Baseline Ventures

Founded in 2006 by Steve Anderson, Baseline Ventures targets early-stage companies who need help with the funding gap between inividual investors and institutional venture capital. Baseline has invested in more than 60 companies, and has helped more than 20 companies exit, including Heroku (acquired by Saleforce.com), CoTweet (acquired by ExactTarget), GeoAPI (acquired by Twitter), IndexTank (acquired by LinkedIn), and Rupture (aquired by EA).

Steve Anderson

Investor

219 past transactions

TrialPay

Series A in 2007
TrialPay, Inc. provides cross-platform monetization and stabilization solutions. The company’s monetization solutions include Evergreen, a monetization toolkit for developers to leverage custom solutions and third party platforms to engage and reach the customers that drives acquisition, revenue growth, and LTV. It also provides acquisition solutions that enable users to connect with customers across Web, mobile, and Facebook networks. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Berlin, Germany. As of March 2015, TrialPay, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Visa Inc.

Spacious

Series A in 2018
Spacious Technologies, Inc. operates in the technology industry. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York. Spacious Inc. provides a service that enables the users to use restaurants that are closed during the day as a network of co-working spaces. Its service is an alternative to an office that enables users to work and meet at various urban spaces in New York. Spacious Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York. As of August 27, 2019, Spacious Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of WeWork Companies Inc.

Afresh

Series A in 2020
Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores. The company is an operator of a fresh-first supply chain platform intended to handle the complexity of perishable categories for brick and mortar retailers and wholesalers. Its platform brings artificial intelligence and machine learning to forecast ingest millions of data points to provide accurate item-level predictions of future demand to replenish recommendations that account for supply chain constraints and optimize for margin that enable clients to minimize waste, maximize freshness, and multiply business profitability.

PagerDuty

Series B in 2014
PagerDuty is an operations performance platform delivering visibility and actionable intelligence across the entire incident lifecycle. Their SaaS-based solution empowers over 10,000 small, mid-size, and enterprise global customers such as Comcast, eHarmony, Slack, and Lululemon with the insight to intelligently respond to critical disruptions for exceptional customer experience. PagerDuty was founded to deliver a new and innovative approach to increase business response and efficiency. When brand reputation depends on customer satisfaction, PagerDuty arms businesses with the insight to proactively manage incidents and events that may impact customers across their IT environment.

SmartBiz, Inc.

Series A in 2010
SmartBiz, Inc., doing business as SmartBiz Loans, develops and operates an online lending platform for applying and processing small business loans. Its platform allows banks to offer small business credit products; and businesses to access low-cost funds. The company offers online software that systematizes and automates small business loan underwriting and origination, including application management, document capture with real-time notifications, automated underwriting, decisioning, online file audit, and closing. Further, the company provides banks with services, including marketing, operational, compliance, and bottom line functionalities. The company caters to commercial real estate, debt refinance, and working capital sectors. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. SmartBiz, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Better Finance, Inc.

Clarity

Seed Round in 2012
Clarity connects entrepreneurs with experts, over the phone, for advice on their business challenges. Clarity is a marketplace that connects entrepreneurs with top advisors & industry experts to conduct market research, get strategic business advice, or learn a specialized skill to help them grow their business. With over 30,000+ verified experts from the top cities in the world - most of which are very successful entrepreneurs (i.e Mark Cuban, Eric Ries, Cameron Herold) - available for a call, why would you get advice any other way?

Shape Security

Private Placement in 2018
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.

BookFresh

Venture Round in 2008
BookFresh is an online scheduling service aimed at small business owners. BookFresh is the leading online appointment and appointments-as-leads provider for small businesses. BookFresh offers solutions directly to service professionals and service brands, as well as APIs, enterprise services and reseller solutions to online publishers who have a presence with an SMB audience.

Dishcraft Robotics

Seed Round in 2017
Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. develops and manufactures robots for commercial kitchens. The company through its system cleans each dish individually using a rotating scrubber head and inspects each dish in a fraction of a second for remaining food residue using computer vision. Its solution Dishcraft Daily provides clean-dish dishwashing services. It serves corporate kitchens and restaurants. Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. was formerly known as Bistro Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. in March 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Spruce

Series A in 2015
Spruce thinks of a better way to see the doctor by using their platform for communication. They think getting great health care in America involves too much waiting and hassle and healthcare pricing should be affordable and involve no surprises. They think the experience of “going to the doctor” can be dramatically improved for both patients and physicians through software to enrich the patient-physician relationship and improve quality, safety, and satisfaction. They’re committed to building quality healthcare experiences that are accessible anytime, anywhere.

TrustArc

Series B in 2010
TrustArc, the leader in privacy compliance and data protection for over two decades, offers an unmatched combination of innovative technology, expert consulting and TRUSTe certification solutions, that together address all phases of privacy program management. The TrustArc Platform, fortified over seven years of operating experience, across a wide range of industries and client use cases, along with our extensive services, leverage deep privacy expertise and proven methodologies, which have been continuously enhanced through thousands of customer engagements. Headquartered in San Francisco, and backed by a global team across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, TrustArc helps customers worldwide demonstrate compliance, minimize risk and build trust.

OMGPOP

Series B in 2009
OMGPOP is a leading developer of social games for facebook, iphone and the open web. With games on multiple social networks as well as its own destination site, the company is recognized as a leader in creating real-time game experiences.

Afresh

Series A in 2019
Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores. The company is an operator of a fresh-first supply chain platform intended to handle the complexity of perishable categories for brick and mortar retailers and wholesalers. Its platform brings artificial intelligence and machine learning to forecast ingest millions of data points to provide accurate item-level predictions of future demand to replenish recommendations that account for supply chain constraints and optimize for margin that enable clients to minimize waste, maximize freshness, and multiply business profitability.

Taskrabbit

Series B in 2011
TaskRabbit, Inc. operates a same-day service platform that connects clients and taskers. Its platform enable clients to book a tasker for various home services, including minor home repair, mounting and installation, furniture assembly, moving and packing, housecleaning, yard work, and home improvement. TaskRabbit, Inc. was formerly known as RunMyErrand, Inc. and changed its name to TaskRabbit, Inc. in April 2010. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 10, 2017, TaskRabbit, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of INGKA Holding B.V.

Projector

Seed Round in 2016
Projector is a platform that helps developers and product teams expand their product experiences outside the confines of their app. The company builds collaborative creative tools for visual communications like videos, GIFs, social media, and presentations. Projector was founded in 2015 by Aaron Gotwalt and Timothy Young and is based in San Francisco, California.

PagerDuty

Series A in 2013
PagerDuty is an operations performance platform delivering visibility and actionable intelligence across the entire incident lifecycle. Their SaaS-based solution empowers over 10,000 small, mid-size, and enterprise global customers such as Comcast, eHarmony, Slack, and Lululemon with the insight to intelligently respond to critical disruptions for exceptional customer experience. PagerDuty was founded to deliver a new and innovative approach to increase business response and efficiency. When brand reputation depends on customer satisfaction, PagerDuty arms businesses with the insight to proactively manage incidents and events that may impact customers across their IT environment.

Threadflip

Series B in 2014
Threadflip is building a social marketplace that changes the way women shop for clothes and style their wardrobes, creating a peer-to-peer shopping experience that is delightful, collaborative and inspirational, as well as efficient and cost-effective. Threadflip closed in Jan. 14, 2015 but has partnered with Le Tote.

Xobni

Series C in 2010
Xobni (the word 'inbox' spelled backwards) makes your inbox and address book smarter. First launching to the public in 2008, Xobni and its Smartr product suite, discover all the people you've ever emailed, called or texted, and creates complete and social profiles that are instantly searchable. Profiles include a photo, job title, company details, email history as well as updates from your contacts on [LinkedIn](/organization/linkedin), [Facebook](/organization/facebook), and [Twitter](/organization/twitter). Products for Gmail, Android and iPhone are available under the Smartr brand, and Xobni is available for Outlook and [BlackBerry](/organization/blackberry).

TINYpulse

Series B in 2015
TINYpulse Perform is an easy-to-use feedback tool that measures employee engagement and gives leaders actionable data to help build healthy and transparent company cultures.

mLab

Series A in 2011
mLab is a fully managed cloud database service featuring automated provisioning and scaling of MongoDB databases, backup and recovery, 24/7 monitoring and alerting, web-based management tools, and expert support. mLab’s Database-as-a-Service platform powers over 900,000 database deployments across AWS, Azure, and Google and allows developers to focus their attention on product development instead of operations.

Apiary

Seed Round in 2013
Apiary.io is a hosted suite of tools that help companies build web APIs quickly, test & monitor them easily and document them effortlessly. It provides API owners with necessary infrastructure and helps them build relationship with their users. Core of the self-service solution is API Blueprint, an efficient format for describing an API, aspiring to define new gold standard for REST API development. The product uses this Blueprint to streamline adoption of new services and simplify integration to other systems.

WorkSimple

Series A in 2012
WorkSimple is the creator of Social Goals™: a fresh new way to manage careers, performance and results. As easy to use as your favorite social network, WorkSimple is designed for individuals, teams, and large organizations. Our Social Performance Platform gives a better way to share goals, collaborate, get feedback, and get your work endorsed. The Individual Edition is includes Social Goals, Portfolio, Endorsements, Media Sharing, LinkedIn Integration. Teams and Business can upgrade for additional functionality including: Social Goals™, Social Recognition, Get Verified, Feedback, Focus Boards, Activity Steams, Social Engagement Analytics, Company Performance Dashboard, Results-Driven Performance Review, and Administrator Controls.

Blekko

Series B in 2008
Blekko is a search company founded by Rich Skrenta and his core team from previous company [Topix](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/topix) and Netscape's Open Directory. Blekko was founded halfway through 2007 and has already earned itself an angel round from Baseline Ventures and two ex-Googlers.

SunBasket

Series C in 2017
Sun Basket, Inc. engages in the online retail of organic ingredients and food recipes. It delivers lean and clean meals; and ingredients in gluten-free, paleo, and vegetarian options. The company was formerly known as Ospoto, Inc. Sun Basket, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California with a distribution center in Westampton, New Jersey.

OMGPOP

Series B in 2008
OMGPOP is a leading developer of social games for facebook, iphone and the open web. With games on multiple social networks as well as its own destination site, the company is recognized as a leader in creating real-time game experiences.

SoFi

Series C in 2014
SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services. The company primarily caters to early-stage professionals and offers variable and fixed rate parent, personal, and MBA loans, mortgage refinancing, and more. They create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SunBasket

Series A in 2016
Sun Basket, Inc. engages in the online retail of organic ingredients and food recipes. It delivers lean and clean meals; and ingredients in gluten-free, paleo, and vegetarian options. The company was formerly known as Ospoto, Inc. Sun Basket, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California with a distribution center in Westampton, New Jersey.

Pocket

Series A in 2011
Pocket, the premier Save for Later app, lets you consume and share content whenever you want, wherever you want, even without an internet connection. It's been called "a DVR for the web" by the New York Times, Business Week, Time, TechCrunch and more. When you come across an article, video or a webpage you'd like to read but can't at that time, save it to Pocket. You can then read or watch it whenever you have a moment, whether it's on the couch, during your commute, on the plane, train, or practically anywhere. Millions of users save articles, videos, travel guides, recipes, how-to and reference documents, and more on Pocket, automatically syncing in a stunning and simple interface across devices like iPad, iPhone, Android, desktop and mobile web, Kobo e-reader, Chrome apps, Kindle Fire and now wearable devices like the Samsung Gear.

Yardbarker Network

Venture Round in 2009
Yardbarker aggregates news articles about sports from around the web. These articles are submitted by users and voted up in a Digg-like fashion. Amateur writers can also contribute to the site with blog posts about their favorite sports topics. Sports videos and photos are also aggregated alongside articles. Professional Athletes like Baron Davis, Greg Oden, Champ Bailey, and Donovan McNabb, and Rajon Rondo contribute weekly blog entries. While Yardbarker.com is the company's content hub page, the company also runs a network of 600+ sports blogs, fan sites, and male content focused websites. In October 2008, the company announced FARK.com as their latest network addition as well as reaching 10 million unique people.

Revere Intelligence

Seed Round in 2017
Revere Intelligence, Inc. operates a platform that monitors event and performance for business data. The company's client include Google AdWords, Optimizely, Slack, and Microsoft. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Pickwick & Weller

Venture Round in 2013
With sharp designs, meticulous fit and a commitment to developing beautifully crafted basics in California, we’re refining the notion of modern workwear, one t-shirt at a time

Octane11

Seed Round in 2022
Octane11 is a B2B-focused marketing solutions provider that helps businesses drive measurable impact at scale. Octane11’s suite of workflow tools, data products and intuitive analytics, make it easy for B2B marketers to coordinate “paid, owned and earned” tactics and deliver real world results. The company was incubated by digital advertising leader MediaMath and MathCapital, and officially launched in Q4 2019 in partnership with Oracle, LiveRamp, Intersection, Bombora and EverString. For more information and updates, visit www.octane11.com and follow us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/octane11.

Librato

Series A in 2013
Librato, Inc. develops real-time cloud monitoring solutions. The company operates a platform that provides solutions to visualize, analyze, and alert on the metrics. It offers unbounded data collection solutions, such as turn-key integrations and collection agents and language bindings; data processing solutions; visual insights solutions; and alerts setting, as well as integration with third-party services and context-rich notifications. The company’s products are used by companies, operators, software engineers, data engineers, and executives. Librato, Inc. was formerly known as Evergrid, Inc. and changed its name to Librato, Inc. in October 2008. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of January 29, 2015, Librato, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SolarWinds, Inc.

LucidLink

Private Placement in 2018
Lucid provides a cloud-backed distributed file service allowing instant access to an unlimited, shared, and secure file space in the cloud. It believes cloud object storage has the power to transform the way individuals and businesses store and access their files. LucidLink aims to change that with universal distributed file system that streams data from cloud object storage. It purpose built it to integrate with object storage through high latency environments, and address the source of the challenge, not the symptom. Simply stated, LucidLink provides the ability to mount an object store in the cloud and use it as local storage.

SoFi

Series E in 2015
SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services. The company primarily caters to early-stage professionals and offers variable and fixed rate parent, personal, and MBA loans, mortgage refinancing, and more. They create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

TrialPay

Series B in 2008
TrialPay, Inc. provides cross-platform monetization and stabilization solutions. The company’s monetization solutions include Evergreen, a monetization toolkit for developers to leverage custom solutions and third party platforms to engage and reach the customers that drives acquisition, revenue growth, and LTV. It also provides acquisition solutions that enable users to connect with customers across Web, mobile, and Facebook networks. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Berlin, Germany. As of March 2015, TrialPay, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Visa Inc.

Biosocia

Series A in 2008
Biosocia developer of online communities that are structured like games.

Blekko

Series A in 2007
Blekko is a search company founded by Rich Skrenta and his core team from previous company [Topix](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/topix) and Netscape's Open Directory. Blekko was founded halfway through 2007 and has already earned itself an angel round from Baseline Ventures and two ex-Googlers.

Stitch Fix

Seed Round in 2011
Stitch Fix, Inc. sells a range of apparel, shoes, and accessories through its Website and mobile app in the United States. It offers denim, dresses, blouses, skirts, shoes, jewelry, and handbags for men, women, and kids under the Stitch Fix brand. The company was formerly known as rack habit inc. and changed its name to Stitch Fix, Inc. in October 2011. Stitch Fix, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Iron.io

Seed Round in 2011
Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for event processing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications.

Afresh

Seed Round in 2018
Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores. The company is an operator of a fresh-first supply chain platform intended to handle the complexity of perishable categories for brick and mortar retailers and wholesalers. Its platform brings artificial intelligence and machine learning to forecast ingest millions of data points to provide accurate item-level predictions of future demand to replenish recommendations that account for supply chain constraints and optimize for margin that enable clients to minimize waste, maximize freshness, and multiply business profitability.

Bloc

Series A in 2014
Bloc, Inc. offers an online apprenticeship to teach the fundamentals of Web development. The company offers courses on Web Development, iOS, and Web design. Its curriculum enables students to choose their mentors based on experience, language, location, and availability; to build skills; and to do assignments. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of April 9, 2018, Bloc, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Thinkful, Inc.

TrustArc

Series D in 2019
TrustArc, the leader in privacy compliance and data protection for over two decades, offers an unmatched combination of innovative technology, expert consulting and TRUSTe certification solutions, that together address all phases of privacy program management. The TrustArc Platform, fortified over seven years of operating experience, across a wide range of industries and client use cases, along with our extensive services, leverage deep privacy expertise and proven methodologies, which have been continuously enhanced through thousands of customer engagements. Headquartered in San Francisco, and backed by a global team across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, TrustArc helps customers worldwide demonstrate compliance, minimize risk and build trust.

Expensify

Series A in 2010
Expensify is a financial services startup that provides an online expense management service for businesses worldwide. Expensify is a great solution for both solopreneurs, start ups, SMBs, mid-market companies, and the enterprise. Expensify’s expense management service does expense reports by importing expenses and receipts from credit cards and emails in conjunction with the Expensify mobile app to take pictures of receipts. Expense reimbursement can be done in-product through ACH Direct Deposit or by exporting reports to a payroll solution. Expensify's patented SmartScan technology reads receipts and automatically creates expenses or matches them to transactions imported from a credit card. Expensify was founded by David Barrett in May 2008. It is based in San Francisco, California.

Reverb Technologies

Series A in 2008
Reverb builds technology that creates connections between ideas and people. Our personalization, recommendation, and content analysis technologies allow us to extract the true meaning from content, and to intelligently respond to user preferences and interests. Our products include the Reverb News App, Reverb Recommendations, and Swagger. Our solutions are now implemented across Fortune 500 content, video, and product companies. For more information please visit helloreverb.com, or follow us on Twitter @Reverb.

Iron.io

Seed Round in 2014
Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for event processing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications.

Dyspatch

Series A in 2017
Dyspatch is an email production platform that helps Enterprise organizations create and change transactional and triggered emails faster, by centralizing template creation, approval, and publishing processes. The powerful API, visual editor, and built-in device testing allow for cutting-edge email strategy and execution, while helping establish consistency in both branding and legal compliance across multiple teams, departments, and business units.

mLab

Series B in 2012
mLab is a fully managed cloud database service featuring automated provisioning and scaling of MongoDB databases, backup and recovery, 24/7 monitoring and alerting, web-based management tools, and expert support. mLab’s Database-as-a-Service platform powers over 900,000 database deployments across AWS, Azure, and Google and allows developers to focus their attention on product development instead of operations.

CybeReady

Private Placement in 2019
CybeReady Learning Solutions Ltd. develops and provides anti-phishing training automation solutions. The company offers anti-phishing training assessment and monitoring, behavior-based learning, and phishing simulation platform. It caters to financial institutions, insurance companies, healthcare organizations, and government agencies. CybeReady Learning Solutions Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Crayon

Series A in 2019
Crayon, Inc. operates a market intelligence platform that assists’ businesses to track, analyze, and act on digital footprints. It offers an intelligence and analysis platform; a marketing intelligence tool; and a website inspiration platform. Crayon, Inc. was formerly known as M80 Labs, Inc. and changed its name to Crayon, Inc. in June 2017. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dyspatch

Seed Round in 2022
Dyspatch is an email production platform that helps Enterprise organizations create and change transactional and triggered emails faster, by centralizing template creation, approval, and publishing processes. The powerful API, visual editor, and built-in device testing allow for cutting-edge email strategy and execution, while helping establish consistency in both branding and legal compliance across multiple teams, departments, and business units.

NextGrid

Seed Round in 2018
NextGrid Inc., a renewable power company, develops and operates distributed solar energy and storage projects in the United States. It focuses on developing and building portfolios of distributed energy projects in Massachusetts, New Jersey, District of Columbia, Maine, and California. The company also pays property owners to host a solar farm; and provides capital and support for developers. NextGrid Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

SoFi

Series B in 2012
SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services. The company primarily caters to early-stage professionals and offers variable and fixed rate parent, personal, and MBA loans, mortgage refinancing, and more. They create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Circle Internet Services

Private Placement in 2018
Circle Internet Services, Inc., doing business as CircleCI, develops online automated testing and continuous integration tools for developers worldwide. It offers continuous integration and delivery platform that allows developers to release code for Web and mobile applications by automating the build, test, and deploy process, as well as enables developers to detect and fix bugs before they even reach customers. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Taskrabbit

Series C in 2012
TaskRabbit, Inc. operates a same-day service platform that connects clients and taskers. Its platform enable clients to book a tasker for various home services, including minor home repair, mounting and installation, furniture assembly, moving and packing, housecleaning, yard work, and home improvement. TaskRabbit, Inc. was formerly known as RunMyErrand, Inc. and changed its name to TaskRabbit, Inc. in April 2010. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 10, 2017, TaskRabbit, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of INGKA Holding B.V.

nWay

Series B in 2017
nWay was founded in 2011 with the goal of creating fun console-quality multiplayer games for both the web and mobile platforms. All of nWay’s games will be free-to-play and will feature synchronous multiplayer gameplay. The company is led by gaming and startup veterans and is based in San Francisco. The company is currently working on its first title, ChronoBlade, a free-to-play Action RPG game for the web and mobile platforms. Play the beta at www.chronoblade.com.

Dusty Robotics

Private Placement in 2018
Dusty Robotics, Inc. provides automated layout services to the construction industry. It offers layout robots that brings BIM information onto the field, which eliminates manual steps in the BIM field workflow. The company serves owners, GCs, subs, and builders. Dusty Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Mountain View, California.

MakerSights

Seed Round in 2019
MakerSights is a leading provider of product development software for consumer brands. Through the company platform, MakerSights enables brand partners to rapidly measure customer demand for their future products and concepts. By identifying the styles, colors and product attributes that appeal most of the customers, you’ll be able to invest your team’s time, efforts and capital more efficiently.

ViaBot

Seed Round in 2021
ViaBot Inc. develops an autonomous outdoor robot for businesses. The company offers an autonomous multi-functional robot that takes care of multiple outdoor commercial tasks, such as sweeping, lawn mowing, security, parking lot, walkway, courtyard, or other outside venue. It offers benefits, such as modular technology, long runtime, scheduling, 24/7 monitoring, different modes, 24/7 capability, and constant updates. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Piqora

Seed Round in 2012
Piqora (previously Pinfluencer) is the enterprise marketing and analytics suite for visual, interest-based networks such as Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr. Piqora’s visual analytics, CRM and CMS products help marketers score images, measure ROI from visual networks, interact with customers, influencers and brand advocates, publish content and build communities. Piqora’s image recognition, hashtag and url parsing based analytics technology offers deep website, profile, competitive and content research insights. Piqora integrates with other enterprise systems such as Google Analytics, Omniture, and Shopping Feeds to track the image conversion funnel as well as offer social e-commerce analytics. Top brands working with Piqora include Crate and Barrel, Etsy, Z Gallerie, Fossil, Orbitz, and Steve Madden. Piqora is a small team of 15 talented folks from Google, Yahoo, Yodlee, Wildfire, Marketo and Meltwater. We are funded by Baseline, Freestyle, WTI and Lazerow Ventures.

Afresh

Series A in 2020
Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores. The company is an operator of a fresh-first supply chain platform intended to handle the complexity of perishable categories for brick and mortar retailers and wholesalers. Its platform brings artificial intelligence and machine learning to forecast ingest millions of data points to provide accurate item-level predictions of future demand to replenish recommendations that account for supply chain constraints and optimize for margin that enable clients to minimize waste, maximize freshness, and multiply business profitability.

Apiary

Series A in 2015
Apiary.io is a hosted suite of tools that help companies build web APIs quickly, test & monitor them easily and document them effortlessly. It provides API owners with necessary infrastructure and helps them build relationship with their users. Core of the self-service solution is API Blueprint, an efficient format for describing an API, aspiring to define new gold standard for REST API development. The product uses this Blueprint to streamline adoption of new services and simplify integration to other systems.

Metaresolver

Seed Round in 2012
Metaresolver powers smarter media buying on mobile platforms through tighter targeting using proprietary data. 

Good Eggs

Seed Round in 2011
Online market that delivers good groceries to customers' homes throughout the bay area, seven days a week

Mixer Labs

Series A in 2009
Mixer Labs is the company behind GeoAPI.com, a powerful location engine for developers, and TownMe, a new local information site. TownMe's mission is to bring all the world's local information and relationships online. TownMe's goal is to show your town, online. Mixer Labs also powers a GeoAPI which provides location as a service. The GeoAPI includes: -Reverse Geocoder -16 million business listings and points of interest (with rich per location data) -Writable layer - each developer can add their own annotation of places and entities and do complex geo-queries against this information. You can access it via http://api.townme.com, http://geoapi.com or http://sexyapi.com

Pioneer Works, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Pioneer Works, Inc., doing business as Homebase, develops an online platform for employee scheduling and time tracking. The company offers Homebase, a solution for employee scheduling, time clock, timesheets, employee messaging, labor cost reporting, point of sale integrations, and payroll integrations. It serves local businesses, such as cafes, quick service and full-service restaurants, and retailers in the United States. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Homebase

Series B in 2018
Homebase helps to reduce the administrative burden of hourly work by automating scheduling, timesheets, and communication between employees. The basic tools are free, with tiered pricing options for additional features.

LoanSnap

Series B in 2021
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

SunBasket

Series E in 2019
Sun Basket, Inc. engages in the online retail of organic ingredients and food recipes. It delivers lean and clean meals; and ingredients in gluten-free, paleo, and vegetarian options. The company was formerly known as Ospoto, Inc. Sun Basket, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California with a distribution center in Westampton, New Jersey.

Liftoff

Seed Round in 2015
Liftoff Mobile, Inc. designs and provides optimized mobile acquisition and retention platform for non-gaming applications. The company offers mobile application marketing and retargeting platform for running true CPA-optimized mobile application install campaigns. Its clients include Harmony, Orbitz, OpenTable, and HBO. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Xobni

Series B in 2009
Xobni (the word 'inbox' spelled backwards) makes your inbox and address book smarter. First launching to the public in 2008, Xobni and its Smartr product suite, discover all the people you've ever emailed, called or texted, and creates complete and social profiles that are instantly searchable. Profiles include a photo, job title, company details, email history as well as updates from your contacts on [LinkedIn](/organization/linkedin), [Facebook](/organization/facebook), and [Twitter](/organization/twitter). Products for Gmail, Android and iPhone are available under the Smartr brand, and Xobni is available for Outlook and [BlackBerry](/organization/blackberry).

Yardbarker Network

Series B in 2008
Yardbarker aggregates news articles about sports from around the web. These articles are submitted by users and voted up in a Digg-like fashion. Amateur writers can also contribute to the site with blog posts about their favorite sports topics. Sports videos and photos are also aggregated alongside articles. Professional Athletes like Baron Davis, Greg Oden, Champ Bailey, and Donovan McNabb, and Rajon Rondo contribute weekly blog entries. While Yardbarker.com is the company's content hub page, the company also runs a network of 600+ sports blogs, fan sites, and male content focused websites. In October 2008, the company announced FARK.com as their latest network addition as well as reaching 10 million unique people.

BookFresh

Seed Round in 2009
BookFresh is an online scheduling service aimed at small business owners. BookFresh is the leading online appointment and appointments-as-leads provider for small businesses. BookFresh offers solutions directly to service professionals and service brands, as well as APIs, enterprise services and reseller solutions to online publishers who have a presence with an SMB audience.

ADARA

Venture Round in 2012
Adara, the global leader in permissioned data and verified identity, combines the power of global data consortiums to inform its 1 billion digital identities with over 22 billion data elements across 130 countries and serving Global 2,000 customers. Whether informing digital marketing, programmatic advertising, search, identity and verification, or stopping fraud, Adara provides you with more customers, less friction, and better outcomes. For more information, visit us at www.ADARA.com.

MonkeyWorks

Seed Round in 2015
MonkeyWorks is focused on the development of technology solutions that enable businesses to manage and monitor their marketing campaigns and teams. MonkeyWorks offers tools that enable it users to connect with their marketing accounts and automate communication of status updates and results. It provides solutions that enable businesses to manage a number of projects in the same platform, communicate with their team, and attach file form Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive. Businesses are able to create guest accounts with limited visibility and functionality. MonkeyWorks offers its solutions in two packages for a payment: Pro and Enterprise. MonkeyWorks was founded by Matt Quirie and Vanessa Krumb in 2014.

LoanSnap

Series B in 2020
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Sendori

Series A in 2007
Sendori is creating compelling digital marketing solutions for our partners (advertisers and publishers) that help reduce cost, generate revenue and protect brand equity. Sendori has a diverse mix of high converting traffic, from our proprietary and 3rd party network sources. We also have patented one-click redirect technology and a powerful, proprietary ad serving platform to power digital advertising campaigns: to drive conversions and lower cost per acquisition.

nWay

Seed Round in 2012
nWay was founded in 2011 with the goal of creating fun console-quality multiplayer games for both the web and mobile platforms. All of nWay’s games will be free-to-play and will feature synchronous multiplayer gameplay. The company is led by gaming and startup veterans and is based in San Francisco. The company is currently working on its first title, ChronoBlade, a free-to-play Action RPG game for the web and mobile platforms. Play the beta at www.chronoblade.com.

LoanSnap

Series A in 2019
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Crayon

Venture Round in 2018
Crayon, Inc. operates a market intelligence platform that assists’ businesses to track, analyze, and act on digital footprints. It offers an intelligence and analysis platform; a marketing intelligence tool; and a website inspiration platform. Crayon, Inc. was formerly known as M80 Labs, Inc. and changed its name to Crayon, Inc. in June 2017. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

CircleCI

Seed Round in 2013
CircleCI’s continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. CircleCI offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp quickly, scale easily, and build confidently every day. Velocity is critical for software teams in today's competitive landscape, but maintaining speed can be difficult as apps and systems grow larger and more complex. CircleCI’s platform allows developers to rapidly release code (for web and mobile apps) they trust by automating the build, test, and deploy process. CircleCI enables developers to detect and fix bugs before they even reach customers. Thousands of leading companies including Facebook, Kickstarter, Shyp, and Spotify rely on CircleCI to accelerate delivery of their code and enable developers to focus on creating business value fast. CircleCI is a Bay Area Best Places to Work 2018 award winner from the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in beautiful downtown San Francisco with a global remote workforce, CircleCI is venture backed by Scale Venture Partners, DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital.

Taskrabbit

Seed Round in 2009
TaskRabbit, Inc. operates a same-day service platform that connects clients and taskers. Its platform enable clients to book a tasker for various home services, including minor home repair, mounting and installation, furniture assembly, moving and packing, housecleaning, yard work, and home improvement. TaskRabbit, Inc. was formerly known as RunMyErrand, Inc. and changed its name to TaskRabbit, Inc. in April 2010. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 10, 2017, TaskRabbit, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of INGKA Holding B.V.

LucidLink

Series A in 2021
Lucid provides a cloud-backed distributed file service allowing instant access to an unlimited, shared, and secure file space in the cloud. It believes cloud object storage has the power to transform the way individuals and businesses store and access their files. LucidLink aims to change that with universal distributed file system that streams data from cloud object storage. It purpose built it to integrate with object storage through high latency environments, and address the source of the challenge, not the symptom. Simply stated, LucidLink provides the ability to mount an object store in the cloud and use it as local storage.

TrustArc

Private Placement in 2019
TrustArc, the leader in privacy compliance and data protection for over two decades, offers an unmatched combination of innovative technology, expert consulting and TRUSTe certification solutions, that together address all phases of privacy program management. The TrustArc Platform, fortified over seven years of operating experience, across a wide range of industries and client use cases, along with our extensive services, leverage deep privacy expertise and proven methodologies, which have been continuously enhanced through thousands of customer engagements. Headquartered in San Francisco, and backed by a global team across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, TrustArc helps customers worldwide demonstrate compliance, minimize risk and build trust.

Dishcraft Robotics

Series A in 2020
Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. develops and manufactures robots for commercial kitchens. The company through its system cleans each dish individually using a rotating scrubber head and inspects each dish in a fraction of a second for remaining food residue using computer vision. Its solution Dishcraft Daily provides clean-dish dishwashing services. It serves corporate kitchens and restaurants. Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. was formerly known as Bistro Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. in March 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Dusty Robotics

Seed Round in 2018
Dusty Robotics, Inc. provides automated layout services to the construction industry. It offers layout robots that brings BIM information onto the field, which eliminates manual steps in the BIM field workflow. The company serves owners, GCs, subs, and builders. Dusty Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Mountain View, California.

TastemakerX

Series A in 2012
TastemakerX is where music lovers can do what they most want to do with music online: discover, listen to and share their tastes. With TastemakerX, people can discover music by exploring other people’s curated artist Collections, listen to and engage with their collected Artists on Spotify, Rdio, Soundcloud, YouTube, iTunes, Songkick, Twitter, Instagram and other services. Let’s face it, finding music should be fun and easy, but it really hasn’t been since the days of “High Fidelity” where Jack Black and John Cusack worked in that hipster record store eons ago. Like those record store clerks, DJs on college radio stations, friends, great music critics and bloggers who thrust music upon us with a passionate urgency, TastemakerX is about people turning people onto music TastemakerX 2.0 for iOS 7 and Web launched on September 18 2013.

Versly

Seed Round in 2010
Versly was acquired by Cisco on August 29, 2011. Versly enables collaboration right inside the applications you already use such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint. It integrates seamlessly with email while also delivering the next generation web and mobile apps.

Haute Secure

Seed Round in 2007
Haute Secure is a security company that, in addition to an algorithm, relies on a community of users to prevent malware from being uploaded to your computer without your knowledge. The program comes in the form of a browser plugin and can label individual web pages as "infected" as opposed to the full website. It is particularly effective at blocking specific content on websites which may only be minutely affected. For example, a site like Facebook or Myspace would not be banned due to malware on one profile. Only said profile would be banned.

Expensify

Seed Round in 2009
Expensify is a financial services startup that provides an online expense management service for businesses worldwide. Expensify is a great solution for both solopreneurs, start ups, SMBs, mid-market companies, and the enterprise. Expensify’s expense management service does expense reports by importing expenses and receipts from credit cards and emails in conjunction with the Expensify mobile app to take pictures of receipts. Expense reimbursement can be done in-product through ACH Direct Deposit or by exporting reports to a payroll solution. Expensify's patented SmartScan technology reads receipts and automatically creates expenses or matches them to transactions imported from a credit card. Expensify was founded by David Barrett in May 2008. It is based in San Francisco, California.

Afresh

Private Placement in 2018
Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores. The company is an operator of a fresh-first supply chain platform intended to handle the complexity of perishable categories for brick and mortar retailers and wholesalers. Its platform brings artificial intelligence and machine learning to forecast ingest millions of data points to provide accurate item-level predictions of future demand to replenish recommendations that account for supply chain constraints and optimize for margin that enable clients to minimize waste, maximize freshness, and multiply business profitability.

LucidLink

Seed Round in 2016
Lucid provides a cloud-backed distributed file service allowing instant access to an unlimited, shared, and secure file space in the cloud. It believes cloud object storage has the power to transform the way individuals and businesses store and access their files. LucidLink aims to change that with universal distributed file system that streams data from cloud object storage. It purpose built it to integrate with object storage through high latency environments, and address the source of the challenge, not the symptom. Simply stated, LucidLink provides the ability to mount an object store in the cloud and use it as local storage.

Iron.io

Series A in 2015
Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for event processing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications.

Pocket

Series B in 2012
Pocket, the premier Save for Later app, lets you consume and share content whenever you want, wherever you want, even without an internet connection. It's been called "a DVR for the web" by the New York Times, Business Week, Time, TechCrunch and more. When you come across an article, video or a webpage you'd like to read but can't at that time, save it to Pocket. You can then read or watch it whenever you have a moment, whether it's on the couch, during your commute, on the plane, train, or practically anywhere. Millions of users save articles, videos, travel guides, recipes, how-to and reference documents, and more on Pocket, automatically syncing in a stunning and simple interface across devices like iPad, iPhone, Android, desktop and mobile web, Kobo e-reader, Chrome apps, Kindle Fire and now wearable devices like the Samsung Gear.

backplane.io

Seed Round in 2017
Backplane was founded in 2016 with the mission to make businesses more agile by making networks simpler, more efficient, adaptive, and easier to scale.

LaunchKit

Venture Round in 2016
Over the past 2 years, their team has built and released 7 apps into the App Store, and 5 apps into Google Play. During this time, they have tried to share what they have learned and tools they have built to make this easier for other mobile makers. They started by writing a guide on How to Run Live User Testing Sessions for mobile apps. The three part series did so well that they then released data and advice on the Right Way to ask Users for iOS Permissions. This post went was read and shared about 150,000 times. Then they released Screenshotter, a tool we’d built for internal use that helps manage screenshots on iOS devices. The iOS app was downloaded over 25,000 times (about 24,900 more times than they expected). they wrote about the Unexpected Costs of Third Party Login. Most recently, they released Sketch To App Store, a template that cuts hours off prepping screenshots for iTunes Connect that shot to #1 on Product Hunt and has over 1,000 stars on GitHub. Every time they share tools they have built internally, the community seems to truly appreciate them. So they are going to continue this trend. To keep things organized, they are putting them all under the name LaunchKit.

Machine Zone

Series A in 2011
Machine Zone, Inc. develops applications and games for users of social networks and mobile devices. It focuses on creating free-to-play mobile social games. Machine Zone, Inc. was formerly known as Addmired, Inc. and changed its name to Machine Zone, Inc. in March 2012. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Retain.ai

Series A in 2021
Retain AI, Inc. provides Retain.ai platform which integrates with the tools which the organization already uses to enable them to understand how the company time is spent and the cost of customer interactions across functions and applications. It helps organization in increasing revenue, reducing waste, and speed up onboarding. The company is based in San Francisco, California.