JetBlue Ventures

JetBlue Ventures is the venture capital and private equity arm of JetBlue Airways, focusing on startup and early-stage investments in technology that enhance the travel and hospitality sectors. Founded in February 2016 and based in San Carlos, California, the firm specializes in companies related to airlines, airports, and aerospace manufacturers. JetBlue Ventures also operates an accelerator program, providing funding of $0.05 million to each selected startup in exchange for equity. Through its investments and partnerships, JetBlue Ventures aims to drive innovation and improve the future of travel.

Amy Burr

Managing Director, Operations & Partnerships

Ryan Chou

Principal

Jim Lockheed

Principal

91 past transactions

i6 Group

Series A in 2020
i6 is a provider of a digital fuel management platform to connect stakeholders across all stages of the aircraft refueling process. The company is specializing in web and mobile application development and systems integration to offer modern, flexible, and modular software platforms for the aerospace, defense, utility, and transportation markets. Using modern information technology, tools, techniques and an open architecture philosophy in our solutions ensures that they provide their customers with high-performing, reliable, and globally scalable platforms for business-critical operations. i6 was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire with offices in New Jersey and Vancouver.
Betterez Inc. develops cloud based enterprise software solutions for the reservations and ticketing management (RTM) industry. It offers RTM solutions for airlines, motor coaches, rails, ferries, shuttles, the car rental industry, tour operators, and more; and travel, ticketing, box office ticketing, and event ticketing solutions. The company offers web and mobile applications. Its software simplifies enterprise workflow interactions across employees, customers, partners, and agents. The company serves small, medium, and large enterprises in admissions and travel industries; operators in the travel and admission space; legacy operators; and companies. Betterez Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Travelstride

Private Placement in 2019
Stride Travel, Inc enables travelers of various stripes to explore the world through its reviews marketplace for experiential pre-planned travel, including multi-day guided tours, adventure travel packages, and small ship and river cruises. It provides search by destination, activity type, company, and more ways to find the right guided tour, escorted tour, travel package, river cruise, or small-ship cruise. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.
SWFL, Inc. designs and builds open source hardware and software products for the industrial Internet of Things. It offers ruggedized device equipped with GPS and long-range radios for on premise tracking of unpowered assets; wireless monitoring devices with onboard environmental sensors that collect and transmit data to cloud services/on-sight analytics platforms; and modular low-power core products for private-key storage, 4µA sleep current, and short and long range radios that enables end-to-end encrypted wireless communication to various custom hardware. The company also provides firmware and software for provisioning and managing network deployments in various environments; secure communications and private exchanges between devices, making it possible for machines to interact with other devices/endpoint; and managing integrations, provisioning devices (via BLE), and monitoring network health. Its products are used for asset tracking, remote monitoring, smart metering, security monitoring, automated system management, fleet management, and process control applications. SWFL, Inc. provides wireless networks for infrastructure projects. It offers Filament Tap that lets users to deploy a wireless network; and Filament Patch that adds wireless lines to hardware projects. The company offers Blocklet for Trusted Vehicle Applications, industry’s first end-to-end automotive blockchain platform that allows vehicles to participate directly in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. The company serves energy, mining, construction, manufacturing, agriculture, and transportation industries, as well as smart cities. SWFL, Inc. was formerly known as Pinoccio Inc. and changed its name to SWFL, Inc. in August 2013. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Reno, Nevada.

NLX

Seed Round in 2022
NLX enables organizations to build and manage next generation conversational experiences - personalized conversations that are automated, integrated, measurable, highly scalable and available anytime and anywhere.

Unicoaero

Venture Round in 2018
Unicobag is the on demand baggage delivery company for airlines and passengers. Unicobag helps airlines to deliver mishandled bags and passengers to bypass baggage carousels. Unicobag's mission is to be a leading baggage service provider, so airlines, airports, and passengers never deal with bags anymore.
ClimaCell is an all-in-one weather intelligence platform that predicts and automates weather challenges. It combines Weather-of-Things data - from cell tower transmissions to connected cars - with traditional data sources and analyzes it using proprietary, cutting edge models.

Lacuna Technologies

Series A in 2021
Lacuna Technologies, Inc. develops and provides cloud based open-source transportation software for local governments. It also provides digital mobility infrastructure services that include operation, integration, and support for open source systems, such as the Mobility Data Specification (MDS), the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS), the General Bikeshare Feed Specification (GBFS), and Emerging Open Mapping Systems. The company also provides strategic consulting, and technology and program delivery services to help cities develop strategic plans around transportation technology, and to deliver individual technology programs. It serves cities and support transportation, and public works agencies worldwide. Lacuna Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

30SecondsToFly Inc.

Angel Round in 2017
30SecondsToFly Inc. develops a travel management platform that centralizes travel policy, automates and controls corporate travel, provides travel analytics. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Shape Security

Private Placement in 2018
Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications. Shape has deflected over $1B in fraud losses for major retailers, financial institutions, airlines, and government agencies. Shape Security is headquartered in Silicon Valley and backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Venrock, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, WING VC and a host of other prominent investors. Shape was founded in 2011 to disrupt automated attacks on web and mobile applications.

Zunum Aero

Venture Round in 2017
Zunum Aero Inc. manufactures hybrid-to-electric aircraft. It also offers electric aircraft services. The company was formerly known as Tzunum Inc. Zunum Aero Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Kirkland, Washington.

TPG Rise

Venture Round in 2022
Impact Fund

Shape Security

Private Placement in 2019
Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications. Shape has deflected over $1B in fraud losses for major retailers, financial institutions, airlines, and government agencies. Shape Security is headquartered in Silicon Valley and backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Venrock, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, WING VC and a host of other prominent investors. Shape was founded in 2011 to disrupt automated attacks on web and mobile applications.
Actourex, Inc, doing business as Redeam, Inc., operates a platform that enables attractions to accept paper vouchers and mobile tickets from any reseller. The company enables resellers of attraction tickets to offer mobile electronic ticketing to travelers on mobile devices. It scans and validates paper vouchers or mobile tickets to determine validity before accepting potentially problematic voucher, once scanned paper vouchers are automatically digitized and the paper can be discarded. The company enables resellers in elimination of paper vouchers by connecting with a single application programming interface (API) to check availability, creates and manages reservations, and also reconciles transactions electronically. Actourex, Inc was founded in 2015 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Universal Hydrogen

Series A in 2021
Universal Hydrogen is a fuel logistics company making hydrogen-powered commercial flight a near-term reality.

Skyhour Inc.

Skyhour Inc. owns and operates a platform that offers flight booking services. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Mozio, Inc. operates an online airport transportation search and booking engine. Its platform allows travelers to search and book airport shared ride shuttles, private vans, airporters, taxis, airport limousines, sedans, and SUVs from airports in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. The company also provides API and affiliate programs for travel Websites and travel agents to sell shuttles, taxis, limos, and airporters. Mozio, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Gladly

Series C in 2017
Gladly is a customer service platform that enables B2C companies to focus on people talking to people throughout a lifetime of naturally productive conversations. With Gladly, customers are at the center and brands can communicate with their customers seamlessly across any channel from voice, email, messaging, chat, and social media. Agents are empowered, customers feel known, and companies build love and loyalty through consistently positive experiences. Gladly is based in San Francisco and funded by Greylock Partners, GGV Capital, NEA, and JetBlue Ventures.
Unicobag Inc. develops an online baggage delivery application for airlines and passengers. The application let airlines to deliver their mishandled bags by booking and tracking at every stage and allows passengers to bypass the baggage carousel. The luggage is picked by the registered cab drivers and delivered to the destination the customer wants. Unicobag Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.
ConnectIQ Labs, Inc., doing business as Miles, develops artificial intelligence (AI) based reward application for commuters to earn miles for all forms of travel and commute. Its application enables customers to redeem the miles from retailers such as Amazon, Starbucks, Target, Whole Foods, Bath and Body Works, Canon, Cole Haan, HelloFresh, and NatureBox. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Redwood City, California.
Slice Labs is the insurance engine behind tomorrow’s cloud-based, on-demand digital services ecosystems for the new economy. Through Slice’s Insurance Cloud Services (ICS) platform, Slice is enabling insurers, technology companies, and other service providers to build truly intelligent and intuitive, pay-as-you-go digital insurance products protecting the insured anytime and anywhere. Slice is licensed in the US and the UK, and recently launched in Asia Pacific.

Betterez

Venture Round in 2017
Betterez Inc. develops cloud based enterprise software solutions for the reservations and ticketing management (RTM) industry. It offers RTM solutions for airlines, motor coaches, rails, ferries, shuttles, the car rental industry, tour operators, and more; and travel, ticketing, box office ticketing, and event ticketing solutions. The company offers web and mobile applications. Its software simplifies enterprise workflow interactions across employees, customers, partners, and agents. The company serves small, medium, and large enterprises in admissions and travel industries; operators in the travel and admission space; legacy operators; and companies. Betterez Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
FLYR Labs brings together the best technologists to radically transform air travel through cutting edge technologies that are years ahead of what has been commercially available. We solve complex problems with beautifully engineered solutions that rely on Deep Learning (AI) and our end-to-end Managed Data Infrastructure to help leading airlines around the world unlock their full potential. With our Cirrus Business Intelligence™ Platform, we provide airlines with the insight and intelligence for making the best-informed decisions, automated or by leading you and your teams in the right direction. It has never been easier to answer sophisticated questions, enable AI-based revenue maximization, and simulate highly-complex scenarios.

3 Victors Inc.

3 Victors Inc. operates in the technology industry. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Plano, Texas.

Filament

Series A in 2017
Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT. Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed to communicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves.

Lumo

Seed Round in 2018
At lumo,They’re obsessed with making air travel smarter. They predict flight delays months, weeks, hours ahead of time, making planning easier and flight changes less stressful.

Tomorrow.io

Series A in 2017
ClimaCell is an all-in-one weather intelligence platform that predicts and automates weather challenges. It combines Weather-of-Things data - from cell tower transmissions to connected cars - with traditional data sources and analyzes it using proprietary, cutting edge models.

Slice Labs

Series A in 2018
Slice Labs is the insurance engine behind tomorrow’s cloud-based, on-demand digital services ecosystems for the new economy. Through Slice’s Insurance Cloud Services (ICS) platform, Slice is enabling insurers, technology companies, and other service providers to build truly intelligent and intuitive, pay-as-you-go digital insurance products protecting the insured anytime and anywhere. Slice is licensed in the US and the UK, and recently launched in Asia Pacific.

FLYR Labs

Series A in 2017
FLYR Labs brings together the best technologists to radically transform air travel through cutting edge technologies that are years ahead of what has been commercially available. We solve complex problems with beautifully engineered solutions that rely on Deep Learning (AI) and our end-to-end Managed Data Infrastructure to help leading airlines around the world unlock their full potential. With our Cirrus Business Intelligence™ Platform, we provide airlines with the insight and intelligence for making the best-informed decisions, automated or by leading you and your teams in the right direction. It has never been easier to answer sophisticated questions, enable AI-based revenue maximization, and simulate highly-complex scenarios.

Joby Aviation

Series C in 2020
Joby Aviation develops a new generation of electric personal aircraft created to revolutionize personal mobility. Its strength is in composite airframe design and fabrication, aerodynamic analysis, high-performance electric motor development, and cutting-edge battery pack design, enabling clients to create a paradigm shift in transportation with safe, quiet, fast, and affordable electric vertical takeoff.

Joby Aviation

Private Placement in 2018
Joby Aviation develops a new generation of electric personal aircraft created to revolutionize personal mobility. Its strength is in composite airframe design and fabrication, aerodynamic analysis, high-performance electric motor development, and cutting-edge battery pack design, enabling clients to create a paradigm shift in transportation with safe, quiet, fast, and affordable electric vertical takeoff.

Bizly

Private Placement in 2019
Bizly is an employee-facing, self-service, enterprise software application that enables teams to collaborate and build impactful meetings and events. Bizly provides modern end-to-end workflow automation utilizing smart templates to drive the right programming, attendee management, venue booking, and analytics to achieve the objective. Bizly is an operating system that leverages enterprise procurement, CRM, HCM, and other systems to automate the entire workflow for meetings & events. Bizly helps finance departments tackle their largest segment of unmanaged spend and supports every department with creating experiences that drive their business forward.

Resilient Ops, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Resilient Ops, Inc. develops a flight disruption prediction software. Its application Lumo offers uses machine learning and predictive analytics and offers flight disruptions and delays forecasting to consumers. Lumo was formerly known as Flightsayer. Resilient Ops, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Tomorrow.io

Series B in 2018
ClimaCell is an all-in-one weather intelligence platform that predicts and automates weather challenges. It combines Weather-of-Things data - from cell tower transmissions to connected cars - with traditional data sources and analyzes it using proprietary, cutting edge models.

Slice Labs

Private Placement in 2017
Slice Labs is the insurance engine behind tomorrow’s cloud-based, on-demand digital services ecosystems for the new economy. Through Slice’s Insurance Cloud Services (ICS) platform, Slice is enabling insurers, technology companies, and other service providers to build truly intelligent and intuitive, pay-as-you-go digital insurance products protecting the insured anytime and anywhere. Slice is licensed in the US and the UK, and recently launched in Asia Pacific.

Joby Aviation

Series B in 2018
Joby Aviation develops a new generation of electric personal aircraft created to revolutionize personal mobility. Its strength is in composite airframe design and fabrication, aerodynamic analysis, high-performance electric motor development, and cutting-edge battery pack design, enabling clients to create a paradigm shift in transportation with safe, quiet, fast, and affordable electric vertical takeoff.

Mozio

Seed Round in 2014
Mozio, Inc. operates an online airport transportation search and booking engine. Its platform allows travelers to search and book airport shared ride shuttles, private vans, airporters, taxis, airport limousines, sedans, and SUVs from airports in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. The company also provides API and affiliate programs for travel Websites and travel agents to sell shuttles, taxis, limos, and airporters. Mozio, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Node

Venture Round in 2019
Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solution offers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams. Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures.

FLYR Labs

Series B in 2019
FLYR Labs brings together the best technologists to radically transform air travel through cutting edge technologies that are years ahead of what has been commercially available. We solve complex problems with beautifully engineered solutions that rely on Deep Learning (AI) and our end-to-end Managed Data Infrastructure to help leading airlines around the world unlock their full potential. With our Cirrus Business Intelligence™ Platform, we provide airlines with the insight and intelligence for making the best-informed decisions, automated or by leading you and your teams in the right direction. It has never been easier to answer sophisticated questions, enable AI-based revenue maximization, and simulate highly-complex scenarios.

3Victors

Seed Round in 2020
3Victors is a travel big data company that provides airline revenue managers, travel marketers, and financial analysts unique new insights into consumer demand and airfare pricing. The company's proprietary platform ingests more than 200 million worldwide user-generated flight requests daily into a big data repository. Its algorithms are applied to generate actionable intelligence that empowers its customers with relevant data they use to analyze the competitive and market landscape of fare data or in marketing travel offers most likely to increase engagement and revenue. Founded in 2017, 3Victors is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

NLX

Series A in 2024
NLX enables organizations to build and manage next generation conversational experiences - personalized conversations that are automated, integrated, measurable, highly scalable and available anytime and anywhere.

NLX

Venture Round in 2022
NLX enables organizations to build and manage next generation conversational experiences - personalized conversations that are automated, integrated, measurable, highly scalable and available anytime and anywhere.

Miles

Seed Round in 2019
Miles is a universal rewards app empowering anyone to earn miles automatically for all forms of travel and commute. You can then redeem your miles from retailers such as HP, DoorDash, Garmin, Peet’s, Shipt, Pandora, Reebok, Chewy, Home Chef, and many more. Similar to a frequent flyer program, but for all forms of transportation, Miles delivers value for every mile traveled, across every mode of travel, anywhere in the world. Whether by car (as a driver, passenger or rideshare), plane, train, subway, bus, boat, bicycle, or on foot, the Miles app effortlessly awards users’ travel - regardless of where their journey takes them. Miles can be saved or redeemed at any time - with the value increasing every month as more merchants accept them as a form of payment. Download Miles today to start getting rewarded!

Transparent

Venture Round in 2021
Transparent is the global leader in providing data intelligence for the vacation rental industry. Empowering property managers, investors and hotels to make smarter revenue, distribution and investment decisions.
Stride Travel, Inc enables travelers of various stripes to explore the world through its reviews marketplace for experiential pre-planned travel, including multi-day guided tours, adventure travel packages, and small ship and river cruises. It provides search by destination, activity type, company, and more ways to find the right guided tour, escorted tour, travel package, river cruise, or small-ship cruise. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Volantio

Private Placement in 2017
Volantio Inc. is a software as a services company focused on helping airlines maximize unit revenues and decrease costs through greater capacity utilization, while providing customers with better predictability and control over their travel journey. Our web-based platform enables airlines to dynamically re-accommodate passengers in a number of situations - increasing yield, reducing operational costs, increasing NPS and injecting control and predictability back into the travel journey. Volantio's headquarters are located in Atlanta, GA with team members in the Netherlands and Australia. We work with some of the largest airlines in the world including Qantas, Alaska Airline, Iberia, and more.

Node Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Node Inc., an AI (artificial intelligence) as a service platform that allows users to make decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. The company’s artificial intuition technology enables product development teams to create and deploy AI powered predictive features sets for both customer facing and internal use of applications via a standard API (application program interface) that can be set up in minutes. Node Inc. was formerly known as Close Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of August 24, 2020, Node Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SugarCRM Inc.

Recharge Labs

Venture Round in 2017
Overview Need a place to nap or shower in the city? Instantly book a luxury hotel room near you and pay by the minute. There's no need to book in advance or to tell the hotel how long you plan to stay. Your room is ready for you the moment you book – 24/7. Stay for as long as you want, then tap check out when you’re ready to leave. Recharge is currently available in San Francisco.
Resilient Ops, Inc. develops a flight disruption prediction software. Its application Lumo offers uses machine learning and predictive analytics and offers flight disruptions and delays forecasting to consumers. Lumo was formerly known as Flightsayer. Resilient Ops, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Globe provides a real estate platform that allows people to live more comfortably. The company's platform offers short stays instead in people's homes or noisy coffee shops when people need privacy in between meetings or after a flight, without any advance booking. Globe was founded on 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
CoinFlip is a conversion and payment platform technology solution that enables consumers to use their loyalty points and miles for purchases at brick-and-mortar retail locations. CoinFlip’s proprietary technology facilitates conversion of points and miles to payment transactions, simplifies the transactional accounting, and provides access to valuable data streams. The company was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

SeatAssignMate

Pre Seed Round in 2016
When an air booking is completed by either an Airline or an Agency, they help them transform their traditional static confirmation email into an immersive experience… by curating content that is interactive, dynamic and real-time. This means that travelers now have the ability to assign free/preferred seats, purchase services such as baggage, on-board meals, lounge access etc, all from within their email.

Travelstride

Seed Round in 2019
Stride Travel, Inc enables travelers of various stripes to explore the world through its reviews marketplace for experiential pre-planned travel, including multi-day guided tours, adventure travel packages, and small ship and river cruises. It provides search by destination, activity type, company, and more ways to find the right guided tour, escorted tour, travel package, river cruise, or small-ship cruise. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Bizly

Seed Round in 2020
Bizly is an employee-facing, self-service, enterprise software application that enables teams to collaborate and build impactful meetings and events. Bizly provides modern end-to-end workflow automation utilizing smart templates to drive the right programming, attendee management, venue booking, and analytics to achieve the objective. Bizly is an operating system that leverages enterprise procurement, CRM, HCM, and other systems to automate the entire workflow for meetings & events. Bizly helps finance departments tackle their largest segment of unmanaged spend and supports every department with creating experiences that drive their business forward.

Shape Security

Series F in 2019
Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications. Shape has deflected over $1B in fraud losses for major retailers, financial institutions, airlines, and government agencies. Shape Security is headquartered in Silicon Valley and backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Venrock, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, WING VC and a host of other prominent investors. Shape was founded in 2011 to disrupt automated attacks on web and mobile applications.
Joby Aviation develops a new generation of electric personal aircraft created to revolutionize personal mobility. Its strength is in composite airframe design and fabrication, aerodynamic analysis, high-performance electric motor development, and cutting-edge battery pack design, enabling clients to create a paradigm shift in transportation with safe, quiet, fast, and affordable electric vertical takeoff.
Gladly is a customer service platform that enables B2C companies to focus on people talking to people throughout a lifetime of naturally productive conversations. With Gladly, customers are at the center and brands can communicate with their customers seamlessly across any channel from voice, email, messaging, chat, and social media. Agents are empowered, customers feel known, and companies build love and loyalty through consistently positive experiences. Gladly is based in San Francisco and funded by Greylock Partners, GGV Capital, NEA, and JetBlue Ventures.
i6 is a provider of a digital fuel management platform to connect stakeholders across all stages of the aircraft refueling process. The company is specializing in web and mobile application development and systems integration to offer modern, flexible, and modular software platforms for the aerospace, defense, utility, and transportation markets. Using modern information technology, tools, techniques and an open architecture philosophy in our solutions ensures that they provide their customers with high-performing, reliable, and globally scalable platforms for business-critical operations. i6 was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire with offices in New Jersey and Vancouver.
30SecondsToFly Inc. develops a travel management platform that centralizes travel policy, automates and controls corporate travel, provides travel analytics. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

FLYR Labs

Series C in 2021
FLYR Labs brings together the best technologists to radically transform air travel through cutting edge technologies that are years ahead of what has been commercially available. We solve complex problems with beautifully engineered solutions that rely on Deep Learning (AI) and our end-to-end Managed Data Infrastructure to help leading airlines around the world unlock their full potential. With our Cirrus Business Intelligence™ Platform, we provide airlines with the insight and intelligence for making the best-informed decisions, automated or by leading you and your teams in the right direction. It has never been easier to answer sophisticated questions, enable AI-based revenue maximization, and simulate highly-complex scenarios.
Zunum Aero Inc. manufactures hybrid-to-electric aircraft. It also offers electric aircraft services. The company was formerly known as Tzunum Inc. Zunum Aero Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Kirkland, Washington.

TurnKey Vacation Rentals

Venture Round in 2021
TurnKey Vacation Rentals is a full-service vacation rental property management company for luxury and premium vacation rental homes in top U.S. travel destinations. As a leading vacation rental hospitality brand, TurnKey provides guests with the consistency and quality of a fine hotel experience, while optimizing the management, marketing and return on investment for vacation rental homeowners. TurnKey's proprietary smart home technology – digital smart locks, FieldSync housekeeping scheduler, HomeDroid tablet, noise decibel monitors and more – integrates with local, in-market teams to ensure extraordinary vacation rental experiences for every home, every stay, every time.

Skyhour

Venture Round in 2017
Provider of an online next-generation gifting platform intended to revolutionize the way people gift and receive flight hours. The company's online next-generation gifting platform offers a seamless and smart way to gift flights and easily booking the flight at a fixed cost of only $60 per hour, enabling users to give and receive flight hours that can be used by anyone, anywhere, across 350 airlines.
Volantio Inc. is a software as a services company focused on helping airlines maximize unit revenues and decrease costs through greater capacity utilization, while providing customers with better predictability and control over their travel journey. Our web-based platform enables airlines to dynamically re-accommodate passengers in a number of situations - increasing yield, reducing operational costs, increasing NPS and injecting control and predictability back into the travel journey. Volantio's headquarters are located in Atlanta, GA with team members in the Netherlands and Australia. We work with some of the largest airlines in the world including Qantas, Alaska Airline, Iberia, and more.
Bizly is an employee-facing, self-service, enterprise software application that enables teams to collaborate and build impactful meetings and events. Bizly provides modern end-to-end workflow automation utilizing smart templates to drive the right programming, attendee management, venue booking, and analytics to achieve the objective. Bizly is an operating system that leverages enterprise procurement, CRM, HCM, and other systems to automate the entire workflow for meetings & events. Bizly helps finance departments tackle their largest segment of unmanaged spend and supports every department with creating experiences that drive their business forward.

Mozio

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Mozio, Inc. operates an online airport transportation search and booking engine. Its platform allows travelers to search and book airport shared ride shuttles, private vans, airporters, taxis, airport limousines, sedans, and SUVs from airports in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. The company also provides API and affiliate programs for travel Websites and travel agents to sell shuttles, taxis, limos, and airporters. Mozio, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Joby Aviation

Private Placement in 2019
Joby Aviation develops a new generation of electric personal aircraft created to revolutionize personal mobility. Its strength is in composite airframe design and fabrication, aerodynamic analysis, high-performance electric motor development, and cutting-edge battery pack design, enabling clients to create a paradigm shift in transportation with safe, quiet, fast, and affordable electric vertical takeoff.

FLYR Labs

Seed Round in 2016
FLYR Labs brings together the best technologists to radically transform air travel through cutting edge technologies that are years ahead of what has been commercially available. We solve complex problems with beautifully engineered solutions that rely on Deep Learning (AI) and our end-to-end Managed Data Infrastructure to help leading airlines around the world unlock their full potential. With our Cirrus Business Intelligence™ Platform, we provide airlines with the insight and intelligence for making the best-informed decisions, automated or by leading you and your teams in the right direction. It has never been easier to answer sophisticated questions, enable AI-based revenue maximization, and simulate highly-complex scenarios.

Volantio

Seed Round in 2018
Volantio Inc. is a software as a services company focused on helping airlines maximize unit revenues and decrease costs through greater capacity utilization, while providing customers with better predictability and control over their travel journey. Our web-based platform enables airlines to dynamically re-accommodate passengers in a number of situations - increasing yield, reducing operational costs, increasing NPS and injecting control and predictability back into the travel journey. Volantio's headquarters are located in Atlanta, GA with team members in the Netherlands and Australia. We work with some of the largest airlines in the world including Qantas, Alaska Airline, Iberia, and more.

i6 Group

Private Placement in 2020
i6 is a provider of a digital fuel management platform to connect stakeholders across all stages of the aircraft refueling process. The company is specializing in web and mobile application development and systems integration to offer modern, flexible, and modular software platforms for the aerospace, defense, utility, and transportation markets. Using modern information technology, tools, techniques and an open architecture philosophy in our solutions ensures that they provide their customers with high-performing, reliable, and globally scalable platforms for business-critical operations. i6 was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire with offices in New Jersey and Vancouver.

ConnectIQ Labs, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
ConnectIQ Labs, Inc., doing business as Miles, develops artificial intelligence (AI) based reward application for commuters to earn miles for all forms of travel and commute. Its application enables customers to redeem the miles from retailers such as Amazon, Starbucks, Target, Whole Foods, Bath and Body Works, Canon, Cole Haan, HelloFresh, and NatureBox. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Tomorrow.io

Private Placement in 2018
ClimaCell is an all-in-one weather intelligence platform that predicts and automates weather challenges. It combines Weather-of-Things data - from cell tower transmissions to connected cars - with traditional data sources and analyzes it using proprietary, cutting edge models.

CoinFlip

Private Placement in 2016
CoinFlip is a conversion and payment platform technology solution that enables consumers to use their loyalty points and miles for purchases at brick-and-mortar retail locations. CoinFlip’s proprietary technology facilitates conversion of points and miles to payment transactions, simplifies the transactional accounting, and provides access to valuable data streams. The company was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

Tomorrow.io

Series E in 2023
ClimaCell is an all-in-one weather intelligence platform that predicts and automates weather challenges. It combines Weather-of-Things data - from cell tower transmissions to connected cars - with traditional data sources and analyzes it using proprietary, cutting edge models.

Shift5

Series B in 2023
Shift5, Inc. develops cyber security products and systems for the defense industry. The company offers a data recorder, Shift5 Intake, which collects, stores, and transmits embedded data bus in real time to detect intrusion; and Shift5 Engine, a rule based and model based analytics for the detection of cyber attacks on internal communication networks. It also develops cyber security software solutions, including Shift5 Gauge Cluster for data capturing and analytics. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

UrbanFox

Seed Round in 2022
UrbanFox protects online retailers against new forms of stealth fraud by analysing and learning from existing legitimate and fraudulent customer behavioural patterns.

Volantio

Series A in 2022
Volantio Inc. is a software as a services company focused on helping airlines maximize unit revenues and decrease costs through greater capacity utilization, while providing customers with better predictability and control over their travel journey. Our web-based platform enables airlines to dynamically re-accommodate passengers in a number of situations - increasing yield, reducing operational costs, increasing NPS and injecting control and predictability back into the travel journey. Volantio's headquarters are located in Atlanta, GA with team members in the Netherlands and Australia. We work with some of the largest airlines in the world including Qantas, Alaska Airline, Iberia, and more.

pulsESG

Series A in 2023
pulsESG is a San Francisco, CA-based enterprise environmental, social, and governance (ESG) software as a service (SaaS) platform.

Actourex, Inc

Private Placement in 2018
Actourex, Inc, doing business as Redeam, Inc., operates a platform that enables attractions to accept paper vouchers and mobile tickets from any reseller. The company enables resellers of attraction tickets to offer mobile electronic ticketing to travelers on mobile devices. It scans and validates paper vouchers or mobile tickets to determine validity before accepting potentially problematic voucher, once scanned paper vouchers are automatically digitized and the paper can be discarded. The company enables resellers in elimination of paper vouchers by connecting with a single application programming interface (API) to check availability, creates and manages reservations, and also reconciles transactions electronically. Actourex, Inc was founded in 2015 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Air Company

Series A in 2022
Air Company is a technology and lifestyle company that ideates, creates, and manufactures liquor products. The company was founded in 2017 by Gregory Constantine and Staff Sheehan and is based in New York, New York, United States.

Beacon AI

Seed Round in 2021
Beacon AI is building the future of flight safety for commercial and private fleets.

Redeam

Series A in 2018
Redeam is a five-time award-winning Boulder, CO-based global technology company that empowers the growth of tours, attractions, and activities so that more people can enjoy the world. By utilizing Redeam’s technology, operators can grow both revenue and their number of sales channels through advanced features like Redeam’s channel and yield management. Redeam also enables gate-ready scannable ticketing so operators can easily process mobile or paper vouchers and eliminate the costly, antiquated, time-consuming, and all-too-common practice of manually accepting, sorting and counting physical tickets—a practice that leads to lost revenue due to fraud, long lines, and negative online reviews. For its innovative solutions, Redeam has won such awards as the 2017 Phocuswright Award for Travel Innovation and 2018 Future Travel Experience Startup Competition Winner. The company works with hundreds of resellers and serves thousands of operators globally, including one of the world’s largest attraction theme parks, major event venues and boat tours, some of the world’s most-visited museums, and attractions like CitySightseeing/Gray Line New York, Boston Harbor Cruises, National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey, and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

Shape Security

Series E in 2018
Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications. Shape has deflected over $1B in fraud losses for major retailers, financial institutions, airlines, and government agencies. Shape Security is headquartered in Silicon Valley and backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Venrock, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, WING VC and a host of other prominent investors. Shape was founded in 2011 to disrupt automated attacks on web and mobile applications.

Miles

Seed Round in 2019
Miles is a universal rewards app empowering anyone to earn miles automatically for all forms of travel and commute. You can then redeem your miles from retailers such as HP, DoorDash, Garmin, Peet’s, Shipt, Pandora, Reebok, Chewy, Home Chef, and many more. Similar to a frequent flyer program, but for all forms of transportation, Miles delivers value for every mile traveled, across every mode of travel, anywhere in the world. Whether by car (as a driver, passenger or rideshare), plane, train, subway, bus, boat, bicycle, or on foot, the Miles app effortlessly awards users’ travel - regardless of where their journey takes them. Miles can be saved or redeemed at any time - with the value increasing every month as more merchants accept them as a form of payment. Download Miles today to start getting rewarded!