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.
Past deals in Manufacturing
Infinite Objects, Inc
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.
Figma, Inc.
Series A in 2015
Figma, Inc. designs and develops an in-browser interface design and prototyping tool. It offers Figma, an online tool for interface design that enables product teams to create, test, and ship designs. The company’s tool is also used in UI design, UX design, prototyping, graphic design, wire framing, brainstorming, templates, and remote design applications; and tasks like visual white boarding, diagramming, and slide creation, as well as virtual design sprinting, city building, and Minecraft skin creation applications. Figma, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Cambly Inc.
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.
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.
Validere
Seed Round in 2016
Validere Technologies Inc. develops portable devices that provide critical information about a liquid for large markets and industries. The company offers Validere Identifier, a portable device that checks liquids against its library and verifies if the liquid is hazardous; and EDGE Connect that enables buyers and sellers to securely connect with counterparties outside of their network and discover arbitrage opportunities. It offers its products for liquid fingerprinting, industrial process monitoring, and consumer product applications. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
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.
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.
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.
Interana
Venture Round in 2018
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.
Infinite Objects, Inc
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.
Dogdrop, Inc.
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.
Layer
Seed Round in 2013
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.
Validere
Seed Round in 2016
Validere Technologies Inc. develops portable devices that provide critical information about a liquid for large markets and industries. The company offers Validere Identifier, a portable device that checks liquids against its library and verifies if the liquid is hazardous; and EDGE Connect that enables buyers and sellers to securely connect with counterparties outside of their network and discover arbitrage opportunities. It offers its products for liquid fingerprinting, industrial process monitoring, and consumer product applications. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
UserFocus
Pre Seed Round in 2022
UserFocus is a user research platform that helps companies conduct, organize, and analyze user interviews.
The company is on a mission to help companies build better products and services for their customers. It promotes user-centricity by making qualitative data readable, reliable, and accessible to not just product teams but to everyone in the organization.
dumpling, Inc.
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.
ConductorOne
Venture Round in 2020
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.
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.
Awecom
Seed Round in 2018
AI-powered streaming optimizer dynamically adjusted to a video's characteristics in real-time.
Cambly Inc.
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.
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.
thredUP Inc.
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.
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.
Katerra Inc.
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.
Reby Inc
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.
Tesorio
Series A 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.
WellNested
Seed Round in 2020
WellNested helps families navigate the transition into parenthood with confidence and ease.
Goodcover
Seed Round 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.
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.
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.
Interana
Series B in 2015
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.
Career planet Infotech
Series C in 2011
Career Planet InfoTech is a Faridabad based HR consultancy, started its operations way back in 2009 and from there on it has made a place for itself in all these years by growing from strength to strength.
From Talent sourcing and Talent administration we deliver seamless solutions through excellent cross service collaboration. As all our efforts are made keeping client satisfaction in mind, we can provide all Human Resource related assistance. Our Service offerings include:
Recruitments
Staffing Permanent/Contractual
Payroll Services
Campus Placements
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.
Clearbit, Inc.
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.
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.
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
Highspot
Series A in 2014
Highspot, Inc. provides a cloud-based sales engagement platform. It offers Highspot, a platform that improves the way companies engage with its customers; and scores and recommends content, delivers real-time alerts on how customers are engaging with content, and provides analytics to optimize pitches and content. The company also provides users with marketing and sales portals, as well as allows them to create various sales playbooks to target the seller based on role, profile, and industry. Highspot, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in London, United Kingdom.
Secret
Seed Round in 2013
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.
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.
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.
Quilt Data, Inc
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.
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.
Chums Referral, Inc.
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.
CTRL-Labs Corporation
Series B in 2018
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.
Clara Lending
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.
WeeCare, Inc.
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.
Lattice
Series F in 2022
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.
D2iQ
Series A 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.
Hightower
Seed Round in 2013
Hightower is the leading commercial leasing management platform that enables brokers and owners to better manage their end-to-end leasing workflow.
Hightower's intuitive platform enables CRE professionals to collaborate with their teams, manage important files, and update deals all in real-time from the web or their mobile devices.
Commercial landlords use Hightower to gain real-time visibility across their global portfolios and make data-driven leasing decisions. Brokers use Hightower to manage their business on the go, streamline reporting, and win more business.
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
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.
Julep Beauty, Inc.
Series B in 2013
Julep is the world’s first full-stack beauty brand, controlling every aspect of product development – from concept and testing, to rapid manufacturing and distribution. Julep is the only beauty company that leverages crowdsourced feedback gathered via social channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest to create over 300 new products a year. Julep brings products to market 10X faster than traditional beauty brands, launching products first via its Mavens online subscription community, and then expanding distribution to Julep.com, Sephora, QVC, and Nordstrom.
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.
dumpling, Inc.
Series A 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.
Fly.io
Series A in 2021
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.
Interview Schedule
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.
Drivetime
Series A in 2019
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.
Block Party Studio Company
Seed Round in 2022
Block Party Studio Company develops a consumer application to address online harassment. It offers lockout filter and notification filter services that enable users to mute unwanted notifications. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Argent Mill, Inc.
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.
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.
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.
Heavybit, Inc.
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.
Notable Labs, Inc.
Seed Round in 2015
Notable Labs, Inc. develops and operates a platform that provides lab testing services for brain cancer patients. The company runs drug combination experiments on the tumor and gives a report back to the patient’s doctor. Notable Labs, Inc. was formerly known as StemCycle, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Foster City, California.
CoreOS
Series A in 2015
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.
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.
NextGrid Inc.
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.
Lattice
Series E in 2021
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.
Universe
Series A in 2018
Universe is a mobile-based website builder for the social media era, eschewing complicated templates for easily customizable website “filters” that pin trendy designs to a grid pattern where users can drag and drop photos, videos, icons to build up a mobile-optimized website in minutes on the company’s iOS app.
It was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
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.
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.
Future Family, Inc.
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.
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.
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.
Leigh and Siena
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Leigh & Siena is a retail formal wear brand, selling customizable apparel direct-to-consumer through an at-home experiential styling kit.
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.
Code Climate Inc.
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.
Grove
Seed Round in 2017
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.
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.
Homejoy, Inc.
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.
Delighted
Seed Round in 2014
Delighted is the easiest and most beautiful way to measure customer happiness. Are your customers delighted?
The fastest and easiest way to gather actionable feedback from your customers
Delighted uses the Net Promoter System® to gather real feedback from your customers – in minutes not weeks. No technical knowledge required.
Customers receive a single question survey. They rate your product/service and provide feedback in their own words. Feedback appears instantly in your dashboard.
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.
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.
CTRL-Labs Corporation
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.
IUNU, Inc.
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.
Autumn Adeigbo Inc.
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.
Fuzzbuzz, Inc.
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.
Nervana
Series A in 2014
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.
Teespring, Inc.
Seed Round in 2013
Spring (formerly Teespring) provides creators with an end-to-end solution to build a successful commerce business, as well as building their brand. Creators can design and sell digital and physical products on Spring. They can utilize the platform’s powerful integrations with YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, Discord and Streamlabs allowing them to sell on social. Spring also handles order production, shipping, and customer service so users can focus on growing their brand.
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.
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.
Weave
Series A in 2014
Weave is a developer of a customer experience management (CXM) platform designed to meet the needs of patients and to build better business and clinical outcomes. The company's platform features email, marketing capabilities, a full payments platform and a proprietary VoIP phone service to create customer interactions using personalized customer information across all communication channels, enabling businesses to improve relationships with the people they serve.
With over 15,000 customers, Weave was the first Utah company to join Y Combinator and has received several renowned awards, including the Fortune 100 Best Companies 2019, Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 and Forbes 2020 Next Billion-Dollar Startups, the 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America, Glassdoor’s 2019 and 2020 Best Places to Work and 2019 Top CEOs.
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.
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.
ScaleFT
Seed Round in 2017
ScaleFT is a software company building the next generation of cloud-native access management solutions. The company offers a comprehensive Zero Trust platform that unifies access controls across all user and resource types, saving from having to deploy and manage disparate PAM and IAM products. It controls access to their company resources through an intelligent access fabric that makes smarter trust decisions in real-time based on dynamic user and device conditions.
ScaleFT was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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.
Swivel, Inc.
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.
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.
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.
Orion Labs, Inc.
Series A in 2014
Orion Labs, Inc. provides a voice communication and workflow platform for mobile and heads-up teams that works across a constellation of connected devices, applications, APIs, and AI-powered services. Its solutions include push to talk app, dispatch console, command center, advanced location services, AI workflows, integrations, connected devices, and radio integrations. The company serves hospitality and gaming, field services, transportation, facilities management, manufacturing, energy and mining, construction, retail, and healthcare industries. It sells its products online to customers in the United States and Canada. The company has strategic alliances with ResponderXLabs and the FirstNet Association. Orion Labs, Inc. was formerly known as OnBeep, Inc. and changed its name to Orion Labs in January 2015. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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.
Feather
Series A 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.
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.
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.
VTS, Inc.
Seed Round in 2013
View The Space, Inc. operates a commercial real estate leasing and asset management platform that enables owners and brokers to streamline their workflows and lease space. Its platform also enables owners and brokers to manage deal activity, identify trends, and quantify portfolio performance. It also offers VTS Market, an online marketing platform that enables landlords and their agency teams to market and lease their available spaces remotely. View The Space, Inc. was formerly known as View The Space, LLC. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, 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.
Planetary
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Planetary is a humane decentralized social network. We've built an open protocol and platform for social media and software. A place where you control your data and relationships. This new platform does for social media what open source did for software, creating a common platform for all to build upon secure scuttlebutt.
Social media is the public sphere and it needs to be owned and controlled by the people who create it.
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
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.
Swapbox
Seed Round in 2013
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.
Orion Labs, Inc.
Series A in 2017
Orion Labs, Inc. provides a voice communication and workflow platform for mobile and heads-up teams that works across a constellation of connected devices, applications, APIs, and AI-powered services. Its solutions include push to talk app, dispatch console, command center, advanced location services, AI workflows, integrations, connected devices, and radio integrations. The company serves hospitality and gaming, field services, transportation, facilities management, manufacturing, energy and mining, construction, retail, and healthcare industries. It sells its products online to customers in the United States and Canada. The company has strategic alliances with ResponderXLabs and the FirstNet Association. Orion Labs, Inc. was formerly known as OnBeep, Inc. and changed its name to Orion Labs in January 2015. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
StyleRow
Seed Round in 2019
StyleRow is a design company that focuses on streamlining the design process for designers and creating an experience for brands and showrooms to work together, all in one place. It features an online-based portal that allows design professionals to scale their businesses.
The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in California, United States.
Buoyant
Series A in 2017
Buoyant, Inc. builds an open source application programming interface (API) for mission-critical applications. The company develops Linkerd, an open source network proxy designed to be deployed as a service mesh. A service mesh is a dedicated layer for managing, controlling, and monitoring service-to-service communication within an application. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Natalist
Seed Round in 2019
Launched in August 2019, Natalist is built on the values of evidence, education, and usability. The team—moms, doctors, and scientists—started Natalist with a mission to reduce the shame, misinformation, and outdated product offerings they experienced while on the pregnancy journey. Natalist offers evidence-based educational resources, alongside redesigned fertility and pregnancy essentials.
The Natalist team believes it is their moral imperative to leave the world a better place for future generations. They launched their Mother Earth sustainability initiative in August 2020, which includes being certified 100% plastic neutral. Natalist was founded by Halle Tecco, a prominent healthcare investor and Founder and former CEO of digital health investment fund, Rock Health.
CTRL-Labs Corporation
Series A in 2017
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.
Copper
Seed Round in 2015
Copper puts you in charge of your personal information. Repeat yourself less.
We’re designing tools to improve how you use online services, starting with signups. Every app wants information to identify and protect your account. With Copper, enter that info once then use it everywhere.
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.
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
Code Climate Inc.
Series A in 2016
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.