CSC Upshot

CSC Upshot Ventures Management, LLC is a $400M fund based in the U.S. that primarily invests in AngelList syndicates. Led by general partners Huoy-Ming Yeh and Veronica Wu, both engineers with backgrounds in technology and venture capital, the fund's largest limited partner is CSC Group, one of China's top private equity firms. CSC Upshot focuses on early-stage technology companies in sectors such as enterprise, artificial intelligence, healthcare, Fintech, and marketplace. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the firm's U.S. venture arm is led by Tom Cole, a former startup CEO and general partner at Trinity Ventures. With a strong emphasis on innovation and growth, CSC Upshot aims to support promising startups in their journey to success.

Anuja Lele

CFO

Jessie Wu

Investment Associate

Victor Yang

Principal

Ming Yeh

Founder and Partner

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Origin

Seed Round in 2016
Origin is an additive manufacturing (3D printing) platform designed for mass production featuring an open materials network, extensible software, and modular hardware. Origin's additive 3D manufacturing platform makes commercial-quality products, allowing companies and manufacturers to avail to a prototype, test market, and scalable optimum quality consumer-grade products with higher printing speed and flexibility.

Tule

Venture Round in 2016
Tule Technologies Inc. develops and installs sensors for the agriculture market. The company installs evapotranspiration sensor in the middle of an agriculture field to measure the amount of water that evaporates from an area, and provide optimal irrigation recommendations for farmers. It also offers information needed to irrigate to production goals, as well as calculates the water requirements for fields based on target thresholds. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lugg

Seed Round in 2017
Lugg is building the best way for you to get anything moved. With the push of a button, you are connected to movers and a truck. They make it dead simple to get your new furniture home, your craigslist purchases delivered to you, and moving all of your stuff into your new apartment. They are located in San Francisco, and well-funded by some of the greatest investors in the world, like A Capital, Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, Crunchfund, and Y Combinator. They are a small team with incredibly hard problems to solve. They are hiring and would love to hear from you! hello@Lugg.com Download Lugg and let them be your friend with a truck! http://lugg.com

Zinc Platform

Seed Round in 2016
Zinc Platform, Inc. is focused on providing software that digitizes the last frontier of the mortgage origination process– getting homeowners insurance. Zinc builds technology that integrates with the core systems of today’s modern mortgage lenders to power digital portals for borrowers to procure the homeowners (property) insurance that is required to close a mortgage. Zinc’s technology takes a broken, week-long process and turns it into a delightful five-minute experience. For borrowers, Zinc powers access to all of the nation’s leading insurance carriers. For mortgage lenders, Zinc ensures compliance with underwriting requirements while automating more of the mortgage closing process. Zinc is proudly built in New York City by passionate technologists and business strategists focused on making the process of buying a home a more simple, delightful experience

Descomplica

Series C in 2017
Descomplica offers an educational platform that provides students with subject and course materials. It provides students with pre-recorded classes, live classes, online monitoring for math and science subjects. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Honeyco

Seed Round in 2016
It’s their mission to improve the level of care and safety of aging adults. They do this by designing easy-to-use technology. Specifically for the elder care industry and families of older adults. Aging in place can be safer and more comfortable with the help of their technology platforms. Their products check and report on professional care visits and daily in-home safety. With HoneyCo, home care providers and families can work together. Let’s ensure older adults are safe and receive the care they deserve.

Petal

Seed Round in 2016
Petal Card, Inc. provides and issues credit cards to people who do not have a traditional credit history, students, and immigrants. It offers Petal Visa, a credit card and through its machine learning, it analyzes users' digital financial records which allows them to offer higher credit limits and lower rates than competing cards. The company also provides an application to make payments. Petal Card, Inc. was formerly known as CreditBridge, Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Openprise

Seed Round in 2016
The Openprise Data Orchestration Platform automates all the painful, manual processes that your sales automation and marketing automation solutions don’t. With Openprise, data-driven marketing and sales teams can simplify their martech stack with a single platform to automate hundreds of business processes like list loading, cleansing and enrichment, account scoring, and many more. Openprise is designed from the ground up for CRM, so it has all the best practices, business logic, and data companies need to clean up their data, focus on the right targets, and scale up their operations to grow revenue faster.

MoneyMenttor

Seed Round in 2017
MoneyMenttor is a web based personal finance management app that gives you personal financial advise using a Financial Scores Technology, which consists of an algorithm that analyzes consumer behaviors, savings capacities, debt management and qualifies you in the areas of debt, saving and spending, also giving financial advice in particular, all automatically. In MoneyMenttor you can link your bank accounts and see all your financial information in one place. So you don't have to enter your information manually. MoneyMenttor does all the work of organizing and categorizing your spending for you. See where your money goes and make financial decisions you feel good about. The company claims they use bank level security and all data is protected and validated by VeriSign.

Roofr

Seed Round in 2016
Roofr is a marketplace for roofing and utilizes satellite imagery for instant roofing estimates. A technologically advanced roofing brokerage that uses revolutionary software to simplify roof replacement and repair. At Roofr, they aim to provide the highest quality workmanship and service in the roofing industry. By providing affordable pricing and revolutionary convenience, Roofr emphasizes the importance of customer experience over company profit.

Enhatch

Seed Round in 2016
Enhatch Inc. develops a platform technology that helps companies understand how digital marketing and sales tools tie to revenue and increase customer satisfaction. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.

Charlie

Seed Round in 2016
Charlie is the personal finance manager that helps you spend more on what makes you happy

Optimal

Seed Round in 2016
Optimal uses data to empower people to make better decisions about careers and education. Its primary products are OnlineU, Grad Reports, and SwitchUp. OnlineU ranks the top online colleges with the highest alumni salary to help students accomplish their educational goals and find the online degree with the best value. GradReports provides data-driven college rankings by major, based on the salary data of over 5 million graduates, to help students answer the question, "What can I expect to make if I graduate from a particular school with a particular major?" SwitchUp offers unbiased information about technology bootcamps and features over 20,000 verified student reviews of technology bootcamps, which it then uses to rank the best bootcamps for coding, data science, cybersecurity, and more. Optimal also gives away $250,000 of its profits each year in the form of scholarships for students with high financial need and strong career aspirations.

NextCaller

Series A in 2016
Next Caller, Inc. develops and offers a real time call verification technology solution that provides phone fraud detection services. The company offers a caller identification platform that helps businesses and consumers identify unknown callers and detect fraudulent calls. Further, it offers Advanced Caller ID that flags all forms of call spoofing by providing caller data and information, such as telephone number, name, address, email, and social profiles in real time, as well as offers threat-level analysis; and Next Caller Fraud API that detects suspicious calls, such as masked numbers. Additionally, the company uses a proprietary algorithm VeriCall that analyzes carrier-level metadata; and provides real-time RESTful API for users to custom integrate with their current CTI application. The company also allows users to clean and append existing database and enables users to validate and prioritize their leads. Next Caller, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York with additional locations in San Francisco, California; and Boston, Massachusetts.

Squad

Series A in 2017
We help Real Estate Teams Convert dropped leads in their CRM into closed homes using artificial intelligence. We qualify, nurture and assist dropped leads to turn them into closed homes by becoming your secret weapon.

Side

Seed Round in 2016
Side transforms high-performing agents, teams and independent brokerages into successful businesses and boutique brands that are 100% agent-owned. Side exclusively partners with the best agents, empowering them with proprietary technology and a premier support team so they can be more productive, grow their business and focus on serving their clients. Side is headquartered in San Francisco. For more information, visit http://www.sideinc.com.

Loveseat.com

Seed Round in 2016
Loveseat Inc. engages in the online auction of vintage and used furniture in the United States. The company buys, accepts consignments, and auctions office furniture and home furniture, including decoration items, storage items, dressers, sofas, tables, and chairs. Loveseat Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Diego, California with an additional office in Vernon, California.

Lyte

Seed Round in 2016
Lyte is a technology platform that makes it easy for fans to buy, sell, and exchange tickets to live events. It also allows event owners to take control of their ticketing experience. Lyte was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Glow

Seed Round in 2017
Glow is an insurance company that aims to transform insurance to better protect people. The company is working toward holistic coverage for work, life and everything in between. Glow was founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California.

PlushCare

Seed Round in 2016
PlushCare is a San Francisco-based tech startup that makes it easy to find and meet with a doctor online, even on the same day. Their mission is to provide patients with the best doctors and the best medical experience in a friendly and personalized way. The company's technology platform enables over 100,000 patients (and growing) to get care from a board-certified doctor online. With an NPS of 90 and an App Store rating of 4.9, they strive to provide the healthcare experience that patients deserve. PlushCare has also been developing Coronavirus at home testing.

Fathom

Seed Round in 2015
Fathom develops a coding automation platform designed to expedite medical coding practice. Fathom leverages AI to automatically review incoming charts as well as offers full-service coding services and real-time comprehensive audit, allowing medical operators to automate their coding and optimize their business.

Noteworth

Seed Round in 2016
Noteworth operates a patient data capture and delivery platform. The company's tool integrates devices, data, and support and delivers its solution to existing electronic medical records. Noteworth was founded in 2015 and is based in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Facilitron

Seed Round in 2016
Facilitron designs a facility reservation platform that simplifies the discovery, scheduling, and booking of all kinds of community facilities. It develops a facility reservation platform is a cloud-based software that schedules, manages, and rents public facilities. The platform also provides facility owners an option to rent their facilities to users everywhere. It gives them control and simplifies the way that they manage and rent their facilities, enabling renters to find and book the place suitable for their events easily and facility owners to simplify their renting process. Jeff Benjamin founded Facilitron in 2015, with its headquarters in Los Gatos in California, with a branch in Athens-Clarke Country in Georgia.

Stella

Series A in 2016
Stella.ai, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence platform which can manage an applicant’s job application and fast-track the selection process. The company was formerly known as People Prodigy, Inc. Stella.ai, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Tala

Series A in 2016
InVenture is an innovative, fast-paced mobile technology start-up, that provides a credit scoring and reporting platform to financial services institutions in emerging countries.

Lightning Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Lightning Labs is building the next generation of decentralized, resilient financial infrastructure. We believe systems based on cryptography, blockchains, and smart contracts will enhance financial cooperation around the world in unprecedented ways at scales both large and small. We have developed Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) the most advanced and most developer-friendly implementation of the Lightning Network protocol. Along with Neutrino, an open platform that enables users with mobile devices to conduct blockchain and Lightning Network transactions quickly and easily. We’re hiring. See our open positions: http://lightning.engineering/careers.html Get involved: http://dev.lightning.community/

Arcadia

Seed Round in 2016
Arcadia, Inc. operates an online platform for users to manage their account, track their account activity, and view their energy usage. It serves houses, apartments, and businesses in the United States. The company was formerly known as Arcadia Power, Inc. Arcadia, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Washington, District Of Columbia.

Buildingconnected

Series A in 2016
BuildingConnected, Inc. operates a construction communication platform. It enables users to find, communicate, and share documents with general contractors and subcontractors. In addition, it offers bid management, professional network, communication and collaboration, performance analytics, and integrated cloud storage; and enables data owners to view portfolio performance dashboard, communicate with nationwide network of service professionals, and do future planning for public entities. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of January 23, 2019, BuildingConnected, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc.

Synthomics, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
At Synthomics, we are committed to driving life sciences innovation at the most basic level through the selling of reagents, and instrumentation that significantly improves upon key oligonucleotide synthesis needs for applications such as NGS, Gene Synthesis, Gene Editing, PCR, and DNA Data Storage. Our "Green Machine" instrument reduces the cost of DNA synthesis by a factor of 20X-100X, while at the same shortening turn-around-times, minimizing waste, and improving quality.

Ampool

Seed Round in 2015
Ampool is on a mission to enable real-time data-intensive applications and to reduce time to actionable insights through a distributed, memory-centric active data store. In the last decade, Hadoop and NoSQL data stores have deconstructed the database, separating persistence, metadata management, query engines, resource scheduling, cluster management, and monitoring. In a similar way, Ampool aims to democratize in-memory multi-modal analytical processing, paving way to a unified real-time analytics platform. Ampool Active Data Store is designed to support stream ingestion and analytics, analytical/batch processing, transactions, and interactive/ad-hoc queries, all from a single memory-centric store. Powered by Apache Geode™, it offers low overhead, lightning fast, in-memory performance for data-driven applications without compromising on reliability and availability.

Banner Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
Banner Technologies is the cabling contractor to turn to for your communication needs. From state of the art voice and data cabling to top of the line equipment, we are the a top cabling contractor company with offices is Virginia and Flordia serving the entire USA.

Dispatch

Seed Round in 2016
Dispatch is the operating system that empowers modern service experiences for the world’s largest service brands. Our platform connects the enterprise, service provider, and customer together to create a world-class service experience that surpasses the rising expectations of the modern-day market.

Betterview

Seed Round in 2016
Betterview provides property insight and workflow tools for Insurance companies to improve the customer experience by accelerating decisions and improving risk at every point of the lifecycle.

TranscribeMe

Seed Round in 2016
TranscribeMe develops an audio search and transcription platform designed to make audio content searchable and shareable, by converting speech to text. The platform utilizes it's proprietary micro-tasking technology to produce a speaker identified transcription from complex audio that involves multiple speakers and overlapping conversations, by processing pieces of audio in parallel, enabling medical professionals, corporations, conferences, writers, podcasters, and academics to monetize their audio content by transcribing it to word-for-word text. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sweeten

Series A in 2016
Founded in 2011 by trained architects, Sweeten brings trust and technology to the $320B residential renovation industry. Sweeten connects renovators with projects to the best local general contractors, then provides support until the project is completed. The service has been called “Best Contractor Locator" (New York Magazine), "The Renovation Game-Changer" (Domino) and one of "America's Hottest New Companies" (Inc.). With nearly $900M in renovation deals posted, we're building the go-to marketplace to help people renovate fearlessly. Check us out on the Today Show here: https://www.today.com/video/this-woman-built-a-multimillion-dollar-company-in-her-own-backyard-1183478339854

Phil

Series A in 2016
Phil, Inc. provides a prescription management software service for obtaining medications. The company operates a specialty Rx distribution platform that assists patients in managing their medications by automatically refilling based on the prescription cadence. It acts a liaison between patients, prescribers, manufacturers, and pharmacists. The company also provides complimentary home delivery services for medications. Phil, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Weave

Series B in 2016
Weave is a developer of a customer experience management (CXM) platform designed to meet the needs of patients and to build better business and clinical outcomes. The company's platform features email, marketing capabilities, a full payments platform and a proprietary VoIP phone service to create customer interactions using personalized customer information across all communication channels, enabling businesses to improve relationships with the people they serve. With over 15,000 customers, Weave was the first Utah company to join Y Combinator and has received several renowned awards, including the Fortune 100 Best Companies 2019, Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 and Forbes 2020 Next Billion-Dollar Startups, the 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, Glassdoor’s 2019 and 2020 Best Places to Work and 2019 Top CEOs.

Nav

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

Numerai

Venture Round in 2016
Numerai is a new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists. It uses its cryptocurrency to incentivize tens of thousands of anonymous data scientists around the world to collaborate to create predictive models in history. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sezzle

Seed Round in 2016
Sezzle Inc. provides a payments platform that facilitates payments between consumers and retailers the United States and Canada. Its platform enables customers to make online purchases and split the payment for the purchase in four equal interest free payments over six weeks. The company offers its payment solution to online stores, as well as brick-and-mortar retailers. Sezzle Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Nav

Series A in 2015
Nav is a free site and app that gives business owners the fastest, easiest and most trusted path to financing. The leading Business Financial Management app, Nav gives free access to personal and business credit reports from major consumer and commercial credit bureaus including Experian, Dun & Bradstreet, Equifax and TransUnion, and hosts a robust marketplace with more than 100 business financing products including loans and credit cards. The marketplace uses a unique, lender-neutral approach to help business owners find the best financing options for their needs. Nav's solution is also leveraged by other business service providers to enhance their customer experience.

Mercury

Pre Seed Round in 2017
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Cruise

Series A in 2016
Cruise is building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people with the places, things, and experiences they care about. Cruise autonomous vehicles are on the road in San Francisco navigating some of the most challenging and unpredictable driving environments, because the best way to bring self-driving technology to the world is to expose it to the same unique and complex traffic scenarios human drivers face every day.

DotDashPay

Venture Round in 2018
DotDashPay buils a payment systems that allow consumers to seamlessly transact and enable merchants to analyze and control the entire payment experience.

Elemental Machines

Seed Round in 2017
Elemental Machines is revolutionizing science-based industries with a smart lab platform that offers powerful, data-driven insights to improve laboratory operations, research, development, and manufacturing outcomes. Continuously monitoring equipment and environmental variables provides new levels of clarity, transparency and consistency, and improved repeatability and gathers new data sets for advanced analytics.

Triller

Series A in 2016
Triller, Inc. develops and operates AI-powered music video app and talent discovery platform that allows users to create professional-looking videos. Triller, Inc. was formerly known as Mibblio, Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California. It has additional offices in Miami, Florida; Paris, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. As per the transaction announced on October 22, 2020, Triller, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Proxima Media LLC.

Fuzzy

Seed Round in 2016
Fuzzy Pet Health, Inc. provides in-home pet health care services. The company offers membership based nose-to-tail exam and vaccinations for pets. It develops and offers a mobile application, which provides Ask-a-Vet mobile chat, electronic health records, and a personalized health program for pets. The company was formerly known as PetChi, Inc. and changed its name to Fuzzy Pet Health, Inc. in December 2018. Fuzzy Pet Health, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Weave

Series B in 2016
Weave is a mobile-based professional networking application to arrange meetings and friendly discussions. It enables professionals to log into the application through their LinkedIn profiles, and the app then presents them with a stream of nearby professionals who are presumably open to face-to-face meetings and whom they can swipe “yes” or “no” to meet.

GiveCampus

Seed Round in 2016
GiveCampus, Inc. provides a social fundraising and engagement platform for higher education. It blends crowdfunding with peer-to-peer fundraising and integrates with social networking tools to make philanthropy more social, interactive, and fun. It allows alumni, students, parents, friends, faculty, and staff to connect with their school and with one another around philanthropy. The company is headquartered in Washington, District Of Columbia.

Dolo (Tea Time Labs)

Seed Round in 2017
Tea Time Labs makes Dolo, a free location-based message board app for socializing and discovering what’s happening right around you. When you create a post in Dolo, anyone using the app nearby will see your post, and can react and contribute to it. With Dolo, you can enjoy the joys of simple, serendipitous conversation, without being constrained by your existing social networks. We believe that place matters, and that people derive utility and delight from the energy right around them. With Dolo, we want to expand people’s natural yet limited ability to connect with their surroundings and tap into that energy. Curiosity in the here and now, for everyone—from the most active social instigators, to the quiet eavesdroppers. We are an early stage company, founded in November 2016, and based in San Francisco. The three founders’ experience is quite eclectic, including several years in senior roles at Apple launching Apple Watch and Apple Pay, an Emmy nomination, and a Reddit Submitter of the Year award.

Catalia Health

Seed Round in 2016
Catalia Health brings together artificial intelligence, psychology, and medicine to deliver lasting change. We create effective patient engagement and generate unique data of value to our customers. Our cloud-based platform delivers unique conversations to patients to help address their ongoing healthcare issues in an effective way. These messages are delivered through mobile apps, a web interface, and our uniquely engaging (and patented) interactive robotic coach.

Hudson MX

Seed Round in 2016
Hudson MX is a Building technology that empowers buyers,agencies and their partners,Reducing the operational costs inherent in the media.

Fairy

Seed Round in 2016
Fairy offers 30 minute daily “hotel like” cleanings and is a great service for busy professionals and families -- their mission is to deliver happiness to every home in the world. Their team has started and sold venture-backed startups and have helped scale companies like Instacart, NextDoor, Box, and LinkedIn through their IPOs.

Notion

Seed Round in 2016
Notion Labs, Inc. develops unified workspace mobile and web-based tools and solutions. It offers a document editor for notes, wikis, and tasks that nests pages inside each other, drags and drops content, builds task board, and keeps the team in sync with slack notifications. The company also provides slack integration, converts markdown shortcuts into content, exports to PDF, and publishes as websites. Notion Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Canopy Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Notion Labs, Inc. in March 2014. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Pinch

Seed Round in 2016
Pinch makes it easy to build its clients' credit history just by paying their rent. For no extra money, Pinch helps you beef up your credit score without going into debt. Not too long ago, paying rent didn’t have much to do with your credit score. Of course, not paying rent could always (and still can) damage your credit score. But what happens when you pay your rent on time? Legally speaking, absolutely nothing. Nada. The good news? Credit bureaus and credit scoring companies are realizing that those who can pay rent on time month after month are likely to also handle credit responsibly, and things are changing in America. Studies have shown that after reporting rent, 100% of tenants who were previously unscorable had a credit score. And almost 3/4 of those studied experienced a credit score increase.

Protocol Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Protocol Labs is a research, development, and deployment lab for network protocols. Protocol Labs creates software systems that tackle significant challenges, aiming to solve them with new technology breakthroughs, great user experience design, and an open-source approach to creation.

Circle Pharma

Seed Round in 2016
Circle Pharma is an early stage biotechnology company applying proprietary computational design algorithms and innovative chemistry to develop cell permeable macrocycle peptide therapeutics against important clinical targets. It does this through an iterative, rational design process that deploys large virtual libraries of conformationally diverse macrocycle scaffolds selected for inherent permeability. The company was founded by Prof. Matt Jacobson, Ph.D. (U.C. San Francisco) and Prof. Scott Lokey, Ph.D. (U.C. Santa Cruz) and is headed by David J. Earp, J.D., Ph.D.

Over

Seed Round in 2016
Over, Inc. offers a platform that lets users to design and create patterns and brand logos. The company provides photos, fonts, graphics, templates, and tools to filter, blend, mask, and blur which enable users to create and customize their logos. Over, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa. As of January 29, 2020, Over, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of GoDaddy Inc.

Zipline

Seed Round in 2016
Retail Zipline is a SaaS internal communication and workflow solution that helps retailers optimize profitability and store performance. The core of the Zipline system is a hierarchy management and targeting system that supports the complexity of chain businesses but is still easy to use. On top of that, it builds a publishing system for information based on a game-changing import feature that customers absolutely love. The company is able to distribute the information to the right people in the right time via the best delivery method, whether it be email, mobile apps, or third party APIs. Retail Zipline was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Huckleberry

Seed Round in 2015
At Huckleberry, they’re on a mission to give small business owners back time. Over the last decade, software has replaced most paper-based business management systems – from accounting, to tax preparation, to payments. But commercial insurance is still bought and managed almost entirely offline, in a process that can involve layers of bureaucracy and take weeks to complete.

Sontra

Series B in 2016
SontraCargo is used by major shipping companies and truck drivers to find available trucks or freight. Through a simple, fast and intuitive system is possible for carriers to publish and find loads trucks available. For the trucker who searches for available freight, SontraCargo becomes an indispensable partner to find the best freight quickly and easily. Shipping throughout Brazil and trucks of all types are available at SontraCargo, the tool that is revolutionizing the transportation market. Sontra was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Athelas

Seed Round in 2016
Athelas develops an in-home blood diagnostic device designed to monitor the immune system from a drop of blood. Its in-home blood diagnostic device is a portable optical unit for sample imaging and also analyzes blood cells and generates diagnostic reports helping doctors to identify leukemia, infections, and inflammatory diseases early, enabling patients to keep a check on their immunity level from home. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Bizly

Seed Round in 2016
Bizly is an employee-facing, self-service, enterprise software application that enables teams to collaborate and build impactful meetings and events. Bizly provides modern end-to-end workflow automation utilizing smart templates to drive the right programming, attendee management, venue booking, and analytics to achieve the objective. Bizly is an operating system that leverages enterprise procurement, CRM, HCM, and other systems to automate the entire workflow for meetings & events. Bizly helps finance departments tackle their largest segment of unmanaged spend and supports every department with creating experiences that drive their business forward.

Branch

Series B in 2016
Branch is a developer of deep linking technology used to gain and retain mobile app users. Its deep linking technology is used to build user-to-user referral programs with features, including rewarded referrals, content sharing, deep-views, download banner, and personal onboarding that enable users to customize the whole app experience that makes discovering apps and app content easier. Branch was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Accredible

Seed Round in 2016
Accredible is the new digital credential standard for the online learning age. We are the certification provider behind companies like Rosetta Stone, Google, Udacity, Kaplan University, Hootsuite, Telefonica, The International Association of Privacy Professionals and many others. Our vision is to host the world’s credentials and in the process become the world’s first truly verifiable repository of human capital.

BioAge Labs

Seed Round in 2017
BIOAGE discovers and develops drugs to treat aging and associated diseases.

AKUA

Seed Round in 2017
AKUA LLC provides environmental monitoring and tracking solutions for intermodal cargo containers. The company provides customer dashboard and big data analytics; and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors to secure, track, and optimize transportation. Its solutions provide in-transit visibility of goods and shipments for cargo owners in the United States and internationally. AKUA LLC was founded in 2016 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland. AKUA LLC operates as a subsidiary of Cyber Point International, LLC.

Boon + Gable

Seed Round in 2016
Boon + Gable develops and delivers a personal shopping application that brings a personal stylist to the user’s home with specifically chosen items. Its mobile application changes the way men and women shop for clothes enabling users to try various items, such as shoes, jeans, pants, shirts, etc. at their home along with a stylist and return the rest. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

atVenu

Seed Round in 2015
atVenu, Inc. develops and delivers atVenu, a mobile and Web based application that manages various tour merchandise logistics. The company’s application provides real time data and analytics to make decisions that drive revenue. Its application works on various online and offline iOS devices. The company serves professional merchandise organizations; and artist and their teams for supply and managed tours. atVenu, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Sausalito, California.

Crowdcast

Seed Round in 2016
Crowdcast allows its users to have Q&As, webinars, live courses, and online summits as live videos with their audiences. Users can create their public or unlisted events and invite their audience to join while crowdcast automatically handles registration. It also allows its users to engage their audiences in real time with polls, chats, and Q&As. Finally, users can replay and share the video. Crowdcast allows audiences to answer questions and chat with everyone. Functions such as jump to answers, robust analytics and data, and follow up services are provided. A ticket price can be charged from audiences and the money gets deposited to the users’ account. Crowdcast is a U.S.-based enterprise that was launched in 2014 by Cy Hossain.

Apptopia

Seed Round in 2016
Apptopia, Inc. provides data and insights for mobile applications. The company provides downloads, revenues, and actives user data for every mobile application in the world. It also offers advertising optimization, product and market research, competitive intelligence and benchmarking, and monetization analysis for application developers; sales intelligence, lead generation, and market analysis for Ad networks and SDK companies; and deal discovery, due diligence, and market and trend analysis for investors and VC firms. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Overclock Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Overclock Labs develops tools for automating how companies manage cloud infrastructure so they can save time, costs, and focus on what they’re good at. Using Overclock's DISCO (Distributed Infrastructure for Serverless Computing Operations), a company can integrate multiple cloud service providers together to reduce costs and increase performance. Disco allows customers to seamlessly deploy applications between various Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Platform, IBM SoftLayer, or private clouds at any time, to enjoy the best offerings from all providers.

Zero Motorcycles

Seed Round in 2016
Zero Motorcycles, Inc. manufactures and supplies electric motorcycles. It offers street, dirt, and dual sport motorcycles; and accessories, apparel, fairings and bodywork, parts, tires and wheels, and upgrades. The company sells its products through dealers and online. The company has a strategic partnership with Polaris Inc. Zero Motorcycles, Inc. was formerly known as Electricross, Inc. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Scotts Valley, California with an additional office in Noord-Scharwoude, the Netherlands.

Whale

Seed Round in 2017
Whale is a video Q&A app and community that connects users with influencers, experts, and celebrities. Whale lets users post questions and enter into a one-to-one video conversation with an influencer or expert who can offer up the perfect answer. Those videos answers are then recorded and added to a library of existing content, letting users search through previously asked questions and answers. With Whale, users pay a fee to have their questions answered by a person of their choosing. The payment helps filter out social media noise and ensures that users have a real question worth their time.

AirCare

Seed Round in 2016
AirCare, a Techstars portfolio company, is a data aggregator and API provider for historical, current and forecast air quality, pollen and UV data around the world.

Long-Term Stock Exchange

Series B in 2015
The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE) is creating an SEC-regulated national securities exchange designed to align great companies and long-term investors with the shared goal of value creation. They have assembled a world-class team of experts and advisors located in New York, San Francisco, and DC with deep expertise in finance, regulation, law, and technology. The LTSE seeks to end the twenty year decline in the number of public companies in the United States by creating a new listings venue that serves issuers (companies) and investors and prioritizes long-term value creation. The LTSE was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Aspire

Seed Round in 2015
AspireIQ, Inc. develops and provides a platform for influencer marketing for Fortune 500 companies and e-commerce brands. It offers AspireIQ that streamlines influencer discovery, management, and analytics to build authentic influencer relationships at scale; and Unlimited Analytics, a solution that empowers brands to measure influencer marketing performance by capturing campaign metrics in a centralized dashboard. The company’s platform enables the users to search through influencers for campaigns; streamlines communications and automate the tasks of the influencer workflow; and measure ROI of the influencer program by automatically tracking the stats of every post and the impact of the content across various channels. AspireIQ, Inc. was formerly known as Revfluence, Inc. and changed its name to AspireIQ, Inc. in September 2018. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Brooklyn, New York.

Skydrop

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

Dil Mil

Seed Round in 2016
Dil Mil is the fastest growing matchmaking app for South Asian expats, disrupting the broken arranged marriage model and solving the privacy & usability concerns with existing outdated solutions. We're adding over 1,000+ new users per day and growing users & revenue over 50% month over month. Think Tinder meets JDate, but for South Asians. We have a solid team of experienced engineers and advisors who have successfully done this before. Under the hood we are solving one of the most complex real-time search & match problems using proprietary machine learning algorithms. The app is just the tip of the iceberg; the magic happens on the back-end.

Wootric

Series A in 2016
Wootric, Inc. develops and operates in-application Net Promoter Score (NPS) platform for boosting customer happiness. The company’s platform conducts surveys and gathers customer feedback in Web or mobile application, and allows clients to analyze NPS data by business drivers that are meaningful. Its platform helps product, customer success, and marketing leaders, as well as CEOs improve the customer experience to drive retention and increase brand loyalty. The company serves its customers worldwide. Wootric, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pipefy

Venture Round in 2016
Pipefy specializes in the fields of process management, workflow, process automation, and task management. Through a simple Kanban-style interface companies can achieve process excellence without the need for IT, technical skills, or professional services. Its fully customizable platform helps teams attain higher levels of productivity and efficiency by setting clear execution standards for every step of each process. Pipefy was founded in 2015 by Alessio Alionço, a former mergers and acquisitions consultant. Its headquarters is based in San Francisco in California.

Rappi

Seed Round in 2017
Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.

Molekule

Seed Round in 2016
Molekule is a San Francisco-based science and clean air company that has developed a fundamentally new approach to cleaning air. While current air purifiers are essentially trying to catch pollutants in filters, Molekule uses nanotechnology to break down and completely eliminate pollutants on a molecular level.