Social Starts

Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds. The fund focuses on companies that leverage social and mobile technologies to drive generational changes in consumer and business behavior. Social Starts has been named the top fund under $100M since 2013, the 5th most active early stage fund worldwide of any size in 2015, and the 6th most active early stage fund in US tech in 2016.

Mike Edelhart

Managing Partner

Anna King

CFO

465 past transactions

Enspectra Health, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Also modify BD: Enspectra Health, Inc. develops a system to image live cellular anatomy. Its system images beneath the skin and displays images in real-time. Enspectra Health, Inc. was formerly known as Zebra Medical Technologies. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Emergy Foods

Venture Round in 2019
Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that offers carbon materials, bioengineering, and filtration. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day.

TripleLift

Seed Round in 2012
TripleLift builds technology to make ads that empower rather than interrupt. Leveraging pioneering computer vision technology, TripleLift creates ads that blend in with the user experience as people consume content within television, walled gardens and the open web.

Monti Kids, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Monti Kids helps parents use Montessori educational play from birth to age three. It empowers parents with educational wooden toys and simple online guidance based on the world's leading early childhood curriculum: the Montessori method. The program is a subscription beginning at birth, with customers advancing to a new stage every three months. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Orinda, California.

Peace of Meat

Seed Round in 2020
Real Meat. Guilt free. Cell based.

Zenclerk

Seed Round in 2015
Zenclerk is a coupon delivery service that enables its customers to enjoy a happy shopping experience. It is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Auryc

Series A in 2017
Auryc is a client-side journey intelligence platform that surfaces real-time insights with powerful visual context across all of your digital ecommerce journeys. We are helping enterprises find and resolve the customer journey issues that directly impact conversions and customer satisfaction. Auryc’s like having an expert CX analyst in-house who witnesses and delivers deep ROI insights about what your customers are experiencing and why they are buying- or why not.

UnaliWear Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
UnaliWear Inc. develops a wearable watch that provides discreet support for falls, medication reminders, and a guard against lost-wandering with ‘guide-me-home’ assistance. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Volumetric Bio

Venture Round in 2019
Volumetric, Inc. develops bioprinting platform, which offers 3D bioprinters creating vascularized human tissue. It provides bioprinters and bio inks for applications in the life sciences, drug discovery, and medical devices. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Houston, Texas.

ProSky

Seed Round in 2016
ProSky, Inc. provides a platform to automating human resource activities. It offers ProSky to automate HR tasks, such as recruiting, hiring, evaluation, feedback, and communication for companies. The company’s ProSky provides predictive intelligence for hiring managers and human capital professionals, as well as insights into a candidates’ and employees’ aptitude, technical, and interpersonal skills. It serves tech, finance, consulting, retail, healthcare, aviation, and other industries. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Lehi, Utah.

Sharper Sense

Seed Round in 2021
Sharper Sense is a developer of wearable neuromodulation device. The noninvasive bioelectronic device is used to improve sensory loss and perceptual acuity by optimizing the brain's ability to process sensory information.

Werk

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Werk is the first and only people analytics software that helps companies improve their flexibility performance through data. Through a proprietary assessment methodology and analytics dashboard, Werk delivers the insights companies need to understand current flexibility baseline and gaps, the highest ROI flex investments to close those gaps, and the impact of flexibility on their most important business metrics. Learn more at Werk.co

Scatter

Seed Round in 2018
Scatter Studios LLC designs and develops immersive stories and augmented reality/virtual reality creativity tools. The company develops volumetric video capture tool under the brand name Depthkit. Depthkit helps video creator to capture live action performances as true to life 3D performances. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Figur8, Inc.

Funding Round in 2020
FIGUR8 is formed by a group of engineers, researchers and designers with expertise in wearable computing, digital health and sports science. We share the same passion in creating the most intuitive and effective way to understanding human movement and to bring what’s only available to the elite few today to the hands of the everyday user.

Journey Meditation

Seed Round in 2020
Journey Meditation, Inc. offers a meditation application for providing meditation classes to individuals and organizations. It offers a Journey LIVE app, a group meditation application with live instructors, and real-time classes to the public that enables users to join a group meditation video live streams scheduled throughout the day where teachers from various backgrounds and meditation styles guide participants. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Flux Bioscience

Seed Round in 2018
Flux Biosciences is a company spun out of Stanford University, where the technology used to read and write computer hard drives has been repurposed to perform sensitive and quantitative point-of-care in vitro medical diagnostics. This technology uses blood, urine, or saliva to measure biomarkers related to exercise, stress, fertility, and diet and will correlate those measurements to sleep and activity data collected from wearable technologies.

BlockApps, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
BlockApps, Inc. develops and delivers a blockchain platform for building and deploying Ethereum blockchain applications. It offers BlockApps STRATO, an Ethereum compliant platform for development, deployment, and management of enterprise blockchain applications. The company also provides STRATO consortium blockchain network, an enterprise grade blockchain solution that enables the construction of hybrid private, consortium, and public blockchains. It serves software startups, IT and professional services’ firms, industry owned businesses, and Fortune 500 corporates. The company has a strategic partnership with Optimum. BlockApps, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Stratifyd, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Stratifyd is an AI-powered analytics platform that is built around the customer feedback loop to enable enterprise companies to transform structured and unstructured human textual data found in call center platforms, surveys, product reviews, CRM systems, and interactive chat sessions and other omnichannel sources into immediately actionable insights. This allows the business to take action of insights from any customer feedback or data set. These insights will lead to increased customer retention, improved products and services, and increased revenue. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The Block

Seed Round in 2019
The Block is the leading research, analysis and news brand in the digital asset space. Founded in 2018 and based in NYC, The Block's team is spread across 7 times zones, covering the global cryptocurrency and blockchain space 24/7.

Stoplight

Seed Round in 2018
StopLight is an online platform that helps developers build, test, and improve their web APIs. The company is an API Design Management Platform powering the world's leading API first companies. Developing good design-first practices will minimize future costs, speed up the time to market and lead to more consistent, higher quality microservice, and IoT applications. It was launched in August 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas, United States.

FanFueled

Angel Round in 2013
FanFueled provides patented “ROI” Technology (Return On Influence) to track & reward influence beyond one degree of separation.  FanFueled is a peer-to-peer-to-peer social-marketing platform that rewards consumers for sharing purchases with their friends. Its patented technology authenticates and rewards consumers on multiple degrees of separation for additional purchases that result from their activity. 

Finless Foods

Funding Round in 2019
Finless Foods is an early-stage biotechnology company whose mission is to develop and mass manufacture pioneering marine animal food products for human consumption. Their objective is to create seafood sustainably using scientific cellular agriculture technologies, which will provide a cost-effective and appetizing alternative to conventionally-caught and commercially-farmed seafood. Their products will also be healthier to consume and better for the environment than conventionally-produced seafood.

The Treeline Company

Venture Round in 2016
Treeline makes it easy to build custom, high-performance apps for Node.js. It is designed for building practical, enterprise-grade backends in a matter of hours - not months.

Boundless Mind, Inc.

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.

Stream.io, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Stream is the best-in-class, enterprise-grade chat and activity feed provider that serves more than a billion end-users. Stream’s feature-rich products include robust client-side SDKs for iOS, Android, React, React Native, Flutter, and support for the most commonly used server-side languages; scalable and secure APIs; and a beautiful UI kit. Stream is the fastest, most scalable solution on the market today, enabling application product teams to increase user engagement and retention and decrease time to market. Headquartered in Boulder, Colo. with an office in Amsterdam, Stream recently closed a $15 million Series A round led by GGV Capital.

2nd Screen Games

Seed Round in 2012
2nd Screen Games is launching a platform that promotes brand engagement through social challenges.

Rheo

Seed Round in 2016
Copper Studios has created Rheo, the world's first personalized video channel. Online video content is fragmented across providers and sites, and requires lots of navigation and decision-making. Rheo is the first single, continuous personalized feed to discover and enjoy these videos. Rheo presents videos as a single interactive stream, that you can watch or skip. These simple interactions teach Rheo what you like and don’t, leading to more personalized content. The experience makes video discovery fun and effortless, and is already seeing ground-breaking levels of engagement from its users. Rheo is available today on the Apple TV App Store.

Grafighters, Inc.

Angel Round in 2012
Grafighters, Inc. develops an online fighting game. It allows users to upload drawings with various characters, including character stuffed in their sketchbooks and class notes to create animated characters for the game. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Syracuse, New York.

Oishii Farm

Series A in 2021
Oishii Farm provides an indoor vertical farming technology.

Stratifyd, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Stratifyd is an AI-powered analytics platform that is built around the customer feedback loop to enable enterprise companies to transform structured and unstructured human textual data found in call center platforms, surveys, product reviews, CRM systems, and interactive chat sessions and other omnichannel sources into immediately actionable insights. This allows the business to take action of insights from any customer feedback or data set. These insights will lead to increased customer retention, improved products and services, and increased revenue. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Noctrix Health, Inc.

Funding Round in 2020
Noctrix Health, Inc. develops therapeutic wearable devices to treat chronic neurological and sleep disorders in patients. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

LeagueApps

Angel Round in 2013
LeagueApps is committed to making the world a better place through increased access to youth sports. Born and bred in New York City, LeagueApps is the only technology and community platform designed to power youth and local sports experiences, and support the organizers that make them happen. Through software and the NextUp platform, which offers youth sports organizers opportunities for professional development and networking, LeagueApps supports and strengthens an industry that makes a difference in the lives of kids and families every day. FundPlay, a philanthropic program focused on sports-based youth development programs in underserved communities, is also supported by the LeagueApps team. LeagueApps works with thousands of leading youth sports organizations, as well as pro teams, leagues, and athletes. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Emergy Foods

Series A in 2020
Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that offers carbon materials, bioengineering, and filtration. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day.

Lambda School

Seed Round in 2018
Lambda Inc., doing business as Lambda School, provides online coding and computer science education training services in the United States. It provides training in computer science, software engineering, neural networks, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The company also offers courses in JavaScript and website development. It provides online and live training sessions with instruction, hands-on projects, pair programming, and code reviews from instructors. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Apptopia KISS

Seed Round in 2015
Apptopia KISS

Classkick

Seed Round in 2018
Classkick is the place where students do work, and get helps from teachers and classmates. Teachers make a assignments on Classkick, check detailed individual understanding, give instant help. Students can raise their hand privately and give peer-to-peer feedback. The technology is hyper-focused on increasing student learning and helping teachers be even more effective.

Thunder

Venture Round in 2015
Thunder Creative Management Platform removes creative friction to allow advertisers to build more ads, faster. By doing so, Thunder scales ad creatives across devices, formats, and volume. Thunder's ad platform powers display, social, and mobile advertising for over 100 brands, media companies, and agencies. Notable customers include InterContinental Hotels Group, Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, and Hearst.

Wynd

Seed Round in 2019
Wynd Technologies, Inc. manufactures air purifiers for personal applications. It offers Wynd, a portable device that includes a removable sensor that checks the air quality around it and starts purifying the air. The company's Wynd removes allergens and other pollutions. It also offers Wynd Halo pro and ongoing realtime air quality measurement and monitoring to verify proper operations and maintenance. The company also offers online retail of its products. Wynd Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Claireau, Inc. and changed its name to Wynd Technologies, Inc. in November, 2015. Wynd Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California.

Thryve, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Thryve is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing. The company's microbiome testing kit offers a subscription-based customized testing of the microbiome with a personalized probiotic created specifically for the individual to get actionable insights into the prevention of chronic diseases including obesity, cystic fibrosis, and Alzheimer's, enabling customers to treat root causes of gut problems.

Exposure

Venture Round in 2016
Exposure is a web tool and a community of passionate photographers and storytellers that allows users to create photo narratives. It was created for photographers, who want a more meaningful and effortless way to publish their work in the context of a narrative, instead of a feed or single photo on a permalink page. Exposure was launched in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, C.A.

Emergy Foods

Seed Round in 2019
Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that offers carbon materials, bioengineering, and filtration. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day.

Bloom Science

Venture Round in 2020
Bloom Science, Inc. develops neuroprotective medicine that uses microbiome to cure people with epilepsy and other neurological conditions. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Diego, California.

Sumpto

Seed Round in 2013
Sumpto measures the social influence of college students.They provide brands the unique ability to target and engage with specific college influencers. Users visit the website and must enter a valid .edu e-mail address to register. Once confirmed, the student connects their social networks. Sumpto then measures their social influence in the form of their Sumpto Score, a number from 1-100. Based on the students' Sumpto Score, they become eligible for free stuff and exclusive promotions from brands. Sumpto's mission is to reward college students for their peer influence and essentially create an environment where the students does the talking organically for the brand.

CrowdHall

Seed Round in 2013
A CrowdHall is a crowd-sourced town hall built on the idea that public discourse with high-profile people & organizations doesn't have to be one-sided. It empowers the crowd to organize its thoughts, articulate its questions, and voice its perspective in a democratic way.

Binded, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Binded lets creators claim their copyrights on the blockchain and protect them for free. A creator uploads their art or photos to Binded via our website or integrations with creative tools like Instagram. We create a timestamp in the Bitcoin blockchain and give a​ certificate as proof. We are developing technology to create unique fingerprints for all copyrighted works and store them on the blockchain. Like Youtube’s Content ID system for the entire internet. For every copyright claimed, we scan the web and show matches for possible copyright infringement. In 5 years we hope to be the main way copyrights are registered and utilized.

ZingBox Studio

Seed Round in 2014
ZingBox Inc. develops an enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) security solution to discover and protect the connected equipment. The company offers ZingBox, a real-time IoT security solution to protect from cyber and insider threats. It offers its solution primarily for healthcare and manufacturing industries. ZingBox Inc. has a strategic partnership First Health Advisory Solutions. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Mountain View, California. ZingBox Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Smilo

Series A in 2018
Smilo is the new direct-to-consumer brand for essential baby products lovingly perfected by doctors, scientists, and engineers. From fuss-free bottles to palate-supporting pacifiers, Smilo's got you and your baby covered! Web: https://www.smilobaby.com

Popular Pays

Series A in 2015
Popular Pays is a platform connecting content creators with brands who want the content to tell their stories. They’re a true tech company, with an in-house built iOS app (for creators) and dashboard (for brands) that delivers direct communication, workflow tools & powerful statistics. Pop Pays is a Facebook Marketing Partner and its software is used to power the Pinterest Pin Collective community. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Finless Foods

Seed Round in 2019
Finless Foods is an early-stage biotechnology company whose mission is to develop and mass manufacture pioneering marine animal food products for human consumption. Their objective is to create seafood sustainably using scientific cellular agriculture technologies, which will provide a cost-effective and appetizing alternative to conventionally-caught and commercially-farmed seafood. Their products will also be healthier to consume and better for the environment than conventionally-produced seafood.

Madorra

Series A in 2019
Madorra Their goal is empowering women to live fuller, healthier lives. Madorra is working towards changing the paradigm for treating vaginal dryness, by providing a medical device solution to a problem that has previously only been served by pharmaceuticals. They are focused on giving post-menopausal women and breast cancer survivors the power to choose the non-hormonal treatment option they want.

Panda

Seed Round in 2018
Panda is a new kind of TV show starring you and your friends record and watch new episodes together each week until the season is over.

Canvs LLC

Series A in 2017
Canvs LLC provides develops software based on semantic analysis technology. The company measures the audience response and then by analyzing such response provides advisory services, such as branding, promotion, and advertisements. Its products include Canvs TV, allows companies to measure the emotional response on any owned page for a TV series; Canvs Surveys, a solution that automates time-consuming tasks involved in open-ended survey responses; Canvs watch, removes the doubt and uncertainty from content planning and creation by revealing what matters most: how viewers feel about what they’re watching; Canvs campaigns, used to create wrap-up reports; Canvs movies, enables the company to take decisions about marketing and distribution; Canvs publishers, helps publishers to respond to consumers’ needs; and Canvs APIs, enables businesses to integrate analytic data with other applications. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

Stream.io, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Stream is the best-in-class, enterprise-grade chat and activity feed provider that serves more than a billion end-users. Stream’s feature-rich products include robust client-side SDKs for iOS, Android, React, React Native, Flutter, and support for the most commonly used server-side languages; scalable and secure APIs; and a beautiful UI kit. Stream is the fastest, most scalable solution on the market today, enabling application product teams to increase user engagement and retention and decrease time to market. Headquartered in Boulder, Colo. with an office in Amsterdam, Stream recently closed a $15 million Series A round led by GGV Capital.

RoiKoi

Angel Round in 2016
As of April 23, 2020, RoiKoi was acquired by Terminal Inc. RoiKoi develops a database of pre-vetted candidates to be hired by recruiters. It allows clients to find passive employee referrals and talented people, including software engineers, data scientists, project managers, designers, sales people, and marketers who fit for their company. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Momunt

Seed Round in 2015
Momunt is a platform that automatically organizes all nearby public visuals shared on social networks. It enables users to find their favorites and create collections to save or share with friends. It also enables users to tune-in to amazing events or places around the world and instantly sees everything people are sharing there.

Mashable

Series A in 2014
Mashable is the leading media company for the Connected Generation and the voice of digital culture. Reporting on the importance of digital innovation, Mashable empowers, and inspires its readers around the globe. Since its inception in 2005, Mashable record 45 million monthly unique visitors and 28 million social media followers and are one of the most influential and engaged online communities worldwide. Mashable is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, London, and Los Angeles.

Speechly

Seed Round in 2019
Speechly create voice interfaces for professional tools and services using deep learning and natural language processing technologies.

Boxed

Series B in 2015
Founded in 2013, Boxed has taken the best elements of the wholesale shopping experience and folded it into one innovative, cutting edge mobile app that allows consumers direct-to-their-door access to all of their favorite warehouse club products, without membership fees. Boxed brings convenience and savings to on-the-go consumers who don’t have the time, means or patience to shop at a brick and mortar big box club. The elegantly designed iPhone and Android app offers bulk-sized goods at pint-sized prices, and is completely free to download and use. Boxed does all the heavy lifting, delivering a rich array of wholesale items directly to doorsteps across the continental United States in two days or less. The brand’s innovative discovery-based design recreates the fun of the treasure hunt experience with a curated selection of everyday essentials that consumers love including household staples, health and beauty supplies, office pantry and grocery items, and a wide variety of organic and green products.

Barn2Door, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Barn2Door helps farmers save time and grow sales by managing inventory online and automating orders across web, social, mobile, and email. They believe it should be as easy to order food from local farmers as it is to use Uber. It offers farms a real-time digital fresh sheet across all channels to connect with buyers, streamline ordering, and generate more sales. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Keeeb GmbH

Seed Round in 2016
Keeeb GmbH, a social knowledge management services company, provides a tool to collect anything from the Web that inspires a client, including personal projects, images, text passages and videos, creative ideas, or professional work. Its tool also helps to organize visually, share and inspire, save client’s own files, collaborate in teams, and discover collections. In addition, the company offers private topic pages. It serves Web designers, social media experts, bloggers, journalists, and marketing managers. Keeeb GmbH was founded in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

Clover Inc.

Series A in 2016
Clover Inc. develops a mobile-based dating and chat application for online daters. Its application enables users to meet people who want to meet them; browse people in their area or choose destinations from around the world; get matched with singles based on type of person, location, and time, as well as find information about popular places to take a first date; and confirm the place and time to setup a date. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

SocialFlow

Seed Round in 2010
SocialFlow, Inc., a software company, provides social media distribution and monetization solutions for publishers and media companies. The company’s algorithm releases posts when timing, relevance, and audience are optimized; identifies best performing posts to amplify with advertising; integrates amplified posts into platform-specific advertisement vehicles; establishes a continuous loop of feedback by analyzing responses; and develops new advertising opportunities that extend its client’s reach to segmented audiences. It offers its solutions to brands, publishers, marketers, and agencies to publish their social media content. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York.

Hello Scout Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Hello Scout on a mission to make your travels relaxing, spontaneous and unique. They provide a text message and app-based concierge to hotels looking to enhance their guest experience. Hello Scout uses a combination of city experts and bots to reply to guest requests.

Stax Health, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
WeRecover has built the world’s first online matching engine for addiction recovery centers. Through a quick and standardized online application, WeRecover brings radical transparency, simplicity and relief to the millions of individuals seeking treatment for addiction. The company’s matching algorithm pairs you with relevant rehab centers with open beds, based on your budget, insurance, clinical needs and location. Founded in 2016 in Santa Monica, CA by Stephen Estes and Max Jaffe, WeRecover has streamlined the discovery and communication process for the fragmented addiction treatment industry in the United States. To find help now, visit www.werecover.com.

CareLedger

Seed Round in 2015
CareLedger helps employers find the best priced quality healthcare for their employees in their area. By providing pricing data on local providers and motivating employees to save, CareLedger helps employers get healthcare spend under control and reduced by more than 10%. They provide insight into who is a high-performing, high-value provider, and then motivate employees to spend less.

Stream.io, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
Stream is the best-in-class, enterprise-grade chat and activity feed provider that serves more than a billion end-users. Stream’s feature-rich products include robust client-side SDKs for iOS, Android, React, React Native, Flutter, and support for the most commonly used server-side languages; scalable and secure APIs; and a beautiful UI kit. Stream is the fastest, most scalable solution on the market today, enabling application product teams to increase user engagement and retention and decrease time to market. Headquartered in Boulder, Colo. with an office in Amsterdam, Stream recently closed a $15 million Series A round led by GGV Capital.

Cassia Networks

Seed Round in 2014
Cassia Networks, Inc. develops and manufactures Bluetooth router products for home automation, entertainment, and health and safety markets in the United States and internationally. It offers Bluetooth speakers, audio kits, smart plugs, multi-color Bluetooth LED products, connected home kits, and personal safety sensors; and SDK for developers and vendors. The company also provides support services. It offers its products through online retailers and online. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California with operations in Beijing, China.

Monti Kids, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Monti Kids helps parents use Montessori educational play from birth to age three. It empowers parents with educational wooden toys and simple online guidance based on the world's leading early childhood curriculum: the Montessori method. The program is a subscription beginning at birth, with customers advancing to a new stage every three months. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Orinda, California.

IRIS.TV

Series A in 2015
IRIS.TV is a universal video intelligence platform focused on onboarding, processing, and activating video data. Our mission is to provide the world’s publishers, brands, agencies, and technology providers with a comprehensive understanding of every streaming video in order to create better consumer experiences and business outcomes. Since 2013, the leading media, data, and advertising technologies have utilized IRIS.TV’s privacy-first and neutral data infrastructure to build and scale AI/ML solutions including metadata enrichment, personalized content recommendations, analytics, and contextual advertising. For more information, visit www.iris.tv.

My Damn Channel

Venture Round in 2012
My Damn Channel is an entertainment studio and new media platform created to empower artists to co-produce, distribute, and monetize video content. My Damn Channel gives artists creative control, a complete infrastructure to rule the web, and revenue sharing. We're ad supported and we share revenues with our syndication partners.

SmartNews

Series A in 2013
SmartNews is the award-winning, news discovery app loved by millions. We are a machine-learning company deeply committed to helping users discover the most interesting and important stories that matter right now. SmartNews won numerous “App of the Year” awards in Japan and is consistently ranked as a top 5 News App for Android and iOS in the US. With over $50M in funding from Gree, Globis Capital Partners and Atomico, SmartNews has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco and New York.

ClosedLoop.ai, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
ClosedLoop uses the power of AI to identify at-risk patients and recommend the best interventions for each individual.ClosedLoop provides a wide array of off-the-shelf predictive models for common healthcare use cases and creates customized models to meet each organization's specific needs.

Stratifyd, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Stratifyd is an AI-powered analytics platform that is built around the customer feedback loop to enable enterprise companies to transform structured and unstructured human textual data found in call center platforms, surveys, product reviews, CRM systems, and interactive chat sessions and other omnichannel sources into immediately actionable insights. This allows the business to take action of insights from any customer feedback or data set. These insights will lead to increased customer retention, improved products and services, and increased revenue. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Enhatch Series

Seed Round in 2015
Enhatch Series

Original Stitch

Seed Round in 2016
Original Stitch is an online fashion clothier based in San Francisco that allows its customers to build their perfect dress shirt from premium quality fabrics, and endless variations of patterns and details.

Osmosis

Series A in 2019
Osmosis is a personalized learning platform that helps you retain more, gain a deeper understanding of concepts & feel more prepared for your courses & exams. Osmosis empowers the clinicians and caregivers with the best learning experience.

Boundless Mind, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
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.

Hakka Labs, Inc.

Angel Round in 2015
Hakka Labs, Inc. operates an online repository of content and talks on open-source engineering tools and technologies. It connects software engineers to software engineering teams worldwide. The company also provides training programs to teach software engineers the specific skills and tools they need to level up; and profiles companies’ engineering teams and projects. In addition, it helps others to organize engineering conferences. Hakka Labs, Inc. was formerly known as g33ktalk. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

Pathover, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2016
Pathover, Inc. operates an API that provides intelligent optimization and logistics solutions for grocery delivery in the United States. The company’s API aggregates various orders by region and intelligently optimizes the suitable delivery option within a selected time interval. Its resource and delivery routing API facilitates same-day grocery delivery for stores through a courier network. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Milk and Honey Shoes

Seed Round in 2013
Milk and Honey Shoes is the custom-made shoes brand.

CodeSignal

Seed Round in 2015
CodeSignal, Inc. develops and operates a cloud-based coding and recruiting platform to discover, develop, and promote technical talent. It applies game mechanics that offer developers online computer programming for both instructional and recruiting purposes. The company’s platform creates custom tests for employers that are calibrated with interview process and creates assessments that test more than data structures and algorithms. CodeSignal, Inc. was formerly known as BrainFights, Inc. and changed its name to CodeSignal, Inc. in October 2020. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Folia Health, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
Folia is a system designed to use patient and caregiver knowledge to improve their care. It offers a health care app that captures all the health data of the treatment use, symptoms, and behaviour, and tracks any health observation - from COVID-19 symptoms to flare-ups associated with a chronic condition, to which treatments are used and when - to improve care. These observations could be subtle changes in symptoms, mood, side effects, or how well a treatment is working.

GYANT.com, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
GYANT.com, Inc. develops artificial intelligence (AI) based chatbot application that connects physicians and patients. It offers GYANT, a platform that enables physicians to help patients with diagnosis, prescriptions, and treatment recommendations. The company enables to emit a first diagnostic after asking a few questions and helps and diagnoses people suffering from diseases. It serves hospitals, health systems, integrated delivery networks, and providers. GYANT.com, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Corte Madera, California.

Stratifyd, Inc.

Series A in 2017
Stratifyd is an AI-powered analytics platform that is built around the customer feedback loop to enable enterprise companies to transform structured and unstructured human textual data found in call center platforms, surveys, product reviews, CRM systems, and interactive chat sessions and other omnichannel sources into immediately actionable insights. This allows the business to take action of insights from any customer feedback or data set. These insights will lead to increased customer retention, improved products and services, and increased revenue. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Popular Pays

Seed Round in 2015
Popular Pays is a platform connecting content creators with brands who want the content to tell their stories. They’re a true tech company, with an in-house built iOS app (for creators) and dashboard (for brands) that delivers direct communication, workflow tools & powerful statistics. Pop Pays is a Facebook Marketing Partner and its software is used to power the Pinterest Pin Collective community. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Sidelines

Seed Round in 2014
Sidelines, Inc. operates an online community for building a bridge between informed content creators and their audience. It amplifies writers’ voice to reach readers by featuring their work on premium digital publications; provides content publishers with premium discussions natively on their site; and enables brands to target demographic through authentic discussions they can sponsor. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Littlstar

Seed Round in 2015
Littlstar is a consumer streaming subscription delivering live and on-demand ESports, Music, Comedy, and Sports, from companies like NBCU, Warner, Whistle, Showtime, New Form, Law & Crime, and Sliver.TV. Littlstar's unique brand of edgy content for Millennial and Gen Z audiences coupled with the ability to watch your own content makes it the hub for next generation viewers. The platform delivers a broad range of content experiences, with 2D, 3D, 4K, Live, 360° / 180° VR, and traditional video on its premium app. In addition, viewers can earn rewards points and become peers in the network powered by Littlstar's blockchain and P2P networking technology.

GroLens Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
GroLens Inc. develops and delivers a software as a service ERP software for commercial cannabis producers. It offers compliance reporting, inventory management, and grow optimization software. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

SimpleReach

Series A in 2014
SimpleReach is the #1 way for brands to measure and improve content ROI. By bringing together hundreds of data sources across websites, social channels, and publishers into the world's largest content data cloud, SimpleReach enables brands to understand how their content drives business outcomes everywhere. Leading content marketers like Intel, Chase, and Home Depot rely on the SimpleReach platform to generate actionable insights that improve the impact of their content creation and distribution. Learn more at www.simplereach.com

Misapplied Sciences

Series A in 2019
Misapplied Sciences is a mind-bending innovation that allows a hundred or more viewers to simultaneously share a digital display, sign, or light and each sees something different. The PARALLEL REALITY displays were invented by scientists, engineers, and designers with a history of transforming technology into amazing experiences. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Redmond, Washington.

Cloe

Seed Round in 2015
Cloe is an on demand SMS concierge service that provides users with curated recommendations. Cloe finds you the best things in your area effortlessly. With a simple text she can give you advice on food, shopping, errands, and more. Its a personalized approach that focuses on quick, spot on responses, having her number is like knowing the coolest local in town.

Boxed

Seed Round in 2013
Founded in 2013, Boxed has taken the best elements of the wholesale shopping experience and folded it into one innovative, cutting edge mobile app that allows consumers direct-to-their-door access to all of their favorite warehouse club products, without membership fees. Boxed brings convenience and savings to on-the-go consumers who don’t have the time, means or patience to shop at a brick and mortar big box club. The elegantly designed iPhone and Android app offers bulk-sized goods at pint-sized prices, and is completely free to download and use. Boxed does all the heavy lifting, delivering a rich array of wholesale items directly to doorsteps across the continental United States in two days or less. The brand’s innovative discovery-based design recreates the fun of the treasure hunt experience with a curated selection of everyday essentials that consumers love including household staples, health and beauty supplies, office pantry and grocery items, and a wide variety of organic and green products.

Oishii Farm

Series A in 2019
Oishii Farm provides an indoor vertical farming technology.

RentHop

Seed Round in 2014
RentHop simplifies real estate decisions through technology and quantitative analysis. In large cities apartment search is painful because there are far too many choices and very few great finds. It created the HopScore, a proprietary algorithm to sift through available inventory and sort by quality; saving time for both renters, landlords, and real estate brokers.