Tray.io, Inc. operates a cloud-based API integration platform tailored for enterprises, facilitating automation across various organizational processes. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an office in London, the company offers the Tray Platform, which empowers citizen automators to streamline complex workflows without the need for coding. This platform connects to a wide range of software applications via REST-based and SOAP-based APIs and can also process CSV files for tools with limited API capabilities. Additionally, Tray.io provides guidance, support, training, and consulting services to enhance user experience and effectiveness. By enabling seamless integration within the cloud stack, Tray.io aims to simplify automation for organizations of all sizes.
Prellis Biologics is building human tissues for drug development, and ultimately, developing human organs for transplantation. Bioprinting vascularized human tissue and organs will revolutionize healthcare. Prellis Biologics' technology leverages massive gains in print speed and resolution to break the microvasculature barrier.
Cookie.AI is a stealth-mode startup based in the Silicon Valley / Bay Area. We are building SaaS based security products in a dynamic and fast moving world of cybersecurity with ideas rooted in the era of privacy for the cloud. We are well-funded and backed by top-tier VCs and CEOs as angel investors. The founders are serial entrepreneurs who have experience in the full 0-to-1 journey with a successful exit with an acquisition. We are looking for founding engineers (summer interns also welcome!) with strong interests in security / cloud-native systems / identity / SaaS.
Wisq is computer software that aims to make people happier at work. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Redwood City, California.
Reforge mission is to help experienced professionals fulfill their potential. Professional development and masters level education is a lifelong endeavor but there is a growing gap of what professionals want/need and the existing options available.
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. It aims to accelerate the world's research. Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. Over 132 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 25 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 52 million unique visitors a month. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Quantum Art is the first platform focused solely on photographers and their work, curating and dropping NFT collections and making NFT photography accessible for both artists and collectors.
Seurat Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in advanced printing services. Founded in 2015, it is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and also has significant operations in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The company focuses on innovative approaches to printing technology, aiming to enhance efficiency and quality in the production process.
Handshake is a college career network established in 2014, aimed at transforming the recruiting experience for students, career centers, and employers. It connects 17 million students and young alumni from over 1,000 colleges and universities—including many minority-serving institutions—with nearly 500,000 employers, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and nonprofits. The platform democratizes access to job opportunities, providing students with valuable insights and a wider array of career options, while enabling employers to efficiently access diverse talent. Additionally, it offers colleges tools to enhance student engagement and boost employment outcomes. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Denver and London, Handshake has raised a total of $155 million from various investors, including prominent venture capital and social impact firms.
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Braintrust is a decentralized freelancer marketplace that utilizes blockchain technology to link technical and design professionals with organizations seeking their expertise. Founded in 2018 in San Jose, California, by Adam Jackson, Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski, and Brian Flynn, Braintrust offers a user-controlled talent network that enables direct connections between businesses and top tech talent. By eliminating intermediaries, the platform provides significant cost savings for enterprises, charging a flat 10 percent project fee while allowing talent to retain 100 percent of their earnings. The company's mission is to revolutionize traditional hiring practices by redistributing value and aligning incentives between talent and organizations, ultimately creating a more efficient and equitable workforce ecosystem.
Tiamat is a start-up producing affordable animal-free growth factors and biomolecules using plants as bioreactors. Thanks to its propriety platform, the company can manufacture a wide range of high-value proteins from antigens to growth factors. The company has already achieved a 10x cost reduction and at scale can get costs down 1000x even at 80% growth-margins, giving them a wide ability to price strategically. the coming years. The low investment needed to build a facility (up to 40x less than current solutions) combined with its unique technology makes Tiamat the ideal partner in production scale-up for promising markets that will soon become enormous such as cellular agriculture or cell & gene therapy.
Developer of a software development kit and application designed to help apps sync with or without connectivity. The company's software development kit directly communicates with other devices, without the need for a server and automatically manages the complexity of using multiple network means of transport, like Bluetooth and wifi, to find and connect to other devices and then synchronize any changes, enabling developers to build applications that sync with each other with and even without internet connectivity.
Gradle, Inc. consists of the Gradle Build Tool (www.gradle.org) and Gradle Enterprise (www.gradle.com). Gradle Build Tool is the most popular build tool for open source JVM projects on GitHub. It is downloaded on average more than 19 million times per month and has been counted in the Top 20 Most Popular Open Source Projects for IT by Techcrunch. Many popular open source projects are using Gradle, with Spring Boot, JUnit, and JetBrains (Kotlin) being a prominent examples. Gradle Enterprise is the first only software build performance acceleration and analytics platform. The most prestigious software development and build/test engineering teams in the world use Gradle Enterprise to cut build times in half and give developers back one day per week in lost productivity time. Gradle Enterprise is a self-hosted solution that leverages acceleration technologies to speed up the software build and test process and data analytics to make troubleshooting more efficient. It is a key enabling technology for the emerging discipline of Developer Productivity Engineering in both Gradle and Maven build environments.
Kettle Inc. is an innovative company based in Kensington, California, specializing in online risk analysis for the insurance industry. Founded in 2020, Kettle develops a machine-learning powered platform that utilizes deep learning algorithms to analyze over seven billion lines of satellite, weather, and ground truth data. By employing Swarm Neural Networks, the platform identifies patterns that enhance the accuracy of risk predictions related to climate change, thereby assisting insurers in managing catastrophic risks. Kettle's approach aims to improve underwriting processes and reduce loss ratios, enabling the sale of reinsurance to other insurers while effectively balancing risk in an evolving climate landscape.
Forta Network is a developer of a security protocol aimed at preventing the exploitation of smart contracts within the blockchain ecosystem. The platform offers a decentralized, community-based security system that focuses on mitigating risks and detecting real-time threats, thus enabling users to secure their smart contracts effectively. As the blockchain landscape has evolved, particularly with the rise of programmable networks, Forta Network addresses a critical need by enhancing the safety of smart contracts for developers and users alike. By leveraging its innovative approach, the company contributes to the broader goal of ensuring secure interactions within the blockchain market.
Fauna Bio is developing new ways to treat human diseases, such as heart disease and neurodegenerative disease, by adopting mechanisms animals have developed for traits such as hibernation and deep-diving. Founded by three scientists who have intimate knowledge of the best science and resources from the field of non-model organisms, Fauna Bio leverages data from hundreds of species in order to help develop pre-clinical and early clinical testing for new therapeutics targeting human diseases.
strongDM manages and audits access to servers and databases. It provides a single platform to control access to any database for employees, vendors, and cloud-based tools.
The company was awarded in the Strata+Hadoop World Audience Favorite in 2016.
It was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Burlingame, California.
Neosec is reinventing application security and is the intelligent way to protect your APIs from business abuse and data theft.
NoRedInk Corp. operates an online language-learning platform designed to enhance grammar and writing skills for students in grades 4-12. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform provides a variety of adaptive exercises that engage learners and facilitate self and peer reviews. It delivers actionable performance data to educators, enabling them to track student progress effectively. NoRedInk's resources are utilized in over half of the school districts in the United States, reflecting its commitment to improving writing proficiency and unlocking the potential of millions of students.
Humanoid Labs, founded in 2019 by Sandra Soskic and based in West Hollywood, California, operates in stealth mode as a cosmetics technology company. The firm focuses on integrating expression, community, data, and sustainability into its offerings. Its innovative skinwear system features NFC-connected, versatile, and durable products tailored for the body and hair. Additionally, Humanoid Labs provides a virtual assistant app alongside user-friendly tools designed to simplify the process of creating diverse looks.
InterVenn Biosciences Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based mass spectrometry technology for glycoproteomics. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in South San Francisco, California, with additional offices in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Australia, InterVenn focuses on the identification, quantification, and classification of glycoproteomic signals in human blood and tissue. Its VISTA platform is the first commercially available system that assesses protein glycosylation in a site-specific manner, enabling the discovery of biomarkers for various conditions, including cancers, autoimmunity, fibrosis, and neurodegeneration. The company's technology aims to facilitate early cancer detection and improve patient care through actionable insights derived from glycoproteomic analysis.
Modern Animal, Inc. operates a veterinary clinic and provides home clinic services. The company provides an online mobile applications for its customers. It offers wellness, surgery, dentistry, ultrasound, radiology, diagnostics, nutrition, walk-in (no appointment) ,drop off service ,lab testing emergency, laser, and acupuncture services. Additionally, It provides memberships, unlimited exams, 24/7 virtual care, in-app prescription requests, and delivery, and more. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Modern Animal, Inc. operates a veterinary clinic and provides home clinic services. The company provides an online mobile applications for its customers. It offers wellness, surgery, dentistry, ultrasound, radiology, diagnostics, nutrition, walk-in (no appointment) ,drop off service ,lab testing emergency, laser, and acupuncture services. Additionally, It provides memberships, unlimited exams, 24/7 virtual care, in-app prescription requests, and delivery, and more. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Voiceflow Inc. operates a platform that enables content creators to design, prototype, and monetize voice applications for smart speakers like Alexa and Google Assistant. Founded in 2018 and based in Toronto, Canada, the company provides a user-friendly interface that allows individuals and businesses to build powerful voice applications without the need for coding skills. The platform features a visual programming language with a drag-and-drop interface, facilitating the easy creation and deployment of voice apps. This approach empowers users to develop conversational interfaces efficiently, helping them to leverage voice technology for various applications, including voice shopping.
Seurat Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in advanced printing services. Founded in 2015, it is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and also has significant operations in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The company focuses on innovative approaches to printing technology, aiming to enhance efficiency and quality in the production process.
Enveda Therapeutics is constructing and decoding the largest integrated dataset of anthropological, biological, and chemical information from medicinal plants to inspire new medicines.
Impossible Finance uses decentralized financial protocols to give everyone the same access to financial products, which were previously only available to institutions and select individuals.
Iterative.ai brings engineering practices to data science and machine learning. It maintains a code repository with data files, machine learning model files, and model metrics. It keeps track of machine learning experiments to share knowledge about ideas. Iterative.ai was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Chia Network Inc. is a blockchain-based company founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It focuses on creating a cryptocurrency platform that emphasizes decentralization, security, and efficiency. The company has developed a unique technology based on proofs of space and time, which utilizes underused storage space on hard drives, making its approach to cryptocurrency mining less resource-intensive compared to traditional methods. Chia Network also offers Chialisp, a smart transaction programming language that enhances the functionality and user-friendliness of its cryptocurrency transactions. By leveraging this innovative technology, Chia Network aims to optimize cryptocurrency transactions while providing a sustainable alternative for both individual miners and financial institutions.
Handshake is a college career network established in 2014, aimed at transforming the recruiting experience for students, career centers, and employers. It connects 17 million students and young alumni from over 1,000 colleges and universities—including many minority-serving institutions—with nearly 500,000 employers, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and nonprofits. The platform democratizes access to job opportunities, providing students with valuable insights and a wider array of career options, while enabling employers to efficiently access diverse talent. Additionally, it offers colleges tools to enhance student engagement and boost employment outcomes. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Denver and London, Handshake has raised a total of $155 million from various investors, including prominent venture capital and social impact firms.
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month.
It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee.
Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Wisq is computer software that aims to make people happier at work. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Redwood City, California.
Thistle Technologies focuses on providing security solutions for connected device manufacturers, particularly in the Internet of Things (IoT) and embedded systems sectors. Founded by Window Snyder, a security expert with extensive experience at major tech firms, the company has developed a comprehensive security platform that equips manufacturers with essential tools and services to mitigate security risks. This platform enables development teams to implement verifiable security enhancements effectively and efficiently, ensuring that security architecture can be integrated into devices with ease. Thistle Technologies is supported by True Ventures.
Carbo Culture Oy is a Finnish company that specializes in producing biochar from biomass waste, utilizing a carbon sequestration process to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Founded in 2016 and based in Helsinki, the company focuses on upcycling orchard waste into stable, solid biocarbon products. These products serve various applications, including soil remediation and enhancing soil properties by improving water retention and nutrient availability. Carbo Culture's biochar acts as a long-term solution for repairing damaged soils and mitigating crop losses while preventing carbon from re-entering the atmosphere for centuries. The company's innovative approach reflects its commitment to sustainable practices and environmental responsibility.
Whole Biome is a microbiome company dedicated to enhancing patient care through targeted interventions that focus on the human microbiome. By leveraging high-resolution, long-read DNA sequencing, Whole Biome develops microbiome-targeted medical probiotics aimed at addressing specific diseases. The company is supported by a team of experienced scientists, clinicians, and engineers who are committed to advancing health outcomes and improving the overall well-being of individuals through innovative microbiome solutions.
Riva Health is building the future of cardiovascular healthcare. Riva’s breakthrough cardiology technology measures and manages hypertension, all through a smartphone app and camera. The company is led by co-founders, Dag Kittlaus and Tuhin Sinha, and confronts the leading cause of mortality in the United States, heart disease.
Health Gorilla, Inc. specializes in providing interoperability solutions that enhance data sharing across the healthcare ecosystem, including patients, payers, providers, digital health solutions, and laboratories. The company's main offering is a clinical network that aggregates and normalizes patient data, facilitates clinical orders, and delivers real-time notifications, empowering patients with access to their personal health information. By ensuring secure interoperability and supporting social determinants of health (SDOH), Health Gorilla aims to deliver high-quality, actionable data that improves healthcare delivery, clinical outcomes, and revenue cycle management for healthcare organizations. The company, originally founded as Informedika, Inc. in 2011, rebranded to Health Gorilla in April 2014 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Madison Reed, Inc. is a beauty company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in manufacturing hair care products, particularly hair color formulations. Founded in 2013, the company offers a range of products, including permanent hair colors, root touch-up solutions, color reviving glosses, and various treatment products. Madison Reed emphasizes the use of a proprietary ammonia-free formula enriched with ingredients like argan oil and keratin, aiming to provide salon-quality hair color at an accessible price point. In addition to its online sales, the company operates hair color salons in California and offers franchising opportunities. It also markets a selection of hair care accessories and tools. Madison Reed's focus on using safe, high-quality ingredients has positioned it as a leader in the hair color industry, catering to consumers seeking effective and gentle hair care solutions.
Reflexer Labs, founded in 2020 and based in the USA, is a decentralized finance project focused on reducing volatility in the financial ecosystem. The company develops a low-volatility collateral designed to create a stable foundation for decentralized finance. Its innovative product employs a volatility-dampened synthetic instrument that utilizes control theory within smart contracts. This technology allows for the automatic adjustment of collateral supply in response to market conditions, maintaining a similar chart pattern to underlying assets while exhibiting lower volatility. By doing so, Reflexer aims to help businesses minimize the risk of investment losses, contributing to a more secure and stable decentralized finance environment.
Bear Flag Robotics, Inc. specializes in creating self-driving technology for tractors and agricultural implements, aiming to reduce farming costs through automation. Founded in 2017 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the company’s software enables users to plan routes, schedule tasks, and monitor equipment with real-time alerts from a remote location. Its technology utilizes perception sensors and robotic actuators, allowing for efficient route planning and obstacle avoidance. Additionally, Bear Flag Robotics provides features such as remote emergency stop capabilities and centralized mission control, which delivers real-time data about tractor operations, ultimately helping farmers enhance productivity and reduce input costs.
Aisera, Inc. is an information technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2017. It develops an artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to automate tasks, actions, and workflows for employees and customers across various sectors, including IT, human resources, sales, and operations. Aisera's offerings include the AI Service Desk, which serves multiple organizational functions, and the AI Customer Service tool, aimed at enhancing customer support and global service operations. The company's solutions leverage conversational AI, natural language processing (NLP), and robotic process automation (RPA) to provide personalized and predictive service management. By automating workflows, Aisera's technology aims to improve efficiency and resolve tasks for enterprise and consumer organizations alike.
Mode, Inc. develops a cloud platform that enables users to develop and operate their Internet of Things products. Its platform lets customers’ devices to communicate with their mobile clients, as well as helps to track and manage their devices and users. Mode, Inc. was founded on 2014 and is based in San Mateo, California with an additional office in Tokyo, Japan.
InterVenn Biosciences Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based mass spectrometry technology for glycoproteomics. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in South San Francisco, California, with additional offices in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Australia, InterVenn focuses on the identification, quantification, and classification of glycoproteomic signals in human blood and tissue. Its VISTA platform is the first commercially available system that assesses protein glycosylation in a site-specific manner, enabling the discovery of biomarkers for various conditions, including cancers, autoimmunity, fibrosis, and neurodegeneration. The company's technology aims to facilitate early cancer detection and improve patient care through actionable insights derived from glycoproteomic analysis.
Kettle Inc. is an innovative company based in Kensington, California, specializing in online risk analysis for the insurance industry. Founded in 2020, Kettle develops a machine-learning powered platform that utilizes deep learning algorithms to analyze over seven billion lines of satellite, weather, and ground truth data. By employing Swarm Neural Networks, the platform identifies patterns that enhance the accuracy of risk predictions related to climate change, thereby assisting insurers in managing catastrophic risks. Kettle's approach aims to improve underwriting processes and reduce loss ratios, enabling the sale of reinsurance to other insurers while effectively balancing risk in an evolving climate landscape.
Handshake is a college career network established in 2014, aimed at transforming the recruiting experience for students, career centers, and employers. It connects 17 million students and young alumni from over 1,000 colleges and universities—including many minority-serving institutions—with nearly 500,000 employers, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and nonprofits. The platform democratizes access to job opportunities, providing students with valuable insights and a wider array of career options, while enabling employers to efficiently access diverse talent. Additionally, it offers colleges tools to enhance student engagement and boost employment outcomes. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Denver and London, Handshake has raised a total of $155 million from various investors, including prominent venture capital and social impact firms.
Symbiome, Inc. is a skincare company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in products formulated with microbiomic and plant-based ingredients. Founded in 2017, the company aims to provide skincare solutions that reflect natural principles and utilize ancestral ingredients. Originally known as Persona Biome, Inc., it adopted the name Symbiome, Inc. in December 2019. By combining scientific research with traditional knowledge, Symbiome develops products designed to promote healthy skin.
Roam Research, Inc. is a company that develops a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed for real-time collaboration, primarily focusing on notetaking and graph databases. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, Roam Research aims to enhance the writing process as a means of improving thought organization and problem-solving capabilities. The platform facilitates users in connecting and collaborating with others while allowing them to intersect and combine notes across various domains. By providing tools that help users write and organize their ideas more effectively, Roam Research seeks to empower individuals to refine their thinking and address complex challenges.
Zymergen, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Emeryville, California, founded in 2013. The company focuses on researching, developing, and manufacturing microbes for various industries, including agriculture, chemicals, materials, pharmaceuticals, electronics, and personal care. Zymergen employs a platform that combines automation, machine learning, and genomics to optimize microbial strains, enhancing production processes and fostering improved economic outcomes. The company also offers new product development services, enabling the engineering of novel molecules from diverse microbial sources. With additional offices in Boise, Idaho; Medford, Massachusetts; Seattle, Washington; and Tokyo, Japan, Zymergen integrates advanced technologies to partner with nature in creating innovative materials and products across multiple sectors.
Enveda Therapeutics is constructing and decoding the largest integrated dataset of anthropological, biological, and chemical information from medicinal plants to inspire new medicines.
Synadia Communications Inc. is a technology company based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing a global utility platform designed to connect various digital systems, services, and devices. The company's primary product is NATS.io, an open-source messaging system tailored for cloud-native applications, Internet of Things (IoT) messaging, and microservices architectures. As the leader in the development of NATS.io, which is recognized as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project, Synadia also offers a secure and globally available communications platform known as NGS. In addition to its core offerings, the company provides commercial support, consulting services, non-recurring engineering (NRE), and training to its clients.
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.
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month.
It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee.
Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Hatch Baby offers a suite of smart sleep products to help humans of all ages and stages develop and maintain natural healthy sleep habits. Designed by experts and loved by parents, its original Rest Family includes Rest and Rest+, all-in-one sleep products designed for babies and kids that can be controlled remotely.
Voiceflow Inc. operates a platform that enables content creators to design, prototype, and monetize voice applications for smart speakers like Alexa and Google Assistant. Founded in 2018 and based in Toronto, Canada, the company provides a user-friendly interface that allows individuals and businesses to build powerful voice applications without the need for coding skills. The platform features a visual programming language with a drag-and-drop interface, facilitating the easy creation and deployment of voice apps. This approach empowers users to develop conversational interfaces efficiently, helping them to leverage voice technology for various applications, including voice shopping.
HashiCorp, Inc. is an open-source software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. The company specializes in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software, providing tools that enable developers, operators, and security professionals to provision, secure, connect, and manage infrastructure for various applications. Its key offerings include Terraform, a solution for infrastructure as code; Vault, for securely storing and controlling access to sensitive information; and Nomad, a work orchestrator for deploying and scaling applications across private and public clouds. Additionally, HashiCorp offers Vagrant for creating portable development environments, Packer for generating identical machine images, and Consul for service discovery and orchestration. The company also provides a multi-cloud service networking platform for Microsoft Azure and Sentinel, a framework for policy as code. HashiCorp's products are available in both open-source and commercial formats, catering to a wide range of organizational needs.
Aisera, Inc. is an information technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2017. It develops an artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to automate tasks, actions, and workflows for employees and customers across various sectors, including IT, human resources, sales, and operations. Aisera's offerings include the AI Service Desk, which serves multiple organizational functions, and the AI Customer Service tool, aimed at enhancing customer support and global service operations. The company's solutions leverage conversational AI, natural language processing (NLP), and robotic process automation (RPA) to provide personalized and predictive service management. By automating workflows, Aisera's technology aims to improve efficiency and resolve tasks for enterprise and consumer organizations alike.
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.
Tray.io, Inc. operates a cloud-based API integration platform tailored for enterprises, facilitating automation across various organizational processes. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an office in London, the company offers the Tray Platform, which empowers citizen automators to streamline complex workflows without the need for coding. This platform connects to a wide range of software applications via REST-based and SOAP-based APIs and can also process CSV files for tools with limited API capabilities. Additionally, Tray.io provides guidance, support, training, and consulting services to enhance user experience and effectiveness. By enabling seamless integration within the cloud stack, Tray.io aims to simplify automation for organizations of all sizes.
They are co-located in Silicon Valley and New York City, but are open to great talent anywhere. They welcome critical thinkers who are excited to re-write the rules of e-commerce. They promise it will be fun.
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.
Iterative.ai brings engineering practices to data science and machine learning. It maintains a code repository with data files, machine learning model files, and model metrics. It keeps track of machine learning experiments to share knowledge about ideas. Iterative.ai was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Mesmer is a Robotics Process Automation for Software Development (RPAD) company. The AI-powered bots will help them to create beautiful apps at a speed not possible today and they believe the way software gets created will change radically over the next decade. It also handles all of it with a full-stack customer experience testing solution.
Mesmer provides products including bug reporter, infrastructure builder, autonomous crawler, UAT creator, test generator, and test runner. The company is based in Palo Alto, California, USA.
Whole Biome is a microbiome company dedicated to enhancing patient care through targeted interventions that focus on the human microbiome. By leveraging high-resolution, long-read DNA sequencing, Whole Biome develops microbiome-targeted medical probiotics aimed at addressing specific diseases. The company is supported by a team of experienced scientists, clinicians, and engineers who are committed to advancing health outcomes and improving the overall well-being of individuals through innovative microbiome solutions.
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.
Tray.io, Inc. operates a cloud-based API integration platform tailored for enterprises, facilitating automation across various organizational processes. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an office in London, the company offers the Tray Platform, which empowers citizen automators to streamline complex workflows without the need for coding. This platform connects to a wide range of software applications via REST-based and SOAP-based APIs and can also process CSV files for tools with limited API capabilities. Additionally, Tray.io provides guidance, support, training, and consulting services to enhance user experience and effectiveness. By enabling seamless integration within the cloud stack, Tray.io aims to simplify automation for organizations of all sizes.
Swoot is a social podcast player that allows people to discover shows with friends and recommend episodes. Swoot is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Fauna Bio is developing new ways to treat human diseases, such as heart disease and neurodegenerative disease, by adopting mechanisms animals have developed for traits such as hibernation and deep-diving. Founded by three scientists who have intimate knowledge of the best science and resources from the field of non-model organisms, Fauna Bio leverages data from hundreds of species in order to help develop pre-clinical and early clinical testing for new therapeutics targeting human diseases.
Fauna Bio is developing new ways to treat human diseases, such as heart disease and neurodegenerative disease, by adopting mechanisms animals have developed for traits such as hibernation and deep-diving. Founded by three scientists who have intimate knowledge of the best science and resources from the field of non-model organisms, Fauna Bio leverages data from hundreds of species in order to help develop pre-clinical and early clinical testing for new therapeutics targeting human diseases.
Sofar Ocean Technologies is a build accessible ocean sensing and exploration tools for ocean enthusiasts, industry, and conservation.
Prellis Biologics is building human tissues for drug development, and ultimately, developing human organs for transplantation. Bioprinting vascularized human tissue and organs will revolutionize healthcare. Prellis Biologics' technology leverages massive gains in print speed and resolution to break the microvasculature barrier.
Neosensory, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing wearable devices aimed at enhancing sensory perception for individuals. Founded in 2015 and based in San Mateo, California, Neosensory offers products such as Buzz, which utilizes vision-to-touch sensory substitution technology to assist blind individuals. The company focuses on transmitting various data streams to the brain through the sense of touch, leveraging the skin's potential for information delivery. Their innovative approach includes building hearing assistive technology that allows users to perceive sound through vibrations on the skin. Neosensory also provides a companion application for its products, enhancing the user experience and accessibility of information.
Zymergen, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Emeryville, California, founded in 2013. The company focuses on researching, developing, and manufacturing microbes for various industries, including agriculture, chemicals, materials, pharmaceuticals, electronics, and personal care. Zymergen employs a platform that combines automation, machine learning, and genomics to optimize microbial strains, enhancing production processes and fostering improved economic outcomes. The company also offers new product development services, enabling the engineering of novel molecules from diverse microbial sources. With additional offices in Boise, Idaho; Medford, Massachusetts; Seattle, Washington; and Tokyo, Japan, Zymergen integrates advanced technologies to partner with nature in creating innovative materials and products across multiple sectors.
InterVenn Biosciences Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based mass spectrometry technology for glycoproteomics. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in South San Francisco, California, with additional offices in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Australia, InterVenn focuses on the identification, quantification, and classification of glycoproteomic signals in human blood and tissue. Its VISTA platform is the first commercially available system that assesses protein glycosylation in a site-specific manner, enabling the discovery of biomarkers for various conditions, including cancers, autoimmunity, fibrosis, and neurodegeneration. The company's technology aims to facilitate early cancer detection and improve patient care through actionable insights derived from glycoproteomic analysis.
Braintrust is a decentralized freelancer marketplace that utilizes blockchain technology to link technical and design professionals with organizations seeking their expertise. Founded in 2018 in San Jose, California, by Adam Jackson, Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski, and Brian Flynn, Braintrust offers a user-controlled talent network that enables direct connections between businesses and top tech talent. By eliminating intermediaries, the platform provides significant cost savings for enterprises, charging a flat 10 percent project fee while allowing talent to retain 100 percent of their earnings. The company's mission is to revolutionize traditional hiring practices by redistributing value and aligning incentives between talent and organizations, ultimately creating a more efficient and equitable workforce ecosystem.
Ampleforth is the name of a character in George Orwell's 1984 who is responsible for translating poetry into Newspeak, a language designed to limit freedom of thought.
When tasked to replace the word “God” in a Kipling poem, Ampleforth refuses, not out of righteousness, or subversiveness, but rather, a simple love for language and respect for the truth. To Ampleforth, no other word makes sense in context and therefore no other word should replace it.
npm, Inc. operates as a package manager specifically designed for the JavaScript programming language, facilitating the installation, management, and publication of shared JavaScript code for both front-end and back-end applications. The company supports the JavaScript community by providing a registry where developers can publish and share packaged open-source modules. In addition to its core services, npm offers paid products that enable the storage of private packages, catering to the needs of organizations and individual developers. Incorporated in 2013, npm is headquartered in Oakland, California.
HashiCorp, Inc. is an open-source software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. The company specializes in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software, providing tools that enable developers, operators, and security professionals to provision, secure, connect, and manage infrastructure for various applications. Its key offerings include Terraform, a solution for infrastructure as code; Vault, for securely storing and controlling access to sensitive information; and Nomad, a work orchestrator for deploying and scaling applications across private and public clouds. Additionally, HashiCorp offers Vagrant for creating portable development environments, Packer for generating identical machine images, and Consul for service discovery and orchestration. The company also provides a multi-cloud service networking platform for Microsoft Azure and Sentinel, a framework for policy as code. HashiCorp's products are available in both open-source and commercial formats, catering to a wide range of organizational needs.
Handshake is a college career network established in 2014, aimed at transforming the recruiting experience for students, career centers, and employers. It connects 17 million students and young alumni from over 1,000 colleges and universities—including many minority-serving institutions—with nearly 500,000 employers, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and nonprofits. The platform democratizes access to job opportunities, providing students with valuable insights and a wider array of career options, while enabling employers to efficiently access diverse talent. Additionally, it offers colleges tools to enhance student engagement and boost employment outcomes. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Denver and London, Handshake has raised a total of $155 million from various investors, including prominent venture capital and social impact firms.
Filtricine, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Santa Clara, California, focused on developing therapeutic products for cancer treatment. Founded in 2017, the company specializes in a novel nutrient modulation platform that targets and depletes essential nutrients critical for cancer cell growth. By exploiting the metabolic vulnerabilities of cancer cells, Filtricine aims to halt the spread of cancer without relying on traditional drug substances. This approach allows healthcare professionals to utilize targeted nutrient deprivation therapy to address a broad spectrum of cancers effectively.
Teamable Inc. is a recruitment platform focused on enhancing employee referral processes and promoting diversity hiring. Founded in 2013 and based in Redwood City, California, Teamable transforms social networks into effective talent pools by allowing employees to easily share their professional connections. The platform streamlines referral programs, replacing traditional spreadsheet methods with user-friendly, cloud-based tools that facilitate mobile-friendly referral flows. This approach enables recruiters to efficiently source candidates and request warm introductions, ultimately improving the speed and cost-effectiveness of hiring. By focusing on optimizing referral recruitment, Teamable aims to fill essential roles more quickly while supporting diversity initiatives within organizations.
Gradle, Inc. consists of the Gradle Build Tool (www.gradle.org) and Gradle Enterprise (www.gradle.com). Gradle Build Tool is the most popular build tool for open source JVM projects on GitHub. It is downloaded on average more than 19 million times per month and has been counted in the Top 20 Most Popular Open Source Projects for IT by Techcrunch. Many popular open source projects are using Gradle, with Spring Boot, JUnit, and JetBrains (Kotlin) being a prominent examples. Gradle Enterprise is the first only software build performance acceleration and analytics platform. The most prestigious software development and build/test engineering teams in the world use Gradle Enterprise to cut build times in half and give developers back one day per week in lost productivity time. Gradle Enterprise is a self-hosted solution that leverages acceleration technologies to speed up the software build and test process and data analytics to make troubleshooting more efficient. It is a key enabling technology for the emerging discipline of Developer Productivity Engineering in both Gradle and Maven build environments.
Mode, Inc. develops a cloud platform that enables users to develop and operate their Internet of Things products. Its platform lets customers’ devices to communicate with their mobile clients, as well as helps to track and manage their devices and users. Mode, Inc. was founded on 2014 and is based in San Mateo, California with an additional office in Tokyo, Japan.
Hatch Baby offers a suite of smart sleep products to help humans of all ages and stages develop and maintain natural healthy sleep habits. Designed by experts and loved by parents, its original Rest Family includes Rest and Rest+, all-in-one sleep products designed for babies and kids that can be controlled remotely.
Bear Flag Robotics, Inc. specializes in creating self-driving technology for tractors and agricultural implements, aiming to reduce farming costs through automation. Founded in 2017 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the company’s software enables users to plan routes, schedule tasks, and monitor equipment with real-time alerts from a remote location. Its technology utilizes perception sensors and robotic actuators, allowing for efficient route planning and obstacle avoidance. Additionally, Bear Flag Robotics provides features such as remote emergency stop capabilities and centralized mission control, which delivers real-time data about tractor operations, ultimately helping farmers enhance productivity and reduce input costs.
Girihlet Inc. is a genetic-sequencing company based in Oakland, California, that specializes in providing rapid and accurate deep sequencing services. Established in 2012, the company focuses on non-canonical genomics solutions, particularly in the profiling of T cell receptor repertoires. Through the development of novel, bias-free sequencing technologies, Girihlet aims to leverage mitochondrial DNA and T cell receptors as biomarkers for diagnostic and therapeutic applications across various medical disorders. By enhancing the understanding of the immune system, Girihlet contributes to advancements in precision medicine and the identification of potential treatments.
Feeding people and the planet with 100% plant-based powerhouse protein! Joshua Nixon and Kimberlie Le founded Terramino in 2017 that later became Prime Roots. It has its headquarters in Berkeley, California.
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month.
It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee.
Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Expo is an on-demand marketplace designed to connect restaurant owners and operators with the staff they need, streamlining the hiring process for restaurant workers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Expo aims to simplify the complexities of staffing in the restaurant industry. By facilitating access to qualified personnel, the platform seeks to enhance operational efficiency and support the dynamic needs of restaurant businesses.
Pulse Q&A Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based platform that provides crowdsourced data for technology executives. It offers Pulse Q&A to test messaging and positioning in real time before campaign launches for a new product launch or a message refresh. The company’s platform is used to make and shape decisions by enabling users to create questions and serve it to peers, customers, or prospects, and collect data. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Tray.io, Inc. operates a cloud-based API integration platform tailored for enterprises, facilitating automation across various organizational processes. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an office in London, the company offers the Tray Platform, which empowers citizen automators to streamline complex workflows without the need for coding. This platform connects to a wide range of software applications via REST-based and SOAP-based APIs and can also process CSV files for tools with limited API capabilities. Additionally, Tray.io provides guidance, support, training, and consulting services to enhance user experience and effectiveness. By enabling seamless integration within the cloud stack, Tray.io aims to simplify automation for organizations of all sizes.
TruStory is a social network that enables productive debate. To make progress on any issue, we need to learn from different perspectives, find common ground, and have the humility to change our minds. Our mission is to make the Internet more open-minded by incentivizing people to hear all sides of a debate.
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.
Synadia Communications Inc. is a technology company based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing a global utility platform designed to connect various digital systems, services, and devices. The company's primary product is NATS.io, an open-source messaging system tailored for cloud-native applications, Internet of Things (IoT) messaging, and microservices architectures. As the leader in the development of NATS.io, which is recognized as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project, Synadia also offers a secure and globally available communications platform known as NGS. In addition to its core offerings, the company provides commercial support, consulting services, non-recurring engineering (NRE), and training to its clients.
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.
Chia Network Inc. is a blockchain-based company founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It focuses on creating a cryptocurrency platform that emphasizes decentralization, security, and efficiency. The company has developed a unique technology based on proofs of space and time, which utilizes underused storage space on hard drives, making its approach to cryptocurrency mining less resource-intensive compared to traditional methods. Chia Network also offers Chialisp, a smart transaction programming language that enhances the functionality and user-friendliness of its cryptocurrency transactions. By leveraging this innovative technology, Chia Network aims to optimize cryptocurrency transactions while providing a sustainable alternative for both individual miners and financial institutions.
Ampleforth is the name of a character in George Orwell's 1984 who is responsible for translating poetry into Newspeak, a language designed to limit freedom of thought.
When tasked to replace the word “God” in a Kipling poem, Ampleforth refuses, not out of righteousness, or subversiveness, but rather, a simple love for language and respect for the truth. To Ampleforth, no other word makes sense in context and therefore no other word should replace it.
Petasense Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Foster City, California, is an Industrial IoT startup focused on enhancing the intelligence of industrial machines. The company provides an integrated solution that includes a wireless vibration sensor, cloud software, and machine learning analytics. This technology enables customers to monitor and predict the health of critical machinery in real-time, thereby reducing unplanned downtime and lowering repair costs. Notable clients include industry leaders such as JLL, C&W Services, Silicon Valley Power, and Stanford University. Petasense was established by entrepreneurs Abhinav Khushraj and Arun Santhebennur, who bring a combined 25 years of experience in enterprise development and hold degrees from prestigious institutions. The company receives backing from notable venture firms and angel investors.
Baffle, Inc. specializes in data encryption software designed to secure sensitive information in cloud environments and throughout the analytics pipeline. Founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, the company provides a range of solutions, including advanced data protection, application tier security, and virtualized key management. Baffle's Data Protection Service enables organizations to de-identify data without altering applications, facilitating the secure transfer of data to the cloud for privacy-preserving analytics in artificial intelligence and machine learning. This capability allows businesses to enhance their data utilization while maintaining compliance and safeguarding user privacy.
Seurat Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in advanced printing services. Founded in 2015, it is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and also has significant operations in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The company focuses on innovative approaches to printing technology, aiming to enhance efficiency and quality in the production process.
OutboundWorks is an automated sales development platform that matches your ideal customer profile and key personas with thousands of account-specific data points, automatically generating hyper-personalized sequences and scheduling qualified sales appointments on the calendars of your account executives.