Blackhorn Ventures

Blackhorn Ventures is an early-stage venture firm founded in 2016 and based in Boulder, Colorado. The firm focuses on investing in companies that leverage advanced engineering to enhance resource productivity, primarily within the technology sector. Blackhorn Ventures manages the Industrial Impact Fund II, which aims to invest in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The fund targets various sectors, including energy, information technology, materials and resources, software as a service, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and industrial applications. Blackhorn Ventures specifically seeks impact investments that align with sustainability standards.

Jack Fuchs

Co-Founder & Operating Partner

Logan Grizzel

CTO & Partner

Ray Levitt

Operating Partner

Mark Loch

Operating Partner

Phillip O'Connor

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Amanda Rohrer

Senior Associate

Jordanna Shutz

Operating Partner

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Isometric Technologies

Series A in 2022
Isometric Technologies is a performance management solution for the supply chain industry.

Agorus

Seed Round in 2022
Agorus operates within the Architectural and Structural Metals Manufacturing industry, focusing on the development of innovative software for residential construction. The company offers technology that transforms architectural plans into three-dimensional models, allowing for the breakdown of homes into panelized components. This approach facilitates virtual reality walkthroughs and augmented reality installation guides, which enhance the construction process. By digitizing designs, Agorus aims to minimize construction time while improving precision and efficiency in building projects.

ecoworks

Convertible Note in 2022
ecoworks GmbH is a construction and geothermal company based in Berlin, Germany, specializing in the modernization of multi-family houses up to four stories. The company focuses on the renewal of building facades, roofs, windows, and basement ceiling insulation. Additionally, ecoworks provides heat and power solutions through solar systems installed on rooftops. Utilizing industrial prefabrication, digital processes, and efficient energy systems, ecoworks aims to complete these modernization projects within a few weeks, enhancing the sustainability and energy efficiency of residential buildings.

CoFi

Seed Round in 2022
CoFi is a digital platform designed to enhance the construction lending process through integrative business software. The platform automates and modernizes the construction payment process, effectively addressing inefficiencies and providing greater predictability and consistency for residential and commercial projects. By streamlining payment management, CoFi enables banks and private lenders to efficiently manage and scale their construction portfolios. Additionally, the platform empowers contractors by facilitating project funding that is backed by on-demand payments, thereby improving their financial flexibility and access to necessary resources.

Optera

Seed Round in 2022
Optera is the ESG software platform used by many of the world's most established and ambitious corporate sustainability programs. Optera blends a complete emissions platform (scope 1, 2, and 3) with expert in-house practitioners to provide customers with a comprehensive solution to even the most complex carbon accounting challenges. From a first-time inventory and complete scope 3 accounting to science-based targets and achieving net-zero, the Optera platform supports companies at any stage of their ESG journey. Optera also goes beyond internal management and connects our clients with their suppliers, portfolio companies, or customers to enable meaningful action and engagement across their value chain. Companies of every size and industry use Optera from Dell and HPE to Grove Collaborative and William-Sonoma. Our expert team collaborates with leading NGOs such as BSR, CDP, and the World Economic Forum to advance corporate ESG practices globally.

Optera

Seed Round in 2022
Optera is the ESG software platform used by many of the world's most established and ambitious corporate sustainability programs. Optera blends a complete emissions platform (scope 1, 2, and 3) with expert in-house practitioners to provide customers with a comprehensive solution to even the most complex carbon accounting challenges. From a first-time inventory and complete scope 3 accounting to science-based targets and achieving net-zero, the Optera platform supports companies at any stage of their ESG journey. Optera also goes beyond internal management and connects our clients with their suppliers, portfolio companies, or customers to enable meaningful action and engagement across their value chain. Companies of every size and industry use Optera from Dell and HPE to Grove Collaborative and William-Sonoma. Our expert team collaborates with leading NGOs such as BSR, CDP, and the World Economic Forum to advance corporate ESG practices globally.

Vecna Robotics

Series C in 2022
Vecna Robotics, Inc. specializes in the development and marketing of robotic autonomous vehicles aimed at enhancing logistics and material handling operations. Founded in 2018 and based in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company offers a range of solutions including automated material handling, hybrid fulfillment, and workflow optimization. Its flagship product, Pivot.al, is a multi-agent AI-based orchestration engine that monitors operational states and adjusts processes to ensure optimal performance across all team members. Additionally, Vecna provides Beacon, a comprehensive solution that integrates software updates, data analytics, and remote operations, enabling the analysis of data collected by its robots. By focusing on the integration of workflows with robotic systems, Vecna Robotics seeks to revolutionize customer productivity through advanced automation technologies.

Rhumbix

Venture Round in 2021
Rhumbix, Inc. develops and delivers a mobile platform for construction field supervision to ensure crews have the materials, tools, equipment, and approved drawings to complete the day’s work. Its platform allows information flow upwards through mobile tools designed for the craft workforce, captures accurate data from the field in real-time, and provides project managers with data-driven insights to improve site safety and labor productivity, as well as empowers foremen and work crews by providing daily feedback on performance. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Latent AI

Series A in 2021
Latent AI, Inc. develops a platform for optimization for edge devices that enables smart Internet of things (IoT) applications. It offers Latent AI Efficient Interence Platform (LEIP) that enables developers to train, quantize, and deploy edge AI neural networks. The company’s LEIP is designed for AI, embedded, and software application developers to enable, deploy, and manage AI for the edge. Latent AI, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Menlo Park, California. It has additional office in Skillman, New Jersey.

QuoteToMe

Venture Round in 2021
QuoteToMe is a technology-driven solution that streamlines the procurement process for construction contractors by digitizing inventory, equipment, and temporary services acquisition. The company's innovative One Touch PO device automates the creation of purchase orders, simplifying the purchasing experience. By modernizing communication and access to quotes, QuoteToMe aims to transform the way construction materials, equipment, and services are sourced for projects, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness in the construction industry.

FutureProof Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
FutureProof Technologies is a financial analytics software company specializing in physical climate risks.

Toggle

Series A in 2021
Toggle is a company based in the United States that specializes in robotics as a service (RaaS) for the construction industry, specifically focusing on the assembly of rebar cages for reinforced concrete. The company has developed two-arm robotic platforms and proprietary jig designs that enable the construction of rebar structures directly from computer blueprints, allowing for greater precision and efficiency in construction processes. By integrating industrial robotics and automation into traditional construction methods, Toggle aims to transform the way infrastructure and buildings are created, addressing the increasing complexity of modern construction projects.

Briq

Series B in 2021
Briq offers a comprehensive suite of modern technology for construction companies that includes AI based forecasting, search and automation to help modernize financial management of construction companies of all sizes. Briq helps general and specialty contractors use their data to drive better outcomes for all phases of construction. We use great technology such as automation, machine learning, and predictive technology to help enhance fee, stop fee erosion, and freeze overhead costs.

Safehub

Series A in 2021
Safehub Inc. specializes in technology and structural health monitoring services aimed at enhancing property-related risk modeling and planning. The company offers the Safehub Global Platform, which utilizes physics-based technology, sensors, and artificial intelligence to provide real-time, building-specific data on structural health. This platform enables corporations to manage catastrophe risk effectively, refine insurance and risk reduction strategies, and expedite emergency response and recovery efforts shortly after a disaster occurs. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Safehub is dedicated to delivering critical risk information that supports risk managers in their decision-making processes.

Optera

Seed Round in 2021
Optera is the ESG software platform used by many of the world's most established and ambitious corporate sustainability programs. Optera blends a complete emissions platform (scope 1, 2, and 3) with expert in-house practitioners to provide customers with a comprehensive solution to even the most complex carbon accounting challenges. From a first-time inventory and complete scope 3 accounting to science-based targets and achieving net-zero, the Optera platform supports companies at any stage of their ESG journey. Optera also goes beyond internal management and connects our clients with their suppliers, portfolio companies, or customers to enable meaningful action and engagement across their value chain. Companies of every size and industry use Optera from Dell and HPE to Grove Collaborative and William-Sonoma. Our expert team collaborates with leading NGOs such as BSR, CDP, and the World Economic Forum to advance corporate ESG practices globally.

Xwing

Series B in 2021
Xwing, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco that specializes in autonomous flight systems for unmanned aircraft. Founded in 2016, Xwing develops software that integrates sensors and mapping capabilities with onboard flight control systems, enabling regional aircraft to navigate, take off, and land safely. The company's solutions are designed for aerospace manufacturers, facilitating the safe operation of uncrewed aircraft in various airspaces under ground supervision. By assembling a team of experts from the aerospace and software industries, Xwing aims to advance the future of pilotless flight for small passenger aircraft.

VEERUM

Series A in 2021
VEERUM Inc. is an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company based in Calgary, Canada, that specializes in digital technology for asset ownership. Founded in 2014, the company has developed an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to predict and resolve project issues, thereby optimizing asset management throughout the lifecycle of design, fabrication, and construction. VEERUM's Asset Visualization Platform allows stakeholders to access real-time data and insights through a secure cloud-based solution, presenting aggregated asset information within a 3D model for enhanced transparency and audit history. By leveraging sensor technology to create digital replicas of physical projects, VEERUM aids clients in accelerating their transition to digital asset ownership, ultimately supporting the development and maintenance of critical infrastructure.

Modulous

Seed Round in 2021
Our planet doesn't have sufficient homes. Our technology will help change that. We're a team of designers, engineers and technologists dedicated to creating a technology platform designed to enable the high-speed design & delivery of quality, sustainable, healthy & affordable housing, globally.

CytoVale

Debt Financing in 2021
CytoVale, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing biomarkers derived from the mechanical properties of individual cells, a field known as mechanomics. Utilizing advanced microfluidics technology, CytoVale routes and physically probes these cells to measure multiple biomarkers simultaneously. The company's innovative approach aims to transform diagnostics, particularly in the early detection of sepsis, enhancing patient outcomes while also reducing treatment costs. Established in 2012, CytoVale combines the principles of cell mechanics with machine learning to create reliable biophysical markers that can significantly improve clinical decision-making.

Agorus

Seed Round in 2020
Agorus operates within the Architectural and Structural Metals Manufacturing industry, focusing on the development of innovative software for residential construction. The company offers technology that transforms architectural plans into three-dimensional models, allowing for the breakdown of homes into panelized components. This approach facilitates virtual reality walkthroughs and augmented reality installation guides, which enhance the construction process. By digitizing designs, Agorus aims to minimize construction time while improving precision and efficiency in building projects.

Foresight Group, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Foresight Group, Inc. specializes in providing workers compensation insurance products tailored for safety-critical industries, including construction, light industrial, manufacturing, agriculture, and logistics. Incorporated in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California, the company utilizes a technology-driven approach to enhance its offerings. Foresight's proprietary risk management software, evaluated by leading insurance actuaries, is designed to improve safety engagement and effectively reduce the frequency of workplace incidents. The company also provides risk management technology aimed at both brokers and insureds, offering features such as fast pricing indications, online submissions, and in-app reporting. This innovative approach delivers significant value for businesses seeking to enhance safety while achieving cost savings.

Safesite

Series A in 2020
Safesite Solutions, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2014 that offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed for high-risk industries. The platform assists organizations in managing their safety and compliance needs through innovative mobile and field-based technologies, alongside ongoing virtual safety coaching. Safesite has demonstrated its effectiveness by helping customers reduce workplace incidents by up to 57%. With over 4,000 companies in the United States utilizing its services, Safesite aims to streamline compliance activities, enhance team safety engagement, and empower workers to become safety champions within their organizations.

Foresight Group, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Foresight Group, Inc. specializes in providing workers compensation insurance products tailored for safety-critical industries, including construction, light industrial, manufacturing, agriculture, and logistics. Incorporated in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California, the company utilizes a technology-driven approach to enhance its offerings. Foresight's proprietary risk management software, evaluated by leading insurance actuaries, is designed to improve safety engagement and effectively reduce the frequency of workplace incidents. The company also provides risk management technology aimed at both brokers and insureds, offering features such as fast pricing indications, online submissions, and in-app reporting. This innovative approach delivers significant value for businesses seeking to enhance safety while achieving cost savings.

BixData

Seed Round in 2020
BixData is a comprehensive monitoring tool designed for system, application, and network oversight, allowing users to effectively track various aspects of server performance. It is focused on next-generation IT management, providing organizations with the ability to maintain optimal operational efficiency. The platform is particularly suited for environments that require close monitoring of IoT and edge applications. BixData's capabilities facilitate data processing at the source, enhancing the management of data generated by sensors and devices. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Colorado, United States.

Sustainment

Seed Round in 2020
Sustainment is an online software platform that efficiently connects manufacturing vendors and heavy industry to enable American manufacturing. Their platform incorporates data infrastructure technology, algorithm-based matching and optimization, encrypted transfer protocols, semi-autonomous sourcing techniques, and excellent UX design to provide an intuitive customer experience for sourcing teams and manufacturing vendors.

Optera

Seed Round in 2020
Optera is the ESG software platform used by many of the world's most established and ambitious corporate sustainability programs. Optera blends a complete emissions platform (scope 1, 2, and 3) with expert in-house practitioners to provide customers with a comprehensive solution to even the most complex carbon accounting challenges. From a first-time inventory and complete scope 3 accounting to science-based targets and achieving net-zero, the Optera platform supports companies at any stage of their ESG journey. Optera also goes beyond internal management and connects our clients with their suppliers, portfolio companies, or customers to enable meaningful action and engagement across their value chain. Companies of every size and industry use Optera from Dell and HPE to Grove Collaborative and William-Sonoma. Our expert team collaborates with leading NGOs such as BSR, CDP, and the World Economic Forum to advance corporate ESG practices globally.

Locomation

Convertible Note in 2020
Locomation, Inc. is a technology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specializes in the development of a trucking platform integrating artificial intelligence with driver support systems. Founded in 2016, Locomation focuses on enhancing safety in the trucking industry by utilizing AI-driven solutions to reduce accidents involving trucks. The company's offerings include autonomous vehicles and systems designed for both commercial and defense applications, aiming to improve operational efficiency and safety in logistics.

Otonomi

Pre Seed Round in 2020
OTONOMI is a B2B SaaS for insurance carriers. Our platform drives efficiencies in operations by automating claims, saving insurance 90% in admin costs. As a result, we create a "no-claim" experience for policyholders and project to return more than $30B in unclaimed money to the consumers every year. This month, we are launching our beta program with a first travel partner to monetize more than 5,000 policies per year.

Humatics

Series B in 2020
Humatics’ breakthrough microlocation system and analytics software comprise a Spatial Intelligence Platform™ that will revolutionize how people and machines locate, navigate and collaborate. A single Humatics system, using simple, inexpensive radio-frequency technology, can pinpoint multiple, moving transponder targets at ranges up to thirty meters with millimeter-scale precision, vastly outperforming existing systems at a fraction of the cost. These systems can network together to provide broader, ultra-precise positioning coverage – from factory work cells to entire distribution centers and beyond. With its extensible architecture and application programming interfaces (APIs), the Spatial Intelligence Platform™ will power an ecosystem of new position-based products and services. Humatics was founded in 2015 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor David Mindell and technology industry veteran Gary Cohen. Headquartered in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Humatics has grown to include a world-class team of radar experts, programmers, roboticists, software engineers, and product development leaders.

Locomation

Seed Round in 2020
Locomation, Inc. is a technology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specializes in the development of a trucking platform integrating artificial intelligence with driver support systems. Founded in 2016, Locomation focuses on enhancing safety in the trucking industry by utilizing AI-driven solutions to reduce accidents involving trucks. The company's offerings include autonomous vehicles and systems designed for both commercial and defense applications, aiming to improve operational efficiency and safety in logistics.

Safehub

Seed Round in 2020
Safehub Inc. specializes in technology and structural health monitoring services aimed at enhancing property-related risk modeling and planning. The company offers the Safehub Global Platform, which utilizes physics-based technology, sensors, and artificial intelligence to provide real-time, building-specific data on structural health. This platform enables corporations to manage catastrophe risk effectively, refine insurance and risk reduction strategies, and expedite emergency response and recovery efforts shortly after a disaster occurs. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Safehub is dedicated to delivering critical risk information that supports risk managers in their decision-making processes.

Dexterity

Series A in 2020
Dexterity Inc, founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in developing robotic solutions tailored for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain applications. The company offers a robots-as-a-service model that enhances operations such as fulfillment, kitting, packing, palletizing, depalletizing, and sortation. Dexterity's innovative robots are designed to exhibit human-like dexterity, enabling them to pick and place various items effectively while adapting gracefully to unpredictable environments.

Grid Raster

Venture Round in 2020
GridRaster provides the underlying compute and network stack to power high-end VR/AR experiences on mobile platforms by leveraging the edge cloud. The solution provides high-performance graphics at ultra low latency, while improving the overall performance by 10x. Our vision is to drive the mass adoption of VR/AR by dramatically improving the reach of exciting content and bringing breathtaking immersive experiences to users.

Buzz Solutions

Seed Round in 2020
Buzz Solutions, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence-based software platform aimed at enhancing the inspection of energy infrastructure, specifically power lines. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers an image-recognition solution that identifies defects and anomalies in utility infrastructure. The platform automates the process of storing and analyzing visual data collected through drones and helicopters, using AI algorithms to generate actionable insights, predictive analytics, and heat maps. This technology enables power utilities to significantly reduce the time and costs associated with data analysis by over 50%, facilitating condition-based maintenance. As a result, Buzz Solutions' offerings contribute to preventing wildfires, power outages, and other adverse effects related to climate change on critical grid infrastructure.

Locomation

Venture Round in 2020
Locomation, Inc. is a technology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specializes in the development of a trucking platform integrating artificial intelligence with driver support systems. Founded in 2016, Locomation focuses on enhancing safety in the trucking industry by utilizing AI-driven solutions to reduce accidents involving trucks. The company's offerings include autonomous vehicles and systems designed for both commercial and defense applications, aiming to improve operational efficiency and safety in logistics.

MetaMap

Seed Round in 2020
Mati enables builders in fast-growing, underserved regions with the digital identity tools they need to provide better trust-based services to more people. We're making starting this new type of 'Trust Economy' company as simple as setting up a store on Shopify.

Modulous

Seed Round in 2020
Our planet doesn't have sufficient homes. Our technology will help change that. We're a team of designers, engineers and technologists dedicated to creating a technology platform designed to enable the high-speed design & delivery of quality, sustainable, healthy & affordable housing, globally.

Briq

Series A in 2020
Briq offers a comprehensive suite of modern technology for construction companies that includes AI based forecasting, search and automation to help modernize financial management of construction companies of all sizes. Briq helps general and specialty contractors use their data to drive better outcomes for all phases of construction. We use great technology such as automation, machine learning, and predictive technology to help enhance fee, stop fee erosion, and freeze overhead costs.

Amperon

Seed Round in 2020
Amperon Holdings, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in New York, specializes in developing predictive tools for energy retailers and grid operators. The company utilizes smart meters to gather real-time energy data, providing insights with 15-minute resolution for various ratepayers, including residential, commercial, and industrial users. By leveraging this data, Amperon creates operational grid intelligence tools powered by artificial intelligence, which help utilities and energy retailers better manage grid volatility caused by factors such as climate disasters and global pandemics. With a significant number of smart meters installed across the country, Amperon aims to transform the energy sector and facilitate the transition to a smarter grid infrastructure.

Electriphi

Seed Round in 2020
Electriphi, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing an online platform and mobile application for managing the transition from conventional vehicle fleets to electric ones. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in San Jose, Electriphi provides a comprehensive suite of tools for fleet managers, energy utilities, and planning teams. Their Fleet Electrification Planning Tool offers energy cost analysis, infrastructure assessments, and evaluations of environmental impacts tailored to the specific characteristics of various fleets, including electric transit buses, school buses, and delivery vehicles. The company focuses on optimizing energy costs and enhancing operational readiness through its managed charging software, which incorporates artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.

GreenLight.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2020
GreenLight Workforce Solutions makes managing and paying independent workers streamlined, safe, and simple. The company handles admin tasks, manage risks, and give workers access to the tools and benefits they need to accomplish in today's workforce. GreenLight Workforce Solutions is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

GreenLight.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2020
GreenLight Workforce Solutions makes managing and paying independent workers streamlined, safe, and simple. The company handles admin tasks, manage risks, and give workers access to the tools and benefits they need to accomplish in today's workforce. GreenLight Workforce Solutions is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Aumni

Series A in 2020
Aumni is a data-driven investment management platform based in the United States that serves the venture capital industry. It offers a portfolio intelligence solution that helps venture capital firms enhance their operational efficiency and gain a competitive edge. Aumni's platform audits, analyzes, and visualizes key data from venture capital deal documents, extracting hundreds of data points to track critical insights, including investment rights, portfolio performance, and emerging investment trends. By converting complex deal data into a clear and error-free dataset, Aumni enables investors and venture firms to make informed strategic decisions and streamline their daily operations. The platform is designed for forward-thinking investment teams aiming to unlock and structure the vast amounts of untapped data within their portfolios.

Vecna Robotics

Series B in 2020
Vecna Robotics, Inc. specializes in the development and marketing of robotic autonomous vehicles aimed at enhancing logistics and material handling operations. Founded in 2018 and based in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company offers a range of solutions including automated material handling, hybrid fulfillment, and workflow optimization. Its flagship product, Pivot.al, is a multi-agent AI-based orchestration engine that monitors operational states and adjusts processes to ensure optimal performance across all team members. Additionally, Vecna provides Beacon, a comprehensive solution that integrates software updates, data analytics, and remote operations, enabling the analysis of data collected by its robots. By focusing on the integration of workflows with robotic systems, Vecna Robotics seeks to revolutionize customer productivity through advanced automation technologies.

eDraw

Seed Round in 2020
eDraw, Inc. develops cloud based eDraw proprietary software. It offers construction payment process for residential, commercial, and SBA loans. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Alpine, Utah.

Drawboard

Series A in 2019
Drawboard Pty Ltd, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, specializes in PDF markup and collaboration solutions tailored for design and construction teams. The company's primary products include Drawboard PDF, an application that facilitates the marking up, discussion, and tracking of design issues on drawing revisions, and Bullclip, a design communication platform that enhances collaboration within workspaces. With an additional office in New York, Drawboard aims to improve project communication and efficiency within the architecture, engineering, and construction sectors.

CytoVale

Series B in 2019
CytoVale, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing biomarkers derived from the mechanical properties of individual cells, a field known as mechanomics. Utilizing advanced microfluidics technology, CytoVale routes and physically probes these cells to measure multiple biomarkers simultaneously. The company's innovative approach aims to transform diagnostics, particularly in the early detection of sepsis, enhancing patient outcomes while also reducing treatment costs. Established in 2012, CytoVale combines the principles of cell mechanics with machine learning to create reliable biophysical markers that can significantly improve clinical decision-making.

ALICE Technologies

Series A in 2019
ALICE empowers construction engineering and management professionals with modern AI and Optimization techniques. Its software automatically produces detailed schedules and resource allocations, which accurately estimate the cost and time frame for a project. Users understand the construction process through an interactive visualization, and can quickly tweak or modify a schedule to reflect the shifting realities of the construction cycle. It is born out of research at Stanford by a collaborative effort between experienced construction managers, software engineers, and computational methods specialists. ALICE enhances construction planning and scheduling abilities to help keep crews flowing on any size project. It works directly with 3D BIM and using a simple rule-based system, it explores millions of different schedule sequences and gives teams the power to answer “What If?” scenarios and completely reschedule in just minutes. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Dwellsy

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Dwellsy, Inc. is a company that focuses on developing a platform for residential home rentals. Founded in 2019 and based in Los Altos, California, Dwellsy offers an online portal where property owners and managers can list their vacant units, while renters can search for homes that meet their specific needs. The platform is designed to facilitate organic search, contrasting with the pay-to-play model used by many existing rental listing services. This approach aims to enhance the value of the rental search experience for both property owners and potential tenants.

Briq

Seed Round in 2019
Briq offers a comprehensive suite of modern technology for construction companies that includes AI based forecasting, search and automation to help modernize financial management of construction companies of all sizes. Briq helps general and specialty contractors use their data to drive better outcomes for all phases of construction. We use great technology such as automation, machine learning, and predictive technology to help enhance fee, stop fee erosion, and freeze overhead costs.

Motiv Power Systems

Series A in 2019
Motiv Power Systems Inc., founded in 2009 and headquartered in Foster City, California, specializes in the design and manufacture of electric powered intelligent chassis for commercial medium and heavy-duty vehicles. The company’s EPIC (Electric Powered Intelligent Chassis) family is CARB certified and caters to various applications, including school buses, shuttle buses, box trucks, and specialty vehicles. These chassis deliver high performance while eliminating emissions, noise, and vibration associated with traditional gasoline and diesel engines. Motiv is recognized as a Ford eQVM-approved provider, benefiting from engineering support to enhance safety and reliability. With over 750,000 miles logged in Fortune 50 fleet deployments across North America, Motiv's products not only lower operating and maintenance costs but also contribute to a healthier environment for communities and reduce driver fatigue.

Grid Raster

Seed Round in 2019
GridRaster provides the underlying compute and network stack to power high-end VR/AR experiences on mobile platforms by leveraging the edge cloud. The solution provides high-performance graphics at ultra low latency, while improving the overall performance by 10x. Our vision is to drive the mass adoption of VR/AR by dramatically improving the reach of exciting content and bringing breathtaking immersive experiences to users.

Agerpoint

Series B in 2019
AGERpoint, Inc. specializes in information management solutions for growers of tree and vine crops, as well as for insurers and investors. The company develops technologies that enhance data acquisition, analysis, and translation, utilizing techniques such as LiDAR to deliver precise agricultural data. AGERpoint's key products include AGERmetrix, a crop data and analytics platform, GroveTracker, which provides essential geographical and phenotypical data, VitalityTracker, which employs multispectral imaging for detailed plant analysis, and YieldTracker, which monitors harvests on a row-by-row basis. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, AGERpoint aims to equip growers with critical insights into their crops to optimize management and productivity.

OnePointOne

Seed Round in 2019
OnePointOne is a developer of an automated indoor farming platform that supplies fresh food and technology to retail and beyond. It automates the vertical farming process to fill the globally widening gap between supply and demand for fresh produce. With a sophisticated, proprietary, and competitively-distinct combination of Plant Science, Robotics, Farming, and Machine Learning technologies, OPO's automated farming platform will support the cultivation requirements of dozens of industries. Its rapidly growing first-class team is fervently committed to building a farming platform that has the potential to conquer global issues of malnutrition and agricultural sustainability. It was founded in 2017 and is based in San Jose, California.

Pype

Convertible Note in 2019
Pype, Inc. specializes in developing software solutions tailored for the construction industry, focusing on enhancing project management and ensuring contract compliance. Its key products include AutoSpecs, which employs algorithms to extract essential information from specifications; Closeout, a comprehensive portal for managing closeout documentation; eBinder, which organizes turnover documentation; and SmartPlans, which automates the extraction of submittals and schedules from drawings. Founded in 2013 and based in Chantilly, Virginia, with an office in Bengaluru, India, Pype has established itself as a leader in the field. Its innovative, web-based SaaS solutions leverage machine learning to simplify complex processes, making them invaluable to top construction firms across the United States. Pype's offerings are utilized by numerous firms listed in the ENR top 400, promoting improved quality assurance, standardization, and efficiency throughout the lifecycle of construction projects. Since becoming a subsidiary of Autodesk in 2020, Pype continues to evolve its products, incorporating user feedback to enhance functionality and meet market demands.

Rhumbix

Series B in 2019
Rhumbix, Inc. develops and delivers a mobile platform for construction field supervision to ensure crews have the materials, tools, equipment, and approved drawings to complete the day’s work. Its platform allows information flow upwards through mobile tools designed for the craft workforce, captures accurate data from the field in real-time, and provides project managers with data-driven insights to improve site safety and labor productivity, as well as empowers foremen and work crews by providing daily feedback on performance. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Align17

Seed Round in 2019
Align17 Ltd offers investment advice and operates a marketplace that brings investors in private impact deals together with private wealth clients. It provides its clients access and advice to investment in social and environmental opportunities. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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Aperia Technologies

Series C in 2019
Aperia Technologies, Inc. specializes in automatic tire inflation devices designed to enhance the safety and efficiency of commercial vehicles. The company's flagship product, the Halo Tire Inflator, is a ring-shaped device that utilizes the rotational motion of a wheel to automatically pump air and maintain optimal tire pressure, addressing issues such as minor leaks and temperature fluctuations. Aperia's products are utilized across various fleet vehicles, including buses, box trucks, tractors, trailers, and refuse vehicles. Founded in 2010, the company operates from Burlingame, California, and distributes its products through a network of dealers in the United States.

ManufactOn

Convertible Note in 2019
ManufactOn offers a cloud-based construction management software that focuses on prefab production and supply chain management for the construction industry. The platform provides tools that enable general contractors to manage construction materials and offsite production, as well as onsite installation. With its modular approach, ManufactOn allows users to track and oversee material and prefab processes across projects, shops, or companies, facilitating real-time project monitoring. The company is composed of experienced professionals from the architecture, engineering, and construction sectors, committed to enhancing efficiency and usability in construction practices.

Align17

Seed Round in 2019
Align17 Ltd offers investment advice and operates a marketplace that brings investors in private impact deals together with private wealth clients. It provides its clients access and advice to investment in social and environmental opportunities. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Pype

Seed Round in 2019
Pype, Inc. specializes in developing software solutions tailored for the construction industry, focusing on enhancing project management and ensuring contract compliance. Its key products include AutoSpecs, which employs algorithms to extract essential information from specifications; Closeout, a comprehensive portal for managing closeout documentation; eBinder, which organizes turnover documentation; and SmartPlans, which automates the extraction of submittals and schedules from drawings. Founded in 2013 and based in Chantilly, Virginia, with an office in Bengaluru, India, Pype has established itself as a leader in the field. Its innovative, web-based SaaS solutions leverage machine learning to simplify complex processes, making them invaluable to top construction firms across the United States. Pype's offerings are utilized by numerous firms listed in the ENR top 400, promoting improved quality assurance, standardization, and efficiency throughout the lifecycle of construction projects. Since becoming a subsidiary of Autodesk in 2020, Pype continues to evolve its products, incorporating user feedback to enhance functionality and meet market demands.

Phylagen

Series A in 2019
Phylagen, Inc. is a data analytics company based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on microbiome data solutions. Founded in 2014, the company employs DNA sequencing and machine learning to analyze complex genetic signatures found within the environmental microbiome. By transforming this extensive and largely unexplored dataset into actionable insights, Phylagen aims to support decision-making for businesses across various industries. Through its innovative approach, Phylagen harnesses the potential of microbial data to provide valuable analytics that can enhance operations and strategies for its clients.

Safehub

Convertible Note in 2019
Safehub Inc. specializes in technology and structural health monitoring services aimed at enhancing property-related risk modeling and planning. The company offers the Safehub Global Platform, which utilizes physics-based technology, sensors, and artificial intelligence to provide real-time, building-specific data on structural health. This platform enables corporations to manage catastrophe risk effectively, refine insurance and risk reduction strategies, and expedite emergency response and recovery efforts shortly after a disaster occurs. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Safehub is dedicated to delivering critical risk information that supports risk managers in their decision-making processes.

Humatics

Series A in 2019
Humatics’ breakthrough microlocation system and analytics software comprise a Spatial Intelligence Platform™ that will revolutionize how people and machines locate, navigate and collaborate. A single Humatics system, using simple, inexpensive radio-frequency technology, can pinpoint multiple, moving transponder targets at ranges up to thirty meters with millimeter-scale precision, vastly outperforming existing systems at a fraction of the cost. These systems can network together to provide broader, ultra-precise positioning coverage – from factory work cells to entire distribution centers and beyond. With its extensible architecture and application programming interfaces (APIs), the Spatial Intelligence Platform™ will power an ecosystem of new position-based products and services. Humatics was founded in 2015 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor David Mindell and technology industry veteran Gary Cohen. Headquartered in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Humatics has grown to include a world-class team of radar experts, programmers, roboticists, software engineers, and product development leaders.

GridCure

Convertible Note in 2019
GRIDCURE INC. provides advanced metering infrastructure solutions. Its solutions enable users to monitor bulk and individual power usage at finer granularity, allowing for analysis on large (grid health, energy balancing, load distribution, and peak load detection) and small (individual health detection and outage detection) scale of power data. The company specializes in grid health analysis, consumption signal processing, fraud detection, and automated communication and alert system. Its solutions also used for automated billing purposes. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

Pype

Convertible Note in 2018
Pype, Inc. specializes in developing software solutions tailored for the construction industry, focusing on enhancing project management and ensuring contract compliance. Its key products include AutoSpecs, which employs algorithms to extract essential information from specifications; Closeout, a comprehensive portal for managing closeout documentation; eBinder, which organizes turnover documentation; and SmartPlans, which automates the extraction of submittals and schedules from drawings. Founded in 2013 and based in Chantilly, Virginia, with an office in Bengaluru, India, Pype has established itself as a leader in the field. Its innovative, web-based SaaS solutions leverage machine learning to simplify complex processes, making them invaluable to top construction firms across the United States. Pype's offerings are utilized by numerous firms listed in the ENR top 400, promoting improved quality assurance, standardization, and efficiency throughout the lifecycle of construction projects. Since becoming a subsidiary of Autodesk in 2020, Pype continues to evolve its products, incorporating user feedback to enhance functionality and meet market demands.

SupplyShift

Series A in 2018
SupplyShift Inc. is a Santa Cruz, California-based company that provides a cloud-based platform designed for supply chain management. Founded in 2012, SupplyShift enables businesses to enhance visibility and responsibility throughout their supply chains by collecting and analyzing comprehensive supplier information. The platform serves various industries, including technology, food and beverage, and retail, by offering tools for custom assessments, benchmarking, and supplier improvement. Buyers can evaluate supplier risk profiles and access data that encourages competition and transparency among suppliers, while suppliers benefit from dashboards that illustrate their performance relative to industry peers. Key features include the ability to gather multi-tier supply chain data, analyze it flexibly, and promote best practices for responsible sourcing. Overall, SupplyShift aims to transform supply chain data into actionable insights, helping clients achieve greater accountability and efficiency.

Energy Web Foundation

Seed Round in 2018
Energy Web Foundation (EWF) is a global nonprofit unleashing blockchain’s potential in the energy sector. With offices in Switzerland, Germany, and the United States, they’ve assembled a stellar team of experienced energy and blockchain professionals to achieve their vision. Blockchain technology applied in the energy sector has the potential to reduce transaction costs, enhance data security and transparency, open markets to a larger number of active participants (consumers and devices), and accelerate the transition towards a digitalized, decarbonized, decentralized, democratized and resilient energy system.

Wunder

Series B in 2018
Wunder is a Boulder, Colorado-based company that specializes in financing and developing commercial solar projects. Founded in 2013, it provides construction and term financing solutions for various solar initiatives, including traditional power purchase agreements, community solar developments, and projects involving unrated credit offtakers. Additionally, Wunder develops software and collaborates with leading solar organizations and financial institutions to facilitate the construction of large-scale solar projects for businesses, municipalities, nonprofits, and communities throughout the United States. The company is notable for being the first solar entity to participate in the Techstars technology accelerator.

VEERUM

Seed Round in 2018
VEERUM Inc. is an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company based in Calgary, Canada, that specializes in digital technology for asset ownership. Founded in 2014, the company has developed an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to predict and resolve project issues, thereby optimizing asset management throughout the lifecycle of design, fabrication, and construction. VEERUM's Asset Visualization Platform allows stakeholders to access real-time data and insights through a secure cloud-based solution, presenting aggregated asset information within a 3D model for enhanced transparency and audit history. By leveraging sensor technology to create digital replicas of physical projects, VEERUM aids clients in accelerating their transition to digital asset ownership, ultimately supporting the development and maintenance of critical infrastructure.

Ethic

Seed Round in 2018
Ethic operates as a tech-driven asset manager that powers the creation of investment portfolios. It builds separately managed accounts (SMAs) optimized to track the market, align with one’s investment allocation, and outperform on a client’s chosen sustainability criteria. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

CytoVale

Series B in 2017
CytoVale, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing biomarkers derived from the mechanical properties of individual cells, a field known as mechanomics. Utilizing advanced microfluidics technology, CytoVale routes and physically probes these cells to measure multiple biomarkers simultaneously. The company's innovative approach aims to transform diagnostics, particularly in the early detection of sepsis, enhancing patient outcomes while also reducing treatment costs. Established in 2012, CytoVale combines the principles of cell mechanics with machine learning to create reliable biophysical markers that can significantly improve clinical decision-making.

DATTUS

Convertible Note in 2017
Here at DATTUS, they may be experts in industrial innovations, but really they consider theirselves to be guides. They help their clientele navigate Industry 4.0. Nothing brings us greater joy than to implement a system that saves companies millions—literally—by achieving near zero-downtime while simultaneously increasing safety and decreasing overhead. They help industrial facilities compete with hardware and software solutions that enable data-driven decision making. Their platform provides a seamless path for industries to make their operations “smart.” This allows companies to ensure value delivery in maintenance and reliability, operational efficiency, process and quality management, yield and throughput, environmental health and safety — and post-sale support and warranties for machinery OEMs. Located in Indianapolis, DATTUS was born out of an Entrepreneurship Program at Purdue University. In 2016, they won the Techpoint Mira Award for Best New Tech Product. While their roots are local, their vision is global. They believe in the promise of smart machines, the industrial internet - and the next industrial revolution. They’re committed to delivering on that promise to their customers, around the world.

Safesite

Seed Round in 2017
Safesite Solutions, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2014 that offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed for high-risk industries. The platform assists organizations in managing their safety and compliance needs through innovative mobile and field-based technologies, alongside ongoing virtual safety coaching. Safesite has demonstrated its effectiveness by helping customers reduce workplace incidents by up to 57%. With over 4,000 companies in the United States utilizing its services, Safesite aims to streamline compliance activities, enhance team safety engagement, and empower workers to become safety champions within their organizations.

Rhumbix

Series A in 2017
Rhumbix, Inc. develops and delivers a mobile platform for construction field supervision to ensure crews have the materials, tools, equipment, and approved drawings to complete the day’s work. Its platform allows information flow upwards through mobile tools designed for the craft workforce, captures accurate data from the field in real-time, and provides project managers with data-driven insights to improve site safety and labor productivity, as well as empowers foremen and work crews by providing daily feedback on performance. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.