LighthouseAI
Seed Round in 2023
LighthouseAI provides software solutions to pharmaceutical manufacturers, logistics companies, wholesalers, and pharmacies.
Leadsales
Seed Round in 2023
LeadSales is a developer of customer relationship management software tailored for small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America. The company focuses on transforming commerce by enabling businesses to manage their interactions with consumers through online conversational platforms, such as WhatsApp. Its software streamlines the handling of sales leads, assigns status to those leads, and facilitates the development of effective strategies to enhance business processes. By centralizing contacts and automating sales lead generation on social platforms, LeadSales empowers businesses to increase sales, improve customer service, and efficiently manage various aspects of their operations, including conversational sales, order fulfillment, and payments.
Curacel
Seed Round in 2023
Curacel is an insurtech company founded in 2019 by Henry Mascot in Ikoyi, Lagos. It offers an AI-powered platform designed to streamline and enhance the insurance claims process. The platform automates the processing of claims, enabling insurance staff to handle higher volumes efficiently. Additionally, it incorporates advanced algorithms for fraud detection, waste, and abuse management, ensuring that claims are thoroughly vetted. Curacel's technology integrates seamlessly with various systems and third-party applications, facilitating improved operational efficiency for insurance providers while fostering customer loyalty and retention.
Cloudbrink
Venture Round in 2022
Cloudbrink offers a secure, high-performance cloud networking and edge infrastructure platform designed to improve access to cloud, SaaS, and data center applications. Using AI and machine learning, it provides edge-native zero-trust access and accelerated network performance, along with integrated AMTD security and a software-only solution that includes personal SD-WAN. The platform supports cloud and edge native deployment, auto-discovery, policy-based deployment, and automated deployment with centralized management for all edge services, delivering an in-office experience while reducing operational complexity. By converging cloud and edge resources, Cloudbrink enables better application performance for end users and devices and simplifies edge operations for enterprises.
Hwy Haul
Funding Round in 2022
Hwy Haul is a technology startup based in Silicon Valley, established by a team with prior leadership experience at Walmart. The company aims to reduce food wastage during transportation through its innovative digital freight platform. This platform connects fresh produce growers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers directly with dependable refrigerated carriers, streamlining the logistics process. By eliminating intermediaries, Hwy Haul enhances efficiency and transparency in freight transportation. Its marketplace allows users to search, compare, and book services from various partner operators, while also offering features such as real-time location tracking, cold-chain monitoring, online payments, and driver monitoring. This comprehensive approach enables clients to manage their transportation needs directly and reliably.
MynaSwap
Seed Round in 2022
MynaSwap is an online platform designed for collectors to trade goods beyond their physical form. It enables users to engage in real-time trading of collectibles, such as unique sneakers and digital assets, without the complexities of managing logistics associated with physical items. Built on the Avalanche blockchain, MynaSwap supports transactions in both digital and fiat currencies, offering low latency and competitive fees. The platform aims to connect collectors globally, fostering a community where they can easily buy, sell, and trade their favorite items. Plans to extend support to additional blockchain networks like Ethereum and Polygon are also in development.
AFI is a server solution that provides the features specific to games and the post-release operating console.
Concert Health
Series B in 2022
Founded in 2016, Concert Health operates an online platform that connects patients with therapists and psychiatrists through their primary care providers. The company offers remote clinical staffing, screening tools, implementation guidance, documentation support, and evidence-based care integration to facilitate behavioral health services within medical practices.
Prezent AI
Series A in 2022
Prezent AI operates an AI-driven platform designed to enhance communication productivity for teams and leaders. The platform leverages machine learning to automate the creation of business presentations, allowing users to produce well-structured, personalized, and branded content efficiently. By focusing on audience empathy and business understanding, Prezent AI enables employees to save time and significantly improve their productivity in communication tasks.
Curacel
Seed Round in 2022
Curacel is an insurtech company founded in 2019 by Henry Mascot in Ikoyi, Lagos. It offers an AI-powered platform designed to streamline and enhance the insurance claims process. The platform automates the processing of claims, enabling insurance staff to handle higher volumes efficiently. Additionally, it incorporates advanced algorithms for fraud detection, waste, and abuse management, ensuring that claims are thoroughly vetted. Curacel's technology integrates seamlessly with various systems and third-party applications, facilitating improved operational efficiency for insurance providers while fostering customer loyalty and retention.
Akridata Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in Los Altos, California, specializes in developing AI-driven data operations platforms. The company's core business is creating efficient data architecture solutions that manage high-volume data processing for AI applications in the cloud. Akridata's innovative platform enables businesses to automatically filter and prepare raw data from edge sensors, optimizing deep learning model training times and reducing storage costs. Furthermore, Akridata offers cutting-edge computer vision technology tailored for visual inspection in manufacturing sectors, enhancing quality control by detecting defects swiftly and accurately at scale. This allows clients to transition from manual review processes to intelligent automation, improving efficiency and minimizing errors.
Mixlife
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Mixlife is a website design company powered by talent and creativity. They provide e-commerce, website creation, digital marketing, professional support, mobile applications, branding, WordPress experts, and web hosting.
AFI is a server solution that provides the features specific to games and the post-release operating console.
Writesonic
Seed Round in 2021
Writesonic is a prominent generative AI platform that specializes in content creation, boasting over 5 million registered users, including more than 40,000 paying customers. The company offers a sophisticated AI-powered copywriting tool that enables businesses to produce unique and engaging marketing content, such as articles, blog posts, advertisements, landing pages, and product descriptions. Users can select from various templates and input descriptions to generate tailored copy efficiently, enhancing productivity while reducing costs. Additionally, Writesonic features a no-code AI chatbot platform, allowing businesses to create personalized chatbots that reflect their brand voice and utilize their own data. The company has received significant positive feedback, evident from over 15,000 five-star reviews on platforms like G2, TrustPilot, and Capterra. Backed by Y Combinator and a strong network of investors in Silicon Valley, Writesonic is focused on building a sustainable business model driven by real revenue.
Cloudbrink
Series A in 2021
Cloudbrink offers a secure, high-performance cloud networking and edge infrastructure platform designed to improve access to cloud, SaaS, and data center applications. Using AI and machine learning, it provides edge-native zero-trust access and accelerated network performance, along with integrated AMTD security and a software-only solution that includes personal SD-WAN. The platform supports cloud and edge native deployment, auto-discovery, policy-based deployment, and automated deployment with centralized management for all edge services, delivering an in-office experience while reducing operational complexity. By converging cloud and edge resources, Cloudbrink enables better application performance for end users and devices and simplifies edge operations for enterprises.
Cohesity
Venture Round in 2021
Cohesity develops hyper-converged secondary storage solutions that consolidate, protect, and share non-mission-critical data assets of large organizations. Its platform, Cohesity DataPlatform, converges data protection infrastructure including backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. Additionally, it offers Cohesity Helios, a SaaS-based management solution for monitoring and managing secondary data and applications.
Allocate
Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2021, Allocate is a platform enabling investors to discover and invest in high-quality venture funds.
FluxNinja
Seed Round in 2021
FluxNinja specializes in application reliability management solutions tailored for web-scale enterprises. The company focuses on enhancing uptime and performance by identifying the "blast radius" during API traffic overloads and automatically implementing recovery policies. Its offerings are particularly beneficial for DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams, as they facilitate adaptive API load shedding and service degradation. By streamlining observability and control systems into a user-friendly product, FluxNinja aims to transform how organizations manage application reliability, ensuring consistent service delivery even under demanding conditions.
Hwy Haul is a technology startup based in Silicon Valley, established by a team with prior leadership experience at Walmart. The company aims to reduce food wastage during transportation through its innovative digital freight platform. This platform connects fresh produce growers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers directly with dependable refrigerated carriers, streamlining the logistics process. By eliminating intermediaries, Hwy Haul enhances efficiency and transparency in freight transportation. Its marketplace allows users to search, compare, and book services from various partner operators, while also offering features such as real-time location tracking, cold-chain monitoring, online payments, and driver monitoring. This comprehensive approach enables clients to manage their transportation needs directly and reliably.
Druva offers cloud-based data protection and management solutions. Its platform, built on AWS, provides globally accessible, scalable, and autonomous enterprise data resiliency. Customers can reduce costs by up to 50% by eliminating hardware expenses and capacity planning. Druva's platform transforms backup data into an asset, enhancing governance, cyber resiliency, and decision-making.
Kraken
Venture Round in 2021
Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange that enables spot and futures trading across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more than 40 digital assets. Founded in 2011, it serves millions of clients and promotes broader cryptocurrency adoption by offering a marketplace where buyers, sellers, and traders exchange digital assets against major currencies. The platform provides services for large trades through a principal over-the-counter desk and offers professional charting tools for technical analysis. It supports automated trading via REST and WebSocket APIs, enabling developers and traders to build, test, and execute strategies. Kraken also offers round-the-clock live chat support to assist users at every stage of their journey. The company aims to provide a secure, accessible, and open financial system to foster financial inclusion.
Calm
Venture Round in 2021
Calm is a San Francisco-based company established in 2012, specializing in digital wellness products aimed at enhancing mental fitness and alleviating common mental health issues like anxiety, depression, insomnia, and stress. The company's flagship product is its meditation and relaxation app, which offers original audio content, stories, and programs to help users manage stress and improve overall well-being. Calm has been recognized for its impact, being named Apple's 2017 iPhone App of the Year and Google Play's Editors' Choice in 2018.
Lyft is a transportation company that designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that connects riders with drivers for private and shared rides, with in-app payment and the ability to schedule trips in advance. The platform has expanded to multimodal options, including bike- and scooter-sharing, to provide integrated transportation options. Founded in 2013 and publicly listed in 2019, Lyft is the second-largest ride-sharing service provider in the United States and Canada, serving diverse user segments including college, university, and corporate communities.
DroneDeploy
Series F in 2021
DroneDeploy, Inc. is a cloud-based software company that specializes in drone solutions for various industries. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company provides a comprehensive platform for aerial mapping, data processing, and analysis. Its offerings include orthorectified maps, topographic modeling, crop health visualizations, and three-dimensional models. The platform enables users to automate workflows and perform flight safety checks, allowing for real-time data collection and analysis. DroneDeploy's software is compatible with a range of drones, including those from major manufacturers like DJI, and serves sectors such as agriculture, construction, mining, and insurance across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The company also features a drone-on-demand service that connects customers with certified professional pilots to gather aerial data on-site.
Rappi
Venture Round in 2020
Rappi is a consumer technology company that operates an on-demand delivery platform in Latin America. The platform connects consumers with local merchants and independent couriers to order and deliver items ranging from prepared foods and groceries to clothing, pharmaceuticals, liquor, and other goods. Through its logistics capabilities, Rappi enables users to shop for a wide array of products and have them delivered to any location, often within hours, leveraging its network of independent contractors to fulfill orders across multiple categories.
Dentira
Seed Round in 2020
Dentira provides an intelligent expenditure management and procurement platform for the dental industry, offering a vertically integrated solution from sourcing to payment. The platform aggregates real-time pricing, availability, ordering, and tracking across multiple dental vendors, enabling practitioners to purchase and pay for supplies in one place.
Founded in 2012, Wanderu operates a travel search platform that enables users to find and book the best deals on inter-city bus and train travel across North America and Europe. It offers its services online and via mobile applications for iOS and Android.
Carta is a software company that operates a SEC-registered transfer agent and equity management platform for private companies. The platform helps private firms manage cap tables, corporate governance, 409A valuations, and compliance, issue stock electronically, and share equity information among shareholders, employees, auditors, and counsel. It digitizes stock certificates, stock options, warrants, and derivatives to provide a real-time view of ownership and enables employees to track vesting and exercise rights. Carta serves venture-backed startups, pre-IPO companies, and other private enterprises in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company maintains additional offices in the United States, Brazil, and Canada.
Medipresso
Seed Round in 2020
Medipresso is a company that specializes in the production of coffee and tea capsule machines. It focuses on creating medicinal herbal teas by combining traditional medicines with natural ingredients. The company is engaged in research to enhance the capsule business, aiming to simplify the consumption of herbal tea ingredients that have historically been challenging to enjoy. By employing a careful blending process overseen by a tea sommelier and utilizing high-pressure extraction methods in its capsule machines, Medipresso enables customers to access the medicinal benefits of herbal teas while enjoying a convenient beverage experience.
DroneDeploy
Series E in 2020
DroneDeploy, Inc. is a cloud-based software company that specializes in drone solutions for various industries. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company provides a comprehensive platform for aerial mapping, data processing, and analysis. Its offerings include orthorectified maps, topographic modeling, crop health visualizations, and three-dimensional models. The platform enables users to automate workflows and perform flight safety checks, allowing for real-time data collection and analysis. DroneDeploy's software is compatible with a range of drones, including those from major manufacturers like DJI, and serves sectors such as agriculture, construction, mining, and insurance across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The company also features a drone-on-demand service that connects customers with certified professional pilots to gather aerial data on-site.
Censia is a talent intelligence company that provides an AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform to transform recruitment and workforce planning. The platform analyzes skills data and enables candidate modeling, intelligent passive sourcing, instant candidate comparisons, ranking, talent landscapes, internal mobility matching, and optimized talent decisions. By contextualizing large data points, it helps HR teams scale quickly, improve operational excellence, and reduce time and cost in hiring. Founded in 2017, Censia is based in San Francisco with an office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Automation Anywhere
Series B in 2019
Automation Anywhere, Inc. is a global leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), specializing in the development of AI-powered software solutions designed to enhance business efficiency. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a cloud-native platform that integrates RPA with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics. Its flagship products include Automation Anywhere Enterprise, which automates IT and business processes; Automation Anywhere Server for streamlined business operations; and IQ Bot, a cognitive automation solution that addresses complex business tasks. Additionally, the company provides a comprehensive suite of testing tools, such as Testing Anywhere, which supports quality assurance across various platforms. Automation Anywhere also offers consulting services and collaborates strategically with Microsoft Azure. The company has expanded its presence internationally with offices in several major cities across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Palantir Technologies
Venture Round in 2019
Palantir Technologies develops data fusion, integration, and analytics software for public institutions, commercial enterprises, and non-profit organizations worldwide. The company offers Gotham, a platform that integrates, manages, secures, and analyzes enterprise data, and Metropolis, a platform that integrates, enriches, models, and analyzes quantitative data for commercial use. Palantir's software supports activities such as anti-fraud, crisis response, cyber security, defense, disaster preparedness, disease response, healthcare delivery, intelligence, law enforcement, insurance analytics, and pharmaceutical research. Its solutions enable collaboration across and within organizations to make sense of large and complex data sets. Palantir serves government, defense, finance, healthcare, and other industries. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
ParkourSC
Series B in 2019
ParkourSC is a logistics and supply chain company that delivers a cloud‑based sensor platform for real‑time visibility of assets in motion. The platform creates a digital twin of the supply chain, processing billions of events per second to provide continuous insight into location, condition, timing, and utilization. By collecting data from any source, it enables predictive analytics that detect anomalies and forecast disruptions before they occur. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, the company serves manufacturing and pharmaceutical sectors with diagnostic and actionable intelligence.
6sense is a developer of a predictive intelligence platform that enhances revenue growth for organizations. The company utilizes artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning to provide comprehensive visibility across the customer journey, from brand awareness to revenue generation. Its platform captures anonymous buying signals and buyer intent data, allowing sales, marketing, and customer success teams to target the right accounts effectively. By recommending optimal channels and messages, 6sense removes guesswork and inefficiencies from the sales process, leading to improved pipeline quality, accelerated sales velocity, and higher conversion rates. Through its innovative approach, 6sense aims to empower revenue teams to grow revenue predictably and efficiently.
TrueLark
Seed Round in 2018
TrueLark is an automated customer communications platform founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company utilizes advanced AI technology to facilitate human-like conversations with customers across various triggers, including phone calls, business texting, web chat, form submissions, and promotional texts. TrueLark's platform is designed to help brands attract, support, and up-sell customers continuously, enabling engagement through personalized interactions. It effectively converts prospects, recommends products and services, answers inquiries, and collects payment information. With its comprehensive capabilities, TrueLark minimizes the need for follow-up by businesses, ensuring that they only need to intervene in fewer than 5% of interactions.
ThoughtSpot
Series D in 2018
ThoughtSpot provides an AI-native intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to explore any data, ask questions, and uncover actionable insights. It offers intuitive natural language search, enabling users to generate answers from business data at every point of decision-making. ThoughtSpot serves various industries, with clients including NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One, and Huel.
Dentira
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Dentira provides an intelligent expenditure management and procurement platform for the dental industry, offering a vertically integrated solution from sourcing to payment. The platform aggregates real-time pricing, availability, ordering, and tracking across multiple dental vendors, enabling practitioners to purchase and pay for supplies in one place.
Fortella
Seed Round in 2017
Fortella is a cloud-based revenue-driven marketing platform designed for B2B companies, established in 2016 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company focuses on aligning marketing planning and execution with corporate revenue goals, providing tools that measure the contribution of marketing to overall business performance. Fortella's platform integrates first-party marketing data into a centralized repository, enabling key stakeholders such as Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Revenue Officers, and revenue operations teams to optimize their efforts towards achieving revenue targets. By leveraging AI-based revenue intelligence, Fortella empowers businesses across various functions, including finance, product, sales, and customer success, to enhance their marketing strategies and drive growth.
Tubi is a company that operates a free streaming television and movie network, offering on-demand video streaming services. It provides over 12,000 movies and television shows from nearly every major Hollywood studio, accessible completely free through an ad-supported model. Based in San Francisco, California, Tubi was incorporated in 2009 and is available in the US and Canada. Users can access Tubi through various devices and apps, including Samsung televisions, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Comcast’s X1, iOS, and Android. The service enables content producers and advertisers to distribute and monetize their content on connected TV platforms.
Avaamo is a deep-learning software company that specializes in enterprise conversational interfaces. It develops a platform that combines machine learning, conversation design, and integration with legacy enterprise workflows to automate the customer and employee service lifecycle, enabling enterprises to design and deploy bots and virtual assistants. The solution aims to improve engagement and reduce operational costs. Avaamo provides a mobile application on Android and iOS, was founded in 2014, and is based in Los Altos, California; it has a strategic partnership with Tech Mahindra.
Tubi is a company that operates a free streaming television and movie network, offering on-demand video streaming services. It provides over 12,000 movies and television shows from nearly every major Hollywood studio, accessible completely free through an ad-supported model. Based in San Francisco, California, Tubi was incorporated in 2009 and is available in the US and Canada. Users can access Tubi through various devices and apps, including Samsung televisions, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Comcast’s X1, iOS, and Android. The service enables content producers and advertisers to distribute and monetize their content on connected TV platforms.
Tekion is a cloud-native automotive retail platform developer that connects OEMs, retailers/dealers, and consumers through a unified suite of applications. Its Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) serves dealers by facilitating the entire vehicle sales cycle online, while Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) supports manufacturers and large automotive enterprises, and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) enables technology and industry partners. The platform provides digital sales management, personalized upsell and cross-sell opportunities, compliance management, customer engagement, data insights, and bidirectional integration, leveraging big data, machine learning, and AI to enhance efficiency, revenue, and retention across the automotive retail ecosystem. Founded in 2016 and based in San Ramon, California.
Sisense
Venture Round in 2015
Sisense is a software company that develops data and business analytics software to help organizations manage and analyze large, complex data sets. Its flagship BI platform enables users to join data from multiple sources, explore it with visual dashboards, and share insights across teams. The product acts as a data engine for designing dashboards, enabling embedding analytics, and supporting natural-language data exploration and automatically generated summaries. It aims to empower non-technical users to build analytic applications and derive actionable information for internal and external stakeholders. The company also offers technical support and professional services and serves a range of industries from startups to large enterprises, with global offices in multiple regions.
Founded in 2013, Paintzen specializes in residential painting services across the United States. The company offers interior and exterior painting, custom arts and murals, wallpaper installation, cabinet painting, and more. Serving homeowners, renters, designers, agents, and property managers, Paintzen streamlines the painting process through its online platform, providing accurate quotes, licensed painters, and project management.
Founded in 2012, PogoSeat is a technology company based in Los Angeles that develops mobile applications for fans to upgrade their seats during live events. It offers AI-driven personalization and seamless buying processes, creating new revenue streams and data collection opportunities for partners such as sports teams, concert venues, ticket brokers, and promoters.
UpCounsel
Series A in 2015
UpCounsel operates an online marketplace that connects businesses with lawyers in the United States based on user preferences. It enables clients to access legal services across areas including agreements, business formation, patents, trademarks, immigration, general counsel, labor and employment, and securities and finance. The platform serves startups, executives, HR teams, and legal departments, helping them find suitable counsel and collaborate on documents. The company provides features such as document collaboration tools, billing and invoicing, and opportunities for lawyers to market their services, facilitating efficient connections, secure transactions, and streamlined engagement. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, UpCounsel positions itself as a platform to simplify hiring legal help and managing legal work.
AirGrub
Seed Round in 2015
AirGrub is a FREE app that allows users to choose and then pay for food from restaurants that are nearest to them when flying.
Postmates
Series D in 2015
Postmates Inc. is an on-demand food and grocery delivery platform based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2011, the company connects customers with local couriers to facilitate the delivery of products from a wide range of stores and restaurants across the United States. With access to over 600,000 merchants, including exclusive offerings, Postmates enables users to discover, order, and track groceries, alcohol, and meals with ease. The platform is particularly prominent in Los Angeles and covers 80% of U.S. households, serving customers in all 50 states. Additionally, Postmates offers a subscription service, Postmates Unlimited, which provides free delivery from all participating merchants, enhancing the convenience of its service.
Next Force Technology
Seed Round in 2015
Next Force Technology, founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, is developing an on-demand service platform aimed at addressing the challenges of hourly labor staffing. The company focuses on creating a data-driven, people-centric solution that leverages a real-time mobile user interface to analyze significant amounts of data. This platform is designed to optimize workforce management by ensuring the right number of employees are available to meet demand, thereby enhancing operational efficiency for businesses. By targeting an untapped segment of the labor market, Next Force Technology aims to redefine the future of on-demand services.
Arkin Net Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a software-defined networking operations platform designed to simplify the management of software-defined data centers (SDDC) for enterprises. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Pune, India, Arkin's platform facilitates comprehensive visibility and analysis across both virtual and physical infrastructure. It enables organizations to enhance security, optimize resource utilization, and improve overall performance while fostering collaboration among IT teams. The platform is recognized for its user-friendly interface, akin to a Google Search experience, and includes features for planning, operating, visualizing, analyzing, and troubleshooting complex data center environments. Arkin has gained traction in the industry, supported by notable investors and experts in virtualization and big data. As of 2016, it operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc.
Pipedrive
Series A in 2015
Pipedrive, established in 2010, is a global provider of sales-first Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, primarily serving small and medium-sized businesses. Its web-based platform streamlines sales processes, offering features such as pipeline management, email integration, sales reporting, forecasting, and customization tools. With headquarters in New York, Pipedrive supports over 100,000 sales teams worldwide, helping them to qualify leads, close deals efficiently, and drive revenue growth.
FanDuel operates an online platform that enables users to participate in fantasy sports and real-money wagering. The platform supports fantasy football, baseball, hockey and basketball, and also offers sports betting, racing and casino games. Founded in 2009 and based in New York, with an additional office in Edinburgh, the company serves North American and international players by enabling users to draft fantasy teams or join contests for cash prizes.
Cassette
Seed Round in 2015
Cassette is a technology company that specializes in recording, transcribing, and searching important conversations, such as user interviews, meetings, lectures, and video calls. Its platform is designed to enhance creativity in individuals and organizations by providing tools that integrate seamlessly with modern workflows, including applications like Slack and Gmail. This integration allows users to receive real-time feedback on their work, fostering innovative thinking and improving collaboration. By streamlining the process of capturing and analyzing discussions, Cassette aims to empower professionals to make the most of their insights and enhance their productivity.
ClassPass
Series B in 2015
ClassPass is a global online platform that facilitates access to diverse fitness experiences across multiple gyms and studios worldwide. With over 25,000 partners globally, ClassPass offers members a wide range of classes such as yoga, cycling, Pilates, boxing, massage, and acupuncture, totaling more than 5 million classes monthly. Utilizing machine learning algorithms, the platform surfaces personalized recommendations to enhance users' discovery process. Through its flat-rate monthly subscription billing service, ClassPass enables users to explore various fitness activities on-demand from top studios worldwide, promoting accessibility and variety in workouts. Additionally, ClassPass collaborates with studio partners to merchandise excess inventory, attract new customers, and generate supplementary revenue streams within the fitness industry.
Founded in 2012, Wanderu operates a travel search platform that enables users to find and book the best deals on inter-city bus and train travel across North America and Europe. It offers its services online and via mobile applications for iOS and Android.
Avaamo is a deep-learning software company that specializes in enterprise conversational interfaces. It develops a platform that combines machine learning, conversation design, and integration with legacy enterprise workflows to automate the customer and employee service lifecycle, enabling enterprises to design and deploy bots and virtual assistants. The solution aims to improve engagement and reduce operational costs. Avaamo provides a mobile application on Android and iOS, was founded in 2014, and is based in Los Altos, California; it has a strategic partnership with Tech Mahindra.
Estate Assist
Seed Round in 2014
Estate Assist is a provider of digital security services focused on offering solutions that enhance peace of mind regarding future uncertainties. The company specializes in software designed to securely store and organize financial, digital, and personal information using bank-level encryption and identity theft protection. Estate Assist aims to alleviate concerns related to managing valuable information and settling the affairs of deceased loved ones, enabling individuals to focus on living their lives without the burden of future worries. Through its innovative services, Estate Assist is dedicated to helping clients prepare for tomorrow, today.