Blackhorn Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in growth capital investments. It seeks to invest in technology, internet-of-things, artificial intelligence, healthcare, and energy efficiency sectors. Blackhorn Ventures is based in Boulder, California with an additional office in Palo Alto, California.

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Amperon raised $2000000 on 2020-04-13 in Seed Round

Amperon is a provider of smart meters to deliver real-time energy data forecasts. There over 70M smart meters currently installed in the country, collecting 15 minute resolution electricity data for every type of ratepayer (including residential, commercial, and industrial). The data has been relatively untapped for the past decade, and Amperon is leveraging it to charge forward and bring AI to the energy world to usher in the smart grid of the future.

Amperon

Sustainment raised $1600000 on 2020-11-04 in Seed Round

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.

Sustainment

Foresight Commercial Insurance raised $15000000 on 2020-12-22 in Venture Round

Foresight insures safety-critical businesses with a technology-first workers compensation program. A rigorous third-party evaluation by leading insurance actuaries found Foresight's proprietary risk management software improves safety engagement and reliably reduces workplace incident frequency. With fast pricing indications, online submissions, and in-app reporting, Foresight™ provides unrivaled value for brokers and businesses seeking safety and savings through technology.

Foresight Risk and Insurance Services

Align17 raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-03-19 in Seed Round

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.

Align17 Ltd

Safesite raised $15000000 on 2020-12-20 in Series A

Safesite is transforming the way companies in high-risk industries manage their everyday safety and compliance needs. By combining innovative mobile and field-based technologies with ongoing virtual safety coaching, Safesite has proven to help customers prevent workplace incidents by up to 57%. 

Over 4,000 US companies trust the Safesite platform to streamline and ensure compliance activities, drive team safety engagement and empower every worker in their organization to be a safety champion.

Safesite

Dexterity raised $56200000 on 2020-07-22 in Series A

Dexterity offers robots as a service solution for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain operations. The company excels in fulfillment, kitting, packing, palletizing or depalletizing, and sortation. The company develops robots with human-like dexterity in warehouses, robots that pick and place anything, and robots that gracefully adapt to unpredictable situations.

Dexterity is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Dexterity

Amperon raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-04-16 in Seed Round

POINT380 raised $1750000 on 2020-11-04 in Seed Round

Point380, Inc. develops sustainability management software. The company offers Flagstaff RPO (Resource Portfolio Optimization), which meets company needs to manage emissions, energy, water, and waste across entire operations and supply chains in accordance with climate science and enables companies to manage and track energy, water, waste and emissions; calculate emissions; analyze past performance; generate reports; forecast progress; develop project portfolios; and manage supply chains It also provides integrated consulting and software services. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

POINT380

Locomation raised $5980847 on 2020-06-22 in Venture Round

Locomation, Inc. develops a trucking technology platform to combine artificial intelligence (AI)-driven autonomy with driver augmentation. It offers Locomation, an AI-based platform that eliminates truck-involved accidents; and autonomous vehicles and AI-driven systems for applications, including commercial and defense projects. Locomation, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Locomation

Grid Raster raised $2500000 on 2020-07-22 in Venture Round

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.

Grid Raster

XWING raised $40000000 on 2021-04-15 in Series B

Xwing, Inc. develops autonomous flight technology for unmanned aircraft. It offers a software that integrates sensors and maps with onboard flight control systems to allow regional aircraft to navigate, take off, and land safer. It serves aerospace manufacturers. Xwing, Inc. was formerly known as Cavorite Research, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

XWING

Buzz Solutions raised $1200000 on 2020-06-26 in Seed Round

Buzz Solutions, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based software platform for energy infrastructure applications. It offers Buzz Solutions Platform, an image-recognition software that spots utility infrastructure defects. The company’s solution also provides artificial intelligence, actionable insights, and predictive analytics for power line and grid inspections. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Buzz Solutions

Safehub raised $5000000 on 2020-07-23 in Seed Round

Safehub Inc. provides technology and structural health monitoring services to assist users in their property-related risk modeling and planning activities. It offers The Safehub Global Platform that helps corporations to manage catastrophe risk through physics-based technology, sensors, and AI. The company’s platform also enables corporations to refine and evaluate insurance and risk reduction programs, as well as expedite emergency response and recovery. Safehub Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Safehub Inc.

ecoworks raised $8278679 on 2022-06-02 in Convertible Note

ecoworks GmbH operates as a construction and geothermal company that offers renewal of the facade, roof, windows, and insulation of the basement ceiling for buildings. It also supplies heat and power from the solar system on the roof. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.

ecoworks GmbH

Locomation raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-11-03 in Convertible Note

Grid Raster raised $2400000 on 2019-09-01 in Seed Round

American Board of Obesity Medicine raised $36000000 on 2019-05-23 in Series C

American Board of Obesity Medicine

Golioth raised $4600000 on 2023-05-04 in Seed Round

Golioth

Briq raised $3000000 on 2019-10-07 in Seed Round

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.

Brickschain

Safesite raised an undisclosed amount on 2017-12-20 in Seed Round

Aperia Technologies raised $36000000 on 2019-05-21 in Series C

Aperia Technologies, Inc. provides automatic tire inflation devices. It offers halo tire inflator, a bolt-on device with a small internal pump driven by the rotation of a wheel that is designed to replenish or adjust pressure loss resulting from minor leaks, leaky vale stems, seepage, and temperature compensation. Its products are used in various types of fleet vehicles, including buses, box trucks, tractors, trailers, and refuse vehicles. The company offers its products through a network of dealers in the United States. Aperia Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Burlingame, California.

Aperia Technologies

Humatics raised $28000000 on 2019-01-07 in Series A

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.

Humatics

FutureProof Technologies raised $3000000 on 2021-06-29 in Seed Round

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

FutureProof Technologies

Mati raised $3000000 on 2020-05-26 in Seed Round

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.

Mati

Optera raised $4200000 on 2022-03-07 in Seed Round

Optera

CytoVale raised $8010000 on 2021-01-04 in Debt Financing

CytoVale, Inc. develops biomarkers based on the mechanical properties of individual cells/mechanomics. It uses microfluidics to route and physically probe individual cells. CytoVale, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

CytoVale

Align17 raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-06-04 in Seed Round

Locomation raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-09-03 in Seed Round

QuoteToMe raised $2007974 on 2021-07-29 in Venture Round

QuoteToMe is a tech-enabled solution for construction contractors to simplify inventory, equipment, and temporary services procurement for project needs. The QuoteToMe One Touch PO device automates purchase orders using technology.

QuoteToMe

Pype raised $3000000 on 2019-03-04 in Seed Round

Pype, Inc. develops and offers software solutions for the construction industry. The company's products include AutoSpecs, a software that develops algorithms to read specs and to pull out action submittals, product data, closeout submittals, and tests and inspections; Closeout that provides a single portal for closeout documentation management with digital document collection from subcontractors and reporting dashboard; eBinder, a platform that compiles turnover documentation; and SmartPlans that automatically extracts submittals and product schedules from drawings. Pype, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Chantilly, Virginia with an additional office in Bengaluru, India. As of August 17, 2020, Pype, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc.

Pype, Inc.

Agorus raised $6500000 on 2022-06-30 in Seed Round

Agorus is a  part of the Architectural & Structural Metals Manufacturing Industry. It is a software-driven, automated technology company, changing the way the world builds.

Agorus

Briq raised $30000000 on 2021-06-07 in Series B

Drawboard raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-12-13 in Series A

Drawboard is redefining project communication for design and construction teams. We're always looking for new members of the Drawboard team. If you'd like to be a part of the team changing the face of the architecture, engineering and construction industries, get in contact.

Drawboard PDF - Easy PDF markup for Windows 10.
Bullclip -  Easier design communication for architecture, engineering and construction teams.

Drawboard Pty Ltd

GreenLight.ai raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-02-01 in Pre Seed Round

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 Workforce Solutions

OTONOMI raised $160000 on 2020-10-01 in Pre Seed Round

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.

OTONOMI

Briq raised $10000000 on 2020-05-11 in Series A

Pype raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-06-21 in Convertible Note

Alice Technologies raised $12981436 on 2019-10-29 in Series A

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.

Alice Technologies

Optera raised $1750000 on 2021-04-22 in Seed Round

Ethic raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-01-02 in Seed Round

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.

Ethic

Rhumbix raised $11000000 on 2021-09-21 in Venture Round

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.

Rhumbix, Inc.

GreenLight.ai raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-02-05 in Pre Seed Round

Vecna Robotics raised $65000000 on 2022-01-26 in Series C

Vecna Robotics offers Automated Material Handling, Hybrid Fulfillment, and Workflow Optimization solutions.

The company's objective is to revolutionize customer productivity by delivering the best automation technologies. By placing workflows over robots, we ensure that all parts and players complement each other perfectly. That is a futuristic vision that puts fact over fiction.

Vecna Robotics

Modulous raised an undisclosed amount on 2021-01-15 in Seed Round

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.

Modulous

Motiv Power Systems raised $37482042 on 2019-09-30 in Series A

Motiv Power Systems Inc. designs and manufactures electric powered intelligent chassis for commercial medium and heavy-duty truck and bus builders. The company’s products are used in school buses, shuttle buses, step vans, box trucks, work trucks, trolleys, and specialty vehicles. Motiv Power Systems Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Foster City, California.

Motiv Power Systems

Dwellsy raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-10-24 in Pre Seed Round

Dwellsy is an internet company that specializes in the fields of consumer applications, internet, and property management. It features a web-based platform for residential home rentals, built on the radical concept that true, organic search in a free eco-system creates more value than the pay-to-play model embraced by all of the current rental listing services.

The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Los Altos, California.

Dwellsy, Inc.

ManufactOn raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-04-30 in Convertible Note

ManufactOn is a collaborative, cloud, and mobile solution for prefab production and supply chain management.

ManufactOn helps the construction industry leverage the power of prefabrication, with tools that integrate supply chain, prefab production, and planning. They are AEC and technology veterans who are working with construction industry leaders, designing for efficiency, usability and best practices.

ManufactOn

OnePointOne raised $12000000 on 2019-06-30 in Seed Round

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.

OnePointOne

Optera raised $4181416 on 2022-02-18 in Seed Round

Latent AI raised $19000000 on 2021-08-09 in Series A

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.

Latent AI

VEERUM raised $3102593 on 2018-04-11 in Seed Round

Veerum Inc., an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company, develops an artificial intelligence based platform that predicts and resolves project issues. The company enables users to optimize a project throughout the entire lifecycle of design, fabrication, and construction. It creates a digital replica of the physical reality of capital projects using sensor technology. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Calgary, Canada.

Veerum Inc.

Nubix.io raised $2700000 on 2020-12-16 in Seed Round

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.

Nubix, Inc.

eDraw raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-01-06 in Seed Round

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.

eDraw, Inc.

Toggle raised $8000000 on 2021-06-29 in Series A

How will we build the next generation of cities and infrastructure when key construction methods have remained unchanged for a generation? As the built environment grows larger and more complex Toggle is introducing industrial robotics and automation to critical construction methods and materials. Starting with rebar for reinforced concrete Toggle is reinventing the way we build our world.

Toggle

Isometric Technologies raised $15000000 on 2022-09-13 in Series A

Isometric Technologies is a performance management solution for the supply chain industry.

Isometric Technologies

Agorus raised $6500000 on 2020-12-30 in Seed Round

Wunder Capital raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-04-19 in Series B

The Wunder Company provides construction and term financing for commercial solar projects. It offers financing for projects, ranging from traditional commercial solar PPAs to feed-in-tariffs, community solar developments, and unrated credit offtakers. The company also develops software and partners with solar organizations and financial institutions to build solar projects for businesses, municipalities, nonprofits, and communities across the USA. The Wunder Company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

The Wunder Company

VEERUM raised $7400000 on 2021-02-03 in Series A

Aumni raised $10000000 on 2020-01-28 in Series A

Aumni is the VC industry's first plug & play portfolio intelligence platform and the solution that top VC firms use for a competitive edge and operational efficiency. Aumni audits, analyzes, and visualizes the key data trapped in VC deal documents to augment venture investment teams with the tools for better strategic decisions and improved daily operations.

An investor's legal, economic, and control interests fundamentally inform and influence every activity that an investor can take. Aumni extracts and utilizes hundreds of data points from the underlying deal documents to track critical insights such as key investment rights, portfolio performance, and emerging investment patterns.

The Aumni platform is for forward-thinking venture investment teams that seek a solution to the challenges of unlocking and structuring the untapped expanse of data in their portfolio.

Aumni

Foresight Risk and Insurance Services raised $20500000 on 2020-12-18 in Series A

Safehub raised $9000000 on 2021-04-27 in Series A

DATTUS raised an undisclosed amount on 2017-12-20 in Convertible Note

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.

DATTUS

Vecna Robotics raised $50000000 on 2020-01-07 in Series B

SupplyShift raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-09-29 in Series A

SupplyShift Inc. develops a SaaS-based platform for supply chain management. It offers SupplyShift to build and execute a strategic supply chain program that protects business and delivers on its company goals; combine custom and industry-standard assessments; and engage suppliers at any tier of the supply chain. The company’s SupplyShift provides smart assessments, dashboards and analytic tools, benchmarking and supplier improvement. Its product can be used by high tech and electronics, pulp and paper, food and beverage, retail, apparel, and beauty and personal care industries. SupplyShift Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Santa Cruz, California.

SupplyShift Inc.

Electriphi raised $3500000 on 2020-02-20 in Seed Round

Electriphi develops end-to-end energy management and fleet operations software for light, medium, and heavy duty commercial fleets. Save energy costs, optimize infrastructure, and ensure fleet's operational readiness with Electriphi's managed charging software built on AI and machine learning technology.

Electriphi, Inc.

AGERpoint raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-07-26 in Series B

AGERpoint, Inc. provides information management solutions to growers of tree and vine based crops, insurers, investors, and others. It offers technologies that redefine data acquisition, analysis, and translation; and GroveTracker, which provides growers with critical data that gives them an understanding of their crop holdings, including statistical and photographic inventory of their groves, orchards, and vineyards. AGERpoint, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Daytona Beach, Florida.

AGERpoint

Safehub raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-01-28 in Convertible Note

Rhumbix raised $7350000 on 2017-09-25 in Series A

CytoVale raised $15000000 on 2019-10-30 in Series B

Energy Web Foundation raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-07-15 in Seed Round

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.

Energy Web Foundation

Humatics raised $30000000 on 2020-09-16 in Series B

CytoVale raised $7249989 on 2017-12-22 in Series B

GridCure raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-01-03 in Convertible Note

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.

GRIDCURE INC.

Modulous raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-05-22 in Seed Round

Pype raised $1000000 on 2018-10-30 in Convertible Note

Rhumbix raised $14300000 on 2019-06-20 in Series B

Phylagen raised $14000000 on 2019-02-14 in Series A

Phylagen, Inc. develops and offers microbiome data analytics solution. The company combines bioinformatic analytics and machine learning to determine and interpret complex genetic signatures, and provide a decision-making tool for businesses. Phylagen, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.