Mayfield V

Mayfield Fund, LLC is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, established in 1969. The firm specializes in early-stage investments in technology companies, focusing on sectors such as enterprise software, communications, consumer media, healthcare, and semiconductors. With over $2.5 billion under management, Mayfield has invested in more than 500 companies, achieving 117 IPOs and over 200 mergers and acquisitions. The firm typically invests between $1 million and $15 million, targeting companies with revenues between $10 million and $100 million. Mayfield prioritizes investments in both U.S.-based companies, particularly in California, and cross-border opportunities in countries like India and China, emphasizing sectors such as artificial intelligence, clean energy, and digital media. The firm aims to partner closely with founders from inception, providing not only capital but also support in follow-on financing and co-investment opportunities.

Navin Chaddha

Managing Partner

Tim Chang

Venture Partner

Rishi Garg

Partner

Vikram Godse

Managing Partner, Mayfield India

Nikhil Khattau

Managing Director

Paul Kohli

Vice President of Investment Operations

Tejas Maniar

Operating Partner

Guru Pangal

Venture Partner

Ursheet Parikh

Partner

Vijay Reddy

Investor

Patrick Salyer

Partner

Zareer Shroff

Principal

Vaneeta Varma

CFO

Past deals in San Francisco Bay Area

Auradine

Series A in 2023
Auradinescalability, sustainability and security solutions for the infrastructure, enabled by revolutionary blockchain, security, zero-knowledge and AI technologies.

Securiti

Series C in 2022
Securiti Inc. specializes in AI-powered cybersecurity and data protection solutions. The company offers a comprehensive PrivacyOps platform, PRIVACI.ai, which automates essential functions for privacy compliance, enabling organizations to manage data subject requests, consent management, and vendor risk assessments efficiently. Securiti's suite includes tools for automating data requests, discovering personal data across various sources, and tracking assessments, all designed to assist enterprises in adhering to global privacy regulations while enhancing their brand reputation. Established in 2018 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Securiti aims to empower organizations to responsibly manage personal data and streamline compliance efforts through advanced automation and a user-friendly interface.

Crunchbase

Series D in 2022
Crunchbase is a comprehensive platform that provides detailed business information about both private and public companies. It offers insights into investments, funding, leadership teams, mergers and acquisitions, industry trends, and relevant news. Initially focused on tracking startups, Crunchbase has expanded its database to cover companies worldwide. The platform gathers data through four primary methods: a venture program, machine learning technology, an in-house data team, and contributions from the Crunchbase community, allowing public members to submit information. These submissions undergo a process of registration, social validation, and moderation to ensure accuracy and reliability. By offering this wealth of information, Crunchbase serves as a valuable resource for entrepreneurs, investors, and market researchers seeking to make informed business decisions.

Mirvie

Series B in 2022
Mirvie is a biotech company that creates precise, actionable, and non-invasive tests for maternal-fetal health. The company delivers insights to moms and families to make pregnancy safe. It was founded in 2018 by Maneesh Jain and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States.

Balbix

Series C in 2022
Balbix, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a predictive breach risk and resilience platform aimed at helping CIOs, CISOs, and IT security teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Balbix utilizes predictive analytics and self-learning AI to continuously assess and visualize an organization's cyber-breach risk across various devices and applications. The platform is designed to predict potential breach scenarios and offers actionable insights that enable security teams to prioritize their initiatives and optimize security spending. By providing comprehensive measurement of breach risk, Balbix facilitates a proactive approach to cybersecurity, allowing organizations to identify vulnerabilities and mitigate risks effectively, thereby enhancing overall cyber-resilience.

Qventus

Private Equity Round in 2022
Qventus, Inc. is an artificial intelligence software company that focuses on optimizing hospital operations through real-time data analytics. Established in 2011 and based in Los Altos, California, the company offers a platform that predicts operational issues, provides immediate recommendations, and encourages team members to take action. By utilizing machine learning and optimization algorithms, Qventus aims to enhance the efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery, addressing challenges across various hospital departments, including emergency services, operating rooms, and patient safety. The company collaborates with leading healthcare institutions to transform hospital management and improve overall operational decision-making.

DuploCloud

Series A in 2022
DuploCloud is a DevOps platform that allows us to run hundreds of workloads in the cloud. The company is a developer of a no-code development or low-code development operations platform designed to build and operate applications on the edge in a seamless manner. The company's platform provides a unified platform for cloud automation with built-in security and compliance, as well as frictionless data migration, allowing businesses to automate operational workflows and compliance standards.

GoLinks

Series A in 2022
Go Links, known as go links, golinks, go/links, or go-links, are intuitive, easy-to-remember short links, shared by teams. It transforms long, ugly URLs into human-readable go links that can be used directly in browsers, emails, chats, and in conversation. GoLinks enables companies to effectively and efficiently access and share work information and resources at scale. We believe that knowledge sharing is key to a company's success.

New Culture

Series A in 2021
New Culture Inc. is a food and beverage company that specializes in producing cheese from protein using innovative methods. By employing microflora to create dairy proteins and dairy products, the company aims to revolutionize traditional cheese-making processes. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, New Culture is committed to developing sustainable and alternative cheese options that appeal to a growing market of health-conscious and environmentally aware consumers.

Mammoth Biosciences

Series D in 2021
Mammoth Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing advanced CRISPR solutions, including its proprietary DETECTR technology, which allows for the detection of specific nucleic acids in samples, aiding in diagnostics for various conditions such as bacterial infections, cancer, and viral infections. The company focuses on democratizing disease detection through accessible point-of-care tests that can simultaneously identify multiple health issues. Additionally, Mammoth offers CRISPR-Cas systems for genome editing, targeting therapeutic applications in immuno-oncology, autoimmune diseases, and liver diseases. Its innovative solutions are utilized across diverse sectors, including healthcare, agriculture, environmental monitoring, and biodefense. Co-founded by CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna, Mammoth Biosciences is supported by notable institutional and individual investors, reflecting its commitment to harnessing CRISPR technology for significant advancements in life sciences.

SmartRecruiters

Series E in 2021
SmartRecruiters, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in applicant tracking and recruiting software. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters offers a comprehensive talent acquisition platform that enables businesses to find, engage, and hire candidates efficiently. The platform includes features for recruitment marketing, collaborative hiring, candidate sourcing, and assessment, as well as offer management and recruitment analytics. Additionally, it provides an open marketplace for third-party recruitment services, allowing clients to tailor their hiring processes. Alongside its software solutions, SmartRecruiters offers support, implementation, training, optimization, and certification services to enhance user experience. The company also has offices in Kraków, Berlin, London, and Paris.

DevRev

Seed Round in 2021
DevRev is a business software company focused on connecting developers with customers in a product-led growth environment. It is developing an API-first, developer-centric customer relationship management system that utilizes data, design, and artificial intelligence to enhance product development and customer service. By empowering developers, DevRev aims to help businesses improve their productivity and foster customer-centric practices, particularly in addressing challenges such as low net promoter scores and high customer churn. The company's mission is to create a more collaborative ecosystem where developers can thrive, ultimately leading to happier customers and more successful products.

Oliver Space

Series A in 2021
Oliver Space is a home furnishing company founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California. It operates an online platform that provides a diverse selection of furniture and home decor products, including sofas, rugs, pillows, and plants. Customers can access these items through a monthly subscription model, which offers flexible rent or buy options. This approach allows individuals to easily and affordably create beautiful living spaces, while also benefiting from free design assistance.

Zipongo

Series C in 2021
Zipongo is a company focused on promoting healthy eating habits among individuals through personalized food recommendations. Their platform is designed for employers and health plans, providing tools and content that facilitate healthy eating both at home and in the workplace. By offering actionable data and insights on dietary impacts on overall health, Zipongo aims to enhance the well-being of employees and members while contributing to significant reductions in health-related costs. Additionally, the company provides deals on healthy food, recipes, and nutrition tips, further supporting individuals in making better food choices.

Immersa

Series A in 2021
Developer of a customer intelligence platform intended to empower technical leaders with an automated data warehouse. The company's platform allows users to collect, store, process, analyze, and visualize data to acquire customer insights, enabling businesses to use data-based intelligence to drive action.

Plus

Series B in 2021
PlusAI, Inc. develops self- driving trucks to enable commercialization of autonomous transport. The company operates a fleet of autonomous trucks in pilot programs in collaboration with freight shipping companies. PlusAI, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Cupertino, California.

Projector

Series B in 2020
Projector, founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, develops a mobile notification platform aimed at enhancing product experiences for developers and product teams. The company focuses on creating collaborative tools for visual communication, enabling users to integrate videos, GIFs, social media, and presentations into their applications. By facilitating visual storytelling, Projector helps teams expand their creative capabilities beyond traditional app boundaries.

Nēsos

Venture Round in 2020
Nēsos develops and commercializes electrical field treatments for neurological disorders. It is critically supported by expert clinical and scientific collaborators from leading academic institutions, including Stanford, Vall d'Hebron, Harvard, Mount Sinai, Feinstein Institute, University Of California, San Diego (UCSD), and the University Of California, San Francisco (UCSF). It was co-founded by Konstantinos Alataris and other neuroscientists.

Mammoth Biosciences

Series C in 2020
Mammoth Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing advanced CRISPR solutions, including its proprietary DETECTR technology, which allows for the detection of specific nucleic acids in samples, aiding in diagnostics for various conditions such as bacterial infections, cancer, and viral infections. The company focuses on democratizing disease detection through accessible point-of-care tests that can simultaneously identify multiple health issues. Additionally, Mammoth offers CRISPR-Cas systems for genome editing, targeting therapeutic applications in immuno-oncology, autoimmune diseases, and liver diseases. Its innovative solutions are utilized across diverse sectors, including healthcare, agriculture, environmental monitoring, and biodefense. Co-founded by CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna, Mammoth Biosciences is supported by notable institutional and individual investors, reflecting its commitment to harnessing CRISPR technology for significant advancements in life sciences.

Nuvia

Series B in 2020
Nuvia develops processors intended to create high-performance silicon design for a compute-intensive world. It designs processing chipsets for data center servers, thereby delivering a faster, power-efficient, and secure experience to existing data center processors. Manu Gulati, John Bruno, and Gerard Williams III launched Nuvia in Santa Clara, California in 2019.

Berbix

Series A in 2020
Berbix Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing a photo identity verification and fraud deterrence solution through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Founded in 2018, Berbix offers a comprehensive solution for collecting and validating photo IDs, including driver licenses and passports. Their platform enables instant ID checks, age verification, and enhancements for Know Your Customer (KYC) processes, while also addressing chargebacks and marketplace fraud. With features designed for seamless integration and customization, Berbix allows businesses to select their preferred verification methods and securely access user data, which helps in reducing low-intent or fraudulent sign-ups. The company, which is backed by prominent investors, was established by former leaders from Trust & Safety at Airbnb and operates from its headquarters in Sacramento, California.

Mission Bio

Series C in 2020
Mission Bio, Inc. specializes in tools for studying cellular heterogeneity in human health and life science research. The company utilizes microfluidic droplet technology to provide solutions for molecular analysis at the single-cell level. Its flagship product, the Tapestri Platform, is the first single-cell multi-omics platform, allowing for the simultaneous detection of genotype and phenotype from the same cell, which enhances the understanding of disease progression and treatment responses. Additionally, Mission Bio offers Tapestri Designer, a cloud-based tool for creating targeted single-cell DNA custom panels, applicable in various fields including oncology, blood cancers, solid tumors, and genome editing validation. Founded in 2011 and based in South San Francisco, California, the company was previously known as Torrent Bio, Inc. before rebranding in 2013.

Appify

Series A in 2020
Turbo Systems is a no-code drag-n-drop platform created for the business process owners and IT. Turbo’s platform provides highly configurable modules to enable every aspect of the Field Service Experience: calendars, maps, inventory, work orders, time cards, parts & returns, asset tracking, checklists, dynamic workflows, on-my-way, and much more.

HashiCorp

Series E in 2020
HashiCorp, Inc. is an open-source software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. The company develops multi-cloud infrastructure automation software that facilitates the provisioning, securing, connecting, and running of infrastructure for diverse applications. Key products include Terraform, which allows users to manage cloud infrastructure as code; Vault, a tool for securing sensitive data; Nomad, a workload orchestrator for deploying applications across multiple environments; and Consul, which supports service discovery and orchestration. HashiCorp also offers Vagrant for creating reproducible development environments and Packer for generating consistent machine images. The company’s solutions enable organizations to efficiently navigate cloud adoption challenges and standardize workflows across public and private cloud environments. HashiCorp serves both open-source and commercial markets, helping developers, operators, and security professionals manage distributed application infrastructure effectively.

Mammoth Biosciences

Series B in 2020
Mammoth Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing advanced CRISPR solutions, including its proprietary DETECTR technology, which allows for the detection of specific nucleic acids in samples, aiding in diagnostics for various conditions such as bacterial infections, cancer, and viral infections. The company focuses on democratizing disease detection through accessible point-of-care tests that can simultaneously identify multiple health issues. Additionally, Mammoth offers CRISPR-Cas systems for genome editing, targeting therapeutic applications in immuno-oncology, autoimmune diseases, and liver diseases. Its innovative solutions are utilized across diverse sectors, including healthcare, agriculture, environmental monitoring, and biodefense. Co-founded by CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna, Mammoth Biosciences is supported by notable institutional and individual investors, reflecting its commitment to harnessing CRISPR technology for significant advancements in life sciences.

Securiti

Series B in 2020
Securiti Inc. specializes in AI-powered cybersecurity and data protection solutions. The company offers a comprehensive PrivacyOps platform, PRIVACI.ai, which automates essential functions for privacy compliance, enabling organizations to manage data subject requests, consent management, and vendor risk assessments efficiently. Securiti's suite includes tools for automating data requests, discovering personal data across various sources, and tracking assessments, all designed to assist enterprises in adhering to global privacy regulations while enhancing their brand reputation. Established in 2018 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Securiti aims to empower organizations to responsibly manage personal data and streamline compliance efforts through advanced automation and a user-friendly interface.

Alchemy

Series A in 2019
Alchemy Insights, Inc. is a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that serves hedge funds and financial institutions. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for analyzing blockchain data, including on-chain data, market trends, and community activity. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to help users identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain, thereby aiding in sales, security, and strategic decision-making. Alchemy's emphasis on providing developers with essential tools allows for the creation of scalable and reliable decentralized applications without the complexities of managing blockchain infrastructure. The company is backed by notable organizations and individuals, reflecting its prominent position in the blockchain space.

BigPanda

Series C in 2019
BigPanda, Inc. operates a data science platform focused on centralizing and correlating IT alerts to aid IT operations, Network Operations Centers (NOC), and DevOps teams in detecting and resolving incidents efficiently. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to transform a high volume of fragmented IT alerts from various sources into actionable insights, enabling users to understand the business impact of IT issues and automate incident management. It serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, technology, and media, with prominent clients such as Intel and Workday. Founded in 2011 and based in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, BigPanda has garnered support from notable investors, enhancing its capabilities in improving service availability, reducing operational costs, and facilitating digital transformation initiatives.

Nuvia

Series A in 2019
Nuvia develops processors intended to create high-performance silicon design for a compute-intensive world. It designs processing chipsets for data center servers, thereby delivering a faster, power-efficient, and secure experience to existing data center processors. Manu Gulati, John Bruno, and Gerard Williams III launched Nuvia in Santa Clara, California in 2019.

Volterra

Venture Round in 2019
Volterra Inc. is a software development company founded in 2017 and based in Santa Clara, California. It specializes in providing distributed cloud services that assist developers in building, deploying, operating, and securing large-scale distributed applications across edge and multi-cloud environments. The company’s global app-to-app network enables clients to secure cloud applications and optimize critical workloads by bringing them closer to end-users, thereby enhancing performance. This approach supports DevOps and NetOps teams in addressing operational security and performance challenges effectively.

Crunchbase

Series C in 2019
Crunchbase is a comprehensive platform that provides detailed business information about both private and public companies. It offers insights into investments, funding, leadership teams, mergers and acquisitions, industry trends, and relevant news. Initially focused on tracking startups, Crunchbase has expanded its database to cover companies worldwide. The platform gathers data through four primary methods: a venture program, machine learning technology, an in-house data team, and contributions from the Crunchbase community, allowing public members to submit information. These submissions undergo a process of registration, social validation, and moderation to ensure accuracy and reliability. By offering this wealth of information, Crunchbase serves as a valuable resource for entrepreneurs, investors, and market researchers seeking to make informed business decisions.

Oliver Space

Seed Round in 2019
Oliver Space is a home furnishing company founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California. It operates an online platform that provides a diverse selection of furniture and home decor products, including sofas, rugs, pillows, and plants. Customers can access these items through a monthly subscription model, which offers flexible rent or buy options. This approach allows individuals to easily and affordably create beautiful living spaces, while also benefiting from free design assistance.

Roost

Seed Round in 2019
Roost operates as a marketplace that links individuals in need of storage or parking solutions with neighbors offering extra space in their properties, such as garages and basements. Founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco, Roost is positioned to disrupt the $24 billion self-storage industry and the $10 billion parking industry by providing a more accessible and community-oriented alternative. The platform not only facilitates cost-effective storage options but also fosters community engagement and promotes environmentally friendly practices. By connecting over 30,000 customers across various sectors, Roost aims to create financial benefits for users while enhancing local neighborhoods.

New Culture

Seed Round in 2019
New Culture Inc. is a food and beverage company that specializes in producing cheese from protein using innovative methods. By employing microflora to create dairy proteins and dairy products, the company aims to revolutionize traditional cheese-making processes. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, New Culture is committed to developing sustainable and alternative cheese options that appeal to a growing market of health-conscious and environmentally aware consumers.

Grove Collaborative

Series D in 2019
Grove Collaborative, Inc. is an online retailer based in San Francisco, California, specializing in natural home and personal care products. Founded in 2012, the company provides a wide range of items, including household cleaners, personal care products, and baby and pet supplies. Its product offerings encompass laundry detergents, dish soaps, deodorants, shampoos, hand sanitizers, and various other essential items designed to enhance everyday living. Grove Collaborative aims to simplify the shopping experience for consumers seeking eco-friendly options for their homes and families. Originally established as ePantry LLC, the company rebranded to its current name in April 2016.

Securiti

Series A in 2019
Securiti Inc. specializes in AI-powered cybersecurity and data protection solutions. The company offers a comprehensive PrivacyOps platform, PRIVACI.ai, which automates essential functions for privacy compliance, enabling organizations to manage data subject requests, consent management, and vendor risk assessments efficiently. Securiti's suite includes tools for automating data requests, discovering personal data across various sources, and tracking assessments, all designed to assist enterprises in adhering to global privacy regulations while enhancing their brand reputation. Established in 2018 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Securiti aims to empower organizations to responsibly manage personal data and streamline compliance efforts through advanced automation and a user-friendly interface.

Cognition IP

Seed Round in 2019
Cognition IP is a law firm specializing in patent law. The firm offers a full suite of IP services, from IP strategy and counseling to filing and prosecuting patents and trademarks. It seeks to provide its services to life sciences, advanced software, consumer goods, transportation, cryptocurrency, SAAS & marketplaces, hardware & university spinouts. Cognition IP was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Washington, District of Columbia.

Carnivore Inc.

Series A in 2019
Makers of Clan HQ, mobile messenger for mobile gamers.

WorkSpan

Series B in 2019
WorkSpan is a leader in the Ecosystem Cloud sector, providing a platform that enables alliance, channel, and ecosystem leaders to collaborate effectively with their partners. Through its network, WorkSpan facilitates co-creation, co-marketing, and co-selling, allowing customers to capture significant opportunities within the Ecosystem Economy. The platform supports companies in managing co-sell revenue growth by enabling them to collaborate on deals, share referrals, and track performance through a live dashboard. This collaborative approach empowers organizations to execute joint marketing programs swiftly with their partners. WorkSpan is a privately held company that has established a robust network of global enterprise customers, including major firms such as SAP, Cisco, Microsoft, and Accenture.

SmartRecruiters

Series D in 2019
SmartRecruiters, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in applicant tracking and recruiting software. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters offers a comprehensive talent acquisition platform that enables businesses to find, engage, and hire candidates efficiently. The platform includes features for recruitment marketing, collaborative hiring, candidate sourcing, and assessment, as well as offer management and recruitment analytics. Additionally, it provides an open marketplace for third-party recruitment services, allowing clients to tailor their hiring processes. Alongside its software solutions, SmartRecruiters offers support, implementation, training, optimization, and certification services to enhance user experience. The company also has offices in Kraków, Berlin, London, and Paris.

Punch List

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Punch List, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that offers a mobile application designed to facilitate successful home remodeling projects between independent contractors and homeowners. Founded in 2018, the platform enhances communication through features such as messaging, photo sharing, and client approvals, while also providing payment tracking and digital invoicing to ensure timely payments for contractors. Homeowners benefit from real-time updates on the status of their remodel, with automatic invoices generated upon the completion of significant tasks to maintain budget transparency. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Punch List introduced a new app called Specialist, which allows professionals and clients to connect via video chat, further simplifying the remodeling process.

Zimride

Series A in 2019
Zimride is a secure ride-sharing platform for companies and universities. Zimride, sold by Lyft to Enterprise in July 2013, was founded in 2007 to connect users for long-haul rides and car pooling for universities and businesses. The service made the vast majority of its money from SaaS-based ride-matching software that was run privately through individual schools and companies. The company had more than 130 university and corporate campuses signed up to offer ride-sharing and car pooling through Zimride.

Portworx

Series C in 2019
Portworx Inc. is a cloud-native storage and data management company that specializes in software-defined infrastructure for containerized applications. Founded in 2014 and based in Redwood City, California, Portworx provides a comprehensive storage solution designed specifically for containers, enabling enterprises to manage databases and stateful services across various infrastructures. Its platform supports both on-premises and cloud-based deployments, allowing for rapid deployment and scaling of applications while addressing key challenges such as security, data automation, and high availability. Portworx's technology facilitates the seamless management of stateful container workloads, helping organizations reduce the cost and complexity associated with deploying containerized applications across multiple environments. The company operates as a subsidiary of Pure Storage, focusing on enhancing the efficiency of DevOps teams in production settings.

Appify

Series A in 2019
Turbo Systems is a no-code drag-n-drop platform created for the business process owners and IT. Turbo’s platform provides highly configurable modules to enable every aspect of the Field Service Experience: calendars, maps, inventory, work orders, time cards, parts & returns, asset tracking, checklists, dynamic workflows, on-my-way, and much more.

Qwiet

Series B in 2019
ShiftLeft, Inc. specializes in cloud security solutions tailored to each version of applications, emphasizing proactive security measures rather than reactive threat responses. Founded in 2016 and based in Santa Clara, California, the company offers a range of products, including NextGen Static Analysis, Protect, Ocular, and tools for open source software such as ShiftLeft Scan, Joern, and CPG Schema. ShiftLeft's innovative approach involves understanding the "Security DNA" of applications and microservices, which enables organizations to secure their software effectively as part of the continuous integration process. This methodology enhances the speed of identifying and automatically triaging security issues, ultimately reducing the potential attack surface at runtime.

Mission Bio

Series B in 2018
Mission Bio, Inc. specializes in tools for studying cellular heterogeneity in human health and life science research. The company utilizes microfluidic droplet technology to provide solutions for molecular analysis at the single-cell level. Its flagship product, the Tapestri Platform, is the first single-cell multi-omics platform, allowing for the simultaneous detection of genotype and phenotype from the same cell, which enhances the understanding of disease progression and treatment responses. Additionally, Mission Bio offers Tapestri Designer, a cloud-based tool for creating targeted single-cell DNA custom panels, applicable in various fields including oncology, blood cancers, solid tumors, and genome editing validation. Founded in 2011 and based in South San Francisco, California, the company was previously known as Torrent Bio, Inc. before rebranding in 2013.

Phiar

Seed Round in 2018
Phiar Technologies, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing an ultra-lightweight Spatial AI Engine designed to enable vehicles to perceive their surroundings in real-time using only commodity mobile-grade processors and a single camera. Phiar's primary focus is on its Intelligent Augmented Reality (AR) Navigation Platform, which aims to enhance the driving experience by providing intuitive routing directions on a 2D map. This application offers real-time road understanding, allowing drivers to follow directions without diverting their attention from the road, thereby improving safety and facilitating the advancement of connected cars and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).

HashiCorp

Series D in 2018
HashiCorp, Inc. is an open-source software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. The company develops multi-cloud infrastructure automation software that facilitates the provisioning, securing, connecting, and running of infrastructure for diverse applications. Key products include Terraform, which allows users to manage cloud infrastructure as code; Vault, a tool for securing sensitive data; Nomad, a workload orchestrator for deploying applications across multiple environments; and Consul, which supports service discovery and orchestration. HashiCorp also offers Vagrant for creating reproducible development environments and Packer for generating consistent machine images. The company’s solutions enable organizations to efficiently navigate cloud adoption challenges and standardize workflows across public and private cloud environments. HashiCorp serves both open-source and commercial markets, helping developers, operators, and security professionals manage distributed application infrastructure effectively.

Nebula Genomics

Series A in 2018
Nebula Genomics, founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, is a company focused on human genome sequencing and health data. It aims to create a comprehensive and trusted marketplace for genomic and health data, facilitating access for consumers, researchers, and the medical community. Utilizing blockchain technology, Nebula Genomics empowers individuals to control their genomic data while receiving compensation for its use. The marketplace aggregates extensive genetic information, which researchers can analyze to enhance drug development and streamline clinical trials, ultimately contributing to personalized medicine. The company's innovative DNA sequencing technology allows for the examination of all genes, regulatory regions, the Y chromosome, and mitochondrial DNA, enabling clients to explore genetic variants comprehensively. Nebula Genomics was co-founded by Harvard genomics pioneer George Church and has received backing from notable investors.

Arcadia Data

Series B in 2018
Arcadia Data Inc., founded in 2012 and headquartered in Campbell, California, specializes in data analytic services, focusing on Unified Visual Analytics and Business Intelligence platforms tailored for big data environments. The company offers a unique software solution that operates natively within modern data platforms, enabling users to access the scale, flexibility, performance, and security necessary for deriving meaningful, real-time business insights. By facilitating the design of data-centric applications, Arcadia Data addresses the evolving demands of businesses navigating the complexities of big data and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Mammoth Biosciences

Series A in 2018
Mammoth Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing advanced CRISPR solutions, including its proprietary DETECTR technology, which allows for the detection of specific nucleic acids in samples, aiding in diagnostics for various conditions such as bacterial infections, cancer, and viral infections. The company focuses on democratizing disease detection through accessible point-of-care tests that can simultaneously identify multiple health issues. Additionally, Mammoth offers CRISPR-Cas systems for genome editing, targeting therapeutic applications in immuno-oncology, autoimmune diseases, and liver diseases. Its innovative solutions are utilized across diverse sectors, including healthcare, agriculture, environmental monitoring, and biodefense. Co-founded by CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna, Mammoth Biosciences is supported by notable institutional and individual investors, reflecting its commitment to harnessing CRISPR technology for significant advancements in life sciences.

Mission Bio

Series B in 2018
Mission Bio, Inc. specializes in tools for studying cellular heterogeneity in human health and life science research. The company utilizes microfluidic droplet technology to provide solutions for molecular analysis at the single-cell level. Its flagship product, the Tapestri Platform, is the first single-cell multi-omics platform, allowing for the simultaneous detection of genotype and phenotype from the same cell, which enhances the understanding of disease progression and treatment responses. Additionally, Mission Bio offers Tapestri Designer, a cloud-based tool for creating targeted single-cell DNA custom panels, applicable in various fields including oncology, blood cancers, solid tumors, and genome editing validation. Founded in 2011 and based in South San Francisco, California, the company was previously known as Torrent Bio, Inc. before rebranding in 2013.

Balbix

Series B in 2018
Balbix, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a predictive breach risk and resilience platform aimed at helping CIOs, CISOs, and IT security teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Balbix utilizes predictive analytics and self-learning AI to continuously assess and visualize an organization's cyber-breach risk across various devices and applications. The platform is designed to predict potential breach scenarios and offers actionable insights that enable security teams to prioritize their initiatives and optimize security spending. By providing comprehensive measurement of breach risk, Balbix facilitates a proactive approach to cybersecurity, allowing organizations to identify vulnerabilities and mitigate risks effectively, thereby enhancing overall cyber-resilience.

Qventus

Series B in 2018
Qventus, Inc. is an artificial intelligence software company that focuses on optimizing hospital operations through real-time data analytics. Established in 2011 and based in Los Altos, California, the company offers a platform that predicts operational issues, provides immediate recommendations, and encourages team members to take action. By utilizing machine learning and optimization algorithms, Qventus aims to enhance the efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery, addressing challenges across various hospital departments, including emergency services, operating rooms, and patient safety. The company collaborates with leading healthcare institutions to transform hospital management and improve overall operational decision-making.

Projector

Series A in 2018
Projector, founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, develops a mobile notification platform aimed at enhancing product experiences for developers and product teams. The company focuses on creating collaborative tools for visual communication, enabling users to integrate videos, GIFs, social media, and presentations into their applications. By facilitating visual storytelling, Projector helps teams expand their creative capabilities beyond traditional app boundaries.

Zipongo

Series B in 2018
Zipongo is a company focused on promoting healthy eating habits among individuals through personalized food recommendations. Their platform is designed for employers and health plans, providing tools and content that facilitate healthy eating both at home and in the workplace. By offering actionable data and insights on dietary impacts on overall health, Zipongo aims to enhance the well-being of employees and members while contributing to significant reductions in health-related costs. Additionally, the company provides deals on healthy food, recipes, and nutrition tips, further supporting individuals in making better food choices.

Grove Collaborative

Series C in 2018
Grove Collaborative, Inc. is an online retailer based in San Francisco, California, specializing in natural home and personal care products. Founded in 2012, the company provides a wide range of items, including household cleaners, personal care products, and baby and pet supplies. Its product offerings encompass laundry detergents, dish soaps, deodorants, shampoos, hand sanitizers, and various other essential items designed to enhance everyday living. Grove Collaborative aims to simplify the shopping experience for consumers seeking eco-friendly options for their homes and families. Originally established as ePantry LLC, the company rebranded to its current name in April 2016.

Projector

Series A in 2018
Projector, founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, develops a mobile notification platform aimed at enhancing product experiences for developers and product teams. The company focuses on creating collaborative tools for visual communication, enabling users to integrate videos, GIFs, social media, and presentations into their applications. By facilitating visual storytelling, Projector helps teams expand their creative capabilities beyond traditional app boundaries.

Poshmark

Series E in 2017
Poshmark, Inc. is a social marketplace based in Redwood City, California, that facilitates the buying and selling of lifestyle products, including apparel, footwear, home items, beauty products, and accessories. Founded in 2011, the platform allows users to connect over a shared interest in fashion, making shopping an engaging experience. Poshmark caters to a diverse audience, featuring over 25 million items from more than 5,000 brands, and boasts a community of over two million Seller Stylists who assist shoppers in finding their ideal styles. The marketplace promotes sustainability by encouraging users to resell personal items, thus supporting environmentally conscious consumer choices. As of late 2020, Poshmark had approximately 31.7 million active users, with a significant number engaged in buying and selling activities.

BigPanda

Series B in 2017
BigPanda, Inc. operates a data science platform focused on centralizing and correlating IT alerts to aid IT operations, Network Operations Centers (NOC), and DevOps teams in detecting and resolving incidents efficiently. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to transform a high volume of fragmented IT alerts from various sources into actionable insights, enabling users to understand the business impact of IT issues and automate incident management. It serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, technology, and media, with prominent clients such as Intel and Workday. Founded in 2011 and based in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, BigPanda has garnered support from notable investors, enhancing its capabilities in improving service availability, reducing operational costs, and facilitating digital transformation initiatives.

HashiCorp

Series C in 2017
HashiCorp, Inc. is an open-source software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. The company develops multi-cloud infrastructure automation software that facilitates the provisioning, securing, connecting, and running of infrastructure for diverse applications. Key products include Terraform, which allows users to manage cloud infrastructure as code; Vault, a tool for securing sensitive data; Nomad, a workload orchestrator for deploying applications across multiple environments; and Consul, which supports service discovery and orchestration. HashiCorp also offers Vagrant for creating reproducible development environments and Packer for generating consistent machine images. The company’s solutions enable organizations to efficiently navigate cloud adoption challenges and standardize workflows across public and private cloud environments. HashiCorp serves both open-source and commercial markets, helping developers, operators, and security professionals manage distributed application infrastructure effectively.

Mission Bio

Series A in 2017
Mission Bio, Inc. specializes in tools for studying cellular heterogeneity in human health and life science research. The company utilizes microfluidic droplet technology to provide solutions for molecular analysis at the single-cell level. Its flagship product, the Tapestri Platform, is the first single-cell multi-omics platform, allowing for the simultaneous detection of genotype and phenotype from the same cell, which enhances the understanding of disease progression and treatment responses. Additionally, Mission Bio offers Tapestri Designer, a cloud-based tool for creating targeted single-cell DNA custom panels, applicable in various fields including oncology, blood cancers, solid tumors, and genome editing validation. Founded in 2011 and based in South San Francisco, California, the company was previously known as Torrent Bio, Inc. before rebranding in 2013.

Qwiet

Series A in 2017
ShiftLeft, Inc. specializes in cloud security solutions tailored to each version of applications, emphasizing proactive security measures rather than reactive threat responses. Founded in 2016 and based in Santa Clara, California, the company offers a range of products, including NextGen Static Analysis, Protect, Ocular, and tools for open source software such as ShiftLeft Scan, Joern, and CPG Schema. ShiftLeft's innovative approach involves understanding the "Security DNA" of applications and microservices, which enables organizations to secure their software effectively as part of the continuous integration process. This methodology enhances the speed of identifying and automatically triaging security issues, ultimately reducing the potential attack surface at runtime.

Stockpile

Series B in 2017
Stockpile is a financial services company founded in 2010 and based in the United States. Its mission is to simplify stock investing for beginners of all ages, including children and millennials. By allowing users to purchase fractional shares starting at $5, Stockpile enables individuals to invest in popular companies and exchange-traded funds. The platform also offers unique gifting options, permitting users to buy e-gift cards or retail cards at major chains like Kroger and Office Depot, which can be used to gift stocks. Additionally, many Fortune 500 companies utilize Stockpile gift cards for employee rewards and customer loyalty initiatives. With a significant portion of the American population lacking stock ownership, Stockpile aims to provide accessible investment opportunities, helping to bridge the wealth gap and promote financial literacy. The company was founded by Avi Lele, who envisioned a way to empower those traditionally excluded from stock market participation.

Vexata

Funding Round in 2017
Vexata, Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of real-time enterprise storage systems, headquartered in San Jose, California. Founded in 2013, the company offers a data storage infrastructure platform that enhances the performance of various database and analytics applications, including Oracle and SQL Server. Vexata's solutions integrate distributed data management software with advanced networking principles to meet the demands of data-driven applications. This active data fabric allows businesses to manage large active data sets efficiently without the need for application rewrites or complex infrastructure changes. As of July 2019, Vexata operates as a subsidiary of StorCentric, Inc.

MapR

Venture Round in 2017
MapR Technologies, a provider of the industry's next-generation data platform for AI and Analytics, enables enterprises to inject analytics into their business processes to increase revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. MapR addresses the data complexities of high-scale and mission-critical distributed processing from the cloud to the edge, IoT analytics, and container persistence. Global 2000 enterprises trust the MapR Data Platform to help them solve their most complex AI and analytics challenges. Amazon, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, SAP, and other leading businesses are all part of the MapR ecosystem.

WorkSpan

Series A in 2017
WorkSpan is a leader in the Ecosystem Cloud sector, providing a platform that enables alliance, channel, and ecosystem leaders to collaborate effectively with their partners. Through its network, WorkSpan facilitates co-creation, co-marketing, and co-selling, allowing customers to capture significant opportunities within the Ecosystem Economy. The platform supports companies in managing co-sell revenue growth by enabling them to collaborate on deals, share referrals, and track performance through a live dashboard. This collaborative approach empowers organizations to execute joint marketing programs swiftly with their partners. WorkSpan is a privately held company that has established a robust network of global enterprise customers, including major firms such as SAP, Cisco, Microsoft, and Accenture.

Pillow

Series A in 2017
Pillow provides Internet-based management services. It offers information about a property, essential amenities, and other apartments and houses. The company is an Expedia group that solves short-term rentals for multifamily properties, allowing building owners and property managers to have control and transparency over short-term rentals while enabling their residents to rent their units short-term on listings sites such as Homeaway, VRBO, and Airbnb.

Balbix

Series A in 2017
Balbix, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a predictive breach risk and resilience platform aimed at helping CIOs, CISOs, and IT security teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Balbix utilizes predictive analytics and self-learning AI to continuously assess and visualize an organization's cyber-breach risk across various devices and applications. The platform is designed to predict potential breach scenarios and offers actionable insights that enable security teams to prioritize their initiatives and optimize security spending. By providing comprehensive measurement of breach risk, Balbix facilitates a proactive approach to cybersecurity, allowing organizations to identify vulnerabilities and mitigate risks effectively, thereby enhancing overall cyber-resilience.

Mammoth Biosciences

Seed Round in 2017
Mammoth Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing advanced CRISPR solutions, including its proprietary DETECTR technology, which allows for the detection of specific nucleic acids in samples, aiding in diagnostics for various conditions such as bacterial infections, cancer, and viral infections. The company focuses on democratizing disease detection through accessible point-of-care tests that can simultaneously identify multiple health issues. Additionally, Mammoth offers CRISPR-Cas systems for genome editing, targeting therapeutic applications in immuno-oncology, autoimmune diseases, and liver diseases. Its innovative solutions are utilized across diverse sectors, including healthcare, agriculture, environmental monitoring, and biodefense. Co-founded by CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna, Mammoth Biosciences is supported by notable institutional and individual investors, reflecting its commitment to harnessing CRISPR technology for significant advancements in life sciences.

Grove Collaborative

Series B in 2017
Grove Collaborative, Inc. is an online retailer based in San Francisco, California, specializing in natural home and personal care products. Founded in 2012, the company provides a wide range of items, including household cleaners, personal care products, and baby and pet supplies. Its product offerings encompass laundry detergents, dish soaps, deodorants, shampoos, hand sanitizers, and various other essential items designed to enhance everyday living. Grove Collaborative aims to simplify the shopping experience for consumers seeking eco-friendly options for their homes and families. Originally established as ePantry LLC, the company rebranded to its current name in April 2016.

Crunchbase

Series B in 2017
Crunchbase is a comprehensive platform that provides detailed business information about both private and public companies. It offers insights into investments, funding, leadership teams, mergers and acquisitions, industry trends, and relevant news. Initially focused on tracking startups, Crunchbase has expanded its database to cover companies worldwide. The platform gathers data through four primary methods: a venture program, machine learning technology, an in-house data team, and contributions from the Crunchbase community, allowing public members to submit information. These submissions undergo a process of registration, social validation, and moderation to ensure accuracy and reliability. By offering this wealth of information, Crunchbase serves as a valuable resource for entrepreneurs, investors, and market researchers seeking to make informed business decisions.

Portworx

Series B in 2017
Portworx Inc. is a cloud-native storage and data management company that specializes in software-defined infrastructure for containerized applications. Founded in 2014 and based in Redwood City, California, Portworx provides a comprehensive storage solution designed specifically for containers, enabling enterprises to manage databases and stateful services across various infrastructures. Its platform supports both on-premises and cloud-based deployments, allowing for rapid deployment and scaling of applications while addressing key challenges such as security, data automation, and high availability. Portworx's technology facilitates the seamless management of stateful container workloads, helping organizations reduce the cost and complexity associated with deploying containerized applications across multiple environments. The company operates as a subsidiary of Pure Storage, focusing on enhancing the efficiency of DevOps teams in production settings.

Fungible

Series A in 2017
Fungible, Inc. is a technology company that develops hardware and software solutions specifically for cloud data centers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, Fungible aims to enhance data movement through its innovative chip technology, which is characterized by low latency, high throughput, and programmability. The company's offerings include a full-stack infrastructure software that leverages standard components, protocols, and interfaces, focusing on improving the economics, security, and reliability of cloud data centers. With a team that has extensive experience in networking, silicon, and software industries, Fungible is positioned to address the evolving requirements of modern cloud infrastructure.

Qventus

Series A in 2016
Qventus, Inc. is an artificial intelligence software company that focuses on optimizing hospital operations through real-time data analytics. Established in 2011 and based in Los Altos, California, the company offers a platform that predicts operational issues, provides immediate recommendations, and encourages team members to take action. By utilizing machine learning and optimization algorithms, Qventus aims to enhance the efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery, addressing challenges across various hospital departments, including emergency services, operating rooms, and patient safety. The company collaborates with leading healthcare institutions to transform hospital management and improve overall operational decision-making.

Plus

Seed Round in 2016
PlusAI, Inc. develops self- driving trucks to enable commercialization of autonomous transport. The company operates a fleet of autonomous trucks in pilot programs in collaboration with freight shipping companies. PlusAI, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Cupertino, California.

Zipongo

Series B in 2016
Zipongo is a company focused on promoting healthy eating habits among individuals through personalized food recommendations. Their platform is designed for employers and health plans, providing tools and content that facilitate healthy eating both at home and in the workplace. By offering actionable data and insights on dietary impacts on overall health, Zipongo aims to enhance the well-being of employees and members while contributing to significant reductions in health-related costs. Additionally, the company provides deals on healthy food, recipes, and nutrition tips, further supporting individuals in making better food choices.

Finrise

Seed Round in 2016
Finrise, Inc. is a healthcare financing company based in San Mateo, California, established in 2015. It specializes in providing online financing plans for various medical services, including veterinary, dental, and audiology care. The company aims to enhance access to quality healthcare by offering transparent financial products that allow patients to secure instant loans at the point of service. By moving beyond traditional credit scoring methods, Finrise seeks to empower patients and healthcare providers alike, facilitating treatment without the constraints of affordability. Its approach simplifies the payment process for healthcare services not covered by insurance, significantly reducing the administrative burden associated with financing. Through its innovative solutions, Finrise promotes patient empowerment and aims to improve the overall experience in healthcare lending.

Fungible

Series A in 2016
Fungible, Inc. is a technology company that develops hardware and software solutions specifically for cloud data centers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, Fungible aims to enhance data movement through its innovative chip technology, which is characterized by low latency, high throughput, and programmability. The company's offerings include a full-stack infrastructure software that leverages standard components, protocols, and interfaces, focusing on improving the economics, security, and reliability of cloud data centers. With a team that has extensive experience in networking, silicon, and software industries, Fungible is positioned to address the evolving requirements of modern cloud infrastructure.

HashiCorp

Series B in 2016
HashiCorp, Inc. is an open-source software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. The company develops multi-cloud infrastructure automation software that facilitates the provisioning, securing, connecting, and running of infrastructure for diverse applications. Key products include Terraform, which allows users to manage cloud infrastructure as code; Vault, a tool for securing sensitive data; Nomad, a workload orchestrator for deploying applications across multiple environments; and Consul, which supports service discovery and orchestration. HashiCorp also offers Vagrant for creating reproducible development environments and Packer for generating consistent machine images. The company’s solutions enable organizations to efficiently navigate cloud adoption challenges and standardize workflows across public and private cloud environments. HashiCorp serves both open-source and commercial markets, helping developers, operators, and security professionals manage distributed application infrastructure effectively.

MapR

Venture Round in 2016
MapR Technologies, a provider of the industry's next-generation data platform for AI and Analytics, enables enterprises to inject analytics into their business processes to increase revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. MapR addresses the data complexities of high-scale and mission-critical distributed processing from the cloud to the edge, IoT analytics, and container persistence. Global 2000 enterprises trust the MapR Data Platform to help them solve their most complex AI and analytics challenges. Amazon, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, SAP, and other leading businesses are all part of the MapR ecosystem.

SmartRecruiters

Series C in 2016
SmartRecruiters, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in applicant tracking and recruiting software. Founded in 2010, SmartRecruiters offers a comprehensive talent acquisition platform that enables businesses to find, engage, and hire candidates efficiently. The platform includes features for recruitment marketing, collaborative hiring, candidate sourcing, and assessment, as well as offer management and recruitment analytics. Additionally, it provides an open marketplace for third-party recruitment services, allowing clients to tailor their hiring processes. Alongside its software solutions, SmartRecruiters offers support, implementation, training, optimization, and certification services to enhance user experience. The company also has offices in Kraków, Berlin, London, and Paris.

BigPanda

Series B in 2016
BigPanda, Inc. operates a data science platform focused on centralizing and correlating IT alerts to aid IT operations, Network Operations Centers (NOC), and DevOps teams in detecting and resolving incidents efficiently. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to transform a high volume of fragmented IT alerts from various sources into actionable insights, enabling users to understand the business impact of IT issues and automate incident management. It serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, technology, and media, with prominent clients such as Intel and Workday. Founded in 2011 and based in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, BigPanda has garnered support from notable investors, enhancing its capabilities in improving service availability, reducing operational costs, and facilitating digital transformation initiatives.

MIPS

Venture Round in 2016
MIPS Tech, Inc. designs and develops processor architectures and cores, focusing on embedded processors and related intellectual property for high-performance markets, including automotive, consumer electronics, artificial intelligence, and networking. The company offers a range of 32-bit and 64-bit processor IP cores, including various Warrior and Aptiv generation cores, as well as multiple instruction set architectures such as MIPS32, MIPS64, and nanoMIPS. These designs are utilized in devices like digital televisions, video game systems, and broadband access equipment. MIPS licenses its core designs and architectures to semiconductor companies and original equipment manufacturers, enabling them to create customized and application-specific products. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, MIPS Tech operates as a subsidiary of Wave Computing, Inc., and has undergone financial restructuring under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Poshmark

Series D in 2016
Poshmark, Inc. is a social marketplace based in Redwood City, California, that facilitates the buying and selling of lifestyle products, including apparel, footwear, home items, beauty products, and accessories. Founded in 2011, the platform allows users to connect over a shared interest in fashion, making shopping an engaging experience. Poshmark caters to a diverse audience, featuring over 25 million items from more than 5,000 brands, and boasts a community of over two million Seller Stylists who assist shoppers in finding their ideal styles. The marketplace promotes sustainability by encouraging users to resell personal items, thus supporting environmentally conscious consumer choices. As of late 2020, Poshmark had approximately 31.7 million active users, with a significant number engaged in buying and selling activities.

Projector

Seed Round in 2016
Projector, founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, develops a mobile notification platform aimed at enhancing product experiences for developers and product teams. The company focuses on creating collaborative tools for visual communication, enabling users to integrate videos, GIFs, social media, and presentations into their applications. By facilitating visual storytelling, Projector helps teams expand their creative capabilities beyond traditional app boundaries.

Lantern

Series A in 2016
Finding emotional well-being during life’s twists and turns isn’t easy. Accessing care is at best expensive, and at worst completely out of reach. And that’s where Lantern comes in. Founded in 2012 in San Francisco, they’re a team of researchers, technologists, and clinicians translating clinical research and expertise into simple, effective web and mobile programs based in cognitive behavioral therapy. They’re not about unrealistic promises or get-happy-quick schemes. They’re about removing the stigma and barriers that prevent people from strengthening their emotional selves, offering a holistic approach to making every day better. They envision a world in which people think differently about their mental health–where they feel empowered to take a simple step toward self-improvement. They’re on a mission to make this happen, and they hope you’ll join us.

Cloudsimple

Series A in 2016
CloudSimple provides a service to the world’s leading cloud vendors to deploy and manage workloads in a dedicated, private cloud in public clouds. With the full support of Microsoft and VMware, the first offering is a service for VMware. We help enterprises looking to move VMware workloads to the cloud without any changes and continue to use the familiar VMware and cloud management tools they know. IT benefits from the agility and on-demand, elastic infrastructure of the cloud, as well as lowered costs.

Netsil

Seed Round in 2015
Netsil Inc. specializes in monitoring solutions for distributed cloud applications, focusing on observability and performance assurance for modern cloud environments. Established in 2012 and based in San Francisco, the company offers an analytics engine that provides insights from API calls without the need for code instrumentation, enabling DevOps teams to deploy applications frequently. Its flagship product, the Netsil Application Operations Center (AOC), automatically generates comprehensive maps of applications, revealing internal and external service dependencies. This topology map helps monitor key performance indicators, delivering high-resolution, real-time metrics that empower Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and DevOps professionals to maintain service health, conduct incident responses, and manage capacity effectively. As of March 2018, Netsil operates as a subsidiary of Nutanix, enhancing its capabilities in cloud application monitoring.

Stockpile

Series A in 2015
Stockpile is a financial services company founded in 2010 and based in the United States. Its mission is to simplify stock investing for beginners of all ages, including children and millennials. By allowing users to purchase fractional shares starting at $5, Stockpile enables individuals to invest in popular companies and exchange-traded funds. The platform also offers unique gifting options, permitting users to buy e-gift cards or retail cards at major chains like Kroger and Office Depot, which can be used to gift stocks. Additionally, many Fortune 500 companies utilize Stockpile gift cards for employee rewards and customer loyalty initiatives. With a significant portion of the American population lacking stock ownership, Stockpile aims to provide accessible investment opportunities, helping to bridge the wealth gap and promote financial literacy. The company was founded by Avi Lele, who envisioned a way to empower those traditionally excluded from stock market participation.

BigPanda

Series B in 2015
BigPanda, Inc. operates a data science platform focused on centralizing and correlating IT alerts to aid IT operations, Network Operations Centers (NOC), and DevOps teams in detecting and resolving incidents efficiently. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to transform a high volume of fragmented IT alerts from various sources into actionable insights, enabling users to understand the business impact of IT issues and automate incident management. It serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, technology, and media, with prominent clients such as Intel and Workday. Founded in 2011 and based in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, BigPanda has garnered support from notable investors, enhancing its capabilities in improving service availability, reducing operational costs, and facilitating digital transformation initiatives.

Drop

Series B in 2015
Drop is a product company that uniquely uses data and insights from enthusiasts to create and curate innovative products that fuel passion. With new, diverse products featured every day, Drop empowers people across the globe to find and follow their interests, learn, share, shop, and participate in product development. Popular Drop categories include audio, tech, apparel, outdoors, and cooking. Founded in 2012, Drop is home to 7 million members. Drop is available on Drop.com and the Drop app.

Portworx

Series A in 2015
Portworx Inc. is a cloud-native storage and data management company that specializes in software-defined infrastructure for containerized applications. Founded in 2014 and based in Redwood City, California, Portworx provides a comprehensive storage solution designed specifically for containers, enabling enterprises to manage databases and stateful services across various infrastructures. Its platform supports both on-premises and cloud-based deployments, allowing for rapid deployment and scaling of applications while addressing key challenges such as security, data automation, and high availability. Portworx's technology facilitates the seamless management of stateful container workloads, helping organizations reduce the cost and complexity associated with deploying containerized applications across multiple environments. The company operates as a subsidiary of Pure Storage, focusing on enhancing the efficiency of DevOps teams in production settings.

Arcadia Data

Series A in 2015
Arcadia Data Inc., founded in 2012 and headquartered in Campbell, California, specializes in data analytic services, focusing on Unified Visual Analytics and Business Intelligence platforms tailored for big data environments. The company offers a unique software solution that operates natively within modern data platforms, enabling users to access the scale, flexibility, performance, and security necessary for deriving meaningful, real-time business insights. By facilitating the design of data-centric applications, Arcadia Data addresses the evolving demands of businesses navigating the complexities of big data and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Simplilearn

Series C in 2015
Simplilearn is a leading online certification training company that assists professionals globally in achieving their career aspirations. The company offers over 200 certification courses in various fields, including project management, IT service management, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and digital marketing. With a focus on young working professionals, Simplilearn aims to enhance careers through its comprehensive training programs. The company's blended delivery model combines proven training content with advanced technology to provide an exceptional learning experience. Simplilearn has trained more than 400,000 professionals in over 150 countries and holds several prestigious accreditations, including being a Global Registered Education Provider for PMI, USA, and an Accredited Training Organization by APMG International, UK. Recognized for its rapid growth and quality educational offerings, Simplilearn continues to expand its course catalog to meet the evolving needs of professionals worldwide.

Poshmark

Series C in 2015
Poshmark, Inc. is a social marketplace based in Redwood City, California, that facilitates the buying and selling of lifestyle products, including apparel, footwear, home items, beauty products, and accessories. Founded in 2011, the platform allows users to connect over a shared interest in fashion, making shopping an engaging experience. Poshmark caters to a diverse audience, featuring over 25 million items from more than 5,000 brands, and boasts a community of over two million Seller Stylists who assist shoppers in finding their ideal styles. The marketplace promotes sustainability by encouraging users to resell personal items, thus supporting environmentally conscious consumer choices. As of late 2020, Poshmark had approximately 31.7 million active users, with a significant number engaged in buying and selling activities.

Elastica

Series B in 2015
Elastica, Inc. specializes in providing cloud security solutions designed for businesses and their employees. Founded in 2012 and based in San Jose, California, the company offers a range of services, including its CloudSOC platform, which ensures transaction-level security for cloud applications through data science and machine learning. Elastica's offerings include ThreatScore, an automated tool that assesses usage patterns to initiate intelligent security responses, and Securlets, which monitor and secure specific cloud services utilized by employees. The company also provides applications for auditing cloud services, detecting threats, investigating historical transactions, and ensuring compliance within cloud environments. Elastica operates as a subsidiary of Blue Coat Systems Inc. since November 2015.

KiwiCo

Venture Round in 2015
KiwiCo sparks creativity in kids and saves time for busy parents by providing all of the inspiration and materials necessary for hours of imaginative play and learning. With monthly deliveries of activities designed to help kids discover, explore, and create things in the world around them, KiwiCo brings hands-on fun right to the door. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountian View, California.

CloudVelox

Series C in 2015
Cloud Velox (Formerly CloudVelocity) was founded by a team with extensive expertise in operating systems, distributed systems, virtualization, cloud, networking and storage technologies. The team has developed software that enables new and existing Linux and Windows multi-tier applications to run in the cloud without modification, automatically extending the enterprise data center to the cloud so that applications can access any necessary services residing back in the enterprise.

Alchemist Accelerator

Venture Round in 2015
Alchemist Accelerator is a San Francisco-based accelerator that specializes in nurturing seed-stage startups focused primarily on enterprise solutions. Founded in 2013, it runs six-month programs that accept 13 startups every four months, providing seed funding typically around $36,000. The accelerator emphasizes teams with distinctive technical co-founders and offers a structured pathway for startups to gain traction, secure additional funding, and benefit from mentorship and community support. Alchemist Accelerator is known for its strong backing from prominent corporate and venture capital firms, including Cisco and Khosla Ventures, and it aims to accelerate around 75 enterprise-focused ventures each year. Notable alumni include companies like LaunchDarkly and Rigetti Quantum Computing.
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