Shasta Ventures

Shasta Ventures, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is a private equity firm that specializes in early-stage investments, primarily focusing on seed to series B-stage software companies in the United States. Over the past 15 years, the firm has supported more than 30 startups in achieving significant milestones, including going public or being acquired, by providing essential capital and expertise. In addition to its general investment activities, Shasta Ventures manages the Shasta Camera Fund, which focuses on pre-seed and seed investments in innovative technologies such as Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and camera-first Computer Vision applications. This dedicated fund aims to support visionaries by investing up to $0.1 million per entrepreneur, with plans for 20 to 30 investments in groundbreaking ideas.

Jayaram Bhat

Venture Partner

Avery Cannon

CFO

Robert Coneybeer

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Tod Francis

Managing Partner

Austin Grose

Chief Financial Officer

Ravi Mohan

Managing Partner

Jacob Mullins

Managing Director

Jason Pressman

Managing Director

Issac Roth

Managing Director

Kenn So

Associate

409 past transactions

Portainer

Series A in 2022
Portainer.io Limited specializes in developing open-source user interface tools for managing container-based environments. The company provides a comprehensive container management platform known as Portainer CE, which includes features for application management, cluster management, and various other management services such as identity, storage, and network management. For enterprise customers, Portainer offers Portainer Business, which focuses on container management and orchestration. The platform supports a range of environments, including Kubernetes, Docker, Azure container instances, and Edge computing. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, with an office in Palo Alto, California, Portainer aims to simplify container orchestration systems, making them more accessible and user-friendly for both software developers and IT operations professionals. The intuitive interface provided by Portainer accelerates the adoption of container technology, enhances security, and streamlines software delivery, ultimately aiding enterprises in faster deployment and troubleshooting processes.

Deno

Series A in 2022
Deno Deploy is a distributed system that runs JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly at the edge, worldwide. The service deeply integrates the V8 JavaScript runtime with a high performance asynchronous web server to provide optimal performance without unnecessary intermediate abstractions.

Accern

Series B in 2022
Accern Corporation, based in New York, develops a no-code web surveillance software platform that automates research and data analysis processes. Its technology is particularly beneficial in financial research, fundamental investing, coverage banking, and quantitative trading, serving a range of clients, including hedge funds, asset managers, and news media sectors. Accern's platform leverages advanced natural language processing and forecasting features to extract insights from unstructured data, thereby minimizing time to value and maximizing return on investment. The company partners with significant industry players and is recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 company. Accern was incorporated in 2014 and is supported by various venture capital firms.

Wisq

Series A in 2022
Wisq is computer software that aims to make people happier at work. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Ascend.io

Series B in 2022
Ascend.io develops a platform that introduces new cognitive models for working with big data pipelines. The company is based in Palo Alto, California.

Data.world

Series C in 2022
Data.world, Inc. operates an open data platform designed to facilitate the discovery, understanding, and sharing of data across various sectors, including finance, education, environment, and politics. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, the platform enables users to access and utilize a wide array of data by minimizing data wrangling and simplifying data transformation processes. It fosters collaboration through a large community, allowing users to engage in projects that range from data journalism to social bot detection. Data.world emphasizes the importance of ethical data practices and has co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, which promotes effective teamwork in data-related endeavors. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Data.world is committed to balancing its mission of enhancing data accessibility and collaboration with the pursuit of shareholder value.

Kubit

Series A in 2022
Kubit AI, Inc. is a Fremont, California-based company that specializes in designing and developing analytical software utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. Founded in 2018, Kubit offers a Smart Analytics platform that transforms data warehouses into powerful analytics tools, facilitating deep data discovery and insights. The software provides capabilities for benchmark analysis, including metrics on engagement, retention, and performance, as well as automated diagnostics to detect anomalies and identify root causes. Additionally, it supports collaborative decision-making through standardized communication processes. Kubit serves a diverse range of industries, including music, media, entertainment, education, social, e-commerce, travel, and gaming, making advanced data analytics accessible to various sectors.

CommerceIQ

Series D in 2022
CommerceIQ™ is the leader in Ecommerce Channel Optimization (ECO), the practice of using machine learning, analytics and automations to optimize the ecommerce channel across supply chain, marketing and sales operations to win at the moment of purchase and drive profitable market share growth. CommerceIQ has been adopted by leading consumer brands accounting for more than $6 billion in ecommerce sales and millions in marketing spend, including Avery Products, Georgia-Pacific, Spectrum Brands and 3 of the top-5 Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Companies in the U.S. These brands rely on CommerceIQ’s machine-based commerce technology and business processes, which are purpose-built to tune ecommerce algorithms, collaborate and share data-driven insights in real-time in response to changing variables across hundreds of products on leading retail sites. Using CommerceIQ as a single source of truth, customers have driven 40% increase in incremental sales, 20% improvement in profitability and 32% reduction in out of stock rates on Amazon. For more information, please visit CommerceIQ.

Mayday

Seed Round in 2022
MAYDAY LABS INC. designs and develops wellness and productivity software solutions. The company offers calendar scheduling assistant solutions, including automatic travel time scheduling. MAYDAY LABS INC. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

anecdotes

Series A in 2022
Anecdotes operates a cloud-based compliance platform designed to assist compliance leaders in managing information security and data compliance efficiently. By automating the evidence collection process, the platform alleviates the burdens associated with manual compliance efforts, enhancing reliability and reducing time consumption. It continuously gathers and organizes relevant data into credible evidence, facilitating improved collaboration between compliance teams and auditors. Anecdotes aims to break down data silos, transforming isolated tasks into a streamlined, strategic compliance journey. Trusted by major global enterprises, the company focuses on empowering organizations to scale their compliance efforts with innovative solutions.

Lattice

Series F in 2022
Lattice is a people management platform that enables People Leaders to develop engaged, high-performing teams. By combining continuous performance management and employee engagement in one solution, HR and People teams get powerful, real-time analytics that leads to actionable insights turning managers into leaders, employees into high-performers, and companies into the best places to work.

BanyanOps, Inc.

Series B in 2022
BanyanOps, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing software for the static analysis of Docker container images. The company aims to enhance security and efficiency in software development by providing tools that help organizations assess and manage their containerized applications. By focusing on static analysis, BanyanOps enables enterprises to identify vulnerabilities early in the development process, ensuring that their Docker images are secure before deployment. This proactive approach supports organizations in maintaining compliance and improving the overall integrity of their software solutions.

Mustard

Seed Round in 2022
Mustard is an elite-level motion analysis app for broad athletics coaching. Mustard's platform conducts complex data analysis of video captured in-app on a player or coach's mobile phone and delivers easily understandable report cards along with personalized, actionable drills to optimize performance. The robust AI technology and application suite, to expand into additional sports, and to build out an elite and robust mental performance training platform for all athletes. Mustard was founded in 2019 by Tom House, Jason Goldsmith, Luke Collis, and Rocky Collis.

Searchlight

Series A in 2021
Searchlight is a San Francisco-based company that has developed a modern platform for automated reference checks aimed at enhancing talent assessment. Founded by Kerry Wang and Anna Wang, the platform addresses the challenges candidates face in distinguishing themselves through their resumes by leveraging insights from individuals who have previously worked with them. Searchlight's technology combines reference data with predictive analysis to identify top performers, utilizing an algorithm that analyzes and summarizes feedback from references. By inviting references to share contextualized work experiences through a custom online link, the platform enables recruiters to better assess candidate-position compatibility, ultimately improving the recruitment process.

Cequence Security

Series C in 2021
Cequence Security is a venture-backed cybersecurity software company founded in 2014 and based in Sunnyvale, CA. Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2018, the company has developed the Cequence Application Security Platform (ASP), an open, distributed, and scalable software platform designed to protect customers’ web, mobile, and API applications from the growing number of malicious bot attacks. Cequence Security will be delivering multiple security service modules for ASP, each designed to work together, simplify security architectures, and deliver strong protection for today’s hyper-connected organizations. Cequence Security customers include F500 organizations across multiple vertical markets. The executive team is led by industry veterans that previously held leadership positions at Palo Alto Networks and Symantec.

Auror

Series B in 2021
Auror Limited offers a platform that facilitates electronic reporting of incidents for businesses and law enforcement agencies. This solution allows law enforcement to gather and analyze information on alleged offenders, identify crime trends, and enhance situational awareness to improve crime prevention efforts. The platform supports reporting various in-store incidents, including shoplifting and fraud, and enables real-time alerts for store managers and security personnel regarding high-risk individuals in the vicinity. Auror promotes collaboration between businesses and law enforcement, aiming to reduce crime and foster community partnerships in crime prevention. Founded in 2012 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, the company was previously known as Eyedentify Limited until its name change in 2015.

ThreeKit

Series B in 2021
ThreeKit Inc. designs and develops three dimensional (3D) product configuration and visualization platform that offers interactive product solutions and user-selected customization options. It offers interactive 3D solutions, photorealistic 2D solutions, augmented reality and virtual reality solutions, visual configuration solution that provides interactive visualization of product catalog, and digital asset management solutions which control digital assets through platform. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Activeloop

Seed Round in 2021
Activeloop, formerly known as Snark AI, is a technology company founded in 2018 and based in San Jose, California. The firm specializes in a cloud computing platform that enhances deep learning training and deployment. Activeloop offers a comprehensive tool designed to accelerate deep learning processes while managing hybrid cloud environments. Its platform simplifies the infrastructure needed for machine learning and deep learning, effectively serving as an operating system for these applications. Additionally, the platform facilitates data-model tracking and analysis, providing users with efficient capabilities for both training and inference in deep learning tasks.

Viakoo

Series A in 2021
Viakoo, Inc. offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that provides advisories about problems in video network infrastructure. Its products include Viakoo Preemptive, Viakoo Predictive, and Viakoo Predictive OP, which enables users to discover, map, and instrument their video network; and provides performance trending information of video surveillance infrastructure, the dashboard status, bulletins, summary reports, real-time detection, remote alerting, and a troubleshooting database. The company also provides customer support and diagnostics, troubleshooting assistance, and professional services. Viakoo, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Bild

Seed Round in 2021
Bild is an on-demand manufacturing platform that provides companies access to quick-turn prototyping manufacturers. Through the platform, users will also have access to the tools needed to efficiently engage and manage designs with manufacturing partners, enabling them to prototype faster and get to validation earlier.

Prodly

Series A in 2021
Prodly, Inc. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in developing tools for transferring relational data within Salesforce environments. Founded in 2014, Prodly offers a platform known as AppOps, which automates the full lifecycle of low-code development. This platform enables Salesforce administrators and developers to migrate data efficiently and effectively, addressing challenges in the application development process while also ensuring IT governance to reduce risks associated with agile development. Their flagship product, Moover, allows for one-click migration of relational data across various Salesforce organizations and supports key functionalities such as Salesforce CPQ, billing, and field service solutions. Notable clients include Nutanix, Johnson & Johnson, Splunk, Tableau, and Verizon, who utilize Prodly's services to enhance and update critical business applications.

vFunction

Series A in 2021
VFunction develops an innovative product for businesses to modernize applications and accelerate transformation of existing Java applications to cloud-native architecture. The product enables companies to easily and effectively stay ahead of the curve. The company's team brings unique expertise to change clients’ ability to modernize core business applications.

Sealights

Series B in 2021
SeaLights Technologies Ltd. operates a cloud-based testing platform. Its products includes, test impact analysis, test gap, analysis, and release quality analysis. It enables to measure functional test code coverage; track various build quality metrics and test statuses across various testing tools and environments; and prevent untested code changes from reaching production. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.

Cloudsmith

Series A in 2021
Cloudsmith is a cloud-native DevOps warehouse built on Package Management, that secures, controls and accelerates software delivery, worldwide. It's an Enterprise-grade Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) that handles your package management so you don't have to.

GoFormz

Series A in 2021
GoFormz helps its customers to transform into data-driven businesses with its mobile-first business productivity platform. GoFormz provides an easy and proven way for companies to mobilize their paper forms and turn them into smart mobile business applications. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Diego, California.

TrueFort

Series B in 2021
TrueFort Fortress is a comprehensive, real-time cloud and application workload protection solution that secures the largest, most targeted and most dynamic, part of the enterprise attack surface … its application environment. It leverages telemetry from your existing agents and delivers more value than point or infrastructure-focused solutions. Best of all, it is a single console, policy, and reporting system from which to measure, control and immediately improve your risk posture.

Accern

Convertible Note in 2021
Accern Corporation, based in New York, develops a no-code web surveillance software platform that automates research and data analysis processes. Its technology is particularly beneficial in financial research, fundamental investing, coverage banking, and quantitative trading, serving a range of clients, including hedge funds, asset managers, and news media sectors. Accern's platform leverages advanced natural language processing and forecasting features to extract insights from unstructured data, thereby minimizing time to value and maximizing return on investment. The company partners with significant industry players and is recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 company. Accern was incorporated in 2014 and is supported by various venture capital firms.

Oomnitza

Series C in 2021
Oomnitza, Inc. is an enterprise software company specializing in IT asset management solutions. Based in San Francisco with additional offices in Minsk and Los Altos, Oomnitza provides a cloud-based platform that enables organizations to effectively track and manage a wide range of assets, including end-user hardware, SaaS applications, and networking infrastructure. The platform facilitates the entire asset lifecycle, from procurement to deployment and maintenance, offering features such as inventory management, reporting, workflow automation, and mobile access. Oomnitza's solutions cater to various sectors, including finance, retail, technology, education, healthcare, construction, and government, helping clients optimize resources, enhance security, and streamline processes. Incorporated in 2012, the company aims to deliver comprehensive visibility and control over an organization's digital estate.

Cequence Security

Series B in 2021
Cequence Security is a venture-backed cybersecurity software company founded in 2014 and based in Sunnyvale, CA. Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2018, the company has developed the Cequence Application Security Platform (ASP), an open, distributed, and scalable software platform designed to protect customers’ web, mobile, and API applications from the growing number of malicious bot attacks. Cequence Security will be delivering multiple security service modules for ASP, each designed to work together, simplify security architectures, and deliver strong protection for today’s hyper-connected organizations. Cequence Security customers include F500 organizations across multiple vertical markets. The executive team is led by industry veterans that previously held leadership positions at Palo Alto Networks and Symantec.

Cequence Security

Venture Round in 2021
Cequence Security is a venture-backed cybersecurity software company founded in 2014 and based in Sunnyvale, CA. Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2018, the company has developed the Cequence Application Security Platform (ASP), an open, distributed, and scalable software platform designed to protect customers’ web, mobile, and API applications from the growing number of malicious bot attacks. Cequence Security will be delivering multiple security service modules for ASP, each designed to work together, simplify security architectures, and deliver strong protection for today’s hyper-connected organizations. Cequence Security customers include F500 organizations across multiple vertical markets. The executive team is led by industry veterans that previously held leadership positions at Palo Alto Networks and Symantec.

CommerceIQ

Series C in 2021
CommerceIQ™ is the leader in Ecommerce Channel Optimization (ECO), the practice of using machine learning, analytics and automations to optimize the ecommerce channel across supply chain, marketing and sales operations to win at the moment of purchase and drive profitable market share growth. CommerceIQ has been adopted by leading consumer brands accounting for more than $6 billion in ecommerce sales and millions in marketing spend, including Avery Products, Georgia-Pacific, Spectrum Brands and 3 of the top-5 Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Companies in the U.S. These brands rely on CommerceIQ’s machine-based commerce technology and business processes, which are purpose-built to tune ecommerce algorithms, collaborate and share data-driven insights in real-time in response to changing variables across hundreds of products on leading retail sites. Using CommerceIQ as a single source of truth, customers have driven 40% increase in incremental sales, 20% improvement in profitability and 32% reduction in out of stock rates on Amazon. For more information, please visit CommerceIQ.

Macrometa

Series A in 2021
Macrometa Corporation is an information technology company that provides a geo-distributed data as a service platform, focusing on real-time, low-latency applications across multiple cloud environments and edge computing. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, Macrometa operates globally with facilities in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Pune, India. The company's platform enables distributed global stream processing and supports a wide range of applications, including online gaming, Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions, and event-driven architectures. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Macrometa facilitates the development of large-scale distributed systems, allowing clients to enhance the performance of data-driven web and mobile applications through its serverless cloud infrastructure. With a network of 175 edge data centers worldwide, Macrometa ensures instant data access and processing capabilities for its users.

The Pill Club

Series B in 2021
The Pill Club is a healthcare service that specializes in delivering birth control and related products across the United States. Founded in 2014 and based in California, it operates as an online retailer and pharmacy, providing a convenient way for women to access birth control, emergency contraceptives, and wellness gifts. The Pill Club is supported by a team of medical professionals and aims to empower women by facilitating personalized healthcare experiences. It offers prescription services in 34 states and Washington D.C., ensuring widespread access to its products. With a focus on women's health and well-being, the company strives to enhance personal freedom and health ownership through its innovative telemedicine approach.

Vertalo

Series A in 2021
Vertalo is an investor onboarding, cap table, and compliance platform that connects issuers and investors directly to sources of secondary liquidity. Working directly with issuers, or through our growing network of broker-dealers, Vertalo enables any asset to be tokenized, stored in a blockchain wallet, and traded in real-time based on the smart contract between the issuer and the investor.

LawVu

Seed Round in 2021
LawVu Ltd is a legal operations platform that provides software designed for in-house legal departments. Founded in 2015 and based in Tauranga, New Zealand, LawVu's application facilitates the management of legal issues, contracts, and relationships while ensuring quality control over instructions sent to external legal providers. The platform offers features such as matter management, contract lifecycle management, and vendor management, all integrated into a single system. It enables the automation of contracts, storage in contract repositories, and reporting and analysis, streamlining the transition from traditional legal departments to a more efficient legal operations framework. LawVu aims to enhance the overall efficiency and effectiveness of legal departments by consolidating various legal functions into one connected system.

Shabodi

Seed Round in 2021
Enterprise Software, SaaS, PaaS, 5G

Deno

Seed Round in 2021
Deno Deploy is a distributed system that runs JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly at the edge, worldwide. The service deeply integrates the V8 JavaScript runtime with a high performance asynchronous web server to provide optimal performance without unnecessary intermediate abstractions.

Lattice

Series E in 2021
Lattice is a people management platform that enables People Leaders to develop engaged, high-performing teams. By combining continuous performance management and employee engagement in one solution, HR and People teams get powerful, real-time analytics that leads to actionable insights turning managers into leaders, employees into high-performers, and companies into the best places to work.

Highspot

Series E in 2021
Highspot, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that offers a cloud-based sales engagement platform designed to enhance how businesses interact with their customers. Founded in 2012, the platform provides intelligent content management, training, and contextual guidance, along with actionable analytics to optimize sales pitches and content delivery. Highspot's features include scoring and recommending content, offering real-time alerts on customer engagement, and facilitating the creation of sales playbooks tailored to specific roles and industries. The company also integrates with customer relationship management systems, enabling businesses to improve customer engagement and drive revenue growth. In addition to its headquarters in Seattle, Highspot has an office in London, United Kingdom.

Weel Autonomy

Seed Round in 2021
An on-demand ebike service where the bikes deliver themselves to customers.

vFunction

Seed Round in 2021
VFunction develops an innovative product for businesses to modernize applications and accelerate transformation of existing Java applications to cloud-native architecture. The product enables companies to easily and effectively stay ahead of the curve. The company's team brings unique expertise to change clients’ ability to modernize core business applications.

Literati

Series B in 2021
Literati, Inc. is a subscription-based book club service tailored for children ages 0-12 in the United States. Founded in 2016 and based in Austin, Texas, the company offers a variety of themed book clubs, such as Club Neo, Club Sprout, Club Nova, and Club Sage. In addition to its subscription service, Literati provides gifting options, allowing customers to gift books or redeem them for others. The company's innovative approach includes a try-before-you-buy model and curated selections by notable figures, enhancing the reading experience for young audiences. With a focus on fostering a love for literature, Literati aims to engage children and families through thoughtfully curated reading materials.

Skilljar

Series B in 2020
Skilljar Inc. develops and operates an online training platform that enables organizations to create, customize, and deliver online courses. It offers technology, sales, professional development, finance, and fitness training services. The company also provides enterprise and partner services, such as custom branding, course management, turnkey solution, and mobile responsive. Skilljar Inc. was formerly known as Everpath Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Survios

Funding Round in 2020
Survios is a virtual reality company that creates groundbreaking interactive content powered by cutting edge immersive technology. It is composed of a team of dreamers, makers, artists, thinkers, and gamers. It's focus is all about engaging games., immersive tech and unparalleled presence. Nathan Burba, James Iliff and Alexander Silkin launched Project Holodeck as an interdisciplinary effort at the University of Southern California’s Games program. From Project Holodeck they founded Survios, and continue to focus on virtual reality gaming and immersive technology.

Macrometa

Seed Round in 2020
Macrometa Corporation is an information technology company that provides a geo-distributed data as a service platform, focusing on real-time, low-latency applications across multiple cloud environments and edge computing. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, Macrometa operates globally with facilities in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Pune, India. The company's platform enables distributed global stream processing and supports a wide range of applications, including online gaming, Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions, and event-driven architectures. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Macrometa facilitates the development of large-scale distributed systems, allowing clients to enhance the performance of data-driven web and mobile applications through its serverless cloud infrastructure. With a network of 175 edge data centers worldwide, Macrometa ensures instant data access and processing capabilities for its users.

Elevate Security

Series A in 2020
Elevate Security specializes in Human Risk Management software designed to help enterprises assess and mitigate human-related security risks. Recognizing that human behavior poses significant challenges in cybersecurity, Elevate Security provides a platform that quantifies these risks using existing security incident data. This analysis offers critical insights for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), enabling them to optimize security investments and focus efforts on high-risk groups. The platform also promotes behavioral change by engaging employees with interactive learning experiences when risky behaviors are identified, thereby fostering a culture of security awareness. Serving medium and large enterprises across various sectors, including financial services, technology, and healthcare, Elevate Security enhances cyber resilience by integrating its solutions into existing security frameworks. Founded in 2017, the company operates from Berkeley, California, and maintains an office in Quebec, Canada.

Camera IQ

Series A in 2020
Camera IQ Inc. develops an application that integrates OS platforms, AR toolkits, and native applications. It helps unify drag-and-drop tools for creating, deploying, and measuring AR content. The company's software helps companies build marketing and advertising experiences for smartphone cameras. Camera IQ Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Tonal

Series D in 2020
Tonal Systems, Inc. is a manufacturer and provider of innovative fitness training equipment designed for home use. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company specializes in a smart home gym system that incorporates artificial intelligence and expert coaching to deliver personalized strength training workouts. The equipment is wall-mounted and utilizes a unique technology that offers adjustable resistance through magnets and electricity, making it unnecessary to use traditional weights. Tonal provides customized workout plans tailored to individual goals, such as muscle building and improving athletic performance, along with live-recorded classes led by professional coaches. The company operates in several states, including California, New Jersey, Florida, New York, Texas, Massachusetts, Washington, and Minnesota.

Data.world

Series B in 2020
Data.world, Inc. operates an open data platform designed to facilitate the discovery, understanding, and sharing of data across various sectors, including finance, education, environment, and politics. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, the platform enables users to access and utilize a wide array of data by minimizing data wrangling and simplifying data transformation processes. It fosters collaboration through a large community, allowing users to engage in projects that range from data journalism to social bot detection. Data.world emphasizes the importance of ethical data practices and has co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, which promotes effective teamwork in data-related endeavors. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Data.world is committed to balancing its mission of enhancing data accessibility and collaboration with the pursuit of shareholder value.

Mustard

Seed Round in 2020
Mustard is an elite-level motion analysis app for broad athletics coaching. Mustard's platform conducts complex data analysis of video captured in-app on a player or coach's mobile phone and delivers easily understandable report cards along with personalized, actionable drills to optimize performance. The robust AI technology and application suite, to expand into additional sports, and to build out an elite and robust mental performance training platform for all athletes. Mustard was founded in 2019 by Tom House, Jason Goldsmith, Luke Collis, and Rocky Collis.

Hasty

Seed Round in 2020
Hasty GmbH, founded in 2018 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in an AI-driven data annotation automation tool known as Hasty. This innovative image annotation tool significantly accelerates the annotation process, reducing what traditionally takes weeks to just days or even hours. By leveraging artificial intelligence and neural networks, Hasty enhances the efficiency and intuitiveness of training neural networks, while also minimizing human errors. This streamlined approach alleviates the common bottlenecks associated with data annotation, allowing users to allocate more time to the development of impactful applications.

Oomnitza

Series B in 2020
Oomnitza, Inc. is an enterprise software company specializing in IT asset management solutions. Based in San Francisco with additional offices in Minsk and Los Altos, Oomnitza provides a cloud-based platform that enables organizations to effectively track and manage a wide range of assets, including end-user hardware, SaaS applications, and networking infrastructure. The platform facilitates the entire asset lifecycle, from procurement to deployment and maintenance, offering features such as inventory management, reporting, workflow automation, and mobile access. Oomnitza's solutions cater to various sectors, including finance, retail, technology, education, healthcare, construction, and government, helping clients optimize resources, enhance security, and streamline processes. Incorporated in 2012, the company aims to deliver comprehensive visibility and control over an organization's digital estate.

Codefresh

Series C in 2020
Codefresh, Inc. is a cloud-based platform that specializes in continuous delivery and collaboration for containers and microservices, catering to software development teams focused on building and deploying cloud-native applications. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Givatayim, Israel, Codefresh offers a modern CI/CD environment that simplifies and automates interactions with various tools and services, including git commands, code review, and deployment processes. Its container-based pipelines provide enhanced flexibility and speed optimizations, making it one of the fastest CI/CD solutions available. Users benefit from a library of built-in steps, the ability to integrate custom steps, and support for various operating systems, alongside advanced deployment strategies like Canary and Blue/Green.

Lightbend

Series D in 2020
Lightbend provides a reactive application development platform for building distributed systems. These distributed systems, which include microservices and streaming fast data applications and can effortlessly scale on multi-core and cloud architectures, based on a message-driven runtime. Many admired brands around the globe are transforming their businesses with the Lightbend's platform, engaging billions of users every day through software that is changing the world. Lightbend as founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Leanplum

Series D in 2020
Leanplum Inc. is a mobile marketing platform that focuses on enhancing customer engagement through a unified approach to multi-channel campaigns. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a range of services including messaging, automation, app editing, personalization, A/B testing, and analytics. Leanplum's platform allows brands to optimize their mobile applications by transforming user data into actionable insights, thereby delivering timely and relevant experiences that foster customer loyalty. Notable clients, such as Tinder, Grab, Tesco, and Zynga, utilize Leanplum to accelerate growth and strengthen long-term relationships with their customers. With additional offices in New York, London, Bulgaria, and Amsterdam, Leanplum has established itself as a key player in the mobile marketing landscape.

Accion Systems

Series B in 2020
Accion Systems Inc. is a manufacturer of satellite propulsion systems for the space industry, utilizing proprietary ion beam technology developed at MIT. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers a range of products, including MIN-0 CubeSat and small satellite electric propulsion systems, MAX-1 small satellite electric propulsion systems, and TILE satellite electric propulsion systems. Accion Systems focuses on developing scalable, high-performance, and efficient in-space propulsion technologies to meet the evolving needs of the satellite market.

Alitheon

Venture Round in 2020
Alitheon, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in machine perception and vision systems designed to enhance security and integrity in the identification of goods. Founded in 2015 and based in Bellevue, Washington, the company has developed a patented system called FeaturePrint, which utilizes artificial intelligence and standard cameras to create digital fingerprints for objects. This technology allows users to authenticate, trace, and identify items without relying on traditional methods such as serial numbers or barcodes. Alitheon's solutions cater to various industries, including pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and luxury goods, providing counterfeit protection and improving supply chain management by ensuring product authenticity. The platform connects the physical and digital realms, offering secure and immutable links for data storage and verification.

Frame.io

Series C in 2019
Frame.io, Inc. provides a video review and collaboration platform that enables users to upload, review, and share media with vendors, clients, and offsite team members. Its platform enables creative professionals to streamline the video creation process by centralizing media assets, including dailies, scripts, storyboards, work-in-progress, and more, as well as allows feedback and comments, annotations, and real-time approvals. The company’s platform is used by filmmakers and media professionals. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Frame.io

Series C in 2019
Frame.io, Inc. provides a video review and collaboration platform that enables users to upload, review, and share media with vendors, clients, and offsite team members. Its platform enables creative professionals to streamline the video creation process by centralizing media assets, including dailies, scripts, storyboards, work-in-progress, and more, as well as allows feedback and comments, annotations, and real-time approvals. The company’s platform is used by filmmakers and media professionals. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

BanyanOps, Inc.

Series A in 2019
BanyanOps, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing software for the static analysis of Docker container images. The company aims to enhance security and efficiency in software development by providing tools that help organizations assess and manage their containerized applications. By focusing on static analysis, BanyanOps enables enterprises to identify vulnerabilities early in the development process, ensuring that their Docker images are secure before deployment. This proactive approach supports organizations in maintaining compliance and improving the overall integrity of their software solutions.

ThreeKit

Series A in 2019
ThreeKit Inc. designs and develops three dimensional (3D) product configuration and visualization platform that offers interactive product solutions and user-selected customization options. It offers interactive 3D solutions, photorealistic 2D solutions, augmented reality and virtual reality solutions, visual configuration solution that provides interactive visualization of product catalog, and digital asset management solutions which control digital assets through platform. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Kubit

Seed Round in 2019
Kubit AI, Inc. is a Fremont, California-based company that specializes in designing and developing analytical software utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. Founded in 2018, Kubit offers a Smart Analytics platform that transforms data warehouses into powerful analytics tools, facilitating deep data discovery and insights. The software provides capabilities for benchmark analysis, including metrics on engagement, retention, and performance, as well as automated diagnostics to detect anomalies and identify root causes. Additionally, it supports collaborative decision-making through standardized communication processes. Kubit serves a diverse range of industries, including music, media, entertainment, education, social, e-commerce, travel, and gaming, making advanced data analytics accessible to various sectors.

Literati

Series A in 2019
Literati, Inc. is a subscription-based book club service tailored for children ages 0-12 in the United States. Founded in 2016 and based in Austin, Texas, the company offers a variety of themed book clubs, such as Club Neo, Club Sprout, Club Nova, and Club Sage. In addition to its subscription service, Literati provides gifting options, allowing customers to gift books or redeem them for others. The company's innovative approach includes a try-before-you-buy model and curated selections by notable figures, enhancing the reading experience for young audiences. With a focus on fostering a love for literature, Literati aims to engage children and families through thoughtfully curated reading materials.

Layer1

Series A in 2019
Layer1 is a San Francisco-based company that operates a cryptocurrency investment and infrastructure platform. Founded in 2018, it specializes in building turnkey, fully-integrated Bitcoin mining data centers. These facilities enhance the profitability of energy assets and contribute to the reliability of electrical grids. Layer1's technology focuses on the innovative integration of energy systems with high-performance computing, allowing for unique value creation in the cryptocurrency mining sector. The company also manages bitcoin mining facilities and electricity power substations, further solidifying its role in the energy and cryptocurrency markets.

Kapwing

Series A in 2019
Kapwing Inc. is an online platform that specializes in image, video, and GIF editing, catering to digital creators. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, Kapwing offers a comprehensive multimedia editing suite that includes tools such as a meme maker, subtitler, trimmer, looper, and various filters. The platform is designed to facilitate digital storytelling, making it easier for users to create and share content online. By focusing on the needs of the meme and social media generation, Kapwing aims to provide faster and more accessible video editing solutions, enabling users to effectively express their creativity and enhance their online presence.

Let’s Do This

Seed Round in 2019
Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet. It helps race organizers to reach an engaged community of participants and endurance sports enthusiasts, offering a dedicated platform to provide detailed event information, news, and special offers. Find and book the best running, triathlon, cycling and obstacle events in the UK and around the world. Whether it's a 5k fun run or tenth Ironman Triathlon, Let's Do This is the best place to find the perfect race. It was founded in 2016 by Alex Rose and Sam Browne who are both passionate runners and cyclists. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an office in London, United Kingdom.

Suplari

Series A in 2019
Suplari is an innovative startup, lead by veteran entrepreneurs focused on leveraging machine learning to help enterprises change the way they manage their suppliers and costs. Suplari aggregates data from disconnected internal systems including contracts, invoices, and usage data into a common datastore and then delivers applications on top of that data that provides customers with a holistic view of their suppliers.

Entelo

Venture Round in 2019
Entelo applies intelligence to big data to help modern recruiters find, qualify, and acquire talent. Today over 600 customers of all sizes and industries trust Entelo to provide their talent acquisition teams with higher candidate engagement, actionable insights, and increased productivity. To learn how leading companies such as Capital One, Cisco, Facebook, GE, Genentech, Netflix, Northrop Grumman, and Target are building their organizations using Entelo, visit www.entelo.com.

Tandem Chat

Seed Round in 2019
Tandem is a virtual office for remote teams. It allows its users to see, talk to, and collaborate with their team in one click. It was founded by Rajiv Ayyangar, Tim Su, and Bernat Fortet in 2019. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Starship

Series A in 2019
Starship Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures self-driving delivery robots for local goods delivery, including parcels, groceries, and food. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, with a research and development center in Estonia, the company aims to revolutionize the delivery landscape by providing autonomous robots that operate safely and efficiently. These robots can autonomously navigate 99% of the time, enabling curb-side deliveries from local hubs within 30 minutes. Equipped with advanced sensors such as cameras and GPS, Starship's delivery solutions are intended to be environmentally friendly and cost-effective, significantly enhancing convenience for consumers. By partnering with stores and restaurants, Starship Technologies facilitates a new era of instant deliveries that align with customer schedules, ultimately striving to make local delivery more accessible and affordable.

Polarity

Series A in 2019
Polarity is a computer software company focused on enhancing collaboration and decision-making within organizations. It has developed a memory augmentation platform that analyzes the content displayed on users' computer screens, providing real-time access to relevant information without disrupting their current workflows. This technology not only streamlines internal communications but also integrates data from external sources, allowing teams to make informed and timely decisions through on-screen overlays. Polarity's innovative approach addresses common challenges in teamwork and information management, ultimately improving overall productivity.

Lucidworks

Series F in 2019
Lucidworks, Inc. specializes in AI-powered search engine software, primarily through its flagship platform, Lucidworks Fusion. This platform integrates various features such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and hyper-personalization to enhance search capabilities for enterprises. It serves diverse industries, including e-commerce, financial services, telecommunications, and publishing, providing solutions for digital workplaces, commerce, and search engine replacement. Additionally, Lucidworks offers the Connected Experience Cloud (CXC), which utilizes user signals to create personalized omnichannel digital experiences. Major brands like Lenovo, Morgan Stanley, and Cisco Systems utilize Lucidworks' products to improve product discovery, customer service, and knowledge management. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Prodly

Seed Round in 2019
Prodly, Inc. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in developing tools for transferring relational data within Salesforce environments. Founded in 2014, Prodly offers a platform known as AppOps, which automates the full lifecycle of low-code development. This platform enables Salesforce administrators and developers to migrate data efficiently and effectively, addressing challenges in the application development process while also ensuring IT governance to reduce risks associated with agile development. Their flagship product, Moover, allows for one-click migration of relational data across various Salesforce organizations and supports key functionalities such as Salesforce CPQ, billing, and field service solutions. Notable clients include Nutanix, Johnson & Johnson, Splunk, Tableau, and Verizon, who utilize Prodly's services to enhance and update critical business applications.

Fetch Robotics

Series C in 2019
Fetch Robotics, Inc. is a company based in San Jose, California, that specializes in developing and manufacturing autonomous mobile robot solutions for the warehousing and intralogistics sectors. Founded in 2014, the company focuses on collaborative robots that enhance material handling and data collection processes. Its product offerings include the Fetch cloud robotics platform, VirtualConveyor for material transport, and DataSurvey for data collection. Fetch Robotics aims to provide reliable and safe autonomous mobile robot solutions, leveraging its expertise to improve efficiency in industrial operations. The company is recognized as a venture-backed startup in Silicon Valley, contributing significantly to advancements in robotics technology.

Tally

Series C in 2019
Tally Technologies, Inc. is a financial automation company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. The company specializes in developing an application designed to help users manage multiple credit cards effectively. By unbundling the credit card experience, Tally empowers consumers to utilize their credit cards without the burden of high annual percentage rates, excessive fees, and the complexities associated with handling various cards. The founding team comprises credit experts, engineers, and designers dedicated to improving the overall credit card experience for users.

Highspot

Series D in 2019
Highspot, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that offers a cloud-based sales engagement platform designed to enhance how businesses interact with their customers. Founded in 2012, the platform provides intelligent content management, training, and contextual guidance, along with actionable analytics to optimize sales pitches and content delivery. Highspot's features include scoring and recommending content, offering real-time alerts on customer engagement, and facilitating the creation of sales playbooks tailored to specific roles and industries. The company also integrates with customer relationship management systems, enabling businesses to improve customer engagement and drive revenue growth. In addition to its headquarters in Seattle, Highspot has an office in London, United Kingdom.

Brigit

Series A in 2019
Brigit is a financial health app helping everyday Americans relieve stress today, start saving for tomorrow and permanently transform their financial futures by getting them on the path the better financial wellness. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in New York, New York, United States.

Interplay Learning

Series A in 2019
Interplay Learning is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality and 3D solutions. It provides an online training platform that enables its users to conduct training via 3D simulations designed for career training in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), electrical, energy auditing, manufacturing, facility maintenance, and construction codes.

Sendbird

Series B in 2019
At SendBird, they are building the most scalable and powerful chat API in the world. They have customers from over 150 countries around the world serving a truly wide-range of use cases across communities, marketplaces, on-demand services, games, and live-video streaming.

SpeQtral

Seed Round in 2019
SpeQtral is developing space-based, quantum communication built on technologies developed at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore. The team has developed technologies that harness the unique properties of quantum physics to enable encryption methods that can secure communications with forward security. SpeQtral is the only team with heritage from a successful on-orbit demonstration of a quantum light source on a cubesat, and is committed to bringing future-proof security to the commercial world.

Lattice

Series B in 2019
Lattice is a people management platform that enables People Leaders to develop engaged, high-performing teams. By combining continuous performance management and employee engagement in one solution, HR and People teams get powerful, real-time analytics that leads to actionable insights turning managers into leaders, employees into high-performers, and companies into the best places to work.

RosieReality

Seed Round in 2019
RosieReality is a company based in Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2017, that develops an educational application named Rosie for children aged nine and older. The app utilizes augmented reality to enhance early childhood education, allowing children to engage with the learning material in an interactive way. Through the app, users can program Rosie the Robot by using magical 3D shapes to solve various augmented reality puzzles, making the learning experience both fun and educational for curious young minds.

AppSheet

Series A in 2019
AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps. It also enables business users to leverage their business data and build powerful, code-free apps. The company connects with a range of data sources including spreadsheets on Google Drive, Office 365, Dropbox, and Box, relational databases like SQLServer, MySQL, Postgres, AWS Aurora, and Oracle, cloud SaaS services like Salesforce, Smartsheet, AirTable, and many more. AppSheet quickly generates a working application that can be customized, enhanced, branded and deployed. The apps can be rich in function (offline access, workflow rules, machine learning, etc) and run on the web, iOS, Android, and messaging platforms. AppSheet was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA, USA.

Tonal

Series C in 2019
Tonal Systems, Inc. is a manufacturer and provider of innovative fitness training equipment designed for home use. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company specializes in a smart home gym system that incorporates artificial intelligence and expert coaching to deliver personalized strength training workouts. The equipment is wall-mounted and utilizes a unique technology that offers adjustable resistance through magnets and electricity, making it unnecessary to use traditional weights. Tonal provides customized workout plans tailored to individual goals, such as muscle building and improving athletic performance, along with live-recorded classes led by professional coaches. The company operates in several states, including California, New Jersey, Florida, New York, Texas, Massachusetts, Washington, and Minnesota.

Squelch

Series A in 2019
Squelch, Inc. develops data analytics software aimed at optimizing customer support by providing relevant and context-rich intelligence to customer-facing agents during customer interactions. Founded in 2015 and based in Redwood City, California, Squelch enhances the customer experience while improving team productivity. The software integrates seamlessly with various applications, including Salesforce, Slack, Box, Confluence, Jira, OneDrive, and Google Drive, ensuring that agents have immediate access to the information they need to assist customers effectively.

Blume

Seed Round in 2019
ElleBox provides organic feminine hygiene subscription box service.

Blume

Seed Round in 2019
ElleBox provides organic feminine hygiene subscription box service.

LeanData

Series C in 2019
LeanData, Inc. is a provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) data management solutions, specializing in enterprise Revenue Operations for business-to-business (B2B) enterprises. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Jose, California, LeanData focuses on Lead-to-Account Matching, Routing, and Marketing Attribution. The company's platform integrates various aspects of customer relationship management (CRM) to connect data efficiently, enabling businesses to enhance their go-to-market strategies and accelerate revenue growth. By offering a unified solution that bridges the gap between sales and marketing operations, LeanData empowers revenue teams to manage, execute, and analyze their processes from a single, agile platform. The company’s services also include process management, native applications, and custom mapping, all designed to improve the buyer experience and maximize revenue potential.

Mocana

Series G in 2019
Mocana is a developer of cybersecurity software solutions that protect Internet of Things (IoT) devices, operational technology, mission-critical systems, and industrial infrastructure. The company's on-device cybersecurity software and lifecycle management platform enable manufacturers and industrial companies to build self-defending systems that are tamper-resistant. Its tightly integrated solutions help companies to minimize the risk of a cyber breach, comply with industry standards, and protect intellectual property by ensuring that devices and processes are trusted end-to-end, from device manufacturing to deployment. Unlike IT network security approaches, Mocana enables devices to protect themselves and prevent malware from being installed. It was established in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Cequence Security

Series B in 2019
Cequence Security is a venture-backed cybersecurity software company founded in 2014 and based in Sunnyvale, CA. Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2018, the company has developed the Cequence Application Security Platform (ASP), an open, distributed, and scalable software platform designed to protect customers’ web, mobile, and API applications from the growing number of malicious bot attacks. Cequence Security will be delivering multiple security service modules for ASP, each designed to work together, simplify security architectures, and deliver strong protection for today’s hyper-connected organizations. Cequence Security customers include F500 organizations across multiple vertical markets. The executive team is led by industry veterans that previously held leadership positions at Palo Alto Networks and Symantec.

The Pill Club

Series B in 2019
The Pill Club is a healthcare service that specializes in delivering birth control and related products across the United States. Founded in 2014 and based in California, it operates as an online retailer and pharmacy, providing a convenient way for women to access birth control, emergency contraceptives, and wellness gifts. The Pill Club is supported by a team of medical professionals and aims to empower women by facilitating personalized healthcare experiences. It offers prescription services in 34 states and Washington D.C., ensuring widespread access to its products. With a focus on women's health and well-being, the company strives to enhance personal freedom and health ownership through its innovative telemedicine approach.

The Farmer's Dog

Series B in 2019
The Farmer's Dog, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in producing and delivering homemade pet food. The company offers balanced, freshly made meals using human-grade ingredients sourced from USDA production facilities. Each meal plan is tailored to the specific needs of individual dogs, with pre-made and pre-portioned food that is delivered shortly after cooking to ensure freshness. The meals are developed with veterinary expertise and are designed to meet the nutritional requirements of dogs. The Farmer's Dog emphasizes timely deliveries to ensure that customers never run out of food for their pets, enhancing convenience and quality in the pet food market.

Vertalo

Seed Round in 2019
Vertalo is an investor onboarding, cap table, and compliance platform that connects issuers and investors directly to sources of secondary liquidity. Working directly with issuers, or through our growing network of broker-dealers, Vertalo enables any asset to be tokenized, stored in a blockchain wallet, and traded in real-time based on the smart contract between the issuer and the investor.

ISARA Corporation

Series A in 2018
ISARA Corporation operates as a security solutions company that offers quantum computer-resistant products. It offers ISARA Radiate, a security solution suite that helps governments and OEMs to migrate their networks and solutions to quantum-safe security; and ISARA Catalyst, an agile digital certificate technology that enables a migration to quantum-safe security to protect investments. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Waterloo, Canada.

BigBox VR

Seed Round in 2018
BigBox VR is a startup based in Seattle creating the future of online VR multiplayer games. Its mission is to combine platform-defining games, social communities, and competitive play to create a VR esport ecosystem. Founded in 2016 by game industry entrepreneurs who led successful exits and launched top-grossing live service products at Valve, Disney, Sony, and Microsoft. The VC-backed company will launch the first FreeMotion battle royale VR game, POPULATION: ONE in 2019. FreeMotion gives players the freedom to climb anything and fly anywhere in VR.

Vector Launch

Series B in 2018
Vector was founded by several members of the original SpaceX team and is a disruptive innovator that connects space startups with affordable and frequent launch and platforms to enable space capabilities at a speed and price point never before possible. Vector has a big vision to reshape the 400 billion dollar space market by combining dedicated low-cost micro satellite launch and software defined satellites (Galactic Sky) to dramatically increase access and speed to orbit.

Leaftail Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Leaftail Labs Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Seattle, Washington, specializes in developing video games. The company focuses on creating engaging content that merges innovative technology with a distinct artistic style. Leaftail Labs is driven by the belief that the most compelling opportunities arise at the intersection of accessible content and emerging technologies. The founders of Leaftail Labs bring extensive experience from working with leading entertainment companies and talent, reflecting their commitment to pushing the boundaries of creative entertainment.