MHS Capital

MHS Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2006, specializing in early-stage investments across the technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors in the United States and Europe. The firm is supported by a notable group of technology executives and entrepreneurs, including senior leaders from major Internet portals. MHS Capital focuses on investing in bootstrapped software and Internet companies, as well as sponsoring serial entrepreneurs for small technology buyouts. The firm aims to leverage its extensive network and expertise to identify and nurture promising ventures in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.

Vijay Nagappan

Partner

Mark Sugarman

Founder and Managing Partner

62 past transactions

Zenput

Series C in 2021
Zenput is how top operators elevate team execution in every store. Restaurant, retail, and other multi-unit operators such as Chipotle, P.F. Chang’s, Domino's, and 7-Eleven use the platform to automate how operating procedures and key initiatives are rolled-out and enforced. Supporting 40,000 locations in over 35 countries, Zenput makes every field and store employee more productive and better equipped to do their jobs well.

Qualio

Series B in 2021
Qualio, Inc. is a cloud-based quality management software provider focused on the life sciences sector. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Dublin, the company offers a comprehensive platform that facilitates premarket activities, regulatory compliance, and various quality management processes. Its software assists organizations with document control, training, risk management, complaint handling, and corrective actions, among other functions. Qualio's solutions are designed to support medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and regulated contract service providers, enabling them to enhance their quality processes and accelerate product development. By integrating quality teams, tools, and data, Qualio aims to help its clients bring life-saving products to market more efficiently.

Pienza

Seed Round in 2020
Pienza is ideate, fund, and build SaaS unicorns with high conviction and high time & capital concentration.

Qualio

Series A in 2020
Qualio, Inc. is a cloud-based quality management software provider focused on the life sciences sector. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Dublin, the company offers a comprehensive platform that facilitates premarket activities, regulatory compliance, and various quality management processes. Its software assists organizations with document control, training, risk management, complaint handling, and corrective actions, among other functions. Qualio's solutions are designed to support medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and regulated contract service providers, enabling them to enhance their quality processes and accelerate product development. By integrating quality teams, tools, and data, Qualio aims to help its clients bring life-saving products to market more efficiently.

Zenput

Series B in 2019
Zenput is how top operators elevate team execution in every store. Restaurant, retail, and other multi-unit operators such as Chipotle, P.F. Chang’s, Domino's, and 7-Eleven use the platform to automate how operating procedures and key initiatives are rolled-out and enforced. Supporting 40,000 locations in over 35 countries, Zenput makes every field and store employee more productive and better equipped to do their jobs well.

Grove Collaborative

Series D in 2019
Grove Collaborative, Inc. is an online retailer based in San Francisco, California, specializing in natural home and personal care products. Founded in 2012, the company provides a wide range of items, including household cleaners, personal care products, and baby and pet supplies. Its product offerings encompass laundry detergents, dish soaps, deodorants, shampoos, hand sanitizers, and various other essential items designed to enhance everyday living. Grove Collaborative aims to simplify the shopping experience for consumers seeking eco-friendly options for their homes and families. Originally established as ePantry LLC, the company rebranded to its current name in April 2016.

Qualio

Venture Round in 2019
Qualio, Inc. is a cloud-based quality management software provider focused on the life sciences sector. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Dublin, the company offers a comprehensive platform that facilitates premarket activities, regulatory compliance, and various quality management processes. Its software assists organizations with document control, training, risk management, complaint handling, and corrective actions, among other functions. Qualio's solutions are designed to support medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and regulated contract service providers, enabling them to enhance their quality processes and accelerate product development. By integrating quality teams, tools, and data, Qualio aims to help its clients bring life-saving products to market more efficiently.

Qualio

Seed Round in 2019
Qualio, Inc. is a cloud-based quality management software provider focused on the life sciences sector. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Dublin, the company offers a comprehensive platform that facilitates premarket activities, regulatory compliance, and various quality management processes. Its software assists organizations with document control, training, risk management, complaint handling, and corrective actions, among other functions. Qualio's solutions are designed to support medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and regulated contract service providers, enabling them to enhance their quality processes and accelerate product development. By integrating quality teams, tools, and data, Qualio aims to help its clients bring life-saving products to market more efficiently.

Zippia

Series A in 2019
Zippia, Inc. operates a Website that provides career information and tools for professionals across various industries. It offers Career Map, a visual map covering workers’ career decisions, including which career paths pay the best, the skills it takes to get hired and promoted, how long people typically hold each job, companies that hire the most, and where in the country companies hire. The company’s Website also provides best places for jobs, tips to get the jobs, rankings, videos, video games, jobs, and guides. Zippia, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Plotly

Series B in 2018
Plotly, Inc. is a data science and AI company based in Montreal, Canada, that offers an online platform for data analysis and visualization. The company provides tools that enable scientists, students, engineers, and analysts to analyze, simulate, graph, share, and edit various data formats, including Excel spreadsheets, CSV, and Matlab files. Plotly simplifies the creation, deployment, and sharing of interactive web applications and visualizations across different programming languages, making data science accessible beyond traditional laboratory settings.

Kindly Care

Series A in 2018
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.

Outreach

Series D in 2018
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform designed to enhance revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. The platform employs machine learning to assist sales representatives in making informed decisions, thereby improving efficiency and effectiveness in customer-facing roles. Outreach provides a range of solutions that encompass account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention, expansion, task management, and activity tracking. Its features include Outreach Insights, which utilizes buyer sentiment analysis to enable sales teams to adjust their strategies based on real-time emotive signals from potential clients. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, Outreach serves a diverse clientele, including notable companies such as Zoom, Okta, Cloudera, and Microsoft, helping them achieve predictable and measurable growth.

Outreach

Series D in 2018
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform designed to enhance revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. The platform employs machine learning to assist sales representatives in making informed decisions, thereby improving efficiency and effectiveness in customer-facing roles. Outreach provides a range of solutions that encompass account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention, expansion, task management, and activity tracking. Its features include Outreach Insights, which utilizes buyer sentiment analysis to enable sales teams to adjust their strategies based on real-time emotive signals from potential clients. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, Outreach serves a diverse clientele, including notable companies such as Zoom, Okta, Cloudera, and Microsoft, helping them achieve predictable and measurable growth.

Grove Collaborative

Series C in 2018
Grove Collaborative, Inc. is an online retailer based in San Francisco, California, specializing in natural home and personal care products. Founded in 2012, the company provides a wide range of items, including household cleaners, personal care products, and baby and pet supplies. Its product offerings encompass laundry detergents, dish soaps, deodorants, shampoos, hand sanitizers, and various other essential items designed to enhance everyday living. Grove Collaborative aims to simplify the shopping experience for consumers seeking eco-friendly options for their homes and families. Originally established as ePantry LLC, the company rebranded to its current name in April 2016.

Outreach

Series C in 2017
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform designed to enhance revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. The platform employs machine learning to assist sales representatives in making informed decisions, thereby improving efficiency and effectiveness in customer-facing roles. Outreach provides a range of solutions that encompass account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention, expansion, task management, and activity tracking. Its features include Outreach Insights, which utilizes buyer sentiment analysis to enable sales teams to adjust their strategies based on real-time emotive signals from potential clients. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, Outreach serves a diverse clientele, including notable companies such as Zoom, Okta, Cloudera, and Microsoft, helping them achieve predictable and measurable growth.

Zippia

Seed Round in 2017
Zippia, Inc. operates a Website that provides career information and tools for professionals across various industries. It offers Career Map, a visual map covering workers’ career decisions, including which career paths pay the best, the skills it takes to get hired and promoted, how long people typically hold each job, companies that hire the most, and where in the country companies hire. The company’s Website also provides best places for jobs, tips to get the jobs, rankings, videos, video games, jobs, and guides. Zippia, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Garmentory

Venture Round in 2016
Garmentory is a managed marketplace for emerging and contemporary designers (Nordstrom price segment). Contemporary boutiques and designers sell less than 1% of their apparel online. Their customers buy 20%+ of their apparel online. Garmentory's marketplace allows customers to find brilliant, limited run items, typically only available in boutiques. Using Garmentory, boutiques can open their doors to the world without having to learn sophisticated and expensive digital marketing or build the technical store infrastructure to compete with major department stores.

Zenput

Series A in 2016
Zenput is how top operators elevate team execution in every store. Restaurant, retail, and other multi-unit operators such as Chipotle, P.F. Chang’s, Domino's, and 7-Eleven use the platform to automate how operating procedures and key initiatives are rolled-out and enforced. Supporting 40,000 locations in over 35 countries, Zenput makes every field and store employee more productive and better equipped to do their jobs well.

Kindly Care

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.

Finova Financial

Venture Round in 2016
Finova Financial LLC develops and operates digital financial services technology platform, provides consumer loan on cars. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

ShareGrid

Seed Round in 2016
ShareGrid is the largest marketplace for creatives. Filmmakers, photographers, and companies can instantly source all their gear needs from local vendors. Members can rent, buy, or sell gear.

Grove Collaborative

Series A in 2016
Grove Collaborative, Inc. is an online retailer based in San Francisco, California, specializing in natural home and personal care products. Founded in 2012, the company provides a wide range of items, including household cleaners, personal care products, and baby and pet supplies. Its product offerings encompass laundry detergents, dish soaps, deodorants, shampoos, hand sanitizers, and various other essential items designed to enhance everyday living. Grove Collaborative aims to simplify the shopping experience for consumers seeking eco-friendly options for their homes and families. Originally established as ePantry LLC, the company rebranded to its current name in April 2016.

Outreach

Series B in 2016
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform designed to enhance revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. The platform employs machine learning to assist sales representatives in making informed decisions, thereby improving efficiency and effectiveness in customer-facing roles. Outreach provides a range of solutions that encompass account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention, expansion, task management, and activity tracking. Its features include Outreach Insights, which utilizes buyer sentiment analysis to enable sales teams to adjust their strategies based on real-time emotive signals from potential clients. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, Outreach serves a diverse clientele, including notable companies such as Zoom, Okta, Cloudera, and Microsoft, helping them achieve predictable and measurable growth.

Handshake

Series B in 2016
Handshake Corp. is a B2B eCommerce platform that facilitates online and in-person trade for manufacturers and distributors across various industries, including music, gifts, toys, fashion, eyewear, healthcare, and outdoor sectors. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, Handshake provides an online sales order application that supports mobile order writing, web order management, and back office integration. The platform enhances the buying and selling processes by allowing sales representatives and customers to place orders easily from any device, at any time. Additionally, it offers personalized experiences by incorporating updated account information, customer-specific pricing, order history, and tailored product catalogs, thereby strengthening relationships between suppliers and their clients. As of May 2019, Handshake operates as a subsidiary of Shopify Inc.

Finova Financial

Seed Round in 2016
Finova Financial LLC develops and operates digital financial services technology platform, provides consumer loan on cars. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Outreach

Series A in 2015
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform designed to enhance revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. The platform employs machine learning to assist sales representatives in making informed decisions, thereby improving efficiency and effectiveness in customer-facing roles. Outreach provides a range of solutions that encompass account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention, expansion, task management, and activity tracking. Its features include Outreach Insights, which utilizes buyer sentiment analysis to enable sales teams to adjust their strategies based on real-time emotive signals from potential clients. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, Outreach serves a diverse clientele, including notable companies such as Zoom, Okta, Cloudera, and Microsoft, helping them achieve predictable and measurable growth.

Pioneer Square Labs

Series A in 2015
Pioneer Square Labs is a venture capital firm and startup studio based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2015. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, including pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, primarily targeting technology-oriented companies in the Pacific Northwest. Pioneer Square Labs collaborates with exceptional entrepreneurs to develop and launch innovative technology companies, providing them with the necessary resources, expertise, and capital to succeed. By fostering a supportive environment, the firm aims to transform promising ideas into fully-funded businesses with strong customer adoption.

Guidebook

Series A in 2015
Guidebook Inc. provides a mobile application platform that allows event organizers to share materials with event attendees on their mobile devices. It provides attendees a schedule of events with personalized reminders, interactive maps of the venues, and searchable lists of speakers, exhibitors, and sponsors. The company’s platform enables users to contribute for event buzz, create personalized to-do lists, rate the sessions they attend, and give feedback for the event organizer. It offers services for various events ranging from conferences and school orientations to conventions and trade shows. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Plotly

Series A in 2015
Plotly, Inc. is a data science and AI company based in Montreal, Canada, that offers an online platform for data analysis and visualization. The company provides tools that enable scientists, students, engineers, and analysts to analyze, simulate, graph, share, and edit various data formats, including Excel spreadsheets, CSV, and Matlab files. Plotly simplifies the creation, deployment, and sharing of interactive web applications and visualizations across different programming languages, making data science accessible beyond traditional laboratory settings.

Humanity

Series B in 2015
Humanity.com, Inc. is a computer software company that specializes in cloud-based employee scheduling solutions. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, it offers a SaaS platform that simplifies employee management and creates dynamic schedules tailored to various factors, including location, department, and skill set. Humanity's platform provides organizations with valuable insights and actionable data to optimize staffing, manage time-off requests, and track employee availability. The software caters to a diverse range of industries, including retail, hospitality, healthcare, and education, serving professionals in scheduling, operations, human resources, and executive roles. The company's solutions enhance employee retention and workforce management while supporting compliance and attendance tracking. Humanity operates as a subsidiary of TimeClock Plus, LLC.

Converus

Venture Round in 2014
Converus, Inc. develops advanced lie detection software that identifies deception through the analysis of eye behavior. Its flagship product, EyeDetect, measures bio-cognitive responses such as pupil diameter, eye movement, and blinks using a precision optical scanner, providing a non-invasive method for assessing truthfulness. This technology serves various sectors, including law enforcement, government, and corporate environments, offering solutions for job applicant screening, employee assessments, and integrity testing. In addition to EyeDetect, Converus has introduced IdentityDetect, a web-based tool for quick identity verification, and IntegrityDetect, an integrity assessment designed to replace traditional testing methods. Established in 2013 and based in Lehi, Utah, Converus has expanded its presence internationally with offices in Mexico and Colombia.

Humanity

Series A in 2014
Humanity.com, Inc. is a computer software company that specializes in cloud-based employee scheduling solutions. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, it offers a SaaS platform that simplifies employee management and creates dynamic schedules tailored to various factors, including location, department, and skill set. Humanity's platform provides organizations with valuable insights and actionable data to optimize staffing, manage time-off requests, and track employee availability. The software caters to a diverse range of industries, including retail, hospitality, healthcare, and education, serving professionals in scheduling, operations, human resources, and executive roles. The company's solutions enhance employee retention and workforce management while supporting compliance and attendance tracking. Humanity operates as a subsidiary of TimeClock Plus, LLC.

Bizible

Series B in 2014
Bizible, Inc. is a provider of marketing attribution and planning software designed specifically for business-to-business companies. Founded in 2011 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company offers a software-as-a-service platform that enables organizations to connect their marketing efforts directly to revenue outcomes. Bizible's technology tracks offline revenue to online marketing sources, providing a comprehensive view of marketing return on investment and customer lifetime value. The platform integrates data from various sales and marketing channels, including CRM systems, websites, and ad networks, to deliver insights on revenue-generating activities such as demand generation and account-based marketing. With the ability to perform predictive analytics and scenario planning, Bizible supports over 300 clients across multiple industries, including higher education, healthcare, and technology, in optimizing their marketing strategies for growth. As of April 2018, Bizible operates as a subsidiary of Marketo, Inc.

Numerator

Series B in 2014
Numerator is a market intelligence firm that brings together omnichannel marketing, merchandising and sales data to make pursuing new possibilities simple for brand, retail and agency clients. Owned by Vista Equity Partners, Numerator is uniquely able to link what people buy to the reasons and influences behind their purchases, combining the power of the InfoScout OmniPanel, which to-date has captured over 500 million brick-and-mortar and ecommerce purchase receipts, and the advertising, promotion, ecommerce pricing, and digital shelf messaging that influence the path to purchase. Numerator is a primary source of real-time, path and purchase data for industry leaders such as Nike, Unilever, Samsung, Procter & Gamble, and MillerCoors.

Udemy

Series C in 2014
Udemy, Inc. is an online learning platform that provides a diverse array of courses aimed at students, businesses, and governments worldwide. Established in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Udemy offers courses in various fields, including development, business, finance, IT, personal development, design, marketing, and health. The platform connects students with instructors, allowing for self-paced, on-demand learning tailored to individual goals, whether for professional advancement or personal interest. For corporate clients, Udemy for Business provides subscription access to over 7,000 relevant courses in multiple languages, along with robust learning analytics and a centralized platform for content management. Additionally, Udemy offers a customizable learning solution for government entities to enhance workforce skills across various sectors. The company has offices in several locations, including Ankara, Dublin, São Paulo, Denver, and Gurgaon.

Simply Measured

Series C in 2014
Simply Measured is a social analytics platform that assists marketers in enhancing their work through insightful data analysis. Trusted by over 100,000 marketers, including 50 percent of the Interbrand 100 companies, it enables users to uncover new opportunities, optimize social campaigns, and effectively report on their performance, demonstrating the value of social media efforts. The platform is unique in being formally certified by Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, providing marketers with essential insights from these leading social networks. With integrations that extend to more than a dozen other platforms, Simply Measured offers a comprehensive analytics solution tailored for the marketing sector. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company has gained recognition as one of the fastest-growing companies, employing over 130 individuals.

Zenput

Seed Round in 2014
Zenput is how top operators elevate team execution in every store. Restaurant, retail, and other multi-unit operators such as Chipotle, P.F. Chang’s, Domino's, and 7-Eleven use the platform to automate how operating procedures and key initiatives are rolled-out and enforced. Supporting 40,000 locations in over 35 countries, Zenput makes every field and store employee more productive and better equipped to do their jobs well.

Indiegogo

Series B in 2014
IndieGoGo is a global crowdfunding platform that democratizes the way people raise funds for any project such as creative, entrepreneurial, or cause-related. The platform enables individuals and startups to generate pre-sales and collect feedback from early adopters before they manufacture their products. Since its inception in 2008, Indiegogo has been offering related advice to individuals and startups that seek it and advising corporations on how to staff a team to create and manage a campaign effectively.

Sprig

Seed Round in 2013
Sprig is an online app that provides healthy organic meals delivered in 15 minutes. It is a mobile application that enables users to find and order healthy meals and have them delivered in a minimal time frame. All the ingredients used in these meals are locally-sourced, sustainable, and seasonal. Sprig was launched by Morgan Springer, Neeraj Berry, Matt Kent, and Gagan Biyani in April 2013 and is based in San Francisco, United States.

Combatant Gentlemen

Seed Round in 2013
Combatant Gentlemen, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in Irvine, California, operates an e-commerce platform specializing in corporate menswear. Known for being one of the first design-to-delivery menswear brands, it offers a range of premium yet affordable products, including suits, shirts, outerwear, denim, accessories, and footwear. The company distinguishes itself by managing the entire production process, from in-house design to owning factories and even cultivating its own raw materials. This direct control over the product lifecycle allows Combatant Gentlemen to eliminate traditional markups, providing high-quality clothing at competitive prices. The brand has received recognition as one of “America’s Most Promising Companies” by Forbes and has garnered significant investment from notable figures in the industry, further establishing its reputation in the market.

Simply Measured

Series B in 2013
Simply Measured is a social analytics platform that assists marketers in enhancing their work through insightful data analysis. Trusted by over 100,000 marketers, including 50 percent of the Interbrand 100 companies, it enables users to uncover new opportunities, optimize social campaigns, and effectively report on their performance, demonstrating the value of social media efforts. The platform is unique in being formally certified by Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, providing marketers with essential insights from these leading social networks. With integrations that extend to more than a dozen other platforms, Simply Measured offers a comprehensive analytics solution tailored for the marketing sector. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company has gained recognition as one of the fastest-growing companies, employing over 130 individuals.

Applifier

Series B in 2012
Applifier is a cross-promotion network focused on social games and applications. As of August 2010, it reached over 55 million monthly active users and collaborated with more than 100 social applications on Facebook. By offering a diverse portfolio of applications for cross-promotion, Applifier enables users of one social application to discover other high-quality applications. This approach allows the originating applications to acquire new, viral users without incurring additional costs. Applifier's model supports the growth of social applications by facilitating user engagement and interaction across its network.

Udemy

Series B in 2012
Udemy, Inc. is an online learning platform that provides a diverse array of courses aimed at students, businesses, and governments worldwide. Established in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Udemy offers courses in various fields, including development, business, finance, IT, personal development, design, marketing, and health. The platform connects students with instructors, allowing for self-paced, on-demand learning tailored to individual goals, whether for professional advancement or personal interest. For corporate clients, Udemy for Business provides subscription access to over 7,000 relevant courses in multiple languages, along with robust learning analytics and a centralized platform for content management. Additionally, Udemy offers a customizable learning solution for government entities to enhance workforce skills across various sectors. The company has offices in several locations, including Ankara, Dublin, São Paulo, Denver, and Gurgaon.

Bizible

Series A in 2012
Bizible, Inc. is a provider of marketing attribution and planning software designed specifically for business-to-business companies. Founded in 2011 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company offers a software-as-a-service platform that enables organizations to connect their marketing efforts directly to revenue outcomes. Bizible's technology tracks offline revenue to online marketing sources, providing a comprehensive view of marketing return on investment and customer lifetime value. The platform integrates data from various sales and marketing channels, including CRM systems, websites, and ad networks, to deliver insights on revenue-generating activities such as demand generation and account-based marketing. With the ability to perform predictive analytics and scenario planning, Bizible supports over 300 clients across multiple industries, including higher education, healthcare, and technology, in optimizing their marketing strategies for growth. As of April 2018, Bizible operates as a subsidiary of Marketo, Inc.

Handshake

Seed Round in 2012
Handshake Corp. is a B2B eCommerce platform that facilitates online and in-person trade for manufacturers and distributors across various industries, including music, gifts, toys, fashion, eyewear, healthcare, and outdoor sectors. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, Handshake provides an online sales order application that supports mobile order writing, web order management, and back office integration. The platform enhances the buying and selling processes by allowing sales representatives and customers to place orders easily from any device, at any time. Additionally, it offers personalized experiences by incorporating updated account information, customer-specific pricing, order history, and tailored product catalogs, thereby strengthening relationships between suppliers and their clients. As of May 2019, Handshake operates as a subsidiary of Shopify Inc.

Mind Lab

Series C in 2012
Mind Lab creates strategy games to develop the thinking abilities and life skills of K-12 students. It aims to teach children through its three pillars: thinking games, metacognitive methods, and teacher mediators. The company’s Methodology is an educational tool that supports the development of skills and helps young people deal with cognitive, emotional, social, and ethical challenges that transcend the classroom environment. Mind Lab was co-founded by Tzvika Feldfogel, Valmir J Pereira, and Ehud Shachar in 1994 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Thumbtack

Series A in 2012
Thumbtack is an online marketplace that connects millions of people with local professionals for their projects. It operates platform where people can hire talents and professionals like instructors, painters, photographers, and many more. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thumbtack has raised more than $275 million from Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Investment Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Google Capital.

Bridge International Academies

Venture Round in 2012
Bridge International Academies operates primary schools focused on providing education to underprivileged children. Founded in 2007 and based in Nairobi, Kenya, the organization offers services that align with national curricula and emphasizes comprehensive teacher training and development programs. Utilizing advanced wireless technology, Bridge International Academies aims to deliver quality education at no cost to students, fostering opportunities for a brighter future for those in underserved communities.

HowAboutwe

Series B in 2011
Launched in April 2010 and based in DUMBO, New York, HowAboutWe.com helps people fall in love and stay in love. The company is comprised of four core products: HowAboutWe Dating, HowAboutWe for Couples, HowAboutWe Media and You&Me.

Udemy

Series A in 2011
Udemy, Inc. is an online learning platform that provides a diverse array of courses aimed at students, businesses, and governments worldwide. Established in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Udemy offers courses in various fields, including development, business, finance, IT, personal development, design, marketing, and health. The platform connects students with instructors, allowing for self-paced, on-demand learning tailored to individual goals, whether for professional advancement or personal interest. For corporate clients, Udemy for Business provides subscription access to over 7,000 relevant courses in multiple languages, along with robust learning analytics and a centralized platform for content management. Additionally, Udemy offers a customizable learning solution for government entities to enhance workforce skills across various sectors. The company has offices in several locations, including Ankara, Dublin, São Paulo, Denver, and Gurgaon.

Moat

Series A in 2011
Moat is a free search engine for display ads. Moat also offers heatmap analytics and resources for creative. Online ads tend to be transient: visible one second and gone the next. Whether you want to see the ads from a particular brand, discover new advertisers, or get inspiration from innovative creative campaigns, the need for a centralized ad search is evident. Enter: Moat. Moat Ad Search is a search engine that focuses entirely on ads instead of other kinds of online content. Similar to traditional search engines, its results are compiled using a web crawler that is specifically tuned to look for ads on the web and index them for later retrieval. Moat also accepts submissions from advertisers and agencies that wish to have their ads included.

Applifier

Seed Round in 2011
Applifier is a cross-promotion network focused on social games and applications. As of August 2010, it reached over 55 million monthly active users and collaborated with more than 100 social applications on Facebook. By offering a diverse portfolio of applications for cross-promotion, Applifier enables users of one social application to discover other high-quality applications. This approach allows the originating applications to acquire new, viral users without incurring additional costs. Applifier's model supports the growth of social applications by facilitating user engagement and interaction across its network.

HowAboutwe

Series A in 2010
Launched in April 2010 and based in DUMBO, New York, HowAboutWe.com helps people fall in love and stay in love. The company is comprised of four core products: HowAboutWe Dating, HowAboutWe for Couples, HowAboutWe Media and You&Me.

Udemy

Seed Round in 2010
Udemy, Inc. is an online learning platform that provides a diverse array of courses aimed at students, businesses, and governments worldwide. Established in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Udemy offers courses in various fields, including development, business, finance, IT, personal development, design, marketing, and health. The platform connects students with instructors, allowing for self-paced, on-demand learning tailored to individual goals, whether for professional advancement or personal interest. For corporate clients, Udemy for Business provides subscription access to over 7,000 relevant courses in multiple languages, along with robust learning analytics and a centralized platform for content management. Additionally, Udemy offers a customizable learning solution for government entities to enhance workforce skills across various sectors. The company has offices in several locations, including Ankara, Dublin, São Paulo, Denver, and Gurgaon.

Simply Measured

Seed Round in 2010
Simply Measured is a social analytics platform that assists marketers in enhancing their work through insightful data analysis. Trusted by over 100,000 marketers, including 50 percent of the Interbrand 100 companies, it enables users to uncover new opportunities, optimize social campaigns, and effectively report on their performance, demonstrating the value of social media efforts. The platform is unique in being formally certified by Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, providing marketers with essential insights from these leading social networks. With integrations that extend to more than a dozen other platforms, Simply Measured offers a comprehensive analytics solution tailored for the marketing sector. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company has gained recognition as one of the fastest-growing companies, employing over 130 individuals.

Pulpo Media

Seed Round in 2009
Pulpo Media is a leading Hispanic media and technology company that offers advertisers online media as well as a proprietary technology platform, to efficiently and individually engage Hispanics across the web. Pulpo is ranked by comScore Media Metrix as the No. 1 Spanish Primary and No. 2 Bilingual Hispanic online media provider in the U.S., and rated by Quantcast as the No.1 online media provider in Mexico. The executive team and investor backers behind Pulpo Media combined have a proven record of building successful online media companies such as: AOL, Apple, Doubleclick, Facebook, Google, IAC/Ask, Lowermybills, Shopzilla, Turn, and Yahoo. Headquartered in Berkeley, CA. with offices in Latin America, Pulpo Media is privately held. Learn more at www.pulpomedia.com

CourtTrax

Seed Round in 2009
CourtTrax offers up-to-the minute court record information in federal and state courts. It provides CourtTrax Search that offers immediate access to court information; CourtTrax Express that provides statewide criminal records checks; and integrated transaction automation process Web services that allow customers to submit a machine-generated search command embedded in an URL to launch a court information search and receive an XML file of search results. The company is based in Bellevue, Washington.

Convertro

Series A in 2009
Convertro is a marketing analytics company that specializes in providing clients with data-driven insights to optimize their advertising spend. Through its advanced algorithmic attribution models, Convertro analyzes marketing costs and conversion data, including in-store metrics, to deliver actionable recommendations. This regression-based system integrates detailed customer marketing exposures, allowing clients to effectively reallocate their marketing budgets from less profitable channels to more successful ones. Convertro's proprietary technologies support optimizations across various online and offline marketing channels, including pay-per-click, search engine optimization, display advertising, social media, television, radio, and direct mail. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Convertro also has offices in New York and Israel, enabling it to serve a diverse range of clients effectively.

magnify360

Series A in 2008
Magnify360, Inc. provides a software-as-a-service content personalization and marketing optimization platform that tracks Internet users’ behavior and characteristics. It specializes in advertising conversion optimization. Magnify360, Inc. was formerly known as SalesBuilder, Inc. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Los Angeles, California with an additional office in Shanghai, China.

VentureBeat

Series A in 2008
VentureBeat, Inc. is an online technology news platform founded in 2006 and based in San Francisco, California. It focuses on providing news, analysis, and insights related to a wide array of technology trends, including social media, mobile applications, health technology, cloud computing, and gaming. The platform's content is designed to assist executives, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts in making informed decisions. In addition to its extensive news coverage, VentureBeat hosts events, webinars, and marketing opportunities that facilitate discussions on innovative products and ideas. Through its engaging platform, the company connects advertisers with a targeted audience of tech professionals and business enthusiasts, enhancing their reach in the technology sector.

Opower

Series A in 2007
Opower, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for the utility industry, focused on enhancing customer engagement and promoting energy efficiency. The company collaborates with over 85 utility partners, serving more than 18 million consumers across seven countries. Its software analyzes energy usage data and delivers personalized insights to motivate consumers to reduce their energy consumption. Opower's offerings include home energy reports, smart meter-enabled communications, and a marketplace suite for product recommendations. Additionally, the company provides demand response solutions, such as alerts and feedback reports to encourage reduced energy use during peak times. Opower also enhances digital engagement through customer-facing web applications and tools aimed at improving customer satisfaction. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Opower operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.