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.

Viviana Faga

General Partner

Jake Storm

Vice President

Past deals in Series A

Living Carbon

Series A in 2023
The goal of the public benefit corporation Living Carbon is to restore equilibrium to the planet's metabolic process. We address this urgency by fusing cutting-edge biotechnology with plants' natural ability to capture and store carbon. Living Carbon is a public benefit corporation with the goal of rebalancing the planet's metabolic system. In order to fulfill this need, tey combine cutting-edge biotechnology with plants' natural ability to capture and store carbon. The company was established in 2019 by Maddie Hall and Patrick Mellor in San Francisco, California.

Column Tax

Series A in 2022
Column Tax is a platform enabling mobile banks and Fintech companies to offer top-tier tax features to their end-users.

Sleuth

Series A in 2022
Sleuth is a mission control software for teams doing Continuous Delivery. It provides centralized visibility into software delivery performance as measured via DORA metrics. Sleuth also comes with insights and automation that empowers developers to make frequent deploys easier and less stressful, and to ultimately improve on the metrics. It works by integrating with source control, CI, feature flag, observability, incident management tools and more, to track entire cycle times from issue created all the way to production deploys, and generate insights on how your projects are progressing and performing.

Zubale

Series A in 2022
Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores. We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China.

Disco

Series A in 2022
Disco develops an AI-driven partnership platform that makes recommendations to consumers across brands. It operates as a network of brands that work together to learn more about their customers, increase merchandising distribution, and lower customer acquisition costs.

Dovetail

Series A in 2022
Dovetail is the only AI-first insights hub that automatically centralizes and transforms scattered customer feedback into insights that help everyone in the enterprise make more customer-centric decisions. Join the ranks of Atlassian, The New York Times, Spotify, Universal, Starbucks, and thousands more as they put their customer first with Dovetail and improve the quality of their thing. Founded in 2017 by Benjamin Humphrey and Bradley Ayers, Dovetail has 100+ employees across offices in Sydney and San Francisco.

Supplant

Series A in 2021
Supplant is a biotechnology platform working in the food sector. It develops natural food ingredients from agricultural resources to allow food manufacturers to decrease sugar, increase fiber, and boost the gut health-promoting qualities of its products.

Xilis

Series A in 2021
Xilis is a biotechnology company that develops technologies to guide precision therapy for cancer patients and accelerate drug discovery. The company's platform enables diagnostics, drug screening, and scalable patient-derived models for drug discovery, enabling physicians and pharmaceutical companies to develop tailored treatments for patients by conducting drug screening.

Opsera

Series A in 2021
At Opsera, we share a vision for the future of software delivery. Our vision is to empower software and DevOps engineers to deliver software faster, safer and smarter by providing them with a continuous orchestration platform that enables choice of any CI/CD tools and no-code automation across the entire DevOps life cycle. Opsera’s continuous orchestration platform provides self-service toolchain automation, drag-and-drop declarative pipelines, and unified insights. With Opsera, development teams can increase software velocity while using the tools they want, operations teams gain improved efficiency while reducing risk and complexity, and business leaders have unparalleled visibility. Opsera believes that DevOps has transformed from an aspiration to a practical science, and its platform is purpose-built to help organizations accelerate DevOps adoption and reach peak innovation velocity.

n8n

Series A in 2021
N8n is an open-source workflow automation tool that enables users to connect various applications, automate processes, and integrate AI capabilities into their business operations. It allows users to create custom workflows through a visual, node-based interface, making automation accessible without requiring extensive coding skills.

Counterpart

Series A in 2021
Counterpart is a management liability platform powered by big data and artificial intelligence that offers a range of insurance products complemented with a suite of services that proactively measure and mitigates exposures. Counterpart was founded in 2019 by Tanner Hackett and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Assembled

Series A in 2021
Assembled is a modern workforce management platform that helps modern organizations scale customer support. They help teams to forecasts, scheduling, and unified metrics, capturing to build for themselves with a mix of spreadsheets and internal tools. They automatically forecast support volume and translate it into the right staffing plan. Assembled provides an intuitive team calendar that works across time zones and/or multiple specializations. For individuals to interact with their own calendar, they meet people where they already are by integrating with tools like Google Calendar and Slack. It also makes support schedules and metrics, like response times, visible across all levels. The platform also provides a way to forecast inbound support query volumes and to map that into staffing plans that cover multiple channels like chat, email, phone, and social media. Assembled was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Commsor

Series A in 2021
Community scales your business, resources, and presence in ways that traditional marketing or advertising channels cannot. When done right, community enables and improves customer acquisition, streamlines support and success, bolsters retention, and provides crucial product insights. Visit https://commsor.com/ to learn more.

Mosaic.tech

Series A in 2021
Mosaic.tech combines big data and machine learning that provides predictive reporting capabilities, leveling the playing field, and giving startups tools and insights for large enterprises. Its one-click integrations and real-time analytics offer clear insights and straightforward recommendations. Mosaic provides greater visibility into the most important dynamics of the business. Founded in 2019, Mosaic.tech is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Nayya

Series A in 2021
At Nayya, we believe there’s a better way to choose and use benefits. A more transparent, less confusing way for employees to control their health and financial potential. Powered by billions of data points and machine learning, our benefits experience platform delivers personalized decision support and guidance during open enrollment, new employee onboarding, qualifying life events, and in the moments that matter all year round. This is one of the most stressful and challenging situations consumers face – and we see that as an opportunity to build an innovative response that can help millions of Americans possess the control and understanding they deserve. Join the consumers and their employers that are now living with more peace and confidence at Nayya.com.

Ultimate

Series A in 2020
Ultimate develops a virtual agent platform. They provide customer experiences through automation. Their deep-learning artificial intelligence technology works with agents to learn from historical chat data and reply to suggestions.

InCountry

Series A in 2020
InCountry is a data residency-as-a-service platform that enables global data compliance for international business. The platform securely stores, processes, and regulates profile data in its country of origin, helping multinationals scale by providing easy integration in under ten minutes. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco with operations in 65 countries. InCountry is s backed by Accenture, Caffeinated Capital, Arbor Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Felicis Ventures, Mubadala, and Charles River Ventures.

DoNotPay

Series A in 2020
DoNotPay uses artificial intelligence to help you fight big corporations, protect your privacy, find hidden money, and beat bureaucracy.

Ontic

Series A in 2020
Ontic makes software that corporate and government security professionals use to proactively manage threats, mitigate risks, and make businesses stronger. Built by security and software professionals, the Ontic Platform connects and unifies critical data, business processes, and collaborators in one place, consolidating security intelligence and operations. We call this Connected Intelligence. Ontic serves corporate security teams across key functions, including intelligence, investigations, GSOC, executive protection, and security operations.

Modus

Series A in 2019
Modus provides the highest level of security, client experience, and clarity throughout the entire home closing process. Modus is a home closing technology company that works closely with both clients and agents. The company has 65 years of experience combined with revolutionary technology to bring you a seamless home closing experience

LabGenius

Series A in 2019
LabGenius is a biopharmaceutical company developing protein therapeutics using a machine learning-driven evolution engine. Its protein engineering platform integrates several bleeding-edge technologies from the fields of machine learning, synthetic biology, and robotics.

Osmosis

Series A in 2019
Osmosis is a personalized learning platform that helps you retain more, gain a deeper understanding of concepts & feel more prepared for your courses & exams. Osmosis empowers the clinicians and caregivers with the best learning experience.

SentiLink

Series A in 2019
SentiLink is a technology company that helps in detecting and blocking synthetic identities. Its technology links with fraudulent crime rings to detect and block synthetic identities by searching for statistical anomalies through real-time application programming interfaces and risk analyst tools. This enables business clients to identify fake people and other connected fraudulent applications to harm the bottom line of the organizations. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Simplifeye

Series A in 2018
Simplifeye develops patient engagement and communication software for patient management and productivity. They provide services to practices across the retail healthcare landscape.

Triplebyte

Series A in 2018
Triplebyte is a recruiting and technical screening platform for tech companies. They believe the current technical hiring process doesn't do enough to help engineers show their strengths. They're dedicated to building a better process. You can read more about their views on hiring in their manifesto.

Turvo

Series A in 2017
Turvo provides a collaborative Transportation Management System (TMS) application designed specifically for the supply chain. Turvo Collaboration Cloud connects freight brokers, 3PLs, shippers, and carriers to unite supply chain ecosystems, delivering outstanding customer experiences, real-time collaboration, and accelerated growth. The technology unifies internal and external systems, providing one end-to-end solution that streamlines operations, enhances analytics, and automates business processes while eliminating redundant manual tasks. Turvo’s customers include some of the world’s largest Fortune 500 logistics service providers and shippers as well as small to mid-sized freight brokers. Turvo is based in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Hyderabad, India. (www.turvo.com).

EarnIn

Series A in 2017
Earnin is the new, faster way to get your paycheck. Unlike traditional, rigid paychecks that only show up every two weeks, Earnin gives you access to your pay as you earn it -- any time, any day, right from your smartphone. Earnin charges no fee or interest for using the service: instead, with each transaction users are given the opportunity to pay what they believe is fair. Launched in 2014, Earnin is driving consumer-empowered finance through mobile technology by breaking open more than $1 trillion held up in America's pay cycle. Current funding partners include Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Ribbit Capital, Felicis Ventures, March Capital Partners, Trinity Ventures, Thrive Capital, and Camp One Ventures. For more information please visit www.Earnin.com.

Troops

Series A in 2016
Troops.ai provides salesforce automation platform that gives real-time transparency around salesforce information. It serves as a Slackbot for sales team. Troops.ai allows its users to configure Salesforce reports, communicate deal wins, and pull salesforce data for all standard and custom objects through Slack. Its investors include First Round Capital, Founder Collective, Next View Ventures, Great Oaks Capital, Chicago Ventures, Vast Ventures, and other angel investors.

Gamalon

Venture Round in 2016
Gamalon is a developer of an AI-based machine intelligence technology designed to write and rewrite their own Bayesian programs. The company's technology accelerates machine learning and converts streams of text paragraphs into structured data rows by linking, enabling e-commerce platforms and manufacturing companies to train the system on few pieces of data and achieve the same level of accuracy as that of the exhaustively trained neural networks.

PredictSpring

Series A in 2016
Founded by the visionary behind Google Shopping and early mobile commerce pioneers from VISA and Motorola, PredictSpring has redefined the speed of mobile experiences for consumers and the store associates that service them. PredictSpring powers the omni-channel experience for the world’s leading retailers and brands, including Calvin Klein, Cole Haan, Nine West, New York & Company, Claire’s and Vineyard Vines. Our amazing mobile experience drives consumer engagement and conversions for e-commerce merchants. PredictSpring mobile platform is architected to support deep links, making it easier to launch your mobile apps from web, email, social media and paid channels.

Tynker

Series A in 2016
Tynker is a creative computing platform where millions of kids have learned to program and built games, apps and more. Tynker's mission is to provide every child with solid foundations in Computer Science, programming, and critical thinking skills to prepare them to become better architects of their future world. Tynker offers self-paced online courses for children to learn coding at home, as well as an engaging programming curriculum for schools. Tynker’s intuitive visual programming language enables kids to build web and mobile apps, design RPG and platformer games, control robots, program drones, and even modify Minecraft worlds.

Luma

Series A in 2016
Luma was created by Dr. Paul Judge and Mike Van Bruinisse. Paul and Mike have worked together for 15 years solving complex networking and security problems for the largest companies in the world. With the rise of the connected home, people are using more devices than ever. Home WiFi networks now need to be able to keep every one of them running and fully secure. Mike, Paul, and the team decided to use their expertise to create the perfect, personalized WiFi network for everyone. On that day, Luma was born. Since then, the mission has been the same: To create the fastest, simplest, most secure, and most reliable home network that’s equipped for the technology of today, and tomorrow.

Aira

Series A in 2016
Called a Godsend by The New York Times, Aira is on a mission to make the world accessible anywhere, anytime. They provide on-remand, remote visual interpretation services for the blind and low vision community. Download the app, press a button and your phone's camera streams a live video to one our highly screened Visual Interpreters.

Diffbot

Series A in 2016
Diffbot is a world-class group of AI researchers building an autonomous system to structure the world's knowledge. Thousands of leading companies rely on Diffbot data for their enterprise and consumer applications.

NimbleRx

Series A in 2015
Provider of on demand drug delivery platform intended to create a better experience for patients at a lower price. Nimble partners with pharmacies nationwide to provide prescription delivery, as well as a mobile app for patients to manage and review prescriptions/orders from their phone.

Happiest Baby

Series A in 2015
Happiest Baby (www.happiestbaby.com) is a mission-driven technology company dedicated to helping parents succeed at their most important job–raising healthy, happy children. Happiest Baby created SNOO, the world's first smart sleeper using advanced robotic technology, implementing Dr. Karp's landmark 5 S’s method for soothing babies. SNOO has won 29 international honors, including the National Sleep Foundation Innovation of the Year and is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution as an iconic example of 21st Century form and function. The benefits of SNOO to reduce postpartum depression, SIDS, and help drug exposed babies are being studied at top medical centers. Happiest Baby is dedicated to developing science-based products and services to enhance child well-being and to help solve everyday parenting challenges. Based in Los Angeles, California, Happiest Baby, Inc. was founded in 2001 by Dr. Harvey Karp (pediatrician, child development specialist) with his wife and business partner, Nina Montée-Karp. Happiest Baby's hero product SNOO reduces infant crying, boosts sleep and prevents rolling over. That makes SNOO the safest, most effective baby bed ever made. SNOO was designed in collaboration with the celebrated industrial designer, Yves Behar, and a team of MIT-trained engineers. Some of Happiest Baby's investors are Greycroft, Google Ventures, Lux Capital, Felicis Ventures and Obvious Ventures...as well as several influential parent advisors/investors, including Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel, Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Maria Sharapova and Zoe Saldana, in their goal to give support to parents and children across the country and around the world.

Fluxx

Series A in 2015
Fluxx’s provides a cloud-based platform that powers impact philanthropy. It connects givers and doers, creating capacity, increasing visibility, and improving collaboration for organizations throughout the philanthropy ecosystem. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Culture Amp

Series A in 2015
Culture Amp was founded as a result of its members' first hand experiences with the challenge that fast growing organizations face when their core business expands faster than its people can adapt. With years of experience in enterprise organizations, CultureAmp's team has taken more than a walk in your shoes–they've been running in them. They look to seize an opportunity for a new type of technology- technology that amplifies learning and drives culture, instead of hindering it.

Zenreach

Series A in 2015
Zenreach created Walk-Through Marketing to help businesses with physical locations dramatically improve customer acquisition and lifetime value by connecting digital marketing with in-store results. Zenreach Engage automatically tracks customer visits, effortlessly builds rich customer profiles and keeps them up to date. Zenreach Attract improves ad performance 4x by targeting audiences based on your best customers. Results are measured with our Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that shows when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Founded in 2012, Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and leading brands like Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris and BCBG Max Azria.

Weddington Way

Series A in 2014
Based in San Francisco, CA, Weddington Way offers Millennials a new way to shop for weddings, featuring an exclusive collection of fresh + modern bridesmaid dresses. Weddington Way designs and manufactures their own dresses - meaning no middle-men, no markups, and styles crafted with detail and intention that you can’t find anywhere else. Weddington Way pioneered a community-centric shopping experience that lets friends shop together online in a virtual showroom. With its technology-first approach, Weddington Way is a breath of fresh air in the wedding planning process. For more information, please visit http://www.weddingtonway.com.

Survios

Series A in 2014
Survios is a virtual reality company that creates groundbreaking interactive content powered by cutting edge immersive technology. It is composed of a team of dreamers, makers, artists, thinkers, and gamers. It's focus is all about engaging games., immersive tech and unparalleled presence. Nathan Burba, James Iliff and Alexander Silkin launched Project Holodeck as an interdisciplinary effort at the University of Southern California’s Games program. From Project Holodeck they founded Survios, and continue to focus on virtual reality gaming and immersive technology.

BitPay

Series A in 2014
BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers RESTful API, a bitcoin paymet gateway API; and native payment protocol support, signed payment request, direct payment communication, and BIP 73 support solutions. BitPay also provides Copay, a bitcoin wallet solution with Intel hardware security integration that allows users with hardware-level protection, including private key generation, transaction signing, and private keys. It has a strategic processing relationship with Aliant Payment Systems, Inc. Anthony Gallippi and Stephen Pair founded BitPay on May 1, 2011. It has its headquarters in Atlanta in Georgia.

Sols

Series A in 2014
SOLS is a software platform and mobile application that enables users to design and purchase customized orthotics for their feet. To date, the company has launched two products: SOLSRx, medical-grade 3D printed orthotics, and ExoSOLS, direct to consumer custom insoles. SOLS is now leveraging its patented footwear customization software to attack the footwear industry's biggest problem, shoe size-related returns. Founded in 2013, SOLS uses state of the art computer vision and machine learning to improve the fit and function of footwear. The company is backed by blue-chip investors like Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Tenaya Capital and located in New York City.

LeanData

Series A in 2014
LeanData is the leader in enterprise Revenue Ops solutions delivering a more holistic and unified go-to-market approach to business-to-business (B2B) enterprises seeking to accelerate growth. As the leader in Lead-to-Account Matching, Routing and Marketing Attribution solutions, LeanData stands at the center of CRM connecting the right data to the right people, so businesses can accelerate time to revenue. By ensuring a common data thread runs through the entire revenue chain, the LeanData Revenue Ops platform and family of applications break down the barriers between sales and marketing operations to improve the buyer experience and drive greater revenue. With LeanData, revenue teams can now plan, execute and analyze their ever-changing go-to-market processes from a single, centrally managed platform that’s agile, transparent and comprehensive. Visit www.leandata.com to learn more.

CyPhy Works

Series A in 2013
Aria Insights fuses information across a team of intelligent aerial robots to transform data into actionable insights. They enter logistically difficult and potentially dangerous settings to bring data to the decision makers, thus keeping people out of harm’s way.

Muse

Series A in 2013
Muse has developed brainwave-controlled computing technology and applications that converts brainwaves into digital signals. They have created a hardware and software platform technology that converts brainwaves into digital signals that are fed into a computer. InteraXon then provides consumers with applications that use these brainwaves to perform activities such as meditation, gaming, ADHD assistance, and many others to come. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

Hall

Series A in 2013
Hall (formerly CompanyLine) helps teams and companies communicate in real-time. Our all-in-one unified communications app has everything your company needs to communicate and get things done. Hall was part of **[AngelPad](http://angelpad.org) #4** in 2012.

Acompli

Series A in 2013
Acompli is a mobile email app for professionals that allows to do more with advanced email, full calendaring, and easy file sharing. It supports Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Google Apps & Gmail. It attaches files easily, swipes to delete or defer emails, and schedule meetings effortlessly with a fully integrated calendar. Acompli can even surface the most important email so they can stay focused on what matters. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Appurify

Series A in 2013
Appurify provides mobile test automation on real devices. Mobile development teams at some of the world’s most prominent companies turn to Appurify’s platform to automate testing, debug and optimize the performance of their applications. The results are better apps, faster launch cycles and improved app store reviews. Appurify is based in San Francisco with backing from Google Ventures and other leading investors. For more information, visit http://www.appurify.com.

Airware

Series A in 2013
Delair is a Toulouse-based company founded in 2011 that specializes in commercial drone services and aerial data analytics. It focuses on enabling enterprises to enhance operational efficiency by capturing accurate and repeatable aerial data, which can be integrated into existing workflows for improved decision-making. Delair's solutions are particularly beneficial for industries such as insurance, mining, construction, and agriculture, facilitating the transformation of aerial data into actionable business intelligence. By leveraging drones, Delair helps organizations digitize their operations, resulting in increased productivity and safety across various sectors in North America and Western Europe.

Bonobos

Venture Round in 2013
Bonobos is a clothing brand focused on delivering great fit, excellent customer experience, and a fun approach to menswear. Launched online in 2007 with its signature line of better-fitting men's pants, Bonobos is now the largest apparel brand ever built on the web in the United States. In 2011 Bonobos extended offline, launching Bonobos Guideshops, e-commerce stores that deliver personalized, one-to-one service to those wanting to experience the brand in person. In 2012, Bonobos expanded its distribution by partnering with Nordstrom, bringing Bonobos apparel into select doors nationwide and to Nordstrom.com. Across channels, Bonobos is focused on delivering a well-targeted brand promise: world-class fit, innovative shopping experience, and an energetic brand spirit. Bonobos was named “One of America’s Hottest Brands” by Advertising Age, “Best Men’s Pants” by New York Magazine, one of Inc. Magazine’s “20 Awesome Facebook Pages” and was awarded Crain’s “Best Places to Work in New York City” in 2011 and 2013.

Revel Touch

Series A in 2012
Revel Touch provides highly responsive, touch-optimized shopping experiences for iPads and other touch devices. The service is delivered via a SaaS platform, allowing retailers to customize and edit their storefronts at any time - with no IT involvement - on native apps or HTML5. Tablets are the fastest-growing category in history and have led to dramatic changes in consumer behavior with media, social and shopping. With all this change, there are new opportunities to redefine a brand’s relationship, and to educate and sell consumers. Revel Touch was built from the ground up to help retailers address this marketing & merchandising opportunity, both at-home and in-store. As an example, try the anthropologie app for iPad. The hosted platform offers quick turnaround (8-12 wks), custom experiences the plug into a retailers existing e-commerce infrastructure, in either HTML5 or native apps. KPMs average 1.5-4x the comps across all device classes, and collect 20x more data per session. The Merchandising Suite allows for instant updates and numerous variations for different categories or seasons – all directly by the retailer, with no further IT involvement. The company launched its first storefront in 11/11, and now power shopping experiences for clients like Gymboree, Design Within Reach, Oriental Trading Co, anthropologie, Tea Collection, Saks Fifth Avenue, L’Oreal, Sephora, Macy’s, Unilever and many more.

PlotWatt

Series A in 2012
PlotWatt helps small-and medium-sized business owners manage their energy so they have energy to manage their businesses. Based in Durham, N.C., PlotWatt serves customers in the United States, Canada and New Zealand. PlotWatt’s machine-learning algorithms analyze energy usage data, which it converts into actionable insights that customers follow to improve energy and process-efficiency. Its service is a particular value to multi-location businesses because it provides site-by-site comparative analysis as well as operational benchmarking.

Bonobos

Venture Round in 2012
Bonobos is a clothing brand focused on delivering great fit, excellent customer experience, and a fun approach to menswear. Launched online in 2007 with its signature line of better-fitting men's pants, Bonobos is now the largest apparel brand ever built on the web in the United States. In 2011 Bonobos extended offline, launching Bonobos Guideshops, e-commerce stores that deliver personalized, one-to-one service to those wanting to experience the brand in person. In 2012, Bonobos expanded its distribution by partnering with Nordstrom, bringing Bonobos apparel into select doors nationwide and to Nordstrom.com. Across channels, Bonobos is focused on delivering a well-targeted brand promise: world-class fit, innovative shopping experience, and an energetic brand spirit. Bonobos was named “One of America’s Hottest Brands” by Advertising Age, “Best Men’s Pants” by New York Magazine, one of Inc. Magazine’s “20 Awesome Facebook Pages” and was awarded Crain’s “Best Places to Work in New York City” in 2011 and 2013.

CardSpring

Series A in 2012
Cardspring is creating an application platform that will allow Web and mobile developers to write applications for credit cards and other types of payments. Cardspring attaches itself to the payment network in a secure fashion on one side, and on the other it presents itself as a platform for developers to create payment apps via Web-standard APIs. It is a bridge between the two networks. These applications could include things like electronic coupons, loyalty cards, virtual currencies, or yet-to-be-imagined commerce apps.

KiwiCo

Series A in 2012
KiwiCo sparks creativity in kids and saves time for busy parents by providing all of the inspiration and materials necessary for hours of imaginative play and learning. With monthly deliveries of activities designed to help kids discover, explore, and create things in the world around them, KiwiCo brings hands-on fun right to the door. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountian View, California.

Piazza

Series A in 2012
Piazza is a learning platform designed to connect students, TAs, and professors in order for every student to get help whenever they need it. Users can start a class at Piazza.com and collaborate in real time with classmates and instructors to find the answers they need.

Chloe + Isabel

Series A in 2011
Chloe + Isabel is an innovative social commerce jewelry company that empowers and connects women through their own social selling experience. Launched in 2011, Chloe + Isabel is disrupting the traditional direct sales model to provide an entrepreneurial opportunity. Chloe + Isabel has developed a platform that powers a seller's personal e-commerce experience. Users who sign up as Merchandisers receive a customized digital workplace to create their boutique shopping experience, and earn commission from every sale. Merchandisers may participate in streaming video training, are able to curate personal collections of Chloe + Isabel jewelry on their online boutiques, and receive real-time trends, insights and recommendations to help support their businesses. Chloe + Isabel founder and CEO Chantel Waterbury has over 14 years of expert experience developing jewelry for major retailers in the United States, including Target Corp, Macy's, Gap Inc, LVMH and Kenneth Cole. Waterbury, who supported herself through college by direct-selling, says she made the jump from working for multi-billion dollar retailers to launching a startup so she could empower the next generation of women.

Dropcam

Series A in 2011
Dropcam is revolutionizing the way people stay connected to the places they care about. With the Dropcam and Dropcam Pro Wi-Fi video monitoring cameras and optional Cloud Recording (CVR) service, you can remotely drop in on your house, baby, pets, business or anything else from a smartphone,tablet or computer.

A Bit Lucky

Series A in 2011
A Bit Lucky, Inc. is the new generation of transplatform online social gaming. Our passion is to make great games.

Rovio Entertainment

Series A in 2011
Rovio Entertainment Corporation provides achievements or rewards as well they can be played alone, in teams, or online by amateurs or players may have an audience of non-players, such as when people are entertained by watching a chess championship. On the other hand, players in a game may constitute their own audience as they take their turns to play.

Pipewise

Series A in 2011
Pipewise provides User Relationship Management solutions for today's cloud-based companies who acquire, engage, convert, and support customers via web and mobile channels. Pipewise is backed by Benchmark Capital, Floodgate, SVAngel, Felicis, and an experienced team of advisors.

Hearsay Systems

Series A in 2011
Hearsay Systems is a developer of a client engagement technology that assists financial advisers in expanding their business ties. The company's platform processes and prioritizes data from various digital channels and data systems, making actionable recommendations for advisors on how to engage with clients. This enables advisors and agents to authentically and intelligently grow business relationships by proactively guiding and capturing the last mile of digital communications.

Wild Needle

Series A in 2010
Wild Needle is building the next generation of incredibly fun, incredibly social, mobile games. We are a newly-funded, early-stage studio looking to raise the bar of what can be done within a mobile game. We are passionate about creating thoughtful, fresh, and compelling experiences for our players that make them want to come back over and over again. We are currently assembling a team of extremely talented developers, artists, and marketing gurus to attempt a new type of social, mobile game the world has never seen before.

Shopify

Series A in 2010
Shopify Inc. is a cloud-based commerce platform that caters to small and medium-sized businesses across multiple countries, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Shopify enables merchants to set up and manage their stores seamlessly across various sales channels, such as web, mobile, social media, and physical retail locations. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of services, including inventory management, order processing, payment solutions, shipping tools, and customer engagement features, allowing businesses to streamline their operations. Shopify also provides access to an application programming interface (API) and an App Store, empowering developers to create and sell applications that enhance the Shopify experience. With over 800,000 businesses in approximately 175 countries relying on its technology, Shopify has earned the trust of numerous well-known brands, making enterprise-level solutions accessible to businesses of all sizes.

Factual

Series A in 2010
Factual is the location data company the world’s most valuable brands and tech companies trust to understand and intelligently grow their businesses. Factual provides product and engineering teams, marketers and data analysts access to the world’s most trusted, accurate and comprehensive data on places and people worldwide, transforming products, advertising and businesses with data that puts everything in context.

ZEFR

Series A in 2010
Zefr is a video advertising company that creates targeted video ad placements with it's unique and proprietary technology. With our custom packages, we leverage both technology and human review to selected individual videos, ensuring brands can safely and effectively scale their video ad campaigns. Why the name Zefr? Before Venice became “Silicon Beach” it was the grimy paradise of the 1970's Zephyr skate team. The Z-boys were a group of broken-home-punks that pioneered today’s skate culture. They did more than just push the physical boundaries of the sport—they created the culture that defines Venice today. At Zefr, we embrace the Z-boy’s drive for innovation, performance, and pushing boundaries. Our motto? Go Big. Go Fast.

Inkling Systems

Series A in 2010
Inkling is a single system that lets teams create great content, share it on any digital device, and measure how it's being used. It helps businesses succeed in today’s mobile world with data-driven content that can be accessed by any user, on any device, anywhere in the world. Inkling’s first-of-its-kind software prioritizes content intelligence—enabling businesses to maximize their content’s value with real-time data insights. Based in San Francisco, Inkling is backed by Sequoia Capital, and partners with the world’s leading brands to enable their content for the digital space.

Wildfire

Series A in 2010
Wildfire was acquired by Google in 2012, is the global leader in social media marketing software, with over 21,000 paying customers worldwide, including 30 of the world's 50 most valuable brands. It currently serves as its own entity. Wildfire's Social Marketing Suite combines best-of-breed social promotion and advertising software, robust mobile and desktop page management, messaging and sophisticated real-time analytics in one complete platform. Wildfire's powerful and intuitive software allows creative marketers and non-technical managers alike to create social campaigns and pages, communicate with their social audience and measure social media performance. Brands and agencies such as Facebook, Virgin, Amazon, Target and Ogilvy as well as thousands of small businesses use the Wildfire platform to engage with audiences on major social networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter. The only social media marketing company to receive an investment from Facebook's fbFund, Wildfire has offices in California, Chicago, New York, London, Paris, Munich, and Singapore. For more information, visit www.wildfireapp.com.

Posterous

Series A in 2010
Posterous emerged from [Y Combinator](/organization/y-combinator) in the summer of 2008 as an innovative company focused on making blogging simple - as simple as sending an email - and now has more than 15 million monthly users. With the launch of Posterous Spaces, the company is bringing its trademark simplicity to help people share smarter with intuitive privacy controls to share selectively across multiple platforms.

Figure Eight

Series A in 2010
Figure Eight is a Human-in-the-Loop machine learning platform to create customized large scale high-quality training data. The platform uses machine learning assisted annotation solutions to create high-quality training data needed by models to work in the real world. They supports a wide range of computer vision and natural language processing use cases — video object tracking, autonomous vehicles, robotics, predictive maintenance, facial recognition, medical images, aerial and satellite imagery, consumer product detection, content categorization, intelligent chatbots, document transcription, voice assistant training, audio transcription, sentiment analysis, product categorization, and search relevance - and a broad range of industries - automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, retail and e-commerce, technology, agriculture, manufacturing, medical and healthcare, power and utilities, security and surveillance, transportation and travel, and government. Figure Eight platform operates at an unprecedented scale has generated over 10 billion training data labels to power real-world AI applications. Figure Eight was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in California, USA.

Practice Fusion

Series A in 2010
Practice Fusion is a cloud-based electronic health records company in the U.S. for independent practices. Its mission is to connect doctors, patients, and data to drive better health and save lives. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Credit Karma

Series A in 2009
Credit Karma is a personal finance company that's focused on helping everyone make financial progress. Whether they're interested in getting a better deal on a loan, looking for ways to save, or simply monitoring their credit, Credit Karma offers a range of tools and personalized recommendations designed to help them make the most of their money. With more than 100 million members, Credit Karma helps people gain insight into their finances and credit information – and ultimately, improve their financial standing. Credit Karma was established in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kissmetrics

Series A in 2009
Kissmetrics offers behavioral analytics, segmentation, and email campaign automation all in one place. The company connect their experiment results to key business metrics they already track using Kissmetric, streamlines workflow by reviewing experiment results in their familiar Kissmetrics dashboard, and uncover new insights about your experiment using Kissmetrics capabilities Founded in 2008, Kissmetrics is run by a team of designers, developers, and entrepreneurs that are passionate about helping online businesses measure, grow, and monetize.

Disqus

Series A in 2008
Disqus is the web’s community of communities. Online communities are where people go to connect with their passions. Disqus makes them better through more enjoyable discussions. And then links all those communities so it’s easier to discover and discuss new stuff worth talking about. Disqus reaches over 1 billion people a month, 2.5 million registered communities, and over 100M active commenter profiles. The service offers a networked comment system used to foster engagement and connect audiences from around the web. Disqus looks to make it very easy and rewarding for people to interact on websites using its system. Commenters can build reputation and carry their contributions from one website to the next. Using the Disqus' built-in network effects, bloggers and publishers can expect a higher volume and higher quality of conversations by using the discussion platform. Disqus was founded in 2007 by Daniel Ha and Jason Yan to extract the best characteristics of successful online communities and apply them on any blog, website, or application.

WeGame

Series A in 2008
WeGame is a social platform that connects gamers with the games they should be playing. By using WeGame, gamers seamlessly build their gamer social and interest graphs, which in turn powers WeGame's recommendation and commerce engine. Once a gamer discovers a game on WeGame, they can instantly purchase and play it using the service. Currently, the service's core focus is on PC gaming. WeGame was founded by [Jared Kim] in 2007.

Mesmo

Series A in 2007
In 2008, Mesmo.tv pivoted into Mesmo Games with the launch of one of the first female-focused role playing games on Facebook, Make Me A Celebrity, in April 2008. Mesmo Games went on to become a leading social game portal on Facebook with over 50 million users. Mesmo Games was amongst the top 10 of all games on Facebook by monthly and daily active users. Mesmo was acquired by GSN in 2010 and rebranded as GSN Games on Facebook, iOS and Android and went on to become a top 10 grossing application. Mesmo.tv launched in June 2007 as a social video discovery site that let you tag videos you like and throw them into a personalized content stream and channels. You could add videos, TV shows and podcasts from any website by submitting links directly to the site, RSS, and a bookmarklet. They also had a Facebook application. The application came preloaded with a database of TV shows drawn from the top network sites. Mesmo helped you discover new video content based on the videos, channels and users you liked. Mesmo took these preferences and matched you up with individual videos, channels, and users sharing similar tastes. Mesmo.tv expanded to become the first and largest social TV site on Facebook with TV shows from ABC, CBS and Hulu, a user generated TV Trivia game including content from over 10,000 TV shows and fan sites for your favorite shows.

Yapta

Series A in 2007
Yapta is a travel Website and browser add-on that lets you track flight prices as they change and alerts you when the price for a particular flight drops. It also helps you get a refund or credit from airlines with guaranteed low-price policies. The company also provides real-time price tracking of airfares and hotel rates across the globe via FareIQ and RoomIQ. Yapta was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

RichRelevance

Series A in 2007
RichRelevance is the global leader in omnichannel personalization and is used by more than 240 multinational companies to deliver the most relevant and innovative customer experiences across web, mobile and in store. RichRelevance drives more than one billion decisions every day, and has generated over $20 billion in sales for its clients, which include Office Depot, Costco, Darty, and Marks & Spencer. Headquartered in San Francisco, RichRelevance serves clients in 42 countries from 9 offices around the globe. For more information, please visit www.richrelevance.com.

ScanScout

Series A in 2007
ScanScout is the market-leading online video advertising network. The company partners with major advertisers and publishers to maximize video advertising opportunities. ScanScout creates a new significant revenue stream for publishers, helping them to extract the most value out of their video content and monetize it in a user-friendly manner. For advertisers, ScanScout provides the ability to target, optimize and deliver ad messages to the right content and audience, maximizing user engagement. ScanScout is one of the largest online video networks on the web, serving hundreds of millions of ad impressions every month. The company is headquartered in Boston with offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Mashery

Series A in 2007
Mashery is the world's leading provider of API technology and services. We have helped over 175 top brands—including USA TODAY, Comcast, Hoover's, Klout, Associated Press, Rdio, and Travelocity—take advantage of APIs to build new revenue channels, speed time-to-market, and spur innovation. Mashery's unique, holistic approach to API management encompasses working with clients to craft profitable platform strategies, ensuring fast, reliable API access, and facilitating relationships with our network of developers. Since Mashery was founded in 2006, we have built a global API delivery network that supports 60,000 active apps built by over 200,000 developers. In May 2013, we officially became a part of Intel Corporation.

BrightRoll

Series A in 2006
BrightRoll builds software that automates video advertising globally. BrightRoll is the only independent and unified programmatic video advertising platform for reaching audiences across web, mobile and connected TV. The company powers digital video advertising for the world’s largest brands, including more than 80 of the top 100 US advertisers and 18 of the top 20 advertising technology companies. The platform enables advertisers to reach 4 in 5 video viewers online and consistently ranks among the top two video ad platforms in ads served. As a result, BrightRoll technology collects and analyzes hundreds of billions of data points monthly enabling real-time decisions that drive ROI for advertisers.

Webs

Series A in 2006
Webs is a website creation service that lets users make fully functioning sites complete with several apps including blogs, photo albums, video galleries, calendars, and discussion forums. Users start by choosing from over 300 templates and can then add rich content and applications to their website via their WYSIWYG Sitebuilder. Small business owners can obtain custom domain names and email addresses to project a professional image. Entrepreneurs also benefit from user-friendly SEO, site statistics, and business apps like a mobile website builder. Also, if users are interested in ecommerce, Webs.com has a Web Store app that integrates with online payment tools [PayPal](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/paypal) and Google Checkout. In 2009, Webs launched an application platform and App Store enabling third-party applications distribution in the Webs platform. Participants in the App Store include Cafe Press, DudaMobile, BookFresh, Meebo, and Etsy. Webs has also partnered with and integrated several third party applications including [Picnik](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/picnik) for online photo editing and GetClicky for webstats. Other partners include [YouTube](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/youtube), [Photobucket](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/photobucket), and [iPromote](http://www.ipromote.com/). In 2010, Webs launched Facebook connect integration. More recently, Webs developed a family of products to give small businesses super easy and cost-effective ways to develop an online presence across web, mobile, and social platforms. The first addition to the Webs family of products came in October 2010 with the launch of ContactMe, a lightweight customer relationship management (CRM) tool that helps small businesses get organized and grow. In February 2011, Webs added Pagemodo, creator of a do-it-yourself Facebook page builder, to the Webs suite of solutions. Pagemodo’s Pagebuilder enables entrepreneurs to design their own custom Facebook pages for free and with ease. Webs was formerly known as Freewebs.

SoundHound

Series A in 2006
SoundHound AI develops a voice AI platform that enables brands to create customized conversational experiences for their products and services. The platform allows companies to voice-enable their offerings while providing access to valuable data and analytics for improved customer interactions. SoundHound AI aims to enhance user engagement through natural voice interactions across various industries.

Powerset

Series A in 2006
Powerset is a search engine focused on natural language processing. In other words, Powerset will not search based simply on keywords alone, but will try to understand the semantic meaning behind the search phrase as a whole. The company [launched](http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/11/powerset-launches-showcase-for-user-search-experience/) in Sep 2005 with intentions of making search more easy and intuitive. Powerset was acquired by [Microsoft](/organization/microsoft) on 1st July 2008.
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