DBL Partners

DBL Partners is an investment venture focused on companies that deliver high venture capital returns and economic benefits. DBL Partners uses venture capital to accelerate innovation in a way that positively affects an organization’s social impact, as well as its financial success. They believe these two drivers –positive social change and a healthy financial performance– are inherently connected. DBL invests in and helps nurture outstanding entrepreneurs and companies in Cleantech, Information Technology, Sustainable Products and Services, and Healthcare.

Vincent Caruso

Associate

Becky Cooper

CFO

Ira Ehrenpreis

Founder and Managing Partner

YG

Yael Gilboa

Associate

Jake Harris

Associate

Mikal Lewis

Associate

Mark Perutz

Partner

Nancy Pfund

Founder and Managing Partner

Glenn Poppe

Associate

Cynthia Ringo

Senior Partner

Past deals in Central Africa

SolarCity

Series E in 2010
SolarCity is the nation's 1 leading provider of solar energy systems that deliver reliable clean energy to homes and businesses. SolarCity went public on the NASDAQ exchange in 2012 with a market cap of around $600 million.

SolarCity

Series D in 2008
SolarCity is the nation's 1 leading provider of solar energy systems that deliver reliable clean energy to homes and businesses. SolarCity went public on the NASDAQ exchange in 2012 with a market cap of around $600 million.

R-Zero

Series A in 2020
R-Zero Systems, Inc. manufactures, designs, and develops hospital-grade disinfection devices for businesses. Its products include R-Zero Arc, a UV-C surface and air disinfection solution that destroys pathogens for dynamic environments. It offers its solutions for enterprises, shops, restaurants, schools and hotels. R-Zero Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Guardian UV, Inc. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Wheels Labs

Series A in 2019
Wheels operates a shared electric mobility platform designed to revolutionize dockless mobility. The company's platform offers hybrid electric vehicles that are sleek in design with swappable parts, batteries and real-time dynamic maintenance upkeep with the built-in bluetooth speakers as well as charging point for phone, enabling users to get low-cost, fun and comfortable ebikes to get around cities through the connection of a smartphone.

Farmers Business Network

Series B in 2016
Farmers Business Network is an independent and unbiased, farmer-to-farmer agronomic information network. The Network's mission is to improve the livelihood of farmers by making data useful and accessible. Farmers Business Network (FBN) utilizes data science and machine learning to provide members with unbiased and unprecedented insights about each of their fields, powered by billions of data points from our network. IT provides farmers with product performance, benchmarking and predictive analytics based on real-world performance data

Andela

Series D in 2019
Andela is a global talent network that connects companies with engineering talent in emerging markets. Hundreds of leading companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, and ViacomCBS leverage Andela to scale their engineering teams quickly and cost-effectively. A distributed organization spanning four continents, Andela is backed by investors including Generation Investment Management, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Spark Capital, and Google Ventures.

ecologic brands

Venture Round in 2014
ecologic brands designs and manufactures paper bottles, offering a smarter packaging alternative that stands out. The patented eco.bottle® consists of an outer shell, made from recycled cardboard and newspaper, and an inner liner, made from PCR plastic that is also a 70% material reduction vs. rigid plastic bottles. Post use, the outer shell is recyclable and/or compostable, and the inner liner is recyclable. Consumer packaged brands that have converted to the eco.bottle® have seen consistent sales lift and accelerated distribution. Join the packaging revolution with ecologic brands!

UrbanSitter, Inc.

Series B in 2014
UrbanSitter, Inc. operates a childcare marketplace where parents and babysitters meet through shared connections. It is an online resource where parents go to find and book babysitters and nannies recommended by people they know. The company offers its services in San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington D.C., Boston, Denver, and San Diego. UrbanSitter, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

DroneSeed, Inc.

Series A in 2021
DroneSeed is making reforestation scalable--to make a dent in carbon emissions. It is paid per acre to plant tree seed vessels with DroneSwarms. It is one of the most advanced drone companies in the US as it has obtained three precedent setting FAA approvals. It is the 1st and only company allowed to operate heavy-lift drone swarms each carrying a 57lb payload. It is also the first to be able to operate heavy lift swarms BVLOS (Beyond visual line of sight). Its customers include timber companies, non-profits such as The Nature Conservancy, and government agencies. It was founded by Grant Canary in 2015 and went through Techstars Seattle in 2016.

NEXTracker Inc.

Series B in 2015
NEXTracker offers a significant breakthrough in horizontal tracking, with lower costs, better performance and more flexibility for solar power plants. These benefits increase solar project profits for developers, EPCs and system owners. Leveraging world-class design and installation expertise, NEXTracker has delivered trackers for dozens of projects in sizes exceeding 80MW, across 3 continents. The company is headquartered in California with regional offices in Asia, Europe and South America.

The Muse

Series A in 2015
The Muse is an internet company that offers an online career platform that provides job listings and advice to people. It offers expert advice, including work relationships, job switch, work-life balance, as well as working abroad. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Farmers Business Network

Series G in 2021
Farmers Business Network is an independent and unbiased, farmer-to-farmer agronomic information network. The Network's mission is to improve the livelihood of farmers by making data useful and accessible. Farmers Business Network (FBN) utilizes data science and machine learning to provide members with unbiased and unprecedented insights about each of their fields, powered by billions of data points from our network. IT provides farmers with product performance, benchmarking and predictive analytics based on real-world performance data

BrightSource Energy

Series C in 2008
BrightSource Energy designs and builds large scale solar plants that deliver low-cost solar energy in the form of steam and/or electricity, at prices competitive with fossil fuels, to industrial and utility customers worldwide. BrightSource Energy enables industrial and utility companies to lessen their dependency on fossil fuels by providing a low cost, reliable source of clean energy during periods of peak usage. BrightSource Energy's corporate headquarters are located in Oakland, California.

The RealReal, Inc.

Series C in 2014
The RealReal, Inc. operates an online marketplace for consigned luxury goods. It offers various resale product categories, including women’s, men’s, kids’, jewelry, and watches, as well as home and art products. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Wynd

Series A in 2021
Wynd Technologies, Inc. manufactures air purifiers for personal applications. It offers Wynd, a portable device that includes a removable sensor that checks the air quality around it and starts purifying the air. The company's Wynd removes allergens and other pollutions. It also offers Wynd Halo pro and ongoing realtime air quality measurement and monitoring to verify proper operations and maintenance. The company also offers online retail of its products. Wynd Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Claireau, Inc. and changed its name to Wynd Technologies, Inc. in November, 2015. Wynd Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California.

Kateeva

Series E in 2016
Kateeva (formerly TJet Technologies) is driving new advances in OLED production technology. Our inkjet printing manufacturing equipment solution enables flexible and large-size OLEDs to be produced over large areas and in high volume – with longer lifetimes, higher yields and lower production costs. It’s the first economically viable and production-worthy technique to use printing for low-cost mass-production of OLEDs – which means big innovation for the display industry. And for consumer electronics fans, it means those spectacular 55” OLED TVs will soon be within reach, and cool paper-thin, ultra-light wearable computing products will dazzle with extra smarts and smaller form factors. At our LinkedIn home, we’ll keep you up-to-the-minute on our tech milestones and latest moves. And since we’re huge fans on all-things OLED, we’ll occasionally add other cool technology stuff that inspires us to out-invent – even ourselves!

R-Zero

Series B in 2021
R-Zero Systems, Inc. manufactures, designs, and develops hospital-grade disinfection devices for businesses. Its products include R-Zero Arc, a UV-C surface and air disinfection solution that destroys pathogens for dynamic environments. It offers its solutions for enterprises, shops, restaurants, schools and hotels. R-Zero Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Guardian UV, Inc. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kateeva

Series D in 2014
Kateeva (formerly TJet Technologies) is driving new advances in OLED production technology. Our inkjet printing manufacturing equipment solution enables flexible and large-size OLEDs to be produced over large areas and in high volume – with longer lifetimes, higher yields and lower production costs. It’s the first economically viable and production-worthy technique to use printing for low-cost mass-production of OLEDs – which means big innovation for the display industry. And for consumer electronics fans, it means those spectacular 55” OLED TVs will soon be within reach, and cool paper-thin, ultra-light wearable computing products will dazzle with extra smarts and smaller form factors. At our LinkedIn home, we’ll keep you up-to-the-minute on our tech milestones and latest moves. And since we’re huge fans on all-things OLED, we’ll occasionally add other cool technology stuff that inspires us to out-invent – even ourselves!

Menlo Micro

Series C in 2022
Menlo Micro is a developer of an electromechanical switch technology used to offer products ranging from battery chargers to electric vehicles. The company's products can handle high temperatures and high-stress conditions and help in battery management, home automation, and medical instrumentation that enable clients to work with advanced products and deliver efficient outcomes using high power. Menlo Micro was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Primus Power

Series C in 2014
Primus Power Corporation designs and manufactures electrical energy storage systems. It offers EnergyPod 2, a energy storage system for peak shaving, bulk energy shifting, renewables integration, grid support, and islanding/black start. The company serves commercial and industrial sector, data centers, microgrid, and utility customers. Primus Power Corporation was founded in 2009 and is based in Hayward, California with additional location in New York, New York; Bryanston, South Africa; and Marlow, United Kingdom.

R-Zero

Series C in 2022
R-Zero Systems, Inc. manufactures, designs, and develops hospital-grade disinfection devices for businesses. Its products include R-Zero Arc, a UV-C surface and air disinfection solution that destroys pathogens for dynamic environments. It offers its solutions for enterprises, shops, restaurants, schools and hotels. R-Zero Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Guardian UV, Inc. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Apeel Sciences

Series B in 2016
Apeel Technology, Inc., doing business as Apeel Sciences, develops pre-and post-harvest products from natural plant extracts to protect food crops and keep produce fresher for farmers worldwide. Its portfolio of agricultural products includes Edipeel, a solution to protect food surfaces from the environment; and Invisipeel, a solution that protects against pre-harvest problems. Apeel Technology, Inc. was formerly known as aPEEL Technologies, Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Goleta, California.

Wheels Labs

Series A in 2020
Wheels operates a shared electric mobility platform designed to revolutionize dockless mobility. The company's platform offers hybrid electric vehicles that are sleek in design with swappable parts, batteries and real-time dynamic maintenance upkeep with the built-in bluetooth speakers as well as charging point for phone, enabling users to get low-cost, fun and comfortable ebikes to get around cities through the connection of a smartphone.
Advanced Microgrid Solutions installs advanced energy storage systems in buildings to lower energy costs for consumers and provide clean. AMS's Hybrid-Electric BuildingsTM Project deploys large networks of battery systems in targeted buildings where electric utilities need grid support. The company can seamlessly shift an entire fleet of buildings from grid power to battery power providing real-time support to the electric grid. Building owners get paid for being part of the solution to today's energy challenge. Advanced Microgrid Solutions artificial intelligence-powered software maximizes the value of renewables, batteries, and entire asset portfolios so they can deploy and use more clean energy with higher ROI. It uses deep learning algorithms to enable optimized trading of complex energy assets in wholesale energy markets. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

The Muse

Series B in 2016
The Muse is an internet company that offers an online career platform that provides job listings and advice to people. It offers expert advice, including work relationships, job switch, work-life balance, as well as working abroad. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Kaiam

Venture Round in 2014
Kaiam is a private company commercializing photonic integrated circuits. In plain language, they specialize in the design and manufacture of gadgets that help transmit and receive data at very high speeds. The company also manufactures optronics equipment for computer networking and hyper-scale data centers. It also uses micromachined silicon, a demonstrated the CWDM4, a 100 Gigabit-per-second coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) silicon photonics transceiver using silicon modules and receivers.

ZOLA Electric

Series C in 2015
ZOLA Electric provides off-grid solar solutions for African markets. The company engages in leasing or selling solar home kits to individual households in Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast. It offers solar systems to homes and businesses in rural communities through solar as a service model. ZOLA Electric was formerly known as Off-Grid Electric Tanzania Limited and changed its name to ZOLA Electric in July 2018. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Arusha, Tanzania with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Mapbox Inc.

Series B in 2015
Mapbox is a location data platform providing maps, turn-by-turn navigation, location search, and data to over 2.6M registered developers — powering companies like Facebook, IBM, Instacart, Lonely Planet, Snapchat, Tableau, The Weather Channel, and Yahoo! JAPAN. Mapbox is built on a living map that learns from activity to make improvements over time, so developers building with Mapbox tools have access to the most up to date geospatial information anywhere in the world. Mapbox was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

MeeVee

Series D in 2007
The experience is centered on the personalized TV guide. On MeeVee, you select from a list of favorite actors, genres, subjects, or enter keyword interests (e.g. "golf"). The guide then finds upcoming programming based on those interests. It's a saved search so it'll keep looking for those programs for you until you remove the interests. If you love "Jennifer Aniston", you can add her as a favorite actress or keyword and, until you delete her, all shows or movies on TV with Jennifer Aniston showing through your cable or satellite provider will populate your guide. If you are willing to invest the time, you can build a totally customized TV guide and ditch the universal grid completely. It's an easy-to-use application and it's a nice model for building a personalized web experience. The TV listings widget (called "MeeVee Guide") they've built shows your personal guide to visitors of your pages on other sites. You can add to a page by pasting a snippet of code to it.

Pallet

Series A in 2022
Pallet is a social purpose corporation that builds equal opportunity access to housing and employment. Pallet provides portable shelter systems intended to prevent and reduce homelessness. The company's shelter is made from durable aluminum and composite materials, giving customers with high quality, cost-effective, and portable shelter systems. Pallet is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

ZOLA Electric

Venture Round in 2021
ZOLA Electric provides off-grid solar solutions for African markets. The company engages in leasing or selling solar home kits to individual households in Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast. It offers solar systems to homes and businesses in rural communities through solar as a service model. ZOLA Electric was formerly known as Off-Grid Electric Tanzania Limited and changed its name to ZOLA Electric in July 2018. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Arusha, Tanzania with an additional office in San Francisco, California.
Airspace Technologies makes shipping faster, safer, and more transparent than ever before through people, service, and technology. Their vision is to create the most trusted delivery network the world has ever seen. Airspace integrates technology, people, and services through an industry-first automated software platform that gives their customers a true end-to-end time-critical shipping solution with full visibility. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Carlsbad, California, United States.

Wheels Labs

Series A in 2019
Wheels operates a shared electric mobility platform designed to revolutionize dockless mobility. The company's platform offers hybrid electric vehicles that are sleek in design with swappable parts, batteries and real-time dynamic maintenance upkeep with the built-in bluetooth speakers as well as charging point for phone, enabling users to get low-cost, fun and comfortable ebikes to get around cities through the connection of a smartphone.

View

Series C in 2010
View, Inc. designs and manufactures glass systems for workplace, healthcare, education, and hospitality projects. It markets its products through direct sales and representatives in the United States and internationally. The company was formerly known as Soladigm, Inc. and changed its name to View, Inc. in November 2012. View, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Milpitas, California, with manufacturing facilities in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

R-Zero

Series A in 2020
R-Zero Systems, Inc. manufactures, designs, and develops hospital-grade disinfection devices for businesses. Its products include R-Zero Arc, a UV-C surface and air disinfection solution that destroys pathogens for dynamic environments. It offers its solutions for enterprises, shops, restaurants, schools and hotels. R-Zero Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Guardian UV, Inc. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Andela

Series C in 2017
Andela is a global talent network that connects companies with engineering talent in emerging markets. Hundreds of leading companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, and ViacomCBS leverage Andela to scale their engineering teams quickly and cost-effectively. A distributed organization spanning four continents, Andela is backed by investors including Generation Investment Management, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Spark Capital, and Google Ventures.

Farmers Business Network

Series A in 2014
Farmers Business Network is an independent and unbiased, farmer-to-farmer agronomic information network. The Network's mission is to improve the livelihood of farmers by making data useful and accessible. Farmers Business Network (FBN) utilizes data science and machine learning to provide members with unbiased and unprecedented insights about each of their fields, powered by billions of data points from our network. IT provides farmers with product performance, benchmarking and predictive analytics based on real-world performance data

Siva Power

Series C in 2010
Siva Power (formerly Solexant) develops third generation thin film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Using printable nano-material technologies exclusively licensed from leading universities,Siva Power's flexible solar cells harvest energy from the entire solar spectrum.

eMeter

Series E in 2008
eMeter Corporation delivers energy information management solutions for the utility mass market, and commercial and industrial deployment. The company provides software that enables electric, gas, and water utilities to realize the benefits of their advanced metering and smart grid initiatives. It offers EnergyIP, an enterprise meter data management software platform; an Integration Platform for linking various advanced metering information (AMI) systems to multiple utility information systems; and Business Process Management Tools specializing in AMI implementation, operations, and maintenance, as well as provides meter data unification and synchronization system integration with SAP solutions for utilities. The company also offers SmartStart, which allows utilities to validate their investment in AMI, implement eMeter solutions, and access an integrated operational system for user acceptance testing. In addition, it plans, installs, and configures the EnergyIP software, as well as offers strategic consulting services related to meter data management, advanced metering, and demand response. eMeter Corporation has a strategic partnership with Siemens Corporation. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Pandora Media, Inc.

Series D in 2006
Pandora Media, LLC provides music and podcast discovery platform services in the United States. It offers music streaming services to approximately 70 million users each month with its proprietary Music Genome Project and Podcast Genome Project technology at home or on the go through its mobile app, the web, and integrations with approximately 2,000 connected products. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Oakland, California. Pandora Media, LLC is a subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings Inc.

Primus Power

Series B in 2011
Primus Power Corporation designs and manufactures electrical energy storage systems. It offers EnergyPod 2, a energy storage system for peak shaving, bulk energy shifting, renewables integration, grid support, and islanding/black start. The company serves commercial and industrial sector, data centers, microgrid, and utility customers. Primus Power Corporation was founded in 2009 and is based in Hayward, California with additional location in New York, New York; Bryanston, South Africa; and Marlow, United Kingdom.

SpaceX, Inc.

Series J in 2018
Space Exploration Technologies is a space-transportation startup company founded by Elon Musk. SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX develops crew and cargo capsules, engines, cryogenic tank structures, avionics, equipment, guidance, and control software. The company is developing the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. Founded in 2002, Space Exploration Technologies is headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

BrightSource Energy

Series E in 2011
BrightSource Energy designs and builds large scale solar plants that deliver low-cost solar energy in the form of steam and/or electricity, at prices competitive with fossil fuels, to industrial and utility customers worldwide. BrightSource Energy enables industrial and utility companies to lessen their dependency on fossil fuels by providing a low cost, reliable source of clean energy during periods of peak usage. BrightSource Energy's corporate headquarters are located in Oakland, California.

Farmers Business Network

Series F in 2020
Farmers Business Network is an independent and unbiased, farmer-to-farmer agronomic information network. The Network's mission is to improve the livelihood of farmers by making data useful and accessible. Farmers Business Network (FBN) utilizes data science and machine learning to provide members with unbiased and unprecedented insights about each of their fields, powered by billions of data points from our network. IT provides farmers with product performance, benchmarking and predictive analytics based on real-world performance data

Siva Power

Series C in 2011
Siva Power (formerly Solexant) develops third generation thin film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Using printable nano-material technologies exclusively licensed from leading universities,Siva Power's flexible solar cells harvest energy from the entire solar spectrum.

Wholeshare

Seed Round in 2015
Wholeshare is an online marketplace for sustainable and organic food. Our investors in the food space call us "Whole Foods for the 99%". Only one quarter of the US lives in an area that can support a store like Whole Foods because of the volumes needed to run a natural foods supermarket with 25K products. However, demand for sustainable products is widespread (>$100B/yr) and rapidly growing. Wholeshare enables consumers in every US geography to buy sustainable food at wholesale prices through shopping as a group. Wholeshare members shop for their groceries online and receive products directly from natural food distributors and local food hubs. By tapping into existing wholesale networks, our members are able to save money and get access to foods that they might not have in their communities. Wholeshare's group-based model solves the last mile problems that have plagued food distribution. We recently started offering 25K products nationally through a partnership with UNFI, the largest natural food distributor in the US. Our sales from that offering has been increasing 65% month-over-month since August, and our total sales currently average about $170K per month. We are proud to have been funded by venture investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, 500 Startups, and BoxGroup, as well as several impact investors with deep expertise in the food space.

BrainScope Company, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
BrainScope Company, Inc. operates as a medical neuro-technology company that focuses on the development of a hand-held medical device to aid medical professionals in the assessment of traumatic brain injuries and its milder forms (concussion). The company also offers BrainScope One, a structural injury classifier that uses electroencephalogram signal and other capabilities on the device to objectively determine the likelihood of the presence and severity of a concussion. It serves military markets, emergency departments, pre-hospitals/urgent care units, and sports sectors worldwide. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Yerdle Recommerce

Series A in 2014
Trove is a California-based company that builds and operates resale programs for brands. Its end-to-end technology and logistics platform provides a white label solution for brands ready to take back their secondary market from emerging online competitors. Yerdle empowers brands to reach new customers and deepen existing relationships —while developing more sustainable, circular business practices. Yerdle Recommerce began as a used goods marketplace, helping 950,000 members share more than 1.2 million items, from jackets to tents. Today, Yerdle Recommerce is proud to support iconic brands such as Patagonia, REI, and Eileen Fisher in their efforts to develop new business models that deepen customer engagement.

Revolution Foods, Inc.

Venture Round in 2012
Revolution Foods, Inc. produces food for schools and families across the United States. It offers unitized meals, family style meals, and food service products for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and supper The company also provides ready-to-eat meals for lunch, after school snacks, on-the-go boosting products, and sports refreshments. It serves early childhood education, school districts, charter networks, and community and after school youth programs. The company sells its products through grocery stores. Revolution Foods, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Oakland, California.

ZOLA Electric

Series D in 2018
ZOLA Electric provides off-grid solar solutions for African markets. The company engages in leasing or selling solar home kits to individual households in Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast. It offers solar systems to homes and businesses in rural communities through solar as a service model. ZOLA Electric was formerly known as Off-Grid Electric Tanzania Limited and changed its name to ZOLA Electric in July 2018. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Arusha, Tanzania with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

OPX Biotechnologies

Series C in 2011
OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. is a Colorado-based bioproducts company using proprietary bioengineering technology to convert renewable feedstocks into biofuels and green chemistry products. The OPX EDGE - Efficiency Directed Genome Engineering - technology platform rapid, rational, and robust optimization of microbes and bioprocesses to achieve equivalent product performance with improved sustainability at lower cost versus petroleum based alternatives.

RallyPoint Networks, Inc

Series A in 2013
RallyPoint is an online military network with 1.7 million service members, veterans, and their civilian supporters (family, recruiters, etc.). RallyPoint's mission is to help all members of the military community lead more successful and fulfilling lives. Members can build their professional network, connect with other members in a safe environment, and explore career opportunities both within the military and in the private sector. Bob McDonald, the retired P&G CEO and the 8th Secretary of Veterans Affairs is the chairman of RallyPoint's board. RallyPoint provides employers highly targeted tools for hiring from and advertising into the military community.

EcoScraps

Series A in 2012
EcoScraps is a manufac­turer and distributor of all-natural gar­den products that turns dis­carded food waste (fruits and veg­etables) into high-quality compost, pot­ting soil and other soil amend­ments. The no poop and chemical-free, safe for fam­ily and pets, is a high-performing com­post alternative to the chem­i­cal and manure-laden products. It was founded in 2010 and is based in Sandy, Utah.

SolarCity

Series F in 2011
SolarCity is the nation's 1 leading provider of solar energy systems that deliver reliable clean energy to homes and businesses. SolarCity went public on the NASDAQ exchange in 2012 with a market cap of around $600 million.

Apeel Sciences

Series B in 2016
Apeel Technology, Inc., doing business as Apeel Sciences, develops pre-and post-harvest products from natural plant extracts to protect food crops and keep produce fresher for farmers worldwide. Its portfolio of agricultural products includes Edipeel, a solution to protect food surfaces from the environment; and Invisipeel, a solution that protects against pre-harvest problems. Apeel Technology, Inc. was formerly known as aPEEL Technologies, Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Goleta, California.

BrightSource Energy

Series F in 2012
BrightSource Energy designs and builds large scale solar plants that deliver low-cost solar energy in the form of steam and/or electricity, at prices competitive with fossil fuels, to industrial and utility customers worldwide. BrightSource Energy enables industrial and utility companies to lessen their dependency on fossil fuels by providing a low cost, reliable source of clean energy during periods of peak usage. BrightSource Energy's corporate headquarters are located in Oakland, California.

Solaria Corporation

Debt Financing in 2009
The Solaria Corporation, a solar technology company, manufactures cells and modules for the optics and semiconductor industries. The company develops cell and module technologies that fit into the existing value-add chain. It uses a low-concentration solar PV multiplying technology that produces PV cells from silicon material.

Mapbox Inc.

Series C in 2017
Mapbox is a location data platform providing maps, turn-by-turn navigation, location search, and data to over 2.6M registered developers — powering companies like Facebook, IBM, Instacart, Lonely Planet, Snapchat, Tableau, The Weather Channel, and Yahoo! JAPAN. Mapbox is built on a living map that learns from activity to make improvements over time, so developers building with Mapbox tools have access to the most up to date geospatial information anywhere in the world. Mapbox was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Primus Power

Series D in 2015
Primus Power Corporation designs and manufactures electrical energy storage systems. It offers EnergyPod 2, a energy storage system for peak shaving, bulk energy shifting, renewables integration, grid support, and islanding/black start. The company serves commercial and industrial sector, data centers, microgrid, and utility customers. Primus Power Corporation was founded in 2009 and is based in Hayward, California with additional location in New York, New York; Bryanston, South Africa; and Marlow, United Kingdom.

Ruby Ribbon, Inc.

Series C in 2015
Ruby Ribbon is a new social commerce apparel company, supported by a nationwide network of independent personal Stylists . With cutting edge fabrics and forward thinking designs, the company has produced a unique line of fashionable wardrobe basics, sold exclusively through in-home Trunk Shows. Stylists, armed with mobile applications and other trending technologies, are able to build their own independent businesses while drawing inspiration from Ruby Ribbon's core beliefs: entrepreneurship, friendship and camaraderie. Founded in 2011 with an early stage investment from Trinity Partners, Ruby Ribbon is based in Burlingame, CA and New York City.

The Muse

Series A in 2015
The Muse is an internet company that offers an online career platform that provides job listings and advice to people. It offers expert advice, including work relationships, job switch, work-life balance, as well as working abroad. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Siva Power

Series D in 2016
Siva Power (formerly Solexant) develops third generation thin film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Using printable nano-material technologies exclusively licensed from leading universities,Siva Power's flexible solar cells harvest energy from the entire solar spectrum.

Primus Power

Series E in 2017
Primus Power Corporation designs and manufactures electrical energy storage systems. It offers EnergyPod 2, a energy storage system for peak shaving, bulk energy shifting, renewables integration, grid support, and islanding/black start. The company serves commercial and industrial sector, data centers, microgrid, and utility customers. Primus Power Corporation was founded in 2009 and is based in Hayward, California with additional location in New York, New York; Bryanston, South Africa; and Marlow, United Kingdom.

Siva Power

Venture Round in 2012
Siva Power (formerly Solexant) develops third generation thin film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Using printable nano-material technologies exclusively licensed from leading universities,Siva Power's flexible solar cells harvest energy from the entire solar spectrum.

The RealReal, Inc.

Series E in 2016
The RealReal, Inc. operates an online marketplace for consigned luxury goods. It offers various resale product categories, including women’s, men’s, kids’, jewelry, and watches, as well as home and art products. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Siva Power

Series D in 2015
Siva Power (formerly Solexant) develops third generation thin film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Using printable nano-material technologies exclusively licensed from leading universities,Siva Power's flexible solar cells harvest energy from the entire solar spectrum.

MeeVee

Series C in 2006
The experience is centered on the personalized TV guide. On MeeVee, you select from a list of favorite actors, genres, subjects, or enter keyword interests (e.g. "golf"). The guide then finds upcoming programming based on those interests. It's a saved search so it'll keep looking for those programs for you until you remove the interests. If you love "Jennifer Aniston", you can add her as a favorite actress or keyword and, until you delete her, all shows or movies on TV with Jennifer Aniston showing through your cable or satellite provider will populate your guide. If you are willing to invest the time, you can build a totally customized TV guide and ditch the universal grid completely. It's an easy-to-use application and it's a nice model for building a personalized web experience. The TV listings widget (called "MeeVee Guide") they've built shows your personal guide to visitors of your pages on other sites. You can add to a page by pasting a snippet of code to it.

The RealReal, Inc.

Series D in 2015
The RealReal, Inc. operates an online marketplace for consigned luxury goods. It offers various resale product categories, including women’s, men’s, kids’, jewelry, and watches, as well as home and art products. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

View

Series D in 2012
View, Inc. designs and manufactures glass systems for workplace, healthcare, education, and hospitality projects. It markets its products through direct sales and representatives in the United States and internationally. The company was formerly known as Soladigm, Inc. and changed its name to View, Inc. in November 2012. View, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Milpitas, California, with manufacturing facilities in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

UrbanSitter, Inc.

Series C in 2017
UrbanSitter, Inc. operates a childcare marketplace where parents and babysitters meet through shared connections. It is an online resource where parents go to find and book babysitters and nannies recommended by people they know. The company offers its services in San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington D.C., Boston, Denver, and San Diego. UrbanSitter, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Planet Labs Inc.

Series C in 2015
Planet Labs, Inc., a space and analytics company, provides information about the changing planet. The company operates a fleet of earth imaging satellites to frequently image the entire planet and provide open access to that information. Planet Labs Inc. was formerly known as Cosmogia, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Farmers Business Network

Series C in 2017
Farmers Business Network is an independent and unbiased, farmer-to-farmer agronomic information network. The Network's mission is to improve the livelihood of farmers by making data useful and accessible. Farmers Business Network (FBN) utilizes data science and machine learning to provide members with unbiased and unprecedented insights about each of their fields, powered by billions of data points from our network. IT provides farmers with product performance, benchmarking and predictive analytics based on real-world performance data

SolarCity

Series G in 2012
SolarCity is the nation's 1 leading provider of solar energy systems that deliver reliable clean energy to homes and businesses. SolarCity went public on the NASDAQ exchange in 2012 with a market cap of around $600 million.

Farmers Business Network

Series B in 2015
Farmers Business Network is an independent and unbiased, farmer-to-farmer agronomic information network. The Network's mission is to improve the livelihood of farmers by making data useful and accessible. Farmers Business Network (FBN) utilizes data science and machine learning to provide members with unbiased and unprecedented insights about each of their fields, powered by billions of data points from our network. IT provides farmers with product performance, benchmarking and predictive analytics based on real-world performance data

Bellwether Coffee

Series B in 2019
Bellwether Coffee Co. manufactures software based vent less electric roasters. Its products allows its customers to get access to an online bean marketplace, which can be used to order beans. The company’s roasters use a catalytic process to eliminate the harmful gases and need for extra ventilation, which needs to be installed in traditional coffee roasting. Bellwether Coffee Co. was founded in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California.
Advanced Microgrid Solutions installs advanced energy storage systems in buildings to lower energy costs for consumers and provide clean. AMS's Hybrid-Electric BuildingsTM Project deploys large networks of battery systems in targeted buildings where electric utilities need grid support. The company can seamlessly shift an entire fleet of buildings from grid power to battery power providing real-time support to the electric grid. Building owners get paid for being part of the solution to today's energy challenge. Advanced Microgrid Solutions artificial intelligence-powered software maximizes the value of renewables, batteries, and entire asset portfolios so they can deploy and use more clean energy with higher ROI. It uses deep learning algorithms to enable optimized trading of complex energy assets in wholesale energy markets. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Siva Power

Venture Round in 2014
Siva Power (formerly Solexant) develops third generation thin film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Using printable nano-material technologies exclusively licensed from leading universities,Siva Power's flexible solar cells harvest energy from the entire solar spectrum.