Zerowatt is a serverless infrastructure company. It was founded in 2020 by James Cowling, Jamie Turner, and Sujay Jayakar.
Provider of a talent search platform intended to make the hiring process more scalable. The company's unified platform serves all of the candidate sourcing and networking needs and provides many options to showcase information so that users have a quick view to understand the business, enabling healthcare and hospitality industries to connect to the talent seamlessly in real-time.
growPack is focused on developing innovative compostable biomaterials aimed at sustainable packaging solutions. By utilizing abundant raw materials such as lignin and cellulose, the company creates a novel biomaterial that is both functional and environmentally friendly. Their products include salad bowls, dishes, and other single-use items for the gastronomic industry. This compostable biomaterial biodegrades within six months and is suitable for food contact, demonstrating resilience in various conditions, including microwave and freezer use. By prioritizing a circular flow of materials, growPack seeks to reduce reliance on traditional plastics while offering businesses a competitive edge in eco-friendly packaging without compromising on quality or cost.
Developer of a visual user interface building platform intended to democratize software creation and empower everyone to bring their ideas to life. The company's platform allows people to create visual content and pages by seamlessly integrating no-code into their codebase, enabling developers and content creators to make production-ready presentational components while saving time and resources.
Compaas is a company that offers a Compensation Intelligence Platform designed to assist growing organizations in making informed decisions regarding employee compensation. Founded in 2017 by Lisa Dusseault and Bethanye Blount in San Francisco, the platform consolidates compensation data and provides analytics and strategy tools tailored for both startups and enterprise-level companies. By allowing users to forecast and observe real-time market trends, Compaas enables businesses to develop effective compensation strategies and manage their operating expenses more efficiently, ultimately enhancing communication with employees and minimizing potential errors in compensation management.
Trade Republic Bank GmbH, based in Berlin, Germany, operates as a mobile-only broker that offers commission-free trading services. Established in 2015, the company aims to make investing accessible and straightforward for a new generation of traders. Its platform allows users to engage in trading across various financial instruments, including stocks, derivatives, and options, through an intuitive and fast mobile application. By focusing on a seamless user experience, Trade Republic seeks to democratize access to capital markets and empower individuals to manage their investments effectively.
Alexsei is a developer of an advanced legal platform that specializes in providing high-quality, comprehensive answers to complex legal questions. Utilizing cutting-edge artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning technologies, the platform delivers affordable legal insights in a memo format with rapid turnaround times. By leveraging collective intelligence and a knowledge management system, Alexsei enables legal professionals to efficiently upload, share, and manage their research, streamlining the process of legal inquiry. This innovative approach allows the company to offer significant cost savings while maintaining high standards of accuracy and depth in legal responses.
Mage App Inc. operates an online marketplace tailored for the buying and selling of collectible Magic: The Gathering cards. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, the company specializes in scanning, recognizing, authenticating, and pricing cards, facilitating a seamless experience for users. The app not only enables users to list their cards but also features a bidding system and options for card storage in its warehouse. With an average customer spending around $120 per month, Mage App aims to revolutionize the trading card market by providing a platform that simplifies transactions and enhances trust among collectors.
Anchorage is a crypto-native Qualified Custodian catering to institutional investors, providing a secure platform for trading, staking, and governance of digital assets. Founded in 2017 by former security engineers from Square and Docker, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Anchorage has developed a regulated platform that emphasizes security and usability, facilitating simple participation in digital assets while ensuring robust custody solutions. The firm has attracted significant funding from prominent investors and serves a clientele that includes many of the largest and most recognized names in the cryptocurrency industry, positioning itself as a leader in the space.
Domestic Helper Sourcing App to hire on pay per use or subscription basis. HelloTask is revolutionizing helper sourcing experience for users and helping the domestic helpers community earn an increased income on its platform.
Humble Dot is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in enhancing communication through its online platform. It provides tools for check-ins, status updates, retrospectives, team pulses, and one-on-one agendas, facilitating efficient and high-quality interactions among team members. The platform aims to streamline communication by minimizing distractions and ensuring that teams can connect regardless of time or location.
Gener8 empowers people to take control of their advertising experience. It is the first browser technology that enables advertisers and media agencies to serve highly targeted GDPR compliant ads to an engaged audience who would otherwise be blocking them.
Compaas is a company that offers a Compensation Intelligence Platform designed to assist growing organizations in making informed decisions regarding employee compensation. Founded in 2017 by Lisa Dusseault and Bethanye Blount in San Francisco, the platform consolidates compensation data and provides analytics and strategy tools tailored for both startups and enterprise-level companies. By allowing users to forecast and observe real-time market trends, Compaas enables businesses to develop effective compensation strategies and manage their operating expenses more efficiently, ultimately enhancing communication with employees and minimizing potential errors in compensation management.
Modern Fertility is a women’s health company founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California. It specializes in developing and offering fertility testing kits that empower women to make informed decisions about their reproductive health. By providing accessible home diagnostic kits, the company enables women to measure ovarian reserve, ovulation, and various fertility hormones through a simple finger-prick test or traditional blood draw at a nearby lab, significantly reducing costs compared to traditional infertility clinics. Modern Fertility aims to close the fertility information gap by educating women and providing them with valuable insights about their bodies, allowing them to plan their motherhood on their own terms. Co-founded by Afton Vechery and Carly Leahy, the company has raised $7 million to further advance fertility science and support women's health initiatives.
Memora Health Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in enterprise healthcare productivity software focused on automating outpatient communication. The company addresses the challenges faced by healthcare organizations that invest significant time and resources in phone follow-ups with patients. By providing a solution that automates various aspects of patient interaction, including follow-ups, instructions, health coaching, and the collection of patient-reported outcomes, Memora Health enhances operational efficiency and improves patient engagement through the use of text messaging.
Droplet Health makes state-of-the-art home diagnostic kits for industry.
One Concern, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in disaster preparedness and response through the use of artificial intelligence. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Tokyo, Japan, the company has developed an innovative platform that generates post-disaster damage maps and provides daily situational reports. Its primary offering, Seismic Concern, focuses on earthquake preparedness and response, while the broader platform integrates machine learning and hazard modeling to address various natural disasters, including hurricanes, floods, and fires, as well as chronic issues like poverty and climate change. By delivering solutions throughout the preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery phases, One Concern enables governments and leaders to quantify resilience and make informed decisions to minimize the impact of disasters.
Modern Fertility is a women’s health company founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California. It specializes in developing and offering fertility testing kits that empower women to make informed decisions about their reproductive health. By providing accessible home diagnostic kits, the company enables women to measure ovarian reserve, ovulation, and various fertility hormones through a simple finger-prick test or traditional blood draw at a nearby lab, significantly reducing costs compared to traditional infertility clinics. Modern Fertility aims to close the fertility information gap by educating women and providing them with valuable insights about their bodies, allowing them to plan their motherhood on their own terms. Co-founded by Afton Vechery and Carly Leahy, the company has raised $7 million to further advance fertility science and support women's health initiatives.
Brandless, Inc. operates an online consumer commerce platform that offers a diverse range of products designed to enhance everyday living. The company specializes in food items, home essentials, beauty and personal care products, health and wellness solutions, baby care, and pet supplies. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, Brandless emphasizes quality, transparency, and community-driven values, aiming to provide consumers with better products at affordable prices. The platform promotes a collaborative approach to commerce, focusing on customer needs and preferences to drive innovation and improve product offerings. By prioritizing essential items and fostering a sense of community, Brandless seeks to empower consumers to make informed choices for themselves and their families.
Buoyant, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015 by former Twitter infrastructure engineers. The company specializes in developing open-source software, particularly through its flagship product, Linkerd, which is an open-source network proxy designed to function as a service mesh. A service mesh enables efficient management, control, and monitoring of service-to-service communication within cloud-native applications. Buoyant's offerings aim to enhance the speed, security, and reliability of applications, supporting various hosting activities such as web hosting and application service provisioning. The company is well-funded and has garnered backing from prominent investors, striving to provide robust capabilities to organizations seeking to improve their application infrastructure.
Bird operates a micro-mobility platform that offers electric vehicle-sharing services, aiming to provide affordable and sustainable transportation solutions to communities worldwide. The platform enables users to create profiles, facilitating the sharing of personal electric vehicles, including electric bicycles. By coordinating with cities, Bird enhances access to environmentally friendly local transport, thereby contributing to the reduction of traffic congestion and promoting responsible alternatives to traditional motor vehicles.
Lygos is a biotechnology company focused on providing sustainable solutions for renewable chemical production. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, Lygos engineers microbes to convert sugars into high-value industrial chemicals, emphasizing cost-effectiveness compared to traditional petrochemical processes. By utilizing advanced throughput screening and strain construction techniques, the company rapidly optimizes biological pathways to transform inexpensive and renewable feedstock into valuable chemical products. Lygos aims to replace persistent and often toxic chemicals with cleaner, more efficient alternatives, catering to business-to-business customers and fostering high-performing, sustainable solutions across the chemical industry.
Vector was founded by several members of the original SpaceX team and is a disruptive innovator that connects space startups with affordable and frequent launch and platforms to enable space capabilities at a speed and price point never before possible. Vector has a big vision to reshape the 400 billion dollar space market by combining dedicated low-cost micro satellite launch and software defined satellites (Galactic Sky) to dramatically increase access and speed to orbit.
Kit specializes in at-home health and lab testing solutions that enable businesses and organizations to offer a safe and convenient alternative to traditional doctor and laboratory visits. The company's comprehensive testing kits are designed to make preventative health testing accessible across various industries, allowing customers to manage their health from the comfort of their homes. By providing reliable and easy-to-use testing options, Kit aims to enhance the accessibility of health services for individuals and organizations alike.
Nurx Inc. is a healthcare services company that operates a mobile health platform designed to provide easy access to a variety of everyday medications, including contraceptives, travel medications, and treatments for sexual health issues. The platform offers services such as doctor prescription and review, home HPV screening tests, and at-home STI testing. Users can manage their healthcare needs conveniently, with options for automatic prescription refills and renewals, all without the necessity of in-person consultations. Nurx aims to empower individuals, particularly women, by offering transparent pricing and judgment-free care, allowing them to take control of their health decisions. The company serves residents across multiple states, including California, Florida, New York, and Texas. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, Nurx emphasizes personalized care through specialized providers and innovative technology.
Winnie, Inc. operates an online childcare marketplace for parents to discover local daycares and preschools in the United States. It offers Winnie that is used by parents to learn about programs of daycares and preschools, including detailed descriptions, photos, tuition information, licensing status, availability data, and more. The company’s Winnie is used by childcare providers to fill their open spaces, build their wait lists, and get support and resources to run their business. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Aspen Designs, Inc., established in 2016 and located in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing Navigator, a Teamwork Assistant aimed at enhancing productivity for busy leaders. This innovative tool is equipped with pre-loaded collaboration workflows that facilitate effective meeting management, decision-making, and cultural development within organizations. By leveraging best practices, Navigator enables leaders to conduct efficient and engaging meetings while minimizing administrative burdens.
eero Inc. specializes in developing Wi-Fi systems designed for residential use, providing robust and reliable internet connectivity throughout homes. Their primary product, the eero system, consists of multiple access points that work together to deliver comprehensive Wi-Fi coverage, effectively eliminating dead zones. Users can easily manage their network through a dedicated mobile app, which facilitates control over both wired and wireless connections. eero also offers additional products such as a power over Ethernet (PoE+) adapter and a remote network management tool. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Sacramento, California, eero operates as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. since 2019.
Carrot Fertility, Inc. provides comprehensive fertility benefits services to employers, supporting employees throughout their fertility healthcare journey globally. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a range of services, including egg freezing, in vitro fertilization, adoption, donor, and gestational carrier services. Additionally, it features Carrot Rx, which facilitates a premium pharmacy experience for fertility medications, and Carrot Pregnancy, providing virtual access to experts and on-demand content. Carrot Card is a flexible benefits debit card that allows employees to pay for their care. By partnering with modern companies, Carrot Fertility enables organizations to customize fertility benefits that deliver financial, medical, and emotional support to employees seeking to become parents. The company also has offices in major cities around the world, including Chicago, New York, Dublin, Geneva, Tokyo, and Seoul.
Navigator is a teamwork assistant for busy leaders. It helps teams work together by guiding them through an ever-growing collection of best practices, drawn from the research of scholars and experts, as well as their team’s experience working at Apple, IDEO, Stanford’s d.School, and MIT’s Media lab.
CareerLark Inc., founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, offers a platform designed to facilitate micro-feedback among coworkers, aiming to replace traditional annual performance reviews. By enabling continuous feedback, CareerLark enhances employee productivity and engagement in real-time. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing productivity tools, such as Slack, allowing employees to receive and provide feedback within their usual work environment. Additionally, CareerLark employs machine learning to analyze performance data, assisting organizations in effectively managing and retaining their workforce.
Winnie, Inc. operates an online childcare marketplace for parents to discover local daycares and preschools in the United States. It offers Winnie that is used by parents to learn about programs of daycares and preschools, including detailed descriptions, photos, tuition information, licensing status, availability data, and more. The company’s Winnie is used by childcare providers to fill their open spaces, build their wait lists, and get support and resources to run their business. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
SonicEnergy, Inc. is a wireless power startup that transmits power to charge electronic devices over-the-air. Its ultrasonic technology comprises a transmitter, which emits a high-frequency sound that is inaudible to users and their pets; and transmits power directly to receivers requesting power, which convert power to usable electrical energy using energy-harvesting technology. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
Moxxly, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in the design of an innovative breast pump system tailored for modern mothers. Founded in 2014, Moxxly's flagship product enables women to pump breast milk discreetly while wearing their shirts, promoting convenience and mobility. The system also provides real-time data regarding breast milk supply, helping mothers monitor their breastfeeding journey more effectively. Moxxly aims to simplify the experience of motherhood by integrating stylish and high-performing devices into daily life. The company is female-founded and has participated in notable programs such as PCH International's Highway 1 hardware incubator and Stanford's StartX accelerator. As of mid-2017, Moxxly operates as a subsidiary of Olle Larsson Holding AG.
Gusto is a company that provides a cloud-based platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses to manage payroll, benefits, and human resources. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Denver, Gusto offers an array of services including payroll processing, health benefits, workers' compensation, and time tracking. The platform allows employers and employees to access payroll information from various devices, enabling features such as browsing pay stubs, reviewing tax forms, and verifying personal details. Gusto caters to a diverse clientele, including startups, coffee shops, medical practices, creative agencies, and law firms, aiming to simplify the administrative tasks associated with employee management.
Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications.
Shape has deflected over $1B in fraud losses for major retailers, financial institutions, airlines, and government agencies. Shape Security is headquartered in Silicon Valley and backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Venrock, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, WING VC and a host of other prominent investors.
Shape was founded in 2011 to disrupt automated attacks on web and mobile applications.