CSC UpShot Ventures

Founded in 2015, CSC Upshot Ventures is an early-stage venture fund focusing on providing seed capital to technology companies at scale. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the enterprise, artificial intelligence, healthcare, Fintech, and the marketplace. In close partnership with AngelList, CSC Upshot Ventures built a new model of venture investing based on the needs of founders, investors, and startup communities.

Anuja Lele

CFO

Jessie Wu

Investment Associate

Huoy-Ming Yeh

Founder, Managing Partner

207 past transactions

Vantage Robotics

Venture Round in 2023
Vantage Robotics is a technology company that makes amazing aerial videos easy for commercial operations over people. The company has created a massively differentiated flying camera to compete in the $7 B camera drone market by solving the ease of use problem. Vantage's first product, Snap, has generated over $1 M in pre-sales and achieved a landmark FAA waiver for commercial use near people with CNN. Apple, Amazon, and the largest drone distributor in the US are all interested in selling Snap, with combined forecasted sales of over $100 M annually. Investors include Andy von Flotow, one of the most successful drone entrepreneurs in the US, Bill Tai, Blake Krikorian, CrunchFund, Ruvento, and Accelerator Ventures. Vantage began shipping Snap in Q2 17 to rave reviews.

Truepill

Series A in 2019
Truepill is a B2B pharmacy fulfillment service. They provide a pharmacy API and fulfillment of medications to 50 states from their own facilities. They work directly with D2C consumer brands (e.g. Hims, Nurx), digital health companies, and other healthcare organizations. They are a team of 150 employees and have raised funding from Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Slow Ventures, Sound Ventures, Tuesday Capital, Foundation Capital, Index Ventures, Social Capital, Box Group, Joe Montana, and others. Founded in 2016 by Umar Afridi and Sid Viswanathan, Truepill is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Tigera

Series B in 2018
Tigera provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform to prevent, detect and mitigate security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. Tigera’s open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. Powering more than 100M containers across 8M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including Discover, Chipotle, NBCUniversal, HanseMerkur, Box, Siemens Healthineers, Playtech, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bell Canada.

Intermix.io

Seed Round in 2018
Intermix.io is a provider of performance monitoring solution. Moreover, the company's performance monitoring products helps data teams monitor critical data flows, identify bottlenecks, and root cause analysis. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Cobalt

Series A in 2018
Cobalt builds indoor robots that work alongside human guards to provide security. It offers indoor security robots that do patrolling in the premises, as well as look for intruders or anything that's out of the ordinary; and comprise intruder and anomaly detection, human-robot interaction, and mapping and sensing capabilities. Erik Schluntz and Travis Deyle founded it in 2016, with its headquarters in San Mateo in California.

Chia Network

Seed Round in 2018
Chia Network is building a blockchain based on proofs of space and time to make a cryptocurrency that is less wasteful, more decentralized, and more secure.

Starsky Robotics

Series A in 2018
Trucking is the backbone of the American economy, moving 70% of all freight. Truck drivers risk their lives by spending months away from their families to keep the American economy moving. They are working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remotely controlled by drivers for the first and last mile. Their trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families.

Uplevel Security

Seed Round in 2018
Uplevel Security is the industry’s first adaptive system of intelligence that uses graph theory and machine learning to modernize security operations. Uplevel Security ingests and contextualizes incoming and historical security data, allowing the past to inform the present and the present to inform the past, which predicts how attacks may manifest in the future. Enterprises rely on Uplevel Security to activate intelligence from the security stack, provide a system of record for security data and become stronger with every attack.

dYdX

Seed Round in 2017
dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange built by developers on a mission to build open, secure, and powerful financial products. dYdX runs on audited smart contracts on Ethereum, which eliminates the need to trust a central exchange while trading. We combine the security and transparency of a decentralized exchange, with the speed and usability of a centralized exchange. Founded back in 2017 from ex-Coinbase and Uber engineer, Antonio Juliano, dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, & Spot trading, as well as borrow / lend pools on Ethereum. Users can earn interest or take loans for a nominal fee as well as trade on margin with custom leverage. Trade your crypto, the safe and secure way, with dYdX

Keyo

Seed Round in 2017
Keyo AI Inc. is a technology company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in providing an innovative platform for apartment rentals, offering a zero brokerage fee structure aimed at small-to-medium-sized landlords with property portfolios ranging from 20 to 5,000 units. In addition to its rental services, Keyo has developed a biometric identification system that utilizes contactless palm scanning technology. This system creates a unique, encrypted key based on the distinct internal vein structure of an individual's palm, allowing users to unlock doors, make payments, and access various services securely and conveniently. By prioritizing privacy and data security, Keyo aims to deliver a user-friendly experience while ensuring that raw biometric information is not stored or misused.

Sweet

Seed Round in 2017
Sweet is a service designed to help individuals reduce their mobile phone bills without compromising on coverage quality. The company identifies instances where users are overpaying for wireless services, with customers saving an average of over $300 annually. The sign-up process is quick and straightforward, allowing users to engage with the service in just seconds. Sweet manages interactions with mobile carriers on behalf of its customers, minimizing the effort required on their part. The company prioritizes user privacy and security, employing advanced encryption technology to protect personal information. Offering nationwide coverage, Sweet collaborates with major carriers to ensure reliable service and fast connection speeds. The company is supported by experienced entrepreneurs from reputable organizations, enhancing its credibility and operational capacity.

Mercury

Seed Round in 2017
Mercury provides online banking solutions for startups and technology-focused businesses. It offers business checking and savings accounts, corporate credit cards, and cash management tools. The platform includes features such as payment processing, expense tracking, and seamless integrations with accounting software. Mercury also provides API access for custom financial automation and supports venture-backed companies with specialized banking solutions. Banking services are provided through partnerships with FDIC-insured institutions.

Cherry

Seed Round in 2017
Cherry is a payment solutions company that offers fast and easy payment plans for medical practices. It helps medical providers treat more patients by offering the best ``buy now, pay later`` solution with high approvals, low cost, and a seamless experience. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

May Mobility

Seed Round in 2017
May Mobility specializes in autonomous vehicle technology development and deployment. The company's technology studies the city's traffic and commuter flow, identifying bottlenecks and gaps in the current public transit schema to design the optimal routes for communities. The company also offers a fleet operation service and provides daily transit by deploying autonomous shuttles to reduce human error in driving, reduce pollution, and create greater economic benefit for communities and riders, enabling public transportation systems to create a safer, greener, more efficient environment.

Intabio

Seed Round in 2017
Intabio is a Silicon Valley-based company developing analytical solutions to transform biotherapeutic development and manufacturing with products that provide early product quality characterization and profound efficiency gains across all stages of biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing. Intabio was founded in 2015 by Erik Gentalen and Lena Wu and is based in Fremont, California, United States.

Mira

Venture Round in 2017
The first FDA and CE registered comprehensive women’s health monitoring platform with 99% of accuracy in clinical trials. Mira tracks cycles, predicts ovulation, monitors fetal health, measures ovarian reserve and detects menopause at home, with expandability into chronic disease monitoring, using the hospital-leveled technology within a palm-sized device. The data automatically syncs to the Mira app. The AI learns personal health patterns. The telemedicine connects users with doctors.

Trusted

Seed Round in 2017
Trusted, Inc. is the leading labor marketplace for healthcare professionals. They match nurses with a range of flexible jobs that meet their preferences and career goals, offer support from a dedicated Clinical Care Team and unmatched insight into compensation and contract details. Their flagship staffing platform, Trusted Works, helps hospitals meet one of their single biggest challenges: ensuring that every shift gets filled in an environment where both demand for healthcare services and the cost of labor are increasing exponentially. With Works, facilities can create their own on-demand nursing workforce and access one source of truth for all of their clinical workforce needs, from sourcing and onboarding to ongoing compliance. With predictive insights and recommendations, Works helps hospitals easily react to fluctuations in demand, while its staffing marketplace creates competition to fill open job requisitions with high-quality, active talent from a pre-onboarded network of talent suppliers. Trusted Health is backed by Craft Ventures, Felicis Ventures, StepStone Group and Founder Collective, as well as healthcare innovators like Texas Medical Center and Healthbox. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Minibar Delivery

Seed Round in 2017
Minibar Delivery provides on-demand delivery of wine, spirits, beer & mixers. We give users a better way to shop; connecting them with their local liquor store to offer the best selection of products. You order food with a tap, book a car from an app, and now get your alcohol in a snap! Minibar Delivery is live in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC, Miami, Dallas among 30+ other cities. MINIBARDELIVERY.com

Kin Insurance

Seed Round in 2017
Kin Insurance is a direct-to-consumer digital insurer focusing on the homeowner's insurance market. Kin Insurance enhances homeowners insurance convenience and affordability by removing external agents. The tech platform offers a seamless user experience, personalized coverage options, and efficient claims service. Kin utilizes extensive property data for precise pricing and improved underwriting results.

Datmo

Venture Round in 2017
Datmo enables continuous delivery of data science. Deploy, Experiment and optimize without leaving your familiar workflows and deliver results in a fraction of the time. We are a team with DNA from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, UC Berkeley, IIT, Mozilla, Box, Wolfram, and Cisco, backed by top-tier VCs. We are passionate about collaboration among the machine intelligence community (experts, enthusiasts, and otherwise).

BenRevo

Seed Round in 2017
For employers who purchase health insurance, BenRevo is a platform that brings the shopping experience online. The current method of buying insurance used by brokers, employers and insurance carriers is paper heavy, error prone and time consuming. BenRevo simplifies this process by connecting all parties through a digital marketplace. And by doing so BenRevo will limit errors, imrove plans and price transparency, and automate the $185B mid market insurance space.

Skylight

Seed Round in 2017
Skylight Tools, Inc. operates a digital platform that simplifies the process of home renovations by connecting users with general contractors. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a comprehensive renovation management tool that assists clients in selecting contractors, managing budgets, and tracking project progress. Their application facilitates payment processing, invoice reconciliation, and real-time updates on project status. Skylight also provides a financial guarantee, covering half of any budget overruns exceeding 10%. The company aims to enhance the renovation experience through a fully integrated digital process that encompasses planning, material selection, permitting, and construction, specifically targeting the challenges associated with traditional renovation methods.

Airtable

Series B in 2017
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing relational databases. Airtable helps create flexible checklists, organize collections or ideas, and manage customers or contacts as well as offers a variety of templates ranging from home improvement to store inventory, enabling users to build custom applications without any prior coding experience.

AdQuick

Seed Round in 2017
AdQuick is a marketplace to buy and sell outdoor advertising. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Perceptive Automata

Seed Round in 2017
Perceptive Automata is solving what is often described as the hardest of the hard problems for automated driving: human behavior prediction technology for the safe large-scale rollout of highly automated (L2/3) and autonomous (L4/5) vehicles, especially in urban areas. The company enables those vehicles to understand what people might do next so they can navigate safely and smoothly around humans, including pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers. The level of understanding of our human-like AI goes well beyond what standard physics-based approaches can deliver, including information that can’t be gained any other way. Importantly, in addition to increased safety, we enable a much more natural and smooth human-like driving of L4/5 autonomous vehicles. This is essential for autonomous vehicles to be accepted into a human-dominated road environment and also by passengers of robotaxi services. Without this capability autonomous vehicles simply will not function well enough. Perceptive Automata is working with OEMs, suppliers, and tech companies that are building or integrating ADAS and autonomous driving systems. The team is comprised of Harvard, MIT, and Stanford neuroscientists and AI experts working out of offices in Boston and Silicon Valley.

Eager Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Eager Labs is a platform for talent engagement, assessment, and improvement. They provide an assessment that includes tracking and check-ins for the purposes of accelerating talent development. They also provide online training that develops managers into effective leaders. They handle all coordination, facilitation, and communication. They also offer professional training and coaching.

Clay

Seed Round in 2017
Clay provides innovative tools that combine various data sources to support growth teams in reaching their ideal customers. The platform enables deep customer research by integrating first-party, intent, and third-party data from over 100 sources.

Wunderkind

Series A in 2017
Wunderkind is a performance marketing engine that delivers tailored experiences at scale. Digital businesses use Wunderkind to remember who users are better than ever before, allowing them to deliver high-performing, one-to-one messages on websites, through emails and texts, and in ads at a scale that’s not otherwise possible. Wunderkind drives $1.2 billion dollars annually in directly attributable revenue for top e-commerce brands like Uniqlo, Sonos, and HelloFresh, often ranking as a top-3 revenue channel in their own analytics. Wunderkind is maniacally obsessed with ROI and aims to be the infrastructural interface between individuals and brands in a world where consumers choose what they want, from whom, and when. Learn more at wunderkind.

Neighborly

Series A in 2017
Neighborly Corporation is a holding company based in Waco, Texas, that operates a diverse network of service-based franchises across multiple countries. Founded in 1970, it began as a single brand and has since expanded to encompass 21 distinct franchise organizations, providing a wide range of residential and commercial services. These services include plumbing, cleaning, electrical repairs, HVAC maintenance, and landscaping, among others. Neighborly aims to support franchise owners with comprehensive resources and a strong commitment to its core values. The company has approximately 4,300 franchises and is actively involved in the franchise community, participating in associations such as the International Franchise Association. Neighborly also emphasizes its role in enhancing the quality of life for homeowners and businesses by delivering reliable maintenance and repair solutions.

OpenInvest

Seed Round in 2017
Backed by capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and QED, OpenInvest was founded in 2015 with a core focus on helping advisors unlock the true impact of their clients’ investments. On June 29, 2021, J.P. Morgan announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OpenInvest. OpenInvest will retain its own brand and be integrated into J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank and Wealth Management client offerings

Vivid Vision

Seed Round in 2017
Vivid Vision uses the virtual reality to help people with lazy eye (amblyopia and strabismus) improve their vision. James Blaha, the creator of Diplopia, gained 3D vision and use of his lazy eye with the alpha version of the software.

Nav

Series B in 2017
Nav is a free site and app that gives business owners the fastest, easiest and most trusted path to financing. The leading Business Financial Management app, Nav gives free access to personal and business credit reports from major consumer and commercial credit bureaus including Experian, Dun & Bradstreet, Equifax and TransUnion, and hosts a robust marketplace with more than 100 business financing products including loans and credit cards. The marketplace uses a unique, lender-neutral approach to help business owners find the best financing options for their needs. Nav's solution is also leveraged by other business service providers to enhance their customer experience.

Revere Intelligence

Seed Round in 2017
Revere is a monitoring and alerting platform for business teams that runs on top of their data. It sends relevant intel to team members as it happens, making it easier for them to respond to issues that need their attention.

Aquant

Seed Round in 2017
Aquant is an enterprise AI platform that uses machine learning to learn clients' enterprise's unique language and use it to maximize equipment uptime, prescribing and diagnosing both service and warranty issues as well as anomaly detection: 20 years of professional experience, in 20 seconds. Through AI and machine learning, Aquant enables companies to make smarter, faster, data-driven decisions by providing predictive, actionable service recommendations. Operating in a $647 billion-dollar market, Aquant was built by industry experts with a passion to help companies eliminate the unplanned downtime of their products in the most profitable way. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York.

Terminal49

Seed Round in 2017
Terminal49 automates container tracking & risk management. We provide real-time container tracking data via Dashboard and APIs — helping logistics operators automate workflows, save time, and reduce the cost of transportation.

Work Today

Seed Round in 2017
Work Today makes it painless for you to apply for jobs. Create a profile one time, and you’ll never need to fill out the same information again. When you find a job you like, launch the Wizard and watch in wonder as it autofills your application.

Sapho

Series B in 2017
Sapho empowers employees with a modern portal experience that surfaces personalized and relevant tasks and data using micro-apps. Sapho micro apps are built by IT on top of existing systems using pre-built templates and a drag-and-drop micro app builder. These micro apps available on any device, intranet, or messenger provide employees proactive notifications about interesting system data, actions that need to be completed, and changes in business data that require attention. It was founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.

Osaro

Series A in 2017
Osaro creates machine intelligence software that combine state-of-the-art perception with powerful adaptive decision-making abilities to help computer and robotic systems act efficiently and intelligently. Like many advanced machine learning technologies, Osaro's software automatically extracts information from high-dimensional, time-varying data. Osaro goes beyond merely classifying data. The technology interacts with the environment to learn, discover, and achieve a specific goal. By making machines more adaptive, intelligent, and efficient, Osaro frees up humans to focus time, energy, and capital on higher level tasks.

VoiceOps

Seed Round in 2017
VoiceOps is the first and only coaching enablement solution for call centers that helps companies achieve higher ROI by making coaches more effective. The VoiceOps Coaching Enablement Platform drives lasting behavior change among reps at scale that leads to higher conversion rates, reduced attrition and ramp time, and a more consultative experience for customers. Founded in 2016, VoiceOps now works with some of the leading companies in industries including financial services, consumer lending, insurance, education, travel, and hospitality.

Grabango

Seed Round in 2017
Grabango is a checkout-free technology for existing, large-scale grocery, and convenience stores. Grabango is working with billion-dollar global retailers to retrofit existing stores to make waiting in lines a thing of the past. They just raised $39M in Series B funding, and we are excited to accelerate the growth of their team and their store deployments to deliver on their mission to eliminate lines and save people time. With Grabango, shoppers choose their items as usual, and then skip the line by scanning a code in their Grabango app on the way out. Our solution uses computer vision technology to identify items as they are picked up. It counts those items and sends the receipt to the shopper’s phone after they leave the store. Grabango delivers a seamless shopping experience that is becoming the global standard. Driven by passion to improve peoples’ daily lives, our technology brings computer vision and machine learning to existing brick-and-mortar stores by processing the interactions between people and products. We are the first and only company to successfully retrofit checkout-free technology into an existing store and work with high accuracy in a dynamic, real world environment. No facial recognition technology is used and all data is anonymized to protect customer privacy. Founded in 2016, Grabango is based in Berkeley, California.

Ripcord

Series A in 2017
Ripcord, Inc., a robotic digitization company, develops automation software for robotic digitization. It offers Canopy, a solution that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to capture, enrich, and organize its customers’ important content; and enables enterprises to streamline their business processes. Ripcord, Inc. was formerly known as Ripcord Digital, Inc. and changed its name to Ripcord, Inc. in June 2017. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Humi

Seed Round in 2017
Humi is a payroll, benefits, and insurance platform developing cloud-based software to automate human resources processes. Its platform helps in employee recruiting and onboarding, time-off tracking, scheduling, payroll management, benefits administration, and performance monitoring and reporting.

Ledger Investing

Seed Round in 2017
Ledger Investing is an online marketplace powering interactions between investors and insurance carriers. It facilitates access to Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) investor capital, leveraging innovative data infrastructure and analytics to streamline transactions.

JOBOX.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Jobox lets pros focus on their job by taking the overhead of managing the finances of a home services business. JOBOX is a SaaS-based marketplace infrastructure provider that connects businesses with vetted home service professionals. The company's artificial intelligence-based infrastructure provides home service professionals with a free toolbox to help them launch their enterprises, while also assisting major organizations in matching work they have with a bank of professionals based on factors such as skill type and location.

Siren Care

Seed Round in 2017
Siren Care is engaging with providers and payers to transform healthcare for chronic disease and aging. Our flagship program, the Siren Diabetic Foot Program, is a comprehensive service powered by our proprietary Siren Socks which monitor foot temperature continuously to deliver superior early detection of diabetic foot ulcers.

Drop

Seed Round in 2017
At Drop, we’re on a mission to level-up consumer lives, one reward at a time. Through our personalized commerce platform, we intelligently surface the right brands, at the right time, to make our members’ every day a level better than it was before. Powered by machine learning, we match consumers with our over 400+ partner brands to satisfy two main goals: to earn points from their purchases and redeem them for instant rewards. Calling Toronto home but operating under a global mindset, Drop is building the next level experience for our 4 million+ members across North America, and most recently, the UK.

Able Lending

Series B in 2017
Able is the lowest-cost online lender to small businesses in the nation. Our passion is to fund businesses at any stage with a new kind of loan that lets borrowers get more capital at lower rates when they recruit some support from friends, family and fans. On average Able’s borrowers save $31,000 on loans between $25,000 and $1,000,000. Able is “more than a loan.” We connect extraordinary entrepreneurs with additional capital, community resources, and expert advice when it’s time to grow. To learn more, nominate your favorite business, or get pre-approved in 1 minute visit: www.ablelending.com

Welkin Health

Series A in 2017
Welkin is patient management software that guides teams through their care, keeping them on track. It tells health workers when to do what, focusing attention on the people who need it, when they need it. Their software makes care delivery seamless and patient-centered, empowering health care teams to build meaningful relationships with their patients.

Expo

Seed Round in 2017
Expo enables management and teams to enhance their performance by leveraging real-time data and insights for optimization. Expo was formerly known as Pared.

LeoLabs

Seed Round in 2017
LeoLabs is an aerospace company that supplies and provides low Earth orbit mapping and space situational awareness services. The company's software platform offers an open API and provides the basis for a new generation of SSA and traffic safety services. LeoLabs was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

SlamData

Series A in 2017
SlamData software is a solution for data integration and preparation of any data stored in S3, Azure, and Google. It gives more analytics-ready, regardless of complexity. SlamData has connectors to MongoDB, MarkLogic, Couchbase, and Hadoop and employs the industry's first “in-database” analytics solution to keep data processing and analytics close to the data. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Shippabo

Seed Round in 2017
Shippabo is an online platform that provides its users with shipping rates and shipment scheduling solutions. The platform offers freight forwarding, government filings, and trucking and drayage services to its users. It features online bookings, online custom bond purchases, real-time notifications, and shipment management. Shippabo was launched by Calvin Lo, Nina Luu, Wes Chien, and Sam Luu and is based in California.

Prodigy

Seed Round in 2017
Prodigy helps auto dealers deliver a modern, streamlined digital buying experience to every customer, saving time on every sale while increasing trust and satisfaction. With our true end-to-end sales platform it does not matter if customers are at home, on their phone, or right in the showroom. With Prodigy, customers can complete portions of the process online and then pick up their progress in-store (or vice versa). Everything is synced up in real-time so customers never enter any information twice and sales reps always have the most up to date information to better serve customers.

Missionmark

Pre Seed Round in 2017
There are 504,885 active Federal contractors competing for 4.3 million service contracts worth over $439 billion awarded annually. It’s still done on paper and with old-fashioned networking; Missionmark is meanwhile helping government contractors find, bid, and manage more work in this market using modern software and big data.

Zippia

Seed Round in 2017
Zippia offers every person access to all of their career options and how those various paths will impact their professional lives. Zippia extracts intelligence from real world experiences to provide the best information and tools for people to achieve their career plans. The company's market-leading Career Map allows anyone to explore millions of options, showing you roles that fit your profile and experience. Zippia believes that everyone should be able to make career decisions with their eyes wide open. That’s why Zippia built the most intelligent and personalized resource for your career questions.

Teachable

Series A in 2017
Teachable (formerly Fedora) is changing education by making it easy to teach or sell courses online. Teacher entrepreneurs use Teachable to run their own courses work with almost half a million students online. In a matter of minutes, Teachable allows you to create a beautiful and powerful, payment-ready course from your own website without any technical knowledge. While many use Teachable for asynchronous video-based classes teachers have used it to sell books, services, offline-online classes, group coaching, tutoring and webinars.

Fig

Series A in 2017
Fig is a curated platform for funding and developing games with the direct support of passionate players. Our platform brings together rewards-based community publishing and investing to create a more balanced and sustainable approach to game development. Fig is a curated platform for funding and developing games with the direct support of passionate players like you. Our platform brings together rewards-based community funding and investing to create a more balanced and sustainable approach to game development.

Adarza BioSystems

Series C in 2017
Adarza BioSystems is an early-stage medical diagnostics company developing a rapid and label-free biological assay platform for measuring clinical and point-of-care (POC) samples. In addition to performing sophisticated clinical tests within minutes, this technology potentially allowing hundreds of tests to be run simultaneously on a single chip. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

Skydrop

Series A in 2017
Flirtey provides drone delivery service of retail and e-commerce items to consumer homes. It is driven by a mission to improve lifestyles by making delivery instant for everyone. The company was the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery in the U.S., the first to perform a fully autonomous drone delivery to a home and the first to launch a commercial drone delivery service. Flirtey was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.

TeamDom

Seed Round in 2017
TeamDom is a modern-day media conglomerate that focuses on building powerful brands, stories, celebrities, and businesses around teen entertainment and media. TeamDom creates content, incubates talent, and provides teens with their favorite forms of entertainment.

ENSO

Seed Round in 2017
1.5 billion people worldwide live with chronic pain, and the best option they have are drugs like Vicodin that have terrible side effects and make people feel sick. ENSO has developed the first opioid-free, wearable device clinically proven to solve pain better than Vicodin. It works by delivering a patented electrical stimulation treatment that relaxes the muscles and calms the nerves wherever it is applied, and it's all controlled via an app on your smartphone. Enso is being used to solve chronic and acute pain at over 100 medical centers in the US such as Stanford, Harvard and Cedars-Sinai. The device is covered by the VA Hospitals and workers compensation insurance plans and is expected to be covered by major commercial insurance plans by 2021.

TrueComp

Seed Round in 2017
TrueComp partners with over 1,000 public sector agencies to modernize workforce planning, compensation, and benefits analysis. Its intuitive platform and expert consulting empower HR and finance leaders with transparency, efficiency, and equity to make smarter decisions in recruitment, retention, and budgeting. TrueComp recognizes that a government agency’s workforce is its most valuable asset and helps organizations treat talent management as a strategic priority. By delivering instant, actionable insights, TrueComp enables agencies to attract top talent, optimize labor strategies, and achieve long-term fiscal sustainability. The company was recognized among the Top 100 Government Services companies on the 2024 Inc. 5000. Learn more at www.truecomp.com.

Stacks

Series A in 2017
Blockstack is a decentralized computing network that puts users in control of their data and login. It’s the easiest way to build decentralized apps that can scale. Blockstack enables engineers to build secure, privacy-focused applications: users are in control of their data instead of storing it with large tech companies. Over 120 independent developer teams have built apps on Blockstack.

Intellimize

Seed Round in 2017
Intellimize automatically optimizes websites to drive revenue and customer acquisition using machine learning. It helps marketers drive conversions and revenue growth by personalizing websites to deliver the right experience to each visitor on any device. They automate this using machine learning. Leading companies rely on Intellimize to deliver more revenue, faster, and with less work than traditional A/B testing or rules-based personalization. The company also personalizes mobile and desktop websites for each unique visitor in real-time. Intellimize was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Ouster

Seed Round in 2017
Ouster builds high-resolution lidar sensors for industrial automation, smart infrastructure, robotics, and automotive applications. Using its unique digital lidar design, Ouster brings Moore's Law to lidar with an all-semiconductor approach to 3D sensing. Ouster is a privately held, venture-backed company located in San Francisco, California.

Trustify

Series A in 2017
Trustify makes truth, trust and safety accessible to everyone through its network of licensed private investigators and intel analysts

Tenfold

Series A in 2016
Tenfold helps companies have better customer conversations by putting the customer information into action on the phone in real-time. The company's software enables businesses to have better customer conversations. Its intelligent integrated desktop agent amplifies good customer engagement technology. Tenfold brings together the power of voice and intelligence of CRM for better customer conversations.

Orro

Series A in 2016
Orro is the world's first truly responsive lighting system. Designed to be part of the fabric of your home. Orro responds to your presence, preferences and adapts to natural lighting patterns. Orro increases property values, lowers energy expenses and provides for a better living experience for homeowners and renters.

Medisas

Series A in 2016
Medisas is a team of experienced and passionate clinicians, engineers, designers reinventing hospital software.

Clara Health

Seed Round in 2016
Clara is a software platform that streamlines the process of participating in clinical trials. The platform helps patients to find and connect with clinical trials.

Lawtrades

Seed Round in 2016
Lawtrades is pioneering a new work model that economically empowers independent legal professionals to monetize their skills while helping companies build diverse legal teams. Access a highly selective talent network of attorneys, paralegals, compliance, and legal ops, to complement their legal department and company culture. Invite-only talent pool (>50% women) bring deep legal and business expertise across commercial contracts, privacy, corporate law, IP, securities, regulatory compliance, and outside GC services. Insights from over 1,000 engagements and customized tools makes it easy to work together.

Hippo Insurance

Series A in 2016
Hippo Insurance Services offers a different kind of home insurance, built from the ground up to provide a new standard of care and protection for homeowners. Our goal is to make homes safer and better protected so customers spend less time worrying about the burdens of homeownership and more time enjoying their homes and the life within. Harnessing real-time data, smart home technology, and a growing suite of home services, we are creating the first integrated home protection platform. Hippo is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas, and insurance products available to more than 80 percent of U.S. homeowners in 37 states. Hippo Insurance Services is a licensed property casualty insurance agent with products underwritten by various insurance companies.

AiFi

Seed Round in 2016
AiFi provides a flexible AI platform that enables retailers to affordably deploy and scale autonomous shopping solutions across their businesses. Leveraging computer vision, AiFi adapts to existing store formats without the need for shelf sensors and provides advanced tracking algorithms that can scale up to 10,000 square feet to support various shopper journeys such as an app, credit card, gated, or hybrid entry. AiFi works with retailers worldwide such as ALDI South Group, Carrefour, Compass Group, Morrisons, Żabka Group, REWE, and Verizon. AiFi has the highest number of computer vision-powered autonomous stores across the globe. The company has raised a total of $80 million from investors including Verizon Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, HP Tech Ventures, Mithril Capital, Cervin Ventures, TransLink Capital, Plum Alley, Duke Angel Network, Reaction, GS Future, Drive Catalyst, and Evolution. For more information, please visit aifi.com.

Garmentory

Venture Round in 2016
Garmentory is a managed marketplace for emerging and contemporary designers (Nordstrom price segment). Contemporary boutiques and designers sell less than 1% of their apparel online. Their customers buy 20%+ of their apparel online. Garmentory's marketplace allows customers to find brilliant, limited run items, typically only available in boutiques. Using Garmentory, boutiques can open their doors to the world without having to learn sophisticated and expensive digital marketing or build the technical store infrastructure to compete with major department stores.

CodeSignal

Series A in 2016
CodeSignal is how the world discovers and develops the skills that will shape the future. Our skills platform empowers teams to go beyond skills gaps, with hiring and AI-powered learning solutions, and helps individuals cultivate the skills they need to level up. Wherever you are on your journey, CodeSignal’s technical hiring and learning & development solutions meet you there and get you where you need to go. Having powered millions of skills evaluations, CodeSignal is trusted by leading companies like Netflix, Capital One, Meta, and Dropbox, and is used by learners across the globe.

Procurify

Series A in 2016
Procurify is a cloud-based procurement tool that helps businesses manage their spending. The company's platform enables businesses to access centralized purchasing management, custom approvals, budget controls, and insights to help fuel business growth, while also providing complete control and visibility of where company money is going and accountability for your entire organization.

Stasis Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Stasis Labs has converted medical hardware into a big data, SaaS product with a cloud-connected vital signs monitoring platform. On average 80% of patients in emerging markets, and 60% of patients in developed countries have their vitals checked manually every 4-8 hours because existing monitoring systems are overly complex and cost prohibitive. Stasis was apart of the first cohort of 11 companies in Techstars Healthcare Accelerator, in Partnership with Cedars-Sinai. Stasis was recently awarded grant funding by the International Finance Corporation, a World Bank Group to help improve the medical technology of India. Currently, Stasis is live in Indian hospitals and continues to roll out their pilot program

Simple Health

Seed Round in 2016
Simple Health, founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, offers a mobile application designed to enhance access to women's health care, particularly in the areas of birth control and contact lens prescriptions. The platform facilitates online medical visits and prescription services, allowing users to conveniently renew their contact lens prescriptions and receive monthly deliveries of birth control and other health products. By integrating medical consultations with product delivery, Simple Health aims to simplify and improve the affordability of health care for women.

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.

Peerwell

Seed Round in 2016
PeerWell's mission is to to reduce the effects of pain and immobility at scale. We blend evidence-based medical content with built-in powerful technology to treat pain and mobility. We work with leaders in Workers' Comp, Health Plans, and Managed Care Organizations to achieve big goals.

Eave

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
11 million people in the UK suffer from hearing loss primarily caused by ageing or noise. EarTex builds smart ear-worn technology to protect and enhance hearing.

uBiome

Series B in 2016
uBiome provides smart gut tests, clinical microbiome testing, healthcare services, citizen science, healthful probiotic cultures, discoveries, and medical services.

Opencare

Seed Round in 2016
Opencare is transforming the dental industry by creating the first premium dental care network. With Opencare, patients can have confidence that they are getting top quality care, and top dentists can grow their practice with ease.

Intermix.io

Angel Round in 2016
Intermix.io is a provider of performance monitoring solution. Moreover, the company's performance monitoring products helps data teams monitor critical data flows, identify bottlenecks, and root cause analysis. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Replicated

Series A in 2016
Replicated is the modern way to ship multi-prem software. Replicated gives software vendors the tooling needed to deliver and manage cloud native applications inside customers'​ environments to provide greater security and control.

Emulate

Series B in 2016
Emulate is a privately held company that creates advanced in vitro models for understanding how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect human health.

Breakaway Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Breakaway Labs helps people achieve their personal and professional goals by transforming their habits.

ByteGain, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
We are bringing back the personal touch lost when businesses migrated to the internet. We all have our favorite brands. But it breaks our heart when they try to engage us with generic experiences, canned messages, and random pop-ups. And we know the future is not just remembering a visitor’s first name — it’s about delivering a personal experience optimized for each person. We are using the power of AI to help online businesses create personalized and delightful experiences for their users. We saw the amazing potential of machine learning while working at Google years ago. But instead of developing it for the big companies, we want to make it accessible for every business. That’s our mission at ByteGain.

MissionU

Seed Round in 2016
MissionU is a college alternative that gives students the skills and experience needed to succeed in today’s competitive working world while allowing them to graduate debt-free with no upfront tuition. Led by Pencils of Promise founder Adam Braun, who created the company with co-founder and Chief Product Officer Mike Adams, MissionU is the only program that combines general education with specialized skills training to prepare individuals for real-world jobs. By employing an income-share agreement model, MissionU only requires students to pay once they are earning $50,000 or more, during which they pay 15% of their income for three years back to the company.

Tribe

Seed Round in 2016
Tribe is a live multiplayer gaming platform. Tribe offers users a way to instantly hang live with up to 8 of friends at once. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

OmniVirt

Seed Round in 2016
OmniVirt's technology enables any digital marketer to create and distribute immersive ads (360° / 3D / VR / AR) that deliver 10X greater performance than traditional advertising. OmniVirt’s advanced technology in 360° / 3D rendering is ad platform agnostic, 99% browser compatible, and trusted by world-class publishers such as The New York Times, WSJ, Washington Post, Forbes, and more.

Sezzle

Seed Round in 2016
Sezzle is a financial services company that offers a technology-driven, payments. The company is driven by its mission is to financially empowering the next generation. Sezzle provides a payment platform that facilitates fast, secure, and easy payments between consumers and retailers. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minnesota, United States.

Social Tables

Series B in 2016
Social Tables is a web-based event planning platform for hospitality, meeting, and event professionals. They wanted to make event planning less stressful so they built software using cutting-edge technology that consolidates every part of your event planning process. Social Tables eases designing a floorplan, streamlines the arduous seating process, saves you a ton of time, and makes event planning fun again. Specialties such as Attendee Information Management, Floor Plan Design, Seating Chart Creation, Guest Engagement, Social Seating, Event Planning

Flexport

Series B in 2016
Flexport is a full-service global freight forwarder and logistics platform using modern software to fix the user experience in global trade. The platform arranges goods to be transported and tracks the inventory in real-time in orders carried by ocean, air, and road freight, enabling logistics companies to optimize transportation routes and inventory management. It is a licensed customs brokerage and freight forwarder built around a modern web application. Its freight service includes an online dashboard for businesses to easily understand, purchase, manage, and track the services required for global trade. Its team of logistics experts lets focus on core business by ensuring goods arrive at fulfillment/distribution centers on time and at the lowest cost. Flexport's mission is to fix the user experience in global trade and bring the world free trade through technology. The company was founded in 2013 by Ryan Petersen and is based in San Francisco, California.

TrueFacet

Series A in 2016
TrueFacet is a modern alternative for buying and selling jewelry and watches. They are an online marketplace rooted in trust, transparency and authenticity, where both buyers and sellers get the best value for their item, period. By integrating multiple points of expertise and relationships to ensure quality, they offer a comprehensive suite of authenticity services that makes buying and selling easy. No other jewelry marketplace offers the rigor of their authentication processes or the passion of their customer service team. They take their job – and their customers – very seriously. Their diverse experts hail from some of the most coveted jewelers in the industry, and spend a lot of time and effort verifying each item to ensure its value and authenticity. Beyond that, they thoroughly vet their vendors to make sure they uphold the highest level of integrity. They are constantly finding new ways to provide authentic jewelry at the best value. At the end of the day, 100 percent authentic jewelry doesn’t just look better, it feels better too.

Skedaddle

Seed Round in 2016
Skedaddle is a flexible mass transportation network that reinvents mobility beyond city limits. They believe travel should no longer be hindered by renting expensive cars, hassling friends for rides, or piecing together public transportation. By pairing crowdsourced route demand with luxurious bus rides, they make affordable, direct, and comfortable travel available to all.

Dia&Co

Venture Round in 2016
Dia&Co sells clothing and accessories to women who wear plus-sized apparel via a try-on-at-home model. Customers take an online survey to explain their tastes and then are shipped a five-item box of clothing and accessories. They buy the pieces they like and ship the rest back for free.Each box comes with a $20 styling fee that can be used as a credit toward a purchase of an item in the box. If a customer buys every item in a box, they receive a 25 percent discount.

IDbyDNA

Series A in 2016
We passionately believe that infectious disease patients should be treated with the same precision that cancer patients receive today. As our population increases, our economies become more global, and we continue over-usage of broad-spectrum antibiotics, infectious diseases are going to continue to spread and become more pernicious. Our clinical practices must evolve with disease to become more precise in our diagnostic and treatment tools. At IDbyDNA, our goal is to accelerate these solutions and uncover the microbial world to reduce infectious disease-associated morbidity and mortality
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