Friends & Family Capital

Founded in 2019, Friends & Family Capital is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It invests in technology startups with business models that produce long-term growth and cash flow.

Colin Anderson

Partner

Bianca Hursh

Associate

Chad Metzger

Associate

Edward Mulder

Principal

27 past transactions

Arena

Series B in 2025
Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment.

Cargado

Series A in 2025
Cargado is a startup specializing in cross-border logistics. It offers a platform designed to simplify international shipping processes for various stakeholders, ensuring reliable transportation of goods across borders.

Ditto

Series B in 2025
Ditto Technologies, Inc., established in 2011 and headquartered in Oakland, California, specializes in two distinct yet complementary business areas. Primarily, it offers an innovative eyewear recommendation and virtual try-on technology platform for retailers, brands, and eye care professionals worldwide. This platform uses advanced facial mapping and machine learning algorithms to provide personalized, accurate, and vivid recommendations for eyewear, enhancing the shopping experience. Additionally, Ditto develops resilient edge device connectivity solutions, including an edge-native, mobile database that facilitates real-time data synchronization among devices through peer-to-peer and mesh networking, even in challenging network conditions. This technology caters to diverse industries such as point-of-sale systems, aviation, and industrial operations, aiming to improve operational efficiency and reliability.

Peregrine Technologies

Series C in 2025
Peregrine Technologies develops software that integrates and secures data to support public safety operations. Its platform enables agencies to search, analyze, and collaborate in real time, fusing disconnected data across secure networks to support intelligence-led policing, real-time crime data intelligence, and regional intelligence fusion. The software supports community-oriented policing, electronic case filing, and investigation management, helping agencies operate with greater transparency and data-driven decision making. It emphasizes privacy and security controls and facilitates public-private partnerships while strengthening trust with the communities served.

Hidden Level

Series C in 2025
Hidden Level develops airspace sensing technologies, specializing in passive radar and drone detection through RF spectrum signal analysis. Its airspace monitoring systems deploy networks of passive sensors to detect and track drones and other aerial vehicles over large geographic areas, supporting critical infrastructure, defense, and public safety customers. The company emphasizes safety through sensing, offering services that cover classical systems engineering, data modeling and analysis, field testing, and full product lifecycle management, including PCB design. Its solutions enable monitoring of low-altitude air traffic while maintaining privacy in compliance with applicable regulations.

BRM

Series A in 2024
BRM is a developer of an AI-powered vendor management and procurement platform.

BRM

Seed Round in 2024
BRM is a developer of an AI-powered vendor management and procurement platform.

Sage

Series B in 2024
Sage specializes in operation management systems tailored for senior living communities. Its platform collects and analyzes data to enhance caregiver operations and resident care outcomes. Key features include streamlined communication and task management tools, facilitating collaborative support among care teams and enabling timely interventions when assistance is required.

Cake AI

Seed Round in 2024
Bundled managed open source AI infrastructure

Numeric

Series A in 2024
Companies rely on Numeric to ensure their financial data is accurate, automate the month-end close, and generate real-time insights. Rated 4.9 / 5 on G2

Swarm Aero

Seed Round in 2024
Swarm Aero develops advanced unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with sensor mesh networks, edge computing capabilities, and collaborative autonomy. This enables businesses to efficiently deploy large-scale drone operations in challenging environments.

Altana Technologies

Series C in 2024
Altana Technologies is a company that specializes in transforming both public and non-public data into an intelligent, interconnected map of the global supply chain. By utilizing its platform, Altana Atlas, the company enables enterprises, governments, and logistics providers to connect and collaborate, fostering trust and transparency across business networks. The platform offers comprehensive trade data management services by integrating internal and external data, providing clean data sets, and delivering real-time insights related to transactions, ownership, movements, and risks in the global trade network. Through advanced machine learning techniques, Altana Technologies equips organizations across various sectors with the tools to enhance the safety, efficiency, and profitability of trade, contributing to a more resilient, secure, and sustainable approach to globalization.

Numeric

Seed Round in 2024
Companies rely on Numeric to ensure their financial data is accurate, automate the month-end close, and generate real-time insights. Rated 4.9 / 5 on G2

Peregrine Technologies

Series B in 2024
Peregrine Technologies develops software that integrates and secures data to support public safety operations. Its platform enables agencies to search, analyze, and collaborate in real time, fusing disconnected data across secure networks to support intelligence-led policing, real-time crime data intelligence, and regional intelligence fusion. The software supports community-oriented policing, electronic case filing, and investigation management, helping agencies operate with greater transparency and data-driven decision making. It emphasizes privacy and security controls and facilitates public-private partnerships while strengthening trust with the communities served.

Mosaic

Series C in 2023
Mosaic is an AI-powered financial planning and analysis software company that provides predictive reporting, dashboards, modeling, and data visualization to support forecasting and decision making. The platform automates forecasts, generates real-time reports, and enables cross-functional collaboration, while leveraging big data and machine learning to deliver actionable insights and clear recommendations. It offers seamless integrations and real-time analytics that illuminate key business dynamics for organizations of various sizes, from startups to large enterprises. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Diego, Mosaic focuses on helping finance teams plan, analyze, and act more efficiently.

Verkada

Series D in 2022
Verkada develops and provides a unified cloud-based physical security platform. It offers video security cameras, access control systems, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace software, and intercoms integrated with real-time insights to address security risks and inefficiencies across various sectors.

Gusto

Series E in 2022
Gusto is a SaaS company specializing in Human Capital Management. It offers a comprehensive suite of HR and payroll services, including payroll processing, benefits administration, time tracking, attendance management, and employee onboarding.

Adyton PBC

Venture Round in 2022
Adyton PBC specializes in designing and developing cloud-based software solutions for reporting, data maintenance, and scheduling. The company offers products such as AKADEMIA, which provides real-time reporting and analytics along with training data recording and management, and Smart Schedule, a software designed for managing training, qualifications, and daily operations. Additionally, Adyton PBC has created the Adyton Operations Kit (AOK), a secure mobile software tailored for mission-critical tasks, particularly suited for defense and emergency response applications. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, Adyton PBC serves a diverse range of industries, including defense, heavy industries, law enforcement, and emergency responders.

Pasteur Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Pasteur Labs is a public-benefit corporation focused on developing AI-native simulation technologies across the software-hardware spectrum. The company aims to reshape the scientific method for the machine age by creating a Simulation Intelligence platform. This platform facilitates collaboration between human and machine teams, enabling them to achieve significant advancements in physical and life sciences. Pasteur Labs works on projects that span from theoretical foundations at Technology Readiness Level 1 to scalable and reliable systems at Technology Readiness Level 9, positioning itself to drive Nobel-caliber discoveries through innovative approaches.

Mosaic

Series B in 2022
Mosaic is an AI-powered financial planning and analysis software company that provides predictive reporting, dashboards, modeling, and data visualization to support forecasting and decision making. The platform automates forecasts, generates real-time reports, and enables cross-functional collaboration, while leveraging big data and machine learning to deliver actionable insights and clear recommendations. It offers seamless integrations and real-time analytics that illuminate key business dynamics for organizations of various sizes, from startups to large enterprises. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Diego, Mosaic focuses on helping finance teams plan, analyze, and act more efficiently.

Airtable

Series F in 2021
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that provides a no-code platform for creating and sharing relational databases and custom applications. The platform enables users to organize data, automate workflows, and build flexible templates for tasks such as project tracking, inventory management, and CRM, without coding. It supports collaboration across teams and can incorporate artificial intelligence features to streamline processes. Airtable serves organizations across various industries enabling teams to tailor software tools to their workflows without traditional development resources.

Gusto

Series E in 2021
Gusto is a SaaS company specializing in Human Capital Management. It offers a comprehensive suite of HR and payroll services, including payroll processing, benefits administration, time tracking, attendance management, and employee onboarding.

Mosaic

Series A in 2021
Mosaic is an AI-powered financial planning and analysis software company that provides predictive reporting, dashboards, modeling, and data visualization to support forecasting and decision making. The platform automates forecasts, generates real-time reports, and enables cross-functional collaboration, while leveraging big data and machine learning to deliver actionable insights and clear recommendations. It offers seamless integrations and real-time analytics that illuminate key business dynamics for organizations of various sizes, from startups to large enterprises. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Diego, Mosaic focuses on helping finance teams plan, analyze, and act more efficiently.

Verkada

Series C in 2020
Verkada develops and provides a unified cloud-based physical security platform. It offers video security cameras, access control systems, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace software, and intercoms integrated with real-time insights to address security risks and inefficiencies across various sectors.

Flexport

Series D in 2019
Flexport, established in 2013, is a San Francisco-based company specializing in global freight forwarding and customs brokerage services. It offers an online platform that simplifies and streamlines international trade for businesses. Flexport's services include customs clearance, freight transportation by ocean, air, and road, along with value-added services such as cargo insurance, warehousing, and trade finance. The company's user-friendly dashboard enables clients to understand, purchase, manage, and track these services in real-time, optimizing their supply chain and logistics operations.

Gusto

Series B in 2015
Gusto is a SaaS company specializing in Human Capital Management. It offers a comprehensive suite of HR and payroll services, including payroll processing, benefits administration, time tracking, attendance management, and employee onboarding.

Palantir Technologies

Series E in 2011
Palantir Technologies develops data fusion, integration, and analytics software for public institutions, commercial enterprises, and non-profit organizations worldwide. The company offers Gotham, a platform that integrates, manages, secures, and analyzes enterprise data, and Metropolis, a platform that integrates, enriches, models, and analyzes quantitative data for commercial use. Palantir's software supports activities such as anti-fraud, crisis response, cyber security, defense, disaster preparedness, disease response, healthcare delivery, intelligence, law enforcement, insurance analytics, and pharmaceutical research. Its solutions enable collaboration across and within organizations to make sense of large and complex data sets. Palantir serves government, defense, finance, healthcare, and other industries. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
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