Flight Ventures

Flight Ventures is the first fund that was built by leveraging AngelList syndicates. They operate some of the top syndicates on AngelList, as well as the Flight Ventures Expansion fund (offline). Flight Ventures includes 25 partners with exceptional operational and entrepreneurial accolades, all whom actively engage with our portfolio companies.

Alec Hsu

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Elude

Seed Round in 2021
Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to. Think, 'Where can I go next weekend for $500 bucks?' Elude books your trip and shows true market transparency in the otherwise cloudy and non-linear travel space.

OLIO

Series B in 2021
OLIO is a free app connecting neighbors so surplus food and other items can be shared, not binned. Its location-based app and website allows people to list and post a photo of unwanted food items to be shared with other people in the same neighborhood, reducing food waste. OLIO was founded in 2015 and is based in London.

Elude

Seed Round in 2021
Elude takes a users travel budget and dates they can travel and shows every city in the world they can afford to get to. Think, 'Where can I go next weekend for $500 bucks?' Elude books your trip and shows true market transparency in the otherwise cloudy and non-linear travel space.

ARTA

Seed Round in 2021
ARTA is a logistics software and fulfillment service. Their API automates shipping and fulfillment for value and collectible objects. Their resources focused on post-sale fulfillment for online and offline sellers. They specialize in logistical services for art, design, furniture, antiques, jewelry, watches, and collectibles.

Feel Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2021
Feel Therapeutics is a digital precision medicine company delivering objective data and passive measurement for mental health. The company develops physiological and digital biomarkers and therapeutics for mental health. Its Feel data monitoring device leverages five embedded sensors via the wristband. Feel collects biometric data and analyzes them using the latest cutting-edge methods of computer science to develop digital biomarkers.

Momentum

Seed Round in 2020
Momentum is an OS/inbox and copilot for anyone who runs a pipeline (sales, fundraising, success, hiring, etc). Powered by behavioral science, useful AI, and thoughtful people.

Honeycomb Credit

Seed Round in 2020
Honeycomb Credit is a developer of a peer-to-peer lending platform designed to allow friends and family to fund small businesses.

Safely Health

Series A in 2019
The Safely App lets potential partners share their verified STD and COVID status in a way that's trusted, private, and secure. More than an app, Safely is a movement to disrupt the spread of STD's and make the world a safer (and more fun) place to be. Behind it's sexy exterior, Safely is a fully vertically integrated healthcare company with partnerships and proprietary integrations with many of the world's leading healthcare companies, including Quest, Labcorp Mayo Clinic, EPIC, CVS, and more. SAFE works in partnership with the CDC, many of the world's top nonprofit organizations and influencers, plus social media platforms and dating apps, to empower this and future generations to know and show their status.

Yobs

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Instantly record, transcribe and analyze Zoom interviews to hire better, faster.

Inkbox

Series A in 2018
Brothers Tyler and Braden Handley were discussing their shared interest in getting tattoos. The problem was they both knew they’d end up regretting them in the next 10 years. They recognized that they probably weren’t the only ones frustrating by the permanence of tattoos, and decided to create a completely new type of tattoo that had the look and feel of a real one - without the permanent time stamp. From there Inkbox was born, and what started as an idea between brothers quickly turned into a growing tribe of dedicated followers.

Service

Seed Round in 2017
Service gets you paid when your flight is delayed or cancelled.

Parabol

Convertible Note in 2017
Parabol is a remote retrospective and meeting app that generates automatic insights about team performance from online collaboration activity. Our software allows distributed, cloud-based teams to run meetings from anywhere, across time zones, in real time or asynchronously. Team notes and tasks are automatically rolled into a meeting summary which is instantly posted to the team timeline and emailed to stakeholders. Teammates can also export their tasks to Jira, Confluence, Github, or Slack. Parabol also analyzes meeting data to generate powerful leadership insights about what’s holding your team back, and how to unlock better performance.

Expo

Seed Round in 2017
Expo enables management and teams to enhance their performance by leveraging real-time data and insights for optimization. Expo was formerly known as Pared.

OnPlan

Angel Round in 2016
OnPlan is a modular financial platform that helps businesses to perform budgeting, forecasting, KPI tracking, dashboarding, benchmarking and more.

Winnie

Seed Round in 2016
Winnie is a marketplace for child care built on powerful data systems and backed by a trusted community of parents and providers. Parents use Winnie to discover high-quality local daycares and preschools and learn all about their programs including detailed descriptions, photos, tuition information, licensing status, availability data, and more. Child care providers use Winnie to fill their open spaces, build their wait lists, and get support and resources to run their business efficiently. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

HappyCo

Series A in 2016
HappyCo is taking traditional paper based processes out of the dark ages. HappyCo develops software for property management companies that have operation teams who rely on paper forms (such as inspections/checklist/audits) and help to re-imagine the way they work.

Shortcut

Seed Round in 2016
Shortcut builds the best project management tools for modern software teams. It provides a balance of simplicity and structure so software teams can be happier, less stressed, and can focus on working together to build products that customers love. Shortcut's mission is to provide the most intuitive and enjoyable project management tools — from project planning to product creation. We're here to ensure software development teams do less work about work and do more of the work that matters. Shortcut was founded in 2014 and is based in New York.

Troops

Series A in 2016
Troops.ai provides salesforce automation platform that gives real-time transparency around salesforce information. It serves as a Slackbot for sales team. Troops.ai allows its users to configure Salesforce reports, communicate deal wins, and pull salesforce data for all standard and custom objects through Slack. Its investors include First Round Capital, Founder Collective, Next View Ventures, Great Oaks Capital, Chicago Ventures, Vast Ventures, and other angel investors.

Fitspot

Seed Round in 2016
Fitspot is the centralized hub for amenities, connecting properties and tenants to an ecosystem of on-site and digital wellness experiences.

Proof

Series A in 2016
Proof is an identity-assured transaction management platform that verifies identities and secures digital transactions. It offers digital trust by verifying identities and securing transactions, ensuring protection for businesses and their customers.

Oliver

Seed Round in 2016
Applying for a visa shouldn't be scary. Dowza is here to make the process as easy to understand as possible so applying for your visa can be a breeze. Oliver does not work, or is in any way, affiliated to the US government. As a private company, their goal is to help their customers file correct and complete visa applications. Please keep in mind that the US government is the only authorized entity in charge of accepting or rejecting your visa application.

Managed by Q

Series B in 2016
Managed by Q makes it easy to run an office. Known as the operating system for offices, Q saves businesses and employees valuable time by providing a range of subscription and on-demand services, from cleaning and maintenance to supply replenishment and wellness. Today, the Managed by Q technology platform connects thousands of businesses to the services required to seamlessly run their workspaces. The company is committed to spreading a mission of economic empowerment, by creating good jobs for its Operators and providing opportunities for small business to flourish. With operations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, Managed by Q is redefining the way the world works.

Modal

Seed Round in 2016
Modal, previously known as Drive Motors Inc., specializes in online car-buying solutions tailored for auto dealer groups, banks, and brands in the United States. The company provides a platform that facilitates digital transactions seamlessly integrated into existing websites and showrooms. Modal's technology functions as a transparent transaction layer, enhancing the user experience while maintaining the original interface. The platform includes features such as Checkout, which enables digital transactions directly on web pages, Shop, a connected sales tool that streamlines the commerce experience, and Trade, which integrates with the buying journey. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Modal is supported by a team with backgrounds in leading technology firms and backed by significant investors, positioning itself as a transformative force in the automotive retail industry.

Purse

Seed Round in 2015
The biggest challenge to Bitcoin commerce is the lack of consumer incentive to spend. Purse generates this incentive in the form of 15% discounts on Amazon. Buyers can purchase bitcoins with a credit card as easily as checking out on Amazon, thus solving the last mile problem.

Growbots

Angel Round in 2015
Our mission is to unlock growth potential for all businesses worldwide. With Growbots AI, everyone can find their ideal business partners with one click of a button. What the steam engine did for the industrial worker, AI has done for the sales rep. Sales reps are no longer limited in the number of people they can contact by the hours in the day. They now have Growbots. Growbots is an all in one solution for driving predictable revenue growth. With our AI based platform, anyone who needs to generate leads, from sales to marketing, can reach out to hundreds of potential customers in minutes. Sales people are freed up to interact directly with customers and create more business, instead of slogging through the tedious and time-consuming process of manual prospecting and outreach. With a team of over 80 talented people, spread across 3 offices, and over 450 customers, we are one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies, growing 1200% in 2016 alone! We’re backed by some of the most forward-looking and innovative investors in the technology space.

SketchDeck

Seed Round in 2015
Scalable design for marketing teams. Design drives growth. SketchDeck is the most convenient design service that exists. We design everything from presentations to infographics, and it's all easily managed through our powerful web platform. Trusted by Okta, Microsoft, Cognizant, and hundreds more.

Bluesmart

Seed Round in 2015
Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggage and its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.

Happn

Series B in 2015
Happn is a location-based mobile dating application that enables its users to build connections based on real-time interactions. Happn helps its users to discover people they’ve crossed paths with.

Cruise

Series A in 2015
Cruise is building advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people with places, things, and experiences they care about. Cruise autonomous vehicles are actively navigating challenging and unpredictable driving environments, tackling the complex traffic scenarios human drivers face daily to bring self-driving technology to the world.

NextLesson

Seed Round in 2015
NextLesson’s mission is to make learning relevant and engaging. Built for teachers of K-12 students, NextLesson offers relevant curriculum that immerses students in real-world problem solving through topics they care about.

Pana

Seed Round in 2015
Pana is a computer software company that specializes in mobile, online travel, and mobile commerce. The company is driven by its mission is to make travel simple, personal, and delightful. From an app, they make booking travel as easy as texting a friend, provide white-glove care for the highs and lows of travel, and offer travel perks, rewards, and experiences. Pana was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Carta

Series B in 2015
Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup.

Beepi

Series B in 2015
Beepi is a Los Altos, California company offering an online peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling used cars, where transactions can be carried out entirely with a smart phone or a PC. It was launched in April 2014. The Internet has changed everything. Well, not quite. Buying and selling used cars, unfortunately, hasn't changed for decades. Now that painful world is waking up. It's going from sleepi to Beepi. Beepi replaces the used car lot with a system that connects buyers and sellers in a radical new way. No negotiating, no trips to the dealer, no surprises – and no commission to the guy with the plaid jacket. Which means a better price for everyone. Join the car revolution. Join Beepi.

Joist

Series A in 2015
Joist is a new tool for contractors that allows you to estimate, invoice, record payments, and manage projects from your iPhone/iPad and the web. Features: - Include your company logo for professional estimates and invoices - Build a list of commonly used items to quickly create estimates and invoices - Calculate estimates fast - Print or email estimates and invoices on the spot - Convert estimates into invoices - Record payments right then and there - Manage and store your client information - Export everything into your accounting program With Joist you can calculate and send estimates on the spot to your client. Issue invoices and record payments. And export all of the information to your preferred accounting system.

RevCascade

Venture Round in 2015
Introducing RevCascade, purpose built to help brands make more money, save time, and stay in total control of products, pricing, and merchandising.

Case

Seed Round in 2015
Case is a multi-signature hardware bitcoin wallet that is GSM-enabled and biometrically protected for securing digital assets.

NewsWhip

Venture Round in 2015
NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term. NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies, including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social. NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.

Dialpad

Series C in 2015
Dialpad is an AI-powered cloud communications platform that turns conversations into opportunities and helps teams make smart calls. The communications and contact center provider offers native, real-time transcription, automated note-taking, live sentiment, and voice analytics to market, and with the rising demand for remote collaboration. It offers Dialpad, Dialpad Sell, UberConference, and Dialpad Contact Center solutions that are all powered by VoiceAI. These products cover the full range of modern business communications needs with a range of system software that offers voice, video, group messaging, SMS, MMS, conferencing, screen sharing, and document sharing services that enable employees to collaborate securely from anywhere across any device, in a single platform.
AltSchool is an interdisciplinary team of educators, technologists and entrepreneurs building a network of schools that prepare students for our changing world. Each individual school is able to adapt to the needs of students, families and the surrounding community; the larger network connects everyone together and enables a far greater impact in our efforts to improve education. Underlying it all is a platform and curriculum that is personalized to each individual child.

STRATIM Systems

Series B in 2015
STRATIM builds enterprise logistics platform for transportation companies to modernize fleet operations, unify systems, ensure high vehicle up-time, and deliver better mobility experiences. The company aims to enable the transportation industry to thrive in this complexity by providing powerful yet easy-to-use technology that simplifies the management of fleets at scale. STRATIM has three product lines: The STRATIM Platform unifies and oversees your entire logistical operation through a suite of software tools; The STRATIM Exchange connects you to vendors that enable real time fulfillment of your requests on the ground; and The STRATIM Marketplace enables fleet owners and their vendors to transact with each other. The company was incorporated in the year 2014 as Zirx and later on re-branded as STRATIM in 2017.

Barricade IO

Seed Round in 2015
Barricade works like an early warning system against any attempts at breaching the security of servers. It can also identify any security threats It was founded in November 2014.

Modal

Seed Round in 2015
Modal, previously known as Drive Motors Inc., specializes in online car-buying solutions tailored for auto dealer groups, banks, and brands in the United States. The company provides a platform that facilitates digital transactions seamlessly integrated into existing websites and showrooms. Modal's technology functions as a transparent transaction layer, enhancing the user experience while maintaining the original interface. The platform includes features such as Checkout, which enables digital transactions directly on web pages, Shop, a connected sales tool that streamlines the commerce experience, and Trade, which integrates with the buying journey. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Modal is supported by a team with backgrounds in leading technology firms and backed by significant investors, positioning itself as a transformative force in the automotive retail industry.

Asseta

Seed Round in 2015
Founded in May of 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, Asseta is a marketplace for companies to quickly and safely buy semiconductor parts from suppliers around the world. Whether it's a used chamber assembly, a refurbished power supply, or a new o-ring in factory sealed packaging, Asseta helps you find the part you need, in the condition you need it, at 50-60% less than OEM pricing.

HappyCo

Series A in 2015
HappyCo is taking traditional paper based processes out of the dark ages. HappyCo develops software for property management companies that have operation teams who rely on paper forms (such as inspections/checklist/audits) and help to re-imagine the way they work.

Soothe

Seed Round in 2015
Soothe is the world’s leading wellness marketplace, connecting individual and corporate clients with wellness providers who meet their personalized needs through the Soothe app, Soothe Residential, Hospitality & Spa staffing, and Soothe Corporate Wellness services. Soothe was founded in 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

Pley

Series B in 2015
Pley is building the next generation of play. It puts the power of educational toys in people’s hands in a more affordable, convenient and eco-friendly way. Pley’s goal is to change the very paradigm of playtime for kids by providing an affordable subscription service for educational toys. Leveraging collaborative consumption, it aims to raise a more creative and skillful generation.

Bonafide

Seed Round in 2015
Bonafide builds trust by allowing users to promote their community reputation or even identity. While Bitcoin transactions are anonymous there are many cases where identity is known. An example would be a retail location that accepts Bitcoins. A customer could be presented with a bill for meal with a QRC to make a payment. Without Bonafide there is no way for the customer to confirm that the address ties to the restaurant.

Sproutling

Venture Round in 2015
Sproutling provides tools that help parents by providing real-time insights about their child through wearable monitors. It creates thoughtfully-designed products to help make parents more effective. Their first product, The Sproutling Baby Monitor, is really the first-of-its-kind baby monitor that not only monitors a baby and their environment, but learns and predicts a baby’s sleep patterns such as when they should expect their baby to wake up, or an optimal time to put them to sleep so that they can get better quality sleep. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pillow

Venture Round in 2015
Pillow provides Internet-based management services. It offers information about a property, essential amenities, and other apartments and houses. The company is an Expedia group that solves short-term rentals for multifamily properties, allowing building owners and property managers to have control and transparency over short-term rentals while enabling their residents to rent their units short-term on listings sites such as Homeaway, VRBO, and Airbnb.

Vouch Financial

Seed Round in 2014
Vouch brings friend-powered finance to the lending industry. It helps borrowers get personal loans at better terms than other lending institutions or marketplaces typically offer. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Rent the Runway

Series D in 2014
Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories. It is transforming the way modern women get dressed - and in turn, disrupting the $1.7 trillion fashion industry - through the concept of renting over buying clothing. Founded in 2009 by Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss, RTR pioneered the ‘closet in the cloud’ and believes that women everywhere will soon have a subscription to fashion, making renting an indispensable utility while also empowering them to feel like their best selves every day. RTR carries hundreds of thousands of pieces of apparel and accessories by 550+ designer partners with options for work, weekends, and special occasions. The company has built proprietary technology, one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation, and retail stores of the future that bring the dream closet to life. RTR has raised more than $200M from top-tier investors, has more than eight million users, and prides itself on the entrepreneurial, dream-big culture at the company which employs 1,200 people -- 70% of whom are women and 71% are minority/non-white. In 2015, the co-founders launched the Rent the Runway Foundation, supporting tens of thousands of female entrepreneurs in building and scaling their businesses.

Boost Media

Series C in 2014
Boost Media is a fastest growing B2B SaaS companies in Silicon Valley, and they are committed to going public. They're hiring across the company in all roles. Join them as they revolutionize the digital advertising industry. They raised their Series A in December of 2012 and their Series B in June of 2013. Boost Media is an enterprise solution for optimizing ad creative at scale across Search, Social, Display & Mobile. The Company focuses on optimizing for enterprise advertisers and generates substantial improvements in conversions-per-impression for customers. Today, Boost is trusted to drive optimization and insights for over $300 million in advertising spend across networks and premium publisher sites such as Google, Microsoft+Yahoo Bing Ads and Facebook.

Contactually

Seed Round in 2014
Contactually converts your contacts to relationships, all through email. The system identifies when you email a new lead, shows what you already know about him, and asks a few specific questions to learn more: how did you meet, how important is he, what are the next steps. The system then parses your response and automatically pushes all rich data to your CRM.

Worklife

Seed Round in 2014
WorkLife is a web app that helps teams have more productive meetings. It is a collaboration platform that automates best practices for managing meetings, projects and people and helps team to improve their performance by using it. It helps to create agendas, stay on track during the meeting, and ensure next steps will be done afterwards. WorkLife is founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Datanyze

Seed Round in 2014
Datanyze is the leader in technographics -- real-time insights based on a company's technology choices and buying signals. With technographics, we help our customers find great accounts and convert them into customers. Datanyze is used by 600 companies around the world and has been recognized as both a Gartner Cool Vendor and G2Crowd High Performer.

Nutmeg

Series B in 2014
Nutmeg is changing the way people manage their money. Specializing in investments, ISAs and pensions, Nutmeg's online investment management service is intelligent, straightforward and fair. It is the first wealth manager with a 6 year performance track record in the UK. Founded in 2011, the company is based in London, UK.

Life360

Series C in 2014
Life360 is a platform for today’s busy families, bringing them closer together by helping them better sync, communicate with, and protect the people they care about most. Their mobile app provides millions of families in over 140 countries with services such as private location sharing, location history, drive details, crash detection, roadside assistance and help alerts through our free and paid membership subscription. Life360 has raised +$100M from Bessemer Venture Partners, DCM, Fontinalis Partners, BMW iVentures, Allstate, Bullpen Capital, Founders Fund (FF Angel), Launch Capital, Kapor Capital, and 500 startups. Founded in 2008, Life360 is based in San Francisco with offices in San Diego, Las Vegas, and Ft. Lauderdale.

CARD.com

Series A in 2013
CARD.com is the leader in affinity branded prepaid cards. The company expertly crafts financial products that speak to the passions of consumers while providing a banking solution that fits seamlessly into today's mobile lifestyles. CARD offers 8,000 personalized card designs including Tom Brady, Alvin Kamara and Todd Gurley of the NFLPA and brands like Hallmark, Betty Boop, Star Trek, Care Bears, Sonic the Hedgehog and more. For more information visit www.card.com.

UXPin

Seed Round in 2013
UXPin is a product design platform that allows product and design teams to easily design, collaborate on, and present both high- and low-fidelity, fully-interactive wireframes and prototypes. Say goodbye to old-school wireframing and prototyping tools that only do one step of the product design process and don't allow you to use your existing design work, whether it was produced in Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch or elsewhere. UXPin let's you take products from concept to beautiful, pixel-perfect prototypes without any compromise. And you can share your work with anyone involved in product -- the design team, developers, clients, etc. -- and even run live usability tests with end-users.

Dollar Shave Club

Series B in 2013
Dollar Shave Club is a lifestyle brand and e-commerce company that invents and delivers smart, affordable products to make lives easier. Through an exclusive R&D process that includes botanicals and chemists, the company makes all its own products at affordable prices. Dollar Shave Club was founded in 2012 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Upworthy

Series A in 2013
Lots of media companies have a mission. But Upworthy is on a mission to change what the world pays attention to. We believe that stories about important issues can and should be great stories — stories for everyone, stories that connect us and sometimes even change the world —because we’re all part of the same story.

Orion Labs

Seed Round in 2013
Orion Labs is the voice-first communication platform for deskless & frontline teams. It delivers instant and secure voice, location, and data messaging across a constellation of connected devices, applications, and AI-powered services. This combination enables mobile teams to collaborate without losing focus, on any device, across any distance, without boundaries. The Orion platform includes the Orion Push to Talk app along with Orion Sync and Onyx wearables. These work with Orion’s web-based command center, advanced location services, language translation, voice bots, and workflows. Orion interoperates with traditional VoIP and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems, and Orion’s APIs and SDKs enable developers to build on and extend the Orion platform. The company was founded by cloud infrastructure pioneers Jesse Robbins and Greg Albrecht, who were inspired by their unique experiences using traditional radios as first responders. Orion is backed by leading investors and is based in San Francisco, California. Orion was recently named an IDC Innovator, received an Edison Award for Voice Technology, and won the 2018 “IoT Wearables Innovation Vendor of the Year” and “AI Breakthrough Best Overall Bot Solution” awards.

Scripted.com

Series A in 2013
Scripted provides original written content for small and large businesses. Order anything from tweets to white papers, and everything in between.
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