Javelin Venture Partners

Javelin Venture Partners invests in early-stage tech companies with incredible potential, managed by teams of energetic, trustworthy, and capable leaders. Javelin looks for advanced bleeding-edge innovations, where the addressable market size is substantial, and strong competitive advantages exist. A typical investment is between $1 to $6 million, with reserves for follow-on investments. In addition, Javelin also considers smaller seed investments for unique companies just getting started. Located in downtown San Francisco, while invests throughout the world. Javelin is a very active investor with a long-term outlook and the objective of creating substantial value.

Jed Katz

Managing Director

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Fello

Debt Financing in 2022
Fello activates your database with intelligent, automated marketing to keep leads engaged and opportunities moving—24/7

Fello

Venture Round in 2022
Fello activates your database with intelligent, automated marketing to keep leads engaged and opportunities moving—24/7

Octane11

Seed Round in 2022
Octane11 is a B2B-focused data analytics and collaboration platform that connects paid, owned, and earned marketing, sales, and product usage data to drive real business results. We help B2B enterprises with $100M+ in revenue to integrate, enrich, and analyze data across teams, and compare performance to industry benchmarks. Octane11 is backed by Javelin Venture Partners, BDMI, Honeystone Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, Circadian Ventures, Base Ventures, and AperiamVentures. Launched in late 2020, Octane11 is already helping some of the largest B2B enterprises break down data silos and turn every digital interaction into an actionable insight. To learn more, visit www.octane11.com and follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/octane11/.

Viable

Seed Round in 2022
Viable develops a qualitative AI designed for business teams. Its platform automates the qualitative analysis of customer feedback. With Feedback Analysis Reports, customer feedback is analyzed and distilled into top complaints, compliments, requests, questions, and more via natural language reports.

Landed

Seed Round in 2022
Landed improves the hiring process for hourly employers and job applicants.

Appvance.ai

Series C in 2022
Appvance is the leader in generative AI for Software Quality. Its premier product AIQ is an AI-native, unified software quality platform that delivers unprecedented levels of productivity to accelerate digital transformation in the enterprise. Leveraging generative AI and machine learning, AIQ robots autonomously validate all the possible user flows to achieve complete application coverage™. Appvance.ai is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Costa Rica and India. Investors in the company include Arrowroot Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, TRI HoldCo, Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund, FundersClub, Three Bridges Ventures and HB Asset Management.

Pair Eyewear

Series B in 2021
Pair Eyewear makes wearing prescription and nonprescription glasses and sunglasses exciting for children. Pair believes glasses for children can be more than a static medical device. Glasses can be a canvas on which children express their evolving interests and growing personalities. Through an e-commerce platform, Pair is redesigning the glasses experience, making it engaging for children and painless for parents. Pair Eyewear was founded in 2017 by Nathan Kondamuri and Sophia Edelstein and is based in New York, United States.

Universe

Series B in 2021
Universe is a mobile app that provides electric internet to build sites, shops, and portfolios. They also provide a payment block that allows them to sell products and accept payments online. They offer an order management system to help money flow.

Wethos

Seed Round in 2021
Wethos Virtual Studios™ make it easy to confidently team up and transform your one-person shop into a full-service studio.

Viable

Seed Round in 2021
Viable develops a qualitative AI designed for business teams. Its platform automates the qualitative analysis of customer feedback. With Feedback Analysis Reports, customer feedback is analyzed and distilled into top complaints, compliments, requests, questions, and more via natural language reports.

Pixalate

Venture Round in 2021
Pixalate is a global intelligence platform and real-time fraud protection provider. Pixalate is a Media Rating Council certified vendor for display ad viewability. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Octane AI

Venture Round in 2021
Trusted by 1,000+ Shopify and Shopify plus brands, Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation. Merchants use Octane AI to connect, convert, and retain customers by personalizing the customer journey and giving customers the confidence to purchase. Octane AI is backed by top Silicon Valley investors, including Bullpen Capital, General Catalyst, FJLabs, M Ventures, and the founders of Hipmunk, Hearsay Systems, and Articulate. The company is all-remote and employs team members in 10+ countries. It was founded in 2016 by Matt Schlicht, Ben Parr, and Leif K-Brooks.

SmartAsset

Series D in 2021
SmartAsset is an online destination for consumer-focused financial information and advice that powers SmartAdvisor, a national marketplace connecting consumers to financial advisors. Reaching approximately 75 million people each month (as of Sept. 2021) through its educational content and personalized calculators and tools, SmartAsset’s mission is to help people make smart financial decisions. Ranked on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in 2021, SmartAsset recently closed a $110 million Series D round, valuing the company at over $1 billion. SmartAsset was also named to Y Combinator’s list of Top 100 Companies of all time, 2021 Best Financial Planning Technology Company in New York by Wealth & Finance International, and Forbes’ list of America’s Best Startup Employers in 2020.

Mythical Games

Series B in 2021
Mythical is a next-generation game technology studio. Mythical Games believes that true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets will spawn a new generation of games. These new economies, based on digital ownership, will bring players, developers, and content creators closer to the games they love. Mythical Games has a team of veteran game and platform developers with a passion for bringing big innovative concepts to market. Its goal is to create world-class products that drive consumer adoption of distributed ledger technology through games.

Homeward

Series B in 2021
Homeward enables agents to let customers buy the home they want using an all-cash offer, and then sell their current property at full market value. The company is expanding in Texas, Georgia and Colorado, with plans to offer its solution to agents and home buyers nationwide.

MasterClass

Series F in 2021
MasterClass is the streaming platform where anyone can learn. It offers a wide range of subjects, including arts and entertainment, business, design and style, sports and gaming, writing, and more.

Higharc

Series A in 2021
Higharc is the all-in-one web platform that simplifies, connects, and improves each step of design, construction, and sales for home building. It enables builders to design, sell in 3D, and get permit-ready construction documents — all in a single platform. Higharc is on a mission to help builders create better homes and communities, more affordably.

Pair Eyewear

Series A in 2021
Pair Eyewear makes wearing prescription and nonprescription glasses and sunglasses exciting for children. Pair believes glasses for children can be more than a static medical device. Glasses can be a canvas on which children express their evolving interests and growing personalities. Through an e-commerce platform, Pair is redesigning the glasses experience, making it engaging for children and painless for parents. Pair Eyewear was founded in 2017 by Nathan Kondamuri and Sophia Edelstein and is based in New York, United States.

Landed

Seed Round in 2021
Landed improves the hiring process for hourly employers and job applicants.

Stensul

Series B in 2020
Stensul is transforming the way enterprise marketers work. Our email generation platform is centralized, scalable, and pre-configured to each brand. By bypassing all of the back-and-forth with designers, developers and QA, marketers can focus on crafting content that inspires and delivers real results. Build emails in our platform, and then instantly send them out through your ESP or Marketing Cloud. With stensul, marketers are reimagining what’s possible with email.

Armory

Series C in 2020
Armory is an enterprise software company that commercializes the open-source continuous delivery platform, Spinnaker. The company has a platform called, Spinnaker, a cloud-native software delivery created and open-sourced by Netflix and Google, and battle-tested in production by the brands. It is partnered with availability, powerful feature extensions, and 24/7 expert support and services. Installing Armory in a Kubernetes cluster enables anyone to deploy workloads to multiple cloud targets across AWS, GCP, Azure, PCF, DC or OS, Kubernetes, ECS, Oracle's BMC, OpenStack, and more. Armory was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Viable

Venture Round in 2020
Viable develops a qualitative AI designed for business teams. Its platform automates the qualitative analysis of customer feedback. With Feedback Analysis Reports, customer feedback is analyzed and distilled into top complaints, compliments, requests, questions, and more via natural language reports.

Charma

Seed Round in 2020
Charma is a platform that helps improve team communication and accountability. The company's platform is a system for effective work relationships that improves the way managers and employees engage in the modern era.

Homeward

Venture Round in 2020
Homeward enables agents to let customers buy the home they want using an all-cash offer, and then sell their current property at full market value. The company is expanding in Texas, Georgia and Colorado, with plans to offer its solution to agents and home buyers nationwide.

Vacatia

Venture Round in 2019
Vacatia is the resort marketplace for vacationing families and friends. Our mission is to make family vacations better and to help family resorts thrive. We make it easy for guests to find and instantly book their perfect resort residence, combining the space of a home and the services of a hotel. Vacatia provides real-time rental listings, large photos, floor plans, and detailed resort information, supported by Vacatia Guest Care and multiple flexible payment options. We work with 600+ select professionally managed resorts and resort residence owners at leading hospitality, vacation ownership (timeshare) and premier independent resorts. No private homes or hotels allowed! Vacatia also partners with select brands to operate vacation ownership marketplaces. In addition, we are a growing property manager of independent vacation resorts throughout the country. Vacatia is a member of the Family Travel Association and the American Resort Development Association (ARDA), which named Vacatia the winner of the "ACE Innovator Award: Industry Partner" category of the 2017 ARDA Awards. Recently, we were named to the a16z Marketplace 100 list. Vacatia is venture-backed, was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Mythical Games

Series A in 2019
Mythical is a next-generation game technology studio. Mythical Games believes that true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets will spawn a new generation of games. These new economies, based on digital ownership, will bring players, developers, and content creators closer to the games they love. Mythical Games has a team of veteran game and platform developers with a passion for bringing big innovative concepts to market. Its goal is to create world-class products that drive consumer adoption of distributed ledger technology through games.

Armory

Series B in 2019
Armory is an enterprise software company that commercializes the open-source continuous delivery platform, Spinnaker. The company has a platform called, Spinnaker, a cloud-native software delivery created and open-sourced by Netflix and Google, and battle-tested in production by the brands. It is partnered with availability, powerful feature extensions, and 24/7 expert support and services. Installing Armory in a Kubernetes cluster enables anyone to deploy workloads to multiple cloud targets across AWS, GCP, Azure, PCF, DC or OS, Kubernetes, ECS, Oracle's BMC, OpenStack, and more. Armory was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Mureni

Seed Round in 2019
Mureni helps dentists in Latin America to increase their revenue and improve their operation through technology. We are a fast-growing healthcare startup based in Mexico city, operating in Mexico and Brazil.

Carbon Health

Series B in 2019
Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers virtual care experience. It offers primary care services through a mobile application that enables users to follow up on a treatment plan, manage prescriptions, and see lab reports all through one app. Carbon Health has created a coronavirus assessment tool and also set up covid-19 testing in California. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Higharc

Seed Round in 2019
Higharc is the all-in-one web platform that simplifies, connects, and improves each step of design, construction, and sales for home building. It enables builders to design, sell in 3D, and get permit-ready construction documents — all in a single platform. Higharc is on a mission to help builders create better homes and communities, more affordably.

HitRecord

Series A in 2019
HitRecord is an online community working together as a production company. Since 2010 it has developed into an innovative community of over 100,000 artists of all disciplines (writers, filmmakers, musicians, etc.) adding 250 new members and 2,500+ new pieces of art every day. It was founded by actor and director Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is headquartered in Glendale, California.

Seismos

Venture Round in 2019
Seismos, the K-wave Company™, is a data analytics company for production optimization providing proprietary solutions enabling real-time, underground fluid flow monitoring, inside the reservoir, during production. Monitoring fluid movement with conventional seismic technologies requires months for data acquisition and processing, disrupts production and costs millions. Seismos breaks this paradigm and solves all problems associated with conventional methods by providing real-time information, at a fraction of the cost, through its proprietary, cloud-based K-wave technology that is non-invasive to production and to surface operations.

Mythical Games

Series A in 2018
Mythical is a next-generation game technology studio. Mythical Games believes that true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets will spawn a new generation of games. These new economies, based on digital ownership, will bring players, developers, and content creators closer to the games they love. Mythical Games has a team of veteran game and platform developers with a passion for bringing big innovative concepts to market. Its goal is to create world-class products that drive consumer adoption of distributed ledger technology through games.

FILLD

Series B in 2018
Filld is a developer of an on-demand fuel delivery platform designed to deliver gas to car anytime and anywhere. The company's platform helps to fill the car's gas tank while the users are at their work, home, or at the gym, enabling them to save time by not stopping at the gas station for last-mile mobile fueling.

MasterClass

Series D in 2018
MasterClass is the streaming platform where anyone can learn. It offers a wide range of subjects, including arts and entertainment, business, design and style, sports and gaming, writing, and more.

Armory

Series A in 2018
Armory is an enterprise software company that commercializes the open-source continuous delivery platform, Spinnaker. The company has a platform called, Spinnaker, a cloud-native software delivery created and open-sourced by Netflix and Google, and battle-tested in production by the brands. It is partnered with availability, powerful feature extensions, and 24/7 expert support and services. Installing Armory in a Kubernetes cluster enables anyone to deploy workloads to multiple cloud targets across AWS, GCP, Azure, PCF, DC or OS, Kubernetes, ECS, Oracle's BMC, OpenStack, and more. Armory was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Kindly Care

Series A in 2018
Kindly Care find and manage amazing caregivers for your loved one. Use Kindly Care’s mobile app to manage checklists, review work, and handle payments.

Seismos

Venture Round in 2018
Seismos, the K-wave Company™, is a data analytics company for production optimization providing proprietary solutions enabling real-time, underground fluid flow monitoring, inside the reservoir, during production. Monitoring fluid movement with conventional seismic technologies requires months for data acquisition and processing, disrupts production and costs millions. Seismos breaks this paradigm and solves all problems associated with conventional methods by providing real-time information, at a fraction of the cost, through its proprietary, cloud-based K-wave technology that is non-invasive to production and to surface operations.

Stensul

Series A in 2018
Stensul is transforming the way enterprise marketers work. Our email generation platform is centralized, scalable, and pre-configured to each brand. By bypassing all of the back-and-forth with designers, developers and QA, marketers can focus on crafting content that inspires and delivers real results. Build emails in our platform, and then instantly send them out through your ESP or Marketing Cloud. With stensul, marketers are reimagining what’s possible with email.

Universe

Series A in 2018
Universe is a mobile app that provides electric internet to build sites, shops, and portfolios. They also provide a payment block that allows them to sell products and accept payments online. They offer an order management system to help money flow.

SmartAsset

Series C in 2018
SmartAsset is an online destination for consumer-focused financial information and advice that powers SmartAdvisor, a national marketplace connecting consumers to financial advisors. Reaching approximately 75 million people each month (as of Sept. 2021) through its educational content and personalized calculators and tools, SmartAsset’s mission is to help people make smart financial decisions. Ranked on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in 2021, SmartAsset recently closed a $110 million Series D round, valuing the company at over $1 billion. SmartAsset was also named to Y Combinator’s list of Top 100 Companies of all time, 2021 Best Financial Planning Technology Company in New York by Wealth & Finance International, and Forbes’ list of America’s Best Startup Employers in 2020.

Cyberinc

Series A in 2018
Cyberinc offers a secure, scalable, and high-performance security products that protect from cyber-attacks. It's formed by merging Spikes Security with Aurionpro’s Security Division, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary focused on Enterprise Security. Cyberinc is dedicated to helping enterprises secure their digital businesses and expand their security perimeter. Cyberinc delivers enterprise-scale solutions that help CISOs address the top two threat vectors of the digital age – information loss through web-based malware threats and unauthorized access, with their flagship product offering, Isla Malware Isolation platform which ensures 100% web freedom and comprehensive IAM solutions that have secured over 100 million identities across the globe.

Wizely

Seed Round in 2017
Wizely is building India’s first platform dedicated to Financial Wellness for emerging India. Our intelligent digital banking experience helps customers take charge of their everyday finances and reach their financial goals. Wizely delivers not only personalized guidance but also empowers users to make their goals a reality with spending controls, smart saving, and a confident path into borrowing and investments. Founded in 2017, Wizely is transforming the way new-age banking can guide and serve the Indian consumer, with an engaging, personalized experience at the core. Our vision is to grow our offerings as our customers progress in their journeys to Financial Wellness. For now, we’re excited to pave the way for Financial Wellness for emerging India.

Nexenta Systems

Corporate Round in 2017
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 46,000+ community members, 40+ patents, and 2,000+ petabytes of storage capacity under management. Nexenta has redefined the storage industry via its unique dual leadership in Open Source community collaboration and Software-Defined Storage innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are "100% Software." Nexenta supports any app-, cloud-, protocol-, and hardware-platform; providing organizations with the "Total Freedom" to fight against predatory vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta enables the widest variety of legacy, Windows, web, virtual, and cloud-native apps; supporting any rich media-driven Mobile and Social Living, Internet of Things, Big Data-driven Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) and/or Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Cloud deployment – from Private and Public to Hybrid Clouds. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award-winning "software-only unified storage management" solutions with 24x7 consulting, service, support, and a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, HP, Micron, Openstack, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta: 100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love. For more information visit, www.nexenta.com

Niantic

Series B in 2017
Niantic focuses on developing games that encourage outdoor activity and social engagement. It aims to create products for movement, exploration, and face-to-face social interaction. Its notable products include Ingress and Pokémon GO.

Estimote

Series A in 2017
Estimote creates small, wireless sensors that use modern IoT radio technologies such as Bluetooth, Ultra Wideband, LTE/NB-IoT to compute precise indoor location and enable asset tracking applications.

ExecThread

Venture Round in 2017
Our vision is of a business world in which the best career opportunities are equally accessible. We believe senior-level roles should be accessible to all qualified professionals, not just a chosen few. ExecThread’s curated marketplace of crowdsourced career opportunities at the C-Suite & Board level, which are contributed by >750k of the world’s best professionals, connects the best & brightest from all backgrounds with the world’s best job opportunities.

Fair

Seed Round in 2017
Fair is a car leasing company that aims to grant access to mobility to everyone by pioneering the car-as-a-service (CaaS) concept. It gives customers the freedom to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the flexibility to walk away at any time.

Fiix

Seed Round in 2017
Fiix offers auto repair services for its clients. The company offers on-demand auto repair services in terms of battery, brakes, diagnostics, inspections, doors, windows, engines, exhaust systems, filters, fluids, fuel systems, heating, lights, sensors, suspension, steering, tires, and transmission. The company offers auto repair services at its clients' homes or offices. Fiix was founded in 2015 by Zain Manji and Arif Bhanji and is based in Ontario.

FILLD

Series A in 2017
Filld is a developer of an on-demand fuel delivery platform designed to deliver gas to car anytime and anywhere. The company's platform helps to fill the car's gas tank while the users are at their work, home, or at the gym, enabling them to save time by not stopping at the gas station for last-mile mobile fueling.

Amaze Software

Debt Financing in 2017
Amaze Software is a platform that enables creators to transform their ideas into marketable products without the complexities of traditional commerce. It offers tools for product design, social commerce integrations, and streamlined sales processes, allowing creators to focus on their passions.

KidPass

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
KidPass is the leading destination for parents to discover and book amazing children’s activities.

Rinse

Series B in 2017
Rinse is building the first and largest national (and global) brand in clothing care. It is addressing a massive consumer problem and creating a significantly better (and more standardized) dry cleaning and laundry experience through the combination of "smart scheduling" and best-in-class quality, all supported by a strong technology backbone that allows it to effectively manage the operational complexity that comes with scale. Its services include Dry Cleaning, Launder & Press, Wash & Fold, Hang Dry, Repairs, Leather Cleaning, and it even takes Clothing Donations.

Estimote

Series A in 2017
Estimote creates small, wireless sensors that use modern IoT radio technologies such as Bluetooth, Ultra Wideband, LTE/NB-IoT to compute precise indoor location and enable asset tracking applications.

Clutter

Series C in 2017
Clutter is a provider of on-demand storage and moving services used to help customers store their physical belongings. The company aims to consistently provide hassle-free and affordable services by investing in exceptional people, smart technology, and pristine spaces. Clutter was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Culver City, California.

KidPass

Seed Round in 2017
KidPass is the leading destination for parents to discover and book amazing children’s activities.

Carbon Health

Seed Round in 2017
Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers virtual care experience. It offers primary care services through a mobile application that enables users to follow up on a treatment plan, manage prescriptions, and see lab reports all through one app. Carbon Health has created a coronavirus assessment tool and also set up covid-19 testing in California. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MasterClass

Series C in 2017
MasterClass is the streaming platform where anyone can learn. It offers a wide range of subjects, including arts and entertainment, business, design and style, sports and gaming, writing, and more.

Armory

Seed Round in 2017
Armory is an enterprise software company that commercializes the open-source continuous delivery platform, Spinnaker. The company has a platform called, Spinnaker, a cloud-native software delivery created and open-sourced by Netflix and Google, and battle-tested in production by the brands. It is partnered with availability, powerful feature extensions, and 24/7 expert support and services. Installing Armory in a Kubernetes cluster enables anyone to deploy workloads to multiple cloud targets across AWS, GCP, Azure, PCF, DC or OS, Kubernetes, ECS, Oracle's BMC, OpenStack, and more. Armory was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Nexenta Systems

Series G in 2016
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 46,000+ community members, 40+ patents, and 2,000+ petabytes of storage capacity under management. Nexenta has redefined the storage industry via its unique dual leadership in Open Source community collaboration and Software-Defined Storage innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are "100% Software." Nexenta supports any app-, cloud-, protocol-, and hardware-platform; providing organizations with the "Total Freedom" to fight against predatory vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta enables the widest variety of legacy, Windows, web, virtual, and cloud-native apps; supporting any rich media-driven Mobile and Social Living, Internet of Things, Big Data-driven Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) and/or Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Cloud deployment – from Private and Public to Hybrid Clouds. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award-winning "software-only unified storage management" solutions with 24x7 consulting, service, support, and a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, HP, Micron, Openstack, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta: 100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love. For more information visit, www.nexenta.com

Thanx

Series B in 2016
Thanx, Inc. (www.thanx.com) is a guest engagement platform for offline businesses. Brick-and-mortar retailers, restaurants, and malls are facing an unprecedented crisis in the aftermath of COVID-19; Thanx helps these businesses embrace digital purchasing, capture greater customer data, and take action on that information to personalize every interaction with their guests. Thanx’s proprietary integrations with credit card networks (e.g. Visa) provide the volume and accuracy of purchase data which sits at the core of our CRM and Marketing Automation suite of tools. Thanx was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

GameCo

Series A in 2016
GameCo created Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM) a category of Video Game Gambling on casino floors. It is a pioneering company uniting the experience of playing video games with the excitement of gambling by creating Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM). GameCo’s VGM is the first platform to bring video games to the casino floor engaging a new market of casino customers. The first video game gambling platform approved by any regulator in the United States, GameCo’s patented VGM proprietary arcade-style cabinets allows a player’s skill to effect the payout and winnings while maintaining the same casino-based economics as slot machines.

GameCo

Series A in 2016
GameCo created Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM) a category of Video Game Gambling on casino floors. It is a pioneering company uniting the experience of playing video games with the excitement of gambling by creating Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM). GameCo’s VGM is the first platform to bring video games to the casino floor engaging a new market of casino customers. The first video game gambling platform approved by any regulator in the United States, GameCo’s patented VGM proprietary arcade-style cabinets allows a player’s skill to effect the payout and winnings while maintaining the same casino-based economics as slot machines.

GameCo

Seed Round in 2016
GameCo created Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM) a category of Video Game Gambling on casino floors. It is a pioneering company uniting the experience of playing video games with the excitement of gambling by creating Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM). GameCo’s VGM is the first platform to bring video games to the casino floor engaging a new market of casino customers. The first video game gambling platform approved by any regulator in the United States, GameCo’s patented VGM proprietary arcade-style cabinets allows a player’s skill to effect the payout and winnings while maintaining the same casino-based economics as slot machines.

SmartAsset

Series B in 2016
SmartAsset is an online destination for consumer-focused financial information and advice that powers SmartAdvisor, a national marketplace connecting consumers to financial advisors. Reaching approximately 75 million people each month (as of Sept. 2021) through its educational content and personalized calculators and tools, SmartAsset’s mission is to help people make smart financial decisions. Ranked on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in 2021, SmartAsset recently closed a $110 million Series D round, valuing the company at over $1 billion. SmartAsset was also named to Y Combinator’s list of Top 100 Companies of all time, 2021 Best Financial Planning Technology Company in New York by Wealth & Finance International, and Forbes’ list of America’s Best Startup Employers in 2020.

LeadGenius

Series B in 2016
LeadGenius is an end-to-end sales solution that provides companies with a way to generate, qualify, deliver, and convert leads. It helps sales teams grow and scale across all levels of the sales process. LeadGenius was launched by Anand Kulkarni, Prayag Narula, and Dave Rolnitzky in 2011.

Netpulse

Series D in 2016
Netpulse is the largest provider of branded mobile club apps that engage members, drive revenue, and integrate deeply with the club's most important technology solutions. Industry leaders such as Gold's Gym, Retro Fitness and Equinox leverage Netpulse's mobile solutions in clubs all over the world. A complete mobile experience is delivered by partnering with top technology solutions, including ABC Financial, Club Comm and Perkville. Founded in 2001, by Bryan Arp and Intuit co-founder Tom Proulx, Netpulse has since raised $40M in funding and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Alpine.AI

Seed Round in 2016
Pioneering the voice-enabled path to purchase, Alpine.ai is making brands and retailers accessible and valuable in a voice-enabled world. With the growing popularity of voice-first devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Home and now over 100M Android phones conversationally enabled, consumers are increasingly expecting brand experiences to deliver valuable answers conversationally on these devices. Alpine is reimagining these experiences by creating voice and visual solutions that benefit consumers in this new, voice-enabled world.

Rinse

Series A in 2016
Rinse is building the first and largest national (and global) brand in clothing care. It is addressing a massive consumer problem and creating a significantly better (and more standardized) dry cleaning and laundry experience through the combination of "smart scheduling" and best-in-class quality, all supported by a strong technology backbone that allows it to effectively manage the operational complexity that comes with scale. Its services include Dry Cleaning, Launder & Press, Wash & Fold, Hang Dry, Repairs, Leather Cleaning, and it even takes Clothing Donations.

Appvance.ai

Series A in 2016
Appvance is the leader in generative AI for Software Quality. Its premier product AIQ is an AI-native, unified software quality platform that delivers unprecedented levels of productivity to accelerate digital transformation in the enterprise. Leveraging generative AI and machine learning, AIQ robots autonomously validate all the possible user flows to achieve complete application coverage™. Appvance.ai is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Costa Rica and India. Investors in the company include Arrowroot Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, TRI HoldCo, Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund, FundersClub, Three Bridges Ventures and HB Asset Management.

MasterClass

Series B in 2016
MasterClass is the streaming platform where anyone can learn. It offers a wide range of subjects, including arts and entertainment, business, design and style, sports and gaming, writing, and more.

Estimote

Series A in 2016
Estimote creates small, wireless sensors that use modern IoT radio technologies such as Bluetooth, Ultra Wideband, LTE/NB-IoT to compute precise indoor location and enable asset tracking applications.

FILLD

Seed Round in 2015
Filld is a developer of an on-demand fuel delivery platform designed to deliver gas to car anytime and anywhere. The company's platform helps to fill the car's gas tank while the users are at their work, home, or at the gym, enabling them to save time by not stopping at the gas station for last-mile mobile fueling.

Thumbtack

Series E in 2015
Thumbtack is a home services website connecting users with local service providers. Thumbtack offers homeowners personalized guidance on what to do and when to do it, as well as recommendations on who to hire from a community of 300,000 local service businesses. The bids from Thumbtack professionals were analyzed to determine the true cost of various projects.

FEM

Seed Round in 2015
FEM operates as a personalized video engagement platform based on neuroscience and psychology. The company launches Prizma, a video engagement platform that offers video discovery and smart syndication powered by a robust content recommendation engine. Prizma makes it possible for any website to create an engaging video experience for its audience, quickly and easily. For publishers that have video content, Prizma improves discovery, recirculation, and offers syndication to quality websites; for those that want more video content, Prizma offers monetized, relevant content from high-quality creators. FEM was founded by Rachel Payne, Dr. Meghana Bhatt, and Natasha Mohanty in late 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Vacatia

Series A in 2015
Vacatia is the resort marketplace for vacationing families and friends. Our mission is to make family vacations better and to help family resorts thrive. We make it easy for guests to find and instantly book their perfect resort residence, combining the space of a home and the services of a hotel. Vacatia provides real-time rental listings, large photos, floor plans, and detailed resort information, supported by Vacatia Guest Care and multiple flexible payment options. We work with 600+ select professionally managed resorts and resort residence owners at leading hospitality, vacation ownership (timeshare) and premier independent resorts. No private homes or hotels allowed! Vacatia also partners with select brands to operate vacation ownership marketplaces. In addition, we are a growing property manager of independent vacation resorts throughout the country. Vacatia is a member of the Family Travel Association and the American Resort Development Association (ARDA), which named Vacatia the winner of the "ACE Innovator Award: Industry Partner" category of the 2017 ARDA Awards. Recently, we were named to the a16z Marketplace 100 list. Vacatia is venture-backed, was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Seismos

Series A in 2015
Seismos, the K-wave Company™, is a data analytics company for production optimization providing proprietary solutions enabling real-time, underground fluid flow monitoring, inside the reservoir, during production. Monitoring fluid movement with conventional seismic technologies requires months for data acquisition and processing, disrupts production and costs millions. Seismos breaks this paradigm and solves all problems associated with conventional methods by providing real-time information, at a fraction of the cost, through its proprietary, cloud-based K-wave technology that is non-invasive to production and to surface operations.

MasterClass

Series A in 2015
MasterClass is the streaming platform where anyone can learn. It offers a wide range of subjects, including arts and entertainment, business, design and style, sports and gaming, writing, and more.

Kitchit

Series A in 2014
At Kitchit, we believe eating with others enriches our lives and deepens our connections to our community. We are passionate about food’s ability to connect people and have pioneered a powerful way to elevate the experience well beyond a traditional restaurant.

Boost Media

Series C in 2014
Boost Media is a fastest growing B2B SaaS companies in Silicon Valley, and they are committed to going public. They're hiring across the company in all roles. Join them as they revolutionize the digital advertising industry. They raised their Series A in December of 2012 and their Series B in June of 2013. Boost Media is an enterprise solution for optimizing ad creative at scale across Search, Social, Display & Mobile. The Company focuses on optimizing for enterprise advertisers and generates substantial improvements in conversions-per-impression for customers. Today, Boost is trusted to drive optimization and insights for over $300 million in advertising spend across networks and premium publisher sites such as Google, Microsoft+Yahoo Bing Ads and Facebook.

Spikes Security

Series A in 2014
Founded in 2012, Spikes Security is focused on delivering secure, scalable, high performance appliance and software solutions that empower businesses with the freedom to safely leverage the web without fear of cyber-attacks. Its flagship offering is a powerful web malware isolation system that prevents all browser-borne malware from entering corporate networks and infecting endpoints, including mobile devices, without requiring installation of any endpoint software. Watch an analyst interview with CEO Branden Spikes here: https://vimeo.com/127027498

Netpulse

Series D in 2014
Netpulse is the largest provider of branded mobile club apps that engage members, drive revenue, and integrate deeply with the club's most important technology solutions. Industry leaders such as Gold's Gym, Retro Fitness and Equinox leverage Netpulse's mobile solutions in clubs all over the world. A complete mobile experience is delivered by partnering with top technology solutions, including ABC Financial, Club Comm and Perkville. Founded in 2001, by Bryan Arp and Intuit co-founder Tom Proulx, Netpulse has since raised $40M in funding and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Thumbtack

Series D in 2014
Thumbtack is a home services website connecting users with local service providers. Thumbtack offers homeowners personalized guidance on what to do and when to do it, as well as recommendations on who to hire from a community of 300,000 local service businesses. The bids from Thumbtack professionals were analyzed to determine the true cost of various projects.

Amaze Software

Series B in 2014
Amaze Software is a platform that enables creators to transform their ideas into marketable products without the complexities of traditional commerce. It offers tools for product design, social commerce integrations, and streamlined sales processes, allowing creators to focus on their passions.

Weddington Way

Series A in 2014
Based in San Francisco, CA, Weddington Way offers Millennials a new way to shop for weddings, featuring an exclusive collection of fresh + modern bridesmaid dresses. Weddington Way designs and manufactures their own dresses - meaning no middle-men, no markups, and styles crafted with detail and intention that you can’t find anywhere else. Weddington Way pioneered a community-centric shopping experience that lets friends shop together online in a virtual showroom. With its technology-first approach, Weddington Way is a breath of fresh air in the wedding planning process. For more information, please visit http://www.weddingtonway.com.

Thumbtack

Series C in 2014
Thumbtack is a home services website connecting users with local service providers. Thumbtack offers homeowners personalized guidance on what to do and when to do it, as well as recommendations on who to hire from a community of 300,000 local service businesses. The bids from Thumbtack professionals were analyzed to determine the true cost of various projects.

ShopTap Industries

Series B in 2014
ShopTap industries operated The Hunt. The Hunt has been recapitalized and bought out by one of the founders in 2016.

SmartAsset

Series A in 2014
SmartAsset is an online destination for consumer-focused financial information and advice that powers SmartAdvisor, a national marketplace connecting consumers to financial advisors. Reaching approximately 75 million people each month (as of Sept. 2021) through its educational content and personalized calculators and tools, SmartAsset’s mission is to help people make smart financial decisions. Ranked on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in 2021, SmartAsset recently closed a $110 million Series D round, valuing the company at over $1 billion. SmartAsset was also named to Y Combinator’s list of Top 100 Companies of all time, 2021 Best Financial Planning Technology Company in New York by Wealth & Finance International, and Forbes’ list of America’s Best Startup Employers in 2020.

Trumaker

Series A in 2014
Trumaker is a new kind of men's apparel brand where every guy gets a stylist. Trumaker makes high quality clothing that fits by designing a full made-to-measure and off-the-rack line. Outfitters (Stylists) provide a local personalized experience where they provide style guidance, collect customer measurements, and preferences - making re-ordering online simple without concern for fit. Once a client gets fitted, reordering online or through the guidance of their Outfitter is easy.

Pixalate

Series A in 2013
Pixalate is a global intelligence platform and real-time fraud protection provider. Pixalate is a Media Rating Council certified vendor for display ad viewability. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

plug.dj

Seed Round in 2013
Plug.dj is dedicated to building positive international communities for sharing and discovering music. Our users choose from a wide array of expressive characters, join any number of virtual rooms where they can discover and share music and videos, and communicate with international cohorts using our real-time chat translation. Plug.dj enables brands to provide an interactive, deeply immersive and real-time media experience for consumers worldwide. Our average user spends over an hour on the site per visit while actively engaging in the social consumption of videos and music, gaming mechanics, international chat and social media integration that leaves the user with a positive brand association experience. Musicians and DJs alike will find great value in having a platform in which they can engage with and attract fans from around the world in real-time. Plug.dj is working with up-and-coming artists to premier their new videos or mixes to fans and get instant feedback.

ShopTap Industries

Series A in 2013
ShopTap industries operated The Hunt. The Hunt has been recapitalized and bought out by one of the founders in 2016.

Kopo Kopo

Series A in 2013
Kopo Kopo enables SMEs to grow and prosper by making mobile money smarter. They enable SMEs to accept, process, and analyze mobile payments in real-time and engage customers using highly targeted, market-appropriate promotional. and loyalty tools. Using existing local infrastructure, Kopo Kopo is accelerating the transition from cash-based economies to digital ones. Kopo Kopo's platform is secure and offers an online dashboard to download statements, view payments, and settle the funds to the bank account, enabling businesses to have an alternative to traditional payment methods. It also offers a suite of ISO/Acquirer tools for merchant acquirers like banks, mobile network operators, and 3rd parties.

MAGNIFI

Series A in 2013
MAGNIFI is a live music service that connects fans, venues and artists. MAGNIFI combines show listings, a full listening experience, artist and venue discovery, plus ticket purchasing, in one place. This is enhanced by MAGNIFI’s community where music fans can share and follow artists and venues, they can also favorite songs. MAGNIFI features hundreds of thousands of artists and tens of thousands of venues across the globe.

Boost Media

Series B in 2013
Boost Media is a fastest growing B2B SaaS companies in Silicon Valley, and they are committed to going public. They're hiring across the company in all roles. Join them as they revolutionize the digital advertising industry. They raised their Series A in December of 2012 and their Series B in June of 2013. Boost Media is an enterprise solution for optimizing ad creative at scale across Search, Social, Display & Mobile. The Company focuses on optimizing for enterprise advertisers and generates substantial improvements in conversions-per-impression for customers. Today, Boost is trusted to drive optimization and insights for over $300 million in advertising spend across networks and premium publisher sites such as Google, Microsoft+Yahoo Bing Ads and Facebook.

Spotsetter

Seed Round in 2013
Spotsetter is a social search engine tackling a big data problem in the online to offline space. "Where to go" is socially relevant and we help answer that through the vast amount of content your friends have already created across all social networks. Available on both web and mobile interfaces. Spotsetter was part of **[AngelPad](http://angelpad.org) #4** in 2012.

Engrade

Series B in 2013
Engrade was founded in 2003 by a high school student who wanted a better way to connect with teachers on homework, assessments, and messages. Over the years, user feedback and innovative ideas have shaped Engrade into a robust learning management system. Today, Engrade is a division of digital learning-focused CTB/McGraw-Hill and helps educators, parents, and students through all stages of the learning cycle from curriculum planning to assessments.

Thumbtack

Series B in 2013
Thumbtack is a home services website connecting users with local service providers. Thumbtack offers homeowners personalized guidance on what to do and when to do it, as well as recommendations on who to hire from a community of 300,000 local service businesses. The bids from Thumbtack professionals were analyzed to determine the true cost of various projects.

Uncovet

Seed Round in 2013
Uncovet features daily deals on design-centric products for the style addict. graduate of Science, Uncovet is an accessories and home décor site that is building a style graph to personalize product recommendations. With more than 500,000 monthly visitors, the startup uses Facebook Connect to allow users to invite friends to the site and can also take a user’s Facebook Likes into account when recommending products.

Skytree

Series A in 2013
Skytree is a California-based software company that develops and publishes a machine learning platform for advanced analytics. The company offers a platform that gives organizations the power to discover analytic insights, predict future trends, make recommendations, and reveal untapped markets and customers. Backed by investments from US Venture Partners, Javelin Venture Partners, Samsung, UPS, and In-Q-Tel, Skytree is involved in enterprise-grade machine learning. The company was founded in 2012 by [Martin Hack](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/martin-hack) and [Alexander Gray](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/alexander-gray). It is headquartered in San Jose, C.A.
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