Air Protein
Venture Round in 2023
Air Protein is a Berkeley, California-based startup focused on developing sustainable protein derived from carbon dioxide in the air. The company employs a proprietary probiotic process to transform CO2 into protein-enriched food products, which can be used in various applications, including meat-free burgers, protein-enriched pasta, cereals, and beverages. By utilizing ordinary elements from the atmosphere, Air Protein produces its protein without hormones, pesticides, or herbicides, while also significantly reducing the land and water requirements compared to traditional meat production. This innovative approach allows meat lovers to enjoy sustainable food options that contribute to a more environmentally friendly future.
GLIDER.ai
Series A in 2023
Glider AI is a technology company that specializes in enhancing the recruitment process through its AI-powered platform. It provides personalized job recommendations by collecting candidate preferences via a user-friendly mobile app. The platform leverages big data analytics and artificial intelligence to match candidates with job opportunities that align with their professional goals. Glider AI also offers tools for virtual assessments, including coding and video interviews, as well as automated outreach to streamline candidate engagement. By utilizing real-world simulations and advanced scoring methods, Glider AI enables employers to assess candidates effectively, ultimately improving the quality of hires for enterprises, staffing firms, and managed service providers.
Airlinq
Venture Round in 2023
Airlinq develops an enterprise-grade cloud and edge platform that enables global connectivity and communication for complex AI and IoT applications, particularly in the realm of smart mobility. This platform is designed to support automakers, mobile network operators, and consumers by providing scalable and reliable services capable of managing millions of connected assets and vehicles. With a focus on mission-critical latency and security, Airlinq facilitates the development and deployment of large-scale connected applications, enhancing ecosystem monetization and connectivity for various stakeholders in the automotive and telecommunications sectors.
Caramel
Seed Round in 2023
Caramel is an online platform designed to simplify and secure the buying and selling of cars, catering primarily to private party transactions and independent dealers. The platform offers a comprehensive range of services, including verification of vehicles, ownership transfer, payment processing, auto financing, vehicle protection, insurance, and delivery options. By streamlining these processes, Caramel enables buyers and sellers to engage in efficient digital transactions while ensuring safety and transparency in car sales.
Mimik is a developer of a hybrid edge cloud computing application development platform that facilitates digital transformation for enterprises. The platform enables developers to create applications that operate seamlessly across various ecosystems of devices and networks, including IoS, Android, Windows, and various IoT frameworks. By providing a direct connection between fragmented applications at the edge, mimik minimizes reliance on intermediaries and helps businesses avoid the pitfalls of proprietary technology stacks. This approach allows enterprises to achieve their objectives efficiently, enhancing performance, privacy, and security while reducing operational costs associated with legacy backend integration. Mimik's solutions aim to empower businesses to secure leadership in an increasingly hyper-connected world by supporting systematic digital transformation.
vFunction
Series A in 2021
VFunction specializes in application modernization for businesses. Its core product facilitates the transformation of existing Java applications into cloud-native architectures, helping companies stay competitive through digital evolution. The company's team, with their unique expertise, empowers clients to modernize their core business applications efficiently.
sona
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Sona is a digital therapeutics company focused on using music to enhance mental health, particularly in reducing anxiety and improving sleep. The platform features clinically-tested restorative music designed to increase alpha and theta brain wave activity, promoting relaxation and reducing stress hormones. Sona employs artificial intelligence to personalize music playlists based on users' symptoms, listening behaviors, and the time of day, ensuring a tailored experience. The music is created by hand-picked composers and Grammy-winning sound engineers, developed through a proprietary process that incorporates insights from leading neuroscientists at respected institutions. By offering an affordable and natural way to manage anxiety, Sona aims to provide mental peace and a stress-free experience for its users.
BioSight Ltd., established in 1999 and headquartered in Lod, Israel, is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of innovative cancer-targeted pro-drugs. It focuses on creating non-toxic conjugates like its cytarabine-asparagine conjugate for treating acute myeloid leukemia patients worldwide. BioSight's proprietary technology, S2DOT™, enables targeted drug release inside cancer cells, minimizing systemic toxicity compared to conventional chemotherapy treatments.
TechSee is a technology company specializing in visual technology and augmented reality, headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. Founded in 2015 by Eitan Cohen, Amir Yoffe, and Gabby Sarussi, TechSee develops an AI-powered visual customer engagement platform aimed at transforming traditional customer support methods. The platform leverages deep learning, big data, and proprietary computer vision algorithms to provide an interactive visual experience for users. This technology enables call center agents to guide customers through live virtual channels, utilizing augmented reality and annotations to enhance support interactions. By improving customer service efficiency and reducing support costs, TechSee aims to deliver a more effective customer support solution.
Colorifix
Series A in 2020
Colorifix Limited is a biotechnology company based in Norwich, United Kingdom, that specializes in textile dyeing services through innovative biological methods. Founded in 2015, the company has developed a pioneering process that uses synthetic biology to produce, deposit, and fix pigments derived from organisms such as microbes, plants, animals, and insects. This approach enables the conversion of agricultural by-products, like sugar molasses, into colorants suitable for dyeing textiles. Colorifix's technology offers a sustainable alternative to traditional dyeing processes, eliminating the need for harsh chemicals and significantly reducing water consumption and pollution. The company's focus on creating biodegradable, ethical, and non-toxic dyes positions it as a leader in the effort to minimize the textile industry's environmental impact.
Innoviz Technologies
Series B in 2020
Innoviz Technologies designs and manufactures solid-state LiDAR sensors and develops perception software to facilitate the mass-production of autonomous vehicles. The company produces InnovizPro, a solid-state LiDAR known for its performance and value in automotive applications, and InnovizOne, an advanced LiDAR sensor providing 3D sensing capabilities essential for Level 3-Level 5 autonomous driving. Additionally, Innoviz offers products for object identification, tracking, sensor fusion, mapping, and localization. Founded in 2016 and based in Rosh HaAyin, Israel, Innoviz has formed strategic alliances with notable investors including Magna International, Samsung, Aptiv, Magma Venture Partners, Vertex Ventures, SoftBank Ventures Asia, China Merchants Capital, 360 Capital Partners, Glory Ventures, Naver, Shenzhen Capital Group, New Alliance Capital, Harel Insurance Investments and Financial Services, Phoenix Insurance Company.
Ozone
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Ozone is a data privacy company focused on empowering users to protect and encrypt their personal information. It has developed a platform that facilitates a decentralized ecosystem for data ownership, allowing individuals to monetize their anonymized data by partnering with trusted advertisers and merchants. Users can earn compensation for their time and attention while browsing online, giving them greater control over their internet data. Ozone's innovative approach not only enhances data privacy but also creates opportunities for users to generate income from their information.
LifeLink Systems
Series A in 2018
LifeLink Systems develops a conversational AI platform that enables healthcare providers, payers, and pharmaceutical companies to engage patients through mobile and messaging channels. The platform deploys chatbots that automate key touchpoints before, during, and after care visits, delivering personalized, natural, and contextual conversations. By automating these interactions, LifeLink improves operational efficiency, boosts patient satisfaction, and strengthens brand loyalty while ensuring secure, compliant communication. The solution supports hospitals and care organizations in meeting patients where they prefer, enhancing engagement and profitability.
Extensify
Seed Round in 2018
Extensify lets you tweak third-party iOS applications without jailbreaking your device. Apps that have been modified with tweaks —called Exos in Extensify language— contain a ‘+’ sign after them for easy identification. So, for instance, if you modify YouTube with the Cercube Exo, a new version of YouTube will be deployed to your Homescreen called YouTube+. It’s totally possible to have two of the same apps installed at once—one stock and one ‘+’ version. Of course, you aren’t forced to keep the stock app, but it is a nice side benefit to be able to run two versions of the same app.
PROPS
Venture Round in 2017
PROPS is a new cryptocurrency that grants access to features, content and status across media apps that share a currency and identity layer, and whose users benefit from the PROPS rewards pool.
LifeLink Systems
Seed Round in 2017
LifeLink Systems develops a conversational AI platform that enables healthcare providers, payers, and pharmaceutical companies to engage patients through mobile and messaging channels. The platform deploys chatbots that automate key touchpoints before, during, and after care visits, delivering personalized, natural, and contextual conversations. By automating these interactions, LifeLink improves operational efficiency, boosts patient satisfaction, and strengthens brand loyalty while ensuring secure, compliant communication. The solution supports hospitals and care organizations in meeting patients where they prefer, enhancing engagement and profitability.
OMsignal is a Montréal-based company founded in 2011 that specializes in manufacturing bio-sensing clothing designed to provide real-time access to medical-grade biometric data. The company's innovative apparel is embedded with sensors that monitor various health metrics, including heart rate, electrocardiography (ECG), respiration rhythms, and stress levels. This technology allows users to track their health and fitness seamlessly through a mobile application that displays data in real time. OMsignal's products aim to integrate health monitoring into everyday life, enabling individuals to maintain their well-being more effectively.
BioSight
Venture Round in 2016
BioSight Ltd., established in 1999 and headquartered in Lod, Israel, is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of innovative cancer-targeted pro-drugs. It focuses on creating non-toxic conjugates like its cytarabine-asparagine conjugate for treating acute myeloid leukemia patients worldwide. BioSight's proprietary technology, S2DOT™, enables targeted drug release inside cancer cells, minimizing systemic toxicity compared to conventional chemotherapy treatments.
OMsignal
Debt Financing in 2015
OMsignal is a Montréal-based company founded in 2011 that specializes in manufacturing bio-sensing clothing designed to provide real-time access to medical-grade biometric data. The company's innovative apparel is embedded with sensors that monitor various health metrics, including heart rate, electrocardiography (ECG), respiration rhythms, and stress levels. This technology allows users to track their health and fitness seamlessly through a mobile application that displays data in real time. OMsignal's products aim to integrate health monitoring into everyday life, enabling individuals to maintain their well-being more effectively.
Kiverdi
Venture Round in 2014
Kiverdi, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Berkeley, California, founded in 2008. It specializes in the development of bioprocessing technology that transforms carbon dioxide and other gases into valuable bio-based products. Kiverdi offers a range of oil-based products and chemicals, including fatty acids, fatty alcohols, and triacylglycerides, which are utilized in consumer goods such as soaps, shampoos, skin creams, and detergents. The company also produces biomaterials for the synthesis of bioplastics, nylons, and other polymers, as well as drop-in fuels applicable in vehicle and jet engines. Additionally, Kiverdi's innovative technology allows for the creation of protein directly from carbon dioxide, providing a protein source with a superior amino acid profile compared to soybean meal, thus addressing the growing demand for sustainable food options.
OMsignal is a Montréal-based company founded in 2011 that specializes in manufacturing bio-sensing clothing designed to provide real-time access to medical-grade biometric data. The company's innovative apparel is embedded with sensors that monitor various health metrics, including heart rate, electrocardiography (ECG), respiration rhythms, and stress levels. This technology allows users to track their health and fitness seamlessly through a mobile application that displays data in real time. OMsignal's products aim to integrate health monitoring into everyday life, enabling individuals to maintain their well-being more effectively.
Cloud Cruiser
Series C in 2014
Cloud Cruiser, Inc. is a software company based in San Jose, California, specializing in cloud financial management solutions. Founded in 2010, the company offers a comprehensive platform that automates the collection and aggregation of IT costs and revenue across diverse environments, including public clouds, private clouds, and traditional IT settings. Its flagship product, Cloud Cruiser, provides enterprises and service providers with tools to optimize costs and enhance profitability in hybrid cloud environments. The software enables users to achieve clear visibility into their cloud usage and spending through features such as self-service billing, chargeback mechanisms, granular profit and loss analytics, and proactive cost controls. As of January 2017, Cloud Cruiser operates as a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company.
Jitterbit
Seed Round in 2014
Jitterbit, Inc. is an API integration company that provides a comprehensive platform for connecting SaaS, on-premise, and cloud applications. Its flagship product, Jitterbit Harmony, is an enterprise Integration-Platform-as-a-Service that facilitates data connectivity, workflow automation, and business process optimization. The platform supports a variety of deployment models, including cloud, on-premise, and hybrid solutions, allowing users to create local connections and scale operations in real time. Jitterbit also fosters a collaborative environment through Jitterbit Community, where users and experts can share insights and best practices. The company serves diverse industries, including energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail, empowering technical business analysts to integrate applications and data seamlessly. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Alameda, California, Jitterbit has expanded its presence with offices in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and India.
Duda, Inc. is a company specializing in web development tools designed for professional website builders and digital marketing agencies. Founded in 2009 and based in Palo Alto, California, Duda offers a cloud-based platform that enables users to create responsive websites optimized for desktops, tablets, and mobile devices. Its key products include a Responsive Website Builder, a mobile-only site creation platform, and a reseller program tailored for web design agencies. Duda focuses on streamlining the website-building process and enhancing customer conversion through personalization tools. The company has established partnerships with major digital marketing solution providers and hosts over nine million websites on its platform. With a commitment to delivering enterprise-level technology to small businesses, Duda serves a diverse range of industries, including hospitality, fashion, and digital marketing.
Loop Commerce
Seed Round in 2012
Loop Commerce, Inc. is a Menlo Park, California-based company that specializes in gift commerce solutions for retailers and brands. Founded in 2012, it offers GiftNow, an e-gifting service that facilitates product gifting experiences for various occasions throughout the year. The platform enables users to purchase gifts quickly without the need to specify size, color, or style, and eliminates the requirement for the recipient's mailing address. Loop Commerce also provides services for corporate gifting, promotional events, loyalty rewards, social gifting, and digital gift cards. As of June 2018, Loop Commerce operates as a subsidiary of Synchrony Financial.
Chegg
Venture Round in 2012
Chegg, Inc., established in 2005 and based in Santa Clara, California, operates a direct-to-student learning platform. It supports students from high school through college and into their careers by offering a range of digital products and services designed to help them succeed academically and financially. These include study tools like Chegg Study and Chegg Math, writing assistance with Chegg Writing, live tutoring through Chegg Tutors, and professional skill development courses via Thinkful. Additionally, Chegg provides print and eTextbooks, as well as other scholastic materials. The company also offers services to universities and community colleges, helping students become smarter, save time and money, and navigate their academic journey more effectively.
Snapwiz
Venture Round in 2011
Snapwiz Inc. is a technology-driven education company focused on personalizing the learning experience for students. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Union City, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, Snapwiz provides a unique adaptive learning platform that tailors educational content to individual students' skills, available time, and learning objectives. The platform is designed to be accessible through various mediums, including the web, smartphones, and tablets, allowing students to study anytime and anywhere. Snapwiz collaborates with publishers to enhance its offerings, which include courses aimed at preparing students for standardized tests such as the SAT and PSAT. The company employs a range of engaging learning tools, including computer adaptive quizzes, video lessons, and interactive activities, to create a dynamic and effective educational environment that fosters rapid learning and maximizes test performance.
Wibiya provides a free, powerful solution that allows publishers to integrate popular web applications directly into their websites via a fully customizable website toolbar.
The Wibiya Bar integrates a variety of free apps, social plugins, games, video & image galleries, and much more, enabling publishers to increase page views, boost user engagement, and promote their content.
Wibiya also gives publishers the power to manage their bar’s performance in real time through the Wibiya user dashboard.
Modular Patterns
Venture Round in 2010
Modular Patterns Ltd., a development stage company, intends to help online publishers, bloggers ,and other online properties to integrate services and applications of their choice into their website through customized web-based toolbars. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Ramat Hasharon, Israel.
Cramster is an online educational platform dedicated to providing homework assistance for high school and college students. The company features a community of subject experts available around the clock to address various academic inquiries. Its offerings include a comprehensive collection of study resources, such as interactive textbook guides that provide detailed solutions and helpful hints, expert Q&A assistance, practice tests, and study group opportunities. Cramster aims to support students across diverse subjects, including math, science, engineering, humanities, business, and writing, helping them overcome challenges and enhance their learning experience.
StyleTrek
Seed Round in 2010
StyleTrek Inc. is a New York-based online platform founded in 2010 that connects independent fashion designers with customers globally. The company offers a crowdsourced e-commerce boutique that showcases a diverse range of apparel, accessories, and footwear, enabling designers to reach new audiences and enhance their visibility. StyleTrek provides essential support through social media tools, marketing assistance, and mentorship services, facilitating a collaborative environment where designers can gather consumer feedback throughout their design and production processes. This model allows designers to retain a larger portion of their retail sales, empowering them to reinvest in their businesses for future growth. The platform has gained recognition for tapping into niche market demands, catering to consumers seeking unique fashion items at reasonable prices, and has expanded its reach to over 90 countries since its inception.
Infolinks Media, llc.
Series B in 2009
Infolinks Media, LLC is an online advertising platform that specializes in in-text advertising services for content publishers worldwide. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Infolinks utilizes advanced technology to scan web pages and convert selected keywords into cost-per-click ads. Its suite of products, known as In3, includes innovative solutions like InFrame, InTag, InText, and InSearch, which are designed to overcome banner blindness and deliver relevant ads in non-traditional web spaces. The platform serves over 150,000 websites across 128 countries, helping publishers generate new revenue streams and providing advertisers with targeted exposure to engaged audiences. Infolinks also offers a mobile app that allows publishers to track their earnings in real-time, enhancing transparency and performance management.
Chegg, Inc., established in 2005 and based in Santa Clara, California, operates a direct-to-student learning platform. It supports students from high school through college and into their careers by offering a range of digital products and services designed to help them succeed academically and financially. These include study tools like Chegg Study and Chegg Math, writing assistance with Chegg Writing, live tutoring through Chegg Tutors, and professional skill development courses via Thinkful. Additionally, Chegg provides print and eTextbooks, as well as other scholastic materials. The company also offers services to universities and community colleges, helping students become smarter, save time and money, and navigate their academic journey more effectively.
Chegg, Inc., established in 2005 and based in Santa Clara, California, operates a direct-to-student learning platform. It supports students from high school through college and into their careers by offering a range of digital products and services designed to help them succeed academically and financially. These include study tools like Chegg Study and Chegg Math, writing assistance with Chegg Writing, live tutoring through Chegg Tutors, and professional skill development courses via Thinkful. Additionally, Chegg provides print and eTextbooks, as well as other scholastic materials. The company also offers services to universities and community colleges, helping students become smarter, save time and money, and navigate their academic journey more effectively.
Infolinks Media, llc.
Series A in 2008
Infolinks Media, LLC is an online advertising platform that specializes in in-text advertising services for content publishers worldwide. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Infolinks utilizes advanced technology to scan web pages and convert selected keywords into cost-per-click ads. Its suite of products, known as In3, includes innovative solutions like InFrame, InTag, InText, and InSearch, which are designed to overcome banner blindness and deliver relevant ads in non-traditional web spaces. The platform serves over 150,000 websites across 128 countries, helping publishers generate new revenue streams and providing advertisers with targeted exposure to engaged audiences. Infolinks also offers a mobile app that allows publishers to track their earnings in real-time, enhancing transparency and performance management.