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 Western US

Arrcus

Series D in 2023
Arrcus, Inc. designs and develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers. Its operating system software enables organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Its products include ArcOS, a software-driven, hardware agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides networking professionals with real-time views of the networks and devices with insights for incident management and troubleshooting; and Arrcus VDR, a routing platform; Arrcus IP/EVPN Clos solution; and Arrcus multi-cloud networking platform. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Select Star

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

Xembly

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

Finix

Venture Round in 2022
Finix Payments, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides a payment infrastructure platform designed to help businesses manage and monetize their payment processes effectively. Founded in 2015, Finix offers a range of services, including a payment facilitator platform that includes features such as tokenization, merchant onboarding, reporting, reconciliation, settlements, and chargeback management. The company enables businesses to avoid the complexities and costs associated with developing an in-house payment system. Additionally, through a partnership with Visa, Finix facilitates real-time push-to-card payments, enhancing the efficiency of disbursements. Finix's solutions aim to improve the payment experience for both businesses and their customers, recognizing the critical role that effective payment technology plays in driving revenue.

Normalyze

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

Magic Eden

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

Ancora Biotech LLC

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

Glean

Series C in 2022
Scio is a search engine that aims to help in the finding of any piece of data via any tool in any company. The company's software integrates with multiple platforms to find precise data points and provide relevant search results, allowing employees to find required data points based on keywords.

One More Game

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

Landed

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

Blockchain

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

Celona

Series C in 2022
Celona, Inc. is a company based in Cupertino, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in developing a cloud-based networking platform that integrates 5G technology with enterprise infrastructure. The company leverages the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum to facilitate the adoption of LTE and 5G wireless networks within enterprises. Celona's AI-powered applications simplify the deployment and integration of cellular wireless services, allowing enterprise IT organizations and managed service providers to streamline their operations. The founding team, with backgrounds in leading tech companies like Qualcomm, Aruba, and Cisco, aims to transform business operations through a combination of 5G radio technology, edge computing, and machine learning software.

Theta Lake

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

Kirilys Therapeutics

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

Roofstock

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

Ponder

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

Socket

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

Redpanda Data

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

PropBidder

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

Zebec

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

Cohere Technologies

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

Thunkable

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

Alchemy

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

Gemist

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

Lost Lake Games

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

Dremio

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

Astro

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

Seel

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

Fan Controlled Football

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

Volley

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

Noname Security

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

Apex.AI

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

Mysten Labs

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

Panther

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

CyCognito

Series C in 2021
CyCognito solves one of the most fundamental business problems in cybersecurity: seeing how attackers view your organization, where they are most likely to break in, what systems and assets are at risk and how you can eliminate the exposure. Founded by national intelligence agency veterans, CyCognito has a deep understanding of how attackers exploit blind spots and a path of least resistance. The Palo Alto-based company is funded by leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and its mission is to help organizations protect themselves from even the most sophisticated attackers. It does this with a category-defining, transformative platform that automates offensive cybersecurity operations to provide reconnaissance capabilities superior to those of attackers..

Kodiak Robotics

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

Alchemy

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

Hawku

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

Yugabyte

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

ClickHouse

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

ClickUp

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

Protego Biopharma

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

Outschool

Series D in 2021
Outschool operates an online platform that facilitates live, interactive learning experiences for children through classes taught by independent teachers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the platform connects parents, motivated learners, and educators, allowing families to discover and book a variety of online classes tailored to their interests. The platform caters to a diverse range of educators, including certified teachers and individuals with expertise in various fields. Outschool's model enables parents to select classes and teachers based on their children’s needs, thereby expanding educational opportunities in a cost-effective manner compared to traditional tutoring. The platform emphasizes community building by allowing parents to collaborate on activities and share experiences.

Dexterity

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

BetterUp

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

All Day Kitchens

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

LeapYear Technologies

Venture Round in 2021
LeapYear Technologies, Inc. operates a platform designed to help organizations extract value from sensitive data while ensuring its security and privacy. The platform allows domain experts, data scientists, and partner organizations to develop automated machine learning applications and APIs that facilitate the use of confidential and regulated data sources. By implementing differential privacy, LeapYear ensures that data can be utilized for analysis and machine learning without exposing or compromising individual data points. The company collaborates with major players in sectors such as financial services, healthcare, technology, and insurance to combine and analyze previously restricted data, enabling organizations to monetize these valuable assets effectively. Founded in 2014 and based in Berkeley, California, LeapYear Technologies was known as Shroudbase, Inc. prior to its name change in January 2015.

1047 Games

Venture Round in 2021
1047 Games develops and offers console games. The company is headquartered in the United States.

Parallel Finance

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

Holo

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

Forage

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

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.

Seismic

Series G in 2021
Seismic’s leading sales enableSeismic is the leading global sales and marketing enablement solution, improving close rates, and delivering larger deals for sales while increasing marketing’s impact on the bottom line. Large enterprises use Seismic to increase sales productivity through the automatic distribution of relevant information and personalized content to reps for any buyer interaction. Powerful content controls and visibility into usage ensures brand integrity and reduces risk. Seismic’s machine learning and analytics capabilities continuously improve the entire enablement process for large enterprises, increasing the ROI of sales content and tying it directly to revenue. Headquartered in San Diego and with more than 300 employees across the globe, Seismic is privately held by its executive team and investment firms General Atlantic, JMI Equity, and Jackson Square Ventures.

People.ai

Series D in 2021
People.ai operates a predictive platform that automates rep training, coaching, and Salesforce sync. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Market

Seed Round in 2021
Market is a business focused on enhancing financial health and fostering partnerships within various industries. Founded in 2019 and based in Santa Monica, California, it provides advisory services that assist direct-to-consumer and app-based companies in gaining insights into their financial performance. By offering analytics and insights, Market empowers businesses to make informed decisions and improve their overall financial health. Additionally, Market facilitates better understanding among companies, helping them identify and connect with potential partners to drive growth.

Snorkel AI

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

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.

Eco

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

Blameless

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

3T Biosciences

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

Sugar

Seed Round in 2021
Jetpack, Inc. is a company that specializes in the online retail and delivery of both food and non-food products, focusing on nighttime service. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Stanford, California, the company primarily serves college students by providing essential consumer products on-demand. Jetpack aims to streamline convenience for its customers by ensuring that necessary items are readily available in real-time, thereby enhancing the overall shopping experience.

Netskope

Venture Round in 2021
Netskope, Inc. is a software company specializing in cloud application analytics and security solutions designed to protect enterprise data and users globally. The company offers the Netskope Security Cloud, which provides real-time visibility and protection against data threats when accessing cloud services, websites, and private applications. Through its patented Cloud XD technology, Netskope enables organizations to gain insights into cloud usage and enforce policies such as data loss prevention, access control, and malware protection across various platforms. Additionally, the company’s NewEdge security network facilitates seamless security without compromising performance. Netskope also functions as a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), helping organizations manage cloud application usage and prevent data exfiltration. Its offerings extend to web security solutions that filter content, detect advanced threats, and control application usage. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Netskope serves various industries, including financial services, healthcare, and retail, with a global presence supported by multiple data centers.

Zerion

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

Osmos

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

Moveworks

Series C in 2021
Moveworks is a cloud-based AI platform purpose-built for large enterprises that solves one, big, frustrating problem: Resolving employees'​ IT support issues. Instead of tracking issues, we use advanced AI to solve them, instantly and automatically—with no human intervention. We count many of the world’s most recognizable brands as our customers. From hyper-growth startups to the Fortune 500, these companies rely on Moveworks to keep their employees productive and their businesses running smoothly. Moveworks is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Noname Security

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

Tonkean

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

Fiddler

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

Parallel Finance

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

Eightfold AI

Series E in 2021
Eightfold.ai® delivers the Talent Intelligence Platform™, the most effective way for organizations to retain top performers, upskill and reskill the workforce, recruit top talent efficiently, and reach diversity goals. Eightfold.ai's deep learning artificial intelligence platform empowers enterprises to turn talent management into a competitive advantage. Eightfold was founded by world experts in deep learning and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Kikoff

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

YourBase

Seed Round in 2021
YourBase is a software build and test tool that simplifies and accelerates CI and local development. The tool builds and tests applications quickly by selecting the right tests to run, validating Pull Requests 2 to 10x faster. YourBase also makes local development consistent with CI by reusing the same build tool and process. YourBase helps developers stay "in the zone" doing their best work.

Synctera

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

Exabeam

Series F in 2021
Exabeam is a big data security analytics company that provides enterprises with advanced user behavior intelligence to unlock the potential of existing security information and event management and log management data repositories, enabling IT security teams to more quickly detect and respond to cyberattacks and insider threats in real time. The company’s user behavior intelligence technology fundamentally changes the way cyberattacks are detected and simplifies security operations by focusing on attacker behavior rather than ever-changing malware and tools, shining a spotlight on suspicious network activity, and reducing the noise of false positive security alerts. Through extraction and enrichment of log feeds, user session tracking, behavior analysis, and event risk scoring, Exabeam gives IT security teams the ability to detect and track credential use in all parts of the attack chain and prioritize responses. The company was built by seasoned security and enterprise IT veterans from Splunk, Imperva, and Sumo Logic, and believes in working together as a team to achieve customer success. Exabeam was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Arrcus

Venture Round in 2021
Arrcus, Inc. designs and develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers. Its operating system software enables organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Its products include ArcOS, a software-driven, hardware agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides networking professionals with real-time views of the networks and devices with insights for incident management and troubleshooting; and Arrcus VDR, a routing platform; Arrcus IP/EVPN Clos solution; and Arrcus multi-cloud networking platform. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Shappi

Seed Round in 2021
Connecting Shoppers with verified Travelers to deliver products by renting the traveler’s unused luggage space.

Hidden Leaf Games

Seed Round in 2021
Hidden Leaf Games is an indie game development studio founded with the mission of delivering a world-class experience that focuses on competition, progression, and social play. We believe games are meant to be played together, regardless of skill level or platform. At our core, we're players who deeply value the social and community interactions that competitive moments have to offer. We believe that competitive games create lasting moments and are committed to recreating that experience for others to enjoy.

Parting Stone

Seed Round in 2021
Parting Stone develops a new form of human and animal remains called solidified remains. It offers families choosing cremation as an alternative to conventional ash. Its service solidifies the full amount of remains into a collection of stone-like solids. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Outschool

Series C in 2021
Outschool operates an online platform that facilitates live, interactive learning experiences for children through classes taught by independent teachers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the platform connects parents, motivated learners, and educators, allowing families to discover and book a variety of online classes tailored to their interests. The platform caters to a diverse range of educators, including certified teachers and individuals with expertise in various fields. Outschool's model enables parents to select classes and teachers based on their children’s needs, thereby expanding educational opportunities in a cost-effective manner compared to traditional tutoring. The platform emphasizes community building by allowing parents to collaborate on activities and share experiences.

Snorkel AI

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

Glean

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

Blockchain

Series C in 2021
Blockchain.com operates a comprehensive platform that enables users to buy, hold, and utilize cryptocurrencies, aiming to create an accessible financial system for the internet. With over 50 million users, it offers a straightforward method for engaging with digital currencies, including features for trading, sending, receiving, securing, and borrowing them. The platform also includes a widely used explorer for tracking crypto market activities and an exchange that facilitates fast trading experiences. Additionally, Blockchain Ventures, supported by Blockchain.com, invests in distributed ledger technology (DLT) projects that foster societal benefits and advance the industry, promoting innovative applications of DLT beyond financial services. Overall, Blockchain.com seeks to revolutionize the financial landscape by enabling quick transactions without intermediaries and providing essential tools for real-time market insights.

Firework

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

Osmos

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

Yugabyte

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

Bizwise

Seed Round in 2021
Business Website Design | Small Business Software

BetterUp

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

United Dwelling

Convertible Note in 2021
United Dwelling is a real estate company that allows homeowners to build a second home on their residential zoned property. It converts the garage into a small home, finds a tenant the homeowner approves, manages it, and shares the rental income with the homeowner. The company is transforming garages and backyards into beautiful, smartly designed rental homes, known as Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), at absolutely no cost to the homeowner. United Dwelling handles every aspect of the process including permitting, partnering with a contractor for construction, finding qualified tenants that approve, managing, and maintaining the property. The company uses data to identify potential lots that would be suitable for its units. It targets mostly low income and middle-income neighborhoods, with some exceptions for workforce housing.

Blockchain

Venture Round in 2021
Blockchain.com operates a comprehensive platform that enables users to buy, hold, and utilize cryptocurrencies, aiming to create an accessible financial system for the internet. With over 50 million users, it offers a straightforward method for engaging with digital currencies, including features for trading, sending, receiving, securing, and borrowing them. The platform also includes a widely used explorer for tracking crypto market activities and an exchange that facilitates fast trading experiences. Additionally, Blockchain Ventures, supported by Blockchain.com, invests in distributed ledger technology (DLT) projects that foster societal benefits and advance the industry, promoting innovative applications of DLT beyond financial services. Overall, Blockchain.com seeks to revolutionize the financial landscape by enabling quick transactions without intermediaries and providing essential tools for real-time market insights.

Redpanda Data

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

Flockjay

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