Comcast Ventures

Comcast Ventures is the venture capital arm of Comcast Corporation, focusing on investments across various stages of company development, from seed to late-stage growth. The firm targets sectors such as advertising, consumer technology, enterprise services, and infrastructure, with particular interests in digital advertising, video networks, and broadband technologies. Investments span a wide range of industries including media, cybersecurity, healthcare, fintech, and artificial intelligence. Comcast Ventures typically seeks to invest between $2 million and $25 million and prefers to take a minority stake, often acting as a lead investor while also co-investing with other venture capital funds. The firm actively supports underrepresented ethnic minority entrepreneurs and emphasizes investments in the United States and Canada, particularly in New York. Established in January 1999 and based in San Francisco, Comcast Ventures also operates offices in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Santa Monica.

Kim Armor

Managing Director and CFO

Amy Banse

Managing Partner

Andrew Cleland

General Partner

Allison Goldberg

Managing Partner

Sheena Jindal

Principal

Arjun Kapur

Managing Director

Ryan Lee

Investor

Dinesh D. Moorjani

Managing Director

Kyle Peters

Director, Finance

Rick Prostko

Managing Partner

Marc Silberman

Partner

Adam Spivack

Partner

Louis A. Toth

Managing Partner

David Zilberman

Managing Director

333 past transactions

SafeBase

Series A in 2022
SafeBase, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in cloud-based security software designed to assist businesses in establishing effective security programs. Founded in 2020, SafeBase offers tools that streamline the security assessment process, enabling B2B SaaS companies to expedite enterprise deals. The primary product, SafeBase Inspected, provides a badge for websites that links to a customized security status page, enhancing customer trust and credibility. Additionally, the software includes features such as custom security checklists, continuous monitoring of security systems, and the ability to configure security policies, all aimed at giving sales teams a competitive advantage in presenting their security measures.

Architect.io

Seed Round in 2022
Architect.io, Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2019 that offers a platform designed for managing and developing cloud applications. It specializes in facilitating collaboration among teams through its unique DevOps-as-a-Service model, which integrates deployment, networking, and security automation. The platform enables users to streamline processes by providing end-to-end deployment capabilities for complex systems, with a focus on managing the interactions between related microservices.

Parallel Markets

Series A in 2022
Parallel Markets Inc. is an online platform based in New York that specializes in investor identity verification. Founded in 2018, the company offers services designed to streamline the onboarding and verification process for both individual and institutional investors. By allowing users to authenticate and verify their investor credentials with a single click, Parallel Markets simplifies the sharing of profile-level information across various investment platforms. The company's suite of identity products aims to enhance the efficiency of its partners' onboarding processes, benefiting both investors and investment platforms alike.

Curbio

Series B in 2022
Curbio specializes in pre-sale home improvements and renovations that will deliver value when the house is on the market. They partner with real estate agents and homeowners as one team and rely on agents’ expertise about what local buyers really want. They leverage technology to streamline the home improvement process: virtual estimates, automated communication, and updates. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Potomac, Maryland.

Neural Magic

Series A in 2021
Neural Magic is unlocking the possibility of machine learning, by re-imagining how deep learning is done. A team of pioneers, we believe machine learning has the potential to alter the trajectory of human history. Break free of limitations. Be a part of the future.

Juno

Series A in 2021
Juno Residential, Inc. specializes in the development of residential apartments, focusing on providing environmentally friendly and efficient housing solutions. Incorporated in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the company employs prefabrication techniques and utilizes organic, low-carbon materials, such as mass timber, in its construction processes. By prioritizing modern design and sustainability, Juno Residential aims to deliver curated living spaces that meet the demands of contemporary urban life.

Madison Reed

Venture Round in 2021
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.

Tovala

Series C in 2021
Tovala, operating as Maestro Food Co., is a Chicago-based company that specializes in a unique cooking appliance known as the Smart Oven, which uses steam-based M-pots technology for meal preparation. Founded in 2015, Tovala combines its innovative countertop oven with a meal kit subscription service that provides pre-prepared meals crafted by gourmet chefs. Users can easily cook these meals by scanning barcodes, streamlining the process of preparing healthy, home-cooked dinners. In addition to the oven and meal delivery service, Tovala also offers an application that provides various recipes, enhancing the cooking experience for its users.

Zapata Computing

Series B in 2020
Zapata Computing is a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use. It provides hardware-agnostic solutions for simulation, optimization, and machine learning applications in chemistry, finance, logistics, pharmaceuticals, engineering, and materials. Zapata Computing is a spun out of Harvard University launched by a group of Harvard scientists, including Alán Aspuru-Guzik. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Cooper

Seed Round in 2020
Based in Amsterdam and founded in 2018, Cooper is a private professional network. Cooper helps anyone get quality introductions from the people they trust, by focusing on meaningful, trusted, and real relationships. Founders Robert Gaal and Emiel van Liere met while building successful social consumer platforms, such as Hyves (acquired by TMG) and Wakoopa (acquired by GfK).

Curbio

Series C in 2020
Curbio specializes in pre-sale home improvements and renovations that will deliver value when the house is on the market. They partner with real estate agents and homeowners as one team and rely on agents’ expertise about what local buyers really want. They leverage technology to streamline the home improvement process: virtual estimates, automated communication, and updates. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Potomac, Maryland.

Juganu

Series C in 2020
Juganu develops a circadian indoor lighting system that combines surface light mixed with ultraviolet A and C light to inactivate pathogens. Juganu is combining revolutionary light technology, ultra-sensitive sensors and edge-based AI into adaptive platforms, we introduce the Foam: a disruptive ecosystem that is setting a new standard for next generation wireless networks, providing unlimited accessibility and enabling smart technologies. The company was founded in 2011 and based in Or-Yehuda, Israel.

DrayNow

Series A in 2020
DrayNow, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, operates as a technology company specializing in the intermodal freight sector. It offers a real-time online marketplace that connects intermediaries with carriers, facilitating the efficient management of intermodal freight transportation. By leveraging advanced technology, DrayNow enables users to maintain constant visibility of shipments, compare rates, view load details, and select available loads in real-time. This innovative platform optimizes the first and last mile of intermodal logistics, enhancing operational efficiency and helping companies achieve higher levels of capacity, service, and profitability.

Papa

Series B in 2020
Papa is a platform that connects college students to senior citizens for companionship and assistance. Its platform connects college and nursing students to older adults who need assistance with transportation, house chores, technology lessons, and other services that enable older adults to stay independent while living securely and happily at home. Papa was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Zapata Computing

Venture Round in 2020
Zapata Computing is a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use. It provides hardware-agnostic solutions for simulation, optimization, and machine learning applications in chemistry, finance, logistics, pharmaceuticals, engineering, and materials. Zapata Computing is a spun out of Harvard University launched by a group of Harvard scientists, including Alán Aspuru-Guzik. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Split Software

Series C in 2020
Split Software is a feature delivery platform that builds better software for engineering teams to build impactful products. Its feature delivery platform pairs the speed and reliability of feature flags with data to measure the impact of every feature. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay use Split to reduce software development cycle time, mitigate release risk, and create a data-driven culture to maximize impact. Founded in 2015, Split is based in Redwood City, California with offices in Boston and Argentina. It is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Harmony Partners.

Nurx

Series C in 2020
Nurx Inc. is a healthcare services company that operates a mobile health platform providing access to a variety of everyday medications, including contraceptives, travel medications, and refill services. The platform also features doctor prescription and review services, as well as an at-home HPV screening test for women to assess their risk for cervical cancer. Additionally, Nurx offers at-home STI testing, treatment for genital and oral herpes, and emergency contraception, emphasizing transparent pricing and judgment-free care. The company serves residents across several states, including California, Colorado, Florida, and New York, among others. Founded in 2015, Nurx is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and aims to empower individuals to take control of their healthcare decisions.

Sidecar Health

Venture Round in 2020
Sidecar Health Insurance Solutions, LLC is a provider of personalized health insurance services, founded in 2018 and based in El Segundo, California. The company offers innovative insurance plans that prioritize transparency and affordability. Unlike traditional insurance models that can obscure costs and lead to unexpected bills, Sidecar Health allows members to know their coverage details and pay healthcare providers directly at the time of service using a dedicated card. This approach enables members to benefit from discounts for upfront payments. Sidecar Health designs customizable plans tailored to individual coverage needs and budgets, facilitating straightforward transactions for medical expenses at various healthcare facilities.

Nomad Homes

Seed Round in 2020
Nomad Homes creates a digital platform that uses technology to help people in Europe and the Middle East to buy and rent homes. It was incorporated in 2019 by its co-founders Helen Chen, Daniel Piehler, and Damien Drap.

RenoFi

Series A in 2020
RenoFi Loans use the after renovation value instead of your home's current value, enabling you to borrow the most money at the lowest rates. RenoFi is not a lender, rather we’ve partnered with lenders who offer RenoFi Loans. These lenders leverage RenoFi's technology platform to seamlessly offer RenoFi Loans.

Uptycs

Series B in 2020
Uptycs, Inc. develops a security analytics platform designed to monitor and diagnose infrastructure issues for various customers, including those in software as a service, enterprise, and data center sectors. The Uptycs platform integrates osquery, an open-source universal agent, with advanced security analytics to provide comprehensive solutions for fleet visibility, intrusion detection, vulnerability management, and compliance. It offers key functionalities such as endpoint detection and response, file integrity management, incident investigation, and user-driven security, targeting IT administrators, compliance officers, and incident response teams. Founded in 2016 and based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Uptycs supports a wide range of environments, including Linux, macOS, Windows, containers, and cloud workloads.

Brightside

Series A in 2020
Brightside Benefit, Inc. operates a financial care platform designed for employers to enhance the financial well-being of their employees. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, with additional offices in Philadelphia, the company provides a comprehensive solution that combines personal assistants, smart technology, and innovative financial products. Its platform, Kickforward, offers real-time guidance and personalized financial support, enabling employees to make informed decisions that improve their financial behavior and net income. Brightside emphasizes unbiased service, ensuring that employees have access to reliable financial information and options without conflicts of interest from financial institutions. By focusing on individual needs and utilizing behavioral science, Brightside aims to alleviate employee stress, ultimately driving better productivity, retention, and diversity while reducing healthcare costs for employers.

Tovala

Series B in 2020
Tovala, operating as Maestro Food Co., is a Chicago-based company that specializes in a unique cooking appliance known as the Smart Oven, which uses steam-based M-pots technology for meal preparation. Founded in 2015, Tovala combines its innovative countertop oven with a meal kit subscription service that provides pre-prepared meals crafted by gourmet chefs. Users can easily cook these meals by scanning barcodes, streamlining the process of preparing healthy, home-cooked dinners. In addition to the oven and meal delivery service, Tovala also offers an application that provides various recipes, enhancing the cooking experience for its users.

FortressIQ

Series B in 2020
FortressIQ, Inc. is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based robotic process automation, offering a platform designed to provide real-time and comprehensive insights into enterprise processes. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on automated process discovery, enabling organizations to gain valuable insights and analytics. Its solutions encompass a range of areas, including employee experience, system optimization, process redesign, and value engineering. FortressIQ aims to enhance business automation and AI governance, with a mission to unlock the potential of the global workforce through the responsible and ethical application of AI technologies. The company's innovative approach involves utilizing meta-learning techniques that allow deep neural networks to effectively gather training data by observing their environments.

Blockdaemon

Venture Round in 2020
Blockdaemon Inc. is a blockchain node management platform that enables businesses, enterprises, and developers to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain applications. The company provides tools for exchanges, custodians, financial institutions, and developers to operate nodes across more than 30 blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot. Blockdaemon's solution is designed for easy portability, allowing users to switch between networks seamlessly without the need for complex configurations. Founded in 2013 and originally known as Trak Inc., Blockdaemon has its headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, with additional offices in Los Angeles, California, and Ireland. The company supports the blockchain developer ecosystem by offering expert advice in development operations.

Juganu

Series B in 2020
Juganu develops a circadian indoor lighting system that combines surface light mixed with ultraviolet A and C light to inactivate pathogens. Juganu is combining revolutionary light technology, ultra-sensitive sensors and edge-based AI into adaptive platforms, we introduce the Foam: a disruptive ecosystem that is setting a new standard for next generation wireless networks, providing unlimited accessibility and enabling smart technologies. The company was founded in 2011 and based in Or-Yehuda, Israel.

K Health

Series C in 2020
K Health, Inc. develops and provides a health application that provides personalized and data-driven information about their symptoms and health. The company was formerly known as Kang Health, Inc. and changed its name to K Health, Inc. in November 2018. K Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Israel.

Lendio

Series E in 2020
Lendio, Inc. operates an online lending marketplace that connects small business owners with various lenders across the United States. Founded in 2005 and based in Lehi, Utah, Lendio provides a platform that allows business owners to compare and secure a range of financing options, including short-term and long-term loans, business lines of credit, startup loans, equipment financing, and merchant cash advances. The platform caters to diverse funding needs, supporting various types of businesses, including those owned by women. Lendio aims to simplify the lending process for small businesses by facilitating access to financial resources necessary for growth and development. The company was previously known as Funding Universe, Inc. before rebranding to Lendio in February 2011.

Architect.io

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Architect.io, Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2019 that offers a platform designed for managing and developing cloud applications. It specializes in facilitating collaboration among teams through its unique DevOps-as-a-Service model, which integrates deployment, networking, and security automation. The platform enables users to streamline processes by providing end-to-end deployment capabilities for complex systems, with a focus on managing the interactions between related microservices.

Life House

Series B in 2020
Life House is creating a network of lifestyle hotels that are more experiential and more affordable through a powerful software-enabled brand & management platform. Our proprietary software materially reduces the costs of operating a hotel and increases revenues, delivering superior returns to our hotel owners (we do not own or invest in real estate).

The Athletic

Series D in 2020
Backed by Precursor Ventures, Y Combinator and other early-stage investors, The Athletic is a subscription-based, local-focused sports media brand targeting the premium fan segment. The Company aspires to be the most credible voice in sports media by combining privileged locker room access with a deep reliance on analytics and led by an experienced staff of professional sportswriters. The company is currently live in two markets, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area, and was founded in 2016.

Dandelion Energy

Series A in 2020
Dandelion Energy offers affordable geothermal heating and cooling installations. Dandelion Energy's home geothermal system replaces your home’s existing air conditioning and heating equipment with a powerful heat pump and safe, underground pipes that move heat between the earth and home. Kathleen Hannun and Rajeez Quazi founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Palo Alto in California.

Selector

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Selector Software, Inc. operates a platform focused on operational intelligence for multi-cloud infrastructure and performance-sensitive managed services. Established in 2019 and based in Santa Clara, California, the company utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to deliver actionable, multi-dimensional insights to network, cloud, and application operators. Selector's platform ingests data from diverse sources, conducts automated anomaly detection, and enables real-time comparisons of metrics and events. This approach allows operations teams to achieve their service KPIs through enhanced collaboration on messaging platforms, a conversational user experience for search-driven querying, and automated data engineering pipelines.

Zeus Living

Series B in 2019
Zeus Living, Inc. is a property management company that specializes in renting furnished housing to startups, students, and businesses across the Bay Area, Seattle, Los Angeles, and the District of Columbia. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company not only offers rental services but also manages furnished properties on behalf of property owners. Additionally, Zeus Living has developed a web-based application that provides detailed property information to enhance the rental experience for both tenants and landlords.

Avibra

Series A in 2019
Avibra, Inc. designs and develops a platform that allows users to increase their life insurance coverage by keeping health habits. It offers Avibra, an application that uses artificial intelligence technology to track daily habits and enables users to know what they are doing well in areas that span across their health, finances, career, relationships, and their community involvement. Avibra, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey.

SimpleCitizen

Seed Round in 2019
SimpleCitizen, Inc. develops digital immigration and visa solution for customers. The company offers citizenship; green card; employment authorization document; visa; and marriage based green card applications. It also provides green card application streamlining and tracking services. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As of September 17, 2020, SimpleCitizen, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP.

Aircam

Seed Round in 2019
Aircam LLC owns and operates the real-time photo-sharing platform for photographers and customers. The company develops the mobile application, which allows anyone to get access to pictures taken by photographers at weddings, parties, and events. Aircam LLC was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Neural Magic

Seed Round in 2019
Neural Magic is unlocking the possibility of machine learning, by re-imagining how deep learning is done. A team of pioneers, we believe machine learning has the potential to alter the trajectory of human history. Break free of limitations. Be a part of the future.

Neural Magic

Seed Round in 2019
Neural Magic is unlocking the possibility of machine learning, by re-imagining how deep learning is done. A team of pioneers, we believe machine learning has the potential to alter the trajectory of human history. Break free of limitations. Be a part of the future.

The Yes

Series A in 2019
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.

Osaro

Series B in 2019
Osaro, Inc. develops industrial-grade artificial intelligence (AI) software to automate the manual picking and assembly tasks in distribution centers and manufacturing facilities. It offers automation solutions for computer and robotic systems driven by advanced machine learning software. The company also provides machine learning products that automatically processes large amounts of unstructured data and learns complex control tasks. Osaro, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

HYPR

Series B in 2019
HYPR is The Passwordless Company backed by Comcast, Samsung, and Mastercard. The HYPR Cloud Platform makes it easy to go Passwordless across the enterprise by combining the security of a smart card with the convenience of a smartphone. With HYPR, businesses are finally able to solve the desktop MFA gap, eliminate customer passwords, and deliver lightning-fast login experiences their users love.

BigID

Series C in 2019
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

Hawthorne

Series A in 2019
Hawthorne creates personal care products using premium quality ingredients, data-driven algorithms, and smart subscriptions. It makes it easy to elevate consumers with premium quality products that work perfectly for them as an individual. With just a quick quiz, consumers will receive tailored products for all of their bathroom needs.

Ready

Series A in 2019
Ready democratizes gaming with The Ready Games- DIY game tournaments- and Ready Maker, a platform for gaming and robotics. Ready opens games creation to the world, with over 1 million makers and players. The Ready Games app delivers three, brand new mobile mini-games every week that anyone can play to win cash prizes. Ready Maker provides a creative platform that builds in the mediums of their client's time - mobile games, robotics, VR/AR.

Light Field Lab

Series A in 2019
Light Field Lab, Inc. develops holographic capture display technology systems. It offers integrated processing and imaging solutions that allow immersive visuals to be delivered over commercial network speeds. The company also develops a universal application programming interface to streamline the process of bringing existing content to a light field display with holographic media. Light Field Lab, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Morgan Hill, California.

Attabotics

Series B in 2019
ATTABotics Inc. designs and manufactures robotics automated storage and retrieval system used to store, access and move goods around a facility, these robotic systems can be used in sectors such as e-commerce, logistics, retail, grocery and advanced manufacturing. ATTAbotics Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Calgary , Alberta, Canada.

Hippo Insurance

Series D in 2019
Hippo Insurance provides home insurance brokerage services, focusing on modernizing coverage for homeowners. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Austin and Dallas, the company utilizes technology to streamline the insurance process. Hippo aims to simplify and enhance home insurance by offering intuitive and proactive coverage that actively addresses the needs of clients. By adopting a tech-driven approach, Hippo seeks to transform how individuals safeguard their homes, allowing them to feel secure and carefree. The company emphasizes a commitment to delivering smarter, more efficient insurance solutions tailored to contemporary homeowners.

Hive

Series A in 2019
Hive is a productivity platform that drives companies to work forward. Their productivity platform powers the fast pace at companies like Starbucks, Uber, IBM, and Netflix, and they are passionate about changing how people work and communicate. Hive aims to improve workplace productivity for companies of all types and sizes. Hive was founded by John Furneaux and Eric Typaldos in 2015 and is based in New York, USA.

goTenna

Series C in 2019
goTenna, Inc. is a company based in Brooklyn, New York, that specializes in developing communications devices that allow users to send messages and share GPS locations using smartphones without relying on centralized connectivity. Its flagship product, the goTenna device, utilizes a cognitive digital radio and a mobile app to create its own signal and automatically connect with other devices within range. The goTenna mesh networking protocol, known as Aspen Grove™, enables low-cost, lightweight devices to provide long-range connectivity in off-grid situations, making it suitable for various applications, including public sector, enterprise, and IoT markets. This technology emerged as a solution following the disruptions caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, highlighting the need for resilient communication systems. goTenna's approach allows clients to send data and messages without depending on traditional internet or cellular services. The company has attracted investment from notable firms such as Founders Fund and Union Square Ventures.

Modsy

Series C in 2019
Modsy combines advanced 3D graphics, computer vision, and creative curation to provide its customers with home design guidance and plans. It allows its customers to see inspirational designs and decor within the context of their own home and shows ideas for their space before making any changes. Modsy helps new homeowners, remodelers, and renters create an ideal, personalized design. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

DrayNow

Series A in 2019
DrayNow, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, operates as a technology company specializing in the intermodal freight sector. It offers a real-time online marketplace that connects intermediaries with carriers, facilitating the efficient management of intermodal freight transportation. By leveraging advanced technology, DrayNow enables users to maintain constant visibility of shipments, compare rates, view load details, and select available loads in real-time. This innovative platform optimizes the first and last mile of intermodal logistics, enhancing operational efficiency and helping companies achieve higher levels of capacity, service, and profitability.

Zapata Computing

Series A in 2019
Zapata Computing is a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use. It provides hardware-agnostic solutions for simulation, optimization, and machine learning applications in chemistry, finance, logistics, pharmaceuticals, engineering, and materials. Zapata Computing is a spun out of Harvard University launched by a group of Harvard scientists, including Alán Aspuru-Guzik. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

StellaService

Venture Round in 2019
StellaService Inc. is a customer feedback and quality management platform designed for customer service teams. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York, the platform enables companies of various sizes, from startups to large public enterprises, to collect customer feedback, enhance agent engagement, and improve service performance. As of September 2020, StellaService operates as a subsidiary of Medallia, Inc., further expanding its capabilities in delivering valuable insights for service improvement.

StellaService

Series B in 2019
StellaService Inc. is a customer feedback and quality management platform designed for customer service teams. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York, the platform enables companies of various sizes, from startups to large public enterprises, to collect customer feedback, enhance agent engagement, and improve service performance. As of September 2020, StellaService operates as a subsidiary of Medallia, Inc., further expanding its capabilities in delivering valuable insights for service improvement.

Lytics

Series C in 2019
Lytics helps companies orchestrate more relevant marketing through the only enterprise-grade Customer Data Platform (CDP). Nestle, General Mills, Atlassian, The Economist, Heineken, and other leading companies use Lytics to choreograph one-to-one interactions across marketing channels that their customers welcome. The Lytics Customer Data Platform (CDP), the company's flagship product, was launched in October 2014. The Lytics CDP connects a company's marketing data about customers and users from multiple sources (e.g., structured and unstructured data from tools, anonymous and known profiles, and other interactions and events from the marketing stack, sales, and support databases) and creates behavior-rich user-profiles and segments (e.g., likely to churn, most active on mobile, coupon lover). These customer profiles and segments then sync with a company's marketing tools (from website personalization and ad retargeting, to email marketing and content optimization) to improve marketing campaign results and reduce inefficiencies. Many marketing technology vendors claim to offer a "customer data platform." Lytics has the only customer data platform that is easy enough for a beginner marketer to use, but technically sophisticated enough to impress software developers and data scientists. Lytics builds a profile based on unifying any fragment of customer information using sophisticated data science and conducts probabilistic matching to merge identities. The result: a rich profile of a consumer that can power one-to-one marketing in third-party martech tools, APIs, and Lytics own native execution platform. Lytics is led by marketing-technology veterans who’ve held leadership positions at Webtrends, Urban Airship, Jive, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. We are headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Orai

Seed Round in 2019
Orai is a company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 2016, that specializes in a public speaking application utilizing artificial intelligence. The application offers users instant feedback on their speech, along with guided lessons to enhance public speaking skills. Orai serves enterprises by providing a scalable and cost-effective solution for communication and soft skill training. With over 300,000 users on its iOS and Android platforms, the app has delivered AI-driven feedback on more than 2 million recordings, helping individuals become more effective and confident communicators.

Dandelion Energy

Series A in 2019
Dandelion Energy offers affordable geothermal heating and cooling installations. Dandelion Energy's home geothermal system replaces your home’s existing air conditioning and heating equipment with a powerful heat pump and safe, underground pipes that move heat between the earth and home. Kathleen Hannun and Rajeez Quazi founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Palo Alto in California.

Dandelion

Series A in 2019
Dandelion's vision is to enable frictionless discovery of content and commerce. In a world where its easy for anyone to be a seller, it should be easy for anyone to be a marketer too. Dandelion provides the platform to storefronts, marketplaces, and their participants to make that happen.

Madison Reed

Series D in 2019
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.

Acorns

Series E in 2019
Acorns is a finance company that allows individuals to round up purchases and automatically invest the change. It allows customers to automatically invest in a low-cost, diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds offered by some asset managers including Vanguard and BlackRock. Acorns was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

K Health

Series B in 2018
K Health, Inc. develops and provides a health application that provides personalized and data-driven information about their symptoms and health. The company was formerly known as Kang Health, Inc. and changed its name to K Health, Inc. in November 2018. K Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Israel.

FortressIQ

Series A in 2018
FortressIQ, Inc. is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based robotic process automation, offering a platform designed to provide real-time and comprehensive insights into enterprise processes. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on automated process discovery, enabling organizations to gain valuable insights and analytics. Its solutions encompass a range of areas, including employee experience, system optimization, process redesign, and value engineering. FortressIQ aims to enhance business automation and AI governance, with a mission to unlock the potential of the global workforce through the responsible and ethical application of AI technologies. The company's innovative approach involves utilizing meta-learning techniques that allow deep neural networks to effectively gather training data by observing their environments.

Hippo Insurance

Series C in 2018
Hippo Insurance provides home insurance brokerage services, focusing on modernizing coverage for homeowners. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Austin and Dallas, the company utilizes technology to streamline the insurance process. Hippo aims to simplify and enhance home insurance by offering intuitive and proactive coverage that actively addresses the needs of clients. By adopting a tech-driven approach, Hippo seeks to transform how individuals safeguard their homes, allowing them to feel secure and carefree. The company emphasizes a commitment to delivering smarter, more efficient insurance solutions tailored to contemporary homeowners.

Tastemade

Series E in 2018
Tastemade, Inc. is a media company based in Santa Monica, California, established in 2012. It specializes in producing and delivering a variety of food-related content, including themed shows, video recipes, and cooking programs aimed at a global community of food enthusiasts. Tastemade operates through its YouTube channel and food channels across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Additionally, the company offers a mobile application for iPhone users to discover, create, and share culinary videos, as well as online tutorials covering topics such as food photography, food styling, and video production techniques. Founded by Steven Kydd, Larry Fitzgibbon, and Joe Perez, Tastemade aims to connect people through the shared experience of food and travel, catering to the interests of today's socially engaged audience.

Enigma

Series C in 2018
Enigma Technologies, Inc. is a New York-based operational data management and intelligence company that offers a comprehensive searchable database of public records and documents. Its core offerings include Enigma Data Infrastructure, which encompasses tools for data operations and search capabilities, and Enigma Solutions, tailored products and services for industries such as financial services, healthcare, and insurance. The company provides analysis-ready public data and operates Enigma Labs to develop open data tools for public use. Additionally, Enigma offers an application programming interface (API) to facilitate application development and various data services, including entity resolution and custom data acquisition. By delivering timely and accurate insights into small businesses' identities and risk profiles, Enigma supports organizations like American Express and PayPal in making informed operational decisions. Founded in 2011, Enigma continues to bridge the gap between data and workflows, enhancing decision-making processes across sectors.

Upcomer

Seed Round in 2018
Upcomer is a new platform for esports fans to stay updated and engaged with esports. We're building a new kind of esports community and our mobile apps are currently rated 4.8/5 from 5K+ ratings. Try our product at www.upcomer.com

DrayNow

Series A in 2018
DrayNow, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, operates as a technology company specializing in the intermodal freight sector. It offers a real-time online marketplace that connects intermediaries with carriers, facilitating the efficient management of intermodal freight transportation. By leveraging advanced technology, DrayNow enables users to maintain constant visibility of shipments, compare rates, view load details, and select available loads in real-time. This innovative platform optimizes the first and last mile of intermodal logistics, enhancing operational efficiency and helping companies achieve higher levels of capacity, service, and profitability.

Blavity

Series A in 2018
Blavity, Inc. is a media tech company founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California. It operates an online community that caters to multicultural creators and influencers, primarily focusing on the lives of Black millennials and Gen Z. Blavity partners with content creators to expand their reach, amplify their messages, and support their entrepreneurial endeavors. The company is known for its diverse network of platforms and brands, delivering original content, videos, and unique experiences tailored to its audience.

Away

Series C in 2018
Away is a modern travel and lifestyle brand. The company is a vertically-integrated company offering beautiful, high-quality luggage at an affordable price point. Away designs special objects for modern travel. It started with luggage, designed with thoughtful features that solve real travel problems—for life. Now all that’s left is the world in front of you and the people you share it with. Because getting Away means getting more out of every trip to come.

Lyft

Series I in 2018
Lyft is an on-demand transportation service that connects passengers with drivers through a mobile application. Founded in June 2012 in San Francisco by Logan Green and John Zimmer, Lyft allows users to request rides with a simple tap on their smartphones and facilitates payment directly through the app. The platform also offers the option to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Lyft primarily serves college, university, and corporate communities and has rapidly expanded to cover 95 percent of the U.S. population. The company focuses on providing accessible peer-to-peer transportation solutions, contributing to the growing ridesharing market.

Bento for Business

Series B in 2018
Bento for Business is a financial technology company that specializes in providing a comprehensive expense management platform tailored for small and medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a solution that enables businesses to issue payment cards to employees, manage spending controls, and organize expenses through an intuitive dashboard accessible via computers and mobile devices. Bento’s platform includes virtual and corporate cards, along with management tools that enhance control and visibility over company expenses, thereby reducing the risk of fraud and minimizing administrative burdens. Through features such as open APIs and white label partnerships, Bento extends its capabilities to automate payments beyond employee expenses. The company is recognized for its innovative approach and is backed by prominent venture capital firms in the financial technology sector.

BigID

Series B in 2018
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

Tact.ai

Series C in 2018
Tact.ai Technologies, Inc. is a company that develops a conversational artificial intelligence platform designed to enhance the productivity of enterprise sales teams. Its offerings include AI Sales Assistance, which automates administrative tasks using chat and voice, and an Intelligent Workspace that facilitates collaboration among deal teams, partners, and customers. By providing human-friendly CRM solutions that prioritize the seller's experience, Tact.ai aims to transform sales processes for Fortune 500 companies, including notable clients like Honeywell and Cisco. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Tact.ai is backed by several prominent investors and focuses on making enterprise software more accessible and effective for users.

Uptycs

Series A in 2018
Uptycs, Inc. develops a security analytics platform designed to monitor and diagnose infrastructure issues for various customers, including those in software as a service, enterprise, and data center sectors. The Uptycs platform integrates osquery, an open-source universal agent, with advanced security analytics to provide comprehensive solutions for fleet visibility, intrusion detection, vulnerability management, and compliance. It offers key functionalities such as endpoint detection and response, file integrity management, incident investigation, and user-driven security, targeting IT administrators, compliance officers, and incident response teams. Founded in 2016 and based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Uptycs supports a wide range of environments, including Linux, macOS, Windows, containers, and cloud workloads.

Brightside

Seed Round in 2018
Brightside Benefit, Inc. operates a financial care platform designed for employers to enhance the financial well-being of their employees. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, with additional offices in Philadelphia, the company provides a comprehensive solution that combines personal assistants, smart technology, and innovative financial products. Its platform, Kickforward, offers real-time guidance and personalized financial support, enabling employees to make informed decisions that improve their financial behavior and net income. Brightside emphasizes unbiased service, ensuring that employees have access to reliable financial information and options without conflicts of interest from financial institutions. By focusing on individual needs and utilizing behavioral science, Brightside aims to alleviate employee stress, ultimately driving better productivity, retention, and diversity while reducing healthcare costs for employers.

Zola

Series D in 2018
Zola is the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples' lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology. All in the service of love.

Zola

Series D in 2018
Zola is the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples' lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology. All in the service of love.

Shine

Series A in 2018
Shine is an award-winning self-care app and community for people with anxiety & depression. Our approach to wellness: It isn’t pricey, preachy, or privileged. We pride ourselves on being accessible, actionable, and non-shamey—we believe personal growth starts with accepting who you are today. Our members take care of their mental and emotional health daily with the freemium Shine app. It delivers a new motivational message and meditation each day, plus features a library of 500+ meditations to help them cope with specific feelings and situations. Our premium members also get real-time advice from other Shine members in our private Shine Squad digital community—it’s peer-to-peer support that reminds them they don’t have to go it alone. In just two years since launching, our app already has over 10,000 5-star reviews (1 in 3 call Shine “life-changing”), we were named one of the best self-care apps of 2018 by Apple, and we’ve seen that increased use of Shine is correlated with decreases in both anxiety and depression by up to 35%. Our team is awesome. Our community is incredible. Our movement is massive. And this is just the beginning.

Lytics

Series B in 2018
Lytics helps companies orchestrate more relevant marketing through the only enterprise-grade Customer Data Platform (CDP). Nestle, General Mills, Atlassian, The Economist, Heineken, and other leading companies use Lytics to choreograph one-to-one interactions across marketing channels that their customers welcome. The Lytics Customer Data Platform (CDP), the company's flagship product, was launched in October 2014. The Lytics CDP connects a company's marketing data about customers and users from multiple sources (e.g., structured and unstructured data from tools, anonymous and known profiles, and other interactions and events from the marketing stack, sales, and support databases) and creates behavior-rich user-profiles and segments (e.g., likely to churn, most active on mobile, coupon lover). These customer profiles and segments then sync with a company's marketing tools (from website personalization and ad retargeting, to email marketing and content optimization) to improve marketing campaign results and reduce inefficiencies. Many marketing technology vendors claim to offer a "customer data platform." Lytics has the only customer data platform that is easy enough for a beginner marketer to use, but technically sophisticated enough to impress software developers and data scientists. Lytics builds a profile based on unifying any fragment of customer information using sophisticated data science and conducts probabilistic matching to merge identities. The result: a rich profile of a consumer that can power one-to-one marketing in third-party martech tools, APIs, and Lytics own native execution platform. Lytics is led by marketing-technology veterans who’ve held leadership positions at Webtrends, Urban Airship, Jive, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. We are headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

LUS Brands

Seed Round in 2018
LUS Brands tackles the $50B+ global curly hair market. LUS bootstrapped its way to over $1M in sales and 19K+ customers in its first year. Launched in 2017 as a direct-to-consumer e-commerce brand, LUS offers products for different curl types which can be purchased on a one-time or subscription basis.

cheddar

Series D in 2018
Cheddar is a media and entertainment company that operates two live video news networks: Cheddar, focusing on business news, and Cheddar Big News, which offers general news and headlines. The company broadcasts from various prominent locations, including the New York Stock Exchange and its studios in New York and Los Angeles. Cheddar reaches over 6.5 million viewers monthly through platforms such as SlingTV, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, and social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, accumulating hundreds of millions of video views across these platforms. The company aims to provide an authentic voice and a fresh perspective on a wide range of topics, including business, culture, media, and technology, appealing to a diverse and intellectually curious audience. Founded by Jon Steinberg, Cheddar seeks to deliver updated news live and on-demand, reflecting the dynamism of modern media consumption.

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2018
Blockdaemon Inc. is a blockchain node management platform that enables businesses, enterprises, and developers to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain applications. The company provides tools for exchanges, custodians, financial institutions, and developers to operate nodes across more than 30 blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot. Blockdaemon's solution is designed for easy portability, allowing users to switch between networks seamlessly without the need for complex configurations. Founded in 2013 and originally known as Trak Inc., Blockdaemon has its headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, with additional offices in Los Angeles, California, and Ireland. The company supports the blockchain developer ecosystem by offering expert advice in development operations.

Life House

Series A in 2018
Life House is creating a network of lifestyle hotels that are more experiential and more affordable through a powerful software-enabled brand & management platform. Our proprietary software materially reduces the costs of operating a hotel and increases revenues, delivering superior returns to our hotel owners (we do not own or invest in real estate).

BigID

Series A in 2018
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

PrecisionHawk

Series D in 2018
PrecisionHawk Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing drones, sensors, and software solutions for various industries, including agriculture, construction, energy, insurance, and government. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company operates additional locations in College Station, Texas; Indianapolis, Indiana; Toronto, Canada; Virginia Beach, Virginia; and Denver, Colorado. PrecisionHawk integrates unmanned aerial systems with remote sensing technologies and advanced data analytics to enhance business operations and decision-making processes. The company offers an end-to-end solution for aerial data collection, processing, and analysis, delivering actionable insights to its clients. Its product offerings include the aerial data software DataMapper, satellite imagery from Terraserver, and the Low Altitude Traffic and Airspace Safety platform, LATAS. Additionally, PrecisionHawk provides services in pilot networking, consulting, and training.

Hippo Insurance

Series B in 2018
Hippo Insurance provides home insurance brokerage services, focusing on modernizing coverage for homeowners. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Austin and Dallas, the company utilizes technology to streamline the insurance process. Hippo aims to simplify and enhance home insurance by offering intuitive and proactive coverage that actively addresses the needs of clients. By adopting a tech-driven approach, Hippo seeks to transform how individuals safeguard their homes, allowing them to feel secure and carefree. The company emphasizes a commitment to delivering smarter, more efficient insurance solutions tailored to contemporary homeowners.

SnagFilms

Venture Round in 2018
SnagFilms Inc. operates an online platform that enables online audiences to watch, share, and support movies and documentary films. It enables audiences to watch full-length movies, TV shows, documentaries, and comedy shorts in the areas of comedy, drama, kids and family, science and environment, thrillers, award winning, celebrity, romance, LGBT, and horror on mobile phone, tablet, desktop, and TV. SnagFilms Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

K Health

Series A in 2018
K Health, Inc. develops and provides a health application that provides personalized and data-driven information about their symptoms and health. The company was formerly known as Kang Health, Inc. and changed its name to K Health, Inc. in November 2018. K Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Israel.

Pony.ai

Series A in 2018
Pony.ai, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing artificial intelligence software for autonomous mobility applications. Founded in 2016 by James Peng and Tiancheng Lou, Pony.ai is headquartered in Fremont, California, with additional offices in San Francisco and in China. The company creates full-stack autonomous driving solutions that enhance the manufacturing of automated vehicles. Its technology utilizes advanced algorithms and AI to accurately interpret the vehicle's environment, enabling it to predict the actions of surrounding drivers and navigate safely. In addition to its software solutions, Pony.ai operates a public-facing Robotaxi service, further demonstrating its commitment to advancing autonomous transportation.

STAQ

Venture Round in 2018
Staq is a reporting and integrations system for ad technology. The company unifies the ad tech stack through connections, for both end customers that are using a best of breed approach as well as the ad tech providers themselves. Through these connections, it helps ad platforms build more into their valuable products so their clients can use them more effectively. Staq is founded by industry veterans from Advertising.com, The Rubicon Project, Lotame, and Collective.

FortressIQ

Seed Round in 2018
FortressIQ, Inc. is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based robotic process automation, offering a platform designed to provide real-time and comprehensive insights into enterprise processes. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on automated process discovery, enabling organizations to gain valuable insights and analytics. Its solutions encompass a range of areas, including employee experience, system optimization, process redesign, and value engineering. FortressIQ aims to enhance business automation and AI governance, with a mission to unlock the potential of the global workforce through the responsible and ethical application of AI technologies. The company's innovative approach involves utilizing meta-learning techniques that allow deep neural networks to effectively gather training data by observing their environments.

Hawthorne

Seed Round in 2017
Hawthorne creates personal care products using premium quality ingredients, data-driven algorithms, and smart subscriptions. It makes it easy to elevate consumers with premium quality products that work perfectly for them as an individual. With just a quick quiz, consumers will receive tailored products for all of their bathroom needs.

Sevenrooms

Series A in 2017
Sevenrooms Inc. develops a data-driven operations, marketing, and guest engagement platform for the hospitality industry worldwide. It offers Sevenrooms, an end-to-end CRM-driven platform that includes reservation, waitlist and table management, online ordering, contactless order and pay, reputation management, and marketing automation. Its solution enables hospitality operators to increase revenue and profitability by leveraging data to build direct relationships, deliver experiences, and increase repeat visits and orders. The company serves restaurants, hotels, nightlife, sporting and entertainment, membership clubs, and enterprises. Sevenrooms Inc. was formerly known as Nightloop Inc. Sevenrooms Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is based in New York, New York.

Modsy

Series B in 2017
Modsy combines advanced 3D graphics, computer vision, and creative curation to provide its customers with home design guidance and plans. It allows its customers to see inspirational designs and decor within the context of their own home and shows ideas for their space before making any changes. Modsy helps new homeowners, remodelers, and renters create an ideal, personalized design. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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