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 US East Coast

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kalam Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kalam Labs is a live game streaming platform at the intersection of K-12 learning and multiplayer gaming.

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.

Hubilo

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

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.

Hubilo

Seed Round in 2020
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.

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.

Epic Games

Venture Round in 2020
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software company based in Cary, North Carolina. Founded in 1991, the company develops and creates games for various platforms, including PCs, consoles, mobile devices, artificial reality, and virtual reality. In addition to its own game development, Epic Games offers its game engine technology to other developers, enabling them to create high-fidelity, interactive experiences. The company also operates a game store that supports independent developers in producing quality games and 3D content. Originally known as Epic MegaGames, Inc., the company rebranded to Epic Games, Inc. in March 1999.

Height

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Epic Games

Venture Round in 2018
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software company based in Cary, North Carolina. Founded in 1991, the company develops and creates games for various platforms, including PCs, consoles, mobile devices, artificial reality, and virtual reality. In addition to its own game development, Epic Games offers its game engine technology to other developers, enabling them to create high-fidelity, interactive experiences. The company also operates a game store that supports independent developers in producing quality games and 3D content. Originally known as Epic MegaGames, Inc., the company rebranded to Epic Games, Inc. in March 1999.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Giphy

Series C in 2016
Giphy is an American online database and search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover the best GIFs. It operates a search engine that enables users to search, share, and discover animated graphics interchange formats (GIFs) on the Internet. Animated GIFs have existed for decades, but there was still no good way to browse and discover the best the web had to offer. And the vision for GIPHY isn’t really just about finding GIFs. It’s a search engine today but soon you’ll see it grow into a community, a platform with a host of features targeted at gif artists, enthusiasts, bloggers, and anyone generally looking to discover or create that next big meme. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Evariant

Series C in 2015
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.

Plexxi

Series D in 2015
Plexxi, an affinity-driven networking solutions provider, develops an optimized network that improves the performance of applications. The company offers networking solutions for data center computing needs. It delivers converged, application-defined network infrastructure building blocks and systems for building software-defined data centers and public/private clouds. The solutions enable Cloud Builders to harness the power of a single, simple platform to create private/public/hybrid cloud and data center networks.

Beme

Seed Round in 2015
Beme is a video-sharing platform founded by Casey Neistat and the former head of engineering at Tumblr, Matt Hackett. Beme is the simplest and most unfiltered way to share your personal experience. Instantly capture real moments from the world around you with a simple gesture and without interruption. Get a global view of how friends, family and interesting people from places near and far honestly live their lives, and send them genuine reactions as you watch along.

Drafted

Seed Round in 2015
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.

Mic

Series B in 2015
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.

Giphy

Series B in 2015
Giphy is an American online database and search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover the best GIFs. It operates a search engine that enables users to search, share, and discover animated graphics interchange formats (GIFs) on the Internet. Animated GIFs have existed for decades, but there was still no good way to browse and discover the best the web had to offer. And the vision for GIPHY isn’t really just about finding GIFs. It’s a search engine today but soon you’ll see it grow into a community, a platform with a host of features targeted at gif artists, enthusiasts, bloggers, and anyone generally looking to discover or create that next big meme. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Eyeview

Series D in 2014
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.

Bonobos

Series D in 2014
Bonobos is a men's clothing brand established in 2007, known for its focus on fit, customer experience, and a fresh approach to menswear. Initially launched online with a signature line of better-fitting pants, Bonobos has grown to become the largest apparel brand built on the web in the United States. The product range includes pants, shorts, shirts, suits, sweaters, outerwear, shoes, and various accessories such as belts, bags, and watches. To enhance customer engagement, Bonobos opened Guideshops, which provide personalized shopping experiences. The brand also expanded its reach through partnerships with retailers like Nordstrom. With a commitment to delivering stylish menswear, Bonobos has garnered recognition for its innovative shopping experience and energetic brand spirit. The company is headquartered in New York and operates an e-commerce platform, making its offerings accessible to a wide audience.

LedgerX

Series A in 2014
LedgerX LLC operates an online institutional derivatives exchange platform specifically for digital currencies. Founded in 2013 and based in Vail, Colorado, the company has sought registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to function as a swap execution facility and derivatives clearing organization. Formerly known as NYBX INC, LedgerX is focused on providing a regulated environment for trading digital currency futures and options. The platform features physical settlement of contracts, block trading, and algorithmic trading, enabling both individual traders and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies efficiently. As a subsidiary of NYBX LLC, LedgerX is positioned to enhance the trading landscape for digital assets.

Distractify

Series A in 2014
Distractify uniquely creates and covers what’s trending on the Internet. With an audience of 15.7M monthly unique visitors, we tell the stories that matter to us, create the videos that we want to watch and bring brands to life across relevant content experiences.

Fresh Nation

Seed Round in 2014
Fresh Nation is an enterprise-level B2B wholesale marketplace and management platform for the retail grocery industry, operationalizing local and specialty food assortments for the nation’s largest retailers and distributors. Fresh Nation’s proprietary Virtual Supply Chain™ platform simplifies the complexity of working with thousands of small vendors, saving time and cutting costs. Incorporating a vendor and product rich CRM, interactive supplier portal, order management suite, accounting and invoicing tools, and flexible EDI/API integrations, Fresh Nation is becoming the grocery industry standard for enterprise specialty food management.

Evariant

Series B in 2014
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.

Mic

Series A in 2014
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.

Infinio

Series B in 2013
Infinio addresses the most expensive bottleneck in virtual environments: storage performance. Data center administrators buy more storage hardware when what they really want is better storage performance. Infinio offers a software-only solution instead. Infinio has strong financial backing from tier-one venture capitalists including Highland Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Osage University Partners.

Mic

Seed Round in 2013
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.

Eyeview

Series C in 2013
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.

Affirmed Networks

Series C in 2013
Affirmed Networks, Inc. specializes in providing mobile content cloud solutions globally, focusing on virtualization and network functions. Founded in 2010 and based in Acton, Massachusetts, the company offers a range of services including the Affirmed Service Automation Platform, which helps mobile operators streamline service introduction and reduce operational costs. Their solutions encompass a cloud-based virtual network for Internet of Things services, critical data communications for telecommunications, and virtualized Evolved Packet Core solutions for live traffic management. Additionally, Affirmed Networks has developed UnityCloud 5G core, a cloud-native platform designed to facilitate the deployment of 5G networks for mobile operators. The company's innovative approach aims to enhance intelligence and efficiency in mobile data networks.

Bonobos

Venture Round in 2013
Bonobos is a men's clothing brand established in 2007, known for its focus on fit, customer experience, and a fresh approach to menswear. Initially launched online with a signature line of better-fitting pants, Bonobos has grown to become the largest apparel brand built on the web in the United States. The product range includes pants, shorts, shirts, suits, sweaters, outerwear, shoes, and various accessories such as belts, bags, and watches. To enhance customer engagement, Bonobos opened Guideshops, which provide personalized shopping experiences. The brand also expanded its reach through partnerships with retailers like Nordstrom. With a commitment to delivering stylish menswear, Bonobos has garnered recognition for its innovative shopping experience and energetic brand spirit. The company is headquartered in New York and operates an e-commerce platform, making its offerings accessible to a wide audience.

Affirmed Networks

Series B in 2012
Affirmed Networks, Inc. specializes in providing mobile content cloud solutions globally, focusing on virtualization and network functions. Founded in 2010 and based in Acton, Massachusetts, the company offers a range of services including the Affirmed Service Automation Platform, which helps mobile operators streamline service introduction and reduce operational costs. Their solutions encompass a cloud-based virtual network for Internet of Things services, critical data communications for telecommunications, and virtualized Evolved Packet Core solutions for live traffic management. Additionally, Affirmed Networks has developed UnityCloud 5G core, a cloud-native platform designed to facilitate the deployment of 5G networks for mobile operators. The company's innovative approach aims to enhance intelligence and efficiency in mobile data networks.

Plexxi

Series C in 2012
Plexxi, an affinity-driven networking solutions provider, develops an optimized network that improves the performance of applications. The company offers networking solutions for data center computing needs. It delivers converged, application-defined network infrastructure building blocks and systems for building software-defined data centers and public/private clouds. The solutions enable Cloud Builders to harness the power of a single, simple platform to create private/public/hybrid cloud and data center networks.

Bonobos

Venture Round in 2012
Bonobos is a men's clothing brand established in 2007, known for its focus on fit, customer experience, and a fresh approach to menswear. Initially launched online with a signature line of better-fitting pants, Bonobos has grown to become the largest apparel brand built on the web in the United States. The product range includes pants, shorts, shirts, suits, sweaters, outerwear, shoes, and various accessories such as belts, bags, and watches. To enhance customer engagement, Bonobos opened Guideshops, which provide personalized shopping experiences. The brand also expanded its reach through partnerships with retailers like Nordstrom. With a commitment to delivering stylish menswear, Bonobos has garnered recognition for its innovative shopping experience and energetic brand spirit. The company is headquartered in New York and operates an e-commerce platform, making its offerings accessible to a wide audience.

WeFi

Venture Round in 2012
Wefi's patented technology provides customers deep and broad insights into app usage, user engagement, behavior, and experience patterns. With the industry's largest mobile usage database - processing billions of records daily - wefi provides its customers with significant competitive Business Intelligence. Wireless carriers, cable operators, content providers, brands, application developers and marketers use wefi to improve users' mobile experience, optimize networks, predict data consumption demand, understand consumers' usage patterns and plan better campaigns.

Eyeview

Series B in 2012
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.

Infinio

Seed Round in 2012
Infinio addresses the most expensive bottleneck in virtual environments: storage performance. Data center administrators buy more storage hardware when what they really want is better storage performance. Infinio offers a software-only solution instead. Infinio has strong financial backing from tier-one venture capitalists including Highland Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Osage University Partners.

Teads

Private Equity Round in 2011
Teads is a prominent player in the digital advertising space, specializing in outstream video advertising and serving as a leading native video advertising marketplace. Founded in 2011 and based in New York, with additional offices in Chicago and California, the company operates a video advertising supply side platform (SSP) that enables publishers and brands to create and monetize video inventory. Teads offers various advertising solutions, including inRead formats and programmatic buying, which allow clients to leverage their own sales forces and third-party resources. The company aims to enhance user experience by providing innovative advertising formats that respect user engagement, thereby generating premium inventory. With a workforce of over 600 employees across 27 global offices, Teads has established itself as a key player in the advertising industry since becoming part of the Altice Group in 2017.

Plexxi

Series B in 2011
Plexxi, an affinity-driven networking solutions provider, develops an optimized network that improves the performance of applications. The company offers networking solutions for data center computing needs. It delivers converged, application-defined network infrastructure building blocks and systems for building software-defined data centers and public/private clouds. The solutions enable Cloud Builders to harness the power of a single, simple platform to create private/public/hybrid cloud and data center networks.

LiveProfile

Series A in 2011
LiveProfile operates as a cross-platform mobile messenger and social network, enabling users to connect with friends and share content in real-time. It supports various devices, including Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone, allowing users to send messages, photos, and videos, as well as post status updates. The platform enhances communication by providing features such as delivery and read receipts, along with indicators showing when a recipient is typing, making interactions feel more immediate and engaging. Through its user-friendly interface, LiveProfile aims to facilitate seamless communication and social connectivity among its users.

Bonobos

Series B in 2010
Bonobos is a men's clothing brand established in 2007, known for its focus on fit, customer experience, and a fresh approach to menswear. Initially launched online with a signature line of better-fitting pants, Bonobos has grown to become the largest apparel brand built on the web in the United States. The product range includes pants, shorts, shirts, suits, sweaters, outerwear, shoes, and various accessories such as belts, bags, and watches. To enhance customer engagement, Bonobos opened Guideshops, which provide personalized shopping experiences. The brand also expanded its reach through partnerships with retailers like Nordstrom. With a commitment to delivering stylish menswear, Bonobos has garnered recognition for its innovative shopping experience and energetic brand spirit. The company is headquartered in New York and operates an e-commerce platform, making its offerings accessible to a wide audience.

Teads

Series A in 2010
Teads is a prominent player in the digital advertising space, specializing in outstream video advertising and serving as a leading native video advertising marketplace. Founded in 2011 and based in New York, with additional offices in Chicago and California, the company operates a video advertising supply side platform (SSP) that enables publishers and brands to create and monetize video inventory. Teads offers various advertising solutions, including inRead formats and programmatic buying, which allow clients to leverage their own sales forces and third-party resources. The company aims to enhance user experience by providing innovative advertising formats that respect user engagement, thereby generating premium inventory. With a workforce of over 600 employees across 27 global offices, Teads has established itself as a key player in the advertising industry since becoming part of the Altice Group in 2017.

Eyeview

Series A in 2010
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.

WeFi

Series B in 2009
Wefi's patented technology provides customers deep and broad insights into app usage, user engagement, behavior, and experience patterns. With the industry's largest mobile usage database - processing billions of records daily - wefi provides its customers with significant competitive Business Intelligence. Wireless carriers, cable operators, content providers, brands, application developers and marketers use wefi to improve users' mobile experience, optimize networks, predict data consumption demand, understand consumers' usage patterns and plan better campaigns.

OpTier

Series D in 2008
OpTier is a provider of an application Performance Management (APM) and Big Data Analytics, analyzing billions of business transactions per day. With transactions in its DNA, OpTier offers the market an award-winning, cloud-based APM solution that helps businesses proactively manage, monitor and optimize their production applications. OpTier helps provide global 1000 enterprises – such as Aflac, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, O2 and Wells Fargo – with insights that improve application performance, business results, and customer satisfaction.

Eyeview

Seed Round in 2008
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.