Musubi is an AI company specializing in content moderation and fraud detection for social media platforms. It deploys an AI moderator to identify and remove malicious users and harmful content, ensuring safe and secure environments on social media.
Ahara is a personalized nutrition platform that uses clinically validated science and an individual's health data to deliver tailored nutrition programs for optimal health and longevity. It offers features such as individualized nutrition reports, curated recipes, meal planning, and educational content.
Gimbal Space
Seed Round in 2024
Gimbal Space specializes in providing reliable and cost-effective satellite components tailored to the modern space market. They offer low-cost, dependable solutions for LEO missions, including custom-sized reaction wheels, torque rods, and star trackers, backed by rigorous testing, competitive pricing, and swift availability.
Glacier
Venture Round in 2024
Glacier develops AI-enabled recycling robots for recycling facilities. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company creates affordable, high-performing, and space-efficient robots that automate the sorting of recyclable materials. Its platform combines artificial intelligence-powered sensors and robotics to streamline operations, improve sorting accuracy, and increase profitability for waste facilities.
Clove is a global recipe and culinary platform to make cooking easier for everyone. Clove platform enables recipe producers to post high-quality, easy-to-follow recipes and reach new audiences, while AI and personalization assist ordinary cooks in finding relevant and inspired dishes.
Stable provides a virtual business address and mailroom service designed for startups and remote businesses. It simplifies address management during moves, offers a professional business address regardless of location, and handles physical mail electronically, streamlining administrative operations.
Betteromics
Series A in 2023
Betteromics is a SaaS platform empowering life sciences professionals with AI-driven computational techniques. It integrates seamlessly within clients' Virtual Private Clouds, connecting diverse data sources and providing a centralized, objective data hub. The platform accelerates precision biomarker discovery and clinical research by managing large, complex molecular datasets securely.
Kinetic Automation
Series A in 2023
Kinetic specializes in modernizing automotive infrastructure to accommodate electric and autonomous vehicles. It employs hardware, robotics, software, and AI to deliver swift, accurate, and predictable maintenance services.
Stitch operates a financial API platform that facilitates secure connections between bank accounts and various applications. By providing full API access to financial accounts, Stitch enables users to share their transaction history, confirm their identities, and initiate payments efficiently. The platform integrates directly with existing bank infrastructures, ensuring compliance and enhancing user experience through a lightweight single sign-on process. This approach allows clients to conduct fraud-free bank payments and access financial data with ease.
Neptyne
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Neptyne develops spreadsheet programmable tools designed to transform into comprehensive developer platforms. Their products aim to bridge the gap between data manipulation and coding, utilizing AI models for data summarization, refinement, and classification. This enables developers to integrate programming tools without resorting to macros or restricted scripting languages, automating reports, email results, and notifications via SMS/WhatsApp.
DropYacht
Seed Round in 2022
DropYacht offers a technology-driven solution aimed at enhancing online brand engagement and safety. By utilizing artificial intelligence, DropYacht monitors social media platforms such as Instagram, Discord, TikTok, and Twitter for spam, bad actors, and high-risk accounts. This proactive approach ensures a cleaner, more secure online environment for brands to interact with their audience. Furthermore, DropYacht specializes in converting social media interactions into tangible business opportunities, creating hyper-personalized experiences that bridge the gap between online engagement and real-world purchases. This innovative approach helps brands to not only tell their stories more effectively but also to build and maintain a community that aligns with their overarching brand identity.
Criya
Venture Round in 2022
Criya is an AI-powered platform that combines an intelligent content system with an all-in-one studio for creative firms. The AI reads across data sources, conducts prospect research, and generates hyper-personalized pitch decks, landing pages, emails, and LinkedIn campaigns in a single click. The platform also provides an online storefront and business tooling, including automated booking, payment invoicing, digital contracts, project management, and appointment setup, enabling companies to start and grow online and monetize their services.
NameCoach
Seed Round in 2021
NameCoach Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, specializes in cloud-based solutions for addressing name mispronunciation. The company enables users to record their names online, facilitating accurate pronunciation by others across various platforms such as commencements, conferences, meetings, award ceremonies, and classrooms. Its services cater to schools both within the United States and internationally, promoting inclusivity and respect for diverse names.
Sparrow
Venture Round in 2021
Sparrow is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in providing an end-to-end leave management solution for employers. The company's software automates the management of employee leave, streamlining notifications and communication through a centralized portal. This integration ensures that both employees and human resources have timely access to essential information, facilitating a more efficient leave process. Sparrow's approach aims to enhance the overall experience of managing employee leave while simplifying administrative tasks for organizations.
Cuyana, Inc. is a San Francisco-based fashion brand that focuses on manufacturing and retailing high-quality clothing, bodysuits, bags, small leather goods, and accessories. Founded in 2011, the company promotes the philosophy of "fewer, better things," offering timeless pieces designed with a modern aesthetic and crafted from premium materials to ensure durability. Cuyana operates an online platform for direct-to-consumer sales, allowing it to provide luxury-quality products at attainable prices. In addition to its online presence, Cuyana has physical showrooms in locations such as Palo Alto, New York City, Pacific Palisades, and Venice. Through its unique approach, Cuyana aims to bridge the gap between luxury and affordability in the fashion industry.
XVERSO is a community platform that hosts events celebrating art, design, and music.
Aidaptive
Seed Round in 2021
Aidaptive is a company that specializes in predictive personalization through its advanced machine learning platform. Founded in 2021 by Rakesh Yadav, who previously developed machine learning operations for Google Ads and Payments, Aidaptive aims to empower eCommerce and hospitality brands of all sizes with enterprise-grade machine learning capabilities. The platform enables businesses to automatically assess the affinity and intent of potential customers, delivering personalized content in real time. It provides tools for sales enhancement, dynamic pricing, and customized experiences, allowing companies to leverage data effectively to address various business challenges. With a team possessing over 50 years of combined machine learning expertise, Aidaptive is backed by notable investors, including Dell Technologies Capital and several seasoned Silicon Valley professionals.
Queenly
Seed Round in 2021
Queenly is an online marketplace and search engine specializing in the formalwear industry, catering to a diverse community of dress enthusiasts. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California, Queenly has quickly established itself as a leader in the market, boasting the largest inventory of formal dresses in the United States, surpassing traditional retailers like Macy’s, Rent the Runway, and Nordstrom. The platform addresses the needs of underserved segments such as prom, pageant, quinceañera, and wedding dress markets, offering a solution for high-priced, low-usage inventory. Queenly's features include a custom search function and flexible purchasing options, allowing users to buy and sell dresses at negotiable prices, thus enhancing accessibility and convenience for both buyers and sellers.
Felt is a collaborative software company that wants to make it easier for people to build maps on the internet.
Snack App
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Snack is a video-first dating application that enables users to connect with potential matches through engaging video content. The platform allows individuals to create and post videos on a feed, facilitating real-time interactions and a more dynamic approach to online dating. By combining traditional matching algorithms with the ability to flirt-stream, Snack provides a unique environment for users to express themselves and connect creatively with others. This innovative approach to dating aims to enhance user engagement and foster meaningful connections in a modern digital landscape.
Gatik is a Mountain View, California-based startup that develops autonomous vehicle technology for B2B short-haul and middle-mile logistics. The company specializes in AI-powered software and autonomous hardware for light and medium-duty trucks and vans, enabling scheduled deliveries and streamlined supply-chain operations for commercial customers.
Tangram Vision
Seed Round in 2020
Tangram Vision provides the infrastructure layer for vision-enabled products, including robots, drones, and industrial automation. The company offers an integrated software suite to simplify adding and managing perception sensors and their data streams. Key components include sensor integration APIs, self-maintaining calibration, in-field diagnostics and monitoring, and an app studio for developing perception functions, along with deployment-ready calibration. This enables engineers to focus on building applications rather than the complexities of the vision layer, while supporting stability, reliability, and performance across the entire product lifecycle.
Cambly Inc. is an online educational platform established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in providing language training services, primarily focusing on English learners. Through its mobile application, Cambly offers on-demand access to native English-speaking tutors via video chat, allowing students to engage in conversational practice tailored to their individual needs. This interactive platform enables users to learn new vocabulary and concepts in a dynamic manner, with the option to review lessons at their convenience. Cambly aims to facilitate language acquisition through direct interaction with experienced tutors, effectively bridging the gap between learners and proficient speakers.
Swiftly, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing data-driven applications for public transportation. The company offers a comprehensive platform designed to enhance operational mobility and efficiency for transit agencies by unifying public transit data across various departments and stakeholders. Swiftly's platform integrates seamlessly with existing transit hardware and provides essential features such as GTFS and TransXchange data, location and operator information, on-board data, real-time passenger information, and historical data analytics. By leveraging billions of data points and advanced algorithms, Swiftly aims to improve transit system performance and service reliability for transportation agencies, residents, and governments. Originally known as Swyft Technologies, Inc., the company rebranded to Swiftly, Inc. in January 2016 and was incorporated in 2014.
Abacus.AI
Seed Round in 2019
Abacus.AI offers cloud artificial intelligence services, helping businesses integrate deep learning models into operations and customer experiences. Established in 2019, the company is headquartered in San Francisco.
Athenascope
Seed Round in 2018
Athenascope, Inc., founded in 2018 and based in Mountain View, California, operates a platform accessible through its website and apps. This platform serves a community of registered users who can upload, generate, and share video highlights from their gaming experiences. The company specializes in leveraging computer vision and artificial intelligence to automatically record and recap gameplay moments, allowing gamers to showcase their achievements without the need for manual video editing. Users can also engage with each other by sharing comments, opinions, and ideas, fostering a collaborative environment around video content collection and promotion.