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.

Mark Anderson

Venture Partner

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

Ajay Sudan

Partner

John Wendell Thompson

Venture Partner

Rytis Vitkauskas

Partner

Scott Young

VP of Technology

Johnna (Harriott) Lesch

Vice President of Finance

Past deals in North America

Spiff

Series C in 2023
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.

House X

Venture Round in 2023
HOUSE X™ is a consumer-focused residential real estate brokerage and Smart Home Marketplace. They empower homebuyers with real time listing information and better data to help their clients make more informed buying decisions. House X partners with their clients by leveraging their negotiating power on your behalf. While also providing free 100% renewable electricity for 2-5 years on participating new homes, at zero cost to the homebuyer, they expand your buying power and lower your monthly bills. HOUSE X is supported by a network of Certified Brokers, Agents and Personal Assistants with local expertise and local relationships. Their clients are encouraged to partner and participate in the entire process of shopping or buying a home. HOUSE X will then help transform the home into a Smart Zero Energy Home that costs less to own, operate, protect and maintain. The HOUSE X website features more new homes for sale in market areas than other online sources including Realtor.com, Zillow or MLS sites. Their website features thousands of new and existing homes for sale including MLS listings, new homes and off-market listings. HOUSE X mapping technology and data provides home shoppers a comprehensive overview to evaluate and compare homes - delivered in an easy to understand HOUSE X Market Report. House X formatted neighborhood reports are like “CARFAX for neighborhoods”. Built from the largest database of neighborhood statistics available today, each report contains over 250 must-see statistics, providing revealing insights about any location. House X Reports include real estate and home values, lifestyle and demographics, crime risk, and school quality. Enter an address and a House X Neighborhood Report is returned to you. The company serves as the primary manager of American Dream 2021 Pilot Project featuring over 30,000 participating new smart homes in California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and other markets. The House X leadership team has over 300 years of experience and have been recognized with over 400 national, regional and local real estate marketing awards.

Arrcus

Series D in 2023
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.

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.

Deposits

Seed Round in 2022
Deposits brings the workplace into the future by partnering with brands, banks and businesses to deliver streamlined experiences with money and benefits. Our partners have been able to reduce costs, increase revenues and accelerate the pace of financial innovation and inclusion.

Fácil

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Fácil operates a cloud-based platform that simplifies the rental process for tenants in Mexico by allowing them to lease apartments without the need for a cash security deposit or a cosigner. This innovative approach addresses common barriers faced by renters, making it easier for them to secure housing. Additionally, the company offers a user-friendly mobile key system designed to enhance efficiency and convenience in the hospitality sector. This system enables hotel guests to access their rooms with a simple tap on their smart devices, provides mobile check-in capabilities, and streamlines service, thereby reducing travel-related challenges and allowing hotel staff to focus more on guest care.

Finix

Venture Round in 2022
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.

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.

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.

Ancora Biotech LLC

Series A in 2022
Developer of antibody biotherapeutics drugs intended to develop a treatment for several life-threatening diseases. The company focuses on clinical development support for the treatment of B cell cancers, inflammatory and metabolic disorders, and chronic hepatitis B infections, enabling healthcare workers to treat patients with various life-threatening 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.

NextBillion

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

Glean

Series C in 2022
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.

One More Game

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

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.

Landed

Seed Round in 2022
Landed improves the hiring process for hourly employers and job applicants.

Grafana Labs

Series D in 2022
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.

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.

Blockchain

Series D in 2022
Blockchain.com operates a comprehensive platform that enables users to buy, hold, and utilize cryptocurrencies, aiming to create an accessible financial system for the internet. With over 50 million users, it offers a straightforward method for engaging with digital currencies, including features for trading, sending, receiving, securing, and borrowing them. The platform also includes a widely used explorer for tracking crypto market activities and an exchange that facilitates fast trading experiences. Additionally, Blockchain Ventures, supported by Blockchain.com, invests in distributed ledger technology (DLT) projects that foster societal benefits and advance the industry, promoting innovative applications of DLT beyond financial services. Overall, Blockchain.com seeks to revolutionize the financial landscape by enabling quick transactions without intermediaries and providing essential tools for real-time market insights.

Pacto

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Pacto is a point of sale (POS) software and payments company dedicated to making digital commerce accessible for the merchants of Latin America. Pacto builds tools and technology to empower merchants to move beyond cash payments and accelerate growth in their digital business. Headquartered in the US, Pacto has an office in Mexico City.

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.

Celona

Series C in 2022
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.

Kirilys Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
Kirilys is a biopharmaceutical firm. It was in the preclinical stages that were committed to enhancing the quality of life for cancer patients through the creation and enhancement of therapy regimens.

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.

Roofstock

Series E in 2022
Roofstock, Inc. is an online marketplace that facilitates investment in leased single-family rental homes. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Oakland, California, the company provides investors with access to independently certified properties, complete with research, analytics, and market insights. This platform allows users to evaluate properties based on their investment potential and cash flow without the complexities of managing vacant homes that require repairs and leasing. Roofstock aims to simplify the real estate investment process by enabling clients to treat their property investments similarly to stock portfolios, emphasizing asset allocation. The marketplace also assists sellers in marketing tenant-occupied properties, minimizing income loss and tenant disruption.

Ponder

Seed Round in 2022
Ponder Data Inc. provides enterprise-ready tools for rapid, flexible experimentation with data at scale. Ponder makes data teams more productive by enabling them to get insights faster with tools they know and love.

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.

Fonbnk

Seed Round in 2022
Fonbnk provides borderless banking infrastructure directly to unbanked people around the world using the mobile internet. Utilizing the Company’s Airtime Wallet, anyone with a prepaid mobile SIM card and a verified online identity can now have a FREE global stored value (bank or current) account by recharging their existing mobile phones.

Socket

Seed Round in 2022
Socket, which acts as a meta-layer that connects all chains, enables unified, multichain applications with shared liquidity and state across chains.

Redpanda Data

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

Hasura

Series C in 2022
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.

PropBidder

Seed Round in 2022
PropBidder (www.propbidder.com) provides web-based software for real estate agents & realtors so they can plan, manage, & participate in a variety of highly adaptable online bidding processes, ranging from multiple offer situations, such as bidding wars, to deadline driven offer formats, such as price reductions & auctions. We facilitate automatic real-time offer feedback for buyers and buyers agents through our patent protected offer scoring technology.

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.

Cohere Technologies

Series D in 2022
Cohere Technologies is a leading pioneer for software enhanced 4G & 5G networks. The company has developed a 3GPP compliant software solution to dramatically improve today’s 4G and 5G networks. Founded in 2009, Cohere Technologies is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Cohere includes an all-star team of telecom and wireless industry veterans and is backed by leading investors: NEA (New Enterprise Associates), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Macquarie Capital, Telstra and Altice

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.

Seismic Therapeutic

Series A in 2022
Seismic Therapeutic is a biotechnology company focused on accelerating immunology drug development through the integration of machine learning in the biologics discovery process. Utilizing its IMPACT™ platform, Seismic Therapeutic aims to tackle key challenges in biologics discovery by combining structural biology, protein engineering, and translational immunology. This comprehensive approach facilitates the creation of optimized therapies that can reach patients more quickly. The company is developing a pipeline of innovative biologics targeting adaptive immune system dysregulation, with the goal of treating autoimmune diseases.

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!

Alchemy

Series C in 2022
Alchemy Insights, Inc. is a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that serves hedge funds and financial institutions. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for analyzing blockchain data, including on-chain data, market trends, and community activity. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to help users identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain, thereby aiding in sales, security, and strategic decision-making. Alchemy's emphasis on providing developers with essential tools allows for the creation of scalable and reliable decentralized applications without the complexities of managing blockchain infrastructure. The company is backed by notable organizations and individuals, reflecting its prominent position in the blockchain space.

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.

Gemist

Seed Round in 2022
Gemist, Inc. is a jewelry company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in designing and manufacturing customizable rings and other jewelry products. The company offers an innovative online platform that allows consumers to create personalized jewelry and accessories. A key feature of Gemist's service is its "Try-and-Buy" experience, which enables customers to receive free replicas of their designs before making a final purchase decision. Founded in 2018 and previously known as Madeline's Rings Co., Gemist aims to engage millennials by providing a seamless and interactive jewelry buying experience through its technology-driven platform. The company focuses on enhancing customer engagement and satisfaction while facilitating the design and selection of unique jewelry pieces.

Lost Lake Games

Seed Round in 2022
Lost Lake Games is an independent studio committed to making games that blaze new trails and spark the next adventure. It was founded by veteran game developers with a shared love of their craft.

FTX

Series C in 2022
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.

Dremio

Series E in 2022
Dremio Corporation, founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, develops a structured query language engine designed to enhance data accessibility and processing speed. Its flagship product, Dremio, serves as a data lake engine that enables users to perform queries directly on data lake storage while providing a self-service semantic layer. The platform empowers business users to curate and analyze data from various sources, thereby facilitating processes for business intelligence, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients. By streamlining analytical processing and improving productivity for data engineers, analysts, and scientists, Dremio enhances the self-sufficiency of data consumers in their decision-making processes.

Wheel

Series C in 2022
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.

1Password

Series C in 2022
1Password is a secure, convenient password manager, providing businesses and families a safe way to share passwords, credit cards, and documents. It keeps important information secure with AES 256-bit encryption. With 1Password, users can keep all kinds of information easily organized with convenient categories and tags and find what they need with a customizable search. Founded in 2005, 1Password remembers and fills web forms with passwords, credit card information, and addresses—with a single click. It is focused on making security convenient and keeping customers happy. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario in Canada.

Handshake

Series F in 2022
Handshake is a college career network established in 2014, aimed at transforming the recruiting experience for students, career centers, and employers. It connects 17 million students and young alumni from over 1,000 colleges and universities—including many minority-serving institutions—with nearly 500,000 employers, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and nonprofits. The platform democratizes access to job opportunities, providing students with valuable insights and a wider array of career options, while enabling employers to efficiently access diverse talent. Additionally, it offers colleges tools to enhance student engagement and boost employment outcomes. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Denver and London, Handshake has raised a total of $155 million from various investors, including prominent venture capital and social impact firms.

Personetics

Private Equity Round in 2022
Personetics Technologies Ltd. specializes in customer interaction technology tailored for the financial services sector. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in White Plains, New York, with research and development facilities in Nazareth, Israel, and additional offices in Singapore and Tel Aviv, the company offers solutions such as Personetics Digital Banker, which enhances customer engagement through self-service capabilities across multiple channels, including web and mobile. Its Personetics Anywhere platform allows financial institutions to deliver personalized assistance via messaging applications. Additionally, the Self-Driving Finance engagement platform provides varying levels of guidance for retail, small business, and wealth management clients, improving customer experience while reducing operational costs for financial institutions. By utilizing a real-time analytics engine, Personetics enables banks to better understand customer intent and convert passive users into active participants in digital banking.

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.

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.

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.

Astro

Seed Round in 2022
Astro assists web developers in building websites. Astro is an MIT-licensed open source build tool that renders directly to HTML and CSS. Astro also supports different well known frameworks such as react, preact, svelte, solid, vue, and more. Astro was established in 2019 by Fred K. Schott in San Francisco, California.

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.

Noname Security

Series C 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.

ezCater

Series D in 2021
ezCater, Inc. provides online catering ordering solutions for small start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Its solutions enable users to order food online for meetings. The company offers ezManage, a catering management platform; and ezOrdering that provides restaurants with means to accept online catering orders on their own website. ezCater, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. It has an additional office in Denver, Colorado.

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.

Herald

Seed Round in 2021
Herald is a digital infrastructure that uses a single API to connect software developers to commercial insurance carriers. Herald's API is used by software developers to obtain quotes from multiple carriers across multiple lines of business, including Workers' Compensation, Business Owners Policy (BOP), and General Liability.

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.

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.

CyCognito

Series C in 2021
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..

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.

Arceo Labs, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Arceo Labs, Inc. operates under the brand Arceo, specializing in cybersecurity and cyber analytics services tailored for the insurance industry. The company offers solutions to cyber insurance brokers and carriers, enabling them to assess, underwrite, and manage cyber risks through the use of artificial intelligence and workflow automation. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Arceo Labs also maintains offices in Chicago, Baltimore, and New York. The firm is dedicated to providing organizations with the necessary tools and guidance to protect and insure their data effectively.

Faire

Series G in 2021
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.

ThoughtSpot

Series F in 2021
ThoughtSpot, Inc. specializes in search-driven analytics for enterprises, enabling users to easily search, analyze, and share real-time business data. The platform is designed to empower individuals across various sectors, including retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing, to derive insights and create reports through an intuitive search interface. ThoughtSpot connects with a wide range of data sources, whether on-premise or cloud-based, and is noted for its rapid deployment compared to traditional technologies. The company has established partnerships to enhance its capabilities and has served a diverse customer base, including notable organizations such as Amway and Chevron Federal Credit Union. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, ThoughtSpot has expanded its presence globally with additional offices in locations such as Bellevue, London, Duisburg, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Bengaluru, and Tokyo. Its mission focuses on making analytics accessible to a broad audience, aiming to democratize data-driven decision-making across organizations.

Daily Harvest

Series D in 2021
Daily Harvest, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in offering frozen whole ingredient meals, including smoothies, harvest bowls, flatbreads, soups, bites, oat bowls, chia bowls, and lattes. Founded in 2014, the company focuses on providing convenient and nutritious food options that cater to the needs of modern consumers. Daily Harvest sells its products exclusively online, allowing customers to stock their freezers with a variety of clean, ready-to-eat meals that can be quickly prepared and easily replenished as needed. The company aims to promote healthy eating by ensuring that consumers have access to wholesome food choices.

BetDEX

Seed Round in 2021
BetDEX is the decentralized sports betting protocol. BetDEX delivers high speeds and low transaction costs while eliminating counterparty risk. BetDEX is a permissionless protocol allowing anyone to build their own applications on top.

Stori

Series C 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.

Payitoff

Seed Round in 2021
Payitoff develops API tools that provides money-saving guidance and automatic action. Its tool offers debt assessment, automatic enrollment, and customer empowerment. The company is based in New York, New York.

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.

FeeX

Funding Round in 2021
FeeX Inc. is a technology company founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, New York. It specializes in developing application software that enables users to assess and reduce fees associated with individual retirement accounts (IRAs), 401(k)s, 403(b)s, and other investment accounts. The company aims to enhance transparency in the retirement market by providing automated, personalized analyses of various financial products. FeeX's technology captures, normalizes, and analyzes fee data, allowing users to make informed decisions and receive data-driven fiduciary advice. Its services cater to a diverse range of clients in the financial industry, including broker-dealers, insurance companies, registered investment advisors, and online brokerages.

Hawku

Seed Round in 2021
Hawku is creating the premier marketplace for utility and gaming NFTs. Hawku is a data-analysis site for Zed.run.

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.

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.

Alchemy

Series C in 2021
Alchemy Insights, Inc. is a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that serves hedge funds and financial institutions. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for analyzing blockchain data, including on-chain data, market trends, and community activity. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to help users identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain, thereby aiding in sales, security, and strategic decision-making. Alchemy's emphasis on providing developers with essential tools allows for the creation of scalable and reliable decentralized applications without the complexities of managing blockchain infrastructure. The company is backed by notable organizations and individuals, reflecting its prominent position in the blockchain space.

Yugabyte

Series C 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.

ClickUp

Series C in 2021
ClickUp offers a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization. ClickUp belongs to the latter camp, selling a $5 per month per user plan (billed annually), that people access to task management software, docs and wikis, chat, and integrations with a host of other popular tools. It’s a robust set of tools that is malleable depending on the task at hand. The company was founded in 2017 by Zeb Evans and Alex Yurkowski. It is headquartered in San Diego, California.

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.

Protego Biopharma

Venture Round in 2021
Protego Biopharma, Inc. engages in the research and development of therapeutics and diagnostics using human genetic links. It offers products in the areas of rare diseases associated with amyloidosis; early diagnosis for amyloidosis; and novel platform enabling compound screening. Protego Biopharma, Inc. was formerly known as MisfoldingDiagnostics. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Diego, California.

Outschool

Series D in 2021
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.

Navan

Series F in 2021
Navan, formerly known as TripActions, is a business travel platform that focuses on optimizing corporate travel operations through a mobile-first, end-to-end solution. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices worldwide, Navan combines AI-driven personalization with a comprehensive inventory of flights, accommodations, and transportation options. The platform is designed to enhance the travel experience for employees while providing finance leaders and travel managers with the tools necessary to manage travel as a strategic asset. It offers 24/7 live support and rewards employees with loyalty points for personal use, promoting cost-conscious spending. By integrating data science, user-friendly design, and exceptional service, Navan aims to deliver rewarding travel experiences that align with the needs of businesses and their workforce.

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.

BetterUp

Series E in 2021
BetterUp Inc. is a leadership development platform based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2013. The company provides a mobile-based solution for organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, aimed at enhancing employee performance through a science-backed methodology. BetterUp's platform facilitates on-demand virtual coaching sessions, allowing users to identify and practice new behaviors and mindsets essential for achieving high performance in a rapidly changing environment. The platform tracks and measures individual growth, helping employees cultivate skills that support both personal and professional development. Its diverse clientele includes notable companies like Genentech, Logitech, and Workday, reflecting its commitment to fostering an adaptive workforce.

Aquant

Series C in 2021
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.

All Day Kitchens

Series C in 2021
All Day Kitchens, founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, provides a platform designed to enhance delivery services for restaurants. The company specializes in delivery-optimized kitchens and related technology that allows restaurants to expand their delivery reach with minimal initial investment. By leveraging this model, All Day Kitchens enables restaurants to capitalize on the growing demand for food delivery, ultimately improving their operational efficiency and service offerings.

Materialize

Series C in 2021
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.

Alloy

Series C in 2021
Alloy engages in helping financial institutions and fintech companies solve identity and compliance problems.

LeapYear Technologies

Venture Round in 2021
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.

Matillion

Series E in 2021
Matillion is a data transformation solution provider or cloud data warehouses. The company is fundamentally changing data integration enabling customers to innovate at the speed of business, with cloud-native data integration technology that solves individuals’ and enterprises’ top business challenges. Its software is used by more than 550 customers in over 40 countries. Its customers include GE, Accenture, Siemens, Bose, Zapier, Splunk, and Vistaprint among others. Founded 2011, Matillion is headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado. It has also offices in New York City and Seattle.