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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 is an information technology company that offers solutions for IT, HR, customer service, facilities, and cloud operations of companies, businesses, and organizations. It specializes in artificial intelligence, NLP, and NLU.
The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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.
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.
Enveda Therapeutics is constructing and decoding the largest integrated dataset of anthropological, biological, and chemical information from medicinal plants to inspire new medicines.
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 is an information technology company that offers solutions for IT, HR, customer service, facilities, and cloud operations of companies, businesses, and organizations. It specializes in artificial intelligence, NLP, and NLU.
The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Swoot is a social podcast player that allows people to discover shows with friends and recommend episodes. Swoot is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
MyVR is a cloud-based platform designed for vacation rental businesses, enabling them to manage multiple marketing channels such as Airbnb, HomeAway, TripAdvisor, and Booking.com from a single dashboard. The platform helps streamline and automate daily operations, allowing businesses to save time and reduce errors while enhancing the overall traveler experience. Additionally, MyVR provides users with the ability to create their own online presence, fostering direct sales opportunities. Its open architecture allows for seamless integration with various applications and services, making it a versatile solution for short-term rental management.
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.
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.
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
Allume is a provider of an on-demand personal shopping platform focused on helping busy women discover clothing and accessories that enhance their confidence and style. By combining data science with human interaction, Allume offers a personalized shopping experience that connects women with expert stylists who share similar tastes. This approach enables the platform to match users with clothing and accessories tailored to their body type, budget, and personal style, thereby facilitating a more efficient and satisfying shopping experience. Allume's mission centers on empowering women to make informed fashion choices that align with their individual needs and preferences.
Bigscreen, Inc. develops a social virtual desktop application that lets users use their computer in Virtual Reality on virtual screens. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.
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.
Lumity, Inc., also known as Lumity Insurance Services, operates as a benefits consultant and health insurance brokerage based in San Mateo, California. The company offers a data-driven benefits platform tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, providing access to a variety of national health insurance carriers and plans, including medical, dental, and vision coverage. Founded in 2013, Lumity aims to simplify health plan decisions for organizations by delivering data-driven recommendations that enhance cost savings and improve employee outcomes. Its platform features a comprehensive dashboard that allows employers to manage their health plan design, align recommendations with group needs, and gain real-time insights into their benefits. Through its services, Lumity seeks to optimize healthcare costs while fostering transparency and accountability within the health insurance landscape.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hedvig, Inc. is a software company based in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in cloud-based software-defined storage solutions. Originally founded as Quexascale, Hedvig re-engineers storage systems to meet the demands of modern enterprise computing. The Hedvig platform is notable for its capability to combine block, file, and object storage into a single solution, which simplifies management and enhances efficiency. It allows organizations to effectively scale their storage needs to petabytes while operating seamlessly across both private and public cloud environments. By consolidating disparate storage systems, Hedvig significantly reduces storage costs and accelerates IT processes, enabling businesses to better manage and migrate their data. In 2019, Hedvig became a subsidiary of Commvault Systems, further expanding its reach in the data management sector.
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.
Bigscreen, Inc. develops a social virtual desktop application that lets users use their computer in Virtual Reality on virtual screens. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.
As of March 26, 2018, Evident.io, Inc. was acquired by Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Evident.io, Inc. develops and offers a software platform for enterprise security management. The company offers cloud security services, including resource visibility, vulnerability assessment, and notifications and alerting; risk and compliance services; and Amazon Web services. Evident.io, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Pleasanton, California.
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
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.
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.
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.
Cloverpop, Inc. develops a cloud-based decision-making and collaboration software designed to enhance the efficiency of business operations. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, the company harnesses behavioral science to streamline the decision-making process, alleviating the burden of prolonged meetings and indecision that often plague managers and executives. Its platform facilitates tracking, recording, and communicating daily decisions, allowing teams to collaborate effectively across different channels such as Slack and, soon, Microsoft Teams. By providing tools that help identify better choices quickly and secure buy-in from stakeholders, Cloverpop empowers organizations to make informed decisions faster, reduce meeting times, and ensure complete visibility throughout the decision-making journey.
Madefire, Inc. is a storytelling platform based in Berkeley, California, that offers an innovative mobile application for reading and sharing stories through an interactive format. Established in 2011, the company has developed a proprietary Motion Book Tool, allowing creators to combine words, images, motion, and sound, moving beyond the limitations of traditional comic book formats. The Madefire app provides a rich catalog of digital comics and graphic novels, featuring original titles from notable storytellers, including comic book legend Dave Gibbons. By leveraging the interactive capabilities of mobile devices and the web, Madefire aims to redefine how stories are created, experienced, and shared, offering users a continuous flow of new episodes and an engaging reading experience.
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.
Brava Home is a technology company specializing in IoT and domestic automation, focusing on enhancing the home experience, particularly in the kitchen. By integrating science, technology, and design, Brava Home aims to empower individuals to prepare better food at home, thereby saving time and fostering joy in the cooking process. The company offers consumer electronics and hardware designed to streamline cooking and food preparation, reflecting its commitment to improving everyday culinary experiences. Brava Home is also dedicated to building a talented team that shares a passion for food and innovation.
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.
Loggly, Inc. is a cloud-based application intelligence provider specializing in log management and analytics solutions for app developers. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company serves over 10,000 customers, including a significant portion of the Fortune 500. Loggly offers tools for troubleshooting, root cause analysis, systems monitoring, application debugging, and deployment monitoring. Its service integrates seamlessly into engineering processes, particularly for teams adopting continuous deployment and DevOps practices, helping to reduce mean time to recovery (MTTR) and improve overall service quality. By structuring and summarizing log data, Loggly enables users to gain insights through real-time metrics and dashboards, transforming traditional log analysis into a more efficient process. Loggly operates as a subsidiary of SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC.
Forge, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in developing a gaming application enabling users to capture and share gameplay clips effortlessly. The application operates seamlessly in the background, requiring minimal resources and allowing gamers to continue playing without interruption. It features an in-game overlay that facilitates communication, including watching stories and sending messages, all while remaining immersed in the game. Users can download the application for free, with no advertisements, making it an accessible tool for enhancing the gaming experience and fostering connections within the gaming community.
Helpshift, Inc. specializes in mobile customer service software, providing a support platform designed for the needs of the mobile era. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, Helpshift offers a range of functionalities including in-app FAQs, chat, a comprehensive CRM ticketing system, campaigns, and surveys. The platform enhances user experience by enabling in-app messaging for support, allowing users to receive assistance without leaving their applications. Helpshift's automation capabilities, utilizing bots, can address up to 90% of user issues, thereby improving response times and reducing operational costs. The company serves numerous prominent mobile apps and games, including those from Supercell, Tencent, and Microsoft, and is installed on two billion devices globally, reaching over 820 million active consumers monthly.