Intel

Intel Corporation is a leading global designer and manufacturer of semiconductor technologies, focused on powering the cloud, smart devices, and connected technologies. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Intel operates through various segments including Data Center Group, Internet of Things Group, Mobileye, and Client Computing Group, among others. The company offers a range of products such as central processing units, chipsets, accelerators, and memory solutions, catering to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and cloud service providers. Intel has been transitioning from a PC-centric to a data-centric business model, emphasizing advancements in performance, power, and connectivity across various workloads. With a strong commitment to innovation, Intel also invests through Intel Capital in startups that drive technologies in cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and 5G, among others. The company’s collaborations with prominent organizations aim to develop privacy-preserving analytics and enhance computing capabilities. As one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers by revenue, Intel continues to shape the future of computing and communications.

Indeshaw Adenaw

Investor

Ranjeet Alexis

Investor

Ricardo A. Arantes

Investment Director

Uri Arazy

Director

Jen Ard

Managing Director

Amit Behl

Director

Ameet Bhansali

vice_president

John Bonini

Vice President

Wendell M. Brooks

Head of Intel Capital

Michael A. Buckley

Director

Arun Chetty

Managing Director

Helen Chiu

Director

Mark D. Crawford

Investment Manager

Mauro D'Amato

Investment Director

Akimichi Degawa

Strategic Investment Manager

Sean Doyle

Managing Director

Stephen (Steve) Eichenlaub

Managing Director

Kareem S. Fahmy

Director of Portfolio Business Development

Don Faria

Investor

David Flanagan

Managing Director

Dave Flanagan

Vice President, Senior Managing Director

Andrew (Andy) Fligel

Managing Director

Abdul Guefor

Managing Director

Peter Gullander

Senior Strategic Investment Manager

James Horn

Senior Investment Manager

John Hsin

Director

Richard Hsu

Managing Director

Charlene Hu

Director

Tamiko Hutchinson

Vice President

Josiane Ishimwe

Investor

David Johnson

Managing Director

Erik Jorgensen

Director

Eric King

Investor

Klaus Konrad

Investment Director

Jon Kruse

Investment Director

Sunil Kurkure

Managing Director

Tony Kwan

Director

Tom Lathrop

Director

Tim Lauer

Director, Global Business Development

Claude Leglise

VP of Intel Capital

Elana Lian

Investor

Anthony Lin

Head of Intel Capital, Managing Partner

Mark Lydon

Managing Director

Thomas (Tom) Marchok

Director

Alexander Marquez

Director

John Mascarenas

Investment Director

Lucy McQuilken

Investment Director

Nebiu Mela

Investor

Dave Mueller

Investor

Deepak Natarajan

Director

Bob Nunn

Managing Director

Laura Oliphant

Director

Fabio Iunis de Paula

Director

Trina Van Pelt

Vice President, Senior Managing Director

Chris Pu

Director of Investment

Bhavanipratapsinh Rana

Director

Hong Rao

Director

Ronald Rawson

Director

Ronnie Reich

Director

Mark Rostick

Managing Director

Stephen Saltzman

Director

Feroz Sanaulla

Investment Director

Vivek Saraswat

Process Integration Engineer

Takayuki Sasaki

Director

Lee Sessions

Managing Director, Global Corporate Venture Ecosystem

Tammi Smorynski

Managing Director

Chiara Sommer

Investment Director

Dylan Steeg

Director

Jackie A. Sturm

VP, Technology & Manufacturing Group GM, Global Sourcing & Procurement

Eric Sun

Senior Director

David Earl Thomas

Managing Director

Thomas Urban

Investor

Erica Van

Partner

Nick Washburn

Managing Director

Tyler A Welt

Investor

Victor Westerlind

Director

Bryan E. Wolf

Managing Director

Christine Wu

Director

Past deals in Western US

Fabric8Labs

Series B in 2023
Fabric8Labs, Inc. is a company based in La Jolla, California, established in 2015, specializing in the development and manufacturing of non-thermal metal 3D printers. The company has created an innovative process that integrates two established technologies: Stereo-Lithography and Electro-Deposition. This unique approach aims to enhance the capabilities of metal 3D printing, making it more efficient and accessible for various industrial applications.

Opaque

Series A in 2022
Opaque is a startup that helps organizations analyze encrypted data in the cloud. Opaque Systems offers a service for secure data analytics and machine learning in the cloud. Opaque commercializes the open source MC2 Platform, which leverages a novel combination of two key technologies layered on top of state-of-the-art cloud security—secure hardware enclaves and cryptographic fortification.

Tibit Communications

Series C in 2022
TiBiT Communications offers a disruptive technology that will fundamentally change the way broadband access is deployed in the Service Provider markets worldwide (Cable MSO, Telco and Wireless). They make small, low powered solutions that can be easily placed anywhere in the network to enable multi-Gigabit connectivity for low end cost effective switching equipment in a Software Defined Network.

Lilt

Series C in 2022
Lilt, Inc. is an artificial intelligence-based enterprise translation software company that aims to make information accessible across languages. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in Indiana and Dublin, Lilt combines adaptive neural machine translation technology with an enterprise translation management system. This integrated platform enables organizations to efficiently scale their translation programs, accelerate their go-to-market processes, and enhance global customer experiences. Lilt's clientele includes notable companies such as Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, DigitalOcean, and Sprinklr, spanning various sectors including technology, finance, media, healthcare, and manufacturing. By offering features like multiple suggestions, incremental domain adaptation, and word alignment, Lilt's technology provides businesses with the capability to translate professional documents accurately, reducing reliance on human translators.

Syntiant

Series D in 2022
Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Ponder

Seed Round in 2022
Ponder Data Inc. provides enterprise-ready tools for rapid, flexible experimentation with data at scale. Ponder makes data teams more productive by enabling them to get insights faster with tools they know and love.

Cloudleaf

Venture Round in 2022
Cloudleaf, Inc. is a technology company based in Milpitas, California, specializing in location-aware sensory platforms for industries such as automotive, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and industrial manufacturing. Founded in 2014, the company offers CloudOS, a cloud-based platform that provides centralized visibility and management of sensory and connector devices. Its product line includes the Cloudleaf Sensor, which collects location and asset-level information using Bluetooth Smart technology, the Cloudleaf Zone Sensor for managing entry and exit events in critical workflow areas, and the Cloudleaf Gateway that facilitates communication between sensors and the cloud. Additionally, Cloudleaf provides solutions for supply chain visibility, work-in-progress monitoring, condition monitoring, and preventative maintenance. The company's platform creates a digital twin of the supply chain, processing billions of events per second to deliver real-time insights on location, condition, utilization, and anomaly detection.

Cohere Technologies

Series D in 2022
Cohere Technologies is a leading pioneer for software enhanced 4G & 5G networks. The company has developed a 3GPP compliant software solution to dramatically improve today’s 4G and 5G networks. Founded in 2009, Cohere Technologies is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Cohere includes an all-star team of telecom and wireless industry veterans and is backed by leading investors: NEA (New Enterprise Associates), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Macquarie Capital, Telstra and Altice

Minio

Series B in 2022
Minio, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a minimal object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 APIs. Founded in 2014 and based in Palo Alto, California, Minio provides a solution for cloud-native applications that can operate seamlessly across both public and private clouds. The company's flagship product is designed to function on a single server and supports various storage backends, including donut, filesystem, and in-memory storage. Additionally, Minio hosts a play server for public use, allowing developers and system administrators to familiarize themselves with S3-compatible object storage. Minio's offerings are released under the Apache License v2, emphasizing its commitment to open-source solutions in the realm of multi-cloud object storage.

Spectrum Labs

Series B in 2022
Spectrum Labs, Inc. is a technology company that focuses on creating an artificial intelligence platform designed to identify and moderate harmful online behavior. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, the company offers its flagship product, Guardian, which includes tools for behavior identification, content moderation, and analytics. Spectrum's AI technology enables clients in sectors such as gaming, dating, marketplaces, and social platforms to detect and respond to toxic behaviors in real-time, ensuring safer online interactions and promoting quality user-generated content. The platform effectively classifies various forms of harmful content, including hateful, violent, and derogatory messages, allowing businesses to enhance their community guidelines and maintain a positive online environment.

VeriSIM Life

Series A in 2022
VeriSIM Life, Inc. develops disease-specific biosimulation models that allow researchers at pharmaceutical companies to model in software how a drug will interact in animals. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Anyscale

Series C in 2021
Anyscale, Inc. is a company that develops and operates platforms and tools for distributed programming, specifically aimed at simplifying the development of distributed AI applications. The company offers a platform built on an open-source framework called Ray, which allows software developers and machine learning engineers to scale their applications more efficiently. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, Anyscale focuses on enabling developers to create compute-intensive applications without needing to manage complex hardware decisions. Originally known as Indigostack, Inc., the company rebranded to Anyscale in November 2019, reflecting its commitment to providing accessible solutions for distributed application development.

3d Glass Solutions

Series B in 2021
3D Glass Solutions, Inc. specializes in manufacturing glass-based system-in-package (SiP) electronic packaging devices and components. The company offers a range of services, including design consultation and prototyping, catering to integrated circuit manufacturers, photonic component suppliers, and defense contractors. Utilizing its patented APEX® Glass technology, 3D Glass Solutions provides complete glass-enabled systems integration, enabling clients to consolidate multiple components onto a single platform while reducing overall manufacturing costs. The firm also develops photo-definable components such as bandpass filters, gain antennas, and discrete LC components, employing low-loss photosensitive technology to deliver industry-specific radio frequency devices. Established in 2006, 3D Glass Solutions is headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Upbound

Series B in 2021
Upbound, Inc. develops and offers a multi-cloud platform that enables organizations to treat multiple disparate cloud environments as one. The company's platform allows organizations to build scalable multi-cloud services. Its platform allows for automation, cost optimization, capacity overflow, failover, policy enforcement, and portability across cloud environments. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Landing AI

Series A in 2021
Landing.AI (Us) Corp. develops artificial intelligence transformation programs for manufacturing industry. The company develops solutions around visual inspection, controlling and automating, calibration and tuning, and automated issue identification for large manufacturer partners. It serves manufacturing, retail / ecommerce, automotive, agriculture, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical industries. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Astera Labs

Series C in 2021
Astera Labs, a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, specializes in purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems. The company designs and supplies a range of products, including system-aware semiconductor integrated circuits, boards, and high-speed connectivity solutions. Its portfolio features Aries PCIe smart retimers and various systems such as riser cards and PCIe-over-cable extender cards. These products cater to applications in server connectivity, distributed machine learning, and high-end gaming graphics. Astera Labs collaborates with leading processor vendors and cloud service providers to enhance performance and eliminate bottlenecks in compute-intensive workloads. Additionally, the company offers design and testing services, along with its COSMOS software suite, which supports observability and predictive analytics to meet the demands of hyperscalers and original equipment manufacturers.

AEye

Post in 2021
AEye, Inc. specializes in developing vision hardware, software, and algorithms tailored for autonomous vehicles. The company is known for its innovative iDAR platform, which integrates LiDAR, computer vision, and artificial intelligence to enhance perception and motion planning for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. AEye's product offerings include the 4Sight A and 4Sight M sensors, as well as the AE100 Robotic Perception System and AE200, which are designed to meet the demands of the mobility market with modular and high-performance features. Since its inception in 2013 and a name change in 2016, AEye has established itself as a leader in intelligent sensing technology, securing investment from prestigious firms such as Kleiner Perkins and Intel Capital. The company is headquartered in Dublin, California, within the San Francisco Bay Area.

Motivo

Series A in 2021
Motivo has developed proprietary computational technology to use graph analytics, AI and machine learning for the semiconductor IC segment. In the IC space, we dramatically accelerate yield improvement with tera scale data analytics and machine learning.

Fabric8Labs

Series A in 2021
Fabric8Labs, Inc. is a company based in La Jolla, California, established in 2015, specializing in the development and manufacturing of non-thermal metal 3D printers. The company has created an innovative process that integrates two established technologies: Stereo-Lithography and Electro-Deposition. This unique approach aims to enhance the capabilities of metal 3D printing, making it more efficient and accessible for various industrial applications.

Opaque

Seed Round in 2021
Opaque is a startup that helps organizations analyze encrypted data in the cloud. Opaque Systems offers a service for secure data analytics and machine learning in the cloud. Opaque commercializes the open source MC2 Platform, which leverages a novel combination of two key technologies layered on top of state-of-the-art cloud security—secure hardware enclaves and cryptographic fortification.

Hypersonix

Series B in 2021
Hypersonix Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based autonomous data analytics software tailored for the consumer commerce sector. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a predictive and prescriptive analytics platform that enables businesses to monitor performance and make informed decisions in real-time by analyzing various data sources. Hypersonix empowers decision makers across different functions, including sales, marketing, finance, operations, and supply chain, by providing actionable insights and recommendations. Its platform utilizes advancements in machine learning and natural language processing to deliver a user-friendly experience, supported by a virtual assistant named Jarvix. Targeting industries such as retail, restaurant, hospitality, and eCommerce, Hypersonix aims to facilitate profitable growth, cost savings, and enhanced customer engagement for its clients.

Augtera Networks

Series A in 2021
Augtera Networks provides an artificial intelligence platform built from the ground up for networks that brings the benefits of operations, planning, and orchestration to physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. The company’s platform provides data plumbing, network models, scale, visualization, ecosystem integration and agility needed to bring the benefits of AI to complex and dynamic networking environments. Augtera Networks was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Workboard

Series D in 2021
WorkBoard Inc. is an enterprise SaaS company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2013. The company specializes in providing an OKR (Objectives and Key Results) software platform designed to enhance alignment and accountability within organizations. Its flagship product, the WorkBoard Enterprise Results Platform, allows businesses to localize company objectives to individual teams, facilitating alignment on outcomes and measurement of results. The platform supports the automation of business reviews and the execution of strategic goals, enabling organizations to transform traditional approaches to strategy alignment into a dynamic, data-driven practice. By promoting transparency and accountability, WorkBoard helps teams develop habits that drive results and maintain focus as organizations grow.

Mighty Networks

Series B in 2021
Mighty Networks is a software company that provides a platform for building online communities and engaging audiences around shared interests. Founded in 2010 and located in Palo Alto, California, the company enables creators to develop and manage branded spaces where they can offer online courses, paid memberships, and events. By utilizing advanced algorithms and technology, Mighty Networks connects passionate fans and followers based on their interests and locations. The platform allows creators to consolidate their content, conversations, and community interactions in one place, enhancing the experience for both creators and their members. Through its services, Mighty Networks supports the creation of meaningful relationships and experiences, focusing on community engagement and subscription commerce under the creator's brand.

SambaNova Systems

Series D in 2021
SambaNova Systems is a computing startup focused on building machine learning and big data analytics platforms. The company's software defined analytics platform enables optimum performance for any ML training, inference or analytics models.

IRIS.TV

Series B in 2021
IRIS.TV is a universal video intelligence platform focused on onboarding, processing, and activating video data. Our mission is to provide the world’s publishers, brands, agencies, and technology providers with a comprehensive understanding of every streaming video in order to create better consumer experiences and business outcomes. Since 2013, the leading media, data, and advertising technologies have utilized IRIS.TV’s privacy-first and neutral data infrastructure to build and scale AI/ML solutions including metadata enrichment, personalized content recommendations, analytics, and contextual advertising. For more information, visit www.iris.tv.

Tetrate

Series B in 2021
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 modern application infrastructure for DevOps, security, and network administrators. By facilitating the development and management of microservices, Tetrate enables businesses to modernize their applications and adopt public cloud solutions more efficiently. Through its services, Tetrate partners with enterprises to navigate the complexities of application modernization, ensuring that organizations can seamlessly operate workloads across various environments.

Senti Biosciences

Series B in 2021
Senti Biosciences is a team of bioengineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs on a mission to treat the most complex and challenging diseases. Led by pioneers in synthetic biology and computation, Senti is using the latest techniques in the fields to build the future of gene and cell-based therapies. Senti’s proprietary synthetic biology platform provides fundamental advantages for therapeutics development. Senti Biosciences is a resident company of Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS at South San Francisco (JLABS @ SSF).

Truyo

Corporate Round in 2020
Truyo offers customers true consent and data privacy rights management automation.

SummerBio

Venture Round in 2020
SummerBio LLC operates as an automation-based diagnostics company that provides SARS-CoV-2 testing services with the help of sample collection kit, robotics, and automated liquid handling systems. It also operates a CLIA lab in Menlo Park, California. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Ayar Labs

Series B in 2020
Ayar Labs, Inc. develops optical interconnect chiplets and lasers. It offers TeraPHY, a high-density electronic-photonic chiplet and monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO I/O) solution. The company also provides SuperNova, a multiwavelength, multi-port light source that supplies the continuous wave (CW) light that powers TeraPHY. Its products are used in various industry verticals, such as artificial intelligence and high performance computing, cloud computing and telecommunications, aerospace and military, and light detection and ranging. Ayar Labs, Inc. was formerly known as OptiBit Inc. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Emeryville, California with an additional office in Santa Clara, California.

SigOpt

Acquisition in 2020
SigOpt's REST API can be easily integrated into any existing ML workflow. SigOpt suggests parameter configurations, and you report their performance. They continuously refine their models to suggest the next best configuration to try. Their black-box optimization approach means you only need to send SigOpt the parameter space, and your performance metric, not the underlying training data or model.

Panoply

Series B in 2020
Panoply automates all of the data management tasks associated with running big data on the cloud, freeing up engineers and data scientists to focus on exploring data to discover and drive business value

Anyscale

Series B in 2020
Anyscale, Inc. is a company that develops and operates platforms and tools for distributed programming, specifically aimed at simplifying the development of distributed AI applications. The company offers a platform built on an open-source framework called Ray, which allows software developers and machine learning engineers to scale their applications more efficiently. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, Anyscale focuses on enabling developers to create compute-intensive applications without needing to manage complex hardware decisions. Originally known as Indigostack, Inc., the company rebranded to Anyscale in November 2019, reflecting its commitment to providing accessible solutions for distributed application development.

Matroid

Series B in 2020
Matroid, Inc. is a computer vision company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2016. It offers an intuitive platform that enables users to create and deploy custom computer vision detectors without the need for programming. The platform allows users to recognize specific people, events, and objects in visual media, monitor live television streams, and receive real-time notifications for custom events detected by security cameras. Matroid's solutions find applications across various industries, including construction, manufacturing, security, media, and retail. The company also provides Matroid On-Prem, a deployment solution that facilitates the monitoring of live streams and the searching of recorded video, enhancing the ability to respond to significant events as they occur.

Accurics

Series A in 2020
Accurics, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that provides a platform designed to secure cloud-native infrastructure in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Accurics focuses on protecting organizations from potential security risks by scanning Infrastructure as Code for misconfigurations and policy violations prior to deployment. The platform not only identifies risks before provisioning but also monitors production environments for changes that could introduce vulnerabilities. This allows organizations to maintain compliance, governance, and security across their cloud infrastructure. Additionally, Accurics offers tools such as Terrascan, which are available for free and support the company's mission of enabling cyber resilience and self-healing capabilities in cloud-native environments.

Eclypsium

Series B in 2020
Eclypsium, Inc. develops a cloud-based device security platform for organizations. Its platform Eclypsium, an enterprise device security platform that offers security to the unprotected firmware and hardware layer of the enterprise including laptops, servers, and networking infrastructure. Eclypsium, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Eclypsium

Convertible Note in 2020
Eclypsium, Inc. develops a cloud-based device security platform for organizations. Its platform Eclypsium, an enterprise device security platform that offers security to the unprotected firmware and hardware layer of the enterprise including laptops, servers, and networking infrastructure. Eclypsium, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Synthego

Series D in 2020
Synthego is a genome engineering company that enables the acceleration of life science research and development in the pursuit of improved human health. The company leverages machine learning, automation, and gene editing to build platforms for science at scale. With its foundations in engineering disciplines, the company’s full-stack platform vertically integrates proprietary hardware, software, bioinformatics, chemistries, and molecular biology to advance both basic research and therapeutic development programs. By providing both commercial and academic researchers and therapeutic developers with unprecedented access to cutting-edge genome engineering, Synthego is at the forefront of innovation, accelerating the development of truly engineered biology. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Verta

Series A in 2020
VertaAI builds software infrastructure to help enterprise data science and machine learning (ML) teams develop and deploy ML models. Verta enables anyone to streamline your data science and ML workflows, and deploy models into production faster while ensuring real-time model health.

Exo

Series B in 2020
Exo is a medical device startup handheld ultrasound platform and AI for imaging and therapeutic applications. The company is committed to delivering affordable and easy-to-use medical imaging to healthcare professionals around the world. By delivering easy-to-use, high-quality medical imaging. Exo empowers healthcare professionals to make critical, real-time decisions that improve patient outcomes. The Exo ultrasound platform combines advances in nano-materials, novel sensor technologies, advanced signal processing, and computation with the economies of scale of semiconductor manufacturing to dramatically reduce the cost of imaging. It also represents a giant leap in imaging and therapeutics technology one that will drive the development of high-performance products that are accessible, easy-to-use, and available at a price point never before possible.

Synack

Series D in 2020
Synack, Inc. provides a crowdsourced security platform for penetration testing. It offers Synack that enables customer data integrity, privacy, and confidentiality. The company’s military-grade virtual private testing environment platform allows the global security community accessible to enterprises and engages global security researchers to test systems in virtual private testing environments, as well as provides secure manual security assessment. Synack, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Axonne

Venture Round in 2020
Axonne Inc. develops and manufactures Ethernet network connectivity solutions for automobiles. The company’s solutions integrate systems in the connected car, such as autonomous driving sensors and displays with compute clusters. Its proprietary mixed-signal circuits, algorithms, and digital signal processing help with demanding applications, such as autonomous driving and infotainment. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Lilt

Series B in 2020
Lilt, Inc. is an artificial intelligence-based enterprise translation software company that aims to make information accessible across languages. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in Indiana and Dublin, Lilt combines adaptive neural machine translation technology with an enterprise translation management system. This integrated platform enables organizations to efficiently scale their translation programs, accelerate their go-to-market processes, and enhance global customer experiences. Lilt's clientele includes notable companies such as Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, DigitalOcean, and Sprinklr, spanning various sectors including technology, finance, media, healthcare, and manufacturing. By offering features like multiple suggestions, incremental domain adaptation, and word alignment, Lilt's technology provides businesses with the capability to translate professional documents accurately, reducing reliance on human translators.

MemVerge

Series B in 2020
MemVerge is delivering the world’s first Memory-Converged Infrastructure (MCI) system, built with proprietary Distributed Memory Objects (DMO) technology. DMO technology provides a logical convergence layer that harnesses Intel’s new Optane DC persistent memory to let data-centric workloads run flawlessly at memory speed.

Hypersonix

Series A in 2020
Hypersonix Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based autonomous data analytics software tailored for the consumer commerce sector. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a predictive and prescriptive analytics platform that enables businesses to monitor performance and make informed decisions in real-time by analyzing various data sources. Hypersonix empowers decision makers across different functions, including sales, marketing, finance, operations, and supply chain, by providing actionable insights and recommendations. Its platform utilizes advancements in machine learning and natural language processing to deliver a user-friendly experience, supported by a virtual assistant named Jarvix. Targeting industries such as retail, restaurant, hospitality, and eCommerce, Hypersonix aims to facilitate profitable growth, cost savings, and enhanced customer engagement for its clients.

Pocketlab

Seed Round in 2020
PocketLab is a wireless sensor for exploring the world and building science experiments. We built PocketLab for the curious explorers, educators, students, and makers to bring science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to life like never before. PocketLab connects with a single button to a smartphone or tablet and instantly streams measurement data that you can see and record. PocketLab measures acceleration, force, angular velocity, magnetic field, pressure, altitude, and temperature. Using our cloud software, you can easily analyze your data, create graphs, and integrate your data with other software. PocketLab has the same features as lab equipment that costs thousands of dollars but is low cost and intuitive to use.

ProPlus Design Solutions

Series A in 2020
ProPlus Design Solutions delivers Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solutions with the mission to enhance the linkage between design and manufacturing. As the global leader for SPICE modeling solutions and the leading technology provider for design for yield (DFY) applications, the company provides unique DFY solutions that for the first time integrate all the key components from one vendor.

Astera Labs

Series B in 2020
Astera Labs, a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, specializes in purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems. The company designs and supplies a range of products, including system-aware semiconductor integrated circuits, boards, and high-speed connectivity solutions. Its portfolio features Aries PCIe smart retimers and various systems such as riser cards and PCIe-over-cable extender cards. These products cater to applications in server connectivity, distributed machine learning, and high-end gaming graphics. Astera Labs collaborates with leading processor vendors and cloud service providers to enhance performance and eliminate bottlenecks in compute-intensive workloads. Additionally, the company offers design and testing services, along with its COSMOS software suite, which supports observability and predictive analytics to meet the demands of hyperscalers and original equipment manufacturers.

Lightbend

Series D in 2020
Lightbend provides a reactive application development platform for building distributed systems. These distributed systems, which include microservices and streaming fast data applications and can effortlessly scale on multi-core and cloud architectures, based on a message-driven runtime. Many admired brands around the globe are transforming their businesses with the Lightbend's platform, engaging billions of users every day through software that is changing the world. Lightbend as founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

FogHorn

Series C in 2020
FogHorn is a developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions. FogHorn’s software platform brings the power of advanced analytics and machine learning to the on-premises edge environment enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance and operational intelligence use cases. FogHorn’s technology is ideally suited for OEMs, systems integrators and end customers in manufacturing, power and water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, as well as smart grid, smart city, smart building and connected vehicle applications.

SambaNova Systems

Series C in 2020
SambaNova Systems is a computing startup focused on building machine learning and big data analytics platforms. The company's software defined analytics platform enables optimum performance for any ML training, inference or analytics models.

Inpria

Series C in 2020
Inpria Corporation, founded in 2007 and based in Corvallis, Oregon, specializes in the design, development, and manufacture of EUV metal oxide photoresists. The company is recognized as a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography by utilizing inorganic photoresists and thin films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s innovative photo-condensed molecular oxides allow for the direct deposition of atomically smooth and dense metal oxide films from a solution, which can be photopatterned. This technology enhances performance while simplifying processing, supporting advancements in EUV lithography and addressing the growing demands of the semiconductor industry.

Joby Aviation

Series C in 2020
Joby Aviation, LLC is an electric mobility company focused on developing fully electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft aimed at transforming air transportation. Founded in 2009 and based in Santa Cruz, California, the company specializes in creating a 5-seat aircraft that utilizes advanced electric propulsion technology. Joby Aviation emphasizes innovative design through its expertise in composite airframe fabrication, aerodynamic analysis, high-performance electric motor development, and state-of-the-art battery pack design. The company's mission is to provide a safe, quiet, fast, and affordable air-transportation service, contributing to a significant shift in personal mobility.

Anyscale

Series A in 2019
Anyscale, Inc. is a company that develops and operates platforms and tools for distributed programming, specifically aimed at simplifying the development of distributed AI applications. The company offers a platform built on an open-source framework called Ray, which allows software developers and machine learning engineers to scale their applications more efficiently. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, Anyscale focuses on enabling developers to create compute-intensive applications without needing to manage complex hardware decisions. Originally known as Indigostack, Inc., the company rebranded to Anyscale in November 2019, reflecting its commitment to providing accessible solutions for distributed application development.

Game.tv

Series A in 2019
Game.tv is a mobile eSports platform powered by AI that automates tournaments in new and existing communities. Gamers with strong track records of building mobile games lead Game.tv. Its core product, Tourney, is an AI-powered eSports assistant that can run tournaments from start to finish. Game.tv was founded in 2018 and is based in Campbell, California, United States.

Augtera Networks

Venture Round in 2019
Augtera Networks provides an artificial intelligence platform built from the ground up for networks that brings the benefits of operations, planning, and orchestration to physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. The company’s platform provides data plumbing, network models, scale, visualization, ecosystem integration and agility needed to bring the benefits of AI to complex and dynamic networking environments. Augtera Networks was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

BlueStacks

Series C in 2019
BlueStacks is a consumer technology company that specializes in developing software solutions for mobile, TV, and PC ecosystems. Its flagship product, the BlueStacks App Player, allows users to run Android games and applications efficiently on Windows PCs, leveraging patented LayerCake virtualization technology. With a user base of 145 million, BlueStacks enables gamers to enjoy a full-screen experience, providing superior performance and precise control using a keyboard, mouse, and gamepad. The introduction of BlueStacks 2 allowed for multitasking capabilities, enabling users to run multiple apps simultaneously in a tabbed interface. Additionally, BlueStacks TV offers a one-click streaming option for users to broadcast their gameplay directly to platforms like Twitch.tv.

Smart Edge

Acquisition in 2019
Smart Edge bringing multi-access edge computing (MEC) in mobile communications to Enterprise.

IOTAS

Series A in 2019
IOTAS, INC. provides home automation services for apartment residents in Portland, Oregon. It installs and sets up smart outlets, hubs, smart switches, smart plugs, open/close sensors, and motion sensors in apartments. The company also provides home automation platform that integrates pre-installed hardware with software to interact with homes; and enables residents to manually control and automate lights and devices based on a schedule or various triggers. IOTAS, INC. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

VeriSIM Life

Seed Round in 2019
VeriSIM Life, Inc. develops disease-specific biosimulation models that allow researchers at pharmaceutical companies to model in software how a drug will interact in animals. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Cloudleaf

Series B in 2019
Cloudleaf, Inc. is a technology company based in Milpitas, California, specializing in location-aware sensory platforms for industries such as automotive, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and industrial manufacturing. Founded in 2014, the company offers CloudOS, a cloud-based platform that provides centralized visibility and management of sensory and connector devices. Its product line includes the Cloudleaf Sensor, which collects location and asset-level information using Bluetooth Smart technology, the Cloudleaf Zone Sensor for managing entry and exit events in critical workflow areas, and the Cloudleaf Gateway that facilitates communication between sensors and the cloud. Additionally, Cloudleaf provides solutions for supply chain visibility, work-in-progress monitoring, condition monitoring, and preventative maintenance. The company's platform creates a digital twin of the supply chain, processing billions of events per second to deliver real-time insights on location, condition, utilization, and anomaly detection.

Exo

Series B in 2019
Exo is a medical device startup handheld ultrasound platform and AI for imaging and therapeutic applications. The company is committed to delivering affordable and easy-to-use medical imaging to healthcare professionals around the world. By delivering easy-to-use, high-quality medical imaging. Exo empowers healthcare professionals to make critical, real-time decisions that improve patient outcomes. The Exo ultrasound platform combines advances in nano-materials, novel sensor technologies, advanced signal processing, and computation with the economies of scale of semiconductor manufacturing to dramatically reduce the cost of imaging. It also represents a giant leap in imaging and therapeutics technology one that will drive the development of high-performance products that are accessible, easy-to-use, and available at a price point never before possible.

Mesmer

Series A in 2019
Mesmer is a Robotics Process Automation for Software Development (RPAD) company. The AI-powered bots will help them to create beautiful apps at a speed not possible today and they believe the way software gets created will change radically over the next decade. It also handles all of it with a full-stack customer experience testing solution. Mesmer provides products including bug reporter, infrastructure builder, autonomous crawler, UAT creator, test generator, and test runner. The company is based in Palo Alto, California, USA.

TrapX Security

Series C in 2019
TrapX Security, Inc. develops a deception technology that detects, analyzes, and defeats ransomware attacks. The company offers DeceptionGrid, a platform that protects assets against a multitude of attacks, including malicious insiders, lateral-movements, advanced persistent threats, and cybercriminals; and TrapX Flex, a Deception-as-a-Service solution to protect corporate assets from the risks posed by the growth in remote employees and devices. It serves healthcare, manufacturing, financial service, retail, government, technology, and managed security service provider markets. TrapX Security, Inc. was formerly known as CyberSense Inc. The company is based in San Mateo, California.

Barefoot Networks

Acquisition in 2019
Barefoot Networks is a team of visionaries, experienced technologists and engineers who have created a blueprint for designing and operating the world’s fastest and most programmable networks. Their goal is to make programming your network as simple as programming your CPU.

BabbleLabs

Series A in 2019
BabbleLabs, Inc. specializes in developing advanced speech enhancement and noise removal software aimed at improving communication for various applications. The company's product offerings include Clear Cloud, which provides speech enhancement technology through APIs and web interfaces; Clear Edge, an embedded solution optimized for low latency on smart devices; Clear Command, a system for voice control and recognition; and Clear Analytics, which extracts actionable insights from speech data. These technologies cater to diverse sectors such as smartphones, business conferencing, field communication, customer service, automotive, and public safety. Founded in 2017 and based in Campbell, California, BabbleLabs combines expertise in deep neural networks, speech processing, and embedded systems to drive innovation in voice applications and enhance human-machine interaction.

LISNR

Venture Round in 2019
LISNR® powers transactions across the customer journey globally with the most advanced Ultrasonic Data Platform. Today, companies like Jaguar Land Rover, Ticketmaster, and Visa use this solution to create secure & frictionless moments for consumers around the world. Founded in 2012, LISNR is located in Oakland, CA and Cincinnati, OH. Major investors include Intel, Jump Capital, Mercury Fund, R/GA, and Synchrony Financial.

Mighty Networks

Series A in 2019
Mighty Networks is a software company that provides a platform for building online communities and engaging audiences around shared interests. Founded in 2010 and located in Palo Alto, California, the company enables creators to develop and manage branded spaces where they can offer online courses, paid memberships, and events. By utilizing advanced algorithms and technology, Mighty Networks connects passionate fans and followers based on their interests and locations. The platform allows creators to consolidate their content, conversations, and community interactions in one place, enhancing the experience for both creators and their members. Through its services, Mighty Networks supports the creation of meaningful relationships and experiences, focusing on community engagement and subscription commerce under the creator's brand.

Landing AI

Seed Round in 2019
Landing.AI (Us) Corp. develops artificial intelligence transformation programs for manufacturing industry. The company develops solutions around visual inspection, controlling and automating, calibration and tuning, and automated issue identification for large manufacturer partners. It serves manufacturing, retail / ecommerce, automotive, agriculture, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical industries. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Reveal Biosciences

Series A in 2019
Reveal Biosciences, Inc. is a computational pathology company specializing in tissue-based research and diagnostics. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company offers a range of services including precision histology and pathology, in situ hybridization, whole slide imaging, image analysis, and commercial antibody validation. Reveal integrates artificial intelligence with traditional pathology techniques to enhance the diagnosis of diseases from large whole slide microscope images. Its technology employs machine learning models to analyze tissue biology, enabling accurate characterization and diagnosis of cells and tissue architecture. Reveal serves a diverse clientele, including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, and government institutions worldwide, aiming to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of disease diagnostics.

Tibit Communications

Series B in 2019
TiBiT Communications offers a disruptive technology that will fundamentally change the way broadband access is deployed in the Service Provider markets worldwide (Cable MSO, Telco and Wireless). They make small, low powered solutions that can be easily placed anywhere in the network to enable multi-Gigabit connectivity for low end cost effective switching equipment in a Software Defined Network.

OnScale

Series A in 2019
OnScale Inc. develops on-demand scalable engineering simulation software that accelerates research and development, reduces costs, and helps engineers build future. The company offers OnScale Multiphysics CAE software that empowers engineers to accelerate innovation across various industries, including next-generation technologies, such as MEMS IoT, 5G, biomedicine, and autonomous vehicles. Its software is used in MEMS and filters, sensors, NDE and NDT, medical, and sonar applications. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Pixeom

Venture Round in 2019
Pixeom, Inc. is a technology company based in Mountain View, California, that specializes in developing a software platform designed to replicate cloud functionality on-premise. Founded in 2013, Pixeom provides an edge computing solution that allows cloud service providers to efficiently package, deploy, and manage containerized applications at scale on local Edge IoT Cores. The platform is enterprise-ready, catering to the demanding needs of numerous Fortune 500 clients, and is hardware and operating system agnostic, which facilitates seamless deployment across diverse infrastructures. By addressing the complexities of distributed edge deployment, Pixeom enables organizations to manage large-scale, geographically distributed workloads without the need for extensive physical IT administration. This approach allows existing cloud-native applications to operate on edge environments without requiring significant re-architecture. Additionally, Pixeom offers a range of "edge versions" of popular cloud services, providing clients with the flexibility to utilize familiar APIs on-premise.

Qolibri

Venture Round in 2019
Qolibri, Inc. develops technology based solutions for semiconductor manufacturing subfabs. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Roseville, California.

SambaNova Systems

Series B in 2019
SambaNova Systems is a computing startup focused on building machine learning and big data analytics platforms. The company's software defined analytics platform enables optimum performance for any ML training, inference or analytics models.

Tetrate

Series A in 2019
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 modern application infrastructure for DevOps, security, and network administrators. By facilitating the development and management of microservices, Tetrate enables businesses to modernize their applications and adopt public cloud solutions more efficiently. Through its services, Tetrate partners with enterprises to navigate the complexities of application modernization, ensuring that organizations can seamlessly operate workloads across various environments.

Gojoya

Venture Round in 2019
Gojoya, Inc. develops and markets imaging products with built-in artificial intelligence for unmanned aerial vehicles, robots, autonomous driving, and mobile phones. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Silicon Valley, California.

Ineda Systems

Acquisition in 2019
Ineda Systems is a startup company that was created by industry veterans from the US and India with the ultimate goal of becoming a leader in developing low power SOC’s for use in both consumer and enterprise applications. The advisory and management team has world-class experience of working in both blue-chip companies as well as fast-paced technology start-ups. Ineda's expertise is in the area of low-power SOC/IP development, architecture, and software that is necessary to design silicon and systems that would be of use in future applications. Their products will address the wearable platforms from a ground-up manner including vertical engineering of the wearable device: silicon, system, software, application ecosystem. In addition, they will enable the ecosystem with API’s and the application development framework. In combination with their leading-edge technology Ineda silicon will be the first in the world with power usage in the envelope required by wearable devices.

Proprio, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Proprio, Inc. develops a healthcare system for real-time immersive video and mediated reality interaction. It offers surgical microscopes, navigation systems, loupes, and screens to replace surgical microscopes. The company’s networked camera arrays, depth-sensing technology, and computer graphics processing enables users to navigate live 3D environments with a sense of presence and depth of field from any perspective. Proprio, Inc. was formerly known as eLoupes, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Eclypsium

Series A in 2018
Eclypsium, Inc. develops a cloud-based device security platform for organizations. Its platform Eclypsium, an enterprise device security platform that offers security to the unprotected firmware and hardware layer of the enterprise including laptops, servers, and networking infrastructure. Eclypsium, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

AEye

Series B in 2018
AEye, Inc. specializes in developing vision hardware, software, and algorithms tailored for autonomous vehicles. The company is known for its innovative iDAR platform, which integrates LiDAR, computer vision, and artificial intelligence to enhance perception and motion planning for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. AEye's product offerings include the 4Sight A and 4Sight M sensors, as well as the AE100 Robotic Perception System and AE200, which are designed to meet the demands of the mobility market with modular and high-performance features. Since its inception in 2013 and a name change in 2016, AEye has established itself as a leader in intelligent sensing technology, securing investment from prestigious firms such as Kleiner Perkins and Intel Capital. The company is headquartered in Dublin, California, within the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ayar Labs

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

Syntiant

Series B in 2018
Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Arcadia Data

Series B in 2018
Arcadia Data develops Unified Visual Analytics and BI Platform designed for big data. It delivers the scale, performance, and agility business users need to discover and production real-time insights. The company also provides the first native visual analytics software that runs within modern data platforms for the scale, flexibility, performance, and security users need to glean meaningful and real-time business insights and design data-centric applications in the era of big data and IoT. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.

NetSpeed Systems

Acquisition in 2018
NetSpeed Systems provides scalable, coherent, Network-on-Chip (NoC) IPs to System-on-chip (SoC) designers for a wide range of markets from mobile to high-performance computing and networking. NetSpeed's NoC IPs deliver significant time-to-market advantages through system level approach, high level of user-driven automation and state-of-the-art algorithms. NetSpeed Systems was founded in 2011 and is led by seasoned executives from the semiconductor and networking industries. The company is funded by top-tier investors from the silicon valley.

VeriSilicon

Series A in 2018
VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. is an integrated circuit (IC) design foundry that provides custom silicon solutions and system-on-chip (SoC) turnkey services for a wide range of electronic devices and systems, including smart phones, media tablets, HDTVs, set-top boxes, blu-ray DVD players, home gateways, networking, and data centers. VeriSilicon's technology solutions leverage licensable digital signal processing cores, Hantro Video IPs, eDRAM, and others that can be targeted for a wide range of process technology, including advanced nodes like 28nm and FD-SOI.

Spot.io

Series B in 2018
SPOT, a new Tinder like app for cool, geeky products just launched publicly for iOS and Android at the same time using the cutting-edge Famo.us framework. SPOT is the best way to discover the newest and coolest products! Easily swipe through product cards that we curate and that your friends spot to let everyone know how you feel about each one. Apple App Store: http://bit.ly/SpotAppiOS (Search for "spot" or "spot the cool") Android: http://bit.ly/SpotAppDroid

Vertex.AI

Acquisition in 2018
Vertex.AI owns and operates a platform which provides visual intelligence capabilities to edge devices. The company provides vertex vision which allows detecting, classifying, tracking, and identifying objects and other visual elements in real time and vertex vantage which provides software platform that unlocks the deep learning capability of chips from low-power mobile processors to full-size GPUs. Vertex.AI was formerly known as 1026 Labs, Inc. Vertex.AI is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As of August 16, 2018, operates as a subsidiary of Movidius, Inc..

Savioke

Series B in 2018
Savioke, Inc., founded in 2013 and based in Sunnyvale, California, specializes in the development and deployment of autonomous robots designed for the services industry. The company's primary product, Relay, is an advanced delivery robot that operates effectively in busy environments such as hotels, high-rise residential buildings, industrial settings, and healthcare facilities. Relay enhances productivity and customer satisfaction by autonomously delivering items in human-centric spaces. Savioke's innovative approach to robotics aims to improve people's lives by integrating technology seamlessly into everyday tasks. The company is supported by various investors, including Intel Capital and Google Ventures.

Care Innovations

Series B in 2018
Care Innovations provides technology-based healthcare management services designed to connect people to care givers. The company's services include collecting, aggregating and analyzing data and provide informed and actionable insights into connecting providers, payers, caregivers and consumers and bringing the care continuum to the home, enabling people to live independently.

Bossa Nova Robotics

Series C in 2018
Bossa Nova Robotics is the leading 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, headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Mountain View and Pittsburgh.

Airship

Series F in 2018
Urban Airship® is trusted by thousands of businesses to drive growth through real time customer engagement. Every day, marketers and developers depend on Urban Airship to deliver billions of personalized, interactive notifications that inspire interest and drive action across all digital channels including apps, websites, mobile wallets, email, SMS and more. Urban Airship is used by many of the world’s most admired companies, including Adidas, Alaska Airlines, The Home Depot, NBCUniversal, Sky Plc and Zillow.

Embodied

Series A in 2018
Embodied is an AI company that develops state-of-the-art companion robots that aim to revolutionize care and wellness, enhancing the quality of life for individuals and families. They are combining 14 years of research in socially assistive robotics from the University of Southern California with 15 years of experience with commercialization of consumer robotics from iRobot, and decades of animation and storytelling to build life-like, interactive robots to serve as motivators, coaches, and companions that help and empower people to be better at helping themselves.

Syntiant

Series A in 2018
Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

avaamo

Series A in 2018
Avaamo is a deep-learning software company based in Los Altos, California, specializing in conversational interfaces designed to address specific challenges within enterprises. Established in 2014, Avaamo develops a mobile application that consolidates communications into a single secure interface, available on both Android and iOS platforms. The company focuses on advancing fundamental AI technologies, including neural networks and speech synthesis, to enhance conversational computing capabilities in enterprise environments. Additionally, Avaamo has formed a strategic partnership with Tech Mahindra to further its mission.

Lyncean Technologies

Series B in 2018
Lyncean Technologies, Inc. develops miniature synchrotron x-ray sources to see and understand the sub-microscopic details of physical and biological world. Its products include Compact Light Source (CLS), an on-demand X-ray synchrotron light that addresses the demand for access to high quality X-rays through a synchrotron beamline for home laboratory applications; and the Compact X-Ray Station, a crystallography end station and X-ray optics used with the CLS that enables local laboratory protein crystallography, micro-tomography, dark field microscopy, CD-SAXS, and more. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Fremont, California.

Fictiv

Series B in 2018
Fictiv Inc. operates a manufacturing platform that enables users to design, develop, and deliver fabricate parts. Its online interface enables customers to get instant quotes, review manufacturing feedback, and manage orders from vendors. The company’s platform enables users to leverage distributed manufacturing to fabricate parts through 3D printing and CNC machining. It serves engineers, designers, creators, startups, hackers, and more. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

VenueNext

Funding Round in 2018
VenueNext is a technology platform and context-aware app, providing insights into guest behavior and control over its users’ entire ecosystem, from sports to concerts, conferences to theme parks, and all large venues in between. It has a team of technical developers, who have worked for many ventures including Google, Facebook, Dish Networks, Sling Media, AOL, Netscape and Oracle. VenueNext was launched in 2013 by John M. Paul and is based in Palo Alto, C.A.