William Smith

General Partner

37 past transactions

Springtail

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Springtail is a cloud service designed to enhance PostgreSQL performance without requiring data migration or application changes. Our mission is to free developers from the complexity of scaling data infrastructure.

Haus

Venture Round in 2024
Haus is a provider of a marketing science platform that enables brands to conduct geo-experiments and assess the effectiveness of their marketing investments. By prioritizing real business outcomes over traditional metrics, Haus assists companies in optimizing their marketing expenditures. The platform facilitates data-driven decision-making in a privacy-centric environment, offering growth analytics that analyze performance and generate insights. Additionally, it provides robust attribution capabilities, ensuring clients achieve high accuracy and precision in their measurement efforts. Through these features, Haus supports brands in making informed decisions related to revenue, customer acquisition, and other essential performance indicators.

Tomato.ai

Seed Round in 2023
Tomato.ai specializes in artificial intelligence-based voice clarity software that enhances the intelligibility of offshore agents during calls. By softening accents and implementing advanced noise cancellation solutions, the company aims to improve communication between agents and clients, fostering trust and understanding. This technology not only facilitates more effective conversations but also enables businesses to hire a larger pool of offshore agents, ultimately leading to increased savings and sales while reducing agent churn. Through its innovative approach, Tomato.ai seeks to enhance the overall efficiency of agent interactions.

Weights & Biases

Venture Round in 2023
Weights & Biases provides performance visualization tools specifically designed for machine learning practitioners. The company focuses on helping teams track their models and visualize performance metrics, thereby facilitating the transition of deep learning research projects into deployed software. Its offerings include a dataset optimization tool that allows users to automate the training process and enhance model performance. By streamlining these aspects, Weights & Biases aims to support companies in developing high-quality software solutions that leverage deep learning technologies.

Datasaur

Seed Round in 2023
Datasaur, Inc. specializes in data labeling solutions tailored for natural language processing tasks. Founded in 2019 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the company offers a machine learning platform that provides flexible data labeling tools to meet various client needs. Its platform supports multiple users working on the same project, facilitating collaboration and utilizing a specialized review tool to highlight discrepancies among team members. Additionally, Datasaur's built-in intelligence helps identify and rectify costly errors during the labeling process. The platform is applicable in several domains, including contract summarization, customer service transcript analysis, invoice and receipt understanding, product review evaluation, and fake news detection.

SheetRocks

Seed Round in 2023
SheetRocks is developing a cloud-based spreadsheet application aimed at enhancing performance and extensibility compared to traditional spreadsheet models. The company's solution emphasizes speed and collaboration, allowing a large number of users to work together efficiently. Its architecture supports integration with other applications and the creation of custom frontends, enabling clients to conduct extensive data analysis. This approach helps users save time, reduce costs, and simplify their workflows.

Grafbase

Seed Round in 2022
Grafbase, founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, California, offers a data platform that enables developers to create and deploy projects efficiently. The platform focuses on fast global deployment of GraphQL application programming interfaces, allowing teams to transition from concept to production without the need for extensive infrastructure management. Grafbase emphasizes secure self-hosted deployment options, superior query speed, and advanced governance, facilitating reliable API management and unified data access for enterprises. Its solutions are designed to enhance the development experience by providing instant serverless backends, streamlining the process for developers.

Airplane

Series B in 2022
Airplane is a software development company founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides a cloud-based platform designed to assist engineers in creating internal tools that facilitate recurring workflows within organizations. The platform enables users to transform scripts, SQL queries, and various functions into enterprise-grade applications, allowing teams to concentrate on essential backend operations. By streamlining the development of these tools, Airplane aims to enhance efficiency and save time for its clients.

Bounti.ai

Seed Round in 2022
With Bounti's Autonomous Agents, Reps spend less time doing toil work and more time doing the things that matter - connecting with customers to solve their problems.

QuoteWell

Series A in 2022
QuoteWell is a digital platform specifically designed for the insurance industry, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company provides a data-driven solution that streamlines the submission process for insurance applications, allowing agents and brokers to efficiently transmit applications to various commercial lines underwriters. By facilitating secure data transfers to multiple carriers, QuoteWell enables users to access a modern risk transfer infrastructure and manage their book of business more effectively.

Haus

Venture Round in 2022
Haus is a provider of a marketing science platform that enables brands to conduct geo-experiments and assess the effectiveness of their marketing investments. By prioritizing real business outcomes over traditional metrics, Haus assists companies in optimizing their marketing expenditures. The platform facilitates data-driven decision-making in a privacy-centric environment, offering growth analytics that analyze performance and generate insights. Additionally, it provides robust attribution capabilities, ensuring clients achieve high accuracy and precision in their measurement efforts. Through these features, Haus supports brands in making informed decisions related to revenue, customer acquisition, and other essential performance indicators.

Hashboard

Seed Round in 2022
Hashboard is a business intelligence (BI) product built for data engineers to do their best work and easily spread the data love to their entire organizations. Define metrics on your data warehouse and let your whole team search, explore and find insights that drive your business.

Collimator

Seed Round in 2022
Collimator is a software developer based in Denver, Colorado, specializing in cloud-native engineering modeling and simulation tools for communications and control systems. Founded in 2020, the company utilizes machine learning and performance computing to facilitate the modeling, testing, and optimization of complex systems. Its platform supports a variety of applications, including autonomous electric vehicles, enabling engineers to conduct efficient and collaborative simulations of workflows. This innovative approach allows for comprehensive product analysis and optimization, addressing the growing demands in advanced technology sectors.

Cascade

Seed Round in 2021
Cascade is a company that provides a cloud-based analysis toolkit aimed at assisting operations teams in automating their data workflows. The toolkit offers a range of functions, including data cleaning, regressions, correlations, and predictions. By enabling clients to import data and execute analytical processes, Cascade allows users to analyze and publish their methodologies, facilitating collaboration and enabling others to borrow or build upon their work.

Tonic.ai

Series B in 2021
Tonic.ai is a synthetic data platform that creates mock data while maintaining the essential characteristics of secure datasets, including structure, distributions, interdependencies, and statistical correlations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Atlanta, Georgia, Tonic.ai enables software engineers, business analysts, and salespeople to access usable data without compromising privacy or breaching compliance with organizational policies. The platform transforms raw data into manageable, private datasets, facilitating analytics and software development while ensuring data security through features such as auditing capabilities and human-readable fingerprints. By providing a means to work with data safely, Tonic.ai helps its users unlock insights and drive innovation without risking customer trust.

RunX

Seed Round in 2021
RunX creates an automated Infra stack for developers to deploy cloud infrastructure.

Grafbase

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Grafbase, founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, California, offers a data platform that enables developers to create and deploy projects efficiently. The platform focuses on fast global deployment of GraphQL application programming interfaces, allowing teams to transition from concept to production without the need for extensive infrastructure management. Grafbase emphasizes secure self-hosted deployment options, superior query speed, and advanced governance, facilitating reliable API management and unified data access for enterprises. Its solutions are designed to enhance the development experience by providing instant serverless backends, streamlining the process for developers.

Nomad Data

Seed Round in 2021
Nomad Data operates a marketplace that connects companies seeking data with those supplying it. Founded in 2020 and based in New York, the company addresses the gap between data acquirers and providers by allowing acquirers to submit specific use cases they wish to address. The platform then matches these use cases with over 1,000 data providers, who respond by detailing how their data can meet the identified needs. This targeted approach ensures that acquirers only view data solutions relevant to their specific requirements. Additionally, Nomad Data offers cloud-based tools for data discovery, enabling clients to efficiently browse and manage data sources, thereby facilitating informed decision-making.

Jasper

Seed Round in 2021
Jasper is a global Enterprise AI marketing company that specializes in content creation and marketing solutions. The company's platform leverages artificial intelligence to assist businesses in overcoming creative blocks and generating original content, including blog articles, social media posts, and marketing emails. This service aims to enhance brand consistency, efficiency, and personalization at scale, allowing companies to maintain their brand image while streamlining their marketing workflows. Jasper has received recognition for its rapid growth and innovation in the industry, positioning itself as a key player in transforming marketing practices through AI technology.

Kolena

Seed Round in 2021
Kolena is a machine learning testing platform that enables ML teams to rigorously evaluate model behavior. The platform helps identify and track failure modes, allowing engineering, sales, and customers to gain a clearer understanding of model performance and pinpoint potential gaps. By providing a robust testing infrastructure, Kolena facilitates the quality assurance of machine learning software models and their updates, thereby streamlining and enhancing machine learning and analytics projects for its clients.

Facet

Venture Round in 2021
Facet is a computer software company that provides artists and engineers, aiming to redefine and humanize the creative process.

Transform

Series A in 2021
Transform is a centralized metrics store designed for data analysts to provide accurate and timely insights. This platform serves as a repository for metric definitions in code and facilitates life-cycle management, ensuring data accessibility across various tools in the modern data ecosystem. By making data trustworthy, Transform enables users to uncover relevant insights and context, ensuring that teams can collaborate effectively and make informed decisions. The platform also allows for seamless integration of data into downstream systems, bridging the gap between data providers and users, and enhancing the overall data analytics experience.

Tonic.ai

Series A in 2020
Tonic.ai is a synthetic data platform that creates mock data while maintaining the essential characteristics of secure datasets, including structure, distributions, interdependencies, and statistical correlations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Atlanta, Georgia, Tonic.ai enables software engineers, business analysts, and salespeople to access usable data without compromising privacy or breaching compliance with organizational policies. The platform transforms raw data into manageable, private datasets, facilitating analytics and software development while ensuring data security through features such as auditing capabilities and human-readable fingerprints. By providing a means to work with data safely, Tonic.ai helps its users unlock insights and drive innovation without risking customer trust.

Hopin

Series B in 2020
Hopin Ltd is an online events platform that facilitates the creation and hosting of engaging virtual events, enabling users to connect globally. Founded in 2019 and based in London, the platform supports a wide range of events, including networking sessions, conferences, webinars, workshops, and exhibitions. It allows organizers to create interactive experiences where attendees can engage in one-on-one networking, participate in group discussions, view keynote presentations, and explore expo areas. Hopin's versatile platform caters to various needs, from corporate training workshops to large-scale international conferences, making it a valuable tool for brands and communities seeking to foster connections and engagement in a virtual format.

Metronome

Seed Round in 2020
Metronome is a billing infrastructure company that specializes in supporting software companies with usage-based business models. The company's platform provides metering and data mediation software, ensuring a robust data infrastructure and real-time architecture for effective billing. Metronome emphasizes rapid deployment and user-friendliness, allowing business and product teams to manage revenue and pricing with minimal engineering effort. After integrating the platform, teams can swiftly introduce new products and pricing structures, streamline revenue workflows, and offer customers immediate visibility into their spending. This flexibility enables companies to efficiently launch, iterate, and scale their operations.

Solve

Seed Round in 2020
Solve Data Inc. is a technology company specializing in data management solutions tailored for the e-commerce industry. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Wellington, New Zealand, the company offers a range of services, including data enablement, application programming interface management, and privacy optimization. Solve's platform allows users to query large datasets and access key statistics, empowering retail companies to take control of their data and make informed decisions. Through its innovative tools, Solve aims to enhance the growth and efficiency of its clients in the competitive e-commerce landscape.

Lunchclub

Seed Round in 2019
Lunchclub is an AI-driven platform that facilitates introductions for one-on-one meetings, including lunch and coffee encounters. Founded in 2018 by Vladimir Novakovski, Hayley Leibson, and Scott Wu, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Lunchclub connects individuals seeking to establish professional relationships, such as finding business partners, team members, or investors. The platform enables users to make strategic connections that can help them achieve their goals and advance their professional endeavors.

Transcend

Seed Round in 2019
Transcend, Inc. specializes in data privacy infrastructure, providing companies with tools to manage customer personal data effectively. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, Transcend offers a suite of products that streamline the fulfillment of data subject requests, such as accessing and deleting personal information. Its main offerings include a Data Privacy Infrastructure that integrates with various data systems and vendors, a Consent Management solution that simplifies user consent processes, and a Privacy Center that empowers users to manage their privacy preferences. By automating these processes, Transcend enables businesses to comply with data privacy regulations while enhancing user control over personal data.

Mesh ID

Seed Round in 2019
Mesh ID specializes in the development of verification software that streamlines the collection and digital verification of client information. Its platform facilitates the efficient onboarding of individuals and organizations by automating the processes related to know-your-customer (KYC) and client due diligence. This technology significantly reduces the time required to onboard investors, transforming a process that typically takes months into one that can be completed in minutes. Mesh ID serves a diverse clientele, including fund managers, corporations, service administrators, custodian banks, law firms, and notaries. Additionally, the company's solutions are trusted by governments and licensing authorities to enhance customer onboarding, improve data security, optimize operational costs, and mitigate compliance risks associated with regulatory requirements.

Forethought

Series A in 2018
Forethought, founded in 2018, specializes in generative AI solutions aimed at enhancing customer service automation. The company offers tools that improve efficiency by integrating AI, particularly Large Language Models, into various stages of the customer support process. These tools facilitate immediate responses to customer inquiries, automate the handling of routine issues, and assist support agents with relevant information. By streamlining workflows and providing actionable insights, Forethought enables businesses to reduce resolution times and boost agent productivity, ultimately creating a more seamless customer experience.

Tonic.ai

Seed Round in 2018
Tonic.ai is a synthetic data platform that creates mock data while maintaining the essential characteristics of secure datasets, including structure, distributions, interdependencies, and statistical correlations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Atlanta, Georgia, Tonic.ai enables software engineers, business analysts, and salespeople to access usable data without compromising privacy or breaching compliance with organizational policies. The platform transforms raw data into manageable, private datasets, facilitating analytics and software development while ensuring data security through features such as auditing capabilities and human-readable fingerprints. By providing a means to work with data safely, Tonic.ai helps its users unlock insights and drive innovation without risking customer trust.

Forethought

Seed Round in 2018
Forethought, founded in 2018, specializes in generative AI solutions aimed at enhancing customer service automation. The company offers tools that improve efficiency by integrating AI, particularly Large Language Models, into various stages of the customer support process. These tools facilitate immediate responses to customer inquiries, automate the handling of routine issues, and assist support agents with relevant information. By streamlining workflows and providing actionable insights, Forethought enables businesses to reduce resolution times and boost agent productivity, ultimately creating a more seamless customer experience.

WorkFlowy

Seed Round in 2017
WorkFlowy is a tool for organizing your brain. It provides a powerful interface for hierarchical lists. People use it as a replacement for text editors and spreadsheets as organizational tools. They leave it open all day and put whatever passes through their brain in it - project plans, to-do's, meeting notes, brainstorms, etc..
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