Be My Eyes
Series A in 2025
Be My Eyes is a mobile application aimed at enhancing the lives of individuals who are blind or have low vision by connecting them with a network of sighted volunteers and company representatives. The app facilitates visual assistance through live video calls, allowing users to receive help with various tasks and fostering greater independence. With over 5 million users across 150 countries, it has established itself as the largest online community for the visually impaired. The platform collaborates with industry leaders to promote inclusivity and accessibility, enabling organizations to connect with their customers and employees in a more meaningful way. Be My Eyes exemplifies the power of technology and human connection in supporting those with visual impairments.
Vimmerse
Venture Round in 2022
Vimmerse is an AI deep tech company that brings photos to life to enhance audience engagement and customer conversions. It converts images into captivating videos through its creator platform, apps, and API, enabling brands and creators to animate stills with minimal design effort. The platform supports bulk processing, customization, and scalable compute power, helping with branding across channels while reducing time and costs. Vimmerse also offers three-dimensional immersive video technology with viewer-controlled navigation, allowing audiences to explore scenes interactively. By turning product descriptions and still images into shareable videos, Vimmerse helps expand reach on social media and improve conversions on marketplaces, with multi-platform support for various capture and playback devices. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Vimmerse was founded in 2021.
AutoModality
Venture Round in 2019
AutoModality Inc. is a company that specializes in developing flight control software for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), enabling them to operate autonomously in environments where GPS signals are unavailable. Founded in 2014 and based in Syracuse, New York, AutoModality manufactures drone platforms that utilize off-the-shelf components to facilitate automated inspections. Their technology is particularly focused on the agriculture and infrastructure sectors, allowing for close-up inspections of structures such as bridges, culverts, rolling stock, and cell towers. The company's advanced navigation software and integrated sensors enable drones to approach inspection sites closely, providing real-time quality streaming from onboard cameras to handheld devices. This capability allows users to gather critical data in challenging locations that are often difficult to access. AutoModality is also recognized for its innovative contributions to the drone industry, exemplified by Team Autero, which won the 2016 DJI SDK Challenge.
Kuprion Inc., established in 2016 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, specializes in manufacturing and licensing nano copper inks and pastes. The company's flagship product, NSA-16, is a nano copper solder adhesive designed for assembly in printable and flexible electronics, cables, displays, touch screens, antennas, RFID tags, additive manufacturing, injection molding, and antimicrobial applications in healthcare. Kuprion serves diverse markets such as aerospace, automotive, printed electronics, consumer electronics, mining, oil and gas, manufacturing, and laser diodes. The company's revolutionary nanoCopper technology, originally researched at Lockheed Martin, offers superior electrical and thermal conductivity, enabling smaller, more powerful products. Since commercializing the technology in 2019, Kuprion has secured Fortune 100 customers, obtained over 20 patents, and established offices and manufacturing facilities in San Jose, California.
Cylindo
Angel Round in 2019
Cylindo offers a platform specializing in high-quality product visualization for furniture businesses. It generates versatile assets such as 360-spin and 4K zoom images, AR experiences, lifestyle imagery, and more, powering over four quintillion product variations monthly. By utilizing Cylindo's platform, companies have seen significant improvements in conversion rates (up to 36%), average order value (88% increase), and reduced visualization costs (58% on average). Established furniture retailers like American Leather, Universal, and Room & Board are among its clients.
Spektral, originally founded as CloudCutout in 2014, is a visual effects company based in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializing in automated image editing solutions. The company leverages machine learning algorithms to develop software that efficiently removes backgrounds from studio images, including product images and portraits. Spektral’s technology enables businesses to achieve high-quality image cutouts by recognizing optimal patterns, thereby streamlining the image optimization process. Founded by Henrik Paltoft, an expert in the graphical industry, and Toke Jansen, a specialist in machine learning, Spektral combines their expertise to provide innovative solutions for image editing.
Bell Biosystems
Series A in 2015
Bell Biosystems, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in synthetic biology and the development of innovative tools for cellular therapies. Founded in 2009, the company focuses on creating artificial self-replicating organelles, notably its Magnelle product, which generates magnetic nanoparticles from intracellular iron. This technology allows for the tracking, control, and destruction of transplanted cells in vivo, making it applicable in regenerative medicine, oncology, and other cell-based fields. Bell Biosystems combines knowledge from various disciplines, including stem cell research, cell biology, and biomedical imaging, to enhance the delivery and monitoring of cell therapies, thereby facilitating the transition from laboratory innovations to clinical applications.
Cylindo
Seed Round in 2015
Cylindo offers a platform specializing in high-quality product visualization for furniture businesses. It generates versatile assets such as 360-spin and 4K zoom images, AR experiences, lifestyle imagery, and more, powering over four quintillion product variations monthly. By utilizing Cylindo's platform, companies have seen significant improvements in conversion rates (up to 36%), average order value (88% increase), and reduced visualization costs (58% on average). Established furniture retailers like American Leather, Universal, and Room & Board are among its clients.