Floodgate

FLOODGATE is a venture capital firm specializing in micro-cap investments in start-ups. The firm seeks to invest in technology related sectors. It typically invests between $150,000 and $1 million. The firm prefers to invest in companies located in either the San Francisco Bay Area or in Austin, Texas. It prefers to invest alongside other experienced private investors or top-tier venture firms. FLOODGATE is based in Palo Alto, California.

Iris Choi

Partner

Arjun Chopra

Partner

Mike Maples

Partner

Ann Miura-Ko

Partner

Leeor Mushin

Senior Associate

LS

Lori Simotas

CFO

RW

Ryan Walsh

Partner

Tyler Whittle

Senior Associate

Shawn Xu

Senior Associate

Past deals in Alaska

Blueseed Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Blueseed is the upcoming startup community on a cruise ship stationed in Silicon Valley's [international waters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters). The location, half an hour by ferry from the coast of Silicon Valley, enables entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world to start or scale companies on the ship without requiring U.S. work visas. They can travel to the mainland for business or recreation using easier-to-obtain business/tourism (B1/B2) visas. As of 2014, Blueseed had received interest from [over 500 startups](http://blueseed.com/come-aboard/results), and has been covered in [every major media outlet](http://blueseed.com/press). The company has reserved $9M from an [undisclosed investor](http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2257980403001/a-floating-lab-for-high-tech-startups/) and is looking for $21M more.

Rappi S.A.S.

Series A in 2016
Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.

VarageSale

Series A in 2014
Designed by a mom, VarageSale is the family-friendly app to buy and sell used items locally. Founded in 2012, it has millions of members in local communities across the United States, Canada and beyond. VarageSale is free to use at varagesale.com and on the mobile app, which is available on iOS, Android and Kindle devices. The company is based in Toronto and funded by investors including Sequoia Capital and LightSpeed Venture.

Openmind

Seed Round in 2018
Openmind is an online training and education platform designed to connect with mentors and develop skills. Its platform connects users from various fields and domains seeking specific skill sets with mentors online who guide them through text messaging, enabling students, entrepreneurs, and professionals to gain knowledge and develop themselves. Founded by Max Deutsch and Valentin Perez in 2017, Openmind is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Shipper

Series B in 2021
Shipper works with online or corporate vendors to pick up items to be shipped using selected logistics services. It cooperates with online sellers or companies to pick up goods to be sent using selected logistics services. Its platform offers package pick-up service and fulfillment centers, help logistics providers manage shipments, predicts the best shipping routes, consolidate packages headed in the same direction and also provides a multi-carrier API that enables sellers to manage orders, print shipping labels and get tracking information from multiple providers on their phones.

Ayasdi AI LLC

Series A in 2013
Ayasdi Care, an advanced analytics company, offers a machine intelligence platform and intelligent applications to its clients across the world. The company enables its users to solve their big data and complex data analytics challenges and to automate formerly manual processes using their own unique data. Its machine intelligence platform combines scalable computing and big data infrastructure with the machine learning, statistical and geometric algorithms, and topological data analysis to increase its productivity. The company’s clientele is comprised of Global 500 corporations, governments, and scientific research institutions. It is licensed on an annual subscription basis.

Vendia, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Vendia, Inc. develops a cloud and blockchain based serverless and distributed data sharing platform. It offers Vendia Share to share data and code with partners in real time, without giving up control; and share data across multiple parties and clouds. The company’s Vendia Share is used various use cases, such as multi-party, cross-cloud, and cross-account data sharing; real time data for real time forecasting; and autonomous supply chains to predict supply and demand. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Maker Media

Venture Round in 2013
Maker Media Inc. publishes information to help makers create projects, share ideas, and build a community. The company publishes Make, a bi-monthly published print magazine that features DIY technology projects and ideas for makers; and Makezine.com, a companion website of Make covering makers, their projects, and technologies, as well as the communities that grow up around them. It also organizes Maker Faire, a show for makers to showcase innovative-in-the making. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Sebastopol, California. Maker Media Inc. operates as a subsidiary of O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Egnyte, Inc.

Series A in 2009
In a content critical age, Egnyte fuels business growth by enabling content-rich business processes, while also providing organizations with visibility and control over their content assets. Egnyte’s cloud-native content services platform leverages the industry’s leading content intelligence engine to deliver a simple, secure, and vendor-neutral foundation for managing enterprise content across business applications and storage repositories. More than 16,000 companies trust Egnyte to enhance employee productivity, automate data management, and reduce file-sharing cost and complexity. Investors include Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, and Goldman Sachs.

Zimride

Seed Round in 2010
Zimride is a secure ride-sharing platform for companies and universities. Zimride, sold by Lyft to Enterprise in July 2013, was founded in 2007 to connect users for long-haul rides and car pooling for universities and businesses. The service made the vast majority of its money from SaaS-based ride-matching software that was run privately through individual schools and companies. The company had more than 130 university and corporate campuses signed up to offer ride-sharing and car pooling through Zimride.

Hooja

Seed Round in 2007
Hooja is a company focused on the mobile realm of text messaging. Hooja's service allows people to use their mobile phone to capture information on the go and save it in a central online account they can access any time. Users can easily act on this online data; get directions to any saved store, museum or restaurant; use hyperlinks to get more details or reviews about a product or a service; or share information with friends instantly. As of May 2008, it is still in private testing mode.

Almanac

Series A in 2021
Almanac Labs, Inc. develops an online documentation tool that provides access to tools, templates, and guides from startup teams. It offers Almanac, knowledge base tool to save guides and tools, as well as to edit, comment, and make them useful for teams. The company’s Almanac to browse workflows, collections, and model documents, as well as to create knowledge through sharing, commenting, suggestions, and ratings. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Matchbox

Venture Round in 2011
Matchbox is an enterprise software company focused on enrollment solutions for higher education institutions. The company has an award-winning iPad application and back-office suite for admissions workflow.

VarageSale

Series B in 2014
Designed by a mom, VarageSale is the family-friendly app to buy and sell used items locally. Founded in 2012, it has millions of members in local communities across the United States, Canada and beyond. VarageSale is free to use at varagesale.com and on the mobile app, which is available on iOS, Android and Kindle devices. The company is based in Toronto and funded by investors including Sequoia Capital and LightSpeed Venture.

Outreach, Inc.

Series B in 2016
Outreach is a sales engagement platform that accelerates revenue growth by optimizing every interaction throughout the customer lifecycle. The platform manages all customer interactions across email, voice and social, and leverages machine learning to guide reps to take the right actions. Thousands of customers, including Cloudera, Glassdoor, Pandora, and Zillow, rely on Outreach to drive predictable and measurable growth, increase efficiency and effectiveness of customer-facing teams, and improve visibility into sales activity and performance.

Mem Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Mem Labs is building an operating system for the future of work. Its first product Supernote streamlines email, task, and note-taking workflows into a single application. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Altos Hills, California.

SKALE Labs, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
SKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts. SKALE acts as a middle-ware layer which provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts at the rate of millions per second on platforms such as Ethereum, EOS, and other Smart Contract Blockchain platforms. The SKALE Network is a fully decentralized, open-source P2P network that is run using the SKALE utility token which is staked by dApps and supported by SKALE Mining nodes.

Shipper

Seed Round in 2019
Shipper works with online or corporate vendors to pick up items to be shipped using selected logistics services. It cooperates with online sellers or companies to pick up goods to be sent using selected logistics services. Its platform offers package pick-up service and fulfillment centers, help logistics providers manage shipments, predicts the best shipping routes, consolidate packages headed in the same direction and also provides a multi-carrier API that enables sellers to manage orders, print shipping labels and get tracking information from multiple providers on their phones.

Keepsafe

Series A in 2013
Keepsafe makes privacy in the digital world as easy as it is in the physical world. For consumers who want ownership over their digital privacy and a simple way to manage it, Keepsafe’s suite of apps, including Keepsafe Photos, Keepsafe Documents, and AppLock, let you keep personal items private and share them safely. It’s a hub for all of your most important things.

Social Construct Company

Venture Round in 2019
Social Construct Company manufactures construction technology, which includes precision-engineered systems induced with software to generate floor plans, electrical and plumbing plans, and on-site assembly. The company caters to real estate developers. Social Construct Company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Wanelo

Series A in 2014
Wanelo, Inc. operates a social media shopping site whose products are linked to an online store. It develops a shopping app that allows users to find, buy, and sell various products. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Demandforce, Inc.

Venture Round in 2010
Demandforce develops software-as-a-service applications designed to help customers to grow revenue, keep clients coming back, and manage operations more effectively. Demandforce's flagship product, Demandforce D3, connects Demandforce clients to over 18 million end consumers via email communications, text messaging and online services. Demandforce has achieved 18 quarters of over 80% year-over-year quarterly growth and is led by a management team with over a decade of experience developing and delivering web-based applications that drive real, tangible business value. Demandforce, Inc is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

One Jackson

Seed Round in 2012
One Jackson is an online marketplace for high-quality, indie-designed kids clothing.

THINAIR Labs, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
At ThinAir They are building the future of data security--and it's wrought with exciting engineering challenges! As a cloud-based SaaS product, ThinAir is the first data security solution that allows everyone—administrators and employees alike—to take control over their most sensitive data in a way that enhances, not hinders their productivity. They were the 2014 DEMO Enterprise's DEMOGod Winner and they completed Y Combinator as part of W15.

CommonStock

Series A in 2021
CommonStock is a developer of a group chat platform that is designed to share investment knowledge and decisions. It allows users to link any brokerage to share holdings by percentage, get real-time alerts when friends buy/sell, copy each other's trades and invest together choosing own amount, and compete to see who performs best, enabling users to coordinate trades as well as monitor and coach investment decisions. Commonstock’s product is currently available for free on the web and via an iPhone app (an Android-enabled app is forthcoming). The company was founded in 2017 by David McDonough and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Ihiji, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
ihiji, a company focused on disruptive technologies, has created invision, a cloud based Network Management as a Service (NMaaS) platform for remote monitoring and maintenance of IP-enabled devices. ihiji has received numerous industry awards and repeated recognition for its innovative technology. Originally designed to efficiently maintain and service home networking and automation products, invision has evolved into a scalable and flexible web-based platform allowing for remote network monitoring, support, and documentation. ihiji creates a cohesive partnership with integrators and leading manufacturers to offer inspired solutions to complicated problems that increase both end-user satisfaction and system integrator profitability.

SKALE Labs, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
SKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts. SKALE acts as a middle-ware layer which provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts at the rate of millions per second on platforms such as Ethereum, EOS, and other Smart Contract Blockchain platforms. The SKALE Network is a fully decentralized, open-source P2P network that is run using the SKALE utility token which is staked by dApps and supported by SKALE Mining nodes.

Rappi S.A.S.

Series A in 2016
Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.

Shipper

Series B in 2021
Shipper works with online or corporate vendors to pick up items to be shipped using selected logistics services. It cooperates with online sellers or companies to pick up goods to be sent using selected logistics services. Its platform offers package pick-up service and fulfillment centers, help logistics providers manage shipments, predicts the best shipping routes, consolidate packages headed in the same direction and also provides a multi-carrier API that enables sellers to manage orders, print shipping labels and get tracking information from multiple providers on their phones.

LearnUp

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

Origin

Series A in 2018
Origin is an additive manufacturing (3D printing) platform designed for mass production featuring an open materials network, extensible software, and modular hardware. Origin's additive 3D manufacturing platform makes commercial-quality products, allowing companies and manufacturers to avail to a prototype, test market, and scalable optimum quality consumer-grade products with higher printing speed and flexibility.

Gather

Seed Round in 2015
Gather also lets users post videos to a group or individual and get reactions from them, but it differs from Samba in that it also lets users offer links to articles and then asking for reactions to the article. It’s a hybrid of Snapchat Stories and Samba in that way.

TaskRabbit

Seed Round in 2009
TaskRabbit, Inc. operates a same-day service platform that connects clients and taskers. Its platform enable clients to book a tasker for various home services, including minor home repair, mounting and installation, furniture assembly, moving and packing, housecleaning, yard work, and home improvement. TaskRabbit, Inc. was formerly known as RunMyErrand, Inc. and changed its name to TaskRabbit, Inc. in April 2010. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 10, 2017, TaskRabbit, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of INGKA Holding B.V.

Logentries

Series A in 2013
Logentries is a SaaS-delivered log management and analytics service, developed to make machine-generated log data easily accessible to developers, operations, and business analytics customers. While traditional log management and analytics solutions require advanced technical skills to use, and are costly to set-up, Logentries provides an accessible alternative for managing huge amounts of data, visualizing insights that matter, and sharing that information across the business. With more than 20,000 users in over 100 countries, Logentries is processing billions of events everyday.

IRL App

Seed Round in 2018
IRL App is a social planning application that keeps users connected with each other. It is an app that makes it easy and fun to send and receive invites to hang out with friends in real life. The app also features a series of suggestions for invites that users can send, which change regularly based on users’ interests or locations, seasons, and upcoming holidays. IRL allows users to anonymously nominate friends for things that the friends are good at. IRL App's goal is to offer a place to discover things and allow users to do those things with other people. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Connected Data

Series B in 2014
Connected Data is focused on providing elegantly designed solutions for consumers, professionals, and small businesses to privately share, access, and protect their data. The Connected Data team consists of the same professionals responsible for creating the high-performance BlueArc Silicon Server and the popular Drobo storage array. Connected Data is privately funded and based in Santa Clara, California.

Kapost

Series A in 2013
Kapost is the leading provider of Content Marketing software that enables companies to manage their content marketing as a structured business process. Through its platform that manages the ideation, production, distribution, audience development and analytics of content marketing, Kapost empowers marketers to generate more content, more traffic and more leads. Kapost customers include brands like Eloqua, Marketo, AT&T, Intel and more. Kapost also produces The Content Marketeer, a blog providing content and education for marketers.
B-Side Entertainment, Inc. operates as a distributor of independent films in the United States. It operates a Website that allows fans, radio stations, and clubs to host their screenings of a documentary, as well as handles ticketing and mine audience response data for film festivals. The company distributes films through theatrical, nontheatrical, and ancillary outlets. B-Side Entertainment, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Austin, Texas.

ModCloth, Inc.

Series B in 2010
ModCloth.com is a rip-roaringly innovative, rapidly growing e-tailer of vintage-inspired fashion and decor that’s out to shake up the way fashion is discovered, developed, and delivered. Through groundbreaking technology and press-recognized social media, they’re creating a user-empowering platform that’s redefining the face of social commerce. Founded in a CMU dorm room by high school sweethearts Eric & Susan Koger, ModCloth now has over 400 employees and offices in San Francisco, LA, and Pittsburgh.

Assembly

Seed Round in 2013
Assembly is a web collaboration platform that enables users to develop apps, widgets, platforms, and APIs with the help of other users. It is a global community that connects designers, developers, coders, writers, marketers, and more with each other and enables them retain the ownership of their software and receive profit for their contributions. The entire process is a collaborative effort, including vision, development, design, and marketing. Each product has App Coins, which are earned by contributing work. Assembly was launched by Dave Newman, Matthew Deiters, and Chris Lloyd in 2013 and is operated from California, United States.

Distributed Systems

Seed Round in 2017
Distributed Systems (acq. Coinbase) allows teams to build, deploy, and scale machine intelligence applications. They are currently focused on making recent advances in computer vision and deep learning more accessible to developers.

Cheetah

Series A in 2018
Cheetah is a provider of contactless pickup and delivery services for food and supplies at wholesale prices. By turning refrigerated trucks into mobile fulfillment centers, Cheetah provides the safest option for grocery pickup without contact and away from crowds. Consumers simply place their order through the Cheetah mobile app and drive to one of multiple designated locations in the Bay Area where products are placed in the trunk of their car without leaving the driver's seat.

GoFormz

Series A in 2015
GoFormz helps its customers to transform into data-driven businesses with its mobile-first business productivity platform. GoFormz provides an easy and proven way for companies to mobilize their paper forms and turn them into smart mobile business applications. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Diego, California.

Stipple

Venture Round in 2012
Stipple is the future of the visual web where the web's biggest asset, digital images, transform into experiences that drive discovery, engagement, purchase, and loyalty in-image. Stipple’s image-based marketing technology stack detects, recognizes, and identifies the content inside images at scale and enables Advertisers and Publishers to apply interactive curated content, accurate native advertising solutions, and connects organically to commerce. Only Stipple's marketing technology offers image analytics, advertising & messaging inside images web-wide and without widgets or embed code at scale. Stipple is based in San Francisco and funded by Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Relevance Capital and a syndicate of prominent early-stage investors.

Sharethrough

Seed Round in 2008
Delivers native ads for publishers and marketers

Matchbox

Series A in 2013
Matchbox is an enterprise software company focused on enrollment solutions for higher education institutions. The company has an award-winning iPad application and back-office suite for admissions workflow.

Ontic Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Ontic Technologies, Inc. develops a software platform for physical security and threat detection for business and education. It offers Ontic Protective Intelligence Platform that unifies real-time and historical data related to physical security threats and enabling smart collaboration with connected workflows for early threat detection. The company’s Ontic Protective Intelligence Platform makes businesses safer by serving intelligence to physical security teams to take informed action to protect people, property, and reputation by aggregating data sources and tools. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Reverb Technologies

Series C in 2011
Reverb builds technology that creates connections between ideas and people. Our personalization, recommendation, and content analysis technologies allow us to extract the true meaning from content, and to intelligently respond to user preferences and interests. Our products include the Reverb News App, Reverb Recommendations, and Swagger. Our solutions are now implemented across Fortune 500 content, video, and product companies. For more information please visit helloreverb.com, or follow us on Twitter @Reverb.

dumpling, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
dumpling, Inc. develops an application for individuals to launch, run, and grow independent grocery shopping and delivery businesses. It offers Dumpling, an application that provides grocery shopping and delivery business owners in the United States with the tools, technology, and business support. The company application also helps clients to place orders. dumpling, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Berkeley, California.

Merlin Labs

Series A in 2021
Merlin Labs is building an autonomous infrastructure for the sky above us, enabling goods, and eventually people, to fly without pilots.

Chloe + Isabel

Seed Round in 2011
Chloe and Isabel, Inc manufactures and markets hand-crafted jewelry for women. It offers necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, charms and chains, hair products, pins, beauty and home products, bags, and accessories. The company sells its products through merchandisers in the United States, as well as online. Chloe and Isabel, Inc was incorporated in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

Chloe + Isabel

Series A in 2011
Chloe and Isabel, Inc manufactures and markets hand-crafted jewelry for women. It offers necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, charms and chains, hair products, pins, beauty and home products, bags, and accessories. The company sells its products through merchandisers in the United States, as well as online. Chloe and Isabel, Inc was incorporated in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

PixelFish

Venture Round in 2011
PixelFish, Inc. is a provider of video advertising solutions primarily for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and their advertising partners. The company has a platform that allows users to create and optimize the most affordable and effective custom video ads. PixelFish provides online applications, which enable a range of video solutions that meet the varying needs and budgets of SMBs, supported by its global network of more than 2,500 professional videographers. PixelFish provides video ads for Google, Yellowbook and many other search, directory and ad network providers. PixelFish is a privately-held corporation headquartered in Torrance, California, with additional locations in New York and Hyderabad, India.

Finxera

Series B in 2009
San Mateo, California-based Finxera builds products that collect, store and send money, in a simple, secure, and compliant manner. The company has an API-driven approach to enabling banking services to be rapidly integrated into their applications. The Finxera vision stems from the collective experience of the Finxera team in working with core payments processors and banks. The company is committed to the creation of disrupting technologies in the banking system in order to innovate and improve how financial technology services are delivered.

Almanac

Seed Round in 2020
Almanac Labs, Inc. develops an online documentation tool that provides access to tools, templates, and guides from startup teams. It offers Almanac, knowledge base tool to save guides and tools, as well as to edit, comment, and make them useful for teams. The company’s Almanac to browse workflows, collections, and model documents, as well as to create knowledge through sharing, commenting, suggestions, and ratings. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Loris.ai, Inc.

Series A in 2022
Loris helps the world’s fastest-growing companies create long-standing customer relationships by empowering them to have better conversations with their customers. We optimize lessons learned from the crisis space to enable companies to handle hard customer conversations with empathy. Our real-time agent coaching software uses machine learning to help enterprise care teams make customers happier and brands stand out in the crowd. Loris is headquartered in New York City and also has an office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Circle of Moms

Seed Round in 2008
Circle of Moms is a parenting social network for mothers to share stories, problems, and tips of motherhood. Users can connect with the moms to whom they are closest and trust most (we call this group their circle of moms), like-minded moms or other users in their community. The site offers public communities such as Toddler Moms, Recipe Swap, Money Saving Tips, communities by birth month for pregnant mothers and mothers of infants, or create a new community of their own. Users can also use the "Moms Near Me" feature to find other moms that live nearby to keep up to date on the best restaurants, events and resources for moms and their families in their local community. Circle of Moms works both on its own social networking site and as a Facebook application.

Rafay Systems, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Rafay Systems, Inc. develops a platform that allows companies to deploy performance and geography sensitive workloads closer to their end users. It offers Programmable Edge, a solution that helps the companies to use the platform to run custom logic at the Internet edge. The company’s products is used to create, deploy, operate, monitor, upgrade, and retire Kuberentes clusters across various heterogeneous regions, clouds, and environments. Its solutions is used in multi-region, multi-cloud, and hybrid app deployments; powering rapid-launch test automation for Dev/QA; delivering consistent CX and UX experiences; operating SaaS Apps in customer environments; reducing DevOps complexity via lifecycle automation; enabling IoT and CX apps in retail brick and mortar environments; modernizing factory operations with IoT and CX apps; and enabling app deployments in 5G/MEC environments. Rafay Systems, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

PLAE

Series A in 2015
PLAE design products that celebrate the individual, value the sustainable, and promote a spirit of fearless exploration. The company's shoes are made from eco-friendly, breathable, and washable materials that are engineered to be durable, flexible, and customizable to allow for the natural development of children’s feet. Their goal is to erase that line and harness the power of play for everyone—starting with shredding the notion of age limits, of growing up, of losing that spirit of joy. PLAE was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

Xamarin

Series C in 2014
Mobile App Development & App Creation Software

Tango Card

Series B in 2014
Tango Card provides leading incentive-delivery technology to organizations in the B2B space. Globally, enterprise companies use this technology to deliver an extensive catalog of domestic and global e-gift cards as part of consumer loyalty programs, sales incentive programs, health and wellness engagement, and employee recognition. Tango Card believes instantly delivering the most desirable rewards maximizes impact and drives real business results. This belief is woven into Tango Card’s industry-leading products: RaaS API, which integrates digital rewards into web platforms and applications, and Rewards Genius™, a self-serve portal for administering rewards.

DoubleDutch

Series A in 2012
Creates mobile event apps and provides real time analytics on the event performance

Odeo

Series A in 2005
[Odeo](http://odeo.com/) is a podcasting service and is a division of [SonicMountain](http://www.sonicmountain.com/), a digital media company. Odeo is SonicMountain's "portal through which they plan to unveil new tools and utilities that improve the podcasting experience."

Anchor Intelligence

Series A in 2007
Anchor Intelligence is the traffic quality solutions provider of choice among ad networks and search engines. Anchor's ClearMark, the industry's first and only real-time traffic scoring system, enables customers to increase conversions, improve traffic sources, eliminate click and impression fraud, and capitalize on high quality traffic to maximize advertiser ROI. By providing a quality score for each ad event (similar to a FICO score for credit), ClearMark provides customers with actionable intelligence to make smarter decisions about their inventory. While industry-wide CPCs have declined by approximately 13% in the past few months, Anchor's customers' average CPCs have increased by 11%. Anchor Intelligence was acquired by Comscore in March 2011.

Greatist

Seed Round in 2016
Greatist is the next-generation media company in health for healthy-minded millenials. With an emphasis on super high-quality fitness, health, and happiness content (every fact cited by a scientific study, every article approved by multiple experts) over quantity, Greatist engages an educated, social, and mobile audience through its uniquely friendly, fun, and shareable voice. Launched in 2011, it's now the fastest-growing site in the health space, reaching over 5 million readers every month with its mission to help the world think of health in a healthier way.

RALLY.org

Seed Round in 2010
Rally.org operates an online social fundraising tool that enables people with a cause to share their story, reach new supporters, and raise money. Its tool enables people with a cause to share stories, photos, videos, and updates with supporters specifically at the point of donating. Rally.org was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

SnapLogic

Series A in 2009
Connects big data, cloud, and on-prem applications

Rappi S.A.S.

Series B in 2016
Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.

Refinery29

Series B in 2013
Refinery29 is a digital media and entertainment company focused on women. Through a variety of lifestyle stories, original video programming, and social, shareable content across all platforms, Refinery29 provides its audience with the inspiration and tools to discover and pursue a more independent, stylish, and informed life. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York.

Rupa Health

Series A in 2022
Rupa, Inc., doing business as Rupa Health, develops an online platform that enables patients to access alternative healthcare providers in their area. It offers an online portal for ordering tests from labs and tracking the results. The company ships the test reports directly to the patient’s home. Rupa, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Socialware, Inc.

Series A in 2010
Socialware, Inc. provides a SaaS based platform that allows users to manage social media across the enterprise. Socialware, Inc. mission to transform the way that companies and their employees engage, communicate and collaborate with clients, partners and one another. Public social technologies such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have reshaped the way we communicate in our personal lives and are now entering the enterprise. These new platforms are changing the economics of software.

Swivel, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Swivel is a new online service where fast-growing companies can find and design their own plug-and-play workspace. It's a workspace network where agile leasing gives member companies the freedom to move when the office needs change. More and more companies prefer this approach over traditional office leasing because they can get exactly the right amount of space they need, when they need it, and have greater control over one of their largest expenses.

Complete Solar, Inc.

Series A in 2011
Complete Solar is a residential solar company that sells direct to consumers and provides partners with a platform for managing every aspect of the customer experience. Its mission is to grow the residential solar market by providing a standardized platform that partners can use to diversify their product mix, grow revenue, and increase customer satisfaction. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Pingpad

Seed Round in 2015
Pingpad for Slack is the best of Trello, Google Docs and Wikis in one app. Get your Slack organized. Headquartered in Palo Alto, founded by startup veterans and backed by world class investors.

Formspring

Series A in 2010
Formspring is a startup that helps people find out more about each other by sharing interesting & personal responses. Formspring encourages people to get to know each other better in a simple and fun way. It starts by directly asking people original questions in anticipation of their entertaining or revealing responses. Responses can range from straightforward to surprising and can lead to understanding something more about the people you know or find interesting. Whether you are curious to know more about a college you are applying to, the movies your friend likes, or the stories of someone you respect, on Formspring, you can have fun, share insights, and relate to one another in a new way.

Crash, LLC

Seed Round in 2018
Crash is a career launch platform that helps young professionals to discover their interests, build a strong profile to showcase their talent, and launch into the best early career opportunities. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Charleston, South Carolina.

Rimeto

Series A in 2019
Rimeto, a four-year-old startup that provides customers with more detailed employee directories and profiles. Our mission is to help people collaborate at work - to empower people with access to information, enable them to build great things together, and help them feel truly connected to their colleagues. Rimeto builds people-centric tools for the modern workplace - beautiful, powerful and flexible. We believe that work is better when information is easily accessible, searchable and actionable. Everyone should be able to see across their organization and tap into collective knowledge. Starting with an advanced directory, we're creating a platform around the enterprise graph.

Myra Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Myra Labs offers APIs that power Slack and Messenger bots, customer service applications, and others that require sophisticated natural language understanding. Myra Labs is building a conversational experience platform. Our APIs provide scalable and highly tunable machine learning services, including state of the art deep learning models, that understand natural language and conversational state. Our mission is to empower developers to build the highest quality user experiences.

Plair

Series A in 2013
PLAiR, a Santa Clara, CA-based consumer electronics company. PLAiR aims to enable anyone to watch anything, anywhere, anytime. It has been operating in stealth mode since early 2011.

Applied Intuition

Series B in 2019
Applied Intuition provides software infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles
 at scale. Applied’s suite of products, focused on simulation and analytics, delivers sophisticated infrastructure built for scale. Industry leading companies of all sizes use Applied to comprehensively test and rapidly accelerate their autonomous vehicle development. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Detroit, Tokyo, and Munich, Applied is composed of software and automotive experts from the top companies in their respective fields (such as Google, Amazon, Apple, Waymo, Tesla, Delphi, GM, and Bosch).

Rupa Health

Seed Round in 2021
Rupa, Inc., doing business as Rupa Health, develops an online platform that enables patients to access alternative healthcare providers in their area. It offers an online portal for ordering tests from labs and tracking the results. The company ships the test reports directly to the patient’s home. Rupa, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Genwi Inc.

Series B in 2012
Genwi Inc. develops a Mobile Content Engagement Platform that delivers access and content sharing capabilities across the enterprises. Its Mobile Content Engagement Platform allows marketers to empower sales and partner teams to engage buyers with the right content, at the right time, via mobile enterprise applications and microsites, including mobile, tablet, and desktop. The company serves customers and their end users. Genwi Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Jose, California with an additional office in Bengaluru, India. As of April 1, 2016, Genwi Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Persistent Systems, Inc.

OhmConnect, Inc.

Series D in 2022
OhmConnect, Inc. develops software that provides monetary compensation to users in lieu of energy saving. It assists users to turn real-time household energy savings into cash payments for reducing household energy use at peak hours. The company also sells wireless connected smart-plugs for remote shutoff of refrigerators, window air conditioners, and household machines. OhmConnect, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Oakland, California.

ReTel Technologies

Seed Round in 2009
Based in San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL, ReTel Technologies develops advanced analytics that help businesses optimize their security, operations and consumer experience through ongoing analysis of surveillance video. ReTel's unique system seamlessly augments computer vision with human auditing to uncover actionable insights previously unavailable at scale or low cost. ReTel was founded in 2007, and is also a 2009 TechStars company.

Hebbia

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Hebbia Inc. designs and develops AI productivity tools for knowledge workers. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in West Hollywood, California.

Rise Labs, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Rise provides affordable 1:1 personal diet coaching from top nutrition experts. Their unique mobile platform connects you with an expert nutrition coach that understands your personal tastes and lifestyle, and holds you accountable until you achieve your goals. And through smart design and efficiency leaps, they’re able to provide this service for as low as $1 per day.

Boxbee, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Boxbee originally launched its operations in NYC and San Francisco and built a software platform that supported personal storage operations. Iron Mountain merged the storage operations it acquired from Boxbee with Box Butler and Corovan made a comparable move with its consumer-facing brand Brute Box Moving. Today, Boxbee is managed and operated by Corovan and launched operations across major metropolitan areas in the State of California.

Townsquared

Series A in 2014
Townsquared is a private and secure platform for businesses within a neighborhood to connect, communicate, and collaborate. Businesses within the same community share many values and challenges – communicating with each other empowers everyone to make smart decisions and succeed. We know that your business is complicated and extends beyond your neighborhood – that is why Townsquared gives you the option to connect directly with businesses outside your neighborhood too.

Slice Technologies

Series A in 2011
Slice is online shopping, smarter. Slice's technology automatically identifies e-receipts within inboxes and extracts every data point about every purchase to create digital commerce products that delight consumers and create business value for partners. Slice is transforming online shopping and retail by unveiling never-before-seen digital commerce data via its APIs, information products and consumer applications.

Tesorio

Series A in 2019
Tesorio is the cash flow performance platform, which Accounts Receivable, Treasury, and FP&A teams use to manage, predict, and collect cash. Its AI processes over $30 billion in transactions each year for companies ranging from 50 to 10,000 employees. Tesorio serves customers around the globe with AR automation and cash flow forecasting, across verticals including software, manufacturing, retail, finance, and pharmaceuticals.Customers include Box, Veeva Systems, WP Engine, Currency Cloud, Instructure and many other publicly traded and privately held companies that care about cash flow performance.

Civitas Learning

Series A in 2011
Civitas Learning’s student success intelligence platform leverages each institution’s unique data to help them chart the best course to improved outcomes for students. The platform is grounded in unparalleled work in data science, built into workflows with integrated applications, and implemented on-site with seasoned strategic service teams. Today, Civitas Learning works with 375 colleges and universities, serving nearly 8 million students. Together with their growing community of customers, Civitas Learning is making the most of the world’s learning data to help graduate a million more students per year by 2025.

Lob

Series B in 2017
Lob automates direct mail for modern businesses. More than 7,000 companies use Lob’s APIs to move faster and create new growth opportunities. Lob’s APIs dramatically reduce mail processing time, reclaiming thousands of hours and improving data quality. One in four households in the U.S. have received mail generated through Lob’s platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lob is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, First Round Capital and Polaris Partners.

N3TWORK

Series A in 2022
N3TWORK specializes in providing networking software through internet devices. It offers a web platform that creates a personalized online experience centered around user's interests that can be integrated over to any device. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sano

Seed Round in 2013
Sano is building a small, wearable sensor that can capture and transmit blood chemistry data continuously to virtually any device. The company will liberate this data to a third-party development and analytical platform called the API for the bloodstream.

CoTweet

Series A in 2009
CoTweet is a business front-end for Twitter, enabling companies to engage in proactive marketing and response-oriented customer service activities. On March 2, 2010 CoTweet was acquired by ExactTarget.

Pronoun, Inc.

Seed Round in 2010
Pronoun, Inc. operates a professional publishing platform that empowers authors to create and distribute digital books, track sales (across various retailers), edit metadata and files, and receive data-driven marketing advices. Pronoun, Inc. was formerly known as Vook, Inc. and changed its name to Pronoun, Inc. in June 2015. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York. As of May 25, 2016, Pronoun, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Macmillan Limited.

Mobilize

Series A in 2016
Mobilize helps professional networks maximize member engagement, with a unique combination of community social space, CRM, and manager outreach tools. The company's modern community solution is purpose-built for engaging members in an information-saturated era. Unlike traditional one-size-fits-all community providers that confuse, overwhelm, and annoy members, their solution combines community social space, outreach tools, member directory, and CRM in a unique way that amplifies engagement by making members feel seen, heard and valued. Mobilize was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Yup.com

Seed Round in 2016
Yup Technologies Inc. develops an iOS and Android app that provides on demand tutoring for math and science through mobile chat. It offers Yup, a mobile tutoring app that instantly connects students with expert tutors; and enables tutors to provide academic support for students to solve their chemistry, math, and physics problems. The company was formerly known as MathCrunch Services and changed its name to Yup Technologies Inc. in April 2016. Yup Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

FitStar (acq. by Fitbit)

Series A in 2013
We are a passionate team creating a next-generation digital fitness platform and are on a mission to craft products that inspire millions of people to get fit and live healthier lives. Along with our new family at Fitbit, we design health and fitness products and experiences that fit seamlessly into everyday life to help millions of people achieve their goals. We provide the workouts, insights and encouragement to make smart choices to show how small, everyday changes add up to big results.

Upthere

Venture Round in 2016
UpThere, Inc. offers cloud computing and hosting services. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of August 25, 2017, UpThere, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation.
Edgecase provides shopping software that allows people to browse online for clothes in a way similar to window shopping in a store. It offers an Adaptive Experience Platform, which includes product discovery, human-driven content curation, personalized and adaptive navigation, see more like a product, scenario-based navigation, and intuitive and visual mobile discovery features. The company serves retailers. Edgecase was formerly known as Compare Metrics, LLC and changed its name to Edgecase in August 2014. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas. As of June 5, 2017, Edgecase operates as a subsidiary of GroupBy Inc.

Merlin Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Merlin Labs is building an autonomous infrastructure for the sky above us, enabling goods, and eventually people, to fly without pilots.

Digg

Series A in 2005
Digg Holdings, LLC, also known as Digg, operates a social news aggregator site that allows users to find the most interesting and talked about stories and videos, and vote on the Internet. Its services is available on a website, mobile application, and a daily email. It also advertising services for brands and consumers. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in New York, New York. As of April 25, 2018, Digg Holdings, LLC operates as a subsidiary of BuySellAds.com, Inc.

Pley

Series B in 2015
Pley Inc. operates as a toy rental company in the United States. It rents a collection of toys, including LEGO sets, K’NEX toys, and robotic/educational toys to entertain everyone from pre-schoolers through to adulthood. The company offers rental toys through various subscription plans to families. It also sells toys online. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

MPOWER Mobile

Venture Round in 2009
MPOWER Mobile is focused on the development of mobile payment applications. MPOWER Mobile's YAP product allows individuals, consumers, and merchants to buy, sell, and transfer with text-messaging.

TetraScience

Seed Round in 2015
TetraScience develops hardware and software solutions to monitor and manage research experiments and log the data in the cloud. It offers sensors to monitor temperature, humidity, acceleration, etc.; camera to view experiment or tools; electric switches; adapters to connect hardware tools that comprise syringe pumps and wave generators; and timers. TetraScience serves scientists, engineers, managers, and safety officers. It has a strategic partnership with Dotmatics. Alok Tayi, Salvatore Savo, and Siping Wang founded TetraScience on October 21, 2014. It has its headquarters in Boston in Massachusetts.

Boxbee, Inc.

Series A in 2014
Boxbee originally launched its operations in NYC and San Francisco and built a software platform that supported personal storage operations. Iron Mountain merged the storage operations it acquired from Boxbee with Box Butler and Corovan made a comparable move with its consumer-facing brand Brute Box Moving. Today, Boxbee is managed and operated by Corovan and launched operations across major metropolitan areas in the State of California.

Townsquared

Series B in 2016
Townsquared is a private and secure platform for businesses within a neighborhood to connect, communicate, and collaborate. Businesses within the same community share many values and challenges – communicating with each other empowers everyone to make smart decisions and succeed. We know that your business is complicated and extends beyond your neighborhood – that is why Townsquared gives you the option to connect directly with businesses outside your neighborhood too.

Xamarin

Series A in 2012
Mobile App Development & App Creation Software

Rappi S.A.S.

Series C in 2018
Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.

TaskRabbit

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

Lob

Series A in 2014
Lob automates direct mail for modern businesses. More than 7,000 companies use Lob’s APIs to move faster and create new growth opportunities. Lob’s APIs dramatically reduce mail processing time, reclaiming thousands of hours and improving data quality. One in four households in the U.S. have received mail generated through Lob’s platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lob is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, First Round Capital and Polaris Partners.

1000memories

Series A in 2011
1000memories is the new shoebox for your old photos. 1000Memories allows people to organize, share, and discover old photos and memories and set up family trees.

Sharethrough

Series A in 2010
Delivers native ads for publishers and marketers

Hyper9

Series B in 2008
Hyper9, Inc. provides virtualization management solutions. It offers virtual infrastructure search and analytics solutions, which includes consolidated view, environment monitoring, analytics, and collaboration. Hyper9, Inc. was formerly known as InovaWave, Inc. and changed its name in February 2006. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Tesorio

Series B in 2022
Tesorio is the cash flow performance platform, which Accounts Receivable, Treasury, and FP&A teams use to manage, predict, and collect cash. Its AI processes over $30 billion in transactions each year for companies ranging from 50 to 10,000 employees. Tesorio serves customers around the globe with AR automation and cash flow forecasting, across verticals including software, manufacturing, retail, finance, and pharmaceuticals.Customers include Box, Veeva Systems, WP Engine, Currency Cloud, Instructure and many other publicly traded and privately held companies that care about cash flow performance.

Kno

Seed Round in 2009
Kno, Inc. is an education software company on a mission to "Change The Way Students Learn." We believe engagement is a leading indicator of learning success and grades are a lagging indicator. So we have partnered with over 80 leading publishers to offer more than 200,000 interactive titles that make learning more engaging, efficient, and social for students. They are the same books, only smarter. Each Kno eTextbook is packed with interactive features, assessments, and social sharing tools to engage students at the point of learning. And the Kno platform provides administrators and teachers with the tools they need to easily assign, manage, and monitor their digital learning content and assessments at an enterprise level. As part of Kno's commitment to "Do Well, Do Good," Kno has created the Kno for Good program, a partnership with DonorsChoose.org, to provide $1 for every purchase made through Kno towards a classroom in need. Founded in 2009, Kno, Inc. has emerged as a leader in education software. Kno, Inc. has received funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Intel Capital, Goldman Sachs, FLOODGATE and GSV Capital, and is based in Santa Clara, California. For more information, go to www.kno.com, or follow Kno at http://facebook.com/GoodtoKno and http://twitter.com/GoodtoKNO

Living Carbon

Series A in 2022
Living Carbon, using biotechnology develop trees that better capture and store carbon. It also provides solutions for climate changes. It produces more durable wood for building and manufacturing applications. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Workboard

Series B in 2019
WorkBoard Inc. provides an OKR software and expertise platform to help organizations and the people in them to achieve better results. It offers WorkBoard Enterprise Results Platform, which enables companies to localize company objectives to teams, align on outcomes, measure results, coordinate actions, manage meetings, and align execution across the business. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Mesmo

Series A in 2007
In 2008, Mesmo.tv pivoted into Mesmo Games with the launch of one of the first female-focused role playing games on Facebook, Make Me A Celebrity, in April 2008. Mesmo Games went on to become a leading social game portal on Facebook with over 50 million users. Mesmo Games was amongst the top 10 of all games on Facebook by monthly and daily active users. Mesmo was acquired by GSN in 2010 and rebranded as GSN Games on Facebook, iOS and Android and went on to become a top 10 grossing application. Mesmo.tv launched in June 2007 as a social video discovery site that let you tag videos you like and throw them into a personalized content stream and channels. You could add videos, TV shows and podcasts from any website by submitting links directly to the site, RSS, and a bookmarklet. They also had a Facebook application. The application came preloaded with a database of TV shows drawn from the top network sites. Mesmo helped you discover new video content based on the videos, channels and users you liked. Mesmo took these preferences and matched you up with individual videos, channels, and users sharing similar tastes. Mesmo.tv expanded to become the first and largest social TV site on Facebook with TV shows from ABC, CBS and Hulu, a user generated TV Trivia game including content from over 10,000 TV shows and fan sites for your favorite shows.

Mango Health, Inc.

Series B in 2017
Mango Health, Inc. develops and offers mobile healthcare applications. It offers a patient engagement platform that provides medication information, refill time, and peer comparison to users. It offers its services through mobile and web based applications. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 1, 2019, Mango Health, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of TrialCard Incorporated.

National Payment Network

Series B in 2009
National Payment Network, Inc. is the nation's leading provider of loan acceleration programs for the automotive industry. Our turn-key solutions allow agencies, service contract administrators, menu providers and other organizations to offer Biweekly payment programs easily and effectively. These programs are designed to help borrowers customize the timing of payments, accelerate loan pay offs, and build equity faster.

Xamarin

Series B in 2013
Mobile App Development & App Creation Software

Dasient

Seed Round in 2009
Dasient is an Internet security company that protects websites from web-based malware attacks that cause losses of traffic, reputation, and revenue. Dasient's proprietary Web Anti-Malware (WAM) service monitors websites for malware infections. If and when an infection occurs, Dasient will alert the webmaster and quarantine the infection. Dasient is an internet security company founded by ex-Googlers, Neil Daswani, Shariq Rizvi and McKinsey alum Ameet Ranadive. It launched June 16, 2009.

Merlin Labs

Series B in 2021
Merlin Labs is building an autonomous infrastructure for the sky above us, enabling goods, and eventually people, to fly without pilots.

Maker Media

Series A in 2015
Maker Media Inc. publishes information to help makers create projects, share ideas, and build a community. The company publishes Make, a bi-monthly published print magazine that features DIY technology projects and ideas for makers; and Makezine.com, a companion website of Make covering makers, their projects, and technologies, as well as the communities that grow up around them. It also organizes Maker Faire, a show for makers to showcase innovative-in-the making. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Sebastopol, California. Maker Media Inc. operates as a subsidiary of O'Reilly Media, Inc.

SBR Health, Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
SBR Health, Inc. provides a video-based communication platform that links physicians, patients, and specialists across hospitals, clinics, homes, and geographically isolated areas. It prevents re-admissions, manages chronic diseases, improves access to care, and offers behavioral health and language interpretation services (for patients). The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PenPal Schools, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
PenPal Schools connects over 120,000 students in 170 countries through free online curriculum to practice skills and explore the world. PenPal Schools has won multiple international awards and was recognized by President Obama as one of the world’s leading social enterprises. PenPal Schools is based in Austin, Texas

Cardinal Blue Software, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Cardinal Blue Software, Inc. builds social applications on Facebook and iPhone. It offers PIC COLLAGE, a way to create photo collages on iPad/iPhone and share with users’ family and friends; TRIBUTE BALLOON, an application where in each balloon carries a message of hope; FRIEND STOCK, a social game; and SNAPBIT, an application that enables users to snap and share their visual ideas. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Complete Solar, Inc.

Venture Round in 2014
Complete Solar is a residential solar company that sells direct to consumers and provides partners with a platform for managing every aspect of the customer experience. Its mission is to grow the residential solar market by providing a standardized platform that partners can use to diversify their product mix, grow revenue, and increase customer satisfaction. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Leaf Logistics

Seed Round in 2018
Leaf Logistics is creating a multi-party network of shippers, carriers, and logistics service providers. Leaf builds technologies for our members to participate in this network and plan, coordinate, and execute their transportation logistics more effectively. Today, the product suite includes the Leaf Adapt platform for shippers to build antifragile transportation plans, Leaf Flex forward contracts that lock in value for shippers and carriers alike, and the Leaf Network, where efficiency scales with multi-party network moves.

Galactic Exchange, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Galactic Exchange, Inc. develops software to enable the industry’s easiest and fastest possible deployment and management of powerful container-enabled compute clusters for Big Data and Hyperconvergence. The ClusterGX™ platform can be deployed in minutes with zero required big data or clustering experience. ClusterGX provides a fast and powerful solution for Hadoop/Spark clustering as well as a Hyperconvergence platform for enterprise-wide applications and services. Galactic Exchange is based in Silicon Valley and Ukraine.

ModCloth, Inc.

Series A in 2009
ModCloth.com is a rip-roaringly innovative, rapidly growing e-tailer of vintage-inspired fashion and decor that’s out to shake up the way fashion is discovered, developed, and delivered. Through groundbreaking technology and press-recognized social media, they’re creating a user-empowering platform that’s redefining the face of social commerce. Founded in a CMU dorm room by high school sweethearts Eric & Susan Koger, ModCloth now has over 400 employees and offices in San Francisco, LA, and Pittsburgh.

Socialware, Inc.

Series C in 2011
Socialware, Inc. provides a SaaS based platform that allows users to manage social media across the enterprise. Socialware, Inc. mission to transform the way that companies and their employees engage, communicate and collaborate with clients, partners and one another. Public social technologies such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have reshaped the way we communicate in our personal lives and are now entering the enterprise. These new platforms are changing the economics of software.

Connected Data

Series A in 2013
Connected Data is focused on providing elegantly designed solutions for consumers, professionals, and small businesses to privately share, access, and protect their data. The Connected Data team consists of the same professionals responsible for creating the high-performance BlueArc Silicon Server and the popular Drobo storage array. Connected Data is privately funded and based in Santa Clara, California.

Camio

Seed Round in 2014
Camio is the search engine behind cost-effective video surveillance. It connects any camera to state-of-the-art Machine Learning to power modern video monitoring solutions with the efficiency and flexibility advantages of hybrid edge/cloud SaaS.
Edgecase provides shopping software that allows people to browse online for clothes in a way similar to window shopping in a store. It offers an Adaptive Experience Platform, which includes product discovery, human-driven content curation, personalized and adaptive navigation, see more like a product, scenario-based navigation, and intuitive and visual mobile discovery features. The company serves retailers. Edgecase was formerly known as Compare Metrics, LLC and changed its name to Edgecase in August 2014. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas. As of June 5, 2017, Edgecase operates as a subsidiary of GroupBy Inc.

Praxis

Seed Round in 2018
Praxis, Inc. provides twelve-month apprenticeship program. The company provides personal development projects, one-on-one coaching, and group discussions. Praxis, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in the United States.

Jodel

Series A in 2017
Jodel is a platform that enables its users to discover, follow and participate in the most relevant conversations with people nearby. Share and catch-up on news, events, local stories and jokes faster than ever! On Jodel, you can post messages and photos known as “Jodels” in real-time. By voting on other people's posts, you have the power to decide what your area is talking about. Collect Karma points and become a master in jodeling! No sign-up or profile necessary.

Emotive

Seed Round in 2019
Emotive is a computer software company that provides SaaS, Mobile Marketing, NLP, machine learning, and B2B. The company's platform converts cold leads into educated customers through emotionally intelligent text message conversations, enabling organizations to build human relationships and connections. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Thinkful, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Thinkful, Inc. provides training programs in data science, front-end development, and full-stack development, as well as a full-time engineering immersion program. It offers one-on-one mentorship, career preparation, job guarantee web development, student outcomes, bootcamp finder, learning corner, and responsible disclosure educational services; and flexible web development bootcamp, full time web development bootcamp, flexible data science bootcamp, corporate training, student reviews, and pricing courses. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Workboard

Series A in 2017
WorkBoard Inc. provides an OKR software and expertise platform to help organizations and the people in them to achieve better results. It offers WorkBoard Enterprise Results Platform, which enables companies to localize company objectives to teams, align on outcomes, measure results, coordinate actions, manage meetings, and align execution across the business. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Enhatch

Seed Round in 2016
Enhatch Inc. develops a platform technology that helps companies understand how digital marketing and sales tools tie to revenue and increase customer satisfaction. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.

TetraScience

Series A in 2019
TetraScience develops hardware and software solutions to monitor and manage research experiments and log the data in the cloud. It offers sensors to monitor temperature, humidity, acceleration, etc.; camera to view experiment or tools; electric switches; adapters to connect hardware tools that comprise syringe pumps and wave generators; and timers. TetraScience serves scientists, engineers, managers, and safety officers. It has a strategic partnership with Dotmatics. Alok Tayi, Salvatore Savo, and Siping Wang founded TetraScience on October 21, 2014. It has its headquarters in Boston in Massachusetts.

Polygence

Seed Round in 2021
Polygence Inc. offers an online academic program to give project-based learning. The company offers projects related to their interests, background, and aspirations and builds creativity, problem-solving skills, and design thinking to enable students to gain intellectual maturity and helps to develop their skills. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Stanford, California.

Airbanq, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Airbanq is a social mobile service that provides financial services. The mobile service offers high quality and affordable financial services to under-served communities by helping them cross the digital divide and adopt mobile financial services, with an innovative online to offline model. It has developed a check-cashing application that gives customers access to quality and fairly-priced mobile financial services. Airbanq enables households to receive secure, alternative financial services (AFS) from within their trusted communities at the highest convenience and lowest possible cost. They also allow the users to remotely upload their checks and pick up the money at the express lines of their cash-out locations with adoption levels over 94% and retention levels of 76%.

Sharethrough

Series B in 2012
Delivers native ads for publishers and marketers

Fieldguide

Series A in 2022
Fieldguide, Inc. provides automation and collaboration platform for audit programs. It offers workflow software for accounting and advisory firms, which include secure data requests, work plan manager, reporting automation, work papers and documents, audit programs, and resource planning. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Sacramento, California.

Thinkful, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Thinkful, Inc. provides training programs in data science, front-end development, and full-stack development, as well as a full-time engineering immersion program. It offers one-on-one mentorship, career preparation, job guarantee web development, student outcomes, bootcamp finder, learning corner, and responsible disclosure educational services; and flexible web development bootcamp, full time web development bootcamp, flexible data science bootcamp, corporate training, student reviews, and pricing courses. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Keyto

Seed Round in 2018
Keyto, Inc. designs and manufactures sensor based breath analyzers. The company also develops mobile application that measures and analyzes the breath when in Ketogenic diet program. The devices when used with the application analyze the breath and lets users know how much fat is burning. The application also provides personalized food and lifestyle recommendations based on user’s physiology. Keyto, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tesorio

Seed Round in 2018
Tesorio is the cash flow performance platform, which Accounts Receivable, Treasury, and FP&A teams use to manage, predict, and collect cash. Its AI processes over $30 billion in transactions each year for companies ranging from 50 to 10,000 employees. Tesorio serves customers around the globe with AR automation and cash flow forecasting, across verticals including software, manufacturing, retail, finance, and pharmaceuticals.Customers include Box, Veeva Systems, WP Engine, Currency Cloud, Instructure and many other publicly traded and privately held companies that care about cash flow performance.

Shop Hers

Venture Round in 2013
Shop Hers is the only luxury marketplace dedicated exclusively to pre-owned designer fashion. They curate their community to guarantee authenticity and quality. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

CommonStock

Seed Round in 2020
CommonStock is a developer of a group chat platform that is designed to share investment knowledge and decisions. It allows users to link any brokerage to share holdings by percentage, get real-time alerts when friends buy/sell, copy each other's trades and invest together choosing own amount, and compete to see who performs best, enabling users to coordinate trades as well as monitor and coach investment decisions. Commonstock’s product is currently available for free on the web and via an iPhone app (an Android-enabled app is forthcoming). The company was founded in 2017 by David McDonough and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

FitStar (acq. by Fitbit)

Seed Round in 2012
We are a passionate team creating a next-generation digital fitness platform and are on a mission to craft products that inspire millions of people to get fit and live healthier lives. Along with our new family at Fitbit, we design health and fitness products and experiences that fit seamlessly into everyday life to help millions of people achieve their goals. We provide the workouts, insights and encouragement to make smart choices to show how small, everyday changes add up to big results.

Socialware, Inc.

Series B in 2011
Socialware, Inc. provides a SaaS based platform that allows users to manage social media across the enterprise. Socialware, Inc. mission to transform the way that companies and their employees engage, communicate and collaborate with clients, partners and one another. Public social technologies such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have reshaped the way we communicate in our personal lives and are now entering the enterprise. These new platforms are changing the economics of software.

neo.tax

Series A in 2022
Neo.tax provides tax preparation and filing services by using tax automation software The company is based in Mountain View, California.

AirGarage

Seed Round in 2019
AirGarage is a full stack parking operator that helps churches and businesses manage and rent out their parking lots. As a full-stack parking operator, it removes barriers to sell parking so anyone with an underutilized lot can get started. AirGarage provides a suite of tools needed to manage user acquisition, payment processing, and enforcement.

Lyft

Seed Round in 2010
Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ridesharing company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population. Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.

Airphrame

Series A in 2014
Airphrame, Inc. provides geospatial data and aerial imagery solutions on demand. The company offers Airphrame, a turnkey data service that allows users to obtain aerial data without having to be concerned about vehicle specifications or operations. It controls a network of remote sensing devices that are able to operate over developed rural and urban land in the United States. The company serves engineering, insurance, geospatial, volumetric, agriculture, urban planning, infrastructure, catastrophe response, appraisal, inspection, and modeling industries. Airphrame, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Smule, Inc.

Series B in 2009
Smule, Inc. develops music applications that enable users to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. It also operates a social platform that allows people using its application to create music together. Smule, Inc. was formerly known as SonicMule, Inc. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mass Relevance

Seed Round in 2010
Mass Relevance develops and offers cloud-based software for media and entertainment sectors. Its software enables social media content aggregation, filtration, and integration. The company's clientele includes [CISCO](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cisco), GolfDigest, [MSNBC](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/msnbc), NBC Sports, and Pepsi. It was formerly known as TweetRiver and changed its name to Mass Relevance Inc. in December, 2010. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Austin, Texas. In April 2014, Mass Relevance merged with Spredfast, forming a comprehensive social marketing company.

Grouper

Series A in 2013
Grouper is a social club that sets up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls (or 3 guys and 3 guys, etc.). Grouper started in New York in the summer of 2011 and now organizes Groupers in major cities across the US. Members have shared tens of thousands of drinks. The company was founded by Michael Waxman, a Yale grad and developer who formerly started language-learning company Batiq, and Tom Brown, an MIT engineer who was an early employee at MoPub (acquired by Twitter for 350MM). The founding team also includes Challen Hodson and Kristen Badal. Grouper was funded by Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 batch.

Buttercoin

Seed Round in 2013
Buttercoin is an open source, high-volume digital trading engine used to arrange trades in an order book.

Kontain

Seed Round in 2021
WE ARE ENGINEERS ENTREPRENEURS INSPIRED

Sharethrough

Series D in 2014
Delivers native ads for publishers and marketers

ClearSlide

Series A in 2011
ClearSlide is the system of engagement for sales, marketing and customer success teams that makes every customer interaction successful. They offer the most intuitive, complete, and open Sales Engagement Platform that integrates content, communications, and actionable insights to improve business results. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, ClearSlide helps thousands of customers around the world achieve higher seller productivity, increased sales management effectiveness, and stronger content ROI. For managers and leaders, ClearSlide provides engagement dashboards to improve deal visibility, coaching, and stronger forecasting. For content users and creators, ClearSlide makes it easy to recommend content tailored by sales stage, with next-step interaction suggestions. For reps, ClearSlide intuitively delivers content, communications, and analytics in a single platform experience.

Nooks

Seed Round in 2021
Nooks is a virtual office for distributed teams to work, hang, and collaborate with the real-time, human connection of working in the same room.

Socialscope

Seed Round in 2013
Socialscope, Inc. develops software for mobile phones to centralize accesses to Facebook, Twitter, and other networks.

Proformative

Series A in 2011
Proformative connects the world's corporate finance leaders to provide instant advice and insights on the tough financial and strategic challenges they face everyday. Proformative is the first social network specifically designed to help corporate finance professionals be successful in their jobs and careers. Proformative is used by more than 40,000 CFOs and has more than 600,000 corporate finance and business professionals in its fast growing network. Proformative is headquartered in Silicon Valley and funded by Floodgate, Bullpen Capital, and Inspiration Ventures.

Smule, Inc.

Series H in 2017
Smule, Inc. develops music applications that enable users to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. It also operates a social platform that allows people using its application to create music together. Smule, Inc. was formerly known as SonicMule, Inc. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

N3TWORK

Series B in 2015
N3TWORK specializes in providing networking software through internet devices. It offers a web platform that creates a personalized online experience centered around user's interests that can be integrated over to any device. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Lyft

Series A in 2011
Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ridesharing company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population. Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.

Tango Card

Series B in 2013
Tango Card provides leading incentive-delivery technology to organizations in the B2B space. Globally, enterprise companies use this technology to deliver an extensive catalog of domestic and global e-gift cards as part of consumer loyalty programs, sales incentive programs, health and wellness engagement, and employee recognition. Tango Card believes instantly delivering the most desirable rewards maximizes impact and drives real business results. This belief is woven into Tango Card’s industry-leading products: RaaS API, which integrates digital rewards into web platforms and applications, and Rewards Genius™, a self-serve portal for administering rewards.

Hadrian

Seed Round in 2021
We help our customers halve the cost of building rockets, satellites, engines, and drones.

VarageSale

Seed Round in 2013
Designed by a mom, VarageSale is the family-friendly app to buy and sell used items locally. Founded in 2012, it has millions of members in local communities across the United States, Canada and beyond. VarageSale is free to use at varagesale.com and on the mobile app, which is available on iOS, Android and Kindle devices. The company is based in Toronto and funded by investors including Sequoia Capital and LightSpeed Venture.

AirGarage

Series A in 2021
AirGarage is a full stack parking operator that helps churches and businesses manage and rent out their parking lots. As a full-stack parking operator, it removes barriers to sell parking so anyone with an underutilized lot can get started. AirGarage provides a suite of tools needed to manage user acquisition, payment processing, and enforcement.

Ontic Technologies, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Ontic Technologies, Inc. develops a software platform for physical security and threat detection for business and education. It offers Ontic Protective Intelligence Platform that unifies real-time and historical data related to physical security threats and enabling smart collaboration with connected workflows for early threat detection. The company’s Ontic Protective Intelligence Platform makes businesses safer by serving intelligence to physical security teams to take informed action to protect people, property, and reputation by aggregating data sources and tools. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Capture Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Capture Technologies is a technology and social media company. Our mission is to bring an absolutely new and unique experience to how people interact with each other. We are closely working with AI, thereby using the most advanced technology to help us bring our mission to life. Capture app will erase the boundary between real-time communication and artificial intelligence.

Mighty Networks

Series A in 2019
Mighty Software, Inc. develops an application for social network for deep interests. It offers Mighty Networks, a Web based social software that enables people to define and share an organized series of step-by-step and day-by-day actions grouped as experiences around a topic or goal for others to do. The company’s solutions are used to create real life experiences for friends, fans, and followers. Mighty Software, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Augmented Radar Imaging

Seed Round in 2018
Augmented Radar Imaging is building safety and autonomy-enabling next-generation radar systems. Augmented Radar Imaging delivers radar and advanced machine learning algorithms to power autonomous vehicles and warehouse robots.

Fieldguide

Seed Round in 2020
Fieldguide, Inc. provides automation and collaboration platform for audit programs. It offers workflow software for accounting and advisory firms, which include secure data requests, work plan manager, reporting automation, work papers and documents, audit programs, and resource planning. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Sacramento, California.

Try.com

Seed Round in 2014
Try Technologies, Inc. operates a Website that lets users to test-drive clothes from various online stores at home for free. Try Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Shop Like a Man Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

dumpling, Inc.

Series A in 2020
dumpling, Inc. develops an application for individuals to launch, run, and grow independent grocery shopping and delivery businesses. It offers Dumpling, an application that provides grocery shopping and delivery business owners in the United States with the tools, technology, and business support. The company application also helps clients to place orders. dumpling, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Berkeley, California.

Aceable, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Aceable, Inc. develops a mobile application that allows students to complete driving courses. Its mobile application provides traffic law and substance abuse education courses for people aging 14+ in Florida; teens driving courses for people aging 14-17 in Texas; adult driving courses for people aging 18+ in Texas; and defensive driving courses for various ages. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas with operations in Georgia.

Origin

Seed Round in 2016
Origin is an additive manufacturing (3D printing) platform designed for mass production featuring an open materials network, extensible software, and modular hardware. Origin's additive 3D manufacturing platform makes commercial-quality products, allowing companies and manufacturers to avail to a prototype, test market, and scalable optimum quality consumer-grade products with higher printing speed and flexibility.

Text IQ

Series A in 2019
Text IQ, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence (AI) based solution for privacy, legal, and compliance issues. Its artificial intelligence (AI) platform prevents from legal and compliance disasters. The company through its software helps users discover documents that could cause irreparable reputational damage to enterprise; supports risk, audit, and compliance teams in detecting anomalous or nefarious activity, people, and documents; allows users to develop case strategies faster by reviewing your entire dataset in a fraction of the time and cost; and helps users to identify privileged, sensitive, and relevant documents that are easily missed using search terms. Text IQ, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in San Francisco, California; New York, New York; Cork, Ireland; and Vancouver, Canada.

The Block

Seed Round in 2018
The Block is the leading research, analysis and news brand in the digital asset space. Founded in 2018 and based in NYC, The Block's team is spread across 7 times zones, covering the global cryptocurrency and blockchain space 24/7.

N3TWORK

Series A in 2013
N3TWORK specializes in providing networking software through internet devices. It offers a web platform that creates a personalized online experience centered around user's interests that can be integrated over to any device. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Replenysh

Seed Round in 2020
Replenysh, Inc. develops a software that helps brands to retrieve used products from their customers. It offers Replenysh that enables recycling centers to do mill-direct pricing; brands to use and track recovered materials in their products; and mills to access a network of recycling centers. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Orange, California.

Emotive

Series A in 2020
Emotive is a computer software company that provides SaaS, Mobile Marketing, NLP, machine learning, and B2B. The company's platform converts cold leads into educated customers through emotionally intelligent text message conversations, enabling organizations to build human relationships and connections. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Boxbee, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Boxbee originally launched its operations in NYC and San Francisco and built a software platform that supported personal storage operations. Iron Mountain merged the storage operations it acquired from Boxbee with Box Butler and Corovan made a comparable move with its consumer-facing brand Brute Box Moving. Today, Boxbee is managed and operated by Corovan and launched operations across major metropolitan areas in the State of California.

Handle Financial

Series B in 2010
Handle Financial, Inc. develops a mobile application to conduct financial transactions for businesses to serve consumers. The Prism Money application lets consumers track real-time balances, pay same-day, and view of all accounts. Its product includes PayNearMe, which allows businesses and government agencies to accept cash payments in stores. The company's Handle Platform provides real-time bill presentment and same-day payment capabilities for a variety of financial services products. The company was formerly known as PayNearMe, Inc. changed its name to Handle Financial, Inc. in March 2017. Handle Financial, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Pic Collage

Seed Round in 2013
PicCollage is created by a team of developers, designers, and lovers of all things tech. They are mobile nerds, animal lovers, soccer fans, and they get a little too excited about iOS updates. They are headquartered in San Francisco with a branch office in Taipei, and are backed by prominent investors such as Floodgate Fund, Freestyle Capital, Quest Venture Parters and 500 Startups.

Tapatalk

Seed Round in 2014
Tapatalk is a social app that aggregates discussions from forums all over the internet, which enables enthusiasts around the world to interact and share their hobbies and passions. Members can keep up with countless topical discussions about their interests and interact using a variety of posting and messaging features. Tapatalk not only delivers the best interest based discussions in a streamlined, unified mobile experience, but also creates an engaging eco-system for users to discover new interests as well. Used and endorsed by hundreds of thousands of internet communities worldwide, Tapatalk is the premier application for enthusiasts of all types to share their passions and hobbies online.

Okta Ventures

Series A in 2010
Okta Ventures, is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, Okta is committed to being a catalyst for the industry. With Okta Ventures, Okta is playing a critical role in accelerating innovation throughout the identity ecosystem. We are investing in cutting edge technologies focusing on identity, security, and privacy.

ngmoco

Series C in 2010
ngmoco ("Next Generation MObile COmpany") is creating and producing games for the iPhone. CEO [Neil Young](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/neil-young) is a former executive from [Electronic Arts](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/electronicarts), where he oversaw the development of several hit titles. Another EA vet and partner at [Kleiner Perkins](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers), Bing Gordon, sits on the board. Kleiner is an investor through its iFund.

PLAE

Seed Round in 2014
PLAE design products that celebrate the individual, value the sustainable, and promote a spirit of fearless exploration. The company's shoes are made from eco-friendly, breathable, and washable materials that are engineered to be durable, flexible, and customizable to allow for the natural development of children’s feet. Their goal is to erase that line and harness the power of play for everyone—starting with shredding the notion of age limits, of growing up, of losing that spirit of joy. PLAE was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

Bot MD

Seed Round in 2018
Bot MD is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) clinical assistant for doctors to improve patient care. It instantly answers doctor questions on drugs, diseases, and medical calculators. It provides automatic voice to text transcriptions. Bot MD was founded in 2018.

Stipple

Seed Round in 2010
Stipple is the future of the visual web where the web's biggest asset, digital images, transform into experiences that drive discovery, engagement, purchase, and loyalty in-image. Stipple’s image-based marketing technology stack detects, recognizes, and identifies the content inside images at scale and enables Advertisers and Publishers to apply interactive curated content, accurate native advertising solutions, and connects organically to commerce. Only Stipple's marketing technology offers image analytics, advertising & messaging inside images web-wide and without widgets or embed code at scale. Stipple is based in San Francisco and funded by Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Relevance Capital and a syndicate of prominent early-stage investors.

ConnectAndSell Inc.

Venture Round in 2011
ConnectAndSell delivers live conversations on demand, using a combination of proprietary switching technology and our virtual sales agents. ConnectAndSell was founded in 2007, that’s about 3 lifetimes ago in Silicon Valley. It is the pioneers in conversation enablement technology that revolutionized B2B marketing.

Plair

Seed Round in 2012
PLAiR, a Santa Clara, CA-based consumer electronics company. PLAiR aims to enable anyone to watch anything, anywhere, anytime. It has been operating in stealth mode since early 2011.

IRL App

Series C in 2021
IRL App is a social planning application that keeps users connected with each other. It is an app that makes it easy and fun to send and receive invites to hang out with friends in real life. The app also features a series of suggestions for invites that users can send, which change regularly based on users’ interests or locations, seasons, and upcoming holidays. IRL allows users to anonymously nominate friends for things that the friends are good at. IRL App's goal is to offer a place to discover things and allow users to do those things with other people. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Cheetah

Series B in 2020
Cheetah is a provider of contactless pickup and delivery services for food and supplies at wholesale prices. By turning refrigerated trucks into mobile fulfillment centers, Cheetah provides the safest option for grocery pickup without contact and away from crowds. Consumers simply place their order through the Cheetah mobile app and drive to one of multiple designated locations in the Bay Area where products are placed in the trunk of their car without leaving the driver's seat.

DoubleDutch

Series B in 2012
Creates mobile event apps and provides real time analytics on the event performance

The Podcast App

Seed Round in 2018
The Podcast App is a minimalist podcast player enhanced with cutting-edge technology. They leverage machine learning to build customized podcast playlists for their users based on their interests and tastes.

LiquidSpace, Inc.

Series A in 2011
LiquidSpace, Inc. provides mobile application for sharing office network. Its offers LiquidSpace, a mobile/web application connecting people seeking workspace with venues offering workspaces to share. Its application connects desk-seeking employees with unused space; and enables short-term office rentals between members/users. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin in the United States.

Twitter

Seed Round in 2007
Microblogging

GoFormz

Series A in 2016
GoFormz helps its customers to transform into data-driven businesses with its mobile-first business productivity platform. GoFormz provides an easy and proven way for companies to mobilize their paper forms and turn them into smart mobile business applications. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Diego, California.

Gowalla

Series B in 2009
Gowalla is the leading Social Guide to the world's most loved places and cities. Its award-winning mobile app and website — paired with an ever-growing collection of socially-powered Guides to cities, parks and regions across the globe — as curated by the Gowalla community and experts like Disney and National Geographic — make it easy for friends and families to share and discover photos, experiences and recommendations on the go. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Gowalla was launched in 2009 and is backed by investors including Greylock Partners, Also p-Louie Partners, Founders Fund, and other prominent angel investors.

Origin

Series A in 2018
Origin is an additive manufacturing (3D printing) platform designed for mass production featuring an open materials network, extensible software, and modular hardware. Origin's additive 3D manufacturing platform makes commercial-quality products, allowing companies and manufacturers to avail to a prototype, test market, and scalable optimum quality consumer-grade products with higher printing speed and flexibility.

Touch of Modern

Series B in 2014
Touch of Modern is a curated, online shopping destination for men to discover unexpected products, fashion brands, and accessories to elevate their lifestyle. We showcase one-of-a-kind, in-season products from well-known brands and up-and- coming designers that are hard to find in mainstream retailers or at better prices. We are the fastest growing men’s e-commerce company with over seven and a half million registered users, one million orders driven, 150 percent year-over-year growth and $17 million in venture funding.

Mass Relevance

Series A in 2012
Mass Relevance develops and offers cloud-based software for media and entertainment sectors. Its software enables social media content aggregation, filtration, and integration. The company's clientele includes [CISCO](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cisco), GolfDigest, [MSNBC](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/msnbc), NBC Sports, and Pepsi. It was formerly known as TweetRiver and changed its name to Mass Relevance Inc. in December, 2010. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Austin, Texas. In April 2014, Mass Relevance merged with Spredfast, forming a comprehensive social marketing company.

TaskRabbit

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

Montage Studio

Seed Round in 2012
Montage Studio creates and builds cloud-based engaging applications. It offers MontageJS, a HTML5 framework that simplifies the development of expressive HTML5 mobile applications; and Montage Studio, which enables simple drag-and-drop development for sophisticated projects. The company is based in Sunnyvale, California. As of June 13, 2017, Montage Studio operates as a subsidiary of Kaazing Corporation.

BigCommerce Pty. Ltd.

Series B in 2012
BigCommerce is a cloud e-commerce platform for established and rapidly-growing businesses. It combines enterprise functionality, an open architecture, and app ecosystem, and market-leading performance. BigCommerce enables businesses to grow online sales with 80% less cost, time, and complexity than on-premise software. BigCommerce powers B2B and B2C e-commerce for more than 60,000 brands, 2,000+ mid-market businesses, 30 Fortune 1000 companies, and industry-leading brands, including Assurant, Ben & Jerry’s, Paul Mitchell, Skullcandy, Sony, and Toyota.

LiquidSpace, Inc.

Seed Round in 2010
LiquidSpace, Inc. provides mobile application for sharing office network. Its offers LiquidSpace, a mobile/web application connecting people seeking workspace with venues offering workspaces to share. Its application connects desk-seeking employees with unused space; and enables short-term office rentals between members/users. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin in the United States.

Rivet Games

Series B in 2011
Rivet Games is to produce fun, polished games that exceed your expectations. Games that you can be passionate about.

Mango Health, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Mango Health, Inc. develops and offers mobile healthcare applications. It offers a patient engagement platform that provides medication information, refill time, and peer comparison to users. It offers its services through mobile and web based applications. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 1, 2019, Mango Health, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of TrialCard Incorporated.

Talent Sonar

Series A in 2015
TalentSonar merged with TalVista which helps companies manage unconscious bias for improved diversity hiring with redacted resume review, job description optimization, and structured interviews.

UNO HEALTHCARE

Seed Round in 2019
UNO HEALTHCARE provides provides pharmaceuticals and medical products to hospitals and physicians.

Main Street Genome

Seed Round in 2013
Creating solutions to improve the Main Street economy -- working to solve challenges for the owners and operators of businesses and the organizations and stakeholders that support those small businesses.

Golden Voice Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
Golden Voice Technologies is a developer of social voice and audio applications designed to bring back the power of the human voice. Its applications are working towards bringing back the human voice while other platforms are trying to make people stay in touch through texts, photos, and videos, enabling users to stay in touch with voice.

Pronoun, Inc.

Series A in 2011
Pronoun, Inc. operates a professional publishing platform that empowers authors to create and distribute digital books, track sales (across various retailers), edit metadata and files, and receive data-driven marketing advices. Pronoun, Inc. was formerly known as Vook, Inc. and changed its name to Pronoun, Inc. in June 2015. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York. As of May 25, 2016, Pronoun, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Macmillan Limited.

Applied Intuition

Series A in 2018
Applied Intuition provides software infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles
 at scale. Applied’s suite of products, focused on simulation and analytics, delivers sophisticated infrastructure built for scale. Industry leading companies of all sizes use Applied to comprehensively test and rapidly accelerate their autonomous vehicle development. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Detroit, Tokyo, and Munich, Applied is composed of software and automotive experts from the top companies in their respective fields (such as Google, Amazon, Apple, Waymo, Tesla, Delphi, GM, and Bosch).

JoyRun

Series A in 2017
JoyRun is a peer-to-peer platform that makes group deliveries for the community, by the community, social, affordable and rewarding. JoyRun’s feed lets you see who wants what in your area, create or spontaneously join existing requests, and then connects the groups with community members willing to do JoyRuns. And when you do a JoyRun, you get paid a few dollars and build your social cred. For local businesses, JoyRun wakes up latent demand, builds brand preference and grows top line revenue. Started in 2015, JoyRun is based in Silicon Valley. Today, college campuses nationwide. Tomorrow, offices and neighborhoods around the world.

BlueCheck Inc

Convertible Note in 2015
BlueCheck, Inc. provides an Internet based software application for identity and age verification services for online businesses in Texas. Its software application utilizes proprietary and commercially available databases to verify consumer provided data, as well as physically reviews personal identification documents, such as a driver’s license or passport when required. The company also provides account management and customer services. Its software solution serves various eCommerce platforms. BlueCheck, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Able Lending, Inc.

Series A in 2013
Able Lending LLC, doing business as ablelending.com, provides term loans for small businesses in the United States. It offers Able Start loan product that enables funding with the help of friends, family, and fans; Able Growth loan product for the next stage of the growing business; and Able Refi, a loan product for refinancing high-interest loans and credit cards to free up the cash flow. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Dispatchr, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Dispatchr, Inc. provides a grid-resilience software platform that offers a suite of adaptive cloud and mobile services deployed across an entire enterprise through which threats to physical infrastructure can be identified and managed in real-time before catastrophic events occur. It offers solutions in the areas of vegetation management, fire management, asset management, maintenance and construction, and emergency management. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Socialware, Inc.

Series A in 2009
Socialware, Inc. provides a SaaS based platform that allows users to manage social media across the enterprise. Socialware, Inc. mission to transform the way that companies and their employees engage, communicate and collaborate with clients, partners and one another. Public social technologies such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have reshaped the way we communicate in our personal lives and are now entering the enterprise. These new platforms are changing the economics of software.

Chloe + Isabel

Series C in 2014
Chloe and Isabel, Inc manufactures and markets hand-crafted jewelry for women. It offers necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, charms and chains, hair products, pins, beauty and home products, bags, and accessories. The company sells its products through merchandisers in the United States, as well as online. Chloe and Isabel, Inc was incorporated in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

TaskRabbit

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

Blooma

Seed Round in 2019
Blooma is a simple and cost effective loan origination platform that delivers data-driven intelligent asset scoring and deal pipeline insights to speed your loan processing decisions. With AI automation, configurable workflows and risk settings, you have the power to make the right lending decisions at scale.

North Technologies Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
North Technologies Inc. designs and develops mobile applications. Its product includes Tiiny, an application to share small photos and videos with friends that automatically delete after 24 hours; and watchville, an application with news and features for watch enthusiasts. North Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of July 9, 2015, North Technologies Inc. operates as a subsidiary of BOTH Media LLC.

Clover Health

Series C in 2016
Clover Health is a provider of Medicare Advantage health plans to older Americans. The company operates a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) platform to improve the quality of life of its members and physicians. Its platform utilizes patient-centered analytics and a dedicated care management team to identify potential risks and directly provide preventive care, thereby enabling patients and their health care providers to reduce avoidable spending as well as identify and manage chronic diseases. Clover uses sophisticated analytics and custom software to direct its own clinical staff to proactively fill in gaps in the care of its members.

VarageSale

Series B in 2015
Designed by a mom, VarageSale is the family-friendly app to buy and sell used items locally. Founded in 2012, it has millions of members in local communities across the United States, Canada and beyond. VarageSale is free to use at varagesale.com and on the mobile app, which is available on iOS, Android and Kindle devices. The company is based in Toronto and funded by investors including Sequoia Capital and LightSpeed Venture.

Pownce

Angel Round in 2008
Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. Users can send music, photos, messages, links, events, and other file of up to 100mb to 250mb for pro users via the Pownce web site or through lightweight desktop software (available for Windows and Mac environments; Linux coming soon). Only the people you choose get to see what you sent.

Sano

Seed Round in 2015
Sano is building a small, wearable sensor that can capture and transmit blood chemistry data continuously to virtually any device. The company will liberate this data to a third-party development and analytical platform called the API for the bloodstream.

Tinfoil Security, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Tinfoil Security, Inc. provides security-as-a-service based Website security solutions. It crawls into Websites and looks for common vulnerabilities; and acts as external hackers, picks through various access points on the Website, tries to get in, records where and how the company did it, and reports back. The company searches for the most common vulnerabilities; secures the site from the OWASP top ten, a list of the most commonly infiltrated vulnerabilities; and builds up from there. Tinfoil Security was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of January 9, 2020, Tinfoil Security, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Synopsys, Inc.

Pike13

Series A in 2016
Pike13, Inc. develops and provides cloud-based and mobile client management software solutions. It also offers scheduling, business performance reporting, staff management, franchise management, and automated billing software; and apps and add-ons. The company serves gyms and trainers, yoga/Pilate/barre centers, wellness studios, martial arts studios, music schools, dance schools, sports instruction centers, swim schools, and kid’s centers. Pike13, Inc. was formerly known as Front Desk Inc. and changed its name to Pike13, Inc. in June 2017. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Seattle, Washington. As of January 9, 2018, Pike13, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Jonas Operating Group.

Long-Term Stock Exchange

Series A in 2016
The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE) is creating an SEC-regulated national securities exchange designed to align great companies and long-term investors with the shared goal of value creation. They have assembled a world-class team of experts and advisors located in New York, San Francisco, and DC with deep expertise in finance, regulation, law, and technology. The LTSE seeks to end the twenty year decline in the number of public companies in the United States by creating a new listings venue that serves issuers (companies) and investors and prioritizes long-term value creation. The LTSE was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Ayasdi AI LLC

Series B in 2013
Ayasdi Care, an advanced analytics company, offers a machine intelligence platform and intelligent applications to its clients across the world. The company enables its users to solve their big data and complex data analytics challenges and to automate formerly manual processes using their own unique data. Its machine intelligence platform combines scalable computing and big data infrastructure with the machine learning, statistical and geometric algorithms, and topological data analysis to increase its productivity. The company’s clientele is comprised of Global 500 corporations, governments, and scientific research institutions. It is licensed on an annual subscription basis.

Hitpost

Seed Round in 2012
Hitpost’s Sports Bet™ app is the fastest mobile sports betting game on the market. Available on iOS and Android, it’s the easiest way to wager and compete against friends. Sports Bet™ covers all major sports and is free to play.

Data.World, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Data.World, Inc. develops an open data platform. Its platform enables users to find related and relevant data, understand data's context, follow users, topics, and projects, minimize wrangling, ingest and export various formats, simplify transformation, discuss and share data in context, elevate work's visibility, and meet data sharing requirements. It provides data in sectors, such as finance, crime, economy, census, education, environment, energy, sports, transportation, sports, wildlife, twitter, politics, weather, geospatial, and NASA. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Weebly

Series A in 2007
Weebly, Inc. provides website building tools that enable small businesses to launch ecommerce or professional websites. Its website building tools offer businesses customizable sites with features, such as forms, social share buttons, and analytics. The company also offers tools for entrepreneurs to launch online stores; domain name searching and professional product photography services; mobile applications; and a marketing platform for entrepreneurs and dreamers. Weebly, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of May 31, 2018, Weebly, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Square, Inc.

Muze

Seed Round in 2019
Stacks is a social video studio building the future of entertainment.

Tommy Boy Entertainment

Series A in 2016
Legendary Hip Hop & Electronic label founded in NYC in 1981. The label is credited with launching the careers of notable Hip Hop legends Afrika Bambaataa, Queen Latifah, House of Pain, De La Soul, and Naughty By Nature. Currently the label has been home to Ghostface Killah, Sheek Louch, Method Man, Black Sheep Dres, Christian Tiger School, Jamar Rogers, OCAD, Marcos Carnaval, Pants Velour, ELEX, Saint Ballantine, G-MiM$, Annalie Prime, Soul Khan, DJ E-Clyps & Oxymorrons. In the late 80's Tommy Boy introduced EDM to mainstream audiences with releases from LFO, Coldcut, and 808 State and is credited with opening the door at Top 40 radio in America again for DJ's with the success of Bob Sinclar's "World Hold On" in 2006. Known for fusing Electronic music with Hip Hop since its early days, Tommy Boy helped to establish Latin Freestyle and Latin Hip Hop genres with the release of multiple singles and albums from TKA, K7, and Information Society. In 1989, the label became the first label to market its own merch line to mainstream consumers via its Tommy Boy Gear line, partnering with brands like Stussy and Carhartt. Tommy Boy continues to license its logo to designers and retailers worldwide including Maharishi and Urban Outfitters.

Vizu Corporation

Series A in 2006
Enterprise technology platform allowing advertisers to target audiences through the purchase funnel

Kindly Care, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Kindly Care, Inc. owns and operates a marketplace for senior homecare. It offers a mobile application that finds and manages caregivers for the loved one. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

RealTravel

Series C in 2008
RealTravel is a place for people to find and share travel advice and experiences. They site has very deep travel content — mostly written by users, and some from a recent partnership with Frommer's. The site has an active community of tens of thousands of frequent travelers who talk about their experiences and freely give their recommendations via blogs, forums, photos, etc.

Recharge

Seed Round in 2016
Overview Need a place to nap or shower in the city? Instantly book a luxury hotel room near you and pay by the minute. There's no need to book in advance or to tell the hotel how long you plan to stay. Your room is ready for you the moment you book – 24/7. Stay for as long as you want, then tap check out when you’re ready to leave. Recharge is currently available in San Francisco.

Logistics Exchange

Series A in 2020
Leaf Logistics is creating a multi-party network of shippers, carriers, and logistics service providers. Leaf builds technologies for our members to participate in this network and plan, coordinate, and execute their transportation logistics more effectively. Today, the product suite includes the Leaf Adapt platform for shippers to build antifragile transportation plans, Leaf Flex forward contracts that lock in value for shippers and carriers alike, and the Leaf Network, where efficiency scales with multi-party network moves.

Inscopix

Series A in 2016
Inscopix is pioneering a new paradigm in the quest to understand the brain and its diseases. Combining revolutionary technology and methods for the imaging of large-scale neural activity in a naturally behaving subject, Inscopix has developed the enabling means to relate causal neural circuit dynamics to corresponding behavior.

Sendori

Series A in 2007
Sendori is creating compelling digital marketing solutions for our partners (advertisers and publishers) that help reduce cost, generate revenue and protect brand equity. Sendori has a diverse mix of high converting traffic, from our proprietary and 3rd party network sources. We also have patented one-click redirect technology and a powerful, proprietary ad serving platform to power digital advertising campaigns: to drive conversions and lower cost per acquisition.

IRL App

Series B in 2020
IRL App is a social planning application that keeps users connected with each other. It is an app that makes it easy and fun to send and receive invites to hang out with friends in real life. The app also features a series of suggestions for invites that users can send, which change regularly based on users’ interests or locations, seasons, and upcoming holidays. IRL allows users to anonymously nominate friends for things that the friends are good at. IRL App's goal is to offer a place to discover things and allow users to do those things with other people. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Handle Financial

Series A in 2009
Handle Financial, Inc. develops a mobile application to conduct financial transactions for businesses to serve consumers. The Prism Money application lets consumers track real-time balances, pay same-day, and view of all accounts. Its product includes PayNearMe, which allows businesses and government agencies to accept cash payments in stores. The company's Handle Platform provides real-time bill presentment and same-day payment capabilities for a variety of financial services products. The company was formerly known as PayNearMe, Inc. changed its name to Handle Financial, Inc. in March 2017. Handle Financial, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

OneSpot, Inc.

Series A in 2009
OneSpot, Inc., a content advertising company, provides content marketing platform that drives personalized, repeat engagement with branded content across Websites, email, mobile, social, display, and paid media channels. It offers a platform that enables users to make content personalization and repeat engagement work across various channels. OneSpot, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Austin, Texas with additional offices in New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois; and San Francisco, California.

Stipple

Series A in 2012
Stipple is the future of the visual web where the web's biggest asset, digital images, transform into experiences that drive discovery, engagement, purchase, and loyalty in-image. Stipple’s image-based marketing technology stack detects, recognizes, and identifies the content inside images at scale and enables Advertisers and Publishers to apply interactive curated content, accurate native advertising solutions, and connects organically to commerce. Only Stipple's marketing technology offers image analytics, advertising & messaging inside images web-wide and without widgets or embed code at scale. Stipple is based in San Francisco and funded by Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Relevance Capital and a syndicate of prominent early-stage investors.

Allclasses

Seed Round in 2014
Allclasses, Inc. provides an online search engine that allows users to search for and discover classes and class providers who offer classes locally or online. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. As of June 23, 2015, Allclasses, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Noodle Education, Inc.

ModCloth, Inc.

Series C in 2012
ModCloth.com is a rip-roaringly innovative, rapidly growing e-tailer of vintage-inspired fashion and decor that’s out to shake up the way fashion is discovered, developed, and delivered. Through groundbreaking technology and press-recognized social media, they’re creating a user-empowering platform that’s redefining the face of social commerce. Founded in a CMU dorm room by high school sweethearts Eric & Susan Koger, ModCloth now has over 400 employees and offices in San Francisco, LA, and Pittsburgh.

Vizu Corporation

Seed Round in 2005
Enterprise technology platform allowing advertisers to target audiences through the purchase funnel

DotBlu

Series A in 2008
DotBlu, formerly known as BluBet, lets people place fake bets on a variety of subjects ranging from entertainment to sports to technology to news and more. The key here is that BluBet involves no form of betting real money. Users can sign up for free and receive 30,000 BluBucks (which again have no actual monetary value), which they can use to place bets on a range of topics. Other DotBlu rules: you get 1,000 BluBucks for every bet you create and if you lose all your BluBucks, the bust will appear on your record but you will automatically receive 10,000 more BluBucks. BluBet also offers polls and challenges as two different types of bets. Poll bet outcomes are determined by the most popular response, while challenge outcomes are based on the outcomes of a real-life event.

Wanelo

Venture Round in 2012
Wanelo, Inc. operates a social media shopping site whose products are linked to an online store. It develops a shopping app that allows users to find, buy, and sell various products. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

myDocket, Inc.

Series A in 2013
myDocket, Inc. operates a site that enables sales teams to organize and share presentations, whitepapers, case studies, videos, and more with their customers. Its features include Email and collateral tracking; content viewing; and viewing, sending, and managing collateral. myDocket, Inc. was formerly known as Handshakez, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Monetate

Series C in 2013
Monetate, Inc. develops a personalization software solution that enables marketers to create a relevant and personalized customer experience. The company’s solutions include testing and optimization, segmentation and targeting, 1-to-1 personalization, recommendations, data integrations and APIS, audience insights, and customer data management. It serves brands and retailers worldwide. Monetate, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Bazaarvoice, Inc. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. It has additional locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

Chegg, Inc.

Series A in 2007
Chegg was launched at Iowa State University in 2005 as a hyper-local classifieds directory. In fall 2007, Chegg introduced their revolutionary textbook rental service. Chegg now offers its services to more than 6,400 universities and community colleges across the country.

RALLY.org

Series A in 2013
Rally.org operates an online social fundraising tool that enables people with a cause to share their story, reach new supporters, and raise money. Its tool enables people with a cause to share stories, photos, videos, and updates with supporters specifically at the point of donating. Rally.org was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Thanx, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Thanx, Inc. owns and operates customer relationship management and digital engagement platform. It provides data based customer insights, customer loyalty rates, campaigns through messages, real time customer feedbacks, revenue reporting, online ordering, and email marketing services. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Reputation.com UK Ltd.

Series A in 2008
Reputation.com UK Ltd. offer industry leading online reputation management services. Our clients benefit from our range of innovative services. We bury negative online news, forums, blog and customer review site content allowing businesses to regain control of the most valuable asset they have: reputation. Other services: Online Reputation and Brand Monitoring Reputation Management Online PR and PR services. Specialties Reputation Management, Online Defamation, Online Reputation Management, ORM, Hebrew Reputation Management, Swedish Reputation Management, Spanish Reputation Management

Monthly

Seed Round in 2017
Monthly is an online training and education platform designed to connect with mentors and develop skills. The platform connects users from various fields and domains seeking specific skill sets with mentors online who guide them through text messaging, enabling students, entrepreneurs, and professionals to gain knowledge and develop themselves.

Yup.com

Seed Round in 2015
Yup Technologies Inc. develops an iOS and Android app that provides on demand tutoring for math and science through mobile chat. It offers Yup, a mobile tutoring app that instantly connects students with expert tutors; and enables tutors to provide academic support for students to solve their chemistry, math, and physics problems. The company was formerly known as MathCrunch Services and changed its name to Yup Technologies Inc. in April 2016. Yup Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

The Zebra

Series A in 2016
The Zebra operates as an online insurance comparison marketplace. It provides rates and educational resources to inform consumers and help them find the coverage, service level, and pricing to suit their unique needs, while simultaneously helping insurance companies connect with the consumers they best serve in today’s digital world. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Airphrame

Seed Round in 2013
Airphrame, Inc. provides geospatial data and aerial imagery solutions on demand. The company offers Airphrame, a turnkey data service that allows users to obtain aerial data without having to be concerned about vehicle specifications or operations. It controls a network of remote sensing devices that are able to operate over developed rural and urban land in the United States. The company serves engineering, insurance, geospatial, volumetric, agriculture, urban planning, infrastructure, catastrophe response, appraisal, inspection, and modeling industries. Airphrame, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Chiron Health

Seed Round in 2015
Chiron Health, Inc. operates as a Web-based platform that connects physicians with their patients through secure video conferencing for routine follow-up appointments. It allows physicians to serve its patients in the areas of primary care, behavioral health, and other specialties. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Austin, Texas. As of January 4, 2019, Chiron Health, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Medici Technologies, LLC.

Streak

Convertible Note in 2012
Streak is the only CRM integrated entirely within your Gmail inbox, and works alongside all your other G Suite applications. It can be used to track any business process including sales, partnerships, support, hiring, deal flow, and much more. Streak also includes a powerful set of email tools including email tracking, send later, snoozing, mail merge, and more.

Outreach, Inc.

Series A in 2015
Outreach is a sales engagement platform that accelerates revenue growth by optimizing every interaction throughout the customer lifecycle. The platform manages all customer interactions across email, voice and social, and leverages machine learning to guide reps to take the right actions. Thousands of customers, including Cloudera, Glassdoor, Pandora, and Zillow, rely on Outreach to drive predictable and measurable growth, increase efficiency and effectiveness of customer-facing teams, and improve visibility into sales activity and performance.

DoubleDutch

Series C in 2013
Creates mobile event apps and provides real time analytics on the event performance

Pley

Series A in 2014
Pley Inc. operates as a toy rental company in the United States. It rents a collection of toys, including LEGO sets, K’NEX toys, and robotic/educational toys to entertain everyone from pre-schoolers through to adulthood. The company offers rental toys through various subscription plans to families. It also sells toys online. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

ngmoco

Series A in 2008
ngmoco ("Next Generation MObile COmpany") is creating and producing games for the iPhone. CEO [Neil Young](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/neil-young) is a former executive from [Electronic Arts](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/electronicarts), where he oversaw the development of several hit titles. Another EA vet and partner at [Kleiner Perkins](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers), Bing Gordon, sits on the board. Kleiner is an investor through its iFund.

Cabin Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
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.

Pipewise

Series A in 2011
Pipewise Inc. delivers Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions to today’s cloud-based businesses who attract, engage, convert, and support customers over web and mobile channels. It provides a software-as-a-service solution that includes a cloud-based user database, landing page signup forms, reporting and segmentation tools, and integration with campaign management and support products. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

ngmoco

Series B in 2009
ngmoco ("Next Generation MObile COmpany") is creating and producing games for the iPhone. CEO [Neil Young](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/neil-young) is a former executive from [Electronic Arts](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/electronicarts), where he oversaw the development of several hit titles. Another EA vet and partner at [Kleiner Perkins](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers), Bing Gordon, sits on the board. Kleiner is an investor through its iFund.

TTYL Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
TTYL is the audio social network, where hanging out with your closest friends is as easy as throwing on headphones. See who's free to talk and jump into conversations with up to 8 of your best friends. If you're the first one online, just background the app and let them jump in your ears!

neo.tax

Seed Round in 2020
Neo.tax provides tax preparation and filing services by using tax automation software The company is based in Mountain View, California.

Try.com

Series A in 2016
Try Technologies, Inc. operates a Website that lets users to test-drive clothes from various online stores at home for free. Try Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Shop Like a Man Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kno

Series C in 2011
Kno, Inc. is an education software company on a mission to "Change The Way Students Learn." We believe engagement is a leading indicator of learning success and grades are a lagging indicator. So we have partnered with over 80 leading publishers to offer more than 200,000 interactive titles that make learning more engaging, efficient, and social for students. They are the same books, only smarter. Each Kno eTextbook is packed with interactive features, assessments, and social sharing tools to engage students at the point of learning. And the Kno platform provides administrators and teachers with the tools they need to easily assign, manage, and monitor their digital learning content and assessments at an enterprise level. As part of Kno's commitment to "Do Well, Do Good," Kno has created the Kno for Good program, a partnership with DonorsChoose.org, to provide $1 for every purchase made through Kno towards a classroom in need. Founded in 2009, Kno, Inc. has emerged as a leader in education software. Kno, Inc. has received funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Intel Capital, Goldman Sachs, FLOODGATE and GSV Capital, and is based in Santa Clara, California. For more information, go to www.kno.com, or follow Kno at http://facebook.com/GoodtoKno and http://twitter.com/GoodtoKNO

Pike13

Series A in 2014
Pike13, Inc. develops and provides cloud-based and mobile client management software solutions. It also offers scheduling, business performance reporting, staff management, franchise management, and automated billing software; and apps and add-ons. The company serves gyms and trainers, yoga/Pilate/barre centers, wellness studios, martial arts studios, music schools, dance schools, sports instruction centers, swim schools, and kid’s centers. Pike13, Inc. was formerly known as Front Desk Inc. and changed its name to Pike13, Inc. in June 2017. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Seattle, Washington. As of January 9, 2018, Pike13, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Jonas Operating Group.

Kanjoya, Inc.

Series D in 2013
Kanjoya, Inc. operates a workforce intelligence and management platform for enterprise companies. The company offers employee engagement solutions that enable companies to capture feedback, analyze results in real-time, and distribute critical intelligence; Kanjoya Perception that reveals employee emotions, attitude, and intent, as well as predicts behavior; Workday directory that guides employee surveys and performance review insights; and Perception for Performance, a tool that managers use to evaluate, reward, and motivate employees. Its solutions deliver authoritative data and direction that address workforce-related challenges that companies face. Kanjoya, Inc. was formerly known as Experience Project, Inc. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of September 29, 2016, Kanjoya, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc.

Zeplin

Seed Round in 2015
Zeplin is the ultimate collaboration tool between designers and developers. Zeplin is a connected space where product teams can share designs, generate specs, assets, and code snippets. The company has reached many users from the product teams like Slack, Pinterest, Mailchimp, Microsoft, and many more. It is also backed by amazing investors like Elad Gil, Mike Maples, Kevin Hale. The company is a small, distributed crew with offices in San Francisco, London, and Istanbul. Zeplin was founded in 2014.

Monetate

Series A in 2010
Monetate, Inc. develops a personalization software solution that enables marketers to create a relevant and personalized customer experience. The company’s solutions include testing and optimization, segmentation and targeting, 1-to-1 personalization, recommendations, data integrations and APIS, audience insights, and customer data management. It serves brands and retailers worldwide. Monetate, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Bazaarvoice, Inc. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. It has additional locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

Hyper9

Series B in 2009
Hyper9, Inc. provides virtualization management solutions. It offers virtual infrastructure search and analytics solutions, which includes consolidated view, environment monitoring, analytics, and collaboration. Hyper9, Inc. was formerly known as InovaWave, Inc. and changed its name in February 2006. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Austin, Texas.

LiquidSpace, Inc.

Series B in 2013
LiquidSpace, Inc. provides mobile application for sharing office network. Its offers LiquidSpace, a mobile/web application connecting people seeking workspace with venues offering workspaces to share. Its application connects desk-seeking employees with unused space; and enables short-term office rentals between members/users. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin in the United States.

Metamarkets

Seed Round in 2010
Metamarkets offers an interactive analytics platform for buyers and sellers of programmatic advertising. It gives its users the ability to see what’s happening in the media marketplaces where they operate and provides the high-speed processing power needed to gain a competitive edge. Customers such as Twitter, AOL, and Rubicon Project use the Metamarkets platform to drive their business performance through intuitive access to real-time information. Metamarkets puts the power of ad hoc data navigation and visualization into the hands of marketers. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
B-Side Entertainment, Inc. operates as a distributor of independent films in the United States. It operates a Website that allows fans, radio stations, and clubs to host their screenings of a documentary, as well as handles ticketing and mine audience response data for film festivals. The company distributes films through theatrical, nontheatrical, and ancillary outlets. B-Side Entertainment, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Text IQ

Venture Round in 2016
Text IQ, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence (AI) based solution for privacy, legal, and compliance issues. Its artificial intelligence (AI) platform prevents from legal and compliance disasters. The company through its software helps users discover documents that could cause irreparable reputational damage to enterprise; supports risk, audit, and compliance teams in detecting anomalous or nefarious activity, people, and documents; allows users to develop case strategies faster by reviewing your entire dataset in a fraction of the time and cost; and helps users to identify privileged, sensitive, and relevant documents that are easily missed using search terms. Text IQ, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in San Francisco, California; New York, New York; Cork, Ireland; and Vancouver, Canada.

Okta Ventures

Series B in 2011
Okta Ventures, is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, Okta is committed to being a catalyst for the industry. With Okta Ventures, Okta is playing a critical role in accelerating innovation throughout the identity ecosystem. We are investing in cutting edge technologies focusing on identity, security, and privacy.

Sharethrough

Series C in 2014
Delivers native ads for publishers and marketers

GuideOn

Seed Round in 2015
GuideOn is a military veteran talent acquisition platform. We use behavioral and data science to translate military skills into terms that are easily understood by private sector HR professionals, dramatically improving efficiency of recruiting efforts for corporations who seek qualified veterans.

Adroll

Series A in 2008
AdRoll is the Growth Platform that makes your display, social, and email advertising work together to drive more revenue, with less effort from you. It’s built on powerful technology that completes your view of the customer and automates your marketing—leading to smarter decisions and accelerated business growth. With the perfect blend of ease and insights, it’s never been easier to attract new audiences and get more customers shopping. Built for performance, AdRoll sees over 37,000 generate more than $246 billion in sales annually.

OutboundEngine

Series A in 2012
OutboundEngine is an Austin, TX-based marketing technology company that helps businesses grow by making online marketing simple. The company’s SaaS platform automates email marketing, social media posting, online review collection and more for over 10,000 customers. Founded in 2012, OutboundEngine is ranked No. 95 on the Inc. 5000 and has been consistently named a top workplace in Austin. For more information, please visit www.outboundengine.com

Popshop Technologies Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Popshop Technologies Inc. develops a mobile live streaming marketplace that enables users to create and host their own pop up shopping channel and can sell live directly to a global audience. It offers PopShop, an application that enables users to elevate their shop to a live stream experience, have conversation with fans, add new products, and enable customers buy live. The company’s application is available on App Store. Popshop Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Aceable, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Aceable, Inc. develops a mobile application that allows students to complete driving courses. Its mobile application provides traffic law and substance abuse education courses for people aging 14+ in Florida; teens driving courses for people aging 14-17 in Texas; adult driving courses for people aging 18+ in Texas; and defensive driving courses for various ages. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas with operations in Georgia.

Egnyte, Inc.

Series B in 2011
In a content critical age, Egnyte fuels business growth by enabling content-rich business processes, while also providing organizations with visibility and control over their content assets. Egnyte’s cloud-native content services platform leverages the industry’s leading content intelligence engine to deliver a simple, secure, and vendor-neutral foundation for managing enterprise content across business applications and storage repositories. More than 16,000 companies trust Egnyte to enhance employee productivity, automate data management, and reduce file-sharing cost and complexity. Investors include Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, and Goldman Sachs.

Pantheon

Seed Round in 2010
Pantheon Systems, Inc. provides a Website management platform for agile marketers and developers to build, launch, and manage WordPress and Drupal sites. It serves customers in media and publishing, technology, higher education, nonprofit, government, healthcare, financial services, food and beverage, manufacturing, and travel and transportation industries. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Civitas Learning

Series B in 2013
Civitas Learning’s student success intelligence platform leverages each institution’s unique data to help them chart the best course to improved outcomes for students. The platform is grounded in unparalleled work in data science, built into workflows with integrated applications, and implemented on-site with seasoned strategic service teams. Today, Civitas Learning works with 375 colleges and universities, serving nearly 8 million students. Together with their growing community of customers, Civitas Learning is making the most of the world’s learning data to help graduate a million more students per year by 2025.

Ensighten, Inc.

Series A in 2012
Ensighten is a comprehensive website security company, offering next generation client-side protection against data loss, ad injection and intrusion. Through the Ensighten MarSecTM solution, organizations can assess privacy risk and stop unauthorized leakage or theft of data, as well as comply with the CCPA, GDPR and other global data privacy regulations. The MarSecTM platform protects some of the largest brands in the world from data leakage whilst ensuring maximum web page performance.

Mixer Labs

Series A in 2009
Mixer Labs is the company behind GeoAPI.com, a powerful location engine for developers, and TownMe, a new local information site. TownMe's mission is to bring all the world's local information and relationships online. TownMe's goal is to show your town, online. Mixer Labs also powers a GeoAPI which provides location as a service. The GeoAPI includes: -Reverse Geocoder -16 million business listings and points of interest (with rich per location data) -Writable layer - each developer can add their own annotation of places and entities and do complex geo-queries against this information. You can access it via http://api.townme.com, http://geoapi.com or http://sexyapi.com

Sandbox VR

Series A in 2019
Sandbox VR is a virtual reality startup that offers a premium, fully-immersive virtual reality experience. The company combines motion capture in real time with virtual reality technology to create a new medium that is the closest thing to the Star Trek holodeck that exists. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Touch of Modern

Series A in 2013
Touch of Modern is a curated, online shopping destination for men to discover unexpected products, fashion brands, and accessories to elevate their lifestyle. We showcase one-of-a-kind, in-season products from well-known brands and up-and- coming designers that are hard to find in mainstream retailers or at better prices. We are the fastest growing men’s e-commerce company with over seven and a half million registered users, one million orders driven, 150 percent year-over-year growth and $17 million in venture funding.

Gather

Seed Round in 2016
Gather also lets users post videos to a group or individual and get reactions from them, but it differs from Samba in that it also lets users offer links to articles and then asking for reactions to the article. It’s a hybrid of Snapchat Stories and Samba in that way.

Mixmax, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Mixmax offers software that enables its users to boost their productivity. It enables its users to track emails accurately, set up meetings in an instant, save time with email templates, and schedule emails to be sent later. Mixmax makes emails as powerful as web pages by enabling actions such as completing purchases, confirming expense reports, scheduling events, and answering surveys. Mixmax was launched on June 1, 2014, in San Francisco, California.

Ayasdi AI LLC

Series C in 2015
Ayasdi Care, an advanced analytics company, offers a machine intelligence platform and intelligent applications to its clients across the world. The company enables its users to solve their big data and complex data analytics challenges and to automate formerly manual processes using their own unique data. Its machine intelligence platform combines scalable computing and big data infrastructure with the machine learning, statistical and geometric algorithms, and topological data analysis to increase its productivity. The company’s clientele is comprised of Global 500 corporations, governments, and scientific research institutions. It is licensed on an annual subscription basis.

The Zebra

Seed Round in 2013
The Zebra operates as an online insurance comparison marketplace. It provides rates and educational resources to inform consumers and help them find the coverage, service level, and pricing to suit their unique needs, while simultaneously helping insurance companies connect with the consumers they best serve in today’s digital world. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

The Zebra

Series C in 2020
The Zebra operates as an online insurance comparison marketplace. It provides rates and educational resources to inform consumers and help them find the coverage, service level, and pricing to suit their unique needs, while simultaneously helping insurance companies connect with the consumers they best serve in today’s digital world. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

RelTel

Seed Round in 2009
RelTel develops software to break down and analyze footage caught by surveillance cameras. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

M.dot

Seed Round in 2012
M.dot enables all businesses and individuals to be accessible & discoverable on mobile devices. With M.dot, small businesses can create and promote their mobile presence in minutes using a smartphone app. No technical skills required. 160 million websites are still not mobile ready – websites will eventually be replaced and mobile presence will become primary. M.dot makes the transition from www. to m. simple yet rich in features.

ModCloth, Inc.

Series C in 2015
ModCloth.com is a rip-roaringly innovative, rapidly growing e-tailer of vintage-inspired fashion and decor that’s out to shake up the way fashion is discovered, developed, and delivered. Through groundbreaking technology and press-recognized social media, they’re creating a user-empowering platform that’s redefining the face of social commerce. Founded in a CMU dorm room by high school sweethearts Eric & Susan Koger, ModCloth now has over 400 employees and offices in San Francisco, LA, and Pittsburgh.

Peoplegrove Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Peoplegrove Inc. develops an application to place job seekers with employers through a voting process. It allows users to set up their profiles with the ability to connect with LinkedIn accounts. It enables them to show interest in openings and notifies the company to look at the user’s profile. Peoplegrove Inc. was formerly known as Emjoyment Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mango Health, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Mango Health, Inc. develops and offers mobile healthcare applications. It offers a patient engagement platform that provides medication information, refill time, and peer comparison to users. It offers its services through mobile and web based applications. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 1, 2019, Mango Health, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of TrialCard Incorporated.

Ayasdi AI LLC

Seed Round in 2010
Ayasdi Care, an advanced analytics company, offers a machine intelligence platform and intelligent applications to its clients across the world. The company enables its users to solve their big data and complex data analytics challenges and to automate formerly manual processes using their own unique data. Its machine intelligence platform combines scalable computing and big data infrastructure with the machine learning, statistical and geometric algorithms, and topological data analysis to increase its productivity. The company’s clientele is comprised of Global 500 corporations, governments, and scientific research institutions. It is licensed on an annual subscription basis.

Umuse, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Umuse is a stealth mode startup that try to bring order to the chaos that has become workplace communication. Communication at work. Remember when it was easy? Just a couple of meetings every day, maybe a few messages. Now … it’s gotten out of control. Multiple meetings, dozens of projects, and hundreds of messages every day. How are you supposed to keep up? At Umuse, they’re on a mission to tame the chaos and give you back control. They’re leveraging technology to put order back in your day and help you get more done and have more fun in the process. Their ultimate goal - to make it simpler and easier for you to do your job every day.

Labdoor, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Labdoor, Inc. sells supplements and energy drinks online. The company sells fish oils, herbal supplements, magnesium supplements, melatonin supplements, probiotic supplements, protein supplements, and zinc supplements. It also offers supplement testing and rating service. Labdoor, Inc. was formerly known as Labrdr Inc. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in South San Francisco, California.

NarrativeDx

Seed Round in 2015
NarrativeDx Inc. develops a data analytics solution for hospitals. Its solution enables healthcare administrators to collect and monitor what patients say by aggregating data from various sources, including social media platforms and output from HCAHPS survey vendors; learn the context behind patient satisfaction scores; and know which improvement actions to take for better patient engagement, maximum reimbursements, and quality care. The company is based in Austin, Texas. As of March 17, 2020, NarrativeDx Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Press Ganey Associates, Inc.

Vendia, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Vendia, Inc. develops a cloud and blockchain based serverless and distributed data sharing platform. It offers Vendia Share to share data and code with partners in real time, without giving up control; and share data across multiple parties and clouds. The company’s Vendia Share is used various use cases, such as multi-party, cross-cloud, and cross-account data sharing; real time data for real time forecasting; and autonomous supply chains to predict supply and demand. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Giftly

Seed Round in 2011
Giftly is revolutionizing the way people give and receive gifts. We're a San Francisco-based startup upending the $100B-a-year gift card market by making gift cards more personal, customizable, beautiful, and fun than ever before. Finally you can give a friend dinner at a favorite restaurant, a sweater from a local boutique, or a night out at the movies, easily right from your phone or from the web. Founded in 2010, Giftly has raised $3M from tier-one VCs and advisors and has assembled a team of talents spanning industries and backgrounds, all working with one purpose: to help you connect with the people you care about through gifts.

Refinery29

Series A in 2011
Refinery29 is a digital media and entertainment company focused on women. Through a variety of lifestyle stories, original video programming, and social, shareable content across all platforms, Refinery29 provides its audience with the inspiration and tools to discover and pursue a more independent, stylish, and informed life. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York.

Wescover

Seed Round in 2019
Wescover, Inc. operates an online platform that allows users to explore art and design in unique places, and discover their creators. The platform allows users to find the creator of the design and places where the designs are available. It offers a catalog of mapped objects with images of unique art and design in mapped locations. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

BranchOut

Series B in 2011
BranchOut lets people capture and share everyday moments in the workplace through photos, news and updates. These moments create Professional Timelines, living narratives of who we are at work. BranchOut allows people to bring their careers to life by showcasing the professional moments that define them. BranchOut is the largest professional community on Facebook with more than 30 million users. BranchOut allows people to build their professional brands by sharing photos and posts that dynamically showcase their professional skills, expertise and accomplishments.

Proformative

Series B in 2012
Proformative connects the world's corporate finance leaders to provide instant advice and insights on the tough financial and strategic challenges they face everyday. Proformative is the first social network specifically designed to help corporate finance professionals be successful in their jobs and careers. Proformative is used by more than 40,000 CFOs and has more than 600,000 corporate finance and business professionals in its fast growing network. Proformative is headquartered in Silicon Valley and funded by Floodgate, Bullpen Capital, and Inspiration Ventures.

Loris.ai, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Loris helps the world’s fastest-growing companies create long-standing customer relationships by empowering them to have better conversations with their customers. We optimize lessons learned from the crisis space to enable companies to handle hard customer conversations with empathy. Our real-time agent coaching software uses machine learning to help enterprise care teams make customers happier and brands stand out in the crowd. Loris is headquartered in New York City and also has an office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Mem Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Mem Labs is building an operating system for the future of work. Its first product Supernote streamlines email, task, and note-taking workflows into a single application. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Altos Hills, California.

Outbox

Series A in 2013
Outbox provides a disruptive alternative to the old system of postal delivery. Their service worked by sending an Outbox employee to customers’ homes to pick up their mail three times a week. The items were electronically scanned into images and then made available for viewing via a secure website, on iPads and smartphones.

StarkWare Industries Ltd.

Seed Round in 2018
StarkWare Industries Ltd develops software and hardware for generation and verification of computational integrity proofs for general computations. The company offers STARK, which is a zero-knowledge proof protocol with applications, including transparent privacy in blockchains, increased transaction throughput, and off chain computation. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Netanya, Israel.

MissionU

Seed Round in 2016
MissionU is a college alternative that gives students the skills and experience needed to succeed in today’s competitive working world while allowing them to graduate debt-free with no upfront tuition. Led by Pencils of Promise founder Adam Braun, who created the company with co-founder and Chief Product Officer Mike Adams, MissionU is the only program that combines general education with specialized skills training to prepare individuals for real-world jobs. By employing an income-share agreement model, MissionU only requires students to pay once they are earning $50,000 or more, during which they pay 15% of their income for three years back to the company.

WellnessFX

Series A in 2010
WellnessFX is a personalized wellness and health startup providing the leading quantified self (QS) platform allowing individuals to measure, understand and improve their health by combining state-of-the-art medical science with social media tools and consumer web user experience design. In revenue, WellnessFX has launched its Baseline product in 6 states and is rapidly expanding to a national footprint.

Shipper

Seed Round in 2019
Shipper works with online or corporate vendors to pick up items to be shipped using selected logistics services. It cooperates with online sellers or companies to pick up goods to be sent using selected logistics services. Its platform offers package pick-up service and fulfillment centers, help logistics providers manage shipments, predicts the best shipping routes, consolidate packages headed in the same direction and also provides a multi-carrier API that enables sellers to manage orders, print shipping labels and get tracking information from multiple providers on their phones.

Pike13

Series A in 2014
Pike13, Inc. develops and provides cloud-based and mobile client management software solutions. It also offers scheduling, business performance reporting, staff management, franchise management, and automated billing software; and apps and add-ons. The company serves gyms and trainers, yoga/Pilate/barre centers, wellness studios, martial arts studios, music schools, dance schools, sports instruction centers, swim schools, and kid’s centers. Pike13, Inc. was formerly known as Front Desk Inc. and changed its name to Pike13, Inc. in June 2017. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Seattle, Washington. As of January 9, 2018, Pike13, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Jonas Operating Group.

SpareFoot, Inc.

Series B in 2011
SpareFoot is the largest online marketplace for storage, making it easier to move and store your stuff. Our website lets you find and compare the best storage deals near you, and instantly rent online or by phone for free. With the most up-to-date information on storage available, SpareFoot makes finding your stuff a home the easiest thing to cross off your to-do list.

Around

Seed Round in 2020
Around provides an AI-based camera framing designed for high-impact video calls. It helps users take video meetings less intrusive and less clunky. Around gives users a clear view of their teammates while making space for work.

Ayasdi AI LLC

Venture Round in 2013
Ayasdi Care, an advanced analytics company, offers a machine intelligence platform and intelligent applications to its clients across the world. The company enables its users to solve their big data and complex data analytics challenges and to automate formerly manual processes using their own unique data. Its machine intelligence platform combines scalable computing and big data infrastructure with the machine learning, statistical and geometric algorithms, and topological data analysis to increase its productivity. The company’s clientele is comprised of Global 500 corporations, governments, and scientific research institutions. It is licensed on an annual subscription basis.

Grouper

Series A in 2013
Grouper is a social club that sets up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls (or 3 guys and 3 guys, etc.). Grouper started in New York in the summer of 2011 and now organizes Groupers in major cities across the US. Members have shared tens of thousands of drinks. The company was founded by Michael Waxman, a Yale grad and developer who formerly started language-learning company Batiq, and Tom Brown, an MIT engineer who was an early employee at MoPub (acquired by Twitter for 350MM). The founding team also includes Challen Hodson and Kristen Badal. Grouper was funded by Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 batch.

PixelFish

Series B in 2010
PixelFish, Inc. is a provider of video advertising solutions primarily for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and their advertising partners. The company has a platform that allows users to create and optimize the most affordable and effective custom video ads. PixelFish provides online applications, which enable a range of video solutions that meet the varying needs and budgets of SMBs, supported by its global network of more than 2,500 professional videographers. PixelFish provides video ads for Google, Yellowbook and many other search, directory and ad network providers. PixelFish is a privately-held corporation headquartered in Torrance, California, with additional locations in New York and Hyderabad, India.

TownHog

Seed Round in 2008
TownHog connects businesses and local audiences, while enabling leading publishers to further monetize and engage their geo-segmented users. TownHog is the latest creation by Dotblu, Inc. Dotblu is a San Francisco based company founded in 2007 and backed by Silicon Valley veterans and D. E. Shaw Ventures

Lyft

Series B in 2013
Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ridesharing company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population. Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.

Written Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Written.com helps brands build a highly-engaged, precision-targeted audience, while also helping bloggers build influence and monetize their top content. Written.com facilitates content licensing, content syndication, and sponsored content for top brands. Written.com is a network for bloggers who want to earn premium fees for their best content. Want to give your blog’s archive new life? Introduce your work to new audiences and new markets? Written.com is a more credible way to get paid, with no extra effort or risk.

The Zebra

Seed Round in 2013
The Zebra operates as an online insurance comparison marketplace. It provides rates and educational resources to inform consumers and help them find the coverage, service level, and pricing to suit their unique needs, while simultaneously helping insurance companies connect with the consumers they best serve in today’s digital world. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.