Black Diamond Ventures

Prellis Biologics is building human tissues for drug development, and ultimately, developing human organs for transplantation. Bioprinting vascularized human tissue and organs will revolutionize healthcare. Prellis Biologics'​ technology leverages massive gains in print speed and resolution to break the microvasculature barrier. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Engage develops a cloud-based platform that provides product and pricing data and insights. Through data science and analytics, the company assists retailers and brands in improving their pricing performance. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Davis, California.

Strateos operates a robotic cloud laboratory that automates chemistry, biology, and tissue analysis to enhance drug discovery processes. By integrating advanced robotics, control systems, and sophisticated imaging and analytics software, Strateos allows pharmaceutical companies to discover new drug candidates more efficiently. The company emerged from a merger between Transcriptic, known for its pioneering robotic cloud laboratory platform, and 3Scan, which specialized in using automation and machine learning to analyze tissue samples. This combination enables Strateos to provide a comprehensive suite of technologies designed to streamline the drug discovery and early development phases. By transforming life science methodologies into data-driven processes, Strateos aims to create a more efficient and cost-effective approach to scientific research, positioning itself as a valuable partner to biotechnology firms seeking to innovate in the field.

Atonarp combines electronics and data processing algorithms for chemical composition analysis. Atonarp’s Smart Spectrometer will enable manufacturers of gas-composition analysis instruments, such as field-based gas chromatography equipment, to achieve breakthrough improvements in cost, size, accuracy, and maintenance-free operation without the need for expensive carrier gases. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Engage develops a cloud-based platform that provides product and pricing data and insights. Through data science and analytics, the company assists retailers and brands in improving their pricing performance. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Davis, California.

Berkeley Lights is a provider of research and development services using micro-droplet technology intended to fundamentally change the way biological processes are done. The company's services revolutionize how scientists and researchers study the interaction of cells and transform and accelerate cellular therapies, enabling clients to meet the demands for cell-based processes in biotherapeutic discovery and development, cellular therapy manufacturing, synthetic biology, ag-bio, and other fields.

LiquidSpace transforms the entire commercial real estate process. The LiquidSpace platform makes it easy to discover, transact, and manage your office space on flexible terms and puts the commercial real estate buyer in control. We’re removing the complexities of the traditional office rental process, and cultivating flexibility with the largest flexible office marketplace and a licensing standard that eliminates the need for complex, long-term leases. Providing on-demand workspace by the hour or day, a dedicated workspace for a month, or private office suites for your team for a year, LiquidSpace can help you compare options from the broadest network of operators at LiquidSpace.com.

Consumer Brands is a platform development, workflow automation, machine learning, and premium content enterprise. Focused on consumer and healthcare information, products, and services, its brand properties have been engineered by a technical and creative team of scientists, doctors, journalists, artist, programmers, and developers. Its approach to domain acquisition and development places a higher value on quality than quantity. It deeply analyzes their domain acquisition targets and then strives to develop them in a way that creates real value for the site visitors. Its experience has been that at the current stage of evolution of the web, a few well designed and properly marketed sites generate a significantly better return than a large portfolio of less developed domains. Consumer Brands finds success through adherence to its core values and strives to promote a culture of respect, learning, and creativity.

Founded in 2006 and acquired by payvia in 2013, Mogreet is the leading text message marketing platform focusing on the delivery of fully branded, rich media to mobile devices via MMS. The company works with leading marketers in entertainment, media, retail, consumer products, health care and real estate. Currently supported in over 175 countries, Mogreet's messaging platform can reach 2 billion consumers globally. In 2013, Mogreet launched Mogreet Express, the first self-service MMS text messaging platform, allowing small businesses to engage with customers and increase sales by sending multimedia rich messages. Mogreet's newly released APIs let developers quickly send SMS or MMS messaging ($0.01 each per send) and add MMS, SMS, video, rich media messaging to apps. This Venice, California based company started as a mobile greetings company and went on to develop a mobile messaging platform with the capability to send MMS messages with high quality and optimized video, images, audio, and social media integration. Mogreet was acquired in 2013 by the mobile payments industry leader, payvia to build a single solution that allows brands of all sizes to target, transact and engage with customers.

Capella is the industry leader of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) applications. Capella's intelligent subsystems provide the best performing wavelength management products on the market offering dynamic, remote reconfigurability with fully integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM), essential technology for next-generation ROADMs.

iReady is a manufacturing company that specializes in developing silicon based TCP/IP stack processing solutions. Their products are HDL designed implementations that can be reused in OEM designs. The company's patented TCP/IP stack technology provides full transport off-load for high performance Ethernet networking. iReady was founded by Mike Johnson in 1996 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.