Investor directory

Uncork Capital

SoftTech VC is a seed stage venture capital firm, started in 2004, and operated by Jeff Clavier, one of the most active Web 2.0 angel investors. Mr. Clavier put together Fund II during the summer of 2007 and announced it in September 2007. Mr. Clavier's goal with Fund II was to invest in about 20 companies per year, as a lead, co-lead or member of a syndicate, investing $100K to $5000K without a specific target in percentage of ownership. Round size would range $500K to $1.5M, and would include typically one to three other seed firms, a number of individual angels and in some cases traditional VCs investing directly from their main fund or through a seed vehicle. Since August 2007, SoftTech VC II has invested in 60+ early stage startups, pretty much keeping up with the stated objective of 20 companies per year. Similar to Fund I, Fund II had a number of early stage exits, and has seen significant follow-on activity with 29 companies raising over $170M in additional financing to date. In 2011, a $35M successor fund made its debut. This fund targets an average initial 'bite size' of $400K, ranging from $250K to $750K - with selective follow-on reserves, with an initial ownership target of 5% - and 10%. June 2014 the firm announced the closing of SoftTech VC IV, an $85 million venture capital fund. The fund is a substantial boost in size from SoftTech VC's $55 million third fund that was raised in 2011. Like its predecessor funds, this fund focuses on seed stage opportunities in B2B and B2C technology startups. the Fund IV is to take larger stakes in portfolio companies and to have the resources to follow-on in subsequent rounds. The fund's strategy is to make initial investments of $500,000 to $1 million, with the goal of owning a 7-10% ownership stake. The fund plans to invest about $35 million in 50 companies over 3 years, leaving $50 million earmarked for follow-ons. The geographic mix is expected to mirror the current roster of active portfolio companies, of which 80% are located in San Francisco/Silicon Valley, and New York, Boulder, Southern California, and Toronto-Waterloo forming the balance. June of 2016, SoftTech VC raised $100 million for its fifth seed stage venture fund and $50 million for its opportunity fund. SoftTech VC V will focus on backing about 40 startups over three years in sectors that include SaaS/b2b, connected devices and monetized consumer services while SoftTech VC Plus will target specific growth stage investments across previous SoftTech VC funds.

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Jeff Clavier

Founder and Managing Partner

Ashley Cravens

Director of Operations

Tripp Jones

Partner

Susan Liu

Partner

Andy McLoughlin

Managing Partner

176 past transactions

Fatherly

Seed Round in 2015
Fatherly operates a parenting resource platform for men. The company provides fatherly tips in the areas of gear, food and health, work and money, and relationships. It also provides gifts for expecting guys, sleepless nights, one/two/three-year olds, tech toys, and playground products; and books, grownups, travel, and home fitness products online. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York. Fatherly operates as a subsidiary of Some Spider Inc.

SmartBiz, Inc.

Series A in 2010
SmartBiz, Inc., doing business as SmartBiz Loans, develops and operates an online lending platform for applying and processing small business loans. Its platform allows banks to offer small business credit products; and businesses to access low-cost funds. The company offers online software that systematizes and automates small business loan underwriting and origination, including application management, document capture with real-time notifications, automated underwriting, decisioning, online file audit, and closing. Further, the company provides banks with services, including marketing, operational, compliance, and bottom line functionalities. The company caters to commercial real estate, debt refinance, and working capital sectors. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. SmartBiz, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Better Finance, Inc.

SendGrid

Series B in 2012
SendGrid is a proven, cloud-based customer communication platform that drives engagement and business growth. SendGrid is a leader in email deliverability and its proven, cloud-based platform successfully delivers over 30 billion emails each month for Internet and mobile-based customers like Airbnb, Pandora, HubSpot, Spotify, Uber and FourSquare as well as more traditional enterprises like Intuit and Costco.

Neo.tax

Seed Round in 2020
Neo.tax provides tax preparation and filing services by using tax automation software The company is based in Mountain View, California.

ADstruc

Seed Round in 2010
ADstruc is an Out-of-Home media specialist bringing unprecedented ease and efficiency to media planning and buying. The company's comprehensive workflow software, Drive, automates OOH planning for agencies and advertisers. Project X, ADstruc’s managed services division, provides an innovative, audience-focused approach to outdoor advertising, leveraging data for brands to build awareness and increase engagement with consumers. ADstruc was established in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

Seesmic

Series A in 2008
Seesmic is a powerful suite of social media management and collaboration tools that provide businesses and individuals with everything they need to build and manage their brands online. With applications on [every platform](http://seesmic.com/products), including mobile devices, and a marketplace of over 80 third-party plugins, Seesmic is the most comprehensive solution on the market. Seesmic is headquartered in San Francisco and was founded by French entrepreneur [Loic Le Meur](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/loic-le-meur).

Flux

Seed Round in 2020
Flux is an internal mobility platform that helps employees grow while contributing to the work the business needs to get done. Employees are intelligently matched to opportunities they can excel at: from part-time projects and rotations, to learning, mentorship, or full-time roles. Companies gain full visibility into their workforce and fill roles faster while promoting a culture of recognition and progression.

Educents

Seed Round in 2015
Educents Inc. operates as an online marketplace for selling educational products to students, parents, homeschoolers, and educators in the United States. The company offers science kits, curriculum packs, books, art supplies, math and reading books, and others. It also provides digital products, such as downloads and online programs for international customers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tempo Automation

Series C in 2019
Tempo Automation Inc. manufactures low volume electronics products. The company designs and assembles printed circuit boards. Tempo Automation Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Vidyard

Series A in 2013
Vidyard is a video platform for business that helps organizations drive more revenue through the use of online video. Going beyond video hosting and management, Vidyard helps businesses drive greater engagement in their video content, track the viewing activities of each individual viewer, and turn those views into action. Global leaders such as Honeywell, McKesson, Lenovo, LinkedIn, Cision, Citibank, MongoDB, and Sharp rely on Vidyard to power their video content strategies and turn viewers into customers. Vidyard was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario.

The Lobby

Seed Round in 2019
The Lobby is a video shopping platform that bridges the gap between online and offline shopping. By bringing together top fashion brands and influencers in a QVC-meets-TikTok shopping experience, The Lobby makes shopping as easy and inspiring as scrolling your Instagram feed. And with a unique try-before-you-buy payment option, The Lobby makes online shopping truly risk-free.

Pattern

Seed Round in 2016
Pattern is a intelligent workspace geared towards sales teams. It prepares research for the user, streamlining the process with built in templates. Pattern can also confirm meetings, automate follow-ups, update stale records and research accounts. Lastly, Pattern uses machine learning to surface risk and momentum signals in your pipeline using data from email, calendar, and Salesforce.

BrightRoll

Series D in 2011
BrightRoll Inc. develops programmatic video advertising platform for reaching audiences across desktop, mobile and connected TV. Its platform enables advertisers to reach video viewers online. BrightRoll Inc. was formerly known as PostRoller Inc. and changed its name to BrightRoll Inc. in November 2006. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Human Interest

Series A in 2018
Human Interest offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans. Previously, only large companies offered employee retirement plans, leaving more than half of all working Americans without a path to a secure financial future. The company believes that a path to financial independence should be accessible to people in all lines of work.

Poshmark

Series B in 2012
Poshmark, Inc. owns and operates a social marketplace to buy and sell lifestyle products in the United States. The company offers apparel, footwear, home, and beauty products, as well as accessories. As of September 30, 2020, it had 31.7 million active users, 6.2 million active buyers, and 4.5 million active sellers. The company was formerly known as GoshPosh, Inc. and changed its name to Poshmark, Inc. in 2011. Poshmark, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Kongregate

Series B in 2007
Jim and Emily Greer started Kongregate 10 years ago with the vision of creating an open platform for indie games with a strong focus on community engagement. Since inception, Kongregate has always prioritized treating developer partners fairly and honestly. This means great games for our players and an engaged audience for our developers. Now, a decade after its introduction, Kongregate is a leading mobile game publisher and web gaming portal. Through our mobile publishing program and the Launchpad & Launchpad X programs, we work closely with game developers to provide a multitude of services to help great games become even better. Kongregate’s mobile games have been downloaded tens of millions of times and have hundreds of millions of gameplays. Kongregate's web portal features over 100,000 free games played by tens of millions of players per month.

Poka

Series A in 2016
Poka is a Web and mobile app that gives factory workers the power to capture, consume and share critical information in real-time on the plant floor, leading to improved productivity. By creating a standardized multimedia knowledge base of procedures, training content and solutions related to each workstation and machine, Poka helps reduce production downtime, improve quality and safety, and facilitate communication across factories, departments and shifts. Poka has become a catalyst for digital transformation among industrial leaders including 12 of the largest manufacturers based on IndustryWeek’s Global 1000 rank.

Poka

Venture Round in 2020
Poka is a Web and mobile app that gives factory workers the power to capture, consume and share critical information in real-time on the plant floor, leading to improved productivity. By creating a standardized multimedia knowledge base of procedures, training content and solutions related to each workstation and machine, Poka helps reduce production downtime, improve quality and safety, and facilitate communication across factories, departments and shifts. Poka has become a catalyst for digital transformation among industrial leaders including 12 of the largest manufacturers based on IndustryWeek’s Global 1000 rank.

Handshake

Series B in 2016
Handshake Corp. provides an online sales order application. The company’s application enables mobile order writing, Web order management, and back office integration. It serves music, gift, toys, fashion, eyewear, healthcare, and outdoor industries. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York. As of May 7, 2019, Handshake Corp. operates as a subsidiary of Shopify Inc.

Blekko

Series B in 2008
Blekko is a search company founded by Rich Skrenta and his core team from previous company [Topix](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/topix) and Netscape's Open Directory. Blekko was founded halfway through 2007 and has already earned itself an angel round from Baseline Ventures and two ex-Googlers.

Poshmark

Series E in 2017
Poshmark, Inc. owns and operates a social marketplace to buy and sell lifestyle products in the United States. The company offers apparel, footwear, home, and beauty products, as well as accessories. As of September 30, 2020, it had 31.7 million active users, 6.2 million active buyers, and 4.5 million active sellers. The company was formerly known as GoshPosh, Inc. and changed its name to Poshmark, Inc. in 2011. Poshmark, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Home-Account

Series A in 2009
Home Account Inc., is a mortgage-finding service designed to help America's 75 million borrowers save money and make smart mortgage choices. The service grades and analyzes borrowers' current mortgages, presents scenarios to improve their financial situation, and then matches each borrower to the best mortgage options in the market.

LaunchDarkly

Series C in 2019
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves over 100 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software. Feature flagging is an industry best practice of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka ”dark launching”). Their vision is to eliminate the risk for developers and operations teams from the software development cycle. LaunchDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. They are building a diverse team so that they can offer robust products and services. Their team culture is fast-paced, friendly, and supportive. LaunchDarkly was founded on July 14, 2014, and is headquartered in California, USA.

Mission Motors

Series A in 2008
[Mission Motor Company](http://www.ridemission.com) (DBA: Mission Motors) is an American company founded in 2007 in San Francisco, California. The company was originally founded with the aim of creating high-performance electric motorcycles, but later focused on being a supplier of electric vehicle components. The company designs and supplies high-performance EV powertrains, including energy storage systems, drive systems and software, to the vehicle manufacturers, targeting a wide range of applications—including battery-electric, plug-in hybrid electric and hybrid-electric vehicles.

Sym

Series A in 2020
Sym is a security workflow platform that solves the intent-to-execution gap between policies and workflows by providing fast-moving engineering teams with the just-right primitives to roll out best-practice controls. The platform integrates AWS, IDPs, policy-as-code tools, and more and empowers engineers to create security and privacy workflows for their teams. This helps engineers save time. Sym also offers its serverless templates for custom integrations. Adam Buggia, Jonathan Bass, and Yasyf Mohamedali launched the company in San Francisco, California in 2020.

BrightRoll

Series A in 2006
BrightRoll Inc. develops programmatic video advertising platform for reaching audiences across desktop, mobile and connected TV. Its platform enables advertisers to reach video viewers online. BrightRoll Inc. was formerly known as PostRoller Inc. and changed its name to BrightRoll Inc. in November 2006. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Bitly

Series A in 2009
Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels. Through branded bitlinks, mobile deep linking, and omnichannel campaign tracking, the platform offers a complete marketing solution to drive customer experiences. Using HTTP 301 redirects for its links, companies can use their own custom domains to generate shortened links. This allows the company to push brand awareness on services such as Twitter but use the Bitly engine to generate the shortened URLs and track marketing metrics. Bitly was launched in July 2008 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver.

Torii

Series A in 2021
Torii Labs Ltd. offers SaaS management tool for startups and growing companies. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Raanana, Israel.

TownHog

Seed Round in 2008
TownHog connects businesses and local audiences, while enabling leading publishers to further monetize and engage their geo-segmented users. TownHog is the latest creation by Dotblu, Inc. Dotblu is a San Francisco based company founded in 2007 and backed by Silicon Valley veterans and D. E. Shaw Ventures

FreshPlanet

Series A in 2010
FreshPlanet, creator of SongPop, has quickly become a leading social and mobile game developer in New York City. The company is developing and publishing apps and games around Pop Culture. Recently SongPop attracted over 90 million players around the world. The company is venture-backed and led by a team of internet and game veterans, including serial entrepreneurs and brothers Mathieu and Romain Nouzareth.

Groove

Series B in 2021
Groove Labs, Inc. develops a sales engagement and acceleration platform. It offers Groove, a solution for email and calendar integration; Groove Flow, a solution that enables users to create custom multi-step campaigns, which help reps and account managers to send personalized emails and make informed phone calls. The company also provides Groove Dialer, a solution that helps user to close more deals by eliminating manual tasks and making reps and account managers more strategic and better informed; and performance tracking and analytics solutions. It serves organizations, divisions, and teams ranging from sales leaders, AEs, SDRs, and sales opps to account management leaders and CSMs. Groove Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has additional offices in San Diego, California; and Bellevue, Washington.

Kahuna

Seed Round in 2012
Kahuna creates highly personalized experiences for every buyer and every seller for the world’s leading marketplaces. Kahuna is the platform of choice for meeting the needs of marketplaces, using state of the art machine-learning technology to drive extreme personalization, product and pricing optimization, trust, and engagement. With more than 144 million engaged users, over 4 billion messages sent, and 46 billion optimized events, Kahuna is the proven solution for marketplaces of all sizes. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with global locations, Kahuna investors include Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Uncork Capital. Learn more at http://www.kahuna.com

OneTrueFan

Seed Round in 2010
OneTrueFan is a service that enables users to see who else has viewed and shared the pages they read. Users earn points for engagement -- visiting regularly, reading new content, sharing links and driving traffic -- and can compete to be the biggest fan of a site. Players can also earn badges for specific gameplay achievements, such as regularly being the first person in their social graph to find new pages. The service is distributed as both a web site "widget" and browser plugin. More than 80% of any site's traffic visits once a month or less. In most cases, this traffic results from search engines and social links and less than 24 hours later there is no recall of where the content was consumed. These readers are essential negative value -- they don't remember the brand, they don't click on ads and they don't come back again. Only six to eight percent of a site's traffic are "regulars", defined as visiting at least once a week. These readers drive much of the real value on a web site, regularly contributing comments, sharing content with friends and clicking on advertising. OneTrueFan enables web sites to develop deeper engagement with these regular reader, encouraging them to visit and share content even more often. Post-launch, OneTrue fan will launch a dashboard, enabling web sites get a multi-dimensional view of their readers based upon frequency of visits, amount of content read, regularity of shares and traffic sent. Web site owners can use existing channels, such as Twitter and Facebook, to communicate with readers. OneTrueFan will also offer a series of APIs that enable web sites to customize themselves and offer special incentives and offers to their true fans. In the long-term, OneTrueFan hopes to become a marketplace, enabling virtual currency providers (such as United Airlines and American Express) to provide incentive for passionate readers at large web sites and media companies.

SendGrid

Series A in 2010
SendGrid is a proven, cloud-based customer communication platform that drives engagement and business growth. SendGrid is a leader in email deliverability and its proven, cloud-based platform successfully delivers over 30 billion emails each month for Internet and mobile-based customers like Airbnb, Pandora, HubSpot, Spotify, Uber and FourSquare as well as more traditional enterprises like Intuit and Costco.

Fab

Seed Round in 2010
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

Visually

Seed Round in 2011
Visually is the content creation platform that enables businesses to connect with their audiences through engaging, beautiful visual content. The world’s top brands rely on us for premium videos, infographics, ebooks, presentations, web interactives and more — created fast and cost-effectively. With over 1000 certified creative professionals, our clients get access to the best designers, writers, researchers, and developers available, with a wide range of skills to support their business needs. Using our easy-to-use online collaboration platform, clients work closely with their team and enjoy a high-degree of creative control. And they are supported every step of the way—from talent assignment to creative direction—to create content that connects and converts.

Hired

Series B in 2014
Hired is a career marketplace that matches tech talent with innovative companies. Users on the Hired platform receive objective guidance throughout the interview process from a dedicated Talent Advocate, as well as the ability to compare new opportunities side by side so they can make their next career move with confidence. Employers get access to a hand-picked pool of candidates who are interested in new roles, as well as unmatched transparency into competing offers so they can recruit and hire with insight. The end result is an efficient, effective and enjoyable experience that’s far faster than traditional methods.

Guildery

Seed Round in 2015
Guildery is an e-commerce startup using pioneering technology to create mass customization for Home products. Home Décor is a $200B industry that is still highly silo-ed, with high-end made-to-order products at one end and mass-produced goods at the other. Guildery aims to bring personalization to home goods without the accompanying high cost and time associated with artisan-produced customization. By leveraging high-quality digital printing techniques that chemically bond ink to fabric, Guildery can offer a limitless range of patterns and fabrics on-demand.

Spoon Media Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Spoon Media Inc. operates a foodie digital media blog network made for millennials. The company features recipes, restaurant reviews, news, and other stories. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York. Spoon Media Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Her Campus Media LLC.

Songkick

Seed Round in 2008
Songkick is a ticketing vendor and online database of concerts for music enthusiasts. It offers concert discovery services for its users. Songkick provides services partnered with more than 500 artists, used by over 10 million monthly fans, and ticketing over 10,000 events worldwide each year. It was launched in 2007 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Tempo Automation

Seed Round in 2015
Tempo Automation Inc. manufactures low volume electronics products. The company designs and assembles printed circuit boards. Tempo Automation Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Shippo

Series A in 2016
Shippo is a multi-carrier shipping API and web app. E-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and platforms are able to connect to multiple shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard, through Shippo. Businesses can get shipping rates, print labels, automate international documents, track shipments, and facilitate returns. The company processes millions of shipments per month for more than 35,000 customers. Businesses are able to instantly access multiple shipping carriers for real-time rates, shipping labels, international paperwork, package tracking, and return logistics. Shippo was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Mutiny

Series A in 2021
Mutiny helps B2B companies personalize their website for each visitor in order to convert the 99% of traffic that bounces. Visitors bounce because customers from different industries and company sizes are looking for different things on your site. Mutiny enables you to engage them with a tailored experience made just for them, so they get what they want, faster. Companies such as Segment, Brex, Amplitude and Carta are using Mutiny and seeing up to 200% lift in conversion.

Halo Neuroscience

Seed Round in 2014
Halo Neuroscience develops and markets neurotechnology systems to help individuals unlock their true potential. Their first product, Halo Sport, utilizes Neuropriming technology to accelerate skill and strength acquisition in elite athletes. Neuropriming is the process of using electrical stimulation during movement-based training to build stronger, more optimized connections between your brain and muscles. This process induces a temporary state of hyper-learning or "hyperplasticity" in the brain, which refines the brain's ability to learn and adapt to training. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, CA.

Phil

Series B in 2019
Phil, Inc. provides a prescription management software service for obtaining medications. The company operates a specialty Rx distribution platform that assists patients in managing their medications by automatically refilling based on the prescription cadence. It acts a liaison between patients, prescribers, manufacturers, and pharmacists. The company also provides complimentary home delivery services for medications. Phil, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Hallow

Series A in 2021
Hallow is a digital platform that aims to energize faith lives and enable conversations with God through guided prayer.

StyleSeat

Seed Round in 2012
At StyleSeat, our mission is to help people look and feel their best. We are on the path to achieving this mission by being the go-­to platform for consumers to discover, book, and pay for beauty and grooming services (hair stylists, colorists, nail artists, estheticians, barbers, etc). We are also the premiere solution for all independent professionals in the industry to run and grow their business. We have powered over 100 million appointments booked and $7B in revenue for small businesses and are on the path to much more.

Get Satisfaction

Seed Round in 2009
Based in San Francisco, Get Satisfaction provides an online community platform connecting companies with customers to foster relationships that unlock new value for both sides. Companies of all sizes and industries—from Kellogg's and P&G to [Sonos](/organization/sonos), [HootSuite](/organization/hootsuite) and [SugarCRM](/organization/sugarcrm)—rely on Get Satisfaction to deliver online communities that modernize customer support, accelerate sales, differentiate their brand and inspire new innovations. Get Satisfaction's community platform offers the fastest time to value for companies ready to embrace the way today’s customers want to engage.

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.

Sapho

Series B in 2017
Sapho empowers employees with a modern portal experience that surfaces personalized and relevant tasks and data using micro-apps. Sapho micro apps are built by IT on top of existing systems using pre-built templates and a drag-and-drop micro app builder. These micro apps available on any device, intranet, or messenger provide employees proactive notifications about interesting system data, actions that need to be completed, and changes in business data that require attention. It was founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.

Wonderschool

Series A in 2018
Started in 2016 by a group of educators and technologists in California, Wonderschool offers a platform where people can start infant and toddler programs and preschools out of their homes. Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own. Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments. It’s been proven time and time again that children should start developing cognitive, motor, behavioral, and social skills from as early as 6 months and Wonderschool is committed to increasing families’ access to high quality care and learning environments for children.

Tulip Retail

Series B in 2017
Tulip Retail is the world’s first cloud-based retail platform built exclusively for store associates. It was founded in 2013 by a team of mobile and e-commerce experts who are passionate about shaping the future in-store experience. Dedicated to store associate empowerment, Tulip is bringing the best of online shopping to the selling floor with an intuitive, simple to use mobile app that enables: assisted selling, endless aisle, clienteling, store communications and point of sale. Leading retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, Kate Spade, Coach, Frye Boots, Bonobos, and Toys”R”Us use Tulip to help them deliver an unparalleled omnichannel shopping experience.

Grouply

Series A in 2008
Grouply is pioneering the “social group” — a new type of online community that combines the best features of social networks and online groups. Social groups offer the social interactivity, media sharing, and modern design of social networking sites like Facebook; and the rich discussions, popular email interface, and people-discovery opportunities found in traditional online group systems like Yahoo! Groups. With Grouply, you can create a new social group about anything you like or join a social group and connect with others who share your interests and passions. Existing Google and Yahoo! Groups get an “extreme makeover” on Grouply; each gets a modern, professional, fully customizable website that automatically interoperates with Google and Yahoo! Groups. Grouply was founded in 2006 and is funded by O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, SoftTech VC and prominent angel investors including Reid Hoffman.

Byliner

Series A in 2012
Byliner works directly with the world's best writers to deliver their stories to readers. Hailed by Fast Company as “One of the 10 Most Innovative Media Companies in the World,” we publish original fiction and nonfiction e-shorts by top authors such as Amy Tan, Margaret Atwood, Jon Krakauer, Nick Hornby, Sebastian Junger, and more. These e-shorts are written to be read in two hours or less, and can be purchased individually through major digital bookstores. The entire Byliner Originals library is also available online to Byliner subscribers, who get access to premium content from Byliner's by-invitation community of writers--including thousands of rarely-seen and exclusive stories from bestselling authors.

Circle of Moms

Seed Round in 2008
Circle of Moms is a parenting social network for mothers to share stories, problems, and tips of motherhood. Users can connect with the moms to whom they are closest and trust most (we call this group their circle of moms), like-minded moms or other users in their community. The site offers public communities such as Toddler Moms, Recipe Swap, Money Saving Tips, communities by birth month for pregnant mothers and mothers of infants, or create a new community of their own. Users can also use the "Moms Near Me" feature to find other moms that live nearby to keep up to date on the best restaurants, events and resources for moms and their families in their local community. Circle of Moms works both on its own social networking site and as a Facebook application.

Postmates

Series B in 2014
Postmates is an on-demand food delivery. The platform gives customers access to the most selection of merchants in the US with more than 600,000 restaurants and retailers available for delivery and pickup, many of which are exclusive to Postmates. The market leader in Los Angeles and markets across the southwest, Postmates covers 80% of US households, across all 50 states. Customers can get free delivery on all merchants by joining Postmates Unlimited, the industry's first subscription service.

RJMetrics

Series B in 2014
RJMetrics solves the core analytical challenge of today’s high-growth online business: data is scattered across dozens of platforms, making it difficult to manage and analyze effectively. This data typically lives in silos like backend databases, marketing platforms, CRM systems, and shopping carts. RJMetrics consolidates and distills this data into a cloud-based data warehouse and provides an intuitive user interface for exploring and acting on the results.

Bleacher Report

Series B in 2008
Bleacher Report (B/R), bleacherreport.com, a division of Turner Sports, is a leading publisher of original and entertaining sports content and one of the fastest growing sports media Web sites in the U.S. Bleacher Report was founded in 2007 by four lifelong fans who'd consumed their fill of bland Internet sports content. Since launching in 2008, B/R’s Web site has grown to a massive audience. The result is first-rate sports commentary that gives B/R’s audience the stories they want to read in real-time. Bleacher Report also has a five-star mobile App and some the Web's most popular email newsletters. B/R's goal is to deliver engaging digital media experiences to sports fans all over the world.

Sunnyside

Seed Round in 2021
Creating a new wellness category around proactive alcohol health, with the goal of helping anyone who regularly drinks alcohol build mindfulness around their consumption.

YourMechanic

Series B in 2018
YourMechanic is an online marketplace that enables vehicle owners to find local mechanics for home or office car repair services. Its aim is to make car repair and maintenance affordable and convenient.

Hired

Seed Round in 2013
Hired is a career marketplace that matches tech talent with innovative companies. Users on the Hired platform receive objective guidance throughout the interview process from a dedicated Talent Advocate, as well as the ability to compare new opportunities side by side so they can make their next career move with confidence. Employers get access to a hand-picked pool of candidates who are interested in new roles, as well as unmatched transparency into competing offers so they can recruit and hire with insight. The end result is an efficient, effective and enjoyable experience that’s far faster than traditional methods.

Headnote

Seed Round in 2017
Headnote Parent Inc. develops software tools for lawyers and legal professionals. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

RJMetrics

Series A in 2013
RJMetrics solves the core analytical challenge of today’s high-growth online business: data is scattered across dozens of platforms, making it difficult to manage and analyze effectively. This data typically lives in silos like backend databases, marketing platforms, CRM systems, and shopping carts. RJMetrics consolidates and distills this data into a cloud-based data warehouse and provides an intuitive user interface for exploring and acting on the results.

Driftrock

Venture Round in 2016
Driftrock Limited provides applications and tools for multi-channel marketing. It offers Marketing Overview to pull multi-channel marketing reports into a single place; sync marketing, conversion, and visit data; optimize mobiles; download data to CSV; and assist conversions. The company also provides Open Book to identify the ads and campaigns that work and the ones that do not work, create best performing ads, detect and pause worst performing ads, optimize ad images and text, and manage campaigns on the go. In addition, it offers Lead Response to manage, track, and respond to email leads in real-time; and Swift, a paid Twitter analysis solution for campaigns and tweets with near real-time reporting. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

DanceJam

Series B in 2008
DanceJam is a social media destination where users hang out and watch people dance, learn how to dance, or show off their moves online. DanceJam provides a community where users can watch and rate videos of people dancing, promote their profiles, compete in head-to-head dance-offs and competitions, register and get matched with people who share similar interests, and learn about local dance-related events. DanceJam is founded by Geoffrey Arone, Anthony Young, and MC Hammer.

8tracks, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
8tracks, Inc. is a non-interactive Internet radio service that allows users to make and discover playlists. Its Internet radio platform allows members to upload songs from their own collections to make a virtual mix tape that can be shared. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in New York and Los Angeles.

ReTel Technologies

Seed Round in 2009
Based in San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL, ReTel Technologies develops advanced analytics that help businesses optimize their security, operations and consumer experience through ongoing analysis of surveillance video. ReTel's unique system seamlessly augments computer vision with human auditing to uncover actionable insights previously unavailable at scale or low cost. ReTel was founded in 2007, and is also a 2009 TechStars company.

Arch Systems

Seed Round in 2016
Arch Systems Inc. designs and develops a device-to-cloud modular hardware platform for industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company’s device-to-cloud hardware is used for a range of custom IoT applications from electronics to mobile and cloud. Its hardware platform allows clients to design custom connected devices and take them to production, as well as enables software developers to create physical applications for sectors, such as food, water, and energy. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.

TakeLessons

Series A in 2011
TakeLessons is the trusted marketplace for finding online and local instructors and taking online classes across a wide array of subjects ranging foreign languages, math and photography to music, dance and acting. Instructors rely on TakeLessons to simplify marketing and manage their business with integrated scheduling, billing, payment, and communication tools that work seamlessly across desktop and mobile devices.

Zenreach

Series B in 2016
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.

Top Hat

Series C in 2017
As a student engagement and interactive teaching platform, Top Hat’s software helps college professors activate classrooms. In a world of digital distractions, countless academic studies have reinforced the reality that students better understand the day’s lesson if they’re asked to engage with peers, interact with complex material and participate in class. By requiring students to use their personal devices to answer quizzes, reply to polls, and tackle difficult simulations, Top Hat transforms the passive lecture hall into an engaging learning environment. As an advocate for traditional, on-campus education, Top Hat not only modernizes established teaching methods but also facilitates new approaches including the ‘flipped classroom,’ ‘group learning,’ and other creative solutions. Top Hat is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, hosts 120 full-time employees, and has been operating since its 2009 launch behind $22M in venture funding.

Continuum Technology

Seed Round in 2021
Continuum Technology offers software that manages executive availability, contracts, invoices, and payments. It is a platform that enables fractional time executives, allowing them to monetize their expertise and automate your back office.

Shippo

Series C in 2020
Shippo is a multi-carrier shipping API and web app. E-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and platforms are able to connect to multiple shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard, through Shippo. Businesses can get shipping rates, print labels, automate international documents, track shipments, and facilitate returns. The company processes millions of shipments per month for more than 35,000 customers. Businesses are able to instantly access multiple shipping carriers for real-time rates, shipping labels, international paperwork, package tracking, and return logistics. Shippo was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Shippo

Series B in 2017
Shippo is a multi-carrier shipping API and web app. E-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and platforms are able to connect to multiple shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard, through Shippo. Businesses can get shipping rates, print labels, automate international documents, track shipments, and facilitate returns. The company processes millions of shipments per month for more than 35,000 customers. Businesses are able to instantly access multiple shipping carriers for real-time rates, shipping labels, international paperwork, package tracking, and return logistics. Shippo was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Focal Systems

Seed Round in 2016
Focal Systems designs an indoor positioning system for shopping carts that helps shoppers navigate the store while providing marketing intelligence to retailers. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Human Interest

Series C in 2021
Human Interest offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans. Previously, only large companies offered employee retirement plans, leaving more than half of all working Americans without a path to a secure financial future. The company believes that a path to financial independence should be accessible to people in all lines of work.

ClassDojo

Series A in 2013
ClassDojo, Inc. operates an online school communication platform that connects teachers, students, and families to build communities by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages. The company was formerly known as Class Twist, Inc. and changed its name to ClassDojo, Inc. in December 2017. ClassDojo, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Crossbeam

Series B in 2020
Crossbeam, Inc. develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) based collaborative data platform that helps companies to build partnerships. It offers Crossbeam that helps companies to find overlapping customers and prospects with their partners. The company’s Crossbeam is used to connect data, create populations, make partners, and analyze the overlaps in populations. Crossbeam, Inc. was formerly known as Mtrebor, Inc. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

SocialMedia.com

Series A in 2007
SocialMedia.com makes digital advertising better through People Powered Advertisements that leverage people's social relationships in the ad units. They have ad formats incorporating Twitter, social networks, and community websites. People Powered advertising makes digital advertising better by amplifying people's personal endorsements to friends or communities. SocialMedia.com's People Powered Ad formats: Twitter Pulse — Twitter Pulse ads run within IAB standard units anywhere on the web. The ads show readers the latest Tweets matching the campaign's filters and prompt them to share tweets of their own. Friend To Friend — Friend to Friend ads run within social networks. Users first see an opt-in ad with an option to share their opinion with friends. If the user decides to participate, their response will be shared with friends who visit a SocialMedia.com ad in the future in the form of a light, yet effective, endorsement. Community Poll — Community Poll taps into the opinions of a website's community to deliver compelling feedback about how the audience feels about a subject. Community ads can run on any web content vertical. Community Stream — Community Stream shares personal endorsements about your product from a web community's pool of passionate readers.

SendGrid

Series A in 2009
SendGrid is a proven, cloud-based customer communication platform that drives engagement and business growth. SendGrid is a leader in email deliverability and its proven, cloud-based platform successfully delivers over 30 billion emails each month for Internet and mobile-based customers like Airbnb, Pandora, HubSpot, Spotify, Uber and FourSquare as well as more traditional enterprises like Intuit and Costco.

Expo

Seed Round in 2017
Pared is an on-demand tool for restaurant workers. The company's mission is to make restaurant life easier by connecting restaurant owners and operators with the restaurant staff they need, when they need them. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Top Hat

Series A in 2012
As a student engagement and interactive teaching platform, Top Hat’s software helps college professors activate classrooms. In a world of digital distractions, countless academic studies have reinforced the reality that students better understand the day’s lesson if they’re asked to engage with peers, interact with complex material and participate in class. By requiring students to use their personal devices to answer quizzes, reply to polls, and tackle difficult simulations, Top Hat transforms the passive lecture hall into an engaging learning environment. As an advocate for traditional, on-campus education, Top Hat not only modernizes established teaching methods but also facilitates new approaches including the ‘flipped classroom,’ ‘group learning,’ and other creative solutions. Top Hat is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, hosts 120 full-time employees, and has been operating since its 2009 launch behind $22M in venture funding.

Bionic Panda Games

Seed Round in 2012
Bionic Panda Games is an Android-focused mobile social games company based in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2010, the company has assembled a strong team with deep backgrounds in mobile and social game development. The company's first game, Aqua Pets, is live in the Android Market today.

Topguest

Series A in 2010
Topguest is redefining loyalty program engagement for a mobile, social world. There are $48 billion of loyalty program points in US circulation, and Topguest is pioneering the use of these points to drive beneficial actions on social applications. Topguest gives users points from established loyalty programs for their check-ins on Facebook Places, Foursquare, Twitter, Instagram and Gowalla. Loyalty programs integrate with Topguest in order to automatically measure engagement and respond to customer actions on social applications. The Company was founded in mid-2010 and was backed by Founders Fund and leading angel investors. Topguest was acquired by Switchfly in December, 2011. Switchfly plans to invest in the product's continued growth and expansion.

Huckleberry

Seed Round in 2018
At Huckleberry, they’re on a mission to give small business owners back time. Over the last decade, software has replaced most paper-based business management systems – from accounting, to tax preparation, to payments. But commercial insurance is still bought and managed almost entirely offline, in a process that can involve layers of bureaucracy and take weeks to complete.

Sperta

Seed Round in 2021
Sperta helps financial services and tech companies automate decisions and manage fraud, credit, and compliance risks. It provides a rules engine, integration with data vendors and models, and a case management tool. Sperta was founded in June 2021. The co-founders previously built Uber's rules engine, Mastermind and Google Cloud AI Feature Store.

Loft Orbital

Series A in 2019
LOFT ORBITAL SOLUTIONS INC. provides an end-to-end service to host and operate customers' payloads. The company provides satellite platform and integration, standard hardware interfaces, launch booking and integration, finance and insurance solutions to reduce risk and the financial barriers to accessing space, and regulatory compliance and licensing. LOFT ORBITAL SOLUTIONS INC. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

TruckLabs

Series A in 2021
XStream Trucking Inc. develops GapGorilla, a device that eliminates the gap between the tractor and the trailer to increase fuel efficiency. The company also offers TruckWings, an active-aero device that automatically deploys at highway speeds to deliver streamlined aerodynamics, fuel savings, and lower carbon emissions. It serves the long-haul trucking industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Fitbit

Series B in 2010
Fitbit inspires people to exercise more, eat better and live healthier lifestyles. The company is developing an ultra-compact wireless wearable sensor, called the Fitbit Tracker, that automatically tracks data about a person's activities, such as calories burned, sleep quality, steps and distance. The Fitbit Tracker collects activity data automatically while it is worn by the user all day. The collected data is wirelessly uploaded to a website where the wearer can see their data and track their progress toward personal goals. The website provides a motivational interface where users can share their progress, compare themselves against similar people and work toward virtual goals with their friends, family and co-workers. At the website, users can also manually log nutrition, weight and other health information in order to gain a complete picture of their health. Fitbit makes it easy to achieve a healthy lifestyle by automating the collection of health data and providing a motivating and entertaining user interface.

about.me

Series A in 2013
about.me is a platform for representing personal identity online. The service allows users to create and maintain a curated page for self-expression. about.me pages offer features including bios, contact information and buttons that link to social network content, including [Facebook](/organization/facebook), [LinkedIn](/organization/linkedin), [Twitter](/organization/twitter), WordPress, [Instagram](/organization/instagram) and more. Users can customize their profile with personal photos, custom backdrops, colors and fonts to further express their personality. Additional features including Collections, Replies, Compliments, Invite Friends, Search and more allow users to connect and further engage with others through the platform. about.me was founded in 2010 by CEO Tony Conrad, CPO Ryan Freitas and Tim Young. In February 2013, about.me was bought back from AOL by founders Tony Conrad and Ryan Freitas along with the about.me management team.

Vidyard

Series C in 2016
Vidyard is a video platform for business that helps organizations drive more revenue through the use of online video. Going beyond video hosting and management, Vidyard helps businesses drive greater engagement in their video content, track the viewing activities of each individual viewer, and turn those views into action. Global leaders such as Honeywell, McKesson, Lenovo, LinkedIn, Cision, Citibank, MongoDB, and Sharp rely on Vidyard to power their video content strategies and turn viewers into customers. Vidyard was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario.

Identify3D

Seed Round in 2017
Identify3D, Inc. provides property protection, manufacturing repeatability, and traceability solutions. The company offers Protect, which secures digital supply chain; Manage that enables the distribution and tracking of secure digital distribution; Enforce that provides security and integrity during production; and Trace, which records operational and transaction details providing an audit trail. It serves aerospace, automotive, defense, and medical industries. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Lexington, Kentucky; and Germany.

Hired

Series A in 2014
Hired is a career marketplace that matches tech talent with innovative companies. Users on the Hired platform receive objective guidance throughout the interview process from a dedicated Talent Advocate, as well as the ability to compare new opportunities side by side so they can make their next career move with confidence. Employers get access to a hand-picked pool of candidates who are interested in new roles, as well as unmatched transparency into competing offers so they can recruit and hire with insight. The end result is an efficient, effective and enjoyable experience that’s far faster than traditional methods.

Stitch

Seed Round in 2012
Stitch, Inc. offers a managed ETL service for developers. It helps users in connecting to all their data sources and sends to SaaS tools to streams that data to their warehouse. It serves developers and small businesses. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As of November 9, 2018, Stitch, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Talend Inc..

test.ai

Seed Round in 2016
Test.ai provides an AI-powered test automation platform to help organizations deliver quality mobile app experiences. The platform scales and can test thousands of apps in parallel without the need to code or maintain tests. Test.ai automates testing for the most impactful user experiences so that app teams can focus on improving them. The team at test.ai wrote the book on testing— having worked on some of the world’s most used software such as Chrome and Bing and co-authoring books such as How Google Tests Software and App Quality: Secrets for Agile App Teams. Test.ai is dedicated to elevating the quality of the world’s apps and is uniquely qualified to do so.

August Pro

Series B in 2015
August Home Inc develops smart home access products that use encrypted locking technology. It enables users to create virtual keys for their home and grant access to house cleaners, dog walkers, delivery services, guests, friends, and family, and control how long that access lasts from their smartphones and computers. August Home Inc was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of December 5, 2017, August Home Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ASSA ABLOY AB (publ).

Shippo

Series E in 2021
Shippo is a multi-carrier shipping API and web app. E-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and platforms are able to connect to multiple shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard, through Shippo. Businesses can get shipping rates, print labels, automate international documents, track shipments, and facilitate returns. The company processes millions of shipments per month for more than 35,000 customers. Businesses are able to instantly access multiple shipping carriers for real-time rates, shipping labels, international paperwork, package tracking, and return logistics. Shippo was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Postmates

Seed Round in 2011
Postmates is an on-demand food delivery. The platform gives customers access to the most selection of merchants in the US with more than 600,000 restaurants and retailers available for delivery and pickup, many of which are exclusive to Postmates. The market leader in Los Angeles and markets across the southwest, Postmates covers 80% of US households, across all 50 states. Customers can get free delivery on all merchants by joining Postmates Unlimited, the industry's first subscription service.

Grovo

Series C in 2016
Grovo Learning Inc. operates a platform that provides microlearning solutions to workplace for companies. Its microlearning approach include bite-sized video lessons, exercises, and practice that range from digital skills to leadership training solutions. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in New York and San Francisco. As of November 9, 2018, Grovo Learning Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc.

Reputation

Series B in 2009
Reputation.com UK Ltd. offer industry leading online reputation management services. Our clients benefit from our range of innovative services. We bury negative online news, forums, blog and customer review site content allowing businesses to regain control of the most valuable asset they have: reputation. Other services: Online Reputation and Brand Monitoring Reputation Management Online PR and PR services. Specialties Reputation Management, Online Defamation, Online Reputation Management, ORM, Hebrew Reputation Management, Swedish Reputation Management, Spanish Reputation Management