Skylo
Venture Round in 2025
Skylo Technologies, Inc. is an Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider that specializes in satellite connectivity for machines, sensors, and devices. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in Bengaluru, India, and Tel Aviv, Israel, the company offers a satellite transceiver and IoT hub that enables real-time data transmission from offline sensors to the cloud. Skylo's services cater to various industries, including agriculture, logistics, and disaster management, facilitating applications such as productivity reporting, machine performance monitoring, and enhanced yield through direct sensor measurements. The company operates as a global non-terrestrial network provider, allowing IoT devices to connect directly via satellites and ensuring reliable connectivity even in remote areas lacking traditional cellular infrastructure. Its solutions are designed to deliver actionable intelligence for critical decision-making across multiple sectors.
Ayar Labs
Series D in 2024
Ayar Labs develops and manufactures high-density electronic-photonic chiplets and lasers, specializing in optical interconnect solutions. Its flagship product, TeraPHY, offers a monolithic in-package optical I/O solution for applications requiring high bandwidth, low latency, and power efficiency. The company's products serve various industries such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, telecommunications, aerospace, and military.
Skylo Technologies, Inc. is an Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider that specializes in satellite connectivity for machines, sensors, and devices. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in Bengaluru, India, and Tel Aviv, Israel, the company offers a satellite transceiver and IoT hub that enables real-time data transmission from offline sensors to the cloud. Skylo's services cater to various industries, including agriculture, logistics, and disaster management, facilitating applications such as productivity reporting, machine performance monitoring, and enhanced yield through direct sensor measurements. The company operates as a global non-terrestrial network provider, allowing IoT devices to connect directly via satellites and ensuring reliable connectivity even in remote areas lacking traditional cellular infrastructure. Its solutions are designed to deliver actionable intelligence for critical decision-making across multiple sectors.
TuMeke Ergonomics
Series A in 2023
TuMeke Ergonomics is a company based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2019, that specializes in providing an ergonomic assessment platform aimed at reducing workplace musculoskeletal injuries. The platform features both a mobile and web application that facilitate collaboration among teams across different locations. It offers automatic recommendations on postures that require attention and includes a dashboard for tracking safety performance over time. Utilizing advanced computer vision joint tracking technology, TuMeke's platform identifies hazardous tasks and assesses various safety risk factors, allowing businesses to predict the likelihood of injuries. This approach enables organizations to effectively measure and monitor employee safety without disrupting productivity.
Oxide Computer Company
Series A in 2023
Oxide Computer Company, established in 2019 and headquartered in Oakland, California, specializes in designing and manufacturing server racks for on-premises compute infrastructure. The company leverages advanced technology to integrate cloud hyperscale innovations into its hardware and software solutions, focusing on key areas such as density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security. Oxide Computer Company's offerings enable businesses and IT professionals to access cutting-edge computer infrastructure, facilitating the delivery of hyper-scale cloud computing capabilities directly within their own facilities.
Founded in 2017 by former Google, Savioke, and Redwood Robotics professionals, Formant provides a secure cloud-based platform for monitoring robot fleets. It integrates with existing tools, offers predictive maintenance, and enables efficient management of robotic automation.
Deep Sentinel
Venture Round in 2023
Founded by serial entrepreneur David Selinger, Deep Sentinel develops AI-based security systems designed to prevent crimes before they occur. The company combines artificial intelligence with real-time human monitoring, offering AI-powered surveillance, live remote guards, and audio intervention to deter intruders and protect properties.
Ayar Labs
Series C in 2023
Ayar Labs develops and manufactures high-density electronic-photonic chiplets and lasers, specializing in optical interconnect solutions. Its flagship product, TeraPHY, offers a monolithic in-package optical I/O solution for applications requiring high bandwidth, low latency, and power efficiency. The company's products serve various industries such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, telecommunications, aerospace, and military.
Fabric8Labs
Series B in 2023
Fabric8Labs, Inc. is a technology company founded in 2015 and located in La Jolla, California, specializing in non-thermal metal 3D printing. The company has developed a proprietary process that combines stereo-lithography and electro-deposition, providing an innovative alternative to traditional powder bed fusion technologies. This method eliminates the reliance on metal powders, vacuum chambers, and lasers, which significantly reduces manufacturing costs while enhancing material quality. Fabric8Labs' technology allows clients to use cartridges that simplify the additive manufacturing process and facilitate the safe disposal of used salt cartridges, thereby promoting efficiency and sustainability in metal 3D printing.
Astera Labs
Series D in 2022
Founded in 2017, Astera Labs is a leading fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California. It specializes in designing and manufacturing purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems, focusing on robust PCIe connectivity. The company offers system-aware semiconductor integrated circuits, boards, and services to enhance performance in compute-intensive workloads.
Founded in 2016, Metalenz specializes in the research, development, and production of innovative optical components. Utilizing metasurface technology, it creates ultra-thin planar optics for high-resolution imaging, enabling miniaturization and weight reduction in mobile phones, computers, and other electronic devices.
Prophesee
Series C in 2022
Prophesee develops neuromorphic vision systems that mimic the human eye's functionality. Its patented sensors and AI algorithms enable unprecedented speed (>10,000 fps), dynamic range (>120dB), data volume reduction (10x to 1000x), and power efficiency (<10 mW). Prophesee serves clients in autonomous driving, mobile devices, IoT, and industry sectors. Founded in Paris in 2014 by Ryad Benosman, Bernard Gilly, Christoph Posch, and Luca Verre, the company is backed by leading international investors.
Anyscale develops and operates distributed programming platforms for simplifying distributed AI development. It offers Ray, an open-source framework enabling software developers and machine learning engineers to scale applications effortlessly from a laptop to the cloud.
Fortanix
Venture Round in 2022
Fortanix Inc. is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Singapore. Founded in 2016, it specializes in developing advanced security solutions for mobile, cloud, and enterprise platforms. The company's flagship product, the Self-Defending Key Management Service (SDKMS), combines key generation, management, and encryption-as-a-service into a single, highly secure cloud-native solution. Leveraging Intel SGX, Fortanix's Runtime Encryption technology safeguards keys, data, and applications even in compromised environments, protecting against unauthorized access by malicious users. Additional offerings include the Fortanix Confidential Computing Enclave Manager, which enables secure application execution in confidential environments, and the Fortanix Cloud Key Manager, designed to protect sensitive data during cloud migration. Fortanix’s solutions are available as both Software as a Service for cloud customers and as licensed software for on-premises deployment. The company has established strategic partnerships with major firms such as Equinix and IBM Cloud and has garnered recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor, reflecting its innovative contributions to the field of cybersecurity.
Lilt, Inc. is a provider of artificial intelligence-based enterprise translation software, founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Dublin, Ireland. The company’s platform integrates adaptive neural machine translation technology with a translation management system and professional translators to help organizations efficiently scale their translation efforts and enhance the global customer experience. Lilt serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies, consumer brands, and technology firms, enabling them to deliver multilingual digital customer experiences. Its innovative solutions focus on accuracy and adaptability, offering features such as multiple translation suggestions and incremental domain adaptation, making it easier for businesses to translate documents without relying solely on human translators.
SiFive, Inc. is a semiconductor company that specializes in designing and manufacturing chips, particularly focusing on RISC-V architecture. Established in 2015 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in locations such as Oregon, Texas, India, Taiwan, and France, SiFive provides a range of products including multi-core application processors, embedded microcontrollers, and system-on-chip solutions tailored for various applications such as IoT and wearables. The company emphasizes the use of open-source technology to enable faster and more cost-effective hardware development. By offering software development kits, toolchains, and customized silicon products, SiFive aims to democratize access to advanced semiconductor solutions, accelerating innovation for businesses of all sizes.
ParkourSC
Venture Round in 2022
ParkourSC is a logistics and supply chain company that delivers a cloud‑based sensor platform for real‑time visibility of assets in motion. The platform creates a digital twin of the supply chain, processing billions of events per second to provide continuous insight into location, condition, timing, and utilization. By collecting data from any source, it enables predictive analytics that detect anomalies and forecast disruptions before they occur. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, the company serves manufacturing and pharmaceutical sectors with diagnostic and actionable intelligence.
Cohere Technologies
Series D in 2022
Founded in 2010, Cohere Technologies specializes in enhancing mobile and wireless networks. Its core innovation is Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS), a novel modulation scheme designed to increase bandwidth and throughput for wireless applications.
MinIO, Inc. is a developer of a high-performance, open-source distributed object storage server that is fully compatible with Amazon S3 APIs. Founded in 2014 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company focuses on providing a minimal object storage solution optimized for cloud-native workloads, making it suitable for deployment in both public and private clouds, including Kubernetes environments. MinIO's platform enables enterprises to manage unstructured data effectively, supporting various applications such as machine learning, analytics, and data backup and archival processes. The company also hosts a MinIO play server, allowing developers and system administrators to familiarize themselves with its S3-compatible object storage capabilities.
Spectrum Labs
Series B in 2022
Spectrum Labs, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in creating an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to identify and monitor online behavior. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers its flagship product, Guardian, which features an analytics dashboard and tools for community guidelines enforcement, model upgrades, data labeling, and policy consultation. Spectrum Labs serves a diverse range of clients, including those in dating, gaming, marketplaces, and social platforms, by enabling trust and safety teams to detect harmful behaviors in text and audio content. The company's solutions aim to reduce content moderation costs while enhancing the identification of toxic behaviors, ultimately contributing to a safer online environment.
VeriSIM Life
Series A in 2022
VeriSIM Life is a computational bioplatform that predicts the clinical outcomes of new drugs before clinical trials. It develops disease-specific biosimulation models to simulate how a drug interacts in biological systems, supporting preclinical and clinical programs. Its BIOiSIM platform covers small molecules, large molecules, and viruses, using AI-driven biosystem simulations to inform drug design, optimize development timelines, and reduce animal testing. The company aims to accelerate drug development and enable more personalized healthcare.
Anyscale develops and operates distributed programming platforms for simplifying distributed AI development. It offers Ray, an open-source framework enabling software developers and machine learning engineers to scale applications effortlessly from a laptop to the cloud.
DustPhotonics
Series B in 2021
Founded in 2017, DustPhotonics designs and manufactures optical transceivers using its proprietary AuraDP technology. Its products cater to data centers, enterprises, and high-performance computing applications, aiming to enhance network performance while reducing costs.
NeuroBlade
Series B in 2021
NeuroBlade is an Israeli technology company that develops AI inference processors and computational memory-based solutions to accelerate analytics for data centers and end devices. Its hardware and software stack is designed to support any AI topology while addressing memory bottlenecks, enabling faster analytics and reduced time to insights. The company leverages proprietary computational memory technology and expertise in hardware, software, and algorithms to lower costs and power consumption compared with traditional accelerators. Founded in the late 2010s, NeuroBlade is headquartered in Tel Aviv with operations in Taipei and Palo Alto, reflecting a global footprint. The company aims to redefine analytics acceleration for large data workloads by delivering high-performance, energy-efficient processing that improves query performance across enterprise applications.
Astera Labs
Series C in 2021
Founded in 2017, Astera Labs is a leading fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California. It specializes in designing and manufacturing purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems, focusing on robust PCIe connectivity. The company offers system-aware semiconductor integrated circuits, boards, and services to enhance performance in compute-intensive workloads.
AEye, Inc. is a technology company focused on developing advanced vision hardware, software, and algorithms for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The company’s proprietary 4Sight Intelligent Sensing Platform integrates solid-state active LiDAR with artificial intelligence and a low-light HD camera, enabling precise and reliable perception of surroundings. AEye's products, including the 4Sight A and 4Sight M sensors, along with its iDAR platform, are designed to improve safety and performance in dynamic applications by providing faster, more accurate information. The AE100 Robotic Perception System and the modular AE200 sensor further exemplify AEye’s commitment to high-performance sensing solutions. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Dublin, California, AEye also has a global presence with offices in Germany and Korea, serving a diverse customer base primarily in the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.
Founded in 2015, Motivo specializes in developing software for data analytics, combinatorial optimization, and machine learning solutions. It focuses on the semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) segment, using proprietary graph analytics, AI, and ML technologies to accelerate yield improvement and optimize chip design.
Fabric8Labs
Series A in 2021
Fabric8Labs, Inc. is a technology company founded in 2015 and located in La Jolla, California, specializing in non-thermal metal 3D printing. The company has developed a proprietary process that combines stereo-lithography and electro-deposition, providing an innovative alternative to traditional powder bed fusion technologies. This method eliminates the reliance on metal powders, vacuum chambers, and lasers, which significantly reduces manufacturing costs while enhancing material quality. Fabric8Labs' technology allows clients to use cartridges that simplify the additive manufacturing process and facilitate the safe disposal of used salt cartridges, thereby promoting efficiency and sustainability in metal 3D printing.
Hypersonix
Series B in 2021
Founded in 2018, Hypersonix Inc. develops an AI-based autonomous data analytics software for consumer commerce industries. Its flagship product, Hypersonix, is a predictive and prescriptive analytics platform that empowers decision-makers across various business functions by providing real-time insights from disparate data sources.
Augtera Networks
Series A in 2021
Founded in 2016, Augtera Networks specializes in an AI-powered platform designed for complex network environments. It offers proactive operations, incident prevention, and seamless integration across physical, virtual, and cloud networks, serving hyper-scale cloud platforms, financial institutions, service providers, and enterprises.
Text IQ
Convertible Note in 2021
Text IQ, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company that specializes in providing solutions for privacy, legal, and compliance challenges. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in San Francisco, Cork, and Vancouver, the company offers an Unstructured Data Platform that leverages advanced AI technologies, including unsupervised machine learning and deep learning. This platform assists organizations in identifying sensitive information hidden within unstructured data, enabling them to prevent potential legal and compliance disasters. Text IQ's software supports risk, audit, and compliance teams by detecting anomalous activities and documents, and it accelerates case strategy development by efficiently reviewing vast datasets. The company's innovative approach has garnered recognition and adoption among leading financial services, healthcare, and government organizations globally.
Workboard
Series D in 2021
WorkBoard Inc. is an enterprise software company that specializes in providing an objectives and key results (OKR) platform designed to enhance organizational alignment and accountability. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, WorkBoard offers a comprehensive Enterprise Results Platform that facilitates the localization of company objectives to individual teams, allowing for effective alignment on outcomes and measurement of results. The platform enables organizations to coordinate actions, manage meetings, and ensure execution aligns with strategic priorities. By transforming traditional approaches to strategy alignment into a dynamic, data-driven practice, WorkBoard enhances transparency and fosters a results-oriented culture. Its solution supports teams in making goal achievement a habitual process, empowering them to execute rapidly and efficiently as organizations scale.
Mighty Networks
Series B in 2021
Founded in 2017, Mighty Networks is a SaaS platform that enables creators and brands to build, engage, and monetize their online communities. It offers customizable tools for creating private spaces, facilitating member engagement, and integrating with other services, all under the creator's brand and available on every platform.
SambaNova Systems
Series D in 2021
SambaNova Systems develops an integrated systems platform and hardware for artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. The company offers analytics and AI infrastructure designed to accelerate data processing, training, and inference across diverse models. Its platform emphasizes a flexible, scalable architecture optimized for data flow, enabling faster, more efficient algorithms on AI-powered hardware. SambaNova serves applications in sectors such as healthcare, finance, and autonomous vehicles, supporting teams in building and deploying AI solutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, SambaNova focuses on delivering end-to-end AI capabilities that combine software and purpose-built hardware to streamline model development, deployment, and operation.
IRIS.TV, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that specializes in developing a cloud-based personalized video programming system designed to enhance user engagement and increase video views across multiple devices. Founded in 2009, the company offers a suite of products that include Adaptive Stream, which allows for real-time personalized streaming tailored to specific business and editorial guidelines, and Asset IQ, which automates data structuring and asset optimization. Additionally, IRIS Vision provides business intelligence and programming management tools. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, IRIS.TV automates the delivery of personalized content based on audience preferences and behaviors, thereby improving the viewing experience and operational efficiency for web, mobile, and over-the-top video distribution. The company's platform also facilitates video data connectivity for enhanced advertising outcomes and audience insights, making it a vital resource for publishers, advertisers, and content owners.
Tetrate.io, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in application management for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The company provides an enterprise-ready service mesh platform that simplifies the management of complex application infrastructures for DevOps, security, and network administrators. Tetrate's platform enables organizations to run and manage microservices effectively, facilitating the modernization of applications and accelerating the adoption of public cloud solutions. By partnering with enterprises on their app modernization journeys, Tetrate supports businesses in navigating the intricacies of modern cloud infrastructures.
Founded in 2016, Metalenz specializes in the research, development, and production of innovative optical components. Utilizing metasurface technology, it creates ultra-thin planar optics for high-resolution imaging, enabling miniaturization and weight reduction in mobile phones, computers, and other electronic devices.
SummerBio
Venture Round in 2020
SummerBio LLC is an automation-based diagnostics company focused on providing rapid and affordable COVID-19 testing services. Founded in 2020 and based in Menlo Park, California, the company has developed an end-to-end testing system that automates the gold-standard RT-qPCR testing regimen. Utilizing advanced technologies such as state-of-the-art robotics and automated liquid handling systems, SummerBio offers a novel sample collection kit designed for high-volume testing. The company's services enable healthcare professionals and patients to receive COVID-19 test results within a day, positioning it as a key player in the diagnostics sector amidst the ongoing pandemic. SummerBio operates a CLIA-certified laboratory to facilitate these testing services.
Ayar Labs
Series B in 2020
Ayar Labs develops and manufactures high-density electronic-photonic chiplets and lasers, specializing in optical interconnect solutions. Its flagship product, TeraPHY, offers a monolithic in-package optical I/O solution for applications requiring high bandwidth, low latency, and power efficiency. The company's products serve various industries such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, telecommunications, aerospace, and military.
SigOpt
Acquisition in 2020
SigOpt, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides an advanced optimization platform designed to enhance model development across various applications, including web, mobile, machine learning, and physical experiments. Founded in 2014 and now a subsidiary of Intel Corporation, SigOpt offers a REST API that seamlessly integrates into existing machine learning workflows. The platform employs a black-box optimization approach, allowing users to input parameter spaces and performance metrics without needing to disclose underlying training data or models. By continuously analyzing performance, SigOpt suggests optimal hyperparameter configurations, thereby accelerating the model development process and enabling clients to achieve reliable results more efficiently and cost-effectively.
Panoply Ltd. is a cloud data analytics company that offers an automated data management platform known as Panoply.io. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in San Francisco, California, the company simplifies complex data management tasks to enhance efficiency for analysts and data scientists. Panoply.io automates processes such as data modeling, normalization, and cleanup, enabling users to focus on analysis rather than data preparation. The platform employs advanced technologies, including machine learning and natural language processing, to adapt to users' needs and streamline data handling. By optimizing data workflows, Panoply significantly reduces the time and effort required for data management, allowing organizations to achieve greater productivity and faster insights.
Anyscale develops and operates distributed programming platforms for simplifying distributed AI development. It offers Ray, an open-source framework enabling software developers and machine learning engineers to scale applications effortlessly from a laptop to the cloud.
Matroid, Inc. is a Palo Alto-based company that specializes in computer vision technology. Founded in 2016, it offers an intuitive platform that enables users to create and deploy custom computer vision detectors without the need for programming. These detectors can identify people, objects, and events in visual media, making it easier for clients to monitor live streams, search recorded videos, and receive real-time notifications about specific occurrences. Matroid serves a diverse range of industries, including construction, manufacturing, security, media, and retail, by providing solutions that enhance efficiency and situational awareness through advanced visual recognition capabilities.
Accurics, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Pleasanton, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in developing a security platform designed to protect the entire cloud-native stack in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The Accurics platform scans Infrastructure as Code for misconfigurations and potential vulnerabilities, allowing organizations to address risks before provisioning their cloud infrastructure. Additionally, it monitors production deployments for any changes that may introduce security risks, facilitating a return to a secure state if necessary. By integrating security throughout the development lifecycle, Accurics aims to enhance compliance, governance, and overall security for organizations adopting cloud-native technologies. The company also provides free cloud-based and open-source tools to support its mission of enabling cyber resilience.
Founded in 2011, Aledia specializes in the development and manufacturing of innovative light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on a unique 3D architecture using gallium-nitride-on-silicon microwires. This technology enables efficient, brighter, and cost-effective displays for various applications such as general lighting, automotive, displays, smartphones, smartwatches, tablets, and laptops.
ProteanTecs
Series C in 2020
ProteanTecs Ltd. is a technology company that specializes in developing a cloud-based platform designed to enhance the performance and reliability of electronic systems. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Haifa, Israel, with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Santa Clara, and Bridgewater, the company utilizes data from chip-embedded agents and machine learning techniques to predict faults before they manifest as failures. Its innovative solutions offer valuable insights across the entire value chain, benefiting chip vendors, system vendors, and digital service providers. ProteanTecs aims to significantly reduce defects per million (DPPM), improve yield, facilitate predictive maintenance, and optimize product introduction, thereby making electronic systems more predictable and reliable.
Synthego Corporation
Series D in 2020
Synthego is a biotechnology company specializing in genome engineering. It offers integrated hardware, software, bioinformatics, chemistries, and molecular biology platforms to advance basic research and therapeutic development. Its products include engineered cells, CRISPR kits, and bioinformatics tools for gene knockout, target validation, and disease modeling. Synthego serves scientists globally, with sales through distributors in multiple countries and online.
Verta Inc. is a software infrastructure company founded in 2018 and based in Palo Alto, California. It focuses on enhancing the management and operations of data science and machine learning models. Verta's Model Delivery & Operations Platform allows organizations to streamline the process of developing, packaging, and deploying machine learning models. By integrating best practices in DevOps for continuous integration and delivery, Verta simplifies workflows and enhances the scalability and availability of models. The company's technology facilitates collaboration among data scientists, enabling them to monitor model health and manage models throughout their lifecycles efficiently.
SiFive, Inc. is a semiconductor company that specializes in designing and manufacturing chips, particularly focusing on RISC-V architecture. Established in 2015 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in locations such as Oregon, Texas, India, Taiwan, and France, SiFive provides a range of products including multi-core application processors, embedded microcontrollers, and system-on-chip solutions tailored for various applications such as IoT and wearables. The company emphasizes the use of open-source technology to enable faster and more cost-effective hardware development. By offering software development kits, toolchains, and customized silicon products, SiFive aims to democratize access to advanced semiconductor solutions, accelerating innovation for businesses of all sizes.
CYVision
Venture Round in 2020
CYVision is a vision systems and applications company with offices in Mountain View and Istanbul, specializing in the development of advanced augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies. The company focuses on creating a revolutionary platform that delivers fully immersive and realistic VR experiences, alongside high-quality AR applications. CYVision is particularly noted for its software-based holographic display technology, which is designed to enhance augmented reality experiences in challenging vehicular environments. This technology utilizes full-color 3D holographic displays that perform effectively under varying lighting conditions, from bright sunlight to dark stormy weather. By enabling users to perceive information as a natural 3D scene complete with visual depth cues, CYVision aims to provide a comfortable and engaging long-term viewing experience.
Synack offers a crowdsourced security platform that combines global ethical hacker talent with proprietary scanning technology. It provides continuous penetration testing, vulnerability management, and application security solutions to protect organizations' digital assets.
Lilt, Inc. is a provider of artificial intelligence-based enterprise translation software, founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Dublin, Ireland. The company’s platform integrates adaptive neural machine translation technology with a translation management system and professional translators to help organizations efficiently scale their translation efforts and enhance the global customer experience. Lilt serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies, consumer brands, and technology firms, enabling them to deliver multilingual digital customer experiences. Its innovative solutions focus on accuracy and adaptability, offering features such as multiple translation suggestions and incremental domain adaptation, making it easier for businesses to translate documents without relying solely on human translators.
Axonne
Venture Round in 2020
Founded in 2018, Axonne specializes in developing high-speed network connectivity solutions for autonomous driving systems. Its proprietary technology integrates sensors, displays, compute clusters, mixed-signal circuits, algorithms, and digital signal processing to ensure safety, reliability, security, and power efficiency in electric vehicles.
Retrace Labs Inc. develops an artificial intelligence-based predictive analytics platform designed to enhance decision-making in dental care. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Manhattan, New York, the company aims to alleviate the oral disease burden for health plans, providers, and patients. Its platform offers a suite of solutions, including financial and medical analytics, cybersecurity, and business intelligence, which streamline the billing process and improve the overall patient experience. By automating tasks and modernizing outdated processes, Retrace Labs reduces the administrative burden on oral health providers, enabling them to focus more on patient care rather than payment concerns. The company selectively partners with top dental providers and insurance companies to create a transparent network that promotes timely and accurate payments, minimizing issues such as surprise bills and lengthy communications with insurance firms.
Hypersonix
Series A in 2020
Founded in 2018, Hypersonix Inc. develops an AI-based autonomous data analytics software for consumer commerce industries. Its flagship product, Hypersonix, is a predictive and prescriptive analytics platform that empowers decision-makers across various business functions by providing real-time insights from disparate data sources.
Astera Labs
Series B in 2020
Founded in 2017, Astera Labs is a leading fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California. It specializes in designing and manufacturing purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems, focusing on robust PCIe connectivity. The company offers system-aware semiconductor integrated circuits, boards, and services to enhance performance in compute-intensive workloads.
Reniac, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in designing and developing intelligent data-aware architectures for applications, servers, and data storage systems. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional locations in Hyderabad, India, and Richmond, Canada, Reniac focuses on creating a distributed data engine that enhances performance by addressing bottlenecks in data infrastructure workloads. Their cloud-based platform accelerates and optimizes open-source database implementations, offering solutions such as a Cassandra I/O accelerator, a distributed and persistent cache, and a storage engine for graph and SQL databases. This technology enables enterprises to achieve higher throughput and lower latency, allowing them to improve critical workloads across public cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments without necessitating changes to existing applications. Reniac's team comprises experienced professionals from notable companies, bringing a wealth of expertise in data, software, and systems.
SambaNova Systems
Series C in 2020
SambaNova Systems develops an integrated systems platform and hardware for artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. The company offers analytics and AI infrastructure designed to accelerate data processing, training, and inference across diverse models. Its platform emphasizes a flexible, scalable architecture optimized for data flow, enabling faster, more efficient algorithms on AI-powered hardware. SambaNova serves applications in sectors such as healthcare, finance, and autonomous vehicles, supporting teams in building and deploying AI solutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, SambaNova focuses on delivering end-to-end AI capabilities that combine software and purpose-built hardware to streamline model development, deployment, and operation.
Joby Aviation
Series C in 2020
Founded in 2009, Joby Aviation is a pioneering electric mobility company based in Santa Cruz, California. The company specializes in developing fully electric vertical take-off and landing passenger aircraft optimized for air-transportation-as-a-service. Its flagship vehicle is a 5-seat aircraft designed to reduce urban congestion and accelerate the shift to sustainable modes of transit.
Anyscale develops and operates distributed programming platforms for simplifying distributed AI development. It offers Ray, an open-source framework enabling software developers and machine learning engineers to scale applications effortlessly from a laptop to the cloud.
Habana Labs
Acquisition in 2019
Habana Labs Ltd. is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the development of artificial intelligence processors tailored for deep neural network training and inference deployment in production environments. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company also maintains offices in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Gdansk, Poland, and Beijing, China. Habana Labs focuses on creating innovative solutions that enhance data center and cloud efficiency, aiming to deliver significant improvements in processing performance, cost, and power consumption. Its processors are designed for seamless integration with popular AI frameworks, providing developers with advanced hardware that optimizes deep learning computing for modern applications. As of December 2019, Habana Labs operates as a subsidiary of Intel Corporation.
Game.tv, Inc. is an AI-driven e-sports tournament platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. The company specializes in automating gaming tournaments through its core product, Tourney, an AI-powered assistant that manages tournaments from inception to completion. Game.tv aims to enhance the gaming experience by providing tools for live streaming, organization, and management of events, as well as features for editing, publishing, and facilitating chat interactions among users. This platform caters to gamers and communities, allowing them to improve their skills, gain recognition, and compete for rewards in a dynamic mobile gaming environment.
Augtera Networks
Venture Round in 2019
Founded in 2016, Augtera Networks specializes in an AI-powered platform designed for complex network environments. It offers proactive operations, incident prevention, and seamless integration across physical, virtual, and cloud networks, serving hyper-scale cloud platforms, financial institutions, service providers, and enterprises.
Prophesee
Series C in 2019
Prophesee develops neuromorphic vision systems that mimic the human eye's functionality. Its patented sensors and AI algorithms enable unprecedented speed (>10,000 fps), dynamic range (>120dB), data volume reduction (10x to 1000x), and power efficiency (<10 mW). Prophesee serves clients in autonomous driving, mobile devices, IoT, and industry sectors. Founded in Paris in 2014 by Ryad Benosman, Bernard Gilly, Christoph Posch, and Luca Verre, the company is backed by leading international investors.
Smart Edge
Acquisition in 2019
Smart Edge is a developer of multi-access edge computing (MEC) software headquartered in Irvine, California. The company focuses on enhancing mobile communications for enterprises by providing a platform that incorporates analytics, caching computation, and traffic routing through the use of microservers. This technology aims to improve data security through high encryption and integrity while simplifying mobility for businesses. By positioning computing resources, applications, and content closer to users, Smart Edge enables clients to deploy existing and new applications, ultimately facilitating the generation of new revenue streams and delivering an immersive user experience.
DustPhotonics
Series B in 2019
Founded in 2017, DustPhotonics designs and manufactures optical transceivers using its proprietary AuraDP technology. Its products cater to data centers, enterprises, and high-performance computing applications, aiming to enhance network performance while reducing costs.
VeriSIM Life
Seed Round in 2019
VeriSIM Life is a computational bioplatform that predicts the clinical outcomes of new drugs before clinical trials. It develops disease-specific biosimulation models to simulate how a drug interacts in biological systems, supporting preclinical and clinical programs. Its BIOiSIM platform covers small molecules, large molecules, and viruses, using AI-driven biosystem simulations to inform drug design, optimize development timelines, and reduce animal testing. The company aims to accelerate drug development and enable more personalized healthcare.
ParkourSC
Series B in 2019
ParkourSC is a logistics and supply chain company that delivers a cloud‑based sensor platform for real‑time visibility of assets in motion. The platform creates a digital twin of the supply chain, processing billions of events per second to provide continuous insight into location, condition, timing, and utilization. By collecting data from any source, it enables predictive analytics that detect anomalies and forecast disruptions before they occur. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, the company serves manufacturing and pharmaceutical sectors with diagnostic and actionable intelligence.
Mesmer Eyes
Series A in 2019
Mesmer Eyes is a Palo Alto-based company specializing in Robotics Process Automation for Software Development (RPAD). It employs AI-powered bots to expedite app creation and enhance software development processes. The company offers a suite of products such as bug reporter, infrastructure builder, autonomous crawler, UAT creator, test generator, and test runner, all designed to streamline customer experience testing. Mesmer Eyes aims to revolutionize how software is created over the next decade by leveraging its innovative AI technology.
Kyndi, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) platform tailored for sectors such as government, financial services, and healthcare. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an additional office in Washington, D.C., Kyndi operates the Kyndi AI Platform, which leverages machine learning to enhance business regulation and provide auditable AI systems. The platform includes a Natural Language Search solution that enables organizations to efficiently extract insights from unstructured text data. By facilitating strategy and planning, compliance, and research operations, Kyndi aims to significantly boost the productivity of knowledge workers, assisting analysts in swiftly processing documents and gaining actionable insights to address opportunities and threats effectively.
TrapX Security
Series C in 2019
TrapX Security, Inc. is a cybersecurity company specializing in deception technology designed to detect, analyze, and neutralize advanced cyber threats, including ransomware and zero-day attacks. Its primary product, DeceptionGrid, creates an automated security grid that provides real-time insights into malicious activities that traditional defenses often miss. Additionally, TrapX offers TrapX Flex, a Deception-as-a-Service solution tailored to protect corporate assets in an era of increasing remote work and device usage. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including healthcare, finance, manufacturing, retail, and government, providing critical security solutions to both global enterprises and public sector organizations. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, TrapX Security aims to enhance the cybersecurity landscape by delivering proactive defenses against sophisticated cybercriminals and insider threats.
NeuroBlade
Series A in 2019
NeuroBlade is an Israeli technology company that develops AI inference processors and computational memory-based solutions to accelerate analytics for data centers and end devices. Its hardware and software stack is designed to support any AI topology while addressing memory bottlenecks, enabling faster analytics and reduced time to insights. The company leverages proprietary computational memory technology and expertise in hardware, software, and algorithms to lower costs and power consumption compared with traditional accelerators. Founded in the late 2010s, NeuroBlade is headquartered in Tel Aviv with operations in Taipei and Palo Alto, reflecting a global footprint. The company aims to redefine analytics acceleration for large data workloads by delivering high-performance, energy-efficient processing that improves query performance across enterprise applications.
Barefoot Networks
Acquisition in 2019
Barefoot Networks designs programmable Ethernet switch chips and related software for high-performance networks. Founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company focuses on programmable network switches with features such as scalable load balancing, advanced telemetry, and enhanced switching and routing, enabling enterprises, data centers, and telecom providers to add new functions without sacrificing performance. In 2017 the company was acquired by Intel and operates as part of Intel, expanding its network hardware and programmable networking capabilities.
BabbleLabs
Series A in 2019
BabbleLabs develops advanced speech enhancement technologies using deep neural networks and signal processing. Its products aim to improve communication clarity in noisy environments across various industries, including smartphones, conferencing, field communications, customer service, automotive, and public safety.
LISNR
Venture Round in 2019
LISNR, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in ultrasonic communication protocols, enabling data transmission over audio. Founded in 2012, the company offers various solutions, including LISNR Point for close-range transmission, LISNR Zone for mid-range, and LISNR Radius for long-range communication between devices. Additionally, it provides the Acceptance Device, which facilitates the sending and receiving of data. LISNR's technology is utilized by clients in retail and mobility sectors, enhancing customer interactions by creating secure and seamless transactions. The company has established strategic partnerships with notable organizations such as Cisco, AEG, Intel, and Visa. Headquartered in Oakland, California, with an office in Cincinnati, Ohio, LISNR continues to innovate in the field of ultrasonic data communication.
Prisma SD-WAN
Series C in 2019
Prisma SD-WAN, formerly known as CloudGenix, specializes in software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) solutions designed to support hybrid cloud environments and mobile workforces. The company offers a platform that virtualizes enterprise networks, facilitating user connectivity to cloud and data center applications while minimizing the infrastructure needed for remote offices. Its products centralize critical network functions, such as firewalling and threat detection, and include the ION 2000 hardware appliance, which provides essential SD-WAN capabilities for small and remote offices. By enabling application-specific service-level agreements (SLAs), Prisma SD-WAN enhances application performance based on business priorities. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company caters to various industries, including retail, financial services, automotive, legal, and technology, striving to simplify network design and management while delivering significant cost savings and enhanced security.
Mighty Networks
Series A in 2019
Founded in 2017, Mighty Networks is a SaaS platform that enables creators and brands to build, engage, and monetize their online communities. It offers customizable tools for creating private spaces, facilitating member engagement, and integrating with other services, all under the creator's brand and available on every platform.
Reveal Biosciences
Series A in 2019
Reveal Biosciences, Inc. is a San Diego-based computational pathology company that specializes in tissue-based research. Founded in 2012, the company integrates advanced artificial intelligence with traditional histopathology to enhance disease diagnosis through large whole slide microscope images. Reveal provides a variety of services, including precision histology and pathology, in situ hybridization, whole slide imaging, and image analysis, as well as commercial antibody validation and optimization. Its innovative technology enables the accurate characterization and detection of diseases, thereby supporting applications such as patient stratification, prognostics, and tumor detection. By serving pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, and government institutions globally, Reveal aims to improve the efficiency and accuracy of pathology workflows and clinical trials, ultimately impacting healthcare outcomes.
OnScale Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing on-demand scalable engineering simulation software designed to enhance research and development while reducing costs for engineers. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, OnScale offers its Multiphysics CAE software, which facilitates accelerated innovation across various industries, including next-generation technologies such as MEMS IoT, 5G, biomedicine, and autonomous vehicles. This software is utilized for a range of applications, including MEMS and filters, sensors, non-destructive testing, medical devices, and sonar systems. OnScale operates on a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, providing a cloud-based solution with a pay-as-you-go subscription pricing structure.
Qolibri
Venture Round in 2019
Qolibri, Inc. is a technology company based in Roseville, California, specializing in developing innovative solutions for semiconductor manufacturing subfabs. Incorporated in 2018, Qolibri focuses on addressing critical challenges in the semiconductor industry, particularly in waste gas management and cost reduction. By providing proprietary technical services, the company aims to help semiconductor manufacturers minimize production costs, thereby enabling them to achieve their financial objectives more effectively.
SambaNova Systems
Series B in 2019
SambaNova Systems develops an integrated systems platform and hardware for artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. The company offers analytics and AI infrastructure designed to accelerate data processing, training, and inference across diverse models. Its platform emphasizes a flexible, scalable architecture optimized for data flow, enabling faster, more efficient algorithms on AI-powered hardware. SambaNova serves applications in sectors such as healthcare, finance, and autonomous vehicles, supporting teams in building and deploying AI solutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, SambaNova focuses on delivering end-to-end AI capabilities that combine software and purpose-built hardware to streamline model development, deployment, and operation.
ProteanTecs
Series B in 2019
ProteanTecs Ltd. is a technology company that specializes in developing a cloud-based platform designed to enhance the performance and reliability of electronic systems. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Haifa, Israel, with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Santa Clara, and Bridgewater, the company utilizes data from chip-embedded agents and machine learning techniques to predict faults before they manifest as failures. Its innovative solutions offer valuable insights across the entire value chain, benefiting chip vendors, system vendors, and digital service providers. ProteanTecs aims to significantly reduce defects per million (DPPM), improve yield, facilitate predictive maintenance, and optimize product introduction, thereby making electronic systems more predictable and reliable.
Tetrate.io, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in application management for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The company provides an enterprise-ready service mesh platform that simplifies the management of complex application infrastructures for DevOps, security, and network administrators. Tetrate's platform enables organizations to run and manage microservices effectively, facilitating the modernization of applications and accelerating the adoption of public cloud solutions. By partnering with enterprises on their app modernization journeys, Tetrate supports businesses in navigating the intricacies of modern cloud infrastructures.
Gojoya
Venture Round in 2019
Gojoya, Inc. is a technology company that develops and markets advanced imaging products integrated with artificial intelligence. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Gojoya specializes in intelligent imaging systems for various applications, including unmanned aerial vehicles, robots, autonomous driving, and mobile phones. The company's innovative approach focuses on creating disruptive architecture that enhances the capabilities of commercial drones, virtual reality systems, and autonomous vehicles, positioning Gojoya as a key player in the evolving field of intelligent imaging technology.
Ineda Systems
Acquisition in 2019
Ineda Systems Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of low-power system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, focusing on improving power consumption for wearable and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Hyderabad, India, the company employs a hierarchical computing architecture that allows multiple CPUs to operate independently while sharing resources. This architecture enhances contextual computing, enabling devices to remain in an always-on state and optimally utilize CPUs, peripherals, accelerators, and memory based on specific applications. Ineda's products are designed for various sectors, including automotive, healthcare, fitness, and smart infrastructure, supporting applications such as traffic sign recognition, adaptive cruise control, and telehealth solutions. The company distributes its offerings through a network of partners across the United States, India, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Japan, positioning itself as a leader in low-power SoC development for both consumer and enterprise markets.
Fortanix Inc. is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Singapore. Founded in 2016, it specializes in developing advanced security solutions for mobile, cloud, and enterprise platforms. The company's flagship product, the Self-Defending Key Management Service (SDKMS), combines key generation, management, and encryption-as-a-service into a single, highly secure cloud-native solution. Leveraging Intel SGX, Fortanix's Runtime Encryption technology safeguards keys, data, and applications even in compromised environments, protecting against unauthorized access by malicious users. Additional offerings include the Fortanix Confidential Computing Enclave Manager, which enables secure application execution in confidential environments, and the Fortanix Cloud Key Manager, designed to protect sensitive data during cloud migration. Fortanix’s solutions are available as both Software as a Service for cloud customers and as licensed software for on-premises deployment. The company has established strategic partnerships with major firms such as Equinix and IBM Cloud and has garnered recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor, reflecting its innovative contributions to the field of cybersecurity.
AEye, Inc. is a technology company focused on developing advanced vision hardware, software, and algorithms for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The company’s proprietary 4Sight Intelligent Sensing Platform integrates solid-state active LiDAR with artificial intelligence and a low-light HD camera, enabling precise and reliable perception of surroundings. AEye's products, including the 4Sight A and 4Sight M sensors, along with its iDAR platform, are designed to improve safety and performance in dynamic applications by providing faster, more accurate information. The AE100 Robotic Perception System and the modular AE200 sensor further exemplify AEye’s commitment to high-performance sensing solutions. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Dublin, California, AEye also has a global presence with offices in Germany and Korea, serving a diverse customer base primarily in the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.
Habana Labs
Series B in 2018
Habana Labs Ltd. is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the development of artificial intelligence processors tailored for deep neural network training and inference deployment in production environments. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company also maintains offices in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Gdansk, Poland, and Beijing, China. Habana Labs focuses on creating innovative solutions that enhance data center and cloud efficiency, aiming to deliver significant improvements in processing performance, cost, and power consumption. Its processors are designed for seamless integration with popular AI frameworks, providing developers with advanced hardware that optimizes deep learning computing for modern applications. As of December 2019, Habana Labs operates as a subsidiary of Intel Corporation.
Ayar Labs
Series A in 2018
Ayar Labs develops and manufactures high-density electronic-photonic chiplets and lasers, specializing in optical interconnect solutions. Its flagship product, TeraPHY, offers a monolithic in-package optical I/O solution for applications requiring high bandwidth, low latency, and power efficiency. The company's products serve various industries such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, telecommunications, aerospace, and military.
Arcadia Data
Series B in 2018
Arcadia Data Inc. is a data analytics company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Campbell, California. The company specializes in developing a unified visual analytics and business intelligence platform tailored for big data environments. Its platform allows business users to easily build applications using a drag-and-drop interface, facilitating accelerated access to data and real-time insights without the need for additional hardware. By running visual analytics natively within modern data platforms, such as Apache Hadoop, Arcadia Data enhances performance, scale, and security, effectively bridging the gap between self-service data visualization and advanced analytics. This capability empowers enterprises to design data-centric applications that can adapt to the demands of big data and the Internet of Things.
Founded in 2011 by aerospace industry experts, Delair is a global leader providing end-to-end visual intelligence solutions. The company offers high-performance unmanned aerial systems equipped with industrial sensors for commercial applications across industries like mining, construction, and agriculture. Its solutions are sold in over 70 countries through a network of over 100 resellers.
VeriSilicon
Series A in 2018
VeriSilicon, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Plano, Texas, is a semiconductor company specializing in custom silicon solutions and system-on-chip (SoC) turnkey services. It offers a wide range of services, including the design and manufacture of memory chips, and provides licensable digital signal processing cores, Hantro Video IPs, and eDRAM. VeriSilicon caters to diverse industries such as smartphones, media tablets, HDTVs, set-top boxes, and data centers, targeting advanced process technologies like 28nm and FD-SOI. The company's portfolio includes five types of in-house processor IPs and over 1,400 analog and mixed signal IPs and RF IPs, enabling it to deliver comprehensive, customized silicon solutions.
eASIC Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, founded in 1999. The company specializes in manufacturing eASIC platforms that significantly lower the cost of ownership and production time for customized silicon devices. Its product offerings include the Nextreme family of devices, which are designed to reduce development costs and turnaround times compared to standard cell ASICs, while also minimizing power consumption and unit costs. The Nextreme-3 and Nextreme-2 platforms represent the fourth and third generations of these devices, respectively. Additionally, eASIC provides the easicopy ASIC, which offers OEMs a pathway to transition from Nextreme devices to a cell-based design, further enhancing cost efficiency and performance. The eZ-IP alliance program also supports customers by providing access to verified eASIC-ready IP cores, facilitating quicker market entry. eASIC's products are utilized across various applications, including wireless infrastructure and consumer handheld devices, serving a global customer base.
Lumiata is a predictive health analytics company that applies artificial intelligence to healthcare data to deliver real-time, patient-level predictions. It builds a medical graph to organize symptoms, diagnoses, procedures and medications, enabling risk-bearing organizations such as payers, hospital networks, and population health programs to forecast health trajectories, cost, and care needs. The Lumiata Risk Matrix provides time-based predictions with explanations of medical reasoning. The platform combines big data, clinical knowledge, and proprietary intellectual property drawn from over 120 million patient records to support use cases like underwriting and care management. Founded in 2013 and based in San Mateo, California, Lumiata serves providers, payers, and digital health companies, enabling predictive analytics at scale while protecting privacy.
Preempt Security
Series B in 2018
Preempt Security, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that focuses on protecting organizations from insider threats and security breaches through its advanced software platform. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional operations in Ramat Gan, Israel, Preempt Security employs conditional access technology to monitor and manage identities, behaviors, and risks in real-time. The platform is designed to unify security visibility and control for both on-premises and cloud identities, addressing the significant threat posed by compromised credentials, which account for 80% of all breaches. With a client base of over 400 enterprises and protection for more than 4 million workforce identities, Preempt's solutions enable organizations to respond automatically to anomalous behavior, implement secure access controls, and effectively accelerate their Zero Trust and Conditional Access initiatives.
Bossa Nova Robotics
Series C in 2018
Bossa Nova Robotics is a provider of real-time, on-shelf product data for the global retail industry. Its technology collects terabytes of data that enables the retail ecosystem to optimize the omnichannel shopping experience. With a multidisciplinary team of robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and big data scientists, Bossa Nova has solved the challenges to deploy fully autonomous service robots in busy and crowded environments.
Bossa Nova is privately held and is founded in 2005. It is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Mountain View and Pittsburgh.
Airship empowers brands to create seamless mobile-first customer experiences. Since 2009, it has pioneered technologies like push notifications and mobile wallet boarding passes. Today, its platform unifies experiences across apps, websites, email, SMS, and more. It offers a no-code editor for swift experience creation, AI-driven journeys, app store optimization, and customer journey orchestration.
Embodied, Inc. is a robotics company based in Pasadena, California, specializing in the development of personal companion robots aimed at enhancing care and wellness. Founded in 2016 and formerly known as CareBots, Inc., the company has created Moxie, an interactive robot designed for children that promotes social, emotional, and cognitive development through play-based learning. Drawing on over 14 years of research in socially assistive robotics from the University of Southern California and extensive experience in consumer robotics, Embodied combines advanced artificial intelligence with engaging storytelling and animation techniques. The company's mission is to improve the quality of life for individuals and families by providing life-like, interactive robots that serve as motivators, coaches, and companions, empowering users to improve their own well-being.
Fictiv operates a global manufacturing platform that streamlines the process of designing, developing, and delivering fabricated parts. Its intelligent operating system enables users to get instant quotes, review manufacturing feedback, and manage orders from vendors worldwide. Fictiv leverages distributed manufacturing through 3D printing and CNC machining, serving engineers, designers, startups, and enterprises. As of 2021, it has manufactured over 25 million parts.
Avaamo is a deep-learning software company that specializes in enterprise conversational interfaces. It develops a platform that combines machine learning, conversation design, and integration with legacy enterprise workflows to automate the customer and employee service lifecycle, enabling enterprises to design and deploy bots and virtual assistants. The solution aims to improve engagement and reduce operational costs. Avaamo provides a mobile application on Android and iOS, was founded in 2014, and is based in Los Altos, California; it has a strategic partnership with Tech Mahindra.