Craig Cummings

Co-Founder & General Partner

Farah Daou

Associate

Kelly Perdew

Co-Founder & Managing General Partner

220 past transactions

Gretel Labs, Inc. develops an online platform that helps developers to create and share data. It offers data catalog, automate data exposure detection, and fast data cataloging of streaming data for fun and privacy; synthetics; and transformation, real time transformation, and data firewalling. Gretel Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Gretel, Inc. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Poway, California.
Unity Influence, Inc. owns and operates an artificial intelligence marketing platform for small and medium businesses to launch automated influencer advertising campaigns at scale. The platform automatically matches advertisers with influencers who are the best fit for their brand and guarantees traffic for their customers. Unity Influence, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Daly City, California.

Acquicent

Angel Round in 2021
We enable the fractional ownership of investment-grade luxury assets such as vintage cars and fine art, providing liquidity to owners of such assets while opening a new world of investment opportunities to the ordinary investor. Asset owners can easily tap new sources of liquidity by tokenizing their unique assets while maintaining majority ownership, custody, and possession. Ordinary investors can take positions in these assets, and in some cases trade them with no waiting period.
Popily Inc. develops an online platform for social media threat mitigation using machine learning. It develops algorithms that detect, monitor, and mitigate social media manipulation. The company's platform also monitors social media and enables brands to identify fake accounts, fake news, and propaganda campaigns on the Internet. In addition, its product inspects images, learns languages, and maps online communities using algorithms. Popily Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Copper is a wireless energy monitor that helps utilities leverage real-time energy data to engage consumers with actionable energy insights. The company's product collects revenue-grade data from electric, gas, and water meters to generate insights with practical value and consumer-friendly alerts during peak periods, enabling consumers to reduce costs and save energy. Copper Labs was founded in 2016 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

ProducePay

Series B in 2018
Produce Pay was first conceived at Cornell University. With strong support from experienced faculty and the student body, it was able to rapidly gain momentum. Produce Pay obtained recognition from Cornell’s entrepreneurial community and was soon dubbed "The Next Johnson Start-Up," in reference to Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Prefix

Convertible Note in 2017
PreFix enables you to stop spending time worrying about your home and save 30-50% off annual maintenance costs.

Zuma Ventures

Zuma Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and startup investments. The firm prefers to invest in consumer/ internet services, security, analytics, finance, e-commerce, mobile and media/entertainment sectors .Zuma Ventures was founded in 2014 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Backtracks

Convertible Note in 2020
Backtracks, Inc. develops podcast analytics and hosting platform that allows podcast publishers and advertisers to receive actionable data and insights, allowing them to adjust and target content for their audiences. The company serves the podcast publishers, advertisers, podcast aggregators, pod catchers, and discovery platform. Backtracks, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Koji

Convertible Note in 2016
GoMeta, Inc. develops an augmented reality (AR) platform to create interactive posts to share on social media. It offers Metaverse, an application that discovers and interacts with characters and builds interactive experiences for others to discover; and Kojis mini apps that can be shared on all social platforms, embedded in any website, and sent via messengers and email. GoMeta, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Diego, California.

Art Craft Entertainment

Seed Round in 2015
Art Craft Entertainment is a game development company that builds and publishes games on multiple platforms. The company is popularly known for its game “Crowfall”.

ID.me

Series B in 2020
The mission of ID.me is to make the world a more trusted place by enabling transparent interactions between people and organizations. ID.me is a digital identity network that empowers consumers to prove their identity via a digital medium in contexts where it would benefit the consumer to be known. For relying parties, ID.me provides a single API endpoint through which partners can verify the identity of users attempting to access a website or to unlock an exclusive benefit. The United States Department of Commerce selected ID.me as one of the top five identity companies in America in 2013 and awarded the company a $2.8M grant to participate in the President's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). ID.me was a Finalist for Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year in 2013. Entrepreneur Magazine selected ID.me as one of 100 Brilliant Companies for 2014 in their June 2014 edition. Key customers include SeaWorld, Overstock.com, Under Armour, Dell, Sears Holding Corporation, and 129 additional retailers and brands.

Arx Pax Labs, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2015
Arx Pax Labs, Inc. develops magnetic field architecture (MFA) technology based hover engines. Its technology is used to transmit electromagnetic energy. The company also engages in licensing its MFA technology for application in industrial automation and material handling, and clean room automation and shock absorption; structural isolation; transportation; entertainment and recreation; and education areas. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Gatos, California.

Reachify

Convertible Note in 2016
Reachify Inc. operates a software buying platform that enables enterprise brands to invest in software solutions, such as website platforms, mobile apps, and web analytics. The company provides intelligence to empower enterprise brands to learn, understand, and engage with technology providers. Its platform enables brands to get a list of vetted technology solutions in various categories, discover what their competitors are using, learn about their suite of offerings and see who are their customers, compare to similar vendors, and get category reports of vendors and market intelligence that helps to understand how to invest. The company also enables technology vendors to update their customer listings, suggest categories as needed, and update general company information. Reachify Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Gretel

Seed Round in 2019
Gretel Labs, Inc. develops an online platform that helps developers to create and share data. It offers data catalog, automate data exposure detection, and fast data cataloging of streaming data for fun and privacy; synthetics; and transformation, real time transformation, and data firewalling. Gretel Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Gretel, Inc. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Poway, California.

X2 Performance

Convertible Note in 2021
Advanced Bio Development, Inc. develops, produces, and sells liquid energy supplements. It offers X2 All Natural Energy, a refreshing drink that uses a blend of green and black teas, antioxidants, and pure honey; and X2PERFORMANCE, a natural sports energy product to improve the training and athletic performance. The company’s products are available in lemon, strawberry and kiwi, and raspberry flavors.

Shep

Seed Round in 2018
Shep’s browser extension-based tool provides travel programs with an easy way to capture employee bookings made on consumer travel sites, messaging employees about the travel policy, while capturing those off-channel bookings for the travel team.

Wildfire Systems

Seed Round in 2019
Wildfire is on a mission to reward organic commerce everywhere. We help companies monetize their users with white-label cash back and coupon services. Wildfire makes it easy for our partners’ users to save money and earn cash back from their favorite apps and websites.

Copper Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Copper is a wireless energy monitor that helps utilities leverage real-time energy data to engage consumers with actionable energy insights. The company's product collects revenue-grade data from electric, gas, and water meters to generate insights with practical value and consumer-friendly alerts during peak periods, enabling consumers to reduce costs and save energy. Copper Labs was founded in 2016 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Transmute

Private Placement in 2020
Transmute Industries, Inc. develops and offers a digital identity management platform. The company primarily engages in building and developing online platform for customs and border protection of data with transparency, automation and security in processing the import of raw materials such as steel, timber and diamonds raw good in United States. The company offers decentralized identifiers, verifiable credential, and block chain technology. Transmute Industries, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Nok Recommerce

Seed Round in 2019
nok enables brands to sustainably offer their consumers in-home product tryouts at scale. nok users enjoy 2 hour delivery and are charged no upfront costs. Whether the user decides to buy or return their tryout product, they can do so easily within their nok account. Our service is 100% green and provides partner brands with a unique competitive advantage: - Consumers will give your brand a try before any other - Spark the market by instantly spreading product experiences - Obtain key learnings around customer perception - Optimize your trade spend by entering retail locked and loaded with local traction and data. - Generate sales by eliminating barriers from the traditional purchase decision process - Interact with your customers in a new, exciting way - even while they're at home.

Yoi

Seed Round in 2016
Yoi Corp. provides SaaS based mobile digital tools for line managers. It offers Yoi, a solution that provides support to corporate line managers in onboarding, integration and engagement, evaluation and performance management, training and development, and exiting. The company’s Yoi provides templates that automatically deliver assignments, meeting requests, data collection assessments, and reports all activities to the manager’s inbox. Yoi Corp. was formerly known as PocketCoach, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. As of December 12, 2017, Yoi Corporation operates as a subsidiary of HighGround, Inc.
Social Rewards, Inc. offers social media based loyalty marketing programs. It provides social media, affiliate programs, and loyalty marketing services. The company’s loyalty marketing program awards brand consumers for engaging in social media activity. It serves airlines, hotels, dining, movies/movie theaters, e-commerce, merchandise, and conferences/live events. Social Rewards, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Torrance, California.

Cart.com

Series A in 2021
Cart.com is a fully integrated ecommerce platform helps brands and distributors of all sizes move faster, grow larger, and deliver on their promises more completely.
Yet Analytics, Inc. operates a data analytics platform that helps large businesses gather data from across their systems in order to identify trends and patterns of behavior among their employees and to use this people data to improve operational outcomes. Its platform gathers data from Web and mobile sources, as well as non-traditional sources, such as wearables, Internet of Things devices and sensors, and virtual and augmented reality systems. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.
CATALOG is a developer of a data conversion and storage platform used to offer the next generation of digital data archives and computation. Its platform facilitates the encoding of data and information into DNA format and makes it economically attractive to use DNA as the major medium for long-term archival of data that enables customers to store digital information in DNA molecules. It brings cutting-edge synthetic biology technologies to the world of information storage and computation. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
The mission of ID.me is to make the world a more trusted place by enabling transparent interactions between people and organizations. ID.me is a digital identity network that empowers consumers to prove their identity via a digital medium in contexts where it would benefit the consumer to be known. For relying parties, ID.me provides a single API endpoint through which partners can verify the identity of users attempting to access a website or to unlock an exclusive benefit. The United States Department of Commerce selected ID.me as one of the top five identity companies in America in 2013 and awarded the company a $2.8M grant to participate in the President's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). ID.me was a Finalist for Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year in 2013. Entrepreneur Magazine selected ID.me as one of 100 Brilliant Companies for 2014 in their June 2014 edition. Key customers include SeaWorld, Overstock.com, Under Armour, Dell, Sears Holding Corporation, and 129 additional retailers and brands.

Gretel

Venture Round in 2020
Gretel Labs, Inc. develops an online platform that helps developers to create and share data. It offers data catalog, automate data exposure detection, and fast data cataloging of streaming data for fun and privacy; synthetics; and transformation, real time transformation, and data firewalling. Gretel Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Gretel, Inc. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Poway, California.
Reachify Inc. operates a software buying platform that enables enterprise brands to invest in software solutions, such as website platforms, mobile apps, and web analytics. The company provides intelligence to empower enterprise brands to learn, understand, and engage with technology providers. Its platform enables brands to get a list of vetted technology solutions in various categories, discover what their competitors are using, learn about their suite of offerings and see who are their customers, compare to similar vendors, and get category reports of vendors and market intelligence that helps to understand how to invest. The company also enables technology vendors to update their customer listings, suggest categories as needed, and update general company information. Reachify Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Gretel

Series B in 2021
Gretel Labs, Inc. develops an online platform that helps developers to create and share data. It offers data catalog, automate data exposure detection, and fast data cataloging of streaming data for fun and privacy; synthetics; and transformation, real time transformation, and data firewalling. Gretel Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Gretel, Inc. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Poway, California.

Koji

Series B in 2022
GoMeta, Inc. develops an augmented reality (AR) platform to create interactive posts to share on social media. It offers Metaverse, an application that discovers and interacts with characters and builds interactive experiences for others to discover; and Kojis mini apps that can be shared on all social platforms, embedded in any website, and sent via messengers and email. GoMeta, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Diego, California.
Scopely, Inc. develops mobile and tablet touchscreen-based games for casual and core gamers worldwide. It offers fleet command games; and game design, live, marketing, analytics, business development, advertising, and other services. Scopely, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Culver City, California.

RED 6

Venture Round in 2021
RED 6 INC. develops outdoor augmented reality solutions for air combat training. The company offers airborne tactical augmented reality system (ATARS) that enables virtual and constructive assets into the real-world by enabling pilots and ground operators to see synthetic threats in real-time, outdoors, and high-speed environments. RED 6 INC. was founded in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.
Pray.com is a social impact company: we’re driven by a mission to grow faith and cultivate community. Our team is comprised of people from all backgrounds – some of us pray, some of us meditate, and some of us just want to see more empathy in the world. At Pray.com we walk the talk, live the d.r.e.a.m., and combine our talents to build something bigger than ourselves. Pray.com helps people grow their faith and cultivate their community through its website & mobile application by offering daily prayer plans, inspirational audio content, & faith-based social networking tools. Pray.com's vision is to create a world where everyone leaves a legacy of helping others.
We are creating the first true mobile, cloud-based sales platform for consumer packaged good brands, distributors, and brokers. We provide a smarter, faster and cheaper way to promote retail products by putting powerful mobile sales tools, data, dashboards, and store level execution tools in the hands of sales teams and executives.

Cart.com

Series D in 2022
Cart.com is a fully integrated ecommerce platform helps brands and distributors of all sizes move faster, grow larger, and deliver on their promises more completely.

Koji

Series A in 2020
GoMeta, Inc. develops an augmented reality (AR) platform to create interactive posts to share on social media. It offers Metaverse, an application that discovers and interacts with characters and builds interactive experiences for others to discover; and Kojis mini apps that can be shared on all social platforms, embedded in any website, and sent via messengers and email. GoMeta, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Diego, California.
PreciseTarget provides services through Internet to customers. The company is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Fair

Series A in 2018
Fair is a car leasing company that aims to grant access to mobility to everyone by pioneering the car-as-a-service (CaaS) concept. It gives customers the freedom to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the flexibility to walk away at any time. Fair was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
Fandealio, Inc. provides a suite of social aggregation tools for brands to engage social aggregation campaigns. The company offers Ampsy, a platform that offers brands a suite of social aggregation tools to aggregate and curate their on-target brands and fan social content into engaging social visualizations with customizable social embeds via a wizard and dashboard. Its platform allows brands to build campaigns and have them live and embedded anywhere to increase fan engagement and time-on-site. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
lettrs LLC operates a digital letter-as-a-service platform for digital distribution of letters in the United States and internationally. It also provides paper mail-as-a-service platform for hand made, hand sent, and paper distribution; and mail-as-a-service solutions. lettrs LLC was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York with a postal center in Collinsville, Connecticut.
Emerge is creating a new standard for shared digital experiences that enable real connections to who and what matters to you. Our first step towards this vision is touch, with a product that allows users to feel, interact, and share XR content with their bare hands. Based in Los Angeles, the founders and team are former entrepreneurs and executives awarded by MIT, WEF, and Forbes, and have brought consumer electronics and XR products to market.

Yoi

Seed Round in 2016
Yoi Corp. provides SaaS based mobile digital tools for line managers. It offers Yoi, a solution that provides support to corporate line managers in onboarding, integration and engagement, evaluation and performance management, training and development, and exiting. The company’s Yoi provides templates that automatically deliver assignments, meeting requests, data collection assessments, and reports all activities to the manager’s inbox. Yoi Corp. was formerly known as PocketCoach, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. As of December 12, 2017, Yoi Corporation operates as a subsidiary of HighGround, Inc.

hiQ Labs

Venture Round in 2016
hiQ Labs, Inc. develops a cloud based platform for employee selection, development, and retention. The company’s solutions include Keeper, a human capital management tool that provides predictive attrition insights about an organization's employees using public data; and Skill Mapper, a solution for talent acquisition and management that provides employee engagement by promoting internal mobility and reduce the costs associated with external talent acquisition. It serves Fortune 500 companies. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Field Day

Convertible Note in 2016
Field Day was founded in 2015 with the mission to empower multi-unit brands with the knowledge and tools to systemize and structure their local field marketing efforts. We are revolutionizing the way brands discover, activate, and measure local marketing. Field Day’s platform enables a brand to discover local opportunities, activate internal staff or brand ambassadors for local marketing campaigns.

RED 6

Series A in 2021
RED 6 INC. develops outdoor augmented reality solutions for air combat training. The company offers airborne tactical augmented reality system (ATARS) that enables virtual and constructive assets into the real-world by enabling pilots and ground operators to see synthetic threats in real-time, outdoors, and high-speed environments. RED 6 INC. was founded in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.
SocialToaster, Inc. provides an enterprise-level fan engagement platform that uses social media to a brand’s message. It offers SocialToaster, a custom platform that allows the users to identify, recruit and activate best supporters and vocal enthusiasts who are proud to share a brand’s content. The company’s SocialToaster is a web-based social media networking software application that is used in connection with establishing, managing, and optimizing social media networks and online marketing activities that enables companies to connect with their fans. SocialToaster, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Koji

Convertible Note in 2018
GoMeta, Inc. develops an augmented reality (AR) platform to create interactive posts to share on social media. It offers Metaverse, an application that discovers and interacts with characters and builds interactive experiences for others to discover; and Kojis mini apps that can be shared on all social platforms, embedded in any website, and sent via messengers and email. GoMeta, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Diego, California.
PlushCare is a San Francisco-based tech startup that makes it easy to find and meet with a doctor online, even on the same day. Their mission is to provide patients with the best doctors and the best medical experience in a friendly and personalized way. The company's technology platform enables over 100,000 patients (and growing) to get care from a board-certified doctor online. With an NPS of 90 and an App Store rating of 4.9, they strive to provide the healthcare experience that patients deserve. PlushCare has also been developing Coronavirus at home testing.

Prefix

Convertible Note in 2016
PreFix enables you to stop spending time worrying about your home and save 30-50% off annual maintenance costs.

ProducePay

Series A in 2016
Produce Pay was first conceived at Cornell University. With strong support from experienced faculty and the student body, it was able to rapidly gain momentum. Produce Pay obtained recognition from Cornell’s entrepreneurial community and was soon dubbed "The Next Johnson Start-Up," in reference to Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Backtracks

Convertible Note in 2020
Backtracks, Inc. develops podcast analytics and hosting platform that allows podcast publishers and advertisers to receive actionable data and insights, allowing them to adjust and target content for their audiences. The company serves the podcast publishers, advertisers, podcast aggregators, pod catchers, and discovery platform. Backtracks, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Prefix

Convertible Note in 2018
PreFix enables you to stop spending time worrying about your home and save 30-50% off annual maintenance costs.

Wonder

Series A in 2017
Wonder is a startup currently operating in stealth mode.

Olive

Series D in 2018
Olive AI, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation solution for healthcare organizations. It offers Olive, an AI-as-a-Service that is used to automate workflow ranging from claim status checks and account updates to prior authorizations and others. The company was formerly known as CrossChx, Inc. and changed its name to Olive AI, Inc. in July 2018. Olive AI, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

RED 6

Series A in 2021
RED 6 INC. develops outdoor augmented reality solutions for air combat training. The company offers airborne tactical augmented reality system (ATARS) that enables virtual and constructive assets into the real-world by enabling pilots and ground operators to see synthetic threats in real-time, outdoors, and high-speed environments. RED 6 INC. was founded in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Art + Craft Entertainment, Inc.

Art + Craft Entertainment, Inc. develops mobile gaming application. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Boomtown is a product support platform that makes selling, activating, and servicing of technology products simple. It focuses on developing the modern toolset needed to ensure that the product support experience is nothing short of exceptional. Boomtown leverages rich data and AI to help users predict product problems before they occur and ensure teams have the right answers at the very moment they need them. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Tiburon, California.

Backtracks

Seed Round in 2019
Backtracks, Inc. develops podcast analytics and hosting platform that allows podcast publishers and advertisers to receive actionable data and insights, allowing them to adjust and target content for their audiences. The company serves the podcast publishers, advertisers, podcast aggregators, pod catchers, and discovery platform. Backtracks, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Pacaso

Series B in 2021
Pacaso modernizes the generations-old practice of co-owning a second home, creating a marketplace that makes buying and selling easy, and adding professional management and technology to make scheduling dates and owning the home seamless and simple. Buyers considering a second home can tell Pacaso where they want to buy, how much they want to spend and how much time they expect to spend in the house. Pacaso and its real estate agent partners will help them find the perfect home and set up a professionally managed LLC uniquely designed for co-ownership. The buyer will purchase their desired share — for example, half of the home, which will guarantee them access to the home for half the year — and Pacaso will briefly purchase the remainder of the home, before reselling the remaining portion to vetted buyers. Pacaso will manage the property, and owners will use Pacaso’s mobile app to make scheduling easy and equitable.

Fair

Convertible Note in 2016
Fair is a car leasing company that aims to grant access to mobility to everyone by pioneering the car-as-a-service (CaaS) concept. It gives customers the freedom to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the flexibility to walk away at any time. Fair was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Domuso

Angel Round in 2015
Domuso is a next-generation financial services platform offering a comprehensive suite of payment processing solutions for multifamily property owners and operators. Driven by data and technology, Domuso provides new digital payment options that streamline the rent payment experience for residents and improve individual property financial performance. Fully integrated with leading accounting systems and property management platforms, Domuso is the only provider to offer alternative credit, digital certified and automated, logic-driven payment options. Domuso is privately held and headquartered in the heart of Silicon Beach in Santa Monica, California. For more information, visit domuso.com.

MyCollected

Seed Round in 2018
MyCollected, Inc. develops an application software. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Ampsy

Seed Round in 2016
The Ampsy (formerly Fliptu) platform offers brands a comprehensive suite of social aggregation tools to aggregate & curate their best brand & fan social content into beautiful, engaging social visualizations. In 60 seconds, a brand can build a campaign and have it live & embedded anywhere with a single line of iframe code. Our social embeds are proven to increase fan engagement and time-on-site, solving a major leakage problem in the customer acquisition & retention funnel. ***2014 SXSW Accelerator Finalist http://sxsw.com/interactive/news/2014/2014-sxsw-accelerator-finalists-revealed-startups-rock-austin-march ***Named 1 of the 20 Most Interesting Technologies at SXSW by IPG Media Lab of Interpublic Group - IPG (NYSE) http://www.ipglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SXSW2014_IPGMediaLab_Recap.pdf

ID.me

Venture Round in 2021
The mission of ID.me is to make the world a more trusted place by enabling transparent interactions between people and organizations. ID.me is a digital identity network that empowers consumers to prove their identity via a digital medium in contexts where it would benefit the consumer to be known. For relying parties, ID.me provides a single API endpoint through which partners can verify the identity of users attempting to access a website or to unlock an exclusive benefit. The United States Department of Commerce selected ID.me as one of the top five identity companies in America in 2013 and awarded the company a $2.8M grant to participate in the President's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). ID.me was a Finalist for Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year in 2013. Entrepreneur Magazine selected ID.me as one of 100 Brilliant Companies for 2014 in their June 2014 edition. Key customers include SeaWorld, Overstock.com, Under Armour, Dell, Sears Holding Corporation, and 129 additional retailers and brands.
Arx Pax Labs, Inc. develops magnetic field architecture (MFA) technology based hover engines. Its technology is used to transmit electromagnetic energy. The company also engages in licensing its MFA technology for application in industrial automation and material handling, and clean room automation and shock absorption; structural isolation; transportation; entertainment and recreation; and education areas. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Gatos, California.

Arx Pax Labs, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2015
Arx Pax Labs, Inc. develops magnetic field architecture (MFA) technology based hover engines. Its technology is used to transmit electromagnetic energy. The company also engages in licensing its MFA technology for application in industrial automation and material handling, and clean room automation and shock absorption; structural isolation; transportation; entertainment and recreation; and education areas. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Gatos, California.

Wildfire Systems

Series A in 2021
Wildfire is on a mission to reward organic commerce everywhere. We help companies monetize their users with white-label cash back and coupon services. Wildfire makes it easy for our partners’ users to save money and earn cash back from their favorite apps and websites.

ID.me

Series C in 2021
The mission of ID.me is to make the world a more trusted place by enabling transparent interactions between people and organizations. ID.me is a digital identity network that empowers consumers to prove their identity via a digital medium in contexts where it would benefit the consumer to be known. For relying parties, ID.me provides a single API endpoint through which partners can verify the identity of users attempting to access a website or to unlock an exclusive benefit. The United States Department of Commerce selected ID.me as one of the top five identity companies in America in 2013 and awarded the company a $2.8M grant to participate in the President's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). ID.me was a Finalist for Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year in 2013. Entrepreneur Magazine selected ID.me as one of 100 Brilliant Companies for 2014 in their June 2014 edition. Key customers include SeaWorld, Overstock.com, Under Armour, Dell, Sears Holding Corporation, and 129 additional retailers and brands.

Transmute

Seed Round in 2020
Transmute Industries, Inc. develops and offers a digital identity management platform. The company primarily engages in building and developing online platform for customs and border protection of data with transparency, automation and security in processing the import of raw materials such as steel, timber and diamonds raw good in United States. The company offers decentralized identifiers, verifiable credential, and block chain technology. Transmute Industries, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Bitium

Venture Round in 2016
Bitium is a Santa Monica-headquartered provider of cloud-based identity and access management solutions, including single sign-on, password management, and analytics for small, medium and enterprise businesses. Founded in 2012, the company aims to give growing companies the ability to manage access to all of their web-based applications -- including Google Apps and Office 365, as well as social networks and CRM, collaboration and marketing tools -- in one place without hindering employee adoption of these applications. Organizations such as GroupM, Fullscreen, Movember and Demand Media use Bitium for an easy-to-use solution that delivers increased flexibility and security. Bitium is backed by Polaris Partners, Resolute VC, Double M Partners, Karlin Ventures, Social Leverage and a group of strategic investors in the enterprise cloud space.

Compl.ai Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Compl.ai Inc develops and operates a light-weight platform that provides policy guidance and reporting for business travel. Its features include open booking; it frees travelers to book on favorite travel sites and puts easy-to-understand green boxes around results that are in-policy to guide the booking behavior, simple policy management; it lets the browser extension guide bookings and increase policy compliance, and real-time reporting; offers team's travel booking, trends, and policy compliance in real time so that both the traveler and the manager have visibility into what's allowed to be purchased and what is actually purchased. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Catalog

Seed Round in 2018
Catalog produces photos for its users. It uses technology to scale production of visual content. The company hires photographers, stylists, models, and editors to shoot photos for specific products, taking care of all the location, props, and legal compliance. It automates the content creation process from start to finish enabling companies of all sizes to tell their stories through custom visual content. The company is based in Los Angeles, California.

Gretel

Private Placement in 2020
Gretel Labs, Inc. develops an online platform that helps developers to create and share data. It offers data catalog, automate data exposure detection, and fast data cataloging of streaming data for fun and privacy; synthetics; and transformation, real time transformation, and data firewalling. Gretel Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Gretel, Inc. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Poway, California.

Copper Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Copper is a wireless energy monitor that helps utilities leverage real-time energy data to engage consumers with actionable energy insights. The company's product collects revenue-grade data from electric, gas, and water meters to generate insights with practical value and consumer-friendly alerts during peak periods, enabling consumers to reduce costs and save energy. Copper Labs was founded in 2016 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Zabo

Seed Round in 2020
Zabo combines your bank with your cryptocurrency. ✓ Support for Bitcoin and Ether at launch ✓ A full bank: checking, savings, debit card, direct deposit and more ✓ Easily exchange cryptocurrency right from your bank account Signups coming in early 2019.

Arx Pax Labs, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2015
Arx Pax Labs, Inc. develops magnetic field architecture (MFA) technology based hover engines. Its technology is used to transmit electromagnetic energy. The company also engages in licensing its MFA technology for application in industrial automation and material handling, and clean room automation and shock absorption; structural isolation; transportation; entertainment and recreation; and education areas. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Gatos, California.

Koji

Private Placement in 2020
GoMeta, Inc. develops an augmented reality (AR) platform to create interactive posts to share on social media. It offers Metaverse, an application that discovers and interacts with characters and builds interactive experiences for others to discover; and Kojis mini apps that can be shared on all social platforms, embedded in any website, and sent via messengers and email. GoMeta, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Diego, California.

PreciseTarget

Seed Round in 2015
PreciseTarget is a data science company helping retailers acquire, engage and reactivate inactive customers. They've taken a programmatic approach, using billions of SKUs and consumer transactions to create the first cross-merchant taste graphs (recommended product sets) for individual customers

Backtracks

Seed Round in 2021
Backtracks, Inc. develops podcast analytics and hosting platform that allows podcast publishers and advertisers to receive actionable data and insights, allowing them to adjust and target content for their audiences. The company serves the podcast publishers, advertisers, podcast aggregators, pod catchers, and discovery platform. Backtracks, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Fair

Seed Round in 2017
Fair is a car leasing company that aims to grant access to mobility to everyone by pioneering the car-as-a-service (CaaS) concept. It gives customers the freedom to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the flexibility to walk away at any time. Fair was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Backtracks

Private Placement in 2019
Backtracks, Inc. develops podcast analytics and hosting platform that allows podcast publishers and advertisers to receive actionable data and insights, allowing them to adjust and target content for their audiences. The company serves the podcast publishers, advertisers, podcast aggregators, pod catchers, and discovery platform. Backtracks, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Unoceros

Seed Round in 2015
Unoceros is a company that provides cellphone users with the ability to turn their cellphones into a computing network. Unoceros is creating a massive, distributed computing network out of mobile devices. The Unoceros app utilizes the processing power of users’ devices when these devices would otherwise be idle, and pays each user for this access. That computing power can then be used by scientists and researchers as a faster, cheaper, and highly scalable alternative to traditional high performance computing solutions. Unoceros is optimizing existing technology for the betterment of humanity by facilitating cutting edge research.

Wildlink

Seed Round in 2019
Wildlink is a platform that monetizes social messaging and peer-to-peer communications.

Catalog

Private Placement in 2018
CATALOG is a developer of a data conversion and storage platform used to offer the next generation of digital data archives and computation. Its platform facilitates the encoding of data and information into DNA format and makes it economically attractive to use DNA as the major medium for long-term archival of data that enables customers to store digital information in DNA molecules. It brings cutting-edge synthetic biology technologies to the world of information storage and computation. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Transmute

Venture Round in 2022
Transmute Industries, Inc. develops and offers a digital identity management platform. The company primarily engages in building and developing online platform for customs and border protection of data with transparency, automation and security in processing the import of raw materials such as steel, timber and diamonds raw good in United States. The company offers decentralized identifiers, verifiable credential, and block chain technology. Transmute Industries, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Autonomy

Venture Round in 2023
Autonomy, an HP company, is a market-leading software company that helps organizations all over the world understand the meaning in information. A pioneer in its industry, Autonomy's unique meaning-based technology is able to make sense of and process unstructured, 'human information,' and draw real business value from that meaning. Human information makes up the vast majority of content in the world today and exists almost everywhere: in documents, emails, pictures, audio, video, and mobile and social media communications. Unlike tagging or keyword solutions, Autonomy uses ground-breaking, pattern-matching technology to form an understanding of this data, allowing computers to capture the meaning held within 100 percent of information, including structured, 'extreme,' or 'big data' amassed in databases from call detail records, gene sequencing, sensors, algorithmic trading, click streams, and other sources. Autonomy software helps businesses and organizations reduce complexity and unlock the real value in data. Autonomy provides meaning-based solutions that understand the full spectrum of enterprise information as well as the relationships that exist within it. By enabling computers to comprehend the 'shades of grey' in our world, rather than only the black and white found in databases, businesses can automate processes, comply with regulations, act in real time, and improve business outcomes. Understanding 100% of Information The characteristic that makes human information unstructured is its form - it does not fit neatly into the rows and columns of a database, but exists in various formats including books, email messages, surveillance video, chat streams, and phone calls that occur across networks, the web, the cloud, and numerous mobile devices. Growing at a rate three times that of structured data, the increasing deluge of unstructured information makes up approximately 90 percent of all information. The challenge for the modern enterprise is to understand and extract value from this rich sea of human information. Today, with Autonomy, organizations can now process and understand in real time, the meaning of 100 percent of information. These advancements signal an historic shift where it is the "I" in IT that is changing, rather than the "T".

Afterparty

Venture Round in 2021
Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships

Autonomy

Seed Round in 2021
Autonomy, an HP company, is a market-leading software company that helps organizations all over the world understand the meaning in information. A pioneer in its industry, Autonomy's unique meaning-based technology is able to make sense of and process unstructured, 'human information,' and draw real business value from that meaning. Human information makes up the vast majority of content in the world today and exists almost everywhere: in documents, emails, pictures, audio, video, and mobile and social media communications. Unlike tagging or keyword solutions, Autonomy uses ground-breaking, pattern-matching technology to form an understanding of this data, allowing computers to capture the meaning held within 100 percent of information, including structured, 'extreme,' or 'big data' amassed in databases from call detail records, gene sequencing, sensors, algorithmic trading, click streams, and other sources. Autonomy software helps businesses and organizations reduce complexity and unlock the real value in data. Autonomy provides meaning-based solutions that understand the full spectrum of enterprise information as well as the relationships that exist within it. By enabling computers to comprehend the 'shades of grey' in our world, rather than only the black and white found in databases, businesses can automate processes, comply with regulations, act in real time, and improve business outcomes. Understanding 100% of Information The characteristic that makes human information unstructured is its form - it does not fit neatly into the rows and columns of a database, but exists in various formats including books, email messages, surveillance video, chat streams, and phone calls that occur across networks, the web, the cloud, and numerous mobile devices. Growing at a rate three times that of structured data, the increasing deluge of unstructured information makes up approximately 90 percent of all information. The challenge for the modern enterprise is to understand and extract value from this rich sea of human information. Today, with Autonomy, organizations can now process and understand in real time, the meaning of 100 percent of information. These advancements signal an historic shift where it is the "I" in IT that is changing, rather than the "T".

RED 6

Series B in 2023
RED 6 INC. develops outdoor augmented reality solutions for air combat training. The company offers airborne tactical augmented reality system (ATARS) that enables virtual and constructive assets into the real-world by enabling pilots and ground operators to see synthetic threats in real-time, outdoors, and high-speed environments. RED 6 INC. was founded in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Cleary

Seed Round in 2023
Cleary Technologies, Inc. develops an employee experience platform for internal communications. The company offers a platform, Cleary, which provides employees engagement, internal communications, and organizational graphs tools and services. It also provides access to internal documents, tools integration, and work flow management programs and services. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

SGNL

Seed Round in 2022
SGNL enables just-in-time access, at enterprise scale, for the modern workforce. As the enterprise and workforce evolve, access must be intelligent and dynamic. SGNL ensures that your most valuable resources are being accessed by the right people, at the right time, in the right context. SGNL was established in 2021 by Scott Kriz and Erik Gustavson in Palo Alto, California.

Unoceros

Convertible Note in 2015
Unoceros is a company that provides cellphone users with the ability to turn their cellphones into a computing network. Unoceros is creating a massive, distributed computing network out of mobile devices. The Unoceros app utilizes the processing power of users’ devices when these devices would otherwise be idle, and pays each user for this access. That computing power can then be used by scientists and researchers as a faster, cheaper, and highly scalable alternative to traditional high performance computing solutions. Unoceros is optimizing existing technology for the betterment of humanity by facilitating cutting edge research.

Cartwheel

Seed Round in 2022
We help businesses launch in-house delivery or upgrade their third-party delivery infrastructure. Companies save on costs, keep their brand identity, and have full control over visibility and data. We have dozens of integrations including Olo and ezCater. Our clients include P.F. Changs, Portillo's, and Charleys Philly Steaks, to name a few. We are hiring!