Javelin Venture Partners

Invests in early-stage tech companies with incredible potential, managed by teams of energetic, trustworthy and capable leaders. Key focus areas include digital media, Internet commerce, marketplaces, SaaS and healthcare IT. Javelin looks for advanced bleeding-edge innovations, where the addressable market size is substantial and strong competitive advantages exist. A typical investment is between $2 to $5 million, with reserves for follow-on investments. In addition, Javelin also considers smaller seed investments for unique companies just getting started. Located in downtown San Francisco, while invests throughout the world. Javelin is a very active investor with a long-term outlook and the objective of creating substantial value.

Jeremy Banon

Associate

Vivian Cheng

Venture Partner

Noah Doyle

MD

Alex Gurevich

MD

Sandy Hawkins

Finance Director

Jed Katz

MD

Sandy Vandenbossche

CFO

153 past transactions

AdRocket

Seed Round in 2009
AdRocket is the ad targeting network for email. AdRocket's network increases publisher eCPMs through intelligent ad selection and optimization. Every month, many billions of email newsletters are sent to subscribers, yet the advertising is poorly targeted and largely ineffective. AdRocket fixes this by providing publisher's with individually-relevant ads for email communications, websites or RSS. Unlike 'cookies' which have a very short life, our email approach creates much longer lasting, richer individual profiles without using personally-identifiable data. Our model is to share in the ad revenue. AdRocket is not an email marketer or sender. Rather the company inserts relevant cost-per-click text ads into publishers' opt-in email communications. Over 30% of email users have images turned off, meaning many publishers' ads are never seen. AdRocket also solves this problem as text ads are automatically displayed in every email opened. AdRocket is backed by top-tier seed investors.

HitRecord

Private Placement in 2018
HitRecord is an online community working together as a production company. Since 2010 it has developed into an innovative community of over 100,000 artists of all disciplines (writers, filmmakers, musicians, etc.) adding 250 new members and 2,500+ new pieces of art every day. It was founded by actor and director Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is headquartered in Glendale, California.

GameCo

Series A in 2016
GameCo created Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM) a category of Video Game Gambling on casino floors. It is a pioneering company uniting the experience of playing video games with the excitement of gambling by creating Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM). GameCo’s VGM is the first platform to bring video games to the casino floor engaging a new market of casino customers. The first video game gambling platform approved by any regulator in the United States, GameCo’s patented VGM proprietary arcade-style cabinets allows a player’s skill to effect the payout and winnings while maintaining the same casino-based economics as slot machines.

Higharc

Series A in 2021
Higharc, Inc. develops a three dimensional home design and customization platform for new homebuyers and builders. The company generates three-dimensional home plans based on customer’s needs. Higharc, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Appvance.ai

Series C in 2022
Appvance.ai is the leader in AI-driven test generation, which is revolutionizing how software testing is performed. The company’s premier product is Appvance IQ, the world’s first AI-driven, unified test automation system. It helps enterprises improve the quality, performance and security of their applications, while transforming the efficiency and output of testing teams. Appvance.ai is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Costa Rica and India. Investors in the company include Javelin Ventures, Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund, FundersClub, Three Bridges Ventures and HB Asset Management.

Landed

Seed Round in 2021
Landed improves the hiring process for hourly employers and job applicants.

Boost Media

Seed Round in 2011
Boost Media is a fastest growing B2B SaaS companies in Silicon Valley, and they are committed to going public. They're hiring across the company in all roles. Join them as they revolutionize the digital advertising industry. They raised their Series A in December of 2012 and their Series B in June of 2013. Boost Media is an enterprise solution for optimizing ad creative at scale across Search, Social, Display & Mobile. The Company focuses on optimizing for enterprise advertisers and generates substantial improvements in conversions-per-impression for customers. Today, Boost is trusted to drive optimization and insights for over $300 million in advertising spend across networks and premium publisher sites such as Google, Microsoft+Yahoo Bing Ads and Facebook.

Netpulse

Series D in 2014
Netpulse is the largest provider of branded mobile club apps that engage members, drive revenue, and integrate deeply with the club's most important technology solutions. Industry leaders such as Gold's Gym, Retro Fitness and Equinox leverage Netpulse's mobile solutions in clubs all over the world. A complete mobile experience is delivered by partnering with top technology solutions, including ABC Financial, Club Comm and Perkville. Founded in 2001, by Bryan Arp and Intuit co-founder Tom Proulx, Netpulse has since raised $40M in funding and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Scout Labs

Venture Round in 2009
Scout Labs is a powerful, web-based application that finds signals in the noise to help your team build better products and stronger customer relationships. Scout Labs is a product company, not an agency. They provide cutting-edge technology and a collaborative platform for companies and their agents to listen to customers and engage with them out across the Internet. With Scout Labs, users can: - Know when to tune in and what’s most important to pay attention to - Hear what customers love and hate about brands - Reach out to influential customers to build relationships - Engage in proactive customer service - Let the voice of the customer inspire new product and marketing ideas Scout Labs has grown significantly since it was founded in 2006. With offices in San Francisco and users all over the world, the company currently employs over 20 professionals. Their CEO and product team guide the application with insight from the world of marketing, brand management and product management, but the majority of Scout Labs employees are senior engineers with expertise in search technology, high-performance systems, natural language processing, machine learning, web crawling and data visualization. The process is quite simple, and the user interface is streamlined. Brand managers start by creating concurrent searches for each brand they want to track. They can track just about anything people discuss: things, people, slogans, logos, etc. Subsequently, any mention of the brand is cataloged. Users can then see each blog post, video or image that has to do with the brand, and the interface shows how mentions increase and decrease over time. What sets Scout Labs apart is their ability to analyze each blog post. Their software decides if it is negative, positive or neutral towards the brand. They are also able to rank the source of the content to highlight more influential sources. They talk about Scout Labs: [TechCrunch](http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/18/scout-labs-brand-tracker-now-generally-available/) [CNET](http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10166457-2.html) [MarketingVOX](http://www.marketingvox.com/scout-labs-monitors-brand-buzz-across-interwebs-for-a-pittance-043244/) [Mediapost](http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=100463) [ClickZ](http://www.clickz.com/3632829) [Social Media Explorer](http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2009/02/18/scout-labs-launches-powerful-social-media-monitoring-tool/)

Carbon Health

Private Placement in 2019
Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers virtual care experience. It offers primary care services through a mobile application that enables users to follow-up on a treatment plan, manage prescriptions, and see lab reports all through one app. Carbon Health has created a coronavirus assessment tool and also set up covid-19 testing in California. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Mythical Games

Series A in 2019
Mythical Games Inc., a game technology studio, develops games for personal computers, mobiles, and consoles. It offers Blankos, a casual multiplayer game that allows players to buy, trade, and sell their designs with other players. The company also provides tools for content creators and brands to customize and provide ownership of game assets. Mythical Games Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Sherman Oaks, California with an additional office in Seattle, Washington.

Engrade

Series B in 2013
Engrade was founded in 2003 by a high school student who wanted a better way to connect with teachers on homework, assessments, and messages. Over the years, user feedback and innovative ideas have shaped Engrade into a robust learning management system. Today, Engrade is a division of digital learning-focused CTB/McGraw-Hill and helps educators, parents, and students through all stages of the learning cycle from curriculum planning to assessments.

Filld, LLC

Private Placement in 2017
Filld, LLC provides retail gasoline, diesel fueling, and refueling services through its mobile app. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Estimote

Series A in 2017
Estimote, Inc. develops and builds a sensor-based analytics and engagement platform. The company offers Estimote Beacons and Stickers, which are small wireless sensors attached to a location or object that broadcast tiny radio signals, which a smartphone can receive and interpret, as well as software development kits. It provides its sensors to brick and mortar retail stores in the United States and Europe. Estimote, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in San Francisco, California; and Krakow, Poland.

Homeward

Venture Round in 2020
Homeward, Inc. operates a platform that provides home buying and selling services by allowing buyers to receive credit towards making an all-cash offer on their next home before selling their existing home. It offers The Homeward Way, a platform that enables users to find home and make a cash offer. The company also rents the new homes for the period during, which the customer is selling their existing home. Homeward, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

WellnessFX

Series B in 2011
WellnessFX is a personalized wellness and health startup providing the leading quantified self (QS) platform allowing individuals to measure, understand and improve their health by combining state-of-the-art medical science with social media tools and consumer web user experience design. In revenue, WellnessFX has launched its Baseline product in 6 states and is rapidly expanding to a national footprint.

Estimote

Series A in 2016
Estimote, Inc. develops and builds a sensor-based analytics and engagement platform. The company offers Estimote Beacons and Stickers, which are small wireless sensors attached to a location or object that broadcast tiny radio signals, which a smartphone can receive and interpret, as well as software development kits. It provides its sensors to brick and mortar retail stores in the United States and Europe. Estimote, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in San Francisco, California; and Krakow, Poland.

SmartAsset

Series D in 2021
SmartAsset is a financial technology company that empowers people with automated personalized financial advice. Its proprietary technology, up-to-the-minute research and unique Automated Financial Modeling software simulate the impact of different decisions on people’s personal finances, enabling millions of people to make smart financial decisions. The company has created dozens of calculators and tools spanning the full range of personal finance options including home buying, retirement planning, life insurance, personal loans, student loans, credit cards, loan refinance, taxes, finding a financial advisor and investing. These tools live on SmartAsset’s website and are embedded in relevant content on financial publisher websites via the Captivate tool. The company furthers its mission of helping people make smart financial decisions by connecting them to financial advisors via the SmartAdvisor service. In addition to these tools, an in-house editorial team creates thousands of educational articles and data-driven studies.

Ritter Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2009
Ritter Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops novel therapeutic products, which modulate the human gut microbiome to treat inflammatory, gastrointestinal and metabolic diseases. We are discovering a new frontier in human gut health research by exploring the metabolic capacity of the gut microbiota and translating the functionality of prebiotic-based therapeutics into safe and effective applications that can have a meaningful impact on a patient’s health. Our pipeline of novel microbiome modulators selectively increase the growth of beneficial bacteria in the colonic ecosystem and create a meaningful impact on a patient’s health. Our first therapy, RP-G28, is currently under development for the treatment of lactose intolerance and has the potential to become the first FDA-approved drug for the treatment of lactose intolerance, a debilitating disease that affects over 1 billion people worldwide. RP-G28 has been studied in a Phase 2 clinical trial and is a first-in-class compound.

Armory

Private Placement in 2020
ARMORY, Inc. operates an open source deployment platform. Its products include Hosted Spinnaker, a cloud-based spinnaker management solution that provides user management, multi-instance support, and deployment analytics; Armory Deploy, that enables users to install and configure a production ready spinnaker within company’s walls; and Armory Elevate that identifies and prevents bad deployments before they happen. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.

PowerCloud Systems

Venture Round in 2010
PowerCloud Systems is the leading software platform provider for enabling Networking as a Service (NaaS). Our CloudCommand technology provides OEMs and service providers with the quickest, most powerful and cost-effective path for adding comprehensive cloud capabilities to their new and existing networking equipment. CloudCommand delivers everything needed to deploy, configure, secure and manage any type of networking device. We're working with the world's leading networking vendors to power their wireless access points and routers, and delivering cloud-managed networking to thousands of organizations.

Mureni

Seed Round in 2019
Mureni helps dentists in Latin America to increase their revenue and improve their operation through technology. We are a fast-growing healthcare startup based in Mexico city, operating in Mexico and Brazil.

Octane11

Seed Round in 2022
Octane11 is a B2B-focused marketing solutions provider that helps businesses drive measurable impact at scale. Octane11’s suite of workflow tools, data products and intuitive analytics, make it easy for B2B marketers to coordinate “paid, owned and earned” tactics and deliver real world results. The company was incubated by digital advertising leader MediaMath and MathCapital, and officially launched in Q4 2019 in partnership with Oracle, LiveRamp, Intersection, Bombora and EverString. For more information and updates, visit www.octane11.com and follow us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/octane11.

Nexenta Systems

Series A in 2010
Cloud storage solution for your enterprise

Viable

Seed Round in 2021
Viable Fit develops a structured user platform designed to use historical qualitative data to answer new questions instantly. Viable Fit offers a custom-branded survey, measures product/market fits, automatically segments customers into groups, and discovers user feedbacks based on keywords, thereby enabling businesses to get valuable suggestions from customers more accurately.

Armory

Series B in 2019
ARMORY, Inc. operates an open source deployment platform. Its products include Hosted Spinnaker, a cloud-based spinnaker management solution that provides user management, multi-instance support, and deployment analytics; Armory Deploy, that enables users to install and configure a production ready spinnaker within company’s walls; and Armory Elevate that identifies and prevents bad deployments before they happen. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Kindly Care

Series A in 2018
Kindly Care, Inc. owns and operates a marketplace for senior homecare. It offers a mobile application that finds and manages caregivers for the loved one. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Financial Insight Technology, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Financial Insight Technology, Inc., doing business as SmartAsset, operates as a financial technology company that provides personal finance advisory services. It offers an automated financial modeling (AFM) technology that provides interactive answers to personal finance questions. The company also provides calculators and other tools to empower the users to make smart personal finance decisions around home buying, retirement, taxes, and more. It offers its solutions in the areas of home buying, banking, retirement, credit cards, taxes, investment, life insurance, refinance, personal loans, and student loans. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

Homeward

Series B in 2021
Homeward, Inc. operates a platform that provides home buying and selling services by allowing buyers to receive credit towards making an all-cash offer on their next home before selling their existing home. It offers The Homeward Way, a platform that enables users to find home and make a cash offer. The company also rents the new homes for the period during, which the customer is selling their existing home. Homeward, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

FILLD

Series B in 2018
Filld is a developer of an on-demand fuel delivery platform designed to deliver gas to car anytime and anywhere. The company's platform helps to fill the car's gas tank while the users are at their work, home, or at the gym, enabling them to save time by not stopping at the gas station for last-mile mobile fueling.

Spikes Security

Series A in 2014
Founded in 2012, Spikes Security is focused on delivering secure, scalable, high performance appliance and software solutions that empower businesses with the freedom to safely leverage the web without fear of cyber-attacks. Its flagship offering is a powerful web malware isolation system that prevents all browser-borne malware from entering corporate networks and infecting endpoints, including mobile devices, without requiring installation of any endpoint software. Watch an analyst interview with CEO Branden Spikes here: https://vimeo.com/127027498

LeadGenius

Series B in 2016
LeadGenius, Inc. provides lead generation and outreach processes for businesses, development organizations, nonprofits, and researchers in the United States and internationally. It provides customer research to produce lists of leads, customers, and industries; data enrichment by auditing lead list, updating contacts, correcting misspellings, and deleting outdated information; lead qualifications by separating qualified leads from dead ends, evaluating lead information, and following-up with leads over email or phone; and outbound Email prospecting/sales prospecting. LeadGenius, Inc. was formerly known as MobileWorks, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Armory

Private Placement in 2019
ARMORY, Inc. operates an open source deployment platform. Its products include Hosted Spinnaker, a cloud-based spinnaker management solution that provides user management, multi-instance support, and deployment analytics; Armory Deploy, that enables users to install and configure a production ready spinnaker within company’s walls; and Armory Elevate that identifies and prevents bad deployments before they happen. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.

SmartAsset

Series C in 2018
SmartAsset is a financial technology company that empowers people with automated personalized financial advice. Its proprietary technology, up-to-the-minute research and unique Automated Financial Modeling software simulate the impact of different decisions on people’s personal finances, enabling millions of people to make smart financial decisions. The company has created dozens of calculators and tools spanning the full range of personal finance options including home buying, retirement planning, life insurance, personal loans, student loans, credit cards, loan refinance, taxes, finding a financial advisor and investing. These tools live on SmartAsset’s website and are embedded in relevant content on financial publisher websites via the Captivate tool. The company furthers its mission of helping people make smart financial decisions by connecting them to financial advisors via the SmartAdvisor service. In addition to these tools, an in-house editorial team creates thousands of educational articles and data-driven studies.

MasterClass

Series B in 2016
Founded in 2015, MasterClass is the platform that makes it possible for anyone to learn from the best. With MasterClass, step into Anna Wintour’s office, Timbaland’s recording studio, and Neil Gaiman’s writing retreat. Improve your serve with Serena Williams, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes, and leave the atmosphere with Chris Hadfield. Hundreds of video lessons from 85+ of today’s most brilliant minds are available anytime, anywhere with the All-Access Pass ($180 per year). Subscribe to greatness with MasterClass.

Fiix

Seed Round in 2017
Fiix offers auto repair services for its clients. The company offers on-demand auto repair services in terms of battery, brakes, diagnostics, inspections, doors, windows, engines, exhaust systems, filters, fluids, fuel systems, heating, lights, sensors, suspension, steering, tires, and transmission. The company offers auto repair services at its clients' homes or offices. Fiix was founded in 2015 by Zain Manji and Arif Bhanji and is based in Ontario.

Seismos Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Seismos Inc. provides real-time monitoring of oil wells during production that enables oil-field decision-making. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Armory

Series A in 2018
ARMORY, Inc. operates an open source deployment platform. Its products include Hosted Spinnaker, a cloud-based spinnaker management solution that provides user management, multi-instance support, and deployment analytics; Armory Deploy, that enables users to install and configure a production ready spinnaker within company’s walls; and Armory Elevate that identifies and prevents bad deployments before they happen. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.

KidPass

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
KidPass is a new kind of membership that helps parents discover and book amazing children’s activities - including exclusive events, classes, camps, party spaces, museums, and more. We partner with the best kids activity providers to make it fun, easy, and delightful for parents to explore their childrens' interests.

Trumaker

Series A in 2014
Trumaker is a new kind of men's apparel brand where every guy gets a stylist. Trumaker makes high quality clothing that fits by designing a full made-to-measure and off-the-rack line. Outfitters (Stylists) provide a local personalized experience where they provide style guidance, collect customer measurements, and preferences - making re-ordering online simple without concern for fit. Once a client gets fitted, reordering online or through the guidance of their Outfitter is easy.

Wizely

Seed Round in 2017
Wizely is building India’s first platform dedicated to Financial Wellness for emerging India. Our intelligent digital banking experience helps customers take charge of their everyday finances and reach their financial goals. Wizely delivers not only personalized guidance but also empowers users to make their goals a reality with spending controls, smart saving, and a confident path into borrowing and investments. Founded in 2017, Wizely is transforming the way new-age banking can guide and serve the Indian consumer, with an engaging, personalized experience at the core. Our vision is to grow our offerings as our customers progress in their journeys to Financial Wellness. For now, we’re excited to pave the way for Financial Wellness for emerging India.

HitRecord

Series A in 2019
HitRecord is an online community working together as a production company. Since 2010 it has developed into an innovative community of over 100,000 artists of all disciplines (writers, filmmakers, musicians, etc.) adding 250 new members and 2,500+ new pieces of art every day. It was founded by actor and director Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is headquartered in Glendale, California.

FEM

Seed Round in 2015
FEM inc., a media technology company, creates and delivers engaging and relevant video experiences for Websites or apps. Its video discovery platform is embedded into Websites, entertainment networks, or apps to engage and retain audience. The company focuses on engagement to drive retention, increase video views on site, and boost overall time on site per session. FEM inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Charma

Seed Round in 2020
WorkPatterns, Inc. develops software for workplace communication and collaboration. It offers WorkPatterns, a platform for one-on-one docs, recurring group meetings, feedback, and recognition. The company’s WorkPatterns creates a private space where managers and their direct reports or small teams can collaborate on a running agenda and align on deliverables, owners, and due dates, enabling asynchronous work. WorkPatterns, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Marina Del Rey, California.

plug.dj

Seed Round in 2013
Plug.dj is dedicated to building positive international communities for sharing and discovering music. Our users choose from a wide array of expressive characters, join any number of virtual rooms where they can discover and share music and videos, and communicate with international cohorts using our real-time chat translation. Plug.dj enables brands to provide an interactive, deeply immersive and real-time media experience for consumers worldwide. Our average user spends over an hour on the site per visit while actively engaging in the social consumption of videos and music, gaming mechanics, international chat and social media integration that leaves the user with a positive brand association experience. Musicians and DJs alike will find great value in having a platform in which they can engage with and attract fans from around the world in real-time. Plug.dj is working with up-and-coming artists to premier their new videos or mixes to fans and get instant feedback.

Yanka Industries Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Yanka Industries Inc., doing business as MasterClass, provides online video education solutions that include video content, class workbooks, interactive assignments, and community activities. Its service provides lessons from various people as they share their stories, skills, shortcuts, failures, and successes. The company offers classes in the areas of writing, culinary arts, film and TV, lifestyle, sports and gaming, design, photography, fashion, business, politics, society, music and entertainment, science and technology, and other topics. The company provides its services through its website, mobile, and related applications. Yanka Industries Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Nexenta Systems

Series D in 2013
Cloud storage solution for your enterprise

Marketfish

Series A in 2011
The Marketfish platform allows marketers to build and execute lead generation campaigns using 3rd party marketing lists.Using patented search algorithms, the tool allows users to discover targeted customer lists, build marketing campaigns, execute the campaign, and measure the performance in real time.

MasterClass

Series A in 2015
Founded in 2015, MasterClass is the platform that makes it possible for anyone to learn from the best. With MasterClass, step into Anna Wintour’s office, Timbaland’s recording studio, and Neil Gaiman’s writing retreat. Improve your serve with Serena Williams, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes, and leave the atmosphere with Chris Hadfield. Hundreds of video lessons from 85+ of today’s most brilliant minds are available anytime, anywhere with the All-Access Pass ($180 per year). Subscribe to greatness with MasterClass.

Pixalate

Venture Round in 2021
Pixalate is a global intelligence platform and real-time fraud protection provider. Pixalate is a Media Rating Council certified vendor for display ad viewability. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

ExecThread

Venture Round in 2017
ExecThread is the world's largest network of executive-level talent with over 40,000 high-caliber members, whose collective influence is shaping the future of industry. We help hiring companies & recruiters connect with diverse, dynamic leaders; and we help talented exec-level professionals find their dream jobs. By empowering our member community of underrepresented leaders and allies with access to thousands of confidential executive-level jobs and board of director opportunities, ExecThread is upending the traditional practices of executive search and replacing it with a far more transparent, open and inviting process.

Nexenta Systems

Series C in 2012
Cloud storage solution for your enterprise

Carbon Health

Seed Round in 2017
Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers virtual care experience. It offers primary care services through a mobile application that enables users to follow-up on a treatment plan, manage prescriptions, and see lab reports all through one app. Carbon Health has created a coronavirus assessment tool and also set up covid-19 testing in California. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Amaze Software

Debt Financing in 2017
When a company can revolutionize the ease of creation, storage, and management of something that has become integral to business and culture, that company can build a billion dollar empire. Microsoft did it with Word, which revolutionized documents; it did it with Excel for spreadsheets; and it did it again with Powerpoint for presentations. Together with the Microsoft Operating System called Windows, Microsoft built an empire on a bundled suite now called Microsoft Office 365. Since Microsoft, the world has moved online, has moved to mobile, and the things that are now integral to business and culture have shifted. Today, if you created a pie chart of the utilities that are essential to business and society it would consist of mobile apps, videos, ads, articles, and online presentations. The problem for these modern utilities is they suffer from the same problems that documents, spreadsheets, and presentations did at the dawn of Microsoft’s empire. They are time consuming, they are costly to create, and there exists to no unified, integrated way of managing and storing them. What Famous intends to do is revolutionize creation, storage, and management of these new Internet utilities. Together with our platform, called Famous Studio, we will offer powerful creation tools for Instant Apps, Instant Ads, Instant Videos, Instant Articles, and Instant Presentations that reduce creation time from months to minutes. To manage and store assets created with our Famous Studio, we offer Famous Publisher to manage them, Famous Analytics to measure their performance, and Famous Drive to store every beautiful creation.

Spotsetter

Seed Round in 2013
Spotsetter is a social search engine tackling a big data problem in the online to offline space. "Where to go" is socially relevant and we help answer that through the vast amount of content your friends have already created across all social networks. Available on both web and mobile interfaces. Spotsetter was part of **[AngelPad](http://angelpad.org) #4** in 2012.

MasterClass

Series F in 2021
Founded in 2015, MasterClass is the platform that makes it possible for anyone to learn from the best. With MasterClass, step into Anna Wintour’s office, Timbaland’s recording studio, and Neil Gaiman’s writing retreat. Improve your serve with Serena Williams, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes, and leave the atmosphere with Chris Hadfield. Hundreds of video lessons from 85+ of today’s most brilliant minds are available anytime, anywhere with the All-Access Pass ($180 per year). Subscribe to greatness with MasterClass.

Clutter

Series C in 2017
Clutter Inc. operates as a full-service storage company in Los Angeles. It manages the pick-up, storage, and retrieval of customers’ extra belongings. The company stores boxes, furniture, bicycles, golf bags, holiday decor, baby clothes, books, appliances, and other products except liquids, illegal substances, perishables, and hazardous materials. It also insures against theft, loss, natural disasters, and water damage. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Culver City, California.

Stensul

Series A in 2018
Stensul is transforming the way enterprise marketers work. Our email generation platform is centralized, scalable, and pre-configured to each brand. By bypassing all of the back-and-forth with designers, developers and QA, marketers can focus on crafting content that inspires and delivers real results. Build emails in our platform, and then instantly send them out through your ESP or Marketing Cloud. With stensul, marketers are reimagining what’s possible with email.

Netpulse

Series C in 2012
Netpulse is the largest provider of branded mobile club apps that engage members, drive revenue, and integrate deeply with the club's most important technology solutions. Industry leaders such as Gold's Gym, Retro Fitness and Equinox leverage Netpulse's mobile solutions in clubs all over the world. A complete mobile experience is delivered by partnering with top technology solutions, including ABC Financial, Club Comm and Perkville. Founded in 2001, by Bryan Arp and Intuit co-founder Tom Proulx, Netpulse has since raised $40M in funding and is headquartered in San Francisco.

oneforty

Series A in 2010
oneforty is the Social Business Hub. We're a buyers' guide for businesses who want to invest wisely in doing social right. Social business is shaping up to be a huge market opportunity plagued by massive complexity and uncertainty about how to invest in tools, training and expertise. We're serve as the "buyers' guide" for social strategists, marketers and other corporate buyers. * B2B platform for figuring out what to do in social business and how to invest your budget in tools, experts and other services * access to your peers - find out what others are doing and how you measure up * Business content helping buyers understand what to do, how to do it and which tools and experts can help * Listings/ratings & reviews of: tools and social business pros (agencies and consultants) * Discovery & comparisons engine (and marketing platform) for serious business tools

Viable

Venture Round in 2020
Viable Fit develops a structured user platform designed to use historical qualitative data to answer new questions instantly. Viable Fit offers a custom-branded survey, measures product/market fits, automatically segments customers into groups, and discovers user feedbacks based on keywords, thereby enabling businesses to get valuable suggestions from customers more accurately.

AppFirst

Series B in 2012
AppFirst’s is a patented technology that provides a solution for collecting every event across web-scale applications, regardless of the infrastructure type or programming language. With microsecond visibility into all the applications and supporting resources across their shared infrastructure, IT Operations can now deterministically get to the root cause, effectively footprint applications to determine exactly what resources that application requires, and proactively identify when their applications become wobbly. Those responsible for the infrastructure finally have a way to continuously understand the performance of every application running on the shared-resources they own.

Queplix

Series A in 2009
Queplix enables companies to securely integrate cloud, SaaS-based and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Once these applications are integrated we keep the data consistent between the applications with a process for data management called Data Harmonizationâ„¢. Critical customer, product and financial data can be integrated across applications in hours and then the consistency of data managed automatically. This speed, simplicity and high degree of automation deliver strong return on investment and can reduce your application integration and data management expense by over 75% for a single integration. Each additional integration brings greater savings and return on investment.

Fair

Seed Round in 2017
Fair is a car leasing company that aims to grant access to mobility to everyone by pioneering the car-as-a-service (CaaS) concept. It gives customers the freedom to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the flexibility to walk away at any time. Fair was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Rinse

Series B in 2017
Rinse is building the first and largest national (and global) brand in clothing care. It is addressing a massive consumer problem and creating a significantly better (and more standardized) dry cleaning and laundry experience through the combination of "smart scheduling" and best-in-class quality, all supported by a strong technology backbone that allows it to effectively manage the operational complexity that comes with scale. Its services include Dry Cleaning, Launder & Press, Wash & Fold, Hang Dry, Repairs, Leather Cleaning, and it even takes Clothing Donations.

Telerivet

Seed Round in 2012
Telerivet is a professional mobile messaging platform that effortlessly connects businesses and organizations with their customers, employees, and community. Affordable, powerful and accessible, Telerivet enables organizations to utilize mobile messaging anywhere in the world, no programmers required. Telerivet, Inc., is a venture-backed corporation with global headquarters in San Francisco, California, and an East Africa headquarters in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Thumbtack

Series A in 2012
Thumbtack is an online marketplace that connects millions of people with local professionals for their projects. It operates platform where people can hire talents and professionals like instructors, painters, photographers, and many more. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thumbtack has raised more than $275 million from Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Investment Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Google Capital.

Sociable Labs

Series A in 2009
Sociable Labs, Inc. designs and builds social acquisition programs for ecommerce and retail customers. It provides S2S Engine that allows users to acquire shoppers for their site. Sociable Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Rondavu, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mythical Games

Series A in 2018
Mythical Games Inc., a game technology studio, develops games for personal computers, mobiles, and consoles. It offers Blankos, a casual multiplayer game that allows players to buy, trade, and sell their designs with other players. The company also provides tools for content creators and brands to customize and provide ownership of game assets. Mythical Games Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Sherman Oaks, California with an additional office in Seattle, Washington.

Filld, LLC

Private Placement in 2018
Filld, LLC provides retail gasoline, diesel fueling, and refueling services through its mobile app. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Viable

Seed Round in 2022
Viable Fit develops a structured user platform designed to use historical qualitative data to answer new questions instantly. Viable Fit offers a custom-branded survey, measures product/market fits, automatically segments customers into groups, and discovers user feedbacks based on keywords, thereby enabling businesses to get valuable suggestions from customers more accurately.

Skytree

Series A in 2013
Skytree is a California-based software company that develops and publishes a machine learning platform for advanced analytics. The company offers a platform that gives organizations the power to discover analytic insights, predict future trends, make recommendations, and reveal untapped markets and customers. Backed by investments from US Venture Partners, Javelin Venture Partners, Samsung, UPS, and In-Q-Tel, Skytree is involved in enterprise-grade machine learning. The company was founded in 2012 by [Martin Hack](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/martin-hack) and [Alexander Gray](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/alexander-gray). It is headquartered in San Jose, C.A.

KidPass

Seed Round in 2017
KidPass is a new kind of membership that helps parents discover and book amazing children’s activities - including exclusive events, classes, camps, party spaces, museums, and more. We partner with the best kids activity providers to make it fun, easy, and delightful for parents to explore their childrens' interests.

Appvance.ai

Series A in 2016
Appvance.ai is the leader in AI-driven test generation, which is revolutionizing how software testing is performed. The company’s premier product is Appvance IQ, the world’s first AI-driven, unified test automation system. It helps enterprises improve the quality, performance and security of their applications, while transforming the efficiency and output of testing teams. Appvance.ai is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Costa Rica and India. Investors in the company include Javelin Ventures, Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund, FundersClub, Three Bridges Ventures and HB Asset Management.

Netpulse

Series D in 2016
Netpulse is the largest provider of branded mobile club apps that engage members, drive revenue, and integrate deeply with the club's most important technology solutions. Industry leaders such as Gold's Gym, Retro Fitness and Equinox leverage Netpulse's mobile solutions in clubs all over the world. A complete mobile experience is delivered by partnering with top technology solutions, including ABC Financial, Club Comm and Perkville. Founded in 2001, by Bryan Arp and Intuit co-founder Tom Proulx, Netpulse has since raised $40M in funding and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Weddington Way

Series A in 2014
Based in San Francisco, CA, Weddington Way offers Millennials a new way to shop for weddings, featuring an exclusive collection of fresh + modern bridesmaid dresses. Weddington Way designs and manufactures their own dresses - meaning no middle-men, no markups, and styles crafted with detail and intention that you can’t find anywhere else. Weddington Way pioneered a community-centric shopping experience that lets friends shop together online in a virtual showroom. With its technology-first approach, Weddington Way is a breath of fresh air in the wedding planning process. For more information, please visit http://www.weddingtonway.com.

Boost Media

Series B in 2013
Boost Media is a fastest growing B2B SaaS companies in Silicon Valley, and they are committed to going public. They're hiring across the company in all roles. Join them as they revolutionize the digital advertising industry. They raised their Series A in December of 2012 and their Series B in June of 2013. Boost Media is an enterprise solution for optimizing ad creative at scale across Search, Social, Display & Mobile. The Company focuses on optimizing for enterprise advertisers and generates substantial improvements in conversions-per-impression for customers. Today, Boost is trusted to drive optimization and insights for over $300 million in advertising spend across networks and premium publisher sites such as Google, Microsoft+Yahoo Bing Ads and Facebook.

Carbon Health

Series B in 2019
Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers virtual care experience. It offers primary care services through a mobile application that enables users to follow-up on a treatment plan, manage prescriptions, and see lab reports all through one app. Carbon Health has created a coronavirus assessment tool and also set up covid-19 testing in California. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SmartAsset

Series B in 2016
SmartAsset is a financial technology company that empowers people with automated personalized financial advice. Its proprietary technology, up-to-the-minute research and unique Automated Financial Modeling software simulate the impact of different decisions on people’s personal finances, enabling millions of people to make smart financial decisions. The company has created dozens of calculators and tools spanning the full range of personal finance options including home buying, retirement planning, life insurance, personal loans, student loans, credit cards, loan refinance, taxes, finding a financial advisor and investing. These tools live on SmartAsset’s website and are embedded in relevant content on financial publisher websites via the Captivate tool. The company furthers its mission of helping people make smart financial decisions by connecting them to financial advisors via the SmartAdvisor service. In addition to these tools, an in-house editorial team creates thousands of educational articles and data-driven studies.

Pixalate

Series A in 2013
Pixalate is a global intelligence platform and real-time fraud protection provider. Pixalate is a Media Rating Council certified vendor for display ad viewability. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Uncovet

Seed Round in 2013
Uncovet features daily deals on design-centric products for the style addict. graduate of Science, Uncovet is an accessories and home décor site that is building a style graph to personalize product recommendations. With more than 500,000 monthly visitors, the startup uses Facebook Connect to allow users to invite friends to the site and can also take a user’s Facebook Likes into account when recommending products.

MAGNIFI

Series A in 2013
MAGNIFI is a live music service that connects fans, venues and artists. MAGNIFI combines show listings, a full listening experience, artist and venue discovery, plus ticket purchasing, in one place. This is enhanced by MAGNIFI’s community where music fans can share and follow artists and venues, they can also favorite songs. MAGNIFI features hundreds of thousands of artists and tens of thousands of venues across the globe.

Armory

Series C in 2020
ARMORY, Inc. operates an open source deployment platform. Its products include Hosted Spinnaker, a cloud-based spinnaker management solution that provides user management, multi-instance support, and deployment analytics; Armory Deploy, that enables users to install and configure a production ready spinnaker within company’s walls; and Armory Elevate that identifies and prevents bad deployments before they happen. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Universe

Series A in 2018
Universe is a mobile-based website builder for the social media era, eschewing complicated templates for easily customizable website “filters” that pin trendy designs to a grid pattern where users can drag and drop photos, videos, icons to build up a mobile-optimized website in minutes on the company’s iOS app. It was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

GameCo

Series A in 2016
GameCo created Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM) a category of Video Game Gambling on casino floors. It is a pioneering company uniting the experience of playing video games with the excitement of gambling by creating Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM). GameCo’s VGM is the first platform to bring video games to the casino floor engaging a new market of casino customers. The first video game gambling platform approved by any regulator in the United States, GameCo’s patented VGM proprietary arcade-style cabinets allows a player’s skill to effect the payout and winnings while maintaining the same casino-based economics as slot machines.

MasterClass

Series C in 2017
Founded in 2015, MasterClass is the platform that makes it possible for anyone to learn from the best. With MasterClass, step into Anna Wintour’s office, Timbaland’s recording studio, and Neil Gaiman’s writing retreat. Improve your serve with Serena Williams, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes, and leave the atmosphere with Chris Hadfield. Hundreds of video lessons from 85+ of today’s most brilliant minds are available anytime, anywhere with the All-Access Pass ($180 per year). Subscribe to greatness with MasterClass.

Homeward

Private Placement in 2020
Homeward, Inc. operates a platform that provides home buying and selling services by allowing buyers to receive credit towards making an all-cash offer on their next home before selling their existing home. It offers The Homeward Way, a platform that enables users to find home and make a cash offer. The company also rents the new homes for the period during, which the customer is selling their existing home. Homeward, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Rinse

Series A in 2016
Rinse is building the first and largest national (and global) brand in clothing care. It is addressing a massive consumer problem and creating a significantly better (and more standardized) dry cleaning and laundry experience through the combination of "smart scheduling" and best-in-class quality, all supported by a strong technology backbone that allows it to effectively manage the operational complexity that comes with scale. Its services include Dry Cleaning, Launder & Press, Wash & Fold, Hang Dry, Repairs, Leather Cleaning, and it even takes Clothing Donations.

Seismos

Venture Round in 2018
Seismos, the K-wave Company™, is a data analytics company for production optimization providing proprietary solutions enabling real-time, underground fluid flow monitoring, inside the reservoir, during production. Monitoring fluid movement with conventional seismic technologies requires months for data acquisition and processing, disrupts production and costs millions. Seismos breaks this paradigm and solves all problems associated with conventional methods by providing real-time information, at a fraction of the cost, through its proprietary, cloud-based K-wave technology that is non-invasive to production and to surface operations.

Spikes Security

Seed Round in 2013
Founded in 2012, Spikes Security is focused on delivering secure, scalable, high performance appliance and software solutions that empower businesses with the freedom to safely leverage the web without fear of cyber-attacks. Its flagship offering is a powerful web malware isolation system that prevents all browser-borne malware from entering corporate networks and infecting endpoints, including mobile devices, without requiring installation of any endpoint software. Watch an analyst interview with CEO Branden Spikes here: https://vimeo.com/127027498

The Hunt

Series A in 2013
The Hunt operates an online community website that helps consumers find and purchase items seen on photo-sharing websites such as Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of December 8, 2015, The Hunt operates as a subsidiary of Pinterest, Inc.

Thumbtack

Series B in 2013
Thumbtack is an online marketplace that connects millions of people with local professionals for their projects. It operates platform where people can hire talents and professionals like instructors, painters, photographers, and many more. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thumbtack has raised more than $275 million from Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Investment Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Google Capital.

Vacatia

Venture Round in 2019
Vacatia, Inc. owns and operates an online resort rental marketplace for vacationing families. It provides search results and booking for resort residences, fully managed and professionally serviced timeshare properties, and resort-condominium complexes. The company was formerly known as Vacation Listing Service, Inc. and changed its name to Vacatia, Inc. in June, 2013. Vacatia, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Nexenta Systems

Corporate Round in 2017
Cloud storage solution for your enterprise

Octane AI

Venture Round in 2021
Octane AI, Inc. develops a conversational marketing automation platform for e-commerce. It offers a platform for merchants and businesses to create engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation. Its platform is used for chatbot creation; and enables users to add content, customer service, and discussions; fill out forms; and showcase merchandise and more to their chatbot. The company’s platform also allows users to integrate Youtube, Soundcloud, blogs, medium, Facebook videos, Google Sheets, and more to their chatbot. Octane AI, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Irvine, California.

Nexenta Systems

Series G in 2016
Cloud storage solution for your enterprise

Kopo Kopo

Series A in 2013
Kopo Kopo Inc. provides a merchant services platform that includes mobile payment acceptance, CRM, and other value-added services. Its platform runs on M-PESA platform. The company serves various businesses that range from salons to restaurants to office supply stores in East African markets. Kopo Kopo was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Wethos

Seed Round in 2021
Wethos Virtual Studios™ make it easy to confidently team up and scale your independent business.