Founders Co-op

Founders' Co-op is a Seattle-based seed-stage venture fund established in 2008, focused on supporting early-stage technology companies in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. As the largest and longest-running seed-stage specialist fund in the region, it aims to empower strong entrepreneurs by providing the necessary resources and guidance to build successful companies. Founders' Co-op serves as a trusted partner for early-stage founders, facilitating access to deal flow for out-of-region investors seeking opportunities in the Pacific Northwest. By leveraging its extensive network and expertise, the fund plays a pivotal role in connecting innovative startups with growth investors, fostering a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Rudy Gadre

Venture Partner

Aviel Ginzburg

General Partner

Andy Sack

Managing Partner

153 past transactions

Trinsic

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a decentralized identity platform designed to augment identity verification The company's platform has a full-stack verifiable credential and digital wallet that uses digital credentials based on open standards that can be integrated into the existing system as well as offers custom services, enabling clients and organizations with digital identity and safety.

Heard Technologies

Series A in 2022
Heard Technologies is an online back office platform tailored for mental health professionals in private practice. The company offers a finance management solution that integrates software with personalized human support, assisting practitioners in managing their bookkeeping, taxes, and payroll. By streamlining these administrative tasks, Heard Technologies allows mental health professionals to concentrate more on their clients and provide quality care, enhancing the overall efficiency of their practices.

Logixboard

Series B in 2022
Logixboard, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016 that offers a cloud platform designed to enhance transparency and communication for freight forwarders. The platform addresses inefficiencies in the $2 trillion freight forwarding industry, where many firms rely on outdated methods such as paper, spreadsheets, and email for tracking shipments. By integrating with existing back-office applications, Logixboard's solution serves as a digital customer engagement layer, enabling freight forwarders to streamline their operations and improve customer service. The platform empowers companies to manage and control their freight operations more effectively, ultimately reducing costs and increasing efficiency in a traditionally low-tech industry.

Goodbill

Seed Round in 2021
Goodbill identifies possible hospital billing errors and inflated charges and then automate the process of helping people pay less.

Spice AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Spice AI makes using and training time-series AI easy for developers so it can be cost-effectively utilized in products and services that meaningfully improve the quality of our lives. Founded in January 2021, Spice AI, Inc. is a Seattle, Washington headquartered technology startup building developer focused AI. Spice AI was founded by three ex-Microsoft engineers, with over 20 years combined experience in distributed and cloud computing.

Clickety

Seed Round in 2021
Clickety is a computer software company founded in 2019 and based in Portland, Oregon. It specializes in information technology and customer relationship management (CRM). The company offers a personal relationship management system that enables users to capture and visualize their daily work activities. This platform is designed to help employers and businesses improve workflow efficiency by organizing and executing tasks more effectively. By providing tools to track and manage work, Clickety aims to enhance productivity and facilitate better networking for its clients.

RapL

Seed Round in 2021
RapL is a mobile workforce training platform that uses gamification with AI-driven adaptive, bite-sized, and continuous learning. The company was founded in 2021 by Arun Muthukumar and Murali Krishnan.

LevelTen Energy

Series C in 2021
LevelTen Energy, Inc. operates a renewable energy transaction marketplace that links corporate and industrial power buyers with power purchase agreements (PPAs) from utility-scale wind, solar, and storage projects. Founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company provides a technology-driven platform that enables a diverse range of customers to access renewable energy solutions. By aggregating buyers and sellers, LevelTen allows smaller corporate and industrial customers to engage with the same projects and terms typically available to larger energy purchasers. This innovative approach simplifies the procurement process, helping customers achieve their sustainability goals while stabilizing energy costs and eliminating the complexities of traditional request for proposal (RFP) processes.

AdaptX

Series A in 2021
AdaptX is a healthcare data analytics and visualization company based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2016. It specializes in providing an automated analytics platform that empowers hospitals and surgery centers by delivering critical insights to frontline clinical staff. By facilitating access to data and enabling clinicians to analyze and improve clinical and workflow outcomes, AdaptX aims to enhance patient care while reducing operational costs. The company's innovative solutions are designed to transform clinical operations through the use of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, ultimately supporting healthcare providers in their mission to deliver high-quality care.

Ganaz

Series A in 2021
Ganaz Inc. is a workforce management platform specifically designed for the agriculture and food manufacturing sectors. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company provides tools that facilitate recruitment, retention, communication, onboarding, training, and payment for workers. Its application connects employers with deskless workers, allowing for the management of multiple conversations, automatic translation between languages, and the organization of workers into groups. Ganaz aims to enhance the well-being and prosperity of both workers and industries by addressing common challenges faced by employers and employees.

Ganaz

Series A in 2021
Ganaz Inc. is a workforce management platform specifically designed for the agriculture and food manufacturing sectors. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company provides tools that facilitate recruitment, retention, communication, onboarding, training, and payment for workers. Its application connects employers with deskless workers, allowing for the management of multiple conversations, automatic translation between languages, and the organization of workers into groups. Ganaz aims to enhance the well-being and prosperity of both workers and industries by addressing common challenges faced by employers and employees.

Logixboard

Series A in 2021
Logixboard, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016 that offers a cloud platform designed to enhance transparency and communication for freight forwarders. The platform addresses inefficiencies in the $2 trillion freight forwarding industry, where many firms rely on outdated methods such as paper, spreadsheets, and email for tracking shipments. By integrating with existing back-office applications, Logixboard's solution serves as a digital customer engagement layer, enabling freight forwarders to streamline their operations and improve customer service. The platform empowers companies to manage and control their freight operations more effectively, ultimately reducing costs and increasing efficiency in a traditionally low-tech industry.

Dendron

Seed Round in 2021
Dendron helps you find relationships between your notes and provides enough structure so you’re never lost.

Spot

Seed Round in 2021
Spot is the virtual hub for the organization– bringing the spirit and utility of being in the same physical office to a digital experience.

Shelf Engine

Series B in 2021
Shelf Engine is a provider of an automated prediction engine that recommends what to order everyday. The company uses machine learning in order to help grocery stores dial in their orders to minimize waste and maximize profits. Shelf Engine is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Heard Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
Heard Technologies is an online back office platform tailored for mental health professionals in private practice. The company offers a finance management solution that integrates software with personalized human support, assisting practitioners in managing their bookkeeping, taxes, and payroll. By streamlining these administrative tasks, Heard Technologies allows mental health professionals to concentrate more on their clients and provide quality care, enhancing the overall efficiency of their practices.

Brave Care

Series A in 2021
Brave Care, Inc. is a healthcare provider specializing in urgent pediatric services. Founded in 2017 and based in Portland, Oregon, the company operates clinics that address a variety of childhood illnesses and injuries. Services offered include treatment for allergies, asthma, coughs, ear pain, eye problems, fever, and urinary tract infections. Brave Care also provides care for minor fractures, strains, sprains, and head trauma, along with pediatric-specific laboratory services and on-site x-ray capabilities. The clinics are equipped to perform procedures such as stitches and tissue glue application for wound closure, as well as mild sedation for uncomfortable treatments.

Ally.io

Series C in 2021
Ally Technologies, Inc. provides a software solution focused on objectives and key results (OKR) to enhance business performance management. Founded in 2017 and based in Bellevue, Washington, the company, formerly known as VTV, Inc., rebranded in January 2019. Ally.io's platform allows businesses to transition from traditional planning methods to a modern OKR framework, fostering alignment, agility, and transparency within organizations. It facilitates the integration of OKRs into daily workflows, featuring built-in best practices and compatibility with various enterprise systems, including Slack, Salesforce, and Jira. Since its launch in 2018, the platform has been embraced by numerous organizations across more than 70 countries. In addition to its software, Ally.io offers professional services that include training and coaching to support effective implementation and change management.

ZeroWall

Seed Round in 2020
ZeroWall operates as an enterprise security company.

Reflective

Seed Round in 2020
Reflective, Inc. develops an application to automate workflow. It offers Reflective, an application that guides and automates work; and manages the company's recurring processes. Reflective, Inc. was founded in 2020 and is based in Mercer Island, Washington.

Routable

Series A in 2020
Routable is a B2B payments platform built to make bill payments and mass payouts fast and seamless. Unlike other payment platforms, Routable’s modern, easy-to-use API allows you to build a powerful payments infrastructure in minutes.

Shelf Engine

Series A in 2020
Shelf Engine is a provider of an automated prediction engine that recommends what to order everyday. The company uses machine learning in order to help grocery stores dial in their orders to minimize waste and maximize profits. Shelf Engine is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

AdaptX

Venture Round in 2020
AdaptX is a healthcare data analytics and visualization company based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2016. It specializes in providing an automated analytics platform that empowers hospitals and surgery centers by delivering critical insights to frontline clinical staff. By facilitating access to data and enabling clinicians to analyze and improve clinical and workflow outcomes, AdaptX aims to enhance patient care while reducing operational costs. The company's innovative solutions are designed to transform clinical operations through the use of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, ultimately supporting healthcare providers in their mission to deliver high-quality care.

Venture Out Startups

Venture Round in 2020
Venture Out Startups, LLC is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, Washington, that focuses on investing in pre-seed startups. Established in 2019, the firm operates a 12-week program designed to assist aspiring entrepreneurs, particularly those with significant domain expertise from large technology companies, in launching their ventures. By providing access to a network of resources, mentors, and investors, Venture Out Startups aims to foster a supportive community for entrepreneurs. In return for its support, the firm takes 4% equity in each selected company.

Comet

Venture Round in 2020
Comet ML Inc. is a New York-based company that provides tools designed for data science teams and individuals to enhance their machine learning workflows. Its platform enables users to automatically track datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models, promoting efficiency, transparency, and reproducibility in the machine learning process. Comet's solution allows engineers and data scientists to maintain their preferred tools while facilitating collaboration and tracking of previous work throughout iterative projects. Additionally, Comet offers bayesian hyperparameter optimization, an algorithm that streamlines the model tuning process, ultimately saving time and improving model performance. By increasing visibility into data science activities and results, Comet enhances organizational progress in machine learning initiatives.

Clarent

Seed Round in 2020
Bateau inc. develops safety and compliance software for businesses that need to manage operations in multiple locations. The company offers a software for running a multi-unit platform that enables headquarter teams, district managers, and field managers to share information; collect notes and photographs from onsite visits; automate record keeping; and track compliance with brand policies and standards. Bateau inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Source

Venture Round in 2020
Krowdsourced Inc., operating as Source, is a Portland-based company that provides a comprehensive platform for the commercial construction industry. Established in 2018, Source connects professionals, including architects, designers, owners, and contractors, with manufacturers and product representatives to facilitate the sourcing of materials and solutions. The platform offers access to a wide array of resources, including finished samples, product pricing, technical documents, and project research assistance. By enabling users to discover and order building materials, finishes, fixtures, and other architectural and interior products, Source enhances collaboration within the commercial design sector. Additionally, the platform allows manufacturers to upload their product and sales representative information, thereby streamlining the communication process and improving overall efficiency in the construction supply chain.

Kaskada

Series A in 2020
Kaskada is a machine learning company that empowers data scientists to collaborate on the feature engineering process and to achieve repeatable success with models running in production. Kaskada’s feature engineering platform provides a collaborative interface for data scientists and robust data infrastructure for computing, storing, and serving features in production.

Ganaz

Seed Round in 2019
Ganaz Inc. is a workforce management platform specifically designed for the agriculture and food manufacturing sectors. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company provides tools that facilitate recruitment, retention, communication, onboarding, training, and payment for workers. Its application connects employers with deskless workers, allowing for the management of multiple conversations, automatic translation between languages, and the organization of workers into groups. Ganaz aims to enhance the well-being and prosperity of both workers and industries by addressing common challenges faced by employers and employees.

Ally.io

Series B in 2019
Ally Technologies, Inc. provides a software solution focused on objectives and key results (OKR) to enhance business performance management. Founded in 2017 and based in Bellevue, Washington, the company, formerly known as VTV, Inc., rebranded in January 2019. Ally.io's platform allows businesses to transition from traditional planning methods to a modern OKR framework, fostering alignment, agility, and transparency within organizations. It facilitates the integration of OKRs into daily workflows, featuring built-in best practices and compatibility with various enterprise systems, including Slack, Salesforce, and Jira. Since its launch in 2018, the platform has been embraced by numerous organizations across more than 70 countries. In addition to its software, Ally.io offers professional services that include training and coaching to support effective implementation and change management.

Logixboard

Seed Round in 2019
Logixboard, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016 that offers a cloud platform designed to enhance transparency and communication for freight forwarders. The platform addresses inefficiencies in the $2 trillion freight forwarding industry, where many firms rely on outdated methods such as paper, spreadsheets, and email for tracking shipments. By integrating with existing back-office applications, Logixboard's solution serves as a digital customer engagement layer, enabling freight forwarders to streamline their operations and improve customer service. The platform empowers companies to manage and control their freight operations more effectively, ultimately reducing costs and increasing efficiency in a traditionally low-tech industry.

Glue

Seed Round in 2019
Mystery creates a curated multi-destination night out based on the likes, dislikes, and interests of the user. They handle all services including planning, transportation, and reservations and have it a personalized experience that is a surprise.

Brave Care

Seed Round in 2019
Brave Care, Inc. is a healthcare provider specializing in urgent pediatric services. Founded in 2017 and based in Portland, Oregon, the company operates clinics that address a variety of childhood illnesses and injuries. Services offered include treatment for allergies, asthma, coughs, ear pain, eye problems, fever, and urinary tract infections. Brave Care also provides care for minor fractures, strains, sprains, and head trauma, along with pediatric-specific laboratory services and on-site x-ray capabilities. The clinics are equipped to perform procedures such as stitches and tissue glue application for wound closure, as well as mild sedation for uncomfortable treatments.

Ally.io

Series A in 2019
Ally Technologies, Inc. provides a software solution focused on objectives and key results (OKR) to enhance business performance management. Founded in 2017 and based in Bellevue, Washington, the company, formerly known as VTV, Inc., rebranded in January 2019. Ally.io's platform allows businesses to transition from traditional planning methods to a modern OKR framework, fostering alignment, agility, and transparency within organizations. It facilitates the integration of OKRs into daily workflows, featuring built-in best practices and compatibility with various enterprise systems, including Slack, Salesforce, and Jira. Since its launch in 2018, the platform has been embraced by numerous organizations across more than 70 countries. In addition to its software, Ally.io offers professional services that include training and coaching to support effective implementation and change management.

Brave Care

Seed Round in 2019
Brave Care, Inc. is a healthcare provider specializing in urgent pediatric services. Founded in 2017 and based in Portland, Oregon, the company operates clinics that address a variety of childhood illnesses and injuries. Services offered include treatment for allergies, asthma, coughs, ear pain, eye problems, fever, and urinary tract infections. Brave Care also provides care for minor fractures, strains, sprains, and head trauma, along with pediatric-specific laboratory services and on-site x-ray capabilities. The clinics are equipped to perform procedures such as stitches and tissue glue application for wound closure, as well as mild sedation for uncomfortable treatments.

LevelTen Energy

Series B in 2019
LevelTen Energy, Inc. operates a renewable energy transaction marketplace that links corporate and industrial power buyers with power purchase agreements (PPAs) from utility-scale wind, solar, and storage projects. Founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company provides a technology-driven platform that enables a diverse range of customers to access renewable energy solutions. By aggregating buyers and sellers, LevelTen allows smaller corporate and industrial customers to engage with the same projects and terms typically available to larger energy purchasers. This innovative approach simplifies the procurement process, helping customers achieve their sustainability goals while stabilizing energy costs and eliminating the complexities of traditional request for proposal (RFP) processes.

AdaptX

Venture Round in 2019
AdaptX is a healthcare data analytics and visualization company based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2016. It specializes in providing an automated analytics platform that empowers hospitals and surgery centers by delivering critical insights to frontline clinical staff. By facilitating access to data and enabling clinicians to analyze and improve clinical and workflow outcomes, AdaptX aims to enhance patient care while reducing operational costs. The company's innovative solutions are designed to transform clinical operations through the use of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, ultimately supporting healthcare providers in their mission to deliver high-quality care.

Loftium

Series A in 2019
Loftium Inc, founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, provides a unique mortgage financing solution for homeowners by renting out spare rooms through Airbnb. The company offers down payments to homeowners in exchange for a share of the income generated from short-term rentals for a period of 12 to 36 months. This model allows Loftium to furnish and manage the Airbnb listings while paying landlords market rent under a long-term lease agreement. By utilizing separable rental spaces, Loftium aims to create affordable housing options in high-cost urban areas, helping families maintain their desired lifestyles. The company generates revenue by collecting income from Airbnb guests, retaining any surplus after meeting the rental obligations to homeowners.

Ganaz

Seed Round in 2018
Ganaz Inc. is a workforce management platform specifically designed for the agriculture and food manufacturing sectors. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company provides tools that facilitate recruitment, retention, communication, onboarding, training, and payment for workers. Its application connects employers with deskless workers, allowing for the management of multiple conversations, automatic translation between languages, and the organization of workers into groups. Ganaz aims to enhance the well-being and prosperity of both workers and industries by addressing common challenges faced by employers and employees.

Kaskada

Seed Round in 2018
Kaskada is a machine learning company that empowers data scientists to collaborate on the feature engineering process and to achieve repeatable success with models running in production. Kaskada’s feature engineering platform provides a collaborative interface for data scientists and robust data infrastructure for computing, storing, and serving features in production.

Downstream

Seed Round in 2018
Downstream Impact Inc. specializes in developing software designed to enhance brands' presence on Amazon. Founded in 2017 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company provides a comprehensive Amazon advertising suite that includes paid search services, analytics, automation, and catalog optimization. By leveraging machine learning, Downstream enables brands to effectively manage their advertising efforts, automating inputs and translating outputs to maximize market share and profitability in the competitive e-commerce landscape.

Comet

Seed Round in 2018
Comet ML Inc. is a New York-based company that provides tools designed for data science teams and individuals to enhance their machine learning workflows. Its platform enables users to automatically track datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models, promoting efficiency, transparency, and reproducibility in the machine learning process. Comet's solution allows engineers and data scientists to maintain their preferred tools while facilitating collaboration and tracking of previous work throughout iterative projects. Additionally, Comet offers bayesian hyperparameter optimization, an algorithm that streamlines the model tuning process, ultimately saving time and improving model performance. By increasing visibility into data science activities and results, Comet enhances organizational progress in machine learning initiatives.

Stackery

Venture Round in 2018
Stackery, Inc. develops open source tools for developers to design, deploy, monitor, and scale cloud infrastructure. It offers Stackery, a tool to deploy and operate the entire stack, and the developer can focus on the applications. The company’s tool is also used to design stack by dragging in components, such as Docker clusters, virtual networks, and load balancers; and connect and configure services using operational practices for an error-proof deployment. Stackery, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Trusted Key

Seed Round in 2018
Trusted Key provides consumers and organizations with a secure digital identity solution. It offers financial institutions with secure and frictionless KYC solutions, password-less authentication systems, and enhanced document signing procedures. Trusted Key aims to enable an Open Identity Network where users control their own identity using their mobile phones and securely interact with governments, banks, retailers, universities and others. Users are able to securely log in to apps and services without the use of passwords, bring online their definitive identity credentials in order to verify their identity as and when needed, protect themselves for identity theft-related fraud and access advanced services. It was founded in 2016 and was acquired by cloud software firm Workday in July 2019.

The Riveter

Funding Round in 2018
The Riveter is a membership workspace and community platform for women and allies. They provide daily programming to cultivate skills, from Podcasting 101 to angel investment pitch clinics. Moreover, they also give their members space to focus on wellness, including movement studios with daily classes, meditation rooms, and a full program of relevant conversations and workshops. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Strix Leviathan

Seed Round in 2018
Strix Leviathan builds a crypto-trading platform for large entities like hedge funds, banks and traditional enterprise companies that don’t want to have to build their own trading infrastructure. Strix Leviathan has built an algorithmic trading platform designed from day one for cryptocurrency markets that executes programmable automated trading strategies based on proprietary technical analysis. We are a team of technologists and data scientists applying decades of computing knowledge, cloud and infrastructure experience and entrepreneurial acumen to build something bordering on mythical.

The Riveter

Venture Round in 2018
The Riveter is a membership workspace and community platform for women and allies. They provide daily programming to cultivate skills, from Podcasting 101 to angel investment pitch clinics. Moreover, they also give their members space to focus on wellness, including movement studios with daily classes, meditation rooms, and a full program of relevant conversations and workshops. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

LevelTen Energy

Series A in 2017
LevelTen Energy, Inc. operates a renewable energy transaction marketplace that links corporate and industrial power buyers with power purchase agreements (PPAs) from utility-scale wind, solar, and storage projects. Founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company provides a technology-driven platform that enables a diverse range of customers to access renewable energy solutions. By aggregating buyers and sellers, LevelTen allows smaller corporate and industrial customers to engage with the same projects and terms typically available to larger energy purchasers. This innovative approach simplifies the procurement process, helping customers achieve their sustainability goals while stabilizing energy costs and eliminating the complexities of traditional request for proposal (RFP) processes.

Loftium

Venture Round in 2017
Loftium Inc, founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, provides a unique mortgage financing solution for homeowners by renting out spare rooms through Airbnb. The company offers down payments to homeowners in exchange for a share of the income generated from short-term rentals for a period of 12 to 36 months. This model allows Loftium to furnish and manage the Airbnb listings while paying landlords market rent under a long-term lease agreement. By utilizing separable rental spaces, Loftium aims to create affordable housing options in high-cost urban areas, helping families maintain their desired lifestyles. The company generates revenue by collecting income from Airbnb guests, retaining any surplus after meeting the rental obligations to homeowners.

LiveStories

Series A in 2017
LiveStories drives outreach and better decisions using civic data—how communities live, learn, work, and play. Its all-in-one data platform makes it easy to analyze local data, get benchmarks, and create interactive stories. Its customers span government, public health, and business, including the AARP, Gates Foundation, Americans for Non-Smokers' Rights, California Health and Human Services Agency, Maricopa County, and many local health departments.

BloomAPI

Seed Round in 2017
BloomAPI strive to democratize access to healthcare data. To unlock a future where all EMRs are interoperable and where vendors can't hold data hostage for their competitive advantage. They are helping to make healthcare technology easier by connecting patients, providers, and payers.

TalentWorks

Venture Round in 2017
TalentWorks is job interview matching platform

Boundless

Seed Round in 2017
Boundless operates in two distinct sectors: education and immigration services. In the education sector, Boundless Learning, Inc. offers an online platform that provides a wide range of study materials, including content in subjects such as accounting, biology, history, and computer science, along with quizzes and PowerPoint templates. The platform aims to enhance the accessibility and utility of open educational resources for students. In the immigration sector, Boundless empowers families by offering tools, information, and personalized support to help them navigate the immigration system efficiently and affordably. The company's platform connects immigrants with resources, including access to immigration lawyers and online filing options. Founded in 2011 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Boundless has expanded its focus to include immigration services since its inception in 2017, with headquarters in Seattle, Washington.

Stackery

Venture Round in 2017
Stackery, Inc. develops open source tools for developers to design, deploy, monitor, and scale cloud infrastructure. It offers Stackery, a tool to deploy and operate the entire stack, and the developer can focus on the applications. The company’s tool is also used to design stack by dragging in components, such as Docker clusters, virtual networks, and load balancers; and connect and configure services using operational practices for an error-proof deployment. Stackery, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

The Riveter

Seed Round in 2017
The Riveter is a membership workspace and community platform for women and allies. They provide daily programming to cultivate skills, from Podcasting 101 to angel investment pitch clinics. Moreover, they also give their members space to focus on wellness, including movement studios with daily classes, meditation rooms, and a full program of relevant conversations and workshops. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Loftium

Seed Round in 2017
Loftium Inc, founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, provides a unique mortgage financing solution for homeowners by renting out spare rooms through Airbnb. The company offers down payments to homeowners in exchange for a share of the income generated from short-term rentals for a period of 12 to 36 months. This model allows Loftium to furnish and manage the Airbnb listings while paying landlords market rent under a long-term lease agreement. By utilizing separable rental spaces, Loftium aims to create affordable housing options in high-cost urban areas, helping families maintain their desired lifestyles. The company generates revenue by collecting income from Airbnb guests, retaining any surplus after meeting the rental obligations to homeowners.

Shelf Engine

Seed Round in 2017
Shelf Engine is a provider of an automated prediction engine that recommends what to order everyday. The company uses machine learning in order to help grocery stores dial in their orders to minimize waste and maximize profits. Shelf Engine is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Jobalign

Series B in 2017
Jobalign.com is the leading mobile and bilingual cloud based recruiting technology and marketplace for hourly jobs. Jobalign was founded to make the process of hiring hourly workers simple and efficient by reinventing in the cloud a series of dated and inefficient systems and processes used to match over 44 million low-wage workers with jobs every year. It makes it easy to find, apply and get matched for jobs from any mobile phone, tablet or computer. Employers pay only for local pre-screened candidates or per-hire. The company serves directly and through their network of certified partners, mid-size and very large corporations that, on average, report a reduction of 60 percent in recruitment expenses and 50 percent in time-to-hire, while saving hundreds of hours in manual pre-screening. For job seekers, the experience is mobile, and free of advertising and marketing solicitations -- ultimately reducing their time to get hired. Jobalign is a private company headquartered in Kirkland, Wash.

Crowd Cow

Seed Round in 2017
Crowd Cow, Inc. is an online retail platform based in Seattle, Washington, that connects customers with small family farms to purchase high-quality meat products directly. Founded in 2015, the company specializes in offering a variety of meats, including beef, pork, lamb, chicken, and seafood, allowing customers to select specific cuts and quantities tailored to their preferences. By partnering with independent farmers and aquaculture operators, Crowd Cow ensures that its offerings are crafted with care and delivered straight to customers' doors. This approach not only supports local agriculture but also provides consumers with convenient access to premium meat products.

LevelTen Energy

Seed Round in 2016
LevelTen Energy, Inc. operates a renewable energy transaction marketplace that links corporate and industrial power buyers with power purchase agreements (PPAs) from utility-scale wind, solar, and storage projects. Founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company provides a technology-driven platform that enables a diverse range of customers to access renewable energy solutions. By aggregating buyers and sellers, LevelTen allows smaller corporate and industrial customers to engage with the same projects and terms typically available to larger energy purchasers. This innovative approach simplifies the procurement process, helping customers achieve their sustainability goals while stabilizing energy costs and eliminating the complexities of traditional request for proposal (RFP) processes.

OMNI Retail Group

Venture Round in 2016
OMNI Retail Group provides cloud-based solutions designed to enhance the shopping experience for both retailers and manufacturers. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company offers a range of products including the Sidekick Product Discovery Platform, which aids retailers and manufacturers in selecting and purchasing products based on individual preferences. Its offerings include Sidekick Mobile, which enables shoppers to discover and buy products using smartphones and tablets, and Sidekick Web, which enhances online navigation and search. Additionally, Sidekick Pro empowers retail sales associates with product knowledge across various categories. OMNI also features a Shopping Intelligence Platform that integrates online and in-store data, providing brand decision-makers with actionable insights on market dynamics, price optimization, and promotional effectiveness.

Garmentory

Venture Round in 2016
Garmentory is a managed marketplace for emerging and contemporary designers (Nordstrom price segment). Contemporary boutiques and designers sell less than 1% of their apparel online. Their customers buy 20%+ of their apparel online. Garmentory's marketplace allows customers to find brilliant, limited run items, typically only available in boutiques. Using Garmentory, boutiques can open their doors to the world without having to learn sophisticated and expensive digital marketing or build the technical store infrastructure to compete with major department stores.

TrueFacet

Series A in 2016
TrueFacet, Inc. operates an online marketplace for buying and selling jewelry and watches. The company offers new and pre-owned rings, earrings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces, cufflinks, and brooches; and watches for men and women. It serves buyers and sellers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

LiveStories

Seed Round in 2016
LiveStories drives outreach and better decisions using civic data—how communities live, learn, work, and play. Its all-in-one data platform makes it easy to analyze local data, get benchmarks, and create interactive stories. Its customers span government, public health, and business, including the AARP, Gates Foundation, Americans for Non-Smokers' Rights, California Health and Human Services Agency, Maricopa County, and many local health departments.

Komiko

Seed Round in 2016
Why are you spending your weekends updating a CRM system, when all of the data is already in your communication tools? MAKE YOUR CRM SMARTER - Komiko turns email and calendar data into actionable intelligence and automatically adds new contacts, activities and documents to CRM accounts and opportunities. Salesforce Email Sync - No more nudging the sales team to feed CRM with customer conversations, documents, how often they’ve contacted the customer, etc. Never miss a contact. Let Komiko do it automatically, directly into your Salesforce screens. Account Based Management right within your Salesforce. Target new accounts, expand your business with existing accounts, and manage cross-department and partner aligned sales efforts. Pipeline Management - Forward-looking indicators to vet your pipeline and manage risk. Komiko gives unprecedented visibility into your opportunities. No changes to the way your team is using Salesforce or Email. Komiko is using the native Salesforce Ux and thus supporting Classic, Lightning and Salesforce1. Check out http//:www.komiko.com/salesforce.html and http//:www.komiko.com/DynamicsCRM.html

Bloomz Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Bloomz is the creator of the Bloomz App, the free mobile and web app connecting teachers with parents, in a secure, private, easy to use environment. With Bloomz, teachers can schedule classroom volunteers, parent-teacher conferences, communicate directly with parents and share pictures of students when they have those awesome learning moments.

Ripl

Venture Round in 2016
Ripl was launched in October 2015 with the mission of helping small businesses and influencers succeed in the realm of digital marketing. A key part of finding that success is having the ability to create compelling visual and social media content. The application allows users to integrate their own photos into professionally-designed templates to create animated video posts. With simple customization options for text, colors, and music, Ripl makes it easy for users to create engaging posts on the go. In January 2016 the company introduced Ripl PRO, a premium plan for small businesses and other social media power users. The monthly PRO subscription unlocks access to the full library of animated post layout design templates and additional features such as custom brand integration, music track overlays, and content post scheduling. In 2017 the company released its Android mobile app. In 2018 the company launched its Web application for use on laptops and desktop computers.

Moment

Venture Round in 2016
Moment operates as a global marketplace for creatives. The company exists to inspire the creative in everyone. To get the right gear, learn new skills, take epic trips, and make new friends along the way.

Giftbit

Seed Round in 2016
Giftbit, Corp. operates a rewards platform that allows users to buy, send, and control digital gift cards. The company’s gift card API includes gift card tracking and reporting, customization, and team account features. It also provides in-app gift card integration; and third party integration solutions. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Victoria, Canada.

Giftbit

Seed Round in 2016
Giftbit, Corp. operates a rewards platform that allows users to buy, send, and control digital gift cards. The company’s gift card API includes gift card tracking and reporting, customization, and team account features. It also provides in-app gift card integration; and third party integration solutions. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Victoria, Canada.

Reflect

Seed Round in 2016
Reflect Technologies, Inc. is a data visualization platform that provides software developers with tools to integrate analytics capabilities into their applications. Founded in 2015 and based in Portland, Oregon, the company offers a user-friendly studio and a flexible API, allowing developers to create embedded analytics and visualizations efficiently. Reflect's platform simplifies the design and implementation of data visualization, enabling developers to focus on enhancing the user experience while addressing product gaps and creating new revenue streams. The company was acquired by Puppet, Inc., further expanding its reach and capabilities in the data analytics space.

Amperity

Series A in 2016
Amperity is an intelligent customer data platform that helps global consumer brands unlock and utilize their customer data effectively. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Amperity creates a comprehensive Customer 360 view that enhances marketing performance and delivers actionable insights. The platform integrates raw data from various sources, such as e-commerce and loyalty systems, standardizes it, and enriches it with custom attributes, enabling organizations to connect with and understand their customers better. This streamlined approach frees technical teams from the burdens of data integration and management, while empowering business teams with direct access to crucial data necessary for fostering long-term customer loyalty and driving growth. Amperity serves a diverse range of well-known brands, including Alaska Airlines, Starbucks, and Wynn Resorts.

KITT.AI

Seed Round in 2016
KITT.AI offers a conversational understanding as a service that focuses on multi-turn dialog.

Gamesight

Seed Round in 2015
Gamesight is a marketing platform specifically designed for PC and console games, based in Seattle, Washington. The company focuses on player relationship management, enabling game publishers to cultivate robust communities around their titles. By facilitating engagement with key influencers in the gaming industry, Gamesight helps publishers enhance their marketing strategies. Additionally, the platform provides tools to effectively measure marketing performance, allowing publishers to assess the impact of their campaigns and make informed decisions.

Garmentory

Seed Round in 2015
Garmentory is a managed marketplace for emerging and contemporary designers (Nordstrom price segment). Contemporary boutiques and designers sell less than 1% of their apparel online. Their customers buy 20%+ of their apparel online. Garmentory's marketplace allows customers to find brilliant, limited run items, typically only available in boutiques. Using Garmentory, boutiques can open their doors to the world without having to learn sophisticated and expensive digital marketing or build the technical store infrastructure to compete with major department stores.

Karat

Seed Round in 2015
Karat Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Seattle, Washington, specializes in technical interviewing methodologies and software. The company has pioneered the concept of Interview Engineering, conducting technical interviews for organizations seeking software engineers. Utilizing a community of Interview Engineers, Karat employs a proprietary interviewing infrastructure, standardized questions, and data-informed best practices to ensure fair and predictive interviews at scale. Their flagship product allows companies to record interviews, capture candidates' coding performances, structure feedback, and generate recommendations for hiring teams. By building a robust dataset of structured interview intelligence, Karat provides valuable hiring analytics to enhance the recruitment process for its clients.

Sirqul

Series A in 2015
Sirqul.com is a Seattle-based startup that has created a ubiquitous social platform enabling consumers and brands to create their own distributed, Social-Location-Mobile solutions as a means of driving awareness and engagement through viral adoption. It removes the complexity associated with scalable, enterprise-quality software and enables the rapid deployment of interoperable IoT ecosystems based upon plug-and-play APIs, tool kits, and starter projects. The company's platform and patented technologies empower the Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers, enterprises, and cloud-enabled application ecosystem owners (AEO’s) to rapidly create dynamic, connected, and engaging experiences and applications for their customers, users, and employees. Sirqul was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

TrueFacet

Venture Round in 2015
TrueFacet, Inc. operates an online marketplace for buying and selling jewelry and watches. The company offers new and pre-owned rings, earrings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces, cufflinks, and brooches; and watches for men and women. It serves buyers and sellers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Auth0

Series A in 2015
Auth0, Inc. is a cloud-based identity platform designed for developers and security professionals. The company offers Auth0, a comprehensive solution that includes APIs and tools to streamline the authentication and authorization processes for applications and APIs. Auth0 facilitates single sign-on across various platforms and identity providers, allowing users to integrate authentication with minimal coding. Additionally, it provides features for customizing the authentication pipeline and managing user databases effectively. The platform supports integration with various identity providers, including Active Directory and SAML, and allows users to manage profiles and monitor login activities. Auth0 also offers Auth0 Signals, a suite of threat intelligence tools aimed at protecting customers from identity-related attacks by leveraging data from the dark web. Established in 2013, Auth0 is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with offices in key international locations, serving a diverse clientele that includes both large enterprises and startups.

CSATS

Series A in 2015
C-SATS provides a personalized surgical skills assessment platform using a unique combination of data analytics, artificial intelligence. It specializes in the fields of robotic surgery, surgical skills, surgical insights, laparoscopic surgery, and minimally invasive surgery. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Transpose

Seed Round in 2015
Transpose is a cloud-based platform designed to help users structure and manage large sets of data efficiently. It offers a database and project management application that facilitates data organization, security, and synchronization across desktop, mobile, and web-based devices. By providing a user-friendly interface, Transpose enables users to leverage advanced technology typically reserved for enterprises, making it accessible for a broader audience. The platform supports collaboration and control over data, allowing users to extract valuable insights from their information seamlessly.

Skyward

Seed Round in 2015
Skyward offers an operations management solution for commercial drone businesses. The cloud-­based software integrates a drone airspace map with flight planning tools and a digital system of record. Skyward was founded by career pilots and computer science experts with a mission to ensure that the standards of safety and professionalism are carried into this new era of aviation.

LiveStories

Seed Round in 2015
LiveStories drives outreach and better decisions using civic data—how communities live, learn, work, and play. Its all-in-one data platform makes it easy to analyze local data, get benchmarks, and create interactive stories. Its customers span government, public health, and business, including the AARP, Gates Foundation, Americans for Non-Smokers' Rights, California Health and Human Services Agency, Maricopa County, and many local health departments.

Brand.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Brand.ai is automatically maintainable UI components style guide. Brand provides tools and integrations to upgrade its users’ systems from reference sites to living products that integrates with their team’s existing workflows. The company offers its users with design asset management, sketch UI library sync, cross-platform style data export, documentation integration, and MS office integration services. It establishes a centralized repository system for its users’ design assets and it allows its users to get designs directly in the tools they already use. It also allows its users to share UI components and styles with its users’ teams. It pushes design library updates to their teams that all individuals can use the updated version in sketch. Brand is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014.

GlimpzIt

Seed Round in 2015
GlimpzIt is a machine-learning platform for marketers, not data scientists. We analyze unstructured data (pictures, videos and text) using Machine Learning enabling companies to auto create marketing content that appeals to customers on a truly emotional level.

Prism

Venture Round in 2015
Prism is a smartphone application that enables individuals to manage their bills and personal finances. Available on iOS, Android, Windows, and Kindle platforms, the application connects its users directly with their billers to facilitate automatic notifications when new bills are found as well as to schedule payments using their credit and debit cards, and bank accounts. Prism also offers a dashboard enabling users to check and manage their account balances in order to make educated financial decisions.

Bluecore

Series A in 2015
Bluecore is a Multi-Channel Marketing Platform that uses predictive intelligence to trigger, prioritize, and personalize retail marketing. By unifying, scoring, and activating consumer, behavior, and product data in one platform, Bluecore paints a comprehensive picture of each shopper and their historical, and most uniquely, anticipated relationship with brand products and experiences. Today, Bluecore manages nearly 500 million shopper IDs and a cumulative product catalog second only to Amazon. It’s credited with doubling marketing revenue, and increasing customer retention, lifetime value, and overall speed to execution for more than 400 brands, including Express, Nike, Sephora, Jockey, Tommy Hilfiger, The North Face, and more. Bluecore is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital, Georgian Partners, and Felicis Ventures, Bluecore is one of New York City’s fastest-growing SaaS start-ups and works with more than 400 retailers and brands.

Shippable

Series A in 2014
Shippable, Inc. provides Shippable, a SaaS platform that lets a client to add continuous integration/deployment to client’s Github and Bitbucket(Git) repositories. Its Shippable common use cases include automating the packaging and deployment of Web applications; and automated testing and continuous integration/deployment. The company serves businesses around the world. Shippable, Inc. was formerly known as Qhode Inc. and changed its name to Shippable, Inc. in December 2013. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Bellevue, Washington. As of February 21, 2019, Shippable, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of JFrog Ltd.

Ghostruck

Seed Round in 2014
Ghostruck is a smartphone application that connects users with professional movers for itemized moving services. Founded in 2013 by Matt Hocking and Nathanael Nienaber, the platform offers a user-friendly web and mobile app, allowing individuals to request moving assistance on a per-item basis. Based in Seattle, Washington, Ghostruck provides a straightforward solution for those needing moving services at a flat rate, making it easier for users to find and hire professional movers tailored to their specific needs.

CSATS

Debt Financing in 2014
C-SATS provides a personalized surgical skills assessment platform using a unique combination of data analytics, artificial intelligence. It specializes in the fields of robotic surgery, surgical skills, surgical insights, laparoscopic surgery, and minimally invasive surgery. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Apptentive

Series A in 2014
Apptentive, Inc. develops a mobile customer engagement software/customer feedback and analytics platform that helps companies to listen to, engage with, and retain their customers. Its software gives brands a way to identify who to talk to, engage user segments, and mobilize customers to take action through in-app messages, surveys, ratings prompts, notes, and analytics. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Moment

Seed Round in 2014
Moment operates as a global marketplace for creatives. The company exists to inspire the creative in everyone. To get the right gear, learn new skills, take epic trips, and make new friends along the way.

Bizible

Series B in 2014
Bizible, Inc. is a provider of marketing attribution and planning software designed specifically for business-to-business companies. Founded in 2011 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company offers a software-as-a-service platform that enables organizations to connect their marketing efforts directly to revenue outcomes. Bizible's technology tracks offline revenue to online marketing sources, providing a comprehensive view of marketing return on investment and customer lifetime value. The platform integrates data from various sales and marketing channels, including CRM systems, websites, and ad networks, to deliver insights on revenue-generating activities such as demand generation and account-based marketing. With the ability to perform predictive analytics and scenario planning, Bizible supports over 300 clients across multiple industries, including higher education, healthcare, and technology, in optimizing their marketing strategies for growth. As of April 2018, Bizible operates as a subsidiary of Marketo, Inc.

TrueFacet

Seed Round in 2014
TrueFacet, Inc. operates an online marketplace for buying and selling jewelry and watches. The company offers new and pre-owned rings, earrings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces, cufflinks, and brooches; and watches for men and women. It serves buyers and sellers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Jobalign

Series B in 2014
Jobalign.com is the leading mobile and bilingual cloud based recruiting technology and marketplace for hourly jobs. Jobalign was founded to make the process of hiring hourly workers simple and efficient by reinventing in the cloud a series of dated and inefficient systems and processes used to match over 44 million low-wage workers with jobs every year. It makes it easy to find, apply and get matched for jobs from any mobile phone, tablet or computer. Employers pay only for local pre-screened candidates or per-hire. The company serves directly and through their network of certified partners, mid-size and very large corporations that, on average, report a reduction of 60 percent in recruitment expenses and 50 percent in time-to-hire, while saving hundreds of hours in manual pre-screening. For job seekers, the experience is mobile, and free of advertising and marketing solicitations -- ultimately reducing their time to get hired. Jobalign is a private company headquartered in Kirkland, Wash.

Garmentory

Seed Round in 2014
Garmentory is a managed marketplace for emerging and contemporary designers (Nordstrom price segment). Contemporary boutiques and designers sell less than 1% of their apparel online. Their customers buy 20%+ of their apparel online. Garmentory's marketplace allows customers to find brilliant, limited run items, typically only available in boutiques. Using Garmentory, boutiques can open their doors to the world without having to learn sophisticated and expensive digital marketing or build the technical store infrastructure to compete with major department stores.

Smore

Seed Round in 2014
Smore makes it simple to create gorgeous newsletters, collaborate with colleagues, and analyze results. It's an easy way to ensure consistency and accountability communication and to transform the way your audience engages with your content. Smore has over 2 million users creating over 100,000 newsletters each month.

Cody

Seed Round in 2014
Cody is a new media company that produces the latest yoga, wellness & fitness videos that inspire and educate. We offer our video training platform on Web, iOS, and Android as well as original programming on leading social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. At Cody we connect physical movement, technology, and community into a training experience that lets you focus on what’s really important: Being present in the moment so you can truly enjoy the sweat, strength, and triumph of each session. Learn more at codyapp.com