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 Northeastern US

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Offchain Labs

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

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.

Grafana Labs

Series C in 2021
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.

Split Software

Series D in 2021
Split Software is a feature delivery platform that builds better software for engineering teams to build impactful products. Its feature delivery platform pairs the speed and reliability of feature flags with data to measure the impact of every feature. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay use Split to reduce software development cycle time, mitigate release risk, and create a data-driven culture to maximize impact. Founded in 2015, Split is based in Redwood City, California with offices in Boston and Argentina. It is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Harmony Partners.

Scopio

Venture Round in 2021
Scopio, LLC operates an image search engine and licensing platform for trending images and videos on social media. Its platform enables users to license photos with customizable messages and build libraries of visual user-generated content. It serves companies, brands, non-governmental organizations, and live events. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Nym

Venture Round in 2021
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.

Bankuish

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bankuish is a technology platform where gig workers and freelancers leverage their work history data to demonstrate their creditworthiness. Users gain access to a marketplace of preapproved offers from national banks tailored to their unique profile as well as tools to grow their credit score. The company helps banks gain new customers, manage risk, and improve customer relationships. The Bankuish Score has been used to de-risk thousands of individuals while maintaining a default rate well below the industry standard. Bankuish was established in 2020 with its headquarters in New York City and Mexico City.

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.

Curastory

Seed Round in 2021
Curastory is video made simple. We allow content creators to shoot, edit, monetize, and distribute their video content to all of their video channels, like YouTube, IGTV, and FB Watch, for free. Content creators upload videos within our platform to edit where we then match it to brand advertisers for monetization before they distribute the final video to all of their video channels. Brands browse videos in the self-serving ad platform to bid on and advertise through creator-recorded video ad segments. Our ad platform tracks consumer conversions to make sure our brands are seeing high return on their video ad spend and our creators are being paid for their videos everywhere.

Till Financial

Venture Round in 2021
Till Financial is a developer of a digital financial platform intended to help kids monitor their spendings. The company's platform allows children to track their savings and investments independently with the help of collaborated and personalized guidance, thereby allowing families to inculcate money-saving habits in their kids in an efficient manner.

Level

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

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.

Cameo

Series C in 2021
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.

Matillion

Series D 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.

Personetics

Private Equity Round in 2021
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.

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.

Weee!

Venture Round in 2021
Weee!, Inc. is an online grocery retailer based in Fremont, California, specializing in products for Chinese families and the broader Asian community. Founded in 2015, the company offers a wide range of items including fruits, vegetables, seafood, snacks, beauty products, and daily necessities. Weee! serves customers across several major metropolitan areas, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York City, and New Jersey. The platform combines eCommerce and grocery delivery, focusing on Asian specialty products and staples, making it a significant player in the online grocery market.

Materialize

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

Curve Health

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Curve Health

Seed Round in 2020
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.

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.

Split Software

Series C in 2020
Split Software is a feature delivery platform that builds better software for engineering teams to build impactful products. Its feature delivery platform pairs the speed and reliability of feature flags with data to measure the impact of every feature. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay use Split to reduce software development cycle time, mitigate release risk, and create a data-driven culture to maximize impact. Founded in 2015, Split is based in Redwood City, California with offices in Boston and Argentina. It is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Harmony Partners.

Grafana Labs

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

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.

Height

Seed Round in 2020
Project management software with tasks, chat, adaptive workflows, and more.

FeeX

Funding Round in 2020
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.

WorkOS

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Aquant

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

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.

Arceo Labs, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
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.

Magic Spoon

Seed Round in 2019
Magic Spoon Inc. is a food company that specializes in producing and selling low-carbohydrate cereals aimed at adult consumers. Founded in 2019 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the company offers a variety of flavors, including fruity, cinnamon, cocoa, and frosted. Its cereals are designed to be keto-friendly and are made without gluten, grains, wheat, soy, or artificial sweeteners. Instead, they use allulose, a natural sweetener derived from figs and maple syrup, which has no glycemic impact. Magic Spoon sells its products exclusively online, catering to a growing demand for healthier cereal options that evoke childhood favorites.

AllWork

Seed Round in 2019
AllWork, Inc. develops a platform that connects freelancer talent with brands and retailers. The company provides solutions, which includes recruiting, scheduling, training, communications, payments, budgeting, planning, reporting, and human resource administration. It also offers AllWork mobile application which gives managers the ability to improve coverage and make scheduling adjustments for their freelance talent. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

Cameo

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

SPATE

Seed Round in 2019
Spate, Inc. is a data analytics company based in New York that specializes in analyzing consumer behavior signals from various online sources. Founded in 2018, Spate employs advanced data science techniques to predict emerging consumer trends and provide actionable insights for brands. By leveraging machine intelligence, the company aims to identify new trends and understand their underlying drivers, enabling consumer brands to make informed decisions in product development and marketing strategies. Spate's focus on data-backed insights supports brands in confidently responding to evolving market demands.

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.

Calypso AI

Seed Round in 2019
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.

ezCater

Series D in 2019
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.

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.

SleepSpace

Venture Round in 2018
Proactive Life, Inc. provide with application software to track the sleeping time. The company provide with software such as sleep-2-peek reaction time that allows you to discover what sleep schedule and what periods of the day are associated to your peak mental and physical state; and MindMetrics that provide with simple games to measure alertness system and higher level cognitive abilities. Proactive Life, Inc. is based in New York, New York.

Encantos

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Encantos Media Studios is an entertainment and educational company based in Culver City, California, with additional offices in Los Angeles and New York. Founded in 2015, Encantos creates a diverse range of content, including apps, books, toys, and videos, aimed at empowering creatives to tell their stories. The company connects children with skilled storytellers through an online platform designed to teach essential 21st-century skills. Encantos has garnered recognition through numerous awards and accolades from prestigious organizations such as CNN, Forbes, and The New York Times, highlighting its commitment to quality educational content and innovation in children's media.

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.

AWA Studios

Venture Round in 2018
AWA Studios is a creative business that offers deals for creators and purchasing terms for comic retailers. The company gives creators the opportunity and incentives to work on two stories; one that the creator owns and one that AWA owns. This quid pro quo deal is a fair deal in the industry. In the case of the creator-owned stories, the artists and writers own the intellectual property rights in their work and receive generous per-page payment. This gives creators the opportunity to have a stake in their work, as well as the means to take creative risks. Creators who contribute to AWA-owned stories receive publishing and licensing royalty payments for their individual series, participation in a common royalty pool, and an option to purchase shares of AWA common stock.

Zola

Series D in 2018
Zola is the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples' lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology. All in the service of love.

Zola

Series D in 2018
Zola is the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples' lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology. All in the service of love.

Jumprope

Seed Round in 2018
Jumprope is a platform that enables users to create, discover, and share how-to videos and tutorials. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, Jumprope allows individuals to produce videos in various formats—horizontal, vertical, and square—suitable for sharing on social media platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest. The application is designed for ease of use, enabling users without video editing experience to create high-quality how-to content directly from their smartphones. Jumprope's mission is to empower people to share their knowledge and passions, facilitating creativity in diverse environments such as kitchens, bathrooms, and garages.

Hungryroot

Series B in 2018
Hungryroot, Inc. is a direct-to-consumer brand specializing in fresh, vegetable-based foods. Established in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company provides a diverse range of clean-ingredient products, including meals, snacks, sides, sauces, and desserts. Hungryroot focuses on delivering healthy, convenient food options directly to customers' homes through an online platform. The service is personalized to cater to individual preferences, aiming to simplify and inspire healthy eating.

cheddar

Series D in 2018
Cheddar is a media and entertainment company that operates two live video news networks: Cheddar, focusing on business news, and Cheddar Big News, which offers general news and headlines. The company broadcasts from various prominent locations, including the New York Stock Exchange and its studios in New York and Los Angeles. Cheddar reaches over 6.5 million viewers monthly through platforms such as SlingTV, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, and social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, accumulating hundreds of millions of video views across these platforms. The company aims to provide an authentic voice and a fresh perspective on a wide range of topics, including business, culture, media, and technology, appealing to a diverse and intellectually curious audience. Founded by Jon Steinberg, Cheddar seeks to deliver updated news live and on-demand, reflecting the dynamism of modern media consumption.

Intermedia Labs

Venture Round in 2018
Intermedia Labs is a consumer-based video technology firm inventing the future of television.

Epsagon

Seed Round in 2018
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.

CertiK

Seed Round in 2018
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.

Split Software

Series B in 2018
Split Software is a feature delivery platform that builds better software for engineering teams to build impactful products. Its feature delivery platform pairs the speed and reliability of feature flags with data to measure the impact of every feature. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay use Split to reduce software development cycle time, mitigate release risk, and create a data-driven culture to maximize impact. Founded in 2015, Split is based in Redwood City, California with offices in Boston and Argentina. It is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Harmony Partners.

HomeShare

Seed Round in 2018
HomeShare (www.homeshare.com) is a co-living marketplace that enables affordable city living so that individuals can thrive together. The company matches housemates based on personality to ensure compatibility and peace of mind. Headquartered in San Francisco, HomeShare is active in 5 markets: San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Seattle and Los Angeles. HomeShare’s mission is to unlock cities by providing attractive yet affordable housing.

Tolemi

Seed Round in 2018
For local governments that struggle to access and understand mountains of data that can help them take effective, efficient action, they deliver leading cloud-based data management services combined with user-friendly software analysis tools that work seamlessly with existing systems to combine messy, scattered data and deliver simple, clear insights needed to solve community and neighborhood priorities. The Tolemi platform was launched in 2016, and their partners include some of the most forward-thinking public sector agencies from across the country. Tolemi is funded by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Y Combinator, and Fika Ventures. The Company is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Daily Harvest

Series B in 2017
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.

Poncho

Seed Round in 2017
Poncho is a weather cat that tells you the weather and a whole lot more. The most popular chatbot on Facebook Messenger and one of the top weather apps in the App Store. Poncho is based in New York and has recently raised money from some of the top VC firms. Using the latest bot technologies we've built in house, our mission is to create and deliver the most engaging content on messaging and other hardware platforms.

Drafted

Venture Round in 2017
Drafted is a company that helps laid-off people connect to hiring companies. Its mission is to connect people through their networks which is an asset to a company or to an individual. Its network recruiting platform is used by companies that are hiring to aggregate their employee networks for referrals and sourcing. By creating a graph database of the entire company network, the platform goes beyond just 1st-degree employee connections to increase quality referrals and help companies make better hires. Drafted was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Clark

Seed Round in 2017
Clark is business software for your tutoring business. Clark works with individual tutors to large scale tutoring agencies, providing services that allow educators to tutor more and spend less time on administration. Their mission to to scale the rapidly growing mom-and-pop tutoring businesses industry in the U.S., putting more revenue in educators’ pockets and more educational hours into the market.

Companion Inc

Seed Round in 2017
Companion is an app to stay safe and connected. You can enter a destination, add friends and family to monitor you, request help from those nearby and be able to call 911 with one tap.

cheddar

Series C in 2017
Cheddar is a media and entertainment company that operates two live video news networks: Cheddar, focusing on business news, and Cheddar Big News, which offers general news and headlines. The company broadcasts from various prominent locations, including the New York Stock Exchange and its studios in New York and Los Angeles. Cheddar reaches over 6.5 million viewers monthly through platforms such as SlingTV, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, and social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, accumulating hundreds of millions of video views across these platforms. The company aims to provide an authentic voice and a fresh perspective on a wide range of topics, including business, culture, media, and technology, appealing to a diverse and intellectually curious audience. Founded by Jon Steinberg, Cheddar seeks to deliver updated news live and on-demand, reflecting the dynamism of modern media consumption.

Mic

Series C in 2017
Mic Network Inc. operates an online platform dedicated to publishing news, focusing on issues relevant to society's changemakers. Established in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company provides original reporting across various topics, including politics, business, culture, science, and the environment. Mic aims to reach an audience of 50 million monthly, delivering diverse perspectives that challenge conventional viewpoints. As of November 2018, Mic Network Inc. is a subsidiary of BDG Media Inc.

AnyRoad

Seed Round in 2017
AnyRoad Inc. operates a platform that connects tourism customers with professional tour guides, allowing users to find, book, and experience tours in various global locations, including Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, and Israel. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, the company also provides an experience relationship management (ERM) platform designed to help brands measure, scale, and implement their experiential marketing campaigns. This software integrates with customer relationship management, loyalty, enterprise resource planning, and point-of-sale systems, enabling companies to develop brand loyalty, influence consumer behavior, and gain insights into brand associations. AnyRoad's clients include well-known brands such as Budweiser, Honda, Michaels, and Tabasco.

Avere Systems

Series E in 2017
Avere Systems, Inc. specializes in cloud file storage infrastructure, focusing on hybrid cloud NAS architecture. The company provides a range of products, including Virtual FXT Edge filers, which serve as network-attached storage in the compute cloud, and CloudFusion, a cloud-based file system that streamlines file management by eliminating the use of isolated storage silos. Avere's offerings also include various software solutions for storage management, data migration, data protection, and cloud integration. These solutions enable enterprises to optimize storage performance while reducing complexity and costs associated with data storage. Avere serves multiple industries, including government, financial services, media and entertainment, life sciences, oil and gas, and software development. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Avere Systems operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Azure, leveraging advanced storage technology to enhance data accessibility and security for its clients.

Hungryroot

Series A in 2017
Hungryroot, Inc. is a direct-to-consumer brand specializing in fresh, vegetable-based foods. Established in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company provides a diverse range of clean-ingredient products, including meals, snacks, sides, sauces, and desserts. Hungryroot focuses on delivering healthy, convenient food options directly to customers' homes through an online platform. The service is personalized to cater to individual preferences, aiming to simplify and inspire healthy eating.

Split Software

Series A in 2017
Split Software is a feature delivery platform that builds better software for engineering teams to build impactful products. Its feature delivery platform pairs the speed and reliability of feature flags with data to measure the impact of every feature. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay use Split to reduce software development cycle time, mitigate release risk, and create a data-driven culture to maximize impact. Founded in 2015, Split is based in Redwood City, California with offices in Boston and Argentina. It is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Harmony Partners.

Zola

Series C in 2016
Zola is the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples' lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology. All in the service of love.

Datorama

Series C in 2016
Datorama’s marketing intelligence platform transforms the way marketers optimize their marketing performance, business impact, and customer loyalty. With Datorama, customers can automatically connect all their disparate marketing tools and reports in one centralized place; access and act on the right cross-channel KPIs, dashboards, reports, and AI-powered insights; and optimize and report on every investment, performance, and outcome across the customer journey. Datorama powers marketing intelligence for thousands of brands, agencies and publishers globally including IBM, Nike, Ticketmaster, Viacom, and Neo@Ogilvy, helping them make smarter marketing decisions everyday. Datorama has a global presence with 16 offices worldwide and was recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor and ranks #35 on the Deloitte Fast 500 list.

cheddar

Series B in 2016
Cheddar is a media and entertainment company that operates two live video news networks: Cheddar, focusing on business news, and Cheddar Big News, which offers general news and headlines. The company broadcasts from various prominent locations, including the New York Stock Exchange and its studios in New York and Los Angeles. Cheddar reaches over 6.5 million viewers monthly through platforms such as SlingTV, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, and social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, accumulating hundreds of millions of video views across these platforms. The company aims to provide an authentic voice and a fresh perspective on a wide range of topics, including business, culture, media, and technology, appealing to a diverse and intellectually curious audience. Founded by Jon Steinberg, Cheddar seeks to deliver updated news live and on-demand, reflecting the dynamism of modern media consumption.

Eyeview

Series D in 2016
Eyeview Inc. develops video advertising technology solutions. It offers brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. It offers VideoIQ, a video platform that provides campaign, data, and media management services, as well as programmatic video creative services. The company also provides lead generation solution for clients in automotive industry that enables brands to drive leads with personalized video ads; in-store solution that leverages past purchase behavior to identify key segments for CPG and shopper marketers; in-store sales solution that enable retail marketers to drive sales; and online booking solution for travel marketers. Eyeview Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

Evariant

Series C in 2016
Evariant, healthcare’s only Patients for Life Platform, enables providers to optimize growth through smarter patient acquisition and retention. Our customers achieve indisputable value through high-value service line growth, improving provider network utilization and planning, and extending patient lifetime value. Our solutions deliver actionable intelligence that enable healthcare providers to find, guide, and keep patients for life. Evariant is the trusted advisor to leading healthcare systems, representing over 1000 hospitals nationwide.

Poncho

Seed Round in 2016
Poncho is a weather cat that tells you the weather and a whole lot more. The most popular chatbot on Facebook Messenger and one of the top weather apps in the App Store. Poncho is based in New York and has recently raised money from some of the top VC firms. Using the latest bot technologies we've built in house, our mission is to create and deliver the most engaging content on messaging and other hardware platforms.

Influitive

Series B in 2016
Influitive Corporation specializes in advocate marketing software solutions tailored for business-to-business (B2B) software and technology firms globally. Its primary product, AdvocateHub, enables companies to create advocate communities that engage customers, partners, and employees in marketing activities such as referrals, reference calls, and product reviews. This platform helps businesses harness customer enthusiasm to enhance their marketing and sales initiatives. AdvocateHub integrates with Salesforce, allowing for seamless tracking of customer engagement. Additionally, Influitive offers consulting services that include coaching and training to assist companies in implementing effective advocate marketing strategies. The AdvocateHub software is accessible through a web portal, with integration options for client websites and mobile access via the Maven app. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Influitive also has offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts.