Felicis

Felicis Ventures, established in 2006 and based in Menlo Park, California, is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage, innovative companies. The firm focuses on backing founders who are building transformative businesses across various sectors, including AI, health, and security. Felicis provides more than just capital, offering active mentoring and advisory services to support its portfolio companies. Since inception, Felicis has invested in over 120 technology companies, with 50 having been acquired or gone public.

Nicole Bae

Partner, Operations

Daniel Bartus

Partner

Kristin Beach

CFO, COO and Partner

Maddie Chavez

Partner, Operations

Tobi Coker

Senior Associate

Viviana Faga

General Partner

Gabriella Garcia

Deal Partner

Ryan Isono

Vice President

Dasha Maggio

Co-COO

Astasia Myers

General Partner

Niki Pezeshki

General Partner

Larissa Rainey

Operating Partner

Javier Soltero

Senior Venture Partner

Jake Storm

Vice President

Mischa Vaughn

Partner, Head of Content

Past deals in Data Visualization

Wherobots

Series A in 2024
Wherobots is a company focused on harnessing spatial intelligence across various domains, including earth, society, and business. It operates a cloud-native data analytics platform designed to assist businesses in processing data within a geospatial context. The platform enables users to collect, analyze, visualize, integrate, store, and manage geospatial data effectively. By leveraging advanced data and AI technologies, Wherobots simplifies the utilization of spatial intelligence, allowing organizations to derive meaningful insights from their enterprise data and make informed, data-driven decisions.

DatologyAI

Series A in 2024
DatologyAI is an AI-data curation startup focused on developing deep learning tools that facilitate automatic selection in data training. The company offers solutions that automate the creation of datasets by identifying the most relevant information based on the specific needs of the AI model. Its technology employs modality-agnostic algorithms capable of detecting redundant, noisy, or harmful data points, without the need for labels, making it applicable across various industries. Additionally, DatologyAI's tools suggest methods for augmenting existing datasets and optimizing the organization of data, ultimately streamlining the model training process and reducing costs for clients.

Motif Analytics

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

MotherDuck

Series B in 2023
MotherDuck specializes in data infrastructure and analytics, providing a serverless platform designed to handle both small and large datasets. By integrating the performance of DuckDB with cloud capabilities, the company offers a user-friendly solution that facilitates collaborative data analysis. Its platform employs an embedded database to support hybrid execution, allowing users to analyze data locally and remotely. This enables businesses to effectively prototype and optimize their data strategies, enhancing their ability to derive insights and maximize profits in a streamlined environment.

Weights & Biases

Venture Round in 2023
Weights & Biases, Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing tools for machine learning developers. Its core product is an AI platform that aids users in visualizing and debugging machine learning models, facilitating the transformation of deep learning research projects into deployed software. The company helps teams track and optimize their models, automate training processes, and improve model performance through intuitive performance visualization tools.

Explo

Series A in 2022
Explo is a data exploration and analysis platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The platform enables users to connect directly to various database and data warehouse sources, allowing them to explore, analyze, and visualize data easily through a user-friendly point-and-click interface. By integrating with any data source, Explo facilitates data manipulation and visualization without requiring SQL knowledge, empowering clients to make informed, data-driven decisions to enhance their business growth and scalability.

Violet Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Violet Labs is a developer of a cloud-based software integration platform tailored for complex hardware engineering. The platform consolidates data from various software tools utilized throughout the engineering lifecycle, providing a centralized solution that enhances efficiency and minimizes errors during the development process. By streamlining these aspects, Violet Labs enables clients to accelerate their product development and bring their innovations to market more swiftly.

PicnicHealth

Series C in 2022
PicnicHealth is a company focused on simplifying access to medical records and utilizing data to advance medical research. It provides patients with a secure online dashboard that consolidates their medical records from various healthcare providers across the United States. This innovative platform allows individuals to manage their health information efficiently while also giving them the option to contribute their anonymized data for scientific research. By doing so, PicnicHealth enables life sciences researchers to gain insights into real-world disease management and treatment practices, enhancing the understanding of patient experiences beyond traditional clinical trials. The company has successfully assisted tens of thousands of patients and established partnerships with major biopharmaceutical firms, positioning itself as a key player in the evolving healthcare landscape.

Synaptic

Series B in 2022
Synaptic is a data platform that provides actionable insights to investors by integrating a diverse range of alternative data sources into a single, no-code interface. The platform is designed to optimize investment strategies by enabling users to track portfolio companies, competitors, and sectors while utilizing advanced tools and algorithms to analyze large datasets. This approach helps identify patterns, trends, and anomalies, allowing investors and fund managers to discover opportunities, manage risks, and improve overall investment performance. Synaptic serves a global clientele that includes top venture capital firms, private equity firms, and hedge funds, leveraging various data types such as app usage, marketing metrics, employee insights, product reviews, gaming trends, search patterns, funding activities, and company firmographics to enhance the research workflow from sourcing to due diligence.

PreQL

Seed Round in 2022
PreQL, founded in 2022 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, specializes in developing an open-source interactive visualization tool that enhances data management for businesses. This tool integrates seamlessly with the modern data stack, enabling business users to effectively manage and visualize business metrics. By utilizing an intuitive interface with dropdown menus, PreQL allows users to organize and display data in populated tables without the need for complex queries. The platform caches data and facilitates query-less requests to the backend, providing developers with a user-friendly means to visualize databases and generate SQL queries efficiently.

Sleuth

Series A in 2022
Sleuth Enterprises, Inc. specializes in deployment tracking software aimed at companies utilizing continuous delivery processes. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides a platform that enhances visibility into software delivery performance through the use of DORA metrics. Sleuth’s software allows developers to communicate effectively about changes in the delivery system and their impacts, promoting collaboration within teams. By integrating with various tools such as source control, CI, feature flags, and incident management systems, Sleuth tracks the entire deployment cycle from issue creation to production deployment. This comprehensive approach helps organizations identify inefficiencies, reduce deployment-related issues like downtime and bugs, and ultimately facilitates smoother and more frequent software releases.

Weights & Biases

Series C in 2021
Weights & Biases, Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing tools for machine learning developers. Its core product is an AI platform that aids users in visualizing and debugging machine learning models, facilitating the transformation of deep learning research projects into deployed software. The company helps teams track and optimize their models, automate training processes, and improve model performance through intuitive performance visualization tools.

Mosaic

Series A in 2021
Mosaic.tech, established in 2019 and based in San Diego, California, specializes in AI-powered financial planning and analysis (FP&A) software. The company combines big data and machine learning to offer predictive reporting capabilities, providing startups with enterprise-level tools and insights. Mosaic.tech's platform features one-click integrations, real-time analytics, and intuitive data visualization, enabling users to automate financial forecasts, report instantly, and collaborate effectively. This empowers clients to make informed decisions, time their strategies accurately, and drive business growth.

PicnicHealth

Series B in 2020
PicnicHealth is a company focused on simplifying access to medical records and utilizing data to advance medical research. It provides patients with a secure online dashboard that consolidates their medical records from various healthcare providers across the United States. This innovative platform allows individuals to manage their health information efficiently while also giving them the option to contribute their anonymized data for scientific research. By doing so, PicnicHealth enables life sciences researchers to gain insights into real-world disease management and treatment practices, enhancing the understanding of patient experiences beyond traditional clinical trials. The company has successfully assisted tens of thousands of patients and established partnerships with major biopharmaceutical firms, positioning itself as a key player in the evolving healthcare landscape.

Crunchbase

Series C in 2019
Crunchbase is a comprehensive platform that assists over 80 million investors, analysts, and dealmakers in identifying and acting on private market opportunities through detailed analysis of company activities. It enables users to discover significant companies via its homepage, Crunchbase Scout, and search functionalities. The platform offers proprietary predictions and insights on organizational profiles, facilitating informed decision-making. Additionally, Crunchbase enhances team efficiency with various features such as data exports, administrative tools, and integrations. By providing unique private company intelligence, Crunchbase bridges the gap between data access and actionable business decisions, ultimately supporting users in navigating the complexities of the investment landscape.

Factual

Venture Round in 2018
Factual Inc. specializes in providing location-based data tailored for mobile advertising, developers, and enterprise applications. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Los Angeles, the company offers a range of services, including APIs for local business and points of interest data, geofencing capabilities, and UPC-centric datasets for consumer packaged goods. Factual's platform enables product and engineering teams, marketers, and data analysts to access comprehensive and accurate location data, facilitating informed decision-making and effective marketing strategies. The company also features Geotag, a reverse geocoder designed for high-volume geotagging. With additional offices in New York and Shanghai, Factual operates as a subsidiary of Foursquare Labs, Inc., and has established a strategic partnership with Mitsui & Co.

Crunchbase

Series B in 2017
Crunchbase is a comprehensive platform that assists over 80 million investors, analysts, and dealmakers in identifying and acting on private market opportunities through detailed analysis of company activities. It enables users to discover significant companies via its homepage, Crunchbase Scout, and search functionalities. The platform offers proprietary predictions and insights on organizational profiles, facilitating informed decision-making. Additionally, Crunchbase enhances team efficiency with various features such as data exports, administrative tools, and integrations. By providing unique private company intelligence, Crunchbase bridges the gap between data access and actionable business decisions, ultimately supporting users in navigating the complexities of the investment landscape.

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.

Ascend.io

Seed Round in 2015
Ascend.io, based in Palo Alto, California, offers an advanced platform designed to streamline big data analytics and engineering workflows. The platform integrates essential capabilities such as data ingestion, transformation, delivery, orchestration, and observability into a unified solution, enabling data teams to operate significantly faster. By leveraging declarative configurations and automation, Ascend.io manages cloud infrastructure, optimizes data pipelines, and reduces maintenance throughout the data lifecycle. This innovative approach supports business managers in initiating projects and making informed decisions by simplifying connections to various applications. Recognized as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor, Ascend.io is supported by prominent venture capital firms and notable advisors in the tech industry.

Crunchbase

Series A in 2015
Crunchbase is a comprehensive platform that assists over 80 million investors, analysts, and dealmakers in identifying and acting on private market opportunities through detailed analysis of company activities. It enables users to discover significant companies via its homepage, Crunchbase Scout, and search functionalities. The platform offers proprietary predictions and insights on organizational profiles, facilitating informed decision-making. Additionally, Crunchbase enhances team efficiency with various features such as data exports, administrative tools, and integrations. By providing unique private company intelligence, Crunchbase bridges the gap between data access and actionable business decisions, ultimately supporting users in navigating the complexities of the investment landscape.

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.

Distill

Seed Round in 2013
Distill is a company focused on improving the hiring and recruiting process through innovative technology. It has developed a browser-based recruiting platform that offers a suite of tools designed to enhance collaboration during the interview process. This includes features for conducting video interviews, scheduling interviews, taking and sharing notes, and administering ability assessments. By leveraging data-driven products, Distill aims to streamline the recruitment process for recruiters, hiring managers, interviewers, and candidates, ultimately reducing the challenges associated with hiring.

Kissmetrics

Series B in 2013
Kissmetrics is a company specializing in customer engagement automation, founded in 2008. It provides a platform that offers behavioral analytics, segmentation, and email campaign automation, all integrated into one system. The platform helps businesses identify, understand, and improve key metrics that drive their online operations. By connecting experiment results to existing business metrics and providing insights through a familiar dashboard, Kissmetrics assists companies in measuring, growing, and monetizing their customer base across multiple digital devices. The company is run by a team of designers, developers, and entrepreneurs dedicated to supporting online businesses.

PlotWatt

Series A in 2012
PlotWatt, Inc. is an energy analytics software company based in Durham, North Carolina, serving customers in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Founded in 2008, PlotWatt employs machine-learning algorithms to analyze energy usage data, providing actionable insights that help both residential and commercial clients enhance their energy efficiency and reduce costs. The platform is particularly beneficial for multi-location businesses, offering site-by-site comparative analysis and operational benchmarking to optimize energy management. By delivering tailored recommendations without the need for monitoring individual appliances, PlotWatt's cloud-based solutions empower customers to make informed decisions about their energy consumption, ultimately promoting sustainability and cost savings. The company operates as a subsidiary of American Efficient, Inc.

PlotWatt

Seed Round in 2011
PlotWatt, Inc. is an energy analytics software company based in Durham, North Carolina, serving customers in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Founded in 2008, PlotWatt employs machine-learning algorithms to analyze energy usage data, providing actionable insights that help both residential and commercial clients enhance their energy efficiency and reduce costs. The platform is particularly beneficial for multi-location businesses, offering site-by-site comparative analysis and operational benchmarking to optimize energy management. By delivering tailored recommendations without the need for monitoring individual appliances, PlotWatt's cloud-based solutions empower customers to make informed decisions about their energy consumption, ultimately promoting sustainability and cost savings. The company operates as a subsidiary of American Efficient, Inc.

Factual

Series A in 2010
Factual Inc. specializes in providing location-based data tailored for mobile advertising, developers, and enterprise applications. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Los Angeles, the company offers a range of services, including APIs for local business and points of interest data, geofencing capabilities, and UPC-centric datasets for consumer packaged goods. Factual's platform enables product and engineering teams, marketers, and data analysts to access comprehensive and accurate location data, facilitating informed decision-making and effective marketing strategies. The company also features Geotag, a reverse geocoder designed for high-volume geotagging. With additional offices in New York and Shanghai, Factual operates as a subsidiary of Foursquare Labs, Inc., and has established a strategic partnership with Mitsui & Co.

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

Kissmetrics

Series A in 2009
Kissmetrics is a company specializing in customer engagement automation, founded in 2008. It provides a platform that offers behavioral analytics, segmentation, and email campaign automation, all integrated into one system. The platform helps businesses identify, understand, and improve key metrics that drive their online operations. By connecting experiment results to existing business metrics and providing insights through a familiar dashboard, Kissmetrics assists companies in measuring, growing, and monetizing their customer base across multiple digital devices. The company is run by a team of designers, developers, and entrepreneurs dedicated to supporting online businesses.

Mint

Series B in 2008
Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard.

Rapleaf

Series B in 2007
Rapleaf, a division of TowerData, specializes in delivering data solutions that enhance marketers' understanding of their customers. With access to information on 80% of U.S. email addresses, the company enables brands to segment their subscribers effectively and personalize their communications. This capability fosters more relevant interactions, ultimately improving customer satisfaction and engagement. Additionally, Rapleaf offers a meta-reputation system that allows users to create reviews and ratings based on consumer transactions, further enhancing the data analysis process. By providing comprehensive insights, Rapleaf supports businesses in optimizing their marketing strategies and building stronger customer relationships.

Mint

Angel Round in 2006
Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard.

Rapleaf

Series A in 2006
Rapleaf, a division of TowerData, specializes in delivering data solutions that enhance marketers' understanding of their customers. With access to information on 80% of U.S. email addresses, the company enables brands to segment their subscribers effectively and personalize their communications. This capability fosters more relevant interactions, ultimately improving customer satisfaction and engagement. Additionally, Rapleaf offers a meta-reputation system that allows users to create reviews and ratings based on consumer transactions, further enhancing the data analysis process. By providing comprehensive insights, Rapleaf supports businesses in optimizing their marketing strategies and building stronger customer relationships.
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