Aspect Ventures

Aspect Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in San Francisco. Established in 2014, the firm specializes in seed and early-stage investments, primarily targeting the fintech sector along with various technology fields such as security, digital health, blockchain, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicle software, and consumer internet. Aspect Ventures aims to invest between $0.5 million and $2 million in startups, with initial seed investments ranging from $0.1 million to $0.5 million. The firm also participates in Series A investments from $2 million to $5 million and may extend follow-on investments in Series B up to $10 million. By partnering with entrepreneurs, Aspect Ventures seeks to foster the development of sustainable businesses throughout their growth journey.

Chad Herrin

Venture Partner

153 past transactions

Future Family

Series A in 2018
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.

Cato Networks

Series C in 2019
Cato Networks provides organizations with a cloud-based and secure global SD-WAN. Cato delivers an integrated networking and security platform that securely connects all enterprise locations, people, and data. Cato Cloud cuts MPLS costs, improves performance between global locations and to cloud applications, eliminates branch appliances, provides secure Internet access everywhere, and seamlessly integrates mobile users, and cloud datacenters into the WAN. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Cato Networks was founded in 2015 by cybersecurity luminary Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies and Imperva, and Gur Shatz, co-founder of Incapsula.

Cato Networks

Private Placement in 2019
Cato Networks provides organizations with a cloud-based and secure global SD-WAN. Cato delivers an integrated networking and security platform that securely connects all enterprise locations, people, and data. Cato Cloud cuts MPLS costs, improves performance between global locations and to cloud applications, eliminates branch appliances, provides secure Internet access everywhere, and seamlessly integrates mobile users, and cloud datacenters into the WAN. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Cato Networks was founded in 2015 by cybersecurity luminary Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies and Imperva, and Gur Shatz, co-founder of Incapsula.

Trulia

Series A in 2005
Online real estate platform for property buyers

hobnob

Venture Round in 2016
My Hobnob Inc. develops Hobnob, a mobile application that provides event invite and communication services. The company’s application enables users to create and send photo-based designer invitations, as well as manage parties from phone. Its application is used for designing invitations for dinner parties, birthdays, bachelorettes, and concerts in the United States. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Haiku, Hawaii.

Balena

Series B in 2019
Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. It provides infrastructure and tools for fleet owners so they can focus on developing their applications and growing their fleets with as little friction as possible. Balena enables devices and their running services to be managed, monitored, and updated through the web dashboard or through its API, via the CLI and SDK. Balena was established in 2013.

Indegy

Private Placement in 2018
The Indegy Industrial Cyber Security Suite arms security and operations teams with full visibility, security and control of industrial control systems (ICS) activity and threats by combining hybrid, policy-based monitoring and network anomaly detection with unique device integrity checks. Indegy solutions are installed in manufacturing, pharmaceutical, energy, water and other industrial organizations around the world.

Deserve Inc.

Series B in 2018
Deserve, Inc. provides credit cards and other financial products to international students in the United States. It determines student’s ability to repay using various predictive attributes, such as education, major, cost of education, source of initial funding, and future employability. The company was formerly known as Tremus, Inc. and changed its name to Deserve, Inc. in October 2017. Deserve, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Silverfort

Series B in 2020
Silverfort Inc. develops authentication and access protection solutions for enterprises. The company offers Authentication Firewall, which prevents malicious and unauthorized access to any sensitive resource across the corporate network or in the cloud. Its solution allows enterprises to close the gaps in their security and compliance by bringing authentication and access protection technology to servers, applications, devices, and files across the organization. Silverfort Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It has additional offices in Boston and Houston.

Flavour

Seed Round in 2014
Flavour develops an application that enables users to discover restaurants primarily in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. Its Flavour application also facilitates to book in-app through OpenTable, view menus, and get recommendations. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York. As of June 16, 2015, Flavour operates as a subsidiary of TDT Media Inc.

Mobile Action

Seed Round in 2015
Mobile Action is the leading solution for driving organic app growth and analyzing app marketplace intelligence. Mobile Action has tracked over 25 billion downloads, $15 billion in app revenue, and has over 95,000 apps connected directly to their platform. The product suite consists of Rankings & Leaderboards, App Intelligence, and Store Intelligence. With over 95,000 mobile apps connected to the App Intelligence platform, Mobile Action generates highly precise app download and revenue estimates for the Store Intelligence platform. These reports empower app publishers and financial professionals to make informed decisions on app strategy and investment decisions.

Ittavi

Seed Round in 2014
Ittavi, Inc is the former company that originally created SupportPay. Ittavi, Inc was liquidated in early 2018 and no longer exists. Smart Family Tech, Inc now owns SupportPay and all of its assets.

Lensabl

Private Placement in 2018
Lensabl, Inc. manufactures and sells lenses online. It offers a range of lenses for optical and non-optical use; optical lenses in the form of single vision and progressive; mirror coating and polarized lenses; lenses for distance and reading; night glasses; and sunglasses. The company sells its products online. Lensabl, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Culver City, California.

CipherTrace

Venture Round in 2018
CipherTrace enables the blockchain economy by protecting cryptocurrency companies and financial institutions from security and compliance risks. Years of research have gone into developing the world’s most complete and accurate cryptocurrency intelligence and forensics, covering more than 800 currencies. This visibility into the blockchain and virtual asset businesses helps protect banks and exchanges from cryptocurrency laundering risks, while protecting user privacy. CipherTrace also works with government agencies to bridge the gaps between regulation and the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

Astro Technology

Series A in 2017
Update: Astro has been acquired by Slack, September 2018. We’re Astro, a software startup in Palo Alto, pursuing ambitious challenges in workplace messaging, collaboration, and AI. We have intelligent email apps for Mac, iOS & Android. Our AI-powered assistant, Astrobot, also brings your key emails and important insights to Slack and Amazon Alexa. We invite you to signup at www.astro.ai In March 2017 we announced our $10M Series A funding led by Redpoint Ventures, and joined by Harrison Metal, Aspect Ventures and Upside Partnership. Our founding team has worked together at various companies as co-founders, VP of engineering, chief architect and founding engineers, with multiple successful outcomes. Our experience ranges from starting companies, to Google, LinkedIn, VMware, Cisco, BEA, Zimbra and Stanford University. We're hiring outstanding server-side & mobile engineers to join us here in Palo Alto, if you're interested please contact us at jobs@helloastro.com. We’re an equal opportunity employer and invite applicants of diverse backgrounds and experiences.

PredictHQ

Private Placement in 2018
PredictHQ Limited provides Software-as-a-Service based event and business intelligence platform. Its platform enables visibility of campaign management across performance advertising, email, social media, and SEO. The company offers a web application; an API; and FOCUS, a chrome extension. PredictHQ Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Qordoba

Private Placement in 2018
Qordoba’s AI helps everyone at a company write with the same style, terminology, and brand voice. With Qordoba’s dynamic content guidelines, organizations can achieve consistency and clarity across all types of content — including communications and marketing, technical documentation, product, customer knowledge bases, HR and legal policies, and more. Companies such as Intuit, Twitter, Braintree, Visa, and Marriott use Qordoba to empower their writers to create better content. We were named a CNBC Upstart 100 company in 2019 and one of Forbes’ Cloud 100 Rising Stars in 2018. Visit qordoba.com to learn more.

PredictHQ

Private Placement in 2020
PredictHQ Limited provides Software-as-a-Service based event and business intelligence platform. Its platform enables visibility of campaign management across performance advertising, email, social media, and SEO. The company offers a web application; an API; and FOCUS, a chrome extension. PredictHQ Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Deserve Inc.

Private Placement in 2017
Deserve, Inc. provides credit cards and other financial products to international students in the United States. It determines student’s ability to repay using various predictive attributes, such as education, major, cost of education, source of initial funding, and future employability. The company was formerly known as Tremus, Inc. and changed its name to Deserve, Inc. in October 2017. Deserve, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

YayPay

Venture Round in 2017
YayPay builds modern accounts receivables management software powered by data science for finance, credit and collections teams. It serves mid-market and enterprise customers through automation of the credit to cash process with credit assessment, invoicing, collections management, online payment portal, cash application and predictive analytics. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Vida Health

Series A in 2014
Vida Health is a virtual care platform designed from the ground up to treat multiple chronic health conditions simultaneously, through a balance of machine learning that personalizes each person’s treatment and a human connection with real life health coaches and therapists who bring the empathy and accountability people need to reach their goals.

The Mom Project

Private Placement in 2020
The Mom Project, Inc. provides a digital marketplace and community that connects women with companies for rewarding employment opportunities. Its platform offers work types, such as marketing, human resources, finance, technology, project management, creative, research, and sales. The company’s platform also enables companies to analyze their benefits and how they treat women in the workplace; and provides recommendations and give them a plan to make the workplace better for moms and their employees. It serves companies and jobseekers. The Mom Project, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Vida Health

Series B in 2016
Vida Health is a virtual care platform designed from the ground up to treat multiple chronic health conditions simultaneously, through a balance of machine learning that personalizes each person’s treatment and a human connection with real life health coaches and therapists who bring the empathy and accountability people need to reach their goals.

Crew

Series C in 2018
The crew is a communications app that keeps everyone on the same page about everything work-related. The crew gives companies and frontline employees a new way to communicate, stay engaged, and be more successful. Unlike collaboration software that has evolved around the needs of office workers, Crew is the first communications app designed specifically for the millions of workers who don’t have ready access to effective communication technology on the job. From store clerks, restaurant managers, coaches, to pharmacists, nurses, and first responders, thousands of teams across every industry use Crew to help their businesses and organizations run more smoothly.

DFINITY

Venture Round in 2018
Dfinity Beacon Fund invests early in strong teams who can launch and grow the open internet services and decentralized financial systems of the future. The fund is managed by Polychain Capital with additional backing from Andreessen Horowitz and the DFINITY Foundation.

Integris Software

Series A in 2018
A new EU law, the General Data Protection Regulation, will fine companies up to 4% of WW revenue for violations of people’s privacy. This will have the same impact on all industries as SOX compliance had on the financial sector. Integris Software helps organizations meet rigid compliance mandates with the ability to visualize where all personal information is located across the enterprise, prove adherence to regulatory standards, and empower strategic decision making by bridging the gap between legal, business, and technology.

Solv

Series A in 2017
Solv Health, Inc. operates an online platform to instantly book same day appointments with doctors. Its platform also allows users to find urgent care center and COVID testing, book and schedule a video visit, and get access to providers or get screened for a COVID test. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Exabeam

Series C in 2017
Exabeam is a big data security analytics company that provides enterprises with advanced user behavior intelligence to unlock the potential of existing security information and event management and log management data repositories, enabling IT security teams to more quickly detect and respond to cyberattacks and insider threats in real time. The company’s user behavior intelligence technology fundamentally changes the way cyberattacks are detected and simplifies security operations by focusing on attacker behavior rather than ever-changing malware and tools, shining a spotlight on suspicious network activity, and reducing the noise of false positive security alerts. Through extraction and enrichment of log feeds, user session tracking, behavior analysis, and event risk scoring, Exabeam gives IT security teams the ability to detect and track credential use in all parts of the attack chain and prioritize responses. The company was built by seasoned security and enterprise IT veterans from Splunk, Imperva, and Sumo Logic, and believes in working together as a team to achieve customer success. Exabeam was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Indegy

Series B in 2018
The Indegy Industrial Cyber Security Suite arms security and operations teams with full visibility, security and control of industrial control systems (ICS) activity and threats by combining hybrid, policy-based monitoring and network anomaly detection with unique device integrity checks. Indegy solutions are installed in manufacturing, pharmaceutical, energy, water and other industrial organizations around the world.

Finix

Series A in 2019
Finix Payments, Inc. develops platforms, vertically focused software, and Software-as-a-Service solutions. It offers payment facilitator platform that provides tokenization, merchant onboarding, reporting and reconciliation, settlements and funding instruction, and chargeback and risk management services; Push-to-Card disbursements; and professional services. Finix Payments, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Balena

Series A in 2016
Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. It provides infrastructure and tools for fleet owners so they can focus on developing their applications and growing their fleets with as little friction as possible. Balena enables devices and their running services to be managed, monitored, and updated through the web dashboard or through its API, via the CLI and SDK. Balena was established in 2013.

Edgybees

Series A in 2017
Edgybees Ltd. develops and operates an online platform that delivers augmented reality experience that moves, even at the highest speeds, from drones to cars, trains, and wearable devices. Its Industrial solutions include; search and rescue / homeland security, real estate, architecture and urban planning, construction and urban development, field view: agriculture and land management, industrial facilities, and automotive. The company’s gaming solution include; Droneprix AR, Drone FX, and Sky Skreemers. It caters to fire departments, police departments, and homeland security sectors. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Glympse Bio

Seed Round in 2015
Glympse Bio is developing a powerful new paradigm in diagnostics to enable noninvasive and predictive monitoring of multiple human diseases. The company’s technology uses precisely engineered diagnostic agents that interrogate the body for certain disease states, and then carry the message to the urine for analysis. Glympse Bio’s platform technology was originally developed at MIT, and is founded by a team of world-renowned experts in nanomedicine and biomedical engineering.

Noonlight

Seed Round in 2017
Noonlight, Inc. develops a mobile application that connects devices to sense danger. The company’s application allows users to create an account, connect devices and applications, senses danger, and trigger alarm manually. Noonlight, Inc. was formerly known as SafeTrek, Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.

tEQuitable

Seed Round in 2018
tEQuitable’s mission is to help companies create a safe, inclusive and equitable workplace — work culture that works for everyone. tEQuitable is an independent, confidential platform to address bias and discrimination in the workplace. They provide a resource to employees for issues ranging from subtle to severe and they provide data and insights to companies to identify and improve systemic workplace culture issues.

Socrates AI

Series A in 2019
Socrates AI brings deep expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Human Resources Applications to solve the enterprise's biggest challenges in employee experience, IT security and software engagement.

Exabeam

Private Placement in 2019
Exabeam is a big data security analytics company that provides enterprises with advanced user behavior intelligence to unlock the potential of existing security information and event management and log management data repositories, enabling IT security teams to more quickly detect and respond to cyberattacks and insider threats in real time. The company’s user behavior intelligence technology fundamentally changes the way cyberattacks are detected and simplifies security operations by focusing on attacker behavior rather than ever-changing malware and tools, shining a spotlight on suspicious network activity, and reducing the noise of false positive security alerts. Through extraction and enrichment of log feeds, user session tracking, behavior analysis, and event risk scoring, Exabeam gives IT security teams the ability to detect and track credential use in all parts of the attack chain and prioritize responses. The company was built by seasoned security and enterprise IT veterans from Splunk, Imperva, and Sumo Logic, and believes in working together as a team to achieve customer success. Exabeam was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Vidora

Seed Round in 2017
Vidora’s mission is to enhance the performance of Marketing and Product teams with No-Code Machine Learning. Our Machine Learning Platform, Cortex, allows teams to use predictions to continually optimize conversions and engagement, while providing end-to-end automation, allowing teams to create hundreds of predictions without the risk and cost of building in house. The largest global brands like Walmart, News Corp, and Discovery, leverage Cortex to intelligently learn from continuous streams of raw data to drive higher performance and automation across the enterprise.

PredictHQ

Series A in 2018
PredictHQ Limited provides Software-as-a-Service based event and business intelligence platform. Its platform enables visibility of campaign management across performance advertising, email, social media, and SEO. The company offers a web application; an API; and FOCUS, a chrome extension. PredictHQ Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Tara AI

Private Placement in 2019
Software should work for you, not the other way around. Yet, most software for product development is difficult to use and needs a lot of time to configure; it was not purpose-built for modern, cross-functional teams building rapidly. At Tara, we’re designing simple yet powerful software to solve these complex problems. We've built a smart platform that's helping thousands of engineers and teams deliver on planned releases, with improved predictability. Launched in public beta in April, 2020.

Integris Software

Private Placement in 2018
A new EU law, the General Data Protection Regulation, will fine companies up to 4% of WW revenue for violations of people’s privacy. This will have the same impact on all industries as SOX compliance had on the financial sector. Integris Software helps organizations meet rigid compliance mandates with the ability to visualize where all personal information is located across the enterprise, prove adherence to regulatory standards, and empower strategic decision making by bridging the gap between legal, business, and technology.

Exabeam

Series E in 2019
Exabeam is a big data security analytics company that provides enterprises with advanced user behavior intelligence to unlock the potential of existing security information and event management and log management data repositories, enabling IT security teams to more quickly detect and respond to cyberattacks and insider threats in real time. The company’s user behavior intelligence technology fundamentally changes the way cyberattacks are detected and simplifies security operations by focusing on attacker behavior rather than ever-changing malware and tools, shining a spotlight on suspicious network activity, and reducing the noise of false positive security alerts. Through extraction and enrichment of log feeds, user session tracking, behavior analysis, and event risk scoring, Exabeam gives IT security teams the ability to detect and track credential use in all parts of the attack chain and prioritize responses. The company was built by seasoned security and enterprise IT veterans from Splunk, Imperva, and Sumo Logic, and believes in working together as a team to achieve customer success. Exabeam was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Exabeam

Series B in 2015
Exabeam is a big data security analytics company that provides enterprises with advanced user behavior intelligence to unlock the potential of existing security information and event management and log management data repositories, enabling IT security teams to more quickly detect and respond to cyberattacks and insider threats in real time. The company’s user behavior intelligence technology fundamentally changes the way cyberattacks are detected and simplifies security operations by focusing on attacker behavior rather than ever-changing malware and tools, shining a spotlight on suspicious network activity, and reducing the noise of false positive security alerts. Through extraction and enrichment of log feeds, user session tracking, behavior analysis, and event risk scoring, Exabeam gives IT security teams the ability to detect and track credential use in all parts of the attack chain and prioritize responses. The company was built by seasoned security and enterprise IT veterans from Splunk, Imperva, and Sumo Logic, and believes in working together as a team to achieve customer success. Exabeam was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Cato Networks

Series E in 2020
Cato Networks provides organizations with a cloud-based and secure global SD-WAN. Cato delivers an integrated networking and security platform that securely connects all enterprise locations, people, and data. Cato Cloud cuts MPLS costs, improves performance between global locations and to cloud applications, eliminates branch appliances, provides secure Internet access everywhere, and seamlessly integrates mobile users, and cloud datacenters into the WAN. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Cato Networks was founded in 2015 by cybersecurity luminary Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies and Imperva, and Gur Shatz, co-founder of Incapsula.

BaubleBar

Series B in 2014
BaubleBar is changing how women shop for fashion jewelry. By offering on-trend styles and contextualizing them with strong editorial references, the company is quickly becoming the first go-to retailer within the $22bn fashion jewelry industry. BaubleBar’s core differentiating factor is its fast speed to market, recognized through its unique sourcing capabilities. The company leverages this by using real-time data to merchandise and design based on current market dynamics and consumer taste preferences. Coupling this with the high-touch customer experience and strong social media reach, BaubleBar is redefining how women think of fashion jewelry brands. BaubleBar (formerly Eight1Six) was founded by Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky in 2010 and has raised $15.6 million in equity financing to date. The Company most recently raised $10 million in Series B funding, in a round led by Burch Creative Capital, the investment firm headed by retail and fashion veteran Chris Burch. Other leading investors in the Company include Accel Partners, Greycroft Partners, Aspect Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Founder Collective, and Lerer Media Ventures.

Stem Disintermedia

Private Placement in 2020
Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians to collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings. It develops a platform intended to provide distribution and payments solution for artists and their teams. The platform aggregates cross-platform earnings, create contracts, and honor splits with collaborators, disburse payments and statements to all stakeholders in a project and visualizes performance data for each platform, enabling businesses to bring clarity to the complicated process of revenue management and ensure everyone involved in the creative process gets paid. Milana Rabkin, Tim Luckow, and Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith formed Stem Disintermedia in Los Angeles, California in 2015.

Uplevel Security

Seed Round in 2016
Uplevel Security is the industry’s first adaptive system of intelligence that uses graph theory and machine learning to modernize security operations. Uplevel Security ingests and contextualizes incoming and historical security data, allowing the past to inform the present and the present to inform the past, which predicts how attacks may manifest in the future. Enterprises rely on Uplevel Security to activate intelligence from the security stack, provide a system of record for security data and become stronger with every attack.

Birchbox

Series B in 2014
Launched in 2010, Birchbox is the discovery commerce platform redefining the retail process by offering consumers a personalized way to discover, sample, shop, and learn about the best products and brands available. Birchbox members have first-touch experiences with products each month and access to educational content to help them get the most out of their products. Top brands like Kiehl’s, Benefit, Deborah Lippmann, and Stila have partnered with Birchbox.

TalkIQ

Series A in 2017
Since 2014, TalkIQ has offered voice‐to‐text transcription and analytics for clients across a wide variety of industries. Using cutting edge deep‐learning algorithms, proprietary speech recognition and predictive analytics technology, we give our clients visibility into all of their phone conversations, extracting insights for uses ranging from sales optimization, to customer service, compliance, and more. Our recommendations enable teams to save time and maximize productivity, though quick access to action-oriented data & analysis. TalkIQ is backed by prominent Silicon Valley VC firms and is helmed by an advisory board with decades of experience in the speech and language recognition fields.

Chime

Series C in 2018
Chime, the leader in the U.S. challenger banking segment, helps members avoid bank fees, save money automatically, and lead healthier financial lives. Based in San Francisco, California, Chime offers a modern, mobile and connected approach to banking that gives members complete control of their finances. Chime members receive a Chime debit card, a Spending Account, a Savings Account, and a powerful mobile app that keeps members in control. The Chime mobile app is available for iPhone and Android devices and has been featured as one of the best Money Management apps in the App Store.

Eden Health

Private Placement in 2018
Eden Health is a primary care and insurance navigation company for employers, designed to elevate the health and wellbeing of employees everywhere. It helps employees navigate today’s complicated healthcare landscape across insurance, primary care and mental healthcare, so they can make smart, well-informed, and cost-conscious decisions.

The Mom Project

Private Placement in 2018
The Mom Project, Inc. provides a digital marketplace and community that connects women with companies for rewarding employment opportunities. Its platform offers work types, such as marketing, human resources, finance, technology, project management, creative, research, and sales. The company’s platform also enables companies to analyze their benefits and how they treat women in the workplace; and provides recommendations and give them a plan to make the workplace better for moms and their employees. It serves companies and jobseekers. The Mom Project, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Birchbox

Series C in 2016
Launched in 2010, Birchbox is the discovery commerce platform redefining the retail process by offering consumers a personalized way to discover, sample, shop, and learn about the best products and brands available. Birchbox members have first-touch experiences with products each month and access to educational content to help them get the most out of their products. Top brands like Kiehl’s, Benefit, Deborah Lippmann, and Stila have partnered with Birchbox.

Stem Disintermedia

Series A in 2017
Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians to collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings. It develops a platform intended to provide distribution and payments solution for artists and their teams. The platform aggregates cross-platform earnings, create contracts, and honor splits with collaborators, disburse payments and statements to all stakeholders in a project and visualizes performance data for each platform, enabling businesses to bring clarity to the complicated process of revenue management and ensure everyone involved in the creative process gets paid. Milana Rabkin, Tim Luckow, and Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith formed Stem Disintermedia in Los Angeles, California in 2015.

Shipwell

Private Placement in 2019
Shipwell, Inc. develops software for securing and managing truckload and less-than-truckload jobs for carriers. It offers Shipwell, a cloud-based transportation management system that helps users to optimize and automate their supply chain. The company’s software is also used to manage LTL freight, FTL freight, ELD integrations, e-commerce, drayage freight, and parcel shipping. It serves shippers, 3PLs, and carrier networks. Shipwell, Inc. was formerly known as OtterLogic, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Grokker

Series B in 2016
Grokker takes the work out of workplace wellness with an easy-to-implement, holistic, and cost-effective program. With over 3,700 exercise, mindfulness, nutrition, finance, and sleep videos from 5 to 50 minutes, more than 130 master experts to choose from, and a supportive community to connect employees across locations, Grokker’s patented program delivers results.

The Muse

Series B in 2016
The Muse is an internet company that offers an online career platform that provides job listings and advice to people. It offers expert advice, including work relationships, job switch, work-life balance, as well as working abroad. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Edgybees

Private Placement in 2018
Edgybees Ltd. develops and operates an online platform that delivers augmented reality experience that moves, even at the highest speeds, from drones to cars, trains, and wearable devices. Its Industrial solutions include; search and rescue / homeland security, real estate, architecture and urban planning, construction and urban development, field view: agriculture and land management, industrial facilities, and automotive. The company’s gaming solution include; Droneprix AR, Drone FX, and Sky Skreemers. It caters to fire departments, police departments, and homeland security sectors. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

The Muse

Series A in 2015
The Muse is an internet company that offers an online career platform that provides job listings and advice to people. It offers expert advice, including work relationships, job switch, work-life balance, as well as working abroad. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Solv

Series B in 2018
Solv Health, Inc. operates an online platform to instantly book same day appointments with doctors. Its platform also allows users to find urgent care center and COVID testing, book and schedule a video visit, and get access to providers or get screened for a COVID test. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Balena

Private Placement in 2019
Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. It provides infrastructure and tools for fleet owners so they can focus on developing their applications and growing their fleets with as little friction as possible. Balena enables devices and their running services to be managed, monitored, and updated through the web dashboard or through its API, via the CLI and SDK. Balena was established in 2013.

Exabeam

Series D in 2018
Exabeam is a big data security analytics company that provides enterprises with advanced user behavior intelligence to unlock the potential of existing security information and event management and log management data repositories, enabling IT security teams to more quickly detect and respond to cyberattacks and insider threats in real time. The company’s user behavior intelligence technology fundamentally changes the way cyberattacks are detected and simplifies security operations by focusing on attacker behavior rather than ever-changing malware and tools, shining a spotlight on suspicious network activity, and reducing the noise of false positive security alerts. Through extraction and enrichment of log feeds, user session tracking, behavior analysis, and event risk scoring, Exabeam gives IT security teams the ability to detect and track credential use in all parts of the attack chain and prioritize responses. The company was built by seasoned security and enterprise IT veterans from Splunk, Imperva, and Sumo Logic, and believes in working together as a team to achieve customer success. Exabeam was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Eden Health

Series C in 2021
Eden Health is a primary care and insurance navigation company for employers, designed to elevate the health and wellbeing of employees everywhere. It helps employees navigate today’s complicated healthcare landscape across insurance, primary care and mental healthcare, so they can make smart, well-informed, and cost-conscious decisions.

Pie Insurance

Series B in 2020
Pie Insurance Holdings Inc. provides online workers compensation insurance services for business owners. The company provides insurance against illness or injury, disability, and death. Pie Insurance Holdings Inc. also offers a price predictor which provides risk profile and price estimate to users. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Washington, District Of Columbia.

Writer

Series B in 2023
Writer is the AI writing assistant for the world’s smartest brands. We help brand owners and content leaders scale their messaging, communication style, and must-have language, no matter who’s writing. Top brands like Twitter, Intuit, and McKesson have standardized their content creation on Writer.

Evident

Venture Round in 2022
Evident ID Inc. develops software for online identity reliability investigation providing limited disclosure of verified information about a user to a recipient for the purpose of enabling an electronic or physical interaction. It offers services in the areas of identity verification, background checks, criminal history and watch lists, drivers’ record checks, professional licenses, drug tests and medical records, address verifications, and business entity. Evident ID Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Balena

Private Placement in 2018
Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. It provides infrastructure and tools for fleet owners so they can focus on developing their applications and growing their fleets with as little friction as possible. Balena enables devices and their running services to be managed, monitored, and updated through the web dashboard or through its API, via the CLI and SDK. Balena was established in 2013.

PSR Safety, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
PSR Safety, Inc., doing business as Worklete, provides training services that enable physically sustainable work forces for enterprises. The company focuses on healthy human capital. Its training services also are used for material handling and freight distribution personnel to prevent the injuries in material handling that reduces musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in warehousing operations. In addition, its training services are used for firefighters, paramedics, and police officers to prevent the injuries in emergency services due to the physically demanding and volatile nature of the work. Further, the company’s training services are used for nurses and other healthcare professionals to prevent injuries while handling patients. PSR Safety, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is based in San Francisco, California.

DFINITY

Private Placement in 2018
Dfinity Beacon Fund invests early in strong teams who can launch and grow the open internet services and decentralized financial systems of the future. The fund is managed by Polychain Capital with additional backing from Andreessen Horowitz and the DFINITY Foundation.

ShieldX Networks

Series B in 2017
ShieldX Networks, Inc. develops network and cloud security software. It offers ShieldX Elastic Security Platform that deliver controls to protect data centers, cloud infrastructure, applications, and data. ShieldX Networks, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Jose, California.

PredictHQ

Series B in 2020
PredictHQ Limited provides Software-as-a-Service based event and business intelligence platform. Its platform enables visibility of campaign management across performance advertising, email, social media, and SEO. The company offers a web application; an API; and FOCUS, a chrome extension. PredictHQ Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Cato Networks

Series F in 2021
Cato Networks provides organizations with a cloud-based and secure global SD-WAN. Cato delivers an integrated networking and security platform that securely connects all enterprise locations, people, and data. Cato Cloud cuts MPLS costs, improves performance between global locations and to cloud applications, eliminates branch appliances, provides secure Internet access everywhere, and seamlessly integrates mobile users, and cloud datacenters into the WAN. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Cato Networks was founded in 2015 by cybersecurity luminary Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies and Imperva, and Gur Shatz, co-founder of Incapsula.

Chime

Series B in 2017
Chime, the leader in the U.S. challenger banking segment, helps members avoid bank fees, save money automatically, and lead healthier financial lives. Based in San Francisco, California, Chime offers a modern, mobile and connected approach to banking that gives members complete control of their finances. Chime members receive a Chime debit card, a Spending Account, a Savings Account, and a powerful mobile app that keeps members in control. The Chime mobile app is available for iPhone and Android devices and has been featured as one of the best Money Management apps in the App Store.

Future Family

Series B in 2022
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.

Rep the Squad

Seed Round in 2017
Rep The Squad is a subscription-based club that provides fans the power of choice with access to a wide range of officially licensed professional sports jerseys, making it easier to amplify their fandom. Based in Seattle, Rep The Squad is co-founded and led by veteran e-commerce executive Brian Watkins. The company was developed at Madrona Venture Labs and is backed by notable investors including Madrona Venture Group, Maveron, and Aspect Ventures, as well as champion athletes Doug Baldwin, Golden Tate and Russell Okung. An investment fund associated with the owners and executives of the San Francisco 49ers also join the Rep The Squad team as official partners. Starting at launch, Seattle’s All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman will serve as a brand ambassador.

The Muse

Series A in 2015
The Muse is an internet company that offers an online career platform that provides job listings and advice to people. It offers expert advice, including work relationships, job switch, work-life balance, as well as working abroad. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Ittavi

Seed Round in 2014
Ittavi, Inc is the former company that originally created SupportPay. Ittavi, Inc was liquidated in early 2018 and no longer exists. Smart Family Tech, Inc now owns SupportPay and all of its assets.

ForeScout Technologies

Series F in 2014
ForeScout is transforming security through visibility. We help make the invisible visible by providing Global 2000 enterprises and government agencies with agentless visibility and control of traditional and IoT devices the instant they connect to the network. Our technology integrates with disparate security tools to help organizations accelerate incident response, break down silos, automate workflows and optimize existing investments.

Deserve Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Deserve, Inc. provides credit cards and other financial products to international students in the United States. It determines student’s ability to repay using various predictive attributes, such as education, major, cost of education, source of initial funding, and future employability. The company was formerly known as Tremus, Inc. and changed its name to Deserve, Inc. in October 2017. Deserve, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

TruSTAR

Series A in 2017
TruSTAR Technology, LLC provides a threat intelligence platform. It offers TruSTAR Enclave, a data repository used for storing, managing, and enriching sensitive events; and siloed fraud data and phishing solutions. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Amino

Series C in 2017
Amino Inc. owns and operates an online platform that allows users to find doctors, compare their experience, and book an appointment in the United States. It enables patients to search for doctors for various conditions, procedures, and specialties. Amino Inc. was formerly known as Pare Labs, Inc. and changed its name to Amino Inc. in May, 2014. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Integris Software

Venture Round in 2019
A new EU law, the General Data Protection Regulation, will fine companies up to 4% of WW revenue for violations of people’s privacy. This will have the same impact on all industries as SOX compliance had on the financial sector. Integris Software helps organizations meet rigid compliance mandates with the ability to visualize where all personal information is located across the enterprise, prove adherence to regulatory standards, and empower strategic decision making by bridging the gap between legal, business, and technology.

Co–Star

Seed Round in 2019
Co–Star is powered by AI that merges NASA data with the insight of human astrologers.Co–Star facilitates new ways to relate to others. It’s a filter to express what can be hard to say of emotions and reactions, strengths and weaknesses, pasts and futures. It’s a tool to connect meaningfully with friends and lovers or to tread lightly with strangers and enemies.

Silverfort

Series C in 2022
Silverfort Inc. develops authentication and access protection solutions for enterprises. The company offers Authentication Firewall, which prevents malicious and unauthorized access to any sensitive resource across the corporate network or in the cloud. Its solution allows enterprises to close the gaps in their security and compliance by bringing authentication and access protection technology to servers, applications, devices, and files across the organization. Silverfort Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It has additional offices in Boston and Houston.

Informed

Series A in 2016
Informed helps banks accelerate their digital transformation with turn-key robotic process automation capable of performing real-time income verification, identity verification, residence verification, and insurance verification tasks. Banks use Informed to reduce their manual costs associated with reviewing documents, catch fraud, and cut down on errors when originating loans and opening accounts.

Shipwell

Series B in 2019
Shipwell, Inc. develops software for securing and managing truckload and less-than-truckload jobs for carriers. It offers Shipwell, a cloud-based transportation management system that helps users to optimize and automate their supply chain. The company’s software is also used to manage LTL freight, FTL freight, ELD integrations, e-commerce, drayage freight, and parcel shipping. It serves shippers, 3PLs, and carrier networks. Shipwell, Inc. was formerly known as OtterLogic, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Writer

Seed Round in 2020
Writer is the AI writing assistant for the world’s smartest brands. We help brand owners and content leaders scale their messaging, communication style, and must-have language, no matter who’s writing. Top brands like Twitter, Intuit, and McKesson have standardized their content creation on Writer.

Bryj

Series B in 2017
FollowAnalytics, Inc. provides a mobile engagement platform. It offers FollowAnalytics, a mobile engagement platform that connects mobile to the user’s existing marketing stack to power 1:1 personalized push notifications, in-app messaging, email, video, and coupons. The company’s FollowAnalytics is used by marketers that use mobile CRM, smart segmentation, and recommendations to create mobile moments and omnichannel experiences that delight customers. FollowAnalytics, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Paris and Montreal.

Vida Health

Series D in 2021
Vida Health is a virtual care platform designed from the ground up to treat multiple chronic health conditions simultaneously, through a balance of machine learning that personalizes each person’s treatment and a human connection with real life health coaches and therapists who bring the empathy and accountability people need to reach their goals.

ShieldX Networks

Series A in 2017
ShieldX Networks, Inc. develops network and cloud security software. It offers ShieldX Elastic Security Platform that deliver controls to protect data centers, cloud infrastructure, applications, and data. ShieldX Networks, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Jose, California.

Deserve Inc.

Series C in 2019
Deserve, Inc. provides credit cards and other financial products to international students in the United States. It determines student’s ability to repay using various predictive attributes, such as education, major, cost of education, source of initial funding, and future employability. The company was formerly known as Tremus, Inc. and changed its name to Deserve, Inc. in October 2017. Deserve, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Solv

Private Placement in 2018
Solv Health, Inc. operates an online platform to instantly book same day appointments with doctors. Its platform also allows users to find urgent care center and COVID testing, book and schedule a video visit, and get access to providers or get screened for a COVID test. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Akorda

Venture Round in 2018
Akorda Corporation develops AI based platform for enterprises that want to accelerate the contracting process while reducing commercial cycle time. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Finix

Private Placement in 2019
Finix Payments, Inc. develops platforms, vertically focused software, and Software-as-a-Service solutions. It offers payment facilitator platform that provides tokenization, merchant onboarding, reporting and reconciliation, settlements and funding instruction, and chargeback and risk management services; Push-to-Card disbursements; and professional services. Finix Payments, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Eden Health

Series B in 2020
Eden Health is a primary care and insurance navigation company for employers, designed to elevate the health and wellbeing of employees everywhere. It helps employees navigate today’s complicated healthcare landscape across insurance, primary care and mental healthcare, so they can make smart, well-informed, and cost-conscious decisions.

SafeWire

Seed Round in 2018
SafeChain Financial, LLC develops software to prevent fraud in property transactions for title service offices, mortgage bankers, and realtors. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Westerville, Ohio.SafeChain, Inc. develops and provides fraud prevention software for title professionals. The company's solution has portfolio of features including decreasing closing time, decreasing fraudulent liabilities, decreasing manual due diligence, client identity verification, verification of ownership of bank accounts, and securing wire transactions. The company's solution uses block chain technology. The company develops software to prevent fraud in property transactions for title service offices, mortgage bankers, and realtors. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.