Upfront Ventures

Upfront Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1996 and based in Santa Monica, California, with additional offices in Los Angeles. The firm specializes in investing in technology-led companies across various sectors, including digital content, e-commerce, financial services, healthcare technology, software, and consumer goods. Upfront Ventures focuses primarily on North American companies, dedicating at least half of its capital to the Southern California region while also considering opportunities in Europe and other international markets. The firm typically invests between $0.5 million and $15 million in seed rounds and between $2 million and $5 million in Series A rounds, reserving follow-on capital for future financing. Upfront Ventures seeks to partner closely with founders, often taking board seats in its portfolio companies, and has a history of backing notable startups such as Ring, Bird, and Maker Studios. The firm is led by Managing Partners Yves Sisteron, Mark Suster, and Kara Nortman.

Nicole Chung

Investor

Kobie Fuller

Partner

Evan Hamilton

Investor

Dana Kibler

Chief Financial Officer and Partner

Stuart Lander

COO

Aditi Maliwal

Partner

Yves B. Sisteron

Advisor

Seksom Suriyapa

Partner

Mark Suster

Partner

Kesar Varma

Investor

Kevin Zhang

Partner

496 past transactions

Territory Foods

Series B in 2021
Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by a proprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating. Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Bionaut Labs

Series A in 2021
Bionaut Labs, Inc. designs, manufactures and controls the first intra- tissue navigation platform, using Bionaut nano/micro robots operating inside the body. The company offers a delivery mechanism which is anatomically precise by design. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Deliv

Series A in 2014
Deliv, Inc. provides crowd sourced same-day delivery services for customers’ online orders right from a retailer’s Website directly to the customer’s door. The company allows retailers to offer their customers a same-day delivery option as they shop from their Website, mobile app, or from their physical brick and mortar store. It serves retailers and mall operators in the United States. The company was formerly known as Fetchsters, Inc. Deliv, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

P.F. Chang's China Bistro

Venture Round in 1997
P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and operation of restaurants in the United States. The company owns and operates two restaurant concepts, P.F. Chang's China Bistro and Pei Wei Asian Diner. As of March 09, 2020, it owned and operated approximately 300 restaurants worldwide, including 25 countries and the United States airport locations. P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. As of July 2, 2012, P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc. was taken private.

Cognitive Logic Limited

Private Placement in 2020
Cognitive Logic Limited offers data analytics services in the United Kingdom. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Reading, United Kingdom.

Route

Series A in 2020
Route elevates the online customer journey by providing a simple way to protect and track all of the user's orders. Route App automatically connects to everything ordered from all retailers while allowing the user to visually track its packages, anytime, anywhere.

Dick's Sporting Goods

Venture Round in 1994
DICK’S Sporting Goods was founded in 1948 when an 18 year-old Dick Stack was working at an Army surplus store in Binghamton, New York. An avid fisherman, Dick was approached by the store owner to come up with a list of products needed to get into the fishing tackle business. After Dick presented his suggestions, the owner told him he was a dumb kid and had no idea what he was doing. Dick was upset and promptly quit. He went to his grandmother’s house where he spent a lot of time as a kid and told her what had happened. Dick’s grandmother asked how much it would cost to build the store himself. Dick said it would cost $300. His grandmother then went to the cookie jar where she kept her life savings and gave him $300 and told him “do it yourself.” Dick used that money and his relentless work-ethic to open a bait-and-tackle shop in Binghamton. By 1958, he expanded his product line to include much of what you’ll find at DICK’S Sporting Goods today. Ed Stack, Dick’s son, is the current CEO and Chairman of DICK’S Sporting Goods. He and his siblings bought the store from their father and are responsible for taking two stores and growing the chain to over 500 stores. Dick’s family continues to offer the finest quality products at competitive prices, backed by the best service anywhere. Like you, they have a real passion for sports. Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear in a specialty store environment. The Company owns and operates Golf Galaxy, LLC, a golf specialty retailer and eCommerce websites and catalog operations for both Dick's Sporting Goods and Golf Galaxy.

Aircam

Seed Round in 2019
Aircam LLC owns and operates the real-time photo-sharing platform for photographers and customers. The company develops the mobile application, which allows anyone to get access to pictures taken by photographers at weddings, parties, and events. Aircam LLC was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

lastminute.com

Seed Round in 2000
Brent Hoberman joined forces with entrepreneurial dynamo 'in-the-making' Martha Lane-Fox to start lastminute.com in April 1998. Anything from theatre tickets to holidays was available to the public. lastminute.com has grown into a worldwide business employing 1981 staff and is one of the most successful travel corporations on the planet. In March 2000, lastminute.com floated on the London Stock Exchange. The funds raised were used to fund an acquisition shopping spree, which included: * France's leading travel company Degriftour Group * Car broker giant Holiday Autos * Travel agents' best-kept secret medhotels.com * Leading travel technology company OTC * lastminute.de In May 2005, lastminute.com was purchased by Travelocity, part of the Sabre family of travel companies. Sabre, now owned by venture capitalist Texas Silverlake Partnership, is a leading travel technology companies that powers the travel industry with its fleet of products including its flights distribution tool.

Landline

Series A in 2021
The Landline Company operates a bus transportation network. It provides passengers to book tickets and schedule buses from Mankato and Duluth to Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport. The Landline Company was formerly known as The Rocket Bus Corp. and changed its name to The Landline Company in October 2019. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Hawthorne, California.

Invoca

Series F in 2022
Invoca is an AI-powered call tracking and conversational analytics company that brings the depth of marketing analytics traditionally limited to digital consumer interactions. The company specializes in the fields of inbound call marketing, call tracking, call intelligence, and pay-per-call advertising.

Territory Foods

Series A in 2018
Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by a proprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating. Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Ynsect

Private Placement in 2019
SAS Ynsect operates as a biotech company. The company designs, builds, and operates insect production and processing facilities for the production of feed for fish and poultry. The company engages in bioconversion of organic resources by insects, and their processing into nutrients for feed applications such as proteins, lipids etc., and non-food applications, which includes polysaccharides and derivatives, organic fertilizers, bioenergy etc. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Evry, France.

HelloTech

Seed Round in 2015
HelloTech is changing the way consumers purchase and get support for new technology. Utilizing a background-checked, vetted on-demand workforce, HelloTech provides in home support and consultation for consumers looking to manage and upgrade the technology within their home.

Tact.ai

Series C in 2018
Tact.ai Technologies, Inc. develops Tact.ai, a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) platform that connects applications to devices for enterprise sales teams. It offers AI Sales Assistance that uses chat and voice to automate administrative work; and Intelligent Workspace that creates deal rooms controlled by the seller to get things done with their deal team, partners, and the customer. The company serves technology, sales, and Fortune 500 companies across the United States, Europe, and India. Tact.ai Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Tactile, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Redwood City, California.

The Cool Down

Seed Round in 2022
The Cool Down is a content+commerce startup that helps Americans feel invested in and educated about the future. The company is led by Dave Finocchio, co-founder and long-time CEO of Bleacher Report, and Anna Robertson, an award-winning executive, producer, and innovator at Disney, ABC, and Yahoo.

SonicEnergy™

Series B in 2017
SonicEnergy, Inc. is a wireless power startup that transmits power to charge electronic devices over-the-air. Its ultrasonic technology comprises a transmitter, which emits a high-frequency sound that is inaudible to users and their pets; and transmits power directly to receivers requesting power, which convert power to usable electrical energy using energy-harvesting technology. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

inVia Robotics

Private Placement in 2018
inVia Robotics provides the next generation of robotics warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce distribution centers and supply chains. As the developer of the world's first "Robotics-as-a-Service" autonomous mobile robot picking and goods-to-person system, inVia is powering the future of warehouse productivity without disrupting the ecosystem of a business's operations.

Ynsect

Series C in 2020
SAS Ynsect operates as a biotech company. The company designs, builds, and operates insect production and processing facilities for the production of feed for fish and poultry. The company engages in bioconversion of organic resources by insects, and their processing into nutrients for feed applications such as proteins, lipids etc., and non-food applications, which includes polysaccharides and derivatives, organic fertilizers, bioenergy etc. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Evry, France.

mitú

Series D in 2018
mitú connect brands, content buyers, and creators to Latino youth in America. It is a home away from home for Latinos in the U.S. They are young, edgy, smart, loud, funny, relevant, proud, and united.They are what it means to be Latino.

ThredUp

Private Placement in 2019
thredUP is the nation's most trusted online marketplace for buying and selling like-new clothing. Fusing fashion resale and e-commerce, customers send consignment quality clothing in a pre-paid Closet Cleanout Bag, earn cash upfront for their clothing, and can shop favorite styles and brands at thredUP.com for up to 90% off retail. Based in San Francisco, thredUP was founded in 2009 by James Reinhart, Oliver Lubin, and Chris Homer. The company is advised by current Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, former eBay COO, Brian Swette and backed by world-class investors.

Bevy

Series C in 2021
Bevy Labs, Inc. provides an enterprise-grade virtual event community platform to build and scale global communities. It offers Bevy, a web-based software that helps enterprises to manage, scale, and track their community events and impact. The company’s Bevy helps companies to run and scale their community event programs; create virtual events; provide organizers with automated emails and a virtual video tool; and integrate with marketing and CRM systems of record. It serves enterprises, universities, and communities. Bevy Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Teforia

Seed Round in 2015
Teforia Company manufactures and sells tea making machines. The company offers Teforia Infuser, which combines the knowledge of a tea master with the technology that knows the time, temperature, and water needed to brew the cup. It also sells herbal, oolong, black, and yellow teas, as well as infusers and accessories online. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

HopSkipDrive

Venture Round in 2020
HopSkipDrive, Inc. provides ridesharing services for children aging five years and above. The company develops HopSkipDrive, a ride service for kids to help users in their busy schedule. The company provides transportation for schools, districts, government agencies, and families. It serves customers in the Los Angeles area. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Grove

Seed Round in 2014
Grove Labs Inc. develops natural indoor gardening products. The company offers products for seed, plant care, aquarium, maintenance, water testing, and apparel markets. It also provides tools for teaching life sciences, sustainability, and nutrition in schools. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Kyriba

Series D in 2016
Kyriba provides cloud-based treasury management solutions. They help to automate inefficient financial and financial management operations such as Excel, and support the transformation of the management.

Reveleer

Venture Round in 2021
Reveleer is a healthcare software and services company that empowers payers in all lines of business to take control over their risk adjustment and quality improvement programs. The Reveleer platform enables payers to independently execute and manage every aspect of provider outreach, retrieval, coding, abstraction and reporting – all under one single platform. Leveraging its technology, proprietary data sets, and subject matter expertise, Reveleer also assists payers with full record retrieval and review services to support financial performance and improved member outcomes.

R-Zero

Series C in 2022
R-Zero Systems, Inc. manufactures, designs, and develops hospital-grade disinfection devices for businesses. Its products include R-Zero Arc, a UV-C surface and air disinfection solution that destroys pathogens for dynamic environments. It offers its solutions for enterprises, shops, restaurants, schools and hotels. R-Zero Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Guardian UV, Inc. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Cloudvirga

Series A in 2016
Cloudvirga is an information technology company that offers a cloud-based intelligent mortgage platform designed to streamline the mortgage process. Its platform digitalizes the mortgage industry by leveraging data and deploying an automated workflow to reduce overall cost, increase transparency, and shorten the time it takes to close a loan for both borrowers and lenders. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Irvine, California.

Ripkord

Seed Round in 2018
Tellie is empowering creators through immersive viewing experiences that combine video content with custom branding and interactive and social elements

Rally

Series A in 2018
Rally is an app that allows members of all income levels to buy and sell equity shares in collectible assets including sports cards & memorabilia, classic cars, graded comic books, vintage watches, wine, first edition literature, and one-of-a-kind investment-grade items from the past and present. The company is driven by a mission to democratize alternative investments like these, providing access, liquidity, and transparency to markets that have traditionally only been available to a select few. Rally Rd. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

Nanit

Series B in 2020
Nanit team is a tight-knit collection of scientists, parents and designers—experts in the first beautiful months of human life. They have developed advanced computer vision and machine learning algorithms to help us measure human behavior. They use this knowledge and technology to create innovative products that are safer and smarter, for parents and babies everywhere. Their team comes from great companies like Applied Materials, Diapers.com, Philips, Time Warner and Tiny Love, where they've focused on building brands and products people love.

Digital Air Strike

Series A in 2008
Digital Air Strike is the leading social media technology, social recruiting, digital engagement and lead response company that helps businesses internationally increase social engagement in digital and social environments while generating measurable ROI. A pioneer in digital response, social marketing and online reputation management, Digital Air Strike deploys industry-specific mobile apps, software and managed service platforms to monitor, improve and manage consumer engagement for thousands of businesses in the United States and Canada including seven of the largest automotive manufacturers. More information is available at www.digitalairstrike.com and www.facebook.com/digitalairstrike.

Creator Now

Seed Round in 2022
Creator Now is the Online educational platform for digital creators.

Fair

Series A in 2018
Fair is a car leasing company that aims to grant access to mobility to everyone by pioneering the car-as-a-service (CaaS) concept. It gives customers the freedom to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the flexibility to walk away at any time. Fair was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Nima

Series A in 2016
Nima Labs, Inc. develops and markets products that enable users with food allergies to eat safely. The company offers a portable gluten sensor which allows people to test and trace amounts of gluten in samples of food. In addition, it develops a mobile and online network to enable people to share their test results with a community of allergy sufferers. The company was formerly known as 6SensorLabs, Inc. and changed its name to Nima Labs, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Seriously

Series A in 2015
Seriously is a developer and manufacturer of mobile games for ios and android platforms. They combine a world-class creative team with a mobile=first experience to develop brands that can make a difference. It builds global entertainment franchises that come to life first as best-in-class mobile games. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Santa Monica, CA. USA.

RSE Markets, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
RSE Collection, LLC designs and develops an application, Rally Rd. that allows members to invest in individual blue-chip collector automobiles. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Modern Animal

Series A in 2021
Modern Animal, Inc. operates a veterinary clinic and provides home clinic services. The company provides an online mobile applications for its customers. It offers wellness, surgery, dentistry, ultrasound, radiology, diagnostics, nutrition, walk-in (no appointment) ,drop off service ,lab testing emergency, laser, and acupuncture services. Additionally, It provides memberships, unlimited exams, 24/7 virtual care, in-app prescription requests, and delivery, and more. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

dot.LA

Private Placement in 2020
dot.LA develops a news aggregating platform. Its platform provides news of events, sponsorships, and proprietary data for startup and tech community. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

NuORDER

Private Placement in 2018
NuORDER empowers B2B eCommerce sites for over 900 vendors & 250,000+ buyers. Dedicated to helping businesses increase their B2B sales since 2011. NuORDER provides your sales team and your buyers one central place to browse products and catalogs, access up-to-the-minute sales and inventory data, and place orders from their computer or our mobile app – 24/7/365. NuORDER is flexible and scalable, with a rich feature suite to support any business – regardless of whether you’re selling jeans, consumer electronics, home goods or beauty products.

Javelin

Venture Round in 2014
Javelin, Inc. develops enterprise and customer management software. The company offers enterprise training software for startups and innovation teams that translates skills into internal process, and allows management to measure progress. It offers various solutions that enable companies to make decisions, improve accountability, and build better products. The company was incorporated in 1998 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri with additional offices in New York, New York.

Epoxy

Seed Round in 2013
Epoxy Inc. operates an online video creation and sharing platform. The company’s platform enables creators to make clips, GIFs, images, and memes from their videos; share YouTube videos natively across social networks; and reply to comments and connect with fans. Its platform is also used by media enterprises and networks. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Venice, California. As of October 17, 2016, Epoxy Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Vemba Corp.

Stem Disintermedia

Series A in 2017
Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians to collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings. It develops a platform intended to provide distribution and payments solution for artists and their teams. The platform aggregates cross-platform earnings, create contracts, and honor splits with collaborators, disburse payments and statements to all stakeholders in a project and visualizes performance data for each platform, enabling businesses to bring clarity to the complicated process of revenue management and ensure everyone involved in the creative process gets paid. Milana Rabkin, Tim Luckow, and Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith formed Stem Disintermedia in Los Angeles, California in 2015.

Finary

Seed Round in 2021
An investing social platform where you can talk about investments with friends and make trades on the market. Y Combinator Winter 2021 Batch.

dot.LA

Seed Round in 2020
dot.LA develops a news aggregating platform. Its platform provides news of events, sponsorships, and proprietary data for startup and tech community. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

MakeSpace Labs, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
MakeSpace Labs, Inc. provides storage services. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York with storage service locations in New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, District of Columbia; and Los Angeles, California.

Sense360

Series A in 2017
Sense360 develops mobile applications that enable developers to create relevant, personalized, and situationally-aware notifications using location, place, activity, context, and other phone sensory data. The company’s products enable applications to unlock this situational awareness. Sense360 is based in Culver City, California.

Tellie

Series A in 2022
Developer of an all-in-one commerce & content platform designed to serve as a bridge between existing Web2 services and the Web3 ecosystem. The company's platform helps the creator turn their personal website into a creative library & digitally-native commerce platform, and expands the accessibility of Web3 to all creators, enabling them to build an interactive website, portfolio, or link-in-bio in minutes for every drop.

Verishop

Series B in 2019
Verishop is a premium lifestyle destination for everyday luxury in fashion, beauty, home and more. Verishop aims to be a go-to lifestyle shopping destination whenever the customer in search of elevated brands and quality-driven products. The company is based in Santa Monica, California and founded in 2018.

Omni Creator Products

Seed Round in 2021
Omni Creator Products empowers every player to fulfill this universal desire by giving players a canvas to create on and a process that matches their natural creative drive.

Deliv

Series A in 2013
Deliv, Inc. provides crowd sourced same-day delivery services for customers’ online orders right from a retailer’s Website directly to the customer’s door. The company allows retailers to offer their customers a same-day delivery option as they shop from their Website, mobile app, or from their physical brick and mortar store. It serves retailers and mall operators in the United States. The company was formerly known as Fetchsters, Inc. Deliv, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Certify

Seed Round in 2022
CertifyOS is an API-first, UI agnostic, end-to-end provider network management platform for credentialing, monitoring, licensing, provider health plan enrollment, and provider sourcing. With integrations into 100’s of primary sources, enabling near real-time verification and credentialing for enrollment, CertifyOS is uniquely positioned to be the one-stop shop for all provider networking needs, including provider sourcing, licensing, credentialing, health plan enrollment, and ongoing monitoring.

Epoxy

Series A in 2014
Epoxy Inc. operates an online video creation and sharing platform. The company’s platform enables creators to make clips, GIFs, images, and memes from their videos; share YouTube videos natively across social networks; and reply to comments and connect with fans. Its platform is also used by media enterprises and networks. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Venice, California. As of October 17, 2016, Epoxy Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Vemba Corp.

VADE

Seed Round in 2022
VADE Group Inc. develops IoT cameras with solar power and LTE connectivity that can be installed in various areas. It offers ParkSight wireless cameras that can be installed on any pole/building; computer vision tool to detect when vehicles are occupying parking spaces; and a database and APIs to store the data with the coordinates and ID of each spot, which can be accessed through API. The company also provides Vade Wayfinding app for citizens and businesses VADE Group Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Adway

Seed Round in 2019
Adway International, Inc. provides out-of-home advertising services. It enables advertisers to launch and track their campaigns on its platform. The company also provides advertisement display services on personal and company vehicles. Adway International, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Beverly Hills, California.

Vreal

Private Placement in 2018
Vreal’s mission is to revolutionize gaming content by making fans part of the action, delivering a fun, immersive experience inside the games and content that audiences want to watch. Exploring new games with your favorite creators is now a social experience without limits, on any screen or VR headset. Find out more at http://vreal.net.

Market

Seed Round in 2021
Pepper Financial Inc. provides financial health advisory services. The company also helps DTC and app-based businesses to get smarter by offering the analytics and insights they need to understand their financial health. Pepper Financial Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Refresh Club, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Refresh Club, Inc., doing business as The Wing, provides work and social space for women. Its space is used to work, get to inbox zero, shower, get a blow-out, store stuff, take a conference call, make a new friend, and stage a small coup. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Qordoba

Private Placement in 2018
Qordoba’s AI helps everyone at a company write with the same style, terminology, and brand voice. With Qordoba’s dynamic content guidelines, organizations can achieve consistency and clarity across all types of content — including communications and marketing, technical documentation, product, customer knowledge bases, HR and legal policies, and more. Companies such as Intuit, Twitter, Braintree, Visa, and Marriott use Qordoba to empower their writers to create better content. We were named a CNBC Upstart 100 company in 2019 and one of Forbes’ Cloud 100 Rising Stars in 2018. Visit qordoba.com to learn more.

Bird

Series C in 2018
Bird designs a vehicle sharing platform that provides affordable transportation solutions to communities across the world. The company's platform coordinates with cities to provide citizens with access to shared personal electric vehicles that can be picked up and dropped off anywhere, enabling users to receive sustainable and environment-friendly local transport.

ChowNow

Series B in 2015
Chownow, Inc. provides an online ordering platform for restaurants. It offers ChowNow, an application that enables users for online ordering; and provides management tools, customer insights, marketing services, and support solutions. Chownow, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Playa Vista, California.

Martie

Seed Round in 2021
Martie diverts perfectly good surplus pantry staples from going to landfills and delivers them directly to customers' doorsteps, making foods more accessible for everyone.

Kyriba

Venture Round in 2008
Kyriba provides cloud-based treasury management solutions. They help to automate inefficient financial and financial management operations such as Excel, and support the transformation of the management.

Outer

Series B in 2021
Outer is a direct-to-consumer outdoor furniture brand that has built furniture for retailers for years. The products are manufactured in Liu's family-owned factory outside of Shanghai. Since its inception in 2017, Outer has increased its revenue 11 times by 2020 and tripled its workforce in the past nine months.

Skurt

Series A in 2017
Skurt is a technology and logistics platform that offers the easiest way to get access to a car, and drive. With just a few taps users can have a car delivered right to their home, hotel or office and drive, anywhere. Customers request a rental on their phone and can have a car delivered to them within 60 minutes of booking. When they’re done, they set up a pick-up time and someone comes to get the car from wherever they are. Skurt is currently operating in Los Angeles, San Diego and Miami on both iOS and Android, and has delivered “tens of thousands of cars.”

Prevision.io

Series A in 2020
Prevision.io provides an automated machine learning platform to generate and deploy highly accurate predictive models on cloud or on premises. You can use the enterprise-grade platform without any prior technical knowledge or infrastructure and build standalone models using only your enterprise data. Whether you are a data scientist or a business analyst, you can use Prevision.io to increase the productivity of your projects, reduce time spent in implementation, and access detailed explanations of models’ decisions on the platform itself. Prevision.io's clients have successfully deployed models for multiple use cases including sales and promotions forecasting, churn prediction, supply chain optimization, predictive maintenance, buildings energy consumption forecasting, prediction of credit recovery.

Happy Returns

Seed Round in 2016
Happy Returns, Inc. provides in-person returns for online shoppers. It develops a network of Return Bars, kiosks, that enables shoppers to return items in-person and get an immediate refund. The company then ships the item back to the e-commerce companies. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

TeleFlip

Series B in 2008
[Teleflip](https://www2.teleflip.com/) offers a patent-pending technology that delivers your e-mail from any e-mail account or service, personal or business, POP, webmail or Exchange, directly to your cell phone regardless of your wireless carrier or mobile handset. Their companion product, flipOut!, allows you to address a regular email to your recipient's mobile phone number at the Teleflip domain (e.g. 2125555555@teleflip.com) and in seconds your message is delivered to their cell phone.

Pragma

Seed Round in 2020
Pragma provides a “backend as a service” solution for multiplayer and social games. Our core feature set includes: accounts, player data, lobbies, matchmaking, social systems, telemetry, and store fulfillment.

Netsize

Series D in 2006
Netsize - a Gemalto company - is the global leader for mobile operator micro-payment solution and messaging services. We connect and contract directly with mobile operators and help our clients to monetize mobile services or provide messaging services. These can be for selling digital goods or for vending and ticketing, as well as for value added services like mobile marketing to manage customer relationships and app store payments. The Netsize payment and messaging network reaches more than 2 billion consumers. We connect more than 1,000 merchants and service providers to over 160 mobile network operators. This unique coverage gives us the ability to innovate and offer our clients customized In-App Payment, P-SMS, as well as Online and Direct Billing solutions in over 50 countries. Netsize employs more than 250 telecom professionals and has local offices in 21 countries. By using our direct connections to our broad base of mobile operators worldwide, our clients can enjoy the benefits of focusing on quick market engagement and results-driven campaigns.

FabFitFun

Series A in 2019
FabFitFun offers subscription services that allow its members to discover brands and products. FabFitFun is a team of self-starters, working together to achieve their mission. It’s a fast-paced environment, but they always take the time to celebrate birthdays, big wins, and cheer each other on. abFitFun was founded in 2010 and is backed by tier-one investors, including New Enterprise Associates, Upfront Ventures, and Simon Venture Group.

REDEF

Seed Round in 2014
The REDEF Group, Inc. offers multimedia content and interest remixes. The company provides daily remix contents of fashion, sports, technology, music, and media and entertainment businesses. It offers its services through website, mobile application, daily newsletters, and social feeds. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Fair

Private Placement in 2018
Fair is a car leasing company that aims to grant access to mobility to everyone by pioneering the car-as-a-service (CaaS) concept. It gives customers the freedom to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the flexibility to walk away at any time. Fair was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

NuORDER

Series C in 2018
NuORDER empowers B2B eCommerce sites for over 900 vendors & 250,000+ buyers. Dedicated to helping businesses increase their B2B sales since 2011. NuORDER provides your sales team and your buyers one central place to browse products and catalogs, access up-to-the-minute sales and inventory data, and place orders from their computer or our mobile app – 24/7/365. NuORDER is flexible and scalable, with a rich feature suite to support any business – regardless of whether you’re selling jeans, consumer electronics, home goods or beauty products.

Skylar

Seed Round in 2018
Skylar designs an online retail platform that offers clean, consciously crafted fragrances that inspire happiness while empowering and supporting women. The company's platform sells hypoallergenic perfumes that are made from natural ingredients with unique smell, enabling consumers to avail a fresh alternative to conventional fragrances.

Zeitview

Series C in 2021
DroneBase is a aerial data analytics company, which provides businesses with a platform to leverage the world’s largest Pilot Network to make better decisions about their most critical assets. Based in Los Angeles, the company is the trusted, go-to software platform for worldwide enterprise clients spanning industries such as renewable energy, insurance, telecommunications, construction, real estate, and media. DroneBase has completed over 100,000 commercial missions flown in over 70 countries and in all 50 states.

MiTu Network

Series B in 2014
MiTú is a Latino lifestyle network focused on health, beauty, food, family, home, and pop culture. It aggregates videos 1,200 partners and attracts an audience that is generating 400 million views a month. MiTú is a division of Latido Networks which is the Hispanic targeted networks division of GoDigital Media Group.

Dick's Sporting Goods

Venture Round in 1993
DICK’S Sporting Goods was founded in 1948 when an 18 year-old Dick Stack was working at an Army surplus store in Binghamton, New York. An avid fisherman, Dick was approached by the store owner to come up with a list of products needed to get into the fishing tackle business. After Dick presented his suggestions, the owner told him he was a dumb kid and had no idea what he was doing. Dick was upset and promptly quit. He went to his grandmother’s house where he spent a lot of time as a kid and told her what had happened. Dick’s grandmother asked how much it would cost to build the store himself. Dick said it would cost $300. His grandmother then went to the cookie jar where she kept her life savings and gave him $300 and told him “do it yourself.” Dick used that money and his relentless work-ethic to open a bait-and-tackle shop in Binghamton. By 1958, he expanded his product line to include much of what you’ll find at DICK’S Sporting Goods today. Ed Stack, Dick’s son, is the current CEO and Chairman of DICK’S Sporting Goods. He and his siblings bought the store from their father and are responsible for taking two stores and growing the chain to over 500 stores. Dick’s family continues to offer the finest quality products at competitive prices, backed by the best service anywhere. Like you, they have a real passion for sports. Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear in a specialty store environment. The Company owns and operates Golf Galaxy, LLC, a golf specialty retailer and eCommerce websites and catalog operations for both Dick's Sporting Goods and Golf Galaxy.

GumGum

Series B in 2011
GumGum is a global technology and media company specializing in contextual intelligence. For over a decade, we have applied our proven machine learning expertise to extract value from digital content for the advertising and sports industries. For advertisers, GumGum offers a full suite of pioneering future-proof solutions. The company’s contextual advertising engine, Verity™, comprehends the meaning of text, images and video online, allowing marketers to safely and precisely place ads where people are most engaged. Combining that contextual targeting and brand safety intelligence with proprietary high-impact ad formats, GumGum’s advertising solutions deliver industry leading efficiency, accuracy and performance. GumGum was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Netsize

Venture Round in 2004
Netsize - a Gemalto company - is the global leader for mobile operator micro-payment solution and messaging services. We connect and contract directly with mobile operators and help our clients to monetize mobile services or provide messaging services. These can be for selling digital goods or for vending and ticketing, as well as for value added services like mobile marketing to manage customer relationships and app store payments. The Netsize payment and messaging network reaches more than 2 billion consumers. We connect more than 1,000 merchants and service providers to over 160 mobile network operators. This unique coverage gives us the ability to innovate and offer our clients customized In-App Payment, P-SMS, as well as Online and Direct Billing solutions in over 50 countries. Netsize employs more than 250 telecom professionals and has local offices in 21 countries. By using our direct connections to our broad base of mobile operators worldwide, our clients can enjoy the benefits of focusing on quick market engagement and results-driven campaigns.

Invoca

Series D in 2016
Invoca is an AI-powered call tracking and conversational analytics company that brings the depth of marketing analytics traditionally limited to digital consumer interactions. The company specializes in the fields of inbound call marketing, call tracking, call intelligence, and pay-per-call advertising.

Maker Studios

Series C in 2012
Maker Studios, Inc. operates as a media company that enables artists to create, distribute, and monetize their original content on YouTube. It also provides development, production, promotion, distribution, sales, marketing, and merchandise services to partners; and develops and distributes an array of consumer facing verticals. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Maker Studios, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

HopSkipDrive

Series A in 2017
HopSkipDrive, Inc. provides ridesharing services for children aging five years and above. The company develops HopSkipDrive, a ride service for kids to help users in their busy schedule. The company provides transportation for schools, districts, government agencies, and families. It serves customers in the Los Angeles area. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Cordial Experiences, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Cordial Experiences, Inc. offers Cordial, an intelligent messaging platform for modern marketers. Its Cordial enables businesses to consolidate data from the Web, mobile application, point of sale, offline channels, and devices to provide a singular view of customer intent in real-time; reach their consumers through context-aware triggered messaging based on subscriber behavior in the moment–cart abandonment, price drop alerts, low inventory, browse activity, and more; implement campaigns in hours, as well as centralize, segment, and analyze the customer behavioral data; and optimize and report in real-time to build their audience based on any customer attribute or value. The company focuses on serving forward-looking CMOs and CTOs. Cordial Experiences, Inc. is based in San Diego, California.

Deliv

Private Placement in 2018
Deliv, Inc. provides crowd sourced same-day delivery services for customers’ online orders right from a retailer’s Website directly to the customer’s door. The company allows retailers to offer their customers a same-day delivery option as they shop from their Website, mobile app, or from their physical brick and mortar store. It serves retailers and mall operators in the United States. The company was formerly known as Fetchsters, Inc. Deliv, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Happy Returns

Series B in 2017
Happy Returns, Inc. provides in-person returns for online shoppers. It develops a network of Return Bars, kiosks, that enables shoppers to return items in-person and get an immediate refund. The company then ships the item back to the e-commerce companies. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

HealthDataInsights

Series A in 2005
HealthDataInsights, Inc., a technology-enabled healthcare services company, provides fraud, abuse, and overpayment identification and recoupment solutions for government payors, health plans, and employers. It specializes in the identification and recoupment of claim overpayments to providers, such as hospitals, physicians, DMEs, and other specialty providers. The company offers MyHealthCompass, a Web-based resource that provides quality and financial information on providers to healthcare consumers; Financial Compass Plus, a database and software solution, which supplies financial, operational, and productivity measures; and Clinical Compass Plus, a desktop solution that allows healthcare decision-makers to access, analyze, and present clinical information to identify opportunities, reduce costs, and improve quality. It also operates as a recovery audit contractor. HealthDataInsights, Inc. was formerly known as HealthMarketInsights, Inc. The company is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada with additional operations in Newport Beach, California; and Orlando, Florida.

Vidme

Seed Round in 2015
Vidme is a Los Angeles-based online video sharing platform.

RSE Markets, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
RSE Collection, LLC designs and develops an application, Rally Rd. that allows members to invest in individual blue-chip collector automobiles. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

SOLVE

Venture Round in 2019
Solve HQ, Inc., an interactive content company, produces Solve, a murder-mystery show that details a crime inspired by real events and then asks viewers to sort through potential suspects. Its Solve show is telecasted as weekly episodes on Snapchat and Instagram, as well as available on Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Spotify, and others. Solve HQ, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Venice, California.

Bevy

Private Placement in 2020
Bevy Labs, Inc. provides an enterprise-grade virtual event community platform to build and scale global communities. It offers Bevy, a web-based software that helps enterprises to manage, scale, and track their community events and impact. The company’s Bevy helps companies to run and scale their community event programs; create virtual events; provide organizers with automated emails and a virtual video tool; and integrate with marketing and CRM systems of record. It serves enterprises, universities, and communities. Bevy Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Territory Foods

Series A in 2017
Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by a proprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating. Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Projector

Series B in 2020
Projector is a platform that helps developers and product teams expand their product experiences outside the confines of their app. The company builds collaborative creative tools for visual communications like videos, GIFs, social media, and presentations. Projector was founded in 2015 by Aaron Gotwalt and Timothy Young and is based in San Francisco, California.

Shots Studios

Series A in 2015
Created by [John Shahidi](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/john-shahidi) and [Sam Shahidi](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/sam-shahidi), Shots Studios is backed by Justin Bieber, Floyd Mayweather, WI Harper, and DCM Ventures. Shots Studios is a premier digital media company for a new world of creators. Shots collaborates with top-tier talents like Lele Pons and Rudy Mancuso to produce premium comedy and music videos for Millennials and Gen Z. Shots’ content gets watched over 1.2 billion minutes per month by a youthful audience between 13-34.

Invoca

Series E in 2019
Invoca is an AI-powered call tracking and conversational analytics company that brings the depth of marketing analytics traditionally limited to digital consumer interactions. The company specializes in the fields of inbound call marketing, call tracking, call intelligence, and pay-per-call advertising.

GumGum

Private Placement in 2020
GumGum is a global technology and media company specializing in contextual intelligence. For over a decade, we have applied our proven machine learning expertise to extract value from digital content for the advertising and sports industries. For advertisers, GumGum offers a full suite of pioneering future-proof solutions. The company’s contextual advertising engine, Verity™, comprehends the meaning of text, images and video online, allowing marketers to safely and precisely place ads where people are most engaged. Combining that contextual targeting and brand safety intelligence with proprietary high-impact ad formats, GumGum’s advertising solutions deliver industry leading efficiency, accuracy and performance. GumGum was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.