Queensbridge Venture Partners

QueensBridge Venture Partners has a history of engaging in highly competitive and visible markets. Our collective experience has shaped our approach to investing by allowing us to quickly recognize and capitalize on key trends. Furthermore, by focusing on co-investment opportunities with leading venture capital funds and angel investors in Silicon Valley, we have unique access to very attractive companies. Successful venture capital investing is highly influenced by a network of reputable investors. QBVP aligns itself with firms that have proven their ability to source and invest in the next generation of leading technology companies in Silicon Valley and emerging markets. We bring capital along with our network of industry veterans and corporate relationships to accelerate the development of the companies in which we co-invest. We seek to partner with firms that generate the most value among VCs and back the companies that reach enterprise value of over $1 billion on a regular basis. The general partners of QBVP are industry veterans in consumer products & services, media & entertainment and financial services. We have (i) advised tech, media and entertainment companies in raising over $20 billion of capital at bulge bracket Wall Street firms (e.g. Goldman Sachs; Deutsche Bank) (ii) started over twenty businesses, (iii) produced and/or recorded six number 1 albums on the Billboard 200, (iv) sold over 25 million records worldwide, (v) have products in over 3,000 stores.

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Craig Vaughan

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132 past transactions

AuditFile

Seed Round in 2013

AuditFile is an information technology company that offers cloud-based auditing solutions for CPA firms. AuditFile's cloud-based solution for CPA firms that enables unparalleled management of the audit process. AuditFile automates key parts of the audit process, from uploading the trial balance to generating financial statements. They've also developed proprietary algorithms that help auditors identify potential fraud. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.

Neptune.io

Seed Round in 2014

Neptune.i is a self-healing platform to fix your server alerts automatically thereby reducing downtime for the business. Every server on the internet generates hundreds of alerts per month. Today, DevOps engineers in lot of companies are fixing these alerts manually at anytime of the day (think 2AM). We help your engineers sleep peacefully by running scripts automatically.

Genius

Series B in 2014

Genius Media Group, Inc. owns and operates an online platform for rap lyrics. The company’s platform also features charts and videos and enables contributors, editors, and musicians who sign up to discuss and deconstruct their favorite songs with fans all around the world. The company was formerly known as Rap Genius. Genius Media Group, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

KiwiCo

Series A in 2012

KiwiCo sparks creativity in kids and saves time for busy parents by providing all of the inspiration and materials necessary for hours of imaginative play and learning. With monthly deliveries of activities designed to help kids discover, explore, and create things in the world around them, KiwiCo brings hands-on fun right to the door. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountian View, California.

Pantry

Seed Round in 2014

Pantry provides instant access to fresh food through a network of swipe, grab and go kiosks. We provide a simple way for people to eat well in the workplace and on the go, allowing them to be more healthy, happy and productive. Our local food partners curate a seasonal menu of fresh meals, snacks and beverages to satisfy any appetite around the clock. Since our founding in 2012, Pantry has deployed kiosks across the US to a growing list of workplaces, hospitals, universities and hotels.

Soma

Series A in 2014

Soma Water, Inc. manufactures water filtration products for customers around the world. The company offers glass carafe products, pitchers, and filters. It offers its products through retailers. Soma Water, Inc. was formerly known as Miko, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of November 28, 2017, Soma Water, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Full Circle Home LLC.

Lumoid

Venture Round in 2014

Lumoid is a go-to source for anything and everything that matters in the world of photography gear. It aims to offer the most reliable information available for photographers, gear enthusiasts, techies, smartphone users, drone pilots, and anyone interested in the latest breakthroughs in imaging technology. Lumoid is a company based out of San Francisco, CA, United States.

DRAFT

Series A in 2015

DRAFT is a daily fantasy sports company (DFS). On DRAFT, players do simple drafts (unlike the salary cap format) just like the ones they do at the beginning of their season long leagues, but lasting one day or week, and taking only minutes to complete. DRAFT brings DFS back to what it should have been, a simple, fair and fun game, that was designed for this regulatory environment -- with player's chances of winning on DRAFT being almost 3X better than on FanDuel or DraftKings. DRAFT is backed by Upfront Ventures, The Chernin Group and more.

Parachute Home

Seed Round in 2014

Parachute Home Inc. designs and manufactures bedding products. It offers sheet sets, duvet covers, pillow cases, shams, top sheets, and fabric swatches. The company sells products online. Parachute Home Inc. is based in Santa Monica, California.

Edyn

Seed Round in 2014

The Edyn smart garden system lets you know what’s happening in your garden at all times. Whether you’re a novice gardener or managing a small-scale organic farm, Edyn is there to take the guesswork out of gardening. Inserted in the soil, the Edyn Garden Sensor gathers and analyzes data about changing weather and soil conditions. The Edyn App displays this data as a real-time snapshot of your garden, and pushes alerts and suggestions to maximize plant health.

LocoMobi

Series A in 2013

LocoMobi is reinventing parking technology. LocoMobi is the only provider of unified physical, mobile and cloud-based parking technology. LocoMobi provides complete parking revenue and access control systems as are traditionally available, but all of which are connected in real-time to cloud-based servers and integrated with license plate recognizing cameras. LocoMobi is the result of a recent merger between QuickPay and Nautical Technologies. QuickPay provides users a unified mobile payment application that works across all types of parking environments and scenarios. Nautical Technologies was the very first company to offer a cloud-based license plate recognition (LPR) system with a complete revenue engine that also provides a management system for virtual permitting systems, violation and citation management. With these two innovators merging into one company we can now offer a full and ideal parking solution by combining the best integrated parking systems.

Pluto TV

Series A in 2014

Pluto, Inc. provides streaming television services for watching live television channels and shows, movies, and Internet videos. The company also offers services in various categories, including news, sports, lifestyle, viral videos, cartoons, and more. It offers services through an app for mobile, web, and connected TV streaming devices. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California with additional locations in New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago, and Berlin. As of March 4, 2019, Pluto, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Viacom International Inc.

Billowby

Seed Round in 2014

Billowby is Zappos for the smoking accessories market -- vaporizers, water pipes, glass pipes, etc. With a keen focus on design, usability, and customer support, Billowby brings modern Web 2.0 best practices and professionalism to a notoriously unprofessional space.

Do

Seed Round in 2015

Do offers a platform that works as one place for all the notes, presentations, docs, and all other collateral to live together. The company gives the user the tools to frame the discussion, ensure things get done, and make decisions clear.

Luxola

Series C in 2014

Luxola was launched in Singapore in 2011 and has quickly grown into the destination for beauty in Southeast Asia; carrying over 4000 products and serving customers across the region including Australia, India and the UAE. Easily accessible. Luxola is committed to providing you with outstanding customer service and bringing you the best brands from around the world, under one platform. All of our products are 100% authentic. We carry over 250 brands, of which over 65 brands across multiple markets are exclusive to Luxola. Education empowers our customers. With each product, Luxola provides ‘how-to’ advice and a review platform, giving you the power to hear from others with similar skin tones and types. Staying relevant is at the core of everything we do. In addition to providing a platform to purchase all your beauty favourites when you want, every week we pen LX Edit, our digital lifestyle magazine, offering inspiration and the latest insight into makeup, skincare, hair and celebrity fashion.

Tapstack

Seed Round in 2013

Tapstack was founded in 2014 as Taptalk, and since then, we’ve built a product that’s all about helping people connect more deeply to the those they care about. Their app represents a new form of communication - something in between messaging and social media - that quickly becomes indispensible for their users. It’s the easiest way to maintain a regular, day-to-day presence in the lives of those they tap with, and more importantly, it gives them a way to share all the little moments that they might not have ever otherwise shared via phone or text.

Casper

Seed Round in 2014

Casper is a sleep startup that launches a comfortable mattress sold directly to consumers, eliminating commission driven, inflated prices. Casper's mattresses are developed in-house by a team of product engineers with experience from IDEO. The company developed a line of core sleep products, including the Casper pillow, sheets, foundation, bed frame, duvet, and a dog mattress. The startup was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, United States.

BlockCypher

Seed Round in 2015

BlockCypher, Inc. develops BlockCypher, an infrastructure fabric for block chain applications for businesses and developers. Its APIs enable developers to build block chain applications, as well as interact with block chains. The company’s platform provides solutions for B2B/B2C payments, P2P payments, identity management, faster payments and rewards, cybersecurity, payroll, FX and mobile money accounts, and fraud prevention. BlockCypher, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Abacus

Seed Round in 2014

As of July 17, 2018, Abacus operates as a subsidiary of Certify Inc.Abacus Labs, Inc. develops a cloud-based expense reporting solution for businesses. It offers Abacus, a real-time expense management and reporting software that features deposit reimbursements, creation of expenses from receipt images, expense policy automation, direct integrations, connecting with card programs, real-time insights, multi-level approval hierarchy, customization of expense fields, data storage, corporate card management and reconciliation, and online and live chat support. The company's solution is available across the iOS and ndroid formats. Abacus Labs, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Whistle

Series B in 2015

Whistle is the world's first technology company dedicated to helping pets live longer and healthier lives. Through intuitive devices and a large comparative database of pet health information, Whistle is creating a new standard for preventative care and fueling groundbreaking insights to transform veterinary medical research. The San Francisco-based company is led by animal-loving technologists, Ben Jacobs and Steven Eidelman and Kevin Lloyd.

Reaction

Seed Round in 2014

Reaction, Inc. is an innovative product company that designs and manufactures hardware and software to (re)meet a basic human need: shelter.

Drawbridge Networks

Seed Round in 2014

A new approach to the fight against sophisticated cyber attacks. Sophisticated attackers are no longer constrained by the concept of an enterprise network perimeter. These attackers are focused on gaining an initial foothold inside of an organization, then pivoting through the internal network until they achieve their intended goal. Effectively combating these types of attacks requires network segmentation and visibility solutions that were unavailable until now. PathProtect, by Drawbridge Networks, gives your security team unprecedented visibility into your network and real-time control over lateral network movement. With PathProtect, you can segment sensitive systems and quarantine infected hosts at the touch of a button. Own Your Network.

Eaze

Seed Round in 2014

Eaze Technologies, Inc. is an online marketplace and technology platform that helps provide legal access to cannabis and delivers it. Eaze Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Eaze Solutions, Inc. and changed its name to Eaze Technologies, Inc. in March 2019. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Neptune.io

Seed Round in 2014

Tradesy

Series B in 2014

Tradesy, Inc. owns and operates an online marketplace for buying and selling designer fashion. The company’s Website connects sellers to like-minded buyers, provides packaging materials, recommends pricing, and handles returns in the areas of clothing, bags, shoes, and accessories. Its Website automates shipping and returns, enhancement of user-generated content, and authentication of designer goods. Tradesy, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

sourceeasy

Seed Round in 2014

Sourceeasy is building a global framework to power apparel manufacturing and distribution. That framework consists of: - digitizing styles and its components to a mix-and-match array. - powering volume to create predictable vendor and factory behavior. - building a SaaS platform to automate manufacturing and distribution of apparel. The Sourceeasy platform indexes every style of clothing we make the first time and puts it on "Speed Dial" to vendors, turning garment production into a simple mouse click. We turn small batch, quick turn manufacturing into a predictable, repeatable, scalable process for Brands and Retailers in the $300B Fast Fashion Industry. Sourceasy was launched by Pranay Srinivasan, and Chirag Chamoli, in March 2013 and is operated from San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Hyderabad and Ho Chi Minh City.

The Noun Project

Seed Round in 2014

Creating, Sharing and Celebrating the World's Visual Language

Battlefy

Convertible Note in 2014

Battlefy, Inc. operates eSports management platform that enables the organizers to create and manage tournaments and leagues. Its platform enables college clubs, eSports organizations, and brand supporting gamers in creating signup forms, seeding teams, drawing brackets, designing sponsorship pages, and managing livestream content. Battlefy, Inc. was formerly known as 7777833 Canada Inc. and changed its name to Battlefy, Inc. in July 2013. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Delta, Canada.

fitmob

Series B in 2015

ClassPass, founded in New York City in 2014, is a monthly fitness membership that connects members to thousands of fitness studios and gyms in 36 cities around the world. We believe that leading an active lifestyle strengthens both the mind and body - and that living that lifestyle should be easier. We want to help people find experiences that matter to them, that challenge them and that move them As a series B startup with top-tier venture capital support, we've experienced tremendous growth over the past year, and we’re continuing to grow our team, expand our company and evolve our membership to enhance how our members live their every day.

Totspot

Seed Round in 2014

Totspot is a mobile marketplace to shop and sell resale fashion for the whole family. This lucrative shopping vertical allows parents to buy and shop with Instagram-like ease. Totspot shoppers personalize their shopping by size, brand preference and seller affinity, allowing for a highly customized shopping experience that results in an average 70% savings off retail price. Selling on Totspot is equally simple: it takes less than 60 seconds to post an item, and all transactions are handled in-app. Totspot is a 500 Startups (Batch 9) company based in Mountain View, CA.

Earnest

Series A in 2015

Earnest Operations LLC provides student loan refinancing, private student loans, and personal loans. Its private student loans include undergraduate private student loans, graduate private student loans, cosigned private student loans, business school loans, medical school loans, and law school loans. Its personal loans include credit card consolidation, engagement ring, home improvement, moving and relocation, vacation, and wedding loans. It serves clients in the United States through its platform. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of November 3, 2017, Earnest Operations LLC operates as a subsidiary of Navient Corporation.

Shift

Series B in 2013

Shift is an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. Shift is an online platform that enables its users to find, compare, and purchase or sell cars. Acting as a personal concierge service, the company details cars, lists them on multiple lists, handles test drives, and finds intent buyers. Charging a Shift Service Fee for registration, car prep services, and sales tax, Shift provides customers with a 150-point concierge report that includes specs, high-resolution photos, vehicle history, and results on their cars before purchase.

Earnest

Series A in 2015

Robinhood

Seed Round in 2013

Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application. Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt established the company in Menlo Park, California in 2013.

MightySignal

Seed Round in 2015

MightySignal was acquired in a two part acquisition. Xenon Partners acquired the business and Instacart acquired the team. MightySignal is a mobile application index that enables businesses to make sense of data patterns generated by mobile app companies. The company filters for applications through a web portal in order to gather behavioral data and offer understandable analytics through an API. MightySignal was founded by Jason Lew and Shane Wey in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Vengo

Series A in 2014

Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-purchase. Selected from 270 companies as "NYC Next Idea 2012," Vengo's next-generation vending machines enable brands such as Trident, Snapple, Dentyne, and Sour Patch Kids to re-engage consumers while generating attractive unit economics (expect six-month payback on new units). Vengo already has established partnerships with Mondelez (one of the largest snack food companies), Snapple, Verizon, CC Vending (second-largest NYC vending machine provider), and Creative Mobile Technologies (NYC taxis). Vengo was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Long Island City, New York.

Paperspace

Seed Round in 2015

Paperspace is a high-performance cloud computing and ML development platform for building, training and deploying machine learning models. Tens of thousands of individuals, startups and enterprises use Paperspace to iterate faster and collaborate on intelligent, real-time prediction engines.

LOFTY

Seed Round in 2013

Lofty is an expert-reviewed, online marketplace for valuable fine art, antiques and collectibles. Each Lofty item is reviewed and valued by Lofty's carefully selected network of experts, which includes qualified appraisers, current and former auction house specialists, reputable dealers, and other art world professionals with decades of experience evaluating items in their specialties. They believe buying art and antiques should come with complete peace of mind, and stand behind this commitment with a 5-year Authenticity Guarantee and a 100% Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee within seven days of delivery. Building sustainable, trusting relationships with clients is Lofty’s top priority.

Dropbox

Series C in 2014

Dropbox provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions. It aims to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working. 500 million registered users around the world use Dropbox to work the way they want, on any device, wherever they go. Founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, Dropbox is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Moreover, the company has more than 12 offices around the world, with locations in San Francisco, Austin, Dublin, Herzliya, London, New York, Paris, Seattle, Sydney, Hamburg, Washington DC, and Tokyo.

Volta Charging

Seed Round in 2014

Volta Charging is a marketing and advertising company that designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations funded by sponsor brands. The company provides a valuable community amenity in markets across the U.S. helping brands meet consumers at the optimal moment of the purchase decision. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Vantage Sports

Venture Round in 2014

Vantage Sports, Inc. provides data and video analytics platform that uses data–gathering engines that produce in-depth look at a players’ performance. It offers sports content to enterprises, media, and fans. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Bellevue, Washington. Vantage Sports, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Competitive Analytics Consulting LLC.

Vydia

Seed Round in 2014

VYDIA, Inc., doing business as VYDIA, develops and operates a centralized platform for video creators to manage their content. The company allows music creators, video creators, and agencies to publish, protect, monetize, and distribute their visual content through its platform. The company offers services, such as monetization analytics, multi-network publishing, rights management, VYDIA mobile, and agency accounts. The company serves multi-platinum artists, social influencers, independent musicians, breakout discovery acts, and entertainment outlets. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Freehold, New Jersey.

ProducePay

Seed Round in 2015

Produce Pay was first conceived at Cornell University. With strong support from experienced faculty and the student body, it was able to rapidly gain momentum. Produce Pay obtained recognition from Cornell’s entrepreneurial community and was soon dubbed "The Next Johnson Start-Up," in reference to Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management.

General Assembly

Series C in 2014

General Assembly provides education and career transformation, specializing in today’s most in-demand skills. The leading source for training, staffing, and career transitions, we foster a flourishing community of professionals pursuing careers they love. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Thinair

Seed Round in 2015

At ThinAir They are building the future of data security--and it's wrought with exciting engineering challenges! As a cloud-based SaaS product, ThinAir is the first data security solution that allows everyone—administrators and employees alike—to take control over their most sensitive data in a way that enhances, not hinders their productivity. They were the 2014 DEMO Enterprise's DEMOGod Winner and they completed Y Combinator as part of W15.

Tilt

Series A in 2013

Tilt.com, Inc. operates a funding platform for brands and businesses to collect, fundraise, or pool money. It offers its services startups, politicians, and anyone wanted to raise money online via their own and customized Websites. Tilt.com, Inc. was formerly known as Crowdtilt, Inc. and changed its name to Tilt.com, Inc. in July 2014. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has operations in the United States and Canada. As of February 22, 2017, Tilt.com, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Airbnb, Inc..

Balanced

Seed Round in 2013

Balanced is the first payment system designed for marketplaces from the ground up. We provide a feature-rich, fully integrated api that allows marketplaces to charge cards, escrow funds, deposit next day via ACH direct, and collect their own marketplace fees.

Social Trends Media, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013

Social Trends Media, Inc. operates a social media site and publishing system for people amazed by the world, who want to share that amazement with their friends. The company is a social news and media distribution company that connect social media creators and trend makers with readers and audience. It offers content in the categories, such as history, travel, science, food, nature, culture, and entertainment. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Bellhop

Series A in 2014

Bellhops, Inc. provides truck, trailer, storage unit, or mobile storage container loading and unloading services, as well as and heavy lifting services. The company offers its services through applications and online platform that connect athletic students with people and businesses needing moving help and lifting labor. It handles small and medium scale moves. The company serves the United States citizens. Bellhops, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Bond

Seed Round in 2014

Bond is a venture capital firm that supports visionary founders of high-growth Internet companies throughout their life cycle of innovation and growth. The firm, a spinout of the Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund, was launched in January 2019 founded by Mary Meeker with Mood Rowghani, Noah Knauf, and Juliet de Baubigny.

HONK

Seed Round in 2014

HONK Technologies, Inc. provides an on-demand mobile application that puts motorists/drivers in touch with towing service companies in the United States. Its application offers service options in the areas of towing, roadside assistance, dead battery, tire change, out of fuel, jump start, stuck in ditch, flatbed towing, car towing, and lock-out aspects via iOS, Android, or Web platforms. HONK Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as roadstruck, Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Virgin Mega USA

Seed Round in 2014

Virgin Mega USA is a virtual community that enables users to purchase and experience music products.

Bitfury Group

Series A in 2014

Bitfury is the leading full service Blockchain technology company and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the blockchain ecosystem. Bitfury develops and delivers both the software and the hardware solutions necessary for businesses, governments, organizations and individuals to securely move an asset across the blockchain.

CoinTent

Seed Round in 2015

Launched in 2013, CoinTent is a digital wallet and subscription service that enables users to purchase quality content, including articles, videos, blog posts, and more, for micropayments across websites. Its services provide a revenue channel for publishers, supplementing revenue sources such as advertising and subscriptions. CoinTent is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

MakeSpace

Series A in 2014

MakeSpace aims to make storage convenient and consumer-friendly, creating a tech-enabled storage experience. Customers pay only for the space they need, and schedule pickups, drop-offs, and other services through an app and digital photo inventory. The company is now available in 31 markets across North America.

Edyn

Venture Round in 2015

BeautyCon

Seed Round in 2014

BeautyCon, LLC operates as a beauty and fashion conference and content portal for the Internet's beauty and fashion icons. Its portal acts as a place where fans get to meet their online influencers at marquis events, as well as learn the latest trends, advice, and more through content. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Roomstorm

Seed Round in 2015

Roomstorm (Formerly WalkSource) is a next generation Business-to-Business network for hoteliers looking to run operations more efficiently and generate more revenue. Roomstorm empowers revenue teams to have more sellout nights by taking in last minute guest relocations from other nearby hotels as well as airlines in need of housing guests overnight. Roomstorm proudly services over 400 Bay Area hotels and continues to grow with the recent edition of our first airline partner, San Francisco based Virgin America. Our hotel partners confidently overbook their properties, exchange lower priced guests for higher priced ones, find good deals for a relocated guest end-to-end within 5 minutes. By eliminating the pain of dealing with a relocations, we make the market much more efficient.

Holidog

Seed Round in 2013

Holidog specializes in the fields of pet sitting, pet boarding, pet walking, giftbox, pet media, and startups. It features a software platform that allows pet owners to interact and find the perfect pet sitters, dog walkers, nannies, or trainers at their convenience and close to their home. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Lumific

Seed Round in 2014

Lumific was founded with the vision of simplifying and streamlining the photo editing and photo curation process. By coupling cutting-edge computer vision research with traditional photo editing techniques, we are bridging the gap between computer automated and user driven creativity.

Replenish

Seed Round in 2014

Replenish manufactures self-cleaning blenders that prepare smoothies and snacks. It also provides cups filled with various fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts for homes or offices.

fitmob

Series B in 2015

Splash

Series A in 2015

Billions of dollars are spent on worldwide events each year, making them one of the most expensive aspects of the marketing budget. Splash is the world's first tool that optimizes and validates that spend - featuring a fully integrated platform that empowers event producers to design beautiful event pages, own every lead, sell tickets and seamlessly manage communications to deliver maximum ROI.

Kickback

Seed Round in 2014

Kickback, Co. builds products for the esports industry. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Sherman Oaks, California.

Synata

Seed Round in 2014

Synata is an enterprise search engine for businesses that use cloud and on-premise software.The product connects users to their company’s structured and unstructured data so they can quickly find information across Salesforce, Google Apps, Box, Dropbox, Zendesk, JIRA, Workday, Sharepoint, Exchange, and more.

Prism Skylabs

Series B in 2013

Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms ordinary cameras into powerful business tools. Through computer vision, A.I., and machine learning, Prism unlocks valuable information from video that can be immediately understood, shared and acted upon. Leading companies in 80 countries around the world use Prism to better understand, manage and grow their business

Beyond Pricing

Seed Round in 2015

Beyond Pricing is the most popular revenue management and dynamic pricing software for the $100B vacation rental and homesharing market. Their software integrates with leading listing sites like Airbnb and VRBO, as well as the largest property management systems like HomeAway Software and Streamline, allowing property owners and managers to harness their big data machine learning algorithms to automatically adjust and update their prices everywhere they list.

Inkshares

Seed Round in 2014

Inkshares is a social platform that conflates the mechanics of crowdfunding with the distribution of traditional publishing to change the economics of book publishing. The authors submit book ideas and the readers share them, collaborate with authors, and pre-order their books. They publish books that hit their pre-order goal. Votes are cast with money as pre-orders, readers end up subsidizing their production costs. This greatly reduces their risk profile, meaning if a book doesn’t sell, the worst they can do is break even. Inkshares probes for hits without losing money. And it’s because of this model that they can pay authors 50% of gross revenue for print sales and 70% for ebook sales.

Bikanta

Seed Round in 2014

Bikanta Corporation develops nanodiamond-based technology for medical imaging applications. Its products include optical probes that are used for brightness and signal stability, biocompatibility, and customizability. The company’s technology enables researchers to answer questions and medics to detect diseases that they currently cannot. It also engages in designing imaging scanners and microscopes to improve detection capabilities. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Newark, California.

Knightscope

Series A in 2014

Knightscope, Inc. develops autonomous robots for physical security in the United States. The company’s solutions provide an autonomous physical presence, gathering data from the environment in real-time, and pushing anomalies to its user interface. It serves customers in law enforcement, healthcare, retail industries, as well as corporate campuses. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Beep Networks

Seed Round in 2014

Beep Networks develops and offers cloud-connected wireless sensors which can be used to track locations (GPS), temperature, moisture, pressure, altitude, and motion. It was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Ring

Series A in 2015

Ring is an outdoor home security company that provides homeowners a line of preventative outdoor security doorbells and cameras. It is on a mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods and empower consumers by creating a Ring of Security around homes and communities with its suite of smart home security products: Ring Video Doorbell, Ring Video Doorbell Pro, Ring Stick Up Cam, and the new Ring Floodlight Cam. With these security devices, Ring has created the neighborhood watch for the digital age and continues to prevent burglaries and keep homes around the world safe. Ring was established in 2012 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Prism Skylabs

Series A in 2012

Vantage Sports

Seed Round in 2015

Tilt

Series B in 2013

DSTLD

Seed Round in 2013

DSTLD [‘distilled’] designs and delivers premium denim and luxury essentials without retail markup, offering premium product for about 1/3 the traditional price, thanks to its direct-to-consumer business model. As its name suggests, DSTLD is careful to introduce only the most perfect and fundamental pieces within a highly edited color palate - only black, white, grey, and denim - to reinforce its mission to ‘distill’ the business of luxury essentials. It’s focused on crafting items that coincide with the LA denim culture but with a restrained, modern feel. Accordingly, the label maintains an edgy, clean, and sophisticated aesthetic, and boasts the highest level of premium design. All of DSTLD’s products are produced in the most sought after facilities in North America and Italy utilizing the finest materials from Japan, Italy, and the United States.

LessThan3

Seed Round in 2014

LessThan3, LLC operates an online platform for EDM news and reviews. The company provides updates on newest releases and events in the world of electronic music. It delivers music in various genres. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Balanced

Seed Round in 2014

Virtuix

Seed Round in 2014

Virtuix Inc. manufactures virtual reality (VR) gaming products. It offers products, such as Omni shoes, Virtuix Omni tracking pods that attach to the Omni shoes and track the movement of each foot at all times, Omni Harness, Omni Controller Mount, Virtuix VR boom, VR rack, VR stands, VR blinder, Omni kids kit, XS harness Insert, Omni base, Omni soap, Retractable banner, and Standee. The company also develops Omniverse ESPORTS, a virtual reality motion platform for gaming applications; Omniverse, a content distribution and arcade management platform; and Omniverse VR ARENA, a virtual reality attraction that lets players run inside video games. Virtuix Inc. sells its products online and through distributors. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Austin, Texas with additional offices in Zhuhai and Shanghai, China. Virtuix Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Virtuix Holdings Inc.

Social Trends Media, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016

Lyft

Series D in 2014

Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ridesharing company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population. Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.

RadPad

Seed Round in 2014

RadPad is a developer of a property searching mobile application used to find new apartments, condos, or homes. It is an end-to-end rental marketplace focused around people. Renters use RadPad to find a place, sign their lease, and pay rent. Landlords use RadPad to list places, sign leases electronically, and accept rents.

cielo24

Seed Round in 2013

cielo24 delivers searchable captions for large media platform partners in the online education, enterprise, and entertainment markets. Their industrial grade platform creates high quality, searchable data from unstructured media including indexes, transcripts and captions. Their specialty is delivering highly integrated, customized, scalable solutions for their clients at high quality, low cost and speed. They focus on professional Internet media helping their clients deliver ROI for online media by extending reach, content discovery and equal access compliance. They provide all their products and integrations for a single low per minute price with no setup fees.

Tilt

Series B in 2013

Immediately

Seed Round in 2015

Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce. Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, to sending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows. We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.

Awesome Sauce Labs

Seed Round in 2014

Capture yourself from the air. It's smarter than a Roomba and easier than Instagram.

AlphaDraft

Pre Seed Round in 2015

AlphaDraft also brought on board strategic backers in Melo7 Tech Partners (the investment shop founded by Knicks superstar Carmelo Anthony) and former NBA Commissioner David Stern.

ONEHOPE

Series B in 2013

ONEHOPE, Inc owns and operates vineyards; and produces wines. The company offers wines, including red, white, rose, and sparkling wines. It offers its products through hotels, restaurants, bars, and retail stores in the United States. In addition, it offers wines, gourmet coffee, hats, gift baskets, gift sets, t-shirts, bracelets, and v-neck tees through an online portal. The company also offers its products through distributors in the United States, China, and Puerto Rico. ONEHOPE, Inc was founded in 2006 and is based in Santa Ana, California.

BlockCypher

Seed Round in 2015

Unoceros

Seed Round in 2015

Unoceros is a company that provides cellphone users with the ability to turn their cellphones into a computing network. Unoceros is creating a massive, distributed computing network out of mobile devices. The Unoceros app utilizes the processing power of users’ devices when these devices would otherwise be idle, and pays each user for this access. That computing power can then be used by scientists and researchers as a faster, cheaper, and highly scalable alternative to traditional high performance computing solutions. Unoceros is optimizing existing technology for the betterment of humanity by facilitating cutting edge research.

Caarbon

Seed Round in 2014

Caarbon, Inc. provides on-demand valet services in San Francisco, California. The company offers short-term parking and vehicle management solutions. Its service provides a platform that enables users to coordinate pick up and return of a vehicle to and from a designated locations. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

mitú

Series B in 2015

mitú connect brands, content buyers, and creators to Latino youth in America. It is a home away from home for Latinos in the U.S. They are young, edgy, smart, loud, funny, relevant, proud, and united.They are what it means to be Latino.

Wellframe

Series A in 2014

Wellframe is a hospital and healthcare it provides a digital health management solutions that include care management support, digital concierge solutions, and transformation services. It helps healthcare organizations by providing solutions that enable them to support people longitudinally between traditional clinical interactions. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Inkshares

Seed Round in 2014

Local ID

Seed Round in 2015

Local ID is a cloud-based intelligence platform that provides multi-unit brands with the data, tools, and process to build a dynamic local marketing playbook. The company provides its customers with unprecedented visibility into the identity of every store, including the opportunities, and marketing activities that surround them. Founded in 2014 by Alex Nocifera, Andrea Shuff, Jason McDonnell, and Manjunath P Reddy.

Matternet

Seed Round in 2016

Matternet is a technology platform for urban aerial delivery. In March 2017, Matternet became the first company in the world to be authorized for urban drone delivery operations in Switzerland. In May 2018, the company was selected to participate in the FAA's Drone Integration Pilot Program for operations in North Carolina and San Diego. In March 2019, Matternet and UPS announced a partnership to implement drone delivery services at US hospitals and launched the first ongoing revenue drone delivery operation in US history at Wakemed in North Carolina. Founded in 2011, Matternet is headquartered in Mountain View, California

Fuisz Media Inc.

Seed Round in 2014

Fuisz turns any video into an interactive experience, allowing the viewer to touch, hover or click on any object to discover new content. This can include product information, innovative branded experiences, direct links to company websites and the ability to buy the item. Fuisz works with the world’s top advertising agencies and global brands such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Victoria’s Secret, Gillette and Target to unlock the video experience, delivering significant increases in engagement that maximize return on digital advertising spend. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica.

Pro.com

Series A in 2014

Pro.com is a full-service remodeling general contractor in Seattle, Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area, Denver, and Phoenix. Pro.com is streamlining the residential construction experience with a team of construction experts and its own technology — such as a pricing engine that makes sure bids are accurate, detailed and mobile-friendly estimates, and project management tools that give both Pro.com staff homeowners a window into their projects.