Vectara
Seed Round in 2023
Vectara is a developer of a generative AI product platform that enables businesses to integrate advanced AI features into their applications. The company offers an end-to-end serverless Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) API platform, which provides a secure and efficient way to incorporate conversational AI and question-answering capabilities. Vectara's platform is built on a hybrid-search core, ensuring accurate and reliable results that are grounded in the specific data and knowledge of the organization. It addresses critical challenges associated with enterprise adoption, such as reducing hallucination, enhancing explainability, enforcing access control, and allowing for real-time updates of knowledge. Additionally, Vectara's platform supports multilingual capabilities and prioritizes data security, making it suitable for various applications including semantic search, research analysis, and conversational AI, thus enabling organizations to create experiences similar to ChatGPT.
Vollebak is a manufacturer and retailer of high‑performance men's apparel. The company designs and sells a range of garments—including shirts, hoodies, jackets, shorts, vests, and accessories—through its online store. Vollebak emphasizes technical innovation, incorporating advanced materials such as graphene, ceramic, carbon, plant‑based fibers, and algae into its products. The brand targets consumers who value both style and performance, offering a catalog that blends fashion with cutting‑edge functionality.
BreachRx
Pre Seed Round in 2020
BreachRx, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform focused on data breach incident management. Established in 2017, the platform provides organizations with a comprehensive suite of tools to prepare for, respond to, and recover from data breaches. Its offerings include dynamic playbooks for reducing business risk, tailored incident response plans, and automated task management to streamline the response process. Additionally, BreachRx emphasizes leveraging regulatory best practices and provides features such as threat intelligence, risk identification, and breach simulations. By enabling clients to enhance their privacy and cybersecurity measures, BreachRx aims to help organizations mitigate the financial and reputational impacts associated with data breaches.
Ligandal
Seed Round in 2019
Ligandal Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Oakland, California, focused on developing therapeutic nanotechnologies for precision gene delivery. Founded in 2013 and originally known as Ligandal Technology LLC, the company aims to revolutionize the treatment of diseases through its innovative platform that facilitates the discovery and delivery of gene therapies and genetic materials with high precision at both cellular and sub-cellular levels. Ligandal's proprietary ligand discovery engine enables the rapid design of materials that can effectively transport various nucleic acid and protein payloads, including CRISPR and mRNA, to targeted cell types. The company is primarily concentrating its efforts on applications in hematology, immuno-oncology, and infectious diseases, employing peptide-based technologies and non-viral nano-carriers to address gene-related conditions.
Wickr Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in mobile communication applications, offering military-grade encryption for text, images, audio, and video messages. Founded in 2011, Wickr provides users with secure communication channels through its platforms, including Wickr Me, which caters to individuals, small teams, and large enterprises. The application is designed to facilitate private messaging without leaving a trace, ensuring that only the intended recipient can decrypt the messages. Wickr's technology, which employs standard encryption algorithms, supports ephemeral messaging and media, making it suitable for a diverse clientele that includes journalists, government officials, medical professionals, and everyday users. With hundreds of thousands of downloads across over 113 countries, Wickr emphasizes user privacy and security, enabling anonymous communication while supporting the principles of free expression.