Shasta Ventures

Shasta Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital firm partnering with bold creative entrepreneurs who are passionate about building epic products and amazing experiences. Founded in 2004, Shasta Ventures has more than $1B under management investing in enterprise and consumer companies with a deep focus on emerging platforms. Shasta Ventures-backed startups include Anaplan, Apptio, Dollar Shave Club, Eero, Mint, Nest, Nextdoor, Smule, Turo, and Zuora. The firm has offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco, California.

Jayaram Bhat

Venture Partner

Avery Cannon

CFO

Nitin Chopra

MD

Rob Coneybeer

MD

Robert T. Coneybeer

MD and Co-Founder

Tod Francis

Founder

Austin Grose

CFO Emeritus

Ravi Mohan

MD

Jacob Mullins

MD

Jason Pressman

MD

Issac Roth

MD

Kenn So

Associate

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Recurve

Series A in 2008
Recurve makes software for contractors who audit homes to increase energy efficiency and perform remodeling / construction services.

Eye-Fi

Series B in 2008
Eye-Fi develops wireless memory cards to download and organize photos automatically from digital cameras to online, in-home, and retail destinations. It offers Mobile X2 wireless memory card, which automatically uploads photos and videos to iPhone, Android, or tablet; Pro X2, a memory card that wirelessly uploads photos from camera to computer and various sharing sites; iPhone/iPad applications; and Android phone or tablet applications. The company offers its products through an online store; and retail channel distributors and outlets in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Minnesota, Colorado, and Canada. Eye-Fi, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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.

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.

ZEFR

Series A in 2010
Zefr is a video advertising company that creates targeted video ad placements with it's unique and proprietary technology. With our custom packages, we leverage both technology and human review to selected individual videos, ensuring brands can safely and effectively scale their video ad campaigns. Why the name Zefr? Before Venice became “Silicon Beach” it was the grimy paradise of the 1970's Zephyr skate team. The Z-boys were a group of broken-home-punks that pioneered today’s skate culture. They did more than just push the physical boundaries of the sport—they created the culture that defines Venice today. At Zefr, we embrace the Z-boy’s drive for innovation, performance, and pushing boundaries. Our motto? Go Big. Go Fast.

Oomnitza

Private Placement in 2020
Oomnitza is an information technology company that provides SaaS-based IT asset management solutions. The company's cloud-based asset tracking software is a connected, automated, and visualized solution providing a single place to track and optimize everything that powers their business. It secures and manages a corporation’s digital estate–end-user hardware, SaaS, networking infrastructure, virtual cloud services, retail devices, health care machines, etc - that they utilize. Oomnitza tracks assets from procurement to receiving to imaging to deployment to maintenance to end-of-life. Its robust features include inventory, reporting, workflow, agents, mobile apps, customization, automation, integrations, APIs, import manager, user management, location management, and more.

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.

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.

Lucidworks

Series D in 2015
LucidWorks, Inc. offers AI powered search engine software. It offers Lucidworks Fusion, a platform that provides fusion server, fusion artificial intelligence, fusion app studio; artificial intelligence powered search that provides augmented intelligence, machine learning, clustering, query analysis, signals, faceted search, indexing, hyper personalization; enterprise solution that provides digital workplace, digital commerce, and search engine replacement. It serves clients in ecommerce, financial services, telecommunication, and publishing industries in the United States and internationally. LucidWorks, Inc. was formerly known as Lucid Imagination, Inc. LucidWorks, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Starsky Robotics

Series A in 2018
Trucking is the backbone of the American economy, moving 70% of all freight. Truck drivers risk their lives spending months away from their family to keep the American economy moving. They working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by drivers for the first and last mile. Their trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families.

Deep Sentinel

Private Placement in 2017
Deep Sentinel Corp. develops artificial intelligence (AI) based home protection systems. It offers crime prevention devices, security cameras, alarms, and camera hardware. The company’s products enable users to predict and stop crime in real time through a combination of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and camera hardware. Deep Sentinel Corp. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Pleasanton, California with research and development office in Taiwan.

Turn

Series B in 2007
Turn Inc. develops and provides an advertising technology platform for marketers, brands, and agencies. It offers Digital Hub, an integrated solution for digital marketers that offers marketing applications, including Audience Suite, an enterprise data management platform; Campaign Suite, a digital media buying platform for video, mobile, TV, social, and display advertising; and DataMine Analytics, a data exploration, optimization, and warehousing solution for marketers. The company provides its solutions in the areas of digital data centralization, media planning and execution, consumer intelligence, media intelligence, and brand intelligence. Turn Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Redwood City, California. It has locations in Atlanta, Georgia; Champaign, Illinois; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Santa Monica and San Francisco, California; New York, New York; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Hamburg, Germany; London, United Kingdom; Paris, France; Hong Kong; China; Singapore; Sydney, Australia; and Tokyo, Japan.

Camera IQ

Seed Round in 2017
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.

SeriesX

Seed Round in 2018
SeriesX.net, Inc. owns and operates a work platform that helps in certifying employment, academic and accomplishment via tokens and smart contract technology. The company offers a technology-driven service that can transform a traditional asset into a programmable digital security that can be readied for trading on any supporting ATS. The company securities assets on the Blockchain technology. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Flywheel

Series B in 2013
Flywheel Software, Inc. provides Flywheel, a cloud based computerized location based dispatching and mobile-hailing technology for fleets in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle. The company was formerly known as UpStart Mobile, Inc. and changed its name to Flywheel Software, Inc. in December 2009. Flywheel Software, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Redwood City, California. As of April 7, 2017, Flywheel Software, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cabconnect Inc.

TapToLearn

Seed Round in 2011
When we began our first experiments with using Mobile devices a few years ago we were very excited by the possibility of learning in nontraditional manner. The beauty of effectiveness of the iPhone first and the iPad platforms gave shape to our vision of building beautiful apps, designed to build learning for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad Devices. Each of our apps are extremely easy to use, focus on just one area of learning using interactivity and add an element to fun while learning.

Elroy Air

Private Placement in 2019
Elroy Air, Inc., an aerospace and logistics company, operates a fleet of autonomous aircraft systems to deliver goods. It operates an aerial cargo delivery system to deliver heavy cargo over long distances. The company serves commercial, humanitarian aid, and military applications. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Suplari

Private Placement in 2018
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.

Zenprise

Series B in 2005
Zenprise offers secure mobile device management, protecting all layers of the mobile enterprise to keep organizations secure and compliant.

Caligotech

Series A in 2018
Caligo Technologies revolutionizes digital promotion performance for brands and retailers.

Taskrabbit

Series B in 2011
TaskRabbit, Inc. operates a same-day service platform that connects clients and taskers. Its platform enable clients to book a tasker for various home services, including minor home repair, mounting and installation, furniture assembly, moving and packing, housecleaning, yard work, and home improvement. TaskRabbit, Inc. was formerly known as RunMyErrand, Inc. and changed its name to TaskRabbit, Inc. in April 2010. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 10, 2017, TaskRabbit, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of INGKA Holding B.V.

Fetch Robotics

Series B in 2017
Fetch Robotics, Inc. develops and manufactures autonomous mobile robot solutions for warehousing and intralogistics markets. It offers Fetch cloud robotics platform; VirtualConveyor for material transport, which includes HMIShelf, CartConnect, RollerTop, freight500, and freight1500; DataSurvey for data collection, such as TagSurveyor; and platforms for robotics research, including freight base and Fetch mobile manipulator. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Threadflip

Series B in 2014
Threadflip is building a social marketplace that changes the way women shop for clothes and style their wardrobes, creating a peer-to-peer shopping experience that is delightful, collaborative and inspirational, as well as efficient and cost-effective. Threadflip closed in Jan. 14, 2015 but has partnered with Le Tote.

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.

Polysync

Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2013, Polysync Technologies builds solutions to help partners safely accelerate their development, testing, production, and market deployment of driverless vehicle mobility solutions. Automotive engineering services, developers, government agencies, and universities around the world rely on Polysync for autonomous software and vehicle development. Polysync's products are in operation in more than 17 countries, with offices in Portland, OR, Palo Alto, CA, Detroit, MI, and Europe.

Entelo

Series B in 2016
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.

Starsky Robotics, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Starsky Robotics, Inc. develops robots to automate vehicles. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

8th Wall

Series A in 2018
8th Wall increases the reach of augmented reality (AR) content with its developer platform, which makes it easy to build interactive AR experiences that run on all smartphones. Creators and developers can choose to deploy their content as a native app to both iOS and Android devices, or as a web experience that can be viewed directly in the user’s mobile browser, no apps needed. 8th Wall uses its own hyper-optimized Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) engine to deliver markerless AR content to mobile apps and the web. Features include 6DoF positional tracking, surface detection, lighting estimation and world points to deliver an immersive experience capable of running on any device with a rear-facing camera.

Mint

Series C in 2009
Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard.

Socratic

Series A in 2015
Socratic is an app for taking photos of homework questions and it helps with more than just math. It also supports science, history, English, and economics. The app says it uses artificial intelligence to help users find answers and detailed explanations. With a focus on the high school curriculum, Socratic is equipped with graphs and explainers. It also curates web videos from Khan Academy and other educational platforms. It’s free and available for both iPhone and Android.

Demdex

Series A in 2010
Demdex provides Audience Management solutions for powering dynamic, multi-channel data strategies online. Having pioneered the SaaS Audience Management market since 2008, Demdex's services are continually being embraced by some of the world's most recognized brands across diverse industries. As the best alternative to homegrown systems which are expensive to build, operate and maintain, Demdex's enterprise-level technology provides the scale, reliability, insight and performance necessary for businesses to succeed online.

Interplay Learning

Private Placement 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.

Color

Series B in 2016
Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics. The company makes precision health programs accessible, convenient, and cost effective for everyone, serving health systems, employers, research institutions, and individual consumers. Color’s Population Genomics Platform offers modular and end-to-end solutions that enable organizations to effectively build and scale population health programs. Color provides technology, software, and clinical services to help population programs launch and scale quickly. Color’s partners include NorthShore University Health System, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Ochsner Health System, Verily, Visa, Levi Strauss and Salesforce. By combining innovative technology, specialized laboratory infrastructure, and clinical health services, Color creates complete and effective programs that include: Program strategy, planning, and implementation; Participant outreach and engagement; Participant education and consent about testing and results; Sample (blood or saliva) collection and genetic sequencing; Data management and clinical reporting; HIPAA compliance and data security; Return of results; Clinical services, like genetic counseling and clinical pharmacy; Personalized care routing; and ongoing population health management. Color launched its first product in 2015 and is based in Burlingame, California.

SBAR Endurance Incorporated

Private Placement in 2019
SBAR Endurance Incorporated owns and operates an online marketplace to connect athletes with endurance events in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. It helps race organizers to reach an engaged community of participants and endurance sports to provide enthusiasts detailed event information, news, and special offers. SBAR Endurance Incorporated was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in London, United Kingdom.

Appsheet

Private Placement in 2019
As of January 14, 2020, Appsheet operates as a subsidiary of Google LLC.

Tumri

Series A in 2005
Founded in 2004 with the vision to re-imagine the online advertising experience, Tumri has developed an advertising platform that creates an interactive advertising experience. The Tumri solution—the AdPod—enables advertisers to craft highly targeted marketing messages to consumers on-the-fly. Tumri was acquired by Collective in July 2011.

Mocana

Series B in 2008
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.

Zuora

Series E in 2013
Zuora provides cloud-based software on a subscription basis that enables companies in various industries to launch, manage, and transform into a subscription business. The firm offers Zuora Central platform that acts as an intelligent subscription management hub that automates the subscription order-to-cash process, including quoting, billing, collections, analytics, and revenue recognition. Its products include Zuora Billing, Zuora RevPro, Zuora CPQ, Zuora Insights, and Zuora Collect. Zuora caters to various industries comprising software, hardware, media, transportation, construction, healthcare, education, retail, Internet of Things, and others worldwide. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Doctor On Demand

Series A in 2014
Doctor On Demand is a video telemedicine company, offering on-demand and scheduled visits with US-licensed healthcare providers via any smartphone, tablet, or computer. It focuses on providing solutions for employers, health plans, retail clinics, and health systems. With solutions for employers, health plans, retail clinics, and health systems, Doctor On Demand is redefining the industry with top-rated customer experience, highest clinical standards, and implementation and customer success directors, as well as 24/7 customer support. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Plethora

Series A in 2014
Plethora Corporation designs, manufactures, and supplies precision machining parts. It specializes in the CNC machining, milling, and turning of aluminum alloys, copper alloys, plastics, steels, and stainless steels. The company serves robotics, automotive, aerospace, and consumer packaged goods industries in the United States. Plethora Corporation was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Marietta, Georgia.

Nextdoor

Series C in 2013
Nextdoor, Inc. operates a social networking platform for neighborhoods in San Francisco. Its platform enables local conversations among neighbors. It owns and operates Help Map, an interactive map allows residents to mark themselves as available to help vulnerable neighbors during the Covid-19 pandemic. The company was formerly known as Nextdoor.com, Inc. and changed its name to Nextdoor, Inc. in January 2014. Nextdoor, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has an additional location in London, United Kingdom.

Octi

Seed Round in 2018
Octi: The first people-powered social AR platform.

Extole

Venture Round in 2013
Extole, Inc. provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for referral marketing. Its platform enables marketers to launch, measure, and optimize refer-a-friend marketing programs in mobile, Web, and other environments; and to get personalized influencer codes and links. The company provides its solutions for retail, membership and loyalty, and for financial services. The company serves brands. Extole, Inc. was formerly known as Tell-A-Pal, Inc. and changed its name to Extole, Inc. in August 2010. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

RosieReality

Seed Round in 2018
RosieReality develops an educational application under the name Rosie for kids of ages 9 and up. The company focuses on making augmented reality accessible for early childhood education. The company was founded in 2017 is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Farmer's Dog

Series B in 2019
The Farmer's Dog delivers balanced and freshly made pet food, tested on humans, using human-grade USDA production facilities and ingredients. Meal plans are customized according to its users’ dogs’ profile and the meals are pre-made and pre-portioned. The food is delivered to its users within days of cooking. The vet-developed are complimented with timely deliveries to make sure that their users never run out of food. The Farmer's Dog is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014 by Jonathan Regev and Brett Podolsky.

BanyanOps, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Banyan Security provides a remote network access platform for hybrid and multi-cloud. It replaces the user's legacy VPNs with a least privilege, network independent, contextual access platform modeled after the BeyondCorp framework. The platform utilizes trust scoring powered by machine learning. It ensures both users and devices are authenticated and trusted before authorizing granular access to sensitive corporate applications. Banyan's distributed, highly scalable platform is currently used by enterprises across verticals including Adobe, SAP, Veeva, BlueVoyant, and Byton. Banyan Security was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Turn

Series E in 2014
Turn Inc. develops and provides an advertising technology platform for marketers, brands, and agencies. It offers Digital Hub, an integrated solution for digital marketers that offers marketing applications, including Audience Suite, an enterprise data management platform; Campaign Suite, a digital media buying platform for video, mobile, TV, social, and display advertising; and DataMine Analytics, a data exploration, optimization, and warehousing solution for marketers. The company provides its solutions in the areas of digital data centralization, media planning and execution, consumer intelligence, media intelligence, and brand intelligence. Turn Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Redwood City, California. It has locations in Atlanta, Georgia; Champaign, Illinois; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Santa Monica and San Francisco, California; New York, New York; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Hamburg, Germany; London, United Kingdom; Paris, France; Hong Kong; China; Singapore; Sydney, Australia; and Tokyo, Japan.

SpiderCloud Wireless

Series C in 2012
SpiderCloud Wireless, Inc. develops small cell network platforms that allow mobile operators to deliver cellular coverage, capacity, and smart applications to enterprises and venues. It offers Enterprise Radio Access Network E-RAN system that delivers sectors of UMTS or LTE capacity inside buildings with coverage; Radio Nodes that support UMTS, LTE, LTE-U, and LAA; Services Node, a security-hardened network processing appliance; and SpiderNet, a centralized configuration, fault, and performance management system that allows mobile operators to manage multiple SpiderCloud Enterprise Radio Access Network small cell systems through a graphical interface. SpiderCloud Wireless, Inc. was formerly known as Copivia, Inc. and changed its name to SpiderCloud Wireless, Inc. in October 2008. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Milpitas, California with additional offices in San Diego, California; New Jersey; Mexico City, Mexico; and London, the United Kingdom. As of July 19, 2017, SpiderCloud Wireless, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Corning Incorporated.

Lucidworks

Series C in 2013
LucidWorks, Inc. offers AI powered search engine software. It offers Lucidworks Fusion, a platform that provides fusion server, fusion artificial intelligence, fusion app studio; artificial intelligence powered search that provides augmented intelligence, machine learning, clustering, query analysis, signals, faceted search, indexing, hyper personalization; enterprise solution that provides digital workplace, digital commerce, and search engine replacement. It serves clients in ecommerce, financial services, telecommunication, and publishing industries in the United States and internationally. LucidWorks, Inc. was formerly known as Lucid Imagination, Inc. LucidWorks, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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.

Delair

Seed Round in 2013
Airware is an enterprise drone analytics company enabling enterprises to harness aerial data and turn it into valuable business insights that can be shared and acted on across sites, teams, and geographies. Our solutions enable enterprises to reinvent their organizations for the digital era by translating aerial data into business impact. Drones are enabling companies to more efficiently and effectively capture data, and Airware allows enterprises to integrate this data with existing information and workflows to improve efficiency, productivity, and safety. Airware provides aerial insights drone solutions for insurance, mining, construction, and aggregates.

Survios

Series B in 2016
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.

The Pill Club

Series B in 2019
Pill Club Holdings, Inc. operates as a retailer and online retailer of birth control care packages. It has multiple pharmacy boards to dispense medication in the United States. Pill Club Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Lucidworks

Private Placement in 2018
LucidWorks, Inc. offers AI powered search engine software. It offers Lucidworks Fusion, a platform that provides fusion server, fusion artificial intelligence, fusion app studio; artificial intelligence powered search that provides augmented intelligence, machine learning, clustering, query analysis, signals, faceted search, indexing, hyper personalization; enterprise solution that provides digital workplace, digital commerce, and search engine replacement. It serves clients in ecommerce, financial services, telecommunication, and publishing industries in the United States and internationally. LucidWorks, Inc. was formerly known as Lucid Imagination, Inc. LucidWorks, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kubit

Private Placement in 2019
Kubit AI, Inc. designs and develops analytical software. It offers data analysis with artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. The company’s software is used for benchmark analysis, including engagement, retention, and performance; automated diagnostics, including detecting anomalies, finding root causes; and collaborative decision making, including standardized communication. It serves music, media, entertainment, education, social, e-commerce, travel, and gaming industries. Kubit AI, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Fremont, California.

Finsphere

Series A in 2008
Finsphere Corporation provides mobile identity-authentication services platform that enable financial institutions, retail payment networks, and mobile network operators to protect against fraud and enhance customer experiences. It offers solutions for wireless engineering and geospatial analysis, risk and authentication analytics, analytic models, real-time processing, identity and risk management, adaptive access, and loyalty and marketing offers. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

LearnUp

Series A in 2015
LearnUp, Inc. develops a platform that provides access to online job-specific skills training, career coaching, and automatic interview scheduling aspects. The company’s platform allows job applicants to pick a job position, learn job skills, and get an interview. It serves entry-level job seekers in the United States. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Arch Rock Corporation

Series A in 2005
Arch Rock Corporation is a systems and software company that builds innovative products and technology for wireless sensor networks. The Company's mission is to bridge the physical and digital worlds by bringing data gathered by wireless sensor networks into the enterprise IT infrastructure, where it can be easily viewed, analyzed and managed. Wireless sensor networking is critical for broad and immediate access to sensory information. The technology removes the physical boundaries that shackle instruments, bringing sensing to places and things previously unobservable and creating networks to make that information readily accessible. Equally important are leading-edge Internet and Web technologies, which provide an architecture for highly scalable networks and efficient integration of diverse information sources. The Arch Rock founding team pioneered the research and development of wireless sensor networking and its integration into enterprise data management. Our combination of real-world know-how, technical expertise, and visionary insight drives our mission to expand the Internet with awareness of the physical world of matter, space, and time. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Second Measure, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Second Measure is a technology company that analyzes billions of anonymized purchases to help some of the world’s largest brands and investment firms answer real-time questions on company performance and consumer behavior. We’re based in the Bay Area with an office in New York, and are proudly backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, Citi Ventures, Jefferies Investment Group, Y Combinator, and other top investors.

Turo

Private Placement in 2017
Turo Inc. operates an online car rental marketplace that enables local car owners to list their cars and travelers to rent them for local pickup, city delivery, and airport delivery. It enables users to calculate and discover what their car could earn for them. Turo, Inc. was formerly known as RelayRides, Inc. and changed its name to Turo, Inc. in November 2015. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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.

Auror

Series B in 2021
Transforming the way police and communities prevent & solve crime in real-time. Auror bridges the gap between businesses and the police, so you can collaborate and share data on criminal activity. It’s the new standard in crime intelligence.

Imperfect Foods

Seed Round in 2016
Imperfect Foods provides grocery delivery service rescuing and redistributing food across multiple grocery categories – including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Imperfect Foods has remained hyper focused on eliminating food waste and supporting farmers and producers when it comes to excess and imperfect products. The company now rescues and redistributes food across multiple grocery categories - including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Its performance and agility during the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates that this mission-driven model is poised for success in the long term. -

Skycure

Series A in 2015
Skycure Ltd. develops enterprise mobile threat defense solutions. Its portfolio includes Skycure for AirWatch, an advanced integration solution that allows deploying a risk-based mobile security strategy; Skycure for MobileIron, an advanced integrations solution that blocks access to sensitive information and enforces other policies, which can be authored via a simple central management portal; Skycure for Citrix, a solution that extends an organization’s mobile security with next-generation mobile threat defense capabilities, such as proactively detecting and automatically remediating known and unknown threats, vulnerabilities, and active attacks across various mobile attack vectors; and Skycure for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 that allows IT teams (in real-time) to auto-detect and auto-remediate data leakage, malware, viruses, risky user behavior, and other threats linked to mobile corporate email. The company’s mobile security solutions provide proactive protection and predictive intelligence to help organizations and their mobile users’ stay ahead of attackers anywhere in the world. Its solutions facilitate malware defense, network defense, OS level defense, and physical defense applications. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of July 24, 2017, Skycure Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Symantec Corporation.

Frame.io

Series A in 2016
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.

Whisper

Series C in 2014
Whisper is building the media company of the future. Each month, over 250 million people across the web consume Whisper stories, videos and posts - which showcase authentic, eye opening perspectives from Whisper users around the globe. Whisper stories and videos are powered by Eliot, Whisper’s AI storytelling technology. Whisper’s mobile app is the largest platform where people share real thoughts and feelings, without identities. Whisper is backed by venture investors including Sequoia Capital, Tencent, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Thrive Capital and Shasta Ventures. The Whisper app is available on iOS and Android. .

Glint

Series A in 2013
Glint is the people success platform that leverages real-time people data to help global organizations increase employee engagement, develop their people, and improve results. Leading brands like United Airlines, Intuit, and Sky leverage Glint’s unique combination of intuitive design, sophisticated analytics, and actionable intelligence to help make employees happier and more successful at work. For more information, please visit www.glintinc.com.

Canva

Series A in 2015
Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery. The company is on a mission to simplify the process of graphic design for photographers, illustrators, and designers globally. Canva was established in 2012 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Skilljar

Series A in 2018
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.

Pearl

Series A in 2016
Pearl is dedicated to bringing the latest advanced driver assistance features to all drivers on the road today. Products created by the team at Pearl leverage the very same technologies that are the building blocks of the autonomous vehicle. By deploying these features in the aftermarket, Pearl enables more consumers to have access to these key technologies.

Lucidworks

Series B in 2010
LucidWorks, Inc. offers AI powered search engine software. It offers Lucidworks Fusion, a platform that provides fusion server, fusion artificial intelligence, fusion app studio; artificial intelligence powered search that provides augmented intelligence, machine learning, clustering, query analysis, signals, faceted search, indexing, hyper personalization; enterprise solution that provides digital workplace, digital commerce, and search engine replacement. It serves clients in ecommerce, financial services, telecommunication, and publishing industries in the United States and internationally. LucidWorks, Inc. was formerly known as Lucid Imagination, Inc. LucidWorks, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Vector Launch

Private Placement 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.

WatchDox

Venture Round in 2012
WatchDox enables organizations to access, share and control their critical documents wherever they go: on any tablet, smartphone, or PC, even those beyond the IT department’s control. Available as SaaS or on premise, the WatchDox document-centric security platform allows organizations to collaborate with partners, adopt bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives, and control or wipe their documents remotely, all while providing their users a superior experience across every device.

Resilinc

Series A in 2014
Resilinc is the leading cloud provider of supply chain resilience and risk management intelligence and analytics. Industry leaders like Amgen, GM, and EMC rely on Resilinc to mitigate risks end-to-end, while achieving long-term competitive advantage, and building brand and shareholder value. Resilinc’s flagship solution platform and services deliver the fastest time-to-value while ensuring the lowest resource impact. It accomplishes this by providing the world’s largest repository of supplier and part intelligence leveraging the power of our “LinkedIn” supplier community; the most robust set of dashboard visualization and patent-pending analytic functionality for proactive planning and risk quantification; and the only solution that personalizes your impact analysis by automatically connecting incidents with your supply chain map so you don’t have to.

Spiceworks

Series B in 2007
Spiceworks is the marketplace that connects the IT industry to help tech buyers and sellers get their jobs done, every day. The company helps people in the world’s businesses find, adopt, and manage the latest technologies while also helping IT brands build, market, and support better products and services. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Spiceworks empowers people to use technology to make their organizations, their communities, and the world better.

Bloc

Series A in 2014
Bloc, Inc. offers an online apprenticeship to teach the fundamentals of Web development. The company offers courses on Web Development, iOS, and Web design. Its curriculum enables students to choose their mentors based on experience, language, location, and availability; to build skills; and to do assignments. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of April 9, 2018, Bloc, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Thinkful, Inc.

Deep Sentinel

Series A in 2017
Deep Sentinel Corp. develops artificial intelligence (AI) based home protection systems. It offers crime prevention devices, security cameras, alarms, and camera hardware. The company’s products enable users to predict and stop crime in real time through a combination of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and camera hardware. Deep Sentinel Corp. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Pleasanton, California with research and development office in Taiwan.

BanyanOps, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Banyan Security provides a remote network access platform for hybrid and multi-cloud. It replaces the user's legacy VPNs with a least privilege, network independent, contextual access platform modeled after the BeyondCorp framework. The platform utilizes trust scoring powered by machine learning. It ensures both users and devices are authenticated and trusted before authorizing granular access to sensitive corporate applications. Banyan's distributed, highly scalable platform is currently used by enterprises across verticals including Adobe, SAP, Veeva, BlueVoyant, and Byton. Banyan Security was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

VoloMetrix

Series B in 2014
VoloMetrix is a people analytics technology company that uses big data to optimize organizational performance, providing executives visibility into the daily activities and relationships that propel business forward. The company's technology helps improve companies’ organizational alignment, drive sales, and promote employee engagement. Working with Fortune 100 companies, VoloMetrix extracts and analyzes anonymous aggregated collaboration data to reveal unprecedented insights into how employee behaviors drive business outcomes.

LiveIntent

Series B in 2011
LiveIntent is a people-based marketing technology platform changing the way over 2,000 of the world's largest brands and publishers think about email. The LiveIntent platform transforms email from something you send and receive into the simplest, most powerful way to resolve identity and market to people in a mobile-first world. It becomes your superpower, generating a private customer graph that can augment everything from acquisition to attribution while driving incremental product sales and revenue. LiveIntent is headquartered in NYC, with offices in Berlin, Chicago, Copenhagen, Austin, Detroit, Los Angeles, and the UK, serving as home to 170 people and counting.

Gainspeed

Series B in 2014
Gainspeed is redefining how cable networks are built. The company's Virtual CCAP solution enables cable operators to meet skyrocketing capacity requirements, respond to changing market demands, and rapidly deploy new services all while cost-effectively migrating their networks to a software-driven, all-IP architecture. Gainspeed (formerly known as Cohere Networks) was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Apptio

Series E in 2013
SaaS-based Technology Business Management solutions for managing IT businesses

Nextdoor

Series A in 2012
Nextdoor, Inc. operates a social networking platform for neighborhoods in San Francisco. Its platform enables local conversations among neighbors. It owns and operates Help Map, an interactive map allows residents to mark themselves as available to help vulnerable neighbors during the Covid-19 pandemic. The company was formerly known as Nextdoor.com, Inc. and changed its name to Nextdoor, Inc. in January 2014. Nextdoor, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has an additional location in London, United Kingdom.

SlamData

Seed Round in 2015
SlamData software is a solution for data integration and preparation of any data stored in S3, Azure, and Google. It gives more analytics-ready, regardless of complexity. SlamData has connectors to MongoDB, MarkLogic, Couchbase, and Hadoop and employs the industry's first “in-database” analytics solution to keep data processing and analytics close to the data. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Lucidworks

Private Placement in 2019
LucidWorks, Inc. offers AI powered search engine software. It offers Lucidworks Fusion, a platform that provides fusion server, fusion artificial intelligence, fusion app studio; artificial intelligence powered search that provides augmented intelligence, machine learning, clustering, query analysis, signals, faceted search, indexing, hyper personalization; enterprise solution that provides digital workplace, digital commerce, and search engine replacement. It serves clients in ecommerce, financial services, telecommunication, and publishing industries in the United States and internationally. LucidWorks, Inc. was formerly known as Lucid Imagination, Inc. LucidWorks, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

QualiaOS, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
QualiaOS, Inc., doing business as Mustard, designs and develops a motion analysis application software for broad athletics coaching. It offers a platform that creates and makes widely accessible hyper-personalized training plans for physical and mental training. Its application provides baseball pitchers of all levels with motion analysis and personalized instruction and leverages algorithms created from biometrics database to provide athletes of all levels prescriptive personalized programs. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Aliso Viejo, California.

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.

Needle

Series B in 2012
Needle, Inc. develops a platform that offers real time shopping assistance services for e-commerce websites. The company offers Advocate, Advocate Plus, and Advocate Premium. It operates a chat and voice communications platform that enables experts and product owners to engage online shoppers and raise conversion and net promoter scores. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Lehi, Utah.

LeanData

Series C in 2019
LeanData, Inc. provides SaaS-based data management solutions. It also offers process management, native application, and custom mapping services. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Jose, California.

Kapwing

Private Placement in 2019
Kapwing Inc. provides an online image, video, and GIF editing platform for creators. It offers Kapwing, an online tool that enables people to make and share their stories on the Internet. The company also provides online multimedia editing suite that includes meme maker, sub title makers, trimmers, loopers, filters, and others; and tools to make stop motions, share highlights, and resize posts. Kapwing Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Codefresh

Series C in 2020
Codefresh, Inc. develops a cloud based application user interface to provide services, tools, and platforms for hosted IDEs, SCMs, testing, deployment, Infrastructure, and monitoring. The company’s applications simplifies and automates the interaction with the tools and services, such as git commands, code review, tasks, CI, test, monitoring, deployment, hot fixes, and others. It also provides desktop and web IDEs, as well as hosts Orion, an Eclipse open source project. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Mountain View, California with additional offices in Salt Lake City, Utah and Givatayim, Israel.

Data.world

Private Placement in 2020
Data.World, Inc. develops an open data platform. Its platform enables users to find related and relevant data, understand data's context, follow users, topics, and projects, minimize wrangling, ingest and export various formats, simplify transformation, discuss and share data in context, elevate work's visibility, and meet data sharing requirements. It provides data in sectors, such as finance, crime, economy, census, education, environment, energy, sports, transportation, sports, wildlife, twitter, politics, weather, geospatial, and NASA. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Codefresh

Private Placement in 2020
Codefresh, Inc. develops a cloud based application user interface to provide services, tools, and platforms for hosted IDEs, SCMs, testing, deployment, Infrastructure, and monitoring. The company’s applications simplifies and automates the interaction with the tools and services, such as git commands, code review, tasks, CI, test, monitoring, deployment, hot fixes, and others. It also provides desktop and web IDEs, as well as hosts Orion, an Eclipse open source project. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Mountain View, California with additional offices in Salt Lake City, Utah and Givatayim, Israel.

GameLayers

Series A in 2008
GameLayers Inc was a small game design company making what it calls "passively multiplayer online games" - massively multiplayer online games integrated with web surfing. PMOG, their first offering, became open to the public on May 12, 2008. In 2009 they renamed PMOG to The Nethernet. In 2009, GameLayers released two games for Facebook: Dictator Wars and Super Cute Zoo. In late 2009 the GameLayers shut down. At the peak GameLayers had 9 people based in San Fransico, but also has operatives in Oakland, St. Louis and London.

Data.world

Series B in 2020
Data.World, Inc. develops an open data platform. Its platform enables users to find related and relevant data, understand data's context, follow users, topics, and projects, minimize wrangling, ingest and export various formats, simplify transformation, discuss and share data in context, elevate work's visibility, and meet data sharing requirements. It provides data in sectors, such as finance, crime, economy, census, education, environment, energy, sports, transportation, sports, wildlife, twitter, politics, weather, geospatial, and NASA. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Trubates

Series B in 2008
Trubates, an online marketplaced enabling local merchants to grow profitably by selling excess capacity as prepaid discount coupons. Backed by NEA & Shasta Ventures. Ceased operations in March 2012, unable to navigate investment conflict at NEA who was also the lead investor in Groupon.

VoloMetrix

Series A in 2012
VoloMetrix is a people analytics technology company that uses big data to optimize organizational performance, providing executives visibility into the daily activities and relationships that propel business forward. The company's technology helps improve companies’ organizational alignment, drive sales, and promote employee engagement. Working with Fortune 100 companies, VoloMetrix extracts and analyzes anonymous aggregated collaboration data to reveal unprecedented insights into how employee behaviors drive business outcomes.

Spiceworks

Series D in 2011
Spiceworks is the marketplace that connects the IT industry to help tech buyers and sellers get their jobs done, every day. The company helps people in the world’s businesses find, adopt, and manage the latest technologies while also helping IT brands build, market, and support better products and services. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Spiceworks empowers people to use technology to make their organizations, their communities, and the world better.