Abstract Ventures

Abstract Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, specializing in seed/startup and early venture investments. Sector agnostic, the firm serves as connectors for founders, facilitating vital connections for fundraising, talent, customers, and advice. Operating at the speed of their founders, Abstract Ventures is built on a rapidly growing community of successful venture investors, empowering great founders to efficiently secure funding from ideal partners.

Alex Davidov

General Partner

Will Thomsen

Partner

237 past transactions

Osaro

Series A in 2017
Osaro, Inc. develops industrial-grade artificial intelligence (AI) software to automate the manual picking and assembly tasks in distribution centers and manufacturing facilities. It offers automation solutions for computer and robotic systems driven by advanced machine learning software. The company also provides machine learning products that automatically processes large amounts of unstructured data and learns complex control tasks. Osaro, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Caliza, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Caliza, Inc., doing business as Landing, operates a network of furnished apartments for short-term rental in the United States. The company subleases apartments from landlords and furnishes them with custom furniture for rental. It rents apartments in Austin and Dallas, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Fort Lauderdale and Miami, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; New York, New York; Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area, California; Seattle, Washington; and District of Columbia. Caliza, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Ombre

Private Placement in 2018
Thryve is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing. The company's microbiome testing kit offers a subscription-based customized testing of the microbiome with a personalized probiotic created specifically for the individual to get actionable insights into the prevention of chronic diseases including obesity, cystic fibrosis, and Alzheimer's, enabling customers to treat root causes of gut problems.

Red Balloon Security

Private Placement in 2018
Red Balloon Security, Inc designs and develops robust security solutions for embedded device systems. It offers FRAK, a system that provides the core capability to automatically unpack, modify, and repack embedded system firmware to install Symbiote defenses. It serves consumer electronics, automobiles, manufacturing, homeland security, and military industries. Red Balloon Security, Inc has a strategic partnership with In-Q-Tel. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

Bloomscape

Seed Round in 2018
Bloomscape, Inc. operates as an online retailer of plants. It sells houseplants including tradescantia zebriana, pinstripe, hedgehog aloe, red prayer plant, bird’s nest fern, calathea beauty star, spider plant, philodendron heartleaf, and other related potted-plants. It also sells gift cards online. The company also provides Plant Mom service, a solution that allows customers to ask for advice from an expert. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Tilled

Seed Round in 2020
Tilled develops a payment platform designed to integrate payments into software and immediately start earning revenue by accepting payments via credit card, debit card, ACH processing, FSAs, or HSAs. The company's platform allows payments monetization through modern APIs and SDKs without upfront costs or additional headcount required, enabling clients to focus on core operations and generate revenue from credit card processing. The Boulder-Colorado-headquartered company was founded in 2018..

TrustLayer

Series A in 2021
TrustLayer is an insurtech solutions company that automates insurance verification with machine learning & AI and provides real-time updates on the R3 Corda distributed ledger ecosystem. TrustLayer helps companies eliminate error-prone, manual processes and streamline existing workflows to increase insurance compliance and decrease organizational risk. Customers in multiple billion dollar industries such as construction and property management rely on TrustLayer for its ease of use, tracking and verifying certificates of insurance & other business documents, increased vendor compliance, and the ability to utilize their platform for multiple use cases.

Tilled

Series A in 2021
Tilled develops a payment platform designed to integrate payments into software and immediately start earning revenue by accepting payments via credit card, debit card, ACH processing, FSAs, or HSAs. The company's platform allows payments monetization through modern APIs and SDKs without upfront costs or additional headcount required, enabling clients to focus on core operations and generate revenue from credit card processing. The Boulder-Colorado-headquartered company was founded in 2018..

CloudTrucks

Seed Round in 2020
CloudTrucks develops a virtual trucking carrier application designed to reduce operating costs for truck drivers. The platform helps to manage and book loads from brokers and shippers, offer instant payments after load delivery, and access to cheap insurance options, enabling truck owners and operators to strategize their schedule and design a revenue-maximizing driving program. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Open Invest Co.

Private Placement in 2018
Open Invest Co. owns and operates an online platform that enables users to learn investment related topics. Its platform allows users to learn about investing concepts, discuss investment strategies, invest in portfolios, monitor their portfolios, and receive analysis and recommendations based on investment objectives. The company serves advisers, such as registered investment advisers, broker-dealers, and family offices; institutions, including foundations, endowments, and pension funds; and individuals. Open Invest Co. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Floravere

Seed Round in 2018
Floravere is an integrated, direct-to-consumer wedding dress brand. The company takes the hassle out of the wedding dress buying experience. Instead of inefficient, lengthy bridal appointments, Floravere brings the the bridal dress buying experience in home. After a virtual consultation, the bride-to-be chooses 3 dresses (out of 14 options) she would like shipped to her home. The bride box arrives a few days later to the customer’s doorstep.

Petra Living, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Petra Living, Inc., doing business as Oliver Space, offers online home furnishing goods rental services. It rents furniture such as chair, table, sofa, bed, lamp, bookshelf, carpets, and office chairs to consumers and businesses. Petra Living, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Hebbia

Seed Round in 2022
Hebbia Inc. designs and develops AI productivity tools for knowledge workers. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in West Hollywood, California.

Dover

Seed Round in 2019
Dover is building the first truly modern recruiting agency. We help some of the fastest growing companies in the world find and engage the best talent for their open roles. We've combined decades of hiring expertise with our unique, algorithmic vetting technology to ensure that every candidate we introduce to you is a perfect fit for your company.

Playbook

Series A in 2020
Playbook is a mobile marketplace for trainers, health, and wellness athletes and professionals. It allows creators to have relationship with customers, build monthly income, and create own terms. It is an app for professionals, trainers, and athletes where they can share their workouts and healthy habits. It was launched in 2016 and is based in New York, USA.

Stashfin

Series C in 2022
StashFin is a digital lending venture that offers online application for personal loans, providing simple and fast approval and disbursal for loans. It was started by a team of former financial services professionals who have more than 40 years of experience in consumer finance and capital markets. It is dedicated to disrupting traditional lending in India.

MVMNT

Venture Round in 2022
The MVMNT Group is a North American freight brokerage and visibility provider.

DEUNA

Series A in 2022
DEUNA is a SaaS startup that enables a 1-click checkout buying experience and expands its sales network for e-commerce merchants. It offers payment processing, fraud prevention, and customer analytics. DEUNA reduces the time it takes to make a purchase by 80%, increasing its conversion rate by 50%. It was started by Co-founders Roberto Enrique Kafati Santos and Jose Maria Serrano in 2020. The company is based in Palo Alto, California, United States.

Catalia Health

Seed Round in 2017
Catalia Health brings together artificial intelligence, psychology, and medicine to deliver lasting change. We create effective patient engagement and generate unique data of value to our customers. Our cloud-based platform delivers unique conversations to patients to help address their ongoing healthcare issues in an effective way. These messages are delivered through mobile apps, a web interface, and our uniquely engaging (and patented) interactive robotic coach.

Arcana

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an institutional-grade data set tool designed to better understand digital assets. The company combines proprietary datasets, rigorous analysis tooling, and a data integrity technology stack that leverages distributed data systems and sophisticated data science, empowering institutions to analyze complex digital asset data.

Popshop Live

Seed Round in 2020
Popshop Technologies Inc. develops a mobile live streaming marketplace that enables users to create and host their own pop up shopping channel and can sell live directly to a global audience. It offers PopShop, an application that enables users to elevate their shop to a live stream experience, have conversation with fans, add new products, and enable customers buy live. The company’s application is available on App Store. Popshop Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Kojo

Private Placement in 2020
Agora Systems, Inc. designs and develops materials management platform for modern construction companies. The company also offers modern materials management solution built for the electrical trade. Agora Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Primer

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Primer is making transformative home-improvement projects accessible to everyone by reimagining the hardware store for the mobile generation. The company uses augmented reality (AR) tools to help people plan inspiring projects from home and order custom kits with everything they’ll need to get it done. Founded in 2018 by Russ Maschmeyer and Adam Debreczeni, Primer is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Mason Finance

Private Placement in 2018
Mason Finance Inc. offers retirement finance products and services to older Americans through its online platform. It purchases life insurance policies and offers life settlements and viatical settlements. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California. As per the transaction announced on July 12, 2019, Mason Finance Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Magna Life Settlements, Inc.

Locus Biosciences

Series A in 2017
Locus Biosciences is a developer of a CRISPR-engineered precision antibacterial platform designed to revolutionize the treatment of bacterial disease. The company's platform combines the antibacterial power of CRISPR-Cas3 with the efficient, safe delivery of bacterial viruses called bacteriophage, enabling physicians to begin treatment more quickly, resulting in a better medical outcome.

Unnatural Products

Private Placement in 2019
Unnatural Products is a startup pairing AI with chemistry to create treatments for drug targets. Its AI-enhanced technology platform creates entirely new drugs by engineering passively permeable, macrocyclic peptides that access traditionally undruggable targets. Unnatural Products was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California.

Tilled

Series A in 2022
Tilled develops a payment platform designed to integrate payments into software and immediately start earning revenue by accepting payments via credit card, debit card, ACH processing, FSAs, or HSAs. The company's platform allows payments monetization through modern APIs and SDKs without upfront costs or additional headcount required, enabling clients to focus on core operations and generate revenue from credit card processing. The Boulder-Colorado-headquartered company was founded in 2018..

Second Front Systems

Seed Round in 2020
Second Front provides advisory services to state-of-the-art technology firms seeking to inject their product or offering into the national security market. Through proof-of-concept pilots, lightweight systems integration, and a range of contracting vehicles, Second Front supports solutions to address specific and pressing national security needs.

TTYL

Seed Round in 2018
TTYL is the audio social network, where hanging out with your closest friends is as easy as throwing on headphones. See who's free to talk and jump into conversations with up to 8 of your best friends. If you're the first one online, just background the app and let them jump in your ears!

Grabango

Series A in 2019
Grabango is a provider of checkout-free shopper technology for existing stores. Grabango’s system is designed to accommodate thousands of store locations and tens of thousands of SKUs. Grabango’s founder and CEO, Will Glaser (Founder, CTO Pandora Radio) has built a company that is at the forefront of today’s retail technology revolution. Its unique design uses computer vision and machine learning to change the way people shop. The company is composed of a team of accomplished technology and commerce professionals. Founded in 2016, Grabango is based in Berkeley, California.

Clara Health

Seed Round in 2016
Clara is a software platform that streamlines the process of participating in clinical trials. The platform helps patients to find and connect with clinical trials.

SINAI Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
The world’s leading enterprise decarbonization software. Built to measure, analyze, price, and reduce emissions.

Second Front Systems

Funding Round in 2021
Second Front provides advisory services to state-of-the-art technology firms seeking to inject their product or offering into the national security market. Through proof-of-concept pilots, lightweight systems integration, and a range of contracting vehicles, Second Front supports solutions to address specific and pressing national security needs.

Moov

Private Placement in 2020
Moov is rebuilding banking infrastructure for a cloud-native world without any legacy technology dependencies. Moov’s banking-as-a-service platform takes a developer-first approach of being open-source, portable to cloud providers or on-premises, modular for customization, and decoupled from any single bank program. Their protocols offer the first de facto standard for embedded payment infrastructure offered publicly. Moov was established in 2017 and is based in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States.

Keyto

Private Placement in 2018
Keyto, Inc. designs and manufactures sensor based breath analyzers. The company also develops mobile application that measures and analyzes the breath when in Ketogenic diet program. The devices when used with the application analyze the breath and lets users know how much fat is burning. The application also provides personalized food and lifestyle recommendations based on user’s physiology. Keyto, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Wanderlog

Seed Round in 2021
Travelchime develops Google Docs for planning vacation travel with friends. The company’s application lets users add places and attractions they want to visit to a doc, export them to Google Maps, and collaborate with friends. It allows travelers to organize and arrange destinations, which appear on a map; link out to business hours; and research activities and restaurants with information from blog itineraries, guidebooks, and lists from around web. The company is headquartered in United Kingdom.

Helia

Private Placement in 2020
Helia AI, Inc. develops an AI platform that enhances physical security within enterprises by reviewing security camera footage in real-time. The company's platform offers to integrate with existing security cameras and alerts security teams of breaches in real-time. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of December 1, 2020, Helia AI, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Scale AI, Inc.

Future Family

Venture Round in 2019
Future Family, Inc. offers subscription plans which cover all healthcare costs and include guided care through concierge service. The company's features include, personal fertility planning, clinic matching, dedicated nurse concierge, 24/7 access to care team, digital health platform, clinic visits and procedures, labs, and medications. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ownit

Seed Round in 2022
We're on a mission to make commerce at the point of discovery better for brands, creators, and consumers.

Maximus

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a consumer health company intended to provide men with content, community, and clinical support to optimize them in mind and body. The company provides at-home lab tests and treatment, online group health coaching for nutrition, exercise, sleep, and focus, and also provides state-of-the-art telemedicine and mail-order pharmacy services, helping men to optimize their hormones and health.

CURE: One app, all things health

Pre Seed Round in 2021
CURE Group GmbH is a healthcare on-demand company with the vision to be the easiest access to healthcare services without leaving your home. Today, CURE works with a local pharmacy network and delivers medicine quickly and sustainably. CURE was founded in December 2021 by Ali El-Ali and Manuel Aberle in Berlin. CURE investors include Breega, Craft Ventures, Abstract Ventures, PiLabs, and J12 Ventures, with participation from J Ventures.

Playbook

Series A in 2020
Playbook is a mobile marketplace for trainers, health, and wellness athletes and professionals. It allows creators to have relationship with customers, build monthly income, and create own terms. It is an app for professionals, trainers, and athletes where they can share their workouts and healthy habits. It was launched in 2016 and is based in New York, USA.

OpenInvest

Series A in 2018
OpenInvest is a Public Benefit Corporation and asset manager that uses technology to mainstream customized ethical investing. OpenInvest is a YCombinator and Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup powering the post-fund future. Their team of senior technologists from the hedge fund industry and civil society leaders is first tackling under-served markets in customized ESG asset management. With seed funding, the team has built fully integrated and proprietary direct-indexing construction, management, trading, proxy voting, and UX systems that now serve thousands of customers. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Kinta AI

Seed Round in 2019
Kinta AI is an artificial intelligence platform which empowers the dynamic and digital factory of the future. It helps manufacturers increase their throughput, decrease downtime, and automate the production planning process. The platform do this by using your existing operational data to create a cloud deployed AI production planner, which provides actionable plans and schedules. It offers a simple to deploy SaaS solution which employs deep learning and reinforcement learning to figure out how your factory works. It complements your factory planning and engineering front office staff to make your factory more dynamic and provide more optimal plans. The team comes out of Stanford and Caltech. It brings together experience in manufacturing and artificial intelligence software creation.

IDbyDNA

Series A in 2016
IDbyDNA, Inc. develops metagenomics technologies for the identification of infectious disease. It also designs and develops platform Explify that helps laboratories to identify infectious disease. The company also provides testing services, such as respiratory and research services. It serves hospitals, reference labs, clinical research, and biopharma industries. IDbyDNA, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Simbi.com

Seed Round in 2016
Simbi is an online marketplace that runs on talents, services, and skills, not cash, credit, or check. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, Simbi provides a way for freelancers and independent workers to turn their unbooked hours into real economic value. Simbi simultaneously increases the size of the economy while supporting small-scale entrepreneurs to do the flexible work they love.

Cloud Technologies, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Cloud Technologies, Inc., doing business as CloudTrucks LLC, operates as a virtual trucking carrier network, which provides software engineering, data science, and operational excellence for truck owners and operators to reduce operational cost. The company's application helps to manage and book loads from brokers and shippers, offers instant payments after load delivery, and provides access to insurance options. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Landing

Series A in 2020
Landing is a network of fully-finished apartments across the United States, so no matter where you land, it'll feel like home. Landing is redefining home and setting a new standard of living, one apartment at a time. Landing membership grants access to a global network of fully finished apartments with flexible leases and streamlined, custom, all-inclusive amenities that allow for living easy and moving freely. Founded in 2019, Landing was created by some of the best minds in modern entrepreneurship and has been backed by top venture capitalists. Currently operating in ten cities nationwide, Landing is taking off.

AI Foundation

Series A in 2018
AI Foundation develops revolutionary new interfaces between humans and AI open up a whole new universe of AI-powered jobs. Truly personal AI requires deep interactions between users and AI for collaboration and training, which must be natural and more like hobby or play.

Dover

Series A in 2021
Dover is building the first truly modern recruiting agency. We help some of the fastest growing companies in the world find and engage the best talent for their open roles. We've combined decades of hiring expertise with our unique, algorithmic vetting technology to ensure that every candidate we introduce to you is a perfect fit for your company.

Future

Seed Round in 2018
Future offers one-on-one digital training with fitness coaches, at home, at the gym, or on-the-go. Future pairs its clients with coaches who have trained pro athletes, Hollywood celebrities, and working professionals.

Otter

Series A in 2021
Otter is a community builder who is passionate about helping families thrive on their own terms. The company's platform helps to meet with nearby stay-at-home parents who offer a parenting approach and can take care of kids, enabling parents to manage their scheduling, payment, and pick-up and drop-off logistics. It also connects parents who need childcare with a stay at home parents who can care for their kids. Otter was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in

Snipfeed

Venture Round in 2021
Snipfeed turns creators into entrepreneurs by offering one place where they can distribute all their content (Videos, Podcasts, Articles) and monetize their audience easily on mobile (through subscriptions, bundles, virtual gifts, tips, merch/referral links). On the other hand, Snipfeed lets users discover tons of new content and creators they wouldn't necessarily know about thanks to the recommendation system we developed powered by ML, think Tiktok for all kinds of formats. We re-index most of the content making audio and video easily searchable and recommended properly for GenZs. (Accelerated @Refiners fleet #4/ Skydeck HD Fall 18) Website: snipfeed.co

Alpaca

Series A in 2020
Alpaca API enables developers to build investing apps, brokerage services, trading algorithms that can access the market for commission-free. Alpaca is a technology company headquartered in the bay area California and a team of diverse background individuals with deep financial and technology expertise, backed by some of the top investors in the industry globally. We are proud to be supported by the love of enthusiastic community members on various platforms. (Securities by Alpaca Securities LLC http://alpaca.markets/#disclosures)

The Org

Series A in 2020
The Org is a professional community to explore organization charts for public and private companies. The company's mission is to make organizations more transparent and understand more about their own companies and the people in them. It follows companies to stay updated on personnel changes, new hires, and promotions. The Org was founded in 2017 by Christian Wylonis and Andreas Jarbøl and is headquartered in New York.

Homeis

Series A in 2019
Homeis Inc. operates an online social network for local foreign-born communities. The platform allows communities to digitally connect, share their culture, local knowledge, and unique context. The company also develops android and iOS applications for the same. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Pietra

Series A in 2021
Everything you need to turn your passion into a creative business, in one place. Connect with suppliers, design your products, and set up your e-commerce website. Pietra also provides warehousing and logistics for Creators to give them an end-to-end solution for their business.

Petal

Private Placement in 2018
Petal Card, Inc. provides and issues credit cards to people who do not have a traditional credit history, students, and immigrants. It offers Petal Visa, a credit card and through its machine learning, it analyzes users' digital financial records which allows them to offer higher credit limits and lower rates than competing cards. The company also provides an application to make payments. Petal Card, Inc. was formerly known as CreditBridge, Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Mozart Data

Seed Round in 2020
Mozart Data, Inc. develops and operates an online platform that collects and organizes the data. The company’s platform helps to spin up and run a modern data stack, manage the data warehouse, and build and maintain extract, transform, load (ETL) pipelines. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

RBC Signals

Seed Round in 2017
RBC Signals is a global space communications provider serving satellite operators in GEO, LEO, & MEO with an improved model for the delivery and processing of data from space to end users. The company’s worldwide network includes both company-owned and partner-owned antennas, capitalizing on the sharing economy model, for best-in-class services offering affordability, flexibility and low latency.

Molten Cloud

Funding Round in 2020
MOLTEN modernizes core operations of the media and entertainment industry — including rights, content, distribution and licensing operations. _____________ MOLTEN is a cloud platform that streamlines core operations of media and entertainment enterprises. MOLTEN digitizes and transforms film/TV rights, content, distribution and licensing operations across the enterprise globally, empowering teams with real-time insight and automation tools to do more. Built by a team from MIT with professionals from the industry, this state-of-the-art vertical-cloud platform hosts over 150M film and TV rights today.

SINAI Technologies

Private Placement in 2020
The world’s leading enterprise decarbonization software. Built to measure, analyze, price, and reduce emissions.

Onchain Labs, Inc

Private Placement in 2019
Onchain Labs, Inc develops MakersPlace platform to discover and collect digital creations. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Squad

Seed Round in 2017
We help Real Estate Teams Convert dropped leads in their CRM into closed homes using artificial intelligence. We qualify, nurture and assist dropped leads to turn them into closed homes by becoming your secret weapon.

Drip Capital

Series B in 2019
Drip Capital Inc. provides credit to small businesses to fulfill their purchase/work orders. It offers invoice factoring, export finance, post shipment finance, receivables factoring, export factoring, invoice discounting, bill discounting, and trade finance products. Drip Capital Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Mumbai, India.

BZR

Seed Round in 2019
BZR is a destination for consumers to discover their new favorite products online.

OurHealthMate

Seed Round in 2017
OurHealthMate is a health and wellness company that provides a web-based platform for hospitals and clinics. Its platform allows its clients to manage their interactions with patients and monitor health conditions. It also features an online payment for health-checkups. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Knowhere

Seed Round in 2018
Knowhere is a news company that claims to be the most unbiased news source available on the web. The purpose of Knowhere News is to enhance social discourse by providing high-quality, unbiased news and by arming readers with the tools to see all sides of a story. They practice journalism differently, harnessing the collective intelligence of the web in order to write the world’s most objective news stories on the events shaping the world. They believe the collaboration of journalists with machine learning tools is the only path to a truly global and impartial home of news. Hearing every voice, writing without agenda, in search of the truth.

Knowhere

Private Placement in 2018
Knowhere is a news company that claims to be the most unbiased news source available on the web. The purpose of Knowhere News is to enhance social discourse by providing high-quality, unbiased news and by arming readers with the tools to see all sides of a story. They practice journalism differently, harnessing the collective intelligence of the web in order to write the world’s most objective news stories on the events shaping the world. They believe the collaboration of journalists with machine learning tools is the only path to a truly global and impartial home of news. Hearing every voice, writing without agenda, in search of the truth.

Eva

Venture Round in 2018
Eva develops an accessible and non-invasive wearable device designed to detect breast cancer risks. The company's wearable device is equipped with tactile sensors which are designed to map the surface of the breast and surrounding areas, allowing women to keep a track on the changes in breast temperature, size, and weight, with the help of biosensors inside the cup which constantly monitors information.

Compound

Seed Round in 2018
Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications for developers. Its protocol is a widely used system built on Ethereum, with thousands of users, and dozens of applications integrating Compound. Compound offers a web interface that adjusts money market interest rates based on asset-specific supply and demand. Compound was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bestow

Series A in 2018
Bestow Inc. operates as a digital insurance company. It offers life insurance services with data-driven technology applications as well as algorithmic underwriting that calculates risks. The company caters to individuals. Bestow Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

PocketList

Private Placement in 2020
PocketList.com features an enhanced Buyers' Guide that contains supplier contact information, along with a user-friendly request-for-proposal (RFP) tool for rail purchasing officials. You will also find important rail industry news and blogs from respected industry experts. Designed by seasoned executives in railroad publishing, PocketList.com (formerly RailResource.com) was created to give short line, regional and Class I railroads, rail supply companies, contractors and other rail industry participants an online source for critical contact and product information

Prodigy

Series A in 2019
Prodigy helps auto dealers deliver a modern, streamlined digital buying experience to every customer, saving time on every sale while increasing trust and satisfaction. With our true end-to-end sales platform it does not matter if customers are at home, on their phone, or right in the showroom. With Prodigy, customers can complete portions of the process online and then pick up their progress in-store (or vice versa). Everything is synced up in real-time so customers never enter any information twice and sales reps always have the most up to date information to better serve customers.

Snackpass

Seed Round in 2018
Snackpass is a social food app that makes ordering food more convenient, affordable and social. It focuses on mobile order pickup at local restaurants. The platform allows users to unlock discounts with friends, send gifts, and collect points. Snackpass was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sweet

Seed Round in 2017
We've made it quick & easy to lower your phone bill, without sacrificing great coverage. SAVE MONEY Nearly 70% of US wireless subscribers are overpaying. We'll help you find out if you are, and get you a Sweet deal. Our customers save over $300/yr on average. FAST & EASY Sign up in seconds. Busy? We deal with the carriers so you don't have to. SECURE & PRIVATE We’ll never sell any of your personal information, and we secure it with the same 256-bit encryption technology that banks use. NATIONWIDE COVERAGE Sweet works with the big guys, so you can expect nationwide coverage & fast speeds. BACKED BY GIANTS Sweet is backed by the entrepreneurs behind trusted companies like Quicken Loans, PayPal, AOL, and more.

Index

Seed Round in 2020
Index wants companies to use its no-code dashboard builder to help visualize their KPIs and track performance. The tool boasts integration with a variety of data providers so that users aren’t forced to manually enter data into another tool. The startup hopes that building embeddable dashboards will help their solution catch fire and that startups will turn to their tool when they want to track progress on goals.

Petal

Private Placement in 2020
Petal Card, Inc. provides and issues credit cards to people who do not have a traditional credit history, students, and immigrants. It offers Petal Visa, a credit card and through its machine learning, it analyzes users' digital financial records which allows them to offer higher credit limits and lower rates than competing cards. The company also provides an application to make payments. Petal Card, Inc. was formerly known as CreditBridge, Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Trustory AG

Private Placement in 2018
Trustory AG develops a blockchain based online fact-checking platform that uses collective knowledge of crowd, combined with right incentives and disincentives, to validate and curate facts and information. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Paderborn, Germany.

Clara Health

Seed Round in 2018
Clara is a software platform that streamlines the process of participating in clinical trials. The platform helps patients to find and connect with clinical trials.

Keyto

Seed Round in 2018
Keyto, Inc. designs and manufactures sensor based breath analyzers. The company also develops mobile application that measures and analyzes the breath when in Ketogenic diet program. The devices when used with the application analyze the breath and lets users know how much fat is burning. The application also provides personalized food and lifestyle recommendations based on user’s physiology. Keyto, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Hippo Insurance

Series A in 2016
Hippo is a new kind of insurance company that uses modern technology to provide a simpler process, smarter coverage, and a completely new approach to how we care for our homes. Hippo offers intuitive and proactive home insurance by taking a smarter, tech-driven approach. Hippo believes that home insurance should be designed to actively serve the needs of our customers, who can live carefree when they know they've been taken care of.

Storr

Seed Round in 2019
Storr, Inc. develops an application for social media influencer retailing. The company’s application enables users to open a store from their phone by adding the brands and products to their store, share it with friends, and earn money. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Ethyca

Seed Round in 2019
Ethyca Inc. develops software that automates the customer data compliance process for businesses. The company provides data privacy and risk management solutions for businesses. It offers Ethyca Pro, a cloud-based self-service privacy solution, automating data mapping, DSR management, and consent for California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Ethyca Inc. formerly known as Ethyca Data, Inc. and changed its name to Ethyca Inc. in May 2019. Ethyca Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Linq

Seed Round in 2020
Linq is a networking app that gives users the ability to create a custom digital page where they can centralize and share their content digitally or using linq's one of a kind physical NFC smart products.

Cafe X Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Based in San Francisco, Cafe X Technologies is focused on increasing productivity in the service industry through automation and creating a seamless, convenient experience for consumers. Their first product is a robotic café that serves quality coffee in seconds, the way roasters intended. Cafe X Technologies is a privately backed company with funding from Khosla Ventures, Social Capital, Jason Calacanis, Felicis Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank and The Thiel Foundation.

Harbor Platform, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Harbor Platform, Inc. operates a blockchain platform for trading of digital securities. The platform allows companies to tokenize private securities, such as commercial real estate, investment funds, and private equity; and to streamline investor onboarding and verification, automate fundraising; and to unlock liquidity options through automated compliance. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of February 18, 2020, Harbor Platform, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of BitGo, Inc.

Parabola

Private Placement in 2020
Parabola Labs, Inc. develops a drag-and-drop productivity tool to analyze engagement across email, web, and social media. It offers Parabola to automate manual, repetitive data tasks. The company’s Parabola includes a library of customizable, prebuilt components for ecommerce operations and marketing teams to pull data, combine and transform it in bulk, and take action. The company was formerly known as InSpread, Inc. and changed its name to Parabola Labs, Inc. in December 2015. Parabola Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Catalia Health

Seed Round in 2017
Catalia Health brings together artificial intelligence, psychology, and medicine to deliver lasting change. We create effective patient engagement and generate unique data of value to our customers. Our cloud-based platform delivers unique conversations to patients to help address their ongoing healthcare issues in an effective way. These messages are delivered through mobile apps, a web interface, and our uniquely engaging (and patented) interactive robotic coach.

Pietra

Seed Round in 2019
Everything you need to turn your passion into a creative business, in one place. Connect with suppliers, design your products, and set up your e-commerce website. Pietra also provides warehousing and logistics for Creators to give them an end-to-end solution for their business.

Clyde

Private Placement in 2020
Clyde Technologies, Inc. provides an insurance technology platform for businesses to offer extended warranties and accident protection to their customers. It offers Clyde, a product protection platform that delivers product protection plans directly to consumers as they shop, owning the relationship from purchase to claim submission to resolution. The company’s platform connects stores and businesses with a network of insurance companies to purchase protection plans. Clyde Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Intego Co. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Compound

Private Placement in 2018
Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications for developers. Its protocol is a widely used system built on Ethereum, with thousands of users, and dozens of applications integrating Compound. Compound offers a web interface that adjusts money market interest rates based on asset-specific supply and demand. Compound was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

CommonStock

Seed Round in 2020
CommonStock is a developer of a group chat platform that is designed to share investment knowledge and decisions. It allows users to link any brokerage to share holdings by percentage, get real-time alerts when friends buy/sell, copy each other's trades and invest together choosing own amount, and compete to see who performs best, enabling users to coordinate trades as well as monitor and coach investment decisions. Commonstock’s product is currently available for free on the web and via an iPhone app (an Android-enabled app is forthcoming). The company was founded in 2017 by David McDonough and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ChartHop

Private Placement in 2019
ChartHop is an org management platform empowering leaders and team members alike to see the past and present of their organization and design its future. The platform automatically builds fluid, data-driven views of a company through real-time updated org charts, custom reporting, and headcount planning tools that boost efficiency and transparency across teams.