Graph Ventures

Graph Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco, California, focused on seed- and early-stage investments. Established in 2007, the firm targets technology companies across the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Graph Ventures aims to support innovative startups by providing the necessary capital and resources to foster growth and development in the technology sector.

Alexandra Brown

Partner

Julio Vasconcellos

Co-Founder, Partner

Matt Wyndowe

Partner

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Comm

Seed Round in 2022
Comm Technologies is scaling E2E encryption with personal private servers.

Wilco

Seed Round in 2022
Wilco is a platform designed to help software engineers of all experience levels enhance their skills through hands-on, immersive learning experiences. Founded in 2021 in Tel Aviv, Israel, by On Freund, Shem Magnezi, and Alon Carmel, Wilco simulates the environment of a tech startup, allowing users to engage in "quests" that cover everyday engineering tasks, such as deploying applications and troubleshooting production issues. By utilizing real-life tech stacks, the platform creates a safe and realistic space for developers to upskill at an accelerated pace, regardless of their background or skill level. This approach not only assists developers in their workflow but also enables them to improve site performance and implement observability tools, ultimately unlocking their full potential in the software development field.

OlaClick

Seed Round in 2022
OlaClick is a web-based digital menu solution that streamlines the process of receiving online orders for businesses, particularly mass-market restaurants. The platform allows restaurants to create and distribute digital menus at no cost, facilitating orders through WhatsApp. This approach not only simplifies the ordering process for customers but also helps restaurants enhance their online presence and expand their customer base. By utilizing OlaClick's services, businesses can efficiently manage their food orders and improve overall operational efficiency.

Virtex Apps

Seed Round in 2022
Virtex Apps, LLC specializes in creating innovative augmented reality experiences for sports fans through its flagship product, Virtex Arena. This platform allows sports teams to engage their audiences during half-time or breaks by hosting multiplayer augmented reality competitions visible on fans' mobile devices. Participants experience a shared virtual environment that enhances their connection to the event, as they can interact with the competition from their individual perspectives. Additionally, the technology opens new avenues for advertising and sponsorship revenue, providing teams with additional financial support while delivering memorable experiences to attendees. The company also develops applications that offer immersive virtual reality experiences, particularly for baseball, enabling users to physically navigate and interact within a virtual gaming landscape that blends seamlessly with their real-world surroundings.

Zenos Stadium

Seed Round in 2022
Operator of an e-sports live broadcasting platform intended to host and stream live 3D videos of games to viewers. The company's platform utilizes virtual reality developing skills to create a new virtual world, enabling viewers to watch gameplay live in 3D in the center of a virtual stadium.

Formally

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Formally is a legal collaboration company seeking to use intelligent technology and accessible design to simplify legal processes and increase access to justice.

ETAP

Pre Seed Round in 2022
ETAP is a car insurance app that makes buying and claiming on car insurance as easy as taking a picture, using lightning-fast technology to prevent frauds, unlock better experiences and fairer prices for our customers by offering risk profile based instant cover, crash notification and emergency support, instant claims payment, introducing flexible automated payment plans as well as showing driving behaviour insights with driver score (per trip completed) and Safe Driving Rewards for drivers who drive safely.

RevenueBase

Seed Round in 2022
RevenueBase replaces data nightmares for B2B companies with a complete and accurate Revenue Database as a Service that’s completely aligned with their go-to-market strategy.

Ramped

Seed Round in 2022
Ramped is a job skilling platform aimed at early career professionals, facilitating connections between employers and trained, vetted talent. The company focuses on developing workforce-ready candidates for leading employers by offering accessible education and resources. Ramped seeks to address biases often found in traditional resume evaluations, ensuring that jobseekers have the opportunity to connect with quality job opportunities. Through its innovative approach, Ramped aims to enhance the employability of early career individuals while meeting the hiring needs of top companies.

Wet Dog Weather

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Wet Dog Weather makes a SaaS platform for weather and sensor data dissemination and display. Our focus is on fact, interactive, and performant interactive data visualization.

NayaPay

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an online wallet designed for instant monetary transactions between friends and family as well as in stores, online, or for international payments. The company's platform allows users to open digital accounts within a few minutes and make hassle-free digital payments to each other, providing entrepreneurs with digital payments and financial management tools.

ApertureData

Seed Round in 2022
We manage visual data so companies can make machines learn better

Wirestock

Seed Round in 2022
Wirestock LLC is a digital platform established in 2017 and headquartered in Smart City, Malta, that facilitates the creation, management, and monetization of stock photography and generative AI content. The platform allows stock photographers to upload their images and sell them across various content marketplaces while providing tools for managing and tracking licensing and performance. Wirestock employs blockchain technology and smart contracts to streamline the management of stock content, enabling creators to handle submissions and earnings through a single account. Users can analyze and compare their earnings across multiple marketplaces, offering a comprehensive solution for content creators to monetize their work efficiently.

Tortue

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Tortue is a family entertainment brand with a limitless passion to create original IP games and products that stir creativity and imagination. We build the dots, so you can connect those dots and tell stories that inspire the next generations. Our boundless persistence ensures perfection is brought to life. Storytelling is at the heart of what we do. We inspire your imagination through our characters, games and products. We are here to entertain everybody. Great stories make great inspirations. Great inspirations make great aspirations. Great aspirations make great people. Never forget that your story is much bigger than "you". Every adventure begins as a thought, and every thought is an adventure.

Sequel

Seed Round in 2021
Manufacturer of environmentally sustainable tampons designed for women to have distraction-free periods. The company's tampons are made with sourced materials and designed with spiral grooves that lengthen the flow path for even absorption, enabling women to remain comfortable from the boardroom to the stadium and improving menstrual hygiene.

Markai

Seed Round in 2021
Markai is a venture-backed startup focused on acquiring and growing e-commerce brands based in Asia that cater primarily to western consumers. These brands often possess strong products and significant growth potential but lack the necessary resources for scaling. Markai enhances these brands by improving their branding and marketing strategies while expanding their reach across various channels and geographies. To facilitate this growth, the company is developing a direct-to-manufacturer supply chain in China, leveraging real-time consumer data for rapid product iteration. The founding team, which includes experienced professionals from notable organizations such as Stanford, Bain, BCG, Amazon, and eBay, combines expertise in e-commerce and mergers and acquisitions. Markai is supported by prominent venture capital firms and leading angel investors from around the globe.

Beaubble

Seed Round in 2021
Beaubble is an e-commerce platform focused on beauty products, designed to engage beauty enthusiasts in meaningful conversations about cosmetics. It serves as a space where consumers and influencers can connect and collaborate, allowing users to shop for a variety of beauty items while fostering discussions around beauty trends and products. By combining e-commerce with community interaction, Beaubble aims to enhance the shopping experience and create a vibrant platform for beauty lovers.

Neta

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a social e-commerce platform intended to bridge the gap between online stores through social commerce. The company's platform offers a virtual catalog of items that can be sold through stores to aggregate demand and delivery, enabling the local stores to increase revenue by increasing the number of items available in the store and also allowing locals to get the various products at the nearby local stores.

Game Jolt

Seed Round in 2021
Game Jolt is a prominent social platform that facilitates the discovery and play of video games, attracting millions of unique monthly visitors. With an extensive library of over 100,000 video games, it has established itself as one of the largest online gaming communities globally. The platform not only allows users to play and download games but also hosts events and mini-games that promote user engagement. Additionally, it serves as a marketplace for digital collectibles, connecting brands and creators with the Gen Z gaming community. Through these features, Game Jolt enables players to interact, compete, and share their gaming experiences with friends and fellow enthusiasts.

Ender

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ender is a venture-backed startup based in Austin, Texas, focused on enhancing employability for children before they reach adulthood. The company has developed a competition platform that incentivizes kids to build apps, games, websites, and other real-world projects by offering cash prizes. This innovative learn-to-earn model allows children to create a portfolio while earning money, fostering both skill development and financial literacy. With a team of dedicated professionals from the fields of game development, education, engineering, and design, Ender aims to empower the next generation through practical experience and competitive engagement.

Āut Labs (former SkillWallet)

Pre Seed Round in 2021
SkillWallet is a self-sovereign, portable ID based on Skills and Contributions that unlocks native, role-based Governance for Web3 Communities. Users can immediately prove their Skills and Reputation cross-platform and cross-community while DAOs can track real human interactions directly on-chain, to evaluate the health and growth of the community.

Schmooze

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a meme-based dating application designed to help meet people with similar humor. The company's application offers matchmaking services and uses tagging and machine learning combined with the bios that users create for themselves and their preferred topics and matches people based on their affinity for memes, enabling users to find their preferred match.

Picsart

Series C in 2021
PicsArt, Inc. is a prominent creative platform and social editing app that provides a comprehensive suite of tools for photo and video editing. The company offers a mobile application that features a photo editor and collage maker with customizable filters, effects, masks, frames, stickers, and text options. Additionally, PicsArt includes GifsArt, a GIF generator, and PicsArt Kids, an app designed for children's drawing and coloring. The platform fosters a vibrant community of over 150 million monthly active users who create and share nearly one billion images each month, contributing to one of the largest open-source collections of content globally. Available in 30 languages, PicsArt operates on a freemium model with both free and subscription-based options across major platforms. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company also has offices in several international locations, including Yerevan, Armenia, and Beijing. Founded in 2010, PicsArt has collaborated with notable brands and celebrities, enhancing its reputation as a leader in visual storytelling.

Morty

Seed Round in 2021
Morty is an entertainment application that enhances social experiences by bringing the immersive world of escape rooms to users' fingertips. The app allows individuals to track their escape room adventures, coordinate upcoming games with friends, and easily book new experiences. By providing a platform for discovering and planning engaging activities, Morty aims to unite people through real-life, interactive experiences, thereby enriching their social outings and fostering a sense of community among users. The application positions itself as a tool for users to explore and record their adventures in the realm of experiential entertainment.

Yela

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Yela is a technology company that streamlines fan interactions with exclusive A-list celebrities, initially focusing on the MENA and South Asia regions and its global diaspora, but with global expansion plans.
Nas Academy is focused on building the world's best school for creators! We offer a range of courses that help creators learn new skills, connect with each other and monetize their presence. Headquartered in Singapore and having already achieved over 6 billion views on the Founder's pages, we offer a range of courses that cover the new-age skills required to tackle the changing job and media landscape. Ranging from the "Art of Storytelling", to social media platform specific courses to just teaching "confidence" on camera - you can find courses that are all LIVE, taught by world-class trainers and highly interactive by design. Check us out at nas.academy

Lastlink

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Operator of content sharing platform intended to help content creators manage groups. The company's platform facilitates the work by automating sales and management to access exclusive communities, managing subscriptions, adding and removing members automatically, and also in financial management with payment plans and automatic subscriptions, helping the creators distribute more content and strengthen the connection with their audience.

ClearSpace

Seed Round in 2021
ClearSpace is a spin-off from EPFL, established in early 2018, focused on developing sustainable in-orbit services, particularly for the removal of space debris. The company specializes in technologies aimed at addressing the challenges posed by non-functional satellites in orbit. ClearSpace has entered into a service contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to undertake the ClearSpace-1 mission, which aims to autonomously remove space debris. Utilizing advanced tracking methods, including sensors, radar technologies, and telescopes, ClearSpace provides effective debris cleanup solutions that promote the long-term sustainability of space operations.

Yummy

Seed Round in 2021
Yummy Inc. develops and offers Yummy, food delivery application. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional office in Caracas, Venezuela.

Ziina

Seed Round in 2021
Ziina FZ-LLC, founded in 2019 and based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, specializes in payment-processing services through its innovative mobile application. As the UAE's first peer-to-peer payment app, Ziina allows users to transfer money easily by linking their bank accounts and utilizing just a phone number for transactions. The platform emphasizes security and accuracy, employing bank-grade security measures and end-to-end encryption to ensure safe money management. By providing these financial services, Ziina empowers users to take control of their finances efficiently.

Ramped

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ramped is a job skilling platform aimed at early career professionals, facilitating connections between employers and trained, vetted talent. The company focuses on developing workforce-ready candidates for leading employers by offering accessible education and resources. Ramped seeks to address biases often found in traditional resume evaluations, ensuring that jobseekers have the opportunity to connect with quality job opportunities. Through its innovative approach, Ramped aims to enhance the employability of early career individuals while meeting the hiring needs of top companies.

Skyroot Aerospace

Series A in 2021
A new space age is emerging and the extraordinary opportunities in space depend on the transportation systems from Earth to Space. At Skyroot, they are building technologies for responsive, reliable and economic access to space. They envision a future where spaceflight is as regular, reliable and affordable as airflight.

Kidato

Seed Round in 2021
Kidato is an online school for K-12 kids with a vision to provide a high-quality, affordable education to the growing middle class in Africa. Kidato has student:teacher ratios of 1:5 and intergrates extracurriculum activities for socilisation

MightyFly

Seed Round in 2021
MightyFly is enabling worldwide access to goods with fast, on-demand delivery services for businesses and consumers. We’re putting the infrastructure in place to connect remote locations together with long range, heavy cargo aircraft. Many areas in the world today suffer from an inability to obtain critical and often urgently needed goods and supplies at an affordable cost. Our goal at MightyFly is to solve this problem through express, customized aerial drone delivery services. MightyFly drones will transport cargo to multiple locations in a single flight across hundreds of miles of remote terrain that is difficult if not impossible to cross with trucks or other ground vehicles. We are developing vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) drones that fly more than 300 miles, and carry payloads in excess of 50 pounds at a fraction of the cost of helicopters. Featuring automated cargo loading and unloading, and requiring no launch or recovery infrastructure, MightyFly drones will accommodate ad-hoc deliveries to undeveloped sites as well as servicing locations along established routes.

Regent

Seed Round in 2021
Regent is a maritime mobility company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Winchester, Massachusetts. The company specializes in developing all-electric sea gliders designed to provide fast, safe, and cost-effective coastal transportation. These innovative machines fly just above the water's surface, serving as a replacement for traditional ferries and short-haul aircraft on coastal routes. By combining the high speed of an airplane with the lower operating costs of a boat, Regent aims to enhance local and regional transportation options between coastal cities, improving accessibility and efficiency for its customers.

Ziina

Seed Round in 2021
Ziina FZ-LLC, founded in 2019 and based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, specializes in payment-processing services through its innovative mobile application. As the UAE's first peer-to-peer payment app, Ziina allows users to transfer money easily by linking their bank accounts and utilizing just a phone number for transactions. The platform emphasizes security and accuracy, employing bank-grade security measures and end-to-end encryption to ensure safe money management. By providing these financial services, Ziina empowers users to take control of their finances efficiently.

tldr

Seed Round in 2020
tl;dr.io is a French company that specializes in creating concise summaries of engaging web content. Its platform enables users to view summaries of the web pages they are currently browsing, facilitating easier discovery and sharing of pertinent information. By offering human-written summaries, tl;dr.io aims to assist users in memorizing and accessing content that is most relevant to them.

Tuned

Seed Round in 2020
Tuned is an emerging Fintech company focused on capital markets innovation. The company is helping every trader build a successful trading business, by providing them powerful enterprise-grade trading infrastructure and access to capital. With Tuned's all-in-one platform, traders can design strategies leveraging hundreds of built-in indicators, run thousands of permutations of their strategy to optimize performance and automate trading on leading exchanges with millisecond response time and no trading fees. Quantitative traders looking to develop new income streams use Tuned to license their strategies to other traders without ever revealing their intellectual property.

Fakespot

Series A in 2020
Fakespot Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in data analytics to identify fake online product reviews. Established in 2016, it offers a platform that employs patented algorithms to evaluate the reliability of reviews on various e-commerce sites. By analyzing product feedback, Fakespot provides consumers with a grade indicating the authenticity of the reviews, helping them avoid misleading content while shopping online. The company's application is accessible on both the App Store and Google Play, further expanding its reach to consumers seeking trust and transparency in online purchasing.

Tract

Seed Round in 2020
Tract is an online educational platform designed specifically for children aged 8 and older, focusing on student-directed learning. The platform provides unlimited access to a diverse library of engaging courses, covering topics such as video game development and sports writing, along with vibrant weekly live events led by accomplished creators and mentors. This approach encourages children to explore their passions through real-world lessons, fostering essential skills and a mindset suited for 21st-century challenges. Founded on the TRICK philosophy—Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness—Tract aims to empower young learners to become innovators and global citizens. The company’s mission is rooted in the belief that children are capable of more than commonly perceived and that education should prioritize creativity and self-directed learning over standardization. By addressing issues such as the achievement gap and career readiness, Tract seeks to create a more equitable educational landscape that nurtures the next generation of leaders.

Walnut

Seed Round in 2020
Walnut is a company that offers a customizable platform designed to enhance the sales demo experience. Founded in January 2020 by Yoav Vilner and Danni Friedland, Walnut enables sales representatives to create and run product demos live, even when the actual product is offline or still in development. This codeless platform integrates seamlessly with existing CRM systems and data sources, allowing sales teams to automate and personalize their demos without the need for back-end support. By providing a drag-and-drop solution, Walnut empowers sales teams to have full control over their demo processes, ultimately aiming to improve conversion rates and optimize resource use. Headquartered in New York City, Walnut seeks to redefine the landscape of inside sales through its innovative approach.

Metadata

Series A in 2020
Metadata, Inc. operates a demand generation platform tailored for B2B enterprises, focusing on inbound marketing and customer acquisition. The platform automates essential marketing tasks, allowing users to efficiently scale their demand generation efforts. It offers features such as campaign amplification, detailed profile information for incoming signups, and the auto-generation of buyer personas. Users can segment prospects by various criteria, including industry and technology stack, and monitor new signups to enhance their sales pipeline. By leveraging machine learning and a proprietary identity graph, Metadata streamlines marketing processes and aligns them with revenue objectives, helping businesses convert target accounts into customers more effectively than traditional methods. Incorporated in 2015, Metadata is based in San Francisco, California, and is utilized by numerous innovative B2B marketers to optimize their marketing strategies.

Airlift (Logistics)

Series A in 2020
Airlift Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a Lahore-based company that operates the Airlift mobile application, which facilitates a daily pick-and-drop service for commuters in the city. The app connects passengers with bus owners, providing a convenient and cost-effective transportation option. Airlift offers air-conditioned buses, making it a comfortable alternative to traditional modes of transport like rickshaws, while charging significantly lower fares. This service aims to enhance urban mobility by efficiently linking residential areas with commercial hubs across Lahore.

Tajir

Seed Round in 2020
Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.

Mureni

Seed Round in 2019
Mureni, S.A.P.I. DE C.V. is a healthcare startup based in Mexico City that specializes in designing and developing invisible dental aligners. The company provides a range of services including x-rays, 3D scans, and evaluation photographs to facilitate effective dental treatment. By utilizing advanced three-dimensional scanning and printing technologies, Mureni enables customers to receive orthodontic care that is metal-free and minimizes discomfort, allowing for treatment without the need for frequent visits to an orthodontist. Operating primarily in Mexico and Brazil, Mureni aims to assist dentists in Latin America in enhancing their revenue and streamlining their operations through innovative technology solutions.

CANOPY

Corporate Round in 2019
CANOPY is an exceptional network of shared workspaces for both accomplished professionals and aspirational entrepreneurs alike - a sophisticated and diverse community of thinkers, creators, builders and innovators. They cater for those who appreciate a more inspiring, contemporary design environment, insist on generosity of space, and need a distraction-free, calm place of work for contemplation and concentration. Their members are more demanding, and won't settle for the contrived, compromised or dumbed down alternatives out there. They value being around others they feel a genuine affinity with, and being part of a valuable ecosystem that meaningfully creates more opportunities, and greater success. They believe the workspace you are a member of is part of your personal brand. It says something about who you are. It partly defines you. If you’re serious about your work, come to CANOPY.

Extend

Seed Round in 2019
Extend, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that offers extended warranties and protection plans for a wide range of consumer products, including electronics, appliances, furniture, jewelry, fitness equipment, and automotive parts. Founded in 2018, Extend provides an innovative platform that allows merchants to seamlessly integrate warranty offerings into their sales processes, both online and offline. Utilizing an API-first approach, the platform enhances the customer experience by streamlining warranty management and claims processing, thereby addressing common issues associated with traditional underwriters. Extend's intelligent decision engine employs machine learning to optimize warranty offers in real-time, improving conversion rates and maximizing revenue for merchants. The platform is compatible with major eCommerce solutions, allowing for quick implementation with minimal technical requirements and offering custom integrations for larger merchants.

Landis

Seed Round in 2018
Landis is an online real estate platform designed to assist renters in becoming homeowners. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, the company enables clients to choose their ideal home, rent it, and purchase it within the first twelve months. Landis provides tools and incentives to help improve customers' credit scores and build their down payments, facilitating a smooth transition from renting to owning. The platform focuses on delivering a transparent and straightforward process, catering to both residential and commercial real estate needs.

Landis

Seed Round in 2018
Landis is an online real estate platform designed to assist renters in becoming homeowners. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, the company enables clients to choose their ideal home, rent it, and purchase it within the first twelve months. Landis provides tools and incentives to help improve customers' credit scores and build their down payments, facilitating a smooth transition from renting to owning. The platform focuses on delivering a transparent and straightforward process, catering to both residential and commercial real estate needs.

rideOS

Series A in 2018
rideOS Inc., founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing marketplace and mapping services that facilitate on-demand transportation for both self-driving and human-operated fleets. The company's offerings include self-driving vehicle routing, estimated time of arrival (ETA) calculations, dispatch services, supply positioning, multi-rider trip planning, and performance monitoring dashboards. rideOS aims to accelerate the global adoption of next-generation transport systems by collaborating with a range of partners, including startups and established ride-hailing companies. Its advanced technologies enable mobility service providers to efficiently deploy autonomous vehicles, ensuring that passengers are routed correctly and that human operators are dispatched when necessary. The team comprises experienced engineers with backgrounds from leading technology companies, enhancing its capabilities in the transportation sector.

Stel Life

Seed Round in 2018
Stel Life, Inc. is a medical device company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company specializes in designing and developing a gateway that automates connections to various wireless vital sign devices, specifically FDA-approved Bluetooth devices. Stel Life's technology simplifies the integration of these devices with electronic health records, eliminating the need for complex setups, WiFi, or mobile applications. By enabling seamless data transfer over cellular networks, Stel Life allows healthcare providers to instantly access and communicate vital patient information, enhancing efficiency in patient monitoring and care.

Point

Seed Round in 2018
Point stores things the user send over and over again and helps them re-use it instantly. Point helps the user to easily save snippets of text, templates, and other content, and re-use them effortlessly on any website. Backed by Y Combinator, Slow Ventures, Graph Ventures, The Fund, RDV, MIT Sandbox and more.

Year & Day

Angel Round in 2018
Year & Day Co. specializes in the manufacture and retail of high-quality crockery and cutlery items. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, the company offers a diverse range of products, including various sizes of plates, bowls, mugs, serving dishes, and complete dinner sets. Year & Day also operates an online platform that facilitates the purchase of its products, aiming to simplify the shopping experience for customers seeking durable and stylish table settings designed to withstand the rigors of everyday use.

Hashdex

Seed Round in 2018
Hashdex is an investment platform that connects traditional financial markets to the emerging world of digital assets. It aims to unlock the potential of blockchain technology for mainstream investors by offering secure, transparent, and cost-effective investment products. The platform is designed to provide access to a variety of blockchain assets while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. With features such as minimal management fees and the ability for daily subscriptions and redemptions, Hashdex facilitates convenient exposure to the digital asset space, merging the expertise of finance with innovative technology.

Scotty Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Scotty Labs, Inc., based in Menlo Park, California, specializes in technology that allows remote control of self-driving cars. Founded in 2017 as a spin-out from SRI International, Scotty Labs focuses on enhancing the interaction between humans and autonomous vehicles. The company has developed a tele-operations platform that enables operators to control vehicles in dynamic environments, emphasizing the importance of human oversight in addressing the challenges faced by driverless technology. By integrating human-centric autonomy with advanced teleoperation capabilities, Scotty Labs aims to improve safety and efficiency in the transportation sector. As of August 2019, Scotty Labs operates as a subsidiary of DoorDash, Inc.

Strive

Seed Round in 2018
Strive Talent Inc. operates a hiring platform that focuses on competency-based recruitment, helping companies select candidates through a structured process that includes cognitive assessments, work sample tests, and interviews. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Strive aims to transform the hiring process by ensuring that candidates not only learn theoretical concepts but also apply practical skills in real-world scenarios. In addition to its hiring platform, Strive offers management training programs designed to support emerging leaders in their personal and professional development. These programs integrate classroom learning, community engagement, and executive coaching, fostering self-discovery and skill enhancement necessary for future leadership roles.

Dapper Labs

Series A in 2018
Dapper Labs Inc., based in Vancouver, Canada, is a developer of blockchain-based video games and digital collectibles. Founded in 2018, the company is known for its consumer-focused Flow blockchain platform, which supports the creation and distribution of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other digital assets. Dapper Labs aims to enhance digital engagement by allowing fans to interact with their favorite brands in innovative ways. Through its platform, users can securely track ownership of unique digital items while also having the opportunity to create their own content. This approach not only entertains but also fosters a decentralized environment where value is placed on digital collectibles and user-generated creations.

Niche

Series B in 2018
Niche.com Inc. operates an online platform that helps users discover schools, companies, and neighborhoods across the United States. Founded in 2002 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the company provides a wealth of information, including reviews, rankings, and detailed profiles for K-12 schools, colleges, graduate schools, and various neighborhoods. By rigorously analyzing public data and millions of user reviews, Niche.com creates comprehensive report cards that facilitate the comparison of educational institutions and living environments. This platform aims to simplify the research and enrollment process for individuals seeking the right educational or residential options.

Loft

Series A in 2018
Loft Holdings Ltd operates Loft, a digital platform based in São Paulo, Brazil, that revolutionizes the real estate market by facilitating the buying, selling, and exchanging of residential properties. Founded in 2018, Loft serves as Brazil's first transactional marketplace for residential real estate, catering to individuals, brokers, and publicly listed real estate investment trusts managed by the company. The platform leverages proprietary transaction data and a comprehensive digital workflow to streamline the homebuying experience, integrating various related services to enhance user convenience. With its searchable database, users can easily find and evaluate properties, allowing for transparent and efficient real estate transactions.

Simtek

Convertible Note in 2018
Simtek is a technology company specializing in wireless security solutions. Their flagship product, Duo, is a portable sensor designed to monitor spaces that lack connectivity or power, helping users to prevent accidents and thefts. The device is compact, fitting comfortably in the palm of a hand, and provides alerts within fifteen seconds of activation. It is equipped with features to detect light and motion, and it boasts a battery life of up to one year on a single rechargeable lithium-ion battery. By offering these innovative security sensors, Simtek aims to empower individuals to better monitor and protect their valuable possessions.

Physera

Seed Round in 2017
Physera is a musculoskeletal care company that delivers interventions digitally and via telehealth. The offering includes video access to a nationwide network of licensed physical therapists for diagnosis and treatment, as well as in-application animations, voice prompts, digital exercise therapy, and other guidance designed to reduce musculoskeletal pain.

Heartbeat

Venture Round in 2017
Heartbeat is a platform for millennial women to join, provide feedback to, and promote brands via their personal networks. Heartbeat has matched the millennial generation’s natural passion for self-promotion with a turn-key solution for brands to engage Ambassadors at scale.Coordinating large-scale Ambassador campaigns used to take 6 months.

Birdies

Seed Round in 2017
Birdies, Inc., founded in 2015 by Bianca Gates and Marisa Sharkey, is a footwear brand based in Sacramento, California, specializing in stylish and comfortable shoes for women and girls. Initially created to meet the demand for fashionable indoor footwear, Birdies has expanded its offerings to include versatile options suitable for everyday wear. The brand is known for its signature styles that blend the support of sneakers, the softness of slippers, and the elegance of designer flats. Central to Birdies' appeal is its exclusive 7-layer comfort technology, which enhances the comfort and luxury of its products. By focusing on both design and functionality, Birdies aims to provide customers with a range of footwear that meets diverse lifestyle needs.

Raised Real

Series A in 2017
Raised Real delivers organically sourced, ready-to-make, baby and toddler meals that allow parents to feed their kids in minutes. The company has set out to disrupt the baby food industry with a new system that includes a subscription of raw, single-serve meals and an SMS Hotline, that enables any parent to easily make homemade, nutritious baby food.

Motion

Venture Round in 2017
Motion Clinical brings together engineers, designers, data scientists, and clinicians to reimagine how to care for injuries and chronic pain. The company was founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California.

Skyways

Seed Round in 2017
Skyways is creating a new form of transportation to advance our civilization. The company's focus in the immediate future is on cargo transportation with the idea to then fund a new personal air transportation vehicle that will be operated as a service. Skyways has a big focus on software to enable full autonomy and large scale fleet operations. Skyways was founded in 2017, is YC-backed and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

sourcerer.io

Funding Round in 2017
Sourcerer Incorporated aggregates and stores source code from repositories like GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket to create a visual representation of a developer's work experience over time. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lunchclub

Seed Round in 2017
Lunchclub is an AI-driven platform founded in 2018 by Vladimir Novakovski, Hayley Leibson, and Scott Wu, headquartered in San Francisco, California. The service specializes in facilitating one-on-one meetings, such as lunches and coffee chats, by connecting users with potential business partners, team members, or investors. Through its innovative approach, Lunchclub enables clients to make meaningful introductions that support their professional objectives, fostering collaboration and advancement within various fields. The platform emphasizes the importance of personalized connections to enhance networking opportunities and help users achieve their goals.

Spell

Seed Round in 2017
Spell Inc. is an artificial intelligence and deep learning infrastructure company founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York City. The company provides a digital platform that simplifies machine learning and deep learning projects, making these technologies accessible to a broader audience. Spell's flexible end-to-end MLOps platform allows teams to efficiently prepare, train, deploy, and manage machine learning initiatives. It supports collaboration and reproducibility, streamlining the DevOps tasks required for scaling projects. With user-friendly command-line tools and an intuitive web console, Spell manages machine resources and environment setup, enabling teams to focus on experimentation. The platform facilitates shared access to data, experiments, and results, making it easy for new team members to integrate quickly. By offering infrastructure management services, Spell empowers organizations to operationalize AI for various applications, including natural language processing, computer vision, and speech recognition.

Multiply Labs

Venture Round in 2017
Multiply Labs specializes in the manufacturing of personalized pharmaceutical capsules tailored to the specific needs of individual patients. By integrating pharmaceutical science with advanced robotics technology, the company has developed a unique robotic manufacturing facility that allows for the production of these capsules efficiently and cost-effectively. Multiply Labs is notable for being the first company to successfully introduce 3D printed capsules to the market, enabling the pharmaceutical industry to deliver medications that align with the unique metabolic requirements of patients.

Approved

Seed Round in 2017
Approved is a financial services platform for modernizing mortgage lending. The company is on a mission to bring transparency, efficiency and a little sanity to the mortgage experience. They build technology that agents, consumers, lenders and their teams of loan officers and processors use everyday to streamline the back office, and provide a world class experience for customers. The Approved Digital Mortgage Platform allows any lender, big or small, to modernize their loan operations. Approved was founded by Andy Taylor and Navtej Sadhal in August 2015. It is based in San Diego, California.

TrueLayer

Seed Round in 2017
TrueLayer Limited is a London-based company that offers a platform for building financial applications. Established in 2016, it provides a toolkit designed to connect to bank data, verify accounts, and access transactions in real-time. TrueLayer's software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform enables the development of various consumer and small-to-medium business applications in sectors such as payments, online lending, personal financial management, robot-advisors, insurance, investment services, peer-to-peer marketplaces, and cryptocurrencies. The company's solutions are utilized by fintech startups, online lenders, and personal finance managers, contributing to the growth of the open banking economy by facilitating the creation of innovative financial services and products.

Volanty

Seed Round in 2017
Volanty is a digital marketplace based in Rio de Janeiro that specializes in pre-owned cars in Brazil. Founded in 2017, the platform streamlines the sales process for sellers by managing everything from car inspections and photography to negotiations with potential buyers, thereby reducing bureaucratic hurdles. For buyers, Volanty enhances the experience of purchasing used cars by ensuring safety, convenience, and transparency, as it only features high-quality vehicles with comprehensive information about each car and its seller. By leveraging technology, Volanty connects sellers and buyers directly, eliminating the need for intermediaries like dealerships, which helps maximize the selling value of cars. The company's mission is to revolutionize the experience of buying and selling vehicles in the used car market.

Some Spider Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
Some Spider Inc. is a media and entertainment company focused on creating distinctive, identity-based brands across various platforms. It operates multimedia channels on social media, streaming services, and audio platforms, aiming to produce original content that resonates with audiences. By developing engaging narratives and experiences, the company enhances brand visibility and fosters deeper connections with consumers.

LawTrades

Seed Round in 2016
Lawtrades, Inc. offers an online service that allows legal work to be done via text messages. The company is based in New York, New York.

Particle

Series A in 2016
Particle Industries, Inc. is a provider of a comprehensive platform designed for the prototyping, scaling, and management of Internet of Things (IoT) products. The company offers a range of hardware development kits, including the Photon for Wi-Fi projects and the Electron for cellular-connected devices, along with various accessories like antennas and USB shields. Particle also delivers software tools such as Tinker, a mobile application for remote control, and Particle Build, a web-based development environment that allows users to write and deploy code easily. Its cloud platform facilitates secure interactions with connected devices through modern APIs, supporting developers in creating intelligent web services. With over 150,000 product builders across more than 170 countries, including notable clients like NASA and SpaceX, Particle has established itself as a key player in the IoT landscape. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Shenzhen, China, the company has been recognized for its innovation and impact in the IoT sector.

Pie

Seed Round in 2016
Pie develops a 360 video app for iPhone. Its app enables users to make and share 360 and other touchable videos on their phone. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

BetterUp

Seed Round in 2016
BetterUp Inc. is a leadership development platform based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2013. The company provides a mobile-based solution for organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, aimed at enhancing employee performance through a science-backed methodology. BetterUp's platform facilitates on-demand virtual coaching sessions, allowing users to identify and practice new behaviors and mindsets essential for achieving high performance in a rapidly changing environment. The platform tracks and measures individual growth, helping employees cultivate skills that support both personal and professional development. Its diverse clientele includes notable companies like Genentech, Logitech, and Workday, reflecting its commitment to fostering an adaptive workforce.

Returnly

Seed Round in 2016
Returnly Technologies, Inc. provides a subscription-based service designed to streamline the product returns process for online shoppers. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in Chicago and Madrid, the company offers a software as a service tool that enables shoppers to return items directly through the retailer's platform. Returnly allows customers to use return credit for new purchases before sending back the original items, thus mitigating product risk for retailers. The company's solutions also include international returns management and various tools for large-scale retailers, aiming to enhance the online shopping experience by reducing friction associated with returns.

VGS

Seed Round in 2016
Very Good Security, Inc. is a data security platform focused on enabling users to collect, protect, and exchange sensitive information while minimizing compliance risks. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a range of solutions including VGS Vault for data vaulting, VGS Proxy for intelligent tokenization, and VGS Compliance to streamline audit processes and training. Its services cater to various sectors, such as finance and healthcare, allowing organizations to secure payment transactions, protect health records, and manage sensitive communications without altering existing systems. VGS's platform facilitates the secure handling of regulated data, mitigating the liability associated with data security and compliance breaches.

Saildrone

Series A in 2016
Saildrone, Inc. specializes in the design and manufacture of autonomous sailing drones powered by wind and solar energy, enabling efficient and cost-effective ocean data collection. Founded in 2012 and based in Alameda, California, the company operates a fleet of these drones to gather live ocean data for various applications, including weather forecasting, oceanography, climate research, fish stock analysis, and environmental monitoring. By providing comprehensive data, Saildrone supports governments and private entities in addressing ecological challenges and enhancing understanding of planetary systems. The company aims to build the world's largest high-resolution ocean datasets, contributing to improved insights in areas such as climate change and carbon cycling.

Seerslab

Seed Round in 2016
Seerslab Inc. is a mobile media service and technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2015. The company is known for its application, lollicam, which allows users to create and share mobile videos with real-time editing features. Lollicam offers a variety of tools including moving stickers, cinematic effects, and animated GIFs. In addition to its video editing capabilities, Seerslab also develops ARGear, a SaaS-based augmented reality platform. ARGear provides app developers with tools to integrate augmented reality features into their applications, including face tracking, camera filters, and a library of over 3,000 AR content options such as stickers and avatars. This combination of video editing and augmented reality solutions positions Seerslab as an innovative player in the mobile media industry, catering to both casual users and developers seeking to enhance their applications with engaging visual content.

Papaya

Seed Round in 2016
Papaya is a developer of an online mobile bill payment application that simplifies financial transactions for users. The application supports various payment methods, including debit and credit cards and direct bank account transfers. It prioritizes security by encrypting personal information and payment data, ensuring compliance with HIPAA and PCI standards. In addition to its bill payment services, Papaya operates as an electronic money platform, offering digital solutions, online banking, and international payment services. This combination of features enables users to manage their financial activities efficiently and securely.

ARTA

Seed Round in 2016
Arta Shipping, Inc. specializes in fine art shipping services, offering transportation solutions for specialty fine art items via land, air, sea, or courier. Established in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the company operates as a digital platform and API, providing global white glove logistics and services. Arta aims to enhance the e-commerce experience by integrating logistics automation technology specifically tailored for the white glove logistics market, which is valued at approximately $25 billion.

Hoodline

Series A in 2016
Hoodline, Inc. is a media technology company based in San Francisco, California, that operates an online portal focused on hyperlocal news discovery across 40 cities in the United States. Founded in 2014, Hoodline leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to transform raw data into thousands of automated local stories and videos each month. The platform, known as Atlas, analyzes vast amounts of unstructured data to identify and validate significant local signals, while also aggregating content from numerous partner publications to enhance its offerings. Hoodline's innovative technology allows for precise location tagging and contextualization of news stories, facilitating a tailored user experience. The company collaborates with various partners, including major media outlets and tech companies, to integrate its content recommendations into their platforms. Hoodline operates as a subsidiary of SFist and is supported by prominent investors, including Greylock and Disney.

Helpful

Seed Round in 2016
Helpful.com Inc. develops a mobile application to share video updates, status updates, broadcast news, give feedback, and share ideas at work. The application can be used to share meeting updates, executive updates, and travel updates as well. Helpful.com Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada. As of January 28, 2019, Helpful.com Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Shopify Inc.

Roger

Seed Round in 2016
Founded by Ricardo Vice Santos and Andreas Blixt, two former Spotify engineers, after Ricardo ran into a pole on the streets of New York while walking and texting with a friend in Sweden. Ricardo got frustrated as he simply wanted to talk, and walk. Blixt and Ricardo felt that there should be a simpler, more personal way to communicate with their closest ones than to text message; a product that would empower conversations with more emotion and context, that would be easily understood and that would be adopted by anyone with a smartphone. Roger currently has five employees from Sweden, Portugal, France, India and Singapore, and is based in New York City.

Jetty

Seed Round in 2016
Jetty is a financial services company founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, New York. It focuses on making renting more affordable and accessible for tenants while assisting property managers in improving lease conversions and streamlining operations. The company offers a range of products, including renters insurance that covers various risks such as fire, theft, and damage to personal belongings like phones and laptops. Jetty's innovative platform aims to simplify the renting process by reducing paperwork and eliminating the financial burdens associated with security deposits, ultimately helping renters save significantly on move-in costs.

BetterUp

Seed Round in 2016
BetterUp Inc. is a leadership development platform based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2013. The company provides a mobile-based solution for organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, aimed at enhancing employee performance through a science-backed methodology. BetterUp's platform facilitates on-demand virtual coaching sessions, allowing users to identify and practice new behaviors and mindsets essential for achieving high performance in a rapidly changing environment. The platform tracks and measures individual growth, helping employees cultivate skills that support both personal and professional development. Its diverse clientele includes notable companies like Genentech, Logitech, and Workday, reflecting its commitment to fostering an adaptive workforce.

Zeplin

Seed Round in 2015
Zeplin is the ultimate collaboration tool between designers and developers. Zeplin is a connected space where product teams can share designs, generate specs, assets, and code snippets. The company has reached many users from the product teams like Slack, Pinterest, Mailchimp, Microsoft, and many more. It is also backed by amazing investors like Elad Gil, Mike Maples, Kevin Hale. The company is a small, distributed crew with offices in San Francisco, London, and Istanbul. Zeplin was founded in 2014.

Guiche Virtual

Seed Round in 2015
Guichê Virtual is the leading company in selling bus tickets online in Brazil. They connect passengers to bus companies and work hard to ensure their customers the best travel experience.

Figure 1

Series A in 2015
Figure 1, Inc. is a Toronto-based company that develops a mobile application facilitating the sharing of medical images and case studies among healthcare professionals. Founded in 2012, the application allows physicians, medical students, nurses, and emergency medical technicians to connect globally, view, discuss, and share patient cases for educational and diagnostic purposes. The platform promotes collaboration and knowledge sharing across various medical specialties, enhancing real-time consultation and improving patient outcomes. With a growing global community of millions of users, Figure 1 serves as a vital resource for healthcare professionals seeking to enhance their learning and practice.

Priced

Seed Round in 2015
Priced provides businesses with solutions to obtain analytics that focus on market research and promotional marketing. Priced provides retail businesses with applications, marketing services, and research. The applications it provides are my Rates and credits NFP. Priced was founded by Claudio N, Victor Key Harada, Ricardo C, Rafael M, Ricardo M, and Fernando Romero. It is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Meliuz

Seed Round in 2015
MÉLIUZ S.A. operates a cashback program in Brazil. Its portal that offers free of charge, discount coupons from the online stores and returns part of the amount spent directly to the bank account. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Bizzy

Seed Round in 2015
Bizzy is engaged in the creation of behavioral email marketing strategies to boost the performance of e-commerce businesses. Bizzy was founded by Chiara McPhee and Jennifer Kessler in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Revelo

Seed Round in 2015
Revelo Brasil is a staffing and recruiting company that specializes in connecting companies with tech professionals and software developers in Latin America. The company offers a digital recruiting platform that allows knowledge workers to create free professional profiles. Utilizing machine learning and adaptive technical tools, Revelo curates a network of above-average professionals and matches them with innovative companies. The platform focuses on high-demand careers including finance, software development, design, online marketing, and management consulting. By centering the profiles of Brazilian job seekers, Revelo enables companies to efficiently source, screen, and recruit talent that fits specific roles.

Sano

Seed Round in 2015
Sano is building a small, wearable sensor that can capture and transmit blood chemistry data continuously to virtually any device. The company will liberate this data to a third-party development and analytical platform called the API for the bloodstream.

Downtown

Seed Round in 2015
GoodTime Labs, Inc. is a Palo Alto-based company that specializes in ecommerce solutions, providing innovative applications designed to enhance consumer experiences. Founded in 2013, the company has developed two primary products: Downtown, a food ordering app that tailors recommendations based on user context and preferences, and Hiro Baby, a shopping assistant aimed at helping new parents navigate the myriad of decisions related to baby products. Downtown facilitates seamless transactions for food and drinks by allowing users to place orders and process payments via their smartphones, while Hiro Baby offers personalized services, including product recommendations and parenting advice. GoodTime Labs has garnered recognition for its innovative technology, being featured in prominent media outlets and attracting investment from notable Silicon Valley and international investors.
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