Lowercase 140

Lowercase 140 is a venture capital fund managed by Lowercase Capital, based in San Francisco, California. The fund focuses on early-stage investments primarily in the software and technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sectors across North America. Lowercase Capital, founded in 2010, specializes in providing capital and advisory services to both startups and later-stage companies, with investment amounts typically ranging from $50,000 to $150,000 per company. The firm has a history of targeting consumer goods and technology sectors and has gained recognition for its strategic investments. Chris Sacca, a notable Silicon Valley angel investor and former head of strategic initiatives at Google, manages the fund. Lowercase Capital has raised significant capital since its inception, initially starting with around $5 million and later increasing to $20 million for its new fund. Through its investments, Lowercase 140 aims to foster innovation and growth within its targeted industries.

Clay Dumas

Partner

Crystal Sacca

Partner

190 past transactions

Kolors

Series A in 2022
Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.

Tala

Series E in 2021
Tala is a digital finance company that focuses on providing financial services in emerging markets through mobile technology and data science. The company has developed a smartphone app that allows users to access personalized loans, build digital credit histories, and receive instant credit scoring. With over 2 million borrowers, Tala streamlines the loan process from application to fund disbursement and status tracking entirely within the app. Founded in 2011, Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica and operates additional offices in key cities such as Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Binti

Series B in 2021
Binti, Inc. operates a comprehensive online platform designed to assist parents in navigating the adoption process. Founded in 2013 and based in Oakland, California, the company addresses the significant barriers that prospective adoptive parents face, such as high costs and complex administrative requirements. Binti provides tools for completing home study paperwork and connects users to a network of reputable social workers and agencies for home visits. The platform also offers resources for international adoption and financing options. By streamlining the adoption journey, Binti aims to increase the number of qualified parents who can successfully adopt, ultimately working toward a vision where every child has a loving family.

MiSalud

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

Stensul

Series B in 2020
Stensul, Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) email creation platform designed for enterprises and large organizations globally. Founded in 2016, the platform enables users to efficiently create and deliver mobile-responsive emails for various purposes, such as email-based customer relationship management and marketing automation. By streamlining the email creation process and reducing the reliance on designers and developers, Stensul allows marketers to concentrate on producing engaging content that drives results. The platform is centralized, scalable, and tailored to individual brands, facilitating the quick generation of emails that can be sent directly through users' existing email service providers or marketing clouds.

Mosa Meat

Series A in 2020
Mosa Meat B.V., founded in 2013 and based in Maastricht, the Netherlands, specializes in the development of cultured meat through advanced tissue engineering techniques. The company focuses on producing slaughter-free hamburgers by harvesting adult stem cells from the muscle tissue of living cows, allowing for the mass production of meat without the need to raise and slaughter animals. By cultivating meat from cells, Mosa Meat aims to promote a sustainable global food system and reduce the environmental impact associated with traditional meat production.

Pachama

Seed Round in 2020
Pachama is an organization focused on developing technology solutions to accelerate the growth of the Forest Carbon Credits market. Their ultimate intention is to help scale up the protection and restoration of the forests of the planet, which recapture carbon from the atmosphere reversing climate change, and are the holders of the planet’s biodiversity, keystones for maintaining planetary homeostasis.

Mobilize

Series A in 2020
MobilizeAmerica, Inc. operates a volunteer management platform designed to support activists, progressive organizations, and campaigns in their efforts to connect with supporters and achieve their goals. The platform facilitates the creation of online events, allows for the registration of volunteers for shifts, and automates communication through confirmation and reminder emails. Additionally, it enables users to share events with their networks, enhancing outreach and engagement. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, MobilizeAmerica has positioned itself as a crucial resource for mission-driven organizations seeking to streamline their volunteer recruitment and event management processes. The company operates as a subsidiary of EveryAction.

Automattic

Series D in 2019
Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com and WordPress.com VIP, the cloud version of WordPress. Automattic hosts and supports all WordPress.com sites ensuring that there is continuous and strategic development of the software available to its users. Automattic also supports WordPress.com VIP, a premium service designed for large-scale enterprises. WordPress.com VIP combines the benefits of WordPress.com and the ability to run custom code. In addition, WordPress.com VIP offers companies a robust CMS and 24/7 service.

Tala

Series D in 2019
Tala is a digital finance company that focuses on providing financial services in emerging markets through mobile technology and data science. The company has developed a smartphone app that allows users to access personalized loans, build digital credit histories, and receive instant credit scoring. With over 2 million borrowers, Tala streamlines the loan process from application to fund disbursement and status tracking entirely within the app. Founded in 2011, Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica and operates additional offices in key cities such as Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Nurx

Series C in 2019
Nurx Inc. is a healthcare services company that operates a mobile health platform providing access to a variety of everyday medications, including contraceptives, travel medications, and refill services. The platform also features doctor prescription and review services, as well as an at-home HPV screening test for women to assess their risk for cervical cancer. Additionally, Nurx offers at-home STI testing, treatment for genital and oral herpes, and emergency contraception, emphasizing transparent pricing and judgment-free care. The company serves residents across several states, including California, Colorado, Florida, and New York, among others. Founded in 2015, Nurx is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and aims to empower individuals to take control of their healthcare decisions.

Commonwealth Fusion

Series A in 2019
Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC is a research company focused on developing fusion energy as a sustainable solution to combat climate change. Established in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company utilizes advanced rare-earth barium copper oxide superconductor technology to create energy through fusion. Commonwealth Fusion Systems combines decades of government-funded fusion research with innovative superconducting magnet technology to expedite the commercialization of fusion energy. The company emerged from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and collaborates closely with MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, leveraging extensive research to enhance its development efforts. By designing and building fusion machines, Commonwealth Fusion aims to provide limitless and clean energy, contributing to the global transition toward sustainable energy sources.

Carbon Engineering

Private Equity Round in 2019
Carbon Engineering Ltd. is a Canadian clean energy company established in 2009, headquartered in Squamish, British Columbia. The company specializes in developing and commercializing technology that captures carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the atmosphere. Its innovative chemical-based CO2 air capture system allows large facilities to address emissions from various sources, facilitating the management of emissions associated with vehicles, airplanes, and buildings. Carbon Engineering's technology includes an air contactor and a regeneration cycle that enables continuous capture of atmospheric CO2 and the production of pure carbon dioxide. Since 2015, the company has been actively removing CO2 from the atmosphere, and as of December 2017, it has also been synthesizing this captured carbon into clean, affordable transportation fuels.

Mobilize

Seed Round in 2019
MobilizeAmerica, Inc. operates a volunteer management platform designed to support activists, progressive organizations, and campaigns in their efforts to connect with supporters and achieve their goals. The platform facilitates the creation of online events, allows for the registration of volunteers for shifts, and automates communication through confirmation and reminder emails. Additionally, it enables users to share events with their networks, enhancing outreach and engagement. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, MobilizeAmerica has positioned itself as a crucial resource for mission-driven organizations seeking to streamline their volunteer recruitment and event management processes. The company operates as a subsidiary of EveryAction.

Brightwheel

Series B in 2018
Brightwheel is the first all-in-one software platform for preschools, childcare providers, camps, and afterschool programs. Brightwheel helps teachers manage their day and communicate with parents, gives parents deeper insight into what their children are learning, and automates the process of managing operations for administrators. The platform has been shown to save teachers and administrators up to an hour per day while improving parent satisfaction and giving them a closer connection to their child’s learning. It is the fastest growing platform in early education, used across thousands of locations globally.

Nurx

Series B in 2018
Nurx Inc. is a healthcare services company that operates a mobile health platform providing access to a variety of everyday medications, including contraceptives, travel medications, and refill services. The platform also features doctor prescription and review services, as well as an at-home HPV screening test for women to assess their risk for cervical cancer. Additionally, Nurx offers at-home STI testing, treatment for genital and oral herpes, and emergency contraception, emphasizing transparent pricing and judgment-free care. The company serves residents across several states, including California, Colorado, Florida, and New York, among others. Founded in 2015, Nurx is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and aims to empower individuals to take control of their healthcare decisions.

Stensul

Series A in 2018
Stensul, Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) email creation platform designed for enterprises and large organizations globally. Founded in 2016, the platform enables users to efficiently create and deliver mobile-responsive emails for various purposes, such as email-based customer relationship management and marketing automation. By streamlining the email creation process and reducing the reliance on designers and developers, Stensul allows marketers to concentrate on producing engaging content that drives results. The platform is centralized, scalable, and tailored to individual brands, facilitating the quick generation of emails that can be sent directly through users' existing email service providers or marketing clouds.

Tala

Series C in 2018
Tala is a digital finance company that focuses on providing financial services in emerging markets through mobile technology and data science. The company has developed a smartphone app that allows users to access personalized loans, build digital credit histories, and receive instant credit scoring. With over 2 million borrowers, Tala streamlines the loan process from application to fund disbursement and status tracking entirely within the app. Founded in 2011, Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica and operates additional offices in key cities such as Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Happy Returns

Series A in 2017
Happy Returns, Inc. provides in-person returns for online shoppers. It develops a network of Return Bars, kiosks, that enables shoppers to return items in-person and get an immediate refund. The company then ships the item back to the e-commerce companies. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Boundless Mind

Seed Round in 2017
Boundless Mind, Inc. offers artificial intelligence platform for behavior design to help people be healthy, wealthy, happy, and wise. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California. As of October 16, 2019, Boundless Mind, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Thrive Global Holdings, Inc.

Smash.gg

Series A in 2017
The Company provides software to improve the Smash experience for streamers, players, tournament attendees, and spectators (collectively, “General Users”) and for registered users who are tournament organizers (“Tournament Organizers”). The Company provides a platform for enabling connections between General Users and Tournament Organizers and for the collection of payments with respect to the sale of tickets, registrations, merchandise, and services for, and the solicitation of donations with respect to, events registered on the Site from General Users.

TalentWorks

Venture Round in 2017
TalentWorks is job interview matching platform

Grove

Seed Round in 2017
Grove is a personal trainer for the client's moneyThe company assesses where you are today and create a plan to make the client confident about their money. Through proprietary software combined with a team of Certified Financial Planners, Grove is able to offer personalized advice at a fraction of the price of traditional financial advisors.

Wavedash

Series A in 2017
Wavedash Games is an independent game publisher based out of Oakland, California, founded with the express goal of combining seasoned game development talent with grassroots community passion. Their team comes from across the industry: Riot and Blizzard, Bioware and Kixeye, Sony and Twitch, and more.

VoiceOps

Seed Round in 2017
VoiceOps is the AI coaching & training platform. Our platform offers one place to get visibility into sales calls and to provide coaching to reps. Our customers plug into VoiceOps and immediately have a world-class coaching infrastructure at their fingertips. Founded in 2016, we're proud to work with the leading companies in insurance, mortgage, travel, and education. We’ve got incredible investors supporting us like Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, Founders Fund, and Y Combinator. Our team has been featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, highlighted by Inc., Business Insider, Huffington Post, Venture Beat, TechCrunch. Our team includes graduates from Harvard, Yale, and MIT, a Fulbright scholar, and the 2017 North American debate champion.

Viro Media

Seed Round in 2017
Viro Media, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing software applications aimed at facilitating the creation and publication of virtual reality (VR) applications for mobile developers. The company's platform offers a suite of powerful tools that enable developers to integrate VR features into their apps using familiar coding practices, particularly through the React Native framework. This approach allows for the deployment of applications across various mobile VR head-mounted displays. Viro Media’s offerings include support for creating apps with 360-degree photos and videos, 3D assets, sample applications, and comprehensive developer documentation, thereby simplifying the process of crafting immersive VR experiences for both web and mobile developers.

Shape Analytics

Seed Round in 2017
Shape is a platform for people analytics. It brings together people data from disparate sources across an organization, and provides comprehensive reporting, insights, and predictions on that data. Leading companies use Shape to help their people do their best work.

Tala

Series B in 2017
Tala is a digital finance company that focuses on providing financial services in emerging markets through mobile technology and data science. The company has developed a smartphone app that allows users to access personalized loans, build digital credit histories, and receive instant credit scoring. With over 2 million borrowers, Tala streamlines the loan process from application to fund disbursement and status tracking entirely within the app. Founded in 2011, Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica and operates additional offices in key cities such as Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Brightwheel

Series A in 2017
Brightwheel is the first all-in-one software platform for preschools, childcare providers, camps, and afterschool programs. Brightwheel helps teachers manage their day and communicate with parents, gives parents deeper insight into what their children are learning, and automates the process of managing operations for administrators. The platform has been shown to save teachers and administrators up to an hour per day while improving parent satisfaction and giving them a closer connection to their child’s learning. It is the fastest growing platform in early education, used across thousands of locations globally.

Radish

Seed Round in 2017
Radish is a mobile fiction platform for serialized storytelling. Its wide variety of stories are published and read in bite-sized installments optimized for the smartphone reader. Radish is revolutionizing the way that stories are consumed and produced. Readers can access thousand of serials across genres and connect directly with their favorite storytellers in live community chat rooms. Authors can publish their own original stories, revive backlist titles with a young, mobile readership, and pre-release upcoming books to build advanced buzz—the opportunities are endless!

Comparably

Venture Round in 2017
Comparably provides the most accurate and comprehensive compensation and culture data, to understand employees' true value and needs to make work better.

Skydrop

Series A in 2017
Flirtey Technology Pty Ltd specializes in drone delivery services, focusing on urgent medical supplies, retail items, and food delivery across the United States. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Reno, Nevada, the company aims to enhance lifestyles by providing instant delivery solutions. Flirtey has achieved significant milestones in the drone delivery industry, being the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery, the first to perform a fully autonomous delivery to a home, and the first to launch a commercial drone delivery service.

Synervoz

Seed Round in 2017
Synervoz Communications Inc. specializes in developing advanced voice communication technologies, primarily through its flagship application, Switchboard. This application allows users to engage in voice-based interactions while enjoying music or media, creating an experience akin to being in the same room. Switchboard offers features such as real-time balancing of voice and audio content, enabling seamless communication for remote teams and social interactions. The application is compatible with various platforms, including mobile devices, web applications, and desktop systems. Established in 2014 and based in Ingleside, Canada, Synervoz also provides software development kits (SDKs) and demo applications, allowing other companies to incorporate its technology into their own streaming and social applications, thereby enhancing their communication capabilities. The company leverages cutting-edge speech, audio, and machine learning technologies to facilitate a more dynamic and efficient means of interaction.

Stensul

Seed Round in 2016
Stensul, Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) email creation platform designed for enterprises and large organizations globally. Founded in 2016, the platform enables users to efficiently create and deliver mobile-responsive emails for various purposes, such as email-based customer relationship management and marketing automation. By streamlining the email creation process and reducing the reliance on designers and developers, Stensul allows marketers to concentrate on producing engaging content that drives results. The platform is centralized, scalable, and tailored to individual brands, facilitating the quick generation of emails that can be sent directly through users' existing email service providers or marketing clouds.
MessageYes' mission is to help people effortlessly discover and purchase items they love using their mobile phones. MessageYes is the first platform to offer frictionless e-commerce over mobile messaging for brands looking to engage and transact directly with their customers. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), human-assisted AI, and integrated payments, the MessageYes platform learns from customer feedback to make the experience serendipitous to each person and brand. Message recipients simply reply "Yes" to instantly buy from their mobile phones.

Vidme

Series A in 2016
Vidme is an online video sharing platform based in Los Angeles that provides a community for users to express and share their ideas through video content. The platform allows individuals to upload videos across various categories, including gaming, animation, movies, and entertainment. Vidme facilitates a seamless user experience by enabling video uploads without requiring users to create an account, thereby encouraging broader participation and interaction within its community.

Waggle.tv

Seed Round in 2016
Waggle is a community driven digital media platform for pet & animal lovers that creates wonderful connections between animals and the people who love them. Incubated by Broadway Video Ventures (Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Fallon), Waggles's investors include Raine and Lowercase Capital.

Dubsmash

Series B in 2016
Dubsmash, Inc. develops and operates a web-based hosting, communications, and content creation platform and mobile application. The company offers a micro-video-entertainment application, which allows content creators to create and share dubbed sound recordings, videos, information, text, graphics, or related content. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Handshake

Series B in 2016
Handshake is a college career network established in 2014, aimed at transforming the recruiting experience for students, career centers, and employers. It connects 17 million students and young alumni from over 1,000 colleges and universities—including many minority-serving institutions—with nearly 500,000 employers, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and nonprofits. The platform democratizes access to job opportunities, providing students with valuable insights and a wider array of career options, while enabling employers to efficiently access diverse talent. Additionally, it offers colleges tools to enhance student engagement and boost employment outcomes. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Denver and London, Handshake has raised a total of $155 million from various investors, including prominent venture capital and social impact firms.

Mobcrush

Series B in 2016
Mobcrush, Inc., a technology and entertainment company, develops a live streaming application and community for gamers. It offers Mobcrush, a mobile application that connects gamers worldwide. The company’s application enables users to create and broadcast the gameplay live from the phone or tablet; watch and hang out with creators and tune in for epic events and eSports competitions; and connect and chat with a community of players that love the same games. Mobcrush, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Bytegain, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Bytegain, Inc. develops and operates a platform that provides custom real-time predictions about the behavior of users that are interacting with client's website. The company's product uses deep learning that enables client's to keep customer engagement high, improve recommendations and monetization, and to find more customers. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Los Altos, California.

Joymode

Seed Round in 2016
Joymode, Inc. offers leisure equipment for periodic and short-term use on rent. It enables users to reserve and rent tents, sleeping pads, stoves, headlamps, etc. The company offers its services through its mobile applications and related services. Joymode, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Mux

Seed Round in 2016
Mux is a company focused on enhancing online video infrastructure through advanced performance monitoring and analytics. Initially, it developed Mux Data, a leading tool for performance analytics that is widely used by developers at prominent organizations such as Vimeo, Robinhood, and PBS. Following this, Mux introduced Mux Video, a straightforward API designed for video hosting, encoding, and streaming. This service enables seamless playback of video files and live streams across various devices, incorporating features such as automatic thumbnails and data-driven encoding. Mux emphasizes critical performance metrics relevant to viewer experience, including rebuffering, startup time, and video quality. Its user-friendly dashboard provides insights that help users identify issues and implement improvements, supported by features like A/B testing and detailed analytics for each video view.

Long-Term Stock Exchange

Series A in 2016
The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE) is a national securities exchange regulated by the SEC, established to foster alignment between companies and long-term investors with an emphasis on value creation. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, LTSE aims to reverse the decline in the number of public companies in the United States by offering a new venue for listings that prioritizes long-term growth and sustainability. The organization has assembled a team of experts in finance, regulation, law, and technology, strategically located in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Through its innovative approach, LTSE seeks to enhance the experience for public companies and investors, ultimately promoting a healthier financial ecosystem focused on enduring value.

Dynasty

Seed Round in 2016
Dynasty Marketplace, Inc. develops artificial intelligence based software for real estate business. It enables individuals and institutions to buy and sell fractional ownership of individual properties on a liquid exchange. The application enables users to transform any email or phone number into a complete person with over 85 actionable data points. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Venice, California. As of January 7, 2019, Dynasty Marketplace, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of AppFolio, Inc. As of January 7, 2019, Dynasty Marketplace, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of AppFolio, Inc..

Brightwheel

Seed Round in 2016
Brightwheel is the first all-in-one software platform for preschools, childcare providers, camps, and afterschool programs. Brightwheel helps teachers manage their day and communicate with parents, gives parents deeper insight into what their children are learning, and automates the process of managing operations for administrators. The platform has been shown to save teachers and administrators up to an hour per day while improving parent satisfaction and giving them a closer connection to their child’s learning. It is the fastest growing platform in early education, used across thousands of locations globally.

Mark43

Series B in 2016
Mark43, Inc. specializes in developing innovative software solutions for law enforcement agencies. The company's primary products include Mark43 RMS, an integrated application for managing law enforcement data, and Mark43 CAD, a cloud-based solution designed for emergency response management. These applications facilitate seamless data collection, management, analysis, and sharing, while offering features such as bi-directional syncing, mission-critical AVL mapping, and automatic status timers. Both Mark43 CAD and RMS are interconnected with federal, state, and local databases, providing enhanced cloud mobility. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Mark43 aims to empower communities and improve public safety through advanced technology.
MessageYes' mission is to help people effortlessly discover and purchase items they love using their mobile phones. MessageYes is the first platform to offer frictionless e-commerce over mobile messaging for brands looking to engage and transact directly with their customers. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), human-assisted AI, and integrated payments, the MessageYes platform learns from customer feedback to make the experience serendipitous to each person and brand. Message recipients simply reply "Yes" to instantly buy from their mobile phones.

DigitalGenius

Seed Round in 2016
DIGITALGENIUS, INC. develops artificial intelligence software solutions for customer service operations. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Happy Returns

Seed Round in 2016
Happy Returns, Inc. provides in-person returns for online shoppers. It develops a network of Return Bars, kiosks, that enables shoppers to return items in-person and get an immediate refund. The company then ships the item back to the e-commerce companies. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Slack

Series F in 2016
Slack Technologies, Inc. operates a business technology software platform designed to enhance collaboration and productivity in workplaces. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Slack connects people, applications, and data through its software-as-a-service model. The platform serves a diverse range of users, from Fortune 100 companies to small local businesses, facilitating seamless communication and information sharing among teams. Founded in 2009 and initially known as Tiny Speck, Inc., Slack has expanded its global presence with multiple offices worldwide. Additionally, Slack has established investment initiatives, including the Slack Fund, which supports startups focused on creating products that enhance workplace productivity.

Smash.gg

Seed Round in 2016
The Company provides software to improve the Smash experience for streamers, players, tournament attendees, and spectators (collectively, “General Users”) and for registered users who are tournament organizers (“Tournament Organizers”). The Company provides a platform for enabling connections between General Users and Tournament Organizers and for the collection of payments with respect to the sale of tickets, registrations, merchandise, and services for, and the solicitation of donations with respect to, events registered on the Site from General Users.

Comparably

Venture Round in 2016
Comparably provides the most accurate and comprehensive compensation and culture data, to understand employees' true value and needs to make work better.

Handshake

Series A in 2016
Handshake is a college career network established in 2014, aimed at transforming the recruiting experience for students, career centers, and employers. It connects 17 million students and young alumni from over 1,000 colleges and universities—including many minority-serving institutions—with nearly 500,000 employers, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and nonprofits. The platform democratizes access to job opportunities, providing students with valuable insights and a wider array of career options, while enabling employers to efficiently access diverse talent. Additionally, it offers colleges tools to enhance student engagement and boost employment outcomes. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Denver and London, Handshake has raised a total of $155 million from various investors, including prominent venture capital and social impact firms.

Next Games

Series B in 2016
Next Games is a free-to-play game developer based in Helsinki, Finland, founded in 2013. The company specializes in creating visually impressive and engaging mobile games that are based on popular entertainment franchises, including movies, TV series, and books. With a priority on delivering compelling and accessible gameplay experiences, Next Games has established itself as a notable player in the gaming industry, focusing on leveraging established intellectual properties to attract a wide audience.

Trustify

Seed Round in 2016
Trustify, Inc. operates an on-demand technology platform that helps to connect and hire private investigators in the United States. The company offers real-time observation and digital monitoring services. It also provides services in the areas of background checks, social and digital media analysis, and real-time observations for staffing; finding witnesses, serving papers, locating assets, and collecting evidence for law; and workman's compensation, scene investigation, liability, witness identification, property and casualty, recorded statements, surveillance, subrogation potential, fact of loss, and SIU support services for insurance businesses. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.

Bellhop

Series B in 2015
Bellhops, Inc. is a rapidly growing moving services company based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, founded in 2013. It specializes in providing loading and unloading services for trucks, trailers, storage units, and mobile storage containers, as well as heavy lifting services. Bellhops connects college students with individuals and businesses in need of moving assistance through its user-friendly online platform and mobile application. The company caters to small and medium-scale moves and operates in 55 cities across the United States, with plans for further expansion. By leveraging technology, Bellhops aims to enhance customer experiences and offer competitive pricing compared to traditional moving services in the $18 billion industry.

Gimlet

Series A in 2015
Gimlet Media Inc. is a digital media company based in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in the production of narrative podcasts. Founded in 2014, Gimlet focuses on creating high-quality audio content that engages listeners and fosters a deeper understanding of various subjects. The company operates a platform that allows users to share, subscribe to, and download its podcast episodes, thereby enhancing audience reach for brands and storytellers. In February 2019, Gimlet Media became a subsidiary of Spotify Technology S.A., further integrating its innovative storytelling approach within the broader digital audio landscape.

Medium

Series B in 2015
Medium is a social publishing platform that allows anyone to share ideas and perspectives that matter. For writers, Medium offers simple creation tools combined with a larger distribution network. For readers, Medium allows people to follow people and topics that matter to them and receive a personalized feed of content every day. Readers can join in the conversation by highlighting, recommending, or responding to posts. It was founded n 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Din

Seed Round in 2015
Formerly Known as Forage. Din helps you cook like your favorite restaurant at home in 20 min. Din partners with notable restaurants and chefs like Bar Tartine, Tacolicious, and James Beard 2015 Rising Star Chef Jessica Largey to deliver everything you need to recreate their dishes at home. Din’s team, led by Michelin Star veteran Stephen Beaumier formerly of Cyrus, Quince and Restaurant Noma, does much of the time­intensive prep work for you, like braising meats and creating complex sauces, so you can finish the dish in under 20 minutes, as quickly as a restaurant can fire a dish. Then they deliver the prepped and whole ingredients in an insulated, reusable tote to your home.

Envoy

Seed Round in 2015
Envoy is the trusted Family Concierge service for seniors and their families. Thousands have already turned to Envoy for lightweight help and support to stay in their homes longer, maintain their independence, and live life to the fullest. The heart of our service is our wonderful community of Family Concierge assistants, whom we call our Envoys, serving clients in their local neighborhoods. Each and every day, our Envoys enjoy the freedom to earn flexible income they need, as they build trusted relationships with their clients, while being out and about doing something they love - helping others. Whether it’s simply for grocery shopping from favorite local stores or as a compelling alternative to traditional in-home care or assisted living, our software and apps make managing everything just a tap away. Families have a trusted, 1:1 relationship with their Envoy while enjoying full transparency and peace of mind like never before - with notifications, photos, and receipts documenting every visit.

ZenMarketing

Seed Round in 2015
Zenmarketing.io’s focus on data validation and repair, so advertisers can actually trust that the numbers are accurate and up-to-date. He also argued that his company is part of a new generation of “big data” services.

Skydrop

Venture Round in 2015
Flirtey Technology Pty Ltd specializes in drone delivery services, focusing on urgent medical supplies, retail items, and food delivery across the United States. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Reno, Nevada, the company aims to enhance lifestyles by providing instant delivery solutions. Flirtey has achieved significant milestones in the drone delivery industry, being the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery, the first to perform a fully autonomous delivery to a home, and the first to launch a commercial drone delivery service.

Tala

Series A in 2015
Tala is a digital finance company that focuses on providing financial services in emerging markets through mobile technology and data science. The company has developed a smartphone app that allows users to access personalized loans, build digital credit histories, and receive instant credit scoring. With over 2 million borrowers, Tala streamlines the loan process from application to fund disbursement and status tracking entirely within the app. Founded in 2011, Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica and operates additional offices in key cities such as Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Mobcrush

Series A in 2015
Mobcrush, Inc., a technology and entertainment company, develops a live streaming application and community for gamers. It offers Mobcrush, a mobile application that connects gamers worldwide. The company’s application enables users to create and broadcast the gameplay live from the phone or tablet; watch and hang out with creators and tune in for epic events and eSports competitions; and connect and chat with a community of players that love the same games. Mobcrush, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Dubsmash

Series A in 2015
Dubsmash, Inc. develops and operates a web-based hosting, communications, and content creation platform and mobile application. The company offers a micro-video-entertainment application, which allows content creators to create and share dubbed sound recordings, videos, information, text, graphics, or related content. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Boundless Mind

Convertible Note in 2015
Boundless Mind, Inc. offers artificial intelligence platform for behavior design to help people be healthy, wealthy, happy, and wise. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California. As of October 16, 2019, Boundless Mind, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Thrive Global Holdings, Inc.

Hyper

Seed Round in 2015
Hyper is a video magazine designed for iPad that emphasizes a minimalistic aesthetic and a curated selection of content. Each daily edition features between six to twelve carefully chosen videos, offering users a streamlined experience focused on quality rather than quantity. By delivering the most relevant and engaging content in a visually appealing format, Hyper aims to provide a refreshing alternative to traditional video platforms.

Mark43

Series A in 2015
Mark43, Inc. specializes in developing innovative software solutions for law enforcement agencies. The company's primary products include Mark43 RMS, an integrated application for managing law enforcement data, and Mark43 CAD, a cloud-based solution designed for emergency response management. These applications facilitate seamless data collection, management, analysis, and sharing, while offering features such as bi-directional syncing, mission-critical AVL mapping, and automatic status timers. Both Mark43 CAD and RMS are interconnected with federal, state, and local databases, providing enhanced cloud mobility. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Mark43 aims to empower communities and improve public safety through advanced technology.

Klarismo

Seed Round in 2015
Klarismo Limited offers 3D Body Scan, a product that provides volumetric measurements of muscle tissues and fat deposits in human body. It allows users to acquire a 3D model of their body using magnetic resonance imaging to measure and track their health and fitness potential. The company makes MRI scans and helps private medical imaging centers optimize the utilization of their assets; and builds database of full body MRI scans and makes it available for medical research. The company serves health conscious consumers and amateur athletes. Klarismo Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Toymail

Seed Round in 2015
Toymail Co. LLC creates technology toys for kids. Its toys deliver voice messaging for kids using iPhone or Android app. The company also offers app for messaging, social issues, two-way talk, daily toymailer, and voice filters. It sells its products online. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Common Living

Series A in 2015
Common Living Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in co-living facilities, founded in 2015. The company promotes community-driven housing by offering furnished and shared apartments with flexible lease terms, catering to a diverse clientele, including students and professionals. Its platform allows members to rent rooms without broker fees, providing access to essential amenities and a supportive living environment. By focusing on community, convenience, and affordability, Common Living aims to enhance the co-living experience, making it easier for individuals to find pleasant and collaborative living spaces.

Joymode

Seed Round in 2015
Joymode, Inc. offers leisure equipment for periodic and short-term use on rent. It enables users to reserve and rent tents, sleeping pads, stoves, headlamps, etc. The company offers its services through its mobile applications and related services. Joymode, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Omnity

Venture Round in 2015
Omnity, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing and distributing a semantic search and discovery solution. The firm is dedicated to enhancing knowledge discovery through its innovative technology, which enables users to efficiently access and analyze complex information. With a focus on improving the way individuals and organizations retrieve knowledge, Omnity aims to streamline the discovery process across various fields. The company is backed by venture capital, reflecting its potential in the growing market for advanced search solutions.

DigitalGenius

Seed Round in 2015
DIGITALGENIUS, INC. develops artificial intelligence software solutions for customer service operations. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lumi

Seed Round in 2015
Lumi is a packaging supply chain platform for online brands, from small businesses to leading companies shipping millions of orders per month. Digital-native brands such as MeUndies, Threadless, Primary, and thousands of others rely on Lumi to supply unique and cost-effective unboxing experiences using their wide array of boxes, mailers, tape, and paper products available both custom-branded and plain. The Lumi Editor turns designs into production-ready artwork simplifying the traditional process of getting artwork proof. The Lumi Dashboard allows companies to quickly manage and re-order the supplies they need. Lumi works directly with factories around the world to produce and ship goods at competitive prices across a wide variety of manufacturing and printing techniques.

Triller

Seed Round in 2015
Triller, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that operates an AI-powered music video app and talent discovery platform, enabling users to create professional-quality videos quickly and easily. Founded in 2015 and formerly known as Mibblio, Triller allows users to select songs, choose specific segments, and produce videos featuring themselves and their friends with minimal effort. The app has gained significant traction, boasting over 23 million downloads and attracting numerous celebrities, including Kevin Hart and Vanessa Hudgens, who utilize the platform for their own music videos. The company focuses on organic growth and has secured funding in the past to enhance its AI technology and further establish itself as a talent discovery platform. Triller operates additional offices in Miami, Paris, and Lisbon and was announced as a subsidiary of Proxima Media LLC in October 2020.

Little Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Little Labs Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Venice, California, specializes in developing applications for smartwatches. The company is renowned for Facer, a prominent platform for customizing watch faces compatible with Apple Watch, Android Wear, and Tizen. Additionally, Little Labs serves as the official publisher for watch faces from major brands such as CBS, Sony, and FOX across all platforms. Notably, the company was selected by FOX to create the official game for the film The Martian, marking a significant achievement as the first AAA game available on Apple Watch and Android Wear.

Brightwheel

Seed Round in 2015
Brightwheel is the first all-in-one software platform for preschools, childcare providers, camps, and afterschool programs. Brightwheel helps teachers manage their day and communicate with parents, gives parents deeper insight into what their children are learning, and automates the process of managing operations for administrators. The platform has been shown to save teachers and administrators up to an hour per day while improving parent satisfaction and giving them a closer connection to their child’s learning. It is the fastest growing platform in early education, used across thousands of locations globally.

SnowShoe

Seed Round in 2015
SnowShoe specializes in creating innovative event markers known as SnowShoe Stamps, which are small, battery-free pieces of plastic embedded with secret digital identities. These stamps serve to connect the physical and digital realms, allowing game developers to enhance mobile experiences and providing a physical means of authentication for user log-ins and point-of-sale transactions. Compatible with all multi-touch mobile devices, SnowShoe's technology enables rapid integration into various projects, facilitating smarter mobile authentication and bridging the gap between digital identity and physical presence.

Docker

Series D in 2015
Docker, Inc. is a company that develops an open platform designed for building, shipping, and running distributed applications. This platform enables developers and system administrators to create and manage applications as collections of containers, which can operate seamlessly across various environments, including laptops, data center virtual machines, and public cloud instances. Docker also provides an application runtime and packaging tool, along with a cloud service that facilitates application sharing and workflow automation. Originally founded in 2008 as dotCloud, the company rebranded to Docker in October 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Vidme

Seed Round in 2015
Vidme is an online video sharing platform based in Los Angeles that provides a community for users to express and share their ideas through video content. The platform allows individuals to upload videos across various categories, including gaming, animation, movies, and entertainment. Vidme facilitates a seamless user experience by enabling video uploads without requiring users to create an account, thereby encouraging broader participation and interaction within its community.

Shape Analytics

Seed Round in 2015
Shape is a platform for people analytics. It brings together people data from disparate sources across an organization, and provides comprehensive reporting, insights, and predictions on that data. Leading companies use Shape to help their people do their best work.

Binti

Seed Round in 2015
Binti, Inc. operates a comprehensive online platform designed to assist parents in navigating the adoption process. Founded in 2013 and based in Oakland, California, the company addresses the significant barriers that prospective adoptive parents face, such as high costs and complex administrative requirements. Binti provides tools for completing home study paperwork and connects users to a network of reputable social workers and agencies for home visits. The platform also offers resources for international adoption and financing options. By streamlining the adoption journey, Binti aims to increase the number of qualified parents who can successfully adopt, ultimately working toward a vision where every child has a loving family.

Handshake

Seed Round in 2015
Handshake is a college career network established in 2014, aimed at transforming the recruiting experience for students, career centers, and employers. It connects 17 million students and young alumni from over 1,000 colleges and universities—including many minority-serving institutions—with nearly 500,000 employers, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and nonprofits. The platform democratizes access to job opportunities, providing students with valuable insights and a wider array of career options, while enabling employers to efficiently access diverse talent. Additionally, it offers colleges tools to enhance student engagement and boost employment outcomes. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Denver and London, Handshake has raised a total of $155 million from various investors, including prominent venture capital and social impact firms.

Getable

Series A in 2015
Getable, Inc. provides an online rental service that enables consumers to search, compare, and rent equipment online. It enables clients to rent product in various categories, such as electronics and appliances, fashion wear, furniture and home goods, party and event supplies, sports and leisure products, storage and space solutions, tools and equipment, vehicles, and trade and conferences equipment. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Reserve

Series A in 2015
Reserve Media, Inc. operates a digital dining concierge service that connects restaurants with diners. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, the company offers a platform that allows customers to discover restaurants, make reservations, receive personalized service, and facilitate seamless payment. By partnering with notable restaurateurs, Reserve aims to enhance the dining experience while helping restaurants manage their reservations more effectively, reduce cancellations, and gain valuable customer insights. The platform also enables restaurants to maintain customer databases and manage their tables, ultimately improving customer relationships. As of November 2018, Reserve operates as a subsidiary of Resy Network, Inc.

Swipe Labs

Series A in 2015
Swipe allows users to share private photos and videos that wouldn’t get posted on Facebook. It experiments with new social products to craft better mobile communication experiences for the users. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mux

Seed Round in 2015
Mux is a company focused on enhancing online video infrastructure through advanced performance monitoring and analytics. Initially, it developed Mux Data, a leading tool for performance analytics that is widely used by developers at prominent organizations such as Vimeo, Robinhood, and PBS. Following this, Mux introduced Mux Video, a straightforward API designed for video hosting, encoding, and streaming. This service enables seamless playback of video files and live streams across various devices, incorporating features such as automatic thumbnails and data-driven encoding. Mux emphasizes critical performance metrics relevant to viewer experience, including rebuffering, startup time, and video quality. Its user-friendly dashboard provides insights that help users identify issues and implement improvements, supported by features like A/B testing and detailed analytics for each video view.

Grove

Seed Round in 2015
Grove is a personal trainer for the client's moneyThe company assesses where you are today and create a plan to make the client confident about their money. Through proprietary software combined with a team of Certified Financial Planners, Grove is able to offer personalized advice at a fraction of the price of traditional financial advisors.

Nurx

Seed Round in 2015
Nurx Inc. is a healthcare services company that operates a mobile health platform providing access to a variety of everyday medications, including contraceptives, travel medications, and refill services. The platform also features doctor prescription and review services, as well as an at-home HPV screening test for women to assess their risk for cervical cancer. Additionally, Nurx offers at-home STI testing, treatment for genital and oral herpes, and emergency contraception, emphasizing transparent pricing and judgment-free care. The company serves residents across several states, including California, Colorado, Florida, and New York, among others. Founded in 2015, Nurx is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and aims to empower individuals to take control of their healthcare decisions.

Hinge

Series A in 2014
Hinge, Inc. develops applications for mobile, Internet, and social platforms. The company’s applications allow users to meet people in their social circles; browse Facebook-validated profiles, photos, and full names; and review friends in common, interests, religion, and other details. Hinge, Inc. was formerly known as Cleod9, Inc. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in New York, New York. As of June 20, 2018, Hinge, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Match Group, Inc.

Stripe

Series C in 2014
Stripe, Inc. is a technology company that develops application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools for businesses to accept and manage online payments. Its offerings include a comprehensive suite of products such as Payments for payment processing, Subscriptions for managing recurring billing, and Stripe Connect for routing and payouts to third parties. Additionally, Stripe provides tools like Stripe Radar for fraud detection, Stripe Elements for customizable payment forms, and Stripe Checkout for seamless payment acceptance across devices. The company supports various international credit and debit cards and serves a diverse clientele, including e-commerce, B2B platforms, and non-profits across several countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Stripe aims to enhance the economic infrastructure of the internet, facilitating growth for businesses of all sizes. The company also addresses financing challenges for online businesses through Stripe Capital, which offers fast and flexible funding solutions.

REX

Seed Round in 2014
Rex Labs, LLC develops a mobile application that enables users to share, find, and save recommendations with friends and experts. Its application allows users to share and find articles, videos, podcasts, music, movies, television, books, food and drink, places, applications and games, and more. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Bellhop

Series A in 2014
Bellhops, Inc. is a rapidly growing moving services company based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, founded in 2013. It specializes in providing loading and unloading services for trucks, trailers, storage units, and mobile storage containers, as well as heavy lifting services. Bellhops connects college students with individuals and businesses in need of moving assistance through its user-friendly online platform and mobile application. The company caters to small and medium-scale moves and operates in 55 cities across the United States, with plans for further expansion. By leveraging technology, Bellhops aims to enhance customer experiences and offer competitive pricing compared to traditional moving services in the $18 billion industry.

Gimlet

Seed Round in 2014
Gimlet Media Inc. is a digital media company based in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in the production of narrative podcasts. Founded in 2014, Gimlet focuses on creating high-quality audio content that engages listeners and fosters a deeper understanding of various subjects. The company operates a platform that allows users to share, subscribe to, and download its podcast episodes, thereby enhancing audience reach for brands and storytellers. In February 2019, Gimlet Media became a subsidiary of Spotify Technology S.A., further integrating its innovative storytelling approach within the broader digital audio landscape.

Parenthoods

Seed Round in 2014
Parenthoods is a community platform aimed at connecting local parents to foster social interaction and support. The platform allows parents to chat, share experiences, and exchange advice, creating a space for them to meet and assist each other in navigating the challenges of parenthood. By facilitating connections among parents both nearby and globally, Parenthoods enhances the sense of community and collaboration, enabling individuals to share their dreams and individual creations while receiving guidance from others who understand their experiences.

Complex Polygon

Seed Round in 2014
Complex Polygon, Inc. is a product studio based in San Francisco, California, specializing in the design, development, and launch of mobile applications aimed at fostering connections among users. Established in 2013, the company focuses on creating innovative products such as Tag and Swipe. By experimenting with new ideas and reusing existing technology, Complex Polygon leverages its understanding of human behavior to enhance user experiences and innovate more efficiently. Since July 2017, it has operated as a subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc.

Snowball

Seed Round in 2014
Snowball is your beautiful new notification center for Android. It takes all the awesome stuff from all the apps on your phone and puts it in one place. Now you can get things done without opening a million apps. Less apps, more action! UNIFIED INBOX: Receive and reply to messages from Facebook, WhatsApp, SMS, Line, Telegram, Email from *one* place TRAVEL ASSIST: See Uber and Lyft prices and times when you have to be somewhere PRIORITY NOTIFICATIONS: Hide annoying notifications, never miss awesome ones Highlights - Never miss another phone call, message, email, or calendar reminder - Fast reply to messages from WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Line + more - Heads-up notifications for important messages & notifications - Sounds and vibrations only play for important messages & notifications - Works with Android wear

North Technologies

Seed Round in 2014
North Technologies Inc. designs and develops mobile applications. Its product includes Tiiny, an application to share small photos and videos with friends that automatically delete after 24 hours; and watchville, an application with news and features for watch enthusiasts. North Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of July 9, 2015, North Technologies Inc. operates as a subsidiary of BOTH Media LLC.
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