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 A

Select Star

Series A in 2023
Select Star is an intelligent data discovery platform that automatically analyzes & documents your data. Many data scientists and business analysts spend too much time looking for the right data, often having to ask other people to find it. Beyond a data catalog, Select Star provides an easy to use data portal that everyone can use to find and understand data.

Xembly

Series A in 2022
Xembly applies Intelligent Automation to improve meeting productivity.

Soda Health

Series A in 2022
Soda Health is a healthcare technology company focused on building solutions that eliminate health inequities and create a healthier America.

Lightyear

Series A in 2022
Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.

Normalyze

Series A in 2022
Normalyze is a provider of cloud data security solutions that focuses on protecting data, applications, identities, and infrastructure in public cloud environments. The company has developed an agentless scanning platform that prioritizes data security by enabling the discovery of sensitive data and its access routes across various cloud resources. This platform allows security teams to visualize their cloud data attack surface quickly and gain real-time insights into their security posture, including access controls, configurations, and sensitive data management. By offering these capabilities, Normalyze enhances the ability of organizations to analyze, prioritize, and respond to data threats, effectively preventing sensitive data leakage at scale across public clouds.

Zigazoo

Series A in 2022
Zigazoo is a prominent platform in the realm of children's short-form video content, allowing kids to create and share video responses to engaging challenges. The platform is designed to enhance screen time by promoting healthier, educational interactions through a user-friendly application. Inspired by children's creativity, Zigazoo encourages self-expression and confidence among young users while also fostering diverse perspectives. The challenges are crafted in collaboration with leading institutions such as museums and zoos, as well as educators and media personalities, ensuring that the content is both entertaining and educational. Recognized for its commitment to safety and positive engagement, Zigazoo has received praise from children's media advocacy organizations, positioning it as a valuable resource for families seeking enriching digital experiences.

One More Game

Series A in 2022
One More Game is an online game company.

Triana Biomedicines

Series A in 2022
Triana Biomedicines is a developer of a molecular glue discovery platform to regulate disease targets that are difficult to address with any other modality. Triana’s drug discovery engine is powered by high-resolution structural insights, state-of-the-art in silico tools, and bespoke chemical libraries. The research team has validated the best-in-class platform and initiated multiple programs across different disease areas.

Pixxel

Series A in 2022
Pixxel is a company that manufactures remote sensing satellites, providing valuable data on various resources such as minerals and water on the Moon, Mars, and asteroid belts. Founded in 2018 by students from BITS Pilani, an Indian university, the company is headquartered in Bengaluru, India. Pixxel's technology aims to contribute to advancements in space exploration and resource management by delivering high-resolution satellite imagery and data analysis.

Muni Tienda

Series A in 2022
Muni Tienda is the first community group buying platform in Latin America, the system aims to provide convenience and savings to the region's middle class households.

Blink Ops

Series A in 2022
Blink is a cloud-native operations platform that allows SRE's, DevOps and Developers to easily manage, collaborate and automate operational tasks.

Satellite Bio

Series A in 2022
Satellite Bio specializes in cell therapy, regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, cell biology, and tissue engineering. It focuses on the development and implementation of proprietary, off-the-shelf, implantable satellite organs as living therapeutic solutions that can transform the lives of millions of patients who suffer from serious diseases.

Zebec

Series A in 2022
Zebec is a financial platform built on the Solana blockchain that focuses on transforming payroll transactions through continuous settlement. By utilizing decentralized finance (DeFi) technology, Zebec enables real-time and ongoing streams of payments, allowing users to efficiently manage their payroll. The platform facilitates the composable transfer of value, starting with its Stream Payroll feature, which supports the conversion of cryptocurrency into cash while ensuring compliance. This innovative approach aims to enhance the efficiency and flexibility of payroll processes for businesses and their employees.

Everyrealm

Series A in 2022
Republic Realm is a digital real estate vehicle that invests in virtual worlds through NFTs. The company focuses on the acquisition, management, development, and sale of virtual land across existing metaverses including Decentraland, an established multiplayer role-playing metaverse built on the Ethereum blockchain, and The Sandbox, a content-rich, community-driven gaming platform that allows individuals to create, publish, and monetize a variety of unique experiences on a decentralized platform. Republic Realm also invests across other metaverses, while allocating capital to new projects and opportunities as they emerge.

Curve Health

Series A in 2022
Curve Health, Inc. operates as an online platform that delivers senior care facilities by combining telemedicine, smart billing, health information exchange, and predictive analytics. The platform enables the physicians to remotely care for patients. The company offers skilled nursing facilities to take care of patients in the facility; and emergency medical services. Curve Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.

Astro

Series A 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.

MAYD

Series A in 2022
MAYD Group operates as a startup that delivers medicines in minutes.

Trading.TV

Series A in 2022
Trading.TV is the world's first social live stream and immersive chat platform for traders and financial content creators. Think, FinTech love child of Twitch and Slack.

Seel

Series A in 2022
Kover, formerly known as Omnipool, is an online insurance platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in providing customized insurance solutions tailored for freelancers and individuals engaged in everyday activities. Kover offers a range of products, including iPhone protection insurance and income loss protection for Uber and Lyft drivers, all accessible through its blockchain-based platform. By focusing on common, everyday risks rather than infrequent catastrophes, Kover aims to create a new category of insurance that delivers peace of mind to its users.

Fan Controlled Football

Series A in 2022
Fan Controlled Football is the first fan-run professional sports league. From selecting the team logos, colors and head coaches to calling plays, the fans are calling the shots.

Mysten Labs

Series A in 2021
Mysten Labs creates foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of web3. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

AudioMob

Series A in 2021
AudioMob Limited owns and operates AudioMob Platform, an advertising technology that provides developers display audio advertising to end users who interact with developer property that use the AudioMob Services. AudioMob Limited was formerly known as JUKEBOX TECHNOLOGY LTD and changed its name to AudioMob Limited in July 2019. AudioMob Limited was incorporated in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Faraway

Series A in 2021
Developer of blockchain-based games designed to unlock player-driven and decentralized game economies. The company develops games by leveraging blockchain technology to make hyper-social games with player-driven economies which allow players from around the world to earn tokens and rise in the leaderboards, enabling players to have a realistic and vivid gaming experience.

Elementus

Series A in 2021
Elementus Inc. is a New York-based company that provides an enterprise blockchain data analytics platform tailored for institutional asset managers, financial service organizations, and government agencies. Founded in 2018, the company leverages blockchain's inherent transparency to deliver actionable insights drawn from blockchain activity. Elementus identifies security vulnerabilities, exposes malicious actors, and offers market intelligence to facilitate informed investment decisions in digital assets. By enhancing transparency in the blockchain ecosystem, Elementus aims to foster trust and accountability across the cryptocurrency markets.

Geniebook

Series A in 2021
Focused and Effective - Learning is more effective as Geniebook is powered by A.I. to focus your time & attention on mastering the areas you find challenging. Champion Progress - Geniebook encourages better academic performance by giving you greater visibility into learning progress & rewarding it. Empowered & Confident - With Geniebook, everyone can confidently master any area of learning, anytime, anywhere.

Teller Live

Series A in 2021
Bring faith, courage and hope to users. Building a global Live streaming platform to help people consult with astrologers, tarot readers, life coaches, and mentors on a global level. We were founded in 2019 and landed millions of investments in both seeds round and Series A from top-tier VCs. We set our sights on the global market, devoting to provide better tarot reading, mental wellness, meditation, and yoga experience to users from all over the world. Empowered by the latest Live streaming and AI technology, we are here to redefine the online Spiritual Wellness industry.

Parallel Finance

Series A in 2021
Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services.

NeuralGalaxy

Series A in 2021
Neural Galaxy is a brain science company that originated at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The mission of Younao Galaxy is to help solve brain diseases and achieve greater intelligence. Focusing on global vision, based on breakthrough brain science research results, using new software and hardware technologies, Younao Galaxy helps humans to deeply understand our brains, understand high-level intelligence, and solve the enormous challenges facing human society.

Balance

Series A in 2021
Balance offers a digital payments platform designed to make B2B online purchasing streamlined and friction-free. Powered by its Machine Learning engine of real-time authentication and financial risk assessment, Balance empowers merchants to offer complete flexibility in how and when their buyers pay. By doing so, Balance enables the explosive growth of B2B E-commerce.

3T Biosciences

Series A in 2021
3T Biosciences, Inc. offers immunotherapies for cancer. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Vegrow

Series A in 2021
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.
Nas Academy is focused on building the world's best school for creators! We offer a range of courses that help creators learn new skills, connect with each other and monetize their presence. Headquartered in Singapore and having already achieved over 6 billion views on the Founder's pages, we offer a range of courses that cover the new-age skills required to tackle the changing job and media landscape. Ranging from the "Art of Storytelling", to social media platform specific courses to just teaching "confidence" on camera - you can find courses that are all LIVE, taught by world-class trainers and highly interactive by design. Check us out at nas.academy

Zerion

Series A in 2021
Zerion Inc., a blockchain software company, develops a solution to access decentralized finance to invest, earn interest, and borrow crypto assets. It offers Zerion to manage decentralized finance portfolio across multiple accounts in a single place; and track assets in real-time with live price updates and instant push notifications. The company also provides CryptoTrader , an application to track the crypto market through charts, news, and alerts. Zerion Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Osmos

Series A in 2021
Osmos is on a mission to make cross-company data collaboration a simple, secure, and delightful experience. Powered by real-time data transformations, embeddable uploaders, and intuitive no-code experience for end-users, Osmos takes the pain out of importing and sharing data with external parties and systems. Osmos’s real time data transformation engine takes care of the problematic data/schema discrepancies. Powered by program synthesis, Osmos automatically learns complex transforms such as conditional logic, multi-column joins, splits, string/numeric manipulations, and validations, without the need for valuable engineers to “wrangle data”. Companies of all sizes use Osmos to streamline and simplify their data relationships with customers, vendors, and partners.

Abata Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Abata Therapeutics, a company focused on translating the biology of regulatory T cells (Tregs) into transformational medicines for patients living with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) and other severe autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

Synctera

Series A in 2021
Synctera Inc. is a company that specializes in providing digital banking solutions aimed at facilitating partnerships between traditional banks and fintech startups. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Synctera offers a platform that helps banks identify their specific needs and connects them with suitable fintech firms. The company manages the relationship through a backend platform that addresses regulatory compliance and supports the onboarding process. In addition to its partnership solutions, Synctera enhances security through features such as personally identifiable information (PII) encryption, endpoint protection, secure login, authentication, and role-based access.

Level

Series A in 2021
Level is the modern dental plan for employers.

Tripledot Studios

Series A in 2021
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.

Real

Series A in 2021
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.

Zapp

Series A in 2021
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.

Firework

Series A in 2021
Firework is one of the fastest growing interactive video platforms on mobile.

Osmos

Series A in 2021
Osmos is on a mission to make cross-company data collaboration a simple, secure, and delightful experience. Powered by real-time data transformations, embeddable uploaders, and intuitive no-code experience for end-users, Osmos takes the pain out of importing and sharing data with external parties and systems. Osmos’s real time data transformation engine takes care of the problematic data/schema discrepancies. Powered by program synthesis, Osmos automatically learns complex transforms such as conditional logic, multi-column joins, splits, string/numeric manipulations, and validations, without the need for valuable engineers to “wrangle data”. Companies of all sizes use Osmos to streamline and simplify their data relationships with customers, vendors, and partners.

Hubilo

Series A 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.

Redpanda Data

Series A in 2021
Redpanda is a queue for people who deal with massive data streams.

Redpanda

Series A in 2021
Social Media Marketing Platform.

Flockjay

Series A in 2021
Flockjay, Inc. is an online sales academy based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on empowering diverse jobseekers, particularly those from underrepresented communities, to enter the tech industry. Founded in 2018, Flockjay offers hands-on training in various sales techniques, including inbound qualification, outbound prospecting, and mastering modern sales tools. The academy provides comprehensive support that includes resume workshops, interview coaching, and networking opportunities. Additionally, it guarantees final round interviews with top companies, ensuring students have access to high-paying job opportunities. By removing financial barriers, Flockjay aims to make tech careers accessible to individuals from all backgrounds and locations.

Noname Security

Series A in 2020
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.

Salto

Series A in 2020
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.

Theta Lake

Series A in 2020
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.

Infiot

Series A in 2020
Infiot Inc. develops and operates a cloud delivered architecture platform for Internet of things (IOT) industry. Its platform is used for data collection, delivery, and storage needed for commercial IoT services. The company remote users, IoT, branch/micro branch, education, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and financial services. Infiot Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Jose, California with an additional office in Chennai, India.

Nym

Series A in 2020
Nym Health Inc. specializes in developing advanced medical coding technology aimed at enhancing revenue cycle processes within healthcare facilities. Its flagship product, Nym, offers a direct-to-billing autonomous coding solution that significantly reduces claims denials and operational costs while accelerating payment cycles and ensuring audit-readiness. The platform automatically identifies and captures relevant clinical information from patient charts, assigning codes only to fully understood cases; unhandled charts are sent back for human coding. Additionally, Nym provides a detailed audit-trail view that explains the rationale behind each coding decision, facilitating quick comprehension for validation, compliance, and appeals purposes. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company also maintains a research and development center in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Art of Sport

Series A in 2020
Art of Sport is a direct-to-consumer body care company that makes body and skin care products engineered to power all athletes. Formulated from the ground up by the world's leading athletes and skincare scientists, Art of Sport sells its lineup of deodorant, bodywash, soap, sunscreen and pain cream products to customers in the United States directly through www.artofsport.com. Art of Sport was founded in 2018 by Matthias Metternich, Brian Lee and Founding Partner Kobe Bryant. The team partnered with other world-class athletes from across sports to help inform the Art of Sport product family, including NBA MVP James Harden, MLB World Champion Javier Baez, NFL Wide Receiver Juju Smith-Schuster, Surf Champion Sage Erickson, Supercross World Champion Ken Roczen and Skating Legend Ryan Sheckler.

Forage

Series A in 2020
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.

Varada

Series A in 2020
Varada Ltd. is a Tel Aviv-based company that specializes in cloud-based data warehousing as a service (DWaaS), focusing on big data analytics. Founded in 2016 by David Krakov, Roman Vainbrand, and Tal Ben-Moshe, Varada offers a solution that enhances usability, performance, and cost-effectiveness for various analytical use cases at scale. By utilizing dynamic analysis and adaptive indexing, the company enables data architects to optimize workloads and gain optimal control over both performance and costs. Varada's platform operates within clients' cloud environments, allowing users to seamlessly query any data source using SQL.

Panther

Series A in 2020
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.

Lunchclub

Series A in 2020
Lunchclub is an AI-driven platform founded in 2018 by Vladimir Novakovski, Hayley Leibson, and Scott Wu, headquartered in San Francisco, California. The service specializes in facilitating one-on-one meetings, such as lunches and coffee chats, by connecting users with potential business partners, team members, or investors. Through its innovative approach, Lunchclub enables clients to make meaningful introductions that support their professional objectives, fostering collaboration and advancement within various fields. The platform emphasizes the importance of personalized connections to enhance networking opportunities and help users achieve their goals.

SoupMaster

Series A in 2020
SoupMaster is a Chinese restaurant chain and retail brand. It provides various nutritious soups for pregnant women, patients with a demand for health recuperation, and other people pursuing high-quality life.

Dexterity

Series A in 2020
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.

Calypso AI

Series A in 2020
Calypso AI Corp. develops software products to solve artificial intelligence risks for national security and highly-regulated industries. It offers Vespr software platform, an integrated model accreditation and model risk management system that enables users to monitor artificial systems for ongoing performance, compliance, and security thresholds. Its solution is also used by teams to validate, monitor, and secure their artificial intelligence. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Mateo, California with additional offices in New York, Virginia, and Ireland.

Wintermute

Series A in 2020
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.

NS8

Series A in 2020
NS8 Inc. is a fraud prevention and user experience protection platform based in Las Vegas, Nevada, with additional offices in Miami Beach, Florida, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founded in 2016, the company offers a suite of tools designed to help online businesses minimize risk through its NS8 Antifraud platform. This platform utilizes machine learning, behavioral analytics, real-time scoring, and fraud pattern detection to identify and address fraudulent activities. It provides insights into bot detection and hidden session segmentation, enabling users to understand effective traffic sources. Additionally, NS8's platform offers consumer metrics that allow businesses to display customized content and track the performance of various sales techniques. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including ecommerce platforms, online merchants, payment gateways, and event ticketing sectors. In October 2020, NS8 filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Shipper

Series A in 2020
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.

Setu

Series A in 2020
Setu’s mission is to accelerate economic growth by making formal finance accessible to all. We do this by providing developers access to banking systems.

Tonkean

Series A in 2020
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.

Chilibeli

Series A in 2020
Chilibeli is a social commerce platform that connects manufacturers/farmers with agents directly through various messaging tools. The company empowers farmers and its network of agents to earn extra income with ease and flexibility by streamlining the end-to-end supply chain. It aims to help more local farmers, agents, and consumers benefit from the social economy. The company was founded in 2019 by Alex Feng, Damon Yue, and Matt Li. It is based in Setiabudi, Jakarta,
Bond - "The post-purchase company", enables digital native brands to provide their online customers with an outstanding post-purchase experience that impacts sales, retention, and satisfaction. We've deployed a technology-driven network of neighborhood-level distribution centers that are managed by local teams. This enables us to store goods closer to customers, getting to them faster for deliveries or returns and when it's most convenient.

Epsagon

Series A in 2020
Epsagon is a developer of a SaaS platform designed to enhance performance monitoring and troubleshooting for serverless and microservice applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Epsagon provides Dev and Ops teams with automated data correlation, payloads, and comprehensive observability across various environments, including containers, virtual machines, and serverless architectures. Its lightweight agent SDK enables automated instrumentation and tracing, ensuring full visibility without the need for extensive training, manual coding, or maintenance. The platform aims to reduce application downtime, accelerate feature deployment, and streamline the process of identifying and resolving issues, ultimately helping organizations optimize costs and improve engineering efficiency.

CyCognito

Series A in 2019
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..

ALICE Technologies

Series A in 2019
ALICE empowers construction engineering and management professionals with modern AI and Optimization techniques. Its software automatically produces detailed schedules and resource allocations, which accurately estimate the cost and time frame for a project. Users understand the construction process through an interactive visualization, and can quickly tweak or modify a schedule to reflect the shifting realities of the construction cycle. It is born out of research at Stanford by a collaborative effort between experienced construction managers, software engineers, and computational methods specialists. ALICE enhances construction planning and scheduling abilities to help keep crews flowing on any size project. It works directly with 3D BIM and using a simple rule-based system, it explores millions of different schedule sequences and gives teams the power to answer “What If?” scenarios and completely reschedule in just minutes. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Grafana Labs

Series A in 2019
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.

Fiddler

Series A in 2019
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.

Celona

Series A in 2019
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.

Honeylove

Series A in 2019
Honeylove is a San Francisco fashion startup that designs and manufactures next-generation shapewear garments called "Sculptwear." Our mission is to put women in control of their curves and unleash the confidence that comes with it. What makes Sculptwear different from other shapewear brands? We created a novel way of shaping the body that shifts targeted areas rather than squeezing everything flat. The result is a more fit appearance with added posture support. Our designs are as beautiful as they are functional, making the wearer feel fabulous at every stage of getting dressed.

Confluera

Series A in 2019
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.

Multiverse

Series A in 2019
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.

Unilodgers

Series A in 2019
Unilodgers, Inc. operates an online marketplace dedicated to student housing, facilitating the search for accommodation tailored to the needs of students globally. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company aims to address the challenges of student mobility within a market valued at over $250 billion. Unilodgers provides a platform that features verified properties, offering secure and instant booking options. With offices in the UK, India, and Australia, the company strives to connect students with suitable housing solutions, bridging the gap between their accommodation needs and available options worldwide.

Brigit

Series A in 2019
Brigit is a financial health app helping everyday Americans relieve stress today, start saving for tomorrow and permanently transform their financial futures by getting them on the path the better financial wellness. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in New York, New York, United States.

Volansi

Series A in 2019
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.

Firework

Series A in 2019
Firework is one of the fastest growing interactive video platforms on mobile.

Moveworks

Series A 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.

MemVerge

Series A in 2019
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.

Blameless

Series A in 2019
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.

Materialize

Series A in 2019
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.

Glean

Series A in 2019
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.

Oosto

Series A in 2019
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.

FortressIQ

Series A in 2018
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.

Aquant

Series A in 2018
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.

Cameo

Series A in 2018
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.

Apex.AI

Series A in 2018
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.

PredictHQ

Series A in 2018
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.

Court Buddy

Series A in 2018
The Court Buddy Company, Inc. provides an online platform that matches clients with attorneys for legal services based on the clients' needs, the attorneys' expertise and experience, and the clients' and attorneys' location in the United States. It offers Court Buddy that enables lawyers to offer civil, criminal defense, and business legal services to clients. The company’s Court Buddy is an online legal marketplace service that matches and manages relationships between clients and experienced attorneys for personal and business legal matters, including court appearances. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

CANDIS

Series A in 2018
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.

Firework

Series A in 2018
Firework is one of the fastest growing interactive video platforms on mobile.