FirstMark

FirstMark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm located in New York City, established in 2008 as a spin-out from Pequot Capital Management's venture business. The firm focuses on partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs dedicated to addressing significant challenges. By fostering a deeply engaged community among its network, FirstMark facilitates the exchange of ideas and opportunities. It has collaborated with the founders of notable companies such as Pinterest, Shopify, Riot Games, InVision, and Airbnb, among others, highlighting its commitment to supporting innovative businesses that aim to create meaningful impact.

Beth Ferreira

General Partner

Dez Fleming

Investor

Daniel Gaisin

Vice President of Finance

Amish Jani

Co-Founder and Partner

Dan Kozikowski

Partner

Jeffrey B. Martin

VP

Shilpa Nayyar

Partner

Adam Nelson

Partner

Matt Turck

Managing Director

Catherine Ulrich

Venture Partner

David Waltcher

Principal

Stephanie Weiner

Investor

John Wu

Investor

Lisa Xu

Investor

419 past transactions

Dataiku

Series B in 2017
DATAIKU SAS provides a software platform for data applications. It offers Data Science Studio, a software platform that aggregates the steps and big data tools necessary to get from raw data to production ready applications. The company’s Data Science Studio enables companies to build their data lab and start extracting value from their data. Its application is accessible to data scientists and business analysts. DATAIKU SAS was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Paris, France with an additional office in Sydney, Australia.

Hyperscience

Series C in 2020
Hyperscience is a technology company that develops AI-based enterprise software designed to automate office work processes. The software uses machine learning to process structured and semi-structured documents, automate data entry, extract key details from invoices, and reconcile compliance-driven data to enable businesses to streamline complex processes automatically and increase productivity. It aims to modernize mission-critical processes and operations for organizations and governments. Krasimir Marinov, Peter Brodsky, and Vladimir Tzankov founded the company in 2014 and headquartered in New York, New York.

MyCityWay

Seed Round in 2010
MyCityWay is the technology partner for global brands seeking to thrive in today’s mobile-first world. Our platform is used to create new highly engaging, personalized mobile experiences and to optimize brands’ existing mobile strategies to achieve core business objectives and increase the return on marketing investments. Marketers leverage our platform to forge long-term personal and profitable relationships with their always-on customers. With our suite of cloud-based tools, brands deliver contextually-relevant, real-time and hyper-targeted content, advertiser messages and functionality that increase retention, loyalty and monetization. The MyCityWay platform delivers personalized experiences across all digital touchpoints, including smartphones, tablets, connected cars, connected TV, airplane seatbacks and touchscreen kiosks. The world’s leading brands have partnered with MyCityWay, including Mastercard, Panasonic, BMW, Macy’s, Daily News, Tommy Hilfiger, Lacoste, Pioneer, One Laptop Per Child, Tribeca Film Festival, Calvin Klein, Red Bull and ING New York City Marathon amongst others. The MyCityWay Platform leverages one patented and five patent-pending technologies. MyCityWay was one of 24 companies selected to participate in the Wall Street Journal's documentary series in 2013. The company has also won several awards including NYC Big Apps 2010, Intel TechSparks Apps4India 2011, Hill Holliday’s Project Beacon 2012, OnMedia’s Top 100 2012, Appy Award 2012 and AlwaysOn Global 250, and was named an Official Honoree for The Webby Awards 2013. Headquartered in NYC, MyCityWay is backed by Firstmark Capital, IA Ventures, BMWi Ventures and NYC EDC.

DraftKings

Series F in 2018
DraftKings Inc. operates as a digital sports entertainment and gaming company in the United States. The company provides users with daily sports, sports betting, and iGaming opportunities. It is also involved in the design and development of sports betting and casino gaming platform software for online and retail sportsbook, and casino gaming products. The company distributes its product offerings through various channels, including traditional websites, direct app downloads, and direct-to-consumer digital platforms. DraftKings Inc. is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Fame & Partners

Series A in 2016
Fame & Partners is an apparel and fashion platform intended for women. Fame & Partners is here to bring the global community of style arbiters to special occasion wear. Fame & Partners celebrates each girl’s individuality and help her craft a look that is special, just like her, inspired by the style of those in the world around her, for her special occasion.

Optimus Ride Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Optimus Ride Inc. operates in the technology industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Miami, Florida.

Archive

Seed Round in 2022
Archive is a white-label peer-to-peer marketplace for secondhand fashion. With Archive, consumers can buy and sell secondhand items from your brand, directly on your site. Take control of your secondhand market, without managing inventory or logistics.

Bardeen

Seed Round in 2022
Bardeen is a no-code workflow automation tool that helps knowledge workers become more productive. Bardeen builds software that streamlines workflow and automates repetitive tasks.

TraceLink

Private Placement in 2018
TraceLink is the World’s Largest Track and Trace Network for connecting the Life Sciences supply chain and eliminating counterfeit prescription drugs from the global marketplace. Leading businesses, including 16 of the top-20 global pharmaceutical companies, trust the TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud to deliver complete global connectivity, visibility and traceability of pharmaceuticals from ingredient to patient. A single point and click connection to the Life Sciences Cloud creates a supply chain control tower that delivers the information, insight and collaboration needed to improve performance and reduce risk across global supply, manufacturing and distribution operations. A winner of numerous industry awards including Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 (ranked number 293 in 2015), the Amazon AWS Global Start-Up Challenge Grand Prize, and the Edison Award for Innovation in Health Management, the Life Sciences Cloud is used by businesses across the globe to meet strategic goals in ensuring global compliance, fighting drug counterfeiting, improving on-time and in-full delivery, protecting product quality and reducing operational cost. TraceLink is funded by FirstMark Capital, Volition Capital and F-Prime Capital.

Pendo

Series F in 2021
Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

ActionIQ

Seed Round in 2014
ActionIQ is an innovative Enterprise Customer Data Platform for marketers, analysts, and technologists. We move marketing forward through the power of data, insightful analytics, and seamless marketing integration - filling in the white space left by all the Marketing Clouds.The company is dedicated to providing marketers with freedom and speed, scaling to any quantity of customer data. Capture, analyze, and utilize of all your data to build and launch marketing campaigns - without ever calling IT. AIQ is personalized marketing campaigns across all your channels in minutes, not months. Based in New York City, we are backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital and FirstMark Capital.

Welcome

Seed Round in 2020
Welcome designs and develops offer management and compensation platform for human resource (HR) team. Its platform helps to collaborate, approve workflow across the team, access real time insights, get notifications on candidate engagement, and set clear expectations about the role, compensation, equity, benefits, and mission. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in New York, New York.

Bluecore

Series B in 2015
Bluecore is a Multi-Channel Marketing Platform that uses predictive intelligence to trigger, prioritize, and personalize retail marketing. By unifying, scoring, and activating consumer, behavior, and product data in one platform, Bluecore paints a comprehensive picture of each shopper and their historical, and most uniquely, anticipated relationship with brand products and experiences. Today, Bluecore manages nearly 500 million shopper IDs and a cumulative product catalog second only to Amazon. It’s credited with doubling marketing revenue, and increasing customer retention, lifetime value, and overall speed to execution for more than 400 brands, including Express, Nike, Sephora, Jockey, Tommy Hilfiger, The North Face, and more. Bluecore is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital, Georgian Partners, and Felicis Ventures, Bluecore is one of New York City’s fastest-growing SaaS start-ups and works with more than 400 retailers and brands.

Riot Games

Venture Round in 2008
Riot Games is a global company that develops online games. The company was founded by a couple of entrepreneurial gamers who believe player-focused game development can result in better quality games. In 2009, Riot Games released its debut title, League of Legends, a game played by over 67 million users every month. Riot Games was placed third on the Great Place to Work’s 2013 Best Medium Workplaces list and ranked fourth place in the "25 Best Companies to Work for in Technology" list, an accolade based on Glassdoor reviews of Riot by Rioters. Riot Games was founded by Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck in March 2007 and is headquartered in Culver City, California.

Ascend

Seed Round in 2021
Ascend is a modern, all-in-one payments solution purpose-built for insurance. We automate insurance payments end-to-end — from online customer payments including premium financing to the distribution of commissions and carrier payables. We help digital distributors sell more insurance by simplifying operations, reducing payment friction and delivering the modern checkout experience customers expect.

Jirafe

Seed Round in 2010
Jirafe grows revenues for retailers through eCommerce-tailored analytics and data driven marketing and merchandising. Using Jirafe, tens of thousands of merchants know who buys, what sells and how to grow their business. We believe the most informed retailers make the most successful retailers. Our goal is to automate mission critical tasks every eCommerce store faces, so merchants can spend their time and talents where it matters most: driving their business forward. We are a passionate and collaborative team with big ideas about big data, analytics & machine learning. We are constantly learning, taking risks and growing together. Jirafe is well-funded by top VC firms including Foundry Group, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital, O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures and the City of New York. Jirafe is based in New York City.

Pinterest

Series C in 2012
Pinterest, Inc. provides visual discovery engine in the United States and internationally. The company’s engine allows people to find inspiration for their lives, including recipes, home and style ideas, travel destinations, and others. It shows them visual recommendations based on people personal taste and interests. The company was formerly known as Cold Brew Labs Inc. and changed its name to Pinterest, Inc. in April 2012. Pinterest, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

IMImobile

Venture Round in 2009
IMImobile is a cloud communications software and solutions provider that enables companies to use mobile and digital technologies to improve and automate customer experience and engagement. IMImobile’s cloud software platform manages over 42 billion messages and 44 billion commerce transactions a year across the world. Organisations that trust us to deliver smarter digital customer engagement include Centrica, AA, O2, EE, BT, Foxtons, Pizza Hut, Vodafone, AT&T, MTN, three of the major retail banks in the UK and public sector organisations in India, US and the UK. IMImobile is headquartered in London with offices in Hyderabad, Little Rock, Toronto, Dubai and Johannesburg and has over 1,100 employees worldwide.

Parametrix

Series A in 2021
Parametrix Insurance provides insurance policies covering third-party IT downtime events such as cloud outages, e-commerce downtime, payment failures, and other disruptions from SaaS, PaaS and IaaS platforms. The parametric policies we offer are simple: hassle-free claims and quick payments. We provide technology-reliant businesses with the liquidity and business continuity they need to quickly recover after downtime occurs. Powered by robust monitoring systems and precise risk aggregation capabilities, our solutions leverage deep actuarial and data science expertise to provide new and innovative insurance policies that meet the needs of modern businesses.

Knewton

Series F in 2016
Knewton's mission is to personalize learning for the world. Teachers, schools, and education companies around the world use Knewton to power digital course materials that dynamically adapt to each student’s unique needs. Knewton provides students with tailored recommendations for exactly what to study, teachers with analytics to better support each student, and publishers with content insights to develop more effective digital products. Knewton was founded in 2008 and has offices in New York City, London, Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai. Knewton has been recognized globally as a “Technology Pioneer” (World Economic Forum in Davos) and several times as one of the top 10 most innovative companies in education (Fast Company).

Kinsa

Series B in 2017
Kinsa, Inc. develops smart thermometer which is compatible with android and apple phones. Its mobile-connected thermometer allows the users to communicate with someone who has just fallen ill, give them the information to get better faster, and collect the data needed to map human health. Kinsa, Inc. was formerly known as Transform Health Inc. and changed its name to Kinsa, Inc. in July 2012. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Synthesia

Series A in 2021
Synthesia Ltd. develops artificial intelligence driven video production platform to create high-end videos. The company’s video synthesis platform allows to create high-end videos for many applications, including personalized advertising, corporate communications, and e-learning. Its platform synchronizes the lip movements in a video to a new dialogue track, which enables video content to be translated into foreign languages, widening distribution channels. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

HowGood

Series B in 2022
HowGood, Inc. provides food product rating services for grocers. Its research provides shoppers with information about food and allows them to make informed purchasing decision. The company also recognizes producers to meet set standards. It caters to products including bread, baking supplies, coffee, condiments, dairy, dried food drinks, eggs, grains and beans, meat and seafood, oil and vinegar, pasta, agricultural produce, raw food, snacks, sweeteners, sweets, and tea. The in-store ratings can be found on shelves of stores and via mobile app also. HowGood, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Guru

Private Placement in 2018
Guru Technologies, Inc. operates a Google Chrome Web browser extension that connects user’s business applications and creates context-specific suggestions for their teams. Its solutions allow groups to ask a question to an entire group; make comments to everyone in the group; and distribute knowledge verification to the group. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Cockroach Labs

Series C in 2019
Cockroach Labs is behind Cockroach DB, the cloud-native, distributed SQL database to modern cloud applications. It helps companies of all sizes—and the apps they develop— to scale fast, survive anything, and thrive everywhere. CockroachDB is in use at some of the world's largest enterprises across all industries, including Equifax, Bose, Comcast, and some of the largest companies in banking, retail, and media.

Crisp

Private Placement in 2020
Crisp is a food supply forecast platform that supports information flows within and across companies in the food value chain. Its platform enables players in the industry to focus on their own specific tools and systems. Crisp brings together all data points including sales, inventory, retail portals, third party marketing data, promotions, weather, and holidays. It also helps its clients to drive value by pushing data to their existing systems from staffing to operations, making them all smarter. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Sastrify

Series A in 2022
Sastrix is a virtual Software-as-a-Service procurement service, helping finance and tech teams to optimize management and cost of SaaS tools in digital-first companies. Our team brings transparency to your existing setup, gets rid of underutilized licenses and negotiates with your suppliers to get the best deals for you. Based on millions in analyzed spend, we typically save thousands of SaaS dollars within 15-20 minutes of your time. Obviously, our mission is to save more money than we cost, creating a win-win situation with our customers.

Bonusly

Seed Round in 2014
Bonusly is an internet company that provides a web platform for companies to reward and motivate employees by using peer-to-peer bonuses. Bonusly helps celebrate everyday contributions and key milestones, automate time-consuming HR admin processes, incentivize participation in company initiatives, and offer digital rewards their employees will love. With its efficient, effective, and enjoyable recognition and rewards solution, they can help people feel a greater sense of alignment and purpose, understand what it means to embody company core values, and see how contributions of all kinds support your mission. In turn, the customer can pull actionable data about employee experience from powerful people analytics tools. Bonusly delivers unique insights on individual, team, and company levels so you can make strategic decisions about culture, professional development, performance management, and retention.

MyCityWay

Series A in 2011
MyCityWay is the technology partner for global brands seeking to thrive in today’s mobile-first world. Our platform is used to create new highly engaging, personalized mobile experiences and to optimize brands’ existing mobile strategies to achieve core business objectives and increase the return on marketing investments. Marketers leverage our platform to forge long-term personal and profitable relationships with their always-on customers. With our suite of cloud-based tools, brands deliver contextually-relevant, real-time and hyper-targeted content, advertiser messages and functionality that increase retention, loyalty and monetization. The MyCityWay platform delivers personalized experiences across all digital touchpoints, including smartphones, tablets, connected cars, connected TV, airplane seatbacks and touchscreen kiosks. The world’s leading brands have partnered with MyCityWay, including Mastercard, Panasonic, BMW, Macy’s, Daily News, Tommy Hilfiger, Lacoste, Pioneer, One Laptop Per Child, Tribeca Film Festival, Calvin Klein, Red Bull and ING New York City Marathon amongst others. The MyCityWay Platform leverages one patented and five patent-pending technologies. MyCityWay was one of 24 companies selected to participate in the Wall Street Journal's documentary series in 2013. The company has also won several awards including NYC Big Apps 2010, Intel TechSparks Apps4India 2011, Hill Holliday’s Project Beacon 2012, OnMedia’s Top 100 2012, Appy Award 2012 and AlwaysOn Global 250, and was named an Official Honoree for The Webby Awards 2013. Headquartered in NYC, MyCityWay is backed by Firstmark Capital, IA Ventures, BMWi Ventures and NYC EDC.

Kintaba

Private Placement in 2018
VAULT.IO, INC. develops a secure wallet and distributed application (dApp) discovery platform for mobile devices. The company uses block chain technology for the development of the platform. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in New York City, New York.

Orchard

Series D in 2021
Orchard transforms the way people buy and sell their homes by bringing simplicity, convenience, and certainty to the process. Simplifying it, to the way it should have always been; fair and true to market, straightforward, and easy. Traditionally, homeowners who are looking to purchase their next home face a stressful and uncertain process - they have to either sell their old home first and move twice or buy as a contingent buyer and risk not getting their dream home. Orchard solves this problem by enabling homeowners to buy before they sell. With Orchard, customers secure their dream home first using Orchard's cash, while having the certainty of selling their old home with Orchard - all for the same fee as a traditional broker. Orchard is transforming the end-to-end home buying experience with an AI-powered home search and a modern, all-digital mortgage and closing. Orchard is headquartered in New York City and offers its services in Colorado, Georgia, and Texas.

Parsley Health

Private Placement in 2018
Parsley Health is a new kind of healthcare service that integrates technology, nutrition, wellness and prevention into cutting-edge primary care. The company was founded in 2016 by Dr. Robin Berzin, M.D., a Columbia-trained physician, digital health expert and leader in functional medicine. Parsley clinics are currently open in Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco. Learn more at www.parsleyhealth.com

Pigment

Series A in 2020
Pigment is trying to overhaul the painful experience of using error-prone spreadsheets and inflexible software to forecast the future of businesses. Instead of a rigid annual planning process, Pigment’s platform allows users to take control over their business data – presenting an intuitive, full-spectrum view of the company that allows users to play with multiple future scenarios in real-time through charts, simulations, and continuous modeling.

Helium

Private Placement in 2019
Helium Systems Inc. operates an IoT smart sensor device for enterprises and industries. The company develops sensor device that monitors temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, motion, and light. The device is used in monitoring facilities and quality control in medical products, energy costs, air quality, and temperature for refrigerators. The company also provides a web and mobile dashboard to manage sensors accessed by users. Helium Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Skynet Phase 1 Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tapad

Series B in 2013
Tapad is a global marketing technology company providing a comprehensive suite of identity-based marketing solutions. By leveraging the company’s proprietary and privacy-safe Tapad Graph. Their groundbreaking, proprietary technology assimilates billions of data points to find the human relationship between smartphones, desktops, laptops, tablets, connected TVs, and game consoles. The result: an unprecedented understanding of consumer behavior across related screens and the ability to reach the right people on the right device at the right time. With Tapad, publishers and advertisers can deepen consumer engagement with a more fluid experience while increasing campaign cost-effectiveness. The company is reinventing personalization for the modern marketer through its identity-driven solutions. The Tapad Graph combines the company’s proprietary Device Graph with behavioral signals so marketers can finally see their customers as unique individuals, and ultimately, deliver personalization at scale.

Carbon-12 Labs, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Carbon-12 Labs, Inc. operates as a cryptocurrency. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Tubular Labs

Series A in 2012
Tubular is the leading global video measurement and analytics platform that powers broadcasters, publishers, and brands to create successful content and scale audiences faster. We provide the most complete picture of what video consumers watch and enable companies to grow digital audiences and sell brand integrations to win in the ever evolving world of video. Tubular’s software tracks over 4 Billion videos, 1 Trillion Views, 10 Million influencers, 90K brands, 40K media, and 48 Billion sponsored video views. In total, that’s over 350 Million more videos analyzed per month than our closest competitor. We know it’s not just about data, it’s about insights, and that’s why we’re trusted by 7 of the top 10 global media companies, who make strategic decisions every day based on Tubular software.

Imperfect Foods

Series D in 2021
Imperfect Foods provides grocery delivery service rescuing and redistributing food across multiple grocery categories – including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Imperfect Foods has remained hyper focused on eliminating food waste and supporting farmers and producers when it comes to excess and imperfect products. The company now rescues and redistributes food across multiple grocery categories - including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Its performance and agility during the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates that this mission-driven model is poised for success in the long term. -

Justworks

Series D in 2018
Justworks is an online platform that handles the payroll and payments procedure, benefits facilities, and compliance issues of its users. It aims to simplify businesses' back-office complexities. The company combined a simple platform and exceptional 24/7 customer service with the power of a PEO, so all teams have more time to focus on what matters. Founded in 2012, Justworks is headquartered in New York.

Gravia

Series E in 2022
Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Cockroach Labs

Series F in 2021
Cockroach Labs is behind Cockroach DB, the cloud-native, distributed SQL database to modern cloud applications. It helps companies of all sizes—and the apps they develop— to scale fast, survive anything, and thrive everywhere. CockroachDB is in use at some of the world's largest enterprises across all industries, including Equifax, Bose, Comcast, and some of the largest companies in banking, retail, and media.

Symphony Commerce

Series B in 2014
Symphony Commerce delivers a Commerce-as-a-Service platform, natively-built to orchestrate commerce across multi-channel storefronts, orders, inventory, and fulfillment. Built by the visionary and technical team behind Amazon’s ordering and fulfillment systems, Symphony frees brands from the burden of infrastructure management and provides the data and services they need to operate and grow their business. Symphony Commerce is used by the world's leading branded manufacturers of fashion & apparel, consumables, and durable goods. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Roman Health Ventures Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Roman Health Ventures Inc. operates as a telehealth company that provides personalized treatment online. It offers Roman for adult men who are experiencing erectile dysfunction and prefer to receive treatment from home; Rory for women; Plenity for weight management; and Zero that includes products to quit smoking, such as medication (buproprion), a nicotine replacement gum, and a mobile application. It also provides Ro Pharmacy, an online cash pay pharmacy offering generic medications. Roman Health Ventures Inc. was formerly known as Roman Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Roman Health Ventures Inc. in May 2017. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Extra

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Most people look at a debit card as nothing more than a piece of plastic that subtracts money from their bank account. At Extra, they believe that the debit card has the potential to unlock more in their members' lives. Extra is the first debit card that gives you reward points for any purchase, anywhere. They're creating a debit card with superpowers, and they can't wait to see what you'll do with it.

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.

ActionIQ

Series C in 2021
ActionIQ is an innovative Enterprise Customer Data Platform for marketers, analysts, and technologists. We move marketing forward through the power of data, insightful analytics, and seamless marketing integration - filling in the white space left by all the Marketing Clouds.The company is dedicated to providing marketers with freedom and speed, scaling to any quantity of customer data. Capture, analyze, and utilize of all your data to build and launch marketing campaigns - without ever calling IT. AIQ is personalized marketing campaigns across all your channels in minutes, not months. Based in New York City, we are backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital and FirstMark Capital.

NIVELO INC.

Private Placement in 2020
NIVELO INC. operates in the technology industry. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Disconnect

Series A in 2013
Disconnect was founded in 2011 on a belief that we all have a right to privacy. Our award-winning, user-friendly software and solutions protect hundreds of millions of people.

Legacy

Series B in 2022
Legacy (YC S19) was incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs before joining Y Combinator's accelerator program, winning TechCrunch Disrupt and receiving Gold at MassChallenge Boston. Founded by a team of healthcare and fertility experts, Legacy aims to change outdated views around around fertility with a straightforward, accessible, and trusted product for men. We work only with leading hospitals, clinics, fertility partners, and innovative employers. Investors include Bain Capital Ventures and Section 32, and you can learn more about the company in recent coverage by the Washington Post, Economist, New York Times, Financial Times, CNBC, and others. Meet us at https://www.givelegacy.com/team

ROLI

Series A in 2014
ROLI is creating the future of musical expression. It started with the Seaboard, an award-winning digital keyboard that you can play with all the depth and nuance of an acoustic instrument. ROLI now makes a huge range of music-making tools — from pocket-sized drum pads like the Lightpad Block to all-in-one systems like the Songmaker Kit. Its devices are incredibly expressive, and they’re also accessible. So whether creators are learning musical skills or honing their technique, they can make music in new ways with ROLI. ROLI investors include Sony Innovation Fund, Foundry Group, Firstmark Capital, Balderton Capital, Founders Forum, and Pharrell Williams (ROLI's Chief Creative Officer). Music creation hardware includes: Seaboard RISE 25, Seaboard RISE 49, Seaboard Block, Lightpad Block, Loop Block, Live Block, and Touch Block. Music creation software includes: Equator, Cypher2, Strobe2, and the NOISE for iOS app. Platform products include the C++ audio coding framework JUCE.

Crisp

Series A in 2020
Crisp is a food supply forecast platform that supports information flows within and across companies in the food value chain. Its platform enables players in the industry to focus on their own specific tools and systems. Crisp brings together all data points including sales, inventory, retail portals, third party marketing data, promotions, weather, and holidays. It also helps its clients to drive value by pushing data to their existing systems from staffing to operations, making them all smarter. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Sproutling

Venture Round in 2013
Sproutling, Inc. designs and builds smart products for baby monitoring. It offers baby wearable devices that monitor heart rate, motion, and position of babies; and enable users to get insights into the baby’s sleep patterns and environment to learn how to help them sleep better. The company also publishes a magazine. It serves parents and their families. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of January 29, 2016, Sproutling, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc.

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.

Ro

Series D in 2021
Ro is a mission-driven healthcare technology company that handles everything from online diagnosis to the delivery of medication. It aims to be the patient’s first call for all of their healthcare needs. Using technology, it empowers physicians to provide high-quality, affordable care when and where patients need it most. It powers three digital health clinics which are Roman for men’s health, Rory for women’s health, and Zero for fighting addiction.

Crisp

Series A in 2019
Crisp is a food supply forecast platform that supports information flows within and across companies in the food value chain. Its platform enables players in the industry to focus on their own specific tools and systems. Crisp brings together all data points including sales, inventory, retail portals, third party marketing data, promotions, weather, and holidays. It also helps its clients to drive value by pushing data to their existing systems from staffing to operations, making them all smarter. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Statespace

Series C in 2021
StateSpace provides performance analytics and a suite of tools for casual gamers and eSport athletes to maximize their potential. It uses cognitive science and artificial intelligence to revolutionize the way humans improve. Leveraging expertise as neuroscientists, data scientists, video game developers, and computer visionaries, the products bring much needed standardized performance analytics to train. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Loop

Series B in 2021
Retain customers and revenue with the most advanced returns and exchanges app on Shopify. Customers can seamlessly swap their product for any new variant.Loop will place the new order within Shopify, triggered by return package movements. Smooth for the customer and totally hands free for you. Loop Triggers, the app is able process a return at any point on its way back to you, getting an exchange or refund in customer's hands within just a few days. If automated processing isn't your thing, issue refunds and place new exchange orders with just one click in the Loop Admin Panel.

Ada

Series C in 2021
Ada Support Inc. develops a chatbot platform that makes artificial intelligence accessible to non-technical support teams. The company operates through both web and mobile machine learning engine that reduces support volume, empowers customers to find answers on their own, and automatically learns how to better serve customers in the future. Ada Support Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Aereo

Seed Round in 2011
Aereo is a New York City-based technology company that allows consumers to access live broadcast television on Internet-connected devices through use of its remote integrated (cloud-based) antenna/DVR technology. Using Aereo’s technology, consumers can pause and rewind any program that they are watching live, or save a program for future viewing. A cable or satellite television subscription is not required to use Aereo. Aereo is currently supported on iPad, iPhone, Chrome, Safari on MacBook, Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Opera, AppleTV (via airplay) and Roku platforms. The Aereo app for Android™ is available for download for devices running Android operating system version 4.1 or higher. Aereo membership begins at $8 per month, for access to Aereo’s cloud-based antenna/DVR technology and 20 hours of DVR storage. For an additional $4, consumers can upgrade their membership and receive 60 hours of DVR storage for a total of $12 per month. Consumers who join Aereo will get their first month of access for free. Backed by Barry Diller’s IAC and led by CEO and Founder Chet Kanoja, Aereo launched in February 2012.

Discord

Series F in 2018
Discord operates as a voice, video, and text communication service to talk and hang out with friends and communities. It was originally created for people who loved to play games, but these passionate people realized it could be enjoyed for more purposes. Discord is now used by everyone from local hiking clubs, to art communities, to study groups. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Omaze

Series C in 2021
Omaze, Inc. operates an online fundraising platform to raise money and provide awareness for charitable initiatives. Its platform hosts online auctions that enables donors to bid for the chance to win prizes, including experiences with celebrities, luxury vehicles, and vacation packages worldwide. The company offers all the resources necessary for a celebrity, athlete, or a famous person to partner up with a non-profit to deliver an online fundraising experience, as well as marketing, content, tech, and fulfillment services. Its platform is used to raise funds from influencers, nonprofits, and individual donors to fund charitable campaigns. Omaze, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Culver City, California.

Robin Powered, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Robin Powered, Inc. develops and provides workplace experience software. Its software provides in-depth workplace search results; meeting room display information; indoor wayfinding and building floorplan maps; occupancy live detection; automatic room booking; and schedule management solutions. The company’s clientele include Expedia and Shopify. Robin Powered Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Gravia

Series D in 2021
Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Justworks

Private Placement in 2020
Justworks is an online platform that handles the payroll and payments procedure, benefits facilities, and compliance issues of its users. It aims to simplify businesses' back-office complexities. The company combined a simple platform and exceptional 24/7 customer service with the power of a PEO, so all teams have more time to focus on what matters. Founded in 2012, Justworks is headquartered in New York.

Aveksa

Series B in 2008
Aveksa, Inc. provides enterprise access governance solutions. The company's solutions enable organizations to respond to security and regulatory demands by automating access certification, role management, entitlement administration, controls automation, and risk analytics. It offers Compliance Manager that provides policy-based governance through automated monitoring, review, and remediation of user entitlements and roles; and Role Manager that provides roles-based governance through roles discovery, modeling, and lifecycle management. The company also offers implementation and support services, such as application inventory, requirements definition, and planning; server installation and setup; application collector deployment; user certification and reporting; and project completion. It serves financial services, health care, manufacturing, and retail organizations. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Playnomics

Series B in 2013
Playnomics, a predictive data and marketing platform for free-to-play games and apps, empowers marketers and developers to quickly predict player value and behavior, and immediately act on those insights with customized messaging. Equipped with Playnomics’ dynamic player segmentation engine and drag-and-drop campaign marketing tools, apps can tailor monetization and retention campaigns that protect VIPs, nurture new spenders, and monetize non-spenders. Their smarter, predictive analytics and messaging platform help app makers and marketers make better choices and earn from everyone.

Gravia

Series A in 2014
Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

SelfMade

Series A in 2017
SelfMade is a venture backed start-up located in downtown Manhattan. They work at the intersection of technology and digital art, empowering individuals and brands to grow their business through social media. Their members' only app uses AI and proprietary technology to connect members with professional image editors and social strategists -- allowing them to build a powerful brand at an affordable price. SelfMade is democratizing an experience once reserved for celebrities and brands.

Orchard

Series C in 2020
Orchard transforms the way people buy and sell their homes by bringing simplicity, convenience, and certainty to the process. Simplifying it, to the way it should have always been; fair and true to market, straightforward, and easy. Traditionally, homeowners who are looking to purchase their next home face a stressful and uncertain process - they have to either sell their old home first and move twice or buy as a contingent buyer and risk not getting their dream home. Orchard solves this problem by enabling homeowners to buy before they sell. With Orchard, customers secure their dream home first using Orchard's cash, while having the certainty of selling their old home with Orchard - all for the same fee as a traditional broker. Orchard is transforming the end-to-end home buying experience with an AI-powered home search and a modern, all-digital mortgage and closing. Orchard is headquartered in New York City and offers its services in Colorado, Georgia, and Texas.

Kinsa

Series A in 2014
Kinsa, Inc. develops smart thermometer which is compatible with android and apple phones. Its mobile-connected thermometer allows the users to communicate with someone who has just fallen ill, give them the information to get better faster, and collect the data needed to map human health. Kinsa, Inc. was formerly known as Transform Health Inc. and changed its name to Kinsa, Inc. in July 2012. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

InVision

Series F in 2018
InVisionApp provides a design collaboration platform for startups, corporations, and design agencies. It lets users research, design, review, and test products offer tools for prototyping, task management, and version control, enables users to create and craft things for Web and mobile platforms, and allows users to design prototyping, sharing and presentation, feedback, and commenting meetings and whiteboarding, and organization and collaboration. InVisionApp also offers Studio, a screen design platform tool that allows users to extend the product experience; and real-time insights, team activity, project management, team management, workflow integration, enterprise-grade security, single-sign-on integration, custom branding, and asset storage and sharing solutions for enterprises. InVision has more than 5M users, including 100 percent of the Fortune 100, and organizations like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Slack, Starbucks, and Uber. The company was launched in 2011 by Clark Valberg and Ben Nadel and is one of the largest completely distributed organizations in the world, with employees in 28 countries.

WorkStep

Series A in 2021
WorkStep is a job network for hourly workers. We enable better career outcomes by providing a transparent and efficient labor marketplace.

HowGood

Series A in 2017
HowGood, Inc. provides food product rating services for grocers. Its research provides shoppers with information about food and allows them to make informed purchasing decision. The company also recognizes producers to meet set standards. It caters to products including bread, baking supplies, coffee, condiments, dairy, dried food drinks, eggs, grains and beans, meat and seafood, oil and vinegar, pasta, agricultural produce, raw food, snacks, sweeteners, sweets, and tea. The in-store ratings can be found on shelves of stores and via mobile app also. HowGood, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Kasa Living

Private Placement in 2019
Kasa Living, Inc. provides rental accommodation booking services through an online portal. It offers hotel check-in, apartments booking, and boutique hospitality properties rental services. The company also provides property management services. It offers accommodation services in Virginia, Georgia, Texas, Washington, North Carolina, Illinois, Missouri, South Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, California, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Utah, and Arizona. Kasa Living, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Symphony Commerce

Series A in 2013
Symphony Commerce delivers a Commerce-as-a-Service platform, natively-built to orchestrate commerce across multi-channel storefronts, orders, inventory, and fulfillment. Built by the visionary and technical team behind Amazon’s ordering and fulfillment systems, Symphony frees brands from the burden of infrastructure management and provides the data and services they need to operate and grow their business. Symphony Commerce is used by the world's leading branded manufacturers of fashion & apparel, consumables, and durable goods. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ada

Series B in 2020
Ada Support Inc. develops a chatbot platform that makes artificial intelligence accessible to non-technical support teams. The company operates through both web and mobile machine learning engine that reduces support volume, empowers customers to find answers on their own, and automatically learns how to better serve customers in the future. Ada Support Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Nextmv

Private Placement in 2020
nextmv.io inc. designs and develops real time decision automation platform for developers to test, encode, and manage logistics algorithms. The platform provides services, such as simulation engine, an on-demand simulation engine for customer use cases and re-usable simulation system; staging environment, an environment for testing multiple algorithms against each potential scenario and estimates individual and aggregate KPIs; decisions models, an algorithms for automated decision making in the use cases; algorithm selection; and real time sampling. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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.

Crossbeam

Series B in 2020
Crossbeam, Inc. develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) based collaborative data platform that helps companies to build partnerships. It offers Crossbeam that helps companies to find overlapping customers and prospects with their partners. The company’s Crossbeam is used to connect data, create populations, make partners, and analyze the overlaps in populations. Crossbeam, Inc. was formerly known as Mtrebor, Inc. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

x.ai

Series A in 2015
X.ai is an artificial intelligence-driven personal assistant that schedules meetings. X.ai builds and maintains an artificial intelligence-powered personal assistant that schedules meetings for the business customers. Backed by its founders and located in New York City. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Ada

Private Placement in 2020
Ada Support Inc. develops a chatbot platform that makes artificial intelligence accessible to non-technical support teams. The company operates through both web and mobile machine learning engine that reduces support volume, empowers customers to find answers on their own, and automatically learns how to better serve customers in the future. Ada Support Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

LiveGamer

Venture Round in 2011
Live Gamer provides e-commerce solutions for micro-transaction based businesses. It offers monetization solutions that go beyond payments to drive core business metrics and optimize new transaction-based revenue streams. LGI serves web-based, online gaming, social networks, mobile applications, toys, and entertainment companies inf.

SecondMarket

Series A in 2007
SecondMarket simplifies private securities transactions. Our online portal enables private companies and investment funds to customize, control and seamlessly execute primary and secondary transactions. SecondMarket is backed by premier investors, including FirstMark Capital, The Social+Capital Partnership, Li Ka-shing Foundation, Temasek Holdings, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Silicon Valley Bank. SecondMarket is a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA, MSRB and SIPC and a SEC registered alternative trading system (ATS) for private company stock. For more information, please visit www.secondmarket.com. Follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook.

Pinterest

Seed Round in 2009
Pinterest, Inc. provides visual discovery engine in the United States and internationally. The company’s engine allows people to find inspiration for their lives, including recipes, home and style ideas, travel destinations, and others. It shows them visual recommendations based on people personal taste and interests. The company was formerly known as Cold Brew Labs Inc. and changed its name to Pinterest, Inc. in April 2012. Pinterest, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Lot18

Series B in 2011
Lot18 is a membership by invitation website for wine and epicurean products from coveted producers at attractive discounts. Our members have access to some of the finest wines in the world, made available in small quantities at extraordinarily low prices. Lot18 also operates the Tasting Room wine club, which provides personalized quarterly shipments of wine to subscribers. Lot18 evokes the auction lots of old, where savvy consumers were able to bid on fantastic products at incredible values.

Orchard

Series B in 2019
Orchard transforms the way people buy and sell their homes by bringing simplicity, convenience, and certainty to the process. Simplifying it, to the way it should have always been; fair and true to market, straightforward, and easy. Traditionally, homeowners who are looking to purchase their next home face a stressful and uncertain process - they have to either sell their old home first and move twice or buy as a contingent buyer and risk not getting their dream home. Orchard solves this problem by enabling homeowners to buy before they sell. With Orchard, customers secure their dream home first using Orchard's cash, while having the certainty of selling their old home with Orchard - all for the same fee as a traditional broker. Orchard is transforming the end-to-end home buying experience with an AI-powered home search and a modern, all-digital mortgage and closing. Orchard is headquartered in New York City and offers its services in Colorado, Georgia, and Texas.

Guru

Seed Round in 2015
Guru Technologies, Inc. operates a Google Chrome Web browser extension that connects user’s business applications and creates context-specific suggestions for their teams. Its solutions allow groups to ask a question to an entire group; make comments to everyone in the group; and distribute knowledge verification to the group. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Pendo

Private Placement in 2018
Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

Ro

Series C in 2020
Ro is a mission-driven healthcare technology company that handles everything from online diagnosis to the delivery of medication. It aims to be the patient’s first call for all of their healthcare needs. Using technology, it empowers physicians to provide high-quality, affordable care when and where patients need it most. It powers three digital health clinics which are Roman for men’s health, Rory for women’s health, and Zero for fighting addiction.

Airbnb

Series F in 2016
Airbnb, Inc. operates a platform for stays and experiences to guests worldwide. The company’s marketplace model connects hosts and guests online or through mobile devices to book spaces and experiences. It primarily offers private rooms and luxury villas. The company was formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc. and changed its name to Airbnb, Inc. in November 2010. Airbnb, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pendo

Private Placement in 2019
Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

Blispay

Seed Round in 2016
Blispay provides a streamlined in-store financing experience in the market. The Blispay Visa Card is a mobile-centric credit card in the industry, allowing merchants of all sizes to provide financing without any technical integration or financial obligation while customers get to enjoy instant issuance, 6-month special financing & 2% Cash Back. The company's first product is an everyday credit and financing solution that customers deserve and merchants need. Its founding team consists of experienced industry veterans from companies including BIll Me Later, PayPal, Bank of America, MBNA, Microsoft & Zynga.

HopSkipDrive

Series A in 2016
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.

Ledger

Series B in 2018
Ledger develops security and infrastructure solutions for cryptocurrencies as well as blockchain applications for individuals and companies, by leveraging a distinctive, proprietary technology. Launched in 2014, Ledger has designed an acclaimed line of hardware security devices quickly placing the company as a global leader on the market with 1,000,000 units sold in more than 165 countries. For enterprises and corporations, Ledger introduced the Vault: a fully managed SaaS solution addressing the need to safeguard a very large amount of multiple cryptocurrencies while mitigating both IT and physical assault threats. The company is also active on the industrial IoT market, leveraging its secure hardware technology to interface sensors and machines to smart contracts or blockchain based assets. Ledger is headquartered in Paris, has a production facility in Vierzon (France) and offices in San Francisco.

Ada

Series A in 2018
Ada Support Inc. develops a chatbot platform that makes artificial intelligence accessible to non-technical support teams. The company operates through both web and mobile machine learning engine that reduces support volume, empowers customers to find answers on their own, and automatically learns how to better serve customers in the future. Ada Support Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Shopify

Series B in 2011
Shopify Plus is the commerce platform for high-volume merchants, coupling speed and agility with a scalable foundation to grow bigger, faster. Sell natively across social, mobile, wholesale, and pop-up shops. Front-end code control aligned with a backend for integrations means there’s no limit to customizations. Shopify Plus is driving disruption with the world’s fastest growing brands like Fashion Nova, MVMT, Kylie Jenner, Nine West, Fossil, GE, Red Bull, and Nestle.

Skylar

Series A in 2019
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.

Guru

Seed Round in 2016
Guru Technologies, Inc. operates a Google Chrome Web browser extension that connects user’s business applications and creates context-specific suggestions for their teams. Its solutions allow groups to ask a question to an entire group; make comments to everyone in the group; and distribute knowledge verification to the group. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.