XSeed Capital

XSeed believes in the creative destruction unleashed by technological innovators. Its portfolio companies boast significant differentiation that creates unique customer value. With $110 million under management, they make their initial investment commitments at the seed stage and then continue to support their portfolio companies with time, effort and follow-on capital through multiple investment rounds. The company works hard from the get-go to help entrepreneurs build value, define, and reach risk-reduction milestones, and get to their next value inflection point quickly.

Robert Siegel

Partner

Jeff Thermond

Venture Partner

89 past transactions

LUUM

Venture Round in 2022
LUUM is introducing automation to the beauty-services market, initially focusing on eyelash extensions, a widely popular treatment ($20B global market opportunity). Pioneering a patented combination of robotics, AI, and machine vision, LUUM applies a full set of eyelash extensions in 20 minutes (instead of 2 hours), while eliminating the costs and safety risks associated with human application.

LILT

Series C in 2022
LILT is the complete enterprise AI platform for content translation and creation. Innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva use LILT to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale. Liit was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Esports One

Venture Round in 2020
Esports One is an esports data and analytics company that wants to change the way fans watch and engage with esports. We built a computer vision and machine learning-powered platform capable of capturing and analyzing thousands of data points in real-time. This enabled us to generate one of the most comprehensive databases of League of Legends esports stats on the planet, going all the way back to the first professional game played in 2011 and being updated with new match data in real-time. In 2020, we are bringing our database of stats to the masses with Esports One Fantasy. Users will research teams and players, set their lineup, and compete with friends in the first all-in-one fantasy platform built specifically for esports. It’s like a Bloomberg Terminal for esports.

ArtisanBio

Series A in 2020
ArtisanBio is provider of cell engineering and data analysis solutions that advance the cell therapy revolution. The designer cell engineering and development platform from Artisan Bio enables partners to more effectively optimize candidate designs, resulting in safer and more efficacious cell therapies. Artisan seeks to deliver customizable cell engineering solutions that meet the complexities associated with next-generation cell therapies through strategic collaborations with innovative partners. Artisan Bio is focused on rapid discovery, editing performance, and data analytics for clinical entry.

Narrative

Series A in 2020
Everyone needs data. From retailers looking to overhaul their brand strategies, to companies seeking to generate new revenue from existing assets — data is an essential element that ignites compelling stories for every organization. At Narrative, we make it easy for you to access, acquire, and integrate the data your company needs to thrive. And if you're a data owner, we can help you reach multiple, active data seekers all at once. Narrative's efficient and intuitive platform creates opportunities for both buyers and sellers to acquire or monetize data the way they see fit. Buying and selling data, simplified. So you can shape your story today.

LILT

Series B in 2020
LILT is the complete enterprise AI platform for content translation and creation. Innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva use LILT to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale. Liit was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

unitQ

Series A in 2020
UnitQ is an AI-enabled product quality monitoring platform that empowers companies to take a data-driven approach to product quality so they can fix the right quality issues faster. The company's customer feedback platform empowers users to identify quality issues simultaneously with their customers, pinpoint the impact of product launches, releases, or ongoing features generating the most bugs or support tickets, and delve deep into issue origins across various sources, platforms, devices, customer segments, and beyond.

Peerwell

Series A in 2019
PeerWell's mission is to to reduce the effects of pain and immobility at scale. We blend evidence-based medical content with built-in powerful technology to treat pain and mobility. We work with leaders in Workers' Comp, Health Plans, and Managed Care Organizations to achieve big goals.

Narrative

Seed Round in 2019
Everyone needs data. From retailers looking to overhaul their brand strategies, to companies seeking to generate new revenue from existing assets — data is an essential element that ignites compelling stories for every organization. At Narrative, we make it easy for you to access, acquire, and integrate the data your company needs to thrive. And if you're a data owner, we can help you reach multiple, active data seekers all at once. Narrative's efficient and intuitive platform creates opportunities for both buyers and sellers to acquire or monetize data the way they see fit. Buying and selling data, simplified. So you can shape your story today.

XMACHINES

Venture Round in 2019
XMachines is a Robotics & AI company that designs and manufactures autonomous mobile robots for Precision Agriculture, Material Handling Automation & Advanced Academic Robotics Research. It is based in Hyderabad, India

Avochato

Series A in 2018
Avochato is a mobile messaging platform designed for customer relationship management. It enables business teams to connect with customers and deliver a seamless and efficient messaging experience every step of the way, from lead capture and nurturing to post-sale support.

LILT

Series A in 2018
LILT is the complete enterprise AI platform for content translation and creation. Innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva use LILT to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale. Liit was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

LUUM

Seed Round in 2018
LUUM is introducing automation to the beauty-services market, initially focusing on eyelash extensions, a widely popular treatment ($20B global market opportunity). Pioneering a patented combination of robotics, AI, and machine vision, LUUM applies a full set of eyelash extensions in 20 minutes (instead of 2 hours), while eliminating the costs and safety risks associated with human application.

Esports One

Seed Round in 2018
Esports One is an esports data and analytics company that wants to change the way fans watch and engage with esports. We built a computer vision and machine learning-powered platform capable of capturing and analyzing thousands of data points in real-time. This enabled us to generate one of the most comprehensive databases of League of Legends esports stats on the planet, going all the way back to the first professional game played in 2011 and being updated with new match data in real-time. In 2020, we are bringing our database of stats to the masses with Esports One Fantasy. Users will research teams and players, set their lineup, and compete with friends in the first all-in-one fantasy platform built specifically for esports. It’s like a Bloomberg Terminal for esports.

My90

Seed Round in 2018
My90 is collects anonymized community feedback to generate actionable insights to help police agencies improve trust, safety, and equity. its services to help individual officers deliver anonymous feedback to department leadership.

Sparta Software Corporation

Seed Round in 2017
Sparta Software Corporation offers the Trinsic Human Data Platform and Sparta Science Force Plates to help your organization thrive.

AtScale

Series C in 2017
AtScale enables smarter decision-making by accelerating the flow of data-driven insights. The company’s semantic layer platform simplifies, accelerates, and extends business intelligence and data science capabilities for enterprise customers across all industries. With AtScale, customers are empowered to democratize data, implement self-service BI and build a more agile analytics infrastructure for better, more impactful decision making. For more information, please visit www.atscale.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook. Led by industry veterans from Yahoo!, Google, Netezza, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Vertica, Cisco, and Oracle, AtScale is headquartered in Silicon Valley and Boston and has a presence across the globe.

Citrine Informatics

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.

Gixo

Series A in 2017
Gixo offers highly motivational, professional coaches teaching live classes to people of all fitness levels in all locations, making exercise more accessible in people’s busy lives. Gixo launches with more than 150 live classes per week — ranging in length from 15 to 40 minutes — so we can offer a class for every schedule and every fitness level.

Narrative

Seed Round in 2017
Everyone needs data. From retailers looking to overhaul their brand strategies, to companies seeking to generate new revenue from existing assets — data is an essential element that ignites compelling stories for every organization. At Narrative, we make it easy for you to access, acquire, and integrate the data your company needs to thrive. And if you're a data owner, we can help you reach multiple, active data seekers all at once. Narrative's efficient and intuitive platform creates opportunities for both buyers and sellers to acquire or monetize data the way they see fit. Buying and selling data, simplified. So you can shape your story today.

StatX

Seed Round in 2017
StatX is fast, easy, visual native iOS and Android app that keeps your critical metrics and updates at your fingertips and conveniently brings you what changed so you can respond faster. Get your sales, financial, marketing or any critical data automatically fed from Salesforce, QuickBooks, MailChimp, Excel, Google Sheets and more. Easily set up instant collaboration with any team to stay efficiently in sync.

LUUM

Seed Round in 2017
LUUM is introducing automation to the beauty-services market, initially focusing on eyelash extensions, a widely popular treatment ($20B global market opportunity). Pioneering a patented combination of robotics, AI, and machine vision, LUUM applies a full set of eyelash extensions in 20 minutes (instead of 2 hours), while eliminating the costs and safety risks associated with human application.

Eloquent Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Eloquent Labs supplies artificial intelligence to augment and replace live chat customer support agents, specifically targeted at eCommerce companies. Based off of the founders' experience in the Stanford Natural Language Processing group, Eloquent Labs’ AI agent is able to hold natural and conversational dialogs with customers fully autonomously, while also knowing when to back off to experienced agents for complex tickets.

FINDMINE

Venture Round in 2017
FindMine is the world's leading company helping iconic brands scale their editorial point of view. FindMine's Content Engine saves retailers and brands 90% of their time while dynamically generating exponentially more high-quality, "on-brand" content. FindMine enhances sell-through, and boosts gross margins and customer lifetime value (by over 150%!) for customers such as Rent the Runway, Revolve, Land's End, Vineyard Vines, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, and many more. FindMine's solutions power best-in-class customer experiences across ecommerce, email, chat, marketing channels, and stores. FindMine is a Gartner Cool Vendor, and LVMH Maison des Startups member, winner of VIP Award's Best SaaS/Cloud provider and is an Inc. Magazine Top 200 Most Dynamic Women Entrepreneurs company.

Peerwell

Seed Round in 2016
PeerWell's mission is to to reduce the effects of pain and immobility at scale. We blend evidence-based medical content with built-in powerful technology to treat pain and mobility. We work with leaders in Workers' Comp, Health Plans, and Managed Care Organizations to achieve big goals.

LILT

Seed Round in 2016
LILT is the complete enterprise AI platform for content translation and creation. Innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva use LILT to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale. Liit was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

LifeSignals

Series C in 2016
Connect Life to the Cloud with proven expertise in semiconductor, wireless and biosensor design and mobile applications. LifeSignal's mission is to help healthcare companies develop and commercialize cost-effective clinical grade remote monitoring wearables using our innovative wireless and biometric technologies and integration expertise.

Disco

Seed Round in 2016
Disco is an HR recognition tool that offers products to recognize, reward, promote, socialize, and analyze a company culture. The tool helps the team recognize one another's contributions, big and small, and quantifies that feedback to keep culture on track. Through recognition, employees adapt company values while strengthening peer relationships, measure the pulse of the company with culture surveys in Slack, reward employees that go above-and-beyond, and publicize company values to every employee through fun and habit-forming social experiences.

Avochato

Seed Round in 2016
Avochato is a mobile messaging platform designed for customer relationship management. It enables business teams to connect with customers and deliver a seamless and efficient messaging experience every step of the way, from lead capture and nurturing to post-sale support.

AtScale

Series B in 2016
AtScale enables smarter decision-making by accelerating the flow of data-driven insights. The company’s semantic layer platform simplifies, accelerates, and extends business intelligence and data science capabilities for enterprise customers across all industries. With AtScale, customers are empowered to democratize data, implement self-service BI and build a more agile analytics infrastructure for better, more impactful decision making. For more information, please visit www.atscale.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook. Led by industry veterans from Yahoo!, Google, Netezza, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Vertica, Cisco, and Oracle, AtScale is headquartered in Silicon Valley and Boston and has a presence across the globe.

zooz

Series C in 2016
Zooz is a technology company that provides a payments platform designed to help merchants maximize their payments performance. The company was established in 2010. In July 2018, Zooz was acquired by PayU.

Mines

Seed Round in 2016
Mines specializes in mobile-money-as-a-service platform built to address the consumer financial services gap in emerging markets. Leveraging partnerships with mobile carriers and financial switches, along with a technology stack built around artificial intelligence, cloud, and mobile technologies, the company offers banks a plug-and-play answer to the needs of the mobile consumer.

Biota Technology

Venture Round in 2016
Biota deploys DNA sequencing and data science to explore the earth’s subsurface. We provide actionable diagnostics to the oil & gas industry for maximizing reservoir economics and reducing environmental impact. Biota delivers multimillion–dollar value with insights into drainage volumes, well connectivity, and engineered completions. Our patented technology has been applied on over 500 wells by a majority of the top producers in US Shale.

Cape

Venture Round in 2015
Cape Aerial Telepresence™ provides the ability to effectively control a flying camera anywhere in the world in real-time. Their platform unlocks the full potential of commercial drones by removing the traditional complexities such as needing an onsite technical expert. By focusing on telepresence, They remove those limitations offering an easy to use, safe, and cost-effective platform that allows for drones to be remotely operated.

SimplyCredit

Seed Round in 2015
SimplyCredit operates an online platform intended to create lending products that are fair and transparent for consumers. Its mission is to transform consumer lending as it is known today. They are driven to bring sanity back to lending, stand behind their underwriting, and make sure consumers are getting the value and service they deserve. Using advanced technologies, SimplyCredit is creating credit and lending innovations in line with these values, all delivered through seamless customer experience.

Slyce

Angel Round in 2015
Slyce is a platform that specializes in marketing automation, analytics, and visual search technology for brands and retailers. Founded in 2012, Slyce offers tools that enable brands to manage digital content for brand ambassadors more effectively, moving away from traditional methods like emails and spreadsheets. Its capabilities extend to content management, workflow optimization, and analytics, allowing brands to leverage ambassador-generated content and streamline social media posts. Additionally, Slyce's visual recognition technology facilitates the identification of objects through images, videos, and audio, alongside features such as QR code and barcode scanning. This technology empowers retailers and brands to enhance customer engagement and maximize returns by enabling shoppers to make purchases at the moment of inspiration. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Slyce aims to deliver comprehensive solutions that improve marketing efficiency and customer targeting.

DropThought

Convertible Note in 2015
DropThought’s Instant Feedback Platform empowers companies, brands, and marketers to engage with their customers and employees in real-time to gather, respond, and analyze feedback that leads to improved experiences and higher satisfaction and Net Promoter Scores. Instant feedback can be gathered through DropThought in three ways: via its mobile app, embedded API integrations, and on-site using tablet devices. DropThought’s Analytics Dashboard and Manager mobile app can instantly notify managers and brands to feedback reported in the moment, to enable immediate responses, insights, and resolution. DropThought’s text analytics solution allows businesses to see customer experience metrics over time and quickly identify opportunities to improve. Companies can also easily select and promote customers’ positive instant feedback on social channels. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Santa Clara, California, USA.

AtScale

Series A in 2015
AtScale enables smarter decision-making by accelerating the flow of data-driven insights. The company’s semantic layer platform simplifies, accelerates, and extends business intelligence and data science capabilities for enterprise customers across all industries. With AtScale, customers are empowered to democratize data, implement self-service BI and build a more agile analytics infrastructure for better, more impactful decision making. For more information, please visit www.atscale.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook. Led by industry veterans from Yahoo!, Google, Netezza, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Vertica, Cisco, and Oracle, AtScale is headquartered in Silicon Valley and Boston and has a presence across the globe.

Caller Zen

Seed Round in 2015
Caller Zen is a mobile application-based customer service portal that provides SMS support communications technology. It handles support requests through SMSs to keep its users’ customers happy and their costs down. It integrates with Microsoft, slack, and salesforce. When a customer calls, they hear customized greeting message and then receive a text message from the number the user is registered with. Caller Zen is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2015 by Alex De Simone.

LILT

Debt Financing in 2015
LILT is the complete enterprise AI platform for content translation and creation. Innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva use LILT to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale. Liit was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Smart Coffee Technology

Seed Round in 2015
Smart Coffee Technology (SCT), headquartered in San Francisco, is revolutionizing the specialty coffee industry. Micro-roasters will be able to compete in the growing single serve coffee market. SCT is founded on the premise that coffee drinker’s demand choice coupled convenience. We create innovative tools and hardware products that seamlessly integrate in the industry.

The League

Seed Round in 2015
The League is a dating application that enables users to find and socialize with similar individuals. It was launched by Amanda Bradford in June 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Chatous

Seed Round in 2014
Chatous is a “social discovery platform through conversation.” The site uses a data-driven approach and algorithm to predict which users will be compatible for conversation, and learns about users as they engage in more conversations. Founded by three Stanford Computer Science students, Chatous grew out of a project the team worked on in CS224W: Social and Information Network Analysis.

LifeSignals

Series B in 2014
Connect Life to the Cloud with proven expertise in semiconductor, wireless and biosensor design and mobile applications. LifeSignal's mission is to help healthcare companies develop and commercialize cost-effective clinical grade remote monitoring wearables using our innovative wireless and biometric technologies and integration expertise.

Zipline Medical

Series C in 2014
ZipLine® Medical is developing and commercializing innovative tissue repair devices to address the clinical need for rapid, non-invasive and easy-to-use skin closure. ZipLine’s PRELOC™ technology platform provides uniform closure forces while minimizing scar-promoting tension along the wound. Utilizing our patented technology, we believe that physicians can achieve the best of both worlds — the speed of staples with the cosmetic outcome of a meticulous suture closure. Our initial strategy focuses on procedures where the speed and cosmetic benefits of our technology as well as the reduced risk of surgical site infections have the greatest impact. Since skin closure is a part of most surgical procedures, our technology platform has broad application across various surgical specialties and emergency medicine. ZipLine Medical was founded in 2009 by Amir Belson, M.D. and is located in Silicon Valley, with access to a wealth of expertise in medical device research and development .

Citrine Informatics

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.

zooz

Series B in 2014
Zooz is a technology company that provides a payments platform designed to help merchants maximize their payments performance. The company was established in 2010. In July 2018, Zooz was acquired by PayU.

GeneWEAVE

Series B in 2014
GeneWeave Biosciences is advancing clinical microbiology with diagnostic solutions that will enable hospitals and physicians around the world to prevent drug-resistant infections, improve antibiotic stewardship and quickly determine the optimal antibiotic therapy for critical bacterial infections. The company’s innovative and proprietary Smarticles™ technology harnesses the power of biology to enable homogeneous assays that rapidly measure bacterial drug resistance without the need for enrichment, culture, or sample preparation.

CirroSecure

Seed Round in 2014
CirroSecure is a cloud data security platform that gives enterprises 360° visibility and protection into their cloud assets with zero IT disruption. The company's multi-dimensional compliance and exposure risk analysis help enterprises precisely identify the sources of risk and perform automated to the manual root cause non-disruptive data protection.

Mines

Seed Round in 2014
Mines specializes in mobile-money-as-a-service platform built to address the consumer financial services gap in emerging markets. Leveraging partnerships with mobile carriers and financial switches, along with a technology stack built around artificial intelligence, cloud, and mobile technologies, the company offers banks a plug-and-play answer to the needs of the mobile consumer.

Zipline Medical

Series C in 2014
ZipLine® Medical is developing and commercializing innovative tissue repair devices to address the clinical need for rapid, non-invasive and easy-to-use skin closure. ZipLine’s PRELOC™ technology platform provides uniform closure forces while minimizing scar-promoting tension along the wound. Utilizing our patented technology, we believe that physicians can achieve the best of both worlds — the speed of staples with the cosmetic outcome of a meticulous suture closure. Our initial strategy focuses on procedures where the speed and cosmetic benefits of our technology as well as the reduced risk of surgical site infections have the greatest impact. Since skin closure is a part of most surgical procedures, our technology platform has broad application across various surgical specialties and emergency medicine. ZipLine Medical was founded in 2009 by Amir Belson, M.D. and is located in Silicon Valley, with access to a wealth of expertise in medical device research and development .

Pixlee TurnTo

Seed Round in 2013
In early 2021, Pixlee merged with Ratings & Review company TurnTo, to become a combined entity dedicated to building customer-powered commerce. Paving the way for customer-powered commerce, Pixlee TurnTo now allows marketers and ecommerce executives to integrate UGC and Influencer Marketing with text-based customer content like Ratings & Reviews, Checkout Comments, and Community Q&A — without any additional technical resources required. This combination puts the customer at the center of marketing, and creates content proven to boost revenue, brand affinity, and engagement. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York and Toronto, Pixlee is funded by Andreessen Horowitz, XSeed Capital, Rothenberg Ventures, David Jones (founder of the world's first brand tech company You & Mr. Jones), GS Shop, and Bryan Weiner (chairman of 360i).

DropThought

Series A in 2013
DropThought’s Instant Feedback Platform empowers companies, brands, and marketers to engage with their customers and employees in real-time to gather, respond, and analyze feedback that leads to improved experiences and higher satisfaction and Net Promoter Scores. Instant feedback can be gathered through DropThought in three ways: via its mobile app, embedded API integrations, and on-site using tablet devices. DropThought’s Analytics Dashboard and Manager mobile app can instantly notify managers and brands to feedback reported in the moment, to enable immediate responses, insights, and resolution. DropThought’s text analytics solution allows businesses to see customer experience metrics over time and quickly identify opportunities to improve. Companies can also easily select and promote customers’ positive instant feedback on social channels. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Santa Clara, California, USA.

Breezeworks

Seed Round in 2013
Breezeworks Corporation provides a mobile application that turns smartphones into business management tools. It offers a Breeze that enables the users to put them in control of their business by updating their arrival time and reminding their customers to schedule follow-up works. The company's solution also enables the users to store job notes and photos, and share various things with the customers. They build products that improve their quality of life and help them serve their customers better. It also allows independent service professionals to run their business entirely from their smartphone. It connects on-site service providers and customers with its smartphone business manager apps, and schedule appointments, manage jobs, collect payments, eliminate no shows, navigate traffic, capture repeat business, follow up with customers and connect with suppliers. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

SIPX

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.

Compass Quality Insight Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Compass Quality Insights, Inc. is founded on a simple mission: to build technology that helps people be smarter testers. Compass’ flagship testing product, Compass Profiler, delivers the analytics that QA teams need in order to move faster and release with higher confidence. Founded in 2012, Compass Quality Insights is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and XSeed Capital and is based in San Francisco.

Lex Machina

Series A in 2013
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.

zooz

Series A in 2013
Zooz is a technology company that provides a payments platform designed to help merchants maximize their payments performance. The company was established in 2010. In July 2018, Zooz was acquired by PayU.

Neon Open

Seed Round in 2013
Neon Labs specializes in enhancing digital marketing effectiveness through innovative technology. The company utilizes a unique neuroscience-based machine learning system that predicts user engagement with images, helping marketers achieve higher click-through rates and improved audience interaction. Neon's enterprise-scale platform, Neon for Video, optimizes visual content in real-time, resulting in an average increase of 24% in video views. Additionally, Neon Open serves as an open-source platform that employs artificial intelligence to analyze advertising inventory, predicting which images and videos will generate greater engagement. This platform leverages deep learning models to assess the emotional impact of visual content, making it valuable for a diverse range of users, including journalists, artists, and non-profit organizations. Neon's collaborations with established deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow and Caffe further enhance its technological capabilities.

Playnomics

Series B in 2013
Playnomics, a predictive data and marketing platform for free-to-play games and apps, empowers marketers and developers to quickly predict player value and behavior, and immediately act on those insights with customized messaging. Equipped with Playnomics’ dynamic player segmentation engine and drag-and-drop campaign marketing tools, apps can tailor monetization and retention campaigns that protect VIPs, nurture new spenders, and monetize non-spenders. Their smarter, predictive analytics and messaging platform help app makers and marketers make better choices and earn from everyone.

BrightBox Technologies

Seed Round in 2013
BrightBox Technologies, a Bay Area based start-up, develops and markets advanced HVAC controls to large commercial buildings to improve performance and comfort while significantly reducing operating costs. While most other energy efficiency software companies are focusing on monitoring and/or fault detection in buildings, the BrightBox platform provides actual control and real-time, ongoing system optimization, along with diagnostics and verification of results. They partner with local HVAC controls contractors to provide a complete solution to their customers.

Trifacta

Series A in 2012
Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative, visual data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate data pipelines, enabling consumable data at any scale. With universal data connectivity, Trifacta provides flexibility to connect to any data from any source for any application. Using an AI-assisted, self-service approach, Trifacta users can collaborate to evaluate, correct, and validate data quality, accelerate data transformation, and automate robust data pipelines. Trifacta’s open cloud platform drives increased business value through informed decisions. Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 10,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data engineering cloud platform. Learn more at https://www.trifacta.com

SIPX

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.

Lex Machina

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.

CellScape

Venture Round in 2012
CellScape Corporation (formerly Saryna Medical Corp) is a privately funded company headquartered in Newark, California, in the heart of the biotech corridor of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Company has developed whole fetal cell technology to transform prenatal genetic testing using a simple blood test. Their vision is to make comprehensive prenatal genetic testing available to every woman without requiring an invasive procedure that might put the fetus at risk. Their leadership team is accomplished in bringing innovative, cost-effective medical and molecular diagnostics to market.

Zipline Medical

Series B in 2012
ZipLine® Medical is developing and commercializing innovative tissue repair devices to address the clinical need for rapid, non-invasive and easy-to-use skin closure. ZipLine’s PRELOC™ technology platform provides uniform closure forces while minimizing scar-promoting tension along the wound. Utilizing our patented technology, we believe that physicians can achieve the best of both worlds — the speed of staples with the cosmetic outcome of a meticulous suture closure. Our initial strategy focuses on procedures where the speed and cosmetic benefits of our technology as well as the reduced risk of surgical site infections have the greatest impact. Since skin closure is a part of most surgical procedures, our technology platform has broad application across various surgical specialties and emergency medicine. ZipLine Medical was founded in 2009 by Amir Belson, M.D. and is located in Silicon Valley, with access to a wealth of expertise in medical device research and development .

VitaPath Genetics

Series C in 2012
VitaPath Genetics is developing a family of DNA tests to help individuals reduce the risk of serious and life-threatening disease. Their first product is a genetic test to identify risk factors that are associated with a common birth defect called Spina Bifida and which can be safely corrected with low-risk vitamin supplementation under the care of a physician.

GeneWEAVE

Series A in 2012
GeneWeave Biosciences is advancing clinical microbiology with diagnostic solutions that will enable hospitals and physicians around the world to prevent drug-resistant infections, improve antibiotic stewardship and quickly determine the optimal antibiotic therapy for critical bacterial infections. The company’s innovative and proprietary Smarticles™ technology harnesses the power of biology to enable homogeneous assays that rapidly measure bacterial drug resistance without the need for enrichment, culture, or sample preparation.

CellScape

Series B in 2012
CellScape Corporation (formerly Saryna Medical Corp) is a privately funded company headquartered in Newark, California, in the heart of the biotech corridor of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Company has developed whole fetal cell technology to transform prenatal genetic testing using a simple blood test. Their vision is to make comprehensive prenatal genetic testing available to every woman without requiring an invasive procedure that might put the fetus at risk. Their leadership team is accomplished in bringing innovative, cost-effective medical and molecular diagnostics to market.

OPX Biotechnologies

Series C in 2011
OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. is a Colorado-based bioproducts company using proprietary bioengineering technology to convert renewable feedstocks into biofuels and green chemistry products. The OPX EDGE - Efficiency Directed Genome Engineering - technology platform rapid, rational, and robust optimization of microbes and bioprocesses to achieve equivalent product performance with improved sustainability at lower cost versus petroleum based alternatives.

Playnomics

Series A in 2011
Playnomics, a predictive data and marketing platform for free-to-play games and apps, empowers marketers and developers to quickly predict player value and behavior, and immediately act on those insights with customized messaging. Equipped with Playnomics’ dynamic player segmentation engine and drag-and-drop campaign marketing tools, apps can tailor monetization and retention campaigns that protect VIPs, nurture new spenders, and monetize non-spenders. Their smarter, predictive analytics and messaging platform help app makers and marketers make better choices and earn from everyone.

CellScape

Series A in 2010
CellScape Corporation (formerly Saryna Medical Corp) is a privately funded company headquartered in Newark, California, in the heart of the biotech corridor of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Company has developed whole fetal cell technology to transform prenatal genetic testing using a simple blood test. Their vision is to make comprehensive prenatal genetic testing available to every woman without requiring an invasive procedure that might put the fetus at risk. Their leadership team is accomplished in bringing innovative, cost-effective medical and molecular diagnostics to market.

GeneWEAVE

Seed Round in 2010
GeneWeave Biosciences is advancing clinical microbiology with diagnostic solutions that will enable hospitals and physicians around the world to prevent drug-resistant infections, improve antibiotic stewardship and quickly determine the optimal antibiotic therapy for critical bacterial infections. The company’s innovative and proprietary Smarticles™ technology harnesses the power of biology to enable homogeneous assays that rapidly measure bacterial drug resistance without the need for enrichment, culture, or sample preparation.

LifeSignals

Series A in 2010
Connect Life to the Cloud with proven expertise in semiconductor, wireless and biosensor design and mobile applications. LifeSignal's mission is to help healthcare companies develop and commercialize cost-effective clinical grade remote monitoring wearables using our innovative wireless and biometric technologies and integration expertise.

Zipline Medical

Series A in 2009
ZipLine® Medical is developing and commercializing innovative tissue repair devices to address the clinical need for rapid, non-invasive and easy-to-use skin closure. ZipLine’s PRELOC™ technology platform provides uniform closure forces while minimizing scar-promoting tension along the wound. Utilizing our patented technology, we believe that physicians can achieve the best of both worlds — the speed of staples with the cosmetic outcome of a meticulous suture closure. Our initial strategy focuses on procedures where the speed and cosmetic benefits of our technology as well as the reduced risk of surgical site infections have the greatest impact. Since skin closure is a part of most surgical procedures, our technology platform has broad application across various surgical specialties and emergency medicine. ZipLine Medical was founded in 2009 by Amir Belson, M.D. and is located in Silicon Valley, with access to a wealth of expertise in medical device research and development .

Bio Architecture Lab

Series A in 2009
Bio Architecture Lab is a pioneer in the application of synthetic biology and enzyme design to the development of biofuels and renewable chemicals from aquafarmed, native macroalgae (seaweed), which is a low cost, scalable, and sustainable biomass.

VitaPath Genetics

Series A in 2009
VitaPath Genetics is developing a family of DNA tests to help individuals reduce the risk of serious and life-threatening disease. Their first product is a genetic test to identify risk factors that are associated with a common birth defect called Spina Bifida and which can be safely corrected with low-risk vitamin supplementation under the care of a physician.

CellScape

Seed Round in 2009
CellScape Corporation (formerly Saryna Medical Corp) is a privately funded company headquartered in Newark, California, in the heart of the biotech corridor of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Company has developed whole fetal cell technology to transform prenatal genetic testing using a simple blood test. Their vision is to make comprehensive prenatal genetic testing available to every woman without requiring an invasive procedure that might put the fetus at risk. Their leadership team is accomplished in bringing innovative, cost-effective medical and molecular diagnostics to market.

OPX Biotechnologies

Series B in 2009
OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. is a Colorado-based bioproducts company using proprietary bioengineering technology to convert renewable feedstocks into biofuels and green chemistry products. The OPX EDGE - Efficiency Directed Genome Engineering - technology platform rapid, rational, and robust optimization of microbes and bioprocesses to achieve equivalent product performance with improved sustainability at lower cost versus petroleum based alternatives.

Siva Power

Series B in 2008
Siva Power develops third-generation thin-film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Siva Power was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose, California.

Allopartis

Series A in 2008
Allopartis develops enzymes to convert biomass into sugar for cellulosic biofuel production and industrial biotechnology.

Bio Architecture Lab

Seed Round in 2008
Bio Architecture Lab is a pioneer in the application of synthetic biology and enzyme design to the development of biofuels and renewable chemicals from aquafarmed, native macroalgae (seaweed), which is a low cost, scalable, and sustainable biomass.

OPX Biotechnologies

Series A in 2007
OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. is a Colorado-based bioproducts company using proprietary bioengineering technology to convert renewable feedstocks into biofuels and green chemistry products. The OPX EDGE - Efficiency Directed Genome Engineering - technology platform rapid, rational, and robust optimization of microbes and bioprocesses to achieve equivalent product performance with improved sustainability at lower cost versus petroleum based alternatives.

LifeSignals

Seed Round in 2007
Connect Life to the Cloud with proven expertise in semiconductor, wireless and biosensor design and mobile applications. LifeSignal's mission is to help healthcare companies develop and commercialize cost-effective clinical grade remote monitoring wearables using our innovative wireless and biometric technologies and integration expertise.

Siva Power

Series A in 2007
Siva Power develops third-generation thin-film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Siva Power was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose, California.

OPX Biotechnologies

Seed Round in 2007
OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. is a Colorado-based bioproducts company using proprietary bioengineering technology to convert renewable feedstocks into biofuels and green chemistry products. The OPX EDGE - Efficiency Directed Genome Engineering - technology platform rapid, rational, and robust optimization of microbes and bioprocesses to achieve equivalent product performance with improved sustainability at lower cost versus petroleum based alternatives.

MuseAmi

Seed Round in 2007
MuseAmi is a growing, privately held music technology company based in Princeton, NJ. The company was founded in 2007 by world-renowned concert pianist Robert Taub to enhance the ways individuals create, collaborate, learn and share music. With a team of industry leaders in the fields of music, machine learning and audio signal processing, MuseAmi creates highly efficient software to detect, analyze, and categorize visual and audio inputs in real world contexts. The company has developed significant intellectual property and has been awarded several patents that the company commercializes with its world-leading strategic partners. MuseAmi's commercially available apps include ImproVox, a "vocal instrument" app, and the forthcoming Hook'd app.
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