Spectral is a protocol for programmable creditworthiness. The company partners gain valuable credit risk insights to optimize business decisions and offerings by leveraging on-chain data; users gain access to new financial opportunities. The Multi-Asset Credit Risk Oracle (MACRO) Score is an on-chain equivalent to a traditional FICO score that allows users to check their on-chain scores through its platform. Spectral was founded in 2020 and is based in New Rochelle, New York.
Based is a communication platform which is build over the NFT .
Infima's unique deep learning technologies are transforming mortgage security analytics. Its solutions offer actionable predictive insights into future borrower, security, and market behavior, enabling investors, dealers, and other market participants to make better decisions to drive performance. A dramatic improvement in predictive accuracy vs. legacy solutions delivers superior portfolio construction, security selection, and risk management to portfolio managers, traders, and other mortgage market participants. Infima currently covers more than 525,000 mortgage securities, which are backed by roughly 35 million mortgage loans and represent a total current market value of nearly $11 trillion.
Aptos is a web3 startup that builds a scalable Layer 1 blockchain that enables developers to design scalable, future-proof apps. The Aptos team consists of a talented group of engineers, researchers, strategists, designers, and constructors. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
Finix is a developer of a B2B payment processing platform designed to let businesses own, manage and monetize their payments. Their platform uses modular, workflow-driven architecture and a real-time interface to track transactions, consolidate disparate payment processor data and underwrite merchant accounts, enabling banks, acquirers, and enterprises to send money anywhere in the facilitate push payments over debit cards.
Quadrata is a Passport Network that brings the identity and compliance layer to DeFi across existing public blockchains. The company was founded in 2021 by Lisa Fridman and Fabrice Cheng and is headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California.
Chainsight is an API for web3 background checks. Their background checks API detects and prevents users from transacting with malicious dApps, wallets, fake tokens, NFTs, or phishing sites. Their products such as blockchain labeled data, chains might KYT, and blockchain investigation
Quantifeed is a digital investing platform for financial institutiosn. Quantifeed's automated investment platform allows banks, brokers, and wealth planners to offer their customers a digital investing experience under their own brand. Quantifeed's software and financial models provide institutions with a configurable solution to suit their wealth management objectives. This allows firms to reach hundreds of thousands of consumers quickly and economically. The online platform enables users to invest in portfolios of stocks, funds, and other asset classes across all major global markets. Quantifeed offers a library of portfolios for asset allocation, thematic investments, and other trading strategies. The company was founded by former investment banking executives Alex Ypsilanti and Ross Milward in Hong Kong in 2013.
Azra Games is a blockchain-based developer of collectible combat role-playing games for core gamers. The company specializes in blockchain technology and makes collectible combat RPGs for core gamers on the blockchain that features various characters, enabling gamers to make a complete shift in how to create, play, collect, trade, and socialize. Azra Games was established in 2022 in Sacramento, California by Sonny Mayugba.
SpotOn’s mission is to give small and midsize businesses a fighting chance, providing innovative software and payment solutions, supported by local and personal service, and delivered at a fair price. A leader in fully integrated restaurant management systems and small business technology, SpotOn offers end-to-end solutions which include marketing, website development, reservations, online ordering, appointments, eCommerce, digital loyalty, review management, as well as retail and restaurant point-of-sale (POS) solutions. Doron Friedman, Matt Hyman, and Zach Hyman co-founded SpotOn in 2017 and its headquarters is located in San Francisco, California.
TIFIN is a platform that conceives, creates, and operates fintech companies in the areas of wealth management, investments, and personal finance. Their operating companies are shaping the future of investor experience with intelligent products that recognize the uniqueness of each investor. TIFIN leverages the combined power of investment intelligence, data science, and technology to make investing a more powerful driver of financial well-being.
Brelyon is a deep tech startup realizing headset-less solutions for immersion in enterprise and metaverse applications. Breylon is introducing the world's first headset free virtual monitor. The experience is like looking through a window at a large IMAX screen on your desk. This allows replacing multi-monitor setups and having to wear headsets in a variety of enterprise and consumer applications.
Stord is the leading ecommerce enablement platform that powers seamless checkout and delivery experiences for brands across all channels. Stord partners with hundreds of brands to grow revenue, reduce costs, and delight shoppers – managing over $5B+ of commerce. With Stord, brands can increase cart conversion, improve unit economics, and drive customer retention. Stord’s end-to-end commerce solutions combine best-in-class omnichannel fulfillment and shipping with technology to ensure fast shipping, reliable delivery promises, access to more channels, and lower costs on every order. Hundreds of brands, such as AG1, Native, Tula, and American Giant, use Stord to make their supply chains a competitive advantage. Stord is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins, Franklin Templeton, Founders Fund, and Salesforce Ventures. Join our team: https://www.stord.com/careers/.
Amberdata is defining the Cryptoeconomics data provider category. By combining validated blockchain and crypto market data from the leading crypto exchanges into a unified platform and API, Amberdata enables customers to build data-powered applications to develop and maintain an edge over their competition. The company was founded in 2017 in Palo alto, California led by Shawn Douglass.
Eaglebrook Advisors is a crypto-focused investment firm that provides financial advisors with simple, secure and compliant access to bitcoin through the Eaglebrook Bitcoin SMA
CesiumAstro delivers communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space or airborne platforms. Each of the company's products combines carefully selected COTS components with the traditional reliability necessary for aerospace systems. Its products enable connectivity between satellites, drones, planes, cars, and other mobile devices and generate electronically steerable beams of radio waves carrying information between the devices, and its software stitches the information together.
Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company. It designs and manufactures quantum-integrated circuits. It packages and deploys those chips in a low-temperature environment, and they build control systems to perform quantum logic operations on them. The company develops software to integrate its systems directly into existing cloud infrastructure. It has also developed new algorithms for quantum computing, with a focus on near-term applications in computational chemistry and machine learning. Our product, Forest, is the world’s first full-stack programming and execution environment for quantum/classical computing.
Teller Finance is a blockchain project for decentralized lending. Teller connects to your bank account to offer risk-assessed loans, without the need for collateral.
CelLink is an early-stage hardware startup that is developing a flexible conductive backplane for power electronics, including batteries, light-emitting diodes, wire harnessing, solar cells, and other devices requiring power transmission.
Zand is a digital bank that offers both retail and corporate banking.
Americans deserve a secure and reliable retirement income, and Micruity makes lifetime income more accessible. Micruity's advanced suite of APIs allows financial institutions such as 401(k) providers to offer annuities to participants, creating a much-needed solution to secure retirement income and a pension look and feel.
Anghami is a music streaming app providing unlimited Arabic and International music to stream and download for offline mode. Anghami is designed for the Middle-East and North Africa providing the largest music catalog of licensed content from the major Arabic labels such as Rotana, Melody, Mazzika, Platinum Records and many other indies. It also features the international majors EMI, Sony, Warner and Universal. Anghami is largest digital music venture ever in the Middle-East funded by multiple VC firms.
6sense reinvents the way organizations create, manage, and convert pipelines to revenue. 6sense Revenue AI captures anonymous buying signals, targets the right accounts, and recommends the channels and messages to boost revenue performance. Removing guesswork, friction, and wasted sales effort, 6sense empowers sales, marketing, and customer success teams to significantly improve pipeline quality, accelerate sales velocity, increase conversion rates, and grow revenue predictably.
Capital Markets Gateway (CMG) is a financial technology firm modernizing the equity capital markets (ECM). CMG connects investors and underwriters via a neutral platform that delivers integrated ECM data and analytics, unrivaled transparency, and workflow efficiencies. Providing a digital system of record for firm-wide deal activity, CMG helps clients make more timely, better-informed decisions. Launched in 2017 by a team of experienced ECM practitioners, the CMG platform is currently relied upon by more than 100 buy-side firms representing $20 trillion in AUM and 10 investment banks. For more information visit www.cmgx.io.
Ironclad is a contracting platform that helps transform contract processes by automating workflows and approvals. Its platform also automatically identifies key terms and entities, turns contracts into code and allows users to search, tag, and manage their contracts to help legal, sales, and operations teams streamline the way they create, store, and combine contracts as intelligence assets.
Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform. Fintechs and financial institutions alike trust Pinwheel to access the data and controls within traditional and non-traditional payroll platforms to update direct deposits, streamline income and employment verification, improve underwriting, power earned wage access, and build innovative new products. With consumer permissioning, Pinwheel connects to the majority of these providers, covering over 1,400+ platforms and nearly 80% of anyone receiving a paycheck in the US, to enable market-leading fintechs, like Block (formerly Square), to easily access and update the payroll data of more than 100 million US-based employed people. Pinwheel is the only provider that handles both direct deposit switching and the provision of income and employment data to be Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) compliant with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). To learn more, visit www.pinwheelapi.com.
Checkout.com is a fintech company that specializes in providing online payment solutions for businesses globally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company operates a comprehensive e-commerce payment platform that facilitates mobile and online transactions. Its services include payment gateway solutions, international acquiring, and processing for various payment methods, such as credit and debit cards, online banking, and eWallets like PayPal and Apple Pay. The platform is designed to enhance security and streamline the payment process by eliminating intermediaries, offering fraud management tools, analytics, and customizable risk settings. With offices across multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, France, and Australia, Checkout.com aims to empower businesses to manage digital payments effectively while optimizing performance and minimizing risks.
Private Equity Round in 2022
CAIS is a financial technology platform, providing independent financial advisors with access to top-tier managers of specialized investment products in the multi-trillion-dollar independent wealth channel. The company offers streamlined execution for an expanding list of alternative investment funds and products. Financial advisors use the platform to access funds and products, including hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate, structured notes, and digital assets. CAIS complements its fund offerings with independent due diligence provided by Mercer. CAIS is an NFA member with securities offered through CAIS Capital LLC, member FINRA, SIPC. Jeremy Norton and Matt Brown co-founded CAIS in New York, New York in 2009.
ODDITY is a consumer-tech company that builds and scales digital-first brands to disrupt the offline-dominated beauty and wellness industries. The company owns IL MAKIAGE and SpoiledChild.
ATM.com operates as an embedded finance platform that focuses on making micro-investing accessible to a broader audience. The platform facilitates the opening of investment accounts through its unique functionality, which includes features like Robo-Bumpers™ provided by Ant Money Advisors, LLC. By participating in rewards programs, users can generate micro-income that aids in saving and investing in the stock market. This approach empowers individuals to build their investments incrementally, promoting financial growth and literacy in a user-friendly manner.
Arcade provides an infrastructure layer for NFT liquidity that enables the financialization of non-fungible assets, non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.Arcade’s Wrapped NFT technology allows NFTs to be bundled to secure one loan. Arcade is also an open-source Defi primitive it allows developers to build on top of the platform.
EQRx operates as a biotechnology company, focused on re-engineering the process from drug discovery to patient delivery with the goal of offering a market-based solution for the rising cost of medicines. By bringing together stakeholders from across the healthcare system and utilizing the latest advances in science and technology, the company seeks to discover, develop and deliver high-quality, patent-protected medicines more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Proof of Impact is a data intelligence company that offers access to digital tools that collect and analyze ESG and Impact Data to generate insights and contextual analysis, translating raw ESG & impact data into actionable intelligence. The company is on a mission to empower the transition to a more sustainable and purposeful world by linking ESG and impact data with strategic business performance. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Lacework is a security platform for cloud generation that provides automated threat defense and intrusion detection for cloud workloads. Its platform automates every aspect of security, including configuration assessment, behavior monitoring, anomaly, and threat detection as well as incident investigation and provides continuous monitoring of all cloud components such as workloads, applications, processes, containers, machines, users, and accounts that enable security teams to protect data and workloads in the cloud and maintain continuous compliance. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.
Benchling is the modern software platform purpose-built for life science R&D. Hundreds of thousands of scientists using cutting-edge techniques like CRISPR, CAR-T immunotherapy, and genetic engineering depend on our suite of cloud applications to design DNA, collaborate on experiments, manage research workflows, and make critical R&D decisions.
UNest is an app democratizing access to smart financial solutions for all families. It helps parents build a better financial future for their children. In five minutes, you can open a UTMA account for your child and no paperwork is required. All members receive access to advisor-guided investment plans, the app's simple gifting feature, UNest Rewards and they can easily set up recurring contributions. In 2018, Ksenia Yudina founded UNest in North Hollywood, California.
Wonolo (Work Now Locally) is an on-demand staffing platform that is changing the way businesses find talent for their immediate labor needs. Founded in 2014, Wonolo's mission is to help people find consistent work. Through our two-sided tech marketplace, we connect hundreds of businesses in need of front-line workers with 1 million underemployed workers in local markets across the United States, within minutes. Wonolo empowers the in-demand workforce by democratizing access to flexible work, opportunities to learn new skills, a living wage, and comprehensive portable benefits and perks. Backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, DAG Ventures, PivotNorth, Base 10, AMN Healthcare, Wonolo is a rapidly growing tech startup with great traction and growth opportunities. If you are passionate about truly impacting people's lives, building an amazing community of people who want to change the status quo of making work flexible, and disrupting a $140B+ market (contingent labor), we are interested in talking to you! We value hard work, accountability, humility, initiative, and transparency. We live by these values and hire accordingly. Wonolo is a Great Place to Work-Certified company for delivering a consistently high-trust experience for all employees. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. Wonolo is a remote-first company with 180+ full-time employees, and quickly scaling our team within the United States and Canada.
CarDekho provides enterprise mobility solutions, mobile application development, Web design and development, offshore staffing, and testing and quality assurance (QA) services. Its enterprise mobility solutions include enterprise mobility consulting, mobile business intelligence, business process mobilization, B2B mobile applications (app) development, enterprise iOS app development, enterprise Android app development, and enterprise app distribution; and mobile app development services include iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Windows8, Phonegap, and bootstrap. CarDekho’s Web design and development services include responsive design, PSD to HTML conversion, flash Website design, themes customization, content management system, E-commerce solution, CRM app development, open-source development, custom Web app development, regular Website maintenance, customized programming, online marketing, graphic design, Website hosting, employee management system, logo design, inventory management, and database design. Its offshore staffing services for designers, mobile apps developers,.NET developers, PHP developers, Java developers, Python developers, and ROR developers; and testing and QA services include automated, manual, usability, nonfunctional, specialized, mobile app, testing-as-a-service, integration, functional, system, localization, and acceptance testing. CarDekho develops entertainment, GPS tracking, weather, business and finance-related, multi-media, sports, social networking, education, and travel applications. It serves the automobile, E-learning, consultancy, finance, social networking, tours and travel, health and fitness, medical, job and career, news and magazine, utility/productivity, entertainment, lifestyle, and E-commerce industries; and IT and communication, and book and library industries.
Lark is a developer of chronic disease prevention and management platform used to prevent chronic conditions. The company uses cutting-edge AI combined with human coaches and connected devices to provide real-time, personalized, 24/7 support, and counseling to help users make healthier choices and manage their conditions. Its CDC-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program, Wellness Program, Diabetes Care Program, and Hypertension Program have 1.5 million users and have demonstrated clinically validated improved health outcomes published in 11 peer-reviewed journals and analyst reports. Lark was founded by Julia Hu and Jeff Zira in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
O'Shaughnessy Asset Management is an investment management company offering investment strategies and management services. The company was established in 1987 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut.
Nerdy is a leading curated direct-to-consumer platform for live online learning. Nerdy’s mission is to transform the way people learn through technology. The Company’s purpose-built proprietary platform leverages technology, including AI, to connect learners of all ages to experts, delivering superior value on both sides of the network. Nerdy’s comprehensive learning destination provides learning experiences across 3,000+ subjects and multiple formats—including one-on-one instruction, small group classes, large format group classes, and adaptive self-study. Nerdy’s flagship business, Varsity Tutors, is one of the nation’s largest platforms for live online tutoring and classes.
Discord operates as a voice, video, and text communication service to talk and hang out with friends and communities. It was originally created for people who loved to play games, but these passionate people realized it could be enjoyed for more purposes. Discord is now used by everyone from local hiking clubs, to art communities, to study groups.
Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery. It helps users believe they don't need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity.
Amberdata is defining the Cryptoeconomics data provider category. By combining validated blockchain and crypto market data from the leading crypto exchanges into a unified platform and API, Amberdata enables customers to build data-powered applications to develop and maintain an edge over their competition. The company was founded in 2017 in Palo alto, California led by Shawn Douglass.
SpotOn’s mission is to give small and midsize businesses a fighting chance, providing innovative software and payment solutions, supported by local and personal service, and delivered at a fair price. A leader in fully integrated restaurant management systems and small business technology, SpotOn offers end-to-end solutions which include marketing, website development, reservations, online ordering, appointments, eCommerce, digital loyalty, review management, as well as retail and restaurant point-of-sale (POS) solutions. Doron Friedman, Matt Hyman, and Zach Hyman co-founded SpotOn in 2017 and its headquarters is located in San Francisco, California.
Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, increase developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce. Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021.
Checkr, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in background check services. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Checkr offers a range of screening services, including criminal record checks, driving checks, and identity verification, all delivered through an advanced platform that can provide faster turnaround times compared to traditional background check providers. The company utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance the hiring process, ensuring compliance and improving the applicant experience. Checkr serves various industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and technology, by providing tools that help organizations navigate the complexities of workforce dynamics while promoting transparency and fairness in hiring. Additionally, Checkr offers security solutions, continuous monitoring, and a unified identity verification service, Checkr Connect IDV, which integrates identity verification with background checks.
Jaris offers purpose-built, private-label embedded financial solutions that help POS systems, ISVs, SaaS businesses, and marketplaces drive engagement, reduce churn, and increase revenue.
Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that allows companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage. With its performance and consumer-like ease of use, Talkdesk easily adapts to the evolving needs of sales and support teams and their end customers, resulting in increased customer satisfaction, productivity, and cost savings. Over 1,400 innovative enterprises around the world, including IBM, Acxiom, and Zumiez rely on Talkdesk to power their customer interactions. The San Francisco, California-based company was formed by Cristina Fonseca and Tiago Paiva in 2011.
Li-Cycle is a clean technology company with revolutionary technology for resource recovery of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries. Li-Cycle Technology™ is a closed loop, economically viable, safe and sustainable process that can recover 80 – 100% of all materials in lithium-ion batteries. Li-Cycle is on a mission to provide sustainable and safe customer-centric solutions for end-of-lifecycle lithium-ion batteries while meeting the rapidly growing demand for critical batteries.
CCC is a SaaS platform for the multi-trillion-dollar P&C insurance economy powering operations for insurers, repairers, automakers, part suppliers, lenders, and more. CCC cloud technology connects more than 30,000 businesses digitizing mission-critical workflows, commerce, and customer experiences. A trusted leader in AI, IoT, customer experience, network and workflow management, CCC delivers innovations that keep people’s lives moving forward when it matters most.
Redwood Materials creates a circular supply chain to drive down the environmental footprint and cost of lithium-ion batteries and the electric vehicles and sustainable energy storage systems they power. Founded by JB Straubel, the Nevada-based company is offering large-scale sources of domestic anode and cathode materials produced from recycled batteries. Redwood receives ~10 GWh of end-of-life batteries annually for recycling, which are then refined and remanufactured into critical battery materials. The company plans to ramp production of anode and cathode components in the U.S. to 100 GWh annually by 2025, enough to produce more than one million electric vehicles a year.
Blaize is a leading provider of a proprietary purpose-built, full-stack hardware architecture and low-code/no code software platform that enables edge AI processing solutions at the network’s edge for computing in multiple large and rapidly growing markets — automotive, mobility, retail, security, industrial automation, medical devices, and many others. Blaize’s novel solution solves the technical problem that edge AI processing requires across those verticals — very low latency and high thermal and power efficiency — which previously relied on retrofitting sub-optimized AI solutions designed more for data centers and the cloud. Blaize has previously raised over $200MM from strategic investors such as DENSO, Daimler, Magna, Samsung, and Bess Ventures and financial investors such as Franklin Templeton, Temasek, GGV, and others. With headquarters in El Dorado Hills (CA), Blaize has teams in San Jose (CA), North Carolina, and subsidiaries in Hyderabad (India), and Leeds and Kings Langley (UK), with 200+ employees worldwide. www.blaize.com. Follow Blaize on X (@blaizeinc) and LinkedIn (Blaize).
Lucid Motors is an automotive company that specializes in electric cars. The company sets out to create a car that elevates the human experience and transcends the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. A car that is intuitive, liberating, and designed for all the ways people get around. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Newark, California.
Sunlight Financial is a premier, technology-enabled point-of-sale finance company. Sunlight partners with contractors nationwide to provide homeowners with financing for the installation of residential solar systems and other home improvements. Sunlight’s best-in-class technology and deep credit expertise simplify and streamline consumer finance, ensuring a fast and frictionless process for both contractors and homeowners.
Private Equity Round in 2021
Flipkart is an e-commerce marketplace that offers over 30 million products across 70+ categories. It provides books, movies, music, games, consoles, gaming accessories, mobiles, mobile accessories, cameras, camera accessories, computers, computer accessories, network components, software, peripherals, home and kitchen appliances, TV, and video products, and personal and health care products. Flipkart, currently 33,000 people strong, has 75 million registered users clocking over 10 million daily visits. Flipkart’s technology has enabled it to deliver 8 million shipments per month – and this number is only growing. Binny and Sachin Bansal founded Flipkart in 2007, with headquarters in Bengaluru in India. In 2018, the company was acquired by the giant retail corporation, [Walmart](/organization/Walmart).
FREYR plans to develop up to 43 GWh of battery cell production capacity by 2025 to position the company as one of Europe’s largest battery cell suppliers. The facilities will be located in the Mo i Rana industrial complex in Northern Norway, leveraging Norway’s highly skilled workforce and abundant, low-cost renewable energy sources from hydro and wind in a crisp, clear and energized environment. FREYR will supply safe, high energy density and cost competitive clean battery cells to the rapidly growing global markets for electric vehicles, energy storage, and marine applications.
Securing the Future. AvePoint is the global leader in data management and data governance, and over 21,000 customers worldwide rely on our solutions to secure the digital workplace across Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and other cloud environments. AvePoint's global partner program includes over 3,500 managed service providers, value added resellers and systems integrators, with our solutions available in more than 100 cloud marketplaces. To learn more, visit www.avepoint.com. For more information, visit https://www.avepoint.com.
DataRobot delivers AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises. DataRobot’s enterprise AI platform democratizes data science with end-to-end automation for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models.
Payoneer is a financial technology company that enables small and medium-sized enterprises to transact and thrive.
Alto provides on-demand rides using a dedicated fleet of new, safe, and well-maintained vehicles. Each driver is an employee of Alto and is carefully vetted and trained to give members a professional and predictable ride, every time. Alto's elegant apps and in-car technology customize each member's experience each time. In short, members drive everything, except for the car. The company is launching in Dallas, Texas with plans to scale to new US cities in 2019. Alto was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States
Illumio, the most comprehensive Zero Trust solution for ransomware and breach containment, protects organizations from cyber disasters and enables operational resilience without complexity. By visualizing traffic flows and automatically setting segmentation policies, the Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation Platform reduces unnecessary lateral movement across the multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure, protecting critical resources and preventing the spread of cyber attacks.
GOAT is a global marketplace specializing in authentic sneakers, apparel, and accessories from contemporary luxury brands. Founded in 2015 by Daishin Sugano and Eddy Lu in Culver City, California, the platform provides users with access to exclusive drops, the ability to make offers on desired items, and a selection that spans from iconic styles of the past to future classics. GOAT operates both online and through thirteen physical locations across the United States, Asia, and Europe, including distribution and authentication centers that serve 170 international markets. The platform features over 350 brands and has built a community of over 20 million members across 164 countries. By leveraging innovative technology, GOAT has transformed sneaker commerce, ensuring the authenticity of products while bridging the gap between primary and resale markets. Strategic backing from investors such as Foot Locker and prominent venture capital firms underscores its significant presence in the fashion and sneaker industries.
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission, heavy-duty electric vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities across North America. The company’s configurable Catalyst platform is designed to serve the daily mileage needs of a wide range of transit routes on a single charge. With industry-leading durability and energy efficiency based on rigorous U.S. independent testing, Proterra products are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles. Proterra's revolutionary battery-electric transit vehicles help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality, and reduce operating costs. Together with their customers, they have prevented more than 55 million pounds of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere and avoided burning some 2 million gallons of fuel. The company was established in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California, USA.
Born from the founders’ recognition that their diverse but complementary skills and experiences would enable them to successfully address challenges that others had not, the company set about solving a vexing problem: how to bring true proteomics to the world in a way that accelerates therapeutic development, dramatically improves medical diagnostics, and makes personalized and predictive medicine a reality. The extraordinary team at Nautilus represents a wide spectrum of disciplines and expertise, including protein chemists, chip designers, molecular biologists, data scientists, material scientists, biophysicists, optical engineers, microfluidics engineers, bioinformaticists, software engineers, and more. Nautilus is positioned to revolutionize proteomics, transform the way drugs are developed, and significantly improve the way human health is managed.
Gong is a revenue intelligence company that analyzes sales conversations and customer interactions. The company captures and processes data from various communication channels. It provides insights related to sales performance and customer engagement. Gong serves industries including technology, finance, and healthcare.
Celonis believes that every company can unlock its full execution capacity. Powered by its market-leading process mining core, the Celonis Execution Management System provides a set of instruments and applications, the Celonis Studio as well as platform capabilities for business executives and users. The Celonis EMS offerings help companies manage every facet of execution management from analytics to strategy and planning, management, actions, and automation.
Simpl has revolutionized online checkout in India by creating a Pay-Later platform, empowering e-commerce merchants to offer their consumers 1-click checkout, a line of credit at POS, and full buyer protection. It aims to empower merchants to own their customer's checkout experience. With Simpl merchants are able to provide consumers an easy, safe, and intuitive user experience that builds a trusted relationship between the two.
SpotOn’s mission is to give small and midsize businesses a fighting chance, providing innovative software and payment solutions, supported by local and personal service, and delivered at a fair price. A leader in fully integrated restaurant management systems and small business technology, SpotOn offers end-to-end solutions which include marketing, website development, reservations, online ordering, appointments, eCommerce, digital loyalty, review management, as well as retail and restaurant point-of-sale (POS) solutions. Doron Friedman, Matt Hyman, and Zach Hyman co-founded SpotOn in 2017 and its headquarters is located in San Francisco, California.
Workrise is a technology company that develops a platform to support the energy workforce. They specialize in vendors needed for skilled men and women who execute in the field and make it easier, faster, and safer to do business in the energy industry, enabling businesses to connect with the workers they need and meet their needs.
Lobus is aiming to commoditize blockchain tech with an asset management platform that they hope can bring creator-friendly mechanisms from NFT marketplaces like SuperRare to the physical art world as well, allowing art owners to maintain partial ownership of the works they sell so that they can benefit from secondary transactions down the line.
Step Mobile, Inc. is a financial services company that offers a mobile banking application designed specifically for teens and families. Founded in 2018 and located in Palo Alto, California, Step aims to empower young individuals by providing them with tools and resources to manage their finances effectively. The platform focuses on enhancing financial literacy and independence among its users, helping them understand their money management habits while rewarding them for their financial progress. With a team boasting over 50 years of combined experience in financial technology, Step's mission is to create a banking experience that fosters smarter financial decisions and promotes overall financial well-being for the younger generation.
Alto Solutions delivers an easy-to-use, automated process for investing in alternatives with IRA savings. It aims to democratize alternative asset investing. AltoIRA offers an easy-to-use investing platform that empowers everyday investors to diversify their IRAs by investing in alternative assets such as private equity, venture capital, real estate, loans, and cryptocurrency. Offering Traditional, Roth, SEP, and Crypto IRAs, Alto is bringing alternative investments to the mainstream. Everyday investors can now easily and cost-effectively access their retirement savings to invest in assets once reserved solely for high-net-worth individuals. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
OneTrust is a provider of privacy management and marketing compliance technology that helps organizations comply with global regulations. It automates privacy impact assessments and data inventory mapping, enforces risk remediation actions, and triggers recurring audits for continuous compliance monitoring across customer, employee, and vendor data transfers. Its web-based software can be accessed on any device and provides a single place for a private office to collaborate with business groups, vendors, and trusted advisors managing privacy risks.
Private Equity Round in 2021
Football Fanatics is an online retailer of sports, lifestyle and athletics apparel and a provider of outsourced ecommerce solutions for licensed athletic apparel through its TeamFanShop division. With over 120,000 available items, Football Fanatics has a deep product assortment spanning NCAA college football, NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR and NHL. Football Fanatics' outsourced e-commerce solution, TeamFanShop, powers the official online stores for some of the biggest names in sports including the NCAA, Yahoo! Sports, Jacksonville Jaguars and over 20 division I programs including Ohio State, Florida and Oklahoma.
Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, increase developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce. Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021.
Amunix is a biopharmaceutical company intended to discover, design, and develop novel biologics, protein, and peptide therapeutics. The company is focused on developing prodrugs to bring the promise of potent immune-activating biotherapeutics to patients with solid tumor cancers. By delivering breakthrough therapies that can safely harness the immune system, it aims to conquer cancer and save lives. Its pipeline products are based on its proprietary XTEN half-life extension, XDC drug-conjugate delivery, and ProTIA pro-drug, bispecific T cell engager platform and have ongoing collaborations with biopharma corporations harnessing these delivery technologies over a wide range of therapeutic areas, delivering improved pharmaceutical technologies. Amunix was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Newsela is an Edtech startup that takes real and new content from trusted providers and turns it into learning materials.
Day One Biopharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that focuses on developing new cancer therapies for patients of all ages. The company understands that advances in cancer research now enable drug developers to identify children and adults who may benefit from the same medicine. They develop new therapies that meet the critical needs of people of all ages living with cancer starting from the biology of childhood cancer. Day One Biopharmaceuticals also focuses its efforts to bring the best medicines to families receiving the life-altering news of a new cancer diagnosis and the need for a treatment plan. It prioritizes programs that can be rapidly brought to market for both younger and older patients. The company's goal is to license and acquire the most promising products from research institutions as well as for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
Institutional loan processing and life-cycle management powered by Multiparty Computation (MPC)
Hims & Hers connects consumers with licensed medical professionals and enables everyone to seek health and wellness care. Its mission is to eliminate stigmas and make it easier for people to access care and treatment for the conditions that impact their daily lives. With a telemedicine approach, customers can get diagnosed and treated at a lower cost and with greater convenience. Hims was incubated at San Francisco-based venture-builder, Atomic by Andrew Dudum and Jack Abraham in 2017. At first, the focus was on providing telehealth services, such as for erectile dysfunction and hair loss. But HIMS would quickly expand its platform. And in 2018, there was the launch of Hers. It also moved into categories like mental health, dermatology, and primary care. To help with the management of the growing organization, HIMS created its own EHR (Electronic Health Record) system. The company also has partnered with a variety of health care operators — such as Ochsner Health, Mount Sinai Health System, and Privia Health — to provide access to in-person visits with doctors.
Billtrust is a provider of cloud-based software and integrated payment processing solutions that simplify and automate B2B commerce. Accounts receivable (AR) is broken and relies on conventional processes that are outdated, inefficient, manual and largely paper-based. Billtrust is at the forefront of the digital transformation of AR, providing mission-critical solutions that span credit decisioning and monitoring, online ordering, invoicing, cash application and collections. Billtrust's solutions integrate with a number of ecosystem players, including financial institutions, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and accounts payable (AP) software platforms, to help customers recognize revenue more quickly and efficiently. Customers use Billtrust's platform to transition from expensive paper invoicing and check acceptance to efficient electronic billing and payments, which accelerates revenue capture, generates cost savings, and provides a better user experience.
Pontoro Inc. is a financial technology company founded in late 2018 with a mission of facilitating broader investor participation in real-world, private market assets. The company is creating a patented, technology solution that will enable the creation of a new type of enhanced private investment platform with liquidity generally not readily available in traditional private investment opportunities as well as features intended to ease fund administration. The initial focus will be to address the $15 trillion shortfall in infrastructure debt finance.
Private Equity Round in 2021
Paycor provides small and medium-sized companies with intuitive, cloud-based onboarding, HR, payroll, and timekeeping software with the goal of enabling businesses to be more efficient and to make smarter decisions about their people and processes. Its HR software utilizes in-house technology and the expertise of its staff to optimize people management that enables the business to attract top talent, create strategic benefit packages, and predict the future needs of the business. It was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ironclad is a contracting platform that helps transform contract processes by automating workflows and approvals. Its platform also automatically identifies key terms and entities, turns contracts into code and allows users to search, tag, and manage their contracts to help legal, sales, and operations teams streamline the way they create, store, and combine contracts as intelligence assets.
Tempus is a technology company improving precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Their platform is designed to analyze and interpret clinical and molecular data to help healthcare providers deliver more personalized and effective treatments.
Tempus is a technology company improving precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Their platform is designed to analyze and interpret clinical and molecular data to help healthcare providers deliver more personalized and effective treatments.
VIVUS, Inc. is a drug-development company dedicated to the development and commercialization of next-generation therapeutic products addressing obesity, diabetes, sleep apnea and sexual health.
Coherent transforms businesses, starting with a single cell. We unify developers and non-developers to redefine how business and IT teams work together. We transform spreadsheets into APIs, end-users into developers, and risk into control.
Quantifeed is a digital investing platform for financial institutiosn. Quantifeed's automated investment platform allows banks, brokers, and wealth planners to offer their customers a digital investing experience under their own brand. Quantifeed's software and financial models provide institutions with a configurable solution to suit their wealth management objectives. This allows firms to reach hundreds of thousands of consumers quickly and economically. The online platform enables users to invest in portfolios of stocks, funds, and other asset classes across all major global markets. Quantifeed offers a library of portfolios for asset allocation, thematic investments, and other trading strategies. The company was founded by former investment banking executives Alex Ypsilanti and Ross Milward in Hong Kong in 2013.
Curv is a developer of digital asset security infrastructure helping crypto-native and financial institutions to create digital wallets. The company's security technology is enabling users to build crypto finance products that safely transfer, store, and manage any digital asset on any blockchain or digital system for recording transactions. Its research and development office is located in Tel Aviv, Israel. Curv's decentralized security model utilizes multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, enabling transactions to be securely signed in a mathematically-proven, distributed way. Its enterprise-grade policy engine allows clients to define risk profiles and enforce granular policies to ensure only authorized transactions are allowed. Dan Yadlin and Itay Malinger established the company in New York, New York in 2018.
Lark is a developer of chronic disease prevention and management platform used to prevent chronic conditions. The company uses cutting-edge AI combined with human coaches and connected devices to provide real-time, personalized, 24/7 support, and counseling to help users make healthier choices and manage their conditions. Its CDC-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program, Wellness Program, Diabetes Care Program, and Hypertension Program have 1.5 million users and have demonstrated clinically validated improved health outcomes published in 11 peer-reviewed journals and analyst reports. Lark was founded by Julia Hu and Jeff Zira in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Alkami Technology provides cloud-based digital banking solutions for credit unions and banks. Its platform provides financial institutions a complete digital banking solution ready to facilitate both retail and business user onboarding, engagement, and account servicing. It enables clients to enhance the platform with upgrades and can tailor their experience with additional Alkami products as well as third-party solutions. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.
Allbirds is an apparel and fashion company that specializes in manufacturing eco-friendly wool shoes. It is dedicated to making the most sustainable footwear using premium natural materials, designed for the to and fro of everyday life. The company is driven by a mission to prove that comfort, good design, and sustainability don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Its commitment to making better shoes in a better way is fueled by a belief that the shoe industry needs to focus less on flash and more on thoughtfulness. Allbirds is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2015.
SpotOn’s mission is to give small and midsize businesses a fighting chance, providing innovative software and payment solutions, supported by local and personal service, and delivered at a fair price. A leader in fully integrated restaurant management systems and small business technology, SpotOn offers end-to-end solutions which include marketing, website development, reservations, online ordering, appointments, eCommerce, digital loyalty, review management, as well as retail and restaurant point-of-sale (POS) solutions. Doron Friedman, Matt Hyman, and Zach Hyman co-founded SpotOn in 2017 and its headquarters is located in San Francisco, California.
Football Fanatics is an online retailer of sports, lifestyle and athletics apparel and a provider of outsourced ecommerce solutions for licensed athletic apparel through its TeamFanShop division. With over 120,000 available items, Football Fanatics has a deep product assortment spanning NCAA college football, NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR and NHL. Football Fanatics' outsourced e-commerce solution, TeamFanShop, powers the official online stores for some of the biggest names in sports including the NCAA, Yahoo! Sports, Jacksonville Jaguars and over 20 division I programs including Ohio State, Florida and Oklahoma.
Dyne Therapeutics is a developer of targeted therapies intended for serious muscle diseases.The company's therapies deliver nucleic acids and other molecules to skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle with unprecedented precision, enabling patients to restore muscle strength and transform their lives.
Taysha Gene Therapies is a developer of treatments to eradicate severe & life-threatening monogenic diseases of the central nervous system. Taysha Gene Therapies is on a mission to eradicate monogenic CNS disease. With a singular focus on developing curative medicines, we are able to rapidly translate our treatments from bench to bedside. We have combined our team’s proven experience in gene therapy drug development and commercialization with the world-class UT Southwestern Gene Therapy Program to quickly and efficiently build an extensive, AAV gene therapy pipeline focused on both rare and large-market indications.
Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company. It designs and manufactures quantum-integrated circuits. It packages and deploys those chips in a low-temperature environment, and they build control systems to perform quantum logic operations on them. The company develops software to integrate its systems directly into existing cloud infrastructure. It has also developed new algorithms for quantum computing, with a focus on near-term applications in computational chemistry and machine learning. Our product, Forest, is the world’s first full-stack programming and execution environment for quantum/classical computing.
Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that allows companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage. With its performance and consumer-like ease of use, Talkdesk easily adapts to the evolving needs of sales and support teams and their end customers, resulting in increased customer satisfaction, productivity, and cost savings. Over 1,400 innovative enterprises around the world, including IBM, Acxiom, and Zumiez rely on Talkdesk to power their customer interactions. The San Francisco, California-based company was formed by Cristina Fonseca and Tiago Paiva in 2011.