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Cybertino Lab

Seed Round in 2021
Cybertino Lab is a platform where users can create, own, and play with virtual assets and connect with their communities through NFTs.

Mickey

Venture Round in 2021
Mickey manages supply, freight bookings, and payments - making it fast and easy to purchase, track, and acquire the commodities needed. It is built to discover new buyers and suppliers across the globe and reduce time and cost of delivery by providing visibility to the buyers and sellers of global commodities. The company was founded in 2019 and has offices in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland.

Pyka, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Pyka is building the future of autonomous electric aircraft. We develop autonomous aircraft to provide people with an affordable and compelling alternative to ground transit using hyper-short takeoff and landing aircraft. Our planes utilize state the art obstacle detection, path planning, electric motors, and batteries propulsion systems, autonomous control systems to navigate their environments and take off and land from almost anywhere. Today, our planes are serving the agriculture industry and are the first certified electric autonomous airplane flying commercially.

Kanler, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Kanler, Inc. is a construction company that specializes in custom home design and whole house remodels. It offers a platform that connects homeowners with home improvement professionals. The company also acts as a third party to manage budget, documentation, schedule, and changes. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Oh My Green

Seed Round in 2018
Oh My Green is the Eat Healthy, Work Happy, Live Bliss(tm) company. Founded out of Stanford StartX and Y Combinator, Oh My Green offers a complete wellness platform that brings delicious and nutritious food, healthy snacks, drinks, and wellness practices to the workplace to improve employee productivity and engagement. Oh My Green provides micro-kitchens, micro-markets, catering, cafe management, subscription boxes and more to small businesses and enterprises. Our sophisticated stack leverages AI and IoT technologies, enables a flexible supply chain, and provides full analytics to our clients for easy account management. Oh My Green’s offerings help people live healthy lifestyles so that they can reach their full potential in and outside the workplace. Our client roster spans everything from Fortune 500 companies to some of the most admired startups.

Bumblebee SPACES Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Bumblebee SPACES Inc. manufactures robotics and artificial intelligence backed home furnishings. The company develops a modular ceiling system to address storage needs. It develops robotic household, which includes movable furniture and possessions operated by human-commands. It also offers Bumblebee app, an application that allows users to move and preview boxes. Bumblebee SPACES Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ironclad

Seed Round in 2015
Contracts are business decisions trapped in administrative tasks. Ironclad is software that does all the administrative work better left for a robot, freeing legal teams to do more substantive work and drive business strategy. By automating contracting processes and extracting intelligence from contracts, Ironclad lets legal teams focus on legal work, rather than paperwork. Legal teams at companies like Gusto, HotelTonight, GoFundMe, Glassdoor, Procore use Ironclad to get their contracts done more efficiently and accurately, and to maintain a single source of truth regarding their contents.

KOKOLU

Angel Round in 2021
From Nature · For The Future KOKOLU is a sustainable lifestyle brand that designs and produces extremely sustainable footwear, clothing, furniture for consumers around the world, aiming to accelerate the transition of people’s lifestyles.

Skymind Inc.

Series A in 2019
Pathmind helps simulation modelers optimize decisions in industrial operations and supply chains using deep reinforcement learning with an intuitive Web app. Use cases include manufacturing automation, supply chain, warehouse control, machine scheduling, and fleet routing. Pathmind integrates with AnyLogic and other simulation software, and allows simulations modelers to discover better decision paths through complex scenarios with state of the art AI. Pathmind is a Y Combinator company.

SafeBase

Seed Round in 2020
SafeBase, Inc. develops a cloud-based security software that helps companies to build a security program to build instant credibility with customers. It offers SafeBase Inspected, a solution that provides a badge for the Website, which connects to a custom security status page for company. The company’s software also offers custom security checklists, continuous monitoring of security systems, and configures security policies. SafeBase, Inc. was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

ElleBox

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

dahmakan

Series A in 2019
Pop Meals is a food delivery service that utilizes artificial intelligence in logistics and cooking automation. The company combines centralized, large-scale production with customer data, machine learning and the chefs in the industry to offer food delivery experience. It applies artificial intelligence to last-mile delivery offering the lowest delivery costs in the industry. Dahmakan was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

WorkRamp

Series C in 2022
WorkRamp, Inc. develops a software for enterprises to onboard, train, and certify their employees. It offers WorkRamp, a software that provides templates that are used as starting point for the training needs. The company’s software also enables managers, mentors, and buddies to collaborate in real-time; and used to implement, track, and manage the training program. In addition, its solutions are used for onboarding programs, ongoing training, and certify the team members. WorkRamp, Inc. was formerly known as Bulletin Board IO, Inc. and changed its name to WorkRamp, Inc. in November 2015. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

NatureBox, Inc.

Series C in 2015
NatureBox, Inc. engages in the door delivery of snacks. Its service enables a user to order for snacks online and get them door delivered. The company provides non-GMO snacks, as well as vegan snacks, including dried fruits, nut mixes, and more. NatureBox, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Redwood City, California.

PACT Pharma, Inc.

Series B in 2018
Pact Pharma is a developer of personalized adoptive T cell therapies designed for the eradication of solid tumors.The company's therapies help in the identification of neo-epitopes that serve as private mutations for each patient's cancer as well as creates an opportunity to engineer autologous T cells that target and kill tumors expressing these neo-antigens, enabling physicians to recognize and remove each patient's cancer cells.

Skyways

Seed Round in 2017
Skyways is creating a new form of transportation to advance our civilization. The company's focus in the immediate future is on cargo transportation with the idea to then fund a new personal air transportation vehicle that will be operated as a service. Skyways has a big focus on software to enable full autonomy and large scale fleet operations. Skyways was founded in 2017, is YC-backed and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Yali Biosciences

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Yali Biosciences is a food tech company that uses synthetic biology and genomics tools to make climate-smart, sustainable foods.

Outer

Seed Round in 2020
Outer is a direct-to-consumer outdoor furniture brand that has built furniture for retailers for years. The products are manufactured in Liu's family-owned factory outside of Shanghai. Since its inception in 2017, Outer has increased its revenue 11 times by 2020 and tripled its workforce in the past nine months.

Sliver VR Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
THETA.tv is a next generation decentralized live streaming platform powered by blockchain technology. Theta Network enables existing video platforms to drive incremental revenues and reduce content delivery CDN costs while end-users are rewarded for sharing their bandwidth to relay video on a peer-to-peer basis on any PC, mobile, Smart TV or IoT device. Strategic corporate investors include Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund, media investors BDMI Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, CAA Creative Artists Agency, and traditional Silicon Valley VCs including DCM and Sierra Ventures.

Sketchbox Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Sketchbox is photoshop for AR and VR. They believe that someday there will be just as many AR/VR designers as there are web and graphic designers today. So far, they’ve worked with over 2000 designers and found that the “power users” are spending an average of 3.5 hours per week on the platform. Companies like Microsoft, Oculus and Eon Reality have tested out Sketchbox. It’s a $6 billion market opportunity, Sketchbox believes.

Zenflow, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Zenflow, Inc. develops and markets a spring device that provides relief for permanent BPH symptoms in men. The company provides solutions for urinary obstruction without destroying tissues. It offers its products for patients and urologists. The company was formerly known as Torix Medical, Inc. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ever AI

Seed Round in 2015
Ever Co. develops a mobile application for storing and organizing digital photos. It also offers self-hosted APIs and mobile SDKs to access and leverage face recognition technology. The company caters to the retail, payments, autonomous transportation, mobile carriers, government and military, law enforcement, and ID management industries. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

EOT

Angel Round in 2018
EOT Protocol (formerly the EON Foundation) is a blockchain games company based in Palo Alto and Singapore. EOT is developing a protocol to help blockchain game developers.

Reverie Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Reverie Labs uses machine learning algorithms to predict the bio physicochemical properties of drug candidates for pharmaceutical companies. The company accelerates the preclinical development by applying machine learning to lead generation and optimization. It develops structure-based predictive models for potency of small molecules. It also develops a multi-objective molecular optimizer that applies algorithms to conceive new molecules that maintains potency and synthesizability. It prioritizes and optimizes molecules so they can go to animal and human clinical trials more quickly. The company is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Leapstack is an insurance technology company specializing in big data artificial intelligence technology. It is committed to building big data artificial intelligence solutions for commercial insurance companies and social security management agencies. The company was founded in February 2016 and has received angels from Gaochun Capital and Fumu Assets. It is headquartered in Shanghai and has offices in Beijing and Nanjing.

Prismpop

Seed Round in 2022
PrismPop, Inc. operates a social commerce platform that enables the discovery of beauty products on mobile. Its platform enables users to participate in the content and third-party manufacturers to offer their products and services. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Pasadena, California.

Greenwork

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Greenwork helps workforce training programs connect students with jobs It supports employers in solar, energy efficiency, electric vehicles, logistics, and the trades. Its software helps students manage their training, prepare their resumes, and connect with employers effortlessly. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ROSS Intelligence

Series A in 2019
ROSS Intelligence builds artificially intelligent tools to enhance lawyer’s abilities – allowing them to do more than ever before humanly possible. Their vision is to create the world’s smartest lawyer. Their first product, ROSS, is an artificially intelligent lawyer. ROSS Intelligence's customers include many of the top law firms and corporate legal departments, both in the United States and abroad. ROSS Intelligence transforms lawyers' workflow with artificial intelligence. ROSS Intelligence operates out of Toronto, San Francisco, and New York.

Legion Health

Seed Round in 2022
Legion Health connects telehealth companies with its network of clinicians based on expertise, availability, and credentials—on demand. Legion Health develops the infrastructure for health care organizations to scale their virtual behavioral health offerings.

Rescale

Series A in 2016
Rescale offers a software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulations. Their mission is to provide a highly powerful simulation platform that empowers the world's engineers and scientists to develop the most innovative products and perform groundbreaking research and development. It has grown rapidly to become a leading cloud simulation provider. Rescale brings the latest Silicon Valley technologies to its customers around the world. Rescale's team consists of industry thought leaders, computer scientists, and domain experts in the industries it serves. Rescale was founded in early 2011 by Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Lifo

Seed Round in 2021
We enable influencers

Pnoe

Seed Round in 2019
PNOE’s mission is to democratize cardio-metabolic analysis (AKA VO2max, metabolic testing, Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing, ergospirometry); the most comprehensive and insightful health assessment there is. In just 10 minutes it will reveal a person’s cardiac, pulmonary and metabolic health while providing all the information necessary to develop the most accurate nutrition and workout plan. After several years of cutting edge research, PNOĒ has developed the world’s first scientifically validated cardio-metabolic analyzer for the mass market. PNOĒ is backed by world experts in metabolic analysis and cardiovascular health and most importantly it is manned with a team of passionate engineers dedicated to bringing cardio-metabolic analysis to the world.

Pulse Q&A

Angel Round in 2018
Pulse Q&A Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based platform that provides crowdsourced data for technology executives. It offers Pulse Q&A to test messaging and positioning in real time before campaign launches for a new product launch or a message refresh. The company’s platform is used to make and shape decisions by enabling users to create questions and serve it to peers, customers, or prospects, and collect data. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Lyte

Venture Round in 2021
Lyte is the portable charger sharing solution that offers the best-in-class experience and location coverage. It is a California-based company built by DJ (Dajiang) Wei and Jason Wilde in 2019. Lyte maintains a network of kiosks in the city where users can check out and return a Lyte portable charger.

Kangaroo

Series A in 2020
Kangaroo is an electronics company that provides simple home security systems. It offers flexible, app-enabled, and affordable security systems. It aims to make the world safer. It extends to ensuring data is secure and privacy is protected. They take several extra steps to ensure total security. Kangaroo was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Playbook

Seed Round in 2020
Playbook is a mobile marketplace for trainers, health, and wellness athletes and professionals. It allows creators to have relationship with customers, build monthly income, and create own terms. It is an app for professionals, trainers, and athletes where they can share their workouts and healthy habits. It was launched in 2016 and is based in New York, USA.

Wevorce Inc.

Convertible Note in 2015
Wevorce Inc. operates as a divorce mediation company. The company provides consultation services in the areas of foundation building, parenting planning, financial mapping, document prepping, and final review. It also provides its services online. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Boise, Idaho with additional offices in San Francisco, California; Fort Lauderdale and Miami, Florida; Seattle, Washington; Atlanta, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Minnesota; Knoxville, Tennessee; Portland, Oregon; Denver and Boulder, Colorado; New York; and New Jersey.

Slyce

Seed Round in 2017
Slyce is a marketing automation and analytics platform for brand ambassadors. Today, most brands manage the digital and social content requirements for the ambassadors with emails, text messages, Dropbox links, and Excel spreadsheets and have little data or insight into the activity and value of their brand ambassadors. Slyce provides streamlined content management, workflow, and analytics tools to a variety of brands and organizations, allowing them to share social posts through brand ambassadors or source ambassador generated content for the brand's use. Slyce was launched by Bryant Barr, Jim Cai, and Stephen Curry in July 2015.

Mickey

Seed Round in 2020
Mickey manages supply, freight bookings, and payments - making it fast and easy to purchase, track, and acquire the commodities needed. It is built to discover new buyers and suppliers across the globe and reduce time and cost of delivery by providing visibility to the buyers and sellers of global commodities. The company was founded in 2019 and has offices in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland.

C16 Biosciences

Seed Round in 2018
C16 Biosciences, Inc. manufactures palm oil alternative using microbes and fermenting the palm oil in laboratory. The company manufactures the alternative for the food manufacturers, refiners, traders, and consumers of palm oil. C16 Biosciences, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Prismpop

Pre Seed Round in 2020
PrismPop, Inc. operates a social commerce platform that enables the discovery of beauty products on mobile. Its platform enables users to participate in the content and third-party manufacturers to offer their products and services. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Pasadena, California.

Skyways

Seed Round in 2017
Skyways is creating a new form of transportation to advance our civilization. The company's focus in the immediate future is on cargo transportation with the idea to then fund a new personal air transportation vehicle that will be operated as a service. Skyways has a big focus on software to enable full autonomy and large scale fleet operations. Skyways was founded in 2017, is YC-backed and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

The Court Buddy Company, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
The Court Buddy Company, Inc. provides an online platform that matches clients with attorneys for legal services based on the clients' needs, the attorneys' expertise and experience, and the clients' and attorneys' location in the United States. It offers Court Buddy that enables lawyers to offer civil, criminal defense, and business legal services to clients. The company’s Court Buddy is an online legal marketplace service that matches and manages relationships between clients and experienced attorneys for personal and business legal matters, including court appearances. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Upbeat

Venture Round in 2017
Upbeat is a software-powered next-generation PR agency that focuses on media marketing for various companies. The company is a team of software engineers and PR professionals working together to bring the old-school PR industry to the modern world. Upbeat turns story ideas to into something presentable by connecting the best stories to the best storytellers. They also manage email outreach and follow-ups and keep track of pitch's progress with real-time analytics and email updates. And, its software is also an avenue to monitor media opportunities on company's behalf.

Raydiant

Series A in 2019
Raydiant, Inc. designs, develops, and offers experience platform that connects employees and customers with brands. The company's solution includes kiosk, virtual agent, and multimedia device for connecting and controlling the screens. It offers its solutions to industries such as banking, casinos, government, healthcare, schools, offices, real estate, restaurants, retailers, and universities. Raydiant, Inc. was formerly known as Mira. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tripalink, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Tripalink, Inc. provides residential leasing and renting services to student community. It also offers housing options within the community, such as single-family houses, condominiums, town homes, and all sizes of apartment buildings. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Clara Foods Co.

Seed Round in 2015
Clara Foods™ is the market leader in engineering, manufacturing and formulating animal-free, animal proteins as ingredients for the global food and beverage industry. Leveraging advanced fermentation to produce functional and nutritional proteins from microorganisms, the Company is reimagining the factory farm model that underpins industrial animal agriculture with a more sustainable, kinder and healthier alternative. Clara Foods is on a mission to decouple the world's most powerful proteins from the animals that make them.

Mux

Seed Round in 2016
Mux is building the future of online video infrastructure. They started off by building Mux Data, a best-in-class performance analytics tool that’s trusted by developers at companies like Vimeo, Robinhood, CBS Interactive, Discovery, PBS, and TED. Billions of monitored streams later, they launched Mux Video, a simple API to video hosting, encoding, and streaming. Take any video file or live stream and make it play beautifully at scale on any device, powered by magical-feeling features like automatic thumbnails, animated GIFs, and data-driven encoding decisions. Mux measures the performance metrics that actually matter to viewers: rebuffering, startup time, video quality, and errors. Its intuitive dashboard quickly gives users the insight to find issues and make improvements through features like A/B testing, industry-wide scores, alerts, and detailed information about every single video view.

Unbound

Seed Round in 2018
Unbound is a sexual wellness company for women. The company makes and sells vibrators, lubricants,and accessories direct-to-consumer through their website.

Native

Seed Round in 2016
Native's aim is to create healthy and natural products that humans use every day. Our first product is Native Deodorant - a popular, USA handcrafted deodorant that is aluminum, paraben, talc, propylene glycol, and phthalate free. Aluminum is a toxin found in antiperspirants that is linked to breast cancer and Alzheimer's. Parabens mimic estrogen and disrupt your hormonal balance. Talc has been classified as a potential carcinogen. Propylene glycol is another form of antifreeze. Phthalates are found in cosmetics, but usually, plastics to increase flexibility. We never test on animals, except humans, and we are also gluten-free. Invest in yourself.

Knightscope

Series A in 2014
Knightscope, Inc. develops autonomous robots for physical security in the United States. The company’s solutions provide an autonomous physical presence, gathering data from the environment in real-time, and pushing anomalies to its user interface. It serves customers in law enforcement, healthcare, retail industries, as well as corporate campuses. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Tulip

Seed Round in 2017
Direct-to-consumer personal insurance

EVRY Healthcare, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Evry Health makes healthcare affordable and high quality again by providing expanded benefits at an affordable price. The company is responding to the need to make healthcare affordable and accessible again. Evry Health is based in Mountain View, California and was founded in 2017.

Hims, Inc.

Series A in 2017
Hims, Inc. manufactures men's wellness products. It offers products, including hair loss prevention medicines, sexual wellness products, skincare products, and oral care products. The company also provides sweaters, jackets, corduroy, sport coats, wool overcoat, leather boots, flannel, shirts, caps, and candles. It sells its products online. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Rippling

Seed Round in 2017
Rippling is a human resource management company that manages employees’ payroll, benefits, devices, and apps. It is a platform that automates manual work, like onboarding new hires. In just 90-seconds, a company can set up (or disable) an employee’s payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps, like Gmail, Microsoft Office, and Slack. It’s the only platform that truly unifies every employee system, and automates all of the administrative work. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Darmiyan

Seed Round in 2017
Darmiyan, Inc. develops a commercial diagnostic software platform for the early detection, monitoring, and stratification of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative. It offers BrainSee, a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that analyzes the scans and provides detailed brain maps with quantification of neurodegeneration in each voxel, as well as a summary score that reflects the person’s brain health and the likelihood of future cognitive decline. The company’s BrainSee is a virtual microscope of the human brain that takes standard clinical brain MRI and basic cognitive tests and generates brain maps and scores that indicate pathology at the earliest stages of the disease when treatments are feasible. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Boom Supersonic

Series A in 2017
Boom Technology is making supersonic passenger travel into reality by making a supersonic airliner. Boom was founded on the philosophy that they need to overcome the challenges to supersonic passenger flight, not surrender to them. They're making a supersonic aircraft affordable for business travel. Their ultimate goal is a routine supersonic flight for everyone. Boom Supersonic is redefining what it means to fly in a commercial aircraft by building Overture, its Mach-2.2. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Englewood, Colorado.

Viosera Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2019
Viosera Therapeutics is a predict and block drug resistance in cancer and bacteria. The company discovers synergies between approved drugs and develop combinations of drugs that suppress resistance. Antibiotic resistance makes it necessary to develop better treatments for deadly infections. Viosera Therapeutics was founded in July 2016 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Apéro Health

Seed Round in 2019
Apero Health is a tech-focused medical billing company that provides full transparency to practices and patients.

GrubMarket, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
GrubMarket develops a website where sellers can offer foods and other items at wholesale prices to customers. It offers products such as organic foods, vegetables, gluten-free foods, snacks, drinks, pantries, home goods, health and beauty products, baby and kids' products, pets, non-GMO foods, paleo foods, cholesterol-free, and no trans-fat foods. GrubMarket also offers foods from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants. Mike Xu founded GrubMarket in 2014, with its headquarters in Newark in California with an additional office in San Francisco in California.

NUGGS

Series A in 2019
SIMULATE is an early-stage biotechnology company whose mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable nutrition. SIMULATE’s first product, NUGGS, is a chicken nugget simulation made from plant inputs. Since NUGGS launched in the Summer of 2019, NUGGS has evolved into the fastest-growing chicken nugget on the planet. SIMULATE is currently developing other products, some that will launch later in the year.

Chihuo Inc

Seed Round in 2018
Chihuo inc., was found in 2013 by an ordinary group of foodies, and now it is the most popular Chinese language food & lifestyle media in North America. Currently, it has major influences in all 13 cities where has the highest percentage of the Asian population, reach out to more than 3 million Chinese American population. We are committed to providing the most trusted food & lifestyle information to our users, as well as offering best cross border marketing strategies for food & lifestyle brands from both US and China, and facilitating the globalization of the Chinese industry. Chihuo includes new media platform, website, and offline product including Chihuo Newbie Guide Book, Chihuo Foodie Map, Asian Restaurant Week, etc.

Topica Edtech Group

Series D in 2018
Topica Edtech Group (Vietnamese: “Tổ hợp Công nghệ Giáo dục Topica”) is a multinational educational technology company. It provides online education solutions including Bachelor's Degree programs (Topica Uni), English speech tutoring courses (Topica Native) and technology platform for massive online open courses in a variety of fields (Edumall). Topica Edtech Group headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam and has expanded into the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and the United States.

Node

Seed Round in 2015
Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solution offers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams. Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures.

Botrista Technology, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Botrista Technology, Inc. provides automation solutions for the food services industry by developing robots that are capable of making craft beverages. The company’s product Botrista Cloud Bar is an automated drink system that creates beverages for restaurant owners. The beverages prepared by the Botrista Cloud Bar include tropical lemonade, mixed berry black tea, botrista milk tea, pineapple green tea, matcha almond milk among others. Additionally, the company develops and manufactures the Automatic Boba Cooker which prepares boba. The company retails its products through its online platforms. Botrista Technology, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Hayward, California.

Bungalow

Series A in 2018
Bungalow Living, Inc. provides property management and building rental services. It transforms unused spaces into rentable rooms and invests in designer furnishings; and provides roommate matching services. The company provides services in Baltimore, Maryland; Bay Area and San Diego, California; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; New York City, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; and Washington, District of Columbia. Bungalow Living, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

dahmakan

Seed Round in 2018
Pop Meals is a food delivery service that utilizes artificial intelligence in logistics and cooking automation. The company combines centralized, large-scale production with customer data, machine learning and the chefs in the industry to offer food delivery experience. It applies artificial intelligence to last-mile delivery offering the lowest delivery costs in the industry. Dahmakan was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Theta Labs, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Theta Labs pioneered Theta Network, the leading video delivery network powered by blockchain technology. Theta enables existing video platforms to drive incremental revenues and reduce content delivery CDN costs while end-users are rewarded for sharing their bandwidth to relay video on a peer-to-peer basis on any PC, mobile, Smart TV or IoT device. Strategic corporate investors include Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund, media investors BDMI Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, CAA Creative Artists Agency, and traditional Silicon Valley VCs including DCM and Sierra Ventures.

Proven Skincare

Seed Round in 2018
Proven Skincare develops skincare products intended to allow customers to design and personalize products that fit their lifestyles. The company uses an artificial intelligence system that analyzes the skin conditions of customers, and allows for product customization down to the individual ingredient, enabling consumers to access a personalized skincare regiment that will work specifically for them.
The Court Buddy Company, Inc. provides an online platform that matches clients with attorneys for legal services based on the clients' needs, the attorneys' expertise and experience, and the clients' and attorneys' location in the United States. It offers Court Buddy that enables lawyers to offer civil, criminal defense, and business legal services to clients. The company’s Court Buddy is an online legal marketplace service that matches and manages relationships between clients and experienced attorneys for personal and business legal matters, including court appearances. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Checkr

Seed Round in 2014
Checkr is a startup that provides either online access or an API that returns automatically generated background checks. Checkr uses the same data sources as traditional background check companies, but can usually turn it around a lot more quickly than traditional providers. Through Checkr’s advanced background check technology, companies can better understand the dynamics of the changing workforce, bring transparency and fairness to their hiring, and ultimately build a better future for workers. Checkr was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California and Denver, Colorado.

Turing Enterprises, Inc.

Series B in 2020
Turing Enterprises, Inc. operates an online platform that helps to source, vet, place, and manage remote developers with tech companies that need them for either short or long-term engagements. The company prescreens its candidates with tests covering tech stacks, coding algorithms, systems design, and remote work soft skills. Its customers include technology startups and Fortune 1000 companies. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

ElleBox

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

Betable

Series A in 2013
Betable is the world’s first platform that enables any developer to legally offer real-money play in their games and apps on any platform or device. Betable is licensed by the United Kingdom Gambling Commission and Alderney Gambling Control Commission to offer support and infrastructure to developers to legally integrate real-money gambling into their mobile and social games and applications. Betable provides world-leading security, fraud protection, player location, identity and age verification and account monitoring to keep players’ funds safe and to ensure responsible gaming. Betable was founded in 2008 in London, United Kingdom. It also is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Directly

Seed Round in 2013
Directly Software, Inc. develops and operates a platform to automate and modernize the customer experience (CX) workforce of companies in the United States. The company’s platform offers self-service, ticket resolution, APIs and integrations, and enterprise security and privacy features. Its APIs integrate with CRM applications, such as Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce Service Cloud, Oracle Service Cloud, and Zendesk. Directly Software, Inc. was formerly known as Directly, Inc and changed its name to Directly Software, Inc. in December, 2016. Directly Software, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional location in Palo Alto, California.

Avro

Seed Round in 2018
Avro Life Science is developing skin patches for generic drug delivery, focusing on therapeutics for children and the elderly. The core of our technology is a novel biopolymer which is used as a platform for passive transdermal drug delivery of small molecules and drugs.

Weget Group Inc.

Series A in 2019
WeGet is a Los Angeles based social e-commerce platform focused on fashion, accessories, makeup, skincare and home décor. The platform employs attractive content, social interaction and influencer recommendations to create a communal shopping experience that helps buyers discover new products suited to their preference.

Culture Robotics

Seed Round in 2018
Culture Biosciences develops automated bio-reactor that helps biotech companies optimize their manufacturing processes and brings products to market faster. The company also builds automated tools for fermentation. It has a digital bio-manufacturing platform to enable scientists to run, monitor, and analyze bio-reactors faster than traditional approaches by robotic sample handling and cloud data monitoring and analysis. Culture Biosciences was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Begin

Seed Round in 2019
Begin Health is a children's nutrition health company. We are a science-forward company that empowers parents with the knowledge and tools to optimize their children's well-being. We build premium products that are safe, convenient, and effective. Our first product, Begin Growing-up Prebiotics focuses on building and maintaining the command center of health in the growing little body — the gut. Modern life is hard on the developing gut and chronic gut disturbances in children have been linked to lifelong chronic health challenges such as obesity, diabetes and depression. We help parents make healthy guts a priority when it matters most, in the beginning.

curbFlow

Seed Round in 2018
curbFlow Inc. develops a platform that allows commercial vehicle operators, such as, UPS, DoorDash, and other on-demand food platform operators, to make real-time reservations at the curbside for pickups and drop-offs of passengers, parcels, and deliveries. The company provides a curbside management system to collect data and share it through an application. Its application provides air traffic control for the curbside in real time. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Jubilee Media

Seed Round in 2017
Jubilee Media produces human centric videos. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Grabb-It

Seed Round in 2018
Grabb-It is a location based advertising platform that allows advertisers the opportunity to reach the consumers near the point of purchase. Grabb-It can strategically place your message in front of millions of shoppers around malls, high traffic venues and events giving advertisers an opportunity to reach a highly captive audience. Grabb-It achieves driving the message to a hyper targeted audience by tapping in to the ride sharing economy where digital advertising and static OOH signage fails.

Scanwell Health

Seed Round in 2018
Scanwell Health, Inc. designs and develops a urine testing kit. It offers Scanwell, a urinary tract infection test kit to get clinical-grade results from smartphone, as well as to connect users with an online doctor’s office for same-day treatment and prescription. Scanwell Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Anaheim, California.

Cabin Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Cabin Technologies, Inc. offers overnight bus rides between the two cities with private cabins to passengers. The company offers hospitality transportation services for travelling upto 500 miles in the united States. It provides amenities, which include private cabins, attendants, two pieces of luggage, nighttime tea, morning coffee, ear plugs, and free Wi-Fi. Cabin Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as SleepBus Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

BLADE Holdings, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
BLADE Holdings, Inc. owns and operates a cryptocurrency derivative exchange. The company allows trading of cryptocuurency on perpetual basis. BLADE Holdings, Inc. is based in Seychelles.

Kula Bio, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Kula Bio specializes in sustainable, biological solutions for modern agriculture. It energizes nitrogen-fixing microbes to produce organic fertilizer. By rewiring the energy flow from the sun to soil, they are disrupting synthetic fertilizer to eliminate the division between affordable practices and stewardship of our land, sea, and air. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Lime

Seed Round in 2017
Lime aims to provide a sustainable solution to the first and last mile transportation problem by helping people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint. The company empowers future generations to change their behavior so we can save this planet together. From the electric scooter to the e-assist and pedal bike, experience the excitement of Lime’s smart mobility fleet.

Seattle Food Tech (SFT)

Seed Round in 2018
Rebellyous Foods is a food manufacturing technology and production company defined solely to catapult meat alternative production toward price parity with animal-based meat. Rebellyous Foods implements novel food manufacturing equipment and processes in large-scale production to produce low-cost plant-based meat at high volumes. These goals are achieved through uniquely designed food products, the use of high-throughput manufacturing automation and ‘smart’ production centers, and the development and utilization of new innovative low-energy manufacturing tools. Working closely with industry partners, Rebellyous Foods makes plant-based meat sustainable, affordable, and widely available.

Marble

Seed Round in 2016
Marble creates a fleet of intelligent courier robots to reliably and securely transport the goods that people need and want. Marble’s robot is perfectly suited to transport the essentials including groceries, meals, and medicine.

Medumo

Seed Round in 2018
Medumo, Inc allows healthcare organizations to automate the delivery of timely instructions to patients. Its product Medumo’s CareTours, enables healthcare organizations to effectively provide turn-by-turn guidance to patients by utilizing automated and timed messages sent via text and email. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. As per the transaction announced on July 17, 2019, Medumo, Inc operates as a subsidiary of Koninklijke Philips N.V.

EON Protocol

Angel Round in 2018
EON Protocol is a China based Blockchain Start Up.

Square Roots Urban Growers

Seed Round in 2017
Square Roots Urban Growers is a farming accelerator that assists companies in creating local food businesses.

SnapShip

Seed Round in 2017
At SnapShip, we enable and empower SMBs to thrive in the new era of e-commerce by giving them access to powerful, affordable, and scalable logistics solutions to deliver their goods and creations to shoppers around the world.

Transcriptic

Series A in 2015
Strateos automates chemistry, biology, and tissue analysis into closed loop robotic labs that accelerate drug discovery programs. Through a combination of best-in-class robotics and control systems, advanced software for imaging and analytics, and remote cloud laboratories, we enable our pharmaceutical partners to more rapidly and efficiently discover new drug candidates. Born of a merger between Transcriptic and 3Scan, Strateos combines the strengths of those companies to amplify their impact and accelerate drug discovery. Transcriptic developed the first robotic cloud laboratory platform for on-demand life science research, which is currently in use at several top pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. 3Scan combined automation, machine learning and computer vision to extract spatial data from tissue samples and create detailed 3D representations as well as quantitative analysis of complex anatomical structures. Now these two portfolios will be combined to offer a suite of technologies for accelerating drug discovery and early development. By expressing life science methods as data, infrastructure virtualization will become possible. "Science-as-a-Service" will power the next generation of discovery, driven by huge efficiencies of both time and money. Transcriptic was founded in 2012 to create a better way to get lab work done. Tired of spending endless hours at the bench pretending to be slow, error-prone robots, they set out to build a modern solution to the day-to-day process of wet lab biology. Drawing on deep computer science and electrical engineering backgrounds in addition to life science, Strateos was born: a meticulously optimized, technology-enabled remote lab. Using state-of-the-art automation and control technology, and an emphasis on user experience and usability, they are working on building a stark contrast to the long, complicated sales process, high prices, and slow turnarounds of traditional CROs. They are working hard to build a great company that can be a true partner for your lab for a long time, progressively enabling ever greater levels of productivity and efficiency. They are scientists building for scientists.

Hey Maet

Seed Round in 2020
Hey Maet uses pea, soy and rice protein to make beef and pork products. They have announced the significant investment as well as a partnership with Shuangta Food, a pea protein company that supplies Beyond Meat. Moreover, it has received investment from Shenzhen Tiantu Capital and UpHonest Capital, a VC founded by Silicon Valley angel investor Wei Guo. With the new capital and collaboration, Hey Maet says that it plans to ramp up R&D, establish its own laboratory in Shanghai and launch its products in thousands of restaurants across China by the end of 2020.

Seattle Food Tech (SFT)

Seed Round in 2018
Rebellyous Foods is a food manufacturing technology and production company defined solely to catapult meat alternative production toward price parity with animal-based meat. Rebellyous Foods implements novel food manufacturing equipment and processes in large-scale production to produce low-cost plant-based meat at high volumes. These goals are achieved through uniquely designed food products, the use of high-throughput manufacturing automation and ‘smart’ production centers, and the development and utilization of new innovative low-energy manufacturing tools. Working closely with industry partners, Rebellyous Foods makes plant-based meat sustainable, affordable, and widely available.

Cover Financial, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Cover is an Android and iOS mobile application that allows its users to insure anything by taking a picture of what they need to insure. It partners with many insurance companies and brokers to provide its users with the best available rates. The application allows its users to insure vehicles, mobile phones, pets, jewelry, houses, boats, tours, and more. It was launched in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Agave

Venture Round in 2019
Agave is a free hiring platform that offers job postings, hosted career pages, customer relationship management tools and full API read and write access. Today's hiring software is slow, expensive, and painful. They are on a mission to make hiring software faster, better, and cost-effective.

Substack Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Substack Inc. operates an online platform that allows writers to create and publish paid and free subscription newsletters. Its platform allows writers to publish to an email list and website simultaneously, and to accept and manage payments from subscribers. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Raydiant

Seed Round in 2019
Raydiant, Inc. designs, develops, and offers experience platform that connects employees and customers with brands. The company's solution includes kiosk, virtual agent, and multimedia device for connecting and controlling the screens. It offers its solutions to industries such as banking, casinos, government, healthcare, schools, offices, real estate, restaurants, retailers, and universities. Raydiant, Inc. was formerly known as Mira. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Junzi Bryant Park LLC

Seed Round in 2017
Founded in 2015, junzi grew out of a hunger for our childhood staples: northern Chinese food made with healthy, seasonal ingredients. Yet recreating the taste of home has done much more than sate our cravings—the amazing power of food in building community has inspired us to make our bings and noodles accessible to all. In just three years, we’ve grown junzi to four locations in New Haven, CT near Yale University, Morningside Heights near Columbia University, Greenwich Village near NYU and (soon-to-open) Bryant Park—and that’s just the beginning!

Portside, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2019
Portside, Inc. designs and develops Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for data reporting and analytics for aircraft management companies, aircraft owners. corporate flight departments. fractional and jet card operators. charter operators & flight departments. Its software integrates with other software and enables multiple scheduling, accounting, maintenance and expense management. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

BillionToOne

Seed Round in 2017
BillionToOne Inc. develops a genetic testing platform that detects and measures disease at the molecular level. It offers UNITY, a noninvasive prenatal screening that tests fetal cell-free DNA for cystic fibrosis and spinal muscular atrophy through a single sample of the mother's blood. The company serves doctors and expecting mothers. BillionToOne Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Anyplace

Seed Round in 2019
Anyplace is a marketplace that provides flexible housing to digital nomads and millennials. Its mission to free people to live wherever they feel inspired to go by providing modern, dependable, turn-key living and accommodations anyplace in the world.
The Court Buddy Company, Inc. provides an online platform that matches clients with attorneys for legal services based on the clients' needs, the attorneys' expertise and experience, and the clients' and attorneys' location in the United States. It offers Court Buddy that enables lawyers to offer civil, criminal defense, and business legal services to clients. The company’s Court Buddy is an online legal marketplace service that matches and manages relationships between clients and experienced attorneys for personal and business legal matters, including court appearances. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Snapcard

Seed Round in 2014
Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate. Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges. Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

Scout Security Limited

Seed Round in 2014
Scout is a home security system that combines hardware designs and easy-to-use controls. It enables its users to access the device from anywhere on their phones, tablets, or computers. The company's monitoring technology gives its users peace of mind at home and away. It also allows its users to customize their responses to all alerts. Scout was founded in 2012 in Chicago, Illinois.

Skymind Inc.

Series A in 2019
Pathmind helps simulation modelers optimize decisions in industrial operations and supply chains using deep reinforcement learning with an intuitive Web app. Use cases include manufacturing automation, supply chain, warehouse control, machine scheduling, and fleet routing. Pathmind integrates with AnyLogic and other simulation software, and allows simulations modelers to discover better decision paths through complex scenarios with state of the art AI. Pathmind is a Y Combinator company.

Vicarious Surgical Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Vicarious Surgical Inc. develops a virtual reality software for minimally invasive surgery procedures. It offers a virtual reality surgical system that combines virtual reality with human-like surgical robotics to enable surgeons to perform minimally invasive surgery. Vicarious Surgical Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

TEOOH

Pre Seed Round in 2019
TEOOH is a platform for hosting Virtual Events. From panel discussions to business conferences, anyone can host or attend virtual events in just a few clicks. Our aim is to become the easiest and most powerful way to engage global audiences, by allowing communities across the world to attend events and interact as they would do in the physical world, without the hassle of travelling or finding a venue. For more information, please visit www.teooh.com.

Returnbase

Venture Round in 2017
Returnbase offers reverse logistics as a service to help retailers sell returned and excess inventory.

NUGGS

Seed Round in 2019
SIMULATE is an early-stage biotechnology company whose mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable nutrition. SIMULATE’s first product, NUGGS, is a chicken nugget simulation made from plant inputs. Since NUGGS launched in the Summer of 2019, NUGGS has evolved into the fastest-growing chicken nugget on the planet. SIMULATE is currently developing other products, some that will launch later in the year.

Sigma Accolade, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Merit’s verified identity platform brings visibility, liquidity, and trust to people-data, giving organizations the clarity to make better-informed decisions, engage with individuals effectively, and pursue their mission efficiently. Merit works with trusted private, state, and municipal organizations to solve critical real-world problems insectors such as workforce development, emergency services, licensing, education, and defense readiness. By connecting organizations and individuals through applications, Merit’s technology supports a robust verified identity network that serves as a source of truth and trust for entire ecosystems.

AfterSchool

Venture Round in 2016
After School, a private social network built to create social change and enable communication among high school students, is the largest social network for teenagers. After School aims to improve the lives of users and their communities while providing an enjoyable and safe place to share with others. Now serving millions of teenagers in over 80% of U.S. high schools, After School has turned the battle against cyberbullying and threats into industry-leading innovations that provide users with unique opportunities, including 24/7 access to live Crisis Counselors.

Lucy Goods

Series A in 2020
Lucy Goods, Inc. manufactures and sells a nicotine gum that acts as an alternative to conventional tobacco products. It offers products in various flavors, such as fruit, mint, and cinnamon. It also offers nicotine lozenge. The company sells its products through online. Lucy Goods, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

TalkIQ

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Since 2014, TalkIQ has offered voice‐to‐text transcription and analytics for clients across a wide variety of industries. Using cutting edge deep‐learning algorithms, proprietary speech recognition and predictive analytics technology, we give our clients visibility into all of their phone conversations, extracting insights for uses ranging from sales optimization, to customer service, compliance, and more. Our recommendations enable teams to save time and maximize productivity, though quick access to action-oriented data & analysis. TalkIQ is backed by prominent Silicon Valley VC firms and is helmed by an advisory board with decades of experience in the speech and language recognition fields.

Frey Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Frey Inc. manufactures laundry detergent and clothing care products. Its products include detergent concentrate, dryer sheets, clothing care kit, fabric conditioner, lint comb, and stain remover. Frey Inc. distributes its products through its online platform. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Lewes, Delaware.

Sapling Technologies, Inc

Seed Round in 2019
Sapling is a new kind of HR platform for mid-market companies. Our software helps HR teams automate workflows, support data-driven decisions and be more strategic, and is the platform of choice for KAYAK, KPMG, Udemy and Sephora. We believe that when you create a great employee experience, HR can better support teams to do their best work.

Turing Video

Seed Round in 2018
Turing Video manufactures security robots. The product can be used for patrolling, activity recognition, video recording, and to alert people in case of emergencies. It can be deployed in public areas, parking spots, facilities, industries, and residences. The robot can be operated from smart phones through their app. Turing Video was founded in 2017 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Outer

Seed Round in 2019
Outer is a direct-to-consumer outdoor furniture brand that has built furniture for retailers for years. The products are manufactured in Liu's family-owned factory outside of Shanghai. Since its inception in 2017, Outer has increased its revenue 11 times by 2020 and tripled its workforce in the past nine months.

Wolf & Shepherd, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Wolf & Shepherd is a men's fashion brand built on the principles of innovation, performance, and tradition that designs shoes to aide modern workers as they move throughout the day. It provides unparalleled comfort by concealing a foam technology into the heart of each sole. Wolf & Shepherd was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California.