Lightspeed Ventures, LLC

Lightspeed Ventures, LLC is a global venture capital firm founded in 2000, headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya Pituach. The firm specializes in early-stage and expansion-stage investments, focusing on a diverse range of sectors including consumer, enterprise technology, cleantech, financial technology, mobile, e-commerce, and biotechnology. Lightspeed engages in both equity and debt financing for startups and growth companies, as well as providing incubation services. It primarily invests in the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India, with specific investment strategies tailored to different regions. In India, for instance, it focuses on advertising, healthcare, education, and retail, while in China, it targets both early and late-stage businesses across various technology sectors. The firm manages significant capital through its funds, actively participating in the growth of innovative companies across multiple industries.

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner

Luke Beseda

Partner

Ashley Brasier

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

Janou Gordon

Director of Special Projects

David Gussarsky

Partner

Harry Han

Partner

Lisa Han

Partner

Kshitij Jain

Associate

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Alex Kayyal

Partner

Meredith Kendall

Marketing Partner

Jonathan MacQuitty

Partner

Andrew John Moley

Operating Partner and Chief Financial Officer

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Peter Moulds

Venture Partner

Antoine Moyroud

Partner

Brett Nissenberg

Partner and General Counsel

Michael Romano

Partner of Investor Relations

Adam Rothstein

Partner

Chris Schaepe

Co-Founder and Partner

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Bipul Sinha

Venture Partner

John Wendell Thompson

Venture Partner

Rytis Vitkauskas

Partner

Scott Young

VP of Technology

Past deals in Series B

Vegrow

Series B in 2022
Vegrow is a technology platform that collaborates with farmers to streamline agricultural activities and enhance land utilization. By offering personalized advisory services on yield and grade mix, as well as supply chain support, Vegrow facilitates efficient operations for its partners. The platform also connects farmers with organized demand, enabling them to access a marketplace for their produce. Through these services, Vegrow aims to simplify farming practices and support the growth of a more productive agricultural ecosystem.

Magic Eden

Series B in 2022
Magic Eden is a community-centric company. They work hard to be responsive, close to the ground, and in service to the best interests of their collections. To prove their commitment to the community, they airdropped Magic Tickets, their own collection, to over 30,000 users. Holding a Magic Ticket gives holders access to their discord-based DAO, MagicDAO, where they deliver interconnectivity via social programs and rewards to the community.

ImmunOs Therapeutics

Series B in 2022
ImmunOs Therapeutics AG is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Schlieren, Switzerland, founded in 2014. The company specializes in the discovery and development of novel human immunomodulatory proteins aimed at enhancing cancer treatment and addressing autoimmune diseases. By focusing on next-generation therapeutics, ImmunOs aims to create drugs that not only exhibit direct anti-tumor effects but also remodel the tumor microenvironment. Additionally, the company is developing antibodies designed to block the activation of specific HLA molecules associated with autoimmune conditions. Through its innovative approach, ImmunOs Therapeutics seeks to improve the lives of patients suffering from serious diseases.

WorkOS

Series B in 2022
WorkOS, Inc. is a software company that specializes in providing solutions designed to make applications enterprise-ready. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, WorkOS offers APIs that enable developers to incorporate essential features and integrations needed by IT administrators, such as Single Sign-On (SSO), directory syncing, audit trails, and access control. By utilizing WorkOS's offerings, businesses can simplify the process of catering to enterprise customers, allowing them to enhance their product capabilities with minimal coding effort.

Astro

Series B in 2022
Astro Indonesia is a quick commerce start-up that specializes in on-demand grocery delivery. The platform offers a wide range of products, including fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy, meat, seafood, medicines, stationery, and snacks, allowing consumers to purchase essential items conveniently. By focusing on delivering groceries within a specified timeframe, Astro aims to provide an affordable and efficient shopping experience for its customers.

NextBillion

Series B in 2022
Exploring the connection between development and enterprise through blogs and analysis.

Nextbillion.ai

Series B in 2022
Nextbillion.ai Pte. Ltd., established in 2019 and based in Singapore, focuses on developing AI-powered hyperlocal solutions, particularly in the realm of mapping. The company offers products like nextbillionmaps, which provides advanced mapping solutions, and nextbilliontasks, which integrates AI with human intelligence. Targeting markets with complex geospatial challenges such as India, Indonesia, and Nigeria, Nextbillion.ai aims to create robust geospatial infrastructure that facilitates location-based experiences for a growing user base. The company addresses issues stemming from underdeveloped infrastructure, the emergence of mega cities, complicated address systems, and dynamic road networks by leveraging a combination of data, artificial intelligence, and human input to solve these intricate problems.

Supabase

Series B in 2022
Supabase Pte. Ltd. is a company that develops an open-source alternative to Firebase, designed to enhance PostgreSQL databases. Founded in 2020 and based in Singapore, Supabase provides tools that allow users to listen to database changes, query tables with filtering and pagination, and manage user permissions through a user-friendly interface. Its offerings include real-time and RESTful APIs that facilitate database interaction without requiring extensive coding. Additionally, Supabase features auto-generating documentation, event-driven automation, and one-click autoscaling, which help developers streamline their workflows and address scalability issues. By simplifying database management, Supabase enables developers to focus on building their core products more efficiently.

Real

Series B in 2022
Real is a mental healthcare platform focused on enhancing mental wellness as a vital aspect of overall wellbeing. The company aims to revolutionize mental health care by developing a member-centered therapy model that is both affordable and effective. Through a combination of digital resources and in-person experiences, Real integrates empathy and design into its approach, providing users with access to research-based therapy tools. This model encourages individuals to reflect on their mental health and take actionable steps towards improvement.

bloXroute Labs

Series B in 2022
bloXroute Labs, Inc. provides a blockchain scalability solution that allows cryptocurrencies and blockchains to scale on-chain, without protocol changes. The company allows all nodes to maintain the consensus over the state of the blockchain, even when mining thousands of transactions per second, on-chain. It runs underneath the consensus layer, supports all blockchains, provably neutral, and usable by any single node. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Evanston, Illinois.

CertiK

Series B in 2022
CertiK Global Ltd. is a company specializing in blockchain security, focusing on the formal verification of smart contracts and blockchain ecosystems. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Beijing, Seoul, and Seattle, CertiK provides a range of services including security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification. The company has developed advanced techniques to mathematically prove the correctness and security of blockchain applications, distinguishing its approach from traditional security audits. By employing artificial intelligence and leveraging both on-chain and off-chain data, CertiK offers developers real-time insights into the security of decentralized finance and other critical applications. With a commitment to securing over $6 billion in assets, CertiK has established itself as a leader in the blockchain security industry, serving many of the world's top projects.

Theta Lake

Series B in 2022
Theta Lake provides security and compliance for modern collaboration platforms. Empowering enterprises to manage compliance, data exposure, security, and acceptable use risks in what is shared, shown, spoken, and typed during video conferences, collaboration chat, audio calls, and any other unified communications from Cisco Webex, Zoom, RingCentral, Microsoft Teams, Slack, BlueJeans, and more.

Payhawk

Series B in 2022
Payhawk Limited offers a comprehensive spending software designed to streamline expense management, payments, and corporate card usage for businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in Sofia, Bulgaria, the company focuses on simplifying the entire spending lifecycle for financial officers and business owners. Its platform automates the collection and analysis of receipts, invoices, and card transactions, allowing businesses to maintain budget control without the need for paperwork. Payhawk's innovative solution includes a paperless corporate card that integrates seamlessly with existing banking services, offering real-time expense tracking, automated data extraction, and reporting features to enhance financial oversight.

Redpanda Data

Series B in 2022
Redpanda is a queue for people who deal with massive data streams.

Tripledot Studios

Series B in 2022
Tripledot was created in 2017 when three friends decided to join forces to create a new kind of games studio. Bringing together their collective experience in company-building and game creation, their goal was to bring together a team to create fun, successful games for everyday gamers.

Thunkable

Series B in 2022
From MIT's App Inventor and YCombinator's W2016 batch, Thunkable allows anyone to build powerful native apps. With Thunkable, it's simple to design, and simple to code-- simply drag and drop to create fast, native, reliable apps. You don't need to download large development suites, command-line kits, or simulators. You can use the many built-in app templates as they are, or make changes. Make your changes online and see them on your device instantly with the Thunkable mobile app. Upload your apps directly to the Play Store or send them to friends!

Zapp

Series B in 2022
Zapp is a company that specializes in on-demand delivery services, focusing on providing essential items swiftly and conveniently. Founded in 2020 and based in Kent, United Kingdom, Zapp offers a platform that allows customers to order groceries and other everyday necessities from local stores, delivering them directly to their doors. The service operates 24/7, ensuring that users can access a wide range of products, including snacks, drinks, and groceries, all within minutes. Zapp is supported by prominent investors and boasts a team with significant experience from leading companies in the delivery and e-commerce sectors.

Volley

Series B in 2021
Volley Inc. develops conversational games designed for messaging applications and voice interfaces, focusing on voice-controlled entertainment experiences for platforms such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, the company offers a variety of games, including popular titles like Song Quiz, Yes Sire, and Trivia Showdown. Volley aims to enhance user engagement through interactive and entertaining gameplay that leverages voice technology.

Apex.AI

Series B in 2021
Apex.AI, Inc. develops software products specifically designed for autonomous mobility systems. Its primary offering, Apex.OS, is a software framework that simplifies the complexity of hardware, middleware, and interfaces, providing users with safe and secure APIs. The company also offers Apex.Autonomy, which is tailored for safety-critical applications. Additionally, Apex.AI features MARV.Automotive, an extensible data management platform that facilitates data transfer from vehicles to the cloud, enabling dynamic search-based analytics, log analysis, real-time algorithm execution, and data introspection through graphical tools. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Apex.AI aims to create robust and reliable operating systems for autonomous vehicles.

Panther

Series B in 2021
Panther’s mission is to help security teams detect and respond to breaches at cloud-scale. Panther is more than a SIEM, it’s a sustainable way to monitor everything happening in your environment. In a world exploding with data, automation is critical. Panther directly enables security teams to create expressive detections with Python and store years of normalized and structured data in a security data lake. Move to a platform built for security engineers, by security engineers. Jack Naglieri launched the company in San Francisco, California in 2018.

CertiK

Series B in 2021
CertiK Global Ltd. is a company specializing in blockchain security, focusing on the formal verification of smart contracts and blockchain ecosystems. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Beijing, Seoul, and Seattle, CertiK provides a range of services including security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification. The company has developed advanced techniques to mathematically prove the correctness and security of blockchain applications, distinguishing its approach from traditional security audits. By employing artificial intelligence and leveraging both on-chain and off-chain data, CertiK offers developers real-time insights into the security of decentralized finance and other critical applications. With a commitment to securing over $6 billion in assets, CertiK has established itself as a leader in the blockchain security industry, serving many of the world's top projects.

Kodiak Robotics

Series B in 2021
Kodiak Robotics, Inc. specializes in the development of autonomous technology specifically designed for long-haul trucking. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company aims to enhance the efficiency and safety of freight transportation through its innovative solutions. By focusing on the unique challenges of long-haul logistics, Kodiak Robotics is positioning itself as a key player in the growing field of autonomous vehicles.

ClickHouse

Series B in 2021
ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented OLAP database management system that allows users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.

FTX

Series B in 2021
FTX Trading LTD operates a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange and trading platform for traders and investment professionals. Its platform offers futures trading, leveraged tokens, and an OTC portal. The company’s platform supports quarterly and perpetual futures on various cryptocurrencies and altcoins, such as bitcoin, ether, binance coin, and tether, as well as various altcoin, midcap, and other indices. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Dexterity

Series B in 2021
Dexterity Inc, founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, specializes in developing robotic solutions tailored for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain applications. The company offers a robots-as-a-service model that enhances operations such as fulfillment, kitting, packing, palletizing, depalletizing, and sortation. Dexterity's innovative robots are designed to exhibit human-like dexterity, enabling them to pick and place various items effectively while adapting gracefully to unpredictable environments.

Hubilo

Series B in 2021
Hubilo develops an event analytics platform designed to bring experiences and intelligence together. The platform hosts an interactive online event, connects attendees globally, and helps to build meaningful connections by organizing breakout sessions, thereby enabling event organizers to create, promote, manage, and analyze events on a single virtual event platform. The company focuses on re-imagining the marketing landscape that will emerge around virtual events and unlock massive insights for key stakeholders such as CMOs, event organizers, and sponsors to track attendee engagement, and other event-related data.

Hubilo

Series B in 2021
Hubilo develops an event analytics platform designed to bring experiences and intelligence together. The platform hosts an interactive online event, connects attendees globally, and helps to build meaningful connections by organizing breakout sessions, thereby enabling event organizers to create, promote, manage, and analyze events on a single virtual event platform. The company focuses on re-imagining the marketing landscape that will emerge around virtual events and unlock massive insights for key stakeholders such as CMOs, event organizers, and sponsors to track attendee engagement, and other event-related data.

Offchain Labs

Series B in 2021
Offchain Labs make smart contracts easier to develop at massive scale, with production level security. Their developer tools do the heavy lifting to add a flexible second layer to your decentralized application architecture, so that you can focus on business logic and user experience.

Holo

Series B in 2021
Holo, Inc. designs and manufactures 3D printed parts in metal, ceramics, and composite materials. Its additive manufacturing technology is based on a flexible polymer binder platform compatible with copper, technical ceramics, composites, and other metals. The company’s 3D photolithographic process exposes eight million voxels at a time to build geometries that are chemically processed and sintered to manufacture finished 3D printed parts. Holo, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Flink

Series B in 2021
FLINK, S.A.P.I. de C.V. operates as a NeoBank. It offers an application from which user can open account. The application helps to receive and send money. It also offers International MasterCard with customized modules to make purchases and transactions in any establishment. FLINK, S.A.P.I. de C.V. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico.

Forage

Series B in 2021
Forage (formerly InsideSherpa) partners with leading companies to deliver free open-access training courses for candidates. Any candidate can enroll in the company-backed courses to build career skills, visibility, and experience. The platform is running various virtual training courses including with KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, GE, BCG, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citi, Deloitte, Accenture and others. There are +1 million students in the Forage ecosystem.

Buildots

Series B in 2021
Buildots Limited, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, with an additional office in London, specializes in creating a data-driven platform for the construction industry. The platform is designed to enhance the management of construction operations by offering features such as planning, progress tracking, error detection, and process transparency. It automates various tasks, including the analysis of work logs, calculation of expected payments and timelines, and provides 360-degree camera capabilities for real-time site data collection. By transforming construction sites into digital environments, Buildots enables users to efficiently monitor and control project activities, turning site visits into actionable insights for improved project management.

Eco

Series B in 2021
Eco is a digital cryptocurrency platform designed to facilitate global transactions for everyday use. It operates independently from any single organization or government, aiming to create a more equitable distribution of resources by sharing the majority of the economic value generated with its community. The platform features a digital wallet that combines savings accounts, rewarded spending, and bill payment into a single, user-friendly interface. This innovative approach encourages effective money management and aligns the interests of the company with its users, fostering a sustainable financial system. Additionally, Eco is supported by a network of verified organizations worldwide, ensuring that its services remain safe and reliable for all users.

Blameless

Series B in 2021
Blameless, Inc. is a San Mateo, California-based company that provides a comprehensive site reliability engineering platform designed to automate incident response for software businesses. Founded in 2017, Blameless offers tools that help organizations set and monitor service level objectives and agreements, automate incident response, and identify root causes of issues. The platform features AI-driven incident resolution, blameless postmortems, and insights through reports and dashboards, all aimed at optimizing reliability and fostering innovation. Blameless primarily serves CTOs, engineering leaders, and engineers within the tech industry.

Noname Security

Series B in 2021
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2020. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), focusing on protecting against data leakage, authorization issues, and other vulnerabilities. Its agentless platform enables enterprises to discover, classify, and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs in real-time without requiring modifications to the network or the installation of agents. Noname Security's offerings include comprehensive detection and prevention capabilities, delivering greater visibility and security than traditional API gateways and load balancers.

Tonkean

Series B in 2021
Tonkean Inc. develops an adaptive business operations platform designed to enhance the efficiency of operations teams across various sectors, including legal, finance, IT, human resources, and sales. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a research and development office in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company's platform utilizes artificial intelligence to autonomously coordinate and manage business workflows. It integrates seamlessly with existing tools such as email, chat, and forms, allowing users to create customized solutions without the need for complex engineering. Tonkean's system provides real-time visibility into team performance and progress, delivering insights through tailored reports that facilitate discussions about ongoing initiatives. This approach empowers organizations to streamline their operations while maintaining compliance and security.

Fiddler

Series B in 2021
Fiddler Labs, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform designed to help businesses analyze, manage, and deploy their machine learning models effectively. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Fiddler offers an Explainable AI Engine that promotes transparency and understanding in AI solutions. This platform allows users across data science, product, and business teams to comprehend, validate, and manage their AI implementations, ensuring that these systems deliver reliable and trustworthy experiences for end-users. By providing statistical metrics, performance monitoring, and centralized controls, Fiddler aims to make AI more accessible and trustworthy for enterprises, ultimately unlocking the complexities of AI and enhancing user confidence in its applications.

Kikoff

Series B in 2021
Kikoff Inc. operates and provides a platform to build credit scores for free. Its platform allows customers to receive funds and build a payment history by paying back each month. The company’s services enable users to build credit scores. Kikoff Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Spiff

Series B in 2021
Spiff Inc. is a developer of a SaaS-based sales commission automation platform designed to streamline commission planning and motivate sales teams. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an additional office in Mountain View, California, Spiff's software enables users to build and modify commission plans, create complex team structures, and manage quotas. The platform features a personalized incentive dashboard for representatives, allowing them to track performance against goals and access detailed commission traces and payroll reports. Additionally, Spiff’s solution integrates with various systems, including ERP and payroll, to minimize errors and provide accurate commission data. It also offers functionalities for testing new rules, modeling commission structures, and exporting data for analysis. The company serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, as well as managers and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through effective commission management.

Frubana

Series B in 2021
Frubana S.A.S. is a Bogotá-based B2B platform established in 2018 that specializes in providing fruits, vegetables, and other agricultural products to restaurants and small retailers in Latin America. By eliminating intermediaries in the food supply chain, Frubana enhances price transparency and reduces barriers to trade, allowing restaurants to source ingredients directly from producers. The company operates an online store that facilitates logistics and builds trust within the marketplace, ensuring that clients have access to quality food products efficiently.

Spiff

Series B in 2021
Spiff Inc. is a developer of a SaaS-based sales commission automation platform designed to streamline commission planning and motivate sales teams. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an additional office in Mountain View, California, Spiff's software enables users to build and modify commission plans, create complex team structures, and manage quotas. The platform features a personalized incentive dashboard for representatives, allowing them to track performance against goals and access detailed commission traces and payroll reports. Additionally, Spiff’s solution integrates with various systems, including ERP and payroll, to minimize errors and provide accurate commission data. It also offers functionalities for testing new rules, modeling commission structures, and exporting data for analysis. The company serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, as well as managers and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through effective commission management.

Salto

Series B in 2021
Salto Labs Inc. provides a dashboard for companies to manage their business applications and services. It offers universal configuration language, multi service, multi environment, and dual works mode services. The company provides technology, which includes NaCL, workspace, state, graph view, adapters, fetch, and deploy. It offers business applications, which includes Salesforce, NetSuite, Marketo, and HubSpot. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Wheel

Series B in 2021
Wheel operates an online recruitment platform that connects healthcare companies with qualified clinicians, including doctors and laboratory technicians. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Wheel aims to enhance digital healthcare delivery by facilitating the hiring process for virtual care providers. The platform allows healthcare professionals to showcase their skills and seek job opportunities while enabling companies to find suitable candidates to meet their staffing needs. By combining innovative technology with access to top talent, Wheel strives to improve the quality and efficiency of virtual healthcare services.

Shipper

Series B in 2021
Shipper works with online or corporate vendors to pick up items to be shipped using selected logistics services. It cooperates with online sellers or companies to pick up goods to be sent using selected logistics services. Its platform offers package pick-up service and fulfillment centers, help logistics providers manage shipments, predicts the best shipping routes, consolidate packages headed in the same direction and also provides a multi-carrier API that enables sellers to manage orders, print shipping labels and get tracking information from multiple providers on their phones.

Shipper

Series B in 2021
Shipper works with online or corporate vendors to pick up items to be shipped using selected logistics services. It cooperates with online sellers or companies to pick up goods to be sent using selected logistics services. Its platform offers package pick-up service and fulfillment centers, help logistics providers manage shipments, predicts the best shipping routes, consolidate packages headed in the same direction and also provides a multi-carrier API that enables sellers to manage orders, print shipping labels and get tracking information from multiple providers on their phones.

Snorkel AI

Series B in 2021
Snorkel AI, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an end-to-end machine-learning platform designed for building, managing, and monitoring AI applications. Central to its offerings is Snorkel Flow, a data-first platform that enables users to programmatically label and augment training data, manage and integrate data for AI purposes, and train and deploy various models. The platform also facilitates the extraction of entities and relationships from complex documents and ranks content based on relevance. This technology is beneficial across multiple sectors, including finance, government, telecommunications, insurance, healthcare, and e-commerce. Founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, Snorkel AI is committed to making AI practical through its innovative tools and solutions.

Glean

Series B in 2021
Scio is a search engine that aims to help in the finding of any piece of data via any tool in any company. The company's software integrates with multiple platforms to find precise data points and provide relevant search results, allowing employees to find required data points based on keywords.

HealthPlix

Series B in 2021
HealthPlix Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a healthtech startup based in Bengaluru, India, founded in 2014. The company has developed a mobile health application that focuses on diabetes care, enabling patients to manage their condition effectively while enhancing the doctor-patient interaction. HealthPlix offers an electronic medical record (EMR) system that incorporates clinical decision support through artificial intelligence. This platform allows healthcare providers to issue e-prescriptions in over 18 languages, streamlining the prescription process and eliminating the need for traditional methods. Additionally, the application auto-analyzes laboratory reports and provides billing and pharmacy solutions, catering to both patients and the healthcare sector. By leveraging advanced technology, HealthPlix aims to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes, particularly for chronic diseases like diabetes.

Yugabyte

Series B in 2021
Yugabyte, Inc. specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that facilitates the creation of global applications. It supports both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, offering low query latency and robust resilience against failures. YugabyteDB is built on advanced technologies such as document storage, auto sharding, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google Spanner. Yugabyte also provides the Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed private database-as-a-service that can operate on any cloud infrastructure, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed database service available on major cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. The company offers both a community edition for individual users and an enterprise edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016, Yugabyte is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Stori

Series B in 2021
Stori is a financial services company focused on providing inclusive solutions in Latin America through innovative technology. The company connects consumers with personal loan officers, enabling them to select financial products that align with their specific financial situations. Stori's platform not only helps users choose suitable loans but also guides them through the application process, ensuring a smoother experience. Founded in 2017 and based in Vienna, Virginia, Stori aims to enhance access to financial services for underserved populations in the region.

Wintermute

Series B in 2021
Wintermute Trading Limited is a global crypto market maker that specializes in proprietary trading and offers market making services to both crypto projects and exchanges. Founded in 2017 by experienced professionals from the high-frequency trading sector, the company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Wintermute develops its own algorithms and trading strategies, ensuring full compliance with the risk management and compliance practices of traditional financial markets. By leveraging its expertise, Wintermute plays a significant role in enhancing liquidity and efficiency within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Multiverse

Series B in 2021
Multiverse offers apprenticeship opportunities tailored for non-graduate individuals, positioning itself as an alternative to traditional university education. Founded in 2016 and based in London, the company focuses on providing career-oriented apprenticeships that empower young people to take charge of their professional journeys. By facilitating access to high-quality training and resources, Multiverse aims to create a fulfilling career path for its participants, moving away from conventional corporate training methods. The company also incorporates digital tools to help apprentices build their profiles and engage in social networking, enhancing their learning experience and career prospects.

Materialize

Series B in 2020
Materialize is a streaming SQL database company that makes it easy for developers to understand streaming data, answer complex questions, and build intelligent applications using standard technology. Materialize allows users to ask questions about their data, and then get low-latency results even as the underlying data changes and keeps the results of the queries and incrementally updates them as new data comes in.

Outschool

Series B in 2020
Outschool operates an online platform that facilitates live, interactive learning experiences for children through classes taught by independent teachers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the platform connects parents, motivated learners, and educators, allowing families to discover and book a variety of online classes tailored to their interests. The platform caters to a diverse range of educators, including certified teachers and individuals with expertise in various fields. Outschool's model enables parents to select classes and teachers based on their children’s needs, thereby expanding educational opportunities in a cost-effective manner compared to traditional tutoring. The platform emphasizes community building by allowing parents to collaborate on activities and share experiences.

Volansi

Series B in 2020
Volansi, Inc. is a logistics and transportation company specializing in the manufacture of heavy-payload drones for commercial, defense, and humanitarian purposes. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Concord, California, Volansi develops autonomous aerial delivery solutions that enable time-critical shipments over long distances. The company’s unmanned aerial vehicles are designed for various industries, including construction, oil and gas, mining, and healthcare, facilitating the rapid delivery of essential items such as spare parts and medical supplies. By offering fixed-route deliveries, Volansi addresses specific customer challenges related to time and cost, allowing businesses to enhance their operational efficiency.

Hasura

Series B in 2020
Hasura, Inc. is a software technology company that focuses on providing tools for application developers and enterprises to enhance the development process. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Hasura offers a platform that simplifies the creation of full-stack applications through its GraphQL Engine, which generates real-time GraphQL APIs from new or existing Postgres databases. This platform streamlines workflows by automating user authentication, data retrieval, and code deployment, while also allowing developers to create custom microservices. Hasura's solutions include features for schema management, data relationships, and authorization rules, making it easier for teams to access and manage data efficiently. The company has additional offices in Bangalore, India, and is recognized for its open-source tools and backend services that facilitate rapid application development.

Oosto

Series B in 2020
Osto offers enterprises the ability to better protect their customers, employees, and guests in real-time by analyzing safety and security threats in real-time without compromising on fair and ethical behavior.

Finix

Series B in 2020
Finix Payments, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides a payment infrastructure platform designed to help businesses manage and monetize their payment processes effectively. Founded in 2015, Finix offers a range of services, including a payment facilitator platform that includes features such as tokenization, merchant onboarding, reporting, reconciliation, settlements, and chargeback management. The company enables businesses to avoid the complexities and costs associated with developing an in-house payment system. Additionally, through a partnership with Visa, Finix facilitates real-time push-to-card payments, enhancing the efficiency of disbursements. Finix's solutions aim to improve the payment experience for both businesses and their customers, recognizing the critical role that effective payment technology plays in driving revenue.

Grafana Labs

Series B in 2020
Grafana Labs is a company that focuses on monitoring, visualization, and observability solutions through its open-source platform centered around Grafana software. This platform enables organizations to analyze and visualize metrics effectively. The company offers commercial products such as Grafana Enterprise, which provides advanced features and support tailored for large organizations, and Grafana Cloud, a hosted stack that integrates Prometheus and Graphite for metrics, along with Loki for log management. Additionally, Grafana Labs runs the Grafana Accelerator Program, designed to support early-stage companies and innovative projects within the Grafana ecosystem by offering free cloud accounts, enterprise subscriptions, cash grants, equity financing, and direct access to Grafana Labs developers.

CANDIS

Series B in 2020
CANDIS GmbH, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing software that automates financial processes for small and medium-sized enterprises. The company's solutions streamline tasks such as invoice collection, data capture, pre-accounting, and payments by utilizing artificial intelligence. This automation allows businesses and their tax advisors to save time and enhance collaboration within finance teams. With a commitment to advancing its technology, CANDIS serves thousands of clients, reflecting its significant impact on the financial operations of its users.

CyCognito

Series B in 2020
CyCognito solves one of the most fundamental business problems in cybersecurity: seeing how attackers view your organization, where they are most likely to break in, what systems and assets are at risk and how you can eliminate the exposure. Founded by national intelligence agency veterans, CyCognito has a deep understanding of how attackers exploit blind spots and a path of least resistance. The Palo Alto-based company is funded by leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and its mission is to help organizations protect themselves from even the most sophisticated attackers. It does this with a category-defining, transformative platform that automates offensive cybersecurity operations to provide reconnaissance capabilities superior to those of attackers..

Elementor

Series B in 2020
Elementor is the leading website builder platform on WordPress. Serving over 5 million websites, Elementor serves a rapidly growing customer base of web professionals including web developers, designers, and marketers in 152 markets, boasting a new website created every 10 seconds on its open-source platform. Elementor's mission is to radically simplify web building, enabling web professionals and agencies to unleash their creative and business potential. To this end, Elementor is an open-source, GPLv3 licensed platform offered in a free and a premium edition.

Yugabyte

Series B in 2020
Yugabyte, Inc. specializes in developing open-source cloud-native database software designed for internet-scale applications. The company's flagship product, YugabyteDB, is a high-performance distributed SQL database that facilitates the creation of global applications. It supports both scale-out relational database management system (RDBMS) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, offering low query latency and robust resilience against failures. YugabyteDB is built on advanced technologies such as document storage, auto sharding, and multi-shard ACID transactions, drawing inspiration from Google Spanner. Yugabyte also provides the Yugabyte Platform, a self-managed private database-as-a-service that can operate on any cloud infrastructure, and Yugabyte Cloud, a fully-managed database service available on major cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. The company offers both a community edition for individual users and an enterprise edition for corporate clients. Founded in 2016, Yugabyte is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Confluera

Series B in 2020
Confluera, Inc. develops an autonomous detection and response platform to detect and stop attackers navigating infrastructure. It offers Confluera that delivers autonomous infrastructure-wide cyber kill chain tracking and response by leveraging continuous attack graph to stop and remediate cyberthreats in real-time. The company’s Confluera connects malicious activities progressing through the attack lifecycle to pinpoint the attacker; eliminates manual triages and inconclusive correlations by building the complete context; and intercepts and surgically removes the attacker’s footprint. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

United Dwelling

Series B in 2020
United Dwelling is a real estate company that allows homeowners to build a second home on their residential zoned property. It converts the garage into a small home, finds a tenant the homeowner approves, manages it, and shares the rental income with the homeowner. The company is transforming garages and backyards into beautiful, smartly designed rental homes, known as Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), at absolutely no cost to the homeowner. United Dwelling handles every aspect of the process including permitting, partnering with a contractor for construction, finding qualified tenants that approve, managing, and maintaining the property. The company uses data to identify potential lots that would be suitable for its units. It targets mostly low income and middle-income neighborhoods, with some exceptions for workforce housing.

FortressIQ

Series B in 2020
FortressIQ, Inc. is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based robotic process automation, offering a platform designed to provide real-time and comprehensive insights into enterprise processes. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on automated process discovery, enabling organizations to gain valuable insights and analytics. Its solutions encompass a range of areas, including employee experience, system optimization, process redesign, and value engineering. FortressIQ aims to enhance business automation and AI governance, with a mission to unlock the potential of the global workforce through the responsible and ethical application of AI technologies. The company's innovative approach involves utilizing meta-learning techniques that allow deep neural networks to effectively gather training data by observing their environments.

MemVerge

Series B in 2020
MemVerge is delivering the world’s first Memory-Converged Infrastructure (MCI) system, built with proprietary Distributed Memory Objects (DMO) technology. DMO technology provides a logical convergence layer that harnesses Intel’s new Optane DC persistent memory to let data-centric workloads run flawlessly at memory speed.

Yellow.ai

Series B in 2020
Yellow Messenger is an information technology company that offers a software platform that serves as an enterprise AI channel for customer engagement. The company specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, customer engagement, customer service, chatbots, and enterprise. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Karnataka, India.

Verishop

Series B in 2020
Verishop is a premium lifestyle destination for everyday luxury in fashion, beauty, home and more. Verishop aims to be a go-to lifestyle shopping destination whenever the customer in search of elevated brands and quality-driven products. The company is based in Santa Monica, California and founded in 2018.

Celona

Series B in 2020
Celona, Inc. is a company based in Cupertino, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in developing a cloud-based networking platform that integrates 5G technology with enterprise infrastructure. The company leverages the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum to facilitate the adoption of LTE and 5G wireless networks within enterprises. Celona's AI-powered applications simplify the deployment and integration of cellular wireless services, allowing enterprise IT organizations and managed service providers to streamline their operations. The founding team, with backgrounds in leading tech companies like Qualcomm, Aruba, and Cisco, aims to transform business operations through a combination of 5G radio technology, edge computing, and machine learning software.

Karius

Series B in 2020
Karius is a life sciences company focused on generating genomic insights for infectious diseases with a non-invasive Karius Test that helps clinicians make rapid, treatment decisions. By mapping each patient’s microbial landscape from a single blood draw, Karius moves closer to a vision of a world where infectious disease is no longer a major threat to human health. The Karius laboratory is CLIA-certified and CAP-accredited to perform high-complexity clinical laboratory testing.

At-Bay

Series B in 2020
At-Bay, Inc. specializes in cyber insurance underwriting and risk management services, offering customized insurance policies that address various cyber risks such as information privacy, network security failures, cyber extortion, and financial fraud. The company emphasizes comprehensive risk assessment, security analysis, and exposure evaluation to help clients understand and mitigate cyber threats. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, At-Bay also maintains a research and development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Originally known as Cyberjack Inc., the company rebranded in 2017 to reflect its focus on providing insurance solutions that enable businesses to innovate while managing the ever-present challenges of cyber risk. Through continuous analysis and modeling of cyber threats, At-Bay partners with brokers to deliver effective risk management programs tailored to the needs of its clients.

PredictHQ

Series B in 2020
PredictHQ Limited is a New Zealand-based company that offers a Software-as-a-Service platform focused on event and business intelligence. Founded in 2014, the platform provides visibility into campaign management across various channels, including performance advertising, email, social media, and search engine optimization. PredictHQ aggregates and verifies millions of demand causal factors, ranking them by predicted impact to enhance demand forecasting models. Its API is utilized by numerous prominent companies, such as Uber and Booking.com, for applications including demand forecasting, dynamic pricing optimization, workforce management, inventory improvements, and predictive analytics. The company's offerings also include a web application and a Chrome extension called FOCUS, enabling clients to make better-informed decisions and optimize their operational strategies.

Aquant

Series B in 2020
Aquant, Inc. develops a service lifecycle optimization platform designed to reduce equipment downtime and address repeat service requests. Utilizing machine learning, the platform predicts faults by monitoring equipment in real-time, aggregating signals, and identifying failures, while also providing root cause analysis for these failures. Additionally, Aquant's platform facilitates van stock optimization through the analysis of historical item usage and future demand forecasting. Its solutions encompass automated insights, job prioritization, parts pickup optimization, and risk assessment, catering to various industries, including life sciences, medical equipment, capital equipment, and food service. Founded in 2016, Aquant is headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Moveworks

Series B in 2019
Moveworks is a cloud-based AI platform purpose-built for large enterprises that solves one, big, frustrating problem: Resolving employees'​ IT support issues. Instead of tracking issues, we use advanced AI to solve them, instantly and automatically—with no human intervention. We count many of the world’s most recognizable brands as our customers. From hyper-growth startups to the Fortune 500, these companies rely on Moveworks to keep their employees productive and their businesses running smoothly. Moveworks is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Verishop

Series B in 2019
Verishop is a premium lifestyle destination for everyday luxury in fashion, beauty, home and more. Verishop aims to be a go-to lifestyle shopping destination whenever the customer in search of elevated brands and quality-driven products. The company is based in Santa Monica, California and founded in 2018.

Terminal

Series B in 2019
Terminal Inc. provides recruitment services to companies. The company also develops and manages work spaces; operational and legal support, such as human resources, benefits, payroll, and stock option administration services. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Kitchener, Montreal, Vancouver, Canada; and Jailsco, Mexico.

MDClone

Series B in 2019
MDClone Ltd. is a company that specializes in software designed to analyze medical records while ensuring patient privacy. Founded in 2016 and based in Beersheba, Israel, MDClone's platform generates synthetic medical records for fictitious patients. This innovative approach allows researchers to study disease behavior, medical practices, and various healthcare dynamics without exposing actual patient data. The platform creates fictitious individuals with unique characteristics, preserving essential relationships between them, thus maintaining the integrity of medical information while safeguarding privacy. By enabling health organizations to harness the value of their data assets, MDClone significantly enhances the ways medical information is gathered, analyzed, and utilized in research and service delivery.

Arrcus

Series B in 2019
Arrcus, Inc. designs and develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers. Its operating system software enables organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Its products include ArcOS, a software-driven, hardware agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides networking professionals with real-time views of the networks and devices with insights for incident management and troubleshooting; and Arrcus VDR, a routing platform; Arrcus IP/EVPN Clos solution; and Arrcus multi-cloud networking platform. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Brandable

Series B in 2019
Brandable, Inc. is a consumer packaging goods company based in Beverly Hills, California, founded in 2017 by Oliver Bogner. The company specializes in building modern, consumer-focused brands in the toys, wellness, and food and drink sectors. Brandable offers services such as influencer acquisition and brand management, aiming to enhance brand visibility and engagement. It has established itself as a significant supplier to major North American retailers, including Walmart and Target, and is known for its innovative approach to launching consumer products. By leveraging unique, influencer-driven marketing strategies, Brandable effectively creates demand across various channels, positioning itself as a key player in the modern retail landscape.

Calm

Series B in 2019
Calm offers an application designed to help its users meditate and relax. The company is driven by a mission to make the world happier and healthier by developing a range of digital and physical products that enhance mental fitness and alleviate some of the most important mental health issues of the modern age including anxiety, depression, insomnia, and stress. Calm was named by Apple as the 2017 iPhone App of the Year and by Google Play as an Editors’ Choice in 2018. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Cameo

Series B in 2019
Cameo is a marketplace that allows fans to book personalized video shoutouts from a wide array of talent, including celebrities and influencers. The platform aims to provide authentic and personalized fan experiences, offering users the opportunity to connect with their favorite personalities through custom video messages. With partnerships spanning various verticals, Cameo has established itself as a prominent player in the entertainment industry. The company is based in Chicago and is part of the city's vibrant technology and startup community.

TESTIM

Series B in 2019
Testim makes it easy for developers and testers to become automation experts, making quality an organization-wide initiative and powering developers to own code quality.

Aurora

Series B in 2019
Aurora Innovation, Inc. is a technology company focused on developing software and hardware solutions for self-driving vehicles. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company also has offices in the Bay Area, Bozeman, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. Aurora's primary product, the Aurora Driver, aims to transform transportation by integrating with automakers, logistics services, mobility services, and fleet management providers. The company's mission is to enhance the movement of people and goods through advanced engineering and machine learning, addressing significant challenges in the transportation sector.

LeapYear Technologies

Series B in 2019
LeapYear Technologies, Inc. operates a platform designed to help organizations extract value from sensitive data while ensuring its security and privacy. The platform allows domain experts, data scientists, and partner organizations to develop automated machine learning applications and APIs that facilitate the use of confidential and regulated data sources. By implementing differential privacy, LeapYear ensures that data can be utilized for analysis and machine learning without exposing or compromising individual data points. The company collaborates with major players in sectors such as financial services, healthcare, technology, and insurance to combine and analyze previously restricted data, enabling organizations to monetize these valuable assets effectively. Founded in 2014 and based in Berkeley, California, LeapYear Technologies was known as Shroudbase, Inc. prior to its name change in January 2015.

Dote, Inc.

Series B in 2019
Dote, Inc. develops and operates a virtual mall that drives revenue and new users to brands by promoting products on their smart phone application. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Theranica

Series B in 2019
Theranica is a medical device company that has combined neuromodulation therapy with modern wireless technology to develop proprietary wearable solutions that address various medical conditions and disease states. The noninvasive and therapeutic 'smart' patches are controlled by a smartphone app to allow for personalized, portable, and affordable care. The patch consists of a proprietary 'smart' chip that delivers electrical pulses to neuro-modulate the sensory nerves under the skin. The first application of the technology is for treatment of migraine headaches.

Impira

Series B in 2019
We're on a mission to make working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive - for everyone. This is why we built Impira, an AI Platform to aggregate, enrich, search, and distribute product data and content. With more streamlined workflows, Impira helps unblock creativity so teams can focus on crafting more meaningful work. Our culture emphasizes transparency, empathy, accountability, curiosity, and continuous improvement. We believe that people do their best work with autonomy, trust, and support from their colleagues, and we encourage collaboration across and within departments and geographies. Our leaders empower their teams by providing transparent context, rolling up their sleeves, and coaching for long-term success.

FreshMenu

Series B in 2019
FreshMenu offers a food delivery service that provides fresh and tasty cuisines of the highest standard. FreshMenu’s meal packages are now available for delivery at Koramangala, Richmond Town, Langford Town, Lavelle Road, MG Road, Victoria Layout, Domlur, Old Airport Road, Indiranagar, Ulsoor, Old Madras Road, Whitefield, Marathahalli, Bellandur, Sarjapur Road, HSR Layout, Bannerghatta Road, Jayanagar and JP Nagar areas.

Faire

Series B in 2018
Faire Wholesale, Inc. develops and operates an online marketplace which connects independent retailers with manufacturers of the products. It offers Indigo Fair, a wholesale marketplace that enables retailers to browse items from various makers, place wholesale orders, and track shipments online. Faire Wholesale, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Kitchener, Canada.

AppZen

Series B in 2018
AppZen Inc. is an artificial intelligence company that focuses on automating back office functions, particularly in the areas of expense reporting and compliance auditing. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an office in Pune, India, AppZen's platform utilizes advanced technologies such as deep learning, computer vision, and semantic analysis. It reviews expense report data in real-time, cross-referencing it with external sources and social media to identify compliance issues and potential fraud. By offering automated solutions, AppZen helps enterprises, including a significant portion of the Fortune 500, to reduce expenses, ensure compliance with regulations, and streamline financial processes. The technology is designed to detect both accidental and intentional fraud while adhering to IRS rules and company policies.

People.ai

Series B in 2018
People.ai operates a predictive platform that automates rep training, coaching, and Salesforce sync. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Shuttl

Series B in 2018
Shuttl exists to take the pain away from the daily commute. Currently, the company provides an app-based office shuttle service to make daily commute safe, reliable, affordable and dignified for everyone. The future of mass transit, according to us, will be shared, eco-friendly, tech-enabled commute. Shuttl is the future of public transport. It's a mobile-based minibus service aimed at making your daily commute more convenient. Their vehicles are air-conditioned and operate with high frequency on fixed routes freeing you from the hassles of existing public transport options at a very economical price point.

Mynd

Series B in 2018
Mynd is a property management platform that simplifies rental management services for property owners. The platform provides real-time insights into rental income, vacancies, and maintenance requests, allowing users to efficiently manage their properties from anywhere. Through its mobile app, Mynd offers up-to-date performance data, enabling landlords to track rent payments, approve expenses, and stay informed about local market trends. The company's focus on leveraging technology and data aims to enhance the overall management experience and maximize returns for property owners. Mynd is headquartered in the East Bay of San Francisco and is dedicated to providing unparalleled service to its clients.

Innovaccer

Series B in 2018
Innovaccer Inc. specializes in developing analytical and data science applications tailored for various sectors, including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail, and academic research. The company provides a comprehensive enterprise analytics platform known as Datashop, which encompasses several solutions designed to enhance data utilization and insights. Key offerings include Datashop Care for patient management in healthcare, Datashop Alchemy for economic risk analysis in financial services, and Datashop Insights for data visualization needs. Innovaccer also supports healthcare organizations with its Clinical Documentation Improvement solution and Care Intelligence System, which integrates data analytics and patient engagement tools. Its products have been implemented across numerous institutions and corporate enterprises, significantly improving care delivery for over 10,000 providers in the United States and beyond. Founded in 2012, Innovaccer is headquartered in Noida, India, with additional offices in Palo Alto, California, and various locations across the U.S. and Asia.

Eightfold AI

Series B in 2018
Eightfold.ai® delivers the Talent Intelligence Platform™, the most effective way for organizations to retain top performers, upskill and reskill the workforce, recruit top talent efficiently, and reach diversity goals. Eightfold.ai's deep learning artificial intelligence platform empowers enterprises to turn talent management into a competitive advantage. Eightfold was founded by world experts in deep learning and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.