Blackhorn Ventures

Blackhorn Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with an additional office in Palo Alto, California. The firm specializes in growth capital investments, focusing on technology-driven companies that enhance resource productivity. Blackhorn Ventures targets sectors such as artificial intelligence, internet-of-things, healthcare, and energy efficiency, aiming to support innovative businesses that utilize advanced engineering to address contemporary challenges.

Melissa Cheong

Managing Partner

Logan Grizzel

CTO & Partner

Mark Loch

Operating Partner

Phillip O'Connor

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Jordanna Shutz

Operating Partner

116 past transactions

Amperon

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Electriphi

Private Placement in 2019
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.

Safesite

Series A in 2020
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.

Buzz Solutions

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Xwing

Series B in 2021
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.

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.

ecoworks

Convertible Note in 2022
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.

Locomation

Convertible Note in 2020
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.

Safehub

Private Placement in 2020
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.
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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.

CytoVale

Debt Financing in 2021
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.

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.

Locomation

Venture Round in 2020
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.

Rhumbix

Private Placement 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.

Locomation

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Agorus

Seed Round in 2022
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.

Drawboard

Series A in 2019
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.

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.

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.

Pype

Convertible Note in 2019
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.

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.

Vecna Robotics

Series C in 2022
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.

Motiv Power Systems

Series A in 2019
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.

ManufactOn

Convertible Note in 2019
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.

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.

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.

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.

Agorus

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Phylagen

Private Placement in 2018
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.

Foresight Group, Inc.

Series A in 2020
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.

VEERUM

Private Placement in 2018
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.

SupplyShift

Series A in 2018
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.

briq Construction Blockchain Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
briq Construction Blockchain Inc. provides an online platform for construction data. The company’s platform captures, automates, and learns from users data and allows the user to forecast revenues, find new projects, and monitor external financial pressures; connects users systems and automates actions between application and finds patterns to drive faster workflows; and to run data through its neural networks to improve the things. It offers briqFOUNDRY, a platform that gathers and normalizes the disparate data in organization and make it immutable to create a single source; briqCHRONICLE, a platform allows for integration between systems using bots to automate mundane tasks; and briqSYNAPSE, a platform with users immutable and connected data as the source tells how to avoid risk, how to choose the right team, or how to predict which bids users likely to win. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Santa Barbara, California.

Electriphi

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Agerpoint

Series B in 2019
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.

Safehub

Convertible Note in 2019
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.

CytoVale

Series B in 2019
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.

Aperia Technologies

Private Placement in 2018
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.

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.

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.

CytoVale

Series B in 2017
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.

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.

Mati Biometrics

Private Placement in 2020
Mati Biometrics engages in developing security software for mobile devices. It offers B2B technology, a camera utilizing a biometric recognition algorithm to identify users from a distance. It develops both camera module hardware as well as biometric software. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Amperon

Private Placement in 2019
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.

Sway

Series A in 2024
The online returns process has been left out to dry. You can click a button and a package will magically appear at your door, but as soon as you decide you want to send it back, the hoops and hurdles ensue. Printing labels, driving to the post office, packaging up your items -- need we say more? Returnmates’ mission is to fully digitize online returns; therefore, making the process as seamless as the purchase. With just a few clicks, Returnmates cuts out the most stressful part of online returns — having to leave your home.

Briq

Series B in 2024
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.

Optera

Series A in 2023
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.

Fero Labs

Series B in 2023
Fero Labs prides itself on increasing factories’ profits by combining their existing data with the latest advances in the field of data science. By utilizing Fero, the automated machine learning software, Fero Labs’ customers understand the root-causes of the problems leading to process and quality issues. Armed with new insights into their production, factories resolve the underlying issues leading to continuous process improvement. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, United States.

RailVision Analytics

Venture Round in 2022
Using the power of AI to reduce fuel consumption, predict equipment failure, and improve safety in the rail industry.

Modulous

Series A in 2022
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.

BixData

Seed Round in 2020
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.

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.

FutureProof Technologies

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

Foresight Group, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
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.

Dwellsy

Pre Seed Round in 2019
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.

Vecna Robotics

Private Placement in 2020
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.

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.

CoFi

Seed Round in 2022
CoFi is a digital platform that empowers contractors to get project funding backed by on-demand payments.

Dexterity

Series A in 2020
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.

Vecna Robotics

Series B in 2020
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.

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.

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.

Safehub

Seed Round in 2020
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.

QuoteToMe

Venture Round in 2021
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.

Safehub

Series A in 2021
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.

Safesite

Seed Round in 2017
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.

Aperia Technologies

Series C in 2019
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pype

Seed Round in 2019
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.

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.

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.

BixData

Private Placement in 2020
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.

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.

Humatics

Private Placement 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Toggle

Series A in 2021
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.

Wunder

Series B in 2018
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.

VEERUM

Series A in 2021
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.

Aumni

Series A in 2020
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.

GridRaster Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
GridRaster Inc. develops a cloud-based content and network stacks for VR and AR applications. It offers GridRaster, a solution that provides an API-based integration with existing content formats and devices, which enables immersive mixed-reality experiences across devices, platforms, locations, and time. The company’s solutions include product visualization; remote maintenance, repairs, and training; and simulations. It serves aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial, and telecommunication sectors, as well as service and platform providers. GridRaster Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Bengaluru, India

Foresight Group, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
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.

GridRaster Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
GridRaster Inc. develops a cloud-based content and network stacks for VR and AR applications. It offers GridRaster, a solution that provides an API-based integration with existing content formats and devices, which enables immersive mixed-reality experiences across devices, platforms, locations, and time. The company’s solutions include product visualization; remote maintenance, repairs, and training; and simulations. It serves aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial, and telecommunication sectors, as well as service and platform providers. GridRaster Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Bengaluru, India

SupplyShift

Private Placement in 2018
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.

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. 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.

Phylagen

Series A in 2019
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.

Humatics

Private Placement 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.

Alice Technologies, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Alice Technologies, Inc. develops construction-engineering software for general contractors, subcontractors, and real estate developers. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Dwellsy

Seed Round in 2023
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.