Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Based in Menlo Park, California, the firm manages over $5 billion and primarily invests in early-stage technology companies throughout the United States. Khosla Ventures provides capital, strategic advice, and venture assistance to entrepreneurs focused on breakthrough innovations across various sectors, including consumer technology, enterprise solutions, health, education, agriculture, and sustainable energy. The firm has a particular interest in high-risk, high-reward opportunities, often acting as a sole investor in "science or innovation experiments." Investment sizes typically range from $100,000 to over $20 million, allowing Khosla Ventures to support both traditional ventures and unconventional projects.

Bruce Armstrong

Operating Partner

Irene Au

Angel

Ryno Blignaut

Operating Partner

Alice Brooks

Partner

Peter Buckland

Partner, Managing Director and COO

Benny Buller

Investment Professional

Brian Byun

Operating Partner

Catherine Casuga

Operating Partner

Jon Chu

Partner

Kanu Gulati

Partner

Emmanuel T. Hernandez

Operating Partner

Judy Huang

Operating Partner

Keith Janosky

Chief Financial Officer and Head of Investor Relations

Jun Jeon

Principal

Samir Kaul

Founding Partner & Managing Director

Paul Kirincich

Operating Partner

Alexander A. Morgan

Partner

Alexander Morgan Ph.D

Partner

Hesam Motlagh

Chief of Staff

Keith Rabois

Managing Director

Jessy Rivest Ph.D

Partner

Nikita Shamgunov

Partner & Investor

Sven Strohband Ph.D

Managing Director

Rajesh Swaminathan

Partner

Adina Tecklu

Partner

Sandhya Venkatachalam

Partner

David Weiden

Founding Partner and Managing Director

Ece Wyrick

Principal

Past deals in Seed Round

Moonhub

Seed Round in 2023
Moonhub's mission is to create economic opportunity for every person on the planet. They built the world's first AI Recruiter to find and hire the perfect person for every single job opening.

Equii

Seed Round in 2022
Equii is a food technology company that discovers highly nutritious sources of microbial proteins that are used to ferment grains and produce high-protein grain flours. Founded in 2021 by Monica Bhatia, Equii is based in San Ramon, California.

Swadesh

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Swadesh is a digital banking experience built from the ground up, specifically for the Indian diaspora. They make it delightful for its customers to invest, remit and manage their money in India from abroad.

Relation Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
Relation Therapeutics engages in humanizing drug discovery and development. It leverages human genetics and clinical omics data and utilizes patient-derived tissue samples with functional genomics interventional experiments to identify, validate and prosecute therapeutic programs.

Ivy Homes

Seed Round in 2022
Ivy Homes uses a proprietary algorithm to estimate property prices and offer instant liquidity to homeowners. Ivy Homes making the process of selling a home simple, transparent, and convenient.

Finnt

Seed Round in 2022
Finnt is a developer of banking apps designed to make financial management seamless and carefree. They provide preferred rates for funds insured and help enable multi-accounts, debit cards, and expense reports, enabling families to achieve their wealth creation targets.

Bubbles

Seed Round in 2022
Bubbles is a contextual collaboration tool that enables users to communicate asynchronously by tagging content directly on their screens. The platform facilitates discussions in-context through screen, video, and audio messages, allowing team members to capture, comment, and share information without the need for account creation or installation. Bubbles promotes organic growth and viral engagement rather than relying on paid advertising. It is actively engaged on various social media platforms, including Medium, Twitter, and Product Hunt, to enhance its visibility and user interaction.

Enso

Seed Round in 2022
Enso is a creative impact agency based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2012. The agency focuses on leveraging strategic, creative, and community-building skills to improve both the planet and the lives of individuals. Enso aims to disrupt the status quo by developing innovative ideas that can scale through shared missions, fostering collaboration among brands, organizations, and communities around common goals. Additionally, Enso facilitates the rapid creation of software, enabling business leaders, analysts, data scientists, and developers to design workflows collaboratively and enhance communication effectively.

Remio

Seed Round in 2022
Remio delivers a pre-configured VR headset to each team member and hosts the entire team for fun team-building experiences. Known as one of "the most fun ways to connect business teams", the VR HQ also offers collaboration tools such as whiteboarding, Jira project planning, and presentation rooms.

Faeth

Seed Round in 2022
Faeth Therapeutics is a healthcare company dedicated to enhancing cancer treatment through a deep understanding of the relationship between dietary nutrients and tumor growth. By aligning specific diets with tumor genotypes and treatment regimens, Faeth aims to limit the energy and resources that tumors need to proliferate, thereby improving patient outcomes in cancer therapy. Founded by leading researchers and clinicians, the company seeks to translate significant discoveries from cancer research laboratories into effective clinical practices, focusing on evidence-based approaches to optimize treatment strategies for cancer patients.

Anagenex

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of drug discovery platform designed for radically accelerating small molecule drug discovery and finding pharmaceutical compounds for medically important targets. The company's technology rapidly analyzes compounds by combining machine learning with DNA-encoded libraries to generate enormous amounts of useful data and parallel biochemical experiments using proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) models, enabling researchers to develop new drugs.

GoodTrust

Seed Round in 2021
GoodTrust is a secure digital legacy platform for your websites, social media, online accounts and documents with easy share function now or when you pass away.

NextVivo

Seed Round in 2021
NextVivo is a biotech company developing an immune organoid technology platform to transform the future of drug development. Its mission is to accelerate the development of safer, more effective therapies that are generated and tested in immune-competent human-derived models.

Nabla Bio

Seed Round in 2021
Nabla is an autoreverse platform that enables the rapid discovery of previously unattainable protein variants with supernatural qualities.Nabla Bio makes new medicines and improve nutrition by engineering novel proteins.

bur-image

Seed Round in 2021
Simplified is the all-in-one design platform where freelancers and entrepreneurs can collaborate, scale, and grow their content— effortlessly and beautifully.

Daedalus

Seed Round in 2021
Daedalus develops reconfigurable production capacity that can be retooled instantly. Its robotics and AI technologies enable agile manufacturing for any process, volume, and part complexity.

Mimica

Seed Round in 2021
Mimica Lab Ltd., established in 2017 and located in London, develops innovative freshness indicators for perishable products, including food and pharmaceuticals. The company's flagship product, Mimica Touch, is a patented label or cap that changes texture when the product is no longer safe to consume, providing a tactile and real-time indication of freshness based on actual temperature conditions. This technology is specifically calibrated for various food types, addressing the significant issue of food waste, which affects approximately one-third of global food production, much of which remains safe for consumption. By implementing Mimica Touch, the company aims to reduce retail food waste by 50% and household waste by 60%, potentially preventing up to 13.6 million tonnes of food from being discarded in European households annually. Through its innovative approach, Mimica is contributing to a more efficient and sustainable food system.

Vertical Oceans

Seed Round in 2021
Akualogix is an agrifood tech start-up that produces shrimp, whitefish, and seaweeds in high-tech five-story farming systems. The company uses advanced technologies and sustainable practices in urban, vertical aquafarms to produce fresh shrimp, fish, and umibudo. Its vertical oceans combine multi-trophic biology with advanced digital technologies in modular growing habitats efficiently stacked in a vertical tower. Akualogix was established in 2020 and is based in Singapore.

Enso

Seed Round in 2021
Enso is a creative impact agency based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2012. The agency focuses on leveraging strategic, creative, and community-building skills to improve both the planet and the lives of individuals. Enso aims to disrupt the status quo by developing innovative ideas that can scale through shared missions, fostering collaboration among brands, organizations, and communities around common goals. Additionally, Enso facilitates the rapid creation of software, enabling business leaders, analysts, data scientists, and developers to design workflows collaboratively and enhance communication effectively.

House Rx

Seed Round in 2021
House Rx is a health technology platform focused on improving affordability and patient access to specialty medications.

Karma Biotechnologies

Seed Round in 2021
Karma Biotechnologies, Inc. develops therapies for autoimmune diseases. It offers Xavines, a therapeutic to treat autoimmunity, allergies, and food sensitivities. Karma Biotechnologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Known Medicine

Seed Round in 2021
Known Medicine is looking to take the experimentation of how tumors respond to cancer drugs out of the patient’s body and into the lab. The startup breaks down tumor samples into micro tumors, which they treat separately inside specialized micro-environments with different methods and see what works best.

Gaiascope

Seed Round in 2021
Gaiascope helps energy companies and investors transition to the future in the most economic way possible, with user-friendly software that makes the electric grid easier to understand, invest in and profit from. Gaiascope's affordable tools are designed with a practical approach to machine learning that values transparency over 'black boxes'​. Guided by a blueprint of physical reality, these tools use available data and scenario analysis to optimize real-time trading, operations and development, addressing the stochastic nature of the grid, the increasing penetration of renewables, and the evolution of power market dynamics.

Encellin

Seed Round in 2021
Encellin develops a novel thin-film cell encapsulation device for cell-based therapeutics. It has dedicated experts focused on the investigation and advancement of next-generation therapies. It aims to help patients with chronic diseases, starting with Type 1 diabetes. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Encellin

Seed Round in 2021
Encellin develops a novel thin-film cell encapsulation device for cell-based therapeutics. It has dedicated experts focused on the investigation and advancement of next-generation therapies. It aims to help patients with chronic diseases, starting with Type 1 diabetes. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Even

Seed Round in 2021
Even is a health tech company that collaborates with leading hospitals to provide comprehensive healthcare services through a subscription model. Its offerings include unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and hospitalization coverage valued at up to 50 lakh. The company simplifies the reimbursement process by directly transferring funds to partner hospitals, ensuring a seamless experience for members. By charging a recurring monthly fee, Even aims to address critical long-term health needs for individuals, making healthcare more accessible and manageable.

DevRev

Seed Round in 2021
DevRev is a business software company focused on connecting developers with customers in a product-led growth environment. It is developing an API-first, developer-centric customer relationship management system that utilizes data, design, and artificial intelligence to enhance product development and customer service. By empowering developers, DevRev aims to help businesses improve their productivity and foster customer-centric practices, particularly in addressing challenges such as low net promoter scores and high customer churn. The company's mission is to create a more collaborative ecosystem where developers can thrive, ultimately leading to happier customers and more successful products.

Jupiter

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Jupiter is a mobile e-commerce platform that focuses on the online shopping and delivery of groceries, fruits, vegetables, and other daily necessities. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company aims to revolutionize the grocery shopping experience by minimizing waste. By utilizing a unique logistics network, Jupiter ensures that products are delivered in a way that leaves no trace of plastics or packaging behind, thereby significantly reducing food waste. The company's innovative approach is designed to provide customers with precisely what they need, enhancing convenience while promoting sustainability.

SageSpot

Seed Round in 2021
Subscription-based social media

Ochre Bio

Seed Round in 2021
Ochre Bio develops genomic medicines to rejuvenate donors' livers before transplant, so that everyone who needs a new liver gets one. They use genomics to find and shut down over-active genes driving disease and then go directly to testing therapies in discarded donor livers that keep alive outside of the body. Ochre Bio is within the heart of Oxford’s biotech innovation hub. Their scientific roots can be traced back to over 15 years leading liver genomics research and experience in bringing advanced therapies to market.

StimScience

Seed Round in 2021
StimScience is an Electroceuticals company that develops all common types of tES including transcranial direct current stimulation, transcranial alternating current stimulation, transcranial random noise stimulation. The company's NeuroMod tXES system allows the user to create any arbitrary waveform for use in tES. StimScience was founded in 2017 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Quadrant Eye

Seed Round in 2021
QE is building remote eye exams. Our mission to is take all of eye care remote.

Bold

Seed Round in 2021
Bold is an at-home digital fitness program designed to help older adults live their strongest, happiest, and healthiest lives. As a member, you’ll enjoy instant access to expert trainers, scientific assessments, and personalized workout plans to help you improve your strength, flexibility, and balance — so you can chase the life you want, at any age.

vFunction

Seed Round in 2021
VFunction develops an innovative product for businesses to modernize applications and accelerate transformation of existing Java applications to cloud-native architecture. The product enables companies to easily and effectively stay ahead of the curve. The company's team brings unique expertise to change clients’ ability to modernize core business applications.

Cellino

Seed Round in 2021
Cellino Biotech, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing intracellular delivery lasers and nanotechnology for gene editing applications. By leveraging advanced tools from optics, biology, and computation, Cellino transforms the process of stem cell differentiation into a digital format, allowing for the engineering of functionally mature cells. This innovative approach significantly accelerates the development time of engineered cells, reducing it from years to weeks.

WorkWhile

Seed Round in 2020
WorkWhile is a labor technology platform that helps workers find jobs that fit their skills, schedule, and location. The platform uses cognitive science, behavioral analysis, and peer feedback to help identify reliable hourly workers. WorkWhile was founded in 2017 by Amol Jain and Jarah Euston and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ava

Seed Round in 2020
Ava is a mobile application designed to facilitate communication for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals by providing real-time captioning of group conversations. Utilizing advanced speech and mobile technologies, Ava captures spoken dialogue and translates it into text, color-coding contributions from different speakers for easy identification. This innovative solution allows users to engage fully in social interactions, enhancing their ability to participate in conversations and connect with others. By making group discussions more accessible, Ava aims to create a more inclusive environment for all.

Quell

Seed Round in 2020
Quell, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2020 that specializes in developing an immersive fitness gaming platform. The platform combines gaming with physical exercise, allowing users to engage in high-intensity, resistance-based workouts while navigating a fantasy world. By utilizing smart resistance bands and built-in sensor gauntlets, Quell provides an innovative way for players to achieve their fitness goals through combat-style gameplay. The company offers a subscription model to keep its content fresh, positioning itself as a unique blend of fitness and gaming, akin to the concept of "Peloton meets gaming." Quell aims to make fitness engaging and accessible from the comfort of home.

Rubedo

Seed Round in 2020
Rubedo Life Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company based in Sunnyvale, California, focused on developing therapies for age-related diseases by targeting senescent cells. Incorporated in 2018, the company utilizes its ALEMBIC drug discovery platform to create a pipeline of therapeutic candidates that selectively eliminate senescent cells, as well as pro-inflammatory and pro-fibrotic cell populations resulting from cellular stress and damage. By promoting selective apoptosis in aged or pathological tissues, Rubedo aims to regenerate tissues, improve the function of healthy cells, and ultimately extend the health span of patients. The company is dedicated to addressing the challenges posed by age-related conditions through innovative therapeutic solutions.

Atmos

Seed Round in 2020
Atmos operates an online platform that connects homebuyers with builders to facilitate the design and construction of custom homes. Founded in 2019 and based in Oakland, California, the company aims to streamline the homebuilding process by serving as a managed marketplace. It not only links prospective homeowners with builders but also provides financing options to support the construction of their homes.

SiPhox Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests for disease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner. SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Zibo

Seed Round in 2020
Zibo Inc. develops a banking and payments platform for independent landlords. The company offers Zibo, a financial platform, which provides management of bank accounts, rent payments, rent collection automation, tax preparation, bank transfer, and credit card payment services. It also provides insurance services for residential rental properties. Zibo Inc. was formerly known as Project Pegasus Inc. and changed its name to Zibo Inc. in April 2019. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Juno

Seed Round in 2020
Juno Residential, Inc. specializes in the development of residential apartments, focusing on providing environmentally friendly and efficient housing solutions. Incorporated in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the company employs prefabrication techniques and utilizes organic, low-carbon materials, such as mass timber, in its construction processes. By prioritizing modern design and sustainability, Juno Residential aims to deliver curated living spaces that meet the demands of contemporary urban life.

Menten AI

Seed Round in 2020
Menten AI, Inc. is an early-stage drug discovery company based in San Francisco, California, with an additional location in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 2018, the company focuses on developing protein-based drugs and enzymes using advanced technologies, specifically machine learning and quantum computing. Menten AI addresses the complex challenge of designing proteins, which can adopt numerous shapes, by leveraging quantum computing to represent multiple protein states simultaneously. This innovative approach allows for more efficient identification of optimal protein designs. The company has achieved significant milestones, including creating the world’s first peptide designed on a quantum computer, and is currently working on peptide therapeutics aimed at treating oncology and neurodegeneration, as well as enzymes for various industrial applications.

Jupiter

Seed Round in 2020
Jupiter is a mobile e-commerce platform that focuses on the online shopping and delivery of groceries, fruits, vegetables, and other daily necessities. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company aims to revolutionize the grocery shopping experience by minimizing waste. By utilizing a unique logistics network, Jupiter ensures that products are delivered in a way that leaves no trace of plastics or packaging behind, thereby significantly reducing food waste. The company's innovative approach is designed to provide customers with precisely what they need, enhancing convenience while promoting sustainability.

taxProper

Seed Round in 2020
taxProper Inc. designs and develops property tax calculation solution. Its suite enables property tax assessment services. The company also provides file appeal services. taxProper Inc. is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Rosebud AI

Seed Round in 2020
Rosebud AI, Inc. is a company based in San Francisco that specializes in developing software for creating digital avatars and models tailored for various purposes. Their platform enables users to customize avatars based on demographic factors, age, and style, making visual content creation more accessible. The company aims to democratize visual storytelling for brands of all sizes, leveraging artificial intelligence to simplify the process of generating game assets and other digital visuals. Additionally, Rosebud AI facilitates the creation of non-fungible token (NFT) collections without requiring users to have extensive technical knowledge of smart contracts or Web3 technologies. By combining traditional computer graphics techniques with advanced AI research, the company empowers creators to animate historical photos and enhance artistic expression.

Nomagic

Seed Round in 2020
Nomagic, Inc. is a Warsaw-based company that specializes in robotic manipulation solutions for order fulfillment and warehouse operations. The company develops smart pick-and-place robotic systems designed to enhance efficiency, flexibility, and reliability in e-commerce environments. By automating repetitive tasks, Nomagic's robots help reduce fulfillment costs and address labor shortages, allowing warehouses to operate continuously. The technology is powered by artificial intelligence, enabling the systems to learn and adapt in real-time, thus improving decision-making and operational agility. Nomagic's robots have been successfully deployed in packing lines at Cdiscount, the leading e-commerce platform in France.

CloudTrucks

Seed Round in 2020
CloudTrucks develops a virtual trucking carrier application designed to reduce operating costs for truck drivers. The platform helps to manage and book loads from brokers and shippers, offer instant payments after load delivery, and access to cheap insurance options, enabling truck owners and operators to strategize their schedule and design a revenue-maximizing driving program. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Arpeggio

Seed Round in 2020
Arpeggio Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing software that captures and analyzes cellular RNA activity through a unique combination of biological assays and machine learning algorithms. This technology allows for low-depth sequencing to generate high-resolution snapshots of cellular dynamics in response to drug treatments. By revealing the biological networks that influence a drug's function, Arpeggio's platform aids pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in understanding the mechanisms behind therapeutics. The company’s approach enhances the identification of new drug targets and increases the likelihood of success in clinical advancements. Arpeggio Biosciences is composed of a diverse team of molecular biologists, computer scientists, and biotechnology enthusiasts dedicated to advancing the understanding of drug mechanisms.

Backpack

Seed Round in 2019
Backpack Technologies, Inc. is an online peer-to-peer platform that provides overseas shopping and shipping services connecting shoppers and travelers worldwide. It offers consumer electronics, exotic pashmina, medication products, and various other products. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Staten Island, New York.

Casca

Venture Round in 2019
Casca Designs Inc. manufactures and sells custom made footwear and socks. It offers Lift OS technology based custom 3D printed shoes. The company also provides custom-fitted insoles through Casca’s app. Its products includes avro, avro knit, Footb3d, kepler, and pascal. The company also sells its products online. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

NetSpring

Seed Round in 2019
NetSpring Data, Inc. develops and operates a cloud based operational intelligence platform. Its platform offers artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) assisted business insights from operational data. NetSpring Data, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Mountain View, California.

WindBorne Systems

Seed Round in 2019
WindBorne Systems Inc. is a technology company based in Stanford, California, founded in 2019 that specializes in a balloon-based sensor delivery system for weather prediction. The company focuses on providing critical weather data to government and private weather services, aiming to enhance the ability to forecast extreme weather events such as hurricanes and wildfires. By offering accurate data even in hard-to-reach areas, WindBorne Systems seeks to assist various industries, including agriculture, transportation, and emergency response, in adapting to the challenges posed by climate change. Their goal is to help mitigate the impacts of climate-related disasters, thereby supporting efforts to improve safety and decision-making in an increasingly unpredictable environment.

Vahan

Seed Round in 2019
Vahan Inc. develops a mobile education platform for low-income populations. The company offers Vahan, an application for feature phones and smartphones that enables students to practice what they’re learning in the classroom, outside it. Its application helps students maximize learning outcomes; and Web-based learning management system allows instructors to track their students' scores and progress, review students' responses, and send them feedback via SMS or voice messages. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.

Korbit Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
Korbit Technologies is focused on transforming education through its AI tutor, Korbi, which utilizes artificial intelligence to engage students in personalized learning experiences. The platform offers interactive exercises, conversations, quizzes, visual aids, and performance tracking tailored to individual learning profiles. Korbi aims to enhance educational outcomes by providing targeted pedagogical interventions and personalized feedback. In addition to its tutoring services, Korbit Technologies also offers a free machine learning course, catering to a broad audience that includes students, teachers, publishers, and companies. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, Korbit Technologies is committed to delivering high-quality, accessible education that supports learners in improving their socio-economic status.

Ellipsis Health

Seed Round in 2019
Ellipsis Health, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in analytics solutions aimed at enhancing behavioral health. Founded in 2013, the company utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze patient speech and clinical data, enabling the prediction of health and well-being. By developing affective computing tools, Ellipsis Health creates real-time behavioral health metrics for patients, allowing health systems to continuously screen for conditions such as depression. This approach provides a simple and cost-effective method for healthcare providers to identify at-risk patients and ensure they receive the necessary support.

Digi-Prex

Seed Round in 2019
Digi-Prex operates a monthly medication delivery platform that focuses on serving patients with chronic diseases in India. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Hyderabad, with an additional office in San Francisco, the company enables patients to upload prescriptions and receive their medications at discounted rates from local pharmacies. In addition to medication delivery, Digi-Prex offers a comprehensive management solution tailored to individual health needs, providing a one-stop platform for chronic disease management. This approach aims to simplify access to necessary treatments while supporting patients in effectively managing their health conditions.

Karma Biotechnologies

Seed Round in 2019
Karma Biotechnologies, Inc. develops therapies for autoimmune diseases. It offers Xavines, a therapeutic to treat autoimmunity, allergies, and food sensitivities. Karma Biotechnologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Emi Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Emi Labs S.A.S. operates an artificial intelligence-powered recruitment platform designed to enhance the hiring process for enterprises. Founded in 2017 and based in Vicente López, Argentina, with additional offices in Mountain View, California, and Mexico City, the company focuses on automating key aspects of recruitment, including candidate screening, interview scheduling, and communication. By leveraging AI technology, Emi Labs aims to shorten hiring cycles, improve efficiency, and boost recruiter productivity, all while enhancing the candidate experience and strengthening the employer brand for its clients.

Encellin

Seed Round in 2019
Encellin develops a novel thin-film cell encapsulation device for cell-based therapeutics. It has dedicated experts focused on the investigation and advancement of next-generation therapies. It aims to help patients with chronic diseases, starting with Type 1 diabetes. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Gen1E Lifesciences

Seed Round in 2019
Gen1E Lifesciences is a developer of a platform designed to accelerate cures for inflammatory and age-related diseases.The company's services include a pipeline of preclinical stage products that includes a P38 kinase inhibitor for the treatment of various inflammatory diseases, enabling medical researchers to optimize existing regulatory incentives, reduce the required R&D time and cost, truncate the time to exit and improve the success rate in receiving FDA approval and commercial success.

Darwin Homes

Seed Round in 2019
Darwin Homes, Inc. provides property management services for owners and residents. Its services include repairs and maintenance, leasing, resident screening, rent collection, inspections, and eviction for owners; and services for residents. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Vahan.ai

Seed Round in 2019
Vanan Online Services provides Translation,Transcription, Captioning and Subtitling,Voice Over, Typing on a single platform.

Careswitch

Seed Round in 2019
CareSwitch, Inc., a professional employer organization, operates as software platform for the home care market. It offers The CareSwitch platform that helps home care agencies to manage payroll, benefits, and employee records to comply with recent changes in federal and state employment laws. The company’s platform also matches caregivers to jobs at the companies. It serves personal care, companionship, home health care, skilled nursing, pediatrics, and hospice markets. CareSwitch, Inc. is based in the United States.

Cognition IP

Seed Round in 2019
Cognition IP is a law firm specializing in patent law. The firm offers a full suite of IP services, from IP strategy and counseling to filing and prosecuting patents and trademarks. It seeks to provide its services to life sciences, advanced software, consumer goods, transportation, cryptocurrency, SAAS & marketplaces, hardware & university spinouts. Cognition IP was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Washington, District of Columbia.

Flow Neuroscience

Venture Round in 2019
Flow Neuroscience AB is a healthcare company based in Malmö, Sweden, that develops and manufactures a wearable device and a mobile application aimed at providing medication-free treatment for depression. The company's brain stimulation headset delivers transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to the forehead, specifically targeting the left frontal lobe, an area often associated with reduced activity in individuals suffering from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Complementing the headset, the mobile application guides users in modifying their daily routines to disrupt negative behavioral patterns linked to depression, promoting healthier habits such as exercise and regular sleep. Established in 2011, Flow Neuroscience aspires to make effective treatment options accessible to the public, challenging the dominance of the pharmaceuticals industry by offering an affordable alternative currently utilized primarily in specialized clinical settings.

Avvir

Seed Round in 2019
Avvir unleashes the latent potential of BIM technology by finally closing the feedback loop and keeping building models continuously up-to-date. This enables construction teams to closely monitor progress and catch mistakes before major rework is required. We achieve this by automating the processes around data acquisition, visualization, and analysis, so that BIM updates can be made in hours rather than weeks.

Bionaut Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Bionaut Labs, Inc. designs, manufactures and controls the first intra- tissue navigation platform, using Bionaut nano/micro robots operating inside the body. The company offers a delivery mechanism which is anatomically precise by design. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Probably Genetic

Seed Round in 2019
Probably Genetic is on a mission to help get answers for those with rare genetic conditions that are commonly initially diagnosed as autism spectrum disorder. On average, a patient with a rare genetic condition waits up 7 years to find answers. In the meantime, they spend years bouncing around from doctors to specialists, often at an enormous personal financial cost, to understand if there is more to their, or their child's symptoms. They believe this is too long! Probably Genetic offers educational material and DNA sequencing tests to make it easy to find out if there is more to your symptoms. Their aim is to help those who fall through the cracks of the current healthcare system.

Abacus.AI

Seed Round in 2019
Abacus.AI is an AI research company that is focused on the hard problems that enterprises have. It allows organizations to plug and play deep learning systems into their existing customer experiences and business processes. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Paladin Drones

Seed Round in 2019
They have built a simple system to give first responders instant situational awareness. Seconds after a 911 call comes in, their software automatically dispatches a drone to the scene of the emergency, and streams a live video feed back to our app. Their software handles everything else in the background: security, safety, weather, video, route planning, and more.

Hermeus

Seed Round in 2019
Hermeus is developing Mach 5 aircraft to speed up the global transportation network. Mach 5 flight is not just supersonic, it's hypersonic. At these speeds, a flight from New York to London is 90 minutes, rather than 7 hours. Its aircraft massively reduces flight times and increases safety for the long haul and business class air travel, enabling businesses to operate with minimal changes to current aviation infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Daye

Seed Round in 2019
Daye is a London-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in manufacturing and selling female hygiene products. The company markets its offerings under the Your Daye brand, focusing on innovative solutions for women's health. Its flagship product is a tampon infused with CBD, designed to alleviate period cramps as an alternative to conventional pain relief methods. By prioritizing the needs and experiences of women, Daye aims to redefine the female hygiene market with products that are both effective and thoughtfully designed.

NakedPoppy

Seed Round in 2019
NakedPoppy is a seed-stage clean beauty company that matches women with better-for-her makeup tailored to individual needs and preferences. The company's patent-pending personalization algorithm helps customers quickly find makeup that matches or complements their skin tone. It leverages technology and maintains a list of known or suspected toxins that are harmful to skin, and rigorously screens beauty products followed by their testing and vetting, thereby providing females with a range of natural makeup products for improved skin regimen.

Cellino

Venture Round in 2019
Cellino Biotech, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing intracellular delivery lasers and nanotechnology for gene editing applications. By leveraging advanced tools from optics, biology, and computation, Cellino transforms the process of stem cell differentiation into a digital format, allowing for the engineering of functionally mature cells. This innovative approach significantly accelerates the development time of engineered cells, reducing it from years to weeks.

Catch

Seed Round in 2019
Catch is a Boston-based company that designs a personal benefits platform aimed at freelancers, contractors, and workers without employer-sponsored benefits. Established in 2016, Catch provides a range of financial solutions, including tax withholding, retirement savings plans, health insurance, and student loan refinancing. The platform allows users to conduct benefit checkups, link bank accounts, and create personalized financial plans, helping individuals build a comprehensive safety net for their financial stability and security. By leveraging data-driven insights, Catch enables users to take control of their financial needs and manage their wealth effectively in an evolving work landscape.

Docbot

Seed Round in 2019
DocBot, Inc. is a technology company based in Irvine, California, that develops web-based applications for iOS and Android devices. The company's offerings include a clinical decision support system and cloud analytics, which aggregate patient information to assist physicians and specialists in delivering improved care. Additionally, DocBot has created an image analysis platform specifically designed to aid in the detection of colorectal cancer and gastrointestinal diseases. This platform integrates various data sources, including imaging systems and pathology requisitions, enabling healthcare providers to enhance patient outcomes while reducing cancer risk. Through its commitment to intuitive software design, DocBot aims to empower physicians in their clinical decision-making processes.

Avvir

Seed Round in 2019
Avvir unleashes the latent potential of BIM technology by finally closing the feedback loop and keeping building models continuously up-to-date. This enables construction teams to closely monitor progress and catch mistakes before major rework is required. We achieve this by automating the processes around data acquisition, visualization, and analysis, so that BIM updates can be made in hours rather than weeks.

StimScience

Seed Round in 2019
StimScience is an Electroceuticals company that develops all common types of tES including transcranial direct current stimulation, transcranial alternating current stimulation, transcranial random noise stimulation. The company's NeuroMod tXES system allows the user to create any arbitrary waveform for use in tES. StimScience was founded in 2017 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Synthetic Minds

Seed Round in 2018
Synthetic Minds is a smart contract security startup. It has built automation that can read and write code using program synthesis.

Openwater

Seed Round in 2018
Openwater designs and develops MRI-resolution wearables that medical diagnoses and treatments, and a new era of fluid and affordable brain-to-computer communications to consumer electronics manufacturing facilities and techniques. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mylk Guys

Seed Round in 2018
Mylk Guys, Inc. is an online vegan grocery store based in San Francisco, California, established in 2018. The company specializes in a wide range of plant-based products, including bakery items, cheese, frozen foods, pantry staples, prepared meals, desserts, and snacks. Mylk Guys offers consumers the convenience of purchasing natural and plant-based foods from both local and national brands, delivering these items directly to their doorsteps. The marketplace emphasizes a diverse selection that caters to the growing demand for vegan and health-conscious options.

Remedy

Seed Round in 2018
Remedy is a prescriptive chronic care analytics platform employing artificial intelligence to help value-based health systems determine who should get what care, when, how, and by whom to maximize patient health outcomes per dollar spent. We are a design-driven company with core medical AI technology capable of diagnosing disease, catching hidden high-risk diagnoses, and projecting the development of patient’s health into the future. Built around our core AI engine, our first product Remedy Sentinel helps value-based providers identify hidden chronic, co-morbid conditions and intervene by engaging high-risk patients prior to onset. We envision a world where healthcare marries the science of “health” with the art of “care”: scientific, data-driven decision making drives the best outcomes for each individual patient, and frees providers to focus on applying their human touch. Remedy combines novel artificial intelligence algorithms for predictive medical analytics with a healthcare-optimized product development process to give leaders the tools they need to transform their delivery networks and thrive in a value-based care environment. With this approach, Remedy builds a scalable suite of products that, when deployed, learn from experience, and grow into a solution optimized to fit the needs of specific provider groups and the populations they serve. Remedy systematically maximizes the patient health outcome achieved with each dollar spent by using AI to help determine what care is delivered to whom, when it is delivered, where it is delivered, how it is delivered, followed, and supported, and who should deliver it. We not only surface insights, but also build the necessary tools and helps coordinate step-by-step implementation processes to affect real change.

Jido Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Jido is bringing in the next wave of AR where digital content can have a shared and persistent life in the real world. Our API uses intimate understanding of a users spatial context to preserve AR experiences across users and devices. Our research team came out of the Stanford Artifical Intelligence Labs and the Cornell Robot Learning Lab.

Ten Percent Happier

Seed Round in 2018
Ten Percent Happier is a provider of a meditation platform designed for fidgety skeptics. The company's platform offers expert advice to monitor behavioral changes in a person's life by blending text messages, web content, and short videos that enables users to access a clear a simple approach to meditation. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Giant.ai

Seed Round in 2018
Giant.AI, Inc., incorporated in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, is a robotics company focused on developing intelligent robotic workers that leverage deep learning and computer vision technologies. The company's aim is to create affordable robots that can work alongside or complement human labor in various sectors, including manufacturing, agriculture, and goods handling. By enhancing productivity in low-skill manual labor, Giant.AI seeks to improve the overall human condition across multiple domains. Currently, the company operates in stealth mode, working towards its goal of transforming labor practices through advanced robotics.

Mighty Buildings

Venture Round in 2018
Mighty Buildings is a developer of 3D printing technology and automation platform to make housing more affordable for customers. It is a modular construction company working on disrupting the residential housing market with 3D printing tech, robotics, and composite materials backed by notable top tier venture capital firms. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Truework

Seed Round in 2018
Truework is a platform for employment and income verification that puts consumers in control of their personal data. The system digitizes the verification process for HR departments, banks, and others, to make it fast and secure for employees to get verified when applying for a loan, jobs, or apartment rental. Truework’s network of over 40,000 lenders, and background check companies, and other verifiers completes thousands of employment and income verifications every day. The employer network includes nearly 100 enterprise companies and more than 20,000 small businesses across all industries, from healthcare to technology, including The College Board, The Real Real, Oscar Health, The Motley Fool, and Tuft & Needle.

Future

Seed Round in 2018
Future is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in personalized online fitness coaching and workout programs. The company provides one-on-one digital training, allowing clients to work with coaches who have experience training professional athletes and Hollywood celebrities. Future's services are designed to be accessible, enabling clients to engage in fitness coaching at home, in the gym, or while on the go, catering to a diverse clientele that includes athletes and busy professionals.

Siren Care

Seed Round in 2018
Siren Care, Inc. develops a wearable health technology for diabetic health tracking. It offers Siren diabetic socks and foot monitoring system to track foot temperature. The company’s products also allow people to use temperature data to detect diabetic ulcers early and avoid amputations. Its device can be monitored with an application. The company serves providers and patients. Siren Care, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Splash

Seed Round in 2018
Popgun is using Deep Learning to develop an Artificial Intelligence that can create awesome original pop songs.

Credy

Seed Round in 2018
Credy is a full stack lending company for India. Credy offers a mobile credit line with customization for specific end use - such as medical emergency, school fee payments, and debt consolidation.

Clara Health

Seed Round in 2018
Clara Health is a medical technology company that offers a software platform designed to facilitate patient participation in clinical trials. The platform simplifies the clinical trial process by assisting patients in navigating through various options, allowing them to filter and connect with relevant trials tailored to their needs. Additionally, Clara's technology supports crucial aspects of clinical trial management, including protocol design, site selection, and monitoring patient adherence. By placing the patient at the center of the process, Clara Health aims to enhance accessibility and engagement in clinical research.

Akash Systems

Seed Round in 2018
Akash Systems is focused on developing and supplying the next generation of small satellites (CubeSats), satellite transmitters, and the RF Power Amplifiers. The company uses new composite material, gallium nitride (GaN)-on-Diamond, invented by Akash cofounder Ejeckam, for their products. GaN-on-Diamond provides a cooler state of operation which improves energy efficiency and reduces a system's size, weight, and operating costs. Akash Systems was founded in 2016 by Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Light Field Lab

Seed Round in 2018
Light Field Lab, Inc. develops holographic capture display technology systems. It offers integrated processing and imaging solutions that allow immersive visuals to be delivered over commercial network speeds. The company also develops a universal application programming interface to streamline the process of bringing existing content to a light field display with holographic media. Light Field Lab, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Morgan Hill, California.

DiscernDx

Seed Round in 2018
DiscernDx provides users with access to individual clinical and molecular data to proactively manage health and make informed decisions. The company offers regular health monitoring, early disease detection, and personalized care for every individual. DiscernDx was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.