Canaan VII

Canaan Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1987 and based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Westport, Connecticut, Israel, and India. The firm manages approximately $5 billion across ten funds and has made investments in more than 250 companies, achieving over 190 successful exits. Canaan focuses on a range of sectors, including technology—specifically fintech, enterprise/cloud, digital media, communications, and clean tech—and healthcare, with an emphasis on biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, and digital health. The firm seeks to invest between $1 million and $20 million, targeting entrepreneurs with innovative ideas at various stages of development, from early to expansion stages. Canaan Partners leverages its team of experienced investment professionals to identify and support visionary entrepreneurs in building leading companies globally.

Brenton K. Ahrens

General Partner - West Coast

Brent Ahrens

General Partner

Nandu Anilal

Investor

John Balen

Partner - West Coast

Laura Chau

Partner

Daniel T. Ciporin

General Partner

Colleen Cuffaro

Partner

Brendan Dickinson

General Partner

Peter Farina Ph.D

Executive in Residence - East Coast

Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka

Partner

Julie Grant

General Partner - West Coast

Nairi Hourdajian

Vice President, Marketing and Communications

Wende Hutton

General Partner - West Coast

Maha Ibrahim

General Partner

Deepak Kamra

General Partner - West Coast

Nina Kjellson

General Partner

Ehud Levy

General Partner

Jared Newman

Investor

John Pacifico

General Partner, COO and CFO

Hootan Rashidifard

Principal

Guy Russo

General Partner - East Coast

Hrach Simonian

General Partner

Bob Williams

Venture Partner

Eric Young

Partner and Co-Founder

876 past transactions

Paxos

Seed Round in 2013
Paxos is re-building the infrastructure of finance. Its mission is to move any assets anywhere, instantly – and therefore democratize access to a new, global, frictionless economy. The Company takes a two-pronged approach of establishing regulatory designations that give it access to the current financial infrastructure and the ability to develop innovative products. This allows Paxos to operate as a gateway between traditional finance and the digital future. Today, as the first regulated Trust company with blockchain expertise, Paxos is uniquely positioned to mobilize and custody assets digitally.

Echopass

Venture Round in 2005
Echopass Corporation provides advanced IP-based call and contact center solutions as a service for mid-to-large enterprises and government agencies through its unique EchoSystem service integration platform. Only Echopass delivers the promise of on-demand, always on, guaranteed, and end-to-end solutions that are both affordable and fully integrated with client's existing customer contact applications and voice or data technologies. Echopass managed solutions are quick to deploy, easy to use, flexible, and require no capital investment or ongoing maintenance. Privately-held Echopass, backed by venture capital firms Canaan Partners and New Enterprise Associates, is a recipient of the Red Herring Top 100 Companies award

Taptap Send

Venture Round in 2020
Taptap Send is an app that lets immigrants send money back home to Africa instantly and at very low prices. Since launching in summer 2018, it has already moved tens of millions of dollars and reached tens of thousands of customers. It is live in seven European countries, and support payments into Senegal, Mali, Zambia, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, with more countries launching soon.

World View Enterprises

Private Placement in 2018
World View Enterprises, Inc. provides space travel services to individuals for research, educational, and scientific pursuits. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Tucson, Arizona.

EndoGastric Solutions

Venture Round in 2012
EndoGastric Solutions, Inc. (www.endogastricsolutions.com), is a medical device company developing and commercializing innovative, evidence-based, incisionless surgical technology for the treatment of GERD. EGS has combined the most advanced concepts in gastroenterology and surgery to develop the Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication (TIF®) 2.0 procedure—a minimally invasive solution that addresses a significant unmet clinical need. EndoGastric Solutions, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Apartment List

Series B in 2016
Apartment List is a smart, simple, and seamless renting platform that’s dedicated to making the process fair and transparent for all. Their mission is to build a better world of renting for everyone, to get rid of the pain and complexity, and makes it more personal, flexible, and transparent. They make finding a home to love easy and enjoyable, with a personally curated search feature that gets to know the individual. It was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Antiva Biosciences

Series D in 2021
Antiva Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, localized therapeutics for the treatment of diseases caused by HPV infection. The company was founded as Hera Therapeutics in 2012 by Dr. Karl Hostetler at The University of California San Diego. They are now Antiva Biosciences which is headquartered in South San Francisco.

Theraclone Sciences

Venture Round in 2010
Theraclone Sciences (formerly Spaltudaq) is a Seattle-based discovery-stage biotech focused on the development of novel therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of infectious disease and inflammation. The company's technology harnesses the power of the human immune system to identify naturally evolved monoclonal antibodies from the blood cells of immunologically relevant human subjects. Recombinant human monoclonal antibodies can be rapidly obtained using our discovery platform and scaled for large-scale industrial production. Such antibody drug candidates may be uniquely important in combating disease and may have potential as therapeutic products that can be administered to a broad patient population. Theraclone is a privately held company with venture investment from ARCH Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, Healthcare Ventures, Amgen Ventures, MPM Capital, and Alexandria Real Estate Investment.

Rocketrip

Series C in 2018
Rocketrip rewards employees for making flexible, cost-saving decisions when they travel for business while providing real-time insights into travel expenses — all with no disruption to your online booking process. A custom-calibrated Price to Beat and fully managed rewards store incentivize employees to choose lower-cost travel options. Rocketrip is trusted by enterprise brands like iHeartMedia, Feld Entertainment, and Twitter. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Roman

Series B in 2019
Roman Health Medical LLC operates Roman, a platform for adult men who are experiencing erectile dysfunction and prefer to receive treatment online. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Agile Stacks

Series A in 2019
Agile Stacks provides DevOps automation platform for cloud infrastructure and machine learning. It helps companies to accelerate software delivery and data science with composable, automated stacks. Agile Stacks is reinventing how enterprises implement multi-cloud infrastructure-as-code. Its cloud-based service makes that job easier. Customers can accelerate software delivery and data science by deploying composable, automated full-function software infrastructure within minutes. The company was founded in 2016 and based in San Mateo, California.

Embroker

Series B in 2018
Embroker is the easiest way to intelligently ensure any business. By pairing technology and broker expertise, Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage. As the leading digital insurance brokerage, Embroker is working to massively improve the $800 billion property and casualty (P&C) insurance market. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have offices in Chicago and Boston and customers in all 50 states.

OneLook Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
OneLook Inc., doing business as Lily AI, operates an artificial intelligence platform that enables brands and retailers to understand individual customer’s emotional context while they shop. It offers Lily AI that marries product attributes with customer behavior data to surface the best ideas for each individual shopper using advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence to identify all the product details that matter. The company’s tool auto-tags products with a set of possible attributes; and extracts and predicts the emotional context of each shopper using existing anonymized customer data to deliver relevant and individualized experiences on ecommerce sites and in outbound communications. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.

ReVision Optics

Series D in 2010
ReVision Optics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and delivers implantable products for the treatment of presbyopia. It offers PRESBYLENS Corneal Inlay, a refractive surgery solution to correct vision lost by the natural aging process called presbyopia. The company serves the ophthalmology professionals. ReVision Optics, Inc. was formerly known as IntraLens Vision, Inc. and changed its name to ReVision Optics, Inc. in 2005. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Lake Forest, California.

Arstasis

Series E in 2012
Arstasis is a medical device manufacturer dedicated to bringing innovative access devices to cardiologists, interventional radiologists, their staff, and patients. The device is used in the Arstaotomyâ„¢ procedure, a new way to gain access to the femoral artery that some physicians believe results in a more pleasant and efficient cath lab and post-procedure experience for clinician and patient alike. It was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Redwood City, California.

PACT Pharma

Series B in 2018
Pact Pharma is a developer of personalized adoptive T cell therapies designed for the eradication of solid tumors.The company's therapies help in the identification of neo-epitopes that serve as private mutations for each patient's cancer as well as creates an opportunity to engineer autologous T cells that target and kill tumors expressing these neo-antigens, enabling physicians to recognize and remove each patient's cancer cells.

Cortina Systems

Series D in 2006
Cortina Systems is a leading supplier of intelligent communication solutions through continuous innovations in advanced port processing and connectivity to the Core, Metro, Access, and Enterprise Market Segments. With our state-of-the-art high-speed analogdigital integration, we deliver a wide suite of products that address our customers' performance, density, and flexibility needs enabling faster time-to-market, longer time-in-market, and increased revenue opportunities. Working closely with our customers to understand their system requirements and anticipate their needs, we are creating the foundation ingredients for new generations of services.

Echopass

Series B in 2003
Echopass Corporation provides advanced IP-based call and contact center solutions as a service for mid-to-large enterprises and government agencies through its unique EchoSystem service integration platform. Only Echopass delivers the promise of on-demand, always on, guaranteed, and end-to-end solutions that are both affordable and fully integrated with client's existing customer contact applications and voice or data technologies. Echopass managed solutions are quick to deploy, easy to use, flexible, and require no capital investment or ongoing maintenance. Privately-held Echopass, backed by venture capital firms Canaan Partners and New Enterprise Associates, is a recipient of the Red Herring Top 100 Companies award

RenoFi

Series A in 2020
RenoFi Loans use the after renovation value instead of your home's current value, enabling you to borrow the most money at the lowest rates. RenoFi is not a lender, rather we’ve partnered with lenders who offer RenoFi Loans. These lenders leverage RenoFi's technology platform to seamlessly offer RenoFi Loans.

Liquidia Technologies

Series D in 2018
Liquidia Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company. The company focuses on the development and commercialization of various products using its PRINT technology that enables precise production of drug particles designed to enhance the safety, efficacy, and performance of a range of therapies. Its product candidates include LIQ861 for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension; and LIQ865 for the treatment of local post-operative pain. The company also provides strategy, investment, and commercialization services for rare disease pharmaceutical products, such as generic Remodulin, a parenteral formulation of treprostinil for pulmonary arterial hypertension. Liquidia Corporation was founded in 2004 and is based in Morrisville, North Carolina.

Zairmail

Series B in 1999
Zairmail was founded September 9, 1999 (9/9/99) in Portland, Oregon, by three technology executives with extensive experience in technology and telecommunications. The company was jointly funded by Hewlett Packard and Draper Fisher Jurvetson with the primary goal of sending a (postal) letter as fast and easy as sending an email message. Zairmail has remained true to its core mission since that time. The company has created a completely automated mailing system for postcards, letters, snap-packs, self-mailers, and other popular formats. Campaigns are launched online in less than 60 seconds: just upload a document, upload a list, approve an online proof, and Zairmail takes it from there. Zairmail routes the direct mail campaign digitally to the optimal production facility based on mail destination and equipment required. The mail is then printed, folded, inserted, addressed, and mailed — all on high-speed commercial production equipment. Zairmail also uses an intelligent mail barcode (IMB) to track mail all the way to the point of final delivery. Based on its long-standing partnership with Microsoft — Zairmail has been a certified Microsoft partner for well over a decade — Zairmail also supports features unique in the industry such as a native Microsoft Word mail-merge.

iReady

Venture Round in 2000
iReady is a manufacturing company that specializes in developing silicon based TCP/IP stack processing solutions. Their products are HDL designed implementations that can be reused in OEM designs. The company's patented TCP/IP stack technology provides full transport off-load for high performance Ethernet networking. iReady was founded by Mike Johnson in 1996 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Node

Venture Round in 2020
Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solution offers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams. Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures.

Altheos

Series A in 2012
Altheos, Inc. is an early stage biopharmaceutical company based in the San Francisco Bay area focused on development of highly promising near-clinical and clinical stage novel small molecule drugs. Altheos, Inc. completed $20MM series A financing in March 2010 led by Bay City Capital with participation from Novo A/S, Canaan Partners, Life Science Angels and Atheneos Capital. The financing will be used primarily for the development of ATS907, a selective Rho-kinase inhibitor for topical treatment of glaucoma that Altheos licensed from a Japanese pharmaceutical company. The license also includes a series of highly active compounds specifically for topical treatment for glaucoma.

Iterum Therapeutics

Series A in 2016
Iterum Therapeutics plc, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, engages in developing anti-infectives for multi-drug resistant pathogens in Ireland and the United States. The company is developing sulopenem, a novel penem anti-infective compound with oral and IV formulations that is in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections, complicated urinary tract infections, and complicated intra-abdominal infections. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Transcend Medical

Series B in 2012
Transcend Medical, Inc., an ophthalmic device company, engages in the development of medical devices for the treatment of glaucoma. The company offers CyPass Micro-Stent, a micro-invasive tent that is inserted in the eye during routine cataract surgery; Vold Gonio Lens for use in micro-invasive glaucoma surgery. It also provides clinical trial services. Transcend Medical, Inc. was formerly known as iART Newco I, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Menlo Park, California. As of March 23, 2016, Transcend Medical, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Alcon Holdings, Inc.

Zolo Technologies

Series B in 2001
Zolo Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets laser-based and multiplexed systems for power, aerospace, photonics, and industrial markets. The company provides tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy instruments that enable coal boiler tuning, jet engine temperature measurement, hot spot identification, and combustion instability monitoring and diagnosis services. It markets its products under ZoloBOSS, Zolographics, and SensAlign brand names. Zolo Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

MWHS

Venture Round in 2012
MWHS has secured funds of $18 million from Canaan Partners.

Beam

Series A in 2019
Beam is a venture-backed regulatory technology (“regtech”) software company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our proprietary transaction monitoring technologies incorporate advanced machine learning and new data sources. The result? Immediate, meaningful reduction in false positives, better catch rates, and increased efficiency. Beam’s tools help our bank, credit union, and fintech customers make the financial system safer and maximize the value and utility of critical compliance resources. Beam’s end-to-end compliance solution brings new data sources and advanced machine learning models to cut false positives and enhance transaction monitoring. Our unique transparent-box approach demystifies machine learning, exposes all data sources, and is built for regulator understanding and approval. Beam is supported by an experienced group of officers, directors, advisors, and investors.

Casabi

Series B in 2007
Casabi provides an end-to-end solution for carriers to deliver any web-based content or service to cordless phones and other smart devices at home. A Casabi-enabled home phone can deliver visual voicemail, Yellow Page search, address book, SMS, email and more. They believe that the rapid penetration of broadband along with new families of connected home devices has created a need for a system that delivers network-driven applications and features to these low-cost device screens. Internet-ready cordless phones, DVRs, refrigerators, photo frames, printers, even digital clocks made “smarter” with a network-driven system that knows what content is relevant and how best to optimize and deliver to each device. Casabi enables all this technology to work together for the first time as it should. We started with phones. Watch where they go next.

TrueFort

Series B in 2021
TrueFort Fortress is a comprehensive, real-time cloud and application workload protection solution that secures the largest, most targeted and most dynamic, part of the enterprise attack surface … its application environment. It leverages telemetry from your existing agents and delivers more value than point or infrastructure-focused solutions. Best of all, it is a single console, policy, and reporting system from which to measure, control and immediately improve your risk posture.

Mynd

Private Placement in 2020
How about the industry’s first mobile app that gives you up-to-the-minute performance data on the fly, for on-the-go control of your real estate investment, wherever you are. You’ll instantly know when rents are paid and have a snapshot of your profits whenever you like. You can also review maintenance requests and approve expenses as they happen, and get alerts about things like local market trends. This radical departure from property management also includes unparalleled service from the Mynd team, led by Doug Brien and Colin Wiel, who have your best interests at heart, at all times. We’re in San Francisco’s East Bay, so get on the waitlist today. You won’t believe what else we have in Mynd for rental property management.

Switchfly

Series C in 2012
Switchfly is a global technology company that powers travel commerce, loyalty program engagement and ancillary product offerings for some of the world’s most recognizable brands. Leading airlines, hotels, online travel agencies and financial service providers depend on Switchfly to power their omni-channel travel experiences because it uniquely combines a highly scalable and secure architecture with deep product and content inventory.

ExecThread

Venture Round in 2017
ExecThread is the world's largest network of executive-level talent with over 40,000 high-caliber members, whose collective influence is shaping the future of industry. We help hiring companies & recruiters connect with diverse, dynamic leaders; and we help talented exec-level professionals find their dream jobs. By empowering our member community of underrepresented leaders and allies with access to thousands of confidential executive-level jobs and board of director opportunities, ExecThread is upending the traditional practices of executive search and replacing it with a far more transparent, open and inviting process.

Orthocon

Venture Round in 2009
ORTHOCON is a medical therapeutics company developing innovative absorbable products for orthopaedic and spine surgeries.

Berkshire Grey

Private Placement in 2020
Berkshire Grey develops a materials handling system intended to automate omnichannel fulfillment. Its system utilizes artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and novel sensing to deploy intelligent robotic systems that automate tasks never before performed by machines in commercial settings, enabling customers to achieve higher accuracy and throughput speeds than traditional approaches as well as handle the broadest assortment of products, packaging, and parcels with ease.

LiveU

Series C in 2010
LiveU creates, develops and markets real-time video technologies and solutions that enable video broadcasters to uplink and transmit live instantly, anywhere, and at anytime.

EndoGastric Solutions

Private Placement in 2018
EndoGastric Solutions, Inc. (www.endogastricsolutions.com), is a medical device company developing and commercializing innovative, evidence-based, incisionless surgical technology for the treatment of GERD. EGS has combined the most advanced concepts in gastroenterology and surgery to develop the Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication (TIF®) 2.0 procedure—a minimally invasive solution that addresses a significant unmet clinical need. EndoGastric Solutions, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

UnitedLex

Series B in 2008
UnitedLex Corporation provides enterprise legal services. The company offers law department consultancy services, intellectual property solutions, digital contracting and commercial solutions, compliance and data protection services, litigation and regulatory services, and financial documentation services. It also provides Questio, a solution that provides early legal intelligence to set case strategy. UnitedLex Corporation was founded in 2006 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional locations in Austin, Texas; Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio; Durham, North Carolina; Miami, Florida; New York, New York; Overland Park, Kansas; Papillion, Nebraska; and Richmond, Virginia.

Hermeus

Series B in 2022
Hermeus is developing Mach 5 aircraft to speed up the global transportation network. Mach 5 flight is not just supersonic, it's hypersonic. At these speeds, a flight from New York to London is 90 minutes, rather than 7 hours. Its aircraft massively reduces flight times and increases safety for the long haul and business class air travel, enabling businesses to operate with minimal changes to current aviation infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

ON24

Venture Round in 2008
ON24 is the global leader in webinar-based marketing solutions that drive demand generation and customer engagement. Its patented cloud-based platform features an interactive and immersive user interface and industry-leading webinar analytics for events, campaigns and benchmarking. Providing one-click access from any computer or mobile device, ON24’s award-winning solutions are integrated with leading CRM and marketing automation platforms, enabling marketers to optimize demand generation, enhance lead qualification and accelerate opportunities in their sales pipelines.

Viewbix

Venture Round in 2014
Viewbix is a complex landscape of video advertising. Online video is exploding, with eMarketer reporting that 93% of Marketers have used video for online marketing, sales or communications strategies. In recent research by AOL, it was reported that video engagement was on average five times higher than engagement on standard banners. With that in mind, smart brands know that engagement means more than a click and are staying ahead of the competition by doing more than simply posting a video to their site or social channels. At Viewbix, they are helping brands make the most of their video assets. Through close partnership, their clients are able to quickly and easily add brand assets, interactive applications and calls to action that transform their videos into an engaging experience that consumers crave. The resulting Viewbix enhanced videos can then be used across all devices in paid, owned or earned media channels. Viewbix helps brands make the most of their video assets. Through close partnership, their clients are able to quickly and easily add brand assets, interactive applications and calls to action that transform their videos into an engaging experience that consumers crave. Viewbix is the developer of a video engagement platform intended to help businesses to add rich branding and interactive elements. The company's platform offers to access real-time insights and helps to add brand assets, interactive applications and calls to action that transform the videos into an an experience that the customers want, enabling clients to attract customers and grow in terms of revenue.

FX Labs, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
FX Labs, Inc. is based in the United States.

Apex.AI

Venture Round in 2019
Apex.AI, Inc. develops software products for autonomous mobility systems. It offers Apex.OS, a software framework for autonomous mobility systems that abstracts complexity of underlying hardware, middleware, kernel, interfaces, and drivers into simple to use, safe, and secure APIs. The company also provides Apex.Autonomy that can be used in safety-critical applications. In addition, it offers MARV.Automotive, an extensible data management platform that enables to transfer data from vehicle to cloud, provide dynamic search based analytics, analyze partial logs, run algorithms on real data, introspect data with graphical tools, and collaborate with teams. Apex.AI, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

MindTickle

Series E in 2021
MindTickle Interactive Media Pvt Ltd. provides a social learning platform for organizations and corporations in various industries. Its platform enables businesses, trainers, and individuals to transform their existing online content into an interactive learning experience; use game mechanics, such as points, medals, badges, and leader boards to increase learner motivation and engagement; create learner engagement and peer-to-peer learning by leveraging the power of social mechanics; and measure and track the effectiveness Web-based training programs through real-time charts and dashboards. The company’s platform is used for new hire orientation, policy refreshment, and employee engagement applications. MindTickle Interactive Media Pvt Ltd. was founded in 2011 and is based in Pune, India.

Zmanda

Series B in 2007
Zmanda, Inc. develops open source backup and disaster recovery software solutions for government and educational institutions worldwide. It offers Amanda, an open source software solution for backup and recovery of networked computers; Amanda Enterprise, a centralized backup of heterogeneous systems and applications; and Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL. Its product suite backs up Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases, as well as solutions run on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and Solaris. The company offers network backup and recovery training services and support. Zmanda, Inc. also sells its products through its online store. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Broomfield, Colorado. As of May 7, 2018, Zmanda, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Betsol, Inc.

Pintex Pharmaceuticals

Series A in 2002
Pintex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a private pharmaceuticals company headquartered in Watertown, MA., that is engaged in the discovery and development of structure-based cancer therapeutics. In particular, the focus of Pintex's research is on the phosphate specific proline isomerase Pin1 enzyme and its key role in cancer. Pintex was founded in May 1999 by Dr. Kun Ping Lu, a Pew scholar at Harvard University, Dr. Walter Gilbert, a Nobel Prize winning professor at Harvard University and Dr. Janusz Sowadski, co-founder of Kinetix Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and a past recipient of the US Supercomputing Award for structure-based kinase inhibitor designs. Pintex was created in order to harness the many years of research and discovery performed and patented by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Harvard University.

Tomorrow.io

Series A in 2017
ClimaCell is an all-in-one weather intelligence platform that predicts and automates weather challenges. It combines Weather-of-Things data - from cell tower transmissions to connected cars - with traditional data sources and analyzes it using proprietary, cutting edge models.

Bharat Matrimony

Series A in 2006
BharatMatrimony.com is celebrated as the Most Trusted Matrimony Brand combining tradition and technology. A network of 15 regional portals and over 1.2 Crore members, BharatMatrimony has found a place in the Limca Book of Records for facilitating a record number of marriages. BharatMatrimony has been recognised as the Best Matrimony Website 2007 by PC WORLD for technology and performance and is also listed in the NASSCOM's Top 100 IT Innovators. All the awards we have won have encouraged us and we stand as the most preferred site for matrimonial search according to a study by JuxtConsult.

onefinestay

Series D in 2015
onefinestay pioneers of handmade hospitality, for stays in the finest homes. They offer homeowners (their hosts) a way to earn additional income from guests while they’re away, handling everything from marketing to managing their home. Their guests get a new way to experience a city. They seek out the finest homes, help them book, and meet them when they arrive. Then they’re available 24/7 during their stay, so everyone has peace of mind. Founded in London in 2009, they're a fast-growing business with offices in Paris, New York and LA. They have an ambition – to bring their new category of accommodation to the world, creating a new era of hospitality. And they’re looking for people to help get us there. People who understand what it takes to build a business from the ground up. Remind you of anyone? Apply within.

Reibus

Series B in 2021
We are an online B2B marketplace for prime and excess materials used in industrial markets. For sellers, our platform is designed to maximize price performance, minimize time to market, expand market reach and reduce sales and marketing-related expenses as compared to traditional methods. For buyers, our marketplace increases selection and market transparency, while reducing the time and investment required to search for, identify, evaluate and procure materials. A key element of our online marketplace is our proprietary search tool and materials listing process. This provides buyers and sellers with a simple to use interface that speeds up an otherwise cumbersome process.

iReady

Venture Round in 2002
iReady is a manufacturing company that specializes in developing silicon based TCP/IP stack processing solutions. Their products are HDL designed implementations that can be reused in OEM designs. The company's patented TCP/IP stack technology provides full transport off-load for high performance Ethernet networking. iReady was founded by Mike Johnson in 1996 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

N-trig

Series G in 2014
N-Trig is a startup that develops touch screens and pen styluses. With an extensive patent portfolio, N-trig also supports a variety of applications for different market segments including consumer, education, business, healthcare, graphic and industrial design, gaming, entertainment, and multimedia. Founded in 1999, N-trig is a global operation, maintaining its: R&D facility, corporate headquarters, and management in Kfar Saba, Israel; sales, OEM, and ISV support in Austin, Texas and San Jose, California; ODM, operations, and supply chain support in Taipei, Taiwan, Tokyo, Japan and Shanghai, China.

Genome Medical

Private Placement in 2019
Genome Medical, Inc. operates a platform that provides genetic consultation and medical consulting services to individuals. The company through its Genome Care Delivery technology platform provides genetic solutions in the areas of clinical care, such as cancer, cardio, proactive, reproductive, pediatric, and pharmacy. Genome Medical, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in South San Francisco, California.

Highrise

Seed Round in 2018
Highrise is a creative mobile community where people create avatars, express themselves, and make friends. Its platform includes built-in user-generated avatars that let its users engage in real-time virtual chats, read reviews, surf across the latest news feed and keep in touch with their friends to customize and self-designed games, enabling users to make new friends, host real-time games and create fun contents for publicizing. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Juno

Seed Round in 2020
Juno Residential, Inc. engages in the development of residential apartments. The company offers prefabricated houses. Juno Residential, Inc. was formerly known as Lighthouse Residential, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

NextCure

Series A in 2016
NextCure is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing next generation immuno-oncology-based drugs. The Company is applying its proprietary platforms and know-how to identify novel and biologically relevant targets and develop first-in-class immunotherapy products.

Myteam.com

Series B in 2000
Myteam.com is the online center for amateur sports and is the world's first Internet site dedicated to serving the needs of the sports family and the entire amateur sports community - players, parents, coaches, league administrators and fans. Everyone who joins myteam.com receives a free secure, personal home page, where information is automatically updated from all his or her teams and leagues. Personal home pages stay with members season-to-season, sport-to-sport, year-to-year.

Ambra Health

Series A in 2010
Ambra Health is a medical data and image management SaaS company. Intuitive, flexible, scalable and highly interoperable, the Ambra cloud platform is designed to serve as the backbone of imaging innovation and progress for healthcare providers. It empowers some of the largest health systems such as Memorial Hermann, Stanford Children’s Health and New England Baptist Hospital as well as radiology practices, subspecialty practices and clinical research organizations to dramatically improve imaging and collaborative care workflows. As expert partners, we listen to our customers, understand their needs, and apply our extensive knowledge to deliver innovative medical image management solutions for the future of healthcare, now.

Relievant Medsystems

Series C in 2009
Relievant Medsystems, Inc., a medical device company, develops a minimally invasive procedure for treatment of chronic axial low back pain. It develops Intracept, a procedure that targets the basivertebral nerve for the relief of chronic vertebrogenic low back pain. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a development and operations office in Sunnyvale, California.

Marinus Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2009
Marinus Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and commercialization of ganaxolone, offering a new mechanism of action with safe and convenient dosing, for adult and pediatric patient populations in acute and chronic care settings. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Branford, Connecticut.

LiveU

Series A in 2007
LiveU creates, develops and markets real-time video technologies and solutions that enable video broadcasters to uplink and transmit live instantly, anywhere, and at anytime.

Phylogix Inc.

Series B in 2004
Phylogix Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on tissue protection and oncology. The company develops lectin-based drugs focused on tissue protection, oncology, and immunology. It also involves in the development of FRIL, an agent to protect patients from the toxic side-effects of chemotherapy. Phylogix Inc. is based in Scarborough, Maine.

Ladder

Series A in 2016
Ladder has reinvented life insurance to offer instant, fully underwritten term policies online. With stellar prices, no hidden fees, and the flexibility to adjust or cancel your coverage anytime, Ladder is on a mission to fuel the resilience of underinsured families and communities by closing the $16T life insurance gap. Founded in 2015, Ladder leverages AI and a direct-to-consumer, full-stack approach to make life insurance as fair and accessible as it can be. Visit ladderlife.com to learn more.

Countable

Seed Round in 2017
Countable provides virtual community management for corporations, non-profits, and political campaigns. Our mission is to use technology to foster more authentic communication and inspire human interconnectedness. We produce beautiful, simple and impactful technology solutions that facilitate community, trust, and meaningful engagement.

MightyTV

Seed Round in 2016
Discover and stream the best of movies and TV with a few easy swipes. MightyTV factors in your personal preferences along with the opinions of trusted friends so you spend less time searching, and more time streaming video you’ll love. We employ A.I. to create truly personalized experiences for our users. Choose from a wide variety of streaming services and sort by price. We keep your needs in mind with every swipe. MightyTV launched in April 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.

Rocketrip

Series A in 2014
Rocketrip rewards employees for making flexible, cost-saving decisions when they travel for business while providing real-time insights into travel expenses — all with no disruption to your online booking process. A custom-calibrated Price to Beat and fully managed rewards store incentivize employees to choose lower-cost travel options. Rocketrip is trusted by enterprise brands like iHeartMedia, Feld Entertainment, and Twitter. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Unchained Labs

Private Placement in 2018
Unchained Labs is a developer of life science biologics tools designed to help researchers break free from tools that just don't cut it. It offers a multiplex protein stability platform for biologics that measures a host of protein stability parameters. The company's products include protein sizing systems, stability quantifiers, benchtop workflow solutions, automated buffer exchanges, concentration liberators, particle identifiers, and more, enabling biologics researchers to speed up their work with ease. Unchained Labs was established in 2013 and is based in Pleasanton, California, USA.

Zuberance

Series B in 2010
Backed by top-tier investors (Canaan, Emergence, and Correlation), Zuberance provides an award-winning social marketing platform that leading brands use to identify and mobilize their Brand Advocates, driving qualfied leads, sales, and positive Word of Mouth. Zuberance is the leading social media marketing company focused on Brand Advocates. Zuberance’s award-winning social media marketing solution enables companies to systematically identify and energize their highly-satisfied customers (AKA “Brand Advocates”), driving measurable increases in referral leads, recommendations, and revenues. For more information, visit http://www.zuberance.com or follow Zuberance on Twitter @zuberance. Zuberance is a member of the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) and the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA.)

UnitedLex

Secondary Market in 2011
UnitedLex Corporation provides enterprise legal services. The company offers law department consultancy services, intellectual property solutions, digital contracting and commercial solutions, compliance and data protection services, litigation and regulatory services, and financial documentation services. It also provides Questio, a solution that provides early legal intelligence to set case strategy. UnitedLex Corporation was founded in 2006 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional locations in Austin, Texas; Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio; Durham, North Carolina; Miami, Florida; New York, New York; Overland Park, Kansas; Papillion, Nebraska; and Richmond, Virginia.

Confetti Collective Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Confetti Collective Inc., doing business as Coterie Party, designs and sells party goods. It offers cutlery, candles, cups, paper straws, napkins, and other party goods through its online store. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Associated Content

Series B in 2007
Associated Content was an open content platform which enabled anyone to participate in the new content economy by publishing content on any topic, in any format (text, video, audio and images), and connected that content to consumers, partners and advertisers. Uploaded content could be easily found on the site's home page in broad categories like education, automotive, technology etc, or directly on each content producer's page. AC's content was viewed by millions of people each and every month. Associated Content was acquired by Yahoo in 2010.

Tacit Networks

Series A in 2002
As of May 8, 2006, Tacit Networks, Inc. was acquired by Packeteer, Inc. Tacit Networks, Inc. provides wide area file services and wide area network optimization solutions for branch office and remote users. It offers IShared products, which enable businesses to consolidate, accelerate, and control information. The company provides file, exchange, management, networking, Web, and print services. It offers its products and services directly and through integrated network reseller partners program. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in South Plainfield, New Jersey.

N-trig

Series F in 2013
N-Trig is a startup that develops touch screens and pen styluses. With an extensive patent portfolio, N-trig also supports a variety of applications for different market segments including consumer, education, business, healthcare, graphic and industrial design, gaming, entertainment, and multimedia. Founded in 1999, N-trig is a global operation, maintaining its: R&D facility, corporate headquarters, and management in Kfar Saba, Israel; sales, OEM, and ISV support in Austin, Texas and San Jose, California; ODM, operations, and supply chain support in Taipei, Taiwan, Tokyo, Japan and Shanghai, China.

The Meta

Seed Round in 2018
The Meta Game Inc. develops FPS training tools to improve all levels of gamers. It offers KovaaK that provides graphics, guided training, realistic weapons, target, dodging physics, user-defined profiles, performance analysis, and training and practice scenarios. The Meta Game Inc. was formerly known as TheMeta LLC. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Relievant Medsystems

Series E in 2018
Relievant Medsystems, Inc., a medical device company, develops a minimally invasive procedure for treatment of chronic axial low back pain. It develops Intracept, a procedure that targets the basivertebral nerve for the relief of chronic vertebrogenic low back pain. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a development and operations office in Sunnyvale, California.

Vue Technology

Venture Round in 2006
Vue Technology is the leading provider of item-level RFID infrastructure, with over six years of in-store and supply chain experience delivering measurable value through improved inventory visibility for clients in Apparel, Footwear, Books, Media & Entertainment and Retail Pharmacy. With this visibility, their customers have dramatically improved on-floor availability and increased revenues while reducing out-of-stocks, shrinkage, and labor costs.

Transoma Medical

Series C in 2007
Transoma Medicalis a provider of implantable wireless diagnostic systems for patients with chronic cardiovascular disease and for biomedical research. The company’s products include small wireless sensors that transmit information from inside the body to a receiver via radio-frequency waves, as well as unique software to condense the data these devices provide into meaningful information.

Snyk

Private Placement in 2018
Snyk enables users to detect, fix, and prevent known vulnerabilities in third-party code modules, including Node

Leanplum

Private Placement in 2017
Leanplum Inc. develops marketing platform and application. The company operates a platform for optimizing mission-critical metrics of mobile applications. It also develops marketing cloud for the mobile era. The company offers messaging, automation, app editing, personalization, A/B testing, and analytics. It also enables product teams to conduct on-the-fly optimization tests and see results with analytics. Leanplum Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has additional offices in New York; London, United Kingdom; Bulgaria; and Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

SureWaves

Series B in 2014
SureWaves MediaTech Private Limited provides media convergence solutions. It offers Skynet, a programmatic television (TV) advertising marketplace that enables marketers to plan and buy audiences on broadcast TV channels; and SureWaves Spot TV Network for brand’s advertisements and reach out to a diverse and hitherto untapped audience on local cable and regional satellite channels. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Bengaluru, India with additional offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, and Chennai, India; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. SureWaves MediaTech Private Limited operates as a subsidiary of IndusEdge Innovations Pvt. Ltd.

Spinifex Pharmaceuticals

Series C in 2014
Spinifex is backed by a syndicate of experienced life science investors including Novo Ventures, Canaan Partners, GBS Venture Partners, Brandon Capital Partners, Uniseed and UniQuest. Founded in 2005, Spinifex raised an initial AU$3.25 million in Series A fundraising and a total of AU$23.08 in Series B funding support the further development of EMA401. Spinifex raised a US$45 million in a Series C round led by Novo Ventures and including additional new investor Canaan Partners in 2014. Spinifex has a strong portfolio of intellectual property around its lead compound EMA01, follow on candidates and the use of AT2 receptor antagonists to treat both neuropathic & inflammatory pain and restore nerve conduction velocity deficits, including granted US, European, Japanese, Chinese, Australian and New Zealand patents.

Liquidia Technologies

Series C in 2010
Liquidia Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company. The company focuses on the development and commercialization of various products using its PRINT technology that enables precise production of drug particles designed to enhance the safety, efficacy, and performance of a range of therapies. Its product candidates include LIQ861 for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension; and LIQ865 for the treatment of local post-operative pain. The company also provides strategy, investment, and commercialization services for rare disease pharmaceutical products, such as generic Remodulin, a parenteral formulation of treprostinil for pulmonary arterial hypertension. Liquidia Corporation was founded in 2004 and is based in Morrisville, North Carolina.

CytomX Therapeutics

Series B in 2012
CytomX Therapeutics is an early stage, privately-funded biotechnology company developing Probodiesâ„¢, proteolytically-activated antibodies. Probodies, by their ability to site-direct the activity of antibodies, will result in an improved therapeutic index for validated targets as well enable the drugging of targets with broad tissue expression. Their mission, alone and with the help of partners, is to provide patients with more effective and less toxic therapies for severe illnesses such as cancer and inflammatory diseases.

Dragos

Private Placement in 2020
Dragos is an industrial cybersecurity company on a mission to safeguard civilization by protecting the world’s critical infrastructure. Dragos codifies the knowledge of our cybersecurity experts into an integrated software platform that provides customers critical visibility into ICS and OT networks so that threats are identified and can be addressed before they become significant events. Our solutions protect organizations across a range of industries, including power and water utilities, energy, and manufacturing, and are optimized for emerging applications like the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT). Dragos is privately held and headquartered in the Washington, DC area with a regional presence around the world, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the Middle East.

Vivace Therapeutics

Series B in 2017
Vivace Therapeutics is a venture-backed start-up dedicated to discovering and developing cancer therapeutics by targeting a novel pathway. At Vivace Therapeutics, they pursue their work with passion, driven by a conviction to help people fight cancer and live life to the fullest. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Vivace Therapeutics is an oncology-focused portfolio-based drug discovery and development company adopting a capital-efficient and modality-indifferent approach to bring novel therapies to patients in need. Their experienced management team and world-class scientists work to advance promising drugs and therapeutic technologies that they believe can help conquer cancer.

Intrepida Bio

Venture Round in 2019
Intrepida Bio, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops cancer drugs that alter the body’s first line of defense, and innate immunity. It also discovers and develops medicines that modulate the innate immune system to fight cancer and other diseases; and develops monoclonal antibodies that block the novel targets BAG3 and its receptor IFITM-2 to thwart their ability to create a favorable environment for tumor growth. Intrepida Bio, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Theraclone Sciences

Venture Round in 2011
Theraclone Sciences (formerly Spaltudaq) is a Seattle-based discovery-stage biotech focused on the development of novel therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of infectious disease and inflammation. The company's technology harnesses the power of the human immune system to identify naturally evolved monoclonal antibodies from the blood cells of immunologically relevant human subjects. Recombinant human monoclonal antibodies can be rapidly obtained using our discovery platform and scaled for large-scale industrial production. Such antibody drug candidates may be uniquely important in combating disease and may have potential as therapeutic products that can be administered to a broad patient population. Theraclone is a privately held company with venture investment from ARCH Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, Healthcare Ventures, Amgen Ventures, MPM Capital, and Alexandria Real Estate Investment.

Cellcast

Post in 2007
Cellcast Asia Holdings Limited, a participation television broadcaster, engages in the format inception, development, production, and broadcasting of television programs in the Indian subcontinent. Cellcast Asia Holdings Limited was founded in 2007 and is based in Mumbai, India.
Happiest Minds enables Digital Transformation for enterprises and technology providers by delivering seamless customer experience, business efficiency and actionable insights through an integrated set of disruptive technologies: big data analytics, internet of things, mobility, cloud, security, unified communications, etc. Happiest Minds offers domain centric solutions, IPs in IT Services, Product Engineering, Infrastructure Management and Security. These services have applicability across industry sectors such as Retail, CPG, e-commerce, banking, insurance, hi-tech, engineering R&D, manufacturing, automotive and travel/transportation/hospitality. As a Mindful IT Company, the focus is on ‘Being Mindful’ and ‘Doing Mindful’ which involves perceiving immersively, processing non-judgmentally and performing empathetically. 60 minutes in a week is committed towards inculcating a mindful approach within the organization, using a select set of tools and techniques. Headquartered in Bangalore, India, Happiest Minds has operations in the US, UK, The Netherlands, Australia, Middle East and Turkey.

Sounding Board, Inc

Series B in 2021
Sounding Board Labs, Inc. develops a platform that offers coaching for leaders and new managers. Its platform creates personalized development plans, connects conveniently through phone, video, and chat, and provides executive coaching and provides qualified coaches. The company provides coaching plans, surveys, and reporting to show progress and results. Sounding Board Labs, Inc. was previously known as Sounding Board, Inc. Sounding Board Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California.

Chimerix

Series D in 2007
Chimerix, Inc., a development-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on accelerating the advancement of various medicines that impact in the lives of patients living with cancer and other serious diseases. Its clinical stage development programs include dociparstat sodium (DSTAT), a potential first-in-class glycosaminoglycan compound derived from porcine heparin that has low anticoagulant activity but retains the ability to inhibit activities of key proteins implicated in the retention and viability of acute myeloid leukemia blasts and leukemic stem cells in the bone marrow during chemotherapy; and brincidofovir (BCV), an antiviral drug candidate in development as a medical countermeasure for smallpox. The company has license agreements with Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority for the development of brincidofovir for use in the treatment of smallpox; Cantex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to develop and commercialize a glycosaminoglycan compound; SymBio Pharmaceuticals to develop, manufacture, and commercialize BCV for various human indications; and University of Michigan to research, develop, manufacture, and commercialize various products. Chimerix, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Marvin.

Series A in 2022
Developer of a payment arrangement platform designed to facilitate payment relationships between industry and retail. The company's platform helps the industry to sell more without assuming its customer's credit risk and helps the retailer buy and finance itself better, enabling clients to have a payment method that unlocks credit for everyone to sell more.

Theia

Seed Round in 2022
Theia is a health tech focused on using technology to support working parents. Theia is a platform that leverages technology, data and user experience to give access to curated content, professionals and community connections, creating a modern support network for all working parents.