with logic and configuration errors. The platform ensures real-time monitoring of data activities, allowing organizations to respond swiftly to potential security incidents.
Cyral, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Redwood City, California, that specializes in cloud security solutions for data layer protection. Founded in 2018, Cyral offers a cloud-native service designed to monitor and enforce policies across various data endpoints utilized by services, applications, and users. Its platform provides organizations with enhanced visibility into data access, safeguards against data exfiltration, and establishes a unified privilege management layer, all without disrupting existing workflows or sacrificing agility. Cyral’s solution addresses a wide range of security threats, including database password spraying and SQL injection attacks, while ensuring compliance and facilitating efficient audits. By leveraging features such as Identity Federation and Zero Trust, Cyral enables businesses to manage data access securely across multiple repositories, identify users behind shared credentials, and enforce data segmentation to mitigate risks associated with logic and configuration errors. The platform ensures real-time monitoring of data activities, allowing organizations to respond swiftly to potential security incidents.
Hugging Face
Series A in 2019
Founded in 2016, Hugging Face is a New York-based company that aims to democratize good machine learning. It provides an open-source platform for collaborating on machine-learning projects, including models, datasets, and applications.
Bison Trails
Series A in 2019
Bison Trails Co. is a blockchain infrastructure platform that enables operators to run nodes securely across multiple blockchains. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company focuses on providing enterprise-grade security and a multi-cloud, multi-region distribution system, ensuring a 99.99% uptime guarantee for node operators. Bison Trails aims to enhance the overall blockchain ecosystem by offering a robust and secure infrastructure, facilitating activities such as staking, validating, voting, and transacting without the need for customers to develop their own security or operational capabilities. Through its technology, Bison Trails supports the participation of various stakeholders in the blockchain space, promoting transparency and decentralization.
Forward Networks
Series C in 2019
Forward Networks, founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in developing software for network verification and automation. The company offers open-source tools like Beacon and Mininet to manage data centers and wide-area networks, along with Forward Essentials, a web application that provides real-time network state access, helping engineers and operators swiftly identify and resolve network issues. Their core product is an innovative platform delivering network visibility, policy verification, and change modeling, designed to minimize costly outages by enabling users to visualize complex networks, debug problems quickly, verify policy correctness, and predict network behavior before implementing changes in legacy, SDN, or hybrid environments.
Aztec specializes in developing privacy-focused technologies for Ethereum-based transactions. It is renowned for creating PLONK, a leading standard in zero-knowledge proofs, enabling fast, private interactions on the public blockchain. The company's research team has made significant contributions to Layer 2 solutions on Ethereum and possesses extensive expertise in deploying intricate cryptosystems within Web3 environments. Aztec Network recently unveiled an advanced version of zk.money, showcasing its Aztec Connect SDK's ability to facilitate seamless integrations with prominent DeFi protocols like Lido and Element Finance. The company is currently working on building a secure, encrypted blockchain secured by Ethereum.
Notion
Venture Round in 2019
Notion is an online productivity and collaboration platform that unifies note-taking, task management, and database functionality within a single workspace. It enables users to create customizable workspaces for personal organization, projects, and team collaboration, supported by templates for tasks such as CRM, personal finance, and content management. The platform integrates with external tools like Google Calendar, Slack, and GitHub, expanding its reach across apps and services. Notion also offers AI-assisted features to help with writing and productivity tasks. Designed as an all-in-one solution for planning, writing, collaborating, and organizing work, Notion supports individuals and teams in managing workflows more systematically and improving overall productivity.
Nebulous
Seed Round in 2019
Nebulous, Inc. is a technology company focused on developing blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company is known for its flagship product, Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that utilizes blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace. Additionally, Nebulous offers Skynet, a decentralized content delivery network (CDN) and file-sharing platform tailored for developers, along with SiaStream, which provides affordable storage solutions for media files, enabling fast streaming. As a core contributor to the open-source Skynet project, Nebulous plays a significant role in advancing the decentralized web ecosystem.
Buoyant
Venture Round in 2019
Buoyant Inc., established in 2015 and based in San Francisco, specializes in developing open-source software to enhance the performance, reliability, and security of cloud-native applications. The company's flagship product is Linkerd, an open-source network proxy designed for service mesh deployment, facilitating efficient management, control, and monitoring of service-to-service communication within applications. Buoyant's team comprises senior ex-Twitter infrastructure engineers aiming to provide advanced capabilities to various companies, as they previously helped conquer Twitter's "Fail Whale" issue. The company is well-funded and backed by prominent investors.
Aztec specializes in developing privacy-focused technologies for Ethereum-based transactions. It is renowned for creating PLONK, a leading standard in zero-knowledge proofs, enabling fast, private interactions on the public blockchain. The company's research team has made significant contributions to Layer 2 solutions on Ethereum and possesses extensive expertise in deploying intricate cryptosystems within Web3 environments. Aztec Network recently unveiled an advanced version of zk.money, showcasing its Aztec Connect SDK's ability to facilitate seamless integrations with prominent DeFi protocols like Lido and Element Finance. The company is currently working on building a secure, encrypted blockchain secured by Ethereum.
Circle Medical
Funding Round in 2018
Circle Medical Technologies, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that offers a tech-enabled primary care service, allowing patients to receive medical care at home or work without a membership fee. Founded in 2015, the company utilizes a mobile application compatible with iOS and Android, which enables users to scan their health insurance cards to verify eligibility and coverage. The platform automates various tasks such as scheduling, billing, and managing medical records through the use of Artificial Intelligence. Circle Medical provides access to board-certified physicians who are experienced in delivering patient-centered care, and offers a wide range of services including wellness exams, treatment for chronic conditions, mental health support, and prescriptions. The company contracts with most major insurance carriers, ensuring that doctor visits are covered under many insurance plans, with availability extending to evenings and weekends.
Brat TV is a digital production company focused on creating content for a teenage audience. It operates a media production platform designed to foster youth culture by enabling individuals with social followings to produce videos on a budget. The platform encourages daily engagement by providing viewers with new episodes, stories, and songs, thereby attracting a substantial audience. Through its innovative approach, Brat TV aims to redefine entertainment for young people, capitalizing on the dynamics of digital media and social connectivity.
Skip Scooters
Series A in 2018
Skip Scooters operates shared electric scooters for reliable last-mile transportation.
The company works with cities to ensure our fleets are operated with the support of the surrounding communities, and they stand behind their riders by providing vehicles, safety education, and training, and world-class support.
The scooter rental company is based in San Francisco, California. It is formerly known by its Y Combinator codename, Waybots.
Hugging Face
Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2016, Hugging Face is a New York-based company that aims to democratize good machine learning. It provides an open-source platform for collaborating on machine-learning projects, including models, datasets, and applications.
Skip Scooters
Seed Round in 2018
Skip Scooters operates shared electric scooters for reliable last-mile transportation.
The company works with cities to ensure our fleets are operated with the support of the surrounding communities, and they stand behind their riders by providing vehicles, safety education, and training, and world-class support.
The scooter rental company is based in San Francisco, California. It is formerly known by its Y Combinator codename, Waybots.
Dreams is a New York City-based company that specializes in a mobile-only television platform, focusing on a modern, mobile-first news experience. Founded in 2016 by Tom Bender and Greg Hochmuth, Dreams employs patent-pending computer vision technology to transform live television news into a vertical video format in real-time. This innovative approach allows for the creation of the first-ever live, 24/7 vertical video news channels. The Dreams app is available for free in the United States on both the App Store and Google Play, and it does not require any login or registration, making it accessible to a wide audience.
Gabi Personal Insurance Agency, Inc. is an online insurance broker founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company offers a free digital tool that allows consumers to compare auto and home insurance rates from various providers, including both established companies and newer entrants in the market. Gabi's technology continuously monitors insurance rates, providing unbiased advice to help customers find optimal coverage at the lowest prices. By connecting to a customer's existing insurance accounts, Gabi's application utilizes intelligent algorithms to streamline the process of comparing policies and facilitates easy switching between providers. This approach saves consumers time and money while ensuring they receive the best possible insurance products tailored to their needs.
Covariant
Seed Round in 2017
Covariant is a developer of artificial intelligence for robotics, focused on creating the Covariant Brain, a universal AI system that empowers robots to perceive, reason, and interact with their environment. The company specializes in AI-based robotics and software, facilitating the deployment of robotics across various operations. Covariant's technology employs advanced techniques such as deep imitation learning, deep reinforcement learning, and meta-learning, allowing users to program robots intuitively. By using a virtual reality headset, clients can guide robots through tasks, simplifying the process of integrating robotics into their workflows.
Brat TV is a digital production company focused on creating content for a teenage audience. It operates a media production platform designed to foster youth culture by enabling individuals with social followings to produce videos on a budget. The platform encourages daily engagement by providing viewers with new episodes, stories, and songs, thereby attracting a substantial audience. Through its innovative approach, Brat TV aims to redefine entertainment for young people, capitalizing on the dynamics of digital media and social connectivity.
Gabi Personal Insurance Agency, Inc. is an online insurance broker founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company offers a free digital tool that allows consumers to compare auto and home insurance rates from various providers, including both established companies and newer entrants in the market. Gabi's technology continuously monitors insurance rates, providing unbiased advice to help customers find optimal coverage at the lowest prices. By connecting to a customer's existing insurance accounts, Gabi's application utilizes intelligent algorithms to streamline the process of comparing policies and facilitates easy switching between providers. This approach saves consumers time and money while ensuring they receive the best possible insurance products tailored to their needs.
Forward Networks
Series B in 2017
Forward Networks, founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in developing software for network verification and automation. The company offers open-source tools like Beacon and Mininet to manage data centers and wide-area networks, along with Forward Essentials, a web application that provides real-time network state access, helping engineers and operators swiftly identify and resolve network issues. Their core product is an innovative platform delivering network visibility, policy verification, and change modeling, designed to minimize costly outages by enabling users to visualize complex networks, debug problems quickly, verify policy correctness, and predict network behavior before implementing changes in legacy, SDN, or hybrid environments.
Buoyant Inc., established in 2015 and based in San Francisco, specializes in developing open-source software to enhance the performance, reliability, and security of cloud-native applications. The company's flagship product is Linkerd, an open-source network proxy designed for service mesh deployment, facilitating efficient management, control, and monitoring of service-to-service communication within applications. Buoyant's team comprises senior ex-Twitter infrastructure engineers aiming to provide advanced capabilities to various companies, as they previously helped conquer Twitter's "Fail Whale" issue. The company is well-funded and backed by prominent investors.
CodeSignal
Series A in 2016
CodeSignal is a cloud-based skills platform that helps organizations discover, assess, and develop technical talent. It provides custom tests aligned with interview processes and assessments that test more than data structures and algorithms, enabling employers to screen engineers more effectively. The platform also supports AI-powered learning solutions and strives to broaden access to opportunities by tapping into underrepresented candidate pools, helping teams save engineering resources and increase speed-to-hire. Used by major companies and learners worldwide, CodeSignal has powered millions of skills evaluations and supports both hiring and development initiatives across tech, finance, and other industries.
tCell Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in cloud-based application security solutions. The company develops in-application instrumentation and analytics tools that identify suspicious activities within web applications, APIs, and microservices. tCell's technology offers unparalleled visibility into application behavior, reducing false positives and providing actionable data to prevent future attacks. It serves prominent clients such as Veeva, Zenefits, and John Muir Health. As of October 2018, tCell operates as a subsidiary of Rapid7 Inc., following an acquisition.
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.
Quartzy Inc. is a company that offers an online lab management platform aimed at scientists in laboratories, academic institutions, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies globally. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Quartzy provides a comprehensive solution that includes an extensive catalog of over three million lab supplies, supported by thousands of top suppliers. The platform is designed to streamline the management of laboratory inventories, facilitate communication among lab personnel, consolidate orders, and track inventory efficiently. With a user base of approximately 200,000 scientists across 13,000 labs, Quartzy aims to save time and reduce costs for its clients by optimizing resource management in scientific environments.
Lugg, Inc. is a logistics company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in store-to-home delivery services for purchased goods. Founded in 2014, Lugg provides a range of on-demand services, including relocation assistance for homes, donations, storage solutions, junk removal, and the pickup and delivery of used goods. The company aims to simplify the moving process by connecting users with local movers and trucks through its platform, allowing for easy transportation of large items such as furniture and other purchases. Lugg’s focus is on delivering efficient, convenient solutions for consumers looking to manage their moving and delivery needs.
Cyberfend
Seed Round in 2015
Cyberfend is a security solutions provider based in Fremont, California, established in 2014 and currently operating as a subsidiary of Akamai Technologies. The company specializes in real-time web and mobile security, focusing on protecting applications from sophisticated attacks, account takeovers, payment fraud, and credential theft. Cyberfend employs a unique approach that integrates human cognitive science with advanced machine learning techniques to deliver its services. Its offerings include a Cognitive Security Engine designed to address complex security challenges while maintaining near-zero false positives. Additionally, Cyberfend features BotFender, a comprehensive bot and automation detection service, enhancing its capability to safeguard user accounts from automated cyber threats.
Buoyant
Venture Round in 2015
Buoyant Inc., established in 2015 and based in San Francisco, specializes in developing open-source software to enhance the performance, reliability, and security of cloud-native applications. The company's flagship product is Linkerd, an open-source network proxy designed for service mesh deployment, facilitating efficient management, control, and monitoring of service-to-service communication within applications. Buoyant's team comprises senior ex-Twitter infrastructure engineers aiming to provide advanced capabilities to various companies, as they previously helped conquer Twitter's "Fail Whale" issue. The company is well-funded and backed by prominent investors.
Forward Networks
Series A in 2014
Forward Networks, founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in developing software for network verification and automation. The company offers open-source tools like Beacon and Mininet to manage data centers and wide-area networks, along with Forward Essentials, a web application that provides real-time network state access, helping engineers and operators swiftly identify and resolve network issues. Their core product is an innovative platform delivering network visibility, policy verification, and change modeling, designed to minimize costly outages by enabling users to visualize complex networks, debug problems quickly, verify policy correctness, and predict network behavior before implementing changes in legacy, SDN, or hybrid environments.
BloomNation
Series A in 2014
BloomNation operates as an online marketplace for floral arrangements, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. It connects consumers with local florists and artisans, allowing them to discover and send flowers or gifts online. Florists can create profiles on BloomNation's platform, upload their designs, manage inventory and customers, utilize email marketing tools, and build a website for their business.
PS Dept.
Venture Round in 2014
PS Dept. operates a mobile e-commerce application that focuses on personal shopping services. The platform provides users with direct access to personal shoppers at selected retail stores, bridging the gap between the convenience of online shopping and the personalized assistance of in-store experts. Through this application, users can search for and order accessories and apparel, benefiting from tailored suggestions made by qualified associates in the field. This service enhances the shopping experience by combining the ease of digital transactions with the expertise of professional shoppers, catering to individuals seeking a more guided approach to retail.
Weave is the all-in-one customer communication and engagement platform for small business. From the first phone call to the final invoice and every touchpoint in between, Weave connects the entire customer journey. Weave’s software solutions transform how local businesses attract, communicate with and engage customers to grow their business. The first Utah company to join Y Combinator, Weave has set the bar for Utah startup achievement & work culture. In the past year, Weave has been included in the Forbes Cloud 100, Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, and Glassdoor Best Places to Work. To learn more, visit www.getweave.com/newsroom/
With over 15,000 customers, Weave was the first Utah company to join Y Combinator and has received several renowned awards, including the Fortune 100 Best Companies 2019, Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 and Forbes 2020 Next Billion-Dollar Startups, the 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, Glassdoor’s 2019 and 2020 Best Places to Work and 2019 Top CEOs.
Wizeline is a global technology services provider, established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in developing high-end digital products and platforms, allowing organizations to accelerate their time to market. Wizeline offers consulting services that leverage data to prioritize product features algorithmically, which helps clients in modernizing core technologies and enhancing data-driven capabilities. Additionally, Wizeline is committed to improving user experience for its customers, ensuring that they can effectively navigate the demands of the digital landscape. By partnering with businesses, Wizeline supports their efforts to build effective product solutions and achieve measurable outcomes.
Pinterest
Series F in 2014
Pinterest is a visual discovery and bookmarking platform headquartered in San Francisco that enables users to find inspiration and ideas across categories such as recipes, home and fashion, travel, and more. The service presents visual recommendations based on user interests and allows saving images on thematic boards, following others, and sharing ideas. It operates as a social media platform focused on product and idea discovery, with a global user base of more than 500 million monthly active users, two-thirds of whom are female. It was founded in 2008 and generates revenue primarily through digital advertising.