First Star Ventures, founded in 2014 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups focused on solving real-world problems through data and machine learning. The firm targets sectors like artificial intelligence, computational biotechnology, connected sensors, augmented reality, virtual reality, and blockchain. By collaborating with visionary technical founders, First Star Ventures aims to support the development of frontier technologies that can shape the future. Leveraging its experience and extensive network of strategic partners, the firm assists startups in scaling their ideas and achieving significant growth.
Bedrock Energy focuses on advancing geothermal heating and cooling solutions through the development of autonomous drilling technology and sophisticated subsurface simulation software. By enhancing these technologies, the company aims to make geothermal installations more widespread, affordable, and accessible, thereby transforming the heating and cooling landscape for buildings. This innovative approach not only seeks to reduce costs in the construction industry but also promotes sustainability and environmental responsibility.
Phaseshift Technologies
Seed Round in 2024
PhaseShift Technologies is addressing the critical need for new materials that can overcome limitations in performance, efficiency, cost, availability, and sustainability. Traditional material development relies heavily on trial-and-error, requiring costly and time-consuming physical experiments. This approach can extend projects over 10-20 years and cost millions of dollars, with no guarantee of success. PhaseShift's Rapid Alloy Design (RAD)™ technology revolutionizes this process by using AI to create optimized alloys tailored to specific use cases. Paired with Multi-Scale Simulations to accurately predict material performance, RAD™ minimizes the time and effort spent on unsuccessful trials. This leads to faster, more efficient development cycles and a significant reduction in resources required to meet design goals. Through the RAD™ platform, PhaseShift designs a portfolio of innovative alloys, which are commercialized via strategic partnerships with manufacturers.
Bot Auto
Seed Round in 2024
Bot Auto is a L4 autonomous trucking company, based in Houston, Texas. Operating an autonomous truck fleet and offer Transportation as a Service (TaaS) to freight customers. The team combines visionary leadership, top-tier science and engineering talents, financial and governance experts, and industry veterans to build an AI-driven autonomous trucking company. Bot Auto focused on fleet operations, transforming autonomous trucking into a commercially profitable product. This blend of experience, industry maturity, and innovative technology positions the company to commercialize autonomous trucking at scale.
Enzymit
Series A in 2024
Enzymit is focused on transforming global manufacturing by advancing cell-free bio-production technology, which aims to reduce reliance on scarce resources and enhance sustainability. The company develops novel enzymes using artificial intelligence and deep learning algorithms, enabling the creation of innovative molecular machines that can convert abundant feedstocks into valuable products across various sectors, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food, and materials. By employing small, modular bio-reactors, Enzymit enhances efficiency, reduces costs, and minimizes environmental impact compared to traditional whole-cell bio-production methods. This approach not only fosters resource independence but also allows for greater flexibility in product customization, positioning Enzymit as a competitive alternative to conventional chemical manufacturing.
Zanskar
Series B in 2024
Zanskar is a geothermal exploration and technology company focused on accelerating the discovery and development of geothermal energy resources. The company utilizes a predictive platform that leverages extensive data sets and advanced subsurface characterization technology. By integrating artificial intelligence and sophisticated sensing techniques, Zanskar enhances the exploration process, allowing clients to uncover previously unknown geothermal resources while minimizing associated risks. Through its innovative approach, Zanskar aims to contribute to the growth and sustainability of geothermal energy as a viable alternative energy source.
Bedrock Energy
Seed Round in 2023
Bedrock Energy focuses on advancing geothermal heating and cooling solutions through the development of autonomous drilling technology and sophisticated subsurface simulation software. By enhancing these technologies, the company aims to make geothermal installations more widespread, affordable, and accessible, thereby transforming the heating and cooling landscape for buildings. This innovative approach not only seeks to reduce costs in the construction industry but also promotes sustainability and environmental responsibility.
SaolaAI
Pre Seed Round in 2023
SaolaAI is the go-to platform for zero-maintenance, maximum-coverage quality, powered by real user behavior insights. With over 30 million user sessions recorded, SaolaAI stands at the forefront of autonomous quality, trusted by hundreds of engineering teams to catch critical issues throughout the application lifecycle, ensuring top-notch product quality with ease.
Salient
Venture Round in 2023
Salient creates a weather intelligence platform that combines novel ocean and land-surface data with machine learning and climate expertise to provide accurate subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) weather forecasts 2 to 52 weeks ahead. Salient's tools sift through large datasets to identify complex climate system relationships in order to provide accurate forecasts used in agriculture, energy, finance, supply chain, and other industries. Salient utilizes scientific knowledge to assist individuals and organizations in better understanding and preparing for the increasing volatility of climate change.
Blumen Systems
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Blumen is an early-stage technology company building software to streamline the regulatory challenges associated with upstream natural resources production in the US. We are focused on producers building and utilizing land-based assets powering the energy transition including carbon sequestration, geothermal, critical minerals, hydrogen, and RNG projects.
Genialis
Series A in 2023
Genialis, Inc. is a computational precision medicine company that specializes in developing a web-based software platform for biological data management and analysis. Founded in 2015 and based in Houston, Texas, the platform provides a suite of visual analytics and bioinformatics tools, facilitating the storage, analysis, and sharing of biological data while ensuring transparency and security. The system automates primary analyses to enhance reproducibility and allows non-computational experts to access advanced downstream analyses. Genialis focuses on unraveling complex biology to identify actionable biomarkers, which aids pharmaceutical companies in developing effective drugs and diagnostics that improve treatment decisions. The company's efforts aim to enhance translational research and clinical development, ultimately benefiting patients and their families.
Robigo
Seed Round in 2023
Robigo is a biomanufacturing company focused on developing precision microbial treatments aimed at enhancing plant health and recovering lost agricultural yields. By leveraging microbial engineering and data science, Robigo creates sustainable crop protection solutions that are designed to be more effective and safe for beneficial microbes, pollinators, humans, and the environment. This innovative approach enables farmers to improve their productivity and profitability while promoting sustainable farming practices.
Oort
Seed Round in 2022
Oort is an identity threat detection and response platform that focuses on enhancing enterprise security. Given that over 60% of security breaches involve the misuse of valid identity credentials, Oort recognizes identity as a critical perimeter that cannot be solely defended by personnel. The platform empowers cybersecurity and IT professionals to effectively manage their identity and access management (IAM) programs, providing full visibility and control over their identity attack surface. Oort's SaaS solution is designed for rapid deployment, allowing organizations to quickly reduce identity vulnerabilities at scale. Additionally, it offers network solutions through a network of globally distributed data centers, ensuring robust security for the digital supply chain. Based in Boston, MA, Oort operates as a fully remote startup and is supported by prominent investors such as Bain Capital Ventures, 645 Ventures, and First Star Ventures.
Oort
Series A in 2022
Oort is an identity threat detection and response platform that focuses on enhancing enterprise security. Given that over 60% of security breaches involve the misuse of valid identity credentials, Oort recognizes identity as a critical perimeter that cannot be solely defended by personnel. The platform empowers cybersecurity and IT professionals to effectively manage their identity and access management (IAM) programs, providing full visibility and control over their identity attack surface. Oort's SaaS solution is designed for rapid deployment, allowing organizations to quickly reduce identity vulnerabilities at scale. Additionally, it offers network solutions through a network of globally distributed data centers, ensuring robust security for the digital supply chain. Based in Boston, MA, Oort operates as a fully remote startup and is supported by prominent investors such as Bain Capital Ventures, 645 Ventures, and First Star Ventures.
Zanskar
Series A in 2022
Zanskar is a geothermal exploration and technology company focused on accelerating the discovery and development of geothermal energy resources. The company utilizes a predictive platform that leverages extensive data sets and advanced subsurface characterization technology. By integrating artificial intelligence and sophisticated sensing techniques, Zanskar enhances the exploration process, allowing clients to uncover previously unknown geothermal resources while minimizing associated risks. Through its innovative approach, Zanskar aims to contribute to the growth and sustainability of geothermal energy as a viable alternative energy source.
Turso
Seed Round in 2022
Turso is an open-source Edge database founded in 2021 that focuses on enhancing the developer experience for frontend developers. It provides a serverless database solution that is affordable, fast, and user-friendly. Turso allows users to create up to 500 databases replicated in three locations at no cost, enabling flexibility in data management. This capability empowers developers to efficiently bring data closer to their end users by replicating data to various servers or devices, thus facilitating improved performance and accessibility.
FYTO
Series A in 2022
FYTO, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that focuses on developing plant-based feed production systems aimed at enhancing the sustainability of agriculture. Founded in 2019, FYTO specializes in creating nutrient-dense crops that require minimal resources, alongside cultivation and harvesting systems designed to ensure quality and consistency. The company's offerings include a variety of agricultural products such as animal feed, plant-based proteins, nutritional supplements, and bio-fertilizers. By adopting climate-friendly practices and methodologies, FYTO aims to support farmers globally in achieving improved economic and environmental outcomes in their agricultural operations.
VistaPath Biosystems
Seed Round in 2022
VistaPath Biosystems, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing an automated tissue grossing platform designed to streamline the process of inspecting, describing, inking, and measuring biological tissues for diagnostic purposes. The primary product, VistaPath Sentinel, automatically locates, measures, and captures images of tissue specimens as they are placed into cassettes. This technology not only reduces the potential for mix-ups and errors but also enhances the visualization of specimens. Additionally, the platform generates automated gross reports using the laboratory's templates, which include detailed gross descriptions, patient and clinician information, and images of the relevant containers and labels. By automating these processes, VistaPath Biosystems aims to improve the efficiency and accuracy of tissue sample preparation in pathology laboratories.
Salient
Seed Round in 2022
Salient creates a weather intelligence platform that combines novel ocean and land-surface data with machine learning and climate expertise to provide accurate subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) weather forecasts 2 to 52 weeks ahead. Salient's tools sift through large datasets to identify complex climate system relationships in order to provide accurate forecasts used in agriculture, energy, finance, supply chain, and other industries. Salient utilizes scientific knowledge to assist individuals and organizations in better understanding and preparing for the increasing volatility of climate change.
Enzymit
Seed Round in 2022
Enzymit is focused on transforming global manufacturing by advancing cell-free bio-production technology, which aims to reduce reliance on scarce resources and enhance sustainability. The company develops novel enzymes using artificial intelligence and deep learning algorithms, enabling the creation of innovative molecular machines that can convert abundant feedstocks into valuable products across various sectors, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food, and materials. By employing small, modular bio-reactors, Enzymit enhances efficiency, reduces costs, and minimizes environmental impact compared to traditional whole-cell bio-production methods. This approach not only fosters resource independence but also allows for greater flexibility in product customization, positioning Enzymit as a competitive alternative to conventional chemical manufacturing.
Robigo
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Robigo is a biomanufacturing company focused on developing precision microbial treatments aimed at enhancing plant health and recovering lost agricultural yields. By leveraging microbial engineering and data science, Robigo creates sustainable crop protection solutions that are designed to be more effective and safe for beneficial microbes, pollinators, humans, and the environment. This innovative approach enables farmers to improve their productivity and profitability while promoting sustainable farming practices.
Kanary
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kanary provides solutions to assist people in protecting their digital identities. Kanary detects and removes unnecessary personal data from any website that could put people in danger. Kanary monitors the locations of people's data on the internet. Kanary specializes in data used in account takeovers, impersonation attempts, and spam.
Sia
Seed Round in 2020
Sia is the leading decentralized cloud storage platform. No signups, no servers, no trusted third parties. Sia leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace that is more robust and more affordable than traditional cloud storage providers.
Nebulous
Seed Round in 2020
Nebulous, Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in developing blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. The company is known for its flagship product, Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that utilizes blockchain technology to create a marketplace for data storage. Additionally, Nebulous offers Skynet, a decentralized content delivery network (CDN) and file-sharing platform aimed at developers, along with SiaStream, which provides affordable storage solutions for media files to enable fast streaming. As a core contributor and maintainer of the open-source Skynet project, Nebulous plays a significant role in advancing the decentralized web ecosystem.
Phaseshift Technologies
Pre Seed Round in 2020
PhaseShift Technologies is addressing the critical need for new materials that can overcome limitations in performance, efficiency, cost, availability, and sustainability. Traditional material development relies heavily on trial-and-error, requiring costly and time-consuming physical experiments. This approach can extend projects over 10-20 years and cost millions of dollars, with no guarantee of success. PhaseShift's Rapid Alloy Design (RAD)™ technology revolutionizes this process by using AI to create optimized alloys tailored to specific use cases. Paired with Multi-Scale Simulations to accurately predict material performance, RAD™ minimizes the time and effort spent on unsuccessful trials. This leads to faster, more efficient development cycles and a significant reduction in resources required to meet design goals. Through the RAD™ platform, PhaseShift designs a portfolio of innovative alloys, which are commercialized via strategic partnerships with manufacturers.
FYTO
Pre Seed Round in 2020
FYTO, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that focuses on developing plant-based feed production systems aimed at enhancing the sustainability of agriculture. Founded in 2019, FYTO specializes in creating nutrient-dense crops that require minimal resources, alongside cultivation and harvesting systems designed to ensure quality and consistency. The company's offerings include a variety of agricultural products such as animal feed, plant-based proteins, nutritional supplements, and bio-fertilizers. By adopting climate-friendly practices and methodologies, FYTO aims to support farmers globally in achieving improved economic and environmental outcomes in their agricultural operations.
EnPowered
Debt Financing in 2020
EnPowered is a company focused on helping businesses manage their energy usage and costs effectively. By offering free audits of energy bills, EnPowered enables clients to achieve significant cost reductions, potentially up to 70%. The company utilizes analytics to assess energy consumption patterns, facilitating further savings through tailored energy retrofits. EnPowered also promotes a group-buying approach, allowing small businesses to collaborate and secure lower electricity rates. Their energy usage tracking platform features on-bill payment capabilities and anticipates spikes in electricity prices, encouraging users to shift their consumption accordingly. Overall, EnPowered aims to empower customers to take control of their energy expenditures while minimizing their environmental impact.
EnPowered
Seed Round in 2020
EnPowered is a company focused on helping businesses manage their energy usage and costs effectively. By offering free audits of energy bills, EnPowered enables clients to achieve significant cost reductions, potentially up to 70%. The company utilizes analytics to assess energy consumption patterns, facilitating further savings through tailored energy retrofits. EnPowered also promotes a group-buying approach, allowing small businesses to collaborate and secure lower electricity rates. Their energy usage tracking platform features on-bill payment capabilities and anticipates spikes in electricity prices, encouraging users to shift their consumption accordingly. Overall, EnPowered aims to empower customers to take control of their energy expenditures while minimizing their environmental impact.
Salient
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Salient creates a weather intelligence platform that combines novel ocean and land-surface data with machine learning and climate expertise to provide accurate subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) weather forecasts 2 to 52 weeks ahead. Salient's tools sift through large datasets to identify complex climate system relationships in order to provide accurate forecasts used in agriculture, energy, finance, supply chain, and other industries. Salient utilizes scientific knowledge to assist individuals and organizations in better understanding and preparing for the increasing volatility of climate change.
WinterLight Labs
Series A in 2019
WinterLight Labs Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in developing a speech-based platform for detecting cognitive and mental diseases, including dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Founded in 2015, the company utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze and quantify speech and language patterns, allowing for the accurate identification and monitoring of cognitive impairments. The platform can assess a person's cognitive, acoustic, and linguistic state from a brief one-minute speech sample, evaluating aspects such as lexical diversity, syntactic complexity, semantic content, and articulation. WinterLight Labs' technology has significant applications in clinical trials, long-term and primary care, and speech-language pathology, enabling healthcare professionals to track the progression of cognitive conditions effectively.
Gradient
Venture Round in 2019
Gradient is a developer of secure software that addresses fundamental issues of trust and authenticity in the digital landscape. The company's solutions focus on redefining identity and data authentication, providing a framework for establishing trust and facilitating the sharing of provable statements while ensuring privacy and security. This enables users to collaborate openly without sacrificing digital security or integrity. Gradient's infrastructure is designed to foster decentralized trust, contributing to safer and more reliable digital interactions.
Swiftly
Seed Round in 2019
Swiftly, Inc. is a technology company that develops and markets applications tailored for supermarkets and retailers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Shelton, Washington, Swiftly provides a platform that enables retailers to offer personalized deals, manage loyalty points, facilitate lane checkout, and implement subscription services for their customers. The company’s solutions empower retailers to leverage digital tools akin to those used by large retail chains and e-commerce platforms, allowing store managers to effectively distribute relevant deals to individual shoppers, track consumer behavior, and provide tailored product recommendations.
Nomic
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Nomic is a bioengineering company focused on making the human proteome as accessible as the human genome. The company is developing the nELISA, a next-generation platform for measuring proteins at high throughput and scale. Nomic provides scientists with protein profiling solutions, allowing them to determine the scope and scale of their experiments. Their platform features cost-effective measurement of protein data and integrates smoothly with industry-standard cytometers for high-throughput analysis. Additionally, Nomic's technology enables the development of custom protein panels, leveraging nanotechnology to use DNA as a versatile linker to address issues of cross-reactivity in protein measurement.
Jellyfish
Seed Round in 2019
Jellyfish, Inc. is an engineering management platform that assists engineering leaders in aligning their teams' activities with strategic business objectives. The platform integrates engineering data with contextual business information, enabling users to understand how engineering efforts contribute to overall business growth. Jellyfish's solutions encompass tracking engineering work, analyzing performance, and enhancing productivity, while also providing visibility into resource allocation and operational effectiveness. The platform supports functions such as strategic alignment, communication of value, and R&D cost capitalization. Established in 2007, Jellyfish is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Washington, D.C.
Scoot Science
Seed Round in 2019
Scoot Science is a company that specializes in ocean data analysis software aimed at reducing marine risk through advanced ocean observing and forecasting. By utilizing autonomous underwater vehicles, Scoot Science gathers data on local ocean conditions and generates forecasts that address existing data gaps. Their software integrates traditional numerical ocean models with predictive artificial intelligence, allowing marine stakeholders to make informed decisions regarding logistics and operations. Additionally, the company offers consulting services to fish farmers, helping them protect their assets, enhance sustainability, and improve profitability through innovative assessment solutions.
MotionHall
Seed Round in 2019
MotionHall Inc. is a technology solutions provider based in San Francisco, California, focusing on the biopharma sector. The company serves emerging biopharma firms, investment bankers, pharmaceutical companies, and venture capital markets. MotionHall has developed a market intelligence platform that utilizes machine learning and predictive matching algorithms to analyze the global landscape of partnerships and mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical industry. This platform offers clients data-driven insights to enhance deal planning, improve financial outcomes, and increase confidence in product success. By providing predictive advisory on deal partners and transaction viability, MotionHall aims to streamline the deal-making process for its clients.
Plus One Robotics
Series A in 2018
Plus One Robotics Inc. specializes in developing advanced 3D vision and control systems for robotic automation in the logistics and e-commerce sectors. Established in 2016 and located in San Antonio, Texas, the company offers a parcel-handling robotics platform that integrates computer vision, artificial intelligence, and supervised autonomy. Their flagship product, the PickOne Perception System, accurately identifies the six-degree-of-freedom pick pose of parcels and directs robots to pick and place these parcels onto induction conveyors. Additionally, the system verifies placement and corrects errors by issuing commands to reposition misaligned parcels. Plus One Robotics aims to enhance operational efficiency for leading logistics and e-commerce companies by improving sortation accuracy and reducing the need for downstream verification and return handling.
Tranquil Data
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Tranquil Data is a Massachusetts-based computer software company founded in 2018 that focuses on digital transformation, cloud solutions, and business governance. The company offers a data accelerating platform that helps organizations capture and connect relevant data across various applications and databases. By automating the process of linking data to its context, Tranquil Data simplifies compliance for businesses and empowers them to analyze, innovate, and transform their operations. This platform enables compliance officers to manage rules effectively while allowing business roles to map data to its intended uses, ultimately helping organizations discover and validate new applications for their existing data.
Plus One Robotics
Seed Round in 2018
Plus One Robotics Inc. specializes in developing advanced 3D vision and control systems for robotic automation in the logistics and e-commerce sectors. Established in 2016 and located in San Antonio, Texas, the company offers a parcel-handling robotics platform that integrates computer vision, artificial intelligence, and supervised autonomy. Their flagship product, the PickOne Perception System, accurately identifies the six-degree-of-freedom pick pose of parcels and directs robots to pick and place these parcels onto induction conveyors. Additionally, the system verifies placement and corrects errors by issuing commands to reposition misaligned parcels. Plus One Robotics aims to enhance operational efficiency for leading logistics and e-commerce companies by improving sortation accuracy and reducing the need for downstream verification and return handling.
Everbloom
Seed Round in 2018
Everbloom is a Boston-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in developing a platform for decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. This exchange utilizes blockchain technology for settlement, ensuring a non-custodial trading environment. Everbloom supports trading in Ethereum and ERC20 tokens, providing users with a secure and efficient way to engage in cryptocurrency transactions.
Feature Labs
Seed Round in 2018
Feature Labs, Inc. develops tools and application programming interfaces designed for machine learning solutions, focusing on automated feature engineering. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company emerged from research conducted at MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab. Feature Labs enables data science teams to harness machine learning and artificial intelligence efficiently, helping organizations to deploy new products and services, uncover essential insights, and better understand their data's implications for future business decisions. As a subsidiary of Alteryx, Inc., Feature Labs aims to enhance the performance of machine learning models by addressing specific business challenges through its innovative platform.
Plex Research
Seed Round in 2018
Plex Research, Inc. specializes in the design and development of an advanced search engine aimed at enhancing drug discovery processes. Founded in 2017 and located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company's platform employs sophisticated search algorithms to analyze compounds, their mechanisms of action, and toxicity levels. It characterizes promising candidates and optimizes lead compounds while generating screening sets targeted at specific biological pathways and therapeutic indications. By consolidating extensive biomedical research data and algorithms into a single search interface, Plex Research facilitates efficient access to critical information for drug discovery, positioning itself as a valuable resource for researchers in the biomedical field.
Reniac
Venture Round in 2017
Reniac, Inc. specializes in designing and developing intelligent data-aware architectures for various applications, servers, and data storage solutions. The company has created a data engine platform that enhances and optimizes open-source database implementations, particularly for data-centric applications. Reniac's offerings include a Cassandra I/O accelerator, a distributed and persistent cache, and a storage engine tailored for graph and SQL databases. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in Hyderabad, India, and Richmond, Canada, Reniac aims to address bottlenecks in data infrastructure workloads. Its cloud-based data engine is engineered to provide higher throughput and lower latency within a scale-out architecture, assisting enterprises in improving performance for critical workloads across public cloud, hybrid, and on-premise data centers without necessitating changes to existing applications.
Genialis
Seed Round in 2017
Genialis, Inc. is a computational precision medicine company that specializes in developing a web-based software platform for biological data management and analysis. Founded in 2015 and based in Houston, Texas, the platform provides a suite of visual analytics and bioinformatics tools, facilitating the storage, analysis, and sharing of biological data while ensuring transparency and security. The system automates primary analyses to enhance reproducibility and allows non-computational experts to access advanced downstream analyses. Genialis focuses on unraveling complex biology to identify actionable biomarkers, which aids pharmaceutical companies in developing effective drugs and diagnostics that improve treatment decisions. The company's efforts aim to enhance translational research and clinical development, ultimately benefiting patients and their families.
Resilinc
Venture Round in 2016
Resilinc Corporation specializes in providing cloud-based Software-as-a-Service solutions focused on supply chain resiliency and risk management. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including supply chain mapping to identify vulnerabilities, crisis management solutions for preparedness and response, and a collaborative platform for risk mitigation efforts. Additionally, Resilinc delivers EventWatch Professional, a service that monitors global events that could disrupt supply chains, and Resilinc CyberSCRM, which protects supply chains from cybersecurity threats. Founded in 2010 and based in Palo Alto, California, Resilinc's solutions enable organizations to effectively plan, monitor, and mitigate disruptions across multi-tier supply chains, enhancing overall resilience and compliance.
Sia
Seed Round in 2016
Sia is the leading decentralized cloud storage platform. No signups, no servers, no trusted third parties. Sia leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace that is more robust and more affordable than traditional cloud storage providers.
Nebulous
Seed Round in 2016
Nebulous, Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in developing blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. The company is known for its flagship product, Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that utilizes blockchain technology to create a marketplace for data storage. Additionally, Nebulous offers Skynet, a decentralized content delivery network (CDN) and file-sharing platform aimed at developers, along with SiaStream, which provides affordable storage solutions for media files to enable fast streaming. As a core contributor and maintainer of the open-source Skynet project, Nebulous plays a significant role in advancing the decentralized web ecosystem.
Upskill
Venture Round in 2015
Upskill, Inc. is a technology company specializing in augmented reality software tailored for the industrial workforce. Founded in 2010 and based in Vienna, Virginia, with additional offices in Cambridge and San Francisco, Upskill offers the Skylight platform, which enables organizations to create applications for smart glasses. This platform connects workers across various industries—including healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and logistics—with essential information, processes, and tools, allowing them to perform tasks more efficiently and accurately. Upskill's solutions facilitate hands-free operation, thereby enhancing productivity, quality, and compliance in competitive environments. The company was previously known as APX Labs, LLC before rebranding in January 2017.
Oculii
Seed Round in 2015
Oculii develops advanced AI software for radar systems, aiming to enhance resolution, range, and accuracy while reducing costs compared to traditional solutions. Its technology is essential for the advancement of autonomous vehicles, which require reliable and high-performance perception capabilities in all weather conditions. By utilizing Virtual Aperture Imaging, Oculii's software allows existing radar hardware to achieve higher angular resolution without the need for increased physical antenna count. This innovation enables the extraction of detailed 4D positioning information from low-cost, off-the-shelf radar components, paving the way for improved radar imaging. Oculii collaborates with leading companies in autonomous vehicles, robotics, and drones, positioning itself as a key player in the development of affordable and effective perception technologies for the future of autonomy.
Seven Bridges
Seed Round in 2014
Seven Bridges is the industry-leading infrastructure and data analytics company accelerating precision medicine by enabling the understanding of biomedical data. Our platform, services, and support expertise are driving discovery and drug development at the world’s leading academic, biotechnology, government, hospitals, and pharmaceutical entities. Through our collaborations with the largest genomics projects, we connect the world’s biomedical information to enable the most efficient analysis at scale. Named one of the world's smartest companies by MIT Technology Review, and a three-time Bio-IT World Best of Show winner, Seven Bridges has offices in Belgrade, Boston, Istanbul, and San Francisco.
Weft
Seed Round in 2014
Weft, Inc. is a global logistics data company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that specializes in providing real-time asset intelligence to enhance supply chain operations. Established in 2013 and operating as a subsidiary of Genscape, Inc., Weft integrates various tracking technologies, including Wi-Fi, BLE, GPS, satellite, and GPRS, to offer insights into logistics processes. The company's platform allows users to monitor and manage their assets, setting alerts for conditions such as location, temperature, and vibrations. By leveraging predictive analytics, Weft helps shippers anticipate potential bottlenecks by analyzing current locations and planned routes against historical data, enabling proactive adjustments to improve delivery timelines. The platform is accessible through web and mobile applications, and it collaborates with ERP providers, telecommunications companies, and logistics firms to extend its reach and capabilities within the industry.
Infinite Analytics
Seed Round in 2014
Infinite Analytics, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing a personalization platform for ecommerce organizations globally. Founded in 2012 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an office in Mumbai, India, the company offers several key products, including Infinite Enrich, which transforms raw product catalog data into actionable insights; Infinite Search, which delivers personalized search results to enhance product discovery; and Infinite Recommend, a tool that tailors purchasing journeys through a variety of recommendation widgets. Additionally, Infinite Analytics has developed an AI platform called Sherlock, which offers consumer insights and actionable recommendations, allowing businesses of all sizes to analyze consumer behavior without the need for complex, costly data systems. By simplifying the process of obtaining consumer insights, Sherlock facilitates intelligent segmentation and targeting through machine learning, enabling clients to boost conversions while lowering acquisition costs.
Contastic
Seed Round in 2014
Contastic Inc. is a company based in Menlo Park, California, that specializes in a customer relationship management (CRM) system designed to enhance lead nurturing for sales professionals, realtors, freelancers, and consultants. The platform automatically generates personalized emails for users, utilizing data from Gmail and LinkedIn to identify when they last communicated with contacts and to tailor content based on the interests of prospects. This system operates over a secure encrypted channel, ensuring the privacy of user data while providing a daily digest of relevant news to keep users informed. Founded in 1996, Contastic Inc. has been functioning as a subsidiary of SugarCRM Inc. since March 2016.
Parallel Wireless
Seed Round in 2014
Parallel Wireless, Inc. is a company based in Nashua, New Hampshire, that specializes in developing innovative wireless cellular networks. Established in 2012, Parallel Wireless focuses on reimagining the architecture of the cellular radio access network (RAN) to effectively address the challenges posed by heterogeneous networks and facilitate the transition to 5G technology. The company offers a range of solutions, including a HetNet gateway that is 3GPP-compliant and utilizes software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) to help operators scale and manage multi-vendor and multi-technology networks, including 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi. Additionally, Parallel Wireless provides a converged wireless system that functions as a multi-radio access technology (multi-RAT) node, designed for versatile outdoor and in-vehicle deployment, ensuring comprehensive coverage.
Speedy Packets
Venture Round in 2014
Speedy Packets, Inc. is a technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2013. It specializes in developing cloud-based software solutions aimed at enhancing TCP performance across various network types, including fiber, cable, DSL, wireless, and satellite. The company's innovative software optimizes internet connections by applying coding to TCP packets, which reduces packet loss and minimizes retransmission requests. This results in significant improvements in end-to-end throughput and overall internet speed. Speedy Packets' technology enables businesses, service providers, and individuals to enjoy seamless online experiences, facilitating activities such as streaming videos, uploading content, and transferring files efficiently.
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