Founder Friendly Labs

Founder Friendly Labs (FFL) is the equity-free startup accelerator for experienced tech industry professionals. Startups can receive over $200,000 USD in credits from partners including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), First Republic Bank, and HubSpot. We understand founders are busy, so we offer a low-commitment experience. Our founders are experienced tech industry professionals and include veterans from Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft, a Co-Founder of Excite, and a Partner from Sequoia Capital. They are experts in AI, Machine Learning, Marketing, Productivity, Marketplaces, Deep Learning, IoT, NLP, VR, Financial Planning, and other industries.

Mendel Chuang

Executive Director

Samantha Quist

Director

177 past transactions

Barnacle

Seed Round in 2014
Barnacle operates a distributed delivery network that matches drivers with people who need to send parcels or receive shipments. It enables users to transport bulky or fragile items, as well as bicycles, musical instruments, care packages, pets, and more. Barnacle has a strategic partnership with Sealaska. The company is based in Mountain View, California.

Leap.ai

Seed Round in 2018
Leap.ai uses AI to refer and match job seekers to the right company and guarantee interviews for tech job seekers. It utilizes AI and Google executive expertise to help its users to land opportunities where they have the best chance to shine and enable their career success and happiness at scale through a creative recruiting solution, targeted career advice, and mentorship. Leap is founded by two former Google engineers, Richard Liu and Yunkai Zhou.

Appsperse

Venture Round in 2012
Appserse provides mobile application publishers a platform to measure the ROI of their marketing campaigns. With Appsperse's platform a mobile application publisher can know exactly how much revenue acquired via any marketing channel. Appsperse founders Hugo Troche, Matt Farnell, and Alex Kim are three experienced app developers with over 20 mobile apps under their belt. They have felt the pain of not being able to calculate the performance of their marketing budgets for their own apps.

Osmo

Seed Round in 2013
Started in 2013 by Pramod Sharma and Jerome Scholler, Osmo is a gaming company built around its proprietary Reflective Artificial Intelligence. It aims to create a new play movement to unleash the boundaries of the screen with the launch of its inaugural product, Osmo. Osmo expands the playing field and engages creative thinking and social interaction, allowing any object - pen and paper, you name it - to interact with the digital device. Osmo is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Propellant.digital

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We are a Netherlands based FinTech that is focused on bring together public and private data to power business decisions in a low cost way. Born in 2021, our mission is to organise financial markets information and make it transparent, accessible, affordable and useful to all parties in the ecosystem. Propellant.Digital is headed up by founders Vincent Grandjean, and Allan Horgan, both professionals who have a long history in the financial market technology sector and wanted to leverage their experience to create a solution that was low cost.

Lami

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of a digital insurance platform intended to integrate insurance into businesses. The company's platform allows easy integration across sectors to offer insurance products through a seamless digital experience, providing clients with automated underwriting, speeding up claims, reducing claims ratios, and increasing profitability.

Tinfoil Security

Seed Round in 2011
Tinfoil Security, Inc. provides security-as-a-service based Website security solutions. It crawls into Websites and looks for common vulnerabilities; and acts as external hackers, picks through various access points on the Website, tries to get in, records where and how the company did it, and reports back. The company searches for the most common vulnerabilities; secures the site from the OWASP top ten, a list of the most commonly infiltrated vulnerabilities; and builds up from there. Tinfoil Security was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of January 9, 2020, Tinfoil Security, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Synopsys, Inc.

PersistIQ

Venture Round in 2013
PersistIQ is a free email automation platform designed to send a small batch of personalized emails. It helps small teams to their inside, outbound, and sales productivity. PersistIQ was launched by Cyrus Karbassiyoon and Pouyan Salehi in 2014 and is operated from California, United States.

AppAdvice

Seed Round in 2012
AppAdvice is an online resource that enables its users to discover new and relevant iOS applications. It filters through the many applications in App Store and provides its users with up-to-date news and detailed application reviews. AppAdvice was launched in 2008 and is based in West Hollywood, California.

MonetizeMore

Seed Round in 2012
MonetizeMore is an industry leader in website monetization that combines state of the art monetization technology with a team of dynamic, creative thinkers.

Kinara

Seed Round in 2016
Our unique vision-specific processor is faster and more power efficient than GPU and DSP processing for modern computer vision problems. Coupled with a full stack of low power and real time deep learning computer vision software, our system gives small devices like drones, robots, and IOT cameras the ability to have embedded computer vision.

Zillabyte

Venture Round in 2011
Zillabyte is a cloud platform for data analysis. Build apps, not infrastructure. Recently, Google & Amazon have announced competing products, as follows: 1. Google Cloud Dataflow: http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2014/06/cloud-platform-at-google-io-new-big.html . 2. Amazon Kinesis: http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-kinesis-real-time-processing-of-streamed-data/?utm_source=fee.... . We are a direct competitor to these technologies, and turnkey solution for other platform players to quickly get into this space.

Carta

Funding Round in 2012
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. Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital. It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California.

Amiato

Venture Round in 2011
Amiato, Inc. develops a software application that enables companies, websites, and applications perform comprehensive A/B test analysis on their products at big data scale. The company was formerly known as Nou Data Corporation. Amiato, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Saratoga, California. As of May, 2014, Amiato, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Nevercode

Seed Round in 2019
Nevercode Ltd designs and develops a continuous integration and delivery platform for mobile applications. It enables to build, test, and deploy iOS, android, cordova, ionic, and react native applications. The company also offers parallel testing; release automation to integrate with iTunes Connect, Google Play, HockeyApp, Crashlytics and TestFairy; provides customized workflows; real time analytics; and team reports. Nevercode Ltd was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Tartu, Estonia.

SEORadar

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
SEORadar is the SEO disaster prevention platform and change analysis system. SEORadar examines changes to pages and alerts users to issues with potential dire SEO consequences; including title changes, noindex tags, broken canonicals, 302s and much more. SEORadar checks for over 100 distinct site changes and warns users when they occur.

Stream

Seed Round in 2015
Stream is a company behind Stream, a live first OVP that powers video for publishers, professional sports, and top brands. Stream is the Provider of video technology development platform. The company offers a video platform for anyone with a phone to broadcast and share life's experiences as they happen.

Zoetic AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Zoetic AI is a developer of a social companion robot intended to bring empathy and emotional connection to robots using artificial intelligence.

Freshplum

Seed Round in 2011
Freshplum's goal is to bring the decision-making power of data science to companies who sell goods and services electronically.

Helios Data

Seed Round in 2019
Helios Data is a collaborator that leverages disruptive network technologies and advanced AI to help data-rich enterprises to develop a "data-centric" architecture, with which enterprise data transparency, data privacy and security, secure data collaboration, and enterprise data monetization are unified, and addressed with a radically new common technology solution.

SecurityTrails

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
SecurityTrails strives to make the biggest treasure-trove of cyber intelligence data readily available in an instant.

Wanderable

Venture Round in 2012
Wanderable modernizes the honeymoon-planning process by allowing couples to easily discover and fund their dream honeymoon trip online and through our mobile app. Our anchor product is honeymoon registries - engaged couples register for activities on their honeymoon and romantic travels, representing a $12B market. We curate merchant relationships across the industry and combine editorial content to connect our community of engaged couples and their wedding guests. Starting with engaged couples we’ll move into lifecycle management, building lasting relationships and capitalizing on the growing consumer trend of valuing experience activities over material goods.

ReferBright

Seed Round in 2013
ReferBright is the first comprehensive digital marketing solution for health practitioners. If you’re one of the 2.1 million health practitioners in the US (occupational therapists, fitness trainers, social workers, nutritionists, and more), we help you market your services and manage your presence online without the hassle of having to do it yourself. We spent over a year studying what people Google when they search for certain health practitioners in various places in the US. We discovered the results vary widely by profession and location. There’s a huge longtail of websites that show up, and they change all the time. This is a major marketing problem, and why being on Yelp alone doesn’t cut it.

PublikDemand

Venture Round in 2012
PublikDemand aggregates and organizes customer complaints by topic and company. Individual complaints are turned into qualified leads for competitors.

Ceqoo

Seed Round in 2018
Ceqoo provides the training-wheels, process rigor, and performance measurement to help sales teams succeed without replacing the existing tools in the sales process or requiring more work.

MightyText

Venture Round in 2012
MightyText is a group of Silicon Valley folks (with experience at Google, Zynga, Cisco), based out of the Bay Area in California, USA. We simply want to make life easier for people who send and receive SMS text messages and get phone calls all day. Android is a powerful, open, platform with lots of possibilities and we're very excited to bring products and features to consumers across the globe!

Whale Watch

Seed Round in 2015
Whale Watch is the post install user strategy for app developers.

Swish

Venture Round in 2012
Swish is a payment service based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Marvelous

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
MarvelousAI is an early stage startup founded by tech industry veterans. We are building an augmented analytics platform to provide actionable insights regarding online narratives. Our “Cyborg” intelligence methodology detects narratives and fine-grained emotional content, combining the power of human-in-the-loop learning with the latest in natural language processing, computational linguistics, and machine learning. The first use case centers on US electoral politics, specifically the 2020 race for President of the United States. Target customers are political campaigns, journalists, academics, and concerned citizens. We are particularly focused on how messaging spreads among and between diverse online media, both negatively (propaganda) and positively (truth-based messages); which narratives persist over time; and the impact they have on overall discourse about a topic. Our StoryArc platform has been used to discover and quantify political bias, asymmetries in coverage of male vs. female candidates, and active misinformation campaigns. The second use case focuses more broadly on Misinformation Security and Responses. In collaboration with the Credibility Coalition, we are developing a standard framework to define the equivalent of the MITRE ATT&CK Matrix for Misinfosec. As a practical application of the framework, we address a broad spectrum of areas such as US immigration; health policy and impact; and climate change. Our methods can be applied to detect narratives and fine grained sentiment related to any topic area, language, or source.

Starbutter AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Starbutter AI Co operates as a voice and chat conversational agent (chatbot) company that helps consumers pick financial products. Its products include Text agents wherein function like human chat and live on the company website to answer questions, alleviate concerns, and facilitate customer-product fit and facilitate acquisition; and Chatbot agents can call live on phone, Google Home, or Amazon Echo (Alexa) devices. It helps consumers to pick insurance, mortgage products, credit cards, and bank products. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Berkeley, California.

ClipMine

Seed Round in 2014
ClipMine is a smart video annotation platform that personalizes online video discovery and viewing experience for everyone. It is a startup working on radically improving how the end-users discover and consume the growing online video content.

Deepdesk

Seed Round in 2020
Deepdesk is your AI customer support automation platform that understands conversations, enables repetitive processes automation and helps in creating satisfied customers with lower costs.

SourceNinja

Convertible Note in 2012
SourceNinja prevents problems in applications that use open source. SourceNinja notifies developers when updates are released or problems occur. Issues we prevent include license changes, security vulnerabilities, and performance problems. SourceNinja offers a product for individual developers and large enterprises. SourceNinja was part of **[AngelPad](http://angelpad.org) #3** in 2011.

HomeCourt

Seed Round in 2018
NEX Team is a mobile artificial intelligence company started by a team of second-time entrepreneurs and former Apple, Google, and Facebook engineers and employees. They combine cutting edge mobile, AI, and computer vision technologies with deep community engagement experiences to create utility and joy for athletes and sports communities worldwide. HomeCourt is the first application built with NEX Team’s core technologies. Using only an iPhone camera, HomeCourt can count, track, and chart basketball shots in real-time while providing instant video review and deep statistical analysis. HomeCourt is used by players in 100 countries around the world and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and in Sports Illustrated. It is free to download on the App Store. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, with another office in Hong Kong, the company has raised $4 million in seed funding. Investors include Mark Cuban, Steve Nash, Jeremy Lin, Sam Hinkie, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Ventures, and Mandra Capital.

Gaston Labs

Seed Round in 2012
The makers of Oha.na, a family photo and video sharing service. Founded by longstanding best friends, David Weekly (uncle to four) and Nathan Schmidt (soon to be father), both of whom have highly geographically distributed families.

Femter

Seed Round in 2016
Femter

Hypefactors

Seed Round in 2019
Hypefactors is leading the PR tech revolution, finally providing all the facts to document the effect of earned media and all the tools needed to power a story – all in one unified platform. Among the included features are: Global media monitoring. Social listening. Accurate and valid performance management. Financial measurement for all kinds of earned media coverage. Automated reporting. Influencer discovery. Media relationship builder. News distribution. SEO-optimized newsrooms. Social media management. All PR data crunched and ready to serve. KPIs to link earned media with strategic business objectives. Works across markets, brands and campaigns. Integrated and easy-to-use.

GoodRipple

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
GoodRipple, send fun positive vibes to coworkers anonymously on Slack.

ZenHub

Seed Round in 2020
ZenHub is the only collaboration solution that integrates natively in GitHub – creating a single source of truth for the entire company. Thousands of companies like Comcast, Microsoft, Adobe, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab use ZenHub to focus on what they do best: ship amazing software.

SpoofCard

Seed Round in 2019
SpoofCard allows you to make your calls and text messages truly private.

New Kind of Network

Seed Round in 2018
NKN uses economic incentives to motivate Internet users to share network connection and utilize unused bandwidth. NKN’s products include: nCDN - A New Kind of Content Delivery Network which combines the best elements of traditional data center focused content delivery and decentralized P2P CDNs for web acceleration and caching, nPubSub - A decentralized and secure messaging service for realtime applications such as IM/Chat and IoT, TUNA - Short for Tunnel Using NKN for any Application is a platform built on top of NKN that allows everyone to turn any network based application into a service and monetize it based on usage.

Adhusky

Venture Round in 2013
AdHusky provides advertising opportunities on Facebook. It allows advertisers to create Facebook advertisements and run campaigns to reach target audiences. AdHusky was formerly known as Humanvest. AdHusky was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Coinpass

Seed Round in 2019
UK based, FCA Registered, cryptocurrency Trading and Investment platform. www.coinpass.com

Achievable

Seed Round in 2016
Preparing for the Series 7 is tough: you have to study after hours while keeping up your day job, often at the expense of your free time on nights and weekends. Most test prep today doesn’t make this any easier on us. It doesn't fit their mobile lifestyles and busy schedules, or give us any insight into what they know or don't know as they’re studying. They built Achievable to solve these problems, and give their colleagues and peers a better way to study for the Series 7 and other FINRA exams. Their mission is to improve test preparation through technology and great customer experience. Their method and applications leverage advancements in user experience and big data to build a better way. They plan to expand to other tests as quickly as possible. They would love to hear from you if you are interested in using Achievable for other exams, or if you have any questions or comments about their Series 7 product.

Clinitraq

Seed Round in 2019
Real Time Location Based Radiation Dosimetry IoT technology

Stache

Seed Round in 2017
Stache, Inc designs and develops an application that helps individuals to manage spaces. The application connects people to underutilized space in the community. It provides an application where an individual can host or rent the free space. Stache, Inc is based in Palo Alto, California.

Nickel Labs

Seed Round in 2015
The Internet is changing money—how they access it, spend it and manage it. E-commerce and mobile payments have taken virtually all of the friction out of spending, making it much easier to spend money without much thinking. Their children are growing up in this brave new economy. In this complex, ever-evolving world of money one thing never changes: the importance of teaching their kids the value of a dollar. How can they, as parents, help educate their children about making smart spending and saving decisions? By rethinking allowance. It’s time for their children’s allowance to catch up with the digital economy. It’s time to talk to their kids about money, and empower them with the tools to shape a lifetime of financial well-being. It’s time for Nickel. Nickel helps you teach your kids to think about money and manage it wisely. It’s part mobile app and part MasterCard debit card. You can set a weekly or monthly allowance, and add a favorable interest rate to encourage your child to save. The allowance is auto-paid from your bank to your child’s Nickel Card, along with the compounding interest (which you also pay). Nickel helps teens and kids ages 8 and up make conscious choices around spending vs. saving—showing them how much interest they’ve earned already, and how much more they could earn if they choose to save instead of spend. Plus, Nickel lets you take the guesswork out of wondering where and how your kids are dropping their dimes by helping you track their spending and saving. But their mission goes beyond what the technology powering the Nickel debit card and app offers. Their goal is to help parents… - Encourage children and teens to make meaningful choices around money - Teach kids the power of compound interest - Help kids save and experience the time-value of money - Spark an important, ongoing dialogue between parents and their children about the value and purpose of money, helping kids develop healthy money habits that can last a lifetime Nickel is for children and their parents. They want to help the next generation learn to manage money by facing real decisions. They believe it’s good to learn from making mistakes young while the stakes are relatively low—with $30 rather than $30,000. Together, they can create a generation that is financially empowered. They created Nickel to give families the tools and resources to help them raise money-smart kids. They’re starting with allowance. The child or teen who thinks about whether to buy something today or save at a compounded-interest rate for tomorrow can develop the habits to grow into a financially savvy adult—one who spends mindfully and invests wisely, one who aligns their money to their values. They imagine a world where youth are empowered to save for college, make smart spending decisions, and maybe even manage an investment portfolio.

Retrolux

Seed Round in 2019
Retrolux is transforming the traditional commercial building energy system upgrade industry through their Smart Energy scaleOS software platform that supercharges contractor's productivity, streamlines product purchases through our digital marketplace, and automates project discovery through a proprietary machine learning recommendation engine. We earn license fees from project developers and implementers and transaction fees from suppliers.

Parabo Press

Venture Round in 2019
Parabo is a different kind of print service - here to fill your space with joy, by turning your photos into personal, design-forward home décor, photo books and more.Parabo Press is a different kind of print service for design-minded photo takers

Nventify Inc

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Nventify Inc is an accelerate your webpages and mobile Apps with fast responsive images.

Breakthrough Behavioral

Venture Round in 2011
Breakthrough Behavioral, Inc. provides online therapy solutions in insurance payer, health plan, and employer markets to commercial, Medicaid, and private pay consumers. It offers online counselling and psychiatric therapy by connecting the individuals with the mental health providers in the United States. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Redwood City, California. Breakthrough Behavioral, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of MDLIVE Inc.

Bitty Blue

Seed Round in 2016
Bitty Blue

Slide Remote

Seed Round in 2016
SlideRemote is a mobile app that enables users to present to any screen in seconds. Securely and safely present to viewers while maintaining control at all times. Link your cloud storage accounts and always have access to your files without manually uploading. Search all your accounts at the same time with our universal search to find files fast.

Digital Staircase

Seed Round in 2011
Digital Staircase a mobile video and image app developer. Digital Staircase has developed a number of apps for video recording, image editing and more. MovieCam, which is available as an iPad and iOS app, is a camcorder app that provides recording features like 8x digital zoom, pause-and-resume recording functionality, and contrast enhancement. The app also allows you to add 18 movie effects and filters while shooting video.

Spinnakr

Seed Round in 2013
Spinnakr helps websites display different messages to different kinds of visitors. Most websites show visitors the same message, no matter who they are, even though a targeted message makes them far more likely to buy or sign-up. Spinnakr makes it simple to group your visitors into audiences that you can reach with simple, targeted messages. Someone referred by a blog in Spain sees a special offer in Spanish, while an investor sees your latest fundraising details. Spinnakr is based in DC but currently in Mountain View, CA as a 500 Startups company.

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.

Verecho

Angel Round in 2015
Verecho Inc. operates a platform that offers definitive employee directory for Google Apps for work and Microsoft Office365. Its platform features include Android and iOS and HTML5 native applications, organization chart, advanced search, integrations, company directory, company information, company-wide announcements, and customization. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Foli

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Foli is a technology company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using patent-pending technology, our products "move bookstores to where people are"​ by turning any public venue into a "virtual bookstore"​. Consumers have free access to paid full-length best-seller e-books and premium digital magazines on their mobile devices during their stays at the venues and can purchase the content to continue reading after they leave the venues. Foli has partnered with major content publishers including Simon & Schuster and Hearst Magazines. Foli service has been deployed in venues from large corporations and brands including United Airlines, American Airlines, Four Seasons, Rosewood, WeWork. Foli is a centralized implementation of the concept of a decentralized commerce network.

Vurbl

Seed Round in 2020
Vurbl Media, Inc. develops and operates a streaming audio platform for user generated audio and other audio types across various categories. It offers Vurbl, an online platform that enables content creators to upload, grow their audience, and monetize their audio creations Vurbl Media, Inc. was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Refdash

Seed Round in 2016
Imagine a world where doing what you love matters more than presenting yourself. In that world, biases are meaningless and people are free to focus on improving themselves instead of worrying about how they appear. That is the world we want to build. Refdash helps people find great companies to work at. First, we help people become better by giving them relevant feedback. We then match them with the right companies based on their skills and interests and fast-track them through the interview process.

Bear Robotics

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Bear Robotics addresses the increased pressure faced by the restaurant industry around wages, labor supply, and cost efficiencies. It aims to revolutionize the restaurant and food service industry using robotics and AI. The company makes robots that help customers receive an improved dining experience, employees with greater job satisfaction, and owners of restaurants with an increase in profits. Bear Robotics started in 2017 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Aviate

Venture Round in 2011
Aviate is an intelligent homescreen for the Android operating system that organizes the information in your phone and surfaces it at the perfect moment. Aviate works with your favorite apps to raise the smartphone experience above the clutter.

Delos Insurance

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Delos is building a digital property insurance company for homeowners in catastrophe areas. Insurance is difficult to find in high risk regions; few insurers write in these areas and the ones that do are expensive and slow. One main cause for this problem is low resolution catastrophe models, which have caused regular insurers to pull out of high risk areas. Our team has extensive experience in data science and aerospace engineering and is creating new, higher-resolution catastrophe models. We use these models to create a new home risk rating system. We will also use our models to innovate on product, actively managing our client's risk and helping them prepare for their likely perils.

Wilo Spa

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
They bring deluxe spa manicures and pedicures to your home. They also serve bridal shower parties, baby showers and girl's night spa parties for group discounts.

WorkTurtle

Seed Round in 2012
WorkTurtle

Easel

Seed Round in 2019
Easel.ly is a website that features thousands of free infographic templates and design.

Neji

Seed Round in 2019
Neji Inc. designs and develops blockchain and networking technologies for businesses. The company offers networking protocols, including intrusion preventing systems, firewall, and virtual private network; and network appliances, including load balancing and wireless access point. Neji Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Catalogs.com

Seed Round in 2020
Catalogs.com has been considered the web's catalog shopping authority. Their trends experts have carefully reviewed thousands of catalogs and online stores and have featured only the most respected, distinctive, and trusted ones. From popular favorites to new discoveries, you'll shop and save with exclusive coupon codes!

WECHEER

Seed Round in 2019
WECHEER- Cherish every drink moment An innovation that creates immense shared value for Beverage companies, Bartenders, and Consumers alike. Using image recognition, the Patented Smart Bottle Opener can instantly identify the person, time, location, and brand of any crown-capped bottle while it’s being opened! Unlike any other platform, we capture the full beverage value chain giving access to a big data platform with real-time market intelligence and direct user engagement. Our innovative technology captures, learns, and up-sells each bottle opened. We have upgraded the concept of Pay Per Click (PPC) to Pay Per Bottle (PPB).” We allow beverage companies to: - Connect directly to our bartenders community - Send targeted promotions to our members and upsell their brands - Access real time market insights based on actual bottles being opened

Dovetail Care

Seed Round in 2015
Dovetail Care bringing the wearable revolution to pregnancy.

MonJa

Seed Round in 2019
MonJa offers loan strategy and portfolio analytics for peer-to-peer lending services and helps institutional investors and investment managers enhance their skill-sets and identify weaknesses to drive higher returns. Their quantitative analytics solutions aim to support their client’s decision-making process and strengthen their investment track records. The solutions of the company are performance attribution, loan scoring, portfolio monitoring, and risk management. MonJa is located in the United States and the company was founded in 2014 by Jesse Velez, James Wu, and Matt Kelso.

Modulate

Funding Round in 2018
Modulate’s voice skins will be available through select platforms via Modulate’s real-time software development kit (SDK). Users will be able to alter their voices nearly instantaneously. Some platforms will offer a variety of Modulate’s standard voices; others will choose to work with Modulate to design custom voices that precisely match a character or vision. Users will then have the freedom to swap between any of these voices or even mix and match them, designing a style that’s uniquely their own.

GreyNoise Intelligence

Funding Round in 2018
GreyNoise is a cybersecurity company that reduces false positives by filtering pointless Internet background noise. It collects, analyzes, and labels mass internet scan and attack activity into a feed of Anti-Threat Intelligence. This context helps security teams reduce noise and prioritize signal - targeted attacks against their organization. Its drive to maximize analyst efficiency is delivered through its API, platform integrations, and visualizer. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Objects.AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Objects.AI offers a machine learning platform for business users and application engineers of with limited or no knowledge of data science & machine learning to build and deploy Machine Learning in their business in a fraction of the time it used to take. The technology addresses the critical shortage of data scientists and fast-changing ML toolkits by creating an abstraction layer on top of the existing Machine learning libraries. The Objects.AI platform uses massively parallel processing and cloud agnostic engine to train and build AI models. It searches through millions of possible combinations of algorithms, data processing steps, feature engineering and builds and tunes parameters to deliver the best models for your dataset and use case.

Trak

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Sandstone Diagnostics is a Bay Area biotech company developing instruments and consumables for point-of-care medical testing. Sandstone’s lead product, Trak, is a consumer semen analysis platform that provides a simple and accurate way to monitor sperm quality from the comfort of home. Trak is a tool for men to take charge of their fertility, boost their sperm quality, and improve their chances of conception. Sandstone was co-founded in 2012 by Ph.D. scientists developing medical technologies for national defense applications at Sandia National Laboratories.

Tindie

Venture Round in 2013
Tindie, Inc. operates an online marketplace to buy and sell homemade electronics and hardware. It offers 3D printing, amateur radio, Android, Apple, Arduino, audio, board, CNC, green, kids’, laser cut, Netduino, PICs, power, random, raspberry Pi, remote control, shield, and wireless products; and cameras, cases and sleds, clocks, games, lights, microcontrollers, robots, sensors, tools, and wearables. Tindie, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Portland, Oregon. As of August 5, 2015, Tindie, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Hackaday, llc.

Moju Labs, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Moju Labs is a new consumer big data startup. Founded by the former chief scientist at PayPal and current entrepreneur-in-residence at North Bridge Venture Partners, Mok Oh, Moju Labs is worth keeping an eye on for its team alone. That team now includes ex-Google and Palantir engineer Justin Legakis and former Luvocracy product head Andrew Holt. Moju Labs wants to do more than just automatically organize and manage photo collections. The company plans to eventually support all personal data, then create a system that users can query using natural language.

Rentlytics

Seed Round in 2012
Rentlytics, Inc. develops and operates a business intelligence platform that offers real estate investors and managers with insights about their property and portfolio performance. It offers solutions in the areas of rents, occupancy, lease analysis, delinquency, financial history, and budget variance. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 15, 2018, Rentlytics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of RealPage, Inc.

Mentr

Venture Round in 2016
Mentr is a platform to seek advice and mentorship from verified professionals, experts and peers. Advice can be sought from experts around the world and in any domain such as college, career, health, tutoring and more. Currently Mentr is focussed on the fulling the need for college & career advice. College students sign up as college mentors to provide college advice. Professionals provide the career advice. http://mentr.io

Diablo

Seed Round in 2020
We help companies accelerate their digital transformation by unifying customer interactions using deep learning and graph algorithms to create a single view of customers across channels, sources, and applications.

Splenvid

Seed Round in 2013
Splenvid is video storytelling made simple. Capture life’s moments and Splenvid automatically creates movies from your experiences. Splenvid is for users who capture more content than they have time or desire to curate (which is pretty much everyone). Social moviemaking is easy with Splenvid. It automatically combines the captured moments from you and your friends into a collaborative movie of your shared experience. By removing all obstacles to video creation, Splenvid can shrink the growing divide between captured and shared content. Using its robust platform, Splenvid can deliver collaborative and compelling movies with little to no intervention from the user.

Quettra

Venture Round in 2013
Quettra, Inc. provides mobile advertising services. The company operates an online platform which connects advertisers with their target audience. Quettra, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Milpitas, California. As of December 10, 2015, Quettra, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SimilarGroup Ltd.

SendTask

Seed Round in 2012
SendTask offers enterprise task management software that enables users to manage their tasks within their inbox while directly integrated into their existing workflow. It was launched by Flavio Rump and Lucas Vogelsang, and is based in Provo, Utah.

LikeAndy

Seed Round in 2011
spiderbook.com is focused on helping sales reps identify: who to sell to, how to reach them, who they're competing with & what to say to close the deal.

Sqwell Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Sqwell is a community of studios, instructors, personal trainers, wellness counselors, and fitness hobbyists all. Through the Sqwell network students can follow their favorite instructors, gym buddies can make new gym buddies, and they can all cheer each other on in their quest for health and happiness.w

TapCanvas

Seed Round in 2012
TapCanvas, Inc. is developing a platform for a new kind of mobile application. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Plantt

Seed Round in 2019
Plantt is a marketplace for garden goods and services. Like OpenTable, Mindbody, Slice (www.slicelife.com), and other SMB marketplace/solution providers, Plantt provides both a turnkey, garden-center-branded e-commerce solution and a national branded website (www.plantt.com) to drive traffic to the local garden centers' storefronts. The turnkey e-commerce solution includes integration to the garden center's POS/inventory management application, extensive plant data and photos, a robust shopping experience, and integration with a crowdsourced delivery service (www.roadie.com). Currently www.plantt.com is an information site. In the first half of 2020, Plantt will roll-out its national branded website.

Wello

Venture Round in 2012
Wello is an online platform offering live fitness training over two-way video. It provides an affordable and easy way for its users to workout with a live fitness professional of their choice. Its first product called 1-on-1 personal training was launched in 2012. In 2013, Wello completed the program at Rock Health and became part of a prolific network of the best digital health companies in the country. It matches clients with the right Wello-vetted trainer and workout program for them, provides seamless scheduling and payment, and establishes the live video connection for the workout to take place. Wello was launched in 2011 by Stanford MBA students Ann Scott Plante and Leslie Silverglide. It is based in San Francisco, C.A.

Root-1 Research

Seed Round in 2011
Root-1 built a platform called Open Minds for publishers to insert educational widgets into online content meant for K-12 audiences. Their first set of widgets included crosswords and other text based games that were automatically customized to the content of the page. This platform was extended with the capability for teachers to add their own content.

UPJAUNT

Seed Round in 2020
UPJAUNT is an AI-driven platform for travelers, influencers and businesses to find connections through interest communities, traveler stories, blog articles and events. Travelers find authentic, off-beaten-path, serendipitous and personalized experiences and providers, while businesses build power networks with other businesses to sell personalized services and products directly to their traveler. We offer all sizes of travel businesses a way out of the old pay-to-play models of travel intermediaries by providing an organic engagement model centered around authentic personal experiences, which will reduce the cost of customer acquisition and enhance customer lifetime value for those businesses. Mohan Ramanujam (Tibco, Brience), Sanjay Raghavan (Grindr, Inquira) founded the company in January 2019, based out of New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA.

Talkatone

Seed Round in 2011
Talkatone is the only service that allows unlimited free calls and texts on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad via WiFi or 3G connection. Founded in late 2010, it helps people to utilize Internet on mobile devices for real-time communication. Users have the ability to call and text their friends for free on iOS4-compatible devices - and not just other Talkatone users, but plain old phone numbers as well. Talkatone enables real-time sharing on mobile devices. It's initial product allows users to see each other's location on the map, updated in real-time.

Event Store

Seed Round in 2020
Event Store Limited provides EventStoreDB, an open-source database for event sourcing; Event Store Cloud, a multi-cloud software as a service (SaaS) delivery platform; and consulting, training, and support services. The company was formerly known as Event Store Oss Limited and changed its name to Event Store Limited in September 2018. Event Store Limited was founded in 2012 and is based in Bath, United Kingdom.

IoTeX

Venture Round in 2018
IoTeX develops a auto-scalable and privacy-centric blockchain platform for Internet of Things (IoT). Its product includes github, for developers working together to host and review code, manage projects, and build software together; explorer, a front-end visualization tool to detail key metrics related to the IoTeX testnet; and wallet, a payment gateway for purchasing currency. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Eat'n

Seed Round in 2019
Revolutionize Eating