Bee Partners

Bee Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in genesis, seed/startup, pre-seed stage, and very early stage startup investments. The firm is socially conscious and does not invest in companies that help bars sell more alcohol, or drive ever more consumerism with children. It seeks to invest in companies across the US. It seeks to invest a smaller amount in the genesis stage. It takes a stake between six percent and eight percent. Bee Partners was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Michael Berolzheimer

Managing Partner

Garrett Goldberg

Partner

Kira Noodleman

Principal

Parsa Saljoughian

Partner

Past deals in Berkley

InnerPlant

Seed Round in 2021
InnerPlant, Inc. manufactures genetically adapted living plant sensors. Its product InnerTomato a proprietary tomato plant that combines biotechnology, big data, and the internet of things and alerts farmers optically when it’s thirsty or sick, short of nutrients, and under attack by pests or fungi, they show different colors that can be seen by optical devices, such as smartphones. InnerPlant, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Davis, California.

Skycatch, Inc.

Series B in 2015
Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data to provide companies with an accurate visualization of the physical world. It is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. They use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use. It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Cohort

Seed Round in 2018
Cohort, Inc. develops software to transform chronic care management and clinical trials. The company’s clinical AI/NLP analyzes EHR, including diagnostics (normal, abnormal, and correlated), medications (labels), and clinical notes (free text) to surface context specific to the patient and condition. Its solution identifies and enrolls eligible patients, auto-generates care-plans, and automates compliance and billing operations. The company is based in New York, New York with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Columbia Green Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2007
Columbia Green Technologies, Inc. manufactures and markets green roof and amenity deck solutions for roof gardens. It offers layered, and planted-in-place and pre-grown tray systems. The company offers its products for various projects, including hospitals, multifamily housing, libraries, schools, and commercial real estate projects in North America; and for designers and building owners. Columbia Green Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Inscriptive

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Inscriptive is a platform for data discovery, currently in private beta.

Identify3D

Seed Round in 2017
Identify3D, Inc. provides property protection, manufacturing repeatability, and traceability solutions. The company offers Protect, which secures digital supply chain; Manage that enables the distribution and tracking of secure digital distribution; Enforce that provides security and integrity during production; and Trace, which records operational and transaction details providing an audit trail. It serves aerospace, automotive, defense, and medical industries. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Lexington, Kentucky; and Germany.

Venture Scanner Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Venture Scanner Inc. offers business consulting services. The firm caters to legal, health, financial, retail, marketing, transportation, and artificial intelligence sectors. Its clients include HITACHI, Deloitte, and J.P. Morgan. Venture Scanner Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Pubget

Pre Seed Round in 2010
Pubget develops cloud-based content access tools for scientists and researchers. The company's core product, Pubget.com, is a free site for legally finding and directly retrieving research papers. The site provides access to content from 450 libraries around the world in science and engineering, weighted toward biomedical science, but including content in arXiv, JStor, and IEEE. Pubget also provides content tools for industry and libraries. All are hosted and sold via a freemium model. Pubget's investors and advisors include executives from Partners Healthcare, Twitter, Health Dialog, academics from Harvard Medical School, and Boston-Area angels.

Preact

Seed Round in 2014
Preact (formerly Less Neglect) is a cloud-based customer success service that helps subscription software companies maximize customer lifetime value by reducing churn, acquiring new paid customers, and increasing user revenues. Preact provides health metrics tailored to each user and account by tracking detailed session-level usage of web and mobile applications and server APIs. Preact predicts and informs which customers are likely to churn, renew, or upgrade by modeling usage and behavior patterns using big data analytics, behavioral science, and machine learning. In addition, Preact provides deep, real-time visibility into product usage to dramatically improve customer support and product quality. Preact integrates with Gmail, Salesforce, Stripe, Zendesk, Desk.com, Helpscout, Mixpanel, and Marketo, and other leading cloud-based apps.

Sideqik, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Sideqik, Inc. develops business intelligence platform for influencer marketing. Its platform enables brands to connect with consumers by identifying influencers and measuring their return on Investment (ROI). The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Parsec Media

Seed Round in 2016
Parsec is the first platform to sell media using attention metrics. It's a rewarding product to work on as it solves a real problem in the industry: the way we transact media misaligns incentives between publishers and advertisers, and creates poor experiences for readers. Parsec was created by a group of senior advertising execs and seasoned entrepreneurs who've built agencies, digital publishers and ad tech companies. We're headquartered in NYC and have offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and London.

Glide Health

Seed Round in 2020
Glide Health builds intelligent financial solutions that deliver revenue and cash enhancement for healthcare organizations. Its proprietary AI and machine learning technology connects across operations in healthcare entities, providing targeted guidance to improve revenue and cash flow. The Glide Intelligence platform generates predictions and recommendations to support revenue cycle through patient registration, prior authorization, claim submission, denial management and collections. Real-time analysis of financial and clinical data delivers recommendations based on real world changes. Advanced forecasting of key financial metrics, including revenue, cash, and accounts receivable, provide greater visibility to the health of the business.

Synthesis AI, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Synthesis AI, Inc. operates as a data generation platform for computer vision. The company’s application offers fine programmatic control and enhance solutions. Synthesis AI, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Knowde

Seed Round in 2018
knowde is the online marketing platform dedicated to chemicals and ingredients. They make it easy to connect with customers, online. Use knowde Pages to get your products noticed every time a customer searches on any search engine. Build your knowde Page in an hour and get started for free.

Buildingconnected

Series B in 2017
BuildingConnected, Inc. operates a construction communication platform. It enables users to find, communicate, and share documents with general contractors and subcontractors. In addition, it offers bid management, professional network, communication and collaboration, performance analytics, and integrated cloud storage; and enables data owners to view portfolio performance dashboard, communicate with nationwide network of service professionals, and do future planning for public entities. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of January 23, 2019, BuildingConnected, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc.

Embroker

Seed Round in 2015
Embroker is the easiest way to intelligently ensure any business. By pairing technology and broker expertise, Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage. As the leading digital insurance brokerage, Embroker is working to massively improve the $800 billion property and casualty (P&C) insurance market. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have offices in Chicago and Boston and customers in all 50 states.

Enliken

Seed Round in 2012
Enliken lets any website accept data from consumers as registration or payment. The data is a real-time, opt-in, feed of intent and brand affinity data that's a snap to integrate with SSPs and DMPs. Our analytics help publishers understand what their audience is doing off-site, including media consumption and shopping habits.

Nubix, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Nubix, Inc. develops and operates a container platform to develop and deploy IoT and edge applications. It offers Tiny Containers, an application to develop once and deploy anywhere; Tiny Services, a pre-programmed code blocks for commonly needed functionality for sensors and controls, analytics, and data management; and Orchestration Hub allows developers to develop pipelines, create and deploy containers, and administer deployments. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Denver, Colorado.

Florence Healthcare, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Florence advances clinical research through software. The Florence eBinder Suite replaces paper investigator site files, trial master files and source binders with a shared platform. This shared platform approach makes remote monitoring of eRegulatory and eSource documents possible while giving sponsors real-time insights into study progress. Hundreds of sponsors and sites worldwide trust Florence eBinders to move past paper study roadblocks and enable new approaches to trial management. Florence is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Evol Foods

Pre Seed Round in 2010
After a successful exit from their start-up venture Bear Naked Granola, Brendan Synnott and Tom Spier left the East Coast and headed to the slopes of Colorado. In 2009 Tom ran across a pretty interesting product that was being made in Boulder, so he gave his pal Brendan a ring (who was just getting back from another adventure as a contestant on Survivor: Tocantins).

OrderGroove, Inc.

Series B in 2012
OrderGroove, Inc. develops subscription enablement technology and analytics platforms for brands and retailers. The company offers Relationship Commerce Cloud, an email and text messaging-based ordering solution for experiences in retail stores via the POS and online; and Ordergroove Essentials that is designed for brands to launch their recurring revenue programs, including subscriptions, reordering, and memberships. Its solutions allow users to discover, create, launch, promote, and optimize subscriber experience. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in New York, New York.

Neighborly

Seed Round in 2015
Neighborly is a San Francisco–based startup focused on financing and deploying fiber-optic broadband infrastructure in communities around the U.S. Fiber broadband networks are the 21st century bridges to economic opportunity: critical for the economic and innovation output of the nation, and the essential foundation for every future-ready community. A fast-growing, venture-backed company at the intersection of public infrastructure, tech, and finance, Neighborly delivers critical fiber broadband infrastructure to communities, and opportunities to investors who care about closing the digital divide.

Florence Healthcare, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Florence advances clinical research through software. The Florence eBinder Suite replaces paper investigator site files, trial master files and source binders with a shared platform. This shared platform approach makes remote monitoring of eRegulatory and eSource documents possible while giving sponsors real-time insights into study progress. Hundreds of sponsors and sites worldwide trust Florence eBinders to move past paper study roadblocks and enable new approaches to trial management. Florence is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Phonio

Seed Round in 2014
Phonio provides a platform that allows influencers to deliver audio content to mass audiences via mobile phone calls. The company offers a service that enables influencers such as musicians, athletes, artists, thought-leaders, consumer brands, and others to make one-way phone calls to their audiences; and audiences to gain access to unique content that is not publicly available and form a deeper connection with influencers. Phonio’s service is available to celebrities and fans, employers and employees, philanthropists or non-profit organizations and donors, governments and citizens, political candidates and supporters, and businesses and investors in the United States and internationally. Phonio was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Modify Watches

Seed Round in 2013
Modify Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells interchangeable watches for men and women. The company offers sport, gunmetal, and custom stainless steel watches. It offers its products online, as well as through retailers in the United States and internationally. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Geosite, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Geosite, Inc. owns and operates an online platform that allows users to find, purchase, and utilize geospatial data. The platform gives its customers access to high-frequency satellite data, planning and logistics tools, and distributed sensor platform plug-ins. The platform leverages the proliferation in satellite imagery sources and distributed sensor systems. The company caters to customers, including the United States military and companies in the energy industry. Geosite, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Stanford, California.

Embroker

Series C in 2021
Embroker is the easiest way to intelligently ensure any business. By pairing technology and broker expertise, Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage. As the leading digital insurance brokerage, Embroker is working to massively improve the $800 billion property and casualty (P&C) insurance market. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have offices in Chicago and Boston and customers in all 50 states.

Node

Series A in 2017
Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solution offers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams. Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures.

Rapid Robotics, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Rapid Robotics provides box automation for manufacturers. It's Rapid Machine Operator (RMO) enables manufacturers to easily deploy a pre-trained cobot in just a few hours. It performs dozens of simple machine tasks to the highest quality standards and can quickly be redeployed to new tasks. With Rapid’s robotic machine operators, one employee can supervise as many as eight machines at a time using only an iPad. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bear Naked

Pre Seed Round in 2005
Bear Naked is a prepared foods company that produces granola, granola bars and ready to eat cereal. Bear Naked was founded in 2002 by Kelly Flatley and Brendan Synnott.

Buildingconnected

Seed Round in 2014
BuildingConnected, Inc. operates a construction communication platform. It enables users to find, communicate, and share documents with general contractors and subcontractors. In addition, it offers bid management, professional network, communication and collaboration, performance analytics, and integrated cloud storage; and enables data owners to view portfolio performance dashboard, communicate with nationwide network of service professionals, and do future planning for public entities. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of January 23, 2019, BuildingConnected, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc.

Rapid Robotics, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Rapid Robotics provides box automation for manufacturers. It's Rapid Machine Operator (RMO) enables manufacturers to easily deploy a pre-trained cobot in just a few hours. It performs dozens of simple machine tasks to the highest quality standards and can quickly be redeployed to new tasks. With Rapid’s robotic machine operators, one employee can supervise as many as eight machines at a time using only an iPad. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Embroker

Series B in 2018
Embroker is the easiest way to intelligently ensure any business. By pairing technology and broker expertise, Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage. As the leading digital insurance brokerage, Embroker is working to massively improve the $800 billion property and casualty (P&C) insurance market. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have offices in Chicago and Boston and customers in all 50 states.

O Intelligence

Pre Seed Round in 2020
O Intelligence is an AI and robotics company that develops autonomous mobility, perception, and interaction for AI in human environments. The company was founded in 2019 by Tobias Kinnebrew and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SnapTravel

Seed Round in 2016
We believe the commerce should be as simple as chatting with a friend. We have built an engine that drives commerce over messaging. As our first implementation of this engine - we have chosen hotels. SnapTravel empowers customers to find and book hotel rooms over a conversational interface (SMS, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Alexa...). We use NLP and ML technology backed by humans to recommend hotels and deliver a delightful experience. We have driven over $100MM+ in sales exclusively over messaging. We have raised $20MM+ USD from tier-1 investors including iNovia, Telstra Ventures, Peter Kern (Chairman of the Board at Expedia) and NBA Superstar Steph Curry.

New Culture Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
New Culture Inc. produces cheese from protein. The company uses microflora to make dairy proteins and dairy products. New Culture Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in San Leandro, California.

Moth + Flame

Seed Round in 2021
They are a virtual reality agency dedicated to defining the next generation of visual communication.

Sideqik, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Sideqik, Inc. develops business intelligence platform for influencer marketing. Its platform enables brands to connect with consumers by identifying influencers and measuring their return on Investment (ROI). The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Indiegogo

Series A in 2012
IndieGoGo is a global crowdfunding platform that democratizes the way people raise funds for any project such as creative, entrepreneurial, or cause-related. The platform enables individuals and startups to generate pre-sales and collect feedback from early adopters before they manufacture their products. Since its inception in 2008, Indiegogo has been offering related advice to individuals and startups that seek it and advising corporations on how to staff a team to create and manage a campaign effectively.

Airbanq, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Airbanq is a social mobile service that provides financial services. The mobile service offers high quality and affordable financial services to under-served communities by helping them cross the digital divide and adopt mobile financial services, with an innovative online to offline model. It has developed a check-cashing application that gives customers access to quality and fairly-priced mobile financial services. Airbanq enables households to receive secure, alternative financial services (AFS) from within their trusted communities at the highest convenience and lowest possible cost. They also allow the users to remotely upload their checks and pick up the money at the express lines of their cash-out locations with adoption levels over 94% and retention levels of 76%.

InnerPlant

Seed Round in 2019
InnerPlant, Inc. manufactures genetically adapted living plant sensors. Its product InnerTomato a proprietary tomato plant that combines biotechnology, big data, and the internet of things and alerts farmers optically when it’s thirsty or sick, short of nutrients, and under attack by pests or fungi, they show different colors that can be seen by optical devices, such as smartphones. InnerPlant, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Davis, California.

Knowde

Pre Seed Round in 2017
knowde is the online marketing platform dedicated to chemicals and ingredients. They make it easy to connect with customers, online. Use knowde Pages to get your products noticed every time a customer searches on any search engine. Build your knowde Page in an hour and get started for free.

Tradesy

Series B in 2014
Tradesy, Inc. owns and operates an online marketplace for buying and selling designer fashion. The company’s Website connects sellers to like-minded buyers, provides packaging materials, recommends pricing, and handles returns in the areas of clothing, bags, shoes, and accessories. Its Website automates shipping and returns, enhancement of user-generated content, and authentication of designer goods. Tradesy, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Knowde

Series A in 2020
knowde is the online marketing platform dedicated to chemicals and ingredients. They make it easy to connect with customers, online. Use knowde Pages to get your products noticed every time a customer searches on any search engine. Build your knowde Page in an hour and get started for free.

Future Fields

Seed Round in 2021
They are Future Fields, a group of Canadian innovators working to expand the reach of cellular agriculture into accessible consumer products. To this end, we are currently focused on developing a cheap and effective serum-free growth media for producing cultured meat.

DeepScribe

Seed Round in 2021
DeepScribe is bringing the joy of care back to medicine with its artificially intelligent medical scribe. Imagine a world where you visit your patients and come back to your desk to see the entire appointment accurately documented for you in your Electronic Health Record (EHR) System. No frustrating voice dictation services. No expensive human/virtual scribes. No having to remember what you prescribed. That is what they are trying to accomplish at DeepScribe. Learn more at deepscribe.tech

Neighborly

Series A in 2017
Neighborly is a San Francisco–based startup focused on financing and deploying fiber-optic broadband infrastructure in communities around the U.S. Fiber broadband networks are the 21st century bridges to economic opportunity: critical for the economic and innovation output of the nation, and the essential foundation for every future-ready community. A fast-growing, venture-backed company at the intersection of public infrastructure, tech, and finance, Neighborly delivers critical fiber broadband infrastructure to communities, and opportunities to investors who care about closing the digital divide.

Synthesis AI, Inc.

Series A in 2022
Synthesis AI, Inc. operates as a data generation platform for computer vision. The company’s application offers fine programmatic control and enhance solutions. Synthesis AI, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Fiverun

Seed Round in 2015
Fiverun is a SaaS-based commerce platform that streamlines retail operations and offers brands greater digital capabilities in-store. Built on an open API framework, Fiverun's web and mobile-based solutions help enterprise brands and retailers better manage their front and back-of-store operations, enhance the in-store customer experience, and drive business results. Retail different.

Iris Automation Inc.

Series A in 2018
Iris Automation Inc. develops collision avoidance systems for operating industrial drones. The company offers an artificial intelligence computer that blends real-time images and 3D maps to track incoming objects. Its onboard software tracks and avoids dynamic and static objects on the ground and in the air at short-range and long-range. The company’s system is built to process visual data in real-time holding the capability to see structures that suddenly appear, such as a plane, flock of birds, and another drone. It serves the avionics industry worldwide. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional operation in Reno, Nevada.

SnapTravel

Series B in 2021
We believe the commerce should be as simple as chatting with a friend. We have built an engine that drives commerce over messaging. As our first implementation of this engine - we have chosen hotels. SnapTravel empowers customers to find and book hotel rooms over a conversational interface (SMS, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Alexa...). We use NLP and ML technology backed by humans to recommend hotels and deliver a delightful experience. We have driven over $100MM+ in sales exclusively over messaging. We have raised $20MM+ USD from tier-1 investors including iNovia, Telstra Ventures, Peter Kern (Chairman of the Board at Expedia) and NBA Superstar Steph Curry.

Crowdbotics

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Crowdbotics makes it faster than ever to build complete, scalable apps for business. With Crowdbotics any product manager can turn ideas into real code using a matched library of components and a network of on-call experts. Crowdbotics references a library of millions of production-grade software packages to identify the most effective components and workflows for a given project. Crowdbotics then handles infrastructure, implementation, maintenance, operations, monitoring, and security for the life of the project.

Koop Technologies, Inc

Seed Round in 2021
Koop Technologies, Inc develops a mobility insurance brokerage platform that lets autonomy operators get custom, data-driven, and scalable insurance solutions. Its platform provides technology and brokerage for autonomous mobility clients and insurance carriers. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

DeepScribe

Series A in 2022
DeepScribe is bringing the joy of care back to medicine with its artificially intelligent medical scribe. Imagine a world where you visit your patients and come back to your desk to see the entire appointment accurately documented for you in your Electronic Health Record (EHR) System. No frustrating voice dictation services. No expensive human/virtual scribes. No having to remember what you prescribed. That is what they are trying to accomplish at DeepScribe. Learn more at deepscribe.tech

EcoPackers Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
EcoPackers use the power of plants to create 100% biodegradable alternatives to traditional plastic inputs. Our eco-resins allow plastic manufacturers worldwide to create innovative non-toxic and compostable single use packaging items.

Zeus Living, Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
Zeus Living, Inc., a property management company, rents furnished housing properties to startups, students, and companies in the Bay Area. The company also manages furnished properties for property owners. It also develops a web based application, Zeus Living, which provides property information. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

FØCAL

Seed Round in 2017
FØCAL, LLC provides a web-based image analytics and automation solution to build computer vision systems. Its web-based solution provides computer vision algorithms to analyst workflows in medical diagnostics, life sciences research, facilities security, safety assessment, content moderation, sentiment analysis, brand affinity, financial indicators, remote sensing, command and control, geolytics, and manufacturing QC. The company’s solutions are used as scaffolding for computer vision applications in the cloud. FØCAL, LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

illumobile

Pre Seed Round in 2007
Illumobile is a private company that develops patent-pending technology for outdoor advertising.

Knowde

Series B in 2021
knowde is the online marketing platform dedicated to chemicals and ingredients. They make it easy to connect with customers, online. Use knowde Pages to get your products noticed every time a customer searches on any search engine. Build your knowde Page in an hour and get started for free.

Geosite, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Geosite, Inc. owns and operates an online platform that allows users to find, purchase, and utilize geospatial data. The platform gives its customers access to high-frequency satellite data, planning and logistics tools, and distributed sensor platform plug-ins. The platform leverages the proliferation in satellite imagery sources and distributed sensor systems. The company caters to customers, including the United States military and companies in the energy industry. Geosite, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Stanford, California.

Iris Automation Inc.

Series B in 2020
Iris Automation Inc. develops collision avoidance systems for operating industrial drones. The company offers an artificial intelligence computer that blends real-time images and 3D maps to track incoming objects. Its onboard software tracks and avoids dynamic and static objects on the ground and in the air at short-range and long-range. The company’s system is built to process visual data in real-time holding the capability to see structures that suddenly appear, such as a plane, flock of birds, and another drone. It serves the avionics industry worldwide. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional operation in Reno, Nevada.

Pencil Networks, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Messaging that make things happen

Buildingconnected

Series A in 2015
BuildingConnected, Inc. operates a construction communication platform. It enables users to find, communicate, and share documents with general contractors and subcontractors. In addition, it offers bid management, professional network, communication and collaboration, performance analytics, and integrated cloud storage; and enables data owners to view portfolio performance dashboard, communicate with nationwide network of service professionals, and do future planning for public entities. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of January 23, 2019, BuildingConnected, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc.

Preact

Seed Round in 2013
Preact (formerly Less Neglect) is a cloud-based customer success service that helps subscription software companies maximize customer lifetime value by reducing churn, acquiring new paid customers, and increasing user revenues. Preact provides health metrics tailored to each user and account by tracking detailed session-level usage of web and mobile applications and server APIs. Preact predicts and informs which customers are likely to churn, renew, or upgrade by modeling usage and behavior patterns using big data analytics, behavioral science, and machine learning. In addition, Preact provides deep, real-time visibility into product usage to dramatically improve customer support and product quality. Preact integrates with Gmail, Salesforce, Stripe, Zendesk, Desk.com, Helpscout, Mixpanel, and Marketo, and other leading cloud-based apps.

AxleHire

Series B in 2020
Axlehire, Inc. provides driver supply and logistics solutions. It offers same-day delivery, next-day delivery, and freight delivery services. The company also operates a mobile application and online platform to track the delivery. It serves meal kits and perishables, grocery, wine and spirits, prescription drugs, retail and e-commerce, commercial solutions industries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Leandro, California.

Unchained Logistics

Seed Round in 2019
Unchained Logistics, Inc. designs and develops logistics and supply chain management software for organizations. The company's platform automates the capabilities of our distributed network of fulfillment centers. The tool describes the store, products, and fulfillment requirements. It further selects the fulfillment provider and manages the inventory. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Vacatia, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Vacatia, Inc. owns and operates an online resort rental marketplace for vacationing families. It provides search results and booking for resort residences, fully managed and professionally serviced timeshare properties, and resort-condominium complexes. The company was formerly known as Vacation Listing Service, Inc. and changed its name to Vacatia, Inc. in June, 2013. Vacatia, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Voltaiq

Series A in 2018
Voltaiq offers a battery intelligence analytics platform that provides insights about batteries. It offers its services for battery OEMs, consumer electronics, automotive, and grid-scale energy storage industries.

Capio

Seed Round in 2014
Capio, Inc. develops smart automatic speech recognition solutions that transform human-to-machine communication into intuitive experiences. It offers smart ASR engine, a technology that recognizes speech in noisy environments, and learns individual accents and behavior patterns in various interactions. The company serves automotive, robotics, call center, voice biometric, home automation, and transcription industries. Capio, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Tradesy

Series B in 2015
Tradesy, Inc. owns and operates an online marketplace for buying and selling designer fashion. The company’s Website connects sellers to like-minded buyers, provides packaging materials, recommends pricing, and handles returns in the areas of clothing, bags, shoes, and accessories. Its Website automates shipping and returns, enhancement of user-generated content, and authentication of designer goods. Tradesy, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Tradesy

Series A in 2012
Tradesy, Inc. owns and operates an online marketplace for buying and selling designer fashion. The company’s Website connects sellers to like-minded buyers, provides packaging materials, recommends pricing, and handles returns in the areas of clothing, bags, shoes, and accessories. Its Website automates shipping and returns, enhancement of user-generated content, and authentication of designer goods. Tradesy, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

LocalWise

Seed Round in 2016
Localwise is an online job board that connects students and community members with jobs at local businesses. The site features full-time, part-time, and internship jobs available in Oakland, Berkley, and San Francisco. The jobs are posted under categories such as art and design, beauty and spa, construction, education, entertainment, food and drink, government, health and fitness, household help, non-profit, professional services, retail, startups and tech, and other. Localwise was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

SnapTravel

Series B in 2021
We believe the commerce should be as simple as chatting with a friend. We have built an engine that drives commerce over messaging. As our first implementation of this engine - we have chosen hotels. SnapTravel empowers customers to find and book hotel rooms over a conversational interface (SMS, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Alexa...). We use NLP and ML technology backed by humans to recommend hotels and deliver a delightful experience. We have driven over $100MM+ in sales exclusively over messaging. We have raised $20MM+ USD from tier-1 investors including iNovia, Telstra Ventures, Peter Kern (Chairman of the Board at Expedia) and NBA Superstar Steph Curry.

Vacatia, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Vacatia, Inc. owns and operates an online resort rental marketplace for vacationing families. It provides search results and booking for resort residences, fully managed and professionally serviced timeshare properties, and resort-condominium complexes. The company was formerly known as Vacation Listing Service, Inc. and changed its name to Vacatia, Inc. in June, 2013. Vacatia, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Florence Healthcare, Inc.

Series B in 2019
Florence advances clinical research through software. The Florence eBinder Suite replaces paper investigator site files, trial master files and source binders with a shared platform. This shared platform approach makes remote monitoring of eRegulatory and eSource documents possible while giving sponsors real-time insights into study progress. Hundreds of sponsors and sites worldwide trust Florence eBinders to move past paper study roadblocks and enable new approaches to trial management. Florence is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Iris Automation Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Iris Automation Inc. develops collision avoidance systems for operating industrial drones. The company offers an artificial intelligence computer that blends real-time images and 3D maps to track incoming objects. Its onboard software tracks and avoids dynamic and static objects on the ground and in the air at short-range and long-range. The company’s system is built to process visual data in real-time holding the capability to see structures that suddenly appear, such as a plane, flock of birds, and another drone. It serves the avionics industry worldwide. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional operation in Reno, Nevada.

Egomotion

Seed Round in 2011
Egomotion Corp. designs and develops mobile applications. It products include Status, an android application which shows user statuses before you call someone; Agent, a mobile application which is a set of tools that uses your context to help you throughout the day; and Trigger which helps to automate the task one does daily. Egomotion Corp. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

StatMuse Inc.

Series A in 2015
StatMuse is a sports statistics website that allows users to search for players and view customizable statistics. It's a creative technology company and is the leader in conversational AI for sports. It is powered by the personalities of over 25 sports superstars, including Peyton Manning, Todd Gurley, and Scott Van Pelt, StatMuse pioneered a platform for interactive storytelling by combining artificial intelligence with dynamic animation and augmented reality to bring digital personas to life. The company was founded in 2014 by two lifelong friends and is backed by Disney, Techstars Ventures, Greycroft, the NFL Players Association, and NBA Commissioner Emeritus, David Stern.

RBC Signals LLC

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

Xola, Inc.

Angel Round in 2014
Xola is a booking and marketing platform that powers businesses offering lifestyle experiences. Their software manages back-office and online reservations, payment processing, calendaring, inventory and guide management, and customer relationship management. Xola’s mission is to create the most elegant booking, marketing, and distribution system to power businesses offering lifestyle experiences. Xola's vision is to build universally-accessible software that fosters socio-economic exchange between people of different cultures, ultimately cultivating a more equitable and peaceful world.

DeepScribe

Seed Round in 2019
DeepScribe is bringing the joy of care back to medicine with its artificially intelligent medical scribe. Imagine a world where you visit your patients and come back to your desk to see the entire appointment accurately documented for you in your Electronic Health Record (EHR) System. No frustrating voice dictation services. No expensive human/virtual scribes. No having to remember what you prescribed. That is what they are trying to accomplish at DeepScribe. Learn more at deepscribe.tech

Pow Genetic Solutions

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Pow.bio provides intelligent fermentation services for industrial and synthetic biology, helping turn great ideas into profitable products. We combine continuous fermentation with advanced control methodology to quickly optimize your fermentation process and deliver high yields at low costs. Our scale runs from 1-100 liter capacity for bacteria, yeast, and filamentous fungi.

Airbanq, Inc.

Angel Round in 2014
Airbanq is a social mobile service that provides financial services. The mobile service offers high quality and affordable financial services to under-served communities by helping them cross the digital divide and adopt mobile financial services, with an innovative online to offline model. It has developed a check-cashing application that gives customers access to quality and fairly-priced mobile financial services. Airbanq enables households to receive secure, alternative financial services (AFS) from within their trusted communities at the highest convenience and lowest possible cost. They also allow the users to remotely upload their checks and pick up the money at the express lines of their cash-out locations with adoption levels over 94% and retention levels of 76%.

Skycatch, Inc.

Series A in 2013
Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data to provide companies with an accurate visualization of the physical world. It is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. They use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use. It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

TubeMogul

Seed Round in 2007
TubeMogul is the leading enterprise software company for digital branding. The world’s largest brands and agencies unify their video advertising on TubeMogul’s programmatic platform. By using a single, integrated solution, TubeMogul’s clients gain control over their video spend, simplify their workflow and verify the success of their campaigns. Founded in 2006, TubeMogul is based in Emeryville, California with offices across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Voltaiq

Seed Round in 2016
Voltaiq offers a battery intelligence analytics platform that provides insights about batteries. It offers its services for battery OEMs, consumer electronics, automotive, and grid-scale energy storage industries.

Breezy

Angel Round in 2011
Breezy is a cloud-based mobile printing solution that makes it easy to print anything from any device to any printer. Breezy's architecture supports hundreds of file types and all printers, regardless of whether the printers are wifi or Bluetooth-capable. The free Breezy Connector software acts as a bridge between users' printer and the company's servers, which keep an up-to-date list of printers available to each user; documents are then sent securely from a user's mobile device, through the server and to the printer selected by the user.

Embroker

Series A in 2016
Embroker is the easiest way to intelligently ensure any business. By pairing technology and broker expertise, Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage. As the leading digital insurance brokerage, Embroker is working to massively improve the $800 billion property and casualty (P&C) insurance market. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have offices in Chicago and Boston and customers in all 50 states.

LeadGenius

Seed Round in 2012
LeadGenius, Inc. provides lead generation and outreach processes for businesses, development organizations, nonprofits, and researchers in the United States and internationally. It provides customer research to produce lists of leads, customers, and industries; data enrichment by auditing lead list, updating contacts, correcting misspellings, and deleting outdated information; lead qualifications by separating qualified leads from dead ends, evaluating lead information, and following-up with leads over email or phone; and outbound Email prospecting/sales prospecting. LeadGenius, Inc. was formerly known as MobileWorks, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Zipongo

Seed Round in 2012
Are you an employer or health plan looking for an easy way to engage individuals in healthy and sustainable eating habits that drive positive results for you and your employees or members? You’ve come to the right place. Foodsmart’s program delivers uniquely personalized food recommendations tied to content and tools that enable healthy eating at home and at work. Our scalable, easy-to-implement platform offers health plans and employers actionable data and insights into how diet affects the overall health of their employees. The result: positive member and employee health outcomes, and significant reductions in health costs. Learn more at www.foodsmart.com

Rapid Robotics, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Rapid Robotics provides box automation for manufacturers. It's Rapid Machine Operator (RMO) enables manufacturers to easily deploy a pre-trained cobot in just a few hours. It performs dozens of simple machine tasks to the highest quality standards and can quickly be redeployed to new tasks. With Rapid’s robotic machine operators, one employee can supervise as many as eight machines at a time using only an iPad. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SnapTravel

Series A in 2017
We believe the commerce should be as simple as chatting with a friend. We have built an engine that drives commerce over messaging. As our first implementation of this engine - we have chosen hotels. SnapTravel empowers customers to find and book hotel rooms over a conversational interface (SMS, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Alexa...). We use NLP and ML technology backed by humans to recommend hotels and deliver a delightful experience. We have driven over $100MM+ in sales exclusively over messaging. We have raised $20MM+ USD from tier-1 investors including iNovia, Telstra Ventures, Peter Kern (Chairman of the Board at Expedia) and NBA Superstar Steph Curry.

Iris Automation Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Iris Automation Inc. develops collision avoidance systems for operating industrial drones. The company offers an artificial intelligence computer that blends real-time images and 3D maps to track incoming objects. Its onboard software tracks and avoids dynamic and static objects on the ground and in the air at short-range and long-range. The company’s system is built to process visual data in real-time holding the capability to see structures that suddenly appear, such as a plane, flock of birds, and another drone. It serves the avionics industry worldwide. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional operation in Reno, Nevada.

Magoosh, Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
Magoosh, Inc. operates as an online multi-media test preparation company. The company uses short-form videos and practice questions to deliver tailored learning experiences through web and mobile applications. The services include preparatory materials for GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, SAT, ACT, Praxis, LSAT, MCAT, and IELTS. Magoosh, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Berkeley, California.

AxleHire

Series A in 2019
Axlehire, Inc. provides driver supply and logistics solutions. It offers same-day delivery, next-day delivery, and freight delivery services. The company also operates a mobile application and online platform to track the delivery. It serves meal kits and perishables, grocery, wine and spirits, prescription drugs, retail and e-commerce, commercial solutions industries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Leandro, California.

Earbits

Seed Round in 2011
Earbits provides 100% commercial-free, online radio, with no listener subscription fees. Choose from over 400 stations of music, hand picked and curated by a team of music editors. Available worldwide on the web and on Android.

StatMuse Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
StatMuse is a sports statistics website that allows users to search for players and view customizable statistics. It's a creative technology company and is the leader in conversational AI for sports. It is powered by the personalities of over 25 sports superstars, including Peyton Manning, Todd Gurley, and Scott Van Pelt, StatMuse pioneered a platform for interactive storytelling by combining artificial intelligence with dynamic animation and augmented reality to bring digital personas to life. The company was founded in 2014 by two lifelong friends and is backed by Disney, Techstars Ventures, Greycroft, the NFL Players Association, and NBA Commissioner Emeritus, David Stern.

Iris Automation Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Iris Automation Inc. develops collision avoidance systems for operating industrial drones. The company offers an artificial intelligence computer that blends real-time images and 3D maps to track incoming objects. Its onboard software tracks and avoids dynamic and static objects on the ground and in the air at short-range and long-range. The company’s system is built to process visual data in real-time holding the capability to see structures that suddenly appear, such as a plane, flock of birds, and another drone. It serves the avionics industry worldwide. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional operation in Reno, Nevada.

Node

Seed Round in 2016
Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solution offers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams. Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures.