Felicis Ventures

Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 2006, it focuses on seed-to-series C investments in early-stage technology companies that reinvent core markets and pursue frontier technologies. The firm backs founders across sectors such as artificial intelligence, health, security, and consumer internet, providing capital together with active mentoring and strategic advisory to help portfolio companies scale globally. Its approach combines hands-on support with resources aimed at accelerating growth, while maintaining a diverse international portfolio anchored in the Bay Area. Led by founder and president Aydin Senkut, Felicis seeks opportunities where innovative ideas can become enduring, widely adopted products and companies.

Nicole Bae

Partner, Operations

Dasha Maggio

Investor

Daniel Bartus

Partner

Maddie Chavez

Partner, Operations

James Detweiler

Partner

Past deals in Data Visualization

Observo AI

Seed Round in 2025
Observo AI is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven observability solutions for security and DevOps teams. It helps these teams manage their telemetry data more effectively, reducing costs by up to 50% and accelerating incident resolution by over 40%. The company's platform offers intelligent data reduction, anomaly detection, and real-time insights, enabling teams to control data sprawl, lower expenses, and enhance operational efficiency.

Wherobots

Series A in 2024
Wherobots is a company that specializes in cloud-native data analytics, focusing on geospatial data to enhance spatial intelligence across various sectors. Its platform simplifies the processes of collecting, analyzing, visualizing, integrating, storing, and managing geospatial data, enabling businesses to derive actionable insights from their enterprise data. By utilizing advanced data and AI technologies, Wherobots aims to facilitate data-driven decision-making and unlock the potential of spatial intelligence at a global scale. The company's solutions are designed to be compatible with modern open data architectures, making it accessible and effective for a wide range of applications.

Metaplane

Series A in 2024
Metaplane provides a data observability platform that helps organizations trust their data. It monitors modern data stacks from warehouses to BI dashboards, identifies normal behavior, and alerts teams when issues arise, saving engineering time and increasing data reliability.

Motif Analytics

Seed Round in 2024
Motif Analytics is a data analytics startup that developed a data exploration platform.

Weights & Biases

Venture Round in 2023
Weights & Biases offers an AI-assisted platform that enables machine learning teams to track experiments, visualize model performance, and automate training and deployment. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, it provides performance visualization and dataset optimization tools that help turn deep learning research projects into deployed software, enabling streamlined iteration and improved model quality.

Explo

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2019, Explo operates a user-friendly platform that connects directly to databases or warehouses for exploration, analysis, and visualization of data. It integrates any data source and enables insights sharing without requiring SQL knowledge.

PicnicHealth

Series C in 2022
PicnicHealth specializes in making medical records easily accessible. It offers a secure online dashboard that consolidates patients' medical history from various healthcare providers across the U.S. The company also facilitates voluntary data contribution to scientific research, anonymized for real-world insights. This promotes better treatments and patient outcomes.

Synaptic

Series B in 2022
Synaptic is a data platform that provides actionable insights to enhance investment strategies by leveraging a diverse range of alternative data. The company consolidates proprietary and custom datasets, including app performance, marketing metrics, employee insights, product reviews, and various market trends, into a user-friendly no-code platform. This integration allows investors to efficiently track portfolio companies, competitors, and market sectors while utilizing advanced analytical tools and algorithms to process large volumes of data. By identifying patterns, trends, and anomalies, Synaptic enables venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund professionals to uncover investment opportunities, manage risks effectively, and improve overall performance in their investment practices.

PreQL

Seed Round in 2022
PreQL is a developer of an open-source interactive visualization tool aimed at enhancing data management for business users. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, PreQL's solution integrates with the modern data stack to streamline the management of business metrics. The tool features a user-friendly interface that allows clients to visualize their databases through an intuitive set of dropdowns, enabling users to generate SQL queries without the need for complex backend interactions. By caching data and organizing it efficiently, PreQL empowers businesses to improve operational efficiency and scale effectively.

Sleuth

Series A in 2022
Sleuth provides mission control software for teams practicing Continuous Delivery. It offers centralized visibility into software delivery performance using DORA metrics, empowering developers with insights and automation to improve deployment efficiency and predictability.

Dovetail

Series A in 2022
Dovetail Research Pty. Ltd. is a company based in Surry Hills, Australia, that offers a cloud-based platform designed for user research and customer feedback. Established in 2016, Dovetail's software enables teams to analyze, organize, collaborate, and store research data and insights efficiently. The platform allows researchers, analysts, designers, and product managers to consolidate user research materials, including notes, transcripts, images, videos, and audio recordings, into a single location. By facilitating the analysis of qualitative data, Dovetail helps users identify patterns and insights derived from various research methods such as interviews and usability testing. This collaborative environment allows organizations to share findings and work together in real-time, enhancing the overall effectiveness of their research efforts. Dovetail serves a global customer base, providing essential tools for effective decision-making based on user feedback.

Walnut.

Series B in 2022
Walnut is a company that provides a unique platform aimed at enhancing sales experiences through codeless and customizable product demonstrations. Founded in 2020 by entrepreneurs Yoav Vilner and Danni Friedland, Walnut is based in New York City. The platform allows sales representatives to create and run live demos without needing back-end support, even when the actual product is unavailable or still in development. By integrating seamlessly with existing CRMs and data sources, Walnut's drag-and-drop solution empowers sales teams to take full control of their demo processes. This innovative approach not only saves time and resources but also aims to improve conversion rates by offering a fail-proof demo experience.

Weights & Biases

Series C in 2021
Weights & Biases offers an AI-assisted platform that enables machine learning teams to track experiments, visualize model performance, and automate training and deployment. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, it provides performance visualization and dataset optimization tools that help turn deep learning research projects into deployed software, enabling streamlined iteration and improved model quality.

Dovetail

Seed Round in 2021
Dovetail Research Pty. Ltd. is a company based in Surry Hills, Australia, that offers a cloud-based platform designed for user research and customer feedback. Established in 2016, Dovetail's software enables teams to analyze, organize, collaborate, and store research data and insights efficiently. The platform allows researchers, analysts, designers, and product managers to consolidate user research materials, including notes, transcripts, images, videos, and audio recordings, into a single location. By facilitating the analysis of qualitative data, Dovetail helps users identify patterns and insights derived from various research methods such as interviews and usability testing. This collaborative environment allows organizations to share findings and work together in real-time, enhancing the overall effectiveness of their research efforts. Dovetail serves a global customer base, providing essential tools for effective decision-making based on user feedback.

Mosaic

Series A in 2021
Mosaic is an AI-powered financial planning and analysis software company that provides predictive reporting, dashboards, modeling, and data visualization to support forecasting and decision making. The platform automates forecasts, generates real-time reports, and enables cross-functional collaboration, while leveraging big data and machine learning to deliver actionable insights and clear recommendations. It offers seamless integrations and real-time analytics that illuminate key business dynamics for organizations of various sizes, from startups to large enterprises. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Diego, Mosaic focuses on helping finance teams plan, analyze, and act more efficiently.

Voi

Venture Round in 2021
Voi is a behavioral healthcare technology company that specializes in AI-driven solutions for suicide risk detection. Its flagship product, Voi Detect, assesses imminent suicide risk within 72 hours using a digital interface, providing immediate feedback and detailed analytics about patient populations.

PicnicHealth

Series B in 2020
PicnicHealth specializes in making medical records easily accessible. It offers a secure online dashboard that consolidates patients' medical history from various healthcare providers across the U.S. The company also facilitates voluntary data contribution to scientific research, anonymized for real-world insights. This promotes better treatments and patient outcomes.

Dovetail

Seed Round in 2020
Dovetail Research Pty. Ltd. is a company based in Surry Hills, Australia, that offers a cloud-based platform designed for user research and customer feedback. Established in 2016, Dovetail's software enables teams to analyze, organize, collaborate, and store research data and insights efficiently. The platform allows researchers, analysts, designers, and product managers to consolidate user research materials, including notes, transcripts, images, videos, and audio recordings, into a single location. By facilitating the analysis of qualitative data, Dovetail helps users identify patterns and insights derived from various research methods such as interviews and usability testing. This collaborative environment allows organizations to share findings and work together in real-time, enhancing the overall effectiveness of their research efforts. Dovetail serves a global customer base, providing essential tools for effective decision-making based on user feedback.

Komodo Health

Series C in 2020
Komodo Health is a healthcare technology company that provides a data-driven platform for real-world health information and insights. Its Healthcare Map aggregates diverse patient data to enable real-time intelligence across patients, clinicians, and health systems. The software suite includes Aperture, Pulse, and Serenity, which reveal intricate connections, highlight opportunities to influence disease burden, and analyze patient cohorts to generate actionable insights. The platform applies artificial intelligence and advanced data science to deliver patient-level analytics to life sciences companies, payers, providers, and other stakeholders. By delivering transparency and market intelligence, Komodo Health supports decision-making aimed at closing care gaps, reducing disease burden, and enabling more value-driven care. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York with an additional office in San Francisco.

Crunchbase

Series C in 2019
Crunchbase is a data-driven platform that enables over 80 million investors, analysts, and dealmakers to identify and capitalize on private market opportunities by analyzing company activities and trends. It provides tools for discovering significant companies through its homepage, Crunchbase Scout, and robust search functionalities. The platform offers proprietary predictions and insights to facilitate informed decision-making regarding organizational profiles. Additionally, Crunchbase enhances team productivity with features for data exports, administrative tools, and integrations, which streamline workflows. By delivering unique private company intelligence, Crunchbase bridges the gap between data access and actionable business decisions, empowering users to navigate the evolving landscape of investments effectively.

Woven

Seed Round in 2018
Woven Software, Inc., founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, offers a sophisticated calendar application designed for busy professionals. The application enhances event planning by visualizing calendar events on a map and calculating necessary travel times, allowing users to efficiently schedule their days. It facilitates collaboration on event times and locations through various communication platforms, such as email and messaging services, reducing the complications often associated with scheduling. By integrating with existing systems like G-Suite and Office365, Woven enriches users' calendar management experience, streamlining the organization of meetings and events while ensuring access to relevant information before, during, and after these engagements.

Crunchbase

Series B in 2017
Crunchbase is a data-driven platform that enables over 80 million investors, analysts, and dealmakers to identify and capitalize on private market opportunities by analyzing company activities and trends. It provides tools for discovering significant companies through its homepage, Crunchbase Scout, and robust search functionalities. The platform offers proprietary predictions and insights to facilitate informed decision-making regarding organizational profiles. Additionally, Crunchbase enhances team productivity with features for data exports, administrative tools, and integrations, which streamline workflows. By delivering unique private company intelligence, Crunchbase bridges the gap between data access and actionable business decisions, empowering users to navigate the evolving landscape of investments effectively.

Fluxx

Series B in 2017
Fluxx Labs, Inc. specializes in developing cloud-based software tailored for foundations and non-profit organizations, focusing on grant management and fundraising. The company's platform offers tools for customer relationship management, workflow automation, collaboration, and data visualization, accessible via desktop and mobile devices. Key products include Grantmaker, designed to streamline the grant lifecycle with user-friendly interfaces like cards, forms, and dashboards; Grantseeker, which aids nonprofits in enhancing their grant-seeking efforts; and Impact Intelligence, which helps both grantmakers and nonprofits measure the impact of their initiatives. Founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, California, Fluxx aims to create a transparent and connected ecosystem for funders and impact investors, facilitating improved collaboration and decision-making through automated workflows and personalized dashboards.

Roadmunk

Seed Round in 2017
Roadmunk is a web-based tool designed for product managers and stakeholders to create and share visual roadmaps. It supports various formats and integrates with Jira, enabling users to manage multiple products across teams.

Diffbot Corp.

Series A in 2016
Diffbot Corp., founded in 2006, specializes in Web data extraction using computer vision and natural language processing. Its solutions include Automatic APIs for content extraction, Crawlbot for site-wide data retrieval, Bulk Processing for URL-based jobs, and Custom APIs for tailored data extraction. Diffbot serves businesses seeking structured Web data for enterprise applications or consumer services.

Komodo Health

Series A in 2016
Komodo Health is a healthcare technology company that provides a data-driven platform for real-world health information and insights. Its Healthcare Map aggregates diverse patient data to enable real-time intelligence across patients, clinicians, and health systems. The software suite includes Aperture, Pulse, and Serenity, which reveal intricate connections, highlight opportunities to influence disease burden, and analyze patient cohorts to generate actionable insights. The platform applies artificial intelligence and advanced data science to deliver patient-level analytics to life sciences companies, payers, providers, and other stakeholders. By delivering transparency and market intelligence, Komodo Health supports decision-making aimed at closing care gaps, reducing disease burden, and enabling more value-driven care. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York with an additional office in San Francisco.

Ascend.io

Seed Round in 2015
Ascend.io is a Palo Alto, California-based company that has developed an advanced platform for managing and automating big data pipelines. The platform integrates essential data engineering capabilities, including data ingestion, transformation, delivery, orchestration, and observability, allowing data teams to operate significantly faster. By employing declarative configurations and automation, Ascend.io optimizes cloud infrastructure management and streamlines the entire data lifecycle, reducing maintenance efforts. This innovative approach enables business managers to initiate projects, connect applications, and make informed decisions with ease. Recognized as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor, Ascend.io is supported by prominent venture capital firms and a notable group of industry advisors.

Crunchbase

Series A in 2015
Crunchbase is a data-driven platform that enables over 80 million investors, analysts, and dealmakers to identify and capitalize on private market opportunities by analyzing company activities and trends. It provides tools for discovering significant companies through its homepage, Crunchbase Scout, and robust search functionalities. The platform offers proprietary predictions and insights to facilitate informed decision-making regarding organizational profiles. Additionally, Crunchbase enhances team productivity with features for data exports, administrative tools, and integrations, which streamline workflows. By delivering unique private company intelligence, Crunchbase bridges the gap between data access and actionable business decisions, empowering users to navigate the evolving landscape of investments effectively.

Civitas Learning

Series D in 2015
Civitas Learning, Inc. is an education technology company that provides a predictive analytics platform aimed at enhancing student success across higher education institutions. Founded in 2011 and based in Austin, Texas, the company offers a suite of tools designed to aggregate and analyze disparate data sources throughout the student journey. Its student insights platform enables institutions to gain a comprehensive view of student experiences, while applications like Illume and Inspire for Faculty deliver real-time insights into student engagement and predictive student flow. Civitas Learning also offers Hoot.me, a crowd-sourced question-and-answer platform, and College Scheduler, which simplifies degree completion processes for students. The company serves approximately 375 colleges and universities, impacting nearly 8 million students across the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Mexico, with the goal of helping institutions graduate an additional million students annually by 2025.

Fluxx

Series A in 2015
Fluxx Labs, Inc. specializes in developing cloud-based software tailored for foundations and non-profit organizations, focusing on grant management and fundraising. The company's platform offers tools for customer relationship management, workflow automation, collaboration, and data visualization, accessible via desktop and mobile devices. Key products include Grantmaker, designed to streamline the grant lifecycle with user-friendly interfaces like cards, forms, and dashboards; Grantseeker, which aids nonprofits in enhancing their grant-seeking efforts; and Impact Intelligence, which helps both grantmakers and nonprofits measure the impact of their initiatives. Founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, California, Fluxx aims to create a transparent and connected ecosystem for funders and impact investors, facilitating improved collaboration and decision-making through automated workflows and personalized dashboards.

Civitas Learning

Series C in 2015
Civitas Learning, Inc. is an education technology company that provides a predictive analytics platform aimed at enhancing student success across higher education institutions. Founded in 2011 and based in Austin, Texas, the company offers a suite of tools designed to aggregate and analyze disparate data sources throughout the student journey. Its student insights platform enables institutions to gain a comprehensive view of student experiences, while applications like Illume and Inspire for Faculty deliver real-time insights into student engagement and predictive student flow. Civitas Learning also offers Hoot.me, a crowd-sourced question-and-answer platform, and College Scheduler, which simplifies degree completion processes for students. The company serves approximately 375 colleges and universities, impacting nearly 8 million students across the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Mexico, with the goal of helping institutions graduate an additional million students annually by 2025.

Planet

Series B in 2013
Planet Labs, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company specializing in Earth imaging and analytics. Founded by former NASA employees in 2010, Planet operates the largest fleet of compact, high-capability satellites designed to image the entire planet daily. This extensive satellite coverage provides customers with unprecedented access to geospatial insights, enabling them to make informed decisions based on real-time data. Planet's offerings include a diverse range of satellite imagery and analytical solutions, all accessible through an online platform equipped with tools for data analysis. With additional offices in Germany and Canada, the company serves a global network of customers and partners across more than 100 countries, delivering market-leading geospatial imagery for businesses, governments, researchers, and journalists. Planet's mission is to make visible and actionable the changes occurring on Earth, providing crucial information to understand the physical world.

Civitas Learning

Series B in 2013
Civitas Learning, Inc. is an education technology company that provides a predictive analytics platform aimed at enhancing student success across higher education institutions. Founded in 2011 and based in Austin, Texas, the company offers a suite of tools designed to aggregate and analyze disparate data sources throughout the student journey. Its student insights platform enables institutions to gain a comprehensive view of student experiences, while applications like Illume and Inspire for Faculty deliver real-time insights into student engagement and predictive student flow. Civitas Learning also offers Hoot.me, a crowd-sourced question-and-answer platform, and College Scheduler, which simplifies degree completion processes for students. The company serves approximately 375 colleges and universities, impacting nearly 8 million students across the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Mexico, with the goal of helping institutions graduate an additional million students annually by 2025.

Sano

Seed Round in 2013
Sano is focused on developing a small, wearable sensor capable of continuously capturing and transmitting blood chemistry data to various devices. The company is creating a transdermal biosensor patch that measures interstitial fluid in the skin's outer layer, enabling continuous glucose monitoring. This technology is complemented by a mobile application that empowers users to make informed decisions regarding their diet and exercise. By liberating blood chemistry data to a third-party development and analytical platform, Sano aims to enhance individual health management and promote healthier lifestyle choices.

PlotWatt

Series A in 2012
PlotWatt, Inc. is a provider of energy analytics software solutions aimed at enhancing energy management for residential and commercial clients in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Founded in 2008 and based in Durham, North Carolina, the company employs machine-learning algorithms to analyze energy usage data, transforming it into actionable insights that help customers improve their energy efficiency and operational processes. PlotWatt's platform is particularly beneficial for multi-location businesses, offering site-by-site comparative analysis and operational benchmarking to optimize energy consumption. The company's cloud-based energy disaggregation technology delivers customized recommendations by analyzing smart meter data, allowing clients to identify appliance-level energy costs without the need for individual appliance monitoring, ultimately promoting cost savings and sustainable living. PlotWatt operates as a subsidiary of American Efficient, Inc. as of November 2018.

Optimizely

Seed Round in 2012
Optimizely operates a website optimization platform that enables organizations worldwide to conduct A/B testing, multivariate testing, and personalization. Its platform facilitates data-driven decisions through experiments, available in multiple languages. Serving diverse industries like agencies, e-commerce, enterprises, and small businesses, Optimizely was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco with offices globally.

PlotWatt

Seed Round in 2011
PlotWatt, Inc. is a provider of energy analytics software solutions aimed at enhancing energy management for residential and commercial clients in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Founded in 2008 and based in Durham, North Carolina, the company employs machine-learning algorithms to analyze energy usage data, transforming it into actionable insights that help customers improve their energy efficiency and operational processes. PlotWatt's platform is particularly beneficial for multi-location businesses, offering site-by-site comparative analysis and operational benchmarking to optimize energy consumption. The company's cloud-based energy disaggregation technology delivers customized recommendations by analyzing smart meter data, allowing clients to identify appliance-level energy costs without the need for individual appliance monitoring, ultimately promoting cost savings and sustainable living. PlotWatt operates as a subsidiary of American Efficient, Inc. as of November 2018.

Votizen

Venture Round in 2010
Votizen is a consumer technology company that harnesses social networks to create a connected electorate of voters. Votizen provides a new way to focus, measure, and exercise political influence by bringing voters together. As opposed to existing tools that help elected officials campaign, Votizen empowers its users to leverage their own networks to self-organize in voting blocks and advance their causes and interests, redefining the political system with the voter at the center -- not the politician. The company has engineered an entirely new database of voting record rolls across the United States, taking public voting information and normalizing that data to the district level. Then, by mapping those rolls to a user's online identity (through Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google+), Votizen is able to create the first graphical representation of a voter's network, across states, political parties, and frequency of voting. Votizen was cofounded by David Binetti, Jason Putorti, and Matt Snider. The company is nonpartisan, for-profit, venture-backed, and based in Mountain View, CA: www.votizen.com

Mint

Series B in 2008
Mint is a self-hosted web analytics program designed for simplicity and ease of use. It provides a flexible dashboard that allows users to monitor key metrics such as visits, referrers, popular pages, and search queries at a glance. In addition to its analytics capabilities, Mint also offers a free online personal finance service that enables users to track their bank accounts, credit cards, investments, and loans through a single interface. This functionality allows clients to review their transactions and monitor their spending effectively, supporting them in managing and growing their financial resources.

Rapleaf

Series B in 2007
Rapleaf, a division of TowerData, specializes in providing extensive data on U.S. email addresses, covering approximately 80% of the market. The company enables marketers to gain insights into their customer base and identify additional communication channels. By offering tools that facilitate the segmentation of subscribers, Rapleaf helps brands personalize their content, thereby enhancing customer engagement and satisfaction. Additionally, the company provides a meta-reputation system that allows users to compile and analyze consumer transaction reviews and ratings, further supporting businesses in understanding and improving their customer interactions.

Mint

Angel Round in 2006
Mint is a self-hosted web analytics program designed for simplicity and ease of use. It provides a flexible dashboard that allows users to monitor key metrics such as visits, referrers, popular pages, and search queries at a glance. In addition to its analytics capabilities, Mint also offers a free online personal finance service that enables users to track their bank accounts, credit cards, investments, and loans through a single interface. This functionality allows clients to review their transactions and monitor their spending effectively, supporting them in managing and growing their financial resources.

Rapleaf

Series A in 2006
Rapleaf, a division of TowerData, specializes in providing extensive data on U.S. email addresses, covering approximately 80% of the market. The company enables marketers to gain insights into their customer base and identify additional communication channels. By offering tools that facilitate the segmentation of subscribers, Rapleaf helps brands personalize their content, thereby enhancing customer engagement and satisfaction. Additionally, the company provides a meta-reputation system that allows users to compile and analyze consumer transaction reviews and ratings, further supporting businesses in understanding and improving their customer interactions.

Cake Financial

Seed Round in 2006
Cake Financial is a social investment service that enables individuals to securely track and manage their investment portfolios in one centralized platform. The service allows users to analyze their historical performance for up to ten years and view the real-time portfolios of friends, family, and top investors without revealing sensitive information like net worth or portfolio sizes. It features investment journals where users can share insights and advice, fostering a community-driven approach to investing. Cake Financial prioritizes user privacy by offering anonymous usernames and employing robust security technologies. Users can also receive alerts about their trusted network's investment activities and use a "Match Me Up" feature to connect with investors who share similar strategies. The company is backed by Alsop Louie Partners and several angel investors, and it competes with other social investment platforms in the market.
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