Gradient Ventures

Gradient Ventures is a venture fund established by Google in 2017, focusing on artificial intelligence investments. Based in Mountain View, California, the fund aims to support early-stage startups by providing access to Google's resources, innovation, and technical expertise in AI. It assists founders in overcoming the challenges associated with developing new technology products, ensuring that they can effectively leverage contemporary best practices in areas such as recruiting, marketing, design, and engineering. Through its efforts, Gradient Ventures helps transform promising ideas into viable, innovative solutions in the tech landscape.

Zach Bratun-Glennon

Partner

Emerson Kirk

Investor

Asif Moosani

Investor

Kahini Shah

Investor

Darian Shirazi

General Partner

Siri Srinivas

Partner

Victoria Zuo

Investor

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Pylon

Series A in 2023
Pylon is a financial planner company that tracks, plan, and share your finances in one place. It was founded in 2021 and is located in McLean, Virginia.

Axle

Seed Round in 2023
Axle is an open platform for consumer-permissioned insurance data. With Axle, companies can instantly verify insurance and monitor ongoing coverage, helping them create a frictionless experience for their customers and reduce operational risk through better-informed decisions.

Lambda

Series B in 2023
Lambda is an AI infrastructure company that specializes in providing powerful computing resources to enhance artificial intelligence development. It offers a cloud computing platform designed for large-scale AI training and inference, featuring servers and workstations that are pre-configured with popular machine learning frameworks. This setup allows businesses to efficiently train complex models for various applications, including natural language processing and drug discovery. Additionally, Lambda's servers support the integration of face detection and recognition capabilities into web applications, ensuring that deep learning developers have access to the necessary computing, storage, and memory resources to optimize their projects.

Flatfile

Series B in 2022
Flatfile Inc. offers a platform designed to streamline the data onboarding process for businesses by allowing developers to validate, map, and import data from various web applications. Founded in 2018 and based in Denver, Colorado, the company's key products include Portal, an import button that integrates seamlessly into software applications through a JavaScript snippet, and Concierge, which provides secure workspaces for collaboration on data ingestion challenges. Flatfile's platform supports multiple file formats, including CSV, XLS, and TSV, and features a JavaScript configurator that enables users to define target models for data validation. This automation helps organizations manage and structure imported data effectively, reducing the time spent on data cleaning and allowing teams to focus on utilizing their data for decision-making.

Heru

Seed Round in 2022
Heru builds the a community of gig-economy workers and have a suite of services that help improve their way of life and general well-being. The company's mission is to improve the conditions of independent workers by building, through technology, services, and benefits according to their needs and lifestyle.

Spectral

Venture Round in 2022
Developer of an AI-powered platform designed to generate and deploy smart contracts. The company's platform enables developers to create complex smart contracts with ease by using natural language, accelerating development time, and reducing errors.

Flourish Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Flourish Labs is a purpose-driven startup combining cutting edge mental health science and technology to foster flourishing and good mental health.

Syrup Tech

Seed Round in 2022
Syrup Tech is the machine-learning decision-support engine for inventory optimization in retail. The company uses advanced demand forecasting and stochastic optimizations. Syrup Tech's software empowers brands and retailers to significantly increase full-priced inventory sell-through by (1) preventing stock-outs and end-of-season markdowns, (2) decrease unnecessary excess inventory and reduce overproduction, and (3) unlock the nuances of each of the clients' channels and optimize across them.

Openly

Series C in 2022
Openly Inc. is a technology-enabled insurance provider that specializes in homeowners insurance, catering to customers through independent agents. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Chicago, the company leverages technology and industry expertise to deliver comprehensive insurance coverage. Openly's offerings include protection for the structure of the building, walls, roof, and attached fixtures. The company focuses on providing a simplified quoting process, aiming to enhance the overall insurance experience for its customers.

OlaClick (YC W21)

Seed Round in 2022
OlaClick is a web-based digital menu solution that helps businesses receive simplified online orders through WhatsApp

Zowie

Series A in 2022
Zowie Inc. develops artificial intelligence based communication automation software. The company’s products include Zowie AI, which is a tool to automate frequently asked questions that offers marketing, lead generation, and customer services; Zowie Inbox, which enables to gather customer inquiries from all communication channels and respond to them from one place; Zowie Builder; which is an all-in-one, modular tool designed for building responsive, fast, and highly customizable chatbots; and Zowie Chat, which is the live chat of the next generation. The company’s software learns, automates, and supports clients’ team and customers. Zowie Inc. was formerly known as Chatbotize sp. z o.o. and changed its name to Zowie Inc. in August 2020. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Warsaw, Poland.

Recurate

Series A in 2022
Operator of a resale marketplace intended to resell and promote used products directly in the store. The company's marketplace allows customers to promote the used products via social channels to drive new traffic to the store and offers features including brand protection, multiple customizations, and customer support, enabling customers to resell products they previously bought from an online store.

Mentum

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a business intelligence and analytics tool intended to help organizations optimize their supply chain process. The company's platform offers customizable dashboards, real-time data visualization, and advanced reporting features, enabling enterprises to effectively analyze and interpret complex data sets, improve operational efficiency, and drive strategic insights.

Payaut

Seed Round in 2022
Payaut BV, founded in 2019 and based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, specializes in providing automated payment solutions for online marketplaces and platforms. The company offers services such as onboarding, know your customer (KYC), SplitPayment, and payouts. Payaut's solutions ensure compliance with PSD2 regulations, facilitating an efficient payment process for businesses involved in the payment flow. By enabling the use of multiple Payment Service Providers (PSPs), Payaut helps online businesses navigate the complexities of payment processing while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Sona

Seed Round in 2022
Sona provides an app for frontline staff to manage their work and engage with their employer. Features include live schedule view, absence management, instant messaging, and Open Shifts, a shift booking platform matching shift vacancies with employees willing to take on more hours.

Knapsack

Seed Round in 2022
Design systems are changing the way digital products are built. Knapsack is a category-defining platform to design, develop, document, deploy, and scale your design system. Knapsack brings design and development workflows and tooling together to a single source of truth for your digital experiences — everything from a single button to a complete shopping cart experience. Then, Knapsack exposes your digital experiences as an API to power any website or app. So, rather than advancing your products on a one-off basis, Knapsack enables your improvements and innovation efforts to be applied across all websites and apps simultaneously.

Secureframe

Series B in 2022
Secureframe is a compliance automation platform designed to assist organizations in achieving and maintaining compliance with security and privacy standards, specifically SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Founded in 2020 by Shrav Mehta and Natasja Nielsen, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Secureframe's software streamlines the compliance process by offering automated audits and continuous monitoring, ensuring that service providers effectively manage data to protect both organizational interests and client privacy. This platform enables companies worldwide to navigate the complexities of compliance, thereby enhancing their security posture and maintaining adherence to critical global standards.

Boxo

Series A in 2022
Boxo, officially known as Appboxo Pte. Ltd., is a Singapore-based platform founded in 2018 that specializes in super app infrastructure. It provides a suite of developer tools enabling businesses to launch full-screen mini-apps within their existing applications. By utilizing a single SDK, companies can transform their apps into super apps, offering a variety of services quickly and efficiently. This platform also allows service providers to create embeddable mini-apps, facilitating new partnerships and enhancing user engagement through affiliate traffic. Boxo aims to streamline the app integration process while expanding monetization opportunities for both developers and service providers.

PopSQL

Series A in 2022
PopSQL Inc. develops a collaborative SQL query editing tool tailored for development teams. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the company offers software that enables users to write queries, visualize data, and share results seamlessly. Its platform allows for the storage of SQL queries, which can be organized into private or shared folders, and tracks changes to facilitate easy reversion if needed. PopSQL's software is compatible with web, macOS, Windows, and Linux, making it accessible for diverse development environments.

Dyspatch

Seed Round in 2022
Dyspatch is an email production platform that helps Enterprise organizations create and change transactional and triggered emails faster, by centralizing template creation, approval, and publishing processes. The powerful API, visual editor, and built-in device testing allow for cutting-edge email strategy and execution, while helping establish consistency in both branding and legal compliance across multiple teams, departments, and business units.

Zowie

Seed Round in 2022
Zowie Inc. develops artificial intelligence based communication automation software. The company’s products include Zowie AI, which is a tool to automate frequently asked questions that offers marketing, lead generation, and customer services; Zowie Inbox, which enables to gather customer inquiries from all communication channels and respond to them from one place; Zowie Builder; which is an all-in-one, modular tool designed for building responsive, fast, and highly customizable chatbots; and Zowie Chat, which is the live chat of the next generation. The company’s software learns, automates, and supports clients’ team and customers. Zowie Inc. was formerly known as Chatbotize sp. z o.o. and changed its name to Zowie Inc. in August 2020. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Warsaw, Poland.

Legal OS

Seed Round in 2022
Legal OS GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in creating, managing, and analyzing legally compliant and individualized contracts. The company provides a comprehensive library that facilitates collaboration on legal documents, offering tools for self-assembling contracts and automating business processes. Legal OS is designed to serve law firms and legal departments, enabling the efficient production of both simple and complex contracts. Its innovative solutions emphasize speed and compliance, making the process of generating legal documents seamless and user-friendly.

Conduit

Seed Round in 2022
Conduit provides one API for connecting to DeFi. We enable companies to launch crypto-backed earnings products within their existing financial service platforms in days, not months. With Conduit, financial growth can become accessible to everyone.

Spade

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Providing AI merchant extraction, brand logos, merchant locations, and categorization as a service to fin-techs.

Factor

Seed Round in 2021
Factor Technology, Inc. specializes in supplier relationship management systems aimed at enhancing visibility and efficiency for product designers and manufacturers globally. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company addresses the complexities of modern supply chains by providing a platform that connects all stakeholders—from R&D to parts manufacturers—facilitating seamless communication and collaboration. Factor's system offers insights into production capabilities, timelines, and costs, enabling users to obtain multiple quotes from qualified suppliers more efficiently. This streamlined approach reduces the time spent on administrative tasks, allowing teams to focus on innovation and product development. Customers utilizing Factor's platform report significant time savings in their development cycles and substantial cost reductions on outsourced manufacturing. Overall, Factor aims to empower businesses to navigate the challenges of supply chain management with agility and transparency.

Factor

Seed Round in 2021
Factor Technology, Inc. specializes in supplier relationship management systems aimed at enhancing visibility and efficiency for product designers and manufacturers globally. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company addresses the complexities of modern supply chains by providing a platform that connects all stakeholders—from R&D to parts manufacturers—facilitating seamless communication and collaboration. Factor's system offers insights into production capabilities, timelines, and costs, enabling users to obtain multiple quotes from qualified suppliers more efficiently. This streamlined approach reduces the time spent on administrative tasks, allowing teams to focus on innovation and product development. Customers utilizing Factor's platform report significant time savings in their development cycles and substantial cost reductions on outsourced manufacturing. Overall, Factor aims to empower businesses to navigate the challenges of supply chain management with agility and transparency.

Party Round

Seed Round in 2021
Party Round builds better tools for the founders.

Rad AI

Series A in 2021
Rad AI empowers radiologists for the future.

BluePallet

Venture Round in 2021
BluePallet is a vertically integrated B2B platform for industrial trade.

Mage

Seed Round in 2021
Mage is a tool that helps developers use AI and their data to make predictions. Use cases include churn prevention, product recommendations, customer lifetime value, and more. Our mission is to equip businesses with accessible AI technology so they can deliver transformational customer experiences. A mage is someone who uses magic. Advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. We empower individuals with magic by equipping them with AI technology.

RevOps

Seed Round in 2021
RevOps Inc is a company that specializes in developing billing and core operating platforms aimed at enhancing customer relationships. Incorporated in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, RevOps provides a range of solutions including real-time quotes, accounts receivables management, renewal updates, change tracking, and approval routing. By empowering teams to comprehend the relationship between pricing strategies and business outcomes, RevOps plays a crucial role in optimizing revenue operations for its clients.

Wise Systems

Series C in 2021
Wise Systems Inc. develops autonomous dispatch and routing software designed to enhance the efficiency of last-mile delivery operations across various industries, including food and beverage, courier, and field service. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company leverages machine learning to optimize fleet performance and improve customer service. Its platform includes tools such as Scheduler for creating dynamic route plans, Dispatcher for real-time monitoring of delivery progress and performance metrics, and a Customer Portal for tracking orders with accurate ETAs. The software processes millions of data points to make intelligent, real-time decisions, resulting in significant mileage reductions, increased fleet utilization, and a substantial decrease in late deliveries. Wise Systems aims to help customers better manage their delivery logistics by providing flexibility and optimizing routes, thereby enhancing overall operational efficiency.

Orchest

Seed Round in 2021
Orchest Software B.V. is a cloud data science platform. The company is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Benepass

Series A in 2021
Benepass, Inc. is a fintech platform that offers a benefits card specifically designed for startups and small to medium-sized businesses. Incorporated in 2019 and based in New York, the company provides a solution that facilitates the distribution of tax-advantaged employee benefits and wellness perks through a smart debit card and mobile app. This platform enables businesses to implement wellness policies that reflect their corporate values, manage company stipends for various allowances, and gain insights into employee spending preferences. Additionally, it integrates seamlessly with payroll and accounting software to ensure tax compliance, making it a comprehensive tool for enhancing employee benefits. The founders of Benepass include Jaclyn Chen, Kabir Soorya, and Mark Fischer.

Plannuh

Venture Round in 2021
Plannuh, Inc. provides an artificial intelligence driven software for building, managing, and sharing marketing plans, budgets, and goals. It offers Plannuh, a cloud-based system that enables marketers to optimize marketing spend and plan performance, as well as automates marketing strategy and tactics. The company provides solutions for CMOs, marketing operations, and marketing budget owners. Plannuh, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Stairwell

Series A in 2021
Stairwell, Inc. develops Software as a service (SaaS) based cybersecurity solutions. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

unitQ

Series B in 2021
unitQ provides real-time solutions that enable product and engineering teams to monitor and enhance product quality across various platforms, languages, and regions. Headquartered in the United States, the company focuses on delivering insights that help businesses address quality issues promptly and effectively.

Pangaea

Series A in 2021
Pangaea Holdings Inc. manufactures and sells skin care products for men. It offers skin products, such as moisturizers and oils; drapes; and dental products, including toothpastes, toothbrushes, and mouth rinse products. Pangaea Holdings Inc. was formerly known as Skin Inc. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Norby

Seed Round in 2021
Norby is an audience relationship toolkit built for creators and brands.

Lambda

Venture Round in 2021
Lambda is an AI infrastructure company that specializes in providing powerful computing resources to enhance artificial intelligence development. It offers a cloud computing platform designed for large-scale AI training and inference, featuring servers and workstations that are pre-configured with popular machine learning frameworks. This setup allows businesses to efficiently train complex models for various applications, including natural language processing and drug discovery. Additionally, Lambda's servers support the integration of face detection and recognition capabilities into web applications, ensuring that deep learning developers have access to the necessary computing, storage, and memory resources to optimize their projects.

Unit21

Series B in 2021
Unit21 is a platform that provides no-code tools and services for risk and compliance teams. Unit21 helps protect businesses against adversaries through a simple API and dashboard for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across multiple industries. It is built with state-of-the-art security practices by security experts who have defended large systems against hackers. The company was founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California.

Arrows

Seed Round in 2021
Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more. One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughout the onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together. Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.

Vault Platform

Series A in 2021
Vault Platform Ltd. provides a blockchain based counter-harassment platform that allows employees to record, report, and resolve misconduct at work. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Reclaim.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Reclaim.ai is a calendar management tool that helps users prioritize their tasks and balance their schedules through automation and intelligence. By syncing with various productivity tools such as Google Calendar and Slack, Reclaim.ai allows users to express their scheduling needs and automatically allocates time for important tasks, whether it be completing reports or coding. The tool also provides insights into how time is spent, helping users understand their productivity patterns. Additionally, it keeps work and personal calendars in sync to prevent conflicts, ensuring that personal commitments are respected. With its focus on making calendar management efficient and user-friendly, Reclaim.ai aims to alleviate the burdens of scheduling in a modern work environment.

Collective

Series A in 2021
Collective operates as an online back-office platform designed for self-employed people. Its technology and a team of trusted advisors give its members the freedom to focus on what matters by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping, tax services, and access to a thriving community- all in one platform. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Contractbook

Series B in 2021
Contractbook ApS is a Danish company founded in 2015, located in Nordhavn. It offers a digital platform that enables users to create, sign, and store legal documents in one place. The platform aims to enhance contract management for businesses by improving transparency, ensuring compliance, and streamlining the contract creation process. By centralizing document management, Contractbook seeks to save time and facilitate the production of higher-quality contracts for modern organizations.

Recurate

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a resale marketplace intended to resell and promote used products directly in the store. The company's marketplace allows customers to promote the used products via social channels to drive new traffic to the store and offers features including brand protection, multiple customizations, and customer support, enabling customers to resell products they previously bought from an online store.

Chili Piper

Series B in 2021
Chili Piper is a suite of automated scheduling tools that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments with leads. The company's intelligent concierge product offers a simple way for prospects to book a meeting or start a phone call immediately after submitting a form on their website. It uses smart rules to qualify and distribute leads to the right reps in real-time. Their software also allows companies to automate lead handoff from SDR to AE and book meetings from marketing campaigns and live events. Chili Piper was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Wage

Seed Round in 2021
We're building best-in-class API infrastructure for instant income and employment verification. Our vision is to expand the ways to verify financial identity and create a new modern standard for credit reporting.

Streamlit

Series B in 2021
Streamlit, Inc. is a company that provides an application framework designed for machine learning engineers and data scientists. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Streamlit offers an open-source platform that enables users to create custom applications in Python. This framework allows teams to rapidly develop tools tailored to their machine learning models, thereby minimizing the time spent on frontend development and allowing them to focus on their core tasks in machine learning and data science. Additionally, Streamlit develops custom applications to facilitate interaction with data, enhancing the overall workflow for its users.

Fidap

Seed Round in 2021
Fidap enables data scientists and engineers to access billions of rows of clean, ready-to-use external data via a SQL interface on demand for advanced analytics and AI / ML. The platform enables users to directly visualize custom cuts of data on platform, or use our API to join it with internal data. Datasets include financial (crypto, equities, interest rates), location (census), healthcare (Covid), and hundreds of others.

Secureframe

Series A in 2021
Secureframe is a compliance automation platform designed to assist organizations in achieving and maintaining compliance with security and privacy standards, specifically SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Founded in 2020 by Shrav Mehta and Natasja Nielsen, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Secureframe's software streamlines the compliance process by offering automated audits and continuous monitoring, ensuring that service providers effectively manage data to protect both organizational interests and client privacy. This platform enables companies worldwide to navigate the complexities of compliance, thereby enhancing their security posture and maintaining adherence to critical global standards.

Labelbox

Series C in 2021
Labelbox is a collaborative training data platform for machine learning applications. Rather than requiring companies to build their own expensive and incomplete homegrown tools to create or manage training data, Labelbox created the world’s first training data platform that acts as a central hub for data science teams to create and manage training data with internal or external labeling teams. Better ways to input and manage data means higher quality training data and more accurate machine-learning models.

Iteratively

Seed Round in 2021
Iteratively, Inc. is a Seattle-based company, established in 2019, that specializes in business data analytics software aimed at ensuring clean and consistent digital analytics across teams and platforms. The platform helps product managers align the organization on customer data, while assisting developers with features such as autocompletion, inline documentation, and automated testing for analytics. Additionally, it supports analysts by facilitating the accurate capture of product analytics from the outset. Key functionalities of Iteratively's software include tracking and verification of product analytics, ensuring correct event capture across various teams, and automating the generation of a type-safe tracking library. By streamlining the process of instrumenting analytics, Iteratively enables clients to save time, reduce errors, and derive actionable insights for better-informed decision-making.

Digitail

Venture Round in 2021
Digitail is transforming pet care through a digital platform designed for veterinary practices. This cloud-based system connects pet care providers with pet owners, focusing on patient-centric services. By offering features such as patient and client management, online booking, and real-time information syncing across devices, Digitail enhances patient engagement and streamlines operational processes. The platform aims to improve workflow efficiency, allowing veterinary professionals to reduce costs and increase revenue while providing better care for pets.

Elsa

Series B in 2021
Elsa is a mobile application focused on English language pronunciation training and accent reduction. The platform employs artificial intelligence and speech recognition technology to deliver precise phoneme-level feedback to users, assisting them in improving their English pronunciation. By providing real-time phonetic instructions, Elsa enables language learners worldwide to identify and correct their pronunciation errors, ultimately fostering greater fluency and confidence in their spoken English.

MainStreet

Venture Round in 2021
MainStreet is a technology company based in San Jose, California, that operates a B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to assist startups in identifying and claiming government incentives, tax credits, deductions, and stimulus programs. Founded in 2019, MainStreet's software connects with clients' payroll systems to automate the data collection necessary for qualifying for various financial programs, ultimately helping to save time and money. The platform is tailored for startups at various stages of growth, including bootstrapped, pre-seed, seed, and series funding rounds, across multiple industries such as software, hardware, biopharma, biotech, aerospace, materials, and manufacturing. MainStreet charges a flat success fee based on the incentives disbursed to its clients and is supported by notable investors in the venture capital space.

Openly

Series B in 2020
Openly Inc. is a technology-enabled insurance provider that specializes in homeowners insurance, catering to customers through independent agents. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Chicago, the company leverages technology and industry expertise to deliver comprehensive insurance coverage. Openly's offerings include protection for the structure of the building, walls, roof, and attached fixtures. The company focuses on providing a simplified quoting process, aiming to enhance the overall insurance experience for its customers.

Contractbook

Series A in 2020
Contractbook ApS is a Danish company founded in 2015, located in Nordhavn. It offers a digital platform that enables users to create, sign, and store legal documents in one place. The platform aims to enhance contract management for businesses by improving transparency, ensuring compliance, and streamlining the contract creation process. By centralizing document management, Contractbook seeks to save time and facilitate the production of higher-quality contracts for modern organizations.

Flyreel

Series A in 2020
Flyreel is the most advanced AI-assisted underwriting solution for commercial and residential properties. Our mobile AI assistant adapts and guides users through the underwriting process using insurance-specific computer vision, creating a detailed baseline record of the property and its contents. Flyreel's solution improves the customer experience and reduces inefficiencies with automation powered by Artificial Intelligence.

GitDuck

Seed Round in 2020
Screen and code sharing platform for developers.

Stairwell

Seed Round in 2020
Stairwell, Inc. develops Software as a service (SaaS) based cybersecurity solutions. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Secureframe

Seed Round in 2020
Secureframe is a compliance automation platform designed to assist organizations in achieving and maintaining compliance with security and privacy standards, specifically SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Founded in 2020 by Shrav Mehta and Natasja Nielsen, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Secureframe's software streamlines the compliance process by offering automated audits and continuous monitoring, ensuring that service providers effectively manage data to protect both organizational interests and client privacy. This platform enables companies worldwide to navigate the complexities of compliance, thereby enhancing their security posture and maintaining adherence to critical global standards.

Mine

Series A in 2020
Mine enables people worldwide to discover, and control their personal data online. We believe that data ownership is a basic human right that must be accessible to everyone. Mine puts you in the driver's seat. With a simple and friendly app, and in less than 30 seconds, you can discover all the companies that hold your sensitive data such as personal, financial, identity, health, and more. Then, with a click of a button, we put you in control, to exercise your right-to-be-forgotten from any company, and we will make it happen for you.

Index

Seed Round in 2020
Index wants companies to use its no-code dashboard builder to help visualize their KPIs and track performance. The tool boasts integration with a variety of data providers so that users aren’t forced to manually enter data into another tool. The startup hopes that building embeddable dashboards will help their solution catch fire and that startups will turn to their tool when they want to track progress on goals.

Unit21

Series A in 2020
Unit21 is a platform that provides no-code tools and services for risk and compliance teams. Unit21 helps protect businesses against adversaries through a simple API and dashboard for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across multiple industries. It is built with state-of-the-art security practices by security experts who have defended large systems against hackers. The company was founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California.

Memberstack

Seed Round in 2020
MemberStack lets you build members-only websites, dashboards, web apps, and intranets with your favorite web design tools.

Headroom

Seed Round in 2020
Headroom, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-driven virtual meeting platform designed to streamline meeting tasks and enhance collaboration in remote environments. Founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California, Headroom's platform provides features such as transcripts, summaries with highlights, gesture recognition, and optimized video quality. By automating distracting tasks, Headroom enables users to focus on building relationships, engaging in creative thinking, and solving problems effectively.

Collective

Seed Round in 2020
Collective operates as an online back-office platform designed for self-employed people. Its technology and a team of trusted advisors give its members the freedom to focus on what matters by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping, tax services, and access to a thriving community- all in one platform. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Togg

Series A in 2020
Togg develops a device which gets integrated in to the infrastructure of the new home. The device can follow simple commands, including to turn the lights on and off, giving a weather report, and tell jokes. Togg was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Myst AI

Series A in 2020
Myst AI Inc. develops an artificial intelligence platform for time series forecasting in electricity. It offers a predictive energy usage platform that is offered as forecasting as a service. The company’s solution allows electricity companies to build and deploy their own forecasting models. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Fondeadora

Series A in 2020
Fondeadora de México S.A.P.I. de C.V. operates a crowdfunding platform that connects entrepreneurs with funding for various projects, including those in arts, culture, technology, and social initiatives. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Mexico City. In addition to its crowdfunding services, Fondeadora has developed a digital banking solution designed to streamline financial transactions and enhance user experience. Its primary offering includes a mobile app linked to a no-fee debit card, which allows users to manage their finances efficiently. This combination of crowdfunding and digital banking positions Fondeadora as a versatile player in the financial services sector, catering to diverse funding needs while addressing inefficiencies in traditional banking.

Fondeadora

Series A in 2020
Fondeadora de México S.A.P.I. de C.V. operates a crowdfunding platform that connects entrepreneurs with funding for various projects, including those in arts, culture, technology, and social initiatives. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Mexico City. In addition to its crowdfunding services, Fondeadora has developed a digital banking solution designed to streamline financial transactions and enhance user experience. Its primary offering includes a mobile app linked to a no-fee debit card, which allows users to manage their finances efficiently. This combination of crowdfunding and digital banking positions Fondeadora as a versatile player in the financial services sector, catering to diverse funding needs while addressing inefficiencies in traditional banking.

Mural

Series B in 2020
MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration. Our platform and services enable innovative teams to think and collaborate visually to solve important problems. People benefit from MURAL’s speed and ease of use in creating diagrams, which are popular in design thinking and agile methodologies, as well as tools to facilitate more impactful meetings and workshops. Global enterprises including IBM, USAA, E-Trade, Intuit, SAP, Atlassian, Autodesk and GitHub have embraced visual collaboration to align their teams, plan in real-time, speed up decision making, reduce travel costs and accelerate a culture of innovation. MURAL’s certified enterprise-class cloud-based infrastructure connects 40 percent of Fortune 100 global enterprises, drawing the support of leading investors from Radian Capital, Gradient Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst and others. MURAL is headquartered in San Francisco and employs over 100 people working remotely across six time zones around the world, including office hubs in Buenos Aires and Europe. Learn more at Mural.co.

Klara

Series A in 2020
Klara’s end-to-end patient engagement platform enables healthcare organizations to easily communicate with patients, provide virtual care, collaborate as a team, and automate many front-desk tasks. Thousands of healthcare teams across more than 40 specialties use Klara to make their workflows more efficient, deliver an exceptional patient experience across the entire care journey, and grow their patient volume.

Chili Piper

Series A in 2020
Chili Piper is a suite of automated scheduling tools that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments with leads. The company's intelligent concierge product offers a simple way for prospects to book a meeting or start a phone call immediately after submitting a form on their website. It uses smart rules to qualify and distribute leads to the right reps in real-time. Their software also allows companies to automate lead handoff from SDR to AE and book meetings from marketing campaigns and live events. Chili Piper was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Moov

Seed Round in 2020
Moov Financial, Inc. is a financial technology company that specializes in developing an open-source platform designed to embed banking services within various applications. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Moov is focused on rebuilding banking infrastructure for a cloud-native environment, free from legacy technology constraints. The platform offers a developer-friendly approach, allowing for customization and portability across cloud providers or on-premises environments. Moov's services include ACH processing, customer accounts, KYC and OFAC compliance, wire transfers, and image cash letters. By providing a modular and decoupled banking-as-a-service solution, Moov enables organizations to integrate transactional banking capabilities seamlessly into their software, thereby enhancing user experiences and simplifying money management.

Spotter

Seed Round in 2020
Spotter Labs Inc. operates as a software company for the long-haul trucking industry. Its AI model selects loads based on criteria, including rate, schedule, and fuel costs to automatically find shipments for fleet owners and provide drivers with pickup and drop-off instructions. The company is based in Nashville, Texas.

Openly

Series A in 2020
Openly Inc. is a technology-enabled insurance provider that specializes in homeowners insurance, catering to customers through independent agents. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Chicago, the company leverages technology and industry expertise to deliver comprehensive insurance coverage. Openly's offerings include protection for the structure of the building, walls, roof, and attached fixtures. The company focuses on providing a simplified quoting process, aiming to enhance the overall insurance experience for its customers.

Wise Systems

Series B in 2020
Wise Systems Inc. develops autonomous dispatch and routing software designed to enhance the efficiency of last-mile delivery operations across various industries, including food and beverage, courier, and field service. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company leverages machine learning to optimize fleet performance and improve customer service. Its platform includes tools such as Scheduler for creating dynamic route plans, Dispatcher for real-time monitoring of delivery progress and performance metrics, and a Customer Portal for tracking orders with accurate ETAs. The software processes millions of data points to make intelligent, real-time decisions, resulting in significant mileage reductions, increased fleet utilization, and a substantial decrease in late deliveries. Wise Systems aims to help customers better manage their delivery logistics by providing flexibility and optimizing routes, thereby enhancing overall operational efficiency.

Back

Seed Round in 2020
Back Technologies GmbH is a Berlin-based company that has developed a software platform designed to streamline and automate internal workplace requests. Founded in 2018, the platform serves as a centralized hub for managing employee service and digital workflows, facilitating efficient handling of requests such as onboarding, parental leave, and payroll inquiries. It integrates with various systems, including knowledge management and human resource platforms, allowing users to access relevant information and automate routine processes. By offering features like email and Slack integration, automated responses to common questions, and tracking of time spent on requests, Back enhances collaboration and operational efficiency for internal service and business operations teams.

Streamlit

Series A in 2020
Streamlit, Inc. is a company that provides an application framework designed for machine learning engineers and data scientists. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Streamlit offers an open-source platform that enables users to create custom applications in Python. This framework allows teams to rapidly develop tools tailored to their machine learning models, thereby minimizing the time spent on frontend development and allowing them to focus on their core tasks in machine learning and data science. Additionally, Streamlit develops custom applications to facilitate interaction with data, enhancing the overall workflow for its users.

MainStreet

Seed Round in 2020
MainStreet is a technology company based in San Jose, California, that operates a B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to assist startups in identifying and claiming government incentives, tax credits, deductions, and stimulus programs. Founded in 2019, MainStreet's software connects with clients' payroll systems to automate the data collection necessary for qualifying for various financial programs, ultimately helping to save time and money. The platform is tailored for startups at various stages of growth, including bootstrapped, pre-seed, seed, and series funding rounds, across multiple industries such as software, hardware, biopharma, biotech, aerospace, materials, and manufacturing. MainStreet charges a flat success fee based on the incentives disbursed to its clients and is supported by notable investors in the venture capital space.

Anvil

Series A in 2020
Anvil Foundry, Inc. is a technology company that provides a low-code, SaaS-based platform designed to automate paperwork processes for businesses. Established in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Anvil's platform enables companies to convert traditional paper workflows into optimized online forms suitable for web and mobile use. This transformation allows non-developers to create secure online forms quickly, which can then populate original PDF documents or integrate directly with existing software systems. Anvil serves various industries, including sales, real estate, contracts, and finance, by replacing cumbersome email and attachment systems with streamlined, encrypted databases and secure websites.

Flatfile

Seed Round in 2020
Flatfile Inc. offers a platform designed to streamline the data onboarding process for businesses by allowing developers to validate, map, and import data from various web applications. Founded in 2018 and based in Denver, Colorado, the company's key products include Portal, an import button that integrates seamlessly into software applications through a JavaScript snippet, and Concierge, which provides secure workspaces for collaboration on data ingestion challenges. Flatfile's platform supports multiple file formats, including CSV, XLS, and TSV, and features a JavaScript configurator that enables users to define target models for data validation. This automation helps organizations manage and structure imported data effectively, reducing the time spent on data cleaning and allowing teams to focus on utilizing their data for decision-making.

Hugo

Seed Round in 2020
Hugo Corporation, founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in cloud-based connected meeting notes software. Its primary product, the Hugo application, enables teams to collaboratively set meeting agendas, share notes, and organize insights based on participant attendance. The software facilitates the transformation of meeting notes into actionable items and includes integrations with over 20 tools such as chat, CRM, video conferencing, and project management applications. This functionality allows organizations to manage their meetings effectively, ensuring efficiency and transparency in communication and collaboration among team members.

Benepass

Seed Round in 2020
Benepass, Inc. is a fintech platform that offers a benefits card specifically designed for startups and small to medium-sized businesses. Incorporated in 2019 and based in New York, the company provides a solution that facilitates the distribution of tax-advantaged employee benefits and wellness perks through a smart debit card and mobile app. This platform enables businesses to implement wellness policies that reflect their corporate values, manage company stipends for various allowances, and gain insights into employee spending preferences. Additionally, it integrates seamlessly with payroll and accounting software to ensure tax compliance, making it a comprehensive tool for enhancing employee benefits. The founders of Benepass include Jaclyn Chen, Kabir Soorya, and Mark Fischer.

Yaguara

Seed Round in 2020
Yaguara, Inc operates a business growth, planning, and management platform. It offers Yaguara, a solution for that aligns team behind goals and allows the users to measure the performance. The company serves marketing, product, sales, and project management teams. Yaguara, Inc was founded in 2016 and is based in Denver, Colorado. It has additional offices in New York, New York; and San Francisco, California.

Kaizo

Seed Round in 2020
Kaizo builds a performance management platform for customer support teams. It uses gamification and AI to transform support’s performance metrics. Kaizo provides tools to improve operational efficiency, boost team performance and increase employee retention. It is fully integrated into Zendesk and available via Zendesk marketplace and other CRM tools in the future. Co-founded by Dominik Blattner and Christoph Auer-Welsbach, Kaizo aims to actively guide employees towards achieving their goals and making an impact in their companies.