Morpheus Ventures

Morpheus is a venture capital firm that invests in the disruption of large markets across the technology landscape from consumer to enterprise technologies including data analytics, machine learning, robotics, transportation, and SaaS. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles and backs great entrepreneurs worldwide.

Kristian Blaszczynski

Partner

Mark Dyne

Founding Partner and Chairman

Howard Ko

Partner

Evan Markiles

Principal

Joseph Miller

Founding Partner

59 past transactions

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Venture Round in 2021
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Ten63 Therapeutics

Series A in 2023
Ten63 Therapeutics is a venture-backed startup developing durable therapeutics against some of the most lethal diseases. It combines low-residual, ML-based computational chemistry and mathematically guaranteed, superlinear search algorithms to find optimized drug candidates. The company's platform, COPPER, leverages its proprietary AI and state-of-the-art physical models to explore an unprecedentedly large chemical space, allowing them to discover new therapeutics to targets previously believed undruggable.

Bridg

Series B in 2017
Bridg.com provides marketing automation solutions for local businesses. It offers customer engagement solutions that enable users to capture and nurture customers, engage existing customers, and control reputation, as well as acquisition of campaigns and promotions. The company also provides services for marketing campaigns, including publishing posts and offers on various social networks, and monitoring the competitors to guide campaigns; and toolbox that enables users to gather customer information. Bridg.com is based in Los Angeles, California.

Rugged Robotics

Series A in 2022
Rugged Robotics Inc. designs and develops robotic platforms for commercial construction industries. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Houston, Texas.

RIOS

Venture Round in 2020
RIOS, founded in 2018, is a technology company helping global customers automate their factories, warehouses, and supply chain operations by deploying a new class of dexterous AI-powered robots. RIOS robots handle hard-to-automate tasks, typically requiring human-level dexterity, in unstructured environments. RIOS is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA and has a pilot facility in San Carlos, CA. More information is available at www.rios.ai.

Rugged Robotics

Seed Round in 2019
Rugged Robotics Inc. designs and develops robotic platforms for commercial construction industries. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Houston, Texas.

RIOS

Series A in 2022
RIOS, founded in 2018, is a technology company helping global customers automate their factories, warehouses, and supply chain operations by deploying a new class of dexterous AI-powered robots. RIOS robots handle hard-to-automate tasks, typically requiring human-level dexterity, in unstructured environments. RIOS is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA and has a pilot facility in San Carlos, CA. More information is available at www.rios.ai.

Fresco

Private Placement in 2020
Drop Kitchen, Inc. develops Web and mobile recipe applications that guide home cooks step-by-step through finding, making, and sharing their delicious dishes and other flavorful creations. It offers Drop Scale and Drop Recipes applications that allow users to find, bake, and share food delicacies. The company’s applications are also used for recipe discovery, appliance control, recipe resizing, ingredient substitutions, organized shopping, and community wisdom. Drop Kitchen, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Dublin, Ireland; and Zaragoza, Spain.

Let’s Do This

Series B in 2022
Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet. It helps race organizers to reach an engaged community of participants and endurance sports enthusiasts, offering a dedicated platform to provide detailed event information, news, and special offers. Find and book the best running, triathlon, cycling and obstacle events in the UK and around the world. Whether it's a 5k fun run or tenth Ironman Triathlon, Let's Do This is the best place to find the perfect race. It was founded in 2016 by Alex Rose and Sam Browne who are both passionate runners and cyclists. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an office in London, United Kingdom.

VeriSIM Life

Series A in 2022
VeriSIM Life, Inc. develops disease-specific biosimulation models that allow researchers at pharmaceutical companies to model in software how a drug will interact in animals. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Morpheus Space

Series A in 2022
Morpheus Space GmbH manufactures Spacecraft Electric Propulsion Systems. The solution package enables satellite service providers to operate constellations as one entity. Its products include nanoFEEP and multiFEEP. Morpheus Space GmbH was founded in 2018 and is based in Dresden, Germany.

Bestow

Private Placement in 2020
Bestow Inc. operates as a digital insurance company. It offers life insurance services with data-driven technology applications as well as algorithmic underwriting that calculates risks. The company caters to individuals. Bestow Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Bestow

Series B in 2020
Bestow Inc. operates as a digital insurance company. It offers life insurance services with data-driven technology applications as well as algorithmic underwriting that calculates risks. The company caters to individuals. Bestow Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Bestow

Private Placement in 2020
Bestow Inc. operates as a digital insurance company. It offers life insurance services with data-driven technology applications as well as algorithmic underwriting that calculates risks. The company caters to individuals. Bestow Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

SafetyCulture

Private Placement in 2018
SafetyCulture develops software for mobile workplace safety and quality management. SafetyCulture is on a mission to empower workers to make safety and quality a priority and improve workplace standards. The flagship app iAuditor was launched in 2012 and is used for more than 300 million audit responses each year to ensure high safety and quality standards. Spotlight, SafetyCulture’s latest offering, makes incident, hazard, and near-miss reporting a collaborative, real-time experience for teams. SafetyCulture supports the worker-driven movement for change at the most iconic companies in the world, including Coles, BHP, Coca-Cola, and Ausgrid. In order to bring the technology to all mobile devices, SafetyCulture collaborates with Apple, Microsoft, and HP.

Bestow

Series A in 2018
Bestow Inc. operates as a digital insurance company. It offers life insurance services with data-driven technology applications as well as algorithmic underwriting that calculates risks. The company caters to individuals. Bestow Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Rigetti Computing

Series C in 2020
Rigetti & Co, Inc., an integrated systems company, designs and manufactures quantum computers and the superconducting quantum processors that power them. It offers Quantum, a cloud services platform that enables its machines to be integrated into any public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. The company also provides Forest, a cloud platform to support programs that use a quantum processor and enables programmers to write quantum applications. Rigetti & Co, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California with an additional office in Fremont, California.

HouseCanary

Series C in 2020
HouseCanary is a technology company revolutionizing the residential real estate investment and lending ecosystems with professional-grade home valuation products. It's over four years of real estate data that drives the analytics and value forecasts in the industry, generating instant, actionable insights. Insights are delivered via app or API. The company's technology utilizes Python, AWS, Redshift, PostgreSQL, R, Pandas, NumPy, PostGIS, Django, Flask, AngularJS, React, Swift, Ansible, Terraform, DynamoDB, S3, Aurora, Node, Express, Tile38, Lua, Go, CloudSearch, C, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, FreeIPA, Memcached, Fluentd, SQS, SNS, CFEngine, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, and Swift. HouseCanary was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SafetyCulture

Series C in 2018
SafetyCulture develops software for mobile workplace safety and quality management. SafetyCulture is on a mission to empower workers to make safety and quality a priority and improve workplace standards. The flagship app iAuditor was launched in 2012 and is used for more than 300 million audit responses each year to ensure high safety and quality standards. Spotlight, SafetyCulture’s latest offering, makes incident, hazard, and near-miss reporting a collaborative, real-time experience for teams. SafetyCulture supports the worker-driven movement for change at the most iconic companies in the world, including Coles, BHP, Coca-Cola, and Ausgrid. In order to bring the technology to all mobile devices, SafetyCulture collaborates with Apple, Microsoft, and HP.

SafetyCulture

Series B in 2016
SafetyCulture develops software for mobile workplace safety and quality management. SafetyCulture is on a mission to empower workers to make safety and quality a priority and improve workplace standards. The flagship app iAuditor was launched in 2012 and is used for more than 300 million audit responses each year to ensure high safety and quality standards. Spotlight, SafetyCulture’s latest offering, makes incident, hazard, and near-miss reporting a collaborative, real-time experience for teams. SafetyCulture supports the worker-driven movement for change at the most iconic companies in the world, including Coles, BHP, Coca-Cola, and Ausgrid. In order to bring the technology to all mobile devices, SafetyCulture collaborates with Apple, Microsoft, and HP.

Q-CTRL

Series B in 2023
From quantum computing to quantum sensing in defense, Q-CTRL deploys our world-leading expertise in quantum control engineering as intuitive software to help make quantum technology useful. Our unique software helps solve today’s biggest challenges for quantum technology in the NISQ era and beyond; noise and decoherence. Quickly build intuition for the impact of noise and errors in quantum computers with Q-CTRL, and deploy our expert solutions to stabilize real hardware. Learn more about our solutions at q-ctrl.com

INGENIOUS.BUILD

Series A in 2023
INGENIOUS.BUILD is an integrated cloud-based application, organized into three distinct modules. The modules provide daily management tools for project financials, project management, and construction administration.

Sidecar Health

Series D in 2024
Sidecar Health is a provider of innovative health care insurance plans. Sidecar Health is changing health insurance. Traditional insurance sits between patients and their doctors, which leads to increased costs, adds unnecessary procedures, and results in surprise bills patients can’t afford. Sidecar Health is different. Their members know exactly what their coverage is and pay the provider directly at the time of care using their Sidecar Health card, which allows them to take advantage of discounts for paying upfront. The insurance plans they offer are affordable, personalized, and fully transparent.

Recast

Seed Round in 2024
Recast operates as a sports Over-The-Top (OTT) platform.

Rize

Series A in 2021
Rize builds customer-centric financial applications for fintechs, incumbents, and non-financial brands. Our patent-pending Synthetic Account technology seamlessly integrates checking, saving, and individual brokerage with one flexible platform.

Wire

Series B in 2021
Wire™ is the most secure collaboration platform. We are transforming the way businesses communicate in the same way and speed that our founders disrupted telephony with Skype. Wire™ is consistently delivering groundbreaking first - from our unique “message fortress” architecture to encrypted video conferences and guest rooms - our customers rely on Wire to be at the forefront of secure, private yet sleek collaboration. Wire™ offers two distinct products - Wire Pro, for organizations to collaborate faster and more securely - Wire Red, an on-demand crisis collaboration platform for Fortune 1000 companies. We are a 70 people strong organization with offices in Berlin, San Francisco and Zug. We proudly serve over +1,800 customers on five continents - from the biggest brand names over non-profits to small medium businesses.

Bestow

Seed Round in 2017
Bestow Inc. operates as a digital insurance company. It offers life insurance services with data-driven technology applications as well as algorithmic underwriting that calculates risks. The company caters to individuals. Bestow Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Skolem Technologies

Series A in 2022
Skolem Labs is a provider of data and trade execution services for decentralized financial markets.

vicarious

Series C in 2017
Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company that uses the computational principles of the brain to develop general intelligence for robots. The company was founded in 2010 by Dr. Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix. Previously Dr. George was Chief Technology Officer at Numeta. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

RapidDeploy

Series B in 2021
RapidDeploy, Inc. develops cloud-based call-taking and computer aided dispatch (CAD) platform that enables public safety officials to reduce emergency response times and improve situational awareness. It provides solutions for vehicle and responder tracking, mobile workforce management, route optimization, event scheduling, bulk dispatch, lifecycle management, and call capture. RapidDeploy, Inc. was formerly known as RapidDeploy Delaware Corp. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Bestow

Private Placement in 2018
Bestow Inc. operates as a digital insurance company. It offers life insurance services with data-driven technology applications as well as algorithmic underwriting that calculates risks. The company caters to individuals. Bestow Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Tagnos

Private Placement in 2018
Tagnos offers the leading clinical logistics automation solution for hospitals and clinics. Their SaaS platform analyzes data from clinical systems, including EHR, CPOE, LIS, RIS, and ADT systems, along with RTLS tracking devices, to facilitate patient flow through the hospital. The insights produced by their AI algorithms help healthcare organizations optimize their staff and asset utilization to prevent bottlenecks, reduce wait times and improve throughput, while increasing patient and staff satisfaction.

Fresco

Series A in 2020
Drop Kitchen, Inc. develops Web and mobile recipe applications that guide home cooks step-by-step through finding, making, and sharing their delicious dishes and other flavorful creations. It offers Drop Scale and Drop Recipes applications that allow users to find, bake, and share food delicacies. The company’s applications are also used for recipe discovery, appliance control, recipe resizing, ingredient substitutions, organized shopping, and community wisdom. Drop Kitchen, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Dublin, Ireland; and Zaragoza, Spain.

Robotik Innovations, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Robotik Innovations, Inc. develops, manufactures, and distributes warehouse intelligent robot and sensor system. The company offers Robots-as-a-Service, an automation solutions for factory. It offers RIOS DX-1, a full-stack, multi-purpose dexterous robot that is used to perform various tasks in unstructured environments across different industries. It serves manufacturing, food services, agriculture, chemical, retail, pharmaceutical, and logistics industries. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in San Carlos, California.

Bestow

Series C in 2020
Bestow Inc. operates as a digital insurance company. It offers life insurance services with data-driven technology applications as well as algorithmic underwriting that calculates risks. The company caters to individuals. Bestow Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Rigetti Computing

Private Placement in 2020
Rigetti & Co, Inc., an integrated systems company, designs and manufactures quantum computers and the superconducting quantum processors that power them. It offers Quantum, a cloud services platform that enables its machines to be integrated into any public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. The company also provides Forest, a cloud platform to support programs that use a quantum processor and enables programmers to write quantum applications. Rigetti & Co, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California with an additional office in Fremont, California.

Robotik Innovations

Seed Round in 2018
Robotics, AI

Sidecar Health

Venture Round in 2019
Sidecar Health is a provider of innovative health care insurance plans. Sidecar Health is changing health insurance. Traditional insurance sits between patients and their doctors, which leads to increased costs, adds unnecessary procedures, and results in surprise bills patients can’t afford. Sidecar Health is different. Their members know exactly what their coverage is and pay the provider directly at the time of care using their Sidecar Health card, which allows them to take advantage of discounts for paying upfront. The insurance plans they offer are affordable, personalized, and fully transparent.

Wire

Venture Round in 2019
Wire™ is the most secure collaboration platform. We are transforming the way businesses communicate in the same way and speed that our founders disrupted telephony with Skype. Wire™ is consistently delivering groundbreaking first - from our unique “message fortress” architecture to encrypted video conferences and guest rooms - our customers rely on Wire to be at the forefront of secure, private yet sleek collaboration. Wire™ offers two distinct products - Wire Pro, for organizations to collaborate faster and more securely - Wire Red, an on-demand crisis collaboration platform for Fortune 1000 companies. We are a 70 people strong organization with offices in Berlin, San Francisco and Zug. We proudly serve over +1,800 customers on five continents - from the biggest brand names over non-profits to small medium businesses.

HouseCanary

Private Placement in 2020
HouseCanary is a technology company revolutionizing the residential real estate investment and lending ecosystems with professional-grade home valuation products. It's over four years of real estate data that drives the analytics and value forecasts in the industry, generating instant, actionable insights. Insights are delivered via app or API. The company's technology utilizes Python, AWS, Redshift, PostgreSQL, R, Pandas, NumPy, PostGIS, Django, Flask, AngularJS, React, Swift, Ansible, Terraform, DynamoDB, S3, Aurora, Node, Express, Tile38, Lua, Go, CloudSearch, C, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, FreeIPA, Memcached, Fluentd, SQS, SNS, CFEngine, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, and Swift. HouseCanary was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Wire

Venture Round in 2020
Wire™ is the most secure collaboration platform. We are transforming the way businesses communicate in the same way and speed that our founders disrupted telephony with Skype. Wire™ is consistently delivering groundbreaking first - from our unique “message fortress” architecture to encrypted video conferences and guest rooms - our customers rely on Wire to be at the forefront of secure, private yet sleek collaboration. Wire™ offers two distinct products - Wire Pro, for organizations to collaborate faster and more securely - Wire Red, an on-demand crisis collaboration platform for Fortune 1000 companies. We are a 70 people strong organization with offices in Berlin, San Francisco and Zug. We proudly serve over +1,800 customers on five continents - from the biggest brand names over non-profits to small medium businesses.

HouseCanary

Series A in 2017
HouseCanary is a technology company revolutionizing the residential real estate investment and lending ecosystems with professional-grade home valuation products. It's over four years of real estate data that drives the analytics and value forecasts in the industry, generating instant, actionable insights. Insights are delivered via app or API. The company's technology utilizes Python, AWS, Redshift, PostgreSQL, R, Pandas, NumPy, PostGIS, Django, Flask, AngularJS, React, Swift, Ansible, Terraform, DynamoDB, S3, Aurora, Node, Express, Tile38, Lua, Go, CloudSearch, C, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, FreeIPA, Memcached, Fluentd, SQS, SNS, CFEngine, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, and Swift. HouseCanary was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sidecar Health

Venture Round in 2020
Sidecar Health is a provider of innovative health care insurance plans. Sidecar Health is changing health insurance. Traditional insurance sits between patients and their doctors, which leads to increased costs, adds unnecessary procedures, and results in surprise bills patients can’t afford. Sidecar Health is different. Their members know exactly what their coverage is and pay the provider directly at the time of care using their Sidecar Health card, which allows them to take advantage of discounts for paying upfront. The insurance plans they offer are affordable, personalized, and fully transparent.

Tagnos

Series A in 2018
Tagnos offers the leading clinical logistics automation solution for hospitals and clinics. Their SaaS platform analyzes data from clinical systems, including EHR, CPOE, LIS, RIS, and ADT systems, along with RTLS tracking devices, to facilitate patient flow through the hospital. The insights produced by their AI algorithms help healthcare organizations optimize their staff and asset utilization to prevent bottlenecks, reduce wait times and improve throughput, while increasing patient and staff satisfaction.

Wire Swiss GmbH

Private Placement in 2019
Wire Swiss GmbH designs and develops a communications application that enables users to write, talk, and share pictures, music, and video with people on iOS, Android, and OS X phones, tablets, and desktops. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. It has a development center in Berlin, Germany.

Tagnos

Private Placement in 2020
Tagnos offers the leading clinical logistics automation solution for hospitals and clinics. Their SaaS platform analyzes data from clinical systems, including EHR, CPOE, LIS, RIS, and ADT systems, along with RTLS tracking devices, to facilitate patient flow through the hospital. The insights produced by their AI algorithms help healthcare organizations optimize their staff and asset utilization to prevent bottlenecks, reduce wait times and improve throughput, while increasing patient and staff satisfaction.

RapidDeploy

Series C in 2023
RapidDeploy, Inc. develops cloud-based call-taking and computer aided dispatch (CAD) platform that enables public safety officials to reduce emergency response times and improve situational awareness. It provides solutions for vehicle and responder tracking, mobile workforce management, route optimization, event scheduling, bulk dispatch, lifecycle management, and call capture. RapidDeploy, Inc. was formerly known as RapidDeploy Delaware Corp. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas.

albo

Series C in 2023
albo is the leading mexican challenger bank which helps you manage your money, and it can adapt to your lifestyle bringing you an honest service that cares about you. albo offers you a mobile banking app, a banking account, and a Mastercard card, allowing you to easily spend, save and invest your money. You can open your account in 60 seconds from your phone, having at your disposal personalized financing tools to help assist you in making better financial decisions. You can also be able to make free money transfers to whichever bank 24/7. albo includes many other innovating functions besides the ones mentioned above.

SafetyCulture

Venture Round in 2023
SafetyCulture develops software for mobile workplace safety and quality management. SafetyCulture is on a mission to empower workers to make safety and quality a priority and improve workplace standards. The flagship app iAuditor was launched in 2012 and is used for more than 300 million audit responses each year to ensure high safety and quality standards. Spotlight, SafetyCulture’s latest offering, makes incident, hazard, and near-miss reporting a collaborative, real-time experience for teams. SafetyCulture supports the worker-driven movement for change at the most iconic companies in the world, including Coles, BHP, Coca-Cola, and Ausgrid. In order to bring the technology to all mobile devices, SafetyCulture collaborates with Apple, Microsoft, and HP.

PunchListUSA

Series A in 2022
PunchList was founded by a contractor and a real estate agent to solve a consistent pain point in the real estate transaction: completing inspection repairs fast, with quality, and with consistency from job to job. Building from their early success in their home base of Charleston, SC, their growing team of licensed contractors and support specialists now help thousands of agents and their clients across the US.