Noosphere Ventures

Noosphere Ventures is an international asset management firm based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in major global cities. Founded in 2012, the firm focuses on making direct investments in high-potential companies across various sectors, including satellites, marketing services, e-commerce software, and B2B commerce. It aims to transform emerging growth and incubation companies into market leaders, thereby influencing the digital economy. With a portfolio that collectively reports over $500 million in revenue and employs more than 2,000 individuals, Noosphere Ventures operates primarily in Western Europe and Asia. The firm is committed to harnessing human knowledge and technology to effect meaningful change in the business landscape.

Max Polyakov

Managing Partner

14 past transactions

Circle Medical

Seed Round in 2015
Circle Medical provides primary care Doctors in-person at your home or work. Your care will be led by one of their board-certified physicians, all of whom were selected for their experience and patient-centered approach. Doctor visits are insured under most plans. Using the app, you may scan your insurance card to check for eligibility and coverage. Doctors are available in San Francisco including evenings and weekends.

EOS Data Analytics

Venture Round in 2015
EOS Data Analytics, Inc. provides imagery analytics and data integration solutions. The company’s technology platform enables automated imagery analytics and vector data output; visualization through google maps; integration with additional sensor data sources; output to additional spatial data formats for use in third-party applications; integration with business and operational information; and query and reporting of spatial and associated tabular information. It serves oil and gas and mining, pipeline and electric utility, agriculture, government and urban planning, and emergency response industries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Yola

Series C in 2017
Yola, Inc., doing business as SynthaSite, Inc., provides online website building services. It enable customers to develop website in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. It provides its service packages through online. Yola Inc. was formerly known as Synthasite, (Pty) Ltd. and changed its name to Yola Inc. in March 2009. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Camtouch

Grant in 2014
There are more than forty million training, and presentation happens every day. And when it's important not only to say but also what you want to demonstrate! If you're going to show your software product, website, 3d-model, or even annotate on a screen - a laser pointer cant helps you. You need to run to the laptop, and... that it, you lose the audience's engagement, and effectiveness falls. CamTouch is an excellent solution for successful presentations, demonstrations, and education. Camtouch fits in your pocket and can turn any projector or TV into an interactive touchscreen just in a few minutes! Camtouch for Business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA_p-5F3rT0 Camtouch for Education - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LSeyJ4YtR8

Ask.fm

Acquisition in 2016
Ask.fm is the world's largest teenager Q&A platform where more than 215 million members in more than 150 countries connect and engage by asking each other anonymous or open questions.

D-Orbit

Private Placement in 2019
D-Orbit S.r.l. develops devices that enable the safe disposal of artificial satellites at the end of their life, removing them from their orbits. It serves satellite owners and operators. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.

D-Orbit

Series C in 2019
D-Orbit S.r.l. develops devices that enable the safe disposal of artificial satellites at the end of their life, removing them from their orbits. It serves satellite owners and operators. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.

Firefly

Acquisition in 2017
FireFly is a photo check-in service for Twitter. Users are able to share their locations and experiences by checking in with photos and places via a smartphone application, as well as see the real-time locations of their friends based on their Twitter activities. The service is built to run on top of Twitter and work with users’ existing Twitter social graphs. FireFly differs from other check-in applications by finding its users’ Twitter friends from a wide variety of Twitter activities including regular tweets posted with a location, photos posted from photo-sharing applications such as Instagram, PicPlz,and more, as well as check-ins posted from Foursquare, Gowalla, BrightKite, and more.

Cardiomo

Grant in 2017
Cardiomo Care, Inc. develops wearable healthcare monitoring and tracking device to record EKG, heart rate, respiratory rate, and temperature, as well as tracks body position. Further, the company offers a mobile application and algorithms to detect different events of arrhythmia, other conditions, and falls to alert users and caregivers. It sends alert notifications to the users and observers, as well as offers nonstop health monitoring. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Ask.fm, SIA

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
Ask.fm, SIA operates as an online social networking site for asking and answering questions. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Riga, Latvia.

Chargies

Seed Round in 2015
Chargies is a free one-bit instant messenger for mobiles. The company is based in Ukraine.

Thync

Series B in 2016
Thync was born out of a fascination with how neuroscience can impact daily life by experts in the fields of neurobiology, neuroscience and consumer electronics. We create wearable technology that uses neurosignaling to shift your state of mind. Our technology induces on-demand shifts such as energy, calm or focus

CloviTek

Grant in 2017
CloviTek Inc is a start-up company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. CloviTek, Inc (link to the website) that provides a wireless streaming product with the new advertising platform channel for small businesses. CloviFi product enables users to privately listen to high-quality TV audio streams through personal mobile devices, without disturbing others nearby. CloviFi is simple, affordable and easy to use. Users simply connect CloviFi to their TV, connect their mobile device and CloviFi to Wi-Fi, download, install and run the app, select the available TV in the app, and start their own private listening experience. In the past year we’ve been recognized by 4 key wireless audio-visual industry awards including the Best of Innovation Honoree at CES 2018 for our patent pending product. We have trademarks and our patent is currently pending. We shipped our 1st shipment 100 MVP devices, which are performing well. Our advisors come from executive level positions at companies like Dolby, Exceleron, Bright Life Technologies, and successful high-tech startups to help bring the product to market.

PocketGuard

Venture Round in 2015
PocketGuard, Inc. develops finance information management service platform, which allows you to consolidate and track your financial information. The service performs periodic scan of statements for credit card accounts, bank accounts, and other financial accounts specified by the user to monitor for potential unwanted and unauthorized charges such as hidden fees, billing errors, forgotten subscriptions, scams and fraud. PocketGuard, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Silicon Valley, California.