Bonfire Ventures

Bonfire Ventures is a financial services company based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2005 by Jim Andelman and Mark Mullen. Specializing in early-stage investments, Bonfire Ventures supports talented founders in the technology and business services sector across the United States and Canada. The company leads Seed rounds for business software solutions company founders, helping to transform the industries they target. With a focus on redefining how business gets done, Bonfire Ventures invests in innovative startups to drive growth and success in the ever-evolving market landscape.

Jim Andelman

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Tyler Churchill

Principal

Brett Queener

Managing Director

Jennifer Richard

Principal

163 past transactions

Swell

Series A in 2022
Swell Commerce Corp. develops both client-side and server-side application programming Interface. It operates as a multi-channel direct marketer of surf apparel, equipment and lifestyle products. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Boulevard

Series A in 2019
Boulevard is the premier salon and spa management platform designed to streamline operations, increase sales, and delight customers. Developed in collaboration with industry-leading owners and operators, the company’s all-in-one platform includes client self-scheduling, CRM, marketing, custom reporting, and integrated payment processing. Boulevard delivers an intuitive, modern SaaS solution to an industry traditionally underserved by technology, helping them unlock their full potential. Boulevard is based in Los Angeles and was founded in 2016 by Matt Danna and Sean Stavropoulos.

Vintra

Private Placement in 2018
Vintra makes AI-powered video analytic solutions that transform any real-world video into actionable and tailored intelligence, enabling our customers to build the safest and most productive organizations in the world.

Spekit

Seed Round in 2019
Spekit is an enablement and learning platform that helps employees learn their tools and navigate process changes by accessing answers and enablement resources in real-time, everywhere they work. Built by sales ops professionals for growing & remote teams, Spekit blends the sophistication of a modern digital adoption platform with the simplicity of a contextual knowledge base for a lightweight yet powerful solution to continuous employee training. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Brainbase

Series A in 2020
Brainbase Inc. develops and markets a platform for licensing business. It offers Brainbase Assist, a tool that enables users to manage and collaborate on their licensing business. The company’s tool also allows users to track metrics, such as total sales and royalties, rights availability, and upcoming events. In addition, its tool helps users to compare licensee performance, and measure quarterly and annual growth rates. Brainbase Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

ChangeEngine

Seed Round in 2023
Elevating People leaders to deliver the employee moments that matter most. The challenge people leaders face is that the employee experience design process resides across distributed teams, disparate HR systems, and in many cases, spreadsheets & powerpoints. Once people programs are launched, there’s an initial buzz, then they get swept under the rug in sixty days and it’s onto the next burning need. Creating & executing best-in-class people programs to treat employees like internal customers is extremely manual and time-consuming—they include many moving parts such as goals, branding, content, communications, timeline, rewards, and ROI. In the hybrid workplace, there’s no effective way to manage this. We’re here to change that—our goal is to elevate the role of people leaders everywhere and help them to sustain their people program utilization over time. We’re empowering them to showcase the impact of the people org to their leadership team & board while helping them to get executive buy-in and unlock more budget internally to experiment & run innovative people programs.

Wildfire Systems

Venture Round in 2019
Wildfire is on a mission to reward organic commerce everywhere. We help companies monetize their users with white-label cash back and coupon services. Wildfire makes it easy for our partners’ users to save money and earn cash back from their favorite apps and websites.

Topia

Seed Round in 2021
Bring people together in a fully customizable digital space to connect face-to-face in a more natural and fun way. Spatial audio and video makes it easy to seamlessly move in and out of conversations like you would in-person. Users enjoy secure, high-quality video conferencing that is accessible on any device with an internet connection. Users can customize their world using Topia's library objects or upload their own custom branding and assets. Users can make it an experience by embedding sounds, music, live-streams, & videos or linking to other website within their world.

Boulevard

Private Placement in 2019
Boulevard is the premier salon and spa management platform designed to streamline operations, increase sales, and delight customers. Developed in collaboration with industry-leading owners and operators, the company’s all-in-one platform includes client self-scheduling, CRM, marketing, custom reporting, and integrated payment processing. Boulevard delivers an intuitive, modern SaaS solution to an industry traditionally underserved by technology, helping them unlock their full potential. Boulevard is based in Los Angeles and was founded in 2016 by Matt Danna and Sean Stavropoulos.

FlowPath

Seed Round in 2021
Your facilities and operations program is complicated. FlowPath automates work orders, maintenance, events, notifications, projects, and reporting in a simple to use platform. Effortlessly get ahead of your facilities work with FlowPath.

Tourial

Seed Round in 2022
Tourial creates a virtual product marketing, product training, and support platform to deliver product marketing content in the form of virtual product tours. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

ZeroTier, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
ZeroTier One creates virtual LANs that work just like switched Ethernet and is available everywhere. ZeroTier One is useful as a VPN alternative, a private networking backplane for cloud infrastructure deployments, inter-office LAN connectivity, managing specialized devices, or any other application where it's useful to create a secure virtual overlay network that stays up and available even as things move around or physical network topology changes.

Aforza

Private Placement in 2019
Aforza is a smart thinking, new startup focused on transforming the Consumer Goods industry by providing businesses and consumers with groundbreaking digital applications that re-define usability and value. Backed by key Silicon Valley investors and built in partnership with Salesforce, the worldwide leader in CRM business applications, Aforza is helping to lead FMCG/CPG companies into the intelligent age.

ThinkIQ

Private Placement in 2020
ThinkIQ Inc. operates a cloud-based platform that simplifies the creation of web-based applications and utilizes Internet of Things, big data, data science, semantic modeling, and machine learning. Its platform offers time-series data, supports sharing of data between enterprises, creates context to make the data useful, and makes the deployment of analytics. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Aliso Viejo, California.

Trinity Mobile Networks

Venture Round in 2017
Trinity Mobile Networks seeks to improve data speed and total network bandwidth for mobile networks. The company develops wireless mesh networking technologies to provide affordable connectivity for its users. Trinity Mobile Networks has developed a new network architecture that improves the performance of mesh networks and an accompanying android application which makes use of its platform. This application allows android devices to receive data through high-quality, inexpensive mesh connections and reduce their reliance on expensive cellular services.

Blueprint

Seed Round in 2020
Blueprint helps mental health providers deliver effective treatment and make more money through digital measurement-based care. The company's mobile platform administers standardized and proprietary clinical assessments between appointments to help providers make more informed treatment decisions. Its assessments are reimbursable and automated, so providers can use the Blueprint platform to generate additional revenue without extra work. Danny Freed headquartered the company in Chicago, Illinois in .

Fuel50

Series A in 2017
Fuel50 Inc., trading as Career Engagement Group, designs and develops a career pathing platform for employees. The platform enables employees to map their career path, find experiences, stretch assignments, and connect with mentors, coaches, and colleagues. The platform is used for employee engagement and retention. Fuel50 Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Laguna Nigel, California.

Spotter

Seed Round in 2020
Spotter Labs Inc. operates as a software company for the long-haul trucking industry. Its AI model selects loads based on criteria, including rate, schedule, and fuel costs to automatically find shipments for fleet owners and provide drivers with pickup and drop-off instructions. The company is based in Nashville, Texas.

Aloft

Seed Round in 2018
Kittyhawk unifies the mission, the aircraft and the data to empower commercial drone operations. Kittyhawk's platform is used to power a wide array of enterprise drone programs like CNN, Traveler's Insurance and a wide array of law enforcement customers. As a full stack platform, Kittyhawk's platform not only controls the drones but also helps managers and Chief Pilots know their team is complying by offering transparency into how, where and when their team is operating. The Kittyhawk platform has an iOS, Android and Web application to make sure every stakeholder has the information they need when they need it.

Involve.ai

Seed Round in 2018
involve.ai organizes all customer data and interactions in a single dashboard so you can quickly predict customer health, stop customers from leaving, and expand them to increase revenue

Aforza

Series A in 2021
Aforza is a smart thinking, new startup focused on transforming the Consumer Goods industry by providing businesses and consumers with groundbreaking digital applications that re-define usability and value. Backed by key Silicon Valley investors and built in partnership with Salesforce, the worldwide leader in CRM business applications, Aforza is helping to lead FMCG/CPG companies into the intelligent age.

Atrium

Seed Round in 2021
At Atrium, we use data and smart analytics to help teams make better-informed work decisions. The company is based in San Francisco, and is backed by Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, and notable individual investors. Join us (jobs@atriumhq.com) to enable a powerful change in the way people work.

Blueprint

Private Placement in 2020
Blueprint helps mental health providers deliver effective treatment and make more money through digital measurement-based care. The company's mobile platform administers standardized and proprietary clinical assessments between appointments to help providers make more informed treatment decisions. Its assessments are reimbursable and automated, so providers can use the Blueprint platform to generate additional revenue without extra work. Danny Freed headquartered the company in Chicago, Illinois in .

Windfall

Venture Round in 2019
Founded in 2016, Windfall Data is on a mission to determine the net worth of everyone on the planet. The company serves nonprofit and for-profit organizations by providing actionable consumer financial data that is refreshed on a weekly basis. More than 400 organizations use Windfall Data to identify and engage their most promising constituents. Windfall Data is based in San Francisco and backed by Bullpen Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Industry Ventures, TenOneTen Ventures, ValueStream Ventures, and Auren Hoffman.

Involve.ai

Series A in 2021
involve.ai organizes all customer data and interactions in a single dashboard so you can quickly predict customer health, stop customers from leaving, and expand them to increase revenue

Inspire Energy Holdings, LLC

Private Placement in 2019
Inspire Energy Holdings, LLC operates as a clean energy company that supplies electricity in the United States. The company also operates an online portal for registration and offers reward points to its customers. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Invoca

Series E in 2019
Invoca is an AI-powered call tracking and conversational analytics company that brings the depth of marketing analytics traditionally limited to digital consumer interactions. The company specializes in the fields of inbound call marketing, call tracking, call intelligence, and pay-per-call advertising.

ChowNow

Series B in 2017
Chownow, Inc. provides an online ordering platform for restaurants. It offers ChowNow, an application that enables users for online ordering; and provides management tools, customer insights, marketing services, and support solutions. Chownow, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Playa Vista, California.

Openpath

Private Placement in 2018
Openpath is a mobile access control solutions. Openpath allows anyone to use their mobile phone to open an authorized door with the wave of a hand, without needing the phone or app open. Openpath's patented Triple Unlock technology delivers 99.9% reliability for a secure, frictionless and fast entry experience. With a robust cloud solution, Openpath provides a comprehensive suite of enterprise cloud capabilities, future-proofing the needs of the built environment. The company has introduced innovative Tailgating and Lockdown Solutions providing the ability to lock/unlock any door, zone or building in an emergency from a mobile device.

Brainbase

Seed Round in 2019
Brainbase Inc. develops and markets a platform for licensing business. It offers Brainbase Assist, a tool that enables users to manage and collaborate on their licensing business. The company’s tool also allows users to track metrics, such as total sales and royalties, rights availability, and upcoming events. In addition, its tool helps users to compare licensee performance, and measure quarterly and annual growth rates. Brainbase Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Nobl9

Series A in 2019
Nobl9, the software reliability platform startup, is in the noble pursuit of reliable software. Founded by Marcin Kurc and Brian Singer, who joined Google via acquisition of Orbitera, Nobl9 helps software developers, DevOps practitioners, and reliability engineers deliver reliable features faster through software-defined Service Level Objectives that link monitoring and other logging and tracing data to user happiness and business KPIs. The company is backed by Battery Ventures, CRV, Bonfire and Resolute Ventures and is headquartered in Boston with a distributed team. More at nobl9.com.

Brainbase

Private Placement in 2020
Brainbase Inc. develops and markets a platform for licensing business. It offers Brainbase Assist, a tool that enables users to manage and collaborate on their licensing business. The company’s tool also allows users to track metrics, such as total sales and royalties, rights availability, and upcoming events. In addition, its tool helps users to compare licensee performance, and measure quarterly and annual growth rates. Brainbase Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Particle

Private Placement in 2019
Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products. Particle is an IoT device platform that enables businesses to easily add the power of connectivity to any product. From hardware to connectivity to device management and cloud, Particle provides developers with tools to prototype IoT solutions quickly as well as a reliable and secure platform for enterprises to scale. Over 150,000 product builders in more than 170 countries and half of the Fortune 500 have deployed connected IoT devices powered by Particle. Listed as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2015 and named as a major player to watch in the IoT Landscape in IDC Marketscape’s 2018 Vendor Assessment, Particle’s customers include NASA, SpaceX, consumer hot tub manufacturer Jacuzzi, and coffee-brewing pioneer Keurig. Venture backed by Root Ventures, Spark Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures. Particle is based in San Francisco, CA and Shenzhen, China. Particle was founded on 2012.

Optimize Health

Seed Round in 2020
Optimize.health is a provider of a digital healthcare platform that enables the deployment of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) programs. It uses easy-to-use equipment and software. The software is designed to facilitate provider compliance when billing to new Medicare CPT codes for RPM while providing a great user experience for both patients and providers. Its system is designed to be profitable for physicians starting in the first month. Chuks Onwuneme, Jeff LeBrun, and Otto Sipe established the company in Seattle, Washington in 2015.

influence.co

Seed Round in 2020
influence.co, Inc. develops online platform for influencers, brands, marketers, talent managers, and agencies to connect. The company offers influencer-marketing services to create public digital media kits, communicate with other members, and apply directly to brands they would like to work with. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Diego, California with additional offices in Melbourne, Australia, Denver, Colorado, New York and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Spekit

Private Placement in 2019
Spekit is an enablement and learning platform that helps employees learn their tools and navigate process changes by accessing answers and enablement resources in real-time, everywhere they work. Built by sales ops professionals for growing & remote teams, Spekit blends the sophistication of a modern digital adoption platform with the simplicity of a contextual knowledge base for a lightweight yet powerful solution to continuous employee training. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

influence.co

Private Placement in 2020
influence.co, Inc. develops online platform for influencers, brands, marketers, talent managers, and agencies to connect. The company offers influencer-marketing services to create public digital media kits, communicate with other members, and apply directly to brands they would like to work with. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Diego, California with additional offices in Melbourne, Australia, Denver, Colorado, New York and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Earnest Research

Private Placement in 2019
Earnest Research is a data innovation company driven to change the way professionals understand consumer and business behavior. Working with world-class data partners, we transform raw data into a source for business and investment professionals to ask better questions so they can make better decisions.

Openpath

Private Placement in 2018
Openpath is a mobile access control solutions. Openpath allows anyone to use their mobile phone to open an authorized door with the wave of a hand, without needing the phone or app open. Openpath's patented Triple Unlock technology delivers 99.9% reliability for a secure, frictionless and fast entry experience. With a robust cloud solution, Openpath provides a comprehensive suite of enterprise cloud capabilities, future-proofing the needs of the built environment. The company has introduced innovative Tailgating and Lockdown Solutions providing the ability to lock/unlock any door, zone or building in an emergency from a mobile device.

Credit Key

Seed Round in 2018
Credit Key develops business-to-business credit and payments platform. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

SafeRide, Inc

Series A in 2019
SafeRide focuses on providing patients with transportation services to attend their health appointments in time. SafeRide provides healthcare providers with solutions to send text alerts about appointments and track the rides of their patients. SafeRide was founded by Whit Schrader and Robbins Schrader in April 2015.

EV Connect

Private Placement in 2019
EV Connect, Inc. provides electric vehicle charging solutions for commercial, enterprise, hospitality, university, and government facilities in California and New York. The company operates a cloud-based platform for the management of charging stations and the drivers that use them. Its platform provides charge station-agnostic command and control; enterprise and energy systems integration via an open API; driver communications and support; and demand-response functionality across multiple charging networks. EV Connect, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in El Segundo, California.

Optimize Health

Series A in 2020
Optimize.health is a provider of a digital healthcare platform that enables the deployment of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) programs. It uses easy-to-use equipment and software. The software is designed to facilitate provider compliance when billing to new Medicare CPT codes for RPM while providing a great user experience for both patients and providers. Its system is designed to be profitable for physicians starting in the first month. Chuks Onwuneme, Jeff LeBrun, and Otto Sipe established the company in Seattle, Washington in 2015.

Thankful

Seed Round in 2019
Thankful, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence platform known as Thankful which deflects queries. The platform allows modifying scripts, managing the team, and monitoring thankful's accuracy and impact over time. Its features include questions and answers auto replies, information gathering, ticket routing, e commerce actions, advanced scripts, and team management. Thankful, Inc. is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Qordoba

Private Placement in 2018
Qordoba’s AI helps everyone at a company write with the same style, terminology, and brand voice. With Qordoba’s dynamic content guidelines, organizations can achieve consistency and clarity across all types of content — including communications and marketing, technical documentation, product, customer knowledge bases, HR and legal policies, and more. Companies such as Intuit, Twitter, Braintree, Visa, and Marriott use Qordoba to empower their writers to create better content. We were named a CNBC Upstart 100 company in 2019 and one of Forbes’ Cloud 100 Rising Stars in 2018. Visit qordoba.com to learn more.

Prekari Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Prekari Inc., doing business as Clearedin, develops email phishing prevention software. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Los Altos, California.

NestEgg

Private Placement in 2020
NestEgg is a real estate company providing an app that helps busy rental property owners to manage their properties. The app gives owners on-demand access to real experts help them manage their properties, save time with effortless maintenance coordination, maintenance by Pros owners can trust at discounted rates, and bring certainty to the property's cash flow with rent in the account. The company was founded by Eachan Fletcher, Amie O' Donohue, and Jeff Slipko in 2017 in Chicago, Illinois.

ChangeEngine

Series A in 2024
Elevating People leaders to deliver the employee moments that matter most. The challenge people leaders face is that the employee experience design process resides across distributed teams, disparate HR systems, and in many cases, spreadsheets & powerpoints. Once people programs are launched, there’s an initial buzz, then they get swept under the rug in sixty days and it’s onto the next burning need. Creating & executing best-in-class people programs to treat employees like internal customers is extremely manual and time-consuming—they include many moving parts such as goals, branding, content, communications, timeline, rewards, and ROI. In the hybrid workplace, there’s no effective way to manage this. We’re here to change that—our goal is to elevate the role of people leaders everywhere and help them to sustain their people program utilization over time. We’re empowering them to showcase the impact of the people org to their leadership team & board while helping them to get executive buy-in and unlock more budget internally to experiment & run innovative people programs.

Duro

Seed Round in 2024
Duro provides cloud-based SaaS software to help hardware companies manage the design and manufacturing of their custom hardware products. Duro’s workflow management solution is as simple to use as a spreadsheet, but integrates automated data entry and validation to enforce hardware product development best practices.

KYC Hospitality

Seed Round in 2019
KYC Hospitality offers software as a service for the hospitality industry.

DreamTeamOS

Seed Round in 2022
DreamTeamOS develops an organization OS software for product and engineering teams. The company's software looks into how organizations build software - status meetings, 1:1's as project updates, arduous performance reviews, countless tracker spreadsheets, Jira x Asana, and many other areas, enabling organizations to operate properly.

NestEgg

Seed Round in 2018
NestEgg is a real estate company providing an app that helps busy rental property owners to manage their properties. The app gives owners on-demand access to real experts help them manage their properties, save time with effortless maintenance coordination, maintenance by Pros owners can trust at discounted rates, and bring certainty to the property's cash flow with rent in the account. The company was founded by Eachan Fletcher, Amie O' Donohue, and Jeff Slipko in 2017 in Chicago, Illinois.

Rwazi

Seed Round in 2023
Rwazi provides companies with live data on the availability, visibility, and pricing of their products vs. competition, from traditional retail outlets, to optimize distribution and drive sales. - With our mobile application, Rwazi mappers harvest data on availability, visibility, and pricing from traditional retail outlets. - Companies subscribe to Rwazi to get an accurate, exhaustive real-time view of their retail universe through an interactive dashboard.

ZeroTier, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
ZeroTier One creates virtual LANs that work just like switched Ethernet and is available everywhere. ZeroTier One is useful as a VPN alternative, a private networking backplane for cloud infrastructure deployments, inter-office LAN connectivity, managing specialized devices, or any other application where it's useful to create a secure virtual overlay network that stays up and available even as things move around or physical network topology changes.

Fermata Discovery

Seed Round in 2022
Fermata Discovery is a cloud-based SaaS (software-as-a-service) company that is developing tools to automate and scale the routine processes involved with investigative workflows. Fermata's automated tools analyze high volumes of data to help solve complex cases such as financial fraud, security breaches, criminal cases, estate disputes, missing persons, and others. Fermata helps its clients produce faster, more cost-efficient results that dramatically reduce the time-to-resolution and maximize financial recoveries. Fermata works with some of the world’s premier corporate investigation firms, law firms and public sector and federal agencies.

Brightflow AI

Series A in 2022
Developer of cash flow forecasting software designed to provide financial insights to small and mid-sized businesses. The company's platform provides real-time cash forecast, cash inflow, and outflow in bar charts and graphs and comes up with a financial business plan, enabling financial entrepreneurs and businesses to enhance their understanding of the financial insights within their organization.

Boulevard

Seed Round in 2018
Boulevard is the premier salon and spa management platform designed to streamline operations, increase sales, and delight customers. Developed in collaboration with industry-leading owners and operators, the company’s all-in-one platform includes client self-scheduling, CRM, marketing, custom reporting, and integrated payment processing. Boulevard delivers an intuitive, modern SaaS solution to an industry traditionally underserved by technology, helping them unlock their full potential. Boulevard is based in Los Angeles and was founded in 2016 by Matt Danna and Sean Stavropoulos.

Zuub

Series A in 2024
We are a leading North American software solution provider for dental practices that are looking to increase their production. Our software solutions helps dental practices effortlessly deliver comprehensive and educational dental treatment plans that patients can understand, accept and schedule an appointment on any device. Zuub’s secure and HIPAA compliant platform installs in minutes and pulls all the required data from your existing practice management system with no added work required from the office staff.

SKAEL

Series A in 2022
SKAEL, Inc. operates an online digital workforce platform that delivers centric outcomes through intelligent cognitive automation and empowers a synergistic human digital workforce. The company’s automation platform builds digital employees that will help the human employees in eliminating the drudgery of day work. It provides data flow engines, customer cloud solutions, chatbot digital assistant services for employees, and data sources and documents to voice and text communication channels; and automates workflow on business logic. SKAEL, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Optimize Systems Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Optimize Systems Inc. develops medical tracking and engagement platform for remote patient monitoring and pills management. It provides PillsyCap, a container that uses Bluetooth to sense when the bottle is opened and closed and automatically helps users to keep track of when they take pills and sync to their smartphone or tablet using BluetoothSmart; and MedCabinet app that provides reminders and the information on pill-taking history, as well as enables users to refill their prescriptions. Optimize Systems Inc. was formerly known as Pillsy, Inc. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

SafeRide, Inc

Series B in 2021
SafeRide focuses on providing patients with transportation services to attend their health appointments in time. SafeRide provides healthcare providers with solutions to send text alerts about appointments and track the rides of their patients. SafeRide was founded by Whit Schrader and Robbins Schrader in April 2015.

Fuel50

Seed Round in 2017
Fuel50 Inc., trading as Career Engagement Group, designs and develops a career pathing platform for employees. The platform enables employees to map their career path, find experiences, stretch assignments, and connect with mentors, coaches, and colleagues. The platform is used for employee engagement and retention. Fuel50 Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Laguna Nigel, California.

Shippabo

Seed Round in 2016
Shippabo is an online platform that provides its users with shipping rates and shipment scheduling solutions. The platform offers freight forwarding, government filings, and trucking and drayage services to its users. It features online bookings, online custom bond purchases, real-time notifications, and shipment management. Shippabo was launched by Calvin Lo, Nina Luu, Wes Chien, and Sam Luu and is based in California.

Trustpage

Seed Round in 2021
Trustpage provides AI-assisted trust centers for software teams, giving customers and vendors a single place to collaborate on security, privacy, and reliability. Customers get questions answered faster and more accurately while vendors are no longer stuck using email, spreadsheets, and external portals to communicate trust. Vendors also gain complete visibility into the trust process, helping them shorten sales cycles and better prioritize roadmaps.

Wildfire Systems

Series A in 2021
Wildfire is on a mission to reward organic commerce everywhere. We help companies monetize their users with white-label cash back and coupon services. Wildfire makes it easy for our partners’ users to save money and earn cash back from their favorite apps and websites.

NestEgg

Series A in 2020
NestEgg is a real estate company providing an app that helps busy rental property owners to manage their properties. The app gives owners on-demand access to real experts help them manage their properties, save time with effortless maintenance coordination, maintenance by Pros owners can trust at discounted rates, and bring certainty to the property's cash flow with rent in the account. The company was founded by Eachan Fletcher, Amie O' Donohue, and Jeff Slipko in 2017 in Chicago, Illinois.

DISQO

Private Placement in 2018
DISQO is a consumer-first insights platform that delivers unprecedented data and analytics to the market research industry. The company powers insights professionals and marketers with automated solutions that drive consumer research and improve ad effectiveness. Today, DISQO delivers an accurate and complete view of the consumer via technology built on the foundation of the largest first-party research audience. By engaging consumers who choose to share their attitudes and behaviors, DISQO captures the highest quality data, empowering its clients to make confident decisions. Founded in 2015, DISQO is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and has over 110 employees.

Postie, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Postie, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Integry

Seed Round in 2021
Integry gives you fullstack support for integrations: from usecase, creation, rollout to metrics. Our integrations have a high setup rate vs offsite integration platforms making your user onboarding more successful and reduce your churn.

Thankful

Series A in 2021
Thankful, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence platform known as Thankful which deflects queries. The platform allows modifying scripts, managing the team, and monitoring thankful's accuracy and impact over time. Its features include questions and answers auto replies, information gathering, ticket routing, e commerce actions, advanced scripts, and team management. Thankful, Inc. is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

DISQO

Series A in 2018
DISQO is a consumer-first insights platform that delivers unprecedented data and analytics to the market research industry. The company powers insights professionals and marketers with automated solutions that drive consumer research and improve ad effectiveness. Today, DISQO delivers an accurate and complete view of the consumer via technology built on the foundation of the largest first-party research audience. By engaging consumers who choose to share their attitudes and behaviors, DISQO captures the highest quality data, empowering its clients to make confident decisions. Founded in 2015, DISQO is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and has over 110 employees.

mPulse Mobile

Series B in 2018
mPulse Mobile, the leader in mobile health engagement, drives improved health outcomes and business efficiencies by engaging individuals with meaningful and interactive dialog. mPulse Mobile combines technology, analytics and industry expertise that helps healthcare organizations activate their customers to adopt healthy behaviors. With over 9 years experience, a hundred million messages sent, and 70+ Health Plan, Provider, Pharma and Wellness customers, mPulse Mobile has the data, the expertise and the technology to drive healthy behavior change.

Brainbase

Private Placement in 2019
Brainbase Inc. develops and markets a platform for licensing business. It offers Brainbase Assist, a tool that enables users to manage and collaborate on their licensing business. The company’s tool also allows users to track metrics, such as total sales and royalties, rights availability, and upcoming events. In addition, its tool helps users to compare licensee performance, and measure quarterly and annual growth rates. Brainbase Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Credit Key

Series A in 2020
Credit Key develops business-to-business credit and payments platform. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Quidli

Seed Round in 2021
Quidli develops and market technological infrastructure that enable companies to split equity and trade it for labor. The platform helps companies to distribute ownership equity to workers as compensation. It allows companies, workers, freelancers, and investors to connect and exchange labor and services. The platform offers job security to workers by allowing them to pursue projects they want to work on. The companies can also use a platform for recruitment. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Paris, France.

Optimize Health

Private Placement in 2020
Optimize.health is a provider of a digital healthcare platform that enables the deployment of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) programs. It uses easy-to-use equipment and software. The software is designed to facilitate provider compliance when billing to new Medicare CPT codes for RPM while providing a great user experience for both patients and providers. Its system is designed to be profitable for physicians starting in the first month. Chuks Onwuneme, Jeff LeBrun, and Otto Sipe established the company in Seattle, Washington in 2015.

Postie

Seed Round in 2018
Postie offers automated marketing tools for direct mail marketing. With real-time attribution & data visualization, Postie delivers Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Campaign Management tools to dynamically optimize your entire DM channel strategy. Re-engage with your customers: Easily create highly segmented CRM campaigns blending purchase and behavioral data for maximum performance. Retarget your prospective customers: Use your online and mobile data to identify highly engaged prospects and deploy daily trigger campaigns. Locate new customers with high ROAS Prospecting campaigns: Build look-a-like audiences that self-optimize into response models using real-time conversion data.

Branch

Seed Round in 2017
Branch is the only challenger bank that partners with employers to help working Americans grow financially. Employers turn to Branch not only to help them attract and retain hourly workers but also reduce the costs of paper checks and paycards by offering Branch as a free financial wellness benefit and bank alternative. Employees that sign up with Branch can receive a zero-fee bank account, free instant access to earned wages, and auto-budgeting tools to help them manage their cash flow between paychecks.

Nordsense

Seed Round in 2018
Nordsense is a SaaS-based smart waste management platform that helps with the waste collection processes. It offers a sensor that can be installed in any type of container to monitor waste level even when the bins use a plastic bag to hold the waste and its user-friendly platform monitors in real-time which waste bins need servicing, enabling cities, waste operators, and waste haulers to perform waste operations much more efficiently. The solution provides a positive environmental impact by reducing both the number of vehicles on the road and fuel consumption, as well as preventing unattractive and unsanitary overflowing bins.

SKAEL

Private Placement in 2020
SKAEL, Inc. operates an online digital workforce platform that delivers centric outcomes through intelligent cognitive automation and empowers a synergistic human digital workforce. The company’s automation platform builds digital employees that will help the human employees in eliminating the drudgery of day work. It provides data flow engines, customer cloud solutions, chatbot digital assistant services for employees, and data sources and documents to voice and text communication channels; and automates workflow on business logic. SKAEL, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Cube

Series B in 2022
Cube is a financial planning and analysis software that empowers finance teams and businesses in delivering insights. It provides the capabilities to deliver custom reports for regulatory groups, executives, team leads, and key stakeholders. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York.

Aloft

Seed Round in 2018
Kittyhawk unifies the mission, the aircraft and the data to empower commercial drone operations. Kittyhawk's platform is used to power a wide array of enterprise drone programs like CNN, Traveler's Insurance and a wide array of law enforcement customers. As a full stack platform, Kittyhawk's platform not only controls the drones but also helps managers and Chief Pilots know their team is complying by offering transparency into how, where and when their team is operating. The Kittyhawk platform has an iOS, Android and Web application to make sure every stakeholder has the information they need when they need it.

Telgorithm

Seed Round in 2022
Telgorithm is a SaaS-first hosted text message service / platform that's addressing the challenges of A2P compliance for business messaging in the United States and Canada. The Company is at the forefront of A2P compliance, leveraging expertise that’s enabled over 120 enterprise businesses. Telgorithm has partnered with The Campaign Registry and Messaging Aggregators to help companies achieve 100% message deliverability and higher message throughput.

Brightflow AI

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of cash flow forecasting software designed to provide financial insights to small and mid-sized businesses. The company's platform provides real-time cash forecast, cash inflow, and outflow in bar charts and graphs and comes up with a financial business plan, enabling financial entrepreneurs and businesses to enhance their understanding of the financial insights within their organization.

HONK

Private Placement in 2019
HONK Technologies, Inc. provides an on-demand mobile application that puts motorists/drivers in touch with towing service companies in the United States. Its application offers service options in the areas of towing, roadside assistance, dead battery, tire change, out of fuel, jump start, stuck in ditch, flatbed towing, car towing, and lock-out aspects via iOS, Android, or Web platforms. HONK Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as roadstruck, Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Glipped, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Glipped, Inc., doing business as InvolveSoft, develops and offers software as a service (Saas) based enterprise platform for companies to streamline corporate giving and manage employee engagement to increase employee retention and customer involvement. The company surveys, analyzes, and collects data about employees’ passions; manages volunteering programs across different departments and cities; event bookings; and tracks customizable metrics and impact. It also offers ROI tool for employee input and calculations. It serves non-profits and private organizations. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Santa Monica, California.