CSC Upshot Ventures
CSC Upshot Ventures Management, LLC, founded in 2015 and based in Palo Alto, California, is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed-stage investments. The firm focuses on early-stage companies primarily in the technology sector, with particular interest in healthcare, financial services, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. It manages a fund that invests between $25 million and $40 million, with an average check size of $100,000, primarily targeting startups in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, and South Africa. CSC Upshot is known for its strategic partnerships, including investments in AngelList syndicates, and is supported by its largest limited partner, CSC Group, one of China's leading private equity firms. The firm's general partners bring extensive experience from notable technology companies and venture capital firms.
Mercury
Pre Seed Round in 2017
Mercury Technologies in a information technology based company.
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.
Flirtey Technology Pty Ltd specializes in drone delivery services, focusing on urgent medical supplies, retail items, and food delivery across the United States. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Reno, Nevada, the company aims to enhance lifestyles by providing instant delivery solutions. Flirtey has achieved significant milestones in the drone delivery industry, being the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery, the first to perform a fully autonomous delivery to a home, and the first to launch a commercial drone delivery service.
Sezzle Inc. is a financial services company that operates a payments platform designed to streamline transactions between consumers and retailers in the United States and Canada. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sezzle enables customers to make online purchases by splitting the total amount into four equal, interest-free payments over six weeks. This payment solution is available for both online and brick-and-mortar retailers, allowing for a flexible and accessible shopping experience. The company focuses on empowering the next generation financially through its technology-driven services.
People Data Labs builds the standard end to end technology platform for enterprise technical teams who are building people data. Leverage our APIs and technology as your people data backend, or access over 1 Billion clean person records as you build internal analysis, predictive modeling, segment data, build recommendations and more.
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.
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.
Numerai, founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, operates as a unique hedge fund that leverages a global network of data scientists. The firm invites these data scientists to contribute by creating predictive models, which are incentivized through the use of its own cryptocurrency. Numerai employs a long/short investment strategy in the public equity markets, aiming to capitalize on the collective intelligence of its contributors. This innovative approach combines finance and data science, allowing for collaboration while maintaining the anonymity of participants.
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.
Pipefy, Inc. is a company that offers a lean management platform designed for process management, workflow automation, and task management. Founded in 2015 by Alessio Alionço, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The platform features a user-friendly Kanban-style interface that enables managers to create and manage complex processes without requiring IT support or technical skills. By automating repetitive manual tasks, Pipefy helps organizations enhance productivity and efficiency, allowing teams to establish clear execution standards for each step in their workflows.
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.
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.
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.
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