Mohr Davidow Ventures

Mohr Davidow Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Mateo, California, founded in 1983. It specializes in early-stage investments, particularly in technology-driven startups that aim to create or redefine significant market opportunities. The firm focuses on sectors such as financial technology, information technology, energy and materials, and life sciences. Within these sectors, it invests in areas like digital marketing, collaborative enterprise applications, the digitization of education and health, and e-commerce, among others. Mohr Davidow Ventures actively seeks to partner with exceptional entrepreneurs who leverage advancements in mobile devices, cloud computing, and data analytics to foster deep customer engagement and drive innovation. With $1.85 billion under management, the firm has a history of successful investments, contributing to the growth of numerous companies in the Silicon Valley, Mid-Atlantic, and Pacific Northwest regions of the United States.

Jon Feiber

General Partner

Joshua L. Green

General Partner

Josh Green

General Partner

Joy Floresca Knox

VP of Information Technology and Operation

Nancy Schoendorf

General Partner

Jim Smith

General Partner

Randall K. Strahan

Venture Partner

Randy Strahan

Venture Partner

310 past transactions

Sabrix

Series B in 2002
Indirect Tax Software - ONESOURCE - Tax & Accounting

WorkFusion

Series C in 2015
WorkFusion is accelerating the world’s transition to more meaningful work. Our Intelligent Automation solutions are powered by pre-trained ExpertBots, proprietary artificial intelligence technology and advanced analytics, working together to automate a wide range of business processes. The world’s leading organizations use WorkFusion to automate their operations with ease and speed, helping them up-skill employees, reduce costs and unlock growth like never before. WorkFusion is headquartered in New York City with operations throughout Europe and Asia. Learn more at workfusion.com

nLIGHT

Series A in 2000
nLight Photonics is developing high performance optical components that enable an increase in optical fiber bandwidth to meet demands created by the Internet. Focused on fiber optic communication systems, nLight is using its proprietary technology to reduce the need for signal regeneration and increase overall system bandwidth.

AudienceScience

Series F in 2010
AudienceScience has transformed how global advertisers measurably connect their consumers, data, and media with an easy to use and fully transparent Enterprise Advertising Management system. It specializes in the fields of digital media, advertising platforms, and SaaS. It was founded in 2003 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

iRhythm Technologies

Series B in 2009
iRhythm provides innovative and cost-effective diagnostic monitoring solutions that facilitate early diagnosis and treatment decisions, with the goal of ultimately improving patient health outcomes and reducing wasteful healthcare spending. Its flagship product, the Zio® Patch, is designed to optimize and simplify the diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias. Zio® Patch is the smallest, lightest, least conspicuous cardiac arrhythmia diagnostic available and is indicated for up to 14-day monitoring.

Xambala

Series D in 2008
Xambala, Inc. provides electronic liquidity to capital markets. The company develops networking and computing technologies to improve liquidity and reduces transaction costs for large and small investors. The company was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Panasas

Series B in 2001
High performance parallel storage solutions platform enabling users to solve computing problems and bring products to market

Webscale

Private Placement in 2018
Webscale Networks, Inc. develops Webscale, an integrated Web application delivery solution. Its cloud-based Web application delivery solution offers auto scaling Web application layer that uses predictive analytics and big data to monitor the user traffic; auto scaling application delivery controller (ADC) layer that automatically scale out the ADC to meet network and CPU demands; Webscale API, which configures service from RESTful API; Webscale integration layer that simplifies the extension of the Webscale service to new IaaS providers and CDNs; and content optimization, security and Web application firewall, L7 load balancing, caching, self-healing, DNS management, visibility, and mobile optimization features. The company also offers Webscale E-commerce Cloud Platform that provides a customizable solution for easy deployment of e-commerce applications globally; Webscale Multi-Cloud Disaster Recovery, a multi-cloud resiliency solution for e-commerce applications; Cloud Bot Manager, a cloud-native bot management solution focused on e-commerce applications; and enterprise solutions. Webscale Networks, Inc. was formerly known as Lagrange Systems, Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Boulder, Colorado; and Bengaluru, India.

doxo

Series C in 2022
doxo is an all-in-one bill pay service that facilitates secure payment to any biller with any payment method on any device. It currently serves over 4 million users who make payments to 75,000+ local and national businesses, making doxo the largest bill pay directory in the nation. Billers on the network get paid directly and consumers have complete bills pay independence over when and how they pay their bills. The company more than doubled its customer base in 2018 and is expanding its team to further accelerate growth and change the bill pay landscape to focus on the customer. doxo investors include MDV, Sigma Partners, and Bezos Expeditions.

PacBio

Series C in 2005
Pacific Biosciences designs, develops, and manufactures sequencing systems to resolve genetically complex problems. Its single molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing technology enables single molecule real-time detection of biological processes. Pacific Biosciences offers PacBio RS II and Sequel Systems that conducts, monitors, and analyzes single molecule biochemical reactions in real time. It also provides consumable products, including SMRT cells, as well as various reagent kits, such as template preparation, binding, and sequencing kits. Pacific Biosciences' customers include research institutions; commercial laboratories; genome centers; clinical, government, and academic institutions; genomics service providers; pharmaceutical companies; and agricultural companies. It markets its products through a direct sales force in North America and Europe, as well as primarily through distribution partners in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Joseph Bonventre and Stephen Turner founded Nanofluidics in 2000 that laterbecame Pacific Biosciences. Its headquarters is in Menlo Park in California.

Root3 Technologies

Seed Round in 2013
Root3 Technologies Inc. provides software that reduces energy costs 10-30% in onsite energy plants for universities, hospitals, manufacturing facilities and airports. Root3’s no-install, patent-pending technology uses data to optimize decision-making for energy plant managers, enabling them to meet energy demands with the least fuel consumption possible. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Chicago, IL and San Francisco, CA.

Rally Software

Series C in 2008
Rally serves as a central hub for teams to collaboratively plan, prioritize and track work on a synchronized cadence. Teams can visualize their work in the form of lists, boards or timeline views, and more importantly—they can understand how their day-to-day work aligns to the greater goals of the business.

Tuition.io

Seed Round in 2015
Tuition.io, Inc. operates a platform that allows users to manage their student loan portfolio. The company’s platform facilitates to view and manage federal family education loans, federal direct loans, and private loans from a variety of servicers. It also enables global companies to offer a benefit that their employees really need, while helping them attract, engage, and retain top talent. Tuition.io, Inc. was formerly known as Binksty and changed its name to Tuition.io, Inc. in July 2012. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Lantern Communications

Series B in 2000
Lantern Communications provides packet-based transport solutions that enable scalable deployment of carrier-class. Lantern Communications was acquired by C-COR in May 2004. Lantern Communications was founded in 1999 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

terraspring

Series D in 2002
Terraspring is a software platform.

Honest Buildings

Seed Round in 2012
Honest Buildings, Inc. develops and operates a data-driven project management and procurement platform for real estate owners in North America. The company operates Honest Buildings, a cloud-based platform that allows users to centralize project cost tracking and procurement activities, increase transparency, automate bid management, and standardize reporting. Its platform is used to manage existing and developing portfolios, including office, retail, industrial, hospitality, and multifamily. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York. As of July 30, 2019, Honest Buildings, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Procore Technologies, Inc.

23andMe

Series A in 2007
23andMe, Inc. provides consumer genetics and research services. The company offers DNA analysis services through home-based saliva collection kit for consumers to access and understand the human genome. Its services include Health + Ancestry, a genetic insight into ancestry, traits, and health; and Ancestry + Traits, a DNA kit with an ancestry breakdown and 30+ trait reports. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. With an additional office in Mountain View, California.

Finsphere

Series A in 2008
Finsphere Corporation provides mobile identity-authentication services platform that enable financial institutions, retail payment networks, and mobile network operators to protect against fraud and enhance customer experiences. It offers solutions for wireless engineering and geospatial analysis, risk and authentication analytics, analytic models, real-time processing, identity and risk management, adaptive access, and loyalty and marketing offers. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

doxo

Series A in 2009
doxo is an all-in-one bill pay service that facilitates secure payment to any biller with any payment method on any device. It currently serves over 4 million users who make payments to 75,000+ local and national businesses, making doxo the largest bill pay directory in the nation. Billers on the network get paid directly and consumers have complete bills pay independence over when and how they pay their bills. The company more than doubled its customer base in 2018 and is expanding its team to further accelerate growth and change the bill pay landscape to focus on the customer. doxo investors include MDV, Sigma Partners, and Bezos Expeditions.

Neuropure

Series A in 2007
Neuropure Inc. develops and commercializes novel, focused, targeted, and logical treatment approaches for patients suffering from a variety of neurological disorders that presently don't have any cure. The company is based in Menlo Park, California.

Personalis

Series A in 2011
Personalis combines expertise both in the technology of sequencing and in interpretation, with an extensive history of peer-reviewed publication and commercial success. Broad adoption of medical genome interpretation will require accuracy befitting regulatory approval, both invariant detection and interpretation. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Adamas Pharmaceuticals

Series D in 2009
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of controlled release combination therapeutics to treat healthcare problems, primarily in the areas of infectious diseases and central nervous system disorders. It also develops novel extended release and combination products for symptomatic treatment of dementia. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California with operations in India, the United States, and Singapore.

Concept Shopping

Series E in 2007
Concept Shopping operates as a shopper marketing company that helps retailers and their marketing partners increase sales through offers based on the retailers’ frequent shopper purchase data. The company provides technology infrastructure, marketing and merchandising support, promotion sales and execution, personal advertisement channels, and performance reporting services. Concept Shopping was founded in 1997 and is based in Lisle, Illinois.

ParAllele Bioscience

Convertible Note in 2005
Angel Dough Ventures is a startup accelerator that identifies new business ideas as well as develops and launches new products and services into the market. It also reviews customer feedback and analyzes metrics to transform and improve its businesses. Angel Dough Ventures was founded by Andrew Hazen and is headquartered in Hicksville, New York.

Oraxion

Series B in 2004
Oraxion develops process control metrology systems for semiconductor manufacturers. It offers CGS-300 wafer inspection/metrology tools, which enables accurate characterization of stress accumulation as the patterned wafer is processed. Oraxion, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Fremont, California.

Adapt Technologies

Series A in 2005
Adapt Technologies is an online advertising campaign management tool for small businesses and advertising agencies. They take a transformative, application-led approach to cloud that makes it easier for customers to change and innovate securely, blending people, platforms, and automation to achieve customer outcomes. Adapt Technologies was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in London, UK.

iRhythm Technologies

Venture Round in 2010
iRhythm provides innovative and cost-effective diagnostic monitoring solutions that facilitate early diagnosis and treatment decisions, with the goal of ultimately improving patient health outcomes and reducing wasteful healthcare spending. Its flagship product, the Zio® Patch, is designed to optimize and simplify the diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias. Zio® Patch is the smallest, lightest, least conspicuous cardiac arrhythmia diagnostic available and is indicated for up to 14-day monitoring.

Numerical Technologies, Inc.

Venture Round in 1999
Numerical Technologies, Inc. develops and markets proprietary technologies and software products that enable the design and manufacture of semiconductors, including semiconductors with subwavelength feature sizes.

nLIGHT

Series D in 2009
nLight Photonics is developing high performance optical components that enable an increase in optical fiber bandwidth to meet demands created by the Internet. Focused on fiber optic communication systems, nLight is using its proprietary technology to reduce the need for signal regeneration and increase overall system bandwidth.

Bandpage

Series C in 2014
BandPage, Inc. operates a music-sharing platform for musicians to connect with and retain fans. The company’s platform enables musicians to manage their online presence by uploading their profile, bio, pictures, videos, tracks, and tour dates; and updates that information across the Web, including Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, VEVO, Xbox Music, Pandora, WordPress, their website, and more to help in growing their fanbase. It also provides BandPage Everywhere, a new tool for musicians to update their profiles, content, Websites, and blogs on BandPage; and BandPage Connect, which allows musicians to connect to various platforms. BandPage, Inc. was formerly known as RootMusic, Inc. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of February 12, 2016, BandPage, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of YouTube, LLC.

Ticketfly

Series C in 2012
Ticketfly, a subsidiary of Eventbrite, is a technology company reimagining the live event experience for promoters and fans. Its powerful ticketing, digital marketing, and analytics software helps promoters sell more tickets, streamline operations, and increase revenue per attendee, while its consumer tools make it easy for fans to find and purchase tickets to great events across North America. Since 2008, more than 1,200 leading venues and promoters have partnered with Ticketfly, including Merriweather Post Pavilion, the Brooklyn Bowl, Central Park SummerStage, Pitchfork Music Festival, and Burning Man. Ticketfly is led by Andrew Dreskin, co-founder of TicketWeb, the first company to ever sell tickets online. In 2014, Ticketfly crossed the $1B mark in transaction volume and in 2015 it was named one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies in Music." On October 7, 2015, Ticketfly announced its acquisition by music streaming service Pandora in a $335 million cash and stock deal. On June 9th, 2017, Pandora sold Ticketfly to its largest competitor, Eventbrite for $200 million.

Yiftee

Seed Round in 2013
Surprise and Delight! Celebrate your friends, reward your employees and appreciate your clients and prospects by sending them a thoughtful gift they pick up at a local shop, restaurant or spa. Yiftee gifts are instantly sent and received via desktop or smartphone. Yiftee provides unprecedented convenience for giftors, giftees, and merchants, and supports a healthy local and global community. Go to www.yiftee.com and start gifting. Send one or hundreds of gifts in minutes with a thoughtful message personalized to each. No IT, no monthly fees, no commitment, no plastic cards lost in a sock drawer.

WorkFusion

Series D in 2017
WorkFusion is accelerating the world’s transition to more meaningful work. Our Intelligent Automation solutions are powered by pre-trained ExpertBots, proprietary artificial intelligence technology and advanced analytics, working together to automate a wide range of business processes. The world’s leading organizations use WorkFusion to automate their operations with ease and speed, helping them up-skill employees, reduce costs and unlock growth like never before. WorkFusion is headquartered in New York City with operations throughout Europe and Asia. Learn more at workfusion.com

Tethys BioScience

Series A in 2005
Tethys BioScience, Inc. engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of biological markers. Its products are used to diagnosis the metabolic diseases, such as diabetes. The company offers PreDx Diabetes Risk Test, a diagnostic test that analyzes a set of multiple proteins and other blood borne biomarkers implicated in the development of diabetes. Tethys BioScience, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Emeryville, California.

Mantara

Venture Round in 2008
Mantara is transforming the world of securities trading by delivering advanced technology solutions that fulfill the market demand for integrated multi-asset, high-speed trading and analytics. Mantara is committed to transforming the way that equities, options and futures are traded worldwide. Fueled by demand for trading efficiency, transparency and functionality, Mantara is driving the development and delivery of an entirely new class of solutions that raise the bar and exceed market expectations for this space.

Verinata Health

Series C in 2008
Verinata is driven by a sole, extraordinary purpose – maternal and fetal health. Our initial focus is to develop and offer non-invasive tests for early identification of fetal chromosomal abnormalities using our proprietary technologies. We aim to reduce the anxiety associated with today's multi-step process, the unacceptable false-positive rates, the non-specific and sometimes confusing results of current prenatal screening methods, as well as the risk of current invasive procedures. In support of national guidelines recommending first trimester aneuploidy risk assessment, we believe women who desire such an assessment should be offered a single blood draw test with a definitive result. Verinata is conducting a prospective, blinded pivotal study to clinically validate the sensitivity and specificity of its first prenatal test on a large scale with results of the study expected in 2011.

Andale

Venture Round in 2006
As of November 15, 2006, Andale, Inc. was acquired by Vendio Services, Inc. Andale, Inc. provides auction management, and research and analytics services to auction sellers. It offers research tools that provide pricing research, reports, selling recommendations, suppliers of product, and sales analysis for online merchants; a suite of auction tools, which provides auction automation and management services; store tools that offer the fixed price storefront and tools to distribute listings to shopping sites; and merchant solutions, which offer downloadable software suites for online enterprises. The company serves online merchants, including auction sellers, casual sellers, and small and medium size online businesses in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Andale, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with an additional office in Bangalore, India.

BuildDirect

Series B in 2014
BuildDirect Technologies Inc. owns and operates an online marketplace for home improvement products. The company offers BuildDirect Gateway, which is a global supply chain platform for heavyweight goods. It enables third party the ability to access BuildDirect’s advanced network of warehousing services, ground and ocean logistics for any part of the shipping journey, from point of manufacture through last-mile delivery. The company’s product categories include flooring, decking, building materials, outdoor, kitchen and bath, moldings and accessories, and doors. BuildDirect Technologies Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Vancouver, Canada with warehouses in North America.

Shutterfly

Series E in 2002
Your life events & everyday moments beautifully preserved and shared. Photo books, cards, stationery & gifts.

Pluribus Networks

Series D in 2015
Pluribus Networks, Inc. specializes in network virtualization for private and public cloud datacenters. The company’s products include Netvisor OS, a distributed network operating system with bare-metal hardware programmability; E28Q Network Computing Appliance, a platform for various applications, including ToR and spine switching, cloud/rack controller, virtualization, and network services, as well as application/L4-7 hosting; F64 network computing appliances; E68 server switches; VCF insight analytics, a flow-based client-server oriented business intelligence solution for data centers; and supermicro microblade switches. It provides analytics appliance, open fabric W/analytics, open network virtualization, and DevOps networking solutions. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Webscale

Series C in 2021
Webscale Networks, Inc. develops Webscale, an integrated Web application delivery solution. Its cloud-based Web application delivery solution offers auto scaling Web application layer that uses predictive analytics and big data to monitor the user traffic; auto scaling application delivery controller (ADC) layer that automatically scale out the ADC to meet network and CPU demands; Webscale API, which configures service from RESTful API; Webscale integration layer that simplifies the extension of the Webscale service to new IaaS providers and CDNs; and content optimization, security and Web application firewall, L7 load balancing, caching, self-healing, DNS management, visibility, and mobile optimization features. The company also offers Webscale E-commerce Cloud Platform that provides a customizable solution for easy deployment of e-commerce applications globally; Webscale Multi-Cloud Disaster Recovery, a multi-cloud resiliency solution for e-commerce applications; Cloud Bot Manager, a cloud-native bot management solution focused on e-commerce applications; and enterprise solutions. Webscale Networks, Inc. was formerly known as Lagrange Systems, Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Boulder, Colorado; and Bengaluru, India.

Sequenta

Venture Round in 2012
Sequenta is a venture funded biotech company dedicated to the discovery and development of clinical diagnostics based on a revolutionary new platform for understanding immune system status. A profound revolution in the cost of DNA sequencing has enabled the company to develop brand new approaches to measuring the most variable part of the human genome: the immune cell receptor genes. The incredible diversity created by these genes are at the heart of a large number of conditions critical to human health and disease allowing the company to be in a position to inform a large number of clinical decisions using a single powerful assay. The company was founded in 2008 by entrepreneurs who previously founded ParaAllele BioScience, a successful startup company sold to Affymetrix in 2005.

Webscale

Series B in 2019
Webscale Networks, Inc. develops Webscale, an integrated Web application delivery solution. Its cloud-based Web application delivery solution offers auto scaling Web application layer that uses predictive analytics and big data to monitor the user traffic; auto scaling application delivery controller (ADC) layer that automatically scale out the ADC to meet network and CPU demands; Webscale API, which configures service from RESTful API; Webscale integration layer that simplifies the extension of the Webscale service to new IaaS providers and CDNs; and content optimization, security and Web application firewall, L7 load balancing, caching, self-healing, DNS management, visibility, and mobile optimization features. The company also offers Webscale E-commerce Cloud Platform that provides a customizable solution for easy deployment of e-commerce applications globally; Webscale Multi-Cloud Disaster Recovery, a multi-cloud resiliency solution for e-commerce applications; Cloud Bot Manager, a cloud-native bot management solution focused on e-commerce applications; and enterprise solutions. Webscale Networks, Inc. was formerly known as Lagrange Systems, Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Boulder, Colorado; and Bengaluru, India.

Pluribus Networks

Series E in 2017
Pluribus Networks, Inc. specializes in network virtualization for private and public cloud datacenters. The company’s products include Netvisor OS, a distributed network operating system with bare-metal hardware programmability; E28Q Network Computing Appliance, a platform for various applications, including ToR and spine switching, cloud/rack controller, virtualization, and network services, as well as application/L4-7 hosting; F64 network computing appliances; E68 server switches; VCF insight analytics, a flow-based client-server oriented business intelligence solution for data centers; and supermicro microblade switches. It provides analytics appliance, open fabric W/analytics, open network virtualization, and DevOps networking solutions. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Zebit UK LTD

Series D in 2012
Zebit UK LTD, owned by Global Analytics Holdings, was closed down in 2014, and was absorbed by Lending Stream, another GAH company. ---- Zebit is a short-term lender that offers loans with flexible repayment options. You can take out a loan of up to £800 for a month to 7 months; Zebit lets you choose your repayment on a weekly or monthly basis. Zebit runs an affordability analysis on all applications to evaluate whether you would be able to repay the loan in a sustainable manner. Upon approval, Zebit will send the money to your bank account within 4 minutes* with no transfer or application fees (the time that it takes for cash to appear in your account will depend on your bank’s policies and procedures). Zebit accepts applications 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, even on bank holidays. Advantages 1. Upon approval, fund transfer initiated within 4 minutes* (the time that it takes for cash to appear in your account will depend on your bank’s policies and procedures). 2. Choose your repayment term – over 1 month up to 7 months. 3. Apply to borrow any amount, from £50 to £800. Disadvantages Lending of this type is an expensive form of credit that may be appropriate for short-term financial needs, but may not be appropriate for long-term borrowing - or if you are in financial difficulty. Terms and Conditions You need to be 18 years of age, or older, be in regular employment with a minimum monthly income of at least £400, and have a valid debit card and a working bank account. You should also be a UK resident. We currently do not lend to individuals who are self-employed. Costs, Rates & Fees Representative APR:1561.7% Representative Example:Annual Interest Rate: 314.7% (fixed).Total Amount of Credit: £100;Duration of Agreement:1 month; Total Cost of Credit: £25; Total Repayable: £ 125 on a loan of £100 for 1 month Extension:Not permitted **Please refer website to understand the fee structure and other details before you apply for a loan *Subject to loan approval, you will receive cash through Express Cash transfer option for free if supported by your bank. Zebit can initiate the transfer of funds into your account within 4 minutes after final approval of your loan subject to an assessment of affordability and creditworthiness.. The time that it takes for cash to appear in your account will depend on your bank’s policies and procedures

Aryaka

Series C in 2014
[Aryaka](http://www.aryaka.com)'s Global SD-WAN provides optimized, software-defined network connectivity and application acceleration to globally distributed enterprises. Aryaka’s services have over 10 million users across more than 4,000 sites. Leading brands such as Skullcandy, Air China, Freescale Semiconductor, and ThoughtWorks, as well as partners such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Intelisys, and SK Broadband, have all chosen Aryaka for their enterprise-grade networking needs.

CardioDx

Series B in 2006
CardioDx, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company, develops tests for coronary artery disease (CAD), cardiac arrhythmia, and heart failure. It develops Corus CAD, a blood test that helps primary care clinicians and cardiologists to assess whether or not non-diabetic patient’s chest discomfort or other symptoms are due to obstructive CAD. The company serves customers in the United States. CardioDx, Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Navera

Series B in 2014
Navera is a leading provider of cloud-based apps for real-time employee communications, delivering the knowledge and performance of a company’s HR professionals and their partners at their employees’ fingertips. Taking its lead from the champions of customer relationship management (CRM), Navera is bringing together personalization, analytics, and mobile technologies to employee communications management. Navera’s mobile and web-based apps deliver highly personalized communications with the ease and responsiveness of a best-in-class consumer app and are powered by “voice of the employee” analytics. Navera integrates information from multiple channels, HR applications, and third-party systems to put personal and company information at an employees’ fingertips—all from a single point of access.

Quake Technologies

Series C in 2004
Quake Technologies is an innovative, global fabless semiconductor company with an established record of designing, developing and supplying physical layer (PHY) mixed-signal ICs for 10 Gigabit applications for enterprise, data and storage networking markets. Quake's new product development focuses on value-added features and anticipation of market trends while complying with all the necessary standards.

Coupa Software

Series F in 2014
Coupa Software is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of procurement, finance, and cloud-based financial applications. The company offers cloud spend management (CSM) solutions that help companies control and gain visibility into their indirect spending while generating savings that go directly to the bottom line. It was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Rocket Fuel

Series A in 2008
Rocket Fuel is a programmatic media-buying platform developing artificial intelligence to improve marketing ROI in digital media across web, mobile, video, and social channels. It combines the science of artificial intelligence with the scale of big data to improve the effectiveness of programmatic marketing. The platform can be used to achieve brand and direct-response objectives in diverse industries across North America, Europe, and APAC. Rocket Fuel currently offers a complete digital marketing hub that includes data management, programmatic media-buying, site optimization, and predictive analytics capabilities that extend across a marketer's paid and owned channels, and personalize every customer interaction. Rocket Fuel was launched in 2008 by Abhinav Gupta, Richard Frankel, and George John. It is based in Redwood City, C.A.

Pixim

Series C in 2001
Pixim is a hardware company that builds chips for video cameras. Pixim's Digital Pixel System® technology revolutionizes the way video cameras capture and process images. Unlike traditional cameras, where each pixel cannot adjust to highlights and lowlights in the same scene, Pixim's patented Digital Pixel System® technology empowers hundreds of thousands of pixels to act like individual cameras constantly self-adjusting. This all-digital system enables Pixim-powered cameras to efficiently capture the whole picture, regardless of lighting condition or application – thus securing the highest resolution, natural color and clarity, while automatically eliminating image-compromising visual noise (e.g., glare, reflections). The result is more than superb image quality; it is accurate, actionable information that gives users the strength of certainty.

Visible Measures

Series E in 2012
Visible Measures Corporation provides content advertising technology. The company enables brands to compete for consumer engagement by maximizing their share of attention relative to media spend in video content advertising; and collects and analyzes video performance data from major brands across new content advertisement campaigns launched every month. Its data management platform stores large scale user-level data used to produce custom audience segments for targeting content advertising. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. As of March 31, 2017, Visible Measures Corporation operates as a subsidiary of AcuityAds US Inc.

Movaris

Series B in 2005
Solutions that integrate and manage financial close and other governance, risk and compliance processes

HealthTap

Seed Round in 2010
HealthTap is rewiring healthcare. By delivering consumer-friendly access to healthcare, HealthTap improves the experience for both patients and doctors while saving time and reducing costs for all. HealthTap’s doctor-trained, augmented intelligence system guides users to the care they need and enables an instant connection to doctors and their knowledge. HealthTap serves its app to employers, insurance companies, health systems, and users around the world. More than 140,000 doctors and hundreds of millions of users in 170 countries trust HealthTap for instant access to healthcare — anytime, anywhere.

Rocket Fuel

Series C in 2011
Rocket Fuel is a programmatic media-buying platform developing artificial intelligence to improve marketing ROI in digital media across web, mobile, video, and social channels. It combines the science of artificial intelligence with the scale of big data to improve the effectiveness of programmatic marketing. The platform can be used to achieve brand and direct-response objectives in diverse industries across North America, Europe, and APAC. Rocket Fuel currently offers a complete digital marketing hub that includes data management, programmatic media-buying, site optimization, and predictive analytics capabilities that extend across a marketer's paid and owned channels, and personalize every customer interaction. Rocket Fuel was launched in 2008 by Abhinav Gupta, Richard Frankel, and George John. It is based in Redwood City, C.A.

Marble Security

Series B in 2010
Marble’s mobile app risk management service enables enterprises to detect and control apps with malicious and privacy-leaking behaviors that frequently lead to advanced persistent threats (APTs), spear phishing attacks on employees, and other information security risks. The Marble service combines comprehensive, correlated threat intelligence across multiple data sources with an adaptive scoring engine that produces dynamic app risk scores for Android and iOS apps. Marble’s research and response team of analysts, developers and cybercrime specialists have analyzed millions of Android and iOS apps, testing for risky and dangerous behaviors including malware, spyware, data leakage and apps that take users to phishing sites, or communicate with botnet command and control servers. Marble can provide data feeds, formatted reports, or can integrate directly with mobile device management (MDM) or enterprise mobile management (EMM) solutions, providing granular risk control for bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

CardioDx

Series D in 2010
CardioDx, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company, develops tests for coronary artery disease (CAD), cardiac arrhythmia, and heart failure. It develops Corus CAD, a blood test that helps primary care clinicians and cardiologists to assess whether or not non-diabetic patient’s chest discomfort or other symptoms are due to obstructive CAD. The company serves customers in the United States. CardioDx, Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Carrier IQ

Series B in 2007
Carrier IQ is a Mobile Service Intelligence solution provider for mobile network operators and equipment vendors.

Mantara

Venture Round in 2011
Mantara is transforming the world of securities trading by delivering advanced technology solutions that fulfill the market demand for integrated multi-asset, high-speed trading and analytics. Mantara is committed to transforming the way that equities, options and futures are traded worldwide. Fueled by demand for trading efficiency, transparency and functionality, Mantara is driving the development and delivery of an entirely new class of solutions that raise the bar and exceed market expectations for this space.

PBworks

Venture Round in 2007
PBworks is a real-time creative collaborative editing software that enables businesses to interact with their clients in a timely, participative atmosphere. Users can create free basic wiki workspaces or upgrade to a premium plan to access additional features such as enhanced security features, customization through CSS, and more storage space. Workspaces can be either public or private. The software service is only available in English. A number of businesses and corporations use PBworks to create private wikis for employees; one case study described a legal firm which had transitioned to PBworks as a document management system in order to cut their IT costs. Clients also use PBworks as a host for internal documents, including CafePress.com, Capgemini, Deloitte, the Financial Times, Kiva, and Wideload Games while educational groups who are known to use PBworks include DePaul University, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, the University of Toronto, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Wayne State University. PBworks was founded by David Weekly, Ramit Sethi, and Nathan Schmidt in 2005 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Pluribus Networks

Series B in 2011
Pluribus Networks, Inc. specializes in network virtualization for private and public cloud datacenters. The company’s products include Netvisor OS, a distributed network operating system with bare-metal hardware programmability; E28Q Network Computing Appliance, a platform for various applications, including ToR and spine switching, cloud/rack controller, virtualization, and network services, as well as application/L4-7 hosting; F64 network computing appliances; E68 server switches; VCF insight analytics, a flow-based client-server oriented business intelligence solution for data centers; and supermicro microblade switches. It provides analytics appliance, open fabric W/analytics, open network virtualization, and DevOps networking solutions. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Nanosolar

Series C in 2006
Nanosolar prints solar cells and assembles panels to enable the most cost-efficient solar electricity. Nanosolars proprietary approach to printing CIGS (Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium) and nanoparticle inks using an annealing process minimizes the use of expensive, high vacuum deposition manufacturing equipment. This allows the Company to utilize equipment from the industrial printing and roll-to-roll manufacturing industries to produce solar-electric foil at high speeds, bringing the economics of printing to the world of solar PV semiconductor manufacturing.

DVS Sciences

Series A in 2011
DVS Sciences, Inc. manufactures and has global distribution of novel bioanalytical solutions for use in biomarker discovery, biological research and possible clinical applications. The patented multi-parameter solution comprises a high-throughput mass cytometer for quantitative individual cell analysis, CyTOF®, and a suite of MAXPAR® reagents, which include stable-isotope-tagged antibodies. The CyTOF – MAXPAR system overcomes the limitations of conventional flow cytometry, simplifies sample preparation and simultaneously identifies up to 100 biomarkers with high resolution and wide dynamic range. CyTOF systems are installed in leading laboratories across the U.S., Canada and Asia.

hi5

Series A in 2007
Founded in 2003, hi5 today is one of the largest social entertainment sites in the world, with approximately 50 million monthly unique visitors who use the site to stay connected to friends, meet new people, share photos, and play games. Available in over 50 languages, hi5 combines ad-supported social networking features with payment-based premium content to deliver a user experience focused on self-expression and interactivity that appeals to the site's young demographic (67% of users are age 18-34). Social games, virtual goods, and other premium content on the site is monetized through hi5 Coins, a virtual currency supporting over 60 payment methods and 30 currencies worldwide. The site also supports third-party games and other applications through its OpenSocial platform.

ParAccel

Series C in 2009
ParAccel accelerates analytics and helps companies accelerate, innovate, and compete. The ParAccel Analytic Platform combines an analytic database with advanced extensibility and integration technology to deliver big analytics anytime, anywhere. Fortune 1000 customers are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform. ParAccel, Inc. was originally founded in mid-2005 by Barry Zane, part of the founding team at Netezza. It maintains offices in Campbell, California (HQ) as well in San Diego, and London.

Kabbage

Series D in 2014
Kabbage, Inc. provides small businesses access to automated funding through its financial services data and technology platform. It operates Kabbage, an automated and online lending platform to provide automated funding to businesses and support customer data monitoring. The company’s platform enables users to apply for the loan, submit data in real time, get the approval, and provides funding. It also offers The Kabbage card that allows customers to withdraw from their lines of credit for the amount of a purchase at any point-of-sale (POS) checkout; and The Kabbage Mobile App, an application which provides customers on-the-go access to their account and line of credit. Kabbage, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional offices in New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Denver, Colorado; and Bengaluru, India.

Mantara

Series C in 2009
Mantara is transforming the world of securities trading by delivering advanced technology solutions that fulfill the market demand for integrated multi-asset, high-speed trading and analytics. Mantara is committed to transforming the way that equities, options and futures are traded worldwide. Fueled by demand for trading efficiency, transparency and functionality, Mantara is driving the development and delivery of an entirely new class of solutions that raise the bar and exceed market expectations for this space.

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.

ZeaChem

Series C in 2012
ZeaChem will change the world by creating high margin and sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based fuels and chemicals. Able to use wood chips, wheat straw, corn stover, or grasses to make a range of drop-in products for the $1T+ chemicals and fuels markets, ZeaChem can profit today without any subsidies and is competitive with $50 per barrel oil. ZeaChem’s advantage centers around its fermentation process which converts 100% of the carbon in the sugars into end products, delivering unmatched yields

Ruby Ribbon

Series B in 2013
Ruby Ribbon is a new social commerce apparel company, supported by a nationwide network of independent personal Stylists . With cutting edge fabrics and forward thinking designs, the company has produced a unique line of fashionable wardrobe basics, sold exclusively through in-home Trunk Shows. Stylists, armed with mobile applications and other trending technologies, are able to build their own independent businesses while drawing inspiration from Ruby Ribbon's core beliefs: entrepreneurship, friendship and camaraderie. Founded in 2011 with an early stage investment from Trinity Partners, Ruby Ribbon is based in Burlingame, CA and New York City.

Cenzic

Series B in 2003
Cenzic provides application security testing for enterprise software to Software as a Service, going beyond signature-based tools to automatically find application vulnerabilities.

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.

PBworks

Series A in 2008
PBworks is a real-time creative collaborative editing software that enables businesses to interact with their clients in a timely, participative atmosphere. Users can create free basic wiki workspaces or upgrade to a premium plan to access additional features such as enhanced security features, customization through CSS, and more storage space. Workspaces can be either public or private. The software service is only available in English. A number of businesses and corporations use PBworks to create private wikis for employees; one case study described a legal firm which had transitioned to PBworks as a document management system in order to cut their IT costs. Clients also use PBworks as a host for internal documents, including CafePress.com, Capgemini, Deloitte, the Financial Times, Kiva, and Wideload Games while educational groups who are known to use PBworks include DePaul University, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, the University of Toronto, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Wayne State University. PBworks was founded by David Weekly, Ramit Sethi, and Nathan Schmidt in 2005 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Brion Technologies

Series A in 2002
Brion Technologies is a division of ASML and an industry leader in computational lithography for integrated circuits. Brion’s Tachyon™ platform enables capabilities that address chip design, photomask making and wafer printing for semiconductor manufacturing. Brion’s LithoTuner™ platform enables lithography optimization for ASML’s leading photo lithography tools, known as ‘scanners’. ASML is one of the world’s leading providers of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing complex machines that are critical to the production of integrated circuits or chips. Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML is traded on Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ under the symbol ASML. ASML has almost 8,000 employees on payroll (expressed in full time equivalents), serving chip manufacturers in more than 55 locations in 16 countries.

Carrier IQ

Series C in 2009
Carrier IQ is a Mobile Service Intelligence solution provider for mobile network operators and equipment vendors.

OneSpot

Venture Round in 2017
OneSpot, Inc., a content advertising company, provides content marketing platform that drives personalized, repeat engagement with branded content across Websites, email, mobile, social, display, and paid media channels. It offers a platform that enables users to make content personalization and repeat engagement work across various channels. OneSpot, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Austin, Texas with additional offices in New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois; and San Francisco, California.

Carrier IQ

Series D in 2010
Carrier IQ is a Mobile Service Intelligence solution provider for mobile network operators and equipment vendors.

Neon Labs

Series A in 2014
Neon helps digital marketers achieve higher click through rates, better engagement and pipeline acceleration. We have the world’s only neuroscience-based machine learning system for predicting which images users will click on. Neon for Video is an enterprise-scale visual content performance platform proven to increase video views by an average of 24% through real-time optimization of images.

Genomatica

Series D in 2012
Genomatica, Inc. delivers manufacturing processes to produce intermediate and basic chemicals from renewable feedstocks. The company’s proprietary biotechnology platform allows the company to create fermentation-based manufacturing processes and to engineer the enabling microorganisms that drive the conversion of renewable feedstocks into intermediate and basic chemicals. It is developing a pipeline of manufacturing processes for the production of 20 intermediate and basic chemicals, including butanediol and butadiene. The company intends to offer its chemical products to large consumer products or chemical companies. Genomatica, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

On-Q-ity

Series B in 2012
On-Q-ity is an innovative diagnostic company that is focused on providing physicians with the tools they need to make the best decision when treating individual cancer patients. There platform will enable better decision-making across multiple cancers: improving the quality of life for patients and ultimately increasing survival. Products currently in development are based on two core technologies: 1) DNA repair biomarkers that predict treatment response and 2) Microfluidic chip technology that enables capture, enumeration and characterization of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the bloodstream.

Pixim

Venture Round in 2005
Pixim is a hardware company that builds chips for video cameras. Pixim's Digital Pixel System® technology revolutionizes the way video cameras capture and process images. Unlike traditional cameras, where each pixel cannot adjust to highlights and lowlights in the same scene, Pixim's patented Digital Pixel System® technology empowers hundreds of thousands of pixels to act like individual cameras constantly self-adjusting. This all-digital system enables Pixim-powered cameras to efficiently capture the whole picture, regardless of lighting condition or application – thus securing the highest resolution, natural color and clarity, while automatically eliminating image-compromising visual noise (e.g., glare, reflections). The result is more than superb image quality; it is accurate, actionable information that gives users the strength of certainty.

Sensity Systems

Venture Round in 2013
Sensity Systems capitalizes on conversions to LED lighting—a process that will affect 4 billion lights worldwide over the next few years—to create a high-speed, sensor-based, multiservice, open networking platform known as a Light Sensory Network (LSN). LSNs help lighting owners improve lighting control and energy efficiency, as well as business processes that go well beyond lighting. By embedding networking technology and sensors within LED luminaires themselves, Sensity uses energy-efficient LED lighting as the foundation for its turnkey NetSense platform, the first Light Sensory Network implementation. By working closely with developers of software applications and services that run on the NetSense platform, Sensity enables facility and municipal lighting owners to link energy efficiency and cost savings to the improvement of business goals as diverse as public safety, parking control, asset management, and retail analytics. Sensity is the first company that has assembled all the relevant technology expertise, process integration know-how, and strong partnerships required to make the Light Sensory Network a reality. Privately held Sensity Systems, founded in 2010 and previously known as Xeralux Inc., is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company’s global customers include Fortune 500 businesses, commercial and industrial property owners, retail facilities, municipal and regional agencies, universities, school districts, hospitals, transportation authorities, warehousing and distribution facilities, and horticulture operations.

Visible Measures

Series A in 2007
Visible Measures Corporation provides content advertising technology. The company enables brands to compete for consumer engagement by maximizing their share of attention relative to media spend in video content advertising; and collects and analyzes video performance data from major brands across new content advertisement campaigns launched every month. Its data management platform stores large scale user-level data used to produce custom audience segments for targeting content advertising. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. As of March 31, 2017, Visible Measures Corporation operates as a subsidiary of AcuityAds US Inc.

Crescendo Bioscience

Series C in 2011
Crescendo Bioscience, Inc. develops quantitative and objective diagnostic tools to provide rheumatologists with clinical insights to manage patients with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. It provides diagnostic, prognostic, staging, therapy selection, and monitoring facilities to physicians. Crescendo Bioscience, Inc. was formerly known as Riley Genomics, Inc. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in South San Francisco, California.

Scalix

Series B in 2006
Scalix has created the industry's most powerful email and calendaring platform on Linux. Scalix offers rich functionality on a highly reliable and scalable platform that significantly reduces cost of ownership. Based on an open systems architecture, Scalix's next-generation messaging platform is based on a proven technology foundation, HP OpenMail, which Scalix licensed from Hewlett-Packard. Scalix's veteran team has helped pioneer the world's best messaging systems at IBM, Lotus, Microsoft, cc:Mail, and Hewlett-Packard. The privately held company is backed by Mayfield, New Enterprise Associates and Mohr Davidow Ventures and is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., with offices in New York, Chicago, United Kingdom and Germany.

VirtuOz

Private Equity Round in 2012
Intelligent virtual agents for enterprises to ensure quality user experience

Finsphere

Venture Round in 2012
Finsphere Corporation provides mobile identity-authentication services platform that enable financial institutions, retail payment networks, and mobile network operators to protect against fraud and enhance customer experiences. It offers solutions for wireless engineering and geospatial analysis, risk and authentication analytics, analytic models, real-time processing, identity and risk management, adaptive access, and loyalty and marketing offers. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

Andale

Venture Round in 2000
As of November 15, 2006, Andale, Inc. was acquired by Vendio Services, Inc. Andale, Inc. provides auction management, and research and analytics services to auction sellers. It offers research tools that provide pricing research, reports, selling recommendations, suppliers of product, and sales analysis for online merchants; a suite of auction tools, which provides auction automation and management services; store tools that offer the fixed price storefront and tools to distribute listings to shopping sites; and merchant solutions, which offer downloadable software suites for online enterprises. The company serves online merchants, including auction sellers, casual sellers, and small and medium size online businesses in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Andale, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with an additional office in Bangalore, India.

Rocket Fuel

Series B in 2010
Rocket Fuel is a programmatic media-buying platform developing artificial intelligence to improve marketing ROI in digital media across web, mobile, video, and social channels. It combines the science of artificial intelligence with the scale of big data to improve the effectiveness of programmatic marketing. The platform can be used to achieve brand and direct-response objectives in diverse industries across North America, Europe, and APAC. Rocket Fuel currently offers a complete digital marketing hub that includes data management, programmatic media-buying, site optimization, and predictive analytics capabilities that extend across a marketer's paid and owned channels, and personalize every customer interaction. Rocket Fuel was launched in 2008 by Abhinav Gupta, Richard Frankel, and George John. It is based in Redwood City, C.A.

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.

SodaHead

Series B in 2008
SodaHead Inc., provides best in class polling technology for world class media companies including ESPN, ABC News, Good Morning America, LA Times and Warner Brothers Television. SodaHead's media partner offerings include polling content management systems and analytics, broadcast to mobile polling integration and social polling initiatives, among others.

GridIron Systems

Private Equity Round in 2012
GridIron Systems, founded in 2007, is a venture-backed company based in Sunnyvale, California, focused on hardware and software solutions that accelerate today’s data-driven enterprises and service provider organizations. Specifically, GridIron’s mission is to help these organizations remove performance bottlenecks in their data centers – particularly within their data storage infrastructure – to significantly improve the response time of the critical applications that power their business. The members of the GridIron management team have been instrumental in the growth and success of many leading technology companies, including Force 10 Networks, Brocade, Extreme Networks, Palo Alto Networks, and Sierra Monolithics.

Splice Machine

Series A in 2012
Splice Machine is a data platform that offers offline, and batch analysis, and powers intelligent applications for operational workflows. Splice Machine is disrupting the $30 billion traditional database world with the open-source dual-engine RDBMS for mixed operational and analytical workloads, powered by Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. The Splice Machine RDBMS executes operational workloads on Apache HBase® and analytical workloads on Apache Spark. Splice Machine makes it easy to develop and create modern, real-time, scalable applications, or to offload operational and analytical workloads from expensive Oracle, Teradata, and Netezza systems. Typical use cases are ETL, operational reporting, or real-time applications.

CardioDx

Private Equity Round in 2011
CardioDx, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company, develops tests for coronary artery disease (CAD), cardiac arrhythmia, and heart failure. It develops Corus CAD, a blood test that helps primary care clinicians and cardiologists to assess whether or not non-diabetic patient’s chest discomfort or other symptoms are due to obstructive CAD. The company serves customers in the United States. CardioDx, Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Redwood City, California.