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Cofactor Genomics is a biotechnology company that specializes in predictive immune modeling and RNA sequencing. By advancing precision medicine, Cofactor aims to address existing barriers in the healthcare sector, transitioning from single-analyte biomarkers to comprehensive multidimensional biomarkers through health expression models. The company operates one of the first CAP-certified clinical RNA sequencing laboratories, which enhances the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of clinical trials for their partners. Cofactor’s expertise encompasses molecular biology, informatics, and database management, allowing them to provide high-quality services tailored to the needs of the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. Their focus on RNA biomarkers associated with responses to targeted therapeutics supports the commercialization of clinical diagnostic assays for oncologic, immunologic, and neurodegenerative diseases, ultimately contributing to medical research and improved patient outcomes.

Fove, Inc. is a technology company specializing in the design and manufacture of eye tracking virtual reality headsets. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Torrance, California, with an additional office in Tokyo, Japan, Fove develops innovative VR devices that enhance user interaction within virtual environments. Its flagship product, the FOVE0 Headset, allows users to control a 360° virtual world using their gaze, enabling a more immersive experience. The company also offers FOVE Healthcare, which incorporates VR and eye tracking technology for cognitive function assessments, and NeU-VR, a headset that monitors eye and brain activity. Fove is committed to advancing VR technology by creating applications that provide real-time information and improve user engagement.

Founded in 2014, Akido Labs develops a platform that integrates software with hospital health record systems. Its solutions handle HL7 integration, ETL, lab systems, and other health system data sources, providing API documentation, client libraries, and support services.

Cymmetria Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, that specializes in deception technology to enhance organizational security. Founded in 2014 by security expert Gadi Evron, the company offers a suite of products including MazeRunner, a comprehensive cyber deception solution that diverts attackers and provides forensic data, and ActiveSOC, which automates the validation and triage of alerts while generating intelligence from low-scoring events. Additionally, Cymmetria provides deception services that analyze environments and create tailored deception strategies aimed at maximizing effectiveness. By shifting the balance in cybersecurity, Cymmetria empowers organizations to detect lateral movements, automate incident responses, and mitigate attacks, ultimately enhancing visibility and security within their networks.

Replit is a browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) founded in 2016. It enables collaborative coding across platforms using over 50 programming languages. Users can build apps and websites, share projects, create communal workspaces, and execute code via containers, all within a browser on any operating system.

Starcity Properties, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that develops and operates co-living homes, focusing on community-based living for its residents. Established in 2016, the company offers fully furnished apartments with amenities such as equipped kitchens, WiFi, utilities, community events, and maintenance services. Starcity currently operates nearly 500 beds across San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles, with plans for a development pipeline of approximately 2,000 units. The company's team, consisting of professionals from various sectors including real estate, technology, and hospitality, aims to make urban living more accessible. Unlike many competitors, Starcity operates as both a General Partner and Operator, emphasizing its capacity for full-stack real estate development and management. The company is dedicated to enhancing the living experience in urban environments while maintaining a strong focus on design and community engagement.

Bright Funds, Inc. is a philanthropic platform founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in workplace giving and volunteerism services, enabling individuals and organizations to engage in strategic philanthropy. Bright Funds partners with a range of nonprofits that address critical social issues such as environmental protection, access to clean water, basic education, poverty alleviation, healthcare accessibility, and disaster response. The platform offers tools for program administration, employee engagement, and managed donation disbursement, along with a real-time analytics dashboard that allows users to track their social impact and focus on causes they care about. By facilitating these connections, Bright Funds helps companies enhance their corporate social responsibility strategies and meet the expectations of a new generation of donors.

NuCypher is a cryptography company that specializes in developing a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform aimed at enhancing data privacy and security. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the company provides solutions for storing, sharing, and managing sensitive data on public blockchains. Its platform allows organizations to implement military-strength encryption to safeguard large and distributed data sets, whether hosted in the cloud or on-premises, while maintaining compliance with internal security policies and regulatory requirements. NuCypher's technology facilitates secure, auditable sharing of data, making it easier for companies to execute big data projects while protecting against internal and external threats.

Landed, Inc. is a financial services company based in San Francisco that assists essential professionals, particularly in education and healthcare, in purchasing homes and achieving financial stability within their communities. Founded in 2015, Landed provides debt-free financing options, allowing homebuyers to receive funds in exchange for a share of their home's value upon refinancing or selling. The company collaborates with schools, employers, and affinity networks to establish and manage down payment support funds, facilitating access to homeownership for teachers, school staff, and other professionals. Additionally, Landed offers personalized support through a dedicated team, including partner agents and homebuying experts, to help clients navigate their home-buying options and provide education on the process.

InsightRX is a software platform that applies quantitative pharmacology and machine learning to deliver individualized understanding of a patient’s response to treatment. The system provides point-of-care clinical decision support tools to guide dosing decisions at both the patient and population levels. It leverages clinically validated pharmacokinetic models, patient physiology, pharmacogenomics, drug concentrations, and biomarkers to optimize dosing, combining real-time patient data with machine learning to inform dose optimization. The platform also uses disease-based pharmacodynamics models to inform treatment decisions. InsightRX launched in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

FloydHub is a Platform-as-a-Service designed for training and deploying deep learning models in the cloud. The platform simplifies the process of initiating machine learning projects, allowing users to start within 30 seconds. FloydHub provides the necessary infrastructure, enabling teams to focus on their core challenges rather than technical setup. It offers customizable CPU and GPU environments tailored for deep learning, along with features that automatically save projects and databases through cloud interactions. The platform includes a web dashboard that facilitates tracking, monitoring, editing, and sharing project progress, which enhances collaboration among team members and boosts productivity through effective performance reviews and project planning.

SimplyCredit Inc. is a financial services company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in providing simple interest credit products aimed at helping consumers manage their department store and credit card bills. Founded in 2015, the company operates an online platform that focuses on creating fair and transparent lending solutions. By assessing customer creditworthiness and adhering to the underwriting policies of its financial partners, SimplyCredit establishes new lines of credit, including annual percentage rates and limits. Committed to transforming consumer lending, SimplyCredit leverages advanced technologies to enhance access to credit and improve the overall lending experience. Through its innovative approach, the company aims to ensure consumers receive the value and service they deserve in their financial transactions.

Maderight is an innovative apparel manufacturing company that offers a comprehensive solution for the entire supply chain. It integrates design, sourcing, and production processes, providing a streamlined approach to apparel development. By managing various aspects such as fashion sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, prototyping, printing, and quality control, Maderight enables companies to enhance their customer focus and operational efficiency. The company leverages advanced technology and expertise to empower businesses in the apparel sector, facilitating a seamless transition from concept to finished product.

VitroLabs specializes in 3D tissue engineering, focusing on the development of real leather using stem cell-based technologies. Founded in 2016 and based in San Jose, California, the company aims to create luxury quality lab-grown leather with a low carbon footprint, thereby reducing harm to animals.

Koniku Inc. is a neurotechnology company based in Berkeley, California, that specializes in the development of co-processors made from biological neurons. Founded in 2015, the company has created innovative technology that enables computers to detect odors, effectively allowing them to "smell." This capability is embodied in the Konikore, a smell processor that can analyze human breath and other bodily fluids to identify diseases before they manifest. Koniku's platform integrates odor positioning and surveillance systems which mimic the sensitivity of biological systems, facilitating applications in healthcare, security, industrial monitoring, and food safety. By leveraging machine learning alongside chemical data collection, Koniku aims to transform everyday environments, such as bathrooms, into data centers that predict health outcomes based on volatile organic compounds.

NuCypher is a cryptography company that specializes in developing a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform aimed at enhancing data privacy and security. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the company provides solutions for storing, sharing, and managing sensitive data on public blockchains. Its platform allows organizations to implement military-strength encryption to safeguard large and distributed data sets, whether hosted in the cloud or on-premises, while maintaining compliance with internal security policies and regulatory requirements. NuCypher's technology facilitates secure, auditable sharing of data, making it easier for companies to execute big data projects while protecting against internal and external threats.

Limitless Entertainment, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, specializes in developing a cloud-based platform for creating virtual reality content. The company's patent-pending Limitless Creative VR Environment facilitates the animation and prototyping of interactive characters in virtual reality, catering to sectors such as video games and film. The platform offers both standard and premium interactive characters that respond to user inputs such as voice, gaze, and gestures. By leveraging the latest VR technologies, the platform simplifies the animation process, making it accessible to both newcomers and experienced creators. Limitless Entertainment focuses on enabling users to fully harness the potential of real-life interactive characters in immersive environments.

Wheelys Café Inc. operates a distinctive network of mobile cafés on bikes, offering a range of beverages and snacks including coffee, cold drinks, cookies, tea, chocolates, and juices. Founded in 2015, the company has rapidly expanded, selling over 800 cafés in more than 70 countries. Based in Värmdö, Sweden, Wheelys Café not only provides a unique business model that allows individuals to start their own cafés but also offers franchising opportunities. The company has gained recognition for its innovative approach and has been associated with prominent figures in the startup ecosystem, including its participation in the Y Combinator accelerator program. Led by CEO Maria De La Croix, Wheelys Café stands out for its rapid growth and creative business strategy in the global food market.

Able Health is a cloud-based platform that specializes in automating the tracking and reporting processes for value-based healthcare programs. Founded in April 2015 by Steve Daniels and Rachel Katz, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its software is designed for physician organizations, aggregating data from electronic health records and claims to streamline performance tracking and reporting to insurance companies. Able Health simplifies the management of value-based reimbursements, allowing healthcare professionals to focus more on patient care rather than administrative tasks. The platform provides critical insights and feedback to clinicians and clinic managers, helping them enhance their performance in delivering quality healthcare.

Pakible, Inc., founded in 2014, specializes in designing and providing custom packaging solutions for businesses. Based in Mountain View, California, Pakible offers a range of fully customized retail packaging options, including shipping boxes, product containers, bags, shippers, and mailers. These services allow businesses to select the type and size of packaging they need and then personalize it with their own text, logos, and colors, making it easy for companies to create custom-branded packaging tailored to their specific requirements.

Notable Labs, Inc. is a clinical-stage company that specializes in personalized lab testing services for cancer patients, particularly those with brain cancer. Founded in 2014 and based in Foster City, California, the company utilizes its proprietary Predictive Precision Medicines Platform to conduct drug combination experiments on patients' tumors. This platform allows Notable Labs to simulate cancer treatments and predict patient responses to specific therapies, enabling healthcare providers to prioritize combinations of FDA-approved treatments that can be prescribed without the need for clinical trials. By providing detailed reports to physicians, Notable Labs aims to enhance treatment efficacy and expedite therapeutic development for patients.

ReadMe provides a documentation management platform that enables companies to create developer portals with tutorials, guides, and API exploration. It helps teams quickly generate documentation, keep it up to date, and cultivate active developer communities, leveraging community-oriented features to drive adoption and improve developer support.

Iguazio provides a data science platform enabling businesses to develop, deploy, and manage AI applications at scale. It facilitates real-time AI model execution, deployment across multi-cloud, on-premises, or edge environments, empowering enterprises to execute ambitious data-driven strategies.

Enlitic develops AI-driven software solutions for healthcare. It focuses on early disease detection, treatment planning, and monitoring using machine learning technology. The company offers clinical decision support tools, patient triage systems, and retrospective analysis solutions. Enlitic's proprietary algorithms improve healthcare diagnosis accuracy and efficiency.

Padlet is an online content platform that enables users to create and collaborate on a digital, free-form canvas where images, videos, documents, and text can be added anywhere on the page. It supports real-time collaboration across devices and offers templates to organize content for teaching, brainstorming, mood boards, and personal projects. Founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, Padlet originally started as Wallwisher and has evolved into a versatile platform for collective idea sharing and classroom use.

Aspiration empowers consumers and enterprises to combat climate change through innovative financial products. With over 6 million consumers, Aspiration offers debit and credit cards that automatically offset carbon footprints of purchases. For businesses, they provide software for carbon footprint monitoring, access to carbon reduction assets, and features to make products carbon neutral.

The EVERY Company, formerly known as Clara Foods, specializes in producing animal-free proteins for the food and beverage industry. Founded in 2014 and based in South San Francisco, California, the company utilizes advanced fermentation technology to create functional and nutritional proteins derived from microorganisms. Its product line includes baking ingredients, nutritional supplements, and egg white alternatives that are free from pathogens and suitable for various culinary applications, such as cakes and meringues. The EVERY Company aims to provide a sustainable, healthier, and kinder alternative to traditional animal agriculture by decoupling protein production from animals, thereby offering consumers healthy and affordable protein options without added sugars.

Atomwise, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in deep learning artificial intelligence technology for small molecule drug discovery. Based in San Francisco and founded in 2012, the company has developed AtomNet, a pioneering AI platform that facilitates virtual screening of molecules by predicting the binding of small molecules to proteins through a statistical analysis of experimental affinity measurements and protein structures. Atomwise is focused on addressing over 600 unique disease targets and has established collaborations with over 250 partners, including prominent pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. By leveraging its advanced technology, Atomwise aims to revolutionize the drug discovery process and advance a pipeline of small-molecule drug candidates into preclinical studies. The company was previously known as Chematria, Inc. and rebranded to Atomwise, Inc. in 2015.

ThinAir is a technology company that designs a cloud-based SaaS platform for the detection and investigation of insider threats, aiming to minimize insider risk within organizations by addressing security challenges across healthcare, finance, the public sector, technology, and other industries.

Direct Match was a startup backed by venture capital, specializing in the creation of an electronic trading platform for U.S. Treasury securities. This platform operated as an all-to-all anonymous central limit order book (CLOB), facilitating fair and transparent trades between buy-side customers while providing improved liquidity and reduced transaction costs.

Founded in 2014, Eaze is an online platform that facilitates legal access to cannabis through safe and convenient delivery. It works with local cannabis businesses to expand their reach sustainably.

Founded in May 2013, Asseta is a San Francisco-based company operating an online marketplace for semiconductor parts. It facilitates the safe purchase of used, refurbished, or new parts at discounted prices (50-60% less than OEM pricing), connecting buyers with suppliers worldwide.

Toymail, established in 2013 and headquartered in New York, specializes in creating safe, screen-free, plush toy-based communication devices for children. These toys, connected to a mobile audio application, allow kids to send and receive voice messages to and from family and friends, fostering connections and promoting verbal communication. The company's products are sold online and are designed to entertain, educate, and connect children with their loved ones.

NGD Systems develops advanced computational storage drives (CSDs), enabling customers to process data where it resides. Their products offer high capacity, power efficiency, and small form factors, ideal for edge computing networks, AI/ML applications, CDNs, and hyperscale environments.

Strateos specializes in automating chemistry, biology, and tissue analysis in closed-loop robotic labs, accelerating drug discovery programs for pharmaceutical partners. By combining advanced robotics, software for imaging and analytics, and remote cloud laboratories, Strateos enables more rapid and efficient discovery of new drug candidates. The company was formed through a merger of Transcriptic, which developed the first robotic cloud laboratory platform for life science research, and 3Scan, which specialized in automating tissue analysis. Strateos aims to express life science methods as data, enabling infrastructure virtualization and driving the next generation of discovery with significant time and cost efficiencies.

Founded in 2014, Eaze is an online platform that facilitates legal access to cannabis through safe and convenient delivery. It works with local cannabis businesses to expand their reach sustainably.