Centaur Labs
Series B in 2024
Centaur Labs specializes in medical data annotation services, aimed at enhancing medical decision-making and diagnostics. The company utilizes a platform that connects a global network of students and professionals, who compete to provide high-quality data labeling. This collaborative model ensures exceptional accuracy and scalability in annotating medical and scientific data. By analyzing medical cases and labeling data effectively, Centaur Labs contributes to the development of advanced medical AI technologies, ultimately helping patients achieve better healthcare outcomes while potentially reducing costs.
Language I/O
Venture Round in 2024
Language I/O specializes in communication software that enables support teams to interact with customers in multiple languages. Their technology features a proprietary machine translation optimizer capable of translating complex user-generated content, including jargon, slang, abbreviations, and misspellings, across 150 languages. This software facilitates real-time communication through chat, email, and social support channels, allowing monolingual customer support agents to engage effectively with diverse customer bases. Language I/O integrates seamlessly with major CRM platforms and offers an API for additional flexibility. Customers can choose between using professional human linguists, the machine translation optimizer, or a combination of both to meet their translation needs.
Reken is an AI and cybersecurity company established in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm focuses on developing an innovative platform designed to address threats posed by generative artificial intelligence, including deepfake social engineering and automated fraud. Reken's approach combines a layered defense strategy with elements of zero trust, allowing for comprehensive technological analysis of content to help users effectively identify malicious activities. By creating a new category of AI products, Reken aims to enhance security measures against evolving AI-enabled threats.
LightForce
Series D in 2023
LightForce Orthodontics, Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializes in manufacturing customized 3D-printed orthodontic braces and accessories. The company's flagship product is its Cloud Brackets, made from white ceramic polycrystalline alumina, offering precise slot dimensions and contoured edges. LightForce also produces LightTray, a 3D printed indirect bonding tray, and TurboTrays, aiding in bite correction. Their digital platform facilitates collaboration between orthodontists and LightForce technicians, enabling patient-specific treatment plans. The company aims to enhance the orthodontic experience for both patients and doctors through modern technology and mass customization.
Language I/O
Series A in 2023
Language I/O specializes in communication software that enables support teams to interact with customers in multiple languages. Their technology features a proprietary machine translation optimizer capable of translating complex user-generated content, including jargon, slang, abbreviations, and misspellings, across 150 languages. This software facilitates real-time communication through chat, email, and social support channels, allowing monolingual customer support agents to engage effectively with diverse customer bases. Language I/O integrates seamlessly with major CRM platforms and offers an API for additional flexibility. Customers can choose between using professional human linguists, the machine translation optimizer, or a combination of both to meet their translation needs.
Forward Networks
Series D in 2023
Forward Networks, Inc. is a software company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in network verification and automation. Founded in 2013, the company offers a platform that enhances network visibility, policy verification, and change modeling. This platform allows network teams to visualize and search complex networks effectively, enabling them to debug issues swiftly and verify the accuracy of network-wide policies. By providing a mathematically accurate representation of the network, Forward Networks aids engineers and operators in predicting network behavior before implementing changes, thereby reducing the likelihood of costly outages. The company also offers open-source tools like Beacon and Mininet to facilitate the management of data centers and software-defined networks.
Elemental Machines
Series B in 2022
Elemental Machines, Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializes in providing a smart lab platform designed to enhance laboratory operations in science-based industries. The company's innovative technology continuously monitors equipment and environmental variables, delivering data-driven insights that foster improved research, development, and manufacturing outcomes. By utilizing intelligent sensors, the platform visualizes the entire testing environment and issues alerts for any anomalous results, thereby ensuring experimental reproducibility. This capability allows clients to refine and accelerate their work across all phases of product innovation, ultimately leading to greater clarity, transparency, and consistency in laboratory processes.
Replicant
Series B in 2022
Replicant Solutions, Inc., established in 2017, specializes in developing an AI-driven voice platform that enables machines to engage in conversations with customers. Its platform offers services such as virtual agent, AI-powered IVR, omnichannel support, and analytics, serving sectors like retail, insurance, and customer services. With a focus on understanding complex speech patterns, Replicant aims to improve customer experience and reduce costs by automating common support calls. The company operates from multiple locations in the US and Canada, as well as Sweden.
Language I/O
Series A in 2022
Language I/O specializes in communication software that enables support teams to interact with customers in multiple languages. Their technology features a proprietary machine translation optimizer capable of translating complex user-generated content, including jargon, slang, abbreviations, and misspellings, across 150 languages. This software facilitates real-time communication through chat, email, and social support channels, allowing monolingual customer support agents to engage effectively with diverse customer bases. Language I/O integrates seamlessly with major CRM platforms and offers an API for additional flexibility. Customers can choose between using professional human linguists, the machine translation optimizer, or a combination of both to meet their translation needs.
aPriori Technologies Inc. specializes in product cost management software solutions for enterprises globally. The company provides an enterprise platform that enables manufacturers and their suppliers to effectively manage and control product costs throughout their organizations. aPriori's software facilitates design for manufacturability (DFM) and design to cost (DTC) insights, promoting collaboration across the product development process. This helps clients make informed decisions regarding design, sourcing, and manufacturing, ultimately reducing product costs and enhancing value. Additionally, aPriori offers a range of services including strategy development, deployment planning, best practice implementation, training, and technical support. Serving sectors such as industrial machinery, aerospace and defense, automotive, and high tech, aPriori was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The company has established a strategic partnership with QuEST Global Services Pte. Ltd.
Centaur Labs
Series A in 2021
Centaur Labs specializes in medical data annotation services, aimed at enhancing medical decision-making and diagnostics. The company utilizes a platform that connects a global network of students and professionals, who compete to provide high-quality data labeling. This collaborative model ensures exceptional accuracy and scalability in annotating medical and scientific data. By analyzing medical cases and labeling data effectively, Centaur Labs contributes to the development of advanced medical AI technologies, ultimately helping patients achieve better healthcare outcomes while potentially reducing costs.
Language I/O
Series A in 2021
Language I/O specializes in communication software that enables support teams to interact with customers in multiple languages. Their technology features a proprietary machine translation optimizer capable of translating complex user-generated content, including jargon, slang, abbreviations, and misspellings, across 150 languages. This software facilitates real-time communication through chat, email, and social support channels, allowing monolingual customer support agents to engage effectively with diverse customer bases. Language I/O integrates seamlessly with major CRM platforms and offers an API for additional flexibility. Customers can choose between using professional human linguists, the machine translation optimizer, or a combination of both to meet their translation needs.
WaveOne, Inc. specializes in developing advanced video and image compression software utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence. Founded in 2016 and located in Palo Alto, California, the company focuses on delivering custom, context-dependent solutions that significantly enhance the efficiency of digital media compression. WaveOne's technology features a codec capable of operating orders of magnitude faster than traditional systems, enabling rapid encoding and decoding of data sets at high speeds. This innovation allows digital media industries to process, print, upload, and share clear images effectively, positioning WaveOne at the forefront of digital media compression advancements.
ZenBusiness
Series B in 2020
ZenBusiness Inc. is a company that specializes in providing corporate entity creation and management services tailored for small business owners. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, ZenBusiness offers a comprehensive platform that consolidates business formation, compliance, banking, bookkeeping, and marketing tools into an intuitive dashboard. This platform allows users to manage their business needs efficiently, including checking their company's status and filing necessary documents, all from a single login. What distinguishes ZenBusiness is its blend of innovative technology and live human support, offering customers access to expert guidance through various communication channels. The company is also dedicated to social impact, functioning as a Public Benefit Corporation and promoting employee volunteer work. ZenBusiness actively engages with diverse entrepreneurs and provides grant opportunities to support small business growth, further solidifying its role as a trusted partner in the business community.
Fresco
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Fresco is a technology company that integrates appliances, home cooks, and recipes through its innovative KitchenOS platform. By collaborating with major appliance manufacturers such as BOSCH, Electrolux, GE Appliances, and others, Fresco acknowledges the diverse brands present in modern kitchens. Their interactive recipe application simplifies the cooking process, guiding users step-by-step in discovering, preparing, and sharing dishes, regardless of their cooking experience. Founded in 2012, Fresco operates globally, with offices located in Dublin, Ireland, and Zaragoza, Spain. The company's mission is to enhance the cooking experience by seamlessly connecting various kitchen elements, making it easier for users to create and share culinary delights.
Feedzai is a global technology company specializing in AI-driven fraud prevention and financial crime management. Established in 2008, the company offers an end-to-end platform that ingests and analyzes diverse data streams, creating hypergranular risk profiles to detect and prevent fraud in real-time. Feedzai serves a wide range of clients, including banks, payment providers, merchants, and retailers, across multiple continents. Its solutions are designed to enhance customer experience while safeguarding trillions of dollars in transactions. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices worldwide.
Braze, Inc. is a customer engagement platform that specializes in enhancing interactions between consumers and brands across various industries, including retail, media, financial services, and hospitality. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Braze provides a suite of mobile marketing automation and customer relationship management solutions. The platform integrates tools for engagement orchestration, campaign optimization, and cross-channel personalization, utilizing an AI engine called Sage AI to enhance functionality. Braze enables brands to create meaningful, context-driven conversations through various channels, ensuring relevant and timely interactions. The company has additional offices in Chicago, London, San Francisco, and Singapore, reflecting its global presence and commitment to delivering exceptional customer experiences. Formerly known as Appboy, Braze rebranded in November 2017 to better align with its mission of fostering human connections between consumers and the brands they love.
DataRobot
Series C in 2017
DataRobot, Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in developing an automated machine learning platform aimed at empowering enterprises to construct predictive models efficiently. Its offerings include DataRobot Cloud, a cloud-based platform for predictive analytics, and DataRobot MLOps, which facilitates the deployment, monitoring, and management of machine learning models across organizations. Additionally, DataRobot Enterprise provides features tailored for large organizations, such as flexible deployment options, governance, and comprehensive support. The company's solutions cater to a diverse clientele, including business analysts, data scientists, executives, and IT professionals across various sectors such as banking, healthcare, and manufacturing. Founded in 2012, DataRobot has expanded its operations internationally, with locations in London, Paris, Kyiv, Tokyo, and Singapore, and maintains a strategic partnership with Snowflake to enhance its offerings.
Tealium, Inc., established in 2008 and headquartered in San Diego, California, specializes in enterprise tag management solutions. The company offers a suite of products, including Tealium iQ, a tag management system enabling businesses to control and deploy third-party vendor tags across multiple digital touchpoints. Tealium's solutions also encompass Tealium DataCloud, a digital data platform, and AudienceStream, a real-time audience discovery platform. Additionally, Tealium provides Tealium DataAccess for unified omnichannel insights and Tealium Predict, a built-in machine learning technology. Serving over 1,000 global brands across various industries, Tealium's tools help businesses integrate and manage customer data from web, mobile, offline, and IoT devices, enhancing customer engagement and marketing effectiveness.
Braze, Inc. is a customer engagement platform that specializes in enhancing interactions between consumers and brands across various industries, including retail, media, financial services, and hospitality. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Braze provides a suite of mobile marketing automation and customer relationship management solutions. The platform integrates tools for engagement orchestration, campaign optimization, and cross-channel personalization, utilizing an AI engine called Sage AI to enhance functionality. Braze enables brands to create meaningful, context-driven conversations through various channels, ensuring relevant and timely interactions. The company has additional offices in Chicago, London, San Francisco, and Singapore, reflecting its global presence and commitment to delivering exceptional customer experiences. Formerly known as Appboy, Braze rebranded in November 2017 to better align with its mission of fostering human connections between consumers and the brands they love.
Persado Inc., established in 2011, specializes in AI-generated marketing language solutions. Headquartered in New York, with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Europe, and the UK, Persado serves major brands across retail, finance, travel, telecom, and healthcare. Its AI platforms, including Pro Email, Pro Social, and Persado Enterprise, create emotionally resonant language for emails, social ads, and personalized consumer interactions, driving short-term sales and long-term relationships. Persado's solutions have generated over $1.5 billion in incremental revenue for clients like Ally Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Verizon, demonstrating an average 41% lift in conversion rates.
Bloomberg Second Measure
Seed Round in 2016
Bloomberg Second Measure is a technology company that provides performance analytics services by analyzing billions of anonymized purchase transactions. The firm assists major brands and investment firms in addressing real-time inquiries related to company performance and consumer behavior. By leveraging this vast dataset, Bloomberg Second Measure enables businesses to identify rapidly growing companies, benchmark against competitors, and gain deeper insights into customer preferences. The company operates from its headquarters in the Bay Area and has an additional office in New York. It is supported by prominent investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, and Y Combinator.
Optimizely
Series C in 2015
Optimizely, Inc. is a company that operates a website optimization platform designed for A/B testing, multivariate testing, and website personalization, catering to both technical and non-technical users. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, it also has offices in Amsterdam, Sydney, and Austin. The platform allows organizations to conduct experiments that facilitate data-driven decision-making and is available in multiple languages, making it accessible to a global audience. Optimizely's offerings include web content management, digital experience software, and integrated capabilities for content, commerce, multi-channel marketing, and predictive analytics. The company serves a diverse clientele, including agencies, developers, e-commerce businesses, enterprises, publishers, and small businesses primarily in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Optimizely, formerly known as Spreadly, operates as a subsidiary of EPiServer AB.
Ipsy is the world’s largest and most passionate beauty community. The community is centered around a beauty sampling service called the Glam Bag and premier content produced by ipsy and its partner creators. Since being founded in 2011 by top YouTube creator Michelle Phan, the company has grown dramatically. On the sampling front, ipsy ships to over 1.5 million subscribers every month; on the owned content side, ipsy reaches over 20 million people every month through stylist videos and social posts. Ipsy has built a results-oriented team packed with seasoned beauty, e-commerce, tech, and studio professionals in offices in the Bay Area, NYC, and LA. The company has received over $100M in growth capital from premier investors including TPG, Sherpa and top industry insiders.
Persado Inc., established in 2011, specializes in AI-generated marketing language solutions. Headquartered in New York, with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Europe, and the UK, Persado serves major brands across retail, finance, travel, telecom, and healthcare. Its AI platforms, including Pro Email, Pro Social, and Persado Enterprise, create emotionally resonant language for emails, social ads, and personalized consumer interactions, driving short-term sales and long-term relationships. Persado's solutions have generated over $1.5 billion in incremental revenue for clients like Ally Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Verizon, demonstrating an average 41% lift in conversion rates.
Block, Inc. is a technology company specializing in financial services, founded in 2009. It operates several key platforms, including Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD, aimed at enhancing economic access for individuals and businesses. Block provides payment services to merchants and has developed Cash App as a person-to-person payment network, facilitating seamless transactions among users. In 2023, the payment volume processed through Square exceeded $200 million, reflecting the company's significant role in the financial technology landscape.
Krux Digital Inc. develops a cloud-based data management platform designed for marketers, media companies, publishers, and agencies on a global scale. The platform consolidates consumer data from various sources and devices, analyzes individual preferences, and activates this data in real time across multiple channels, including desktop, mobile, social, and video. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Krux operates additional offices in major cities worldwide. The company provides a comprehensive range of services, including audience data management, identity management, and cross-channel frequency management. With its platform, Krux enables businesses to deliver tailored content, advertising, and shopping experiences, making it easier to engage audiences effectively. As of November 2016, Krux operates as a subsidiary of Salesforce.com.
Sojern Inc. is a travel marketing company that specializes in providing digital marketing solutions tailored for the travel industry. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Sojern utilizes artificial intelligence and traveler intent data to offer a comprehensive audience engagement platform. This platform enables clients to capture aggregated data, curate traveler profiles, and engage potential travelers through various advertising solutions, including programmatic buying, display ads, and targeted branding. Sojern focuses on helping hotels, car rental services, tourism boards, airlines, and cruise companies drive direct bookings by activating multi-channel marketing strategies that enhance awareness, conversion, and customer loyalty. With a global presence that includes teams in major cities around the world, Sojern is dedicated to delivering insights and performance metrics that empower clients to navigate the competitive digital landscape effectively.
Recommind
Series C in 2013
Recommind specializes in providing an enterprise search and categorization platform designed to automatically organize, manage, and distribute large volumes of information from various sources. Through its SaaS-based relevance engine technology, the company enhances access to critical information, enabling organizations to save time and improve the quality of their work. Recommind also offers predictive analytics and eDiscovery services, which include information analytics, contract analysis, and enterprise-wide knowledge management. By streamlining information processes, Recommind aims to increase the value of information assets and enhance organizational competitiveness and profitability.
Criteo, headquartered in Paris, is a global leader in commerce marketing. It specializes in performance display and retargeting, enabling retailer advertisers to launch real-time, multichannel, and cross-device marketing campaigns. The company's machine-learning technology and data-driven approach deliver measurable returns on investment, allowing clients to dynamically adjust their marketing strategies. Additionally, Criteo offers solutions for ad inventory management and yield optimization. With over 2,800 employees worldwide, Criteo serves clients globally, demonstrating its ingenuity and spirit.
RetailMeNot
Series B in 2010
RetailMeNot operates a digital marketplace that connects consumers with a wide array of online coupons and deals. The company manages a portfolio of coupon websites, including RetailMeNot.com in the United States and VoucherCodes.co.uk in the United Kingdom, among others in various countries. RetailMeNot provides consumers with an extensive selection of offers from numerous retailers, facilitating savings both online and in-store. The platform allows users to search for, discover, and redeem relevant digital coupons through its website, mobile applications, and email newsletters, making it a comprehensive resource for budget-conscious shoppers. With millions of visits to its sites, RetailMeNot has established itself as a leading destination for consumers seeking discounts and deals.
Coremetrics
Series E in 2008
Coremetrics is a provider of digital marketing optimization solutions and web analytics tailored for online businesses. The company offers a platform that delivers insights into customer and prospect behavior, enabling businesses to enhance their online marketing investments. Coremetrics' tools facilitate intuitive collaboration for sharing performance insights and include mobile access, allowing users to monitor marketing metrics on handheld devices. This comprehensive approach helps businesses measure and improve the effectiveness of their online marketing programs.