Ulu Ventures

Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments to enterprise cloud and smart data companies. The seed-stage venture firm focused primarily on enterprise IT, Ulu focuses on the market opportunity created by the Stanford and Silicon Valley communities. It seeks to generate financial results using a disciplined, repeatable decision-making process that analyzes risk-reward trade-offs. Ulu also follows the logical principles of portfolio construction. This approach makes the firm conventional in the world of institutional investors but contrarian as compared to other VCs. In 2018, Clint Korver and Miriam Rivera established the firm in Palo Alto, California.

Kathy Chen

Senior Principal

Kevin Hoffberg

Venture Partner

Clint Korver

MD

Steve Reale

CFO

SV

Stephen V. Reale

CFO and Venture Partner

Miriam Rivera

MD

DN

David N. Strohm

Strategic Advisor

Nancy Torres

Principal

256 past transactions

Sounder

Seed Round in 2020
Sounder.fm is a platform that helps audio creators manage, market, and measure their audio content. Sounder offers free hosting, transcription, Pinpoint Audio Search, and analytics to help the user grow its audience. It aims to drive creativity and make audio better for everyone. The company was founded in 2019 and based in New York, New York.

Sounder

Seed Round in 2020
Sounder.fm is a platform that helps audio creators manage, market, and measure their audio content. Sounder offers free hosting, transcription, Pinpoint Audio Search, and analytics to help the user grow its audience. It aims to drive creativity and make audio better for everyone. The company was founded in 2019 and based in New York, New York.

Future Family, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Future Family, Inc. offers subscription plans which cover all healthcare costs and include guided care through concierge service. The company's features include, personal fertility planning, clinic matching, dedicated nurse concierge, 24/7 access to care team, digital health platform, clinic visits and procedures, labs, and medications. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mon Ami

Seed Round in 2021
Mon Ami, Inc. develops an application that connects college students and seniors. Its application allows the users to connect people living with a socially isolating condition, including dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, autism, and cancer and schedule a meeting between companions and families. Mon Ami, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California. It has additional locations across California.

Savvy

Seed Round in 2021
Savvy makes applying to rental homes faster, cheaper, and more reliable for renters and landlords. We use open banking to make the process more efficient for both sides. For renters, Savvy provides a more transparent, secure, and convenient application process, the ability to build credit through rent payments, and broader access to housing. For leasing managers, Savvy replaces the cumbersome tenant application review process with a simple, fast end-to-end screening solution that provides more reliable data, saving thousands of hours and reducing the risk of tenant defaults.

Via

Seed Round in 2021
VIA Global Ventures, Inc. operates an online marketplace that connects professionals to short-term onsite work at companies. Its platform offers services in the areas of projects in strategy, business development and sales, business operations, marketing, product, financial analytics, business intelligence, and process improvement. VIA Global Ventures, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Key Biscayne, Florida. It has presence and operations in Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Europe.

Everlaw

Venture Round in 2013
Everlaw is a legal technology company that provides a platform for document analysis to law firms, government, and corporations. It is a cloud-based litigation platform for corporate counsels, litigators, and government attorneys that enables teams to discover, reveal, and act on information to drive internal investigations and positively impact the outcome of the litigation. The company combines speed, security, and ease-of-use into a comprehensive solution that unlocks the collaborative power of teams and allows them to investigate issues more thoroughly, uncover a truth more quickly, and present their findings more clearly. It was established in 2010 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Mighty

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Mighty helps young entrepreneurs start and grow their own businesses. With Mighty, each kid will master the tools of business and harness the power of social impact. It's the modern day lemonade stand, but this time the products for sale are good for the world. Mighty gathers a dedicated team of investors to hit the ground running. They partner with great companies including Sesame Street, Collaborative Fund, and the founders behind Indiegogo and Flickr. All that's left to do is launch businesses.

RealBlocks

Series A in 2020
RealBlocks is a technology platform that connects advisors and investors to the best alternative investment managers. Today many real estate and alternative investment managers are limited to raising capital locally. However with RealBlocks, these managers can now raise capital globally through institutional and intermediary channels. RealBlocks also offers a secondary trading mechanism for enhanced liquidity options.

NovoEd

Seed Round in 2013
NovoEd’s collaborative learning platform enables organizations to design and deliver experiential learning that drives business performance. Since the company’s founding at Stanford’s social algorithm laboratory in 2012, global corporations, executive education providers, and training firms have relied on NovoEd to develop high-value capabilities through purposeful practice and application, coaching and mentorship, and group collaboration. NovoEd’s proven approach to learning connects diverse groups of learners, mentors, and leaders in a high-impact online environment, unlocking your organization’s collective knowledge and driving measurable outcomes.

hashed

Venture Round in 2014
hashed offers an application that enables its users to find and follow contents by using hashtags. It provides its services for Instagram users. hashed enables its customers to obtain notifications about topics they are interested in. hashed was founded by Agatha Precourt and Wendy Grad in October 2014.

FounderNest

Seed Round in 2022
FounderNest is an AI company born out of Stanford whose mission is to leverage artificial intelligence to connect founders and investors in a neutral, efficient, and transparent way. The most prominent founders and investors worldwide are already using our product and trusting our proprietary technology on a daily basis. Co-founded by Stanford, Wharton, and Columbia grads, FounderNest is based in California and Madrid and is backed by top Silicon Valley investors who have also invested in Paypal, Waze, Palantir, Square or Pinterest.

MiSalud

Seed Round in 2022
MiSalud offers a unique combination of personalized preventative wellness services, along with traditional healthcare via Spanish speaking physicians.

Mile Auto

Seed Round in 2021
Mile Auto is a pay-per-mile auto insurance company that uses patented computer vision technologies to help low mileage drivers save money. Mile Auto customers use their smartphones to report mileage once a month, and then pay based on exact miles driven. The result is simple, transparent billing. Mile Auto is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Assemble

Seed Round in 2022
Next-generation compensation management. Assembled with building blocks driven by your policies and beliefs.

Align17 Ltd

Seed Round in 2018
Align17 Ltd offers investment advice and operates a marketplace that brings investors in private impact deals together with private wealth clients. It provides its clients access and advice to investment in social and environmental opportunities. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Irrigreen

Seed Round in 2022
Irrigreen makes an IoT digital sprinkler system that saves 50% the water used in landscape irrigation. Our system centers on an IP protected technology leap, using software techniques from inkjet printing, to vastly reduce the amount of water wasted. We sell it using an IoT service business model that drives recurring revenue.

SORU

Seed Round in 2017
SORU provides data analytics as a service by utilizing natural language processing and human assisted AI to tap into common data sources.

Proven

Seed Round in 2011
Proven operates as a hiring tool intended for small businesses. The platform takes hiring on the go with fully native apps for iOS and Android. Employers can review resumes, respond to candidates, and even post a new job all from a smartphone. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Buzz Solutions

Seed Round in 2020
Buzz Solutions, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based software platform for energy infrastructure applications. It offers Buzz Solutions Platform, an image-recognition software that spots utility infrastructure defects. The company’s solution also provides artificial intelligence, actionable insights, and predictive analytics for power line and grid inspections. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Wisetack, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Wisetack is a financial technology platform that pays for purchases. They pay installments for the customer's purchases. They are transparent and no hidden fees are being charged. They have built for both scale and speed, using the latest technology. They are experts in finance, payments, and technology who are passionate about offering customer-friendly and fair financing products.

Palantir Technologies

Series D in 2010
Palantir Technologies offers a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, fighting fraud, and analyzing information. The software allows analysts within and between government organizations to collaborate and to analyze large quantities of data. Stephen Cohen, Alexander Karp, Garry Tan, Nathan Gettings, and Peter Thiel established the company in Denver, Colorado in 2003.

Mighty

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Mighty helps young entrepreneurs start and grow their own businesses. With Mighty, each kid will master the tools of business and harness the power of social impact. It's the modern day lemonade stand, but this time the products for sale are good for the world. Mighty gathers a dedicated team of investors to hit the ground running. They partner with great companies including Sesame Street, Collaborative Fund, and the founders behind Indiegogo and Flickr. All that's left to do is launch businesses.

interviewing.io

Seed Round in 2019
Interviewing.io is an anonymous technical interviewing platform. Its interviewers have worked at Google, Udacity, Square, Twitch, Microsoft, and other recognized companies.

CollegeBacker

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Backer is a social savings platform that enables users to set up a tax-free 529 account where family and friends can contribute. It is backed by leading edtech and fintech venture firms, Princeton University, Dartmouth University, USC’s Marshall School of Business, and founders of SoFi, Facebook, Quizlet, CircleUp, AltSchool, Patreon, and LendingHome. Backer was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Blue River Technology Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Blue River Technology Inc. engages in developing computer vision and robotics technology for agricultural applications. Its technology identifies weeds and selectively kills unwanted plants. The company’s automated solution is suitable for organic agriculture and fields with chemical-resistant weeds. Blue River Technology Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Salinas, California and Yuma, Arizona. As of September 12, 2017, Blue River Technology Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Deere & Company.

FreeWill

Series B in 2022
FreeWill is an online service that provides legal forms and legal information. FreeWill is an award-winning social venture founded by graduate students at Stanford University in 2016, with the help and support of many of the world’s leading experts in law, design, and philanthropy. The company is making estate planning warm, accessible, and totally free – so that you can more easily care for the people and causes you love.

Apomaya, Inc.

Venture Round in 2022
Apomaya provides an innovative, cloud-based technology platform, which brings visibility and control to the digital ad supply chain.

Ellevest, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Ellevest, Inc. is an employee owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to women clients. It manages separate client-focused portfolios. The firm invests in different asset classes in markets across the globe. The firm employs fundamental analysis along with top-down approach to create its portfolios. It was formerly known as Ellevate Financial, Inc. Ellevest, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in New York City.

SoFi

Series A in 2011
SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services. The company primarily caters to early-stage professionals and offers variable and fixed rate parent, personal, and MBA loans, mortgage refinancing, and more. They create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Carbon Lighthouse

Seed Round in 2021
Carbon Lighthouse is on a mission to stop climate change by making it easy and profitable for building owners to eliminate carbon emissions caused by wasted energy. The company’s unique approach to Efficiency Production goes deep into buildings to uncover and continuously correct hidden inefficiencies that add up to meaningful financial value and carbon elimination that lasts. Since 2010, commercial real estate, educational, hospitality and industrial customers nationwide have chosen Carbon Lighthouse to enhance building comfort, increase net operating income and achieve their sustainability goals.

Wisetack, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Wisetack is a financial technology platform that pays for purchases. They pay installments for the customer's purchases. They are transparent and no hidden fees are being charged. They have built for both scale and speed, using the latest technology. They are experts in finance, payments, and technology who are passionate about offering customer-friendly and fair financing products.

Figure

Series A in 2018
Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days.

Slingshot Power

Series A in 2017
Slingshot Power focuses on delivering home and business owners with clean affordable energy. It offers solar systems including installation within 25 days and 25-year service plans. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Los Altos with locations in Sacramento and Las Vegas.

Viridis Learning

Seed Round in 2013
Viridis Learning, Inc. is an education technology company that combines workforce education and human capital solutions for the middle-skill workforce. It operates a platform enabling middle skill employees to be trained, certified, and matched to employers who suit them. The company offers Viridis, a human capital technology solution that offers training to individuals that lead to industry recognized credentials and job placement for those looking to enter, sustain, or grow within the middle-skill workforce. Its courses include Residential Concrete Specialization, Bell Attendant, Advanced Residential Construction Supervisor, Energy Management and Controls, Public Space Cleaner, and Residential Construction Superintendent. The company was formerly known as Green University. Viridis Learning, Inc. is based in New York, New York.

Rubik

Seed Round in 2022
Rubik, Inc. offers an AI-powered acquisition platform for real estate investors. The company provides research and analytics for on-market and off-market properties, enabling investors to purchase homes directly online. Rubik, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Landed, Inc

Seed Round in 2017
Landed, Inc. provides financing services for home buyers. It offers debt-free financing that allows homebuyers to accept funds in exchange for part of the home's value when they refinance or sell. The company offers its services to teachers, school staff, and other professionals. It works with schools, companies, and affinity networks to create and manage down payment support funds for home buyers, schools and employers, and community investors. Landed, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Aromyx Corporation

Series A in 2021
Aromyx has built a platform for the digital capture of scent and taste – including the EssenceChip™ taste and scent sensor – that puts the human olfactory and taste receptors onto a disposable biochip, with a digital readout. The Aromyx platform includes the Allegory software suite, AromaGraph family of visual analytics, recommended taste/scent recording standards, access to the growing Aromyx online database of taste and scent data and related machine-learning algorithms. Unlike chemical sensors or mass spectrometry, the Aromyx EssenceChip system shows the biochemical signals that a cup of coffee, a sniff of perfume or a glass of wine send to the brain, as mediated by the human nose and tongue.

MatrixDS

Convertible Note in 2018
MatrixDS provides data science and analytics teams with a single integrated platform for working on data projects at any scale. From basic dashboards to deep learning models, data teams will be able to deliver business insights faster than ever. They are targeting small/medium businesses with a product that has core features, which are currently, only available to large enterprises. The platform is distributed using a freemium model, which encourages a network effects community of members who create and share public projects. It monetizes corporate clients through licenses and cloud infrastructure.

Praxis Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Praxis Labs advances diversity and inclusion outcomes through perspective-taking VR-based unconscious bias trainings.

HomeLight

Seed Round in 2012
Founded in 2012, HomeLight is the premier marketplace for finding real estate professionals. Our proprietary algorithm creates unbiased, personalized agent recommendations by analyzing transactional data and licensing records of over two million agents. HomeLight identifies agents with local knowledge and negotiation expertise, helping thousands of homeowners sell their homes faster and for more money. Based in San Francisco and Phoenix and currently operating in over 34 major U.S. markets, HomeLight is a privately held company backed by Zeev Ventures, Menlo Ventures, SGVC, Google Ventures, Crosslink Capital and Innovation Endeavors.

Prixz

Series A in 2022
Prixz is on demand delivery system for pharmacies in Mexico We are connected with more than 2000 pharmacies on line to deliver more than 1 million orders a year

Landed, Inc

Series B in 2021
Landed, Inc. provides financing services for home buyers. It offers debt-free financing that allows homebuyers to accept funds in exchange for part of the home's value when they refinance or sell. The company offers its services to teachers, school staff, and other professionals. It works with schools, companies, and affinity networks to create and manage down payment support funds for home buyers, schools and employers, and community investors. Landed, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Suma Wealth

Seed Round in 2021
SUMA is a revolutionary financial wellness company with the mission to engage, educate, and empower the Latinx community via a holistic approach of Digital Media, Experiences, and FinTech. By creating culturally relevant content, virtual experiences, and providing financial tools that demystify and reimagine financial wellness through entertainment, we aim to become the trusted source to help Latinos own their economic power, overcome financial challenges, and better prepare for a more prosperous future.

Euclid

Seed Round in 2010
Euclid connects the physical world by understanding how people relate to spaces and how spaces relate to each other. Using Wi-Fi signals in a privacy-safe way, Euclid’s proprietary technology delivers insights that inform more efficient, convenient and relevant experiences. Backed by leading venture capital firms Benchmark Capital and NEA, as well as Cox Enterprises and Groupe Arnault, Euclid was founded by Will Smith and is led by CEO Brent Franson.

Beam Impact, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Beam Impact, Inc. provides an application that allows user to donate part of everyday purchases to impact social issues. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

TomoCredit

Seed Round in 2021
TomoCredit is building the next generation credit card designed for Millennials with no credit history or credit score by analyzing alternative data sources through its proprietary algorithm. founding team is made up of immigrant founders who all felt the challenge of getting a credit card as foreign nationals. The team is comprised of alum from Coinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund and Google and have attended schools including MIT and UC Berkeley.

Apostrophe

Seed Round in 2018
Apostrophe, Inc., a fintech company, provides an healthcare savings platform for self-insured employers. It offers Apostrophe that negotiates the lowest possible rates and pays providers directly for services, as well as passes the savings onto its customers and gives its members support. The company serves self-insured employers in rural Colorado and other areas. Apostrophe, Inc. was formerly known as Airstream Health, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Imeve

Seed Round in 2021
Imeve builds software and solutions for professional production of live immersive events for VR and AR.

FreeWill

Series A in 2020
FreeWill is an online service that provides legal forms and legal information. FreeWill is an award-winning social venture founded by graduate students at Stanford University in 2016, with the help and support of many of the world’s leading experts in law, design, and philanthropy. The company is making estate planning warm, accessible, and totally free – so that you can more easily care for the people and causes you love.

NowRx, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
NowRx is a technology-enabled pharmacy that uses proprietary pharmacy software, robotics, AI, and last-mile logistics to provide free same-day delivery of prescription medications. The company's pharmacy management system, QuickFill (v3.5), is one of the only pharmacy management software systems designed for same-day delivery that has been certified by the nation’s leading health information network, Surescripts Health Alliance Network. Surescripts connects NowRx’s QuickFill directly to more than 1.5 million physicians across the U.S. Powered by its DEA-certified micro-fulfillment pharmacies and hyper-efficient operations, as of July 2020 NowRx has delivered over 200,000 medications to 28,000+ customers.

RealBlocks

Seed Round in 2019
RealBlocks is a technology platform that connects advisors and investors to the best alternative investment managers. Today many real estate and alternative investment managers are limited to raising capital locally. However with RealBlocks, these managers can now raise capital globally through institutional and intermediary channels. RealBlocks also offers a secondary trading mechanism for enhanced liquidity options.

SLICeR Pte Ltd.

Seed Round in 2015
SLICeR Pte Ltd. develops a SaaS analytics platform for the fashion and apparel industry. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Singapore.

Remind

Seed Round in 2012
Remind is a communication platform that helps every student succeed. Founded in 2011, Remind allows school and district administrators to reach and engage with their communities and connects educators and families with the tools that help them teach and learn. Investors include First Round Capital, GSV, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, and Social Capital.

Pontoro

Seed Round in 2021
Pontoro is building a digital asset securitization and liquidity platform to address the $20 trillion shortfall in infrastructure debt finance by enabling broader investor participation in these private assets. Pontoro's team has collectively underwritten, invested in, or built over $100 billion of large-scale infrastructure assets globally. Pontoro has sourced an initial $500M infrastructure loan pipeline from some of its large originating bank relationships. Pontoro is also speaking with several large financial institutions about opportunities to distribute its digital assets to these institutions’ RIA, family office, and ultra-high net worth investor distribution channels.

Aromyx Corporation

Seed Round in 2021
Aromyx has built a platform for the digital capture of scent and taste – including the EssenceChip™ taste and scent sensor – that puts the human olfactory and taste receptors onto a disposable biochip, with a digital readout. The Aromyx platform includes the Allegory software suite, AromaGraph family of visual analytics, recommended taste/scent recording standards, access to the growing Aromyx online database of taste and scent data and related machine-learning algorithms. Unlike chemical sensors or mass spectrometry, the Aromyx EssenceChip system shows the biochemical signals that a cup of coffee, a sniff of perfume or a glass of wine send to the brain, as mediated by the human nose and tongue.

Zebit, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Zebit grants no-cost credit to consumers without interest. Due to cash constraints or lack of credit access, consumers typically turn to high-cost off-line financing methods (payday loans, rent-to-own, in-store financing) with payments that can total over 3 times the purchase value. Zebit is the first to grant real-time, interest-free credit to shop millions of products and pay over time at 0% interest. By combining consumer income data with sophisticated risk analytics, and allowing members to shop millions of name brand products in a closed marketplace, Zebit provides the benefits of internet commerce (product selection, lower prices, and mobile-shopping convenience) that disrupts a $25 billion high-cost, off-line installment financing industry.

Riva

Seed Round in 2019
Riva is an automated job offer negotiation engine that makes it simple to get help in negotiating the next job offer. Riva uses Harvard backed negotiations knowledge and 1M+ verified data points in helping earn more. It uses machine learning and automation to help job candidates negotiate job offers. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Hairtelligence

Seed Round in 2022
Hairtelligence develops a computer vision-powered solution designed for customizing hair products for African American women. Its platform will take all the measurements through a snap photo and provides custom styles with extensive texture variety. By infusing technology into the customer experience, the company helps women understand the best protective hairstyles for every phase of life, learning and growing with its customers along the way. The company was co-founded by Isoken Igbinedion and Ifueko Igbinedion.

DealSyte

Seed Round in 2018
Finalis is powering the next generation of private market deals. We’re a modern broker-dealer and a deal technology platform that delivers compliance and technology solutions for investment banks, placement agencies, and fintechs. Whether you’re an investment banker, placement agent, fund manager, C-Suite executive, corporate development or investor relations professional, we will dramatically help you improve the way you get deals done, saving you your most precious resources: time and money.

Kogniz Incorporated

Series A in 2022
Kogniz Incorporated develops security software using artificial intelligence and computer vision. The product can be used to identify problematic individuals, interpret behaviors for security purposes, detect objects, detect whether the individual is in secure area, and to cover multiple locations at same time. Additionally the company manufactures security cameras to assist its software. Kogniz Incorporated was founded in 2016 and is based in Mill Valley, California with development offices in Montreal, Canada.

WellBeam Inc

Pre Seed Round in 2019
WellBeam Inc owns and operates a cloud based software solutions that connect hospitals with third party clients. It offers WellBeam authorization portal, a mobile signature system that enables providers to sign and return essential medical authorizations and WellBeam Clinician portal that connects partner clinicians with the physicians’ teams. The company offers its services to physicians' teams, hospitals, and home health agencies. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Mile Auto

Seed Round in 2019
Mile Auto is a pay-per-mile auto insurance company that uses patented computer vision technologies to help low mileage drivers save money. Mile Auto customers use their smartphones to report mileage once a month, and then pay based on exact miles driven. The result is simple, transparent billing. Mile Auto is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Socotra

Seed Round in 2014
Socotra is a technology platform that builds a modern cloud-based platform for technology-driven insurers. Its platform is built from the ground-up using the latest technologies to be transparent, reliable, flexible, and secure. It aims to provide insurers with a modern, enterprise-grade core system that enables them to rapidly develop and distribute products that better serve their customers. Socotra was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Future Family, Inc.

Series B in 2022
Future Family, Inc. offers subscription plans which cover all healthcare costs and include guided care through concierge service. The company's features include, personal fertility planning, clinic matching, dedicated nurse concierge, 24/7 access to care team, digital health platform, clinic visits and procedures, labs, and medications. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Pando

Seed Round in 2017
Pando has created a new financial tool for people in high volatility careers. We connect individuals with similar expected earnings and provide tools for them to pool a fraction of their future income — delivering both risk mitigation and the ability to capture upside potential. Our client focus includes professional athletes, entrepreneurs, and MBA’s.

DealSyte

Seed Round in 2022
Finalis is powering the next generation of private market deals. We’re a modern broker-dealer and a deal technology platform that delivers compliance and technology solutions for investment banks, placement agencies, and fintechs. Whether you’re an investment banker, placement agent, fund manager, C-Suite executive, corporate development or investor relations professional, we will dramatically help you improve the way you get deals done, saving you your most precious resources: time and money.

BetterUp Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2013, BetterUp is a mobile-based leadership development platform used by Fortune 500 companies. With a holistic, science-backed methodology, BetterUp develops new behaviors and mindsets that enable high performance amid constant and accelerating change. Through on-demand, virtual coaching sessions, users practice and reinforce new behaviors and skills. Individual growth is measured and tracked. With a diverse range of customers, including Genentech, Logitech, and Workday, BetterUp inspires employees to build the skills to thrive personally and professionally.

Eskalera, Inc.

Funding Round in 2022
Eskalera, Inc. designs and develops human resource (HR) software. It enables large and medium-sized companies to transform HR operations by improving employee engagement, productivity, and growth. The company offers Eskalera Engage, an evidence-based finding on diversity and inclusion with core HR data to generate signals about employees' experiences. It also offers solutions, such as skill-based programs that designed to remedy the issues and enhance the workplace culture. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

CoreChain Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
CoreChain Technologies is a business-to-business payments network built on blockchain technology.

Tinycare

Series A in 2021
Tinycare is a network of modern, micro centers that serves infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. It strives to provide the safest, cleanest, highest quality licensed daycares in San Francisco. It was founded by Michael Lai in 2018.

Fauna

Seed Round in 2016
Fauna is a data api for modern applications that facilitates rich clients with serverless backends by providing a web-native interface with support for GraphQL and custom business logic, frictionless integration with the serverless ecosystem, a no compromise multi-cloud architecture you can trust and grow with and total freedom from database operations. Innovators like Nextdoor and NVIDIA trust Fauna to power their applications. Backed by premier venture investors Madrona Venture Group, Addition Capital, and GV, Fauna is a 100% remote organization with an experienced leadership team hailing from Microsoft, Okta, Twitter, Elastic, and Oracle. For more information visit fauna.com or follow us at @fauna.

Ness Computing

Series A in 2011
Ness Computing's mission is to make search personal. By applying its expertise in search, recommendations and social networking to human behavior, Ness helps people discover experiences they'll love. The first category Ness supports is restaurants.

Blitzz Software

Seed Round in 2017
Blitzz, Inc. develops remote, visual sales, and problem resolution platform for contact centers and field service teams. Its platform allows businesses to create no-app-download video calls that enable virtual inspections, customer support, and field services. It serves remote video inspections, customer support, field service, and telemedicine industries. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Los Gatos, California.

Bridge

Seed Round in 2020
Bridge is a developer of a banking platform used to help achieve financial freedom. It aims to provide a path towards upward financial mobility for the millions of people left behind by the traditional banking system. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Truth{set}

Seed Round in 2020
Truth{set} was founded in 2019 by industry veterans from Nielsen, Salesforce, LiveRamp, and Procter & Gamble. Truth{set} is funded by super{set}, a new venture studio headed by Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya, and WTI, Ulu Ventures, and strategic angel investors. Truth{set} is a data intelligence company focused exclusively on validating the accuracy of consumer data. The company helps brands build trust in data, and improve the performance of any data-driven decision. Truth{set} does not sell data and is not a data broker; it compiles a likelihood of truth for any individual record that can be used to validate the accuracy of data and power more accurate consumer interactions.

FarmRaise

Seed Round in 2021
FarmRaise Inc. develops and operates a digital fund-raising platform for farmers. It offers FarmRaise, a digital platform that connects farmers to funding opportunities, such as grants, loans, cost-sharing programs, emergency and disaster relief programs, easement programs, and state-specific opportunities. The company also provides financial consulting services. FarmRaise Inc. was founded in 2020 and is based in Atherton, California.

Beam Impact, Inc.

Series A in 2022
Beam Impact, Inc. provides an application that allows user to donate part of everyday purchases to impact social issues. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Comprehend Systems, Inc.

Series A in 2013
Comprehend provides a suite of cloud applications and consulting services that improve the clinical trial process. Their solutions deliver actionable risk and performance insights across studies, systems, sites, and vendors. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Eskalera, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Eskalera, Inc. designs and develops human resource (HR) software. It enables large and medium-sized companies to transform HR operations by improving employee engagement, productivity, and growth. The company offers Eskalera Engage, an evidence-based finding on diversity and inclusion with core HR data to generate signals about employees' experiences. It also offers solutions, such as skill-based programs that designed to remedy the issues and enhance the workplace culture. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tinycare

Seed Round in 2020
Tinycare is a network of modern, micro centers that serves infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. It strives to provide the safest, cleanest, highest quality licensed daycares in San Francisco. It was founded by Michael Lai in 2018.

PresenceLearning

Seed Round in 2010
PresenceLearning makes live, online special education related services available to K-12 students around the United States. As the leader in the delivery of clinical services via the web, PresenceLearning has provided over 2.5 million teletherapy sessions. Services include speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, behavioral interventions and mental health services, assessments, and early childhood services.

Snowball Wealth, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Snowball Wealth gives personalized guidance for your student loans. We connect with your student debt accounts and give you a free personalized plan to pay off your loans and help you monitor your progress until you finish paying them off. Comparing refinancing, optimizing payments, and federal programs, Snowball ensures users make the best decision for their situation. Snowball Wealth is based in San Francisco, California.

NewRetirement, Inc

Seed Round in 2021
NewRetirement develops a retirement planning tool offering a combination of automated financial and retirement planning services. NewRetirement acts as a virtual financial advisor focused on retirement planning to help people generate retirement income, get healthcare, lower taxes, and manage fees. The system will help users optimize across Social Security, Medicare, Taxes, Home Equity, Income, Asset drawdown, Relocation, Work, and Estate Planning. Users can also access fee-only advice on-demand for collaborative planning to help them make and act on better decisions about their future.

Tinycare

Seed Round in 2020
Tinycare is a network of modern, micro centers that serves infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. It strives to provide the safest, cleanest, highest quality licensed daycares in San Francisco. It was founded by Michael Lai in 2018.

Huddler

Seed Round in 2008
Huddler is an innovative digital media company that powers millions of daily interactions on the internet's most influential enthusiast communities. Huddler's proprietary technology platform makes these communities more engaging for consumers and marketers alike. Huddler offers brands the opportunity to interact with over 24 million passionate consumers in a contextually relevant environment across key interest areas including parenting, fashion and beauty, consumer tech and outdoor sports. Marketers can engage the community through highly targeted advertising campaigns, brand ambassador programs and unique market research opportunities. Huddler is a privately held company based in San Francisco.

WellBeam Inc

Seed Round in 2020
WellBeam Inc owns and operates a cloud based software solutions that connect hospitals with third party clients. It offers WellBeam authorization portal, a mobile signature system that enables providers to sign and return essential medical authorizations and WellBeam Clinician portal that connects partner clinicians with the physicians’ teams. The company offers its services to physicians' teams, hospitals, and home health agencies. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Aromyx Corporation

Seed Round in 2019
Aromyx has built a platform for the digital capture of scent and taste – including the EssenceChip™ taste and scent sensor – that puts the human olfactory and taste receptors onto a disposable biochip, with a digital readout. The Aromyx platform includes the Allegory software suite, AromaGraph family of visual analytics, recommended taste/scent recording standards, access to the growing Aromyx online database of taste and scent data and related machine-learning algorithms. Unlike chemical sensors or mass spectrometry, the Aromyx EssenceChip system shows the biochemical signals that a cup of coffee, a sniff of perfume or a glass of wine send to the brain, as mediated by the human nose and tongue.

ProFounder

Convertible Note in 2011
ProFounder Financial, Inc. operates a crowd funding platform that enables entrepreneurs to raise investment capital from friends, family, and community members. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

EarnUp Inc.

Series A in 2017
EarnUp is a consumer-first fintech platform that intelligently automates loan payments for the more than 200 million Americans with debt. They help you put a few dollars aside for your loans when you can afford it – then they make your loan payments for you, allocating funds in the way that gets you out of debt faster. They are dedicated to giving control back to everyone who is frustrated managing their finances

Figure

Series A in 2018
Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days.

Fuisz Media Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Fuisz turns any video into an interactive experience, allowing the viewer to touch, hover or click on any object to discover new content. This can include product information, innovative branded experiences, direct links to company websites and the ability to buy the item. Fuisz works with the world’s top advertising agencies and global brands such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Victoria’s Secret, Gillette and Target to unlock the video experience, delivering significant increases in engagement that maximize return on digital advertising spend. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica.

LingoHealth

Pre Seed Round in 2021
LingoHealth is a digital platform for family members to better support their aging loved ones' health, with a focus on multilingual families. Multilingual families are 3 times more likely to have Millennials involved in caregiving, versus English-fluent households. We give family advocates visibility into the next steps for care to get their loved ones to the most appropriate site of care and better manage their health.

Deliberate

Seed Round in 2021
Mental Health AI

Kogniz Incorporated

Seed Round in 2019
Kogniz Incorporated develops security software using artificial intelligence and computer vision. The product can be used to identify problematic individuals, interpret behaviors for security purposes, detect objects, detect whether the individual is in secure area, and to cover multiple locations at same time. Additionally the company manufactures security cameras to assist its software. Kogniz Incorporated was founded in 2016 and is based in Mill Valley, California with development offices in Montreal, Canada.

Via

Seed Round in 2021
VIA Global Ventures, Inc. operates an online marketplace that connects professionals to short-term onsite work at companies. Its platform offers services in the areas of projects in strategy, business development and sales, business operations, marketing, product, financial analytics, business intelligence, and process improvement. VIA Global Ventures, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Key Biscayne, Florida. It has presence and operations in Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Europe.

Figure

Series D in 2021
Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days.
Blockchain-based financing, development, operations and securitization platform (DFOS) for infrastructure.

Landed, Inc

Series A in 2019
Landed, Inc. provides financing services for home buyers. It offers debt-free financing that allows homebuyers to accept funds in exchange for part of the home's value when they refinance or sell. The company offers its services to teachers, school staff, and other professionals. It works with schools, companies, and affinity networks to create and manage down payment support funds for home buyers, schools and employers, and community investors. Landed, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Citrine Informatics, Inc.

Series A in 2017
Citrine Informatics is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. It features a software platform that ingests and analyzes vast quantities of technical data on materials, chemicals, and devices to streamline R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain operations for any organization that produces a physical product. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California.

HEVO Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
HEVO Inc. provides wireless charging solutions for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicle markets. The company offers HEVO Power Station, hardware device for city streets, parking lots and garages, motor pools, highways, and other trafficked areas; HEVO Mobile, a software platform that identifies upfitted vehicles and synchronizes the bill-pay wirelessly through on-board console, smartphone, or tablet; and Green Parking and Green Loading Zones for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicle fleets for parking. It offers s transportation solutions for municipalities, fleet optimization and range extension for commercial transportation, and solutions for military applications. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

Eskalera, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Eskalera, Inc. designs and develops human resource (HR) software. It enables large and medium-sized companies to transform HR operations by improving employee engagement, productivity, and growth. The company offers Eskalera Engage, an evidence-based finding on diversity and inclusion with core HR data to generate signals about employees' experiences. It also offers solutions, such as skill-based programs that designed to remedy the issues and enhance the workplace culture. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Nowsta

Seed Round in 2021
Nowsta is an all-in-one software for hourly and event-based workforces, providing scheduling, time tracking, and fintech solutions. It helps employers become better managers by giving them the tools they need to seamlessly manage their hourly workforce. The company is building a platform that leverages advancements in machine learning and payments technology to reimagine the way companies communicate with, and pay their hourly wage employees. Nowsta was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Nowsta

Medrio

Venture Round in 2011
Medrio provides advanced Electronic Data Capture (EDC) and eClinical tools suitable for the most complex clinical trials but built on a platform that makes us faster, lower in cost, and more streamlined than the competition. Since 2005 Medrio has been building a true Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for data management in clinical trials. Based in San Francisco, California, Medrio puts the control in your hands with our smart, forward thinking eClinical offering.

Overlay

Seed Round in 2021
Overlay has developed the technology that enables Precision AR. Precision AR enables augmented reality to be shown outdoors with centimeter-level accuracy over large distances and long spans of time. The Overlay app can measure and do lat/long point capture, GIS data collection and correction in Esri ArcGIS, create site sketches that are editable in your favorite CAD program, and visualize BIM models or reality capture point clouds.

Habu

Series A in 2020
Habu is a marketing data operating system that enables brands to enrich first-party data in a privacy-first world. Habu’s modular OS interoperates with existing marketing technology, even extending the capabilities of legacy systems, so marketers don’t have to invest in yet another platform. With Habu, brands can build a durable data foundation and drive multi-channel personalization with automated privacy compliance. The company is based in San Francisco and has offices in Boston and New York. To learn more, go to habu.com.

Praxis Labs

Series A in 2021
Praxis Labs advances diversity and inclusion outcomes through perspective-taking VR-based unconscious bias trainings.

Populus

Venture Round in 2021
Trusted by more than 70 cities around the world, Populus is a comprehensive digital solution that empowers cities to manage their streets, and develop data-driven policies with access to data from mobility operators (shared bikes, scooters, and cars).

RealBlocks

Series A in 2020
RealBlocks is a technology platform that connects advisors and investors to the best alternative investment managers. Today many real estate and alternative investment managers are limited to raising capital locally. However with RealBlocks, these managers can now raise capital globally through institutional and intermediary channels. RealBlocks also offers a secondary trading mechanism for enhanced liquidity options.

Ravel Law, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Ravel Law is a legal search, analytics, and visualization platform. Ravel enables lawyers to find, contextualize, and interpret information that turns legal data into legal insights. Ravel's array of powerful tools – which include data-driven, interactive visualizations and analytics – transforms how lawyers understand the law and prepare for litigation. In today's global and increasingly digital world, Ravel empowers attorneys to benefit from this huge influx of information and find value in it. In 2012, Ravel spun out of Stanford University's Law School, Computer Science Department, and d.school, with the support of CodeX (Stanford's Center for Legal Informatics).

Big Wolf Games

Seed Round in 2021
Big Wolf is a mobile game developer company.

Arch Systems

Seed Round in 2016
Arch Systems Inc. designs and develops a device-to-cloud modular hardware platform for industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company’s device-to-cloud hardware is used for a range of custom IoT applications from electronics to mobile and cloud. Its hardware platform allows clients to design custom connected devices and take them to production, as well as enables software developers to create physical applications for sectors, such as food, water, and energy. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.

MODit 3D Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
MODit provides smart, automated quality control for manufacturing. MODit's mass-deployable 3D scanning systems and cloud platform increase yields and streamline quality communication across the supply chain.

Populus

Seed Round in 2021
Trusted by more than 70 cities around the world, Populus is a comprehensive digital solution that empowers cities to manage their streets, and develop data-driven policies with access to data from mobility operators (shared bikes, scooters, and cars).

Gable

Seed Round in 2021
Gable platform helps remote professionals across the globe can use to access a nearby neighborhood workspace to work, focus, innovate, connect, and thrive. Gable hosts accommodate small groups between four and 20 people, so companies can book a Gable for employees clustered in the same neighborhood to collaborate efficiently. Everyone is screened with background and health and safety checks, and all spaces must meet certain quality criteria to pass muster. All amenities like WiFi, phone calls, tea, restroom, parking, kitchen, printers, whiteboard, AC are provided.

CoreChain Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
CoreChain Technologies is a business-to-business payments network built on blockchain technology.

HomeLight

Seed Round in 2012
Founded in 2012, HomeLight is the premier marketplace for finding real estate professionals. Our proprietary algorithm creates unbiased, personalized agent recommendations by analyzing transactional data and licensing records of over two million agents. HomeLight identifies agents with local knowledge and negotiation expertise, helping thousands of homeowners sell their homes faster and for more money. Based in San Francisco and Phoenix and currently operating in over 34 major U.S. markets, HomeLight is a privately held company backed by Zeev Ventures, Menlo Ventures, SGVC, Google Ventures, Crosslink Capital and Innovation Endeavors.

Compound Foods

Seed Round in 2021
Compound Foods creates coffee without coffee beans

LexCheck, Inc.

Seed Round in 2022
LexCheck is an AI-driven contracting platform that increases productivity and reduces legal costs. LexCheck uses artificial intelligence to automate and accelerate contract drafting, negotiation and review. The understanding of the legal sector allows users to spot issues instantly and breeze through time-consuming tasks with ease. The software corrects common errors as well as customized issues that are most important, learning and improving the more it is used. LexCheck will get through the cumbersome phases of contracting quickly. LexCheck was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Guild Education

Series A in 2016
Guild Education's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and career. Guild offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with their tech-enabled student advising model. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States.

Swing Education, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Swing provides substitute teachers to fill hard-to-fill staff absences. On average, U.S. students spend 5% of the typical school year with substitute teachers, which translates to over 6 months of their K-12 school career. Failing to fill a substitute teacher opening not only impacts students, but causes teachers, school leaders, and administrators to shuffle around to cover gaps. There's also the time administrators spend on the logistical issues of finding, recruiting, screening, scheduling, and paying contract substitute teachers. Swing's marketplace helps schools cover hard-to-fill absences by seamlessly providing substitute teachers on-demand.

Hub

Venture Round in 2018
Hub - Human Trust Protocol Billions of users on the Internet interact with each other every day on messengers, online communities, social networks and peer-to-peer marketplaces, making contact with people they never met let alone trust. By securing trust and decentralizing reputation data on a blockchain, the Internet will offer greater economic value to users to gain more opportunities, command higher premiums for their products and services, and get more cooperation from others.

Lex Machina, Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
Lex Machina provides legal analytics to companies and law firms to craft successful strategies, win cases, and close business. Legal Analytics combines data and software to provide the winning edge in the highly competitive business and practice of law. The company's unique Lexpressions engine creates data sets, never before available about judges, lawyers, parties, and the subjects of lawsuits, out of millions of pages of litigation information. With this data, for the first time, lawyers can predict the behaviors and outcomes that different legal strategies will produce. Lex Machina was founded on 2009 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Figure

Series A in 2018
Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days.

Tinfoil Security, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Tinfoil Security, Inc. provides security-as-a-service based Website security solutions. It crawls into Websites and looks for common vulnerabilities; and acts as external hackers, picks through various access points on the Website, tries to get in, records where and how the company did it, and reports back. The company searches for the most common vulnerabilities; secures the site from the OWASP top ten, a list of the most commonly infiltrated vulnerabilities; and builds up from there. Tinfoil Security was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of January 9, 2020, Tinfoil Security, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Synopsys, Inc.

Ellevest, Inc.

Series B in 2016
Ellevest, Inc. is an employee owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to women clients. It manages separate client-focused portfolios. The firm invests in different asset classes in markets across the globe. The firm employs fundamental analysis along with top-down approach to create its portfolios. It was formerly known as Ellevate Financial, Inc. Ellevest, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in New York City.

Savvy

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Savvy makes applying to rental homes faster, cheaper, and more reliable for renters and landlords. We use open banking to make the process more efficient for both sides. For renters, Savvy provides a more transparent, secure, and convenient application process, the ability to build credit through rent payments, and broader access to housing. For leasing managers, Savvy replaces the cumbersome tenant application review process with a simple, fast end-to-end screening solution that provides more reliable data, saving thousands of hours and reducing the risk of tenant defaults.
Blue River Technology Inc. engages in developing computer vision and robotics technology for agricultural applications. Its technology identifies weeds and selectively kills unwanted plants. The company’s automated solution is suitable for organic agriculture and fields with chemical-resistant weeds. Blue River Technology Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Salinas, California and Yuma, Arizona. As of September 12, 2017, Blue River Technology Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Deere & Company.

Sounder

Seed Round in 2021
Sounder.fm is a platform that helps audio creators manage, market, and measure their audio content. Sounder offers free hosting, transcription, Pinpoint Audio Search, and analytics to help the user grow its audience. It aims to drive creativity and make audio better for everyone. The company was founded in 2019 and based in New York, New York.

Kahuna

Seed Round in 2012
Kahuna creates highly personalized experiences for every buyer and every seller for the world’s leading marketplaces. Kahuna is the platform of choice for meeting the needs of marketplaces, using state of the art machine-learning technology to drive extreme personalization, product and pricing optimization, trust, and engagement. With more than 144 million engaged users, over 4 billion messages sent, and 46 billion optimized events, Kahuna is the proven solution for marketplaces of all sizes. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with global locations, Kahuna investors include Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Uncork Capital. Learn more at http://www.kahuna.com

Dwellsy, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Dwellsy is an internet company that specializes in the fields of consumer applications, internet, and property management. It features a web-based platform for residential home rentals, built on the radical concept that true, organic search in a free eco-system creates more value than the pay-to-play model embraced by all of the current rental listing services. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Los Altos, California.

WellBeam Inc

Seed Round in 2021
WellBeam Inc owns and operates a cloud based software solutions that connect hospitals with third party clients. It offers WellBeam authorization portal, a mobile signature system that enables providers to sign and return essential medical authorizations and WellBeam Clinician portal that connects partner clinicians with the physicians’ teams. The company offers its services to physicians' teams, hospitals, and home health agencies. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Truth{set}

Seed Round in 2021
Truth{set} was founded in 2019 by industry veterans from Nielsen, Salesforce, LiveRamp, and Procter & Gamble. Truth{set} is funded by super{set}, a new venture studio headed by Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya, and WTI, Ulu Ventures, and strategic angel investors. Truth{set} is a data intelligence company focused exclusively on validating the accuracy of consumer data. The company helps brands build trust in data, and improve the performance of any data-driven decision. Truth{set} does not sell data and is not a data broker; it compiles a likelihood of truth for any individual record that can be used to validate the accuracy of data and power more accurate consumer interactions.

Span.IO

Series A in 2020
Span.IO, Inc. develops and supplies renewable energy products for homes. It offers smart electrical panels that replace the electrical panel to become the center for connected power in the homes. The company also provides The Span, an application that enables users to understand and control their home energy from anywhere and at any time; and is used for scheduling and get alerts. It serves homeowners through installers, technology providers, and energy companies. Span.IO, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MiSalud

Seed Round in 2021
MiSalud offers a unique combination of personalized preventative wellness services, along with traditional healthcare via Spanish speaking physicians.

CollegeBacker

Venture Round in 2021
Backer is a social savings platform that enables users to set up a tax-free 529 account where family and friends can contribute. It is backed by leading edtech and fintech venture firms, Princeton University, Dartmouth University, USC’s Marshall School of Business, and founders of SoFi, Facebook, Quizlet, CircleUp, AltSchool, Patreon, and LendingHome. Backer was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

BetterUp Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2013, BetterUp is a mobile-based leadership development platform used by Fortune 500 companies. With a holistic, science-backed methodology, BetterUp develops new behaviors and mindsets that enable high performance amid constant and accelerating change. Through on-demand, virtual coaching sessions, users practice and reinforce new behaviors and skills. Individual growth is measured and tracked. With a diverse range of customers, including Genentech, Logitech, and Workday, BetterUp inspires employees to build the skills to thrive personally and professionally.

Lex Machina, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Lex Machina provides legal analytics to companies and law firms to craft successful strategies, win cases, and close business. Legal Analytics combines data and software to provide the winning edge in the highly competitive business and practice of law. The company's unique Lexpressions engine creates data sets, never before available about judges, lawyers, parties, and the subjects of lawsuits, out of millions of pages of litigation information. With this data, for the first time, lawyers can predict the behaviors and outcomes that different legal strategies will produce. Lex Machina was founded on 2009 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Fidelis

Series A in 2011
Fidelis Education, Inc. develops software solutions for coordinating out-of-class student success support services. It offers learning relationship management, a software solution that provides support services for staff to coordinate the services they already offer; and students to discover and take advantage of them. The company also provides mentoring and coaching software for peer mentoring, professional mentoring, faculty mentoring, enrollment advising, success coaching, academic advising, and career advising; and academic support software for tutoring, supplemental education, remedial education, and micro credentialing. In addition, it offers social/emotional learning software for self-awareness, decision making, relationship skills, and just-in-time content; and community engagement software for cohort management, club management, department management, employer relations, and alumni engagement. Further, the company provides services in the areas of implementation, integration, technology, coaching, and content. Fidelis Education, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Glassbreakers

Seed Round in 2017
Glassbreakers is an enterprise software company that provides inclusive talent development software solutions for diversity and inclusion. The company focused on supporting diversity and inclusion as a core business function. Glassbreakers was founded in 2014 and is based in Oakland, California, United States.

Praxis Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Praxis Labs advances diversity and inclusion outcomes through perspective-taking VR-based unconscious bias trainings.

FastForward, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
FastForward, Inc. develops a social media engagement and commerce platform that enables enterprises to engage and transact with their customers inside social media and messaging applications. It offers FastForward, a social media SaaS platform for digital marketing, commerce, and payments that enables enterprises to modernize their user experience and provide customized digital services. The company’s platform FastForward is a digital services and mobile payment gateway inside social media, as well as enables enterprises to engage and transact with their customers where they spend time online, such as social media and messaging apps. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Mountain View, California.

DermLink, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
DermLink provides customer relationship management software to physicians. Our current products target clinical and cosmetic dermatologists and aesthetic physicians. DermLink is the leading online dermatology provider in the US with a network of doctors extending to 35+ states. DermLink technology was used to detect multiple skin cancer patients. DermLink iPhone app is featured by Apple as one of the best new medical apps. DermLink is a StartX and HealthBox - backed company.

CoreChain Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
CoreChain Technologies is a business-to-business payments network built on blockchain technology.

Sail Internet

Seed Round in 2019
Sail Internet, Inc. provides fiber and fixed wireless internet services to businesses, single-family homes, and multi-unit complexes in San Francisco Bay Area and the Chula Vista area. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Overlay

Seed Round in 2019
Overlay has developed the technology that enables Precision AR. Precision AR enables augmented reality to be shown outdoors with centimeter-level accuracy over large distances and long spans of time. The Overlay app can measure and do lat/long point capture, GIS data collection and correction in Esri ArcGIS, create site sketches that are editable in your favorite CAD program, and visualize BIM models or reality capture point clouds.

Taulia

Series A in 2010
Taulia is a FinTech startup that provides working capital management and electronic invoicing services for supply chain companies. Its platform helps businesses to turn every invoice into a revenue opportunity using their cash or third-party cash to fund early payments, lower the barriers for e-invoicing participation by accepting all forms of electronic invoices without having to charge suppliers, and empower suppliers to be self-sufficient by giving them access to free self-service and management tool.

Krux Digital Inc.

Seed Round in 2010
Krux helps companies deliver personalized commerce, media, and marketing experiences to the right people, in the right way, at the right time across all devices, browsers, and operating systems. Krux’s cloud-based data management platform (DMP) unifies people data from multiple screens and sources into a single view of the individual, analyzes the data to understand each individual’s preferences, and activates the data across every channel (desktop, mobile, social, display, web, set-top) in real time. Founded in 2010, Krux interacts with over two billion browsers and devices worldwide, serves over 20 billion page views per month, and processes more than 1.5 billion CRM records per month. Krux is a venture-backed company headquartered in San Francisco with offices across four continents. Krux clients such as Kellogg, Time Warner, and Meredith have achieved a 10x return or higher on their investment. Follow Krux on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.

Rockit

Seed Round in 2014
Rockit Online is an online school that offers effective English language learning experience to learners in Asia, initially targeting students and young professionals in Vietnam. Combining live instruction by bilingual teachers with multi-media content, Rockit Online helps students master the English language at a lower cost and more convenience to help them successfully prepare for globalized job markets.

FEM inc.

Seed Round in 2015
FEM inc., a media technology company, creates and delivers engaging and relevant video experiences for Websites or apps. Its video discovery platform is embedded into Websites, entertainment networks, or apps to engage and retain audience. The company focuses on engagement to drive retention, increase video views on site, and boost overall time on site per session. FEM inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Octant Bio

Seed Round in 2017
Octant, Inc. engages in engineering biology to design multi-targeted small molecule drug leads for complex diseases. Its polypharmacology discovery engine generates multi-receptor pathway data and predictive insights to inform rational drug design. The company also engineers biology using living cells as high-throughput signal networks to map, measure, and model chemical structures against G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Tapshot, Makers of Videokits

Angel Round in 2012
Videokits is a mobile solution that lets you capture, organize, and analyze survey and video responses to gain customer insights.

Landed, Inc

Seed Round in 2016
Landed, Inc. provides financing services for home buyers. It offers debt-free financing that allows homebuyers to accept funds in exchange for part of the home's value when they refinance or sell. The company offers its services to teachers, school staff, and other professionals. It works with schools, companies, and affinity networks to create and manage down payment support funds for home buyers, schools and employers, and community investors. Landed, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Motion Math

Seed Round in 2011
Motion Math Inc. develops movement-based mobile math game suite. The company’s product helps learners perceive and estimate various representations for fractions, such as numerator over denominator, percents, decimals, and pie charts. Its product connects each type of representation with its distance on the number line that enables learners to develop a perception of fractions. The company is based in San Francisco, California. As of November 8, 2017, Motion Math Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Curriculum Associates LLC.

Eatgeek Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
ZeroStorefront consists of an all-in-one platform that connects point-of-sale, delivery platforms, reviews sites, chat, phone, and other applications. It illuminates the customer path, provides attribution for customer behavior, and provide the tools necessary to safely share customer data across applications. Founded in 2019, ZeroStorefront is a proud YCombinator alum, and a diverse, venture-backed, high-growth company. Its customers include brands like Frank Pepe’s, Halal Guys, and more.

TomoCredit

Seed Round in 2020
TomoCredit is building the next generation credit card designed for Millennials with no credit history or credit score by analyzing alternative data sources through its proprietary algorithm. founding team is made up of immigrant founders who all felt the challenge of getting a credit card as foreign nationals. The team is comprised of alum from Coinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund and Google and have attended schools including MIT and UC Berkeley.

ModeWalk

Series A in 2012
ModeWalk Inc. owns and operates a social marketplace for luxury designers and craftsmen which enables them to interact directly with consumers online. The designers can communicate brand and receive feedback and aggregate traffic. ModeWalk Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Proterra

Series D in 2015
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission buses that enable fleet operators to eliminate dependency on fossil fuels and reduce costs. The company has sold more than 375 vehicles to municipal, university and commercial transit agencies throughout the U.S. Proterra’s configurable EV platform make its buses well suited for all transit routes. With unmatched durability and energy efficiency, Proterra products are proudly made in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles.

Citrine Informatics, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Citrine Informatics is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. It features a software platform that ingests and analyzes vast quantities of technical data on materials, chemicals, and devices to streamline R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain operations for any organization that produces a physical product. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Pando

Series A in 2020
Pando has created a new financial tool for people in high volatility careers. We connect individuals with similar expected earnings and provide tools for them to pool a fraction of their future income — delivering both risk mitigation and the ability to capture upside potential. Our client focus includes professional athletes, entrepreneurs, and MBA’s.

Axiom Cloud

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Axiom Cloud Inc. uses AI to solve the biggest energy and maintenance problems plaguing the underserved commercial cooling/refrigeration industry ($120B/year in the US alone). Our first target customer segment is retail grocery. Customers pay an initial setup fee to install/configure the IoT platform onsite, along with recurring SaaS fees for one or more cloud-based software apps that run on the IoT platform.

Zum

Series A in 2017
Zūm is a provider of safe, efficient, and reliable child transportation for school districts and busy families. Zūm saves schools money and parents time by providing flexible transportation options through its network of highly vetted drivers and advanced scheduling, routing, and tracking technology. The company currently provide children’s transportation service in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. Zūm was founded in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

interviewing.io

Seed Round in 2017
Interviewing.io is an anonymous technical interviewing platform. Its interviewers have worked at Google, Udacity, Square, Twitch, Microsoft, and other recognized companies.

Village88 TechLab

Seed Round in 2019
Village88 tech lab is a high-tech startup accelerator based in Seattle, WA. They offer funding and engineering resources to help entrepreneurs take startup ideas to the next level. They look for passionate entrepreneurs who understand their industry and business model. They will work with them to build a scalable product that fits market needs.

StarMaker Interactive

Seed Round in 2010
StarMaker is an online video network whose mission is to move content creation and talent discovery from traditional media to the mobile and social space. Combining the power of content creation apps, recording studio technology, crowd-sourced talent discovery, and a huge network of user channels on YouTube, StarMaker's platform enables artists to manage their career without the antiquated Entertainment Industry waste. StarMaker also integrates major media brands and recording artists, helping their talent create, share, discover, and promote each other's user-generated media.

Proven

Series A in 2012
Proven operates as a hiring tool intended for small businesses. The platform takes hiring on the go with fully native apps for iOS and Android. Employers can review resumes, respond to candidates, and even post a new job all from a smartphone. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Genesis Therapeutics Inc.

Series A in 2020
Their academia-leading research was the initial component of our expanding portfolio of AI technologies. They are combining novel deep neural networks, biophysical simulation, and massively scalable computing infrastructure to achieve industry-leading performance in a molecular generation and property prediction. The company was founded in 2019 and based in South San Francisco, California.

Campus Quad

Seed Round in 2013
Campus Quad, Inc. provides Campus Quad, a cloud based mobile communication platform that connects app-driven mobile student in real time to the people, places, and programs that enrich the college experience and drive extra-curricular engagement. Its Campus Quad displays photos, events, coupons, and classified ads; manages content creation, distribution, and engagement metrics; and provides solution for colleges to help students engage in campus life and navigate path to graduation. The company serves universities and students. Campus Quad, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Juntos

Seed Round in 2013
Juntos Finanzas, Inc. provides a mobile communication solution for financial institutions to engage their clients. It works with partners to develop KPIs that ensure customer behavior is motivated to drive increased engagement and usage of accounts; and ethnographic research to uncover key behavioral and language keys, as well as insights into how trust is built in that specific language and culture. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Carlos, California.

PING, Inc.

Series A in 2019
PING, Inc. manufactures and sells golf equipment. It offers grips, apparel, bags, gloves, headwear, towels, headcovers, umbrellas, and other products. The company sells its products through retailers in the United States and internationally, as well as online PING, Inc. was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

TeachFX

Seed Round in 2017
TeachFX, Inc. develops an application that gives teachers feedback on the dialogue that happens in classroom. The application uses machine learning to analyze and visualize for teachers what portions of their class are teacher talk vs. student talk. The company develops smartphone and web application that provides automated feedback and help students and teachers to identify problem areas and resolve the issues. TeachFX, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Mile Auto

Seed Round in 2017
Mile Auto is a pay-per-mile auto insurance company that uses patented computer vision technologies to help low mileage drivers save money. Mile Auto customers use their smartphones to report mileage once a month, and then pay based on exact miles driven. The result is simple, transparent billing. Mile Auto is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Trefis

Angel Round in 2008
Trefis is a stock analysis service that breaks down a stock price by the contribution of a company's major products and businesses. The model allows users to change underlying assumptions by simply dragging lines on charts forecasting the future price of the products, their future expected market share, etc. Every time you change an assumption, the price target changes accordingly.

Inkling Systems, Inc.

Angel Round in 2010
Inkling is a single system that lets teams create great content, share it on any digital device, and measure how it's being used. It helps businesses succeed in today’s mobile world with data-driven content that can be accessed by any user, on any device, anywhere in the world. Inkling’s first-of-its-kind software prioritizes content intelligence—enabling businesses to maximize their content’s value with real-time data insights. Based in San Francisco, Inkling is backed by Sequoia Capital, and partners with the world’s leading brands to enable their content for the digital space.

Clever

Seed Round in 2012
Clever operates as a single sign-on platform for K-12 education. It unlocks a wealth of digital learning, so teachers can meet each student where they are. Clever brings all applications into one secure portal and provides single sign-on for everyone in the district. It was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Aromyx Corporation

Seed Round in 2017
Aromyx has built a platform for the digital capture of scent and taste – including the EssenceChip™ taste and scent sensor – that puts the human olfactory and taste receptors onto a disposable biochip, with a digital readout. The Aromyx platform includes the Allegory software suite, AromaGraph family of visual analytics, recommended taste/scent recording standards, access to the growing Aromyx online database of taste and scent data and related machine-learning algorithms. Unlike chemical sensors or mass spectrometry, the Aromyx EssenceChip system shows the biochemical signals that a cup of coffee, a sniff of perfume or a glass of wine send to the brain, as mediated by the human nose and tongue.

Eskalera, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Eskalera, Inc. designs and develops human resource (HR) software. It enables large and medium-sized companies to transform HR operations by improving employee engagement, productivity, and growth. The company offers Eskalera Engage, an evidence-based finding on diversity and inclusion with core HR data to generate signals about employees' experiences. It also offers solutions, such as skill-based programs that designed to remedy the issues and enhance the workplace culture. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SIPX, Inc.

Series A in 2012
SIPX (pronounced “sip-ex”) is an exciting new company based in Palo Alto, California. Backed by the leading venture, corporate, and angel investors, our mission is to simplify the complex processes involved in legally accessing digital content for the higher education marketplace. It was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

tEQuitable

Seed Round in 2018
tEQuitable’s mission is to help companies create a safe, inclusive and equitable workplace — work culture that works for everyone. tEQuitable is an independent, confidential platform to address bias and discrimination in the workplace. They provide a resource to employees for issues ranging from subtle to severe and they provide data and insights to companies to identify and improve systemic workplace culture issues.

Ravel Law, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Ravel Law is a legal search, analytics, and visualization platform. Ravel enables lawyers to find, contextualize, and interpret information that turns legal data into legal insights. Ravel's array of powerful tools – which include data-driven, interactive visualizations and analytics – transforms how lawyers understand the law and prepare for litigation. In today's global and increasingly digital world, Ravel empowers attorneys to benefit from this huge influx of information and find value in it. In 2012, Ravel spun out of Stanford University's Law School, Computer Science Department, and d.school, with the support of CodeX (Stanford's Center for Legal Informatics).

EarnUp Inc.

Series A in 2017
EarnUp is a consumer-first fintech platform that intelligently automates loan payments for the more than 200 million Americans with debt. They help you put a few dollars aside for your loans when you can afford it – then they make your loan payments for you, allocating funds in the way that gets you out of debt faster. They are dedicated to giving control back to everyone who is frustrated managing their finances

InsideMaps

Seed Round in 2014
InsideMaps is a smartphone and tablet app that enables anyone to easily create photorealistic 3D models and virtual tours of their homes. It disrupts other available solutions through a simple, inexpensive APP designed for anyone to use. The 3D model that is created is an immersive, fast, web-based 3D environment with innovative tools to help potential home buyers visualize the interior of a home and for homeowners to try the furniture and make home improvements in their virtual home.

Fauna

Series A in 2017
Fauna is a data api for modern applications that facilitates rich clients with serverless backends by providing a web-native interface with support for GraphQL and custom business logic, frictionless integration with the serverless ecosystem, a no compromise multi-cloud architecture you can trust and grow with and total freedom from database operations. Innovators like Nextdoor and NVIDIA trust Fauna to power their applications. Backed by premier venture investors Madrona Venture Group, Addition Capital, and GV, Fauna is a 100% remote organization with an experienced leadership team hailing from Microsoft, Okta, Twitter, Elastic, and Oracle. For more information visit fauna.com or follow us at @fauna.

Ellevest, Inc.

Series A in 2017
Ellevest, Inc. is an employee owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to women clients. It manages separate client-focused portfolios. The firm invests in different asset classes in markets across the globe. The firm employs fundamental analysis along with top-down approach to create its portfolios. It was formerly known as Ellevate Financial, Inc. Ellevest, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in New York City.

Provenance Blockchain

Initial Coin Offering in 2019
Provenance Blockchain is the administrator for the Provenance.io blockchain,financial institutions have transacted over $1B in assets on Provenance, realizing over 130 bps of savings through improved execution in loan origination, financing and trading.

Guild Education

Seed Round in 2015
Guild Education's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and career. Guild offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with their tech-enabled student advising model. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States.

SnapCheck

Seed Round in 2018
SnapCheck is a high speed, highly secure, and universally accepted solution dedicated to eliminating paper checks. By eliminating the 18 billion checks written in the US each year, one million trees could be spared. They've created a unique open-ecosystem platform for paying anyone anywhere with the familiar form of a check, but without all the problems inherent in paper. Their digital checking solution gives businesses, consumers, and banks the ability to save over $50 billion a year in costs and $20 billion a year in fraud losses.

SIPX, Inc.

Series B in 2013
SIPX (pronounced “sip-ex”) is an exciting new company based in Palo Alto, California. Backed by the leading venture, corporate, and angel investors, our mission is to simplify the complex processes involved in legally accessing digital content for the higher education marketplace. It was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

PastureMap, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
PastureMap helps ranchers and farmers make profits building healthy grasslands. The company builds a global regenerative agriculture movement that is restores soil health, sequestering carbon, and provides clean water while feeding local communities.

Enya.ai

Seed Round in 2018
Founded by a Stanford team, Enya.ai offers the only secure computation platform optimized for edge devices such as mobile phones, drones, cars, and IoT sensors. With the rise of data privacy concerns and the increasing cost of complying with privacy regulations, companies are looking for solutions that help them reduce their data liability.

Panoptic Security

Series A in 2010
Panoptic Security provides help to small merchants in their quest to comply with the PCI-DSS regulations. Panoptic uses an intelligent SAQ algorithm and predictive logic based on point of sale system configurations to eliminate nearly half of the difficult questions on the SAQ for small merchant. This results in less time spent becoming and maintaining compliance and 5 times higher compliance rates than the industry average. Panoptic's intelligent saas software has won the Information Security Products Guide award for global excellence two years in a row as the best compliance solution.

Figure

Series B in 2019
Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days.

Coding Dojo, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
Coding Dojo, Inc. offers programming training services. The company provides online and onsite practices of coding courses, Bootcamp. Its courses include, Python, C#/.NET, MEAN Stack, Ruby, iOS/Swift, and Java. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Jose, California with additional locations in Seattle, Washington; Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, East Bay, California; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Tysons Corner, Virginia; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

LearnZillion, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
LearnZillion provides educators with curricular products for the new standards in digital and print. Its platform offers access to instructional materials for mathematics and literacy, as well as provides task-implementation guides for teachers that enable students and teachers to get benefited from each other through interactive learning. LearnZillion was founded in 2011 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Span.IO

Seed Round in 2018
Span.IO, Inc. develops and supplies renewable energy products for homes. It offers smart electrical panels that replace the electrical panel to become the center for connected power in the homes. The company also provides The Span, an application that enables users to understand and control their home energy from anywhere and at any time; and is used for scheduling and get alerts. It serves homeowners through installers, technology providers, and energy companies. Span.IO, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Data Compass

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Data Compass is a global platform that connects software developers with great companies. It allows developers to show their superhuman coding strength in just 38 minutes. Score well and be invited to "Fast Track" the interview process at leading tech companies. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Cerebro Capital

Seed Round in 2020
Cerebro Capital, Inc. develops a web-based portal designed for middle-market companies looking to utilize credit facilities for operations, organic growth, or acquisitions. It integrates data from over 80 lenders, offers analytics to match the type of financing to the lender, and offers graphical interfaces for data interpretation. The company was formerly known as MCB Enterprises, LLC. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Modern Meadow, LLC

Seed Round in 2013
Modern Meadow is developing fundamentally new approaches to growing animal products. This includes cultured leather and meat products which require no animal slaughter and much lower inputs of land, water, energy and chemicals.

Hire An Esquire

Seed Round in 2013
We’re changing the way lawyers work, for good! Hire an Esquire is the first to market technology in the On-Demand Attorney Recruiting space. We are an enterprise marketplace that helps law firms and in-house legal departments to find, manage and pay a flexible workforce while helping attorneys create a more independent and entrepreneurial career path. We currently have an enthusiastic user base of ~6,000 attorneys nationally and hundreds of clients from boutique firms to Fortune 50 Companies and over 15% (and growing) of the AM Law 200 (top 200 law firms by revenue) on our platform.

Axiom Cloud

Seed Round in 2021
Axiom Cloud Inc. uses AI to solve the biggest energy and maintenance problems plaguing the underserved commercial cooling/refrigeration industry ($120B/year in the US alone). Our first target customer segment is retail grocery. Customers pay an initial setup fee to install/configure the IoT platform onsite, along with recurring SaaS fees for one or more cloud-based software apps that run on the IoT platform.

Bridge US

Seed Round in 2014
Bridge US makes immigration effortless and revolutionizes the broken US immigration process. It is a provider of immigration consulting services used to fully manage the company's immigration needs. Its immigration consulting services offers its users an online platform to fill out an American immigration application form that enables clients to get it reviewed by an immigration lawyer for and efficient processing and hassle-free approval.

Orenco Hydropower

Seed Round in 2010
ORENCO Hydropower develops small hydropower generation assets at existing dams and waterways that are low-cost and low-impact. It offers hydro project design and engineering, power markets and project valuation, new business development, project licensing and permitting, and project and portfolio risk management services. The company also resells and integrates turbines and generators. ORENCO Hydropower was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Lokker

Series A in 2020
Lokker gives companies instantaneous control over third-party data collection and risk to protect their customers’ privacy and comply with privacy laws. The company's patent-pending technology measures, monitors, and mitigates privacy issues. Lokker was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Landed, Inc

Seed Round in 2018
Landed, Inc. provides financing services for home buyers. It offers debt-free financing that allows homebuyers to accept funds in exchange for part of the home's value when they refinance or sell. The company offers its services to teachers, school staff, and other professionals. It works with schools, companies, and affinity networks to create and manage down payment support funds for home buyers, schools and employers, and community investors. Landed, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

PING, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
PING, Inc. manufactures and sells golf equipment. It offers grips, apparel, bags, gloves, headwear, towels, headcovers, umbrellas, and other products. The company sells its products through retailers in the United States and internationally, as well as online PING, Inc. was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

Populus

Angel Round in 2018
Trusted by more than 70 cities around the world, Populus is a comprehensive digital solution that empowers cities to manage their streets, and develop data-driven policies with access to data from mobility operators (shared bikes, scooters, and cars).

Savvy

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Savvy makes applying to rental homes faster, cheaper, and more reliable for renters and landlords. We use open banking to make the process more efficient for both sides. For renters, Savvy provides a more transparent, secure, and convenient application process, the ability to build credit through rent payments, and broader access to housing. For leasing managers, Savvy replaces the cumbersome tenant application review process with a simple, fast end-to-end screening solution that provides more reliable data, saving thousands of hours and reducing the risk of tenant defaults.

Nowsta

Series A in 2019
Nowsta is an all-in-one software for hourly and event-based workforces, providing scheduling, time tracking, and fintech solutions. It helps employers become better managers by giving them the tools they need to seamlessly manage their hourly workforce. The company is building a platform that leverages advancements in machine learning and payments technology to reimagine the way companies communicate with, and pay their hourly wage employees. Nowsta was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Nowsta

FuelPanda

Venture Round in 2019
FleetPanda provides a logistics platform that helps manage fleet operations. FleetPanda's services include refueling, maintaining, and washing various kinds of the fleet which are used for construction, delivery, landscaping, tour, and other purposes, allowing clients to save on extra costs and carry out their operations in a simpler manner.

MindSumo

Seed Round in 2012
MindSumo, Inc. operates an online marketplace where students solve real-world corporate challenges. It offers MindSumo, which allows students to showcase their skills, win cash prizes, and prove themselves; and organizations to connect with a talent pool and view work-samples to identify recruits. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of September 29, 2020, MindSumo, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of MBO Partners, Inc.

Foundry College Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Foundry College Inc. is an education institution that offers degree programs and courses online, including foundational and business management. The institution offers two year courses that teach working adults skills and knowledge that are in demand by employers and unlikely to be automated in the foreseeable future. It offers active and competency based learnings and contained classrooms. Foundry College Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Sail Internet

Seed Round in 2017
Sail Internet, Inc. provides fiber and fixed wireless internet services to businesses, single-family homes, and multi-unit complexes in San Francisco Bay Area and the Chula Vista area. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Jetlore, Inc.

Series A in 2013
Jetlore, Inc. provides an artificial intelligence powered prediction platform for retailers. It analyzes actions and behavior of the customers and provides relevant promotions, products, and content for each customer shopping. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. As of May 29, 2018, Jetlore, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of PayPal Holdings, Inc.

Rever

Seed Round in 2020
Rever, Inc is a Silicon Valley-based company, founded in 2015 by people that blended their experiences in Toyota, Airbus, Eurocopter, IBM, Procter & Gamble, and a handful of tech startups, to take on the mission of developing the next billion knowledge workers. Rever is a digitized Continuous Improvement system for global industrial companies. Though our mobile and web applications, we help them engage and recognize all their frontline employees for executing daily improvement ideas (not just suggesting them) and to automatically share and reuse best practices across sites and countries. All of which is effortlessly tracked in the Rever platform.

Sail Internet

Seed Round in 2018
Sail Internet, Inc. provides fiber and fixed wireless internet services to businesses, single-family homes, and multi-unit complexes in San Francisco Bay Area and the Chula Vista area. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Soap AI

Seed Round in 2019
Soap cuts through the noise to deliver timely, essential business news in context from trusted sources. AI-augmented research supercharges elite workers to do more with fewer cognitive demands. Soap is constantly listening to your trusted sources, reading, sorting and organizing articles to generate contextualized highlights custom tailored to you and your needs.

Praxis

Seed Round in 2021
We are in a moment in history where entrepreneurs have disproportionate influence on everything from the social problems they work on to what they consume, practice, believe, and desire. As Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Square, recently declared on the cover of Forbes, "the most efficient means to spread an idea today is corporate structure." Moreover, according to the Kauffman Foundation, 54% of millennials have started an organization or have the desire to start one. Given all of this, we believe the future of our world depends largely on the ventures the next generation creates. To create an institution for this context, we've created Praxis as a venture group, structured as a non-profit, that focuses on equipping and resourcing a growing portfolio of faith-motivated entrepreneurs who have committed their lives to cultural and social impact, renewing the spirit of their age one organization at a time. Praxis was conceived in 2010 by Dave Blanchard, then a Principal Designer at IDEO and Josh Kwan, the Director of International Giving for the David Weekley Family Foundation, and developed in collaboration with Q, a learning community that mobilizes Christians to advance the common good in society. Each year, Praxis welcomes 12 businesses and 12 nonprofits into their two Accelerator programs, where they provide the top-decision makers in these organizations with the knowledge, network, and personal discipleship necessary to build sustainable, high-impact organizations. In summer of 2014, they'll also launch Praxis Academy, a summer program focused on training Christ-following undergraduates at the intersection of faith, startups, and culture. Academy graduates will have a chance to apply for their Future Founders program, where they'll have an unique opportunity to do a summer apprenticeship with their Accelerator alumni.

Zum

Seed Round in 2016
Zūm is a provider of safe, efficient, and reliable child transportation for school districts and busy families. Zūm saves schools money and parents time by providing flexible transportation options through its network of highly vetted drivers and advanced scheduling, routing, and tracking technology. The company currently provide children’s transportation service in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. Zūm was founded in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

GCommerce, Inc.

Series E in 2008
GCommerce, Inc. provides software-as-a-service procurement solutions to streamline distribution supply chain operations. Its connectivity solutions facilitate real-time exchange of documents within the purchasing cycle between incompatible business systems and technologies.The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Des Moines, Iowa

FreeWill

Seed Round in 2018
FreeWill is an online service that provides legal forms and legal information. FreeWill is an award-winning social venture founded by graduate students at Stanford University in 2016, with the help and support of many of the world’s leading experts in law, design, and philanthropy. The company is making estate planning warm, accessible, and totally free – so that you can more easily care for the people and causes you love.

Eatgeek Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
ZeroStorefront consists of an all-in-one platform that connects point-of-sale, delivery platforms, reviews sites, chat, phone, and other applications. It illuminates the customer path, provides attribution for customer behavior, and provide the tools necessary to safely share customer data across applications. Founded in 2019, ZeroStorefront is a proud YCombinator alum, and a diverse, venture-backed, high-growth company. Its customers include brands like Frank Pepe’s, Halal Guys, and more.

Loki Studios

Seed Round in 2011
Loki Studios was founded with the vision of innovating upon and furthering the use of digital devices in our everyday lives. In the competitive and rapidly evolving space of mobile games, we sought to stand out from the pack and stand up for gamers—we'd make the games we want to play. We are proud to have accomplished precisely that through our flagship location-aware game.

Oyster Financial, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Oyster is the only digital account that empowers business owners to grow. We help entrepreneurs achieve their business goals by simplifying their financial management. A financial platform designed to help you run your business from your phone Oyster Mastercard debit card sent to your office 24/7 fund transfers with no fees Bill payment for over 70 service providers in Mexico Discounts in 10,000 locations Send and manage invoices Our platform saves time in every task and empowers entrepreneurs to make better financial decisions.

Kanjoya, Inc.

Series C in 2012
Kanjoya, Inc. operates a workforce intelligence and management platform for enterprise companies. The company offers employee engagement solutions that enable companies to capture feedback, analyze results in real-time, and distribute critical intelligence; Kanjoya Perception that reveals employee emotions, attitude, and intent, as well as predicts behavior; Workday directory that guides employee surveys and performance review insights; and Perception for Performance, a tool that managers use to evaluate, reward, and motivate employees. Its solutions deliver authoritative data and direction that address workforce-related challenges that companies face. Kanjoya, Inc. was formerly known as Experience Project, Inc. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of September 29, 2016, Kanjoya, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc.

Genesis Therapeutics Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Their academia-leading research was the initial component of our expanding portfolio of AI technologies. They are combining novel deep neural networks, biophysical simulation, and massively scalable computing infrastructure to achieve industry-leading performance in a molecular generation and property prediction. The company was founded in 2019 and based in South San Francisco, California.

If You Can Company

Seed Round in 2013
If You Can Company develops educational games for children. Its products include IF, an adventure game to improve child intelligence; and SEL, a social and emotional learning tool for schools. The company offers parent and educator dash­board that monitors a child’s progress in completing grade appropriate lessons. If You Can Company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Buzz Solutions

Seed Round in 2020
Buzz Solutions, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based software platform for energy infrastructure applications. It offers Buzz Solutions Platform, an image-recognition software that spots utility infrastructure defects. The company’s solution also provides artificial intelligence, actionable insights, and predictive analytics for power line and grid inspections. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Swing Education, Inc.

Series B in 2018
Swing provides substitute teachers to fill hard-to-fill staff absences. On average, U.S. students spend 5% of the typical school year with substitute teachers, which translates to over 6 months of their K-12 school career. Failing to fill a substitute teacher opening not only impacts students, but causes teachers, school leaders, and administrators to shuffle around to cover gaps. There's also the time administrators spend on the logistical issues of finding, recruiting, screening, scheduling, and paying contract substitute teachers. Swing's marketplace helps schools cover hard-to-fill absences by seamlessly providing substitute teachers on-demand.