Bow Capital

Bow Capital, established in 2016 and headquartered in Menlo Park with an additional office in San Francisco, is a private equity firm focused on early-stage investments. The firm specializes in sectors such as life sciences, consumer goods, and technology, emphasizing investments that have the potential to advance society and foster innovation. Bow Capital uniquely integrates its operations with the University of California, leveraging academic resources and expertise to support entrepreneurs in building transformative companies. The firm aims to connect diverse voices and thought leaders, including industry veterans and emerging innovators, to challenge conventional paradigms and encourage groundbreaking developments. With a founding team experienced in scaling startups into successful enterprises, Bow Capital is positioned to provide the necessary support for entrepreneurs seeking to make a significant impact in their industries.

Grady Burnett

Venture Partner

Suraj Patel

Principal

Vivek Ranadivé

Founder and Managing General Partner

Rafi Syed

General Partner

ZiZi Zhang

Investor

55 past transactions

Ambi Robotics

Venture Round in 2021
Ambidextrous Laboratories, Inc. develops software for AI-based robotic picking in e-commerce applications. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Rimeto

Series A in 2019
Rimeto, a four-year-old startup that provides customers with more detailed employee directories and profiles. Our mission is to help people collaborate at work - to empower people with access to information, enable them to build great things together, and help them feel truly connected to their colleagues. Rimeto builds people-centric tools for the modern workplace - beautiful, powerful and flexible. We believe that work is better when information is easily accessible, searchable and actionable. Everyone should be able to see across their organization and tap into collective knowledge. Starting with an advanced directory, we're creating a platform around the enterprise graph.

Merit

Venture Round in 2018
Merit’s verified identity platform brings visibility, liquidity, and trust to people-data, giving organizations the clarity to make better-informed decisions, engage with individuals effectively, and pursue their mission efficiently. Merit works with trusted private, state, and municipal organizations to solve critical real-world problems insectors such as workforce development, emergency services, licensing, education, and defense readiness. By connecting organizations and individuals through applications, Merit’s technology supports a robust verified identity network that serves as a source of truth and trust for entire ecosystems.

Portofino Labs, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Portofino Labs, Inc. designs, manufactures, and retails protective underwear and pads for adult men and women. The company manufactures hypoallergenic and latex-free underwear products that are offered on monthly subscription to customers. It manufactures and sells moderate, maximum, and overnight absorbencies. The company sells its products through online platform. Portofino Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Deepcell

Series B in 2022
Deepcell, Inc. develops a technology that offers a non-invasive test with diagnostic-level accuracy. The company focuses on enabling novel biological insights at the single-cell level for improved diagnosis and treatment of disease. It also provides detailed genetic health information through ordinary blood sampling. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Mountain View, California.

Jerry

Series A in 2021
Jerry is an AI financial service startup that negotiates loans and insurances for american families. The company constantly looks for savings on your fixed costs (subscriptions like insurance, loans, etc) and does all the work to negotiate better rates and paperwork to switch and save money automatically. Like all best things in life, Jerry is completely free for members!

ArangoDB

Series B in 2021
ArangoDB GmbH develops a cloud-based multi-model NoSQL database for developers and architects. It provides ArangoDB, a distributed free and open-source database with a data model for documents, graphs, and key-values that allows users to build high performance applications using a SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Cologne, Germany.

Wheel the World

Seed Round in 2020
Wheel the World Inc. provides tour services for people with disabilities, their friends, and family worldwide. The company provides destinations, tours packages, tours and activities, and accommodation services through its online portal. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Ambi Robotics

Series A in 2021
Ambidextrous Laboratories, Inc. develops software for AI-based robotic picking in e-commerce applications. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Berkeley, California.

WorkRamp

Series B in 2020
WorkRamp, Inc. develops a software for enterprises to onboard, train, and certify their employees. It offers WorkRamp, a software that provides templates that are used as starting point for the training needs. The company’s software also enables managers, mentors, and buddies to collaborate in real-time; and used to implement, track, and manage the training program. In addition, its solutions are used for onboarding programs, ongoing training, and certify the team members. WorkRamp, Inc. was formerly known as Bulletin Board IO, Inc. and changed its name to WorkRamp, Inc. in November 2015. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Loris

Series A in 2022
Loris helps the world’s fastest-growing companies create long-standing customer relationships by empowering them to have better conversations with their customers. We optimize lessons learned from the crisis space to enable companies to handle hard customer conversations with empathy. Our real-time agent coaching software uses machine learning to help enterprise care teams make customers happier and brands stand out in the crowd. Loris is headquartered in New York City and also has an office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

GenEdit

Private Placement in 2018
GenEdit, Inc. focuses on the development of novel, non-viral, nanoparticle-based delivery technology and enabling next generation CRISPR-based gene therapies. The foundation of our CRISPR-Nanoparticle Technology Platform is based on successfully engineering the individual components of the CRISPR system to overcome the limitations of existing delivery vehicles for CRISPR-based therapeutics.

Deepcell

Private Placement in 2020
Deepcell, Inc. develops a technology that offers a non-invasive test with diagnostic-level accuracy. The company focuses on enabling novel biological insights at the single-cell level for improved diagnosis and treatment of disease. It also provides detailed genetic health information through ordinary blood sampling. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Mountain View, California.

Skylight

Series A in 2019
Currently serving the San Francisco Bay Area as a licensed General Contractor, Skylight delivers full service renovations for kitchens, bathrooms and other interior spaces. The Skylight process is fully digital and fully integrated – from planning the space based on lifestyle, to personalized curation of materials, right through to permitting, construction and the final close-out package. Skylight was created to fix the problems with the traditional renovation experience.

Pandion

Series A in 2021
Pandion has developed a technology platform for e-commerce players to manage capacity problems during peak periods. The logistics platform helps all businesses provide one and two-day shipping, and makes on-time delivery possible for more retailers, regardless of size and scale. Pandion’s delivery management software uses machine learning to avoid shipping delays and optimize delivery networks.

WorkRamp

Private Placement in 2020
WorkRamp, Inc. develops a software for enterprises to onboard, train, and certify their employees. It offers WorkRamp, a software that provides templates that are used as starting point for the training needs. The company’s software also enables managers, mentors, and buddies to collaborate in real-time; and used to implement, track, and manage the training program. In addition, its solutions are used for onboarding programs, ongoing training, and certify the team members. WorkRamp, Inc. was formerly known as Bulletin Board IO, Inc. and changed its name to WorkRamp, Inc. in November 2015. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

WorkRamp

Series A in 2019
WorkRamp, Inc. develops a software for enterprises to onboard, train, and certify their employees. It offers WorkRamp, a software that provides templates that are used as starting point for the training needs. The company’s software also enables managers, mentors, and buddies to collaborate in real-time; and used to implement, track, and manage the training program. In addition, its solutions are used for onboarding programs, ongoing training, and certify the team members. WorkRamp, Inc. was formerly known as Bulletin Board IO, Inc. and changed its name to WorkRamp, Inc. in November 2015. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Polytomic

Seed Round in 2021
Polytomic is a software company whose mission is to make internal data accessible. Internal data within companies is fragmented across many different systems; accessing relevant slices of outside of a team's home system is cumbersome. Polytomic allows business teams to easily access all the data located outside of their home system. Polytomic is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

Deepcell

Series A in 2020
Deepcell, Inc. develops a technology that offers a non-invasive test with diagnostic-level accuracy. The company focuses on enabling novel biological insights at the single-cell level for improved diagnosis and treatment of disease. It also provides detailed genetic health information through ordinary blood sampling. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Mountain View, California.

Lambda Inc.

Series A in 2018
Lambda Inc., doing business as Lambda School, provides online coding and computer science education training services in the United States. It provides training in computer science, software engineering, neural networks, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The company also offers courses in JavaScript and website development. It provides online and live training sessions with instruction, hands-on projects, pair programming, and code reviews from instructors. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Farmer Business Network

Series C in 2017
Farmers Business Network is an independent and unbiased, farmer-to-farmer agronomic information network. The Network's mission is to improve the livelihood of farmers by making data useful and accessible. Farmers Business Network (FBN) utilizes data science and machine learning to provide members with unbiased and unprecedented insights about each of their fields, powered by billions of data points from our network. IT provides farmers with product performance, benchmarking and predictive analytics based on real-world performance data

GenEdit

Pre Seed Round in 2016
GenEdit, Inc. focuses on the development of novel, non-viral, nanoparticle-based delivery technology and enabling next generation CRISPR-based gene therapies. The foundation of our CRISPR-Nanoparticle Technology Platform is based on successfully engineering the individual components of the CRISPR system to overcome the limitations of existing delivery vehicles for CRISPR-based therapeutics.

Because Market

Venture Round in 2019
Because is personal care direct-to-consumer company focused on older adults. We started in 2017 with a simple idea - to make it easier for our families to get the products they needed. Today, we are on our way to becoming the #1 trusted brand for older adults, helping millions lead vibrant, independent lives. We’ve raised over $30MM in funding from top VC firms including Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures and are humbled every day by the support of our customers, investors, and partners.

BentoML

Seed Round in 2023
Model Serving is the process of applying trained machine learning models at scale for applications. And BentoML.ai is the SaaS platform providing an end-to-end model serving solution for data science teams, based on our open-source project BentoML. BentoML is an open-source platform for high-performance machine learning model serving. It makes it easy to build production API endpoint for your ML model and supports all major machine learning frameworks, including Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch, XGBoost, scikit-learn, fastai and more. BentoML comes with a high-performance API model server with adaptive micro-batching support, bringing the advantage of batch processing to online serving workloads. It also provides batch serving, model management and model deployment functionality, which gives ML teams an end-to-end model serving solution, with DevOps best practices baked in.

Linus Biotechnology

Series A in 2023
Linus Biotechnology develops a technology platform that builds on breakthroughs in exposome sequencing. The company was founded in 2020 by Manish Arora and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Ambi Robotics

Series A in 2022
Ambidextrous Laboratories, Inc. develops software for AI-based robotic picking in e-commerce applications. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Jerry

Series C in 2021
Jerry is an AI financial service startup that negotiates loans and insurances for american families. The company constantly looks for savings on your fixed costs (subscriptions like insurance, loans, etc) and does all the work to negotiate better rates and paperwork to switch and save money automatically. Like all best things in life, Jerry is completely free for members!

Rev

Series B in 2019
LeadCrunch, Inc. develops self-service artificial intelligence based business-to-business (B2B) lead and demand generation tools. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Diego, California.

GrayMatter Robotics

Series A in 2022
GrayMatter Robotics creates solutions to assist humans in tedious and ergonomically challenging tasks. It develops robotic brains for industrial robots designed to allow them to transform into smart assistants for high-mix low-volume manufacturing applications. It makes AI-brains for robots to make them smart, easy to use and rapidly deployable for complex operations, enabling users to improve their quality of life by leveraging robotics and artificial intelligence. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Clearco

Series C in 2021
Clearbanc provides growth capital for web-enabled businesses through its 20-minute term sheet. The company offers fast, affordable growth capital to eCommerce and B2B/SaaS companies. Its investments range from $10K - $10M and its portfolio spans small businesses across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to some of the fastest-growing consumer brands. Launched in 2015, Clearbanc uses proprietary underwriting technology to offer more capital at quicker speeds and more flexible terms than other financing alternatives.

Evolve Biosystems

Series B in 2017
Evolve Biosystems is a biotechnology company that specializes in providing microbiome-based products designed to develop, restore, and maintain. The company's platform focuses on solving the gut dysbiosis throughout the human life cycle as well as in various animal species, enabling physicians to maintain the healthy gut microbiome in newborn infants with a consumer-directed home use product, and a hospital-based neonatal ICU product. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Davis, California.

Faze

Seed Round in 2021
Fazo app is a Cricket NFT platform where fans can collect, use, play and interact with cricket through NFTs.

Eversight

Venture Round in 2017
Eversight, Inc. provides cloud-based solutions built on the predictive, machine learning, and data science technologies for retailers and consumer goods manufacturers. It specializes in promotions, price optimization, consumer goods, experimentation, machine learning, and data science. The company offers solutions for retail, which include Eversight View that tracks manufacturer campaigns and maximize the ROI of each trade dollar; Eversight Innovate to grow store-brand sales; and Eversight Testing Network to test through various digital platforms. It also provides cloud solutions for consumer goods manufacturers, such as Eversight Innovate for designing, testing, and honing promotions; and Eversight Amplify that improves relationships with retailers. Eversight, Inc. has strategic partnerships with Unilever, BIC, AB InBev, Altierre Corp., and others. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Release

Series A in 2021
Release simplifies development by making the creation of environments easy. Environments are created based on a template that is automatically derived from a docker-compose file that defines the application. It allows creating any number of development, staging, demo, and production environments without ever having to deal with the underlying infrastructure. These environments can then be automatically generated and updated whenever you push a code change or create a PR. They can also be manually deployed via the Release user interface. It was founded by Tommy, David, and Erik in 2019.

Stoovo

Seed Round in 2022
Stoovo, Inc. develops and offers Stoovo, an application to pay off loans, taxes, and bills with instant gigs. The application also offers financial advice through AI that analyzes spending, debt, and tax obligations in real-time. Stoovo, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Rimeto

Private Placement in 2019
Rimeto, a four-year-old startup that provides customers with more detailed employee directories and profiles. Our mission is to help people collaborate at work - to empower people with access to information, enable them to build great things together, and help them feel truly connected to their colleagues. Rimeto builds people-centric tools for the modern workplace - beautiful, powerful and flexible. We believe that work is better when information is easily accessible, searchable and actionable. Everyone should be able to see across their organization and tap into collective knowledge. Starting with an advanced directory, we're creating a platform around the enterprise graph.

RealtyShares

Series C in 2017
RealtyShares is a real estate investment platform that gives investors direct access to quality commercial real estate investment opportunities. It connects its network of individual and institutional investors with experienced real estate operators looking to raise capital to improve properties for higher, better use. Venture-backed by premier investors such as 500 Startups, Union Square Ventures, General Catalyst, Cross Creek Advisors, and Menlo Ventures, RealtyShares has deployed more than $840 million over 1,100 investment opportunities in 41 states.

Mothership

Venture Round in 2022
Mothership Technologies, Inc. provides with application software for antiquated freight industry. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

ArangoDB

Private Placement in 2019
ArangoDB GmbH develops a cloud-based multi-model NoSQL database for developers and architects. It provides ArangoDB, a distributed free and open-source database with a data model for documents, graphs, and key-values that allows users to build high performance applications using a SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Cologne, Germany.

Nayya

Series B in 2021
Nayya uses AI and data science to personalize the way that employees choose and use their existing employee benefits. The company's platform analyzes millions of provider data points to make Smart Recommendations for a given procedure and network while providing doctors with the details of patients upon arrival, thereby enabling customers to have access to high quality, low-cost care.

Evolve Biosystems

Private Placement in 2018
Evolve Biosystems is a biotechnology company that specializes in providing microbiome-based products designed to develop, restore, and maintain. The company's platform focuses on solving the gut dysbiosis throughout the human life cycle as well as in various animal species, enabling physicians to maintain the healthy gut microbiome in newborn infants with a consumer-directed home use product, and a hospital-based neonatal ICU product. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Davis, California.

Heartex

Series A in 2022
Heartex, Inc develops a platform that helps companies build artificial intelligence (AI) products and features. The company trains AI models to label datasets using pre-trained models. Its features includes unlimited projects, download annotations, hotkeys support, models integration, templates, and rest API. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

GenEdit

Seed Round in 2018
GenEdit, Inc. focuses on the development of novel, non-viral, nanoparticle-based delivery technology and enabling next generation CRISPR-based gene therapies. The foundation of our CRISPR-Nanoparticle Technology Platform is based on successfully engineering the individual components of the CRISPR system to overcome the limitations of existing delivery vehicles for CRISPR-based therapeutics.

ArangoDB

Series A in 2019
ArangoDB GmbH develops a cloud-based multi-model NoSQL database for developers and architects. It provides ArangoDB, a distributed free and open-source database with a data model for documents, graphs, and key-values that allows users to build high performance applications using a SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Cologne, Germany.

Kloudless

Series A in 2018
Kloudless abstracts away the differences between APIs without compromising functionality, creating a simple, unified interface for developers to build native integrations into their applications. Code once to our Unified APIs, and reuse that code for any service in that category. We support 100+ integrations across software categories like Cloud Storage, CRM, Calendar, Email, Chat, Accounting, ERP, Messaging, ITSM, and more. Our platform technology can quickly ingest new APIs and add support for new integrations, which makes Kloudless a great long-term partner for satisfying future product requirements and customer requests.

Pandion

Series B in 2024
Pandion has developed a technology platform for e-commerce players to manage capacity problems during peak periods. The logistics platform helps all businesses provide one and two-day shipping, and makes on-time delivery possible for more retailers, regardless of size and scale. Pandion’s delivery management software uses machine learning to avoid shipping delays and optimize delivery networks.

Eureka Health

Seed Round in 2023
Helping people with chronic conditions mitigate their symptoms.

GrayMatter Robotics

Series B in 2024
GrayMatter Robotics creates solutions to assist humans in tedious and ergonomically challenging tasks. It develops robotic brains for industrial robots designed to allow them to transform into smart assistants for high-mix low-volume manufacturing applications. It makes AI-brains for robots to make them smart, easy to use and rapidly deployable for complex operations, enabling users to improve their quality of life by leveraging robotics and artificial intelligence. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

WorkRamp

Private Placement in 2019
WorkRamp, Inc. develops a software for enterprises to onboard, train, and certify their employees. It offers WorkRamp, a software that provides templates that are used as starting point for the training needs. The company’s software also enables managers, mentors, and buddies to collaborate in real-time; and used to implement, track, and manage the training program. In addition, its solutions are used for onboarding programs, ongoing training, and certify the team members. WorkRamp, Inc. was formerly known as Bulletin Board IO, Inc. and changed its name to WorkRamp, Inc. in November 2015. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.