Katalyst Venture

Katalyst Ventures is an early-stage venture fund based in San Francisco, founded in 2018, that focuses on investing in innovative technology companies across North America. The firm seeks to partner with entrepreneurs who demonstrate creativity, determination, and a commitment to building sustainable businesses. Katalyst Ventures specializes in sectors such as artificial intelligence, digital healthcare, finance, and logistics, aiming to support startups that have the potential for significant market impact. By leveraging a strong network of experienced operators and technologists, the firm assists its portfolio companies in accelerating their market entry and scaling operations effectively. Katalyst Ventures is open to exploring investment opportunities in both U.S.-based startups and international companies, grounded in a philosophy that emphasizes the alignment of profit and purpose.

Andrei Zmievski

Technical Venture Partner

42 past transactions

Arine

Series A in 2021
ARINE INC. develops a clinical learning and analytic response engine for data-driven clinical services to patients and their families. Its solution provides tailored and action-oriented medication recommendations and education to patients and their care teams, as well as engages in ongoing review and monitoring for timely follow-up, and outcomes evaluation and reporting. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

TruValue Labs

Private Placement in 2018
Headquartered in San Francisco, TruValue Labs is a technology company leveraging advances in natural language processing, cognitive computing, and machine learning to provide actionable insights. Our products analyze big data in real-time, providing analytics from sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) issues at the speed of current events – an essential tool for successful business and investment decision-making. As the importance of sustainability issues in underlying value become increasingly apparent, TruValue Labs provides solutions to identify material data for researchers, analysts, portfolio managers and consumers to help understand company performance.

Helpshift

Series C in 2019
Helpshift, Inc. develops mobile customer services software. It offers Helpshift, a support platform for mobile and Web that helps businesses to proactively support and engage customers. Its support platform includes various functionalities, such as in-app FAQ’s, in-app chat, a full CRM ticketing system, in-app campaigns, and in-app surveys. Helpshift, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Treasure Card

Seed Round in 2020
Treasure Financial Inc. develops a money management app for kids. The company’s product is used to learn and teach about money management by the parents; develop good habits and understand the value of money; learn financial planning, budgeting, saving, and know the difference between wants and needs; educate the children about money; and track balances and move the money around in kids saving, spending, giving, and goal accounts. The company was formerly known as Abacus Card. Treasure Financial Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

TalentWorks

Convertible Note in 2018
TalentWorks is job interview matching platform

DocMatter

Series A in 2021
DocMatter brings the knowledge of the medical community to your fingertips. Explore the new paradigm of learning and sharing information through the first global knowledge and discussion forum for medical professionals. Expand your information base by leveraging the collective experience of your peers, along with other thought leaders from top institutions and practices around the world. And increase your visibility in the community by contributing to ongoing discussions and beginning new ones.

Foxtrot Systems

Series A in 2018
Foxtrot Systems, Inc. designs and develops route optimization software for daily distribution routes. It offers Foxtrot, a route optimization API that provides optimized route manifest for each driver; provides specific ETAs for each stop; calculates driving time and driver cost; and calculates mileage and fuel cost. The company's solution is used by drivers that deliver food, booze, or laundry. Foxtrot Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Zipline

Series E in 2021
Zipline Inc. designs and manufactures drones that are used to deliver medical supplies. Its drones deliver medical products, such as vaccines, medicines, and blood. Zipline Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Half Moon Bay, California.

Arine

Seed Round in 2019
ARINE INC. develops a clinical learning and analytic response engine for data-driven clinical services to patients and their families. Its solution provides tailored and action-oriented medication recommendations and education to patients and their care teams, as well as engages in ongoing review and monitoring for timely follow-up, and outcomes evaluation and reporting. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Flowcast

Private Placement in 2019
Flowcast leverages its patented machine learning methodologies to create high-performing predictive models that assess risk and enable lenders to unlock credit to all size businesses at scale. Flowcast’s models offer unparalleled explainability in understanding the root cause of a business’ creditworthiness, the risk of delinquency, the timeliness of repayment and the likelihood of dilution of their transactions. Unlike traditional risk assessments, the API-based solution updates and monitors the risk assessment of the borrower in real-time based on alternative data and Flowcast’s proprietary data.

TruValue Labs

Series A in 2018
Headquartered in San Francisco, TruValue Labs is a technology company leveraging advances in natural language processing, cognitive computing, and machine learning to provide actionable insights. Our products analyze big data in real-time, providing analytics from sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) issues at the speed of current events – an essential tool for successful business and investment decision-making. As the importance of sustainability issues in underlying value become increasingly apparent, TruValue Labs provides solutions to identify material data for researchers, analysts, portfolio managers and consumers to help understand company performance.

Nomiku

Seed Round in 2019
Nomiku is a San Francisco-based startup born after one of the most successful Kickstarter projects in history for its inaugural Nomiku Immersion Circulator. Now shipping its second product--the smallest and most powerful sous vide device with a companion app--thousands of units can be found in homes and restaurants all over the world. Nomiku believes that everyone should be able to make the best food possible, every day of their lives. Everyone's a great cook, they just need the right tools.

Flowcast

Convertible Note in 2020
Flowcast leverages its patented machine learning methodologies to create high-performing predictive models that assess risk and enable lenders to unlock credit to all size businesses at scale. Flowcast’s models offer unparalleled explainability in understanding the root cause of a business’ creditworthiness, the risk of delinquency, the timeliness of repayment and the likelihood of dilution of their transactions. Unlike traditional risk assessments, the API-based solution updates and monitors the risk assessment of the borrower in real-time based on alternative data and Flowcast’s proprietary data.

TruValue Labs

Convertible Note in 2017
Headquartered in San Francisco, TruValue Labs is a technology company leveraging advances in natural language processing, cognitive computing, and machine learning to provide actionable insights. Our products analyze big data in real-time, providing analytics from sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) issues at the speed of current events – an essential tool for successful business and investment decision-making. As the importance of sustainability issues in underlying value become increasingly apparent, TruValue Labs provides solutions to identify material data for researchers, analysts, portfolio managers and consumers to help understand company performance.

Zipline

Series C in 2018
Zipline Inc. designs and manufactures drones that are used to deliver medical supplies. Its drones deliver medical products, such as vaccines, medicines, and blood. Zipline Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Half Moon Bay, California.

Pathover

Convertible Note in 2018
Pathover, Inc. operates an API that provides intelligent optimization and logistics solutions for grocery delivery in the United States. The company’s API aggregates various orders by region and intelligently optimizes the suitable delivery option within a selected time interval. Its resource and delivery routing API facilitates same-day grocery delivery for stores through a courier network. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

DocMatter

Series A in 2018
DocMatter brings the knowledge of the medical community to your fingertips. Explore the new paradigm of learning and sharing information through the first global knowledge and discussion forum for medical professionals. Expand your information base by leveraging the collective experience of your peers, along with other thought leaders from top institutions and practices around the world. And increase your visibility in the community by contributing to ongoing discussions and beginning new ones.

Flowcast

Series A in 2019
Flowcast leverages its patented machine learning methodologies to create high-performing predictive models that assess risk and enable lenders to unlock credit to all size businesses at scale. Flowcast’s models offer unparalleled explainability in understanding the root cause of a business’ creditworthiness, the risk of delinquency, the timeliness of repayment and the likelihood of dilution of their transactions. Unlike traditional risk assessments, the API-based solution updates and monitors the risk assessment of the borrower in real-time based on alternative data and Flowcast’s proprietary data.

Arine

Seed Round in 2019
ARINE INC. develops a clinical learning and analytic response engine for data-driven clinical services to patients and their families. Its solution provides tailored and action-oriented medication recommendations and education to patients and their care teams, as well as engages in ongoing review and monitoring for timely follow-up, and outcomes evaluation and reporting. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

DocMatter

Convertible Note in 2022
DocMatter brings the knowledge of the medical community to your fingertips. Explore the new paradigm of learning and sharing information through the first global knowledge and discussion forum for medical professionals. Expand your information base by leveraging the collective experience of your peers, along with other thought leaders from top institutions and practices around the world. And increase your visibility in the community by contributing to ongoing discussions and beginning new ones.

DocMatter

Convertible Note in 2023
DocMatter brings the knowledge of the medical community to your fingertips. Explore the new paradigm of learning and sharing information through the first global knowledge and discussion forum for medical professionals. Expand your information base by leveraging the collective experience of your peers, along with other thought leaders from top institutions and practices around the world. And increase your visibility in the community by contributing to ongoing discussions and beginning new ones.

TeamOhana

Seed Round in 2021
TeamOhana empowers growing companies to plan and manage headcount with confidence.

TeamOhana

Seed Round in 2022
TeamOhana empowers growing companies to plan and manage headcount with confidence.

Hyperspec-ai

Seed Round in 2021
Hyperspec.ai is developing a next-generation vision pipeline that will utilize equirectangular depth imagery and cross-view localization to enable perception in robotics. The technology is quite promising and has a tremendous amount of scope. However, there are key bottlenecks that need to be addressed, in order for the systems to be economically viable. One of the key bottlenecks is the High Definition Map requirement to enable the car to have scene context. In this paper, we describe the state of the art and present a next-generation orthogonal approach to creating scene context for self-driving cars. Hyperspec.ai is developing a next-generation vision pipeline that will utilize equirectangular imagery instead of standard pin-hole images to gain an understanding of the scene. We present novel innovations that will contribute to the perception stacks which will dramatically revolutionize how self-driving cars create scene context while navigating in complex environments

DocMatter

Convertible Note in 2022
DocMatter brings the knowledge of the medical community to your fingertips. Explore the new paradigm of learning and sharing information through the first global knowledge and discussion forum for medical professionals. Expand your information base by leveraging the collective experience of your peers, along with other thought leaders from top institutions and practices around the world. And increase your visibility in the community by contributing to ongoing discussions and beginning new ones.

Zipline

Series E in 2021
Zipline Inc. designs and manufactures drones that are used to deliver medical supplies. Its drones deliver medical products, such as vaccines, medicines, and blood. Zipline Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Half Moon Bay, California.

Carta Healthcare

Series A in 2021
Carta empowers hospitals to personalize the delivery of care to the individual needs of each patient. The approach Carta Healthcare is advocating and enabling is to: find past patients similar to the current one being treated; quantify what exactly happened to them during their journey through the hospital (this is where our model comes in) and; use machine learning to project what the particular patient in question will need, and what the patient can expect their experience to be in the hospital. Carta was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California, United States.

Carta Healthcare

Convertible Note in 2019
Carta empowers hospitals to personalize the delivery of care to the individual needs of each patient. The approach Carta Healthcare is advocating and enabling is to: find past patients similar to the current one being treated; quantify what exactly happened to them during their journey through the hospital (this is where our model comes in) and; use machine learning to project what the particular patient in question will need, and what the patient can expect their experience to be in the hospital. Carta was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California, United States.

Hyperspec-ai

Seed Round in 2021
Hyperspec.ai is developing a next-generation vision pipeline that will utilize equirectangular depth imagery and cross-view localization to enable perception in robotics. The technology is quite promising and has a tremendous amount of scope. However, there are key bottlenecks that need to be addressed, in order for the systems to be economically viable. One of the key bottlenecks is the High Definition Map requirement to enable the car to have scene context. In this paper, we describe the state of the art and present a next-generation orthogonal approach to creating scene context for self-driving cars. Hyperspec.ai is developing a next-generation vision pipeline that will utilize equirectangular imagery instead of standard pin-hole images to gain an understanding of the scene. We present novel innovations that will contribute to the perception stacks which will dramatically revolutionize how self-driving cars create scene context while navigating in complex environments

Arine

Series B in 2022
ARINE INC. develops a clinical learning and analytic response engine for data-driven clinical services to patients and their families. Its solution provides tailored and action-oriented medication recommendations and education to patients and their care teams, as well as engages in ongoing review and monitoring for timely follow-up, and outcomes evaluation and reporting. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Chairman Mom

Seed Round in 2017
Chairman Mom is a subscription-based company that aims to provide resources to working mothers. The company is on a mission to rebrand working motherhood. Created by Pando founder, veteran journalist and mother of two, Sarah Lacy, Chairman Mom is a platform that lets working mothers share experiences and honest answers to help one another succeed in life and career. Through a subscription-based Q&A community, Chairman Mom is focused on uniting—rather than dividing women.

Zipline

Series D in 2019
Zipline Inc. designs and manufactures drones that are used to deliver medical supplies. Its drones deliver medical products, such as vaccines, medicines, and blood. Zipline Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Half Moon Bay, California.

Zipline

Private Placement in 2018
Zipline Inc. designs and manufactures drones that are used to deliver medical supplies. Its drones deliver medical products, such as vaccines, medicines, and blood. Zipline Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Half Moon Bay, California.

Lifekee

Seed Round in 2019
Lifekee is a customer data and identity platform with a cool app where users update their contact information on behalf of enterprises and other users, changing the way people share contact information and creating a new model for connecting people and businesses all over the world.

Pensar

Seed Round in 2017
Pensar-powering the future of learning. Our team are renowned for having formulated and tested fundamental theories of learning and cognition over the past 40 years & conducting some of the most extensive applied education research in the world. We have developed proven learning applications in use by millions of students today, and have deep expertise in instructional design. We have been named amongst the worlds best data scientists and Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning experts.

DabKick

Convertible Note in 2019
DabKick Inc. develops a mobile communication application that allows people to interact live with friends and family while watching videos, showing photos, and listening to music together. It offers DabKick app that allows friends to chat live and talk like they are on a walkie-talkie while enjoying media together over their phones. DabKick Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Foxtrot Systems

Series A in 2017
Foxtrot Systems, Inc. designs and develops route optimization software for daily distribution routes. It offers Foxtrot, a route optimization API that provides optimized route manifest for each driver; provides specific ETAs for each stop; calculates driving time and driver cost; and calculates mileage and fuel cost. The company's solution is used by drivers that deliver food, booze, or laundry. Foxtrot Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Arine

Seed Round in 2019
ARINE INC. develops a clinical learning and analytic response engine for data-driven clinical services to patients and their families. Its solution provides tailored and action-oriented medication recommendations and education to patients and their care teams, as well as engages in ongoing review and monitoring for timely follow-up, and outcomes evaluation and reporting. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kii

Series B in 2019
Kii Corporation was formed in July 2010 as the result of the merger of Servo Software and Synclore Corporation. Kii provides IoT platform and solution related to Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Smart Logistics, healthcare etc.

Pensar

Convertible Note in 2018
Pensar-powering the future of learning. Our team are renowned for having formulated and tested fundamental theories of learning and cognition over the past 40 years & conducting some of the most extensive applied education research in the world. We have developed proven learning applications in use by millions of students today, and have deep expertise in instructional design. We have been named amongst the worlds best data scientists and Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning experts.

Treasure Card

Convertible Note in 2022
Treasure Financial Inc. develops a money management app for kids. The company’s product is used to learn and teach about money management by the parents; develop good habits and understand the value of money; learn financial planning, budgeting, saving, and know the difference between wants and needs; educate the children about money; and track balances and move the money around in kids saving, spending, giving, and goal accounts. The company was formerly known as Abacus Card. Treasure Financial Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Canada.