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First Round Capital

First Round Capital is a venture capital firm willing to invest in pre-revenue companies, often providing a company's first outside capital. The partners look to take an active role in most of the companies they invest in. First Round Capital invests nationally and has additional offices in San Francisco and New York. The firm's typical initial investment is around $500,000. First Round Capital has coordinated the first ever VC-sponsored Exchange Fund. This fund allows qualified First Round Capital entrepreneurs to contribute a small piece of the stock they own in their company and share in the performance of all the other companies in the fund. Members of the First Round Capital Community have raised over $2.5 billion in follow-on capital to date. First Rounds's $20 million in total initial investments (in those companies that have been in the portfolio for over a year) have been followed by $850 million in financing from later-stage venture firms - a roughly 36-1 ratio.

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Airbase

Series A in 2019
Airbase serves as an all-in-one platform for spend management, helping companies with their financial control and visibility. It combines approval workflows, corporate cards, bill pay, accounting automation, and reporting all in one place.The company was born out of the idea that spends management shouldn't have to be difficult. It offers a solution that lets companies invest less time on the tedious, manual tasks of tracking every dollar spent and more on being strategic partners to their businesses. Airbase was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Health IQ

Series C in 2017
Their mission: to increase health literacy around the world Over the last 100 years, the world’s language literacy has increased significantly. Their challenge over the next 100 years is to increase the world’s health literacy. They believe the best way to create change is to celebrate the people who are dedicated to their health, rather than harass the people who are not. The Health Conscious are the unsung heroes — the people who don’t get credit for their hard work. Help us spread health literacy to every corner of the world.

Gauntlet

Seed Round in 2018
Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providing transparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

GumGum

Series B in 2011
GumGum is a global technology and media company specializing in contextual intelligence. For over a decade, we have applied our proven machine learning expertise to extract value from digital content for the advertising and sports industries. For advertisers, GumGum offers a full suite of pioneering future-proof solutions. The company’s contextual advertising engine, Verity™, comprehends the meaning of text, images and video online, allowing marketers to safely and precisely place ads where people are most engaged. Combining that contextual targeting and brand safety intelligence with proprietary high-impact ad formats, GumGum’s advertising solutions deliver industry leading efficiency, accuracy and performance. GumGum was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Manifest

Seed Round in 2013
Manifest is a product ads platform that helps retailers realize the potential of their catalogs by determining which products to promote across Facebook, Google and others. Customers have used Manifest to optimize over 14 million products in 4 billion ads and have generated over $70 million in ROI-positive revenue. Beyond retargeting, Manifest's Matching Engine helps retailers prospect for new customers as well as activate and re-engage existing customers by exposing them to products they have not yet discovered. Top retailers including Neiman Marcus, Gilt, One Kings Lane and LivingSocial use Manifest, which is backed by investment from First Round Capital, Softtech VC, Cowboy Ventures, and others.

Yapta

Series C in 2009
Yapta is a travel Website and browser add-on that lets you track flight prices as they change and alerts you when the price for a particular flight drops. It also helps you get a refund or credit from airlines with guaranteed low-price policies. The company also provides real-time price tracking of airfares and hotel rates across the globe via FareIQ and RoomIQ. Yapta was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

EAT Club

Series A in 2013
EAT Club is a food technology company that's democratizing good food. Office workers can order lunch from great local restaurants via mobile or web and get it delivered by 12:30pm. Meals start at $8.95, and there are no minimum orders or additional tips or fees. EAT Club is based in Palo Alto and currently serves most of Silicon Valley.

SinglePlatform

Series A in 2011
SinglePlatform, LLC offers local listing enhancement services that help small businesses to get discovered by consumers searching online. It allows local businesses to manage and update local business information in top sites and applications. SinglePlatform, LLC has a strategic partnership with Belly Inc. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York. SinglePlatform, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Constant Contact, Inc.

ZEFR

Series A in 2010
Zefr is a video advertising company that creates targeted video ad placements with it's unique and proprietary technology. With our custom packages, we leverage both technology and human review to selected individual videos, ensuring brands can safely and effectively scale their video ad campaigns. Why the name Zefr? Before Venice became “Silicon Beach” it was the grimy paradise of the 1970's Zephyr skate team. The Z-boys were a group of broken-home-punks that pioneered today’s skate culture. They did more than just push the physical boundaries of the sport—they created the culture that defines Venice today. At Zefr, we embrace the Z-boy’s drive for innovation, performance, and pushing boundaries. Our motto? Go Big. Go Fast.

Unsubscribe.com

Series A in 2010
Unsubscribe is a powerful service that addresses a simple problem - getting rid of unwanted mailing lists. With the click of a button, users instantly send unwanted mailing lists to Unsubscribe.com for safe removal. Users can either download an Unsubscribe button to be used in their email client or forward unwanted mail from any device. The custom button allows one to check off multiple emails at a time to Unsubscribe from, revisiting a brand new inbox.

SmartBiz, Inc.

Series A in 2010
SmartBiz, Inc., doing business as SmartBiz Loans, develops and operates an online lending platform for applying and processing small business loans. Its platform allows banks to offer small business credit products; and businesses to access low-cost funds. The company offers online software that systematizes and automates small business loan underwriting and origination, including application management, document capture with real-time notifications, automated underwriting, decisioning, online file audit, and closing. Further, the company provides banks with services, including marketing, operational, compliance, and bottom line functionalities. The company caters to commercial real estate, debt refinance, and working capital sectors. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. SmartBiz, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Better Finance, Inc.

Roblox

Series D in 2011
Roblox is an online gaming and entertainment platform for a shared digital experience that brings people together through play. It enables anyone to imagine, create, and have fun with friends as they explore interactive 3D experiences produced by developers using their desktop design tool, Roblox Studio. The company is backed by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Investment Group of Santa Barbara, and Warner Music Group. The San Mateo, California-based company was established by Erik Cassel and David Baszucki in 2004.

Koru

Series A in 2015
Koru is a developer of a predictive recruitment processing platform used to transform the process of talent recruitment. The company's predictive hiring software gauges performance of the applicants before hiring them using signals far more indicative of early career success than the traditional GPA and college brand. Their main differentiator is that they have identified and can measure the skills that are most predictive of workplace performance in today’s innovative employers: Grit, Rigor, Impact, Teamwork, Curiosity, Ownership, and Polish - collectively the Koru7. Koru customers increase the performance and ramp to the productivity of their early career workforce, increase diversity, and reduce the cost of bad hires. Their customers have seen 30-60% increases in high performing hires using Koru, with associated ROI in the millions per year.

Snowball

Seed Round in 2014
Snowball is your beautiful new notification center for Android. It takes all the awesome stuff from all the apps on your phone and puts it in one place. Now you can get things done without opening a million apps. Less apps, more action! UNIFIED INBOX: Receive and reply to messages from Facebook, WhatsApp, SMS, Line, Telegram, Email from *one* place TRAVEL ASSIST: See Uber and Lyft prices and times when you have to be somewhere PRIORITY NOTIFICATIONS: Hide annoying notifications, never miss awesome ones Highlights - Never miss another phone call, message, email, or calendar reminder - Fast reply to messages from WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Line + more - Heads-up notifications for important messages & notifications - Sounds and vibrations only play for important messages & notifications - Works with Android wear

Togg

Seed Round in 2018
Togg develops a device which gets integrated in to the infrastructure of the new home. The device can follow simple commands, including to turn the lights on and off, giving a weather report, and tell jokes. Togg was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Gem

Seed Round in 2014
Gem empowers individuals to take full control of their wealth, to benefit from the value of their own data, and to experience the collective power of the decentralization movement spreading globally today. Gem has been powering this movement through its cryptocurrency wallets and blockchain platform since 2013. Our seasoned team of cryptocurrency software architects and blockchain engineers are building apps for the next generation of consumers, offering easier and more secure ways to participate in the rapidly evolving digital marketplace. Join the movement today at https://gem.co.

Remind

Series B in 2014
Remind is a communication platform that helps every student succeed. Founded in 2011, Remind allows school and district administrators to reach and engage with their communities and connects educators and families with the tools that help them teach and learn. Investors include First Round Capital, GSV, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, and Social Capital.

Wakie

Venture Round in 2020
Wakie develops mobile applications. The company offers mobile applications for real live human wake up calls through a community of people waking people. Wakie’s applications include Budist, a Russian-language wake-up app and Wakie, an international version of the wake up service. The company was formerly known as Budist.ru LLC. Wakie was founded in 2011 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

DoubleVerify

Series C in 2011
DoubleVerify provides online media verification and campaign effectiveness solutions for brand marketers, agencies, advertising networks, demand side platforms, exchanges and digital publishers looking to ensure quality advertising environments, campaign transparency and performance. DoubleVerify validates over 60 billion advertising impressions per month for hundreds of Fortune 500 brands, advertising networks and media platforms. Headquartered in New York City, DoubleVerify’s investors include JMI Equity, Institutional Venture Partners, Blumberg Capital, First Round Capital and Genacast Ventures.

Remotion

Private Placement in 2020
Remotion is a video calling platform designed for remote teams to collaborate through live video chats. Remotion allows users to talk live instead of typing or scheduling meetings. Remotion permits users to collaborate and build rapport with the face-to-face conversation that feels and looks like natural and working together.

Alt

Seed Round in 2021
Alt is an alternative asset platform that allows people to buy, sell, and store sports cards. Its mission is to increase the transparency and liquidity of alternative assets. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Krugle

Series A in 2005
Krugle provides a search engine specifically designed for developers. In addition, Krugle also offers collaboration tools that allow developers to interact with source code and each other.

Root AI

Seed Round in 2020
Root AI, Inc. manufactures artificial intelligence robots for indoor farming. It offers Virgo 1, an agricultural robot to pick tomatoes without bruising them, and detect ripeness better than humans. The company’s robot is an autonomous tomato harvesting platform. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Underdog Technologies, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Underdog Technologies, Inc., doing business as Pinwheel, provides application software to connect payroll system. It offers Pinwheel that provides developer-friendly SDKs and APIs to connect to payroll systems. The company’s Pinwheel helps lenders to collect payment directly from a borrower’s paycheck; helps banks and other financial institutions increase deposits by making it easy for customers to switch where they receive their paychecks; and enables partners to securely verify their customer’s income and employment details. Underdog Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Docracy

Seed Round in 2011
Docracy Inc. owns and operates an open source website that allows its users to access legal documents, such as contracts, non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), wills, and trusts. Additionally, the company's website help startups and individuals to compare their legal documents against the trusted documents available online. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. Docracy Inc. operates as a subsidiary of apilayer GmbH.

Xclaim

Seed Round in 2021
XClaim Inc. operates an electronic platform for bankruptcy claims. The company provides XCLAIM that offers information on sourcing of claims and sellers, electronic trading facility, direct transfers of trading data, risk mitigation, and settlement facilities. XCLAIM Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Truveris

Series A in 2011
Truveris brings transparency to the prescription drug ecosystem through data-driven innovations. Truveris’ platform offers customers – from the individual patient to employers, retailers, pharmacy benefits stakeholders, and manufacturers – the data and insights they need to effectively and efficiently manage rising costs and market access challenges. Based in Manhattan, Truveris is backed by Canaan Partners, New Leaf Venture Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners, New Atlantic Ventures and First Round Capital.

Bazaarvoice

Series B in 2007
Bazaarvoice helps brands capture, analyze and act upon social data, and enables authentic customer-powered marketing

Splice

Seed Round in 2013
Splice designs and develops a technology platform for music creators streamlines the fragmented process of creating and sharing music. It also provides artists with means to connect with fans and other artists to solicit feedback throughout every step of the process. Matthieu Aimonetti and Steve Martocci founded Splice in 2013. It has its headquarters in New York City.

Dishcraft Robotics

Seed Round in 2017
Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. develops and manufactures robots for commercial kitchens. The company through its system cleans each dish individually using a rotating scrubber head and inspects each dish in a fraction of a second for remaining food residue using computer vision. Its solution Dishcraft Daily provides clean-dish dishwashing services. It serves corporate kitchens and restaurants. Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. was formerly known as Bistro Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. in March 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Goat

Seed Round in 2016
GOAT Group is the world’s largest marketplace for authentic sneakers. Its brands offer the greatest selection of sneakers available through company-operated retail stores, e-commerce sites and mobile apps under the GOAT and Flight Club brands. Through its innovative technology and service, GOAT Group has changed the landscape of sneaker commerce and has quickly become the world’s most trusted source to discover, buy and sell authentic sneakers. The company is backed by strategic investor Foot Locker, Inc. as well as some of the leading names in venture capital including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Matrix Partners, Upfront Ventures, Webb Investment Network and Y Combinator.

Knewton

Series E in 2013
Knewton's mission is to personalize learning for the world. Teachers, schools, and education companies around the world use Knewton to power digital course materials that dynamically adapt to each student’s unique needs. Knewton provides students with tailored recommendations for exactly what to study, teachers with analytics to better support each student, and publishers with content insights to develop more effective digital products. Knewton was founded in 2008 and has offices in New York City, London, Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai. Knewton has been recognized globally as a “Technology Pioneer” (World Economic Forum in Davos) and several times as one of the top 10 most innovative companies in education (Fast Company).

Homejoy

Venture Round in 2013
Homejoy believes everyone deserves a happy home. With just a few clicks, Homejoy’s online platform will match you with a screened, background-checked and certified professional cleaner who maintains high customer ratings. And at $20/hour, Homejoy makes a sparkling home an affordable reality for everyone. Founded in 2010 by brother-sister duo Aaron and Adora Cheung, the San Francisco-based company serves 31 markets in North America and growing. For additional information on Homejoy, please visit www.homejoy.com/about or www.homejoy.com/press.

Arlozorov9, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Arlozorov9, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Mashery

Venture Round in 2012
Mashery is the world's leading provider of API technology and services. We have helped over 175 top brands—including USA TODAY, Comcast, Hoover's, Klout, Associated Press, Rdio, and Travelocity—take advantage of APIs to build new revenue channels, speed time-to-market, and spur innovation. Mashery's unique, holistic approach to API management encompasses working with clients to craft profitable platform strategies, ensuring fast, reliable API access, and facilitating relationships with our network of developers. Since Mashery was founded in 2006, we have built a global API delivery network that supports 60,000 active apps built by over 200,000 developers. In May 2013, we officially became a part of Intel Corporation.

Nomad Health

Series D in 2021
Nomad Health, Inc. operates an online marketplace that enables users to find freelance and permanent clinical work in the United States. Its market place enables doctors to search for jobs by location, pay rate, medical facility, and more; and healthcare facilities to find doctors. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Gigya

Series A in 2007
Gigya's Customer Identity Management Platform helps companies build better customer relationships by turning unknown visitors into known, loyal and engaged customers. With Gigya’s technology, businesses increase registrations and identify customers across devices, consolidate data into rich customer profiles, and provide better service, products and experiences by integrating data into marketing and service applications. Gigya's platform was designed from the ground up for social identities, mobile devices, consumer privacy and modern marketing. Gigya provides developers with the APIs they need to easily build and maintain secure and scalable registration, authentication, profile management, data analytics and third-party integrations. More than 700 of the world’s leading businesses such as Fox, Forbes, and Verizon rely on Gigya to build identity-driven relationships and to provide scalable, secure Customer Identity Management.

Zendrive

Seed Round in 2013
Zendrive Inc. develops traffic data tracking application for mobile phones. It offers Zendrive, an application that tracks speed, location, direction, and acceleration of traffic using smartphone sensors. The company provides traffic and driving information to users based on the accumulated data. The company was formerly known as Inner Circle Technologies, Inc. Zendrive Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Rover

Seed Round in 2011
A Place for Rover, Inc. operates a community for dog lovers to connect owners with sitters for home dog stays. The platform offers insurance for all services booked through Rover, secure online payments, customer support, vet consultations, a 24/7 team of safety experts, Rover Cards with walk mapping and activity tracking, mobile applications, photo and video sharing, and general background checks for sitters. A Place for Rover, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Olympia, Washington.

Cricket Health

Private Placement in 2018
Cricket Health is a specialty kidney care provider of integrated nephrology and dialysis care for people with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Cricket Health delivers world-class, technology-enabled multidisciplinary care both in-person and virtually to achieve the best outcomes possible for patients and the best value for partners, keeping patients healthy and out of the hospital, accelerating access to transplant, and increasing home dialysis adoption. We are committed to aligning the success of our company with those of our partners and the patients whom we serve. Learn more at www.crickethealth.com and follow us @crickethealth

StumbleUpon

Seed Round in 2005
StumbleUpon is the easiest way to discover new and interesting things from across the Web. More than 25 million people turn to StumbleUpon to be informed, entertained and surprised by content and information recommended just for them. In addition, more than 80,000 brands, publishers and other marketers have used StumbleUpon’s Paid Discovery platform to tell their stories and promote their products and services. Explore more at www.stumbleupon.com.

Carbon Engineering

Private Equity Round in 2019
Founded in 2009, CE is a Canadian-based clean energy company leading the commercialization of groundbreaking technology that captures CO₂ directly from the atmosphere, and synthesizes it into clean, affordable transportation fuels. From a pilot plant in Squamish, B.C., CE has been removing CO₂ from the atmosphere since 2015 and converting it into fuels since December 2017.

Vidme

Series A in 2016
Vidme is a Los Angeles-based online video sharing platform.

Birchbox

Seed Round in 2010
Launched in 2010, Birchbox is the discovery commerce platform redefining the retail process by offering consumers a personalized way to discover, sample, shop, and learn about the best products and brands available. Birchbox members have first-touch experiences with products each month and access to educational content to help them get the most out of their products. Top brands like Kiehl’s, Benefit, Deborah Lippmann, and Stila have partnered with Birchbox.

Discourse

Seed Round in 2012
Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. It works as: - a mailing list - a discussion forum - a long-form chat room - What’s different about it? - Discourse is a from-scratch reboot, an attempt to reimagine what a modern Internet discussion - platform should be today, in a world of ubiquitous smartphones, tablets, Facebook, and Twitter.

Flurry

Series C in 2010
Flurry is an application that provides analytics for businesses to monitor the trends and habits of mobile users across multiple mobile applications. Flurry’s mobile analytics solution enables businesses to understand how consumers interact with their mobile applications. Over 125,000 companies use Flurry’s analytics platform in more than 400,000 applications to measure audience reach, engagement, retention, conversions, revenue, and more. The service is completely free, takes just five minutes for basic integration, and is continuously updated with the industry's advanced features. Flurry Analytics is available for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, HTML5, hybrid apps, mobile/web, Blackberry, and JavaME.

Labelbox

Private Placement in 2018
Labelbox is a collaborative training data platform for machine learning applications. Rather than requiring companies to build their own expensive and incomplete homegrown tools to create or manage training data, Labelbox created the world’s first training data platform that acts as a central hub for data science teams to create and manage training data with internal or external labeling teams. Better ways to input and manage data means higher quality training data and more accurate machine-learning models.

Velano Vascular

Series A in 2016
Velano Vascular's technologies transform care by reducing the stress and anxiety related to blood draws during hospitalization. The company's needle-free device reduces pain and discomfort for patients, and enhances safety and efficiency for providers. Founded by a patient and a physician, Velano Vascular is backed by First Round Capital, Kapor Capital and White Owl Capital. The company’s collaborators include leading U.S. hospital systems and organizations innovating in patient-centered care.

CrowdJustice

Seed Round in 2017
CrowdJustice allows communities to band together to access the courts to protect their communal assets – like their local hospital – or shared values – like human rights. CrowdJustice pages are optimized to collect as many pledges as possible. Millions of pounds have already been raised through CrowdJustice to fund various kinds of legal action.

Molly

Seed Round in 2019
Molly develops a web based platform that makes information accessible, by cross-pollinating information posted on users various online profiles and making it available in one central location. The platform's AMA (ask me anything) feature where audiences can find answers about a certain person, with those answers being aggregated from sources, such as Medium, Twitter, and Instagram. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Flurry

Series D in 2013
Flurry is an application that provides analytics for businesses to monitor the trends and habits of mobile users across multiple mobile applications. Flurry’s mobile analytics solution enables businesses to understand how consumers interact with their mobile applications. Over 125,000 companies use Flurry’s analytics platform in more than 400,000 applications to measure audience reach, engagement, retention, conversions, revenue, and more. The service is completely free, takes just five minutes for basic integration, and is continuously updated with the industry's advanced features. Flurry Analytics is available for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, HTML5, hybrid apps, mobile/web, Blackberry, and JavaME.

SAY Media

Series B in 2006
Say Media is a digital publishing company. Through its award-winning Tempest publishing platform and media services, Say Media enables its portfolio of independent content creators to build passionate communities around key consumer interest areas such as Style, Living, Food and Tech. The company provides simple and accountable ways for the world’s top brands to engage with these passionate audiences, at scale, with a reach of more than 400 million people around the world. Say Media is headquartered in San Francisco and New York, with offices across North America, in the UK and Australia.

VigLink

Series B in 2011
VigLink, Inc. operates a platform for content-driven commerce that processes various page-views and clicks. The company monetizes content that drives commerce for various sites and works with merchants to drive sales. Its products include VigLink Convert that transforms existing product links into valuable marketing traffic; VigLink Insert that identifies commercial linking opportunities from customer’s content and transforms text into links on their behalf; and VigLink Anywhere that enables users to create and share revenue-generating links across collaborative networks, such as social and email. The company provides its solutions for publishers, advertisers, forums, blogs, mobile applications, affiliate marketers, and developers. VigLink, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of December 13, 2018, VigLink, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of sovrn Holdings, Inc.

Fab

Series C in 2012
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

Mobcrush

Seed Round in 2015
Mobcrush, Inc., a technology and entertainment company, develops a live streaming application and community for gamers. It offers Mobcrush, a mobile application that connects gamers worldwide. The company’s application enables users to create and broadcast the gameplay live from the phone or tablet; watch and hang out with creators and tune in for epic events and eSports competitions; and connect and chat with a community of players that love the same games. Mobcrush, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Mobcrush

Series B in 2016
Mobcrush, Inc., a technology and entertainment company, develops a live streaming application and community for gamers. It offers Mobcrush, a mobile application that connects gamers worldwide. The company’s application enables users to create and broadcast the gameplay live from the phone or tablet; watch and hang out with creators and tune in for epic events and eSports competitions; and connect and chat with a community of players that love the same games. Mobcrush, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Transpera

Series A in 2007
Transpera is a mobile technology company that provides a comprehensive platform for monetizing videos on mobile phones. Transpera services online content owners, network operators and advertisers by providing their patent-pending advertising platform and bridging technology -- an all-in-one style solution for connecting the necessary pieces involved in successful and profitable mobile video deployments. Transpera powers mobile video services for internet video brands including MTV Networks, Discovery Networks, Fox Reality Channel, the Travel Channel, CBS News, Associated Press, AccuWeather.com, Revision3, Next New Networks, Break.com, maniaTV, eBaumsworld and Zoovision among others.

Gumroad

Series A in 2012
Gumroad, Inc. owns and operates an online service platform through which users can buy, sell, and stream creative content such as, mixtapes, music albums, movies, design templates, source codes, and merchandise. The platform helps users to sell by uploading a file and generating a shortened link to be shared on social media. Buyers then pay by credit card and receive a link to content via email. Gumroad, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Airbase

Private Placement in 2018
Airbase serves as an all-in-one platform for spend management, helping companies with their financial control and visibility. It combines approval workflows, corporate cards, bill pay, accounting automation, and reporting all in one place.The company was born out of the idea that spends management shouldn't have to be difficult. It offers a solution that lets companies invest less time on the tedious, manual tasks of tracking every dollar spent and more on being strategic partners to their businesses. Airbase was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sift

Series B in 2014
Sift prevents fraud with industry-leading technology and expertise, an unrivaled global data network, and a commitment to building long-term partnerships with our customers. Twitter, Airbnb, and Twilio rely on Sift to stay competitive and secure. Sift is known in digital trust and safety, empowering companies of all sizes to unlock revenue without risk.

Keeps

Seed Round in 2017
2 out of 3 men will start to lose their hair by the age of 35 - but the earlier you take action, the more hair you keep. Keeps is a full-service healthcare company focused exclusively on helping men keep their hair. From expert diagnosis to affordable treatment, patient support to education, Keeps provides a regimen specific to each customer's condition through a seamless digital experience, allowing men to manage hair loss from start to finish. Keeps’ licensed physicians review each customer's information in order to identify and prescribe a unique treatment plan of FDA-approved products, and we sell them at half the price customers would pay at their local pharmacy. With Keeps, customers receive exactly what they need, and nothing they don’t. Keeps is the first brand from Thirty Madison, which is rebuilding the healthcare experience for the modern consumer.

Taskrabbit

Series B in 2011
TaskRabbit, Inc. operates a same-day service platform that connects clients and taskers. Its platform enable clients to book a tasker for various home services, including minor home repair, mounting and installation, furniture assembly, moving and packing, housecleaning, yard work, and home improvement. TaskRabbit, Inc. was formerly known as RunMyErrand, Inc. and changed its name to TaskRabbit, Inc. in April 2010. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 10, 2017, TaskRabbit, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of INGKA Holding B.V.

Amino

Seed Round in 2017
Amino is a payments company that combines technologies from blockchain, payments, and advertising to bring transparency to online advertising. With a founding team comprised of co-founders of Integral Ad Science, Monetate, and Sailthru, Amino lifts the shroud from the media supply chain and eliminates fraud, waste, and abuse, making the entire industry more transparent and cost-effective.

Lookcraft

Venture Round in 2012
Lookcraft offers an e-commerce platform that enables men to find and buy clothing and accessories form a range of brands. It analyzes its customers’ preferences and offers them with suggestions to choose from. Lookcraft promotes brands such as Nudie Jeans, J Shoes, and San Francisco’s Taylor Stitch. It also offers delivery and return services. Lookcraft was founded by Jamie Quint in 2011. It is based in New York.

Grove

Private Placement in 2018
Grove is a personal trainer for the client's moneyThe company assesses where you are today and create a plan to make the client confident about their money. Through proprietary software combined with a team of Certified Financial Planners, Grove is able to offer personalized advice at a fraction of the price of traditional financial advisors.

The Lobby

Seed Round in 2019
The Lobby is a video shopping platform that bridges the gap between online and offline shopping. By bringing together top fashion brands and influencers in a QVC-meets-TikTok shopping experience, The Lobby makes shopping as easy and inspiring as scrolling your Instagram feed. And with a unique try-before-you-buy payment option, The Lobby makes online shopping truly risk-free.

VigLink

Series A in 2010
VigLink, Inc. operates a platform for content-driven commerce that processes various page-views and clicks. The company monetizes content that drives commerce for various sites and works with merchants to drive sales. Its products include VigLink Convert that transforms existing product links into valuable marketing traffic; VigLink Insert that identifies commercial linking opportunities from customer’s content and transforms text into links on their behalf; and VigLink Anywhere that enables users to create and share revenue-generating links across collaborative networks, such as social and email. The company provides its solutions for publishers, advertisers, forums, blogs, mobile applications, affiliate marketers, and developers. VigLink, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of December 13, 2018, VigLink, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of sovrn Holdings, Inc.

Telepath

Seed Round in 2020
Telepath provides a social network application that enables users to discuss their interests. Its platform is secure and easier, enabling users to connect with each other very easily.

Legion Technologies

Private Placement in 2020
Legion Technologies, Inc. develops workforce engagement platform. It offers Legion, an artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud native platform that is used to ingest, store, and process data, allowing users to future-proof their workforce management investment. The company’s products also include demand forecasting, labor optimization, automated scheduling, employee engagement, and time and attendance. In addition, it offers services in the areas of implementation, training, customer success, and support. The company’s products are used in compliance, budget control, improve retail sales, and workforce sharing applications. It serves retail, food services, health and fitness clubs, and hospitality industries. Legion Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Redwood City, California. It has additional office in Hudson, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; and Milton, Georgia.

Threadflip

Series B in 2014
Threadflip is building a social marketplace that changes the way women shop for clothes and style their wardrobes, creating a peer-to-peer shopping experience that is delightful, collaborative and inspirational, as well as efficient and cost-effective. Threadflip closed in Jan. 14, 2015 but has partnered with Le Tote.

SavingStar

Series D in 2013
SavingStar is a paperless grocery rewards platform that enables shoppers to earn cash back. Shoppers earn cash on item-level grocery purchases with offers linked to their store loyalty cards and are validated when they submit a picture of their receipt at a number of retail locations nationwide. It automatically adds the value of each offer into members' SavingStar or partner accounts, enabling users to pick their payout from cash back or other currencies. The platform was launched in June 2010 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Pattern

Seed Round in 2016
Pattern is a intelligent workspace geared towards sales teams. It prepares research for the user, streamlining the process with built in templates. Pattern can also confirm meetings, automate follow-ups, update stale records and research accounts. Lastly, Pattern uses machine learning to surface risk and momentum signals in your pipeline using data from email, calendar, and Salesforce.

Backupify

Seed Round in 2010
Backupify is a backup technology provider for cloud-based data, offering archiving, search and restore solutions for online services.

Kiavi

Series C in 2015
LendingHome offers fix-and-flip bridge loans and rental loans for real estate investors. Its built-from-scratch technology simplifies every stage of the loan process, ensuring easy financing for both novices and experienced real estate investors. LendingHome was established in 2014 by James Herbert and Matt Humphrey in San Francisco, California.

Knewton

Series A in 2008
Knewton's mission is to personalize learning for the world. Teachers, schools, and education companies around the world use Knewton to power digital course materials that dynamically adapt to each student’s unique needs. Knewton provides students with tailored recommendations for exactly what to study, teachers with analytics to better support each student, and publishers with content insights to develop more effective digital products. Knewton was founded in 2008 and has offices in New York City, London, Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai. Knewton has been recognized globally as a “Technology Pioneer” (World Economic Forum in Davos) and several times as one of the top 10 most innovative companies in education (Fast Company).

The Climate Corporation

Series A in 2007
The Climate Corporation (formerly WeatherBill) aims to help farmers around the world protect and improve their farming operations with uniquely powerful software, hardware and insurance products. The company’s proprietary Climate Technology Platform combines hyper-local weather monitoring, agronomic modeling, and high-resolution weather simulations to deliver Climate Basic and Climate Pro, mobile SaaS solutions that helps farmers improve profitability by making better informed operating and financing decisions.

imeem

Venture Round in 2006
imeem is an online music service that gives fans instant access to almost any song they want, for free.

Xobni

Series C in 2010
Xobni (the word 'inbox' spelled backwards) makes your inbox and address book smarter. First launching to the public in 2008, Xobni and its Smartr product suite, discover all the people you've ever emailed, called or texted, and creates complete and social profiles that are instantly searchable. Profiles include a photo, job title, company details, email history as well as updates from your contacts on [LinkedIn](/organization/linkedin), [Facebook](/organization/facebook), and [Twitter](/organization/twitter). Products for Gmail, Android and iPhone are available under the Smartr brand, and Xobni is available for Outlook and [BlackBerry](/organization/blackberry).

PING, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
PING, Inc. manufactures and sells golf equipment. It offers grips, apparel, bags, gloves, headwear, towels, headcovers, umbrellas, and other products. The company sells its products through retailers in the United States and internationally, as well as online PING, Inc. was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

tlee.com

Venture Round in 2010
was an online resource for building, managing, and researching professional reputation, using community-contributed, professional reviews. Users can create or claim their profile, request reviews from colleagues and respond to comments. .

Spring Discovery

Private Placement in 2018
Spring Discovery is accelerating the discovery of therapies for aging. By targeting the biological processes of aging itself, we aim to uncover new therapies for the diseases of old age — from cardiovascular to neurodegenerative disease — and increase our healthy lifespans. We've built a machine learning platform to accelerate experimentation for discovering such therapies. We're hiring! https://www.springdisc.com/#careers

Metric Insights

Seed Round in 2015
Metric Insights is an operator of a business intelligence platform used to empower businesses to effectively cut through data clutter. It helps to track metrics from business intelligence tools, big data, and SaaS applications, and uncovers anomalies and notifies users of significant changes in data that requires their attention that enable clients to benefit from intelligent data-driven decisions. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Castle Intelligence, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Castle Intelligence, Inc. develops a collaborative platform for preventing hacking of Web and mobile applications. The company offers products for profiles, policies, APIs, and models. The company captures every user action and data in the web application, including clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, and page views. The company also tracks events in Web and mobile applications; and analyzes device, location, and usage patterns. Castle Intelligence, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Poland and Sweden.

Instrumental

Series B in 2020
Instrumental is building software that enables assembly lines to autonomously operate, learn, and adapt parts and processes - saving billions of dollars in scrap and rework costs. Their customers use Instrumental to find and fix issues on their assembly lines, preventing development schedule slips and beginning production at higher yields. Their equipment and data service is deployed on multiple global assembly lines at top-tier manufacturers. Instrumental was founded by Anna-Katrina Shedletsky and Samuel Weiss, two former Apple engineers who, after spending hundreds of days in China on manufacturing lines, set out to revolutionize the manufacturing space. They are assembling a diverse team who sees inefficiencies as opportunities and want to develop a system that changes the manufacturing world for the better.

Swipe Labs

Seed Round in 2013
Swipe allows users to share private photos and videos that wouldn’t get posted on Facebook. It experiments with new social products to craft better mobile communication experiences for the users. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kentik

Series B in 2016
Kentik is a network intelligence platform that provides visibility, performance, and security services to digital enterprises. It helps businesses eliminate the visibility and intelligence gaps associated with running dynamic and complex networks and achieve greater network performance, reliability, and security. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Verto Education

Seed Round in 2019
Verto Education, Inc. provides semester traveling services for students to travel overseas and earn college credit for campus programs and admissions. It offers semester traveling services to Central America, South Pacific, and Southeast Asia to learn about subjects, including environmental science, public health, business, and finance. The company also provides on-campus programs in Ireland, England, and New Zealand. Verto Education, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

DoubleVerify

Series A in 2009
DoubleVerify provides online media verification and campaign effectiveness solutions for brand marketers, agencies, advertising networks, demand side platforms, exchanges and digital publishers looking to ensure quality advertising environments, campaign transparency and performance. DoubleVerify validates over 60 billion advertising impressions per month for hundreds of Fortune 500 brands, advertising networks and media platforms. Headquartered in New York City, DoubleVerify’s investors include JMI Equity, Institutional Venture Partners, Blumberg Capital, First Round Capital and Genacast Ventures.

RenoFi

Seed Round in 2020
RenoFi Loans use the after renovation value instead of your home's current value, enabling you to borrow the most money at the lowest rates. RenoFi is not a lender, rather we’ve partnered with lenders who offer RenoFi Loans. These lenders leverage RenoFi's technology platform to seamlessly offer RenoFi Loans.

Grove

Private Placement in 2018
Grove is a personal trainer for the client's moneyThe company assesses where you are today and create a plan to make the client confident about their money. Through proprietary software combined with a team of Certified Financial Planners, Grove is able to offer personalized advice at a fraction of the price of traditional financial advisors.

ScanScout

Series A in 2006
ScanScout is the market-leading online video advertising network. The company partners with major advertisers and publishers to maximize video advertising opportunities. ScanScout creates a new significant revenue stream for publishers, helping them to extract the most value out of their video content and monetize it in a user-friendly manner. For advertisers, ScanScout provides the ability to target, optimize and deliver ad messages to the right content and audience, maximizing user engagement. ScanScout is one of the largest online video networks on the web, serving hundreds of millions of ad impressions every month. The company is headquartered in Boston with offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Verkada

Series A in 2018
Verkada Inc. develops and offers a cloud-based video management software that enables users to manage physical security. Its Command platform enables users to access, share, and archive footage across locations. The company also offers security cameras for security services. Its products include Dome; Mini; Fisheye; and Viewing Station series. It serves Healthcare, banks, education, retail, restaurants, government, and private business sectors. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California. It has an additional location in London, United Kingdom.

Artillery

Venture Round in 2012
Artillery is a team of passionate gamers that is turning the modern web browser into a gaming console using HTML5 technology. Artillery's team is comprised of a brain trust of former Google and Facebook engineers focused on solving seemingly impossible game development hurdles and includes long-standing and high ranking gaming and eSports community members. It was founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California.

ModCloth

Series C in 2015
ModCloth.com is a rip-roaringly innovative, rapidly growing e-tailer of vintage-inspired fashion and decor that’s out to shake up the way fashion is discovered, developed, and delivered. Through groundbreaking technology and press-recognized social media, they’re creating a user-empowering platform that’s redefining the face of social commerce. Founded in a CMU dorm room by high school sweethearts Eric & Susan Koger, ModCloth now has over 400 employees and offices in San Francisco, LA, and Pittsburgh.

Ambient Devices

Series C in 2008
Ambient Devices provides a complete solution to offer wireless products to consumers that make tangible interfaces to digital information. Today, this solution includes: the Ambient Information Network™-a back-end service delivery infrastructure and wireless network; and the Ambient Device Design™-a set of hardware specifications to turn everyday objects (like pens, watches, and clocks) into glanceable wireless information devices, customized and branded by product companies.

Gnip

Series A in 2008
Gnip provides social media data for customers in sectors such as social media monitoring, business intelligence, government, and finance. The company customers deliver social media analytics to over 95% of the Fortune 500. It also delivers more than 120 billion real-time social data activities each month, providing access to data from dozens of sources. Gnip was founded by Eric Marcoullier in March 2008 and is based in Boulder, Colorado with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Washington.

Mint

Series C in 2009
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.

FiscalNote

Private Placement in 2020
FiscalNote is a privately-held company that uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact. FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaign finance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions.