Qualcomm Ventures

Qualcomm Ventures (QCV) was formed and began funding in 2000, with a $500-million fund commitment to make strategic investments in early-stage high-technology ventures. Since then, QCV has funded numerous companies in the wireless sector, and set up several exclusive regional funds to spur development in key strategic markets, including a $60-million fund in Korea, a $30-million fund in Japan, a $100-million fund in China and a EURO100-million fund in Europe. QCV makes strategic investments in wireless-industry ventures that provide both a strong potential return on investment (ROI) and complement existing Qualcomm products and services. QCV also seeks to identify and fund new telecommunications growth markets before widespread market recognition, and to find emerging technologies and business models that further accelerate the wireless market. QCV invests between $500,000 and $10 million typically at the expansion stage, often the second round of financing.

Ethan Cho

Senior Investment Manager

Michel Glezer

Director

Swapna Gupta

Director

Varun Jain

Senior Investment Manager

Michael A. Janse

Senior Director

Thomas Kluz

Senior Investment Manager

Carlos (CK) Kokron

VP and MD

Quinn Li

SVP and Global Head of Qualcomm Ventures

Yan Li

Director

Song Mao

Senior Director

Keith Muhart

Senior Director of Operations and Portfolio Development

Boaz Peer

Senior Director

James Shen

VP and MD

Varsha Tagare

MD

Richard Tapalaga

Director

AV

Alex Villela

MD

Albert Wang

Director

Merav Weinryb

MD

Nan Zhou

Director

488 past transactions

Streamezzo

Series B in 2006
Streamezzo S.A. develops media mobile products and solutions. Its solutions enable telecom operators, broadcasters, media companies, content providers, and service providers to design, develop, debug, and deploy services on cellular networks. The company’s products include Rich Media Software Suite, which comprise Rich Media Client that enables mobile users to access media services, such as interactive Mobile TV, widgets, portals, and multimedia services; Rich Media Server, an application server that enables to deploy media services; Workbench, an integrated multimedia authoring suite; Service Manager, a back-end solution that enables mobile administrators and marketers to manage and customize media mobile service; and Broadcast, which enables users to deliver mobile TV over broadcast networks. Its solutions comprise Interactive Mobile TV for interactive services; Music Jukebox for over-the-air music downloading; on-device portal for text, image, audio, and video combined information on a mobile portal; Event Microsite for mobile marketing; Dynamic User Interface, which enables to give customers direct access to specific services and applications; and online interactive communication solutions. The company also offers professional services. Streamezzo was founded in 2004 and is based in Paris, France.

MindTickle

Series E in 2021
MindTickle Interactive Media Pvt Ltd. provides a social learning platform for organizations and corporations in various industries. Its platform enables businesses, trainers, and individuals to transform their existing online content into an interactive learning experience; use game mechanics, such as points, medals, badges, and leader boards to increase learner motivation and engagement; create learner engagement and peer-to-peer learning by leveraging the power of social mechanics; and measure and track the effectiveness Web-based training programs through real-time charts and dashboards. The company’s platform is used for new hire orientation, policy refreshment, and employee engagement applications. MindTickle Interactive Media Pvt Ltd. was founded in 2011 and is based in Pune, India.

Medisafe

Series C in 2021
MediSafe Project LTD. provides MediSafe, a cloud-synced mobile medication management solution that helps families in preventing emergencies caused by over-or under-dosing medications. It offers patient compliance and businesses solutions. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Haifa, Israel.

Bell English

Series A in 2016
Bell is a University of Cambridge graduate, with a love of languages and a vision to promote intercultural understanding through language education. Frank’s inspiration came from his time as a prisoner of war during the Second World War. In the harsh conditions of the camp, he taught his fellow prisoners Spanish and French, a simple act of defiance that quickly led to the creation of a secret university which taught a broad range of subjects.

Reach Robotics Limited

Series A in 2017
Reach Robotics is creating the next gaming platform by combining Robotics, Gaming and AR. This means video game characters in real life that appear to be alive and can engage in various game modes, unlocking lots of potentials. The robots they make are more than connected toys, they are consistently evolving entertainment platforms. Their flagship product, MekaMon, has propelled us to the forefront of consumer robotics and they continue to evolve to ensure the future is always within reach.

Tonbo Imaging

Series B in 2017
Tonbo Imaging designs, builds and deploys advanced imaging and sensor systems for military reconnaissance and security of critical government and industrial establishments.

Placemeter Inc.

Series A in 2014
Placemeter is an urban intelligence platform. We quantify modern cities worldwide. Our platform leverages proprietary computer vision technology to make sense of both archival and live video streams. First, Placemeter detects hidden patterns in pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Then, we predict how those patterns will evolve over time. The result is stronger businesses, safer streets and highly innovative neighborhoods. The answers you need are all around us. Quantify your world at http://www.placemeter.com.

August Home Inc.

Series B in 2015
August Home Inc develops smart home access products that use encrypted locking technology. It enables users to create virtual keys for their home and grant access to house cleaners, dog walkers, delivery services, guests, friends, and family, and control how long that access lasts from their smartphones and computers. August Home Inc was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of December 5, 2017, August Home Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ASSA ABLOY AB (publ).

Grand Cru Oy

Venture Round in 2013
Grand Cru Oy develops computer games. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Xiaomi

Series B in 2011
Xiaomi Inc. manufactures and distributes mobile phones and consumer electronics. The company also develops mobile applications. Xiaomi targets the lower-middle market and has gained a loyal fan base by incorporating user feedback into the design of its latest sets and Android skins. It offers internet value-added products including TV boxes, backpacks, phone screen protectors, earphones, and more. Its products include Redmi, an Android smartphone; MIUI ROM, a customizable ROM; MiTalk, a messaging application; Mi TV, a 3D television; MiBox, a set-top box; MIUI, an operating system; MiWiFi, a network router; MiPower Bank, an external battery; and more. Xiaomi Inc. was founded in April 2010 and is based in Beijing, China.

FourKites

Series D in 2021
FourKites, Inc. develops software platform for freight brokers and shippers to streamline their operations. It offers a real-time tracking platform for shippers, carriers, third party logistics companies, and freight brokers; BackHaul Management, a solution that identifies details about the window in which deadhead miles could potentially occur; and CarrierLink, a solution that helps brokers and owner-operators sync up in real time. FourKites, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

BlueStacks

Venture Round in 2012
BlueStacks is pioneering the next generation of cloud technology for the mobile ecosystem. BlueStacks App Player enables the universe of Android games and apps to run fast and full screen on Windows PCs. App Player is powered by BlueStacks' patented LayerCake virtualization technology and has 145 million users. BlueStacks 2, released December 3, 2015, users could now run multiple apps at once and navigate between each app in a browser-like tabbed interface. With BlueStacks TV, released April 7, 2016, BlueStacks allows users to stream their gameplay directly to Twitch.tv with one-click.

JAMDAT Mobile

Series C in 2002
Wireless game developer and publisher for multiple cell platforms. Headquartered in Los Angeles, JAMDAT has employees in locations around the world, including Honolulu, Montreal, Tokyo, London, Bucharest and Hyderabad. The company was acquired by Electronic Arts and brought into the fold of the EA Mobile line of games (with JAMDAT CEO Mitch Lasky leading the worldwide mobile gaming efforts) in December of 2005.

Validity Sensors

Series B in 2007
Founded in 2000, and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity is the world leader in Natural ID™ authentication, providing fingerprint sensor solutions with the highest levels of performance, security, cost-effectiveness, and design flexibility. Validity’s Natural ID solutions provide an ideal platform for addressing the explosive growth in mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Passwords and PINs are ineffective at meeting the needs of end users and service providers as they're either too easy to hack or too hard to remember. Natural ID provides a simple and effective way to optimize usability while providing strong security. Natural ID authenticates a user by their unique human characteristics such as fingerprint, voice, and face. Of these, fingerprints have been proven to provide the best combination of effectiveness, cost, and usability.

Kaleo Software

Seed Round in 2013
Kaleo Software, Inc. operates online platform that allows users to connect to other knowledge workers in an organization to extract, contribute, and share information. It operates an interactive knowledge network that puts the answers to essential business questions raised by users. Its platform captures and tags information to create an organically growing knowledge base; and enables users to find information based on input from co-workers and topic experts. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in El Segundo, California.

Bounce (Metro Bikes)

Series C in 2019
Bounce (formerly known as Metro Bikes) is a smart mobility solution, with a mission of making daily commute stress-free, time-saving, reliable, and convenient. With a breakthrough technology that lets users access the bike with just an OTP, the Keyless bikes, have not only done away with keys, but the whole process of renting a bike has just become devoid of any physical or human intervention. With Bounce's new One Way Rental service, users can now pick up and drop the bike anywhere they need to and be done with the ride. This is aimed at providing a seamless first mile and last-mile connectivity to metro users. Founded in 2014, Bounce aims at decongesting the roads by encouraging commuters to choose public transport by delivering convenient options to rent bikes and reach their destinations from metro stations. It is based in Bangalore, India.

inVia Robotics, LLC

Series C in 2021
inVia Robotics provides the next generation of robotics warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce distribution centers and supply chains. As the developer of the world's first "Robotics-as-a-Service" autonomous mobile robot picking and goods-to-person system, inVia is powering the future of warehouse productivity without disrupting the ecosystem of a business's operations.

Meus Pedidos

Venture Round in 2015
Mercos, previously known as Meus Pedidos, is a computer software company that develops and provides sales management software. Rafael Trapp founded it in 2010, with its headquarters in Joinville in Brazil.

Argyle Data, Inc.

Series B in 2010
Argyle Data is used by the world’s leading mobile operators to detect fraud, profit, and SLA threats that cost the industry $38 billion per year. Argyle Data’s industry-leading native Hadoop application suite uses the latest machine learning technologies against a unique, comprehensive data lake to give communications service providers a 360-degree view of user activities, allowing them to detect in real time the previously undiscoverable revenue threats and attack patterns being waged against their networks.

AirPlay Network

Series B in 2006
AirPlay creates and produces games that allow consumers to use their cell phones to play along with their favorite television programs. Merging 110 million US television households with 200 million mobile handsets, AirPlay offers consumers a fun and unique way to interact with live television while competing against their friends, family or a national television audience. For its wireless and television industry partners, AirPlay offers a proprietary platform and service infrastructure which enables incremental revenue streams without partner capital investment

Wiliot Ltd.

Series C in 2021
WIliot is a fabless semiconductor company developing passive SoC platforms for the IoT market. No battery and seamless connectivity operation will be the baseline enabler of IoT future growth.
Capillary’s technology solutions help businesses get ahead of the digital evolution and stay ‘Always Consumer Ready’. The experience platform integrates Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to make it easy for brands to get deep understanding and insights into their consumers, engage consumers through personalized 1:1 communication, provide easy and connected cross-channel commerce experiences and build loyalty to reward and retain their best consumers. Over 300 marquee brands across 30+ countries, including Pizza Hut, VF Brands, Walmart, Al-Futtaim, KFC, Starbucks, Madura Garments, Courts and Samsung, trust Capillary to enable easy and seamless consumer experiences. With over 300 million consumers and 25,000 stores on the platform, Capillary is Asia’s leading SaaS product company. Over 700 Capillary associates across 11 global offices are continually innovating to find new ways for brands to make their consumers’ lives easier, and experiences memorable. Founded in 2008, Capillary is backed by Warburg Pincus, Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, and American Express Ventures. Explore more at https://www.capillarytech.com/

Heyzap Inc.

Series B in 2012
Heyzap is a premier mobile ad network that helps millions of users discover apps they love. Heyzap’s SDK for Android and iOS apps allows both well-established app producers and innovative indie developers to monetize and bring their apps to a wide audience. It currently provides advertising, publishing, mediation, and cross-promotion services to mobile developers worldwide. Heyzap is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2009 by Jude Gomila and Immad Akhund.

Zeebo

Venture Round in 2010
Zeebo Inc. is the company behind the Zeebo system, a 3G digital entertainment and education platform originally launched in 2009. The company is currently working on a next generation platform focused primarily on education for launch in India in 2012. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in San Diego, California.
Beijing Sinoits Tech Co., Ltd develops and delivers vehicle detection, vehicle identification, vehicle feature recognition, vehicle face recognition, vehicle identity comparison, traffic video structural analysis, pedestrian feature recognition, and face recognition technologies in China. It offers multidimensional feature depth recognition system for vehicle face, a vehicle view large data platform, traffic video detection systems, Xiaoshen Hitomi toll vehicle identification systems, video structured analysis systems, and human attitude identification systems. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Beijing, China.
Yunyinggu Technology Co., Ltd. is a start-up company dedicated to developing and promoting new display technologies that can significantly improve the performance of flat panel displays. The company's proprietary solution is the world's best in achieving high PPI (pixel per inch) and can be applied to all kinds of flat panels such as LCD, LED, OLED and others. Yunyinggu Technology Co., Ltd. is based in China.

OneWeb LLC

Seed Round in 2015
OneWeb LLC develops a constellation of satellites to enable Internet access. Its constellation of satellites interlocks with each other to create a coverage footprint over the planet. OneWeb LLC was formerly known as WorldVu Satellites Ltd. and changed its name to OneWeb LLC in January 2015. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in McLean, Virginia.

Juice Wireless

Series C in 2007
Juice Wireless is a provider of mobile social networking technology and services, head-quartered in Los Angeles, Califoria. Juice's technology enables multimedia exchange and social networking aggregation between multiple mobile platforms and online services. The company's current flagship consumer offering, JuiceCaster - a multimedia sharing and social networking utility - is distributed by AT&T, Nokia, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Alltel, US Cellular, Cricket, Bouygues Telecom and Turkcell. In September 2008, Juice Wireless announced Flutter - a picture messaging and location sharing application for the iPhone. Flutter ranked 8th most popular social networking app on the iPhone and garnered wide press coverage for “doing what Apple didn't ... giving iPhone 3G users some picture messaging love.” (San Francisco Chronicle) CEO, Amir Hosseinpour, has stated in November 2008 that the company will announce its next generation mobile social networking platform and a deal with one of the world's largest carriers in February 2009. Juice Wireless faces stiff competition as a plethora of companies are in the market of mobile content delivery: [Radar](http://radar.net/), [Avot Media](http://www.avotmedia.com/), and [Treemo](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/treemo) are a few.

Blippar

Seed Round in 2012
Blippar is a leading technology company specialising in Augmented Reality and Computer Vision (AI). Blippar’s vision is to enhance everyday life with Augmented Reality and give you more from the world you see – more entertainment, more information, more value. Since 2011, Blippar has been pushing the boundaries of what is possible in AR and has helped thousands of brands, retailers and agencies use AR /AI across the consumer journey to deepen customer engagement, drive footfall and increase sales. Blippar gives access to an AR ecosystem with products and professional services to meet specific business needs – from consultancy to AR creation tools that publish AR content within a client's own app or rich media banners (no app required). Blippar's technology has been used by world-leading brands such as PepsiCo, Porsche, Nestlé, L’Oréal, GSK, General Mills and Procter & Gamble to create exciting and award-winning experiences. Blippar has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies by CNN, Forbes, etc. and listed 3 years in a row on CNBC's list of most disruptive companies as well as named top Business Innovator by Bloomberg and most innovative AR/VR company by Fast Company. Determined to steer the growth of the AR industry and champion this new consumer behavior, Blippar acquired Layar in June 2014, a pioneering AR company founded in the late 2000s. In June 2015, Blippar invested in smart specs company WaveOptics. WaveOptics is developing low-energy lenses that provide a live display for the wearer but can be fitted into ordinary spectacles frames.

AnyVision

Series C in 2021
AnyVision is an AI design and development company that specializes in face, object and human recognition in mass crowd events. AnyVision is the world’s leading developer of facial, body and object recognition platforms.The company solutions are built to function on any sensor, with any resolution and are proven to operate in real-time and in real-world scenarios.Through seamless integration and plug and play technology, AnyVision enables any camera to smarter by, indexing and analyzing everything the sensor sees. AnyVision was founded in 2014 and is led by academics and security experts.

Zoop

Seed Round in 2016
Zoop is a technology platform for payments and financial services. From card-present terminals to digital accounts, Zoop is a transparent white-label platform that moves the partner’s brand to the forefront. Their platform allows partners to receive, process, and manage payments using their own brands. Through it, partners from all segments create innovative payment solutions and are remunerated in all transactions regardless of form. Zoop was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

ScyllaDB

Series C in 2019
Scylla is the world’s fastest column-store database: the functionality of Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB with the speed of a light key/value store. Raw speed isn’t just a nice benchmark or a low cloud bill. Scylla’s order of magnitude improvement in performance opens a wide range of possibilities. Instead of designing a complex data model to achieve adequate performance, use a straightforward data model, eliminate complexity, and finish your NoSQL project in less time with fewer bugs. ScyllaDB was founded under the name Cloudius Systems. As Cloudius Systems, the company pioneered the unikernel trend with the development of OSv, designed from the ground up to execute a single application on top of a hypervisor for superior performance and effortless management.

ideaForge

Venture Round in 2019
ideaForge Technology Pvt. Ltd. develops and manufactures unmanned aerial systems and alternative energy products. The company offers CARBON, an autonomous hovering unmanned aerial vehicle. It also provides hand powered, USB, bike, car, and wall plug mobile chargers. ideaForge Technology Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Swift Navigation, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Swift Navigation, Inc. develops hardware and software in the area of global positioning system (GPS). It offers Piksi Multi GNSS Module, a multi-band, multi-constellation RTK GNSS receiver that provides centimeter-level accuracy; Duro Ruggedized Receiver, a ruggedized version of the Piksi Multi RTK GNSS receiver for agricultural, robotics, maritime, and outdoor industrial applications; Skylark cloud corrections service; Starling, a GNSS positioning engine designed for automotive and autonomous vehicle applications; and accessories, such as GNSS modules, radios, antennas, and cables. It offers its products online. Swift Navigation, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional location in Melbourne, Australia.

Swift Navigation, Inc.

Series B in 2017
Swift Navigation, Inc. develops hardware and software in the area of global positioning system (GPS). It offers Piksi Multi GNSS Module, a multi-band, multi-constellation RTK GNSS receiver that provides centimeter-level accuracy; Duro Ruggedized Receiver, a ruggedized version of the Piksi Multi RTK GNSS receiver for agricultural, robotics, maritime, and outdoor industrial applications; Skylark cloud corrections service; Starling, a GNSS positioning engine designed for automotive and autonomous vehicle applications; and accessories, such as GNSS modules, radios, antennas, and cables. It offers its products online. Swift Navigation, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional location in Melbourne, Australia.

DeepVision

Seed Round in 2018
DeepVision is a bearing inspection service provider.

Spyce Food Co.

Series A in 2018
Spyce is an original restaurant concept featuring a robotic kitchen that cooks and serves delicious meals. It is an intersection of technology and hospitality, making cravable or tasty and nutritious food at a broadly accessible price point. Spyce was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Somerville, MA, USA.
7Invensun (Beijing 7Invensun Technology Co.,Ltd.), founded in 2009, committed to be the leader and foregoer of eye-tracking technology in China, focus on the research and development of eye-tracking, eye-motion control, head-tracking, gaze point tracking and facial identification in the field of machine vision. The research center is located in Zhongguancun--the Silicon Valley in China, with their independent intellectual property and professional R&D team, they have planned to develop a series of product like sSee(eye-tracking device), aGlass(wearable glasses), aMouse(head-tracking mouse), AlmightyEye, etc; they also provide eye-tracking technology solutions for PC, tablet, cellphone and smart glasses. Now they are one of Qualcomm’s important parter.

Navdy

Series A in 2015
The creator of the world’s first device for your car to let you Look Forward© while Staying Connected©, Navdy’s mission is to reinvent the driving experience. At Navdy, we set out to solve a complex problem with a beautifully simple solution. To create the type of product you get and immediately forget how you ever lived without it. We believe you should be able to do all the things you do everyday simply and easily from the driver’s seat. So we set out to make driving something you Look Forward© to again. Navdy is more than a piece of hardware and more than an app—it’s an experience, and one we hope you enjoy every time you get behind the wheel. To learn more, visit www.navdy.com.

Livescribe

Series C in 2010
Founded in 2007, Live­scribe has devel­oped a break­through low-cost mobile computing platform which includes the award-winning Pulse smartpen, dot paper, smart­pen appli­ca­tions, Livescribe Desktop software, Live­scribe Online Com­munity, and development tools. Since its launch in April 2008, the Pulse smart­pen has won multiple awards, includ­ing Pop­u­lar Science’s Best of What’s New 2008, Pop­ular Mechanic’s 2008 Break­through Award, and MacWorld’s Best of Show in 2009. In addi­tion to DBL Investors, investors include VantagePoint Venture Partners and Aeris Capital.

Telcare, Inc.

Series C in 2014
Telcare wirelessly bridges the last mile between patients and physicians for the care of chronic illness using machine-2-machine cellular technology. The Company's first product in development is the TelCheck glucose meter, which automatically relays home glucose testing data to the physician or care manager and displays immediate clinical feedback and coaching on the screen of the meter. Telcare recently won the people's choice award at the 2009 CTIA show in San Diego, CA

WekaIO

Series B in 2016
WekaIO has built the world's fastest parallel file system, designed to solve the performance challenges in AI deep learning and technical computing. Matrix, WekaIO’s flagship product, leapfrogs legacy storage infrastructures by delivering the highest performance, lowest latency storage at a fraction of the cost or traditional NAS. WekaIO's software provides a seamless hybrid cloud solution between on-premises data centers and the public cloud. WekaIO has customers in several high performance markets including autonomous vehicle AI training, genomics, financial modeling, EDA, software development, satellite imaging and media and entertainment.

Cloudflare

Series D in 2015
Cloudflare is a computer service provider and network security company that protects and accelerates the Internet application development.

3D Robotics

Series C in 2015
3DR makes advanced drone technology easily accessible to the construction, mining, and surveying industries for use in data analysis. It helps users in land mapping and site scanning services in collecting accurate aerial data of the Jobsite, turning urns the drone photos into maps, models, point clouds, and providing comprehensive onboarding and ongoing support, enabling clients to take the batter and informed decisions related to construction sites. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Divide

Series B in 2013
Divide (formerly known as Enterproid) helps organizations and individuals get the most out of mobile technology and corporate BYOD policies. Divide creates a secure work environment on theirr personal phone that features an array of business-class apps, including your work email, calendar, and contacts. Work data stays secure, while their personal data stays safe from the prying eyes of their company's IT department, or worse, their boss. Divide also gives access to their own web-based device management dashboard - MyDivide - where they can remotely monitor, locate, lock and wipe their device(s)

Noom, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Noom, Inc. designs and develops a mobile health coaching software solution. It offers a platform that provides evidence-based curricula, trained cognitive behavior coaches, mobile tracking and protocol delivery, and scalable coaching tools, which allow users to manage and prevent weight increase, hypertension, diabetes. It also serves business enterprises. Noom, Inc. was formerly known as WorkSmart Labs, Inc. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in Seoul, South Korea; and Tokyo, Japan.

Particle Industries, Inc.

Series C in 2019
Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products. Particle is an IoT device platform that enables businesses to easily add the power of connectivity to any product. From hardware to connectivity to device management and cloud, Particle provides developers with tools to prototype IoT solutions quickly as well as a reliable and secure platform for enterprises to scale. Over 150,000 product builders in more than 170 countries and half of the Fortune 500 have deployed connected IoT devices powered by Particle. Listed as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2015 and named as a major player to watch in the IoT Landscape in IDC Marketscape’s 2018 Vendor Assessment, Particle’s customers include NASA, SpaceX, consumer hot tub manufacturer Jacuzzi, and coffee-brewing pioneer Keurig. Venture backed by Root Ventures, Spark Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures. Particle is based in San Francisco, CA and Shenzhen, China. Particle was founded on 2012.

ScyllaDB

Series B in 2017
Scylla is the world’s fastest column-store database: the functionality of Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB with the speed of a light key/value store. Raw speed isn’t just a nice benchmark or a low cloud bill. Scylla’s order of magnitude improvement in performance opens a wide range of possibilities. Instead of designing a complex data model to achieve adequate performance, use a straightforward data model, eliminate complexity, and finish your NoSQL project in less time with fewer bugs. ScyllaDB was founded under the name Cloudius Systems. As Cloudius Systems, the company pioneered the unikernel trend with the development of OSv, designed from the ground up to execute a single application on top of a hypervisor for superior performance and effortless management.
QuintoAndar is a platform that simplifies the rental of residential real estate for landlords and renters. With QuintoAndar, customers can work with a top-notch team that uses the best practices and best tools, be part of a high-impact project that will affect many people's lives, have autonomy to make decisions with no endless meetings, and work in an informal environment and horizontal hierarchy. Founded in February 2013 by Gabriel Braga and Andre Penha, it is headquartered in São Paulo in Brazil.

Fon

Debt Financing in 2015
Fon is the world's leading carrier WiFi provider. Pioneers of residential WiFi sharing, we revolutionised carrier WiFi with our technology, creating a globally connected WiFi network. Today, we continue to innovate through two leading business areas. Fon Solutions offers best-in-class WiFi products and services. Our cutting-edge management solutions enable service providers to configure, deliver and operate their own WiFi services. Fon Network aggregates residential and premium carrier WiFi footprints creating one coherent global WiFi network. We facilitate WiFi interconnection between carriers, provide access deals to interested parties, and enable seamless user roaming. Fon´s global clients include British Telecom, the Deutsche Telekom Group, SFR, Proximus, KPN, Cosmote, MWEB, SoftBank, Telstra, and Vodafone. To learn more, visit fon.com

Affirmed Networks

Venture Round in 2019
Affirmed Networks is transforming and advancing intelligence in mobile data networks. The company’s solution bundles gateway functionality with rich application and content delivery services into an industry-leading, virtualized solution. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts.

Excelero Storage

Series B in 2015
Excelero, Inc. provides low-latency distributed block storage solutions for web-scale and enterprise applications. It offers NVMesh, a software-defined block storage solution that features Elastic NVMe, a distributed block layer that allows unmodified applications to utilize pooled NVMe storage devices across a network at local speeds and latencies. The company’s solutions are used by various web-scale customers for data analytics and machine learning applications; enterprises; media and entertainment for post-production applications; and high-performance computing environments. Excelero, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California.

Matterport

Venture Round in 2018
Matterport develops and operates a cloud-based platform that enables users to create cloud-based 3D and virtual reality models of real-world spaces that can be experienced, changed, and shared online. Its 3D model allows people to walk through, modify, and share digital environments on devices, such as laptops and iPads. Matterport also provides Matterport Pro 3D camera to capture visual and spatial data and the appearance and dimensions of space, Matterport Cloud, for cloud hosting and processing, Matterport Spaces for playing web player, and Matterport 3D player, a web-based viewer that enables users to see and navigate through their 3D model. It also offers a 3D Showcase that enables users to navigate and visualize homes and other buildings with multiple floors. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

DeepHow

Seed Round in 2021
DeepHow develops an AI-powered learning platform for manufacturing, service, and repair. Wei-Liang Kao, Patrik Matos da Silva, and Samuel Zheng founded it in 2018, with its headquarters in New York City.

Bitbar Technologies Ltd.

Series A in 2015
Bitbar Technologies Ltd. develops cloud-based mobile application testing solution. It offers mobile application testing; codeless application test automation; and other professional services, such as systems development, testing, consulting, and training. The company offers a customizable application testing infrastructure, deployed as a private mobile device cloud or an on premise mobile device lab for large organizations. The company caters to technology, financial services, gaming, retail and e-commerce, and media industries. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland. As of August 29, 2019, Bitbar Technologies Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of SmartBear Software Inc.

AnyVision

Series B in 2020
AnyVision is an AI design and development company that specializes in face, object and human recognition in mass crowd events. AnyVision is the world’s leading developer of facial, body and object recognition platforms.The company solutions are built to function on any sensor, with any resolution and are proven to operate in real-time and in real-world scenarios.Through seamless integration and plug and play technology, AnyVision enables any camera to smarter by, indexing and analyzing everything the sensor sees. AnyVision was founded in 2014 and is led by academics and security experts.

Kiwiple

Venture Round in 2010
Kiwiple (키위플) is a Korean mobile and web application service provider that specializes in mobile application development, location-based services, social network services, and more. Kiwiple completed the development of OVJET, a location-based social networking service; Foword, a smart keyword news binder; and Magic Hour, a photography application.

Codota

Venture Round in 2022
Codota is an artificial pair programmer that learns from existing code to help you build software faster and smarter. Codota runs alongside the IDE and uses the learned code models to suggest relevant code. These suggestions save you time searching for references, and help prevent errors. Codota helps you when writing new code by predicting the code that you may need next. Codota helps you when reading and reviewing code by showing you code that applies in similar settings.

YourStory

Series B in 2017
YourStory.com is India’s largest media tech company for startups, entrepreneurs, investors, innovators and change makers. YourStory has been the single most definitive storytelling platform for entrepreneurs, innovators and change makers since 2008. Since then it has published over 20,000 stories of entrepreneurs. YourStory and sister platforms, HerStory, SocialStory, YS TV, YS Research and YS Pages have reached 60 million engaged readers. YourStory has been the most prominent startup ecosystem builder in India, hosting over 220 events across YS Meetups, TechSparks, MobileSparks and SheSparks. These events have had a direct impact on over 1.7 million people. YourStory is taking its boldest step yet as it embarks on its mission to reach out to the over 500 million Indians who will be online in 2017. This October YourStory will unveil India’s first tech product that will publish original stories in Indian languages. Even as the flagship English platform YourStory.com continues to grow rapidly, YourStory’s team will create original content in Indian languages starting with Hindi, Telugu, Bangla, Kannada, Tamil and Marathi. YourStory strongly believes in the democratisation of content and will give every Indian the power to tell their stories in their own language. Millions of Indians can narrate their stories through text, voice or video. To get an invite to access the new vernacular platform, register at india.yourstory.com.

Link Motion

Venture Round in 2010
Link Motion is a global provider of consumer and enterprise mobile Internet services. Link Motion’s portfolio of offerings includes enabling technology solutions and secure connected carputers for the ecosystem of car businesses, consumer ride-sharing services, as well as legacy mobile security, productivity, and other related applications. Link Motion was founded in 2005 and became the first mobile internet service company in China that successfully listed on the NYSE in May 2011 (under the ticker: NQ). The Company is International with offices currently in Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, Dallas, and Finland. The Company was founded for the Smartphone revolution and provided a wide range of mobile internet services and applications. Now, the Company is positioned for the future Smart Car revolution.
Apalya Technologies Private Limited provides video streaming managed services to telecom operators, handset manufacturers, and content owners in India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. It offers Myplex, an entertainment service that offers on-demand and live TV content across a selection of Hollywood and Indian movies, TV shows, video clips, and trailers, as well as a selection of live TV channels and other entertainment-related content; Mobile TV, which provides live, unicast, multicast, and broadcast of live TV to users across mobile networks globally; and rePlay TV, a destination for TV shows, premium videos, and regional content. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Hyderabad, India. As of December 22, 2015, Apalya Technologies Private Limited operates as a subsidiary of U Digital Content Private Limited.

Azion Technologies LLC

Venture Round in 2020
Azion Technologies LLC develops and operates an edge computing platform for developers and service providers to improve performance and security. It offers a platform that is used to write and deploy serverless applications; create zero trust security architectures; improve the content delivery; build IoT use cases; build and run low-latency applications; purpose-built products for routing devices and users to the edge node; process and stream data from the edge to multiple types of connectors; and deploy, control, debug, and automate edge resources. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional locations in Porto Alegre, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Valerann Ltd

Seed Round in 2018
Valerann is an end-to-end system installed on the road itself. Using different sensors, a unique algorithm, and a communication system tailored to the road’s unique requirements, the system provides real-time information to drivers and road operators. This includes danger recognition, instant accident prevention, optimal traffic flow adjustments, and autonomous cars guidance and support. Valerann system provides all these solutions in one product.

360fly, Inc.

Series C in 2016
360fly creates products and software for interactive 360º video experiences. The company has delivered a line of unique panoramic video cameras to market which include the 360fly HD and the 360fly 4K cameras. From the extreme sports enthusiast to parents shooting their children's birthday party. Their users see and share videos in a way that captivates and engages audiences like never before.
Shadowfax is an on-demand logistics network that provides tech-enabled one stop delivery solutions. Shadowfax’s unique app enables delivery of food, pharmac,y and e-commerce for businesses and helps them create customer delight using technology. With a focus on engineering pleasant experiences for the customers, Shadowfax envisions to become a desirable and trustworthy delivery platform for customers. Shadowfax is a crowdsourced delivery platform with presence in 75+ cities across India and 7000+ daily active delivery personnel. Shadowfax was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.
High Definition Vehicle Insurance offers next-generation truck insurance- real solutions for motor carriers in a rapidly changing world. High Definition Vehicle Insurance is an experienced team of insurance, technology, and trucking industry experts who deeply understand the challenges of today’s fleets. At its core, the HDVI team are composed of innovators who are passionate about developing game-changing solutions that support fleets in running safe, compliant, and profitable operations.

Welltok

Series D in 2015
Welltok is a data-driven, enterprise SaaS company that delivers the healthcare industry’s leading consumer activation platform. Welltok’s solutions empower health plans, employers, providers, and public entities to connect consumers with personalized health improvement resources, making it easy and rewarding for consumers to complete actions that optimize their health and wellbeing. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Fitbit

Series D in 2013
Fitbit inspires people to exercise more, eat better and live healthier lifestyles. The company is developing an ultra-compact wireless wearable sensor, called the Fitbit Tracker, that automatically tracks data about a person's activities, such as calories burned, sleep quality, steps and distance. The Fitbit Tracker collects activity data automatically while it is worn by the user all day. The collected data is wirelessly uploaded to a website where the wearer can see their data and track their progress toward personal goals. The website provides a motivational interface where users can share their progress, compare themselves against similar people and work toward virtual goals with their friends, family and co-workers. At the website, users can also manually log nutrition, weight and other health information in order to gain a complete picture of their health. Fitbit makes it easy to achieve a healthy lifestyle by automating the collection of health data and providing a motivating and entertaining user interface.

Brain Corp

Series C in 2017
Brain Corp is a software company licensing A.I. technology to multiple OEMs to convert their (existing) manual equipment into intelligent robots. Such robots can perceive their environments, control their motion, navigate using visual cues and landmarks, see and avoid people and obstacles. Brain Corp's software deals with cluttered and unstructured environments, including “the last mile” of self-driving cars. It is integrated with a cloud-based Robotic Operating Center to handle complex tasks via remote control and enhanced functionality.

Ridlr

Series B in 2014
Ridlr develops a public transport application that provides live timings and time-tables about buses, trains, metros, and monorails in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Pune, and Vadodara cities in India. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Mumbai, India. As of April 3, 2018, Ridlr operates as a subsidiary of ANI Technologies Private Limited.

Zoop

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Zoop is a technology platform for payments and financial services. From card-present terminals to digital accounts, Zoop is a transparent white-label platform that moves the partner’s brand to the forefront. Their platform allows partners to receive, process, and manage payments using their own brands. Through it, partners from all segments create innovative payment solutions and are remunerated in all transactions regardless of form. Zoop was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Flirtey

Series A in 2017
Flirtey provides drone delivery service of retail and e-commerce items to consumer homes. It is driven by a mission to improve lifestyles by making delivery instant for everyone. The company was the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery in the U.S., the first to perform a fully autonomous drone delivery to a home and the first to launch a commercial drone delivery service. Flirtey was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.

IguanaFix

Series B in 2016
Our mission is to simplify maintenance and field operations management providing flexibility and visibility to companies around the world. Over 40,000 technicians have completed more than one million jobs using our platform.

Matterport

Series C in 2015
Matterport develops and operates a cloud-based platform that enables users to create cloud-based 3D and virtual reality models of real-world spaces that can be experienced, changed, and shared online. Its 3D model allows people to walk through, modify, and share digital environments on devices, such as laptops and iPads. Matterport also provides Matterport Pro 3D camera to capture visual and spatial data and the appearance and dimensions of space, Matterport Cloud, for cloud hosting and processing, Matterport Spaces for playing web player, and Matterport 3D player, a web-based viewer that enables users to see and navigate through their 3D model. It also offers a 3D Showcase that enables users to navigate and visualize homes and other buildings with multiple floors. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

MoboTap

Series B in 2012
MoboTap is a mobile technology developer. The company is focused on developing mobile applications and services (mobile cloud computing) based on independent innovative research. MoboTap received ten million of funding in dollars from Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners. The company was co-funded by many senior and experienced international teams.

PayPal Holdings, Inc.

Series C in 2000
PayPal Ventures is PayPal's venture capital arm, investing in PayPal's strategic interest fields for return. Leveraging PayPal Venture's expertise and experience, PayPal – and the companies in which it invests – are helping to bring innovative solutions to market more quickly, scale them faster, and build a global financial system that is more transparent, personalized, inclusive and customer-focused. PayPal Venture's investments reinforce its commitment to leading the financial technology industry and supporting entrepreneurship.
Iridigm has developed a revolutionary new reflective color flat panel display for the mobile device market. The company's iMoD Matrix, based on MEMS technology, yields ultra-low power displays viewable in any lighting condition. Iridigm's display technology offers the potential to optimize the wireless platform for rich media interactivity. Iridigm was acquired by Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) in September, 2004.

Brain Corp

Series B in 2012
Brain Corp is a software company licensing A.I. technology to multiple OEMs to convert their (existing) manual equipment into intelligent robots. Such robots can perceive their environments, control their motion, navigate using visual cues and landmarks, see and avoid people and obstacles. Brain Corp's software deals with cluttered and unstructured environments, including “the last mile” of self-driving cars. It is integrated with a cloud-based Robotic Operating Center to handle complex tasks via remote control and enhanced functionality.

SEWORKS

Series A in 2016
SEWORKS focuses on automated offensive security to empower organizations to simulate real-world attack scenarios and discover security weaknesses in advance. SEWORKS provides Pentoma®, a fully automated web penetration testing solution. Pentoma®’s core technology employs GAMAN (Generative Adversarial Model Agnostic Networks), an AI engine built by SEWORKS specifically for offensive security purposes. SEWORKS is headquartered in San Francisco, US, and backed by SoftBank Ventures Asia, Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Ventures, and others.

Housejoy

Series B in 2015
Housejoy is a web platform that allows homeowners to browse and book quality service providers like electricians, plumbers etc. We are focused on creating an incomparable customer experience by providing homeowners with a seamless way to instantly book/schedule various services from trusted professionals.

TangoMe

Series C in 2012
TangoMe, Inc., doing business as Tango, provides free mobile messaging service application that connects with friends and family. Its application is available for various platforms, such as iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Blackberry, Kindle Fire, and PC. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California.
Airspace Technologies makes shipping faster, safer, and more transparent than ever before through people, service, and technology. Their vision is to create the most trusted delivery network the world has ever seen. Airspace integrates technology, people, and services through an industry-first automated software platform that gives their customers a true end-to-end time-critical shipping solution with full visibility. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Carlsbad, California, United States.
Shadowfax is an on-demand logistics network that provides tech-enabled one stop delivery solutions. Shadowfax’s unique app enables delivery of food, pharmac,y and e-commerce for businesses and helps them create customer delight using technology. With a focus on engineering pleasant experiences for the customers, Shadowfax envisions to become a desirable and trustworthy delivery platform for customers. Shadowfax is a crowdsourced delivery platform with presence in 75+ cities across India and 7000+ daily active delivery personnel. Shadowfax was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Spyce Food Co.

Convertible Note in 2017
Spyce is an original restaurant concept featuring a robotic kitchen that cooks and serves delicious meals. It is an intersection of technology and hospitality, making cravable or tasty and nutritious food at a broadly accessible price point. Spyce was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Somerville, MA, USA.
Shadowfax is an on-demand logistics network that provides tech-enabled one stop delivery solutions. Shadowfax’s unique app enables delivery of food, pharmac,y and e-commerce for businesses and helps them create customer delight using technology. With a focus on engineering pleasant experiences for the customers, Shadowfax envisions to become a desirable and trustworthy delivery platform for customers. Shadowfax is a crowdsourced delivery platform with presence in 75+ cities across India and 7000+ daily active delivery personnel. Shadowfax was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.
Airspace Technologies makes shipping faster, safer, and more transparent than ever before through people, service, and technology. Their vision is to create the most trusted delivery network the world has ever seen. Airspace integrates technology, people, and services through an industry-first automated software platform that gives their customers a true end-to-end time-critical shipping solution with full visibility. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Carlsbad, California, United States.

Brain Corp

Series A in 2009
Brain Corp is a software company licensing A.I. technology to multiple OEMs to convert their (existing) manual equipment into intelligent robots. Such robots can perceive their environments, control their motion, navigate using visual cues and landmarks, see and avoid people and obstacles. Brain Corp's software deals with cluttered and unstructured environments, including “the last mile” of self-driving cars. It is integrated with a cloud-based Robotic Operating Center to handle complex tasks via remote control and enhanced functionality.

Viewdle

Series B in 2010
Viewdle (www.viewdle.com) is the only independent mobile-focused visual analysis company. Viewdle enables the camera to inspire new social experiences and effortless communication. Viewdle is creating new user experiences in mobile gaming, social networking, social media, advertising and marketing, with the introduction of computer vision and recognition technologies to consumer products. Its best-of-breed recognition technology has been developed by its global research and development team, which includes nine PhDs. Available Viewdle products (http://viewdle.com/products/index.html): - SocialCamera, a face recognition-based photo-socializing product for Android phones (http://viewdle.com/products/mobile/index.html) - ViewdleUploader, a face recognition-based photo tagging product for Facebook on the desktop pc (http://viewdle.com/products/desktop/index.html) - ViewdleSDK, a face recognition SDK for augmented reality, video, and photo solutions across multiple device platforms

Quantum Machines

Series B in 2021
Quantum Machines is a start-up developing control and operation systems for quantum computers. The company also develops innovative software, hardware, and electronics, combining a range of classical engineering in the field of electrical, hardware, and software engineering, with the science and technology of quantum computing. It utilizes a range of skills such as algorithmics, digital signal processing, RF microwave engineering, machine learning, and quantum physics to push their limits. Quantum Machines was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Ingresse

Series A in 2014
Ingresse is a Brazilian social ticketing company that enables people to discover the concerts, nightclubs, parties, and theater plays of their choice. It connects organizers to their audience through an intuitive platform. Any user can post an event on Ingresse. Event creation is crowdsourced to organizers and performers. Through the platform, people have the ability to learn which of their friends will be attending specific events, where these friends will be sitting in the venue, and browse their friends’ opinions and reviews. Organizers can download Ingresse's mobile apps to validate their tickets at the door, turning their phones into scanners. The company's aim is to help people finding the right events and getting them in. Ingresse was founded in 2012.

ZopNow

Seed Round in 2012
ZopNow is a technology platform for online groceries that connects consumers from hypermarkets online. It operates in 9 cities including Delhi, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Noida, Gurgaon Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru. The company is driven by a vision to offer fresh groceries, fast and easy at customers’ doorstep in less than 3 hours or as per their preferred time slot. ZopNow was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Peak

Series A in 2015
Brainbow (now Peak) was founded in 2012 by a Physics PhD and Amazon, EA/Playfish and Google alumni. The company's mission is to reinvent how they consume and ‘play’ with knowledge - making it a more enjoyable experience and building healthy habits. Peak is brain training redesigned for the mobile you. Improve your cognitive skills and build healthy training habits with fun but challenging games, goals and workouts

Ravello Systems Inc.

Series C in 2015
Ravello Systems is the industry’s first Cloud Application Hypervisor provider. With Ravello, enterprises can encapsulate their multi-VM applications and run them anywhere – on-premise or in any cloud – without making any changes whatsoever, and thereby implement a true hybrid cloud. Ravello is offered via an easy to use Software-as-a-Service and enables developers, devops and IT to use the unlimited resources of the public cloud to develop and test their applications. Ravello Systems is backed by top tier VCs including Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.

Stratoscale

Series C in 2016
Stratoscale is the cloud infrastructure company, providing comprehensive cloud infrastructure software solutions for enterprise IT, development teams and service providers. The company’s comprehensive cloud data center software, Stratoscale Symphony, can be deployed in minutes on commodity x86 servers, providing an Amazon Web Services (AWS) experience with the ability to augment aging VMware infrastructure. Stratoscale was named a “Cool Vendor in Servers and Virtualization” by Gartner and is backed by over $70M from leading investors including: Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco, Intel, Qualcomm Ventures, SanDisk and Leslie Ventures.