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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.