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FORT Robotics

Series B in 2022
FORT Robotics makes wireless safety systems for dangerous machines. Formerly part of HRI, FORT is a VC-backed company built on more than a decade of experience in safety technology. FORT Robotics is building a first-of-its-kind safety and security platform for smart machines. FORT’s mission is to unlock the full potential of automation by accelerating development, reducing risk, and building trust in autonomous systems.

Hyphen

Series A in 2022
Hyphen automates culinary operations for the restaurant and foodservice industry.

Duality

Series A in 2021
At Duality, we are building Falcon — our Digital Twin Integration platform for solving real-world problems, powered by our best-in-class 3D simulator. The data produced in our enterprise metaverse has efficacy and behaviors from participants or autonomous agents predictive of the real world.

Rhombus Systems

Series A in 2021
Rhombus Systems creates business security cameras that make workplaces and companies more secure, intelligent, and productive. The company's systems are built on artificial intelligence tools that provide cloud-based, plug-and-play cameras over Wi-Fi or Ethernet, as well as facial biometrics, people analytics, and IT integrations, allowing businesses to improve security in their facilities and share footage via mobile or computer.

Scythe

Series A in 2021
Scythe Robotics is a robotics company that develops autonomous machines to tackle challenges in unstructured outdoor environments. Scythe aims to provide advanced and sustainable autonomous technology for maintaining off-road environments safely, effectively, and responsibly. Founded in 2018, Scythe is headquartered in Longmont, Colorado.

Path Robotics

Series B in 2021
Path Robotics designs robotic welding systems that incorporate AI and machine learning for enhanced precision and adaptability. These systems automate repetitive tasks, enabling manufacturers to increase productivity while minimizing upfront costs. The company addresses workforce challenges in the manufacturing sector through effective automation solutions.

Dishcraft Robotics

Series A in 2020
Dishcraft is revolutionizing commercial kitchens with robotics, computer vision, machine learning, and innovative mechanical design. It provides a dishwashing delivery service that uses robotics and AI to increase productivity and reduce waste in commercial food service operations. Dishcraft Robotics was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California.

Quartz Systems

Seed Round in 2020
Quartz identifies, tracks, and predicts everything that moves on a construction site, making construction measurably safer and gives managers never-before-collected insights into how work is accomplished on their sites. Their cameras and sensors collect information, and their computer vision and advanced analytics help the site track any process or procedures in real time.

Electriphi

Seed Round in 2020
Electriphi develops end-to-end energy management and fleet operations software for light, medium, and heavy-duty commercial fleets. It helps to ave energy costs, optimize infrastructure, and ensure fleet's operational readiness with Electriphi's managed charging software built on AI and machine learning technology.

Hyphen

Seed Round in 2020
Hyphen automates culinary operations for the restaurant and foodservice industry.

Built Robotics

Series B in 2019
Built Robotics’ mission is to build the robots that build the world. By automating repetitive tasks in the $300 billion solar industry, Built is bridging the workforce gap to accelerate our transition to clean energy.

Duality

Venture Round in 2019
At Duality, we are building Falcon — our Digital Twin Integration platform for solving real-world problems, powered by our best-in-class 3D simulator. The data produced in our enterprise metaverse has efficacy and behaviors from participants or autonomous agents predictive of the real world.

Dishcraft Robotics

Series A in 2019
Dishcraft is revolutionizing commercial kitchens with robotics, computer vision, machine learning, and innovative mechanical design. It provides a dishwashing delivery service that uses robotics and AI to increase productivity and reduce waste in commercial food service operations. Dishcraft Robotics was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California.

Elroy Air

Seed Round in 2019
Elroy Air is a logistics company that specializes in the fields of logistics, robotics, and air transportation. Its air cargo system features rotor-based vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and transitions to wing-based cruise flight for long-range. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Path Robotics

Seed Round in 2018
Path Robotics designs robotic welding systems that incorporate AI and machine learning for enhanced precision and adaptability. These systems automate repetitive tasks, enabling manufacturers to increase productivity while minimizing upfront costs. The company addresses workforce challenges in the manufacturing sector through effective automation solutions.

Rhombus Systems

Seed Round in 2018
Rhombus Systems creates business security cameras that make workplaces and companies more secure, intelligent, and productive. The company's systems are built on artificial intelligence tools that provide cloud-based, plug-and-play cameras over Wi-Fi or Ethernet, as well as facial biometrics, people analytics, and IT integrations, allowing businesses to improve security in their facilities and share footage via mobile or computer.

Hyphen

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Hyphen automates culinary operations for the restaurant and foodservice industry.

Marble

Series A in 2018
Marble creates a fleet of intelligent courier robots to reliably and securely transport the goods that people need and want. Marble’s robot is perfectly suited to transport the essentials including groceries, meals, and medicine.

Raven[Ops]

Seed Round in 2018
Our mission is to foster a thriving ecosystem of hundreds of innovative robotics companies as they solve an array of important problems. To succeed, they are going to need access to the same quality of development tools and data infrastructure that made the web and mobile revolutions possible, but built to their needs. That's where Raven[Ops] comes in.

Elroy Air

Seed Round in 2017
Elroy Air is a logistics company that specializes in the fields of logistics, robotics, and air transportation. Its air cargo system features rotor-based vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and transitions to wing-based cruise flight for long-range. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

FarmWise

Seed Round in 2017
FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency. It offers a productive mechanical weeding implement for vegetable crops, along with its exceptional training and support program. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Enview

Series A in 2017
Enview is a 3D Geospatial Analytics company protecting people and critical infrastructure, and enhancing national security by mapping the world in 3D. The company’s solutions combine expertise in remote sensing, computer vision, and geospatial big data to enable energy and government customers to predict future threats, and prevent those threats from becoming incidents.

Swift Navigation

Series B in 2017
Swift Navigation is a technology company that provides precise positioning solutions for automotive advanced driver-assistance systems. The company was founded in 2012 to make GPS positioning technology more accurate and affordable. Today Swift Navigation has gained a reputation for defining a new category of GNSS systems as the industry’s first low-cost, high-accuracy real-time kinematics (RTK) receiver. Its GPS and GNSS positioning products are available at a fraction of the price of the competition and deliver 100 times better accuracy than the GPS in a cell phone. Swift Navigation’s technology benefits a multitude of industries and applications—including autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), precision agriculture, robotics, surveying, and space. With its innovation and technology honored by Inc.’s and Forbes 30 Under 30 lists, Swift Navigation is enabling a world where fields farm themselves, drones fly safely and autonomous transportation can take you home. Swift Navigation provides an end-to-end GNSS solution with a line of Piksi, Multi, and Duro / Duro Inertial receivers, Starling, Positioning Engine, and Skylark Cloud Corrections Service.

Creator

Venture Round in 2017
Creator is a part designer, part food revolutionary, and part roboticist. It is a collective of food lovers and engineers with decades of robotics and restaurant experience. Its first device makes gourmet burgers from scratch. Not only that, the company literally grind the meat to order, also slice tomatoes, onions, pickles, and a brioche roll fresh for clients. The team consists of roboticists from institutions including Berkeley and Stanford and firms like Tesla and NASA. Its culinary teams are veterans of Chez Panisse and Fat Duck. Its advisors include experts across fields like engineering, culinary, design, intellectual property, and even a NRN Restaurant Operator of the Year Award winner. Additionally, we’re further advised and supported by some of the top investors in Silicon Valley.

Dishcraft Robotics

Seed Round in 2017
Dishcraft is revolutionizing commercial kitchens with robotics, computer vision, machine learning, and innovative mechanical design. It provides a dishwashing delivery service that uses robotics and AI to increase productivity and reduce waste in commercial food service operations. Dishcraft Robotics was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California.

Helm

Seed Round in 2017
Helm is a consumer privacy and security company helping people take back ownership of their data. Its purpose is to help people be free, private and secure online. They believe we are on the verge of a new computing revolution – one that puts the user and their data first by decentralizing the net. This will require new approaches to user experiences, design, marketing, engineering and delivering products to users. Helm hopes to build the foundation for this transformation.

Teforia Company

Series A in 2016
Teforia elegantly blends the rich tradition of tea with technology to create the perfect modern tea experience. Teforia uses their proprietary Selective Infusion Process (“SIP”) technology and smart packaging to automatically determine the best taste and composition of each type of tea, creating the perfect cup each time. Teforia truly refines the process of brewing tea by combining the ancient knowledge of tea masters with our advanced machine-learning technology. We’ve pored over every single detail in making Teforia to ensure your tea tastes the way it is intended to. If you would like to use your own loose tea, you can add your tea through the companion app for one-touch brewing.

Nima

Series A in 2016
Nima develops breakthrough consumer products that enable users to know what is in their food. Nima believes mealtime should be about the enjoyment of food and the company and not the worry about the potential repercussions of eating something unknown. Their first product is a portable device that allows people to test their food for gluten.

Marble

Seed Round in 2016
Marble creates a fleet of intelligent courier robots to reliably and securely transport the goods that people need and want. Marble’s robot is perfectly suited to transport the essentials including groceries, meals, and medicine.

Compology

Series A in 2016
Compology is building technology focused on increasing efficiency and revenue growth for waste and recycling companies. The company offers ultra-durable sensors to improve the efficiency of waste collection, trucking, and ocean shipping. They create the modern waste ecosystem through its software platform that streamlines operations, enhances customers’ service, and simplifies analysis.

Swift Navigation

Series A in 2015
Swift Navigation is a technology company that provides precise positioning solutions for automotive advanced driver-assistance systems. The company was founded in 2012 to make GPS positioning technology more accurate and affordable. Today Swift Navigation has gained a reputation for defining a new category of GNSS systems as the industry’s first low-cost, high-accuracy real-time kinematics (RTK) receiver. Its GPS and GNSS positioning products are available at a fraction of the price of the competition and deliver 100 times better accuracy than the GPS in a cell phone. Swift Navigation’s technology benefits a multitude of industries and applications—including autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), precision agriculture, robotics, surveying, and space. With its innovation and technology honored by Inc.’s and Forbes 30 Under 30 lists, Swift Navigation is enabling a world where fields farm themselves, drones fly safely and autonomous transportation can take you home. Swift Navigation provides an end-to-end GNSS solution with a line of Piksi, Multi, and Duro / Duro Inertial receivers, Starling, Positioning Engine, and Skylark Cloud Corrections Service.

Teforia Company

Seed Round in 2015
Teforia elegantly blends the rich tradition of tea with technology to create the perfect modern tea experience. Teforia uses their proprietary Selective Infusion Process (“SIP”) technology and smart packaging to automatically determine the best taste and composition of each type of tea, creating the perfect cup each time. Teforia truly refines the process of brewing tea by combining the ancient knowledge of tea masters with our advanced machine-learning technology. We’ve pored over every single detail in making Teforia to ensure your tea tastes the way it is intended to. If you would like to use your own loose tea, you can add your tea through the companion app for one-touch brewing.

Pantry

Seed Round in 2015
Pantry provides instant access to fresh food through a network of swipe, grab and go kiosks. We provide a simple way for people to eat well in the workplace and on the go, allowing them to be more healthy, happy and productive. Our local food partners curate a seasonal menu of fresh meals, snacks and beverages to satisfy any appetite around the clock. Since our founding in 2012, Pantry has deployed kiosks across the US to a growing list of workplaces, hospitals, universities and hotels.

Marble

Seed Round in 2015
Marble creates a fleet of intelligent courier robots to reliably and securely transport the goods that people need and want. Marble’s robot is perfectly suited to transport the essentials including groceries, meals, and medicine.

Spire.com

Series B in 2015
Spire Global, Inc. specializes in satellite data services, leveraging a constellation of nanosatellites to provide advanced analytics in maritime, aviation, and weather tracking. The company's key products include Spire Sense, which offers ship tracking data for various applications such as trade monitoring and search and rescue, and Spire Stratus, which delivers global weather information. Spire's machine learning and analytics tools assist clients, including mining companies, governmental agencies, and port operators, in tracking vessels and monitoring environmental conditions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Spire Global also has offices in Glasgow and Singapore, ensuring real-time global coverage and data insights for informed decision-making.

Enview

Seed Round in 2015
Enview is a 3D Geospatial Analytics company protecting people and critical infrastructure, and enhancing national security by mapping the world in 3D. The company’s solutions combine expertise in remote sensing, computer vision, and geospatial big data to enable energy and government customers to predict future threats, and prevent those threats from becoming incidents.

MatterFab

Series A in 2015
MatterFab offers a production 3D metal printer solution that removes the limitations of industrial fabrication. Final part production is the fastest growing segment of 3D printing built on equipment designed for prototyping that is not designed to scale. MatterFab provides a scalable production additive manufacturing solution with printers, material supply, traceable powder cartridges, training, education, maintenance services, and application engineering support to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing in our client's organizations. Manufacturing has the power to shape the world and MatterFab has the power to reshape manufacturing.

MatterFab

Venture Round in 2015
MatterFab offers a production 3D metal printer solution that removes the limitations of industrial fabrication. Final part production is the fastest growing segment of 3D printing built on equipment designed for prototyping that is not designed to scale. MatterFab provides a scalable production additive manufacturing solution with printers, material supply, traceable powder cartridges, training, education, maintenance services, and application engineering support to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing in our client's organizations. Manufacturing has the power to shape the world and MatterFab has the power to reshape manufacturing.

Sproutling

Venture Round in 2015
Sproutling provides tools that help parents by providing real-time insights about their child through wearable monitors. It creates thoughtfully-designed products to help make parents more effective. Their first product, The Sproutling Baby Monitor, is really the first-of-its-kind baby monitor that not only monitors a baby and their environment, but learns and predicts a baby’s sleep patterns such as when they should expect their baby to wake up, or an optimal time to put them to sleep so that they can get better quality sleep. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Nima

Seed Round in 2014
Nima develops breakthrough consumer products that enable users to know what is in their food. Nima believes mealtime should be about the enjoyment of food and the company and not the worry about the potential repercussions of eating something unknown. Their first product is a portable device that allows people to test their food for gluten.

Swift Navigation

Seed Round in 2014
Swift Navigation is a technology company that provides precise positioning solutions for automotive advanced driver-assistance systems. The company was founded in 2012 to make GPS positioning technology more accurate and affordable. Today Swift Navigation has gained a reputation for defining a new category of GNSS systems as the industry’s first low-cost, high-accuracy real-time kinematics (RTK) receiver. Its GPS and GNSS positioning products are available at a fraction of the price of the competition and deliver 100 times better accuracy than the GPS in a cell phone. Swift Navigation’s technology benefits a multitude of industries and applications—including autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), precision agriculture, robotics, surveying, and space. With its innovation and technology honored by Inc.’s and Forbes 30 Under 30 lists, Swift Navigation is enabling a world where fields farm themselves, drones fly safely and autonomous transportation can take you home. Swift Navigation provides an end-to-end GNSS solution with a line of Piksi, Multi, and Duro / Duro Inertial receivers, Starling, Positioning Engine, and Skylark Cloud Corrections Service.

Pantry

Seed Round in 2014
Pantry provides instant access to fresh food through a network of swipe, grab and go kiosks. We provide a simple way for people to eat well in the workplace and on the go, allowing them to be more healthy, happy and productive. Our local food partners curate a seasonal menu of fresh meals, snacks and beverages to satisfy any appetite around the clock. Since our founding in 2012, Pantry has deployed kiosks across the US to a growing list of workplaces, hospitals, universities and hotels.

Spire.com

Series A in 2014
Spire Global, Inc. specializes in satellite data services, leveraging a constellation of nanosatellites to provide advanced analytics in maritime, aviation, and weather tracking. The company's key products include Spire Sense, which offers ship tracking data for various applications such as trade monitoring and search and rescue, and Spire Stratus, which delivers global weather information. Spire's machine learning and analytics tools assist clients, including mining companies, governmental agencies, and port operators, in tracking vessels and monitoring environmental conditions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Spire Global also has offices in Glasgow and Singapore, ensuring real-time global coverage and data insights for informed decision-making.

Sproutling

Venture Round in 2013
Sproutling provides tools that help parents by providing real-time insights about their child through wearable monitors. It creates thoughtfully-designed products to help make parents more effective. Their first product, The Sproutling Baby Monitor, is really the first-of-its-kind baby monitor that not only monitors a baby and their environment, but learns and predicts a baby’s sleep patterns such as when they should expect their baby to wake up, or an optimal time to put them to sleep so that they can get better quality sleep. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bia

Angel Round in 2013
Bia is a multisport GPS watch built for women with SOS alert button, wireless upload, fast-loading GPS, sleek design.

Airware

Seed Round in 2013
Airware is an enterprise drone analytics company enabling enterprises to harness aerial data and turn it into valuable business insights that can be shared and acted on across sites, teams, and geographies. Their solutions enable enterprises to reinvent their organizations for the digital era by translating aerial data into business impact. Drones are enabling companies to more efficiently and effectively capture data, and Airware allows enterprises to integrate this data with existing information and workflows to improve efficiency, productivity, and safety. Airware provides aerial insights drone solutions for insurance, mining, construction, and aggregates.

Spire.com

Seed Round in 2013
Spire Global, Inc. specializes in satellite data services, leveraging a constellation of nanosatellites to provide advanced analytics in maritime, aviation, and weather tracking. The company's key products include Spire Sense, which offers ship tracking data for various applications such as trade monitoring and search and rescue, and Spire Stratus, which delivers global weather information. Spire's machine learning and analytics tools assist clients, including mining companies, governmental agencies, and port operators, in tracking vessels and monitoring environmental conditions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Spire Global also has offices in Glasgow and Singapore, ensuring real-time global coverage and data insights for informed decision-making.

Local Motion

Seed Round in 2012
Our Mission: Provide simple, shared vehicle mobility. Company Overview: Local Motion is a leading provider of car sharing and mobility management technologies. Description: Our technology powers smart fleets for corporations, campuses and government. Stop sharing the keys, start optimizing your assets! We've developed a small telematics device that we install in any vehicle. Employees save time by switching from using keys to using their badge to access vehicles. We provide a web-based dashboard that helps manager's control the fleet and make hard decisions. Managers can monitor activity, lower maintenance costs and decide how to rightsize their fleet.

Revolve Robotics

Seed Round in 2012
Revolve Robotics develop the best solution to give doctors, family members, caregivers and students a simple, engaging remote presence anywhere in the world. Our solution is called Kubi which is a combination of videoconferencing software and a cloud-controlled robot that lets remote callers move the tablet as if turning their own head. Kubi is currently being used for homebound students, behavioral health, pediatrics, eldercare, and rural healthcare. Kubi simplifies telepresence and increases engagement at a very affordable price. Kubi allows remote students and healthcare professionals to instantly login and interact from anywhere using live videoconferencing and the cloud controlled robot. Kubi integrates into existing workflows with leading video services Vidyo and Zoom.
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