DFJ

DFJ began in 1985 with a focus on early-stage companies. Tim Draper, a third-generation VC with a passion for technology and unconventional thinking, teamed with John Fisher, a former colleague of Draper's, known for his deep enterprise and tech finance experience. Together they shaped the firm's foundational philosophy of investing in people first. One of their first recruits was co-founder Steve Jurvetson. Together they went on to invest in break out companies like Baidu, Hotmail, and Skype. A decade ago, they added their Growth team dedicated to late-stage investing. Today, they have two teams investing two funds. Their Venture team works with founders in the early phases of company building. Their Growth team partners with companies entering hyper-growth mode. DFJ has backed 27 companies that have each achieved more than $1 billion in realized value through an initial public offering or acquisition.

Mark Bailey

Partner

Kevin Bird

Investment Professional

Hope X. Chen

Venture Partner

John H. N. Fisher

Partner

Sam Fort

Partner

Randy Glein

Partner

Mark Greenstein

Partner and CFO

Justin Kao

Partner

Jocelyn Kinsey

Partner

Jen Kodner

Talent Partner

Jennifer Kodner

Talent Partner

Warren Packard

Venture Partner

Sandesh Patnam

Venture Partner

Barry Schuler

Partner

Chris Shanahan

Senior Associate

Sam Shapiro

Principal

Kevin Tu

Principal

Delaney Ugelstad

Associate

Carol Wentworth

Marketing Partner

Don Wood

MD

Donald F. Wood

MD and Venture Partner

441 past transactions

Flywheel

Venture Round in 2014
Flywheel is an industry disruptor for offering a truly unique solution to an industry in need of a technology upgrade. Flywheel harnesses the power of data-driven insights and analytics to help owners, operators and workers resist going off course during day-to-day operations. Flywheel is an industry disruptor, offering a truly unique solution to an industry in need of a technology upgrade. Flywheel is a dedicated and passionate team of individuals that have come together with a vision to create a sustainable, economical and efficient environment for every facility they serve.

Mythic

Series B in 2018
Mythic Inc. designs and develops silicon chips and intelligence processing unit (IPU) based on artificial intelligence (AI). Its AI platform puts desktop GPU compute capabilities and neural networks onto a button-sized chip. The company was formerly known as Isocline Engineering Corporation. Mythic Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California with an additional office in Austin, Texas.

Yodle

Series A in 2006
Yodle, Inc. provides online marketing services to local business owners. Its services include Web presence, local search placement, social media, customer reviews, Email marketing, and special offers distribution. The company also works with franchises and multi-location businesses. Yodle, Inc. was formerly known as Natpal, Inc. and changed its name to Yodle, Inc. in July 2007. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York. As of March 9, 2016, Yodle, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Web.com Group, Inc.

Wigix

Series A in 2008
Online marketplaces should be smart, safe, easy to use, fun, and friendly. Wigix.com is the only online marketplace with a "one-product, one page" model for regular people like you. An organized catalog leads to easy ways to find your item. Buying online with Wigix is not only quick, but it's fun too!

Tioga Energy

Series A in 2007
Tioga Energy accelerates access to clean energy by owning and operating renewable energy facilities for commercial, government and non-profit organizations. With a Tioga Energy solar PPA (power purchase agreement) customers eliminate up-front capital investments and ongoing operational concerns. The company partners with trusted industry experts to install and operate efficient and reliable systems. Through deep, trusted relationships with solar industry partners, Tioga Energy provides simple, reliable, low-cost and long-term access to clean energy options without the risk of up-front capital investments or the ongoing commitments of owning and operating an independent solar facility.

Hopin

Series C in 2021
Hopin Ltd operates an online events platform that enables users to create engaging online events that connects people around the globe. It provides networking events, meetups, conferences, fairs and trades, hybrid events, webinars, company events, online courses, summits and forums, workshops, and exhibitions. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Sysdig

Series F in 2021
Sysdig (Twitter: @sysdig) is the cloud-native intelligence company. We have created the only unified platform to deliver monitoring, security, and troubleshooting in a microservices-friendly architecture. Our open source technologies have attracted a community of over a million developers, administrators and other IT professionals looking for deep visibility into systems and containers. Our container intelligence platform monitors and secures millions of containers across hundreds of enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies and web-scale properties.

Clinc

Series B in 2019
Clinc, Inc. develops software applications based on artificial intelligence. The company serves banking, car, gaming, and healthcare industries. Clinc, Inc. was formerly known as Clarity Lab Inc. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that empowers companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage. Talkdesk easily adapts to the evolving needs of sales and support teams and their end-customers, resulting in increased customer satisfaction, productivity, and cost savings. Over 1,400 innovative enterprises around the world, including IBM, Acxiom, and Zumiez rely on Talkdesk to power their customer interactions.

FluidAI Medical

Seed Round in 2021
NERv Technology Inc. develops an implantable biochip with biosensors to detect post-operative complications, such as internal bleeding, leakage of bodily fluids, and infection within the abdominal cavity. The biosensor collects data and identifies the complications as it develops and informs both patient and physician in real-time. It also detects changes in the levels of biomarker. The company serves physicians, surgeons, hospitals, and patients. NERv Technology Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.

Miartech

Series C in 2012
Miartech(Shanghai),Inc. develops, manufactures, and distributes Interne of Things technology products for use in smart grids, smart cities, building energy efficiency, smart homes, clean energy access, street light management, photovoltaic, and ecological agricultural applications. Its products and services include intelligent building and energy saving systems, power line carrier communication (PLC) chips and modules, chip module customization, and software development services. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Yellowbrick Learning

Series C in 2019
Yellowbrick's mission is to empower the next generation of talent to achieve their calling by tapping into passion points that spark success, fuel personal advancement, and unlock doors to fulfilling careers. With integrated partnerships across top-tier educational institutions and brands, our courses and experiences put learners on a path toward doing what they love. Find out more at www.yellowbrick.co.

Mobile 365

Series D in 2004
Mobile 365 is the new company formed from the merger of the two leaders in the mobile messaging world: InphoMatch, the leader in interoperable data and messaging services for mobile operators, and Mobileway, the leader in messaging solutions for brands and content providers. It is the global leader in the delivery, billing, and settlement of mobile messaging services. Their extensive footprint enables us to reach more mobile users—with more types of mobile data—than anyone else on the globe. They reliably deliver messages, premium content, and value-added services for the leading mobile operators, content providers, brands, and media companies worldwide.

SpaceX

Secondary Market in 2012
Space Exploration Technologies is a space-transportation startup company founded by Elon Musk. SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX develops crew and cargo capsules, engines, cryogenic tank structures, avionics, equipment, guidance, and control software. The company is developing the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. Founded in 2002, Space Exploration Technologies is headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

NearbyNow

Venture Round in 2009
[NearbyNow](http://www.nearbynow.com) creates mobile shopping applications that help consumers find products in their size near them at any time. Clients include magazines Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, GQ, and Brides, as well as brands and retailers such as Nike, Levi's, Estee Lauder, and Bon-Ton Stores. NearbyNow claims the highest click-through (28%) and conversion-to-purchase (5.8%) rates in the mobile shopping space. Brands and retailers can purchase multi-media ads directly from their ad network, reaching 2+ million mobile shoppers.

Immuta

Private Placement in 2020
Immuta provides a cloud-native data governance platform for organizations to automate data access control, security and privacy compliance, ensuring each user who queries data sees only the data they’re supposed to see, for their approved purpose or role. The platform aims to create trust across data engineering, security, legal, compliance, and business teams so they can work together to ensure timely access to critical data with minimal risk, while adhering to global data privacy regulations including the GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA.

ICIX

Venture Round in 2012
Active Transparency. Brand Protection. Customer Trust. ICIX helps the retail industry’s leading companies collaborate across trading partner networks to achieve Active Transparency. Our solutions enable companies to safeguard consumers, protect their brand, and build trust - all while improving margins. More than 20,000 businesses actively connect on the ICIX network, including 3 of the top 10 U.S. retailers and the top 100 food suppliers. ICIX customers include Walmart, Nike, Target, Hanesbrands, US Foods, Diageo, Wakefern and Restoration Hardware.

Box

Series B in 2009
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls. After starting as a college business project in 2005, Box was officially launched in March of 2006 with the vision of connecting people, devices, and networks. Box provides more than 8 million users with secure cloud content management and collaboration. They say their platform "allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere." It also helps businesses of all sizes in every industry securely access and manages their critical information in the cloud. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Nervana

Series A in 2015
Nervana focuses on building technology to power the next generation of intelligent applications. Founded by experts in machine learning, neuroscience, processor architecture, and chip design, Nervana Systems is bringing unprecedented scale and simplicity to the application of brain-inspired algorithms. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Diego, California.

Imagen Technologies

Series B in 2018
Imagen is a healthcare company whose mission is to save patient lives by making accurate medical image interpretation universally available and affordable. Currently, over two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have access to basic radiology services. Through our technology and close collaboration with world-leading clinicians, we believe that we can do something about it. We take an interdisciplinary approach: we are a team of experts in machine learning, healthcare, software engineering, and regulatory affairs who research and develop assistive software for clinicians. Our FDA-cleared software analyzes the content of medical images and produces diagnoses, improving the diagnostic accuracy of clinicians by highlighting detected pathology. We are advised by some of the world’s leading scientists and medical researchers, including Turing Award winner Yann LeCun. We have raised over $60M from leading investors including GV, DFJ, and Zach Weinberg. Imagen is based in New York and actively hiring. Are you excited about joining our mission? Reach out directly to us at recruitingteam@imagen.ai

Imago Scientific Instruments

Venture Round in 2006
Imago is a world class provider of metrology and analysis equipment serving the microelectronic and general research markets. We are committed to the development of the nanotechnology solutions required as the semiconductor, data storage and advanced materials industries increasingly enter the realm of nanotechnology.Imago provides time-to-market advantages to our customers through leading edge technology in the field of three-dimensional, nanoscale, metrology and analysis equipment. Our focus on and funding of advanced technology, together with our network of industrial collaborations, ensures that we continue to accelerate the development of these empowering metrology techniques. Imago's headquarters moved to a new, larger office and manufacturing facility in July 2006. The world-class applications lab includes two dual beam focused ion beams, two scanning electron microscopes, electro polishing equipment, a clean room area for specimen preparation, and a suite of Imago LEAP microscopes.

Viewhigh Technology

Series A in 2007
Beijing Viewhigh Technology Co., Ltd. (望海康信) is a company focused on R&D, and services of application software in Chinese medical health industry. As a professional industrial application software company, Viewhigh Technology Co., Ltd. Accumulates the theoretical and practical experience of senior industry management, especially in fields such as public health, disease monitoring and control, health supervision, medical assistance. It is also applied in the operation and management of medical institutions and the combination of the commercial insurance, medical treatment and health system, and the performance of governmental functions. Viewhigh Technology Co., Ltd. has conducted deep research and gained understanding and proposed advanced solution proposals for emerging industry needs such as public sanitation system construction, digital regional health resources management, coping mechanism for emergent events, basic medical security system management, and more.

Reflect

Seed Round in 2016
Reflect Technologies, Inc. was acquired by Puppet, Inc. Reflect Technologies, Inc. develops and provides a data-visualization-as-a-service platform for software developers to add analytics capabilities to their own software. Its platform offers a studio and an API to developers for creating visualizations and embedded analytics for their customers. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

4INFO

Venture Round in 2009
4INFO, Inc. operates as an identity and activation solutions company. The company offers Bullseye ID, which creates a match key that maps all the connected devices in a household to consumer data, including the marketer’s own CRM data and a treasure trove of second and third-party data for insights, targeting, and attribution. Its platform delivers measured mobile campaigns to CPG companies, retailers, and auto manufacturers. The company serves brands, agencies, media, and data companies; and advanced TV, CPG, automotive, retail, QSR, pharma, and financial industries. 4INFO, Inc. was formerly known as UDoIt. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in San Jose, California. It has a location in New York, New York. As of January 2, 2020, 4INFO, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cadent, LLC.

Outreach

Series D in 2018
Outreach is a sales engagement platform that accelerates revenue growth by optimizing every interaction throughout the customer lifecycle. The platform manages all customer interactions across email, voice and social, and leverages machine learning to guide reps to take the right actions. Thousands of customers, including Cloudera, Glassdoor, Pandora, and Zillow, rely on Outreach to drive predictable and measurable growth, increase efficiency and effectiveness of customer-facing teams, and improve visibility into sales activity and performance.

NeoPhotonics

Series C in 2006
NeoPhotonics offers a complete line of both active and passive optical components for every network market segment: FTTH/Access, Datacom, Storage Area Networks, Metro and Long Haul networks. NeoPhotonics' transceivers are compliant with industry standard MSAs, are available in GBIC, SFF, SFP, XFP and other configurations, and serve a variety of reaches, applications and data-rates from 155MBps to 10GBps. NeoPhotonics' advanced silica Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) integrated optical modules and subsystems are critical parts in access FTTH networks and in metro and long-haul DWDM networks. For FTTH, NeoPhotonics manufactures integrated splitters in high volume and FTTH BiDi and TriPlexer transceivers, Other products include AWGs, Athermal AWGs, VOA Multiplexers, EDFAs and ROADM Modules. NeoPhotonics' manufactures MEMS-based Variable Optical Attenuators and Dynamic Channel Equalizers

Good Technology

Venture Round in 2005
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Vizu Corporation

Series A in 2005
Enterprise technology platform allowing advertisers to target audiences through the purchase funnel

Posit Science

Venture Round in 2009
Posit Science Corporation provides brain training software. It offers exercises through its Website to improve brain speed, attention, and memory. The company was formerly known as Neuroscience Solutions Corporation and changed its name to Posit Science Corporation in January 2005. Posit Science Corporation was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tacit Software

Venture Round in 2000
Tacit Software is a provider of collaboration and knowledge management software and the company behind illumio (www.illumio.com), a productivity tool for monitoring news, blogs, and wikis and connecting with others to share knowledge and expertise. illumio is used by individuals and organizations to more effectively discover and share information by delivering to users only what's important to them. Tacit's enterprise customers include some of the world's leading Fortune 500 companies including Lockheed Martin, Morgan Stanley, and Northrop Grumman.

Social Project

Series A in 2006
Social Project LLC develops Flux, a social platform with fans participating across various Websites. It also offers third-party publisher network transition services. Social Project LLC was formerly known as Tagworld, Inc. and changed its name to Social Project LLC in September, 2007. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Santa Monica, California. Social Project LLC operated as former subsidiary of Viacom Media Networks. As of February 22, 2017, Social Project LLC operates as a subsidiary of Vivendi SA.

InsightSquared

Series C in 2014
InsightSquared offers the industry's most complete and flexible Revenue Intelligence Platform, featuring six integrated solutions in one. We empower revenue professionals to make better decisions by equipping them with actionable, real-time intelligence that drives predictable growth. B2B organizations worldwide rely on InsightSquared to build stronger, healthier pipelines, improve conversion rates, target rep coaching, boost forecast accuracy and significantly increase competitive win rates. For more information, visit www.insightsquared.com.

Balena

Private Placement in 2018
Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. It provides infrastructure and tools for fleet owners so they can focus on developing their applications and growing their fleets with as little friction as possible. Balena enables devices and their running services to be managed, monitored, and updated through the web dashboard or through its API, via the CLI and SDK. Balena was established in 2013.

Eventful

Series A in 2005
Eventful, the leading digital media company, powers the online ecosystem of local events and entertainment. Over 20 million people rely on Eventful to find out what's happening and decide what to do. Eventful's unique, social media platform, "Demand it!" empowers fans to influence content and location of entertainment and live events. Music promoters, film studios, ticketing companies and other industry providers use Demand it! to engage with fans and determine their routing schedules or theatrical distribution. National marketers rely on Eventful to drive local awareness, commerce, attendance and tune-in. Thousands of digital publishers also rely on Eventful to power their local events and entertainment content. Eventful's proprietary technologies provide a global platform for local event discovery: the world's largest selection of local event content, content management system, state-of-the-art recommendation engine, email platform delivering personalized, localized content and commercial offers, robust API platform, localization system, Demand it! and a self-service premium listing platform. Eventful competitors include [Upcoming.org](http://www.Upcoming.org) and [Zvents](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zvents/).

Intrusic

Series A in 2004
As of January 15, 2007, Intrusic, Inc. went out of business. Intrusic, Inc. provides internal threat intelligence solutions. Its solutions protect information assets from the malicious or careless activities of trusted insiders. The company's Intrusic 4.0 solution helps organizations identify malicious, unauthorized, and inadvertent activities that breach business or security policies, and threaten compliance. Intrusic's solutions include supply chain extranets, data leakage, compromise detection, and policy compliance. Its services include internal security snapshot, internal security risk assessment, and internal threat awareness courses. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Pro.com

Venture Round in 2017
Pro.com is a full-service remodeling general contractor in Seattle, Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area, Denver, and Phoenix. Pro.com is streamlining the residential construction experience with a team of construction experts and its own technology — such as a pricing engine that makes sure bids are accurate, detailed and mobile-friendly estimates, and project management tools that give both Pro.com staff homeowners a window into their projects.

Z2

Series B in 2011
Z2 is a mobile-first free-to-play game developer and publisher that allows players to compete and collaborate in real time through their iPhones or iPads. It creates highly social games that promote free-to-play model. Z2 currently maintains studios and technology resources in Seattle, W.A. for building both mass-market social games along with more traditional 3D multiplayer games. The company's first product called Trade Nations, a city builder game, has created one of the largest game communities on mobile having logged over 500 million game sessions since its launch. Trade Nations has been recognized as one of the top grossing games on [Apple](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apple)'s AppStore since launch. The company's second game, MetalStorm became one of the top ranked and top grossing games on iTunes within 3 days of launch. Z2 has a community layer that supports the most advanced set of community features including in-game email, text chat, voice chat, real-time multiplayer, player icons, achievements, badges, and a full social graph that is integrated with [Facebook](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook) and [twitter](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter). Z2 was launched in 2009 by [Damon Danieli](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/damon-danieli), and [David Bluhm](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/david-bluhm) and [Lou Fasulo] (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/lou-fasulo). Madrona Venture Group backed the company. Z2 developed four Top Grossing titles for mobile and was sold to King in 2015, which later became part of Activision Blizzard. It is headquartered in Seattle, W.A.

Front

Series D in 2022
Front powers the heart of business — the meaningful connections between teams and customers that lead to lasting relationships. Bringing email and apps together in a collaborative customer communication platform, Front drives business impact by scaling the natural conversations that create customers for life. More than 6,000 businesses are using Front today to cultivate personalized customer relationships at scale and transform their work into impact. Learn more at frontapp.com.

Box

Series D in 2011
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls. After starting as a college business project in 2005, Box was officially launched in March of 2006 with the vision of connecting people, devices, and networks. Box provides more than 8 million users with secure cloud content management and collaboration. They say their platform "allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere." It also helps businesses of all sizes in every industry securely access and manages their critical information in the cloud. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Widetronix

Venture Round in 2008
Widetronix Inc. designs and manufactures ultra-low power sensor with lifetimes designed to exceed 25 years. It offers the technology, called a betavoltaic, which powers the autonomous sensor platform. It offers Betavoltaic Power Sources, Firefli which continuously produce energy, which can be provided directly to a device or stored by a battery or capacitor. It provides applications in defense, industrial infrastructure and monitoring, and medical implant sectors. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Ithaca, New York.

Katerra

Series C in 2017
Katerra is a technology company optimizing every aspect of building development, design, and construction. The global team includes leaders in design, software and building engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and construction. Founded in 2015, Katerra has a growing number of domestic and international offices, factories, and building projects.

Xfire

Series A in 2003
Provides social gaming and networking services, shares in-game screen shots and videos, and live-streams gameplay

Ping Identity

Series B in 2005
Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations. They help enterprises achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security & more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The Ping Intelligent Identity Platform provides customers, employees, partners, and, increasingly, IoT, with access to the cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs, while also managing identity and profile data at scale. Ping Identity was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Foursquare

Series E in 2016
Foursquare subsidiary, managing Asia-Pacific including Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc.

iList

Series A in 2008
iList was a social classifieds service trying to take on Craigslist. It let you cross-post your listings on Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, and Pownce. It also tried to tap into your friends and contacts to get them to promote your listings to their friends. The site is no longer in service.

Magnolia Broadband

Series B in 2002
Magnolia Broadband, Inc. provides RF services to the wireless market. It offers value proposition and broadband technology products to the multimedia services. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Englewood, New Jersey.

Twin Prime

Series A in 2015
Twin Prime makes mobile apps fast. Performance in mobile depends on a variety of factors such as the wireless network technology, device models, operating system software and even the nature of the app itself. This makes the problem incredibly hard and complex. Twin Prime uses machine learning to make sense of these factors and delivers content to apps in the most optimal and quickest way.

Legend Silicon

Series E in 2007
Legend Silicon Corp is a fabless semiconductor company engaging in the development of broadband wireless transmission technologies and products. Legend Silicon was founded in 1999 in Silicon Valley, Calif., by graduates of Tsinghua University. The company has operations in Fremont, Calif., and the Chinese cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin. The mission of Legend Silicon is to become a leading supplier of technology and silicon solutions for a new generation of broadband wireless broadcasting, initially focusing on China market.

Mythic

Series A in 2017
Mythic Inc. designs and develops silicon chips and intelligence processing unit (IPU) based on artificial intelligence (AI). Its AI platform puts desktop GPU compute capabilities and neural networks onto a button-sized chip. The company was formerly known as Isocline Engineering Corporation. Mythic Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California with an additional office in Austin, Texas.

Tango

Series D in 2014
TangoMe, Inc., doing business as Tango, provides free mobile messaging service application that connects with friends and family. Its application is available for various platforms, such as iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Blackberry, Kindle Fire, and PC. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California.

NinthDecimal

Series A in 2006
NinthDecimal is the marketing platform powered by location data. It harnesses this data to build a precise understanding of consumers’ physical world behavior. Fortune 500 companies and marquee brands activate this customer intelligence through audience targeting, measurement, insights, and data licensing solutions. By filling the gap in understanding how consumers spend the majority of their time, NinthDecimal provides marketers a new model of the customer journey for impactful engagement.   It was founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Edeniq

Series B in 2010
Edeniq, Inc. is a leading biotechnology company that develops processes for producing and measuring cellulosic ethanol from corn kernel fiber through its Intellulose technology. Edeniq’s Intellulose requires zero capital investment and is easily integrated into existing ethanol production facilities. Edeniq was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Visalia, Calif. with a field office in Omaha, Neb. More information can be found at www.edeniq.com.

Calibrate

Series B in 2021
Calibrate is a new telemedicine metabolic health care startup that gives people everywhere control of their health. Their one-year metabolic reset is built on the latest weight health science and is vetted and approved by a world-class clinical advisory board. They are a modern, medical approach that combines medication with one-on-one coaching—all personalized to the individual's biology, their goals, and their life for a 10% weight loss that lasts. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York.

EverSpin Technologies

Series B in 2013
Everspin Technologies, Inc. manufactures and sells magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) products in the United States, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Germany, and internationally. It offers Toggle MRAM, spin-transfer torque MRAM, and tunnel magneto resistance sensor products, as well as foundry services for embedded MRAM. The company provides its products for applications, including data center, industrial, automotive, transportation, and enterprise storage markets. It serves original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers through a direct sales channel and a network of representatives and distributors. Everspin Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.

Splice

Series B in 2017
Splice designs and develops a technology platform for music creators streamlines the fragmented process of creating and sharing music. It also provides artists with means to connect with fans and other artists to solicit feedback throughout every step of the process. Matthieu Aimonetti and Steve Martocci founded Splice in 2013. It has its headquarters in New York City.

Banyan Branch

Series A in 2011
Banyan Branch is a pure social media agency that is pioneering the way brands, companies, and movements can harness the power of social media for their benefit. In our approach, we seek to understand your business objectives, and define the social media strategy that delivers on those objectives.

Vizu Corporation

Series A in 2007
Enterprise technology platform allowing advertisers to target audiences through the purchase funnel
Businesses on Stripe rank access to capital as their biggest obstacle to growth. Traditional lenders aren’t set up to serve internet businesses, typically requiring lengthy applications, complex collateral obligations, and fixed payment schedules. They built Stripe Capital to cut through the red tape. Their goal is to provide access to fast, flexible financing that helps online businesses invest in growth.
Helix OpCo, LLC owns and operates an online marketplace for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) powered products. The company also operates gene sequencing laboratories that sequences, stores, and analyzes an individual's genetic data and allows users to explore their genealogy or understand their risk for inherited diseases. It offers various ancestry, health, wellness, and entertainment products. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Raydiance

Series D in 2012
Raydiance is the world’s leading developer of ultrafast laser technology. Raydiance has built a deeply experienced team that draws expertise from the software, microelectronics, telecommunications and photonics industries. Creator of the first compact, reliable, “industrial grade” femtosecond laser platform, Raydiance is powering an explosion of innovation in manufacturing, healthcare, defense and more. Raydiance began when senior Defense Department officials introduced technology pioneer Barry Schuler to a DARPA project designed to miniaturize ultrafast lasers for military applications. Schuler immediately grasped the compelling capabilities of ultrafast lasers – if they could be liberated from highly controlled lab environments and transformed into small, inexpensive photonic engines that could power many applications. Schuler brought together a world-class team to build the world’s first miniaturized, computer controlled, software driven “plug and play” ultrafast laser platform. Raydiance’s Smart LightTM technology is transforming a wide array of sectors, including medical micro-devices, clean tech energy, consumer electronics and defense applications. The company has built the world’s first high-volume manufacturing facility capable of scaling production to thousands of units per year. Further, it has invented key technologies—such as its proprietary fiber delivery system—that support volume commercialization. By aggregating many markets onto its platform, Raydiance is using volume-manufacturing techniques to drive costs down and open market opportunities. The company is rapidly transforming ultrafast technology from a unique research tool into a practical and broadly accessible platform technology.

Box

Series E in 2013
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls. After starting as a college business project in 2005, Box was officially launched in March of 2006 with the vision of connecting people, devices, and networks. Box provides more than 8 million users with secure cloud content management and collaboration. They say their platform "allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere." It also helps businesses of all sizes in every industry securely access and manages their critical information in the cloud. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Siimpel Corporation

Series C in 2005
Applies high precision MEMS platform technology to enable the reduction in size of high-performance digital cameras

LaunchDarkly

Series C in 2019
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves over 100 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software. Feature flagging is an industry best practice of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka ”dark launching”). Their vision is to eliminate the risk for developers and operations teams from the software development cycle. LaunchDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. They are building a diverse team so that they can offer robust products and services. Their team culture is fast-paced, friendly, and supportive. LaunchDarkly was founded on July 14, 2014, and is headquartered in California, USA.

Hopin

Series B in 2020
Hopin Ltd operates an online events platform that enables users to create engaging online events that connects people around the globe. It provides networking events, meetups, conferences, fairs and trades, hybrid events, webinars, company events, online courses, summits and forums, workshops, and exhibitions. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Socialtext

Series B in 2005
Company that produces enterprise social software via its integrated suite of web-based social apps

Qingdao Crystech Coating

Series A in 2009
Crystechcoating, Inc was founded in Qingdao, a beautiful eastern coast city in China, in May, 2003. Crystechcoating is dedicated to developing both advanced optical components and high power LED source with fully marketing and technical supports from our key investor, Foreal Spectrum, Inc in San Jose. With seven years team work, and continual innovation, we have built strong R/D, and operation team so that we are fully recognized as one of the global leaders in the design, manufacture, and marketing of LED modules, LED lighting solutions, and advanced optical components. Since 2009, our management began to promote two BRANDs of Crystechcoating and G-lighting independently in order to better serve our components and LED modules customers in diversified market segments such as

Yardbarker Network

Venture Round in 2009
Yardbarker aggregates news articles about sports from around the web. These articles are submitted by users and voted up in a Digg-like fashion. Amateur writers can also contribute to the site with blog posts about their favorite sports topics. Sports videos and photos are also aggregated alongside articles. Professional Athletes like Baron Davis, Greg Oden, Champ Bailey, and Donovan McNabb, and Rajon Rondo contribute weekly blog entries. While Yardbarker.com is the company's content hub page, the company also runs a network of 600+ sports blogs, fan sites, and male content focused websites. In October 2008, the company announced FARK.com as their latest network addition as well as reaching 10 million unique people.

Edeniq

Venture Round in 2015
Edeniq, Inc. is a leading biotechnology company that develops processes for producing and measuring cellulosic ethanol from corn kernel fiber through its Intellulose technology. Edeniq’s Intellulose requires zero capital investment and is easily integrated into existing ethanol production facilities. Edeniq was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Visalia, Calif. with a field office in Omaha, Neb. More information can be found at www.edeniq.com.

Good Technology

Series H in 2005
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Aera Technology

Series C in 2019
Aera Technology, Inc. develops cognitive software solutions. It offers Cognitive Operating System, a cloud platform for cognitive automation of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data modelling, and data science functions to help run business operations. Its platform allows employees to build and configure their own digital skills; automate processes that combine different functions and data sources; use prepackaged skills, or work with partners on developing skills for the organization. Its applications include demand planning in the supply chain via harmonising data from ERP, CRM, sales, marketing, trends, and social feeds. It serves pharma, manufacturing, retail, wholesale, and CPG industries. Aera Technology, Inc. was formerly known as FusionOps, Inc. and changed its name to Aera Technology, Inc. in June 2017. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional offices in San Francisco, California; Paris, France; Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest, Romania; Pune and Bangalore, India; Sydney, Australia; and Singapore.

Chef, Inc.

Series B in 2010
Chef, Inc. provides cloud-based infrastructure automation solutions. It offers configuration management, a solution to manage complex infrastructure; cloud management that enables users to manage and scale cloud infrastructure with no downtime or interruptions, as well as build, destroy, and rebuild servers on public or private cloud; and DevOps, a solution for collaboration between development and operations. The company also provides Enterprise Chef that automates user infrastructure that accelerates time to market, helps users to manage scale and complexity, and safeguards their systems; and professional services that include planning, training and skill development, and project-based services. Chef, Inc. was formerly known as Chef, Inc. and changed its name to Opscode, Inc. in December 2013. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Seattle, Washington. As of October 5, 2020, Chef, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Progress Software Corporation.

Set Labs

Series A in 2021
Set Labs is creating the next generation of finance through crypto-financial primitives. The company is developing tools that enable developers to bundle crypto assets together called Sets, which allow users to create cryptocurrency baskets, baskets of non-fungibles, baskets of on-chain securities, and more.

Mimeo

Series C in 2002
Mimeo is an on-demand printing service that allows customers to submit their digital documents, proof and print them. They can do all sorts of documents including complex bound documents, all within 24 hours. According to Mimeo, they have achieved more than 50% revenue growth with expanding margins in each of the last four years including 2006 and produce over 2 million pages a night (Sept. 2007). For your documents you can choose color or black & white printing, different bindings, covers, paper stocks and finishing options, including customized tabs, dividers and slip sheets.

Twitter

Series G in 2011
Microblogging

Elementary Robotics

Series A in 2020
Elementary Robotics, Inc. manufactures robots for human assistance. It offers robots to automate QA and traceability for AI-assisted manufacturing. The company’s robots are also used to track the stages of assembly across production lines. It serves electronics, automotive, medical, and consumer packaged goods and logistics industries. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Pasadena, California with additional offices in Mexico and Chicago.

Solar Junction

Series D in 2012
Solar Junction is a manufacturer of high efficiency III-V multi-junction solar cells based on ASLAM ™ materials. The company is dedicated to providing the industry’s highest efficiency solar cells to enable CPV as a cost effective energy solution. Founded in 2007, Solar Junction is headquartered in San Jose, California. Investors include New Enterprise Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Advanced Technology Ventures.

Imagen Technologies

Series A in 2017
Imagen is a healthcare company whose mission is to save patient lives by making accurate medical image interpretation universally available and affordable. Currently, over two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have access to basic radiology services. Through our technology and close collaboration with world-leading clinicians, we believe that we can do something about it. We take an interdisciplinary approach: we are a team of experts in machine learning, healthcare, software engineering, and regulatory affairs who research and develop assistive software for clinicians. Our FDA-cleared software analyzes the content of medical images and produces diagnoses, improving the diagnostic accuracy of clinicians by highlighting detected pathology. We are advised by some of the world’s leading scientists and medical researchers, including Turing Award winner Yann LeCun. We have raised over $60M from leading investors including GV, DFJ, and Zach Weinberg. Imagen is based in New York and actively hiring. Are you excited about joining our mission? Reach out directly to us at recruitingteam@imagen.ai

AdXpose

Series B in 2008
AdXpose is the leader in digital advertising analytics solutions. The company's SaaS technology provides advertisers and publishers with greater transparency and confidence in the quality, safety, and performance of their digital advertising campaigns. The actionable optimization metrics captured by AdXpose solutions help its customers realize increased ROI, more profitable margins, and measurable ad effectiveness. AdXpose is headquartered in Seattle, WA, with offices in New York City, and is backed by Draper Fischer Jurvetson and Ignition Partners

WaterSmart Software

Seed Round in 2011
WaterSmart Software provides intelligence beyond the meter to make the lives of water utility managers easier. Water providers using WaterSmart’s cloud-based, customer engagement, and analytics platform have been proven to reduce costs, protect revenue, and increase customer satisfaction by more than 25%. The company has won the globally coveted World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers Award for their potential to impact business and society through the design, development, and implementation of new technologies and innovation.

Rho

Series B in 2021
Rho Business Banking is a digital banking service built and developed by New York-based fintech start-up Rho Technologies to accelerate growth for start-ups. Its products support high-growth businesses that work with entrepreneurs. Rho provides full-service digital banking solution that integrate with the tools and services used by entrepreneurs in running their businesses. Rho Business Banking is headquartered in New York, New York.

SolarCity

Series C in 2007
SolarCity is the nation's 1 leading provider of solar energy systems that deliver reliable clean energy to homes and businesses. SolarCity went public on the NASDAQ exchange in 2012 with a market cap of around $600 million.

Brilliant Telecommunications

Venture Round in 2009
Brilliant Telecommunications, Inc. designs, develops, and distributes network timing, management, and synchronization solutions. Its products include Zurich Z-1000, a zero footprint, outdoor, and pole-mounted Network Time Protocol server that embodies its own timing management interface to provide tools for diagnosis, monitoring, and alarms; Cern C-2000, which is a Primary Reference Source and Clock that provides time stamping accuracy and configurability; and BT-750, a network timing client that delivers multiple synchronous outputs in a flexible platform. The company serves financial markets, legal institutions, telecommunication companies, and manufacturing organizations. Brilliant Telecommunications, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Campbell, California.

NinthDecimal

Debt Financing in 2010
NinthDecimal is the marketing platform powered by location data. It harnesses this data to build a precise understanding of consumers’ physical world behavior. Fortune 500 companies and marquee brands activate this customer intelligence through audience targeting, measurement, insights, and data licensing solutions. By filling the gap in understanding how consumers spend the majority of their time, NinthDecimal provides marketers a new model of the customer journey for impactful engagement.   It was founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Good Technology

Series C in 2014
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Digital Path

Series B in 2003
Digital Path provides high-speed wireless broadband Internet and phone services to residential and business sectors in Northern California. It offers business-grade phone systems that include local and long-distance, hosted voicemail, multiple line configurations, and call forwarding services. The company also provides higher data speeds, dedicated business data circuits, multiple business telephone bundle options, competitive pricing, service quality guarantees, extensive rural and metro coverage, enhanced back-office configuration, and provisioning and installation services. In addition, it offers satellite, DSL, or cable services for the residential sector.

Polarr

Series A in 2019
Polarr, Inc. develops and operates online and offline photo-editing software. It develops ready-to-deploy AI technology for photography, video, and other creative use cases to provide developers tools and resources to create applications that enable and inspire everyone to make creations. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Salt Security

Series D in 2022
Salt Security is an API security company based in Palo Alto, California. It provides an API protection platform to prevent attacks, using machine learning and AI to automatically and continuously identify and protect APIs. Deployed in minutes, the platform learns the granular behavior of a company’s APIs and requires no configuration or customization to pinpoint and block API attackers. The company was founded in 2016 and led by co-founder and CEO Roey Eliyahu.

Viz

Series C in 2021
Viz helps physicians to identify anomalies in brain scans through machine learning. The company leverages advanced deep learning to communicate time-sensitive information about stroke patients straight to a specialist who can intervene and treat. It uses deep learning algorithms to identify a suspected large vessel occlusion, a particularly disabling type of stroke, in a CT scan and alerts the stroke team specialist within minutes. Viz has developed deep learning algorithms to analyze brain scans for large vessel occlusions (LVOs), a disabling type of stroke. The company also allows the stroke center’s clinicians to rapidly share images back and forth. Viz's mission is to fundamentally improve how healthcare is delivered in the world, through intelligent software that promises to reduce time to treatment and improve access to care. Viz was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California, USA.

littleBits Electronics

Series B in 2015
LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modules provided by littleBits. LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.

Clinc

Private Placement in 2019
Clinc, Inc. develops software applications based on artificial intelligence. The company serves banking, car, gaming, and healthcare industries. Clinc, Inc. was formerly known as Clarity Lab Inc. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

PubMatic

Series B in 2009
PubMatic is an automation solutions company for an open digital media industry. Featuring the leading omni-channel revenue automation platform for publishers and enterprise-grade programmatic tools for media buyers, PubMatic’s publisher-first approach enables advertisers to access premium inventory at scale. Processing nearly one trillion ad impressions per month, PubMatic has created a global infrastructure to activate meaningful connections between consumers, content and brands. Since 2006, PubMatic’s focus on data and technology innovation has fueled the growth of the programmatic industry as a whole. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, PubMatic operates 12 offices and six data centers worldwide. PubMatic is a registered trademark of PubMatic, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

GlobalSight

Series B in 1999
GlobalSight is an open-source Translation Management System (TMS) that automates, streamlines, and manages the localization process. Upon upload, files for translation are routed along a customized workflow that can include both machine and human steps. Translations, reviews and edits are done online using the GlobalSight editors or offline by downloading translation kits for each of the main industry-standard tools. The completed files are then finalized and made available for download. Typical GlobalSight users include localization project managers, translators, reviewers, DTP engineers, as well as administrators and developers.

Shift

Series C in 2017
Shift is an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. Shift is an online platform that enables its users to find, compare, and purchase or sell cars. Acting as a personal concierge service, the company details cars, lists them on multiple lists, handles test drives, and finds intent buyers. Charging a Shift Service Fee for registration, car prep services, and sales tax, Shift provides customers with a 150-point concierge report that includes specs, high-resolution photos, vehicle history, and results on their cars before purchase.

Polaris Wireless

Series B in 2004
Polaris Wireless, Inc. develops and offers software-based 3D location solutions to wireless operators, law enforcement and government agencies, and location-based application companies. The company provides 3D Location Platform, a cloud-based platform enabling applications that locate any mobile device on any network, indoors, and in real-time; and OmniLocate, integration and quicker time-to-market solution. It caters to public safety, hospitality, and healthcare industries. Polaris Wireless, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional offices in Zug, Switzerland and Singapore.

Zoox

Seed Round in 2015
Zoox is a California based robotics company founded by Tim Kentley-Klay and Dr. Jesse Levinson to create autonomous mobility. Operating at the intersection of design, computer science, and electro-mechanical engineering, Zoox is a multidisciplinary team working to imagine and build an advanced mobility experience that will support the future needs of urban mobility for both people and the environment.

MyShape

Series C in 2010
MyShape.com is an online retail store created for you. Personalized stores (called myShop) search for and display clothing matched to a shopper's specific measurements, body shape and preferences.

BinOptics

Series B in 2005
BinOptics Corporation manufactures monolithically integrated optoelectronic components. It offers directly modulated fabry-perot, directly modulated distributed feedback, and ring lasers; and custom integrated chips, such as edge- and surface-emitting lasers, monitoring and high-speed photodetectors, electroabsorption modulators, semiconductor optical amplifiers, beam couplers/splitters, waveguides, and on-chip lenses. The company offers its products for use in datacom and telecommunication applications, such as gigabit ethernet and PON applications, as well as advanced non-telecomunication applications. BinOptics Corporation was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ithaca, New York.

4INFO

Venture Round in 2013
4INFO, Inc. operates as an identity and activation solutions company. The company offers Bullseye ID, which creates a match key that maps all the connected devices in a household to consumer data, including the marketer’s own CRM data and a treasure trove of second and third-party data for insights, targeting, and attribution. Its platform delivers measured mobile campaigns to CPG companies, retailers, and auto manufacturers. The company serves brands, agencies, media, and data companies; and advanced TV, CPG, automotive, retail, QSR, pharma, and financial industries. 4INFO, Inc. was formerly known as UDoIt. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in San Jose, California. It has a location in New York, New York. As of January 2, 2020, 4INFO, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cadent, LLC.

Ivus

Venture Round in 1999
Ivus provides real-time e-commerce solutions. It was founded by Suvi Sharma.