Yao Xiao

Vice President and Product Hunter

John Yu

Co-Founder and Founding Partner

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Mila

Seed Round in 2022
Mila AG is a mobile community marketplace that connects users with local service providers for various tasks and products. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, the company has expanded its presence with offices in Shanghai, New York, London, and Cluj-Napoca. Mila aims to facilitate access to technological advancements by allowing users to find expert assistance in their neighborhoods on demand. The platform is designed to be user-friendly and affordable, ensuring that individuals who may not have the time or technical expertise can still benefit from modern innovations. As of October 2015, Mila operates as a subsidiary of Swisscom AG.

Unifimoney

Seed Round in 2022
A turn key digital wealth management platform for Community Banks and Credit Unions. With over 70 cryptocurrencies, passive and active investing in over 10K equities and ETF's and precious metals. Unifimoney integrates with FI's existing digital banking infrastructure with Q2 and Jack Henry Banno already fully integrated and more in the roadmap. Unifimoney is a low cost, fast and easy way for FI's to offer a full service money management solution to customers.

Parade

Series A in 2022
Parade is a freight brokerage capacity management platform. It works with all existing tools to manage carrier relationships, availability, and pricing. Top freight brokerages use Parade to build dedicated digital capacity and book more loads. It was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Impulse Technology

Seed Round in 2021
Impulse Technology promotes the interconnection and intercommunication of data production factors in society, and builds reliable, safe, private, fair and efficient data links. Impulse Technology integrates multiple technologies such as privacy computing, blockchain, container cloud, and artificial intelligence to provide users with a reliable, secure, privacy, fair and high-performance data solution——'Impulse Network'. Impulse Technology supports users to conduct safe and convenient data circulation and ecological collaboration with multiple external organizations. Impulse Technology will diverse technical resources such as trusted computing, blockchain, container cloud, and artificial intelligence to build the world's largest trusted computing public cloud-'Impulse Cloud'. Impulse Technology provides privacy, security, fairness, intelligence, and decentralized computing services in a fast and convenient way to build a trusted infrastructure in Web3.0.

InnoStar Semiconductor

Seed Round in 2021
InnoStar is a semiconductor storage maker producing storage products in the fields of information security protection, IoT, AI, and cloud.

Lifo

Seed Round in 2021
Lifo is a commerce platform which enables social media influencers and creators to design, create, and sell their own merchandise to their followers. The company enables these creators to partner with manufacturers who also engage in manufacturing apparel from top-tier brands. The company also enables the creators to digitally visualize their social commerce progress and provides a dedicated e-commerce team who provide support services in product sourcing, manufacturing, quality control, logistics, customer service, website design, and other business related areas.

Teon Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Teon Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of cancer patients by developing a focused portfolio of small molecules that inhibit the immunosuppressive and cancer-promoting signaling pathways in the tumor microenvironment. Teon's lead program is an A2BR-specific antagonist that will enter Phase1b trials in 2021.

APstem Therapeutics, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
With APstem Therapeutics’ breakthrough discovery of Adult Pluripotent Stem Cells (APSCs™), we are on a mission to eradicate difficult-to-heal diseases and conquer the challenges of aging.

Unifimoney

Pre Seed Round in 2020
A turn key digital wealth management platform for Community Banks and Credit Unions. With over 70 cryptocurrencies, passive and active investing in over 10K equities and ETF's and precious metals. Unifimoney integrates with FI's existing digital banking infrastructure with Q2 and Jack Henry Banno already fully integrated and more in the roadmap. Unifimoney is a low cost, fast and easy way for FI's to offer a full service money management solution to customers.

Rebank

Seed Round in 2019
Keeping track of your finances across multiple tools is painful. Rebank organises your bank accounts and payments in one place, making it the easiest way to keep track of your finances. Your finance admin is distracting you from building and spreadsheets aren't the solution. Rebank auto-categorises spend across your accounts, lets you make bill payments to 150+ countries and pay salaries from one place. We know what it's like to lose days and weeks making sure your finances are in order. Rebank is built for entrepreneurs that want the freedom to focus on building.

Tripalink

Series B in 2019
Tripalink is a technology-driven residential brand specializing in co-living and standard apartment rentals tailored for students and working professionals. It delivers a high-quality, affordable, and modernized living experience through attentive services and an all-in-one technology platform that centers around the customer. The company currently manages close to 6,000 beds in Los Angeles, Irvine, Seattle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Tucson, Austin, Berkeley, and San Francisco.

Omniscience Corporation

Series A in 2019
Omniscience Corporation provides underwriting automation and risk intelligence.

Singularity.AI

Seed Round in 2018
Singularity.AI presents an AI-driven medical image and data analytics platform of cloud software and smart devices with data privacy preserving technologies. It empowers life sciences and healthcare professionals to gain insights from images and complex data, connect data silos, collaborate across disciplines borders and institutions to accelerate and democratize medical innovation.

RiVAI

Angel Round in 2018
RiVAI Technologies is a leading provider of high-end RISC-V based CPUs and customized SoC designs, enabling customers to meet the high computing power requirements in applications ranging from edge to data center.

Shrimpy

Pre Seed Round in 2018
In addition to the Shrimpy portfolio management application, Shrimpy solves the problem of exchange integration with the Shrimpy Universal Crypto Exchange APIs. These APIs take care of the user API key management, exchange integrations, trade execution logic, maintaining the asset listings, data collection, automation, server scaling, and portfolio management. This is an end-to-end solution that can be used to build robust products that rely on crypto exchanges. These APIs can be found here: https://developers.shrimpy.io/

Bolt

Series A in 2018
Bolt is on a mission to democratize commerce. Bolt strengthens retailers’ relationships with their customers by unlocking secure, logged-in, lightning-fast checkouts. The company’s rapidly growing network of one-click-checkout-ready shoppers visits Bolt merchants as if they are return customers. Hundreds of retailers including, REVOLVE, Casper, Badgley Mischka, and LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics leverage Bolt to offer their shoppers the seamless checkout experiences they’ve come to expect across the internet. Bolt was established in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MUKZIN

Series A in 2018
MUKZIN is a clothing brand. They provide refined trade services for rising local brands and overseas brands. They conduct the mode shanghai clothing and accessories exhibition, tube showroom, and lab showroom.

Bigstream

Series A in 2017
Bigstream provides hyperacceleration technology that delivers orders of magnitude performance gains for big data platforms such as Apache Spark using hardware and software accelerators. Hyperacceleration of big data and machine learning workloads is achieved using advanced compiler technology and transparent support for FPGAs. Unlike other approaches, Bigstream requires no application code changes or special APIs.

OURS Technology

Series A in 2017
OURS Technology is a developer of sensor fusion and optical sensing technology intended for autonomous driving and robotic applications.OURS Technology's vision is to empower emerging sensing markets at the confluence of electronics and photonics. Our proprietary solid-state designs push the boundaries of optical sensing and enable powerful mass-production optical sensors for autonomous applications.

Jerry

Seed Round in 2017
The Jerry app redefines and radically improves how drivers manage car ownership — from comparing and buying car insurance to financing, repairs, maintenance, and safety. Jerry helps more than 5 million U.S. customers find shockingly good insurance rates, refinance car loans with ease, track their driving score to stay safe on the road and get transparency into maintenance and repair costs.

Arylla

Seed Round in 2017
Arylla is a company focused on making counterfeit goods a thing of the past. Arylla uses invisible ink to help resellers of luxury goods verify authenticity. Luxury brands partner with Arylla to apply the ink during production in exchange for a share of the revenue. Arylla is the first platform that enables luxury brands to monetize the resale of their products while fighting to reduce the number of counterfeits being sold online.

SyntheX

Seed Round in 2017
SyntheX expands the druggable proteome using synthetic biology-driven drug discovery platforms. The platforms rely on empirical intracellular selection to discover protein interaction modulators. These can discover compounds that disrupt a specific protein-protein interaction (PPI), or achieve the inverse, and bring an E3 ubiquitin ligase and a neosubstrate of interest together to achieve functional protein degradation. In addition to external discovery collaborations, the platforms have generated an internal oncology pipeline focused on unique mechanisms of action around genetically validated targets.

Ark Biosciences

Series A in 2017
Ark Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company that is dedicated to the discovery and development of innovative therapeutics to address unmet medical need, especially in the area of respiratory viral infection and viral hepatitis, for global and China market. We strive to build a science-driven biopharmaceutical company that aims to be a leader in antiviral drug discovery and development. To achieve so, we aspire for the excellence of science and be innovative. We operate with a razor-sharp focus and aggressiveness with a timely and cost efficient manner. We create a healthy and rewarding work environment for employees, and seek a superior rate of return for investors and partners.

Dtwave

Seed Round in 2016
Digital Technology is a professional big data service company specializing in enterprise data assetization and application value-added. It is committed to transferring leading big data concepts and practical experience to corporate and government customers in various fields, helping enterprises and governments to transform data into production. Data, and with the help of cloud computing and algorithm empowerment, the company's productivity and government governance capabilities will be rapidly improved.

AiFi

Seed Round in 2016
AiFi provides a flexible AI platform that enables retailers to affordably deploy and scale autonomous shopping solutions across their businesses. Leveraging computer vision, AiFi adapts to existing store formats without the need for shelf sensors and provides advanced tracking algorithms that can scale up to 10,000 square feet to support various shopper journeys such as an app, credit card, gated, or hybrid entry. AiFi works with retailers worldwide such as ALDI South Group, Carrefour, Compass Group, Morrisons, Żabka Group, REWE, and Verizon. AiFi has the highest number of computer vision-powered autonomous stores across the globe. The company has raised a total of $80 million from investors including Verizon Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, HP Tech Ventures, Mithril Capital, Cervin Ventures, TransLink Capital, Plum Alley, Duke Angel Network, Reaction, GS Future, Drive Catalyst, and Evolution. For more information, please visit aifi.com.

Petuum

Series A in 2016
Petuum is provides innovative industry solutions using the most advanced artificial intelligence technologies that have been out of reach for most businesses. Petuum’s solutions combine powerful technology, world-class talent and customer domain-specific knowledge to solve complex real-world challenges in a simple, cost-effective manner. These are operationalized on the Petuum Symphony AI platform, which delivers distributed and parallelized data processing as well as machine learning and deep learning workflows, at scale in every environment. The Petuum development platform and gallery of AI building blocks work with any programming language and any type of data, allowing managers and analysts to quickly build AI applications without any coding, while engineers and coders can further re-program applications as needed. With Petuum, many AI applications and hardware can be created and managed from a single laptop or terminal, driving higher productivity, better service, lower costs, and faster delivery. By standardizing AI solutions, Petuum lowers the barrier to AI adoption and allows for the integration of AI into every industry.

TenNor Therapeutics

Series B in 2016
TenNor Therapeutics is a clinical stage, product development company with a sharp focus on unmet medical needs in the area of infectious diseases. The company possesses a dual-acting drug discovery platform with several innovative products in various stages of preclinical and clinical development. The company is developing new drugs for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infections, prosthetic joint infections, multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections and some other common and serious infectious diseases.

Koniku

Venture Round in 2016
Koniku has built technology that allows a computer to smell. The company built a smell cyborg that can detect disease in human breath and other bodily fluids. Koniku aims to turn every bathroom in the world into a data center that captures VOC's or chemical data. This data, combined with machine learning, can predict disease outcomes before disease manifests. The Konikore is a smell processor, with applications in healthcare, security, industrial monitoring, food, and more.

Everfave

Seed Round in 2016
Latest News - Everfave was recently named “Top 10” most viewed U.S. startups by Looksharp, “Top Most Innovative Startups” by Shoptalk and winner of the “Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs” Award. Everfave's award-winning team comes from Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Nokia, NBCUniversal, Yelp, Oracle, Sun, GE, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstorm, Gap and other technology leaders, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, FastCompany, Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, and awarded the "Future Global Mobile Gold Award." The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. See more at everfave.com/business Location: Silicon Valley, California Visit their site: everfave.com/business Follow them on Twitter: twitter.com/everfaves Like them on Facebook: facebook.com/everfaves

LumosTech

Angel Round in 2016
Lumos has developed the first smart sleep mask so people have a natural way to control their sleep cycle and wake up rested, restored, and ready to take on the day. Based on scientific research coming out of Stanford University, our mask uses low intensity light flashes to adjust the body’s internal clock and restore your sleep cycle naturally. It’s designed to shift the body clock of jet lagged business travelers, elite pro and college athletes, shift-workers, and teenagers so they can perform at their peak, focus, and work effectively throughout the day. Unlike pharmaceutical solutions, light therapy is a natural, validated remedy for sleep problems with no side effects.

Ayla Networks

Series C in 2016
Ayla Networks empowers leading manufacturers by simplifying the inherent complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling them to turn their products into smart connected systems and transform their businesses to compete in the game-changing world of connectivity. Delivered as a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Ayla’s Agile IoT platform provides the flexibility and modularity to enable rapid changes to practically any type of device, cloud or app environment. Ayla Networks was named a 2015 Cool Vendor in the Internet of Things by Gartner, Inc. Ayla’s investors include Cisco, the International Finance Corporation, SAIF Partners, Crosslink Capital, Voyager Capital, Linear Venture and SJF Ventures. For more information, visit www.aylanetworks.com. Ayla Networks was founded in 2010 and is based in San Jose, California.

Lucid

Seed Round in 2016
Lucid is a computer vision startup based out of Silicon Valley and specialized in applying AI to images and videos for analysis, summarization, and recommendation of content to increase customers' revenue, retention, and sales.

Drive.ai

Series A in 2016
Drive.ai is a Silicon Valley startup founded by former lab mates out of Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. They are creating AI software for autonomous vehicles using deep learning, which they believe is the key to the future of transportation. They founded Drive.ai because they believe that this technology has the potential to save lives and transform industries, and they think this is the right team to do it.

Enjoyney

Seed Round in 2016
Enjoyney helps connect travelers with trusted locals for once in a lifetime experience ranging from tours of local attractions, attending major events and finding great places to eat off the beaten path. Our mission is to securely and safely allow our users the ability to get hands-on experience learning a new city. Our on-demand platform will allow anyone in the Bay Area the ability to connect with trusted locals to experience unique San Francisco experiences, such as taking a boat tour of The Bay, guided tours of the Ferry Building Farmers’ Market, or a picnic lunch at a local favorite, Dolores Park.

Whova

Seed Round in 2016
Whova is an all-in-one event management solution that makes events modern and trendy, attracts and engages attendees effectively, and helps event organizers save time on managing event logistics. Whova’s platform consists of an award-winning event app, efficient online registration, powerful event marketing, and time-saving event management tools. Whova has won the Event Technology Award for 5 years in a row. Among Whova's customers are American Express, US Bank, Google, Microsoft, Hilton, Lego, IKEA, L'Oreal, American Marketing Association, Harvard University, NASA, plus countless other organizations from over 100 countries. Whova has powered over 50,000 in-person and virtual/hybrid conferences, including association events, education events, government events, corporate events, trade shows, expos, and community gatherings.

ZingBox

Series A in 2015
ZingBox is a U.S.-based company that provides security for Internet of Things infrastructure. It is based in Mountain View, California.

CoPromote

Series A in 2015
CoPromote is a social exchange platform to help people grow their audience. Users are content creators ranging from artists, bloggers, brands, businesses, musicians, tastemakers, websites, and more. CoPromote is for people of all interest types.

Locus Social

Seed Round in 2015
Locus Social offers big data platforms that let users connect to, control, and ingest data from drones, the IoT, social media, and other spatiotemporal sources. They also produce rich layers of data on data maps in order to analyze and visualize real-time spatiotemporal data. The comany's contact modes are phone and physical address.

Omniscience Corporation

Convertible Note in 2015
Omniscience Corporation provides underwriting automation and risk intelligence.

Crossbar

Series D in 2015
Crossbar is a startup company pioneering a new class of non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM) memory technology. Designed to usher in a new era of electronics innovation, its technology will deliver up to a terabyte (TB) of storage on a single chip the size of a postage stamp, with very low power and very high performance. Backed by top tier investors, they have assembled an expert team that is shattering memory barriers with a new, innovative approach. Crossbar ReRAM lets designers rethink the compute/storage paradigm, free from the constraints of traditional flash and DRAM memories. From persistent memory that brings data closer to CPU to cognitive memory that enables in-memory computing without a host CPU, ReRAM is ushering in a new era of data storage and processing for both edge and cloud computing.

Slyce

Angel Round in 2015
Slyce is a platform that specializes in marketing automation, analytics, and visual search technology for brands and retailers. Founded in 2012, Slyce offers tools that enable brands to manage digital content for brand ambassadors more effectively, moving away from traditional methods like emails and spreadsheets. Its capabilities extend to content management, workflow optimization, and analytics, allowing brands to leverage ambassador-generated content and streamline social media posts. Additionally, Slyce's visual recognition technology facilitates the identification of objects through images, videos, and audio, alongside features such as QR code and barcode scanning. This technology empowers retailers and brands to enhance customer engagement and maximize returns by enabling shoppers to make purchases at the moment of inspiration. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Slyce aims to deliver comprehensive solutions that improve marketing efficiency and customer targeting.

Sentieon

Seed Round in 2015
Sentieon develops and commercializes cloud-based bio-informatics solutions for the life sciences and clinical market. They develop and supply a suite of bioinformatics secondary analysis tools that process genomics data with high computing efficiency, fast turnaround time, accuracy, and consistency. Some of the released products include Sentieon DNAseq, a germline DNA pipeline; and Sentieon TNseq, for tumor-normal somatic variant detection. The company’s tools are scalable, deployable, upgradable, and software-only solutions. The Sentieon tools achieve their efficiency and consistency through optimized computing algorithm design and enterprise-strength software implementation. The company was founded by Jun Ye in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

HireTeamMate

Seed Round in 2015
HireTeamMate is an employment agency developing a recommended tool throughout the recruiting community.

UniKey Technologies

Series A in 2015
UniKey Technologies offers a mobile platform to replace keys, codes, and passwords by turning a smartphone into a universal electronic key. It develops and offers a “touch-to-open” technology, through which a smartphone can stay in a pocket or purse to keep hands free; delivers patent-pending intelligence that detects whether an authorized user is inside or outside of the home or building before granting access to help prevent unauthorized entry; and provides multiple levels of security. The company partners with lock manufactures, including Kwikset and Weiser to create smart locks such as Kevo. Its cloud-based lock management solution enables multifamily properties to manage multiple locks for each unit. It brings leading smart lock and access control technology to address the needs of small and large commercial businesses. UniKey’s eKey systems, paired with its partners’ locks for hospitality, enable complete key management. UniKey Technologies was founded in 2010 by Phil Dumas and is based in Florida, United States.

Levo

Series A in 2015
Levo is the first professional network focused on accelerating the success of professionals in the first ten years of their careers. The average Levo member is 23 years old and is coming to Levo to find a job, connect with others in their journey, and learn how to be excellent in their career paths.

Yardbook

Seed Round in 2015
Backed by YCombinator, Yardbook is the fastest growing SaaS+Marketplace for the $1 trillion Home Services Industry. On average, Yardbook users grew their business by 32% after one year.

OneClass

Series A in 2013
OneClass is an educational platform that allows university students to collaborate and share study resources from self-created lecture notes to study guides. At the same time, we have subject experts creating high quality video tutorials for common university subjects ranging from concepts within a textbook to step-by-step solutions to past exams. Today, we have helped over 600,000 students in North America sharing across 30,000 different courses along with over 5,000 video tutorials that have already been created by our subject experts. Our mission is to not only become the largest library of education resources for university and college students, but also provide the necessary tools for students to successfully graduate and land their very first job. That’s how we define a true success!
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