Darling Ventures

Darling Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage software startups that leverage data intelligence, automation, and decentralization to innovate across various sectors, including healthcare and finance. The firm invests between $250,000 and $500,000 from its third fund, aiming to propel startups through the seed stage towards a successful Series A round. Darling Ventures emphasizes building long-term relationships with founders, co-developing essential strategies such as roadmaps, market positioning, and financing approaches. Upon reaching Series A, they facilitate access to significant co-investment opportunities with their international limited partners, aiding geographic expansion into markets like Europe and Australia. Their commitment is to help founders turn their visions into reality by combining ambitious goals with meticulous attention to detail.

Pascal Unger

Managing Partner

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Prescient AI

Seed Round in 2023
Prescient AI is a leading provider of automation software that delivers transparency and precise data insights for marketers and direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands. In response to the evolving privacy landscape of the internet, Prescient AI offers technology that measures, forecasts, optimizes, and continuously backtests marketing funnels, thereby enhancing efficiency and reducing costs for businesses. The company’s artificial intelligence-driven platform simulates various scenarios and generates actionable insights, empowering brands to optimize their advertising campaigns and drive revenue growth. By prioritizing transparency in its operations and partnerships, Prescient AI aims to rebuild trust in technology while setting a new standard for predicted profitability in the e-commerce sector.

Geminus

Seed Round in 2022
Geminus.AI, Inc. is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in developing artificial intelligence systems tailored for industrial processes. Founded in 1990, Geminus creates a platform designed to empower engineers and industrial operators to make rapid and informed decisions in environments characterized by high uncertainty. The company's offerings focus on self-optimized design and predictive operational intelligence, enhancing the performance and efficiency of various industrial assets, including refineries, power plants, satellites, and ships. By leveraging advanced AI applications, Geminus aims to support operators and engineering service providers in improving their operational capabilities.

CryptoLeague

Pre Seed Round in 2022
CryptoLeague is a Miami-based web3 technology company focused on transforming the investment landscape for blockchain-based assets. The company develops innovative investment software and tools designed to empower web3 investing communities by harnessing collective knowledge and collaboration. By prioritizing accessibility and inclusivity, CryptoLeague aims to democratize investment opportunities, allowing individual investors to unite and leverage shared insights. The company's foundational belief is that crypto and NFT investing should be a social and competitive endeavor, designed to facilitate financial freedom and generate significant investment returns for its users. Through its pioneering platform, CryptoLeague is redefining community investing by providing resources that have traditionally been available only to elite financial institutions.

Kintsugi

Series A in 2022
Kintsugi is a company focused on advancing mental healthcare through innovative technology. It specializes in developing voice biomarker software designed to detect signs of depression and anxiety from brief samples of natural speech. Recognized for its AI advancements, Kintsugi aims to bridge gaps in mental health care within various health systems. By providing tools that enable quicker and more accurate diagnoses, the company seeks to enhance efficiency and potentially save lives.

CatalyzeX

Seed Round in 2021
CatalyzeX is a technology company that facilitates the application of machine learning in software development. It offers a platform where engineers, developers, and technical leaders can lookup machine learning techniques and their corresponding code implementations. The platform includes browser extensions that automatically suggest relevant code implementations for any machine learning papers encountered while browsing the web, streamlining the integration of suitable ML techniques into projects.

Kintsugi

Seed Round in 2021
Kintsugi is a company focused on advancing mental healthcare through innovative technology. It specializes in developing voice biomarker software designed to detect signs of depression and anxiety from brief samples of natural speech. Recognized for its AI advancements, Kintsugi aims to bridge gaps in mental health care within various health systems. By providing tools that enable quicker and more accurate diagnoses, the company seeks to enhance efficiency and potentially save lives.

Prescient AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Prescient AI is a leading provider of automation software that delivers transparency and precise data insights for marketers and direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands. In response to the evolving privacy landscape of the internet, Prescient AI offers technology that measures, forecasts, optimizes, and continuously backtests marketing funnels, thereby enhancing efficiency and reducing costs for businesses. The company’s artificial intelligence-driven platform simulates various scenarios and generates actionable insights, empowering brands to optimize their advertising campaigns and drive revenue growth. By prioritizing transparency in its operations and partnerships, Prescient AI aims to rebuild trust in technology while setting a new standard for predicted profitability in the e-commerce sector.

Nemo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Nemo is a developer of an online meeting platform designed to enhance virtual meetings for corporate environments. The platform facilitates video conferencing, enabling organizations to create super-connected remote teams across various locations and time zones. By integrating live recorded video with intelligent interaction suggestions, Nemo's solution allows users to engage in efficient virtual meeting sessions and quick catch-ups. This approach aims to improve communication and collaboration among team members, regardless of their geographical dispersion.

Beam Health

Seed Round in 2021
Beam Health is an innovative digital care platform focused on enhancing the capabilities of small health practices through a pay-as-you-go model. The company provides a streamlined solution that facilitates effective virtual care, helping clinics to scale operations, expand patient access, and improve health outcomes. Beam Health's telemedicine application enables seamless communication between patients and healthcare providers, allowing consultations anytime and anywhere. By offering an end-to-end telemedicine experience, Beam Health empowers healthcare firms to initiate and customize their services at a lower cost while addressing the needs of providers, patients, employers, and enterprises alike. This approach aims to reshape healthcare, making it more accessible and efficient for all stakeholders involved.

Briq

Series A in 2020
Briq is a technology company specializing in financial automation for the construction industry. It offers an artificial intelligence-driven platform that automates complex financial processes, such as data entry and analysis, empowering clients to gain actionable insights and make informed decisions. This results in improved predictability of business outcomes, enhanced fees, prevention of fee erosion, and stabilized overhead costs.

Glide Health

Seed Round in 2020
Glide Health is a health technology company that develops intelligent financial solutions aimed at enhancing revenue and cash flow for healthcare organizations. Utilizing proprietary AI and machine learning technology, Glide Health's platform integrates operations across healthcare entities, offering targeted guidance to improve revenue cycle management. The Glide Intelligence platform generates predictive analytics and actionable recommendations, facilitating key processes such as patient registration, prior authorization, claim submission, denial management, and collections. By providing real-time analysis of financial and clinical data, Glide Health enables healthcare providers to gain greater visibility into their financial health through advanced forecasting of metrics like revenue and accounts receivable. In addition, Glide Mobile Health, a component of the company's offerings, serves as a comprehensive mobile solution, allowing patients and healthcare professionals to access and manage medical records securely from various devices. This ensures effective collaboration in patient care and enhances the overall quality of healthcare delivery, while also reducing costs through improved integration and coordination of health information management systems.

FogHorn

Series C in 2020
FogHorn is a developer of edge intelligence software tailored for industrial and commercial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company's platform enables advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities to be deployed in on-premises edge environments, facilitating applications such as monitoring, diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance, and operational intelligence. FogHorn's technology is particularly beneficial for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), systems integrators, and end customers across various sectors, including manufacturing, energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, and smart infrastructure initiatives like smart grids and connected vehicles. By enhancing edge computing with real-time analytics, FogHorn empowers businesses to integrate seamlessly with major cloud platforms, allowing for informed, analytics-driven decision-making.

Briq

Seed Round in 2019
Briq is a technology company specializing in financial automation for the construction industry. It offers an artificial intelligence-driven platform that automates complex financial processes, such as data entry and analysis, empowering clients to gain actionable insights and make informed decisions. This results in improved predictability of business outcomes, enhanced fees, prevention of fee erosion, and stabilized overhead costs.

Liberio

Convertible Note in 2019
Liberio is an innovative company focused on transforming the consumer-oriented search experience through its AI-enabled hyper-relevant search engine platform. By prioritizing user intention, Liberio facilitates a more personalized search process, allowing individuals to articulate their needs and receive tailored options. The platform enhances the user experience by scanning reviews from various websites to ensure that only the most relevant search results are presented. Through this approach, Liberio aims to help users find the right options more efficiently and effectively.

Geminus

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Geminus.AI, Inc. is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in developing artificial intelligence systems tailored for industrial processes. Founded in 1990, Geminus creates a platform designed to empower engineers and industrial operators to make rapid and informed decisions in environments characterized by high uncertainty. The company's offerings focus on self-optimized design and predictive operational intelligence, enhancing the performance and efficiency of various industrial assets, including refineries, power plants, satellites, and ships. By leveraging advanced AI applications, Geminus aims to support operators and engineering service providers in improving their operational capabilities.

Cohort

Seed Round in 2018
Cohort, Inc. is a software company focused on enhancing chronic care management and clinical trial processes. Based in New York with an additional office in San Francisco, the company utilizes clinical artificial intelligence and natural language processing to analyze electronic health records. This analysis includes evaluating diagnostics, medications, and clinical notes to provide context relevant to specific patients and their conditions. Cohort’s software streamlines the identification and enrollment of eligible patients, generates tailored care plans, and automates compliance and billing tasks. The company’s solutions are designed to enable Primary Care Providers to improve the scale, efficiency, and outcomes of their Chronic Care Management programs while facilitating clinical trial identification and enrollment.

Ombre

Seed Round in 2018
Ombre is a company that specializes in microbiome testing, providing a testing kit that combines personalized probiotics with microbiome analysis. The company's offerings include subscription-based customized testing, which delivers science-backed probiotics tailored to individual needs. This approach aims to provide actionable insights for the prevention of chronic diseases such as obesity, cystic fibrosis, and Alzheimer's. By focusing on the root causes of gut health issues, Ombre enables customers to better understand and improve their microbiome, promoting overall wellness.

FogHorn

Series B in 2017
FogHorn is a developer of edge intelligence software tailored for industrial and commercial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company's platform enables advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities to be deployed in on-premises edge environments, facilitating applications such as monitoring, diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance, and operational intelligence. FogHorn's technology is particularly beneficial for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), systems integrators, and end customers across various sectors, including manufacturing, energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, and smart infrastructure initiatives like smart grids and connected vehicles. By enhancing edge computing with real-time analytics, FogHorn empowers businesses to integrate seamlessly with major cloud platforms, allowing for informed, analytics-driven decision-making.

Boundless Mind

Seed Round in 2017
Boundless Mind, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company based in Los Angeles, California, established in 2015. The company specializes in behavior design, utilizing a platform that combines neuroscience and AI to analyze, predict, and influence human behavior. Boundless Mind's technology enables developers to understand user behavior within applications and implement reinforcement strategies to encourage the formation of positive habits. By simplifying complex behavioral decisions, the company aims to assist individuals in becoming healthier, wealthier, happier, and wiser. Since October 2019, Boundless Mind has operated as a subsidiary of Thrive Global Holdings, Inc.

Kyndi

Venture Round in 2017
Kyndi, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) platform tailored for sectors such as government, financial services, and healthcare. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an additional office in Washington, D.C., Kyndi operates the Kyndi AI Platform, which leverages machine learning to enhance business regulation and provide auditable AI systems. The platform includes a Natural Language Search solution that enables organizations to efficiently extract insights from unstructured text data. By facilitating strategy and planning, compliance, and research operations, Kyndi aims to significantly boost the productivity of knowledge workers, assisting analysts in swiftly processing documents and gaining actionable insights to address opportunities and threats effectively.

Bridgefy

Seed Round in 2016
Bridgefy, Inc., founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing a software development kit that enables mobile applications to function without an internet connection. The company's technology leverages smartphones' Bluetooth and Wi-Fi antennas to create mesh networks, allowing users to communicate even in areas with limited or no internet access. This capability is particularly useful in situations such as crowded events, natural disasters, rural areas, and locations with controlled internet access. Bridgefy's unique mesh network technology improves as more people use it, enhancing the reliability and reach of the communication network. The company's innovative approach has been adopted by over 10 million users worldwide, demonstrating its effectiveness and broad impact.

FogHorn

Series A in 2016
FogHorn is a developer of edge intelligence software tailored for industrial and commercial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company's platform enables advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities to be deployed in on-premises edge environments, facilitating applications such as monitoring, diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance, and operational intelligence. FogHorn's technology is particularly beneficial for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), systems integrators, and end customers across various sectors, including manufacturing, energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, and smart infrastructure initiatives like smart grids and connected vehicles. By enhancing edge computing with real-time analytics, FogHorn empowers businesses to integrate seamlessly with major cloud platforms, allowing for informed, analytics-driven decision-making.

Kyndi

Venture Round in 2016
Kyndi, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) platform tailored for sectors such as government, financial services, and healthcare. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an additional office in Washington, D.C., Kyndi operates the Kyndi AI Platform, which leverages machine learning to enhance business regulation and provide auditable AI systems. The platform includes a Natural Language Search solution that enables organizations to efficiently extract insights from unstructured text data. By facilitating strategy and planning, compliance, and research operations, Kyndi aims to significantly boost the productivity of knowledge workers, assisting analysts in swiftly processing documents and gaining actionable insights to address opportunities and threats effectively.

Human

Seed Round in 2016
Human Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, specializes in manufacturing earphones.

Averon

Seed Round in 2015
Averon US, Inc. specializes in mobile identity verification technology, focusing on its Direct Autonomous Authentication (DAA) standard. This innovative approach allows smartphone users to securely interact with a variety of services, such as banking, e-commerce, and smart locks, without the need for dedicated applications or software installations. By utilizing real-time mobile network signaling and SIM/eSIM chips, Averon provides seamless authentication that requires no user involvement, ensuring both privacy and security. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the company is committed to enhancing online identity verification while eliminating reliance on personally identifiable information. Supported by 35 patents, Averon's technology is adopted by leading firms in various sectors, including transportation and digital currency, creating a streamlined and secure user experience.

Kyndi

Seed Round in 2015
Kyndi, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) platform tailored for sectors such as government, financial services, and healthcare. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an additional office in Washington, D.C., Kyndi operates the Kyndi AI Platform, which leverages machine learning to enhance business regulation and provide auditable AI systems. The platform includes a Natural Language Search solution that enables organizations to efficiently extract insights from unstructured text data. By facilitating strategy and planning, compliance, and research operations, Kyndi aims to significantly boost the productivity of knowledge workers, assisting analysts in swiftly processing documents and gaining actionable insights to address opportunities and threats effectively.

Avocarrot

Seed Round in 2015
Avocarrot Ltd. is a London-based company that operates a native advertising exchange platform specifically designed for mobile application publishers. Established in 1999, Avocarrot provides a technology platform that enables publishers to optimize and monitor their native ad revenue through real-time bidding. The platform allows for the customization of native display and video ads, facilitating a seamless user experience that enhances engagement and revenue generation. With its focus on creating less intrusive advertising solutions, Avocarrot positions itself as a leading programmatic native ad exchange, connecting mobile publishers with premium advertisers globally. The company also has locations in San Francisco and Athens and has been functioning as a subsidiary of Glispa GmbH since September 2016.

Tapster

Seed Round in 2014
Tapster addresses today’s challenge of scattered on-demand services across different apps using contextual intelligence and a proprietary habits engine. They take different signals (current location, location history, generic user habits, behaviour and preferences) to surface the most relevant information from the on-demand services as a card. These cards contain service availability, prices, and a button to order the service directly through Tapster.

Weave

Seed Round in 2014
Weave is a mobile-based professional networking application designed to facilitate the arrangement of meetings and discussions among professionals. Users can log in through their LinkedIn profiles and are presented with a list of nearby professionals who are open to face-to-face interactions. The app allows users to swipe “yes” or “no” to indicate their interest in meeting others, thereby enabling them to connect with like-minded individuals and build professional relationships. By focusing on real-time connections, Weave aims to enhance networking opportunities and foster professional friendships.

Gridium

Series A in 2013
Gridium Inc. is a software company based in Menlo Park, California, established in 2011. It specializes in developing building operations and energy management solutions tailored for the commercial and industrial sectors. The company’s software focuses on optimizing energy consumption by providing comprehensive data analysis and tracking features. This enables energy users to lower their energy costs, enhance maintenance operations, and efficiently coordinate with vendors. By analyzing data from smart meters, Gridium's solutions streamline maintenance collaboration and improve overall building performance while ensuring occupant satisfaction.
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