Innovation Endeavors

Innovation Endeavors LLC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in New York and Tel Aviv. Established in 2010, it focuses on early-stage investments across a variety of sectors, including artificial intelligence, robotics, cybersecurity, and financial technology. The firm aims to drive significant industry transformation by investing in visionary founders and cutting-edge technologies that leverage data and advanced computational capabilities. Innovation Endeavors specifically targets opportunities in the United States and Israel, emphasizing sectors that intersect with emerging technologies and global market demands. Its investment strategy combines traditional venture capital approaches with venture creation, supporting entrepreneurs and innovative companies to address critical challenges and foster generational change.

Tomás Álvarez Belón

Investor

Ali Jordan

Vice President

Nick Olsen

Investment Senior Associate

Josh Rapperport

Principal

Scanlon, Richard Todd

Founding Partner

Singh, Harpinder

Partner

Smith-Eppsteiner, Sam

Partner

Bridget Storm

CFO

Davis Treybig

Principal

Ziv Yoash

General Counsel

219 past transactions

Siren Biotechnology

Seed Round in 2023
Siren Biotechnology blends two revolutionary therapeutic technologies into one for a novel approach to treating cancer.AAV gene therapy and cytokine immunotherapy are two revolutionary treatment approaches that Siren Biotechnology has combined into a single, redesigned modality. This approach overcomes significant obstacles and entirely transforms how tumor cells are eliminated and anti-tumor immunity is stimulated.

Equalum

Series C in 2022
Equalum is trusted by Fortune 500 and mid-sized enterprises across key industries to stream data to the cloud in real-time, powering data warehouse modernization, real-time analytics, AI/ML, and more. Backed by industry-leading change data capture (CDC), Equalum’s easy-to-use platform features drag-and-drop UI, as well as powerful data replication and streaming ETL tools (including Spark and Kafka) that allow you to build real-time data pipelines in minutes.

Continual

Series A in 2022
Continual is the easiest way to maintain predictions – from customer churn to inventory forecasts – in your data warehouse. It's built for modern data teams that want to leverage machine learning to drive revenue, streamline operations, and power innovative products and services without complex engineering.

Pyte

Seed Round in 2022
Pyte is a secure data collaboration solutions provider. The company’s cutting-edge technology allows for computation on encrypted data without decryption at any point in the data lifecycle, enabling enterprises to seamlessly leverage their data across cloud environments, partners, and jurisdictions while remaining privacy compliant and protecting against data breaches. Pyte’s proprietary SMPC cryptographic technology is based on a decade of academic research by Pyte’s co-founders Sadegh Riazi and Ilya Razenshteyn. The team consists of six PhDs, three of which are world-leading experts in secure computation, and three ICPC Gold Medalists.

Character Biosciences

Series A in 2022
Character Therapeutics is a patient-driven therapeutics company that uses genomics, longitudinal clinical and imaging data, machine learning, and novel experimental approaches to identify the molecular drivers of disease progression and develop innovative targeted medicines. Its dedication to patients is reflected in the high standards set to ensure privacy, data security, ethics, scientific rigor, and a meaningful impact on patient health. To enable clinical genomic research, the company collaborates with patients, providers, payers, and scientists to create deeply phenotyped patient cohorts.

FutureProof Technologies

Venture Round in 2022
FutureProof is a venture-backed MGA funded by AXIS Digital Ventures and MS&AD Ventures. FutureProof's AI-driven projections of asset-level losses from hurricane wind and flood are helping to power a new generation of insurance underwriting and pricing. FutureProof’s API delivers real-time algorithmic underwriting and pricing, providing instantly-bindable, price-differentiated quotes to wholesale brokers. FutureProof’s climate-smart insurance products will help close the coverage gap and motivate investment in climate adaptation.

Plotlogic

Series A in 2022
Plotlogic is a global technology company allowing mine operators to understand the location and material properties of every rock in the mine. It utilizes an AI and sensor-driven platform to enhance yield in the critical mineral industry.

RightBound

Series A in 2022
RightBound develops a sales platform that automates and streamlines the sales process. The platform does the leg-work for clients, instead of just providing data and insights, giving clients access to a new type of sales development platform.

Datarails

Series B in 2022
DataRails is a financial planning and analysis platform that automates financial reporting and planning, while enabling finance teams to continue benefiting from the familiar spreadsheets and financial models of Excel. Automating these time-consuming manual processes paves the way for finance teams to spend more time analyzing data and less time gathering it. And it empowers them to answer essential strategic questions like what their organization can do to increase revenue and reduce expenses.

Atom Computing

Series B in 2022
Atom Computing builds truly scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms. The company's quantum computers use quantum mechanical properties of atoms to process information and solve problems beyond the reach of traditional computers, including drug design, computational chemistry, and more. Atom Computing was founded in 2018 and based in Berkeley, California.

Eikon Therapeutics

Series B in 2022
Eikon Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing innovative technologies for drug discovery. The company utilizes advanced live-cell resolution microscopy and engineering to identify and create new therapeutic candidates. Eikon Therapeutics aims to enhance the understanding of biological processes at a cellular level, supporting targeted treatment development. The company’s approach integrates biology, engineering, and chemistry to streamline the drug discovery process. Through its proprietary platforms, Eikon Therapeutics seeks to advance clinical programs and expand its pipeline of potential medications.

Panther

Series B in 2021
Panther Labs provides a refreshingly practical platform for threat detection and response, powered by a highly scalable security data lake and detection-as-code. Panther was founded in 2018 by Jack Naglieri in San Francisco, California.

Anyword

Series B in 2021
Keywee offers publishers and marketers a new approach to content distribution and performance measurement. Its revolutionary platform employs advanced text-mining technology and a vast database of historical content performance to help publishers, retailers, and brands find the audiences most likely to meet specific business goals for their content. Keywee’s customers include The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Conde Nast, National Geographic, The New York Times, and Slate. Backed by leading investors including Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors and Marker LLC, as well as The New York Times Company. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in New York with an office in Tel Aviv.

Machina Labs

Series A in 2021
Machina Labs is a mechanical and industrial engineering and manufacturing firm that utilizes AI and machine learning to automate metal forming and fabrication processes. Its manufacturing platform combines the latest advances in robotics and AI so great ideas can be turned into reality quickly and affordably. It specializes in developing new methods to serve aerospace, automotive, industries, consumers, and defense industries.

Mosaic

Series B in 2021
Mosaic is a construction technology company building software to make residential construction more scalable. The company operates as a digital general contractor to provide construction and related services to homebuilders and residential developers, allowing them to offload their construction processes and related needs to Mosaic’s integrated platform and team. Mosaic’s platform standardizes the construction process, and not the homes, allowing them to deliver places people love and create better communities.

GRO Biosciences

Series A in 2021
GRO Biosciences is leveraging breakthrough technologies from computational protein design and synthetic biology to develop best-in-class protein therapeutics with enhanced properties. The company has established multiple genomically recoded strains of bacteria that can incorporate non-standard amino acids into proteins to confer increased potency, stability, and targeted delivery. GRO Biosciences is applying its technology platform to develop improved protein therapeutics for diabetes, growth disorders, and autoimmunity.

Tromzo

Seed Round in 2021
Developer-first AppSec management platform that eliminates friction between developers and security so you can scale your application security program.

Pandion

Series A in 2021
Pandion develops a technology platform for e-commerce players to manage capacity problems during peak periods. The logistics platform helps all businesses provide one and two-day shipping, and makes on-time delivery possible for more retailers, regardless of size and scale. Pandion’s delivery management software uses machine learning to avoid shipping delays and optimize delivery networks.

Vicarious Surgical

Post in 2021
Vicarious Surgical is a next-generation robotics company developing a disruptive technology with the goal of increasing the efficiency of surgical procedures, improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. Vicarious Surgical aims to revolutionize the field of minimally invasive surgery by developing advanced robotic systems that allow surgeons to perform complex procedures with greater precision and control. The company's robotic system is designed to be compact and portable, enabling it to be easily integrated into existing operating rooms without significant modifications. The robot's design also aims to minimize the invasiveness of surgical procedures, leading to faster patient recovery times and reduced post-operative discomfort.

Rebellion Defense

Venture Round in 2021
Rebellion Defense turns data into a decision advantage, developing advanced software to stay ahead of national security threats. It equips warfighters with cutting-edge capabilities to detect, deter, and outpace adversaries at speed and scale by combining private-sector tech experts with defense veterans. Their mission is to build transformative technology for defense and national security.

Gatik

Series B in 2021
Gatik is a startup developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics. It specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, automotive, and logistics. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Third Wave Automation

Series B in 2021
Third Wave Automation develops the Shared Autonomy Platform, integrating machine learning with autonomous reach trucks. This system allows human operators to oversee operations while intervening only when needed, enhancing safety and efficiency.

Fero Labs

Series A in 2021
Fero Labs is an actionable machine learning software for improving processes and increasing the quality of manufacturing facilities. Fero Labs prides itself on increasing factories’ profits by combining their existing data with the latest advances in the field of data science. By utilizing Fero, the automated machine learning software, Fero Labs’ customers understand the root causes of the problems leading to process and quality issues. Armed with new insights into their production, factories resolve the underlying issues leading to continuous process improvement. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Atom Computing

Series A in 2021
Atom Computing builds truly scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms. The company's quantum computers use quantum mechanical properties of atoms to process information and solve problems beyond the reach of traditional computers, including drug design, computational chemistry, and more. Atom Computing was founded in 2018 and based in Berkeley, California.

FutureProof Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
FutureProof is a venture-backed MGA funded by AXIS Digital Ventures and MS&AD Ventures. FutureProof's AI-driven projections of asset-level losses from hurricane wind and flood are helping to power a new generation of insurance underwriting and pricing. FutureProof’s API delivers real-time algorithmic underwriting and pricing, providing instantly-bindable, price-differentiated quotes to wholesale brokers. FutureProof’s climate-smart insurance products will help close the coverage gap and motivate investment in climate adaptation.

Datarails

Series A in 2021
DataRails is a financial planning and analysis platform that automates financial reporting and planning, while enabling finance teams to continue benefiting from the familiar spreadsheets and financial models of Excel. Automating these time-consuming manual processes paves the way for finance teams to spend more time analyzing data and less time gathering it. And it empowers them to answer essential strategic questions like what their organization can do to increase revenue and reduce expenses.

RightBound

Series A in 2021
RightBound develops a sales platform that automates and streamlines the sales process. The platform does the leg-work for clients, instead of just providing data and insights, giving clients access to a new type of sales development platform.
Authomize empowers organizations to establish identity-first security by detecting, investigating, and responding to identity and access threats. Customers use Authomize to protect their cloud services and applications from account takeovers, privilege escalations, and identity-based attacks.

Eikon Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Eikon Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing innovative technologies for drug discovery. The company utilizes advanced live-cell resolution microscopy and engineering to identify and create new therapeutic candidates. Eikon Therapeutics aims to enhance the understanding of biological processes at a cellular level, supporting targeted treatment development. The company’s approach integrates biology, engineering, and chemistry to streamline the drug discovery process. Through its proprietary platforms, Eikon Therapeutics seeks to advance clinical programs and expand its pipeline of potential medications.

Replica

Series B in 2021
Replica is an enterprise data platform that delivers critical insights about the built environment. Our analytical engine provides a collective representation of the built environment– including people, mobility, economic activity, and land use.Replica ingests a wide range of data inputs in order to deliver more valuable insights. These include publicly available data sets, such as the US Census and land use regulations, to private data sources such as aggregate mobile location or credit transaction data, and real estate transaction data. Whenever possible, Replica measures its model outputs against observed ground-truth, such as auto counts or transit ridership, and publishes the results, in order to provide greater certainty to its customers. Replica customers also have the option to provide their own ground-truth, in order to enable more measurable model outputs.

Datarails

Series A in 2021
DataRails is a financial planning and analysis platform that automates financial reporting and planning, while enabling finance teams to continue benefiting from the familiar spreadsheets and financial models of Excel. Automating these time-consuming manual processes paves the way for finance teams to spend more time analyzing data and less time gathering it. And it empowers them to answer essential strategic questions like what their organization can do to increase revenue and reduce expenses.

Canvas

Series B in 2021
Canvas is a construction robotics company that uses machine learning to install drywall at construction sites. It delivers unrivaled quality, speed, and predictability by putting robots in the hands of skilled workers. Through its novel approach, they have reinvented drywall finishing to give projects better outcomes.

Viz

Series C in 2021
Viz helps physicians to identify anomalies in brain scans through machine learning. The company leverages advanced deep learning to communicate time-sensitive information about stroke patients straight to a specialist who can intervene and treat them. It uses deep learning algorithms to identify a suspected large vessel occlusion, a particularly disabling type of stroke, in a CT scan and alerts the stroke team specialist within minutes. Viz has developed deep learning algorithms to analyze brain scans for large vessel occlusions (LVOs), a disabling type of stroke. The company also allows the stroke center’s clinicians to rapidly share images back and forth. Viz's mission is to fundamentally improve how healthcare is delivered in the world, through intelligent software that promises to reduce the time to treatment and improve access to care. Viz was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

BigHat Biosciences

Series A in 2021
BigHat is a developer of an AI-guided protein therapeutic platform used to integrate antibody characterization lab with machine learning technologies to engineer molecules with more complex functions and better biophysical properties. The company is applying these design capabilities to develop new generations of safer and more effective treatments for patients suffering from today’s most challenging diseases.

Pandion

Seed Round in 2021
Pandion develops a technology platform for e-commerce players to manage capacity problems during peak periods. The logistics platform helps all businesses provide one and two-day shipping, and makes on-time delivery possible for more retailers, regardless of size and scale. Pandion’s delivery management software uses machine learning to avoid shipping delays and optimize delivery networks.

Own Company

Series D in 2021
Own Company is a software company that offers a data platform for organizations. The platform is designed to protect and activate SaaS data which can help businesses transform their operations.

Ukko

Series B in 2021
Ukko is a biotech company improving the lives of millions that suffer from food allergies and disorders. The company's computational engineering platform re-designs food allergens into safe and effective therapeutics that will become best-in-class allergy therapy. Ukko is creating a comprehensive, clinically validated map of the molecular structure of food allergies, revealing critical information about the biological mechanisms that govern human-food interactions. They use the platform to create new versions of proteins that do not elicit an immune response based on this map. These proteins enable a completely new approach to treating protein-based allergies.

Joshu

Seed Round in 2021
Joshu helps insurance carriers launch online distribution channels quickly and independently.

Gatik

Series A in 2020
Gatik is a startup developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics. It specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, automotive, and logistics. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

TuneIn

Venture Round in 2020
From live sports & local radio to news, music & podcasts, TuneIn has the perfect thing to “hear” wherever “here” might be. With 75 million monthly active users, TuneIn is one of the most widely used streaming audio platforms in the world. TuneIn broadcasts over 100,000 owned & operated and partner radio stations, in addition to boasting more than 5.7 million podcasts. TuneIn Premium subscribers unlock exclusive access to live commercial-free news from top networks like CNBC, CNN, FOX News Radio and MSNBC, commercial-free music channels for every mood and activity, and less ads throughout the platform. TuneIn can be accessed in 197 countries and on more than 200 different major platforms and connected devices, including voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, Samsung Bixby and Cortana, and key integrations with Sonos, Bose and Tesla. With venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Comcast Ventures, IVP, Innovation Endeavors, Causeway, General Catalyst Partners, Icon Ventures and Marker LLC, TuneIn is headquartered in San Francisco, California. We are currently working and hiring remotely across the United States, as well as in parts of Europe and South America. Come join us in reinventing radio for a connected world!

Afresh

Series A in 2020
Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores. The company is an operator of a fresh-first supply chain platform intended to handle the complexity of perishable categories for brick and mortar retailers and wholesalers. Its platform brings artificial intelligence and machine learning to forecast and ingest millions of data points to provide accurate item-level predictions of future demand to replenish recommendations that account for supply chain constraints and optimize for margin that enable clients to minimize waste, maximize freshness, and multiply business profitability. Afresh was established in 2017 in San Francisco, California by Matt Schwartz.

Unbound Security

Series B in 2020
Unbound allows you to work with secrets without ever exposing them, ensuring your most precious digital assets are safe – anytime, anywhere. Control, manage and protect keys from across all sites and workloads from a single pane of glass. Unbound from security, privacy and compliance restrictions, previously out of reach digital services can now be built with unprecedented speed and scale. Integrate a virtual secure enclave directly into any app to enable secure transactions from insecure devices.

Canvas

Series A in 2020
Canvas is a construction robotics company that uses machine learning to install drywall at construction sites. It delivers unrivaled quality, speed, and predictability by putting robots in the hands of skilled workers. Through its novel approach, they have reinvented drywall finishing to give projects better outcomes.

Illusive

Series B in 2020
Illusive reduces cyber risk by shrinking the attack surface and stopping attacker movement. Illusive creates a hostile environment for attackers, depriving them of the means to progress towards critical assets after breaching the perimeter. Hackers are increasingly finding more vulnerabilities within an enterprise’s security stack, allowing them to move laterally within the network and conduct reconnaissance and exfiltration. Illusive’s Active Defense identifies and removes the vulnerable connections and credentials that enable attackers to move undetected, and then replaces them with deceptive versions that fool attackers into revealing their presence upon engagement. Unlike behavioral or anomaly-based threat detection, Illusive’s agentless approach captures deterministic proof of in-progress attacks and provides actionable forensics to empower a quick and effective response. Illusive detects Advanced Persistent Threats, targeted ransomware and malicious insiders in ways that supplement other defensive technologies, allowing security teams to beat both attackers and red teams alike. Illusive is the first company spun out of the company-building venture group Team8, which was co-founded by veterans of Israel's military intelligence division, Unit 8200. Illusive’s multinational clients include top ten organizations in the financial services sector and the top five in legal, pharmaceutical and retailer sectors.

Dewpoint Therapeutics

Series B in 2020
Dewpoint Therapeutics is a biotech company developing a drug platform that targets biomolecular condensates. Its technology uses machine-learning-based image analysis tools for visualizing condensates and offers an engine for genetically linked condensatopathy which is a collection of engineered cell lines with trackable condensates to prevent harmful protein sequestration, helping healthcare providers to have access to new therapies to address unmet needs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Cube Dev

Seed Round in 2020
Cube is a provider of a semantic layer for building consistent, and secure data applications. Its semantic layer, Cube Cloud, helps companies manage and optimize their analytics workflow. The layer unifies business logic, centralizes governance and security, optimizes query performance, and integrates with any data endpoint.

Hysolate

Venture Round in 2020
Hysolate enables organizations to isolate risky and sensitive activities on users’ endpoints with a local workspace that isolates applications and data. Hysolate has reinvented how an isolated virtual environment is instantly deployed on a user’s device and remotely managed from the cloud. With Hysolate you can “split” the user’s device into two isolated environments so users can work freely and be productive without compromising security. Hysolate is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Team8 and Planven Capital. For more information, visit https://www.hysolate.com or follow Hysolate on Twitter @hysolatenow.

Panther

Series A in 2020
Panther Labs provides a refreshingly practical platform for threat detection and response, powered by a highly scalable security data lake and detection-as-code. Panther was founded in 2018 by Jack Naglieri in San Francisco, California.

Mosaic

Series A in 2020
Mosaic is a construction technology company building software to make residential construction more scalable. The company operates as a digital general contractor to provide construction and related services to homebuilders and residential developers, allowing them to offload their construction processes and related needs to Mosaic’s integrated platform and team. Mosaic’s platform standardizes the construction process, and not the homes, allowing them to deliver places people love and create better communities.

Vicarious Surgical

Series A in 2020
Vicarious Surgical is a next-generation robotics company developing a disruptive technology with the goal of increasing the efficiency of surgical procedures, improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. Vicarious Surgical aims to revolutionize the field of minimally invasive surgery by developing advanced robotic systems that allow surgeons to perform complex procedures with greater precision and control. The company's robotic system is designed to be compact and portable, enabling it to be easily integrated into existing operating rooms without significant modifications. The robot's design also aims to minimize the invasiveness of surgical procedures, leading to faster patient recovery times and reduced post-operative discomfort.

Afresh

Series A in 2020
Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores. The company is an operator of a fresh-first supply chain platform intended to handle the complexity of perishable categories for brick and mortar retailers and wholesalers. Its platform brings artificial intelligence and machine learning to forecast and ingest millions of data points to provide accurate item-level predictions of future demand to replenish recommendations that account for supply chain constraints and optimize for margin that enable clients to minimize waste, maximize freshness, and multiply business profitability. Afresh was established in 2017 in San Francisco, California by Matt Schwartz.

Own Company

Series D in 2020
Own Company is a software company that offers a data platform for organizations. The platform is designed to protect and activate SaaS data which can help businesses transform their operations.

Third Wave Automation

Series A in 2020
Third Wave Automation develops the Shared Autonomy Platform, integrating machine learning with autonomous reach trucks. This system allows human operators to oversee operations while intervening only when needed, enhancing safety and efficiency.

Viaduct

Series A in 2020
Viaduct is a cloud platform derives actionable insights from connected vehicle data to power applications.such as predictive maintenance, driver identification, and driver safety scores. Deployed in the vehicle, Viaduct’s machine learning solutions intelligently compress and enhance vehicle data to allow the richest data to be transmitted to the cloud in the fewest bytes.

InsidePacket

Seed Round in 2020
InsidePacket offers scalable and highly-secured network services optimized for the Edge Cloud. InsidePacket is a disruptive software start-up in the network services market. InsidePacket leverages recent groundbreaking developments in the fields of network function disaggregation, switch ASIC programmability, and SDN to build innovative solutions for data centers and service providers. InsidePacket was founded by a team of world-class networking experts and is supported by industry thought leaders and strategic tier-one VCs.

Fabric

Series B in 2020
Fabric enables retailers to offer same-day delivery at profitable unit economics, empowering retailers to drive revenue and customer loyalty with a network of micro-fulfillment centers that serve as local inventory hubs, close to end-customers. Leveraging advanced software, robotics, and automation, Fabric’s solution empowers retailers to drastically improve their consumer experience while improving operational efficiency and driving costs down.

ClearMetal

Series A in 2020
ClearMetal, Inc., based in San Francisco, California, specializes in artificial intelligence software for supply chain operations, focusing on transport and supply chain visibility solutions. Founded in 2014 by experts from Stanford University and leading technology companies, ClearMetal's platform leverages machine learning algorithms to enhance the accuracy and quality of ocean freight data. This cloud-based application consolidates and processes information from multiple sources, providing real-time insights into shipment status and enabling organizations to predict arrival times and manage exceptions effectively. By facilitating access to reliable data, ClearMetal aims to improve logistics efficiency and enhance customer experiences in supply chain management.

Skylo

Series B in 2020
Skylo Technologies is a global NTN service provider, offering a service that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites. Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN manages and serves devices connected over satellite, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo works with existing satellite operators, network operators, and device makers to provide subscribers an anywhere, anytime connectivity solution that seamlessly roams between terrestrial and satellite networks.

Citrine Informatics

Series B in 2019
Citrine Informatics is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. It features a software platform that ingests and analyzes vast quantities of technical data on materials, chemicals, and devices to streamline R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain operations for any organization that produces a physical product. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Panther

Seed Round in 2019
Panther Labs provides a refreshingly practical platform for threat detection and response, powered by a highly scalable security data lake and detection-as-code. Panther was founded in 2018 by Jack Naglieri in San Francisco, California.

Astra

Series C in 2019
Astra is a rocket launch startup that provides satellite delivery and launch services. It offers online reservations for payload deliveries to both sun-synchronous and low-inclination orbits. Astra also offers dedicated launch services of 50kg-150kg payloads to 500km SSO reference orbit in 2020 and 2021. The company focuses on providing cost-effective and frequent access to space for small satellite payloads. Astra aims to simplify the process of launching payloads into space by developing lightweight and agile rockets that can be found from various locations. Astra has been actively conducting launch campaigns to demonstrate its capabilities and improve its technology. As with any ambitious space venture, Astra has faced its fair share of challenges and setbacks in developing and launching rockets.

Replica

Series A in 2019
Replica is an enterprise data platform that delivers critical insights about the built environment. Our analytical engine provides a collective representation of the built environment– including people, mobility, economic activity, and land use.Replica ingests a wide range of data inputs in order to deliver more valuable insights. These include publicly available data sets, such as the US Census and land use regulations, to private data sources such as aggregate mobile location or credit transaction data, and real estate transaction data. Whenever possible, Replica measures its model outputs against observed ground-truth, such as auto counts or transit ridership, and publishes the results, in order to provide greater certainty to its customers. Replica customers also have the option to provide their own ground-truth, in order to enable more measurable model outputs.

CropX

Series B in 2019
CropX, an ag-analytics and IOT company, develops AI-driven, cloud-based software solutions integrated with data from proprietary and 3rd-party sources, boosting crop yield (up to 15%)and saving water (up to 50%), pesticide use (up to 20%), fertilizer use (up to 20%), with energy and labor savings as well. It offers a comprehensive solution on one platform to help farmers achieve successful and sustainable results in the complex growing environment. The system is trusted and easy to use with global deployments on over 5,000 farms in 70 countries, and quickly growing. Partnerships and connections with key industry players, such as Reinke, Syngenta, PepsiCo, Helm, NEC, John Deere, Climate FieldView, and many others, make it easy for farmers to automate operations, and share data across systems.

AlphaSense

Series B in 2019
AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that allows professionals to make critical decisions with confidence and speed. The company has nearly 2,000 enterprise clients, including financial institutions that use the platform to inform their business decisions. AlphaSense is trusted by over 1,800 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.

Gatik

Seed Round in 2019
Gatik is a startup developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics. It specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, automotive, and logistics. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Own Company

Series C in 2019
Own Company is a software company that offers a data platform for organizations. The platform is designed to protect and activate SaaS data which can help businesses transform their operations.

Equalum

Series B in 2019
Equalum is trusted by Fortune 500 and mid-sized enterprises across key industries to stream data to the cloud in real-time, powering data warehouse modernization, real-time analytics, AI/ML, and more. Backed by industry-leading change data capture (CDC), Equalum’s easy-to-use platform features drag-and-drop UI, as well as powerful data replication and streaming ETL tools (including Spark and Kafka) that allow you to build real-time data pipelines in minutes.

Afresh

Series A in 2019
Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores. The company is an operator of a fresh-first supply chain platform intended to handle the complexity of perishable categories for brick and mortar retailers and wholesalers. Its platform brings artificial intelligence and machine learning to forecast and ingest millions of data points to provide accurate item-level predictions of future demand to replenish recommendations that account for supply chain constraints and optimize for margin that enable clients to minimize waste, maximize freshness, and multiply business profitability. Afresh was established in 2017 in San Francisco, California by Matt Schwartz.

GRO Biosciences

Seed Round in 2019
GRO Biosciences is leveraging breakthrough technologies from computational protein design and synthetic biology to develop best-in-class protein therapeutics with enhanced properties. The company has established multiple genomically recoded strains of bacteria that can incorporate non-standard amino acids into proteins to confer increased potency, stability, and targeted delivery. GRO Biosciences is applying its technology platform to develop improved protein therapeutics for diabetes, growth disorders, and autoimmunity.

Because Market

Venture Round in 2019
Because is a high growth, direct-to-consumer personal care company focused on older adults. We started in 2017 with a simple idea - to make it easier for our families to get the products they needed. Today, we are on our way to becoming the #1 trusted brand for older adults, with the goal of helping millions lead vibrant, independent lives. We’ve raised over $40M in funding from top VC firms including Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures, and are grateful for the support for our customers, partners and investors.

Vicarious Surgical

Series B in 2019
Vicarious Surgical is a next-generation robotics company developing a disruptive technology with the goal of increasing the efficiency of surgical procedures, improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. Vicarious Surgical aims to revolutionize the field of minimally invasive surgery by developing advanced robotic systems that allow surgeons to perform complex procedures with greater precision and control. The company's robotic system is designed to be compact and portable, enabling it to be easily integrated into existing operating rooms without significant modifications. The robot's design also aims to minimize the invasiveness of surgical procedures, leading to faster patient recovery times and reduced post-operative discomfort.

Zymergen

Series C in 2018
Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence. The company partner with nature to create materials and products across industries from agriculture to electronics, consumer care to pharmaceuticals, and more.

Aiera

Seed Round in 2018
Aiera is an event intelligence and insights platform that leverages adaptive deep learning to enhance active fundamental investment strategies. Using advanced linguistics and predictive modeling, Aiera offers investment managers and other professionals the ability to automatically and proactively monitor all public earnings calls and events in real-time, as well as across broker research, media, SEC filings, and meeting notes.

Hysolate

Series B in 2018
Hysolate enables organizations to isolate risky and sensitive activities on users’ endpoints with a local workspace that isolates applications and data. Hysolate has reinvented how an isolated virtual environment is instantly deployed on a user’s device and remotely managed from the cloud. With Hysolate you can “split” the user’s device into two isolated environments so users can work freely and be productive without compromising security. Hysolate is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Team8 and Planven Capital. For more information, visit https://www.hysolate.com or follow Hysolate on Twitter @hysolatenow.

Hoodline

Series A in 2018
Hoodline, Inc. is a media technology company based in San Francisco, California, that operates an online portal focused on hyperlocal news discovery across 40 cities in the United States. Founded in 2014, Hoodline leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to transform raw data into thousands of automated local stories and videos each month. The platform, known as Atlas, analyzes vast amounts of unstructured data to identify and validate significant local signals, while also aggregating content from numerous partner publications to enhance its offerings. Hoodline's innovative technology allows for precise location tagging and contextualization of news stories, facilitating a tailored user experience. The company collaborates with various partners, including major media outlets and tech companies, to integrate its content recommendations into their platforms. Hoodline operates as a subsidiary of SFist and is supported by prominent investors, including Greylock and Disney.

Farmer's Fridge

Series C in 2018
Farmer’s Fridge provides an automated smart fridge that serves salads, bowls, snacks, and more. Its unpurchased items are regularly donated to local food pantries, providing responsibly sourced nutrition to community members in need. The company is driven by a mission to make it simple for everyone to eat well. Founder Luke Saunders was frustrated with the lack of healthy, affordable options available on the road so he worked with the best in the business to create a user-friendly smart Fridge that puts chef-curated meals in your hands, in seconds. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Eyeview

Venture Round in 2018
Eyeview is a video advertising technology company providing brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. The company’s VideoIQ platform infuses consumer, brand, and retail data into a results-driven decision engine to programmatically deliver 1-to-1 personalized video. VideoIQ provides access to highly viewable and guaranteed fraud-free inventory across television, desktop, tablet, and mobile.Eyeview's platform can be provided as a managed service by Eyeview’s team of analysts, video producers, and campaign experts or through a self-service interface. Headquartered in New York City, with offices in LA, Detroit, Seattle, Chicago, and London, Eyeview serves the nation’s top brands, including P&G, Walgreens, Lowes, Honda, BMW, and Priceline. Eyeview was ranked as the second-fastest growing company in the Tri-State Area by Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500.

Claroty

Series B in 2018
Claroty is an industrial cybersecurity company that helps customers reveal, protect, and manage OT, IoT, and IIoT assets. The company provides a platform that connects seamlessly with customers' existing infrastructure and programs while offering a full range of industrial cybersecurity controls for visibility, threat detection, risk, and vulnerability management, and secure remote access with a significantly reduced total cost of ownership.

Datarails

Series A in 2018
DataRails is a financial planning and analysis platform that automates financial reporting and planning, while enabling finance teams to continue benefiting from the familiar spreadsheets and financial models of Excel. Automating these time-consuming manual processes paves the way for finance teams to spend more time analyzing data and less time gathering it. And it empowers them to answer essential strategic questions like what their organization can do to increase revenue and reduce expenses.

Vicarious Surgical

Series A in 2018
Vicarious Surgical is a next-generation robotics company developing a disruptive technology with the goal of increasing the efficiency of surgical procedures, improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. Vicarious Surgical aims to revolutionize the field of minimally invasive surgery by developing advanced robotic systems that allow surgeons to perform complex procedures with greater precision and control. The company's robotic system is designed to be compact and portable, enabling it to be easily integrated into existing operating rooms without significant modifications. The robot's design also aims to minimize the invasiveness of surgical procedures, leading to faster patient recovery times and reduced post-operative discomfort.

Own Company

Series B in 2018
Own Company is a software company that offers a data platform for organizations. The platform is designed to protect and activate SaaS data which can help businesses transform their operations.

Mark43

Series C in 2018
Mark43 creates the next generation of law enforcement software that allows police to collect, manage, analyze, and share information. Mark43 offers advanced analytics tools that allow agencies to gain insights from their data, improving decision-making and resource allocation. It is on a mission to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. Its intuitive software delivers cloud-first technology and data-driven insights to public safety.

Afresh

Seed Round in 2018
Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores. The company is an operator of a fresh-first supply chain platform intended to handle the complexity of perishable categories for brick and mortar retailers and wholesalers. Its platform brings artificial intelligence and machine learning to forecast and ingest millions of data points to provide accurate item-level predictions of future demand to replenish recommendations that account for supply chain constraints and optimize for margin that enable clients to minimize waste, maximize freshness, and multiply business profitability. Afresh was established in 2017 in San Francisco, California by Matt Schwartz.

Fabric

Series A in 2018
Fabric enables retailers to offer same-day delivery at profitable unit economics, empowering retailers to drive revenue and customer loyalty with a network of micro-fulfillment centers that serve as local inventory hubs, close to end-customers. Leveraging advanced software, robotics, and automation, Fabric’s solution empowers retailers to drastically improve their consumer experience while improving operational efficiency and driving costs down.

GRO Biosciences

Seed Round in 2018
GRO Biosciences is leveraging breakthrough technologies from computational protein design and synthetic biology to develop best-in-class protein therapeutics with enhanced properties. The company has established multiple genomically recoded strains of bacteria that can incorporate non-standard amino acids into proteins to confer increased potency, stability, and targeted delivery. GRO Biosciences is applying its technology platform to develop improved protein therapeutics for diabetes, growth disorders, and autoimmunity.

Skylo

Series A in 2017
Skylo Technologies is a global NTN service provider, offering a service that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites. Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN manages and serves devices connected over satellite, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo works with existing satellite operators, network operators, and device makers to provide subscribers an anywhere, anytime connectivity solution that seamlessly roams between terrestrial and satellite networks.

Physera

Seed Round in 2017
Physera, Inc. is a company focused on delivering digital musculoskeletal care by connecting patients with physical therapists through a mobile application. Founded in 2015 and based in Palo Alto, California, the platform provides patients suffering from musculoskeletal injuries with access to tailored workout plans, along with features such as in-app animations and voice prompts designed to facilitate exercise therapy and alleviate pain. The application collects data to help assess the effectiveness of these routines, enabling physical therapists to create targeted recovery and maintenance plans that can be coordinated remotely. Physera serves a diverse clientele, including patients with muscular pain, self-insured employers, and large health plans. As of May 2020, Physera operates as a subsidiary of Omada Health, Inc.

Equalum

Series A in 2017
Equalum is trusted by Fortune 500 and mid-sized enterprises across key industries to stream data to the cloud in real-time, powering data warehouse modernization, real-time analytics, AI/ML, and more. Backed by industry-leading change data capture (CDC), Equalum’s easy-to-use platform features drag-and-drop UI, as well as powerful data replication and streaming ETL tools (including Spark and Kafka) that allow you to build real-time data pipelines in minutes.

Exicure

Venture Round in 2017
Exicure is Formerly Known as AuraSense Therapeuticsis. Exicure is developing a new class of immunomodulatory and gene silencing drugs against validated targets. Our 3-dimensional, spherical nucleic acid (SNA™) architecture unlocks the potential of nucleic acid therapeutics in multiple organs. Our lead programs address diseases from inflammatory disorders to oncology. SNA constructs overcome one of the most difficult obstacles to nucleic acid therapeutics: safe and effective delivery into cells and tissues. SNA constructs exhibit unparalleled transfection efficiency into numerous cell and tissue types including the skin without carriers or transfection agents. Moreover, SNAs can be used as potent immunotherapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer or infectious disease.

ClearMetal

Series A in 2017
ClearMetal, Inc., based in San Francisco, California, specializes in artificial intelligence software for supply chain operations, focusing on transport and supply chain visibility solutions. Founded in 2014 by experts from Stanford University and leading technology companies, ClearMetal's platform leverages machine learning algorithms to enhance the accuracy and quality of ocean freight data. This cloud-based application consolidates and processes information from multiple sources, providing real-time insights into shipment status and enabling organizations to predict arrival times and manage exceptions effectively. By facilitating access to reliable data, ClearMetal aims to improve logistics efficiency and enhance customer experiences in supply chain management.

Freenome

Series A in 2017
Freenome is a biotech company developing accurate, accessible, and non-invasive disease screening products for proactively treating cancer and other diseases at their most manageable stages. The company is developing a simple blood test to detect early-stage cancer and make treatments more effective and provides a platform that helps design healthy conditions for an individual based on his/her cell-free genome. The company aims to reinvent disease management through systematized early detection and intervention.

HomeLight

Series B in 2017
HomeLight is a real estate platform that helps you to purchase and sell homes. Their platform can help you find a real estate agent based on local market data. Their suite of innovative products enables agents, lenders, and their clients to upgrade to all-cash offers, buy a new home before selling their current home, or create certainty through a modern closing process.

Karius

Series A in 2017
Karius is a life sciences company focused on generating genomic insights for infectious diseases with a liquid biopsy for infectious diseases. The Karius Test that helps clinicians make rapid, treatment decisions. By mapping each patient’s microbial landscape from a single blood draw, Karius moves closer to a vision of a world where infectious disease is no longer a major threat to human health. The Karius laboratory is CLIA-certified and CAP-accredited to perform high-complexity clinical laboratory testing.

Fabric

Seed Round in 2017
Fabric enables retailers to offer same-day delivery at profitable unit economics, empowering retailers to drive revenue and customer loyalty with a network of micro-fulfillment centers that serve as local inventory hubs, close to end-customers. Leveraging advanced software, robotics, and automation, Fabric’s solution empowers retailers to drastically improve their consumer experience while improving operational efficiency and driving costs down.

Dynamic Yield

Series C in 2017
Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions. Marketing, Product, Development, and eCommerce teams from more than 350 global brands are using Dynamic Yield’s Experience Optimization platform as the technology layer on top of existing CMS or Commerce solutions, to iterate faster and algorithmically match content, products, and offers to each individual for the acceleration of long-term business value.

Plenty

Series B in 2017
Plenty is a vertical farming company that brings fresh, clean, and craveable produce to people everywhere. Plenty's vertical farms a fraction of the water and land required in conventional farming, are pesticide-free and produce zero fertilizer runoff. Plenty is a collective of growers, innovators, engineers, scientists, artists, foodies, and plant romantics working to improve the health of plants, people, and the planet.

Own Company

Series B in 2017
Own Company is a software company that offers a data platform for organizations. The platform is designed to protect and activate SaaS data which can help businesses transform their operations.

Citrine Informatics

Series A in 2017
Citrine Informatics is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. It features a software platform that ingests and analyzes vast quantities of technical data on materials, chemicals, and devices to streamline R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain operations for any organization that produces a physical product. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Epic

Series C in 2017
Epic is an internet company that specializes in books, eBooks learning, and educational technology. Epic is a well-known children's digital media company that promotes learning in an enjoyable, secure, and kid-friendly environment while allowing youngsters to explore their hobbies. Their digital reading platform is designed to help users to read a wide range of books online.
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.