Redpoint

Redpoint is a venture capital firm founded in 1999, based in Woodside, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, Beijing, and Shanghai. The firm specializes in early-stage and growth capital investments, primarily focusing on technology, media, telecommunications, consumer internet, and alternative energy sectors. Redpoint manages approximately $4 billion across multiple funds and has a history of backing over 465 companies, resulting in 140 initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Investments typically range from $0.1 million to $50 million, with a preference for seed and early-stage companies. Redpoint China Ventures, a division of the firm, specifically targets seed and early venture investments within the technology-driven consumer and enterprise IT sectors in China. The firm seeks to partner with visionary founders to drive innovation and market transformation across various industries.

Kwesi Acquay

Principal

Medha Agarwal

Principal

Alex Bard

Managing Director

Urvashi Barooah

Principal

Logan Bartlett

Managing Director

Allen Beasley

Partner Emeritus

Erica Brescia

Managing Director

Jeff Brody

Partner and Co-Founder

Patrick Chase

Partner

Meera Clark

Principal

Satish Dharmaraj

Managing Director

Thomas Dyal

Co-Founder and Partner

Jacob Effron

Principal

Tim Haley

Partner and Co-Founder

Bradford Jones

Co-Founder and Partner

Adele Li

Investor

Kyle Liu

Partner

Christopher Moore

Partner Emeritus

Lars Pedersen

Partner, CFO

Grace Ping

Partner

Scott Raney

Managing Director

Ryan Sarver

Partner

Jordan Segall

Principal

Sai Senthilkumar

Investor

Nancy Shi

Partner and CFO

John Walecka

Co-Founder and Partner

Jason Warner

Managing Director

Tony Wu

Partner

Geoff Yang

Partner and Co-Founder

Geoffrey Y. Yang

Co-Founder, Founding Partner, Partner & MD

David Yuan

Founder & Partner, Redpoint China

Alex Zhang

Partner

Past deals in Early Venture Stage

Kustomer

Venture Round in 2023
Kustomer, Inc. is a customer service software company that specializes in customer relationship management (CRM). Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York City, Kustomer offers an omnichannel platform that consolidates data from various sources, enabling businesses to manage customer inquiries efficiently. The software provides a unified view of customers' buying history and previous interactions, allowing service agents to address issues such as refund requests or recurring questions with greater context. Kustomer's platform is utilized by prominent brands, enhancing their customer service capabilities by delivering seamless support experiences. The company also has an office in Durham, North Carolina.

Omni

Series A in 2022
Omni is the only BI platform that combines the consistency of a shared data model with the freedom of SQL. Omni was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in California, United States.

HumanSignal

Series A in 2022
HumanSignal, formerly known as Heartex, Inc, develops a comprehensive platform focused on data labeling and annotation to assist businesses in creating artificial intelligence products. The platform enables companies to efficiently manage and annotate training data, significantly reducing the time spent on preparing datasets for machine learning. Its features include support for unlimited projects, integration with various models, and a robust API, which collectively enhance collaboration, quality assurance, and analytics in the data labeling process. By streamlining these tasks, HumanSignal empowers organizations to generate accurate and competitive AI models at scale, all while facilitating a more efficient workflow for teams involved in data management and analysis. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

AcuityMD

Series A in 2022
Developer of medical technology software platform designed to provide ways of designing and marketing medical devices. The company's platform embeds strategy and market insights into a collaboration that can be used across various functions, enabling medical companies to build closer relationships with the doctors they serve.

Xata.io

Series A in 2022
Xata offers a serverless database service that offers the power of a traditional database with the usability of a SaaS spreadsheet app.

Owner

Series A in 2022
Owner.com provides a direct online ordering system tailored for independent restaurants, integrating automatic marketing features to enhance visibility and streamline customer engagement. Founded in 2020 and based in Menlo Park, California, the company focuses on simplifying the ordering process while helping restaurants increase their reach in the competitive dining sector.

Wander

Series A in 2022
Building the infrastructure to experience the world, join the waitlist on wander.com

Fable

Series A in 2021
Fable Group, Inc. owns and operates a platform, which delivers a social experience with stories in the service of mental wellness. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Fable

Series A in 2021
Fable, Inc. develops a full-stack web-based motion design platform. It offers Fable, a solution that helps teams animate together by using motion for creative professionals and indie creators by making it easier for beginners to get started, more efficient for pros, and collaborative for teams. The company’s solution also enables users to save projects as GIFs or HD videos. Fable, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Mysten Labs

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

Databento

Series A in 2021
Databento is a platform that offers institutional-quality, live, and historical, market, and alternative data. The company was founded in 2019 and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Height

Series A in 2021
Project management software with tasks, chat, adaptive workflows, and more.

Dune Analytics

Series A in 2021
Dune Analytics AS is a data analytics platform focused on blockchain research, particularly for the Ethereum network. Founded in 2018 and based in Oslo, Norway, the company offers tools that enable users to query, extract, and visualize extensive data from the Ethereum blockchain. Its community-driven approach allows users to collaborate and share insights, making it a valuable resource for researchers, developers, and analysts in the blockchain space.

Owner

Series A in 2021
Owner.com provides a direct online ordering system tailored for independent restaurants, integrating automatic marketing features to enhance visibility and streamline customer engagement. Founded in 2020 and based in Menlo Park, California, the company focuses on simplifying the ordering process while helping restaurants increase their reach in the competitive dining sector.

Nearby

Series A in 2021
Nearby is a computer software company that helps businesses and companies to connect with nearby customers. The company helps businesses put their inventory online, and adds their store to the marketplace for their town.

Logixboard

Series A in 2021
Logixboard, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016 that offers a cloud platform designed to enhance transparency and communication for freight forwarders. The platform addresses inefficiencies in the $2 trillion freight forwarding industry, where many firms rely on outdated methods such as paper, spreadsheets, and email for tracking shipments. By integrating with existing back-office applications, Logixboard's solution serves as a digital customer engagement layer, enabling freight forwarders to streamline their operations and improve customer service. The platform empowers companies to manage and control their freight operations more effectively, ultimately reducing costs and increasing efficiency in a traditionally low-tech industry.

ShadowBot

Series A in 2021
ShadowBot develops a software robot that performs repetitive online tasks. The software robot simulates various operations of humans and performs operations such as mouse clicks, keyboard input, and reading information on any applications, enabling enterprises to improve efficiency and productivity.

fabric

Series A in 2021
Fabric is a cloud-based e-commerce development platform that enables businesses to create tailored online shopping experiences for both direct-to-consumer and B2B markets. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with additional offices in Vancouver and Bengaluru, the company offers a range of services, including an infrastructure platform for software as a service, personalized digital content, product information management, and multi-channel order management. With its open and modular design, Fabric allows brands to implement solutions quickly, enhancing performance and supporting growth while replacing outdated legacy systems. Notable clients such as BuildDirect, ABC Home & Carpet, GNC, and Universal Lacrosse rely on Fabric for its intuitive applications that cater to retail buyers, planners, and marketers.

Vastai Technologies

Series A in 2020
Vastai Technologies is focused on developing AI chips for the optimization of computer vision and video processing.

r2c

Series A in 2020
r2c is a software security startup that specializes in modern static analysis tools designed for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). The company has developed a coding platform that empowers developers to write secure code by automatically analyzing and ranking code from various sources within the software ecosystem. This platform identifies vulnerabilities, questionable practices, and exemplary coding standards, allowing developers, security teams, and researchers to assess the safety of open source projects. By providing these insights, r2c fosters a deeper understanding of security practices and enhances the overall security posture of software development.

Airmeet

Series A in 2020
Airmeet serves as an all-in-one virtual events platform for event organizers, marketers, community builders, and enterprises. With a core focus on creating the interactive and immersive virtual events platform for knowledge professionals, Airmeet’s scalable platform supports a variety of event formats including fairs, expos, meetups, workshops, summits, town halls, and more, virtually. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Qualified.com

Series A in 2020
Qualified.com, Inc. operates a conversational marketing platform designed to engage with qualified prospects, primarily for companies utilizing Salesforce. The platform enhances interactions by notifying customer representatives when qualified leads visit their websites, enabling instant communication through chat, voice calls, and screen sharing. This approach allows enterprise sales and marketing teams at prominent B2B brands to optimize their sales pipeline by transforming their corporate websites into effective real-time selling tools. By integrating directly with Salesforce, Qualified provides a comprehensive view of website visitors, equipping businesses with the necessary tools to identify target buyers and initiate conversations promptly. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the company was previously known as FATBEAR LABS Inc. before rebranding in January 2019.

vesoft

Series A in 2020
Nebula Graph, an open-source and distributed graph database solution, is trying help businesses gain valuable insights from the increasingly inter-connected and large datasets. With an advanced architecture, Nebula Graph is capable of providing high throughput and low latency.

NorthOne

Series A in 2020
NorthOne Inc. is a digital banking platform that specializes in providing mobile-first banking solutions for small businesses, freelancers, and startups. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with additional offices in New York and Boston, NorthOne offers an API-enabled bank account that simplifies financial management and transactions. The platform is designed to integrate with various financial tools, including payment processing software like Stripe, to streamline users' financial operations. NorthOne is accessible on both iOS and Android devices, making it convenient for users to manage their finances on the go.

Cyral

Series A in 2020
Cyral, Inc. provides a cloud security solution for data layer security. It offers Cyral, a cloud-native service that enables monitoring and policy enforcement across all data endpoints used by services, applications, and users, as well as provide access control and defense against various threats that commonly plague organizations. The company’s Cyral is used by businesses to secure their data layer without changing workflows or sacrificing agility by providing granular visibility into data accesses, protecting against data exfiltration, and creating a unified layer for privilege management. Its solution is used against various threats and vulnerabilities, such as database password spraying, exposed service credentials, service account takeover, 2nd order SQL injection attack, reconnaissance attack, and logging vulnerabilities. Cyral, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Cyral

Series A in 2020
Cyral, Inc. provides a cloud security solution for data layer security. It offers Cyral, a cloud-native service that enables monitoring and policy enforcement across all data endpoints used by services, applications, and users, as well as provide access control and defense against various threats that commonly plague organizations. The company’s Cyral is used by businesses to secure their data layer without changing workflows or sacrificing agility by providing granular visibility into data accesses, protecting against data exfiltration, and creating a unified layer for privilege management. Its solution is used against various threats and vulnerabilities, such as database password spraying, exposed service credentials, service account takeover, 2nd order SQL injection attack, reconnaissance attack, and logging vulnerabilities. Cyral, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Redwood City, California.

11 Honore

Series A in 2019
11 Honoré is a size-inclusive shopping site that for the first time ever, gives more women the option to experience the best designer clothing and celebrate and honor their bodies, beauty and style. Through listening to you, we are building an exciting new space that is reflective of the fact that style has no size and that everyone who appreciates luxury and designer clothing should and now does have access to it. Welcome to the new runway. One where the traditional fashion playbook is being re-written and where we are working hard to create a platform for change and the wardrobe you’ve been waiting for.

Tend

Series A in 2019
Tend provides hassle-free, personalized, and straightforward dental services with a focus on patient happiness. Tend studios offer a full range of dental services, from checkups to implants and veneers. Tend prioritizes safety with health checks, contactless check-in, enhanced PPE, and more.

Descript

Series A in 2019
Descript is an audio word processing platform that enables editor and producers to edit sound files while a writer would edit its lyrics. It offers anyone editing audio files, whether podcasters, journalists, or musicians, the ability to edit single-track audio clips as easily as they would edit words in a word processing document. Descript is powered by Google Speech, ensuring clients to get state-of-the-art transcription accuracy. Audio is synced to text, so the users can always hear the sound beneath the words - and search audio by searching text. The company was founded by Andrew Mason, who also founded Detour and Groupon.

Opsani

Series A in 2019
Opsani uses the capabilities of AI to optimize applications in the cloud. It is a provider of Machine Learning driven automation to enable autonomous operations for DevOps teams. Founded by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs, who pioneered some of the major innovations that power current IT, Opsani applies AI to automatically improve operations of applications and cloud infrastructure to achieve better performance. Opsani was founded as Datagrid Systems by Ross Schibler, Bert Armijo, and Peter Nickolov in November 2014. The company name was changed to Opsani in July 2017.

Dgraph Labs

Series A in 2019
Dgraph Labs, Inc. develops and operates a graph database. The company provides low latency solution to serve real time user queries over terabytes of structured data. It offers Slash Enterprise, a fully-managed, serverless solution for enterprises managing workloads with terabytes of data in production that runs on dedicated, multi-zone clusters with availability deployed on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Dgraph Labs, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Bravado

Series A in 2019
Bravado is a community platform for sales professionals. It offers online tools and craft in-person events that help its members amplify their voices, build their personal brands, connect with other sales professionals, and be great at their jobs. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bravado

Series A in 2019
Bravado is a community platform for sales professionals. It offers online tools and craft in-person events that help its members amplify their voices, build their personal brands, connect with other sales professionals, and be great at their jobs. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Anvyl

Series A in 2019
Anvyl is a technology platform that uses data analytics to reinvent supply chain processes, making products better, smarter, and easier. It provides visibility into the manufacturing process and streamlines relationships between reputable brands and world-class manufacturers. It standardizes and automates interactions, negotiates contracts and schedules, tracks production and quality, and provides visual and data updates to ensure on-time delivery. Anvyl's customers include HIMs, Native, S’well, Harry’s, LOLA, and other direct-to-consumer brands. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York.

Tundra

Series A in 2019
Tundra is the modern wholesale marketplace that allows buyers and suppliers to transact online with no fees or markups. Our platform uses proprietary technology to automate end-to-end wholesale processes, eliminating onerous tasks and saving our buyers and suppliers time and money. We sell and deliver product directly from US and Canadian brands to businesses around the world and around the corner. Our community of over 10,000 businesses shop from a broad assortment in popular categories including kids, home, beauty, apparel, and general merchandise. Tundra is venture-backed and has offices in San Francisco and Zurich.

Enflame

Series A in 2019
Suiyuan Technology is a provider of neural network solutions for artificial intelligence. Its products are deep learning high-end chips developed for cloud data centers, and are positioned on artificial intelligence training platforms. The chip will adopt a unique and innovative architecture independently developed, featuring high computing power, high energy efficiency ratio, programmable, low cost, and support for mainstream machine learning frameworks. It is designed and optimized for cloud AI training.

Galileo

Series A in 2019
Galileo, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing healthcare mobile applications designed to facilitate medical care and expertise. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., the company provides an online communication platform that allows healthcare providers and patients to connect through synchronous and asynchronous telecommunications technologies. By leveraging these innovative solutions, Galileo aims to enhance access to comprehensive clinical care directly from mobile devices, improving the overall patient experience in healthcare delivery.

Youge Education

Series A in 2019
Youge Education is a high-end financial personal training brand that provides services to users through a full range of face-to-face teaching, job-seeking communities, and in-house training. In addition, the company also arranges an examination training program combining domestic certificates with international certificates and academic certificates, and is committed to building a high-end private education curriculum system.

Coder

Series A in 2019
Coder Technologies Inc. is an information technology company that specializes in developing cloud-based integrated development environments (IDEs) for coding on any device. The company's flagship product, Coder Enterprise, automates the configuration, security, and management of development environments, allowing developers to concentrate on product development. Coder Enterprise supports the use of existing development tools, CI/CD pipelines, source code management systems, and editors, thereby facilitating source control and simplifying updates. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Coder aims to provide open-source tools and an enterprise platform designed to enhance the efficiency and scalability of development processes.

Mattermost

Series A in 2019
Mattermost, Inc. is a provider of enterprise-grade messaging software solutions, focusing on secure and configurable communication for organizations. Founded in 2011 by Corey Hulen and Ian Tien, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Its open-source platform enables messaging across web, phone, and personal computers, featuring capabilities such as archiving, search, and deep integration with existing in-house systems. Mattermost specializes in facilitating secure team collaboration and centralizing DevOps communication and workflows, which allows businesses to create intuitive workflows for large teams while ensuring data privacy and security. The company, originally known as SpinPunch, Inc., changed its name in 2015 to reflect its focus on messaging solutions.

Ike

Series A in 2019
Ike Robotics Inc. specializes in manufacturing self-driving trucks aimed at enhancing the trucking industry. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company focuses on developing automation technology that makes trucking safer and more efficient while also improving the livelihoods of truck drivers. By assembling a team of experts in transportation and robotics, Ike seeks to create well-designed and thoroughly tested products that can be commercially scaled. The company emphasizes its commitment to reducing greenhouse emissions and fostering job creation within the sector. As of December 2020, Ike operates as a subsidiary of Nuro, Inc.

Solo.io

Series A in 2018
Solo.io, Inc. is a software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017 by Idit Levine. The company specializes in developing open source and enterprise solutions that facilitate the adoption and operation of cloud-native technologies. Its primary offerings include Gloo, a cloud-native API gateway and ingress controller that connects and secures application services; Mesh Hub, a dashboard for managing service meshes; and tools for integrating WebAssembly into applications. Additionally, Solo.io provides Squash, a debugger for microservices, and Unik, a platform for building unikernels. By enabling enterprises to seamlessly integrate new features into existing applications, Solo.io helps organizations navigate the transition from traditional applications to modern architectures like microservices and service mesh, allowing them to respond effectively to evolving business needs.

Solo.io

Series A in 2018
Solo.io, Inc. is a software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017 by Idit Levine. The company specializes in developing open source and enterprise solutions that facilitate the adoption and operation of cloud-native technologies. Its primary offerings include Gloo, a cloud-native API gateway and ingress controller that connects and secures application services; Mesh Hub, a dashboard for managing service meshes; and tools for integrating WebAssembly into applications. Additionally, Solo.io provides Squash, a debugger for microservices, and Unik, a platform for building unikernels. By enabling enterprises to seamlessly integrate new features into existing applications, Solo.io helps organizations navigate the transition from traditional applications to modern architectures like microservices and service mesh, allowing them to respond effectively to evolving business needs.

Lilt

Series A in 2018
Lilt, Inc. is an artificial intelligence-based enterprise translation software company that aims to make information accessible across languages. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in Indiana and Dublin, Lilt combines adaptive neural machine translation technology with an enterprise translation management system. This integrated platform enables organizations to efficiently scale their translation programs, accelerate their go-to-market processes, and enhance global customer experiences. Lilt's clientele includes notable companies such as Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, DigitalOcean, and Sprinklr, spanning various sectors including technology, finance, media, healthcare, and manufacturing. By offering features like multiple suggestions, incremental domain adaptation, and word alignment, Lilt's technology provides businesses with the capability to translate professional documents accurately, reducing reliance on human translators.

Ekeguan.com

Series A in 2018
Ekeguan.com is Online financial skills development and training platform based in Beijing.

Pony.ai

Series A in 2018
Pony.ai, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing artificial intelligence software for autonomous mobility applications. Founded in 2016 by James Peng and Tiancheng Lou, Pony.ai is headquartered in Fremont, California, with additional offices in San Francisco and in China. The company creates full-stack autonomous driving solutions that enhance the manufacturing of automated vehicles. Its technology utilizes advanced algorithms and AI to accurately interpret the vehicle's environment, enabling it to predict the actions of surrounding drivers and navigate safely. In addition to its software solutions, Pony.ai operates a public-facing Robotaxi service, further demonstrating its commitment to advancing autonomous transportation.

Spacious

Series A in 2018
Spacious Technologies, Inc. operates in the technology industry. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York. Spacious Inc. provides a service that enables the users to use restaurants that are closed during the day as a network of co-working spaces. Its service is an alternative to an office that enables users to work and meet at various urban spaces in New York. Spacious Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York. As of August 27, 2019, Spacious Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of WeWork Companies Inc.

Share2

Series A in 2018
Share2 is a female second-hand idle genuine trading APP, providing users with convenient and fast idle goods trading services.

11 Honore

Series A in 2018
11 Honoré is a size-inclusive shopping site that for the first time ever, gives more women the option to experience the best designer clothing and celebrate and honor their bodies, beauty and style. Through listening to you, we are building an exciting new space that is reflective of the fact that style has no size and that everyone who appreciates luxury and designer clothing should and now does have access to it. Welcome to the new runway. One where the traditional fashion playbook is being re-written and where we are working hard to create a platform for change and the wardrobe you’ve been waiting for.

DeepMotion

Series A in 2018
DeepMotion is an autonomous driving solution provider based in Beijing, China, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) aimed at enhancing vehicle safety and navigation. Its primary products include the DeepMotion Client, an intelligent ADAS device offering features such as lane departure warning, pedestrian detection, and collision warning, with localization accuracy of 10 centimeters achieved without relying on RTK technology. Additionally, DeepMotion Cloud integrates and processes extensive data from crowdsourced DM-100 devices to create consistent 3D semantic maps, further supporting its autonomous driving capabilities.

Jian24

Series A in 2018
Jian24 operates as an artificial intelligence convenience store. The company offers a checkout-free convenience store service. It offers services, such as a customer can scan QR code to enter the shop and can leave the store directly after paying with mobile payment options. The company is based in Shanghai, China.

Oushu

Series A in 2017
Oushu is a leading provider of big data and AI-based platform software, dedicated to providing a new generation of enterprise databases.

AppZen

Series A in 2017
AppZen Inc. is an artificial intelligence company that focuses on automating back office functions, particularly in the areas of expense reporting and compliance auditing. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an office in Pune, India, AppZen's platform utilizes advanced technologies such as deep learning, computer vision, and semantic analysis. It reviews expense report data in real-time, cross-referencing it with external sources and social media to identify compliance issues and potential fraud. By offering automated solutions, AppZen helps enterprises, including a significant portion of the Fortune 500, to reduce expenses, ensure compliance with regulations, and streamline financial processes. The technology is designed to detect both accidental and intentional fraud while adhering to IRS rules and company policies.

TruSignal

Series A in 2017
TruSignal, LLC offers digital marketing services. It provides display, video, and media campaigns on publisher sites, portals, advertisement networks, trading desks, DSPs, advertisement exchanges, and mobile networks. The company is based in St. Cloud, Minnesota. TruSignal, LLC operates as a subsidiary of xTech Holdings, Inc. As of May 22, 2019, TruSignal, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of TransUnion.

Sourcegraph

Series A in 2017
Sourcegraph, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in universal code search solutions, enhancing code discovery, intelligence, and change management. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Sourcegraph enables developers to efficiently navigate and understand extensive codebases across various repositories, languages, and file formats. Its platform allows for seamless code exploration in web browsers, facilitating improved developer productivity through contextual insights that aid in code reviews and onboarding processes. Additionally, Sourcegraph automates large-scale code changes, helping teams manage complex codebases more effectively. The company's services cater to a diverse clientele, including startups, enterprises, developers, DevOps teams, and engineering leaders, all aimed at minimizing the challenges associated with code management. Sourcegraph is supported by prominent investors, highlighting its significant market presence and potential for growth.

Qutoutiao

Series A in 2017
Qutoutiao Inc. operates mobile platforms dedicated to the distribution, consumption, and sharing of light entertainment content in China. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Shanghai, the company is best known for its flagship application, Qutoutiao, which aggregates articles and short videos, delivering real-time customized feeds tailored to individual users through an AI-powered recommendation engine. This technology enhances user engagement by providing relevant information and entertainment, ultimately fostering knowledge exchange within society. Additionally, Qutoutiao offers Midu Novels, a mobile literature application that provides free literature supported by advertising, alongside the Midu Lite app. The company employs a unique user account system and a gamified loyalty program, allowing users to earn points through various interactions, such as referring new users or consuming content. This approach not only increases user engagement but also enables Qutoutiao to track user behavior for improved content recommendations.

Haoqipei

Series A in 2017
Haoqipei is a Chinese B2B platform for auto repair shops and auto parts suppliers. The company aims to solve the pain points of complex trading and information asymmetry in auto repair shops and auto parts traders. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Shanghai, China.

DataCanvas

Series A in 2017
DataCanvas is a data analysis service platform based in China.

Kyligence

Series A in 2017
Kyligence Inc. is a data intelligence company that offers big data analytics products powered by Apache Kylin, an open source OLAP engine built for interactive analytics of petabyte-scale data on Hadoop. Founded in 2016 by creators of Apache Kylin, Kyligence focuses on Big Data technologies and innovation, offering next-generation data warehouse and business intelligence solution on top of Hadoop from on-premises to the cloud.

Laidian

Series A in 2017
Shenzhen Laidian Technology Co., Ltd. provides power bank rental services. The firm is based in China.

RaiseMe

Series A in 2017
RaiseMe is a financial aid information and networking platform aimed at improving access to higher education by providing scholarship opportunities. The platform allows students to earn "micro-Scholarships" throughout their high school years, based on individual achievements both in and outside the classroom. This approach addresses the limitations of traditional financial aid systems, which typically award assistance at the end of high school, often too late to influence students' college decisions. By enabling students to accumulate financial aid early, RaiseMe has facilitated the earning of over $2 billion in micro-scholarships from its university partners. This innovative model seeks to enhance educational pathways and support students in their academic pursuits.

Astro Technology

Series A in 2017
Update: Astro has been acquired by Slack, September 2018. We’re Astro, a software startup in Palo Alto, pursuing ambitious challenges in workplace messaging, collaboration, and AI. We have intelligent email apps for Mac, iOS & Android. Our AI-powered assistant, Astrobot, also brings your key emails and important insights to Slack and Amazon Alexa. We invite you to signup at www.astro.ai In March 2017 we announced our $10M Series A funding led by Redpoint Ventures, and joined by Harrison Metal, Aspect Ventures and Upside Partnership. Our founding team has worked together at various companies as co-founders, VP of engineering, chief architect and founding engineers, with multiple successful outcomes. Our experience ranges from starting companies, to Google, LinkedIn, VMware, Cisco, BEA, Zimbra and Stanford University. We're hiring outstanding server-side & mobile engineers to join us here in Palo Alto, if you're interested please contact us at jobs@helloastro.com. We’re an equal opportunity employer and invite applicants of diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Chorus.ai

Series A in 2017
Chorus.ai operates a conversation intelligence platform specifically designed for sales teams. The platform transcribes and analyzes business conversations in real-time, allowing sales representatives and managers to identify key moments in their calls. By leveraging proprietary natural language processing algorithms, Chorus.ai provides insights that help teams replicate the performance of top-performing representatives. This enables clients to enhance their sales strategies and improve deal closures efficiently. The company serves a diverse clientele, including both startups and established public companies.

Knock

Series A in 2017
Knock is an online home selling platform that makes buying or selling a home simple and certain. Launched by founding team members from Trulia.com, the company uses data science to price homes accurately, technology to sell homes quickly and a dedicated team of professionals to guide homeowners through the selling process.

Brandless

Series A in 2016
Based in San Francisco, Brandless is a fresh approach to consumer commerce. Their mission is deeply rooted in quality, transparency, and community-driven values. Starting with everyday essentials, the things they use all the time, Brandless will make it possible for everyone to have access to better stuff for fewer dollars. Brandless is co-founded by Tina Sharkey and Ido Leffler and is slated to launch in the spring of 2017.

Zugata

Series A in 2016
Zugata is a performance management system designed to improve employee and organizational performance. It has the vision to use data to understand employees and to use those insights to empower employees to reach their fullest potential. The company helps employers to gather continuous feedback about individual employees in order to foster a corporate culture that empowers each employee to reach his or her full potential. Its deep learning and advanced analytics algorithms allow managers to aggregate and summarize ratings for key skills by the organization, team, or individual. This allows managers to view workforce strengths and weaknesses holistically, as well as individually, and use data to determine future training needs. Zugata was founded in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Guild

Series A in 2016
Guild Education's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and career. Guild offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with their tech-enabled student advising model. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States.

Clara

Series A in 2016
We started Clara to help individuals and families finance their lives in a more efficient, transparent, and empowered way. We started with one of life’s most important financial decisions -- a home. We are building technology to reduce the time and cost it takes to originate a mortgage and creating a more personalized, clear experience for our customers.

Flexe

Series A in 2016
FLEXE, Inc. operates a cloud-based warehousing services marketplace that connects organizations needing additional storage and fulfillment capacity with those that have surplus space. Founded in 2013 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company provides a platform that facilitates efficient warehouse sourcing and setup, streamlining material handling operations for clients including retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics firms. By addressing inventory overflow and fulfillment challenges, FLEXE enhances the logistics industry and enables businesses to achieve greater structural flexibility in their operations. The company aims to optimize the global delivery of goods and improve access to affordable warehousing solutions, ultimately helping enterprises strengthen their distribution networks and maximize revenue potential.

PsiQuantum

Series A in 2016
PsiQuantum Corp. is a company focused on the development of a general-purpose silicon photonic quantum computer, which utilizes photons as qubits. Founded in 2015 and based in Palo Alto, California, PsiQuantum's technology represents a distinct approach in the quantum computing sector, setting it apart from other leading methodologies in the industry. The company's aim is to advance quantum computing capabilities by leveraging the unique properties of silicon photonics.

XSKY Data Technology

Series A in 2016
XSky (Beijing) Data Technology Co., Ltd. is a Chinese company specializing in software-defined infrastructure products and services. It offers a range of storage solutions, including XCBS for cloud storage, XEBS for block storage, XEUS for unified storage, XEOS for object storage, and XEDP as a unified data platform. The company also provides software-defined storage solutions with its XSCALER series. XSky serves various sectors, including finance, healthcare, education, telecommunications, and energy, catering to enterprises, government agencies, and media networks. In addition to its product offerings, XSky is a significant contributor to the open-source storage system Ceph and is recognized as a leading partner of Red Hat in China. The company collaborates with major IT firms like Intel and Dell to enhance its technology and solutions, focusing on scalable and future-ready storage options.

Essential

Series A in 2016
Essential Products is a new type of company focused on creating consumer technology products for the 21st century. Founded by Andy Rubin, co-founder of Android, the world's most widely used operating system, Essential Products is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Qingteng Cloud Security

Series A in 2015
Qingteng Cloud Security is a SaaS-based cloud security company focusing on endpoint adaptive security. It delivers server and cloud security based on Adaptive Security Architecture. The company's product has changed the existing cognition of security in various industries, brought out a brand new vision. They can help the government to create an information security guarantee system that conforms to domestic law and regulations. Qingteng Cloud Security asset inventory data platform provides an inventory of key assets of more than 10 types of mainframes, automatic identification of more than 800 types of business applications, and has the ability to customize operations for expansion. It also provides next-generation host security technology to guard the last mile of security. Qingteng Cloud Security was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

LightStep

Series A in 2015
LightStep, Inc. develops application performance management (APM) software solutions designed to enhance the performance of production systems. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, the company offers products that provide real-time insights into end-to-end system behavior, enabling users to understand how production services interact across organizational boundaries. LightStep's platform analyzes all transaction data from large-scale distributed software, allowing for complete traces and detailed metrics that elucidate performance behaviors and expedite root cause analysis. The company supports SAML and offers flexible deployment options, including on-premises or in virtual private clouds, while adhering to open standards. LightStep is backed by notable investors including Sequoia, Redpoint, and Altimeter.

eero

Series A in 2015
eero Inc. specializes in developing Wi-Fi systems designed for residential use, providing robust and reliable internet connectivity throughout homes. Their primary product, the eero system, consists of multiple access points that work together to deliver comprehensive Wi-Fi coverage, effectively eliminating dead zones. Users can easily manage their network through a dedicated mobile app, which facilitates control over both wired and wireless connections. eero also offers additional products such as a power over Ethernet (PoE+) adapter and a remote network management tool. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Sacramento, California, eero operates as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. since 2019.

Dremio

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

Dremio

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

Rainforest Action Network

Series A in 2015
Launched one months ago, Ran provides users flexible gym membership plans, workout lessons, private instructors, and built-in exercise programs.

Santiyundong

Series A in 2015
Santiyundong designs and develops software which provides SaaS management system, and marketing services for the fitness centers. The software uses software as a service platform, Internet of things, and big data technology. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Playground Global

Series A in 2015
Playground Global is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2015. The firm specializes in backing technical founders with expertise in deep technology, focusing on sectors such as next-generation computing, automation, energy transition, and engineered biology. Playground Global strives to transform innovative ideas into impactful businesses that contribute positively to society and the environment. The firm manages multiple funds, including Playground Quantum Fund and Playground Ventures III, which target investments in information technology, deep tech, and science, typically ranging from $10 million to $20 million per investment. By fostering a collaborative environment, Playground Global aims to support entrepreneurs at the intersection of digital and physical technologies, including artificial intelligence and robotics.

Luxe

Series A in 2015
Luxe is a logistics platform focused on providing innovative real-time local services, starting with parking solutions. The Luxe app, available for iPhone, aims to enhance the parking experience by transforming it from a tedious necessity into a more enjoyable aspect of daily life. The company employs a skilled team with backgrounds from notable organizations, including Zynga, Tesla, Google, Yahoo, and Groupon. Luxe utilizes a fleet of pre-screened, friendly valets and offers access to numerous insured and secure indoor parking facilities. Their advanced technology platform monitors the entire parking process, ensuring a seamless experience from car drop-off to pick-up. By addressing the widespread challenge of urban parking, Luxe is setting a new standard in on-demand services.

Button

Series A in 2015
Button (usebutton.com) is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet. As the leading mobile commerce enablement platform, Button powers mobile growth for the world's largest brands and publishers, while offering consumers more seamless, enjoyable experiences. With each action taken, brands make sales, publishers earn revenue, and consumers get exactly what they want at the tap of a button. Founded in 2014, Button has driven over $3 billion in spending to date and has raised over $64 million in venture capital.

XuetangX

Series A in 2014
XuetangX is a one-stop online platform for sites building, course authoring, blended learning, study follow-up and assessment, offering personalized services to administrators, teachers and learners.

Memoir

Series A in 2014
Memoir transforms your photos, the places you go, and your social media into memories that can be relived when they’re most interesting to you. As soon as you request them, the photos your friends choose to share with you become part of your Memoir seamlessly. You can find memories and photos by people, places, dates, context, and more - no tagging or organization required. Memoir discovers photos and memories wherever they were created - iPhone cameras, DSLR's, Instagram, Facebook, Foursquare - even on your computer. With Memoir, all of your photos and memories are backed up securely to the cloud.

Lever

Series A in 2014
Lever is one of the most recognized brands in talent acquisition software for mid-sized and enterprise companies. Our software enables teams to post jobs, source, interview, and hire top talent. We've combined ATS & CRM into a single platform, Lever Hire. Our Talent Acquisition Suite also includes tools for recruitment marketing and analytics: Lever Nurture, Lever Talent Intelligence, and Lever Data Warehouse Sync. Our customers include Netflix, Mercedes-Benz, KPMG, Spotify, Delta Dental, Cirque du Soleil, and over 3000 other customers.