Omega Venture Partners

Omega Venture Partners is a venture capital firm located in Palo Alto, California, focused on early-growth stage startups. The firm specializes in investing in Intelligent Software applications that utilize Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Omega Venture Partners aims to support transformational companies by providing domain knowledge, strong relationships, and expertise in company development. The firm seeks to partner with rapidly growing enterprises that deliver innovative solutions and new revenue streams, ultimately contributing to societal benefits and enhancing human potential through technology.

Angela Chong

Associate

Vicki Peng

Principal

25 past transactions

Replicant

Series B in 2022
Replicant is an AI voice technology that solves problems over the phone, improves customer experience, and reduces cost. Replicant was founded on the belief that machines are ready to have useful, complex conversations that will transform the way they interact with the world. The company's initial focus was making Replicant listen closely, think quickly, take actions, and reply fast enough to be conversational. The brain needed to understand complex and colloquial speech patterns and interpret slang and humor. Piece by piece we built elegant tools that allowed Replicant to listen, think, speak, act and interact with the world.

Language I/O

Series A in 2022
The future of translation is conversational and Language I/O’s proprietary machine translation optimization technology ensures that every conversation is understood. Our machine translation optimizer can translate difficult to translate user generated content such as jargon, slang, abbreviations and misspellings in 150 languages over chat, email, article and social support channels. Language I/O seamlessly integrates within all major CRMs and also provides an API. Finally, we let customers decide whether to use professional human linguists, our machine translation optimizer, or a combination of the two.

aPriori Technologies

Series D in 2021
aPriori is a provider of digital manufacturing simulation software. By leveraging the digital twin with our digital factories, they automatically generate design for manufacturability (DFM) and design to cost (DTC) insights, helping manufacturers collaborate across the product development process to make better design, sourcing and manufacturing decisions, drive product costs lower, and create higher value products in less time. aPriori also provides discrete manufacturers and product innovation companies with the most technologically advanced and comprehensive product cost management software and service solutions available on the market today. These solutions fundamentally change the way companies calculate and manage product costs, enabling more informed design, manufacturing, and sourcing decisions that drive significant cost out of products, both pre- and post-production.

Centaur Labs

Series A in 2021
Our platform uses trained professionals to analyze medical images and videos, enabling our customers to build new technologies and treatments to detect and fight disease.

Language I/O

Series A in 2021
The future of translation is conversational and Language I/O’s proprietary machine translation optimization technology ensures that every conversation is understood. Our machine translation optimizer can translate difficult to translate user generated content such as jargon, slang, abbreviations and misspellings in 150 languages over chat, email, article and social support channels. Language I/O seamlessly integrates within all major CRMs and also provides an API. Finally, we let customers decide whether to use professional human linguists, our machine translation optimizer, or a combination of the two.

WaveOne

Series A in 2020
WaveOne, Inc. develops video compression software for compression digital media. The company offers custom-tailored and context-dependent solutions through machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies. The company also provides image compression solutions. WaveOne, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

ZenBusiness

Series B in 2020
ZenBusiness Inc. is a corporate entity creation and management company based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2015. It provides a technology-driven platform that simplifies the process of starting and managing a business. The company offers software as a service through a web portal and mobile application, enabling users to check their company's status, update registered agent information, and file documents with state authorities. ZenBusiness focuses on business identity theft protection, compliance, and management, utilizing automation to deliver fast and affordable services. Their personalized dashboard provides customers with easy access to essential tools and expert support, making it easier for entrepreneurs to launch and grow their businesses. The company's mission is to make business formation accessible and affordable for aspiring business owners across the nation.

Fresco

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Fresco is a smart kitchen platform that develops web and mobile applications to enhance the cooking experience for home cooks. Its flagship applications, Drop Scale and Drop Recipes, guide users step-by-step in discovering, preparing, and sharing a variety of dishes. Fresco's technology integrates with over 100 appliance models from major brands, allowing users to control their kitchen devices through its platform. The applications also facilitate recipe discovery, ingredient substitutions, shopping organization, and community engagement, creating a comprehensive ecosystem for culinary exploration. Founded in 2012, Fresco has established its headquarters in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Dublin, Ireland, and Zaragoza, Spain.

Feedzai

Series C in 2017
Feedzai is AI. We’re coding the future of commerce with today’s most advanced risk management platform powered by big data and artificial intelligence. Founded and developed by data scientists and aerospace engineers, Feedzai has one mission: make banking and commerce safe. The world’s largest banks, payment providers and retailers use Feedzai’s machine learning technology to manage risks associated with banking and shopping, whether digitally or in person.

Braze

Series D in 2017
Braze is a comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. Context underpins every Braze interaction, helping brands foster human connection with consumers through interactive conversations across channels that deliver value quickly and continuously. The company was named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms and was recognized as one of Inc Magazine's 2019 Best Workplaces. Braze is headquartered in New York with offices in Chicago, London, San Francisco, and Singapore. Learn more at braze.com.

DataRobot

Series C in 2017
DataRobot, Inc. develops an automated machine learning platform designed to help enterprises build predictive models efficiently. The company's offerings include DataRobot Cloud, a predictive analytics platform available on-site or via the cloud, and DataRobot MLOps, which focuses on the deployment, monitoring, and management of machine learning models within organizations. Additionally, DataRobot Enterprise provides features such as flexible deployment, governance, and support, along with packages aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence projects and education services. The platform is suitable for a diverse range of professionals, including business analysts, data scientists, and IT specialists across various industries like banking, healthcare, and marketing. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, DataRobot also maintains operations in several international locations, including London, Paris, Kyiv, Tokyo, and Singapore. The company has established strategic partnerships to enhance its offerings in the competitive AI landscape.

Tealium

Series E in 2017
Tealium, Inc. provides enterprise tag management solutions to clients worldwide. The company offers Tealium iQ, a tag management solution that allows business users to manage their tags across multiple digital touchpoints, such as Web, mobile, and video. Its Tealium iQ solution allows digital marketers to manage their online solutions; and deploy and manage third-party vendor tags, as well as correlate the data those tags generate into an actionable source. It also provides supported tags; Tealium DataCloud, a digital data platform; Mobile Tagging that helps digital marketers to improve mobile marketing; and AudienceStream, a real-time audience discovery platform for marketers. In addition, it offers Tealium DataAccess that enables customers to unify various omnichannel insights from anywhere across the organization to allow for real-time informed engagement and action; and Tealium Predict, a built-in machine learning technology for Tealium AudienceStream. The company serves brands in various industry categories, including e-commerce, online media, travel, and more. Tealium, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Diego, California.

Braze

Series C in 2016
Braze is a comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. Context underpins every Braze interaction, helping brands foster human connection with consumers through interactive conversations across channels that deliver value quickly and continuously. The company was named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms and was recognized as one of Inc Magazine's 2019 Best Workplaces. Braze is headquartered in New York with offices in Chicago, London, San Francisco, and Singapore. Learn more at braze.com.

Second Measure, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Second Measure is a technology company that analyzes billions of anonymized purchases to help some of the world’s largest brands and investment firms answer real-time questions on company performance and consumer behavior. We’re based in the Bay Area with an office in New York, and are proudly backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, Citi Ventures, Jefferies Investment Group, Y Combinator, and other top investors.

Persado

Series C in 2016
Persado Inc. specializes in artificial intelligence-generated marketing language solutions designed to enhance brand engagement and marketing effectiveness. The company offers a range of products, including Pro Email, which optimizes email subject lines through emotional language, and Pro Social, which creates compelling paid social ads. Its flagship product, Persado Enterprise, generates personalized emotional language tailored to individual consumers, facilitating both immediate sales and long-term relationships. Additionally, Persado One provides a cloud-based solution for multi-channel consumer engagement. The company's Marketing Language Cloud analyzes a vast database of words and phrases to identify language that resonates with audiences, ultimately driving improved engagement and business outcomes. Persado serves various industries, including retail, financial services, travel, and telecommunications, and maintains strategic partnerships with organizations such as Emarsys and Listrak. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company has additional locations in San Francisco, Chicago, Milan, Rome, Neo Irakleio, and London.

Optimizely

Series C in 2015
Optimizely, Inc. operates a website optimization platform that specializes in A/B testing, multivariate testing, and website personalization, catering to both technical and non-technical users. This platform allows organizations to conduct experiments that inform data-driven decisions, enhancing customer experience and driving value for digital products, commerce, and campaigns. Available in multiple languages, Optimizely serves a diverse clientele, including agencies, developers, e-commerce businesses, enterprises, publishers, and small businesses across various countries, including the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Optimizely has gained the trust of numerous prominent companies, including eBay, FOX, and IBM, and operates as a subsidiary of EPiServer AB.

ipsy

Series B in 2015
Ipsy is a leading beauty community that offers a personalized monthly subscription service known as the Glam Bag, which delivers makeup and beauty samples to subscribers. Founded in 2011 by prominent YouTube creator Michelle Phan, Ipsy has experienced significant growth and currently serves over 1.5 million subscribers each month. In addition to its sampling service, the company produces engaging content that reaches more than 20 million individuals monthly through stylist videos and social media posts. Ipsy operates with a dedicated team of professionals skilled in beauty, e-commerce, technology, and content creation, with offices located in the Bay Area, New York City, and Los Angeles. The company has attracted over $100 million in growth capital from notable investors, enabling its expansion and innovation within the beauty industry.

Persado

Series B in 2015
Persado Inc. specializes in artificial intelligence-generated marketing language solutions designed to enhance brand engagement and marketing effectiveness. The company offers a range of products, including Pro Email, which optimizes email subject lines through emotional language, and Pro Social, which creates compelling paid social ads. Its flagship product, Persado Enterprise, generates personalized emotional language tailored to individual consumers, facilitating both immediate sales and long-term relationships. Additionally, Persado One provides a cloud-based solution for multi-channel consumer engagement. The company's Marketing Language Cloud analyzes a vast database of words and phrases to identify language that resonates with audiences, ultimately driving improved engagement and business outcomes. Persado serves various industries, including retail, financial services, travel, and telecommunications, and maintains strategic partnerships with organizations such as Emarsys and Listrak. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company has additional locations in San Francisco, Chicago, Milan, Rome, Neo Irakleio, and London.

Square

Series E in 2014
Square, Inc. is a financial technology company that provides comprehensive payment and point-of-sale solutions for businesses in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a diverse ecosystem that includes both hardware and software products. Its hardware lineup features devices such as the Magstripe reader, Contactless and chip reader, Square Stand, Square Register, and Square Terminal, which facilitate various payment methods. On the software side, Square provides tools like Square Point of Sale, Square Appointments, and Square for Retail, among others, to help businesses manage sales, inventory, and customer relationships. Additionally, Square offers services such as managed payments, instant transfers, and small-business financing through Square Capital. The company also operates Cash App, enabling users to send, receive, and store money, and Weebly, which provides website hosting and domain registration services. With a focus on empowering businesses, Square continues to expand its offerings in mobile payments and merchant services.

Krux

Series B in 2014
Krux helps companies deliver personalized commerce, media, and marketing experiences to the right people, in the right way, at the right time across all devices, browsers, and operating systems. Krux’s cloud-based data management platform (DMP) unifies people data from multiple screens and sources into a single view of the individual, analyzes the data to understand each individual’s preferences, and activates the data across every channel (desktop, mobile, social, display, web, set-top) in real time. Founded in 2010, Krux interacts with over two billion browsers and devices worldwide, serves over 20 billion page views per month, and processes more than 1.5 billion CRM records per month. Krux is a venture-backed company headquartered in San Francisco with offices across four continents. Krux clients such as Kellogg, Time Warner, and Meredith have achieved a 10x return or higher on their investment. Follow Krux on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.

Sojern

Series C in 2013
Sojern Inc. is a data-driven audience engagement platform specializing in digital marketing solutions for the travel industry. Established in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company utilizes artificial intelligence and traveler intent data to deliver multi-channel marketing strategies that enhance direct demand. Sojern helps clients, including hotels, car rental services, tourism boards, and airlines, to capture and analyze aggregate data, create detailed traveler profiles, and engage potential customers effectively. Their offerings encompass a range of advertising solutions such as programmatic buying, retargeting, targeted branding, and dynamic creative content, all designed to drive awareness, conversions, and customer loyalty. With a global presence and teams in multiple cities worldwide, Sojern has become a trusted partner for over 10,000 clients seeking to connect with both business and leisure travelers.

Recommind

Series C in 2013
Recommind's enterprise search and categorization platform automatically organizes, manages, and distributes large volumes of information from multiple sources. With faster access to the right information, organizations can save time, enhance the quality of work product, increase the value of information assets, and improve competitiveness and profits.

Criteo

Series D in 2012
Founded by a small group of great minds at a start-up incubator in Paris, Criteo has become a global leader in commerce marketing. Driving this growth: machine-learning technology, data and performance at scale, and measurable ROI for our clients, as well as the ingenuity and spirit of more than 2,800 employees worldwide.

RetailMeNot

Series B in 2010
RetailMeNot is a marketplace for online coupons and deals that operates a portfolio of coupon and deal websites. The company's websites enable consumers across the globe seeking to save money to find hundreds of thousands of offers from retailers. RetailMeNot, Inc. experienced more than 450 million consumer visits to its sites in 2012. The RetailMeNot, Inc., portfolio of coupon and deal websites includes www.RetailMeNot.com, the leading online coupon site in the United States; www.VoucherCodes.co.uk, the leading online coupon site in the United Kingdom; www.Deals.com in Germany; www.ActiePagina.nl in the Netherlands; Bons-de-Reduction.com and www.Poulpeo.com in France; and www.Deals2Buy.com, a leading discount offer site in North America.

Coremetrics

Series E in 2008
Coremetrics is a provider of digital marketing optimization solutions and web analytics. Its solutions are designed to generate high return on online marketing investments.