Embrace
Venture Round in 2023
Embrace offers a unified observability and error monitoring platform tailored for mobile application development. This platform enables engineers to effectively manage the complexities associated with mobile environments, allowing them to proactively analyze user interactions and identify issues with detailed behavioral and technical context. Embrace's solution provides instant access to user sessions, facilitating a comprehensive understanding of events leading up to errors. By tracking every user activity—such as views, taps, and network requests—Embrace eliminates guesswork in troubleshooting, enhancing performance and enabling developers to create superior mobile experiences. The company's focus on delivering unique datasets empowers teams to prioritize and resolve issues swiftly, ultimately supporting the development of better mobile applications in an increasingly fragmented technological landscape.
Embrace offers a unified observability and error monitoring platform tailored for mobile application development. This platform enables engineers to effectively manage the complexities associated with mobile environments, allowing them to proactively analyze user interactions and identify issues with detailed behavioral and technical context. Embrace's solution provides instant access to user sessions, facilitating a comprehensive understanding of events leading up to errors. By tracking every user activity—such as views, taps, and network requests—Embrace eliminates guesswork in troubleshooting, enhancing performance and enabling developers to create superior mobile experiences. The company's focus on delivering unique datasets empowers teams to prioritize and resolve issues swiftly, ultimately supporting the development of better mobile applications in an increasingly fragmented technological landscape.
Fritz AI is a machine learning platform tailored for iOS and Android developers, providing tools to train, deploy, and manage machine learning models within applications. Its software development kit (SDK) includes pre-trained models, facilitating quick integration into projects. The platform supports the deployment of model versions to test devices while tracking configurations and enhancing security against potential threats. Additionally, Fritz AI enables developers to analyze device performance and generate synthetic data for model training and annotation. This comprehensive approach allows for effective benchmarking of on-device model performance prior to deployment, streamlining the development process for mobile applications.
Fritz AI
Seed Round in 2018
Fritz AI is a machine learning platform tailored for iOS and Android developers, providing tools to train, deploy, and manage machine learning models within applications. Its software development kit (SDK) includes pre-trained models, facilitating quick integration into projects. The platform supports the deployment of model versions to test devices while tracking configurations and enhancing security against potential threats. Additionally, Fritz AI enables developers to analyze device performance and generate synthetic data for model training and annotation. This comprehensive approach allows for effective benchmarking of on-device model performance prior to deployment, streamlining the development process for mobile applications.
Phhhoto
Seed Round in 2015
PHHHOTO Inc. is a mobile application developer based in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2014. The company offers PHHHOTO, an innovative app that allows users to capture animated pictures using a multi-frame camera technique. This unique format enables users to take a series of frames with a single touch, creating moving images that can be shared on social media. PHHHOTO also includes features for liking, commenting, and following friends. Additionally, the company provides PHHHOTO PRO, a social photobooth designed for events, which captures animated selfies using a specialized LightRing™ and sends the images directly to users' phones. This combination of mobile imaging and social interaction positions PHHHOTO as a creative platform for capturing and sharing moments in a dynamic and engaging way.
Sochat is an iOS and Android mobile messaging application and connection platform. It allows its users to publish groups nearby with a PIN to quickly gather up and share GIFs, photos, videos, disappearing messages, and drawings among its users. It also allows sending songs and YouTube videos, play rock paper scissors game, and poll friends and groups. Sochat is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014 by Lukens Orthwein.
N3TWORK, established in 2013 and based in San Francisco, specializes in creating, publishing, and scaling high-quality mobile games for iOS and Android platforms. The company offers a range of services to game developers, including game development, publishing, commercialization, user acquisition, ad monetization, data science, product management, and marketing. N3TWORK's unique approach lies in its focus on leveraging blockchain technology to create innovative, player-centric gaming experiences, enabling mobile game enthusiasts to own and influence their gaming environments.
Minus Inc. is a New York-based company established in 2010 that operates an online platform for chatting and photo sharing among users. The company is known for developing MeowChat, a mobile application designed for both iPhone and Android devices, which was launched in March 2013. Co-founded by Carl Hu and John Xie, Minus focuses on providing an engaging and user-friendly experience for individuals looking to connect with friends through digital communication and shared visual content.
Fleksy
Venture Round in 2014
Fleksy, established in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in designing and delivering innovative keyboard software for mobile devices. Its flagship product, the Fleksy keyboard, is available on both Android and iOS platforms, offering users extensive customization options and predictive text technology for enhanced productivity. With over 20 million global downloads, Fleksy also provides a Software Development Kit (SDK) for businesses, enabling them to integrate a high-quality typing experience into their own apps for a monthly licensing fee. The company's mission is to facilitate seamless language input across various devices and languages.
Jioaavn is a music streaming service. Their application provides bollywood, english, hindi, regional songs, top artists, playlists, and custom radio stations that enable listeners to access music.
Glide Talk, Ltd. is a company that specializes in video messaging applications for mobile users. Founded in 2012, it is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and has a presence in Jerusalem, Israel. Glide offers a video messenger application that allows users to send and receive short video messages, which can be viewed live or at a later time. The platform supports both iOS and Android devices, enhancing communication through video. Additionally, Glide provides browser toolbars compatible with major web browsers, further expanding its accessibility. The company has been recognized for its innovation in video technology and continues to pioneer social and augmented reality experiences.
Wristcam Inc., based in San Mateo, California, was founded by an ex-Apple engineer and a team of seasoned entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and Start-Up Nation. The company specializes in camera-powered software experiences, aiming to enhance accessibility and functionality for users and developers. Its flagship product, Wristcam, is an ultra-compact camera system designed specifically for Apple Watch, addressing the device's lack of visual capabilities. Utilizing a multi-patented computer vision engine, Wristcam enables real-time visual processing through advanced multi-layer networking and resource optimization, thereby improving user experiences directly from the Apple Watch.
Memoir
Convertible Note in 2013
Memoir transforms your photos, the places you go, and your social media into memories that can be relived when they’re most interesting to you. As soon as you request them, the photos your friends choose to share with you become part of your Memoir seamlessly. You can find memories and photos by people, places, dates, context, and more - no tagging or organization required. Memoir discovers photos and memories wherever they were created - iPhone cameras, DSLR's, Instagram, Facebook, Foursquare - even on your computer. With Memoir, all of your photos and memories are backed up securely to the cloud.
Glide Talk, Ltd. is a company that specializes in video messaging applications for mobile users. Founded in 2012, it is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and has a presence in Jerusalem, Israel. Glide offers a video messenger application that allows users to send and receive short video messages, which can be viewed live or at a later time. The platform supports both iOS and Android devices, enhancing communication through video. Additionally, Glide provides browser toolbars compatible with major web browsers, further expanding its accessibility. The company has been recognized for its innovation in video technology and continues to pioneer social and augmented reality experiences.
Reactor Labs
Seed Round in 2013
Reactor Labs, originally founded as Reactor Inc. in Boulder, Colorado, was an artificial intelligence company focused on enhancing the relationship between people and information. The company specialized in developing innovative solutions such as preemptive search, knowledge graphs, and natural language interfaces. Its flagship product, Winston for iPhone, was a speech-enabled conversational assistant that transformed users' social media feeds and news interests into a personalized and engaging audio-visual experience. By leveraging patent-pending graph technology that utilized extensive semantic relationships and various data sources, Reactor Labs aimed to provide a unique and contextualized information experience for consumers. The company was founded by Aaron Ting, Jarod Stewart, Luke Evans, and Steve Kaschinske.
Nextpeer
Seed Round in 2013
Nextpeer is a developer of a multiplayer cross-platform software development kit (SDK) designed for iOS, Android, and Unity. Established in 2011 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company provides a straightforward integration process that allows developers to incorporate its SDK into their games in approximately 15 minutes. Nextpeer enhances the gaming experience by offering features such as Facebook integration, a gaming news feed, leaderboards, and user identity management. With over 165 million downloads, Nextpeer supports thousands of developers and a vast number of live games available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Market. Games powered by Nextpeer's technology have achieved significant success, topping charts in both North America and Europe.
Reactor Labs
Seed Round in 2013
Reactor Labs, originally founded as Reactor Inc. in Boulder, Colorado, was an artificial intelligence company focused on enhancing the relationship between people and information. The company specialized in developing innovative solutions such as preemptive search, knowledge graphs, and natural language interfaces. Its flagship product, Winston for iPhone, was a speech-enabled conversational assistant that transformed users' social media feeds and news interests into a personalized and engaging audio-visual experience. By leveraging patent-pending graph technology that utilized extensive semantic relationships and various data sources, Reactor Labs aimed to provide a unique and contextualized information experience for consumers. The company was founded by Aaron Ting, Jarod Stewart, Luke Evans, and Steve Kaschinske.
Thumb is a platform designed to facilitate self-expression and connection among users. By allowing individuals to share their opinions and preferences, the application fosters a community where people can discover others with similar interests. Users can engage in the simple act of ‘thumbing’ to provide feedback on various topics, enhancing interaction and connection. Thumb is accessible on iOS, Android, and through its website, making it easy for users to participate and engage with the community. The platform emphasizes meaningful connections, enabling users to gather insights from friends, family, and the broader public.
SimpleHoney
Seed Round in 2011
SimpleHoney is a technology company that has developed a mobile application called I Want Wish Lists, designed to enhance the experience of wish list shopping. The app allows users to create lists of desired products and notifies them when it is the optimal time to purchase these items, as well as where to buy them. This innovation aims to transform traditional wish lists into practical tools that help users achieve their aspirations. Founded by Eric Nakagawa, a web developer with experience in app development, and Joyce Kim, a former corporate attorney and CEO, SimpleHoney has attracted funding from several notable entrepreneurs in the tech industry. The company's mission is to facilitate a more effective shopping experience by aligning users' wishes with actionable purchasing opportunities.
TapToLearn
Seed Round in 2011
When we began our first experiments with using Mobile devices a few years ago we were very excited by the possibility of learning in nontraditional manner. The beauty of effectiveness of the iPhone first and the iPad platforms gave shape to our vision of building beautiful apps, designed to build learning for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad Devices. Each of our apps are extremely easy to use, focus on just one area of learning using interactivity and add an element to fun while learning.
Hashable is a digital networking platform that helps users manage and remember their professional connections. It offers a mobile application for both iPhone and Android devices, allowing users to create a unified address book that consolidates all their relationships. The app enables users to send virtual business cards to initiate connections without the need for paper. Users can also make private notes about their contacts and set follow-up reminders to maintain relationships effectively. Additionally, Hashable provides a scrollable history of interactions with each contact, enhancing the networking experience by making it easier and more efficient to keep track of professional engagements.
Fast Society
Seed Round in 2010
Fast Society, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2009 that specializes in a group messaging, calling, and geo-location application designed to enhance communication among friends during social events. The application combines features such as group text messaging, conference calling, voice messaging, location sharing, and photo sharing in a user-friendly interface. It is available on both iPhone and Android devices, while also allowing participation via SMS for users with any cell phone. Fast Society aims to facilitate seamless interaction and coordination among friends during concerts, trips, and other gatherings.
Instinctiv
Seed Round in 2010
Instinctiv, Inc. is a music management and discovery application designed for both desktop and mobile platforms, originally founded in 2007 in New York. The company, formerly known as Predict Systems, specializes in creating the Instinctiv Player, which allows users to seamlessly sync their music libraries across devices using its innovative Everyware cloud technology. The player features unique capabilities such as Identifi song identification and Instinctiv Shuffle, which intelligently curates playlists based on user preferences. Instinctiv also offers an iPhone application that enhances the music experience by helping users rediscover their libraries. In May 2012, Instinctiv was acquired by SoundCloud, further extending its reach in the music industry.
Koduco Inc. is a game development company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2010. The company specializes in creating games for the tablet market, particularly focusing on the iPad. Koduco's games emphasize multiplayer collaboration, enabling users to engage and play together on the same device. Through innovative design and interactive gameplay, Koduco aims to enhance the gaming experience for tablet users.