True Ventures

True Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed/startups and early stage companies. It seeks to provide series A funding. The firm prefers to invest in infrastructure technologies including consumer Internet, enterprise networks, and telecommunication networks; emerging technology markets, including e-commerce, consumer durables and apparel, consumer devices, education, infrastructure services, security, mobile, media, internet of things, mobile, and software and services, cloud computing, open source, and SaaS. True Ventures was founded in 2005 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional office in San Francisco, California.

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Phil Black

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Jon Callaghan

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Tony Conrad

Partner

Ann Crady-Weiss

Partner

Adam D’Augelli

Partner

Sahiti Enjeti

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Amy Errett

Partner

Ulrike Kellmereit

CFO

Om Malik

Partner

Fiona McCarthy

Principal

John O'Connell

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Kevin Rose

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Toni Schneider

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Natasha Sharma

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Rohit Sharma

Partner

Jim Stewart

COO

Priscilla Tyler

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Christiaan Vorkink

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Ann Crady Weiss

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Ariel Winton

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Ariel Winton-Jones

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Streetline

Series C in 2013
Streetline builds solutions to longstanding problems in city management and operations, through the customized design and application of new sensing technologies. Our parking management system offers cities the first real control and oversight of their complex inventory of on- and off-street spaces, and forms the backbone for other sensing solutions that lower city costs and improve public services.

Framework

Seed Round in 2021
Framework offers a platform for wellness businesses to set up virtual communities. The platform is built for people working through addiction, women going through pregnancy, as well as those who want to train for a marathon. Framework was founded in 2019 by Rush Sadiwala and Jack Stevens and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Recount Media

Seed Round in 2019
Recount Media is a fast-growing startup focused on high quality journalism and short form video with a simple mission; No Bullshit, No Bad Faith, In 5 minutes or Less. Our flagship show, The Daily Recount, is a daily recap that remixes television news to tell you the stories that matter in politics without wasting your time or insulting your intelligence. We are building a radically new media platform across mobile apps and the web that will change the way news is consumed.

Stitch Labs

Seed Round in 2012
Stitch is the leading online inventory control solution that simplifies multichannel retail business. It automatically syncs inventory, orders and sales across channels, which provides retailers a holistic understanding of their operations. With Stitch, retailers save time, make better decisions, and grow their businesses. Stitch integrates with top sales channels such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Shopify, WooCommerce and Square, as well as add-ons including Quickbooks, Xero, and ShipStation. To learn more, visit www.stitchlabs.com or reach out to our team at press@stitchlabs.com or on Twitter at @StitchLabs.

AccessPay

Series A in 2014
AccessPay develops and offers cloud-based payment and cash management solutions. The company’s cloud-based service provides ease of integration with any ERP, TMS, or other back-end systems. It also enables the straight-through processing of domestic and international payments via BACS, FPS, CHAPS, and SWIFT. By connecting an organization’s back office systems with its banks and providing a consolidated view of all banking relationships, AccessPay gives corporate enterprises real-time visibility of all cash balances and offers a detailed analysis, which helps financial professionals maximize the use of working capital. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

ONtheAIR

Seed Round in 2012
ONtheAIR allows anyone who is watching a live stream to video chat with the host in front of the audience. OnTheAir’s streaming video platform powers radio call-in shows for the digital age. A host sets up an OnTheAir show and selects a start time. They receive a unique URL that leads to a landing page with a countdown to their show. OnTheAir lets the host schedule tweets for an hour and a few minutes before the show starts to promote themselves. When the show starts, the host begins live video streaming to the audience. Viewers can text chat with each other and the host, or click a “Call In” button to alert the host that they want to join them “on stage”. The viewer is intelligently walked through an equipment check to turn on their webcam and mic, and shown a preview so they can check their hair. Meanwhile the host can look at the previews of anyone asking to call in, and select who to bring on stage with them for simultaneous, sync’d up video streaming to the audience.

HashiCorp

Private Placement in 2018
HashiCorp is an open-source software company based in San Francisco, California. HashiCorp provides open source tools and commercial products that enable developers, operators and security professionals to provision, secure and run distributed application infrastructure. It was founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. HashiCorp is headquartered in San Francisco, but their employees are distributed across the United States and Europe. HashiCorp offers both open source and paid commercial products.

gdgt

Series A in 2010
gdgt (parent company: PastFuture) is a consumer electronics site by [Peter Rojas](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/peter-rojas) and [Ryan Block](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/ryan-block). Rojas was the founding editor of [Engadget](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/engadget) and Gizmodo and Block was editor-in-chief of Engadget.

Fractyl Health

Series F in 2022
Fractyl Laboratories Inc. develops a minimally invasive procedural therapy for metabolic diseases. It offers Revita DMR, a duodenal mucosal resurfacing therapy to rejuvenate the lining of the duodenum. Its Revita DMR procedure uses hydrothermal ablation to safely remove the excessive layer of the duodenal mucosa that develops due to high fat and sugar diets. Fractyl Laboratories Inc. was formerly known as MedCatalyst, Inc. and changed its name to Fractyl Laboratories Inc. in January 2012. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

MURJ

Series B in 2018
Murj is a Santa Cruz, California digital health company dedicated to helping clinicians streamline care for patients with implantable cardiac devices. Murj greets the challenge of managing the rapid growth of cardiac device data as an opportunity to improve care and deliver insight. Murj aims to liberate device clinics from paper reports and inadequate management tools, freeing clinicians to get back to the heart of the matter – their patients.

Copper

Private Placement in 2017
Copper is the only crm made for G Suite, works instantly and has an intuitive user experience. Designed for the teams who close deals, Copper is helping people focus on what’s important: authentic relationships.

Stitch Labs

Series B in 2015
Stitch is the leading online inventory control solution that simplifies multichannel retail business. It automatically syncs inventory, orders and sales across channels, which provides retailers a holistic understanding of their operations. With Stitch, retailers save time, make better decisions, and grow their businesses. Stitch integrates with top sales channels such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Shopify, WooCommerce and Square, as well as add-ons including Quickbooks, Xero, and ShipStation. To learn more, visit www.stitchlabs.com or reach out to our team at press@stitchlabs.com or on Twitter at @StitchLabs.

Puppet

Series F in 2018
Puppet makes infrastructure actionable, scalable and intelligent. From the data center to the cloud, Puppet helps enterprises modernize and manage their infrastructure to deliver innovation and efficiency through continuous automation. More than 40,000 organizations — including more than 80 percent of the Global 5000 — have benefited from Puppet’s open source and commercial solutions to ensure business continuity, optimize costs, boost compliance and ensure security - all while accelerating the adoption of DevOps practices and delivery of self-service.

Gigaom

Series E in 2011
Gigaom is a blog-related media company that offers news, analysis, and opinions on startups, emerging technologies, and other technology related topics. Its news, research, and events humanize technology and provide deep insight on disruptive companies, people, and trends. Gigaom owns more than 6.5 monthly unique readers, who turn to Gigaom to better understand major technology disruptions and the new business opportunities created by Gigaom. Its information is handled and delivered by over 200 independent analysts. This network of over 200 independent analysts provides new content that bridges the gap between breaking news and long-range research. Gigaom’s research provides timely, in-depth analysis of emerging technologies for individual and corporate subscribers. Each event of the company combines a narrow, deep focus with strong editorial content and face time with technology disruptors to give attendees the tools they need to capitalize on emerging trends. Gigaom was founded in 2006 by Om Malik and is based in San Francisco, California.

Handle Financial

Series E in 2014
Handle Financial, Inc. develops a mobile application to conduct financial transactions for businesses to serve consumers. The Prism Money application lets consumers track real-time balances, pay same-day, and view of all accounts. Its product includes PayNearMe, which allows businesses and government agencies to accept cash payments in stores. The company's Handle Platform provides real-time bill presentment and same-day payment capabilities for a variety of financial services products. The company was formerly known as PayNearMe, Inc. changed its name to Handle Financial, Inc. in March 2017. Handle Financial, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Solo.io

Private Placement in 2018
Solo.io develops tools to help the enterprise adapt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies. The company gives enterprises a clear pathway to the future by providing a suite of tools that allow enterprises to connect the old world of stable, well-tested applications that are hard to change with the newer, flexible world of microservices, serverless and service mesh. New features can be added to existing applications without having to rebuild entire legacy codebases, allowing enterprises to respond to business demands today without first completing painful multi-year transformation programs. Solo.io is a Boston-based start-up, founded in 2017 by Idit Levine.

SingleFeed

Series A in 2007
SingleFeed, a startup that helps online merchants to submit, manage, and optimize product listings on sites like Google Product Search, PriceGrabber and others.

Remixation, Inc.

Series A in 2007
Remixation, Inc. provides a video application for iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs. Its application helps people to find and share the videos from any site, with anyone, or on any device. The company also offers a bookmarking tool to share videos on Showyou or add them to their watch later queue. Remixation, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Portland, Oregon. As of December 7, 2015, Remixation, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Vevo LLC.

Automattic

Series D in 2019
Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com and WordPress.com VIP, the cloud version of WordPress. Automattic hosts and supports all WordPress.com sites ensuring that there is continuous and strategic development of the software available to its users. Automattic also supports WordPress.com VIP, a premium service designed for large-scale enterprises. WordPress.com VIP combines the benefits of WordPress.com and the ability to run custom code. In addition, WordPress.com VIP offers companies a robust CMS and 24/7 service.

Chia Network

Private Placement in 2018
Chia Network Inc. develops a blockchain-based transaction and cryptocurrency platform. It provides Chialisp, a smart transaction programming language that unlocks the security, transparency, and ease of use of cryptocurrencies. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Humanoid Labs

Venture Round in 2021
Humanoid Labs is currently operating in stealth mode. Founded in 2019 by Sandra Soskic and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California.

Desk.com

Series B in 2011
Desk.com is an online customer service software and support ticket help desk application for small business and fast-growing companies. It offers its application for e-mail, social media, chat, discussion board, and phone support. The company provides its collaboration tools and mobile application to solve customer problems. Formerly known as Assistly, Desk.com was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. It operates as a subsidiary of Salesforce.com, Inc..

Singly

Series A in 2012
Today's best apps connect with other apps for + Sharing (virality) + Friending (engagement) + Data (intelligent user experiences) + much more... Whether you're an independent developer, a startup on AngelList, an agency that builds apps for clients or a publisher who is doing more with mobile, Singly's SDKs and products are a solution for you. No more writing custom code for authentication, setting up user tables, syncing and storing data, tackling normalization and search/filtering. Your team gets accelerated time to market, increased focus on product, lowered infrastructure costs, and no more maintenance distractions and overhead. Singly was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco. Connect with Singly at www.singly.com and @singly.

BrainLuxury

Seed Round in 2022
BrainLuxury manufactures and commercializes nutritional brain supplements that are all developed to improve the brain network. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Three Rings

Convertible Note in 2008
Three Rings was an internet games development company based in San Francisco. Puzzle Pirates (casual action puzzle MMOARRPG) was their first and most successful title, followed by Bang! Howdy (Steampunk tactical turn-based MMO), Whirled (user-created Flash / web virtual world) and Spiral Knights (action adventure MMO). Three Rings also made a Doctor Who game with the BBC, a How to Train your Dragon game with Dreamworks and various Facebook games and other experiments. Three Rings was acquired by SEGA of Japan in 2011 and operated as a studio within SEGA until early 2016.

Molio

Series A in 2015
Molio is a full-digital brand building agency that specializes in launching brands with an online video at the core. Molio has recently launched an innovation partnership with Astro Studios called AM:LABS to originate, co-create and validate new brands. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Flipside Crypto

Series A in 2022
Flipside Crypto, Inc. operates a crypto currency information platform that provides business intelligence for blockchain organizations. The company offers cryptocurrency management services, including cryptocurrency acquisition, digital walleting, custody services, community tools, and portfolio dashboards for investors. It offers data models to evaluate liquid crypto assets and offers investment portfolios related to cryptocurrencies. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

TextDigger

Series A in 2009
[TextDigger](http://www.textdigger.com) provides semantic search services to increase the "findability" of a company's internal web pages as well as external pages on major search engines. Their search technology can discern between various meanings of words and matches words to pages where different words are used to describe the same ideas.

Loggly

Series C in 2014
Loggly, Inc. develops a cloud based application intelligence solutions for app developers. The company offers log management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, systems monitoring and alerting solutions, application debugging, deployment monitoring, application analytics solutions, and APIs for developers. Loggly, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of January 8, 2018, Loggly, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC.

Nexar

Series B in 2018
Nexar Ltd. develops Dashcam, a mobile application which helps in predicting road accidents. The company's mobile application offers insights and alerts about surrounding cars and enables users to provide feedback and alerts to other drivers on the road. Its application records the road while driving; detects a hard break or an accident; records past, present, and future of an incident; and automatically creates an incident and uploads it to the cloud. Nexar Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in Tel Aviv Yafo, Israel

InterVenn

Series B in 2020
InterVenn focuses on the identification, quantification, and classification of Glycoproteomic and other PTM signals found in human blood and tissue for biomarker and target discovery. It specializes in the fields of biotechnology and life science. The company's VISTA is the first commercially available platform that can assess (serum or plasma) protein glycosylation in a site-specific manner, across thousands of peptides and glycopeptides. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Deduce

Private Placement in 2020
Deduce, Inc. develops solutions to provide cyber security services. It focuses on enhancing user experiences by protecting user accounts and data. It provides services, such as data coalition; identity risk index, including credential stuffing and account testing, phishing and social engineering, scripting and automation, and optimize UX and reduce friction; and customer alerts. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Splice

Seed Round in 2013
Splice designs and develops a technology platform for music creators streamlines the fragmented process of creating and sharing music. It also provides artists with means to connect with fans and other artists to solicit feedback throughout every step of the process. Matthieu Aimonetti and Steve Martocci founded Splice in 2013. It has its headquarters in New York City.

tenXer

Series A in 2011
tenXer is the company redefining personal productivity by building a platform that allows any employee to analyze their daily work habits. tenXer CEO and Founder Jeff Ma is the inspiration for both the movie 21 and the book Bringing Down the House. Ma created the concept for tenXer when he saw a huge opportunity in the human capital management industry. tenXer focuses first and foremost on the everyday individual worker; the employee opposed to upper management. The company built a proprietary, data-driven platform that enables employees to better understand and improve their work performance, allowing them to be more intrinsically motivated and therefore more productive.

Bear Flag Robotics

Private Placement in 2018
Bear Flag Robotics, Inc. designs and develops self-driving technology for tractors and implements. The company's software allows the user to plan routes, schedule jobs, and receive real-time equipment alerts remotely. It also offers remote e-stop and obstacle and avoidance features. Bear Flag Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Renovo Auto

Seed Round in 2014
Renovo builds technology for Automated Mobility on Demand systems. Its technology merges self-driving software, data analytics, and automotive-grade safety systems into a unified high-performance solution. Renovo-enabled vehicles command hundreds of sensors generating multiple terabytes of data—each hour—on a safe, secure, and scalable platform developed in extremely demanding environments.

Scythe

Venture Round in 2020
Scythe Robotics, Inc. develops autonomous robot. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Longmont, Colorado.

Nexar

Series A in 2016
Nexar Ltd. develops Dashcam, a mobile application which helps in predicting road accidents. The company's mobile application offers insights and alerts about surrounding cars and enables users to provide feedback and alerts to other drivers on the road. Its application records the road while driving; detects a hard break or an accident; records past, present, and future of an incident; and automatically creates an incident and uploads it to the cloud. Nexar Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in Tel Aviv Yafo, Israel

Apcera

Seed Round in 2012
Apcera, Inc. operates as a cloud computing company that provides enterprises with more visibility and control over their on-premise and public cloud-based applications. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Mountain View, California. As of October 10, 2014, Apcera, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ).

Solo.io

Private Placement in 2020
Solo.io develops tools to help the enterprise adapt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies. The company gives enterprises a clear pathway to the future by providing a suite of tools that allow enterprises to connect the old world of stable, well-tested applications that are hard to change with the newer, flexible world of microservices, serverless and service mesh. New features can be added to existing applications without having to rebuild entire legacy codebases, allowing enterprises to respond to business demands today without first completing painful multi-year transformation programs. Solo.io is a Boston-based start-up, founded in 2017 by Idit Levine.

Glowforge

Private Placement in 2016
Glowforge is a manufacturer of 3D laser printers intended to offer printing services on a wide range of materials and many more.The company's printers utilize software and sensors to cut, engrave, and shape designs from a variety of materials, enabling users to print and decorate any materials.

Orchestrate

Seed Round in 2013
Orchestrate provides a simple RESTful API service that eliminates the need for developers to operate their own databases in production. Powered by best-of-breed NoSQL databases, it unifies full-text search, social graph, activity feed, key/value document and time-ordered event queries in a single interface, eliminating the operational and financial burden of deploying databases when both building new applications and adding new features to existing ones. Behind the scenes, Orchestrate handles the complex task of building, operating, and scaling a high performance, fault tolerant data layer.

Directly

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

Kettle

Private Placement in 2020
Kettle is a machine-learning powered reinsurer balancing risk in a changing climate. It's proprietary deep learning algorithms use more than seven billion lines of a satellite, weather, and ground truth data. These models use Swarm Neural Networks to find patterns that enable more accurate predictions, thereby reducing loss ratios. Kettle is structured to sell reinsurance to insurers.

Copper

Series C in 2019
Copper is the only crm made for G Suite, works instantly and has an intuitive user experience. Designed for the teams who close deals, Copper is helping people focus on what’s important: authentic relationships.

Trippy

Series A in 2014
Trippy is a community of travelers helping each other travel better through a question-and-answer based community. Along the way, Trippy aims to inspire and spread "helper joy" -- that happy kick you get when someone else has a great experience thanks to advice you shared. Trippy launched as a finalist in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 Startup Battlefield. The company was founded by J.R. Johnson and the team that launched and grew VirtualTourist.com and OneTime.com (both bootstrapped and grown to an annual revenue of $18MM and $8MM EBITDA) until the sites were acquired by Expedia in 2008.

OpenZeppelin

Venture Round in 2017
OpenZeppelin builds developer tools and performs security audits for distributed systems that power multimillion-dollar economies. At OpenZeppelin, we have built the world’s leading Open Source library for smart contract development. OpenZeppelin Contracts powers over 3,000 public projects, with over 7,000 stars on Github and maintained by a community of 180+ contributors. We also conduct security audits for the Ethereum Foundation, Coinbase, and other leading organizations in the space. With the success of our product, our security audits work, and our educational efforts, we have set industry standards for building secure systems in a fast-growing industry. We are now excited to offer a development platform that will help the growing number of developers working on top of decentralized protocols build the applications that will reach mass adoption.

Avidbots Corp.

Private Placement in 2019
Avidbots vision is to bring robots to everyday life to expand human potential. Avidbots first product is NEO - the world's smartest autonomous scrubbing robot. NEO is trusted by some of the best managed airports, retail malls, hospitals, colleges, industrial sites, museums, warehouses, etc in 7 countries and counting.

Storehouse

Series A in 2014
Storehouse lets you tell stories with your photos and videos. Winner of TechCrunch 2015 Crunchie for Best Mobile App. Winner of the 2014 Apple Design Award. www.storehouse.co

NewCo

Seed Round in 2016
NewCo Platform, Inc. connects people with businesses through its events, media, and business partnerships. The company also produces a multi-platform publication, NewCo Shift, revealing the companies, leaders, and issues driving the transition to a positive-impact business ecosystem. It hosts business festivals throughout North America, Europe, and Latin America. NewCo Platform, Inc. was formerly known as OpenCo Media, Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Copper

Series B in 2016
Copper is the only crm made for G Suite, works instantly and has an intuitive user experience. Designed for the teams who close deals, Copper is helping people focus on what’s important: authentic relationships.

HashiCorp

Series D in 2018
HashiCorp is an open-source software company based in San Francisco, California. HashiCorp provides open source tools and commercial products that enable developers, operators and security professionals to provision, secure and run distributed application infrastructure. It was founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. HashiCorp is headquartered in San Francisco, but their employees are distributed across the United States and Europe. HashiCorp offers both open source and paid commercial products.

Spree Commerce

Series A in 2014
At Spree Commerce, our mission is to empower the world’s sellers. Spree Commerce began as an open source e-commerce platform in 2008. The modular platform allows for easy customizations and upgrades so developers and store owners can configure Spree for their specific needs. Spree’s vibrant, international community has been an important factor in the company’s success. Almost 500 developers have contributed to the Spree platform, and it is now one of the top open source projects in the world. In 2013, the company launched the Spree Commerce hub. The hub automates backend operations for storefronts using any platform, not just Spree, including stores operated by some of the world’s largest e-commerce retailers.

Trustory AG

Private Placement in 2018
Trustory AG develops a blockchain based online fact-checking platform that uses collective knowledge of crowd, combined with right incentives and disincentives, to validate and curate facts and information. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Paderborn, Germany.

Bear Flag Robotics

Seed Round in 2021
Bear Flag Robotics, Inc. designs and develops self-driving technology for tractors and implements. The company's software allows the user to plan routes, schedule jobs, and receive real-time equipment alerts remotely. It also offers remote e-stop and obstacle and avoidance features. Bear Flag Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Lumity

Series A in 2015
Lumity simplifies company health plan decisions with data-driven recommendations that drive cost savings and improve outcomes. With one dashboard, users can control and measure their plan’s design, match recommendations to group needs, and receive real-time insights into benefits. Founded in 2013 as a B2B company, Lumity is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Projector

Seed Round in 2016
Projector is a platform that helps developers and product teams expand their product experiences outside the confines of their app. The company builds collaborative creative tools for visual communications like videos, GIFs, social media, and presentations. Projector was founded in 2015 by Aaron Gotwalt and Timothy Young and is based in San Francisco, California.

Renovo Auto

Venture Round in 2017
Renovo builds technology for Automated Mobility on Demand systems. Its technology merges self-driving software, data analytics, and automotive-grade safety systems into a unified high-performance solution. Renovo-enabled vehicles command hundreds of sensors generating multiple terabytes of data—each hour—on a safe, secure, and scalable platform developed in extremely demanding environments.

Turnsmith

Series A in 2007
Turnsmith provides process automation solutions to lean manufacturers through an Internet gateway. It offers Kanban solution, which allows individual cells or supply chains to process automation investment, by reducing the management time and information gathering required to monitor, update, and transmit card-based replenishment needs. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Diligent Robotics

Private Placement in 2017
Diligent Robotics develops technically advanced robots with mobile manipulation, social intelligence, and human-guided learning capabilities to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments. Diligent Robotics' service robots are designed to participate and work together with teams of humans. The company's first product, Moxi, is a hospital robot assistant that helps clinical staff with logistical tasks, allowing them to have more time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service, and safety.

Handle Financial

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

Airship

Series D in 2013
Urban Airship® is trusted by thousands of businesses to drive growth through real time customer engagement. Every day, marketers and developers depend on Urban Airship to deliver billions of personalized, interactive notifications that inspire interest and drive action across all digital channels including apps, websites, mobile wallets, email, SMS and more. Urban Airship is used by many of the world’s most admired companies, including Adidas, Alaska Airlines, The Home Depot, NBCUniversal, Sky Plc and Zillow.

Kurtosys

Debt Financing in 2013
Kurtosys Systems Inc. develops digital marketing and client reporting tools that help asset managers to attract and retain investor assets. The company offers fund marketing solutions, such as fund Websites (builds and hosts), factsheets, and tools; and investor servicing solutions, including portals (wealth managers and fund distributors) and a document distribution portal. It serves the financial sector. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina with regional offices in London, Cape Town, Reno, and Gurugram.

Duo Security

Seed Round in 2010
Duo Security provides a cloud-based access protection solution for companies and organizations worldwide. Clients use its solution for adaptive authentication, BYOD (bring your own device) security, cloud security, endpoint security, mobile security, and two-factor authentication. Duo Security also offers Duo Managed Service Provider (MSP), a program that provides MSPs with tools to protect their customers from data breaches. Clients can deploy its technology to protect users, data, and applications from breaches, credential theft, and account takeover. Duo Security serves education, financial services, healthcare, legal, retail, and technology industries. Dug Song and Jonathan Oberheide founded Duo Security in 2009, with its headquarters in Ann Arbor in Michigan and offices in San Mateo in California, Austin in Texas, and London in England.

BrightRoll

Series D in 2011
BrightRoll Inc. develops programmatic video advertising platform for reaching audiences across desktop, mobile and connected TV. Its platform enables advertisers to reach video viewers online. BrightRoll Inc. was formerly known as PostRoller Inc. and changed its name to BrightRoll Inc. in November 2006. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Catalyst Software

Venture Round in 2018
Catalyst develops an intuitive Customer Success Platform (CSP) for customer sales teams, helping them reduce churn, drive product adoption, and build customer relationships at scale. It helps customer success managers to proactively take the right actions to prevent churn, such as receiving automated alerts when a customer is not using certain features that are critical to their success.

Rise Science

Seed Round in 2018
Rise is the only app that unlocks the real-world benefits of better sleep. Instead of just promising a better night, we use 100 years of sleep science to help you pay down sleep debt and take advantage of your circadian rhythm to be your best. Over the past decade, we've helped professional athletes, startups, and Fortune 500s improve their sleep to measurably win more in the real-world scenarios that matter most. Rise Science is backed by True Ventures, Freestyle Capital, and High Alpha; investors behind category winners Fitbit, Peloton, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Fractyl Health

Series D in 2017
Fractyl Laboratories Inc. develops a minimally invasive procedural therapy for metabolic diseases. It offers Revita DMR, a duodenal mucosal resurfacing therapy to rejuvenate the lining of the duodenum. Its Revita DMR procedure uses hydrothermal ablation to safely remove the excessive layer of the duodenal mucosa that develops due to high fat and sugar diets. Fractyl Laboratories Inc. was formerly known as MedCatalyst, Inc. and changed its name to Fractyl Laboratories Inc. in January 2012. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Applauze

Series A in 2013
Applauze, formerly 955Dreams Inc., is a new age publishing company. They publish magical titles on mobile devices. Their latest product, called Applauze launched in March of 2013, is an iOS app that presents users with thousands of events happening every day, from concerts and theater productions to sports games and community events. The service is available across 41 U.S. cities and 5 Canadian cities. Applauze finds tickets from primary sellers, as well as secondary markets like StubHub, and uses data analytics and machine learning to recommend relevant events to users, who can easily purchase tickets via the app and also share their event with friends. Applauze is a small group of hackers and designers who are working on mobile products that will engage and excite you. They love what they do and their users love the products they've built. Their designs are executed at a very high standard and their apps are educational and highly immersive at the same time. Applauze has raised money from Mitch Kapor and 500 Startups.

Twin Prime

Series A in 2015
Twin Prime makes mobile apps fast. Performance in mobile depends on a variety of factors such as the wireless network technology, device models, operating system software and even the nature of the app itself. This makes the problem incredibly hard and complex. Twin Prime uses machine learning to make sense of these factors and delivers content to apps in the most optimal and quickest way.

Peloton

Series F in 2018
Peloton is revolutionizing the fitness industry by merging high-design with modern technology to provide access to live and on-demand fitness group classes led by elite NYC instructors. With instant access to classes, performance tracking metrics and a motivating real-time leaderboard, Peloton is changing the way people get fit through a comprehensive and socially connected-experience that makes every workout both efficient and addicting. By merging hardware, software, and content, Peloton creates the most unique, efficient and addicting workout experience on the market. Peloton is sold online and in their growing number of showrooms across the country.

Madison Reed

Venture Round in 2021
Madison Reed, Inc. manufactures hair care products. It offers permanent hair colors, light works products, root reboot products, root touch up products, color reviving gloss products, treatment products, shampoos and conditioners, styling products, and hair tools. The company also provides accessories, such as color bowls and brushes, coloring accessory kits, combs, hair clips, professional comb and clip kits, and professional color tool kits. In addition, it operates hair color salons in San Francisco, Corte Madera, and Walnut Creek, California; and provides franchising opportunities. The company sells its products online. Madison Reed, Inc. was formerly known as Madison Color, Inc. and changed its name to Madison Reed, Inc. in August 2013. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

scanR

Venture Round in 2009
scanR, Inc. develops handset applications that allow camera phone or digital camera to scan, copy, and fax documents. The company provides scanR service, which produces copies of documents, whiteboards, and business cards; extracts text information; and creates a PDF file, electronic contact, or fax. scanR also offers Office Files (beta) product that allows to upload office files through the uploader in its Web site and enable to read those files on mobile phones, as well as supports Excel, Word, Powerpoint, pdf, WordPerfect, rtf, and csv file formats. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Catalyst Software

Private Placement in 2018
Catalyst develops an intuitive Customer Success Platform (CSP) for customer sales teams, helping them reduce churn, drive product adoption, and build customer relationships at scale. It helps customer success managers to proactively take the right actions to prevent churn, such as receiving automated alerts when a customer is not using certain features that are critical to their success.

Glowforge

Series B in 2016
Glowforge is a manufacturer of 3D laser printers intended to offer printing services on a wide range of materials and many more.The company's printers utilize software and sensors to cut, engrave, and shape designs from a variety of materials, enabling users to print and decorate any materials.

Loggly

Series D in 2016
Loggly, Inc. develops a cloud based application intelligence solutions for app developers. The company offers log management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, systems monitoring and alerting solutions, application debugging, deployment monitoring, application analytics solutions, and APIs for developers. Loggly, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of January 8, 2018, Loggly, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC.

20x200

Series A in 2010
20x200 is a NYC-based e-commerce site that transforms design-minded consumers into art collectors. The site features a curated selection of affordable, limited-edition, exhibition-quality prints, which are delivered with artist-signed certificates of authenticity. Working directly with hundreds of artists—emerging, established and legendary—they release new, exclusive editions each week at prices ranging from $24 to $10,000.

tray.io

Seed Round in 2015
Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators. Tray.io believes that any organization can and should automate. With the Tray Platform, citizen automators throughout organizations can easily automate complex processes through a powerful, flexible platform, and can connect their entire cloud stack thanks to APIs. With Tray.io’s visual workflow builder, customers can create automation to drive their business processes without writing a single line of code.

Splice

Series B in 2017
Splice designs and develops a technology platform for music creators streamlines the fragmented process of creating and sharing music. It also provides artists with means to connect with fans and other artists to solicit feedback throughout every step of the process. Matthieu Aimonetti and Steve Martocci founded Splice in 2013. It has its headquarters in New York City.

Art Blocks

Venture Round in 2021
Art Blocks allows digital artists to have their work react to alphanumeric figures generated by the Ethereum blockchain. The platform provides artists with an innovative system for user interaction where patrons can send funds to an art installation in order to generate unique yet repeatable reactions from the art. Art Blocks disrupts the world of interactive and generative art creating a transparent revenue source for artists and entities that host and maintain the art projects themselves.

Peloton

Series E in 2017
Peloton is revolutionizing the fitness industry by merging high-design with modern technology to provide access to live and on-demand fitness group classes led by elite NYC instructors. With instant access to classes, performance tracking metrics and a motivating real-time leaderboard, Peloton is changing the way people get fit through a comprehensive and socially connected-experience that makes every workout both efficient and addicting. By merging hardware, software, and content, Peloton creates the most unique, efficient and addicting workout experience on the market. Peloton is sold online and in their growing number of showrooms across the country.

Namely

Series C in 2015
Namely, Inc. owns and operates an online human resource software platform for small- and mid-sized organizations. The company offers an employee database with time-off tracking, reporting, employee profile, social news feed, and mobile application options; payroll solutions; medical, dental, life, worker’s compensation, and other plan benefits from carriers; and talent management solutions. It serves technology, professional service, and commerce industries worldwide. Namely, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

Deduce

Seed Round in 2020
Deduce, Inc. develops solutions to provide cyber security services. It focuses on enhancing user experiences by protecting user accounts and data. It provides services, such as data coalition; identity risk index, including credential stuffing and account testing, phishing and social engineering, scripting and automation, and optimize UX and reduce friction; and customer alerts. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Helpshift

Series A in 2014
Helpshift, Inc. develops mobile customer services software. It offers Helpshift, a support platform for mobile and Web that helps businesses to proactively support and engage customers. Its support platform includes various functionalities, such as in-app FAQ’s, in-app chat, a full CRM ticketing system, in-app campaigns, and in-app surveys. Helpshift, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Stocktwits

Series A in 2009
StockTwits, Inc. operates a financial communications platform for the financial and investing community to share ideas, news, and information. The company offers StockTwits, a specialized communications platform built around individual stock tickers that provides a natural channel to ensure that companies get their messages out, as well as $TICKER streams that consist of ideas, links, charts, and other financial data. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in New York, New York.

B-Stock Solutions

Seed Round in 2009
B-Stock Solutions helps companies increase revenue and reduce costs associated with liquidation of excess inventory. The company was founded in 2009 by the team who built the private marketplace business at eBay for brand name companies like Sam's Club, HP, Motorola, and Dell.

Athos

Series C in 2015
The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster. Athos does this by bringing together the most relevant data and exercise science to deliver simple, actionable insights that allow coaches and athletes to get the most out of their training.

Deep Genomics

Series C in 2021
Deep Genomics Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) therapeutics company, develops individualized genetic medicines by creating AI systems that are used to accelerate various steps of drug discovery and development, including target discovery, lead optimization, toxicity assessment, and innovative trial design. It develops and markets therapies for rare metabolic, ophthalmologic, and neurodegenerative disorders. The company develops oligonucleotide therapies that target the genetic determinants of disease at the level of RNA or DNA. Deep Genomics Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Automattic

Series B in 2008
Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com and WordPress.com VIP, the cloud version of WordPress. Automattic hosts and supports all WordPress.com sites ensuring that there is continuous and strategic development of the software available to its users. Automattic also supports WordPress.com VIP, a premium service designed for large-scale enterprises. WordPress.com VIP combines the benefits of WordPress.com and the ability to run custom code. In addition, WordPress.com VIP offers companies a robust CMS and 24/7 service.

Whole Biome

Series A in 2016
The pendulum is the microbial company to apply the discoveries of high-resolution, long-read DNA sequencing to the development of microbiome interventions targeting specific diseases. With a team of accomplished scientists, clinicians, engineers and innovators committed to Its mission of making millions healthier through microbiome-targeted medical probiotics.

FREEjit

Series A in 2010
FREEjit, Inc. is in Stealth mode. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Newport Beach, California.

Filtrbox

Series A in 2009
Filtrbox provides a social media monitoring platform for marketers, PR professionals, brand managers, and customer service teams. The company’s services include Filtrbox G2 that delivers critical market intelligence to executives, sales professionals, investors, and marketers as well as discovers new articles in a range of online sources and delivers a daily list of qualified results based on its clients’ business logic. The company also provides Filtrbox Basic that enables to track the things which clients care about online. The company’s services enable its clients to listen, engage, measure, and lead social media conversations. It monitors [Twitter](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter), [FriendFeed](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/friendfeed), [Backtype](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/backtype), and other social networks. Filtrbox was founded in April 2007 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Fitbit

Series A in 2008
Fitbit inspires people to exercise more, eat better and live healthier lifestyles. The company is developing an ultra-compact wireless wearable sensor, called the Fitbit Tracker, that automatically tracks data about a person's activities, such as calories burned, sleep quality, steps and distance. The Fitbit Tracker collects activity data automatically while it is worn by the user all day. The collected data is wirelessly uploaded to a website where the wearer can see their data and track their progress toward personal goals. The website provides a motivational interface where users can share their progress, compare themselves against similar people and work toward virtual goals with their friends, family and co-workers. At the website, users can also manually log nutrition, weight and other health information in order to gain a complete picture of their health. Fitbit makes it easy to achieve a healthy lifestyle by automating the collection of health data and providing a motivating and entertaining user interface.

BrightRoll

Series C in 2010
BrightRoll Inc. develops programmatic video advertising platform for reaching audiences across desktop, mobile and connected TV. Its platform enables advertisers to reach video viewers online. BrightRoll Inc. was formerly known as PostRoller Inc. and changed its name to BrightRoll Inc. in November 2006. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Solvvy

Seed Round in 2016
Solvvy is a machine learning startup reinventing the customer experience. Its first product, Solvvy for Support, delivers a better self-service platform that improves customer satisfaction and decreases costs for businesses. This intelligent NLP solution is the first customer support SaaS application based on Solvvy’s powerful answer graph technology. Solvvy deploys in days and delivers immediate financial returns for business. Solvvy is already trusted by leading brands including UpWork, TaskRabbit, Rover.com, DoubleDutch, Automattic and others. The company was founded by esteemed technologists Mehdi Samadi and Justin Betteridge and serial entrepreneur/CEO, Mahesh Ram. Solvvy is fortunate to be backed by leading Silicon Valley investors

Diligent Robotics

Series A in 2020
Diligent Robotics develops technically advanced robots with mobile manipulation, social intelligence, and human-guided learning capabilities to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments. Diligent Robotics' service robots are designed to participate and work together with teams of humans. The company's first product, Moxi, is a hospital robot assistant that helps clinical staff with logistical tasks, allowing them to have more time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service, and safety.