Fuel Capital

Founded in 2009 by industry veterans. Collectively, the founding team has over 40 collective years of leading investments at top-tier, China-focused venture capital and private equity funds, including Intel Capital, Walden International, AIG, and First Eastern, invested and managed a portfolio of approximately US$1 billion and have over 70 exits ,including more than 40 IPOs in various stock exchanges around the world. FUEL Capital Fund 1 was established in May 2011 in Suzhou, building on the strength of the Principals’ prior investments and operational experience in technology, software, processes, devices, and company building, to invest in Chinese early-growth stage companies to enable advances in clean technology, health care, and other high growth areas. We believe both sectors can provide substantial return for investors if carefully picked sub-sectors and market entrance timing in next 10 years.

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Riley engages with online leads in two minutes or less, 24/7. How does Riley work? 1. A lead contacts you from a portal or landing page 2. We get the lead’s details from your email or CRM 3. Your campaign auto-engages with the lead across SMS, email, etc.

Bark Technologies

Series A in 2018
Bark uses AI to detect issues like cyberbullying, suicidal ideation, and school shootings. Bark uses machine learning to detect and proactively alert parents to issues their children face, such as cyberbullying, sexting, and signs of depression and suicidal thoughts. By only showing parents potential problems on their children's social media, text messaging, and email accounts, Bark's approach saves parents valuable time and helps build trust between parent and child.

Katerra

Seed Round in 2015
Katerra is a technology company optimizing every aspect of building development, design, and construction. The global team includes leaders in design, software and building engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and construction. Founded in 2015, Katerra has a growing number of domestic and international offices, factories, and building projects.
Silex is a world-leading Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) foundry that brings advanced process technologies and manufacturing capacity to a wide range of high-tech companies. Since the start in 2000, they have been MEMS focused and operating as an independent MEMS foundry. Their customers are found in the medical, biotech, telecommunications, consumer electronics and automotive industries.

Reby

Angel Round in 2019
Reby Inc develops a software that helps to find and ride electric scooter in Barcelona. The software searches nearest electric scooter and unlock it through QR code. It can use in android and iOS. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Nervana

Series A in 2015
Nervana focuses on building technology to power the next generation of intelligent applications. Founded by experts in machine learning, neuroscience, processor architecture, and chip design, Nervana Systems is bringing unprecedented scale and simplicity to the application of brain-inspired algorithms. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Diego, California.

D2iq

Series C in 2016
The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS) is a new kind of operating system that spans all of the servers in a physical or cloud-based datacenter, and runs on top of any Linux distribution. Mesosphere's DC/OS makes executing and managing applications in a data center just like launching applications on a laptop by running them on Apache Mesos.

Heavybit

Seed Round in 2013
Heavybit helps companies scale. We focus exclusively on companies building cloud infrastructure, developer tools, and APIs. Based in San Francisco, our program provides capital, strategic advice, operational services, and an expansive network to help grow companies of all sizes. The Heavybit community is the only one of its kind to focus solely on turning products loved by developers into successful businesses.

Dishcraft Robotics

Seed Round in 2016
Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. develops and manufactures robots for commercial kitchens. The company through its system cleans each dish individually using a rotating scrubber head and inspects each dish in a fraction of a second for remaining food residue using computer vision. Its solution Dishcraft Daily provides clean-dish dishwashing services. It serves corporate kitchens and restaurants. Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. was formerly known as Bistro Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. in March 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Joy

Seed Round in 2016
Joy Life, Inc. develops a wedding planning portal and application tools. Its portal and applications enable users to add photos, choose wedding colors and fonts, invite guests, send and store RSVP information, send messages, control social network sharing, import spreadsheets, register gifts, send digital RSVPs, and send custom notifications and messages. The company’s portal also allows guests to take and upload photos to private moments timeline, comment, and show love for photos. Joy Life, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Ikaria, Inc. develops and commercializes critical care therapeutics and interventions to address the needs of critically ill patients. It offers INOMAX (nitric oxide) for inhalation, an inhaled nitric oxide therapy for the treatment of hypoxic respiratory failure associated with pulmonary hypertension in term and near-term infants. Ikaria, Inc. was formerly known as Ikaria Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Ikaria, Inc. in May 2010. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Hampton, New Jersey. As of April 16, 2015, Ikaria, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Mallinckrodt plc.

Grove

Private Placement in 2018
Grove is a personal trainer for the client's moneyThe company assesses where you are today and create a plan to make the client confident about their money. Through proprietary software combined with a team of Certified Financial Planners, Grove is able to offer personalized advice at a fraction of the price of traditional financial advisors.
Drivetime provides an online platform designed to help users play games while they drive. It develops interactive audio games that are non-distracting and voice-driven gameplay, enabling users to play hands-free games while driving the car. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Goodcover

Private Placement in 2020
Goodcover Insurance Solutions, LLC provides insurance brokerage services. It offers insurance products and services for personal property, such as liability for accidental property damage and bodily injury, medical payments for the customer’s guests' injuries, and temporary accommodations if customer’s place becomes unlivable. Goodcover Insurance Solutions, LLC was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Dumpling

Seed Round in 2019
dumpling, Inc. develops an application for individuals to launch, run, and grow independent grocery shopping and delivery businesses. It offers Dumpling, an application that provides grocery shopping and delivery business owners in the United States with the tools, technology, and business support. The company application also helps clients to place orders. dumpling, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Berkeley, California.

Grove

Private Placement in 2018
Grove is a personal trainer for the client's moneyThe company assesses where you are today and create a plan to make the client confident about their money. Through proprietary software combined with a team of Certified Financial Planners, Grove is able to offer personalized advice at a fraction of the price of traditional financial advisors.

Secret

Series B in 2014
Secret offers an online platform that enables users to share their personal secrets with other users anonymously. It owns and operates a mobile application that helps users to share and connect with friends. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, an investment holding company, engages in the computer-aided design, manufacture, testing, packaging, and trading of integrated circuits (IC) and other semiconductor services. It is also involved in wafer manufacturing, wafer probing and bumping, technology development, design service, mask manufacturing, and assembly and final testing of integrated circuits; and sale of self-manufactured products. In addition, the company designs and manufactures semiconductor masks; and offers marketing related services. It operates in North America, China, Hong Kong, and Eurasia. The company serves integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor companies, and system companies. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People’s Republic of China.

WillCall

Seed Round in 2013
WillCall curates a list of the best shows happening in your city and makes it easy to buy tickets with just a few taps — no waiting in line or dealing with the box office required. It’s the music discovery and ticketing app for people who want to have fun. A lot of love is put into the shows featured on the WillCall list, so you'll have no excuse to stay home.

Fuzzbuzz

Private Placement in 2019
Fuzzbuzz is a security platform that protects various software from digital hacks or attacks. It integrates fuzzing into DevOps workflow by automating away complex infrastructure management and setup and connecting with tools. The platform gives alerts when bugs are found, deduplicates, and categorizes them to cut out the noise and false positives, and allows them to easily analyze them via the web UI. Fuzzbuzz was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Infinite Objects

Seed Round in 2021
Infinite Objects, Inc operates an online design store that sells homeware designs, stickers, Christmas gifts, and other products. Infinite Objects, Inc is headquartered in the United States.

Good Dog

Seed Round in 2019
Good Dog, Inc. develops a web based platform for buying and adopting dogs. The company offers Good Dog platform, which provides prospective dogs list and streamlines the process of dog ownership. It also provides a learning center, through its platform, which provides information about raising a dog. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation manufactures and sells semiconductor products. Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation was formerly known as Beijing Microelectronics Corporation. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Beijing, China. Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation.

Oh My Green

Seed Round in 2018
Oh My Green is the Eat Healthy, Work Happy, Live Bliss(tm) company. Founded out of Stanford StartX and Y Combinator, Oh My Green offers a complete wellness platform that brings delicious and nutritious food, healthy snacks, drinks, and wellness practices to the workplace to improve employee productivity and engagement. Oh My Green provides micro-kitchens, micro-markets, catering, cafe management, subscription boxes and more to small businesses and enterprises. Our sophisticated stack leverages AI and IoT technologies, enables a flexible supply chain, and provides full analytics to our clients for easy account management. Oh My Green’s offerings help people live healthy lifestyles so that they can reach their full potential in and outside the workplace. Our client roster spans everything from Fortune 500 companies to some of the most admired startups.

Future Family

Seed Round in 2017
Future Family, Inc. offers subscription plans which cover all healthcare costs and include guided care through concierge service. The company's features include, personal fertility planning, clinic matching, dedicated nurse concierge, 24/7 access to care team, digital health platform, clinic visits and procedures, labs, and medications. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Waveguider Optical Telecom Technology Inc. develops MEMS sensors and sensing signal integration chips (FPGA) that are applied in the medical, automotive, internal environment monitor, and power industries in China and internationally. It offers sensor chips that include healthy chips and ASICs for visual prosthesis; portable and mobile medical sensor equipment, multi-function health monitors, arm type health monitors, vehicle environment and medical care systems, health watch, digital blood pressure monitors that are used in medical applications; and products for automotive and power applications. The company is based in Shenzhen, China.

CoreOS

Seed Round in 2013
CoreOS is a leader in the Kubernetes community and creator of Tectonic, a secure and complete platform that extends Kubernetes with key enterprise features that ease container orchestration. CoreOS creates and delivers critical components, such as the Quay private image registry, that are helping fuel broad adoption of a secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure inspired by hyperscale providers. They maintain several open source projects, including CoreOS Linux: the first micro-OS; etcd, the distributed data store for Kubernetes; and rkt, the security-focused container runtime engine. The CoreOS team is comprised of experts in container management and distributed systems from cloud-scale pioneers like Google, Twitter, and Rackspace.

Lovd.com

Seed Round in 2021
Chums Referral, Inc., doing business as Chums, operates an online website for finding and recommending products and services. It operates an online portal, which allows the users to find and share referral codes. It also develops a mobile application for referring products and services. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Beverly Hills, California.

Feather

Private Placement in 2019
Feather provides furniture and home decor rental service The company helps city dwellers to furnish their homes without spending a fortune or hurting the planet in the process. Members of Feather have access to high-quality furniture at a low monthly price with the option to add, swap, buy, or return when life or tastes change. Furniture is delivered and assembled for free within a week. Feather’s circular approach reduces the environmental impact that furniture waste has on the planet by keeping furniture in homes and out of landfills.

Dogdrop

Venture Round in 2021
Dogdrop is a female founded and venture backed start-up based in Los Angeles. Dogdrop provides better, more accessible dog care with their physical locations for recreation & activity and DTC at home essentials for dog parents. The company was founded in 2018 by Shaina Denny and Greer Wilk and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Mindie

Seed Round in 2014
Mindie is a new way to share life through music video, in seconds. Choose the track of your choice and record video while the music is playing! Any video gets insanely better with music.

Guilded

Seed Round in 2017
Guilded, Inc. designs and develops a chat platform and application for competitive gaming and esports for keeping gamers organized and connected with their teams. It offers Guilded that enables gamers to upgrade group chat and equips servers with integrated event calendars, forums, and more. The company’s Guilded is also used to create events, docs, and more; and organize servers with groups. Guilded, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Dallas, Texas.
Anji Microelectronics Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. engages in the research and development, manufacture, and sale of semiconductor materials worldwide. It offers copper, barrier, TSV, oxide, silicon/polysilicon, Al, and BSI CMP slurries; and stripping/cleaning solutions, such as post Al etch residue removers and bulk photoresist strippers. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.
Guilded, Inc. designs and develops a chat platform and application for competitive gaming and esports for keeping gamers organized and connected with their teams. It offers Guilded that enables gamers to upgrade group chat and equips servers with integrated event calendars, forums, and more. The company’s Guilded is also used to create events, docs, and more; and organize servers with groups. Guilded, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Day-J

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Day-J is a health and wellness platform that offers users one-on-one coaching with licensed nutritionists, trainers, and mindset coaches.

LeadGenius

Series B in 2016
LeadGenius, Inc. provides lead generation and outreach processes for businesses, development organizations, nonprofits, and researchers in the United States and internationally. It provides customer research to produce lists of leads, customers, and industries; data enrichment by auditing lead list, updating contacts, correcting misspellings, and deleting outdated information; lead qualifications by separating qualified leads from dead ends, evaluating lead information, and following-up with leads over email or phone; and outbound Email prospecting/sales prospecting. LeadGenius, Inc. was formerly known as MobileWorks, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Frontback

Seed Round in 2013
Frontback is a fun and fast way to show your friends what you're up to. Take a photo with the front camera, another with the back camera, and share them both in a single image. • Capture an instant using both front and back cameras • Advanced gestures to switch between front and back cameras • Add a caption and location like restaurant, museum, bar, or music festival • Share instantly via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Email and SMS • Find and follow your friends from your Address Book and other social networks
Good Dog, Inc. develops a web based platform for buying and adopting dogs. The company offers Good Dog platform, which provides prospective dogs list and streamlines the process of dog ownership. It also provides a learning center, through its platform, which provides information about raising a dog. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Nylas

Series A in 2015
Nylas provides an API platform that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data from any email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world. The solution allows developers to integrate complex, unstructured communications data into their applications in days, providing secure pre-built integrations that are SOC 2 certified, GDPR compliant, Privacy Shield certified, and HIPAA and FINRA-ready.

Upwards

Seed Round in 2018
WeeCare empowers caregivers to create sustainable home daycare businesses, while making affordable, quality childcare accessible to all families. The WeeCare platform provides caregivers, educators and parentprenuers the tools and support needed to start a licensed home daycare, fill to capacity and effortlessly manage operations so they can focus on caregiving. Families using WeeCare have access to safe, affordable and curriculum-based daycare.

IUNU

Pre Seed Round in 2017
iUNU is an industrial computer vision company that connects plants, facilities, and people through a single interface. Luna turns commercial greenhouses into precise, predictable, demand-based manufacturers. Luna is an AI born in the heart of Seattle; trained in Silicon Valley and the greenhouses of Skagit Valley; accessible from everywhere. Founded in 2013, iUNU is an industrial computer vision company headquartered in Seattle, with offices in San Francisco and San Diego.

Lattice

Series D in 2020
Lattice is a people management platform that enables People Leaders to develop engaged, high-performing teams. By combining continuous performance management and employee engagement in one solution, HR and People teams get powerful, real-time analytics that leads to actionable insights turning managers into leaders, employees into high-performers, and companies into the best places to work.

NextGrid

Seed Round in 2018
NextGrid Inc., a renewable power company, develops and operates distributed solar energy and storage projects in the United States. It focuses on developing and building portfolios of distributed energy projects in Massachusetts, New Jersey, District of Columbia, Maine, and California. The company also pays property owners to host a solar farm; and provides capital and support for developers. NextGrid Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tesorio

Seed Round in 2018
Tesorio is the cash flow performance platform, which Accounts Receivable, Treasury, and FP&A teams use to manage, predict, and collect cash. Its AI processes over $30 billion in transactions each year for companies ranging from 50 to 10,000 employees. Tesorio serves customers around the globe with AR automation and cash flow forecasting, across verticals including software, manufacturing, retail, finance, and pharmaceuticals.Customers include Box, Veeva Systems, WP Engine, Currency Cloud, Instructure and many other publicly traded and privately held companies that care about cash flow performance.

Good Dog

Private Placement in 2019
Good Dog, Inc. develops a web based platform for buying and adopting dogs. The company offers Good Dog platform, which provides prospective dogs list and streamlines the process of dog ownership. It also provides a learning center, through its platform, which provides information about raising a dog. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Prelude

Seed Round in 2021
Interview Schedule provides a platform designed to streamline recruiting operations. It simplifies the most manual parts of scheduling interviews, freeing up resources to focus on top priorities. The platform supercharges recruiting coordinators by integrating with their existing systems and workflows, putting an end to the dreaded Calendar Tetris. ​ The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tesorio

Private Placement in 2019
Tesorio is the cash flow performance platform, which Accounts Receivable, Treasury, and FP&A teams use to manage, predict, and collect cash. Its AI processes over $30 billion in transactions each year for companies ranging from 50 to 10,000 employees. Tesorio serves customers around the globe with AR automation and cash flow forecasting, across verticals including software, manufacturing, retail, finance, and pharmaceuticals.Customers include Box, Veeva Systems, WP Engine, Currency Cloud, Instructure and many other publicly traded and privately held companies that care about cash flow performance.

Checkmate

Seed Round in 2022
Checkmate is a digital wallet and payments company. Checkmate offers a suite of financial solutions enabling users to save when purchasing online or in the physical world.

Clara

Series A in 2016
We started Clara to help individuals and families finance their lives in a more efficient, transparent, and empowered way. We started with one of life’s most important financial decisions -- a home. We are building technology to reduce the time and cost it takes to originate a mortgage and creating a more personalized, clear experience for our customers.

CoreOS

Series A in 2014
CoreOS is a leader in the Kubernetes community and creator of Tectonic, a secure and complete platform that extends Kubernetes with key enterprise features that ease container orchestration. CoreOS creates and delivers critical components, such as the Quay private image registry, that are helping fuel broad adoption of a secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure inspired by hyperscale providers. They maintain several open source projects, including CoreOS Linux: the first micro-OS; etcd, the distributed data store for Kubernetes; and rkt, the security-focused container runtime engine. The CoreOS team is comprised of experts in container management and distributed systems from cloud-scale pioneers like Google, Twitter, and Rackspace.

Goodcover

Private Placement in 2020
Goodcover Insurance Solutions, LLC provides insurance brokerage services. It offers insurance products and services for personal property, such as liability for accidental property damage and bodily injury, medical payments for the customer’s guests' injuries, and temporary accommodations if customer’s place becomes unlivable. Goodcover Insurance Solutions, LLC was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Feather

Private Placement in 2019
Feather provides furniture and home decor rental service The company helps city dwellers to furnish their homes without spending a fortune or hurting the planet in the process. Members of Feather have access to high-quality furniture at a low monthly price with the option to add, swap, buy, or return when life or tastes change. Furniture is delivered and assembled for free within a week. Feather’s circular approach reduces the environmental impact that furniture waste has on the planet by keeping furniture in homes and out of landfills.

Firstparty

Seed Round in 2022
Firstparty is a B2B software startup that builds marketing automation tools for data-driven growth teams. Firstparty was founded in 2021.

CoreOS

Series B in 2016
CoreOS is a leader in the Kubernetes community and creator of Tectonic, a secure and complete platform that extends Kubernetes with key enterprise features that ease container orchestration. CoreOS creates and delivers critical components, such as the Quay private image registry, that are helping fuel broad adoption of a secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure inspired by hyperscale providers. They maintain several open source projects, including CoreOS Linux: the first micro-OS; etcd, the distributed data store for Kubernetes; and rkt, the security-focused container runtime engine. The CoreOS team is comprised of experts in container management and distributed systems from cloud-scale pioneers like Google, Twitter, and Rackspace.

Fuzzbuzz

Seed Round in 2019
Fuzzbuzz is a security platform that protects various software from digital hacks or attacks. It integrates fuzzing into DevOps workflow by automating away complex infrastructure management and setup and connecting with tools. The platform gives alerts when bugs are found, deduplicates, and categorizes them to cut out the noise and false positives, and allows them to easily analyze them via the web UI. Fuzzbuzz was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Dandy

Seed Round in 2019
Dandy is a live dating app that builts to solve the problem of immense time and effort required by existing online dating experiences. It allows USC students to virtually connect through instant messages, without needing to meet in person. The live dating app emulates raw human behavior, as it gives students a convenient way to connect, by addressing issues of unreliability and privacy on current dating apps

Dishcraft Robotics

Series A in 2020
Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. develops and manufactures robots for commercial kitchens. The company through its system cleans each dish individually using a rotating scrubber head and inspects each dish in a fraction of a second for remaining food residue using computer vision. Its solution Dishcraft Daily provides clean-dish dishwashing services. It serves corporate kitchens and restaurants. Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. was formerly known as Bistro Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. in March 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.
DSM Green Power Ltd.,Co manufactures and develops generators and range extenders for electric vehicles. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Suzhou, China.

Goodcover

Series A in 2020
Goodcover Insurance Solutions, LLC provides insurance brokerage services. It offers insurance products and services for personal property, such as liability for accidental property damage and bodily injury, medical payments for the customer’s guests' injuries, and temporary accommodations if customer’s place becomes unlivable. Goodcover Insurance Solutions, LLC was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Bark Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
Bark uses AI to detect issues like cyberbullying, suicidal ideation, and school shootings. Bark uses machine learning to detect and proactively alert parents to issues their children face, such as cyberbullying, sexting, and signs of depression and suicidal thoughts. By only showing parents potential problems on their children's social media, text messaging, and email accounts, Bark's approach saves parents valuable time and helps build trust between parent and child.

Feather

Series B in 2020
Feather provides furniture and home decor rental service The company helps city dwellers to furnish their homes without spending a fortune or hurting the planet in the process. Members of Feather have access to high-quality furniture at a low monthly price with the option to add, swap, buy, or return when life or tastes change. Furniture is delivered and assembled for free within a week. Feather’s circular approach reduces the environmental impact that furniture waste has on the planet by keeping furniture in homes and out of landfills.

D2iq

Series B in 2014
The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS) is a new kind of operating system that spans all of the servers in a physical or cloud-based datacenter, and runs on top of any Linux distribution. Mesosphere's DC/OS makes executing and managing applications in a data center just like launching applications on a laptop by running them on Apache Mesos.

Radar

Seed Round in 2017
Radar Labs, Inc. develops a full-stack developer toolkit for location context and tracking. The company’s toolkit helps companies and developers collect, analyze, and act on location data. It enables users to create geofences representing places or regions via a dashboard or application program interface (API); and receive geofence entry and exit events from client-side or server-side via webhooks, and export events for analysis. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Layer

Series A in 2014
Layer, Inc. develops an open communications layer platform for the Internet that enables developers to add rich messaging, voice, and video to any application. It offers Atlas, a customizable UI kit to power rich messaging in applications; SDKs for iOS and Android; Client API that enables browser based applications to add chat and communications services; and Platform API that enables developers to automate, extend, and integrate with other services and applications. Layer, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Dumpling

Private Placement in 2020
dumpling, Inc. develops an application for individuals to launch, run, and grow independent grocery shopping and delivery businesses. It offers Dumpling, an application that provides grocery shopping and delivery business owners in the United States with the tools, technology, and business support. The company application also helps clients to place orders. dumpling, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Berkeley, California.

Lattice

Seed Round in 2016
Lattice is a people management platform that enables People Leaders to develop engaged, high-performing teams. By combining continuous performance management and employee engagement in one solution, HR and People teams get powerful, real-time analytics that leads to actionable insights turning managers into leaders, employees into high-performers, and companies into the best places to work.

Forestry

Private Placement in 2018
Forestry.io’s content management system is meant to simplify posting and updating material processes on static websites. The startup offers a full-featured CMS for your static site with support for Jekyll, Hugo and Git that is suitable in creating documentation sites.

Infinite Objects

Seed Round in 2019
Infinite Objects, Inc operates an online design store that sells homeware designs, stickers, Christmas gifts, and other products. Infinite Objects, Inc is headquartered in the United States.

Interana

Series A in 2014
Interana Inc. develops behavioral discovery and analysis platform that allows users to answer about digital behavior. The solution enables data analysts and product managers to analyze and improve the on boarding experience and feature utilization. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California with additional locations in Dallas, Texas; and Bellevue, Washington.

ThredUp

Series C in 2012
thredUP is the nation's most trusted online marketplace for buying and selling like-new clothing. Fusing fashion resale and e-commerce, customers send consignment quality clothing in a pre-paid Closet Cleanout Bag, earn cash upfront for their clothing, and can shop favorite styles and brands at thredUP.com for up to 90% off retail. Based in San Francisco, thredUP was founded in 2009 by James Reinhart, Oliver Lubin, and Chris Homer. The company is advised by current Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, former eBay COO, Brian Swette and backed by world-class investors.
AdLast, Inc., doing business as URX, provides a mobile application retargeting platform. The company offers URX that lets advertisers show advertisements to people who have their application installed, and then take those users into their mobile application. It engages users with product-level content and provides them with the shortest path to purchase via deep linking. The company’s URX is also used to generate product-specific advertisements, drive users to products in advertiser’s application, and track ROI on a per-ad basis. AdLast, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Code Climate

Seed Round in 2014
Code Climate Inc. develops an engineering intelligence application that delivers data-driven insights to software engineering organizations. It offers Velocity that analyzes all the data from GitHub repos and provides heads-up displays, real-time analytics, and custom reports to give a perspective on how engineering team is working. The company also provides Quality that provides automated code review for test coverage, maintainability, and more to save time and merge. It offers its products for managers, engineers, executives, and product leaders. Code Climate Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

Awecom

Seed Round in 2018
AI-powered streaming optimizer dynamically adjusted to a video's characteristics in real-time.

Crowd Cow

Seed Round in 2017
Crowd Cow, Inc. operates a platform that enables customers to buy beef directly from small family farms. It sells whole cows; and cuts of chicken, pork, and olive wagyu in the United States. Crowd Cow, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Seattle, Washington.
Degree, Inc., doing business as Lattice, develops an online platform for setting and aligning company’s goals. It offers Lattice, a platform that allows users to work with their team to align their goals in a user interface; and enables users to clarify and reinforce their company’s top goals to the whole team. The company’s platform also allows users to check-in on their goals and keep their team/company up to date; enables users to focus on their priorities; and allows users to track the performance of their company. Degree, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Swapbox

Seed Round in 2015
Swapbox is an easy and convenient delivery system that enables people to send and receive packages using a Swapbox kiosk. The kiosks, which are completely automated, are situated in convenient locations including grocery stores, petrol stations and coffee shops, meaning that customers do not need to rush to the post office by 3pm to send their packages. Customers simply place their item/s in the Swapbox kiosk and input their details using the touchscreen. The recipient then collects the package from a local Swapbox using the code they received through text or email. Swapbox sets itself apart by focusing on consumer satisfaction, experience and convenience. Swapbox is currently available in San Francisco and Santa Clara.

Autumn Adeigbo

Seed Round in 2020
Autumn Adeigbo Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells colorful and conversational apparels for women in Africa and the United States. The company offers dresses, jackets, pants, shirts, and skirts. It also sells its products online. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.
YuanRong Photoelectric technology co., LTD develops and produces color light-emitting diode LED epitaxial wafers and chips. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Maanshan, China.

ConductorOne

Series A in 2022
conductorOne, Inc. develops and offers permission management software for the web and infrastructure. It provides permission management, governance, and auditing to identity provider, HR system, ticketing, and CI pipelines. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
United Imaging Healthcare (Beijing) designs, develops, manufactures, and markets medical imaging systems. Its products include color Doppler ultrasound systems; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems; full hospital, mini, and radiology PACS solutions; and OEM/ODM products, such as digital color Doppler ultrasound engines, MRI spectrometers, and MRI clinical software. The company also provides classroom and onsite training, and e-learning services; and conducts workshops. It serves primary health-care populations through dealers in China and internationally. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Beijing, China with a satellite business office in the United States.

Interana

Series A in 2017
Interana Inc. develops behavioral discovery and analysis platform that allows users to answer about digital behavior. The solution enables data analysts and product managers to analyze and improve the on boarding experience and feature utilization. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California with additional locations in Dallas, Texas; and Bellevue, Washington.

Fly.io

Seed Round in 2020
Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers easily. The company's application delivery network uses a global network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct their visitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks.

Secret

Series A in 2014
Secret offers an online platform that enables users to share their personal secrets with other users anonymously. It owns and operates a mobile application that helps users to share and connect with friends. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Dishcraft Robotics

Private Placement in 2020
Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. develops and manufactures robots for commercial kitchens. The company through its system cleans each dish individually using a rotating scrubber head and inspects each dish in a fraction of a second for remaining food residue using computer vision. Its solution Dishcraft Daily provides clean-dish dishwashing services. It serves corporate kitchens and restaurants. Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. was formerly known as Bistro Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. in March 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

CTRL-labs

Venture Round in 2019
CTRL-Labs Corporation develops and manufactures a wristband, CTRL-kit, a virtual reality/augmented reality (AA/VR), productivity, and robotics-focused development kit that allows a user to control a digital device through a series of electronic pulses picked up by a wristband full of sensors. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Clearbit

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Clearbit develops business intelligence to help companies find more information of customers in order to increase sales and reduce fraud. Alex McCaw, Harlow Ward, and Rob Holland founded Clearbit in 2014, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

Argent

Venture Round in 2019
Argent Mill, Inc. retails women clothing and apparel online. It offers blazers, tops, pants, jumpsuits, outerwear, skirts, dresses, and sweaters as well as accessories. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Clara Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Clara did inventive work on human-in-the-loop NLP systems and built one of the earliest well-loved conversational UX products. In 2019, the business was acquired by TopFunnel (https://topfunnel.co) who continues to operate the service, and Twitter acquired the R&D talent and some IP to apply towards content moderation.

Quilt Data

Seed Round in 2017
Quilt makes data-driven companies more collaborative by allowing everyone in the organization—not just data scientists— to work with data in a way that is faster, more collaborative and more trustworthy. Organizations that use Quilt make informed decisions more rapidly, allowing them to be more successful and gain an unfair advantage in today’s increasingly data-driven world.

Werk

Seed Round in 2017
Werk is the first and only people analytics software that helps companies improve their flexibility performance through data. Through a proprietary assessment methodology and analytics dashboard, Werk delivers the insights companies need to understand current flexibility baseline and gaps, the highest ROI flex investments to close those gaps, and the impact of flexibility on their most important business metrics. Learn more at Werk.co

KryptonCloud

Seed Round in 2015
KryptonCloud offers businesses with cloud solutions that focus on asset performance management. KryptonCloud offers data collection and management solutions that assist businesses in their business and asset decision making. It provides insights and analytics about failure detection, asset availability, costs, and maintenance expenses. KryptonCloud was founded by Ed Albanese and Arun Ramakrishnan in 2015. It is based in San Francisco, California.

Prelim

Seed Round in 2017
Original Tech powers the point of sale application experience for a suite of financial products. Bank and non-bank financial institutions use Original's white-labeled software to deliver speed, simplicity, and service to their customers anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Homejoy

Seed Round in 2013
Homejoy believes everyone deserves a happy home. With just a few clicks, Homejoy’s online platform will match you with a screened, background-checked and certified professional cleaner who maintains high customer ratings. And at $20/hour, Homejoy makes a sparkling home an affordable reality for everyone. Founded in 2010 by brother-sister duo Aaron and Adora Cheung, the San Francisco-based company serves 31 markets in North America and growing. For additional information on Homejoy, please visit www.homejoy.com/about or www.homejoy.com/press.

D2iq

Seed Round in 2013
The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS) is a new kind of operating system that spans all of the servers in a physical or cloud-based datacenter, and runs on top of any Linux distribution. Mesosphere's DC/OS makes executing and managing applications in a data center just like launching applications on a laptop by running them on Apache Mesos.
Layer, Inc. develops an open communications layer platform for the Internet that enables developers to add rich messaging, voice, and video to any application. It offers Atlas, a customizable UI kit to power rich messaging in applications; SDKs for iOS and Android; Client API that enables browser based applications to add chat and communications services; and Platform API that enables developers to automate, extend, and integrate with other services and applications. Layer, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Chipone Technology (beijing) Co.,Ltd. operates as an IC design and solutions company, which focuses on high-end power management circuits and an array of display-related IC designs in China. It offers touch panel control sensors, high-end power management circuits, and an array of display-related IC of LED display driver ICs. The company also provides touch panel control sensors for use in smart phone, PDA, digital camera, notebook and tablet, home entertainment device, and mobile terminal applications; low power capacitive touch sensor controllers for use in mobile phones, smart phones, PDAs, portable MP3 and MP4 media players, digital cameras, game consoles, navigation systems, information kiosks, keyboards, keypads, mouses, remote controls, house appliances, home entertainment devices; and boost converters for WLED drivers in liquid crystal displays. In addition, it offers integrated PWM controllers, dual charge pumps, VCOM operational amplifiers, and one open drain reset outputs for TFT LCD displays; and advanced PWM DC-DC converter with internal switch and soft-start for use in liquid crystal displays. Further, the company provides support services. It sells its products online. Chipone Technology (beijing) Co.,Ltd. was founded in 2008 and is based in Beijing, China.

Cambly

Seed Round in 2014
Cambly Inc. develops a mobile application that connects students who want to learn a language with a native speaker who can help them learn. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in the San Francisco, California.

Swivel

Seed Round in 2018
Swivel is a new online service where fast-growing companies can find and design their own plug-and-play workspace. It's a workspace network where agile leasing gives member companies the freedom to move when the office needs change. More and more companies prefer this approach over traditional office leasing because they can get exactly the right amount of space they need, when they need it, and have greater control over one of their largest expenses.

Feather

Seed Round in 2017
Feather provides furniture and home decor rental service The company helps city dwellers to furnish their homes without spending a fortune or hurting the planet in the process. Members of Feather have access to high-quality furniture at a low monthly price with the option to add, swap, buy, or return when life or tastes change. Furniture is delivered and assembled for free within a week. Feather’s circular approach reduces the environmental impact that furniture waste has on the planet by keeping furniture in homes and out of landfills.