Felicis

Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 and based in Menlo Park, California. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, targeting companies that are redefining core markets and those developing frontier technologies. Felicis has invested in a range of sectors, including software, information technology, and consumer internet, and has plans to explore opportunities in Healthcare IT, Energy, and Education. With nearly $200 million in total committed assets, Felicis has backed over 120 technology companies, with more than 60 of these achieving acquisition or public offering status. The firm's investment strategy combines capital with active mentoring and advisory services, providing a comprehensive support system for entrepreneurs. Felicis Ventures has a diverse portfolio, representing companies from various countries, primarily concentrated in the Bay Area. Aydin Senkut, the firm's founder and president, previously held a senior management position at Google, which informs Felicis's strategic approach to investment.

Nicole Bae

Partner, Operations

Dan Bartus

Partner and Head of Research

Kristin Beach

CFO, COO and Partner

Maddie Chavez

Partner, Operations

Tobi Coker

Senior Associate

James Detweiler

Deal Partner

Viviana Faga

General Partner

Gabriella Garcia

Deal Partner

Ryan Isono

Partner

Dasha Maggio

Partner and Head of Founder Success

Astasia Myers

General Partner

Niki Pezeshki

General Partner

Larissa Rainey

Operating Partner

Javier Soltero

Senior Venture Partner

Jake Storm

Partner

Victoria Treyger

General Partner

Mischa Vaughn

Partner

Nancy Wang

Venture Partner

Past deals in Crowdsourcing

Zubale

Series A in 2022
We empower brands and retailers to compete by providing technology to crowdsource work

Groundswell

Seed Round in 2021
Groundswell provides a SaaS platform for philanthropic giving, which enables companies to fund personal donor-advised funds for each employee. Employee users are also provided with tools such as tax-free investment opportunities, customized giving opportunities, frictionless donation options, and centralized impact reporting.

Culture Amp

Series F in 2021
Culture Amp Pty Ltd is an Australian company that has developed a platform designed to collect, understand, and act on employee feedback, focusing on employee engagement, experience, and effectiveness. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Richmond, Australia, Culture Amp serves a diverse range of clients, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, across the globe. The platform enables organizations to create customized surveys to assess employee engagement, thereby helping businesses improve retention and performance. With additional offices in San Francisco, New York, and London, the company seeks to address the challenges of rapidly growing organizations by providing technology that enhances learning and fosters a positive workplace culture.

Commsor

Series A in 2021
Developer of a community platform designed to grow better, engage, and make money for community-led organizations and teams. The company's platform provides software, education, and resources that help to manage community businesses and help companies build trusted partnerships with unique audience segments, enabling community leaders to access tools for managing online communities.

Commsor

Series A in 2021
Developer of a community platform designed to grow better, engage, and make money for community-led organizations and teams. The company's platform provides software, education, and resources that help to manage community businesses and help companies build trusted partnerships with unique audience segments, enabling community leaders to access tools for managing online communities.

Sourcegraph

Series B in 2020
Sourcegraph, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in universal code search solutions, enhancing code discovery, intelligence, and change management. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Sourcegraph enables developers to efficiently navigate and understand extensive codebases across various repositories, languages, and file formats. Its platform allows for seamless code exploration in web browsers, facilitating improved developer productivity through contextual insights that aid in code reviews and onboarding processes. Additionally, Sourcegraph automates large-scale code changes, helping teams manage complex codebases more effectively. The company's services cater to a diverse clientele, including startups, enterprises, developers, DevOps teams, and engineering leaders, all aimed at minimizing the challenges associated with code management. Sourcegraph is supported by prominent investors, highlighting its significant market presence and potential for growth.

Crunchbase

Series C in 2019
Crunchbase is a comprehensive platform that provides detailed business information about both private and public companies. It offers insights into investments, funding, leadership teams, mergers and acquisitions, industry trends, and relevant news. Initially focused on tracking startups, Crunchbase has expanded its database to cover companies worldwide. The platform gathers data through four primary methods: a venture program, machine learning technology, an in-house data team, and contributions from the Crunchbase community, allowing public members to submit information. These submissions undergo a process of registration, social validation, and moderation to ensure accuracy and reliability. By offering this wealth of information, Crunchbase serves as a valuable resource for entrepreneurs, investors, and market researchers seeking to make informed business decisions.

Culture Amp

Series E in 2019
Culture Amp Pty Ltd is an Australian company that has developed a platform designed to collect, understand, and act on employee feedback, focusing on employee engagement, experience, and effectiveness. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Richmond, Australia, Culture Amp serves a diverse range of clients, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, across the globe. The platform enables organizations to create customized surveys to assess employee engagement, thereby helping businesses improve retention and performance. With additional offices in San Francisco, New York, and London, the company seeks to address the challenges of rapidly growing organizations by providing technology that enhances learning and fosters a positive workplace culture.

Culture Amp

Series D in 2018
Culture Amp Pty Ltd is an Australian company that has developed a platform designed to collect, understand, and act on employee feedback, focusing on employee engagement, experience, and effectiveness. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Richmond, Australia, Culture Amp serves a diverse range of clients, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, across the globe. The platform enables organizations to create customized surveys to assess employee engagement, thereby helping businesses improve retention and performance. With additional offices in San Francisco, New York, and London, the company seeks to address the challenges of rapidly growing organizations by providing technology that enhances learning and fosters a positive workplace culture.

Spoke

Series A in 2017
atSpoke helps everyone work smart and fast with modern, seamless internal ticketing. Employees get immediate, convenient, and personalized access to internal knowledge and support. IT, HR, and Support teams deliver high quality service and maintain accountability while easily scaling to meet demands.

Spoke

Series B in 2017
atSpoke helps everyone work smart and fast with modern, seamless internal ticketing. Employees get immediate, convenient, and personalized access to internal knowledge and support. IT, HR, and Support teams deliver high quality service and maintain accountability while easily scaling to meet demands.

Culture Amp

Series C in 2017
Culture Amp Pty Ltd is an Australian company that has developed a platform designed to collect, understand, and act on employee feedback, focusing on employee engagement, experience, and effectiveness. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Richmond, Australia, Culture Amp serves a diverse range of clients, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, across the globe. The platform enables organizations to create customized surveys to assess employee engagement, thereby helping businesses improve retention and performance. With additional offices in San Francisco, New York, and London, the company seeks to address the challenges of rapidly growing organizations by providing technology that enhances learning and fosters a positive workplace culture.

Crunchbase

Series B in 2017
Crunchbase is a comprehensive platform that provides detailed business information about both private and public companies. It offers insights into investments, funding, leadership teams, mergers and acquisitions, industry trends, and relevant news. Initially focused on tracking startups, Crunchbase has expanded its database to cover companies worldwide. The platform gathers data through four primary methods: a venture program, machine learning technology, an in-house data team, and contributions from the Crunchbase community, allowing public members to submit information. These submissions undergo a process of registration, social validation, and moderation to ensure accuracy and reliability. By offering this wealth of information, Crunchbase serves as a valuable resource for entrepreneurs, investors, and market researchers seeking to make informed business decisions.

Culture Amp

Series B in 2016
Culture Amp Pty Ltd is an Australian company that has developed a platform designed to collect, understand, and act on employee feedback, focusing on employee engagement, experience, and effectiveness. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Richmond, Australia, Culture Amp serves a diverse range of clients, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, across the globe. The platform enables organizations to create customized surveys to assess employee engagement, thereby helping businesses improve retention and performance. With additional offices in San Francisco, New York, and London, the company seeks to address the challenges of rapidly growing organizations by providing technology that enhances learning and fosters a positive workplace culture.

Crunchbase

Series A in 2015
Crunchbase is a comprehensive platform that provides detailed business information about both private and public companies. It offers insights into investments, funding, leadership teams, mergers and acquisitions, industry trends, and relevant news. Initially focused on tracking startups, Crunchbase has expanded its database to cover companies worldwide. The platform gathers data through four primary methods: a venture program, machine learning technology, an in-house data team, and contributions from the Crunchbase community, allowing public members to submit information. These submissions undergo a process of registration, social validation, and moderation to ensure accuracy and reliability. By offering this wealth of information, Crunchbase serves as a valuable resource for entrepreneurs, investors, and market researchers seeking to make informed business decisions.

Culture Amp

Series A in 2015
Culture Amp Pty Ltd is an Australian company that has developed a platform designed to collect, understand, and act on employee feedback, focusing on employee engagement, experience, and effectiveness. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Richmond, Australia, Culture Amp serves a diverse range of clients, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, across the globe. The platform enables organizations to create customized surveys to assess employee engagement, thereby helping businesses improve retention and performance. With additional offices in San Francisco, New York, and London, the company seeks to address the challenges of rapidly growing organizations by providing technology that enhances learning and fosters a positive workplace culture.

Smartling

Series D in 2014
Smartling uses technology to transform the way content is created and consumed around the world. Smartling’s solution helps brands to access new markets, more customers and greater value. The Translation Management Platform allows ambitious brands to achieve a more dominant global position. Smartling enables brands such as British Airways, InterContinental Hotels Group, Uber, AdRoll, Shinola, Spotify, Pinterest, Hasbro and SurveyMonkey to provide truly native brand experiences. Smartling is headquartered in NYC with over 100 employees.

Gigster

Seed Round in 2013
Gigster Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that offers on-demand software development and design services, enabling clients to build applications and websites. The company allows clients to hire developers, designers, and product managers from its skilled team, which has served notable clients such as IBM and Adhawk. Gigster combines top-tier talent with automation tools to enhance the efficiency and quality of software projects. A study by Constellation Research highlighted that Gigster's approach can increase efficiency by 30%, reduce project delivery risk by 60%, and significantly boost client satisfaction. By facilitating the recruitment and management of distributed teams, Gigster aims to improve overall productivity and support businesses in their digital transformation efforts.

Smartling

Series C in 2013
Smartling uses technology to transform the way content is created and consumed around the world. Smartling’s solution helps brands to access new markets, more customers and greater value. The Translation Management Platform allows ambitious brands to achieve a more dominant global position. Smartling enables brands such as British Airways, InterContinental Hotels Group, Uber, AdRoll, Shinola, Spotify, Pinterest, Hasbro and SurveyMonkey to provide truly native brand experiences. Smartling is headquartered in NYC with over 100 employees.

Wedding Party

Seed Round in 2013
Wedding Party, developed by WedPics, is a mobile application designed to enhance the wedding experience by allowing guests to contribute to a shared digital album. This platform enables friends and family to upload photos and notes from the wedding, creating a collaborative keepsake for the couple. In addition to its photo-sharing capabilities, Wedding Party provides brides with practical planning advice, innovative ideas, and inspiration to personalize their celebrations. The service aims to simplify the wedding planning process while ensuring that each event is unique and memorable. By acting as a digital assistant, Wedding Party helps brides navigate the complexities of wedding arrangements, making their special day both enjoyable and distinctive.

Votizen

Venture Round in 2010
Votizen is a consumer technology company based in Mountain View, California, focused on enhancing civic participation and political influence among voters. By leveraging social networks, Votizen empowers users to organize themselves into voting blocks, enabling them to advance their causes and interests more effectively. The company has developed a comprehensive database of voting records across the United States, normalizing public voting information to the district level. This data is then integrated with users' online identities through various social media platforms, allowing for the first graphical representation of a voter's network, which spans different states, political parties, and voting frequencies. Founded by David Binetti, Jason Putorti, and Matt Snider, Votizen operates as a nonpartisan, for-profit enterprise that aims to redefine the political landscape by prioritizing voters over politicians.

Foodspotting

Seed Round in 2010
Foodspotting is visual guide to good food and where to find it: Instead of reading and writing restaurant reviews, you can find and share great dishes.

Smartling

Series A in 2010
Smartling uses technology to transform the way content is created and consumed around the world. Smartling’s solution helps brands to access new markets, more customers and greater value. The Translation Management Platform allows ambitious brands to achieve a more dominant global position. Smartling enables brands such as British Airways, InterContinental Hotels Group, Uber, AdRoll, Shinola, Spotify, Pinterest, Hasbro and SurveyMonkey to provide truly native brand experiences. Smartling is headquartered in NYC with over 100 employees.

Posterous

Series A in 2010
Posterous, founded in the summer of 2008 and incubated by Y Combinator, is a platform dedicated to simplifying the blogging experience. It allows users to create and manage blogs with ease, akin to sending an email, which has attracted over 15 million monthly users. The introduction of Posterous Spaces has enhanced its offering by providing intuitive privacy controls, enabling users to share their content selectively across various platforms. Through its innovative approach, Posterous aims to streamline the blogging process and improve how individuals share their thoughts and experiences online.

Figure Eight

Series A in 2010
Figure Eight Inc. is a developer of a human-in-the-loop machine learning platform that specializes in creating customized, high-quality training data for various applications. Founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco, the platform transforms text, image, audio, and video data to support a wide range of use cases, including autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, intelligent chatbots, and computer vision. It employs machine learning-assisted annotation solutions to produce training data at enterprise scale, having generated over 10 billion training data labels to power real-world AI applications. Figure Eight serves diverse industries such as automotive, healthcare, finance, and technology, facilitating tasks like video object tracking, sentiment analysis, and document transcription. The platform's capabilities enable data science teams to enhance the performance of their models in practical scenarios.

Posterous

Angel Round in 2008
Posterous, founded in the summer of 2008 and incubated by Y Combinator, is a platform dedicated to simplifying the blogging experience. It allows users to create and manage blogs with ease, akin to sending an email, which has attracted over 15 million monthly users. The introduction of Posterous Spaces has enhanced its offering by providing intuitive privacy controls, enabling users to share their content selectively across various platforms. Through its innovative approach, Posterous aims to streamline the blogging process and improve how individuals share their thoughts and experiences online.

Octopart

Seed Round in 2008
Octopart, Inc. operates a search engine dedicated to electronic parts, providing essential information such as stock availability, pricing, lead times, and technical specifications for a wide range of components. Founded by experimental physicists, the platform serves over 700,000 engineers, scientists, and sourcing professionals, managing structured data for approximately 30 million parts from numerous suppliers. Users can access compliance documents, datasheets, and other critical sourcing information for various categories, including semiconductors, cables, passive components, and test equipment. Established in 2006 and based in New York, Octopart has remained profitable without significant venture capital investment, functioning as a subsidiary of Altium Limited since 2015. The company's mission is to enhance access to part data throughout the design, sourcing, and manufacturing processes.

Mob.ly

Series A in 2008
Mob.ly, formerly Goodrec, is a mobile and online recommendation service that provides brief, to-the-point recommendations from friends and trusted sources that launched at TechCrunch50 in 2008. The service makes it easy to make, find and remember actionable recommendations from anywhere: online, via its iPhone application or from any mobile browser. Mobly was acquired by [Groupon](/organization/groupon) in May 2010.

Aardvark

Angel Round in 2007
Aardvark, originally known as Mechanical Zoo, is a social search engine founded by former Google employees. Launched in 2008, Aardvark enables users to ask questions that are distributed to their social network to receive quick and high-quality answers. Users can submit inquiries via instant messaging or email, and the system leverages the knowledge of their contacts and their contacts' contacts to find suitable respondents. This approach allows for tailored responses, particularly for queries related to personal preferences in areas such as music, books, movies, and restaurants. Aardvark's innovative model capitalizes on social connections to enhance the search experience.
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