Flying Fish Partners

​Flying Fish is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in applied and platform AI/ML startups as well as supporting tools and infrastructure. The fund was founded by former Microsoft AI operators in 2016 and is fueling the next generation of technical leaders in every industry who are building companies with machine learning at the core of their strategy.

Frank Chang

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Heather Gorham

Principal

Tiffany Linke-Boyko

Principal

42 past transactions

Digs

Seed Round in 2023
Digs is a web-based collaboration platform that leverages AI to make it simple for builders to store documents, collaborate on home builds, and generate automatic digital homeowner handoffs. Digs’ results in more efficient builds and a full digital understanding [digital twin] of the home for the homeowner that is both usable and shareable.

Phaidra

Series A in 2022
Phaidra provides AI and ML solutions to accelerate performance in large-scale industries. Phaidra serves as a virtual plant operator designed for mission-critical facilities. Their closed-loop AI control service empowers the operations team to achieve significant enhancements in plant stability, energy efficiency, and sustainability.

Sella

Seed Round in 2022
Sella is a fast-growing startup building the future of resale - one secondhand item at a time. Leveraging our proprietary technology and a network of local gig workers and remote experts, we’ve made selling your stuff feel Amazon-easy. We’re growing fast, just raised a Seed round, have bold expansion plans for the next year, and we’re looking for a dynamic person to join us and be an integral part of that journey.

Included

Seed Round in 2022
Included’s people analytics platform uses smart AI and advanced techniques to offer more than basic dashboards and data reports. It applies methods like decision tree analysis to deliver clear, practical insights for HR and your workforce. At its heart is our unique AI Analyst Agent, which quickly analyzes complex data, reduces manual work, and finds hidden trends. This helps your organization make fast, informed decisions that improve your people strategy.

NLX

Seed Round in 2022
NLX provides an end-to-end enterprise AI platform to help customer experiences for large and enterprise brands. Its platform enables organizations to build and manage next-generation conversational experiences - personalized conversations that are automated, integrated, measurable, highly scalable, and available anytime and anywhere. It supports generative AI, cloud software, and its voice, chat, and multimodal conversational AI technology to enable brands to manage conversational deployments across their entire enterprise.

Augment AI Corp

Seed Round in 2022
Augment amplifies productivity and simplifies lives through a first-of-its-kind context-aware AI. It learns who and what's important to you, and how you like to work, in order to make you smarter and more productive. It becomes an extension of you, enabling you to be the most efficient version of yourself. Interactive assistants called Augments are built on top of the AI, and collectively remember for you, anticipate what you need when you need it, and get things done for you, all alongside the apps you know and love.

TrojAI

Seed Round in 2022
TrojAI provides a comprehensive AI security platform to protect AI/ML applications and infrastructure. The best-in-class platform empowers enterprises to safeguard applications from real-time threats with TrojAI's firewall. Penetration test models and remediation guidance delivered prior to deployment further mitigate risk. Built by data scientists and cybersecurity experts, TrojAI meets the needs of the largest enterprises with scalability, performance, and extensibility.

Variational AI

Seed Round in 2021
Variational AI uses state-of-the-art machine learning in a data-efficient method to rapidly generate novel and diverse compounds that are optimized for multiple properties to avoid the most common causes of drug attrition and increase clinical probability of success. Variational AI works with leading biopharmaceutical partners and is developing its own internal pipeline.

Included

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Included’s people analytics platform uses smart AI and advanced techniques to offer more than basic dashboards and data reports. It applies methods like decision tree analysis to deliver clear, practical insights for HR and your workforce. At its heart is our unique AI Analyst Agent, which quickly analyzes complex data, reduces manual work, and finds hidden trends. This helps your organization make fast, informed decisions that improve your people strategy.

Symbl.ai

Series A in 2021
Symbl.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access to conversational intelligence for developers. They have developed the only platform that uses machine learning to analyze conversations in real-time proactively. The company aims to eliminate the complexity of building and maintaining conversational understanding systems so that developers can focus on building delightful and productive experiences, using Rammer’s underlying technology. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

YData

Seed Round in 2021
YData helps data science teams speed up AI development by making it easy to access and understand the existing data, and improve it. Improved data leads to better results when using ML, resulting in higher RoI and happier data scientists.

Clickety

Seed Round in 2021
Clickety is a computer software company that produces CRM software for every non-sales job. It features a software platform that helps employers, companies, and businesses to capture, visualize, and execute the they do around people. It was founded in 2019 and is remote-first with employees in at least four states.

Reclaim.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Reclaim.ai is an intelligence and automation calendar tool designed to aid users in prioritizing their work and balancing their schedules.

Phaidra

Series A in 2021
Phaidra provides AI and ML solutions to accelerate performance in large-scale industries. Phaidra serves as a virtual plant operator designed for mission-critical facilities. Their closed-loop AI control service empowers the operations team to achieve significant enhancements in plant stability, energy efficiency, and sustainability.

Picnic

Series A in 2021
Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and robotics solutions. Picnic has collected an experienced team of food and technology industry veterans to develop and provide specialized intelligent technology and exclusive solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Picnic's Pizza Production System is the first automated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes.

Edify

Venture Round in 2020
Edify is a software tool that helps engineering managers quickly design and deploy technical onboarding plans for their new hires.

Vouched

Venture Round in 2020
Vouched develops patent-pending AI (CV/ML) to visually verify identity and onboard users in seconds. Vouched works with companies in regulated and sensitive industries including healthcare, real estate, gig and sharing, retail, operations and logistics, and financial services and banking, among others. Vouched has identified hundreds of thousands of people from around the world. It is proficient in hundreds of ID types, including all IDs in the U.S., Canada, Vietnam, and Great Britain, as well as passports for 30+ countries.

Symbl.ai

Venture Round in 2020
Symbl.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access to conversational intelligence for developers. They have developed the only platform that uses machine learning to analyze conversations in real-time proactively. The company aims to eliminate the complexity of building and maintaining conversational understanding systems so that developers can focus on building delightful and productive experiences, using Rammer’s underlying technology. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Picnic

Venture Round in 2020
Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and robotics solutions. Picnic has collected an experienced team of food and technology industry veterans to develop and provide specialized intelligent technology and exclusive solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Picnic's Pizza Production System is the first automated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes.

Picnic

Venture Round in 2020
Picnic is a fast-growing tech company that has developed the modern milkman, a mass-market home delivery system for fast moving consumer goods.

Joe Coffee

Seed Round in 2020
Joe is leveling the playing field for independent coffee shops to compete against national corporate chains. By bringing independent coffee together, customers never have to settle for coffee they don't love. We partner directly with independent coffee shops and invest in your business to provide unique customer experiences that bring them back to your business to purchase more items, more often. Joe is built by baristas for baristas and is building the world's largest independent coffee network.

Phaidra

Seed Round in 2020
Phaidra provides AI and ML solutions to accelerate performance in large-scale industries. Phaidra serves as a virtual plant operator designed for mission-critical facilities. Their closed-loop AI control service empowers the operations team to achieve significant enhancements in plant stability, energy efficiency, and sustainability.

Reclaim.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Reclaim.ai is an intelligence and automation calendar tool designed to aid users in prioritizing their work and balancing their schedules.

Picnic

Venture Round in 2019
Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and robotics solutions. Picnic has collected an experienced team of food and technology industry veterans to develop and provide specialized intelligent technology and exclusive solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Picnic's Pizza Production System is the first automated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes.

Symbl.ai

Seed Round in 2019
Symbl.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access to conversational intelligence for developers. They have developed the only platform that uses machine learning to analyze conversations in real-time proactively. The company aims to eliminate the complexity of building and maintaining conversational understanding systems so that developers can focus on building delightful and productive experiences, using Rammer’s underlying technology. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Joe Coffee

Seed Round in 2019
Joe is leveling the playing field for independent coffee shops to compete against national corporate chains. By bringing independent coffee together, customers never have to settle for coffee they don't love. We partner directly with independent coffee shops and invest in your business to provide unique customer experiences that bring them back to your business to purchase more items, more often. Joe is built by baristas for baristas and is building the world's largest independent coffee network.

Vouched

Seed Round in 2019
Vouched develops patent-pending AI (CV/ML) to visually verify identity and onboard users in seconds. Vouched works with companies in regulated and sensitive industries including healthcare, real estate, gig and sharing, retail, operations and logistics, and financial services and banking, among others. Vouched has identified hundreds of thousands of people from around the world. It is proficient in hundreds of ID types, including all IDs in the U.S., Canada, Vietnam, and Great Britain, as well as passports for 30+ countries.

Streem

Venture Round in 2019
Streem is an award winning technology company that enhances real-time communication and collaboration by creating an intelligent camera. The platform delivers a combination of augmented reality (AR), computer vision, and machine learning. It equips the expert with the capability to remotely capture crucial information by using proprietary spatial mapping, OCR, and object & pose estimation technology.

Gradient.io

Seed Round in 2018
Gradient.io is an intelligent insights platform for Amazon. Using proprietary machine learning technology, Gradient.io’s platform helps brands understand and optimize their digital point-of-sale presence. Gradient.io solutions include Gradient Digital Shelf, Gradient Score, Gradient Dynamics, and Gradient Compete. Brands taking advantage of these solutions can finally unlock the full power of Amazon. For more information, visit https://gradient.io

Finn AI

Series A in 2018
Finn AI provides AI-powered conversational banking technology for personal banking and finance. It puts a personal banker in every bank customer’s pocket, helping them to manage their money wherever they are, whatever they need via a simple, natural conversation. The Finn AI team of data scientists, engineers, and financial industry experts helps banks and credit unions transform customer engagement and increase financial literacy while delivering the convenience and savings of a digital-first experience. It has public deployments in three languages with a growing global customer base that includes ATB Financial, Bank of Montreal (BMO), Banpro Grupo Promerica, and Commonwealth Bank. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Boltive

Venture Round in 2018
Boltive is on a mission to secure advertisers and publishers against invasive media. Invasive ads violate written laws and unwritten norms.They are heavy, malicious, or offensive. They even leak private data. Boltive is the first solution that protects the entire ecosystem from unwanted, non-secure and unsafe ads.

Streem

Seed Round in 2018
Streem is an award winning technology company that enhances real-time communication and collaboration by creating an intelligent camera. The platform delivers a combination of augmented reality (AR), computer vision, and machine learning. It equips the expert with the capability to remotely capture crucial information by using proprietary spatial mapping, OCR, and object & pose estimation technology.

Tomorrow Ideas

Seed Round in 2018
Tomorrow Ideas develops an application that helps in protecting family’s financial future. Its application includes last will and testament for the family and the laws of the state, a revocable living trust, guardianship for children and pets, net worth and life insurance calculator, term life insurance comparison, and a complimentary insurance policy. Tomorrow Ideas' application can be downloaded from iOS and Android. David Hanley, Erik Berg, Joshua Heckathorn, and Wayne Rambo founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Seattle in Washington.

Element Data

Seed Round in 2017
We are building the first cognitive computing product that intersects artificial intelligence, machine learning, and decision intelligence called DICE (Decision Insights Computation Engine). It uncovers trends and behaviors to predict and influence future outcomes by quantifying how people make decisions.

Streem

Seed Round in 2017
Streem is an award winning technology company that enhances real-time communication and collaboration by creating an intelligent camera. The platform delivers a combination of augmented reality (AR), computer vision, and machine learning. It equips the expert with the capability to remotely capture crucial information by using proprietary spatial mapping, OCR, and object & pose estimation technology.

Finn AI

Seed Round in 2017
Finn AI provides AI-powered conversational banking technology for personal banking and finance. It puts a personal banker in every bank customer’s pocket, helping them to manage their money wherever they are, whatever they need via a simple, natural conversation. The Finn AI team of data scientists, engineers, and financial industry experts helps banks and credit unions transform customer engagement and increase financial literacy while delivering the convenience and savings of a digital-first experience. It has public deployments in three languages with a growing global customer base that includes ATB Financial, Bank of Montreal (BMO), Banpro Grupo Promerica, and Commonwealth Bank. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tomorrow Ideas

Seed Round in 2017
Tomorrow Ideas develops an application that helps in protecting family’s financial future. Its application includes last will and testament for the family and the laws of the state, a revocable living trust, guardianship for children and pets, net worth and life insurance calculator, term life insurance comparison, and a complimentary insurance policy. Tomorrow Ideas' application can be downloaded from iOS and Android. David Hanley, Erik Berg, Joshua Heckathorn, and Wayne Rambo founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Seattle in Washington.

Picnic

Convertible Note in 2017
Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and robotics solutions. Picnic has collected an experienced team of food and technology industry veterans to develop and provide specialized intelligent technology and exclusive solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Picnic's Pizza Production System is the first automated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes.
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