Founders Fund

The Founders Fund is a multi-stage, multi-sector venture capial firm with an emphasis on transformational technologies and companies. The firm's industries of interest include Advanced Machines, Aerospace & Transportation, Analytics & Software, Biotechnology & Health, and Consumer Internet & Media. Founders primarily invests at the seed stage, with a typical investment of $500,000-$5,000,000. The firm's partners previously founded PayPal. Initial subscriptions to the Founders Fund were $50 million. The firm announced March 6 the close of a $1 billion fifth suite of funds.

Delian Asparouhov

Principal

Leigh Marie Braswell

Principal

Erin Gleason

VP of Communications

Lauren Gross

Partner and COO

Ken Howery

Co-Founder and Partner

John Luttig

Principal

Amin Mirzadegan

Principal

Scott Nolan

Partner

Luke Nosek

Managing Partner

Keith Rabois

Partner

Everett Randle

Principal

Neil Ruthven

CFO

Brian Singerman

Partner

Michael Solana

VP

Trae Stephens

Partner

Napoleon Ta

Partner

Peter Thiel

Partner

Matias Van Thienen

Partner

955 past transactions

Density

Private Placement in 2018
Density measures how people use space in real-time without invading privacy. Using proprietary depth sensors and deep learning algorithms, the platform accurately and anonymously counts people in real time. Organizations use Density to improve efficiency and enhance occupant experience in buildings, workplaces, and real estate. Unlike a camera, Density's platform doesn't capture personally identifiable information and is purpose-built for accurately measuring how people use physical space.
Compass Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company targeting the human immune synapse with a new generation of antibody therapeutics. Compass has broadly drugged the immune system by generating epitopically diverse antibody panels to more than 40 targets across all immune cell types and is leveraging its proprietary StitchMabs and common light-chain based multispecific platforms to empirically identify combinations and multispecific with optimized activity. The company’s lead product candidate, CTX-471, is a fully human agonistic antibody of CD137, which is in a Phase 1 study in patients with inadequate responses to PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors. Compass is also progressing several preclinical assets including a novel class of NK cell engagers targeting NKp30 and multiple bispecific checkpoint programs. The company’s offices and labs are based in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Mass.

Tachyus

Series A in 2016
Tachyus develops a technology platform to optimize energy production for the oil and gas industry. Its platform provides prescriptive and predictive analytics, descriptive analytics, integration, and measurement features. Tachyus offers solutions for production optimization in cyclic steaming, steam-flooding, CO2-flooding, water-flooding, pump optimization, workover prioritization, and shale fracking. It production responses to stimulation, relationships between completion design and initial production, and optimal injection rates through its platform enables users to predict mechanical equipment failure. Tachyus serves through iOS applications. Dakin Sloss, Francisco Leport, and Paul Orland founded Software Revolution in 2013 that became Tachyus in April 2013. It has its headquarters in San Mateo in California.

Hoxton Farms

Seed Round in 2021
Based in London, UK, Hoxton Farms is growing real animal fat – without animals. The company combines cell biology and mathematical modelling to produce cultivated fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry.

Quince

Series A in 2021
Quince is a new e-commerce company that focuses on leveraging an M2C supply chain to deliver premium essentials at the lowest market price. It acts as a thin storefront to bring manufacturers and artisans closer to their customers through shared partnership in brand or marketing. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Osaro

Series C in 2021
Osaro, Inc. develops industrial-grade artificial intelligence (AI) software to automate the manual picking and assembly tasks in distribution centers and manufacturing facilities. It offers automation solutions for computer and robotic systems driven by advanced machine learning software. The company also provides machine learning products that automatically processes large amounts of unstructured data and learns complex control tasks. Osaro, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

StarkWare Industries

Series A in 2018
StarkWare Industries Ltd develops software and hardware for generation and verification of computational integrity proofs for general computations. The company offers STARK, which is a zero-knowledge proof protocol with applications, including transparent privacy in blockchains, increased transaction throughput, and off chain computation. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Netanya, Israel.

Placement Holdings, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Placement Holdings, Inc. is based in the United States.

Automaton, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Automaton, Inc. develops a platform, which automates inventory management, analytics and check out in physical stores. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Bitly

Series B in 2010
Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels. Through branded bitlinks, mobile deep linking, and omnichannel campaign tracking, the platform offers a complete marketing solution to drive customer experiences. Using HTTP 301 redirects for its links, companies can use their own custom domains to generate shortened links. This allows the company to push brand awareness on services such as Twitter but use the Bitly engine to generate the shortened URLs and track marketing metrics. Bitly was launched in July 2008 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver.

Contraline

Seed Round in 2018
Contraline, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops male birth control products. It offers Echo-V, an ultrasound-visible polymer solution injected into the vas deferens. The company’s Echo-V forms polymer hydrogel device that acts as a semi-permeable membrane blocking sperm while allowing fluids through. It provides Vasintomy, a non-surgical procedure designed for inserting Echo-V. Contraline, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Garner Health

Series B in 2021
Garner Health is a technology company that works with employers to get their employees to the best quality providers. The company offers its solution through employers who want to give their employees a better quality healthcare experience and in-turn save on the cost of healthcare because the best doctors end up costing the least money. Garner Health was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.

Sundae, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Sundae, Inc. provides residential real estate brokerage services. It specializes in the listing and sale of restored and renovated properties. The company also purchases, renovates, and resell properties through its resale brokerage agents. Sundae, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Flo Health

Private Placement in 2017
Flo Health, Inc. develops and provides menstruation cycle tracking solutions. It offers Flo, a women's health product that encompasses solutions for girls and women at every stage of menstruation cycle, preparation for conception, pregnancy, early motherhood, and menopause. The company was formerly known as OW Health, Inc. Flo Health, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Arceo Labs, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Arceo Labs, Inc. through its brand Arceo provides cyber security and cyber analytics services to insurance industry firms. The company also provides service to cyber insurance brokers and carriers to assess, underwrite, manage cyber risks, artificial intelligence, and workflow automation. Arceo Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

GoodRx

Seed Round in 2011
GoodRx is the first and only prescription drug price comparison tool created for consumers with prices from pharmacies nationwide. GoodRx's founders are seasoned technology executives who were early employees at Facebook, Yahoo and other successful companies.

Twilio

Series A in 2009
Twilio, the developer platform for communications, is reinventing telecom by merging the worlds of cloud computing, web services and telecommunications. With Twilio, developers and businesses make communications more contextual by embedding voice, video, messaging, and authentication directly into applications. Businesses such as Uber, Box, DocuSign, Nordstrom, Coca-Cola, Walmart, and Home Depot trust Twilio to power their communications.

Lore

Series B in 2012
Lore (formerly Coursekit) is reshaping education for the Internet age. Lore is a community of curious people, spanning every discipline, campus, country, and age. It’s a platform for learning: a new venue for education that allows you to explore.

Indee Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Indee Labs is developing hardware for gene delivery. Our hardware is uniquely positioned for the efficient development and scalable manufacture of gene-modified cell therapies such as chimeric antigen receptor T cells. The technology is being developed with the help of the Australian National Fabrication Facility. We are alumni of NSW Health, IndieBio, Y Combinator and MBC Biolabs (née QB3@953). We are opening up an office in Sydney and have lab space at Bonneville Labs in Berkeley.
Synapse Technology Corporation, doing business as Synapse Research, develops artificial intelligence (AI) based application that detects and identifies weapons and other prohibited items at security checkpoints. It provides Syntech ONE, an artificial intelligence (AI) based software for a threat detection system that operates on baggage X-Ray and CT scanners to tackles security screening checkpoints. Its software platform integrates on both new and existing checkpoint machines at airports, schools, and office buildings. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Contraline

Series A in 2021
Contraline, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops male birth control products. It offers Echo-V, an ultrasound-visible polymer solution injected into the vas deferens. The company’s Echo-V forms polymer hydrogel device that acts as a semi-permeable membrane blocking sperm while allowing fluids through. It provides Vasintomy, a non-surgical procedure designed for inserting Echo-V. Contraline, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Cerby

Seed Round in 2022
Cerby is a cybersecurity company focused on helping enterprises harness Shadow IT. Cerby delivers a seamless end-user experience and addresses the shadow IT problem by enabling end-users to onboard and securely use applications of their own choosing.

Knewton

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

Clearing

Seed Round in 2021
Relief Labs is a digitally native D2C platform that addresses healthcare issues.

Belvo

Private Placement in 2020
Belvo Technologies, Inc. develops an open banking application programming interface (API) platform that enables any company to access and interpret banking and fiscal information. The company through its platform Belvo API enables users to access information, such as bank account statements, historical bank transactions, bank account owner identification, tax information. Its platform handles all the process from client registration to retrieving data. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Dover, Delaware.

OnDeck

Series D in 2013
OnDeck launched in Australia in 2015 to solve a major issue facing small businesses: efficient access to capital. They use cutting-edge technology to evaluate businesses based on their actual performance, not solely business owners’ personal credit scores. Ultimately, this makes it possible for us to responsibly expand access to credit. As a result, businesses are able to spend their time where it provides the most benefit—on their customers and on growing, rather than looking for a small business loan.

AirGarage

Seed Round in 2019
AirGarage is a full stack parking operator that helps churches and businesses manage and rent out their parking lots. As a full-stack parking operator, it removes barriers to sell parking so anyone with an underutilized lot can get started. AirGarage provides a suite of tools needed to manage user acquisition, payment processing, and enforcement.

Osaro

Series B in 2020
Osaro, Inc. develops industrial-grade artificial intelligence (AI) software to automate the manual picking and assembly tasks in distribution centers and manufacturing facilities. It offers automation solutions for computer and robotic systems driven by advanced machine learning software. The company also provides machine learning products that automatically processes large amounts of unstructured data and learns complex control tasks. Osaro, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Judicata

Series A in 2013
Judicata is mapping the legal genome—i.e. using highly specialized case law parsing and algorithmically assisted human review to turn unstructured court opinions into structured data. We are leveraging that data to build legal research and analytics tools that are an order of magnitude better than existing offerings. Great legal technology will never replace lawyers, but it can help them make sense of massive amounts of information and aid them in exercising their skilled, human judgment.

Orgio, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Orgio, Inc. owns and operates a technology platform that helps users to organize team information of companies. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Copenhagen, Denmark.

AI Foundation

Private Placement in 2018
AI Foundation develops revolutionary new interfaces between humans and AI open up a whole new universe of AI-powered jobs. Truly personal AI requires deep interactions between users and AI for collaboration and training, which must be natural and more like hobby or play.

Argent

Private Placement in 2019
Argent Mill, Inc. retails women clothing and apparel online. It offers blazers, tops, pants, jumpsuits, outerwear, skirts, dresses, and sweaters as well as accessories. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mosaic

Private Placement in 2020
Mosaic Building Group, Inc. provides construction services to homebuilders to build homes, communities, neighborhoods, and cities. It offers general contracting, framing mechanical, plumbing, electrical, drywall, and site work services. The company provides single family homebuilding, multi family homebuilding, custom homebuilding, and build to rent casitas. Mosaic Building Group, Inc. was formerly known as Fuelmouse Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona with additional offices in San Francisco, California.

Artsy

Series A in 2011
Artsy is the world’s largest online art marketplace. Browse over 1 million artworks by iconic and emerging artists from 4000+ galleries and top auction houses.

Nubank

Series C in 2016
Nubank issues, administrate, processes, and transfers payments related to post-paid credit cards and equity investment in other entities. It serves clients in Brazil. The company launched its proprietary loyalty rewards program ("Nubank Rewards"), as well as a digital account ("NuConta") that is already used by more than 17 million people. In Cristina Junqueira, David Velez, and Edward Wible founded EO2 Solucoes de Pagamento on May 6, 2013 that became Nubank in on June 25, 2013. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.

Ramp

Series B in 2021
Ramp Business Corporation offers a corporate credit card for businesses and startups. Its card enables to provide tracking and insight tools for founders and finance teams; and offers cash back on by using the card at various retailers that accept Visa and online. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in New York, New York.

Synapse Technology Corporation

Private Placement in 2019
Synapse Technology Corporation, doing business as Synapse Research, develops artificial intelligence (AI) based application that detects and identifies weapons and other prohibited items at security checkpoints. It provides Syntech ONE, an artificial intelligence (AI) based software for a threat detection system that operates on baggage X-Ray and CT scanners to tackles security screening checkpoints. Its software platform integrates on both new and existing checkpoint machines at airports, schools, and office buildings. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Magdrive

Seed Round in 2020
Magdrive Limited develops a next generation of spacecraft propulsion for small satellites. The company offers technology of new plasma thruster that combines both high thrust of chemical rockets and the high efficiency of other electric thrusters. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Didcot, United Kingdom.

Balanced

Seed Round in 2022
Balanced is committed to helping older adults maintain vibrancy in their lives, with an exercise platform that promises community, joy, and a personalized experience.

Wish

Series F in 2016
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wish is an e-commerce platform, putting a digital shopping mall of affordable goods directly in the pockets of consumers worldwide. Wish employs big data principles, machine-learning, and search technologies to create a highly-visual, entertaining, and personalized browsing experience for each user. The company leverages a global network of direct suppliers, providing access to top quality, affordable products to anyone with a smartphone. As of 2018, Wish has more than 80 million monthly active users, over one million merchants, and sells nearly 1 billion products annually. For more information about the company or to download the Wish mobile app.

Kargo

Seed Round in 2021
Kargo offers a smart loading dock to make operations intuitive and responsive using computer vision. It helps businesses to have full incoming and outgoing shipment visibility with real-time ASN verification. The company's autonomous material inspection tower scans moving labels and detects all internal RFID tags. Using AI and analytics businesses make better business and operational decisions. Kargo was formerly known as Cognisense. It was founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California.

BitPay

Seed Round in 2013
BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers RESTful API, a bitcoin paymet gateway API; and native payment protocol support, signed payment request, direct payment communication, and BIP 73 support solutions. BitPay also provides Copay, a bitcoin wallet solution with Intel hardware security integration that allows users with hardware-level protection, including private key generation, transaction signing, and private keys. It has a strategic processing relationship with Aliant Payment Systems, Inc. Anthony Gallippi and Stephen Pair founded BitPay on May 1, 2011. It has its headquarters in Atlanta in Georgia.

Crusoe Energy Systems

Venture Round in 2019
Crusoe Energy Systems Inc. develops technology and solutions for operational, environmental, and regulatory problems. It offers Digital Flare Mitigation solution for upstream operators without access to pipeline that converts wasted natural gas into electricity to power energy-intensive computing. The company serves oil and gas producers. Crusoe Energy Systems Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Sana Health

Seed Round in 2018
Sana Health UK Limited develops a sleep mask for people with severe sleep problems caused by high anxiety or pain. The company offers Sana, a wearable device that allows the wearer to put themselves to sleep in 10 minutes. Its mask measures and tracks user’s overall state of health and vitality over time, and uses this measure to tailor the device to get user to deep relaxation and sleep fast. Sana Health UK Limited was founded in 2015 and is based in Dorchester, United Kingdom.

Vise

Seed Round in 2019
Vise, Inc. develops a machine learning and artificial intelligence-based portfolio management software. It offers Vise, a subadvisor platform that integrates with the users’ favorite custodian, imports client data, and automatically handles trading and ongoing management. The company serves advisors, wealth managers, financial analysts, and portfolio managers. Vise, Inc. was formerly known as Artificial Intelligence Labs, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Citizen

Seed Round in 2016
Citizen is a free mobile application that notifies its users with safety alerts and real-time incident updates. It is a powerful force for good that has already evacuated people from burning buildings, diverted school buses from nearby terrorist attacks, and, in one instance, led to the rescue of a one-year-old boy from a stolen car. It is a truly unique proposition that provides you with alerts from 911 data that until now has never been made available to the public. The alerts are accompanied by live stories, real-time updates, and user-generated content to provide you with the information you need so you know what’s happening around you rather than having to wonder why police are on your corner or there are helicopters above you. Today, over a million people across the United States have downloaded the app and use it to keep themselves, their families, and their friends safe. Emergency services and community activists alike hail the app as a ground-breaking development in personal and community safety. Over 1 million New Yorkers have citizens, and the app has seen similar growth, usage, and engagement in LA, SF, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The company was founded in 2017 and based in New York City, New York.

Tachyus

Series A in 2015
Tachyus develops a technology platform to optimize energy production for the oil and gas industry. Its platform provides prescriptive and predictive analytics, descriptive analytics, integration, and measurement features. Tachyus offers solutions for production optimization in cyclic steaming, steam-flooding, CO2-flooding, water-flooding, pump optimization, workover prioritization, and shale fracking. It production responses to stimulation, relationships between completion design and initial production, and optimal injection rates through its platform enables users to predict mechanical equipment failure. Tachyus serves through iOS applications. Dakin Sloss, Francisco Leport, and Paul Orland founded Software Revolution in 2013 that became Tachyus in April 2013. It has its headquarters in San Mateo in California.

Teckro

Series C in 2019
Teckro, Inc. offers a solution that transforms clinical trials making all relevant information instantly accessible to every active member of the study. The company facilitates connections between investigators and the expertise they need; and helps study teams, sites, and patients to connect. Its solution instantly captures and shares team’s knowledge to dramatically reduce the burden on CRAs, medical monitors, data management, and study personnel. The company serves pharmaceutical companies and clinical researchers across the world. Teckro, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Limerick, Ireland.

Massless

Seed Round in 2019
Massless Limited manufactures hardware and software for three dimensional interactions with augmented and virtual reality. The company offers Massless Pen, which helps designers and engineers to connect the dots between virtual and reality, design and engineering. It develops modeling tools for 3D designers and engineers. The company also develops, reviews, and manipulates large 3d models in real time from within the dataset. It offers features, such as extreme pen precision, optical tracking at 60 HZ, tactile feedback, surface sensing, orientation sensing, USB 3, production battery life, and compatibility. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

AllyIQ Incorporated

Private Placement in 2019
AllyIQ Incorporated, doing business as Searchlight, designs and develops a platform that provides the perspectives of people who have worked with candidates. The software collects the resume of the candidate, then invite referencers to provide feedback, and then uses an algorithm to analyze and summarize the candidate reference. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Zocdoc

Series C in 2011
Zocdoc, Inc. owns and operates an online platform to search and book doctors' appointments. Additionally, it offers doctors’ reviews; appointment and preventive check-up reminders; and online paper-work services. The company focuses on chiropractors, dentists, dermatologists, eye doctors, gynecologists, primary care doctors, and psychiatrists. Zocdoc, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Counsyl

Venture Round in 2017
As of July 31, 2018, Myriad Women's Health, Inc. was acquired by Myriad Genetics, Inc.

Compass

Series C in 2015
Compass operates as a real estate brokerage company. It also provides a real estate listing app for iOS and Android that helps in buying, selling, and renting homes in the United States. Ori Allon, Robet Reffkin, and Ugo Di Girolamo founded Urban Compass on October 4, 2012, that became Compass in February 2015. Its headquarters is in New York City with additional offices in the United States.

Arevo

Venture Round in 2021
AREVO, based in Silicon Valley, California, develops technology to enable direct digital additive manufacturing of ultra-strong, lightweight composite parts for end use applications in high volume. With the company's unique combination of breakthrough materials, powerful design/build software, and free motion robotics for the first “true 3D” construction, AREVO is moving beyond prototypes by enabling the design and fabrication of large, mass-produced parts and structures, quickly leading 3D printing into mainstream manufacturing. AREVO provides designers and manufacturers with unprecedented freedom to unlock the unparalleled strength and weight of composite materials for a wide range of consumer and industrial products, and has seen early success manufacturing CFRTP composite parts for OEM customers. With an initial focus on Aerospace, Defense, Consumer Electronics, Transportation, and Consumer Goods, Arevo is poised to optimize additive manufacturing services to OEM’s worldwide.

vicarious

Series B in 2014
Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company that uses the computational principles of the brain to develop general intelligence for robots. The company was founded in 2010 by Dr. Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix. Previously Dr. George was Chief Technology Officer at Numeta. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Prior Knowledge

Seed Round in 2012
Prior Knowledge makes insight and predictions as easy as using a database, by building infer-structure -- infrastructure for inference. Veritable, their predictive database, goes beyond traditional big data analytics by learning the deep structure of data and generating predictions that reflect all of these relationships. The complex probabilistic models behind PK’s infer-structure grew out of many years of research at MIT. Prior Knowledge continues to advance the state-of-the-art in probabilistic inference in order to tackle the size and complexity of modern datasets, and to let regular developers exploit these advances. Prior Knowledge is backed by Founders Fund and independent angel investors.

Flexport

Series E in 2022
Flexport is a licensed customs brokerage and freight forwarder built around a modern web application. Its freight service includes an online dashboard for businesses to easily understand, purchase, manage, and track the services required for global trade. Its team of logistics experts lets focus on core business by ensuring goods arrive at fulfillment/distribution centers on time and at the lowest cost. Flexport's mission is to fix the user experience in global trade and bring the world free trade through technology. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Roivant Sciences

Private Equity Round in 2018
Roivant’s mission is to reduce the time and cost of developing new medicines for patients and to share those savings with the healthcare system. Roivant does this by building Vants - nimble, entrepreneurial biotech and healthcare technology companies with a unique approach to sourcing talent, aligning incentives, and deploying technology. In addition to its biopharmaceutical subsidiaries, Roivant also builds technology-focused Vants focused on improving the process of developing and commercializing medicines.

Raise Commercial Real Estate

Seed Round in 2019
HelloOffice is a technology-powered commercial real estate brokerage helping companies search for office space in a smarter and faster way. The company pairs experienced brokers with easy to use software to give its clients the best service in the market.

Frogmetrics

Seed Round in 2008
Frogmetrics aggregates your data from unlimited locations, automatically finds the most important statistics, and helps you gain insights about your business from your web browser. The company wants to place touch screens in restaurants, stores, and other brick and mortar establishments that can be used to collect customer feedback on the spot. The devices ask customers a few questions at the point of sale about their experience and can collect contact information about customers to generate leads. The information gathered across physical locations is aggregated and analyzed for trends and other statistics.

Grabango

Series A in 2019
Grabango is a provider of checkout-free shopper technology for existing stores. Grabango’s system is designed to accommodate thousands of store locations and tens of thousands of SKUs. Grabango’s founder and CEO, Will Glaser (Founder, CTO Pandora Radio) has built a company that is at the forefront of today’s retail technology revolution. Its unique design uses computer vision and machine learning to change the way people shop. The company is composed of a team of accomplished technology and commerce professionals. Founded in 2016, Grabango is based in Berkeley, California.

Leap Motion

Series B in 2013
Leap Motion is a software and hardware company that develops 3D motion-control technology for virtual reality and additional platforms. The company's mission is to remove the barriers between people and technology. Leap Motion's unprecedented hand tracking lets users reach into virtual and augmented reality to interact with new worlds. The company is currently partnering with major VR manufacturers to embed Leap Motion technology into mobile VR or AR headsets. The company's technology makes it possible to play, create, and explore in more natural and dynamic ways. It was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sundae

Seed Round in 2019
Sundae’s mission is to help homeowners get the best outcome when it’s time to sell a house that needs some love. For too long, the process of selling outdated and damaged houses has been terrible for sellers. Local property investors capitalize on homeowner distress to purchase houses cheaply and resell them for huge profits. Sundae is putting more of those profits back in the hands of the homeowner. We’ve developed a model to predict when sellers will need our help, and a best-in-class sales and marketing team to reach them and a trusted brand that allows us to grow even faster through word of mouth and referrals. With scale and efficiency, we’re able to redistribute economic value to sellers in the form of the most competitive price so that Sundae can become the largest buyer of homes that need love in the United States.

Ritual

Series B in 2019
Based in sunny Los Angeles, Ritual is a direct-to-consumer health brand that believes it’s crucial to know not just what you’re putting into your body, but why you need it in the first place. We’re transparent about our ingredients, where they're sourced from, and have spent years conducting extensive research behind each of the premium nutrient forms we use. Our products are simple, effective, and backed by science. Our mission is simple: to empower people to feel their best by turning healthy habits into a ritual. We have built a team of curious skeptics, world-class scientists, unconventional artists, expert marketers and analytical strategists that are on a mission to reinvent an entire industry. We’re well-funded, growing quickly, and committed to our mission. If you’re a team player who refuses to settle for the status quo, we want you. Welcome to your new daily Ritual.

Counsyl

Private Equity Round in 2011
As of July 31, 2018, Myriad Women's Health, Inc. was acquired by Myriad Genetics, Inc.

Yammer

Series C in 2010
Yammer is an enterprise social network established to foster team collaboration, empower employees, and drive business transformation. It enables employees to collaborate in real time across departments, geographies, and business applications. It also helps them create groups to collaborate on projects and share and edit documents. The service of yammer.com can be accessed through the web, desktop and mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Android, and Blackberry, enabling a “virtual office” that employees can plug into while on-the-go. Additionally, Yammer can be easily integrated with other systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, creating a social layer across all enterprise applications. Yammer has secured more than 7 million users, including employees from 85 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2008, Yammer is now a part of Microsoft.

Circles.Life

Venture Round in 2019
Circles.Life is a young, innovative telco, homegrown in Singapore with a mission to re-imagine how mobile services are built and delivered with you in mind. They do this by offering the best no-contract mobile plan, unlimited bonus data and an unparalleled customer experience.

Boom Fantasy

Seed Round in 2017
Boom Sports is a technology company whose mission is to entertain and connect sports fans through games. After building the most popular real-money pick 'em daily fantasy product (2-time EGR app of the year), we're designing and operating world-class, free-to-play, games for media, league, and pro sports team partners. Our flagship product is NBC Sports Predictor, which offers fans in all 50 states the chance to win real money based on their (free) predictions. The product has been a huge success -- hundreds of thousands of active users, a 4.8 app store rating on 2K+ reviews -- and has provided a model for others that want to maximize the value of their audience in advance of legalized sports betting. If you want to build (legal) sports gaming products for the next generation of fans, come join us! We're hiring!

Genesis Healthcare

Venture Round in 2015
Genesis Healthcare Co. manufactures, develops, and sells genetic testing kits and offers general genetic analysis. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Tokyo, Japan with additional offices in Singapore and Taiwan.

Motherly

Series A in 2020
Motherly is a lifestyle brand redefining motherhood on behalf of a new generation of mothers, empowering modern mamas with expert information, an inspiring community, and thoughtfully curated products to guide her through the journey of motherhood. The company is based in the United States and it is founded in 2015 by Jill Koziol and Elizabeth Tenety.

Quantcast

Series C in 2010
Quantcast processes real-time data at the intersection of commerce and culture, providing useful, actionable insights for brands and publishers. Through Quantcast Measure, we have unlocked the data generated by more than 100 million digital destinations, helping publishers and creators understand and grow their businesses in ways never before possible. With Quantcast Advertise, adaptive modeling and intelligent machines are utilized to help thousands of marketers around the world find and interact with customers anywhere they connect to the digital world. Our more than 600 employees are driven by the potential for big data to radically improve everyone’s connected experiences and transform the way we all make sense of the world.

Eat Just

Series A in 2013
Our mission is to build a food system where everyone is eating well. Eating well means eating food that nourishes our bodies. Eating food that strengthens the planet. Eating food that tastes exceptionally good—and is JUST for all. Our technology, which is based upon understanding plants from every corner of the planet, enables consumers, food manufacturers, and the largest retailers around the world to offer better, healthier products, at a more affordable cost.

Orgio, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Orgio, Inc. owns and operates a technology platform that helps users to organize team information of companies. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Nubank

Series E in 2018
Nubank issues, administrate, processes, and transfers payments related to post-paid credit cards and equity investment in other entities. It serves clients in Brazil. The company launched its proprietary loyalty rewards program ("Nubank Rewards"), as well as a digital account ("NuConta") that is already used by more than 17 million people. In Cristina Junqueira, David Velez, and Edward Wible founded EO2 Solucoes de Pagamento on May 6, 2013 that became Nubank in on June 25, 2013. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.
Applied Molecular Transport Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development of a pipeline of oral biologic product candidates to treat autoimmune, inflammatory, metabolic, and other diseases. Its lead product candidate is AMT-101, an oral gastrointestinal (GI) selective interleukin 10 that has completed a Phase 1b clinical trial in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). The company, through its technology platform designs and develops various oral biologic therapeutic modalities, such as peptides, proteins, antibodies, antibody fragments, and RNA therapeutics. In addition, it engages in the development of AMT-126, a GI-selective oral fusion of rhIL-22 for diseases related to intestinal epithelium barrier function defects. Applied Molecular Transport Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

Solugen

Series A in 2018
Solugen is a specialty chemicals ​manufacturer creating chemistries that are safe, cost-effective, and environmentally-friendly. The company manufactures and supplies of registered biocides and specialty bio-based solutions for divalent control in process flow assurance and asset integrity. Solugen's patented approach takes advantage of bio-inspired reactions to use plant material as a low-cost feedstock to produce novel products cost-competitive with the competition.

PatternAg, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
PatternAg, Inc. provides agricultural services. The company provides samples for field to check the location and insects, nematodes, fungi, and bacteria. The company offers seed selection and placement, trait packages, seed treatment decisions, in season applications, crop rotation, tillage, population density and fertility, and scouting. PatternAg, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Emeryville, California.

Leap Motion

Series C in 2017
Leap Motion is a software and hardware company that develops 3D motion-control technology for virtual reality and additional platforms. The company's mission is to remove the barriers between people and technology. Leap Motion's unprecedented hand tracking lets users reach into virtual and augmented reality to interact with new worlds. The company is currently partnering with major VR manufacturers to embed Leap Motion technology into mobile VR or AR headsets. The company's technology makes it possible to play, create, and explore in more natural and dynamic ways. It was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Scanwell Health

Seed Round in 2019
Scanwell Health, Inc. designs and develops a urine testing kit. It offers Scanwell, a urinary tract infection test kit to get clinical-grade results from smartphone, as well as to connect users with an online doctor’s office for same-day treatment and prescription. Scanwell Health, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Anaheim, California.

Triplebyte

Private Placement in 2019
Triplebyte is a recruiting and technical screening platform for tech companies. They believe the current technical hiring process doesn't do enough to help engineers show their strengths. They're dedicated to building a better process. You can read more about their views on hiring in their manifesto.

Vahan Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Vahan Inc. develops an AI-driven virtual assistant integrated with WhatsApp that helps businesses to automate recruitment. It enables frontline workers or job seekers to chat with an AI-driven virtual assistant on WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or WeChat; and answer questions and get a job, as well as job seekers to post jobs. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Mint

Series C in 2009
Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard.

Carbyne

Series B in 2019
Carbyne is a global innovation leader in public safety technology. Our company unifies the flow of life saving information to emergency call centers onto one simple platform. By using Carbyne’s innovative cloud native tools (live video, instant chat, dynamic location , and more), emergency call centers (ECC) can now fully connect to an incident, share the information with the emergency units, and ultimately save lives. Carbyne is available in seven countries around the world in collaboration with over 70 agencies and currently serving more than 210 Million people in USA, Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Asia.

Campus

Series A in 2023
Campuswire is a real-time messaging app for college classes that streamlines class discussions, Q&A, and announcements. The company on a mission to optimize the world’s teaching and learning. They are assembling a world-class team of engineers, designers, pedagogists, and more to solve problems in teaching and learning.

Calibrate

Series B in 2021
Calibrate is a new telemedicine metabolic health care startup that gives people everywhere control of their health. Their one-year metabolic reset is built on the latest weight health science and is vetted and approved by a world-class clinical advisory board. They are a modern, medical approach that combines medication with one-on-one coaching—all personalized to the individual's biology, their goals, and their life for a 10% weight loss that lasts. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York.

Found

Series B in 2022
Found is a business bank for self-employed people that makes self-employed taxes easy. With built-in expense tracking and a tax savings account, we’re on a mission to help millions of self-employed people make their business dreams a reality.

SnapShip

Seed Round in 2017
At SnapShip, we enable and empower SMBs to thrive in the new era of e-commerce by giving them access to powerful, affordable, and scalable logistics solutions to deliver their goods and creations to shoppers around the world.

Huspy

Series A in 2022
Huspy is a tech company and mortgage experts that helps families get the homes of their dreams. It believes getting a mortgage is something to celebrate. Huspy is reimagining the home buying process with an easy-to-use experience that puts the buyer first. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Dubai, UAE.

Raise

Private Placement in 2019
Raise Commercial Real Estate, Inc. provides commercial real estate brokerage services for startups and high growth companies searching for office spaces. It offers planning services, such as financial analysis, legal, zoning, and site selection services. The company also provides buildout services, including workplace strategy, project management, and architecture services. In addition, it offers operations services, such as move coordination, furniture, office management, and lease administration services. Further, it offers document management and commute analysis services for its clients. The company was formerly known as HelloOffice, Inc. and and changed its name to Raise Commercial Real Estate, Inc. in November 2020. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Los Angeles, California with additional locations in Silicon Valley and los Angeles, California.

Neurotrack

Seed Round in 2013
Neurotrack is on a mission to transform the diagnosis and prevention of Alzheimer’s and related dementias through its app-based Cognitive Health Program. Its digital cognitive assessments, using groundbreaking eye-tracking technology, are coupled with a personalized intervention program to empower individuals at any age to strengthen their cognitive health through “brain checkups” and targeted lifestyle behaviors. The company was founded in 2012 by Elli Kaplan and neuroscientist Dr. Stuart Zola and is based in Redwood City, California.

9amHealth

Series A in 2022
9am.health redesigns all care elements into one digital service individualized around today’s reality of people’s life - always available and convenient, at prices anyone can afford even without insurance. 9am.health focuses on chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia for customers in the United States.

Cadre

Series A in 2015
Cadre is an online marketplace that connects investors and operators of real estate. It enables investments and transactions, provides a sophisticated technology product for managing processes, and powers predictive analytics for its investors. Investors are able to sell their interest on the secondary marketplace thereby introducing liquidity into an antiquated industry. They are able to gain transparency, efficiency, and liquidity through the use of its proprietary technology, and are able to make better, more data-driven decisions. Founded by Ryan Williams, and Josh and Jared Kushner, Cadre was launched in 2014.

POSTMODA

Private Placement in 2019
Wardrobe Technologies, Inc. develops and offers Wardrobe, a peer-to-peer marketplace for the rental of luxury, designer, and vintage clothes. It includes renting, by browsing in application then book the selection, and when the rental period is over, the item is dropped at the company; and lending, which includes making selection, requesting pick up, creating closet, and adding items in the application. Wardrobe Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Workrise

Series B in 2018
RigUp is a technology company that develops a platform to support the energy workforce. Its platform serves as a marketplace for services and skilled labor in the energy industry. It also enables the energy industry companies to empower contact workers in oil and gas, solar, and wind. Its solution has expanded into equipment and vendor management, as well as on-demand, app-based service fulfillment, bringing cost savings, and operational efficiencies to energy companies across the United States. RigUp was founded in 2014 by Michael Witte, Sandeep Jain, and Xuan Yong and it is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Asana

Private Placement in 2018
Asana, Inc. operates a work management platform for individuals, team leads, and executives. It provides work management platform as software as service that enables individuals and teams to get work done faster while enhancing employee engagement by allowing everyone to see how their work connects to the broader mission of an organization. The company was formerly known as Smiley Abstractions, Inc. and changed its name to Asana, Inc. in July 2009. Asana, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Circles.Life

Private Placement in 2019
Circles.Life provides virtual telecommunication services. The company offers customized fourth generation (4G) Internet, voice, and roaming data services to its customers, through a SIM Card in Singapore. It also develops an application for mobile phones, Circles.Life, which manages the bandwidth services and provides real time data usage analysis. In addition, the company provides Circles PhoneProtect device insurance services for flagship phones. It also distributes flagship mobile phones. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Singapore. Circles.Life operates as a subsidiary of Liberty Wireless Private Limited.

Compass

Series A in 2013
Compass operates as a real estate brokerage company. It also provides a real estate listing app for iOS and Android that helps in buying, selling, and renting homes in the United States. Ori Allon, Robet Reffkin, and Ugo Di Girolamo founded Urban Compass on October 4, 2012, that became Compass in February 2015. Its headquarters is in New York City with additional offices in the United States.

Ayar Labs

Private Placement in 2018
Ayar Labs, Inc. develops optical interconnect chiplets and lasers. It offers TeraPHY, a high-density electronic-photonic chiplet and monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO I/O) solution. The company also provides SuperNova, a multiwavelength, multi-port light source that supplies the continuous wave (CW) light that powers TeraPHY. Its products are used in various industry verticals, such as artificial intelligence and high performance computing, cloud computing and telecommunications, aerospace and military, and light detection and ranging. Ayar Labs, Inc. was formerly known as OptiBit Inc. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Emeryville, California with an additional office in Santa Clara, California.