Ridge Ventures

Ridge Ventures, formerly known as IDG Ventures SF, is a venture capital and private equity firm based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1997, the firm specializes in seed, early-stage, and bridge investments, primarily targeting enterprise IT and consumer companies. Ridge Ventures focuses on sectors such as new media, e-commerce, and information technology, with particular attention to media, Internet infrastructure, computer hardware, and enterprise software. The firm typically invests in privately held companies located west of the Mississippi River, with investment amounts ranging from $0.25 million to $5 million per round. Ridge Ventures is dedicated to supporting experienced founders who are innovating in the software space, including areas like SaaS, infrastructure solutions, adtech, gaming, and e-commerce. The firm emphasizes the belief that significant problems present substantial opportunities, and it actively seeks to lead or participate in larger investment rounds to foster growth in its portfolio companies.

Mary Boyajian

Analyst

Yousuf Khan

Partner

Lee, Derrick

CFO

175 past transactions

Asimily

Venture Round in 2022
Asimily's IoMT risk remediation platform holistically secures the mission-critical healthcare devices that deliver safe and reliable care. With the largest knowledgebase of medical devices and protocols, Asimily inventories and classifies every device across a healthcare organization, connected and stand-alone. We identify and prioritize vulnerabilities and provide actionable intelligence to remediate vulnerabilities in an efficient and effective manner . Because risk assessment – and threats – aren’t a static target, Asimily monitors your devices, detects anomalous behavior and alerts operators to remediate the identified anomalies. With safe and secure medical devices and traditional IoT, organizations can keep resources safe, patients safe and IT assets secure. Asimily. Healing the Devices That Heal.

Arya

Seed Round in 2022
Arya provides workforce ops teams with all the building blocks they need to automate how they onboard, staff, pay, motivate and move the people who move the world.

Cerby

Seed Round in 2022
Cerby provides identity teams with the only comprehensive access management platform for disconnected applications. Harnessing the power of identity providers, Cerby removes the need for manual tools and compensating controls (like enterprise password managers) by automating everyday human security tasks based on single sign-on and lifecycle management cues from upstream identity providers. This allows Cerby to protect any application independent of standards support e.g., SSO, SAML, SCIM, etc. Cerby's patent-pending access orchestration engine is the first and only one to make passwordless authentication an immediate reality for disconnected applications. Cerby saves time and money by automating manual tasks, like offboarding and 2FA enrollment, and providing IAM professionals with deep visibility and control of disconnected applications. With Cerby, identity teams can extend access, minimize risk, and lower costs.

Spectrum Labs

Series B in 2022
Spectrum Labs is a technology company, platform, and community that focuses on making the internet a safer and more valuable place for all. The company identifies toxic behaviors across text, voice, and languages enabling trust and safety teams to reduce content moderation costs and increase the detection of brand-destroying behaviors.

Chisel

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Chisel develops a product management tool that enables product managers to craft products. It allows users to create roadmaps, build team alignment, and collect customer feedback.

Spare

Series A in 2021
Spare is a mobility management software company that enhances public transit services through on-demand and shared transportation solutions. The platform integrates various modes of transport, enabling efficient and accessible mobility for all users. Their platform uses advanced algorithms and data analytics to optimize routes, reduce wait times, and improve overall efficiency for transportation services. By optimizing transportation services and promoting shared rides, Spare Labs reduces traffic congestion and emissions, supporting more sustainable urban mobility.

Ontic

Series B in 2021
Ontic makes software that corporate and government security professionals use to proactively manage threats, mitigate risks, and make businesses stronger. Built by security and software professionals, the Ontic Platform connects and unifies critical data, business processes, and collaborators in one place, consolidating security intelligence and operations. We call this Connected Intelligence. Ontic serves corporate security teams across key functions, including intelligence, investigations, GSOC, executive protection, and security operations.

Habu

Series B in 2021
Habu is a marketing data operating system that enables brands to enrich first-party data in a privacy-first world. Its data operating system generates value analytics from controlled datasets. With Habu, brands can build a durable data foundation and drive multi-channel personalization with automated privacy compliance. The company is based in San Francisco and has offices in Boston and New York.

Asimily

Venture Round in 2021
Asimily's IoMT risk remediation platform holistically secures the mission-critical healthcare devices that deliver safe and reliable care. With the largest knowledgebase of medical devices and protocols, Asimily inventories and classifies every device across a healthcare organization, connected and stand-alone. We identify and prioritize vulnerabilities and provide actionable intelligence to remediate vulnerabilities in an efficient and effective manner . Because risk assessment – and threats – aren’t a static target, Asimily monitors your devices, detects anomalous behavior and alerts operators to remediate the identified anomalies. With safe and secure medical devices and traditional IoT, organizations can keep resources safe, patients safe and IT assets secure. Asimily. Healing the Devices That Heal.

Archera

Series A in 2021
Archera is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud cost optimization, reserved instances, dev ops, and finance. Its software automates purchasing, renewing and exchanging EC2 RIs and CRIs.

Aircover.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Aircover leverages GenAI for live sales calls. It uplevels your reps with in-the-moment guidance for positioning, process, technical product features, and more. Don’t leave promising accounts stalled and uncommitted while your rep tracks down details. Give everyone direct access to effective messaging and instant technical depth on every call, and better account direction afterwards. Aircover is built for sales changemakers and reformers—enablement leaders, sales managers, and RevOps teams—who see a path to higher revenue through greater rep efficiency using AI. Don’t leave promising accounts stalled and uncommitted while your rep tracks down details. Give direct access to effective messaging and instant technical depth on every call. Follow up consistently with better account direction afterwards. Your go-to-market teams are ready for reform. Equip them better with in-game assistance.

Ketch

Series A in 2021
Ketch is a data control platform that manages compliance with privacy regulations. Ketch is a new way for businesses to automate data privacy and security helps businesses build trust with consumers while controlling and harnessing data to fuel core operations and top-line growth.

Rewind

Series B in 2021
Rewind develops an automatic data backup platform designed to protect business data. Their backup data facilitates automatic updates, restores lost data and eliminates technical skills. They enable clients to back up, restore, and copy the information stored in software-as-a-service applications.

Rafay Systems

Series B in 2021
Rafay Systems offers the industry’s first cloud-made Kubernetes Operations Platform to help enterprises maximize the value of containerized applications that deliver today’s business innovation. With Rafay’s unified platform teams can operate modern application infrastructure at scale across public clouds, data centers, and the edge. End-to-end services help streamline deploying clusters and apps across multiple environments and deliver enterprise-grade control and governance to devops workflows. This breakthrough approach brings a new and much-needed operations mindset to the Kubernetes Management market. With the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform, platform teams enjoy centralized visibility, management and automation across once disparate processes and systems, resulting in the improved delivery of modern applications. Rafay’s growing customer roster includes clients such as Verizon, MoneyGram, and Guardant Health.

Loop

Series B in 2021
Retain customers and revenue with the most advanced returns and exchanges app on Shopify. Customers can seamlessly swap their product for any new variant.Loop will place the new order within Shopify, triggered by return package movements. Smooth for the customer and totally hands free for you. Loop Triggers, the app is able process a return at any point on its way back to you, getting an exchange or refund in customer's hands within just a few days. If automated processing isn't your thing, issue refunds and place new exchange orders with just one click in the Loop Admin Panel.

Lightyear

Series A in 2021
Buy and manage your business telecom services (internet, voice, WAN, data center) through a single, trustworthy pane of glass. Carrier neutral. Transparent. Fast.

MaintainX

Series B in 2021
MaintainX is a provider of a work order and procedure digitization platform for industrial and frontline teams. The company's platform helps companies streamline maintenance operations, improve asset management, and manage regulatory compliance and audits. It also delivers a modern, IoT-enabled solution for maintenance, reliability, and operations teams. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Ketch

Series A in 2021
Ketch is a data control platform that manages compliance with privacy regulations. Ketch is a new way for businesses to automate data privacy and security helps businesses build trust with consumers while controlling and harnessing data to fuel core operations and top-line growth.

Zipline

Series B in 2021
Zipline is the operations platform that powers retail’s most complex work. Built by retail for retail, Zipline understands the unique pressures stores are facing today and ensures that everyone in the field has the information, context and tools needed to be successful in their particular roles. By aligning the fleet, Zipline enables digital transformation at Rite Aid, agility at Sephora and cost savings at Gap Inc.

Rewind

Series A in 2021
Rewind develops an automatic data backup platform designed to protect business data. Their backup data facilitates automatic updates, restores lost data and eliminates technical skills. They enable clients to back up, restore, and copy the information stored in software-as-a-service applications.

Spectrum Labs

Series A in 2020
Spectrum Labs is a technology company, platform, and community that focuses on making the internet a safer and more valuable place for all. The company identifies toxic behaviors across text, voice, and languages enabling trust and safety teams to reduce content moderation costs and increase the detection of brand-destroying behaviors.

InCountry

Series A in 2020
InCountry is a data residency-as-a-service platform that enables global data compliance for international business. The platform securely stores, processes, and regulates profile data in its country of origin, helping multinationals scale by providing easy integration in under ten minutes. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco with operations in 65 countries. InCountry is s backed by Accenture, Caffeinated Capital, Arbor Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Felicis Ventures, Mubadala, and Charles River Ventures.

Deduce

Seed Round in 2020
Deduce protects businesses and their customers from unauthorized account access, data leakage, and identity fraud. We eliminate fraud in real-time using risk algorithms and behavioral analytics across the most comprehensive network of consumer identity data. This empowers any organization to harness the value of collective identity-based threat intelligence and cybersecurity.

TrueRoll

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Empowering governments to maintain always-accurate property tax rolls by identifying both unqualified and unclaimed homestead exemptions - generating new revenue and trust with TrueRoll™.

Alembic

Seed Round in 2020
Alembic is a startup in the marketing technology sector focused on creating innovative solutions to enhance digital marketing strategies. The company is developing a marketing event conversion and correlation engine that utilizes artificial intelligence to streamline marketing efforts for businesses. This engine is designed to provide media valuation, attribution, correlation analysis, and forecasting by processing billions of data points from various digital marketing tools. By doing so, Alembic aims to offer clients a comprehensive understanding of their marketing footprint and brand value. This approach enables organizations to uncover audience-focused, cross-brand insights that reveal the true impact of their marketing activities.

Habu

Series A in 2020
Habu is a marketing data operating system that enables brands to enrich first-party data in a privacy-first world. Its data operating system generates value analytics from controlled datasets. With Habu, brands can build a durable data foundation and drive multi-channel personalization with automated privacy compliance. The company is based in San Francisco and has offices in Boston and New York.

Horizon3.ai

Venture Round in 2020
Horizon3.ai develops NodeZero which provides an autonomous penetration testing solution that helps customers find and fix attack vectors. NodeZero, Horizon3.ai's automated penetration testing solution, enables continuous security posture assessments across external, identity, on-premises, IoT, and cloud attack surfaces. Using APTs, ransomware, and other threat actors as models, the solution efficiently identifies potential vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, harvested credentials, and risky product defaults. NodeZero stands out as a true self-service SaaS offering, safe for production use without persistent or credentialed agents, giving enterprises an attacker's perspective on their security landscape.

Outlier

Series B in 2020
Outlier offers analytic solutions that enable businesses to make better decisions. Moreover, Outlier monitors business data and notifies the user when unexpected changes occur.

Alembic

Seed Round in 2020
Alembic is a startup in the marketing technology sector focused on creating innovative solutions to enhance digital marketing strategies. The company is developing a marketing event conversion and correlation engine that utilizes artificial intelligence to streamline marketing efforts for businesses. This engine is designed to provide media valuation, attribution, correlation analysis, and forecasting by processing billions of data points from various digital marketing tools. By doing so, Alembic aims to offer clients a comprehensive understanding of their marketing footprint and brand value. This approach enables organizations to uncover audience-focused, cross-brand insights that reveal the true impact of their marketing activities.

Petabyte Technology

Series A in 2019
Petabyte Technology provides a veterinary management solution that emphasizes practice productivity and exceptional patient care. The company's cloud-based software gives veterinary practitioners greater understanding and control over their business. Petabyte Technology was founded in 2019 and is based in Bellevue, WA.

Sama

Series A in 2019
Sama is a globally recognized leader in data annotation solutions for enterprise AI models that require the highest accuracy. As an industry pioneer with 15-years of experience, Sama’s expertise and solutions are trusted by leading companies such as GM, Ford, Continental, Google, and many more. Sama specializes in image, video, language, lidar, and sensor data annotation and validation for complex machine learning algorithms. As a leader in ethical AI and as a Certified B-Corp, we’ve pioneered an impact model that harnesses the power of markets for social good, and has been proven to meaningfully improve employment and income outcomes for those with the greatest barriers to formal work. So far, helping more than 60,000 people lift themselves out of poverty.

Pulsar AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Pulsar AI is the conversational AI for Auto Dealers that helps schedule appointments with no human involvement.

Loop

Series A in 2019
Retain customers and revenue with the most advanced returns and exchanges app on Shopify. Customers can seamlessly swap their product for any new variant.Loop will place the new order within Shopify, triggered by return package movements. Smooth for the customer and totally hands free for you. Loop Triggers, the app is able process a return at any point on its way back to you, getting an exchange or refund in customer's hands within just a few days. If automated processing isn't your thing, issue refunds and place new exchange orders with just one click in the Loop Admin Panel.

Rafay Systems

Series A in 2019
Rafay Systems offers the industry’s first cloud-made Kubernetes Operations Platform to help enterprises maximize the value of containerized applications that deliver today’s business innovation. With Rafay’s unified platform teams can operate modern application infrastructure at scale across public clouds, data centers, and the edge. End-to-end services help streamline deploying clusters and apps across multiple environments and deliver enterprise-grade control and governance to devops workflows. This breakthrough approach brings a new and much-needed operations mindset to the Kubernetes Management market. With the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform, platform teams enjoy centralized visibility, management and automation across once disparate processes and systems, resulting in the improved delivery of modern applications. Rafay’s growing customer roster includes clients such as Verizon, MoneyGram, and Guardant Health.

InCountry

Series A in 2019
InCountry is a data residency-as-a-service platform that enables global data compliance for international business. The platform securely stores, processes, and regulates profile data in its country of origin, helping multinationals scale by providing easy integration in under ten minutes. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco with operations in 65 countries. InCountry is s backed by Accenture, Caffeinated Capital, Arbor Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Felicis Ventures, Mubadala, and Charles River Ventures.

Bolt

Series B in 2019
Bolt is on a mission to democratize commerce. Bolt strengthens retailers’ relationships with their customers by unlocking secure, logged-in, lightning-fast checkouts. The company’s rapidly growing network of one-click-checkout-ready shoppers visits Bolt merchants as if they are return customers. Hundreds of retailers including, REVOLVE, Casper, Badgley Mischka, and LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics leverage Bolt to offer their shoppers the seamless checkout experiences they’ve come to expect across the internet. Bolt was established in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Deduce

Seed Round in 2019
Deduce protects businesses and their customers from unauthorized account access, data leakage, and identity fraud. We eliminate fraud in real-time using risk algorithms and behavioral analytics across the most comprehensive network of consumer identity data. This empowers any organization to harness the value of collective identity-based threat intelligence and cybersecurity.

Tempered

Venture Round in 2019
Tempered is a cyber risk management company that reduces cyber risks by providing point and click identity-based micro-segmentation. Its security and cloud network allow users to segment anything to achieve micro-segmentation for an IP resource without infrastructure change or disruption. Tempered Networks was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

InCountry

Seed Round in 2019
InCountry is a data residency-as-a-service platform that enables global data compliance for international business. The platform securely stores, processes, and regulates profile data in its country of origin, helping multinationals scale by providing easy integration in under ten minutes. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco with operations in 65 countries. InCountry is s backed by Accenture, Caffeinated Capital, Arbor Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Felicis Ventures, Mubadala, and Charles River Ventures.

MaintainX

Seed Round in 2019
MaintainX is a provider of a work order and procedure digitization platform for industrial and frontline teams. The company's platform helps companies streamline maintenance operations, improve asset management, and manage regulatory compliance and audits. It also delivers a modern, IoT-enabled solution for maintenance, reliability, and operations teams. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Medal

Seed Round in 2019
Medal is a short-form gaming video clips platform used to share digital game clips and highlights with gamers. Its platform helps to capture the final seconds of gameplay utilizing completely different recording mechanisms that can be shared on the application that provide clips of live streams and that enable users to share their skills and get an enjoyable experience. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Naarden, North-Holland.

Jyve

Series A in 2019
Jyve is a tech platform that matches brands’ in-store execution needs with the right skilled labor, at the right time. Operational in most of America, Jyve offers brands access to certified skilled Jyvers who are complete asks to handle tasks including stocking, auditing, ordering and display building.

Uplift

Series C in 2019
Uplift is an enterprise buy now, oay later solution serving over 100 of the world's top travel brands. Through personalized, flexible payment options, Uplift helps consumers take control of their budget and experience a world of travel. With a complete range of payment options, Uplift unlocks higher conversions and lifetime customer value for merchant partners.

Grabango

Series A in 2019
Grabango is a checkout-free technology for existing, large-scale grocery, and convenience stores. Grabango is working with billion-dollar global retailers to retrofit existing stores to make waiting in lines a thing of the past. They just raised $39M in Series B funding, and we are excited to accelerate the growth of their team and their store deployments to deliver on their mission to eliminate lines and save people time. With Grabango, shoppers choose their items as usual, and then skip the line by scanning a code in their Grabango app on the way out. Our solution uses computer vision technology to identify items as they are picked up. It counts those items and sends the receipt to the shopper’s phone after they leave the store. Grabango delivers a seamless shopping experience that is becoming the global standard. Driven by passion to improve peoples’ daily lives, our technology brings computer vision and machine learning to existing brick-and-mortar stores by processing the interactions between people and products. We are the first and only company to successfully retrofit checkout-free technology into an existing store and work with high accuracy in a dynamic, real world environment. No facial recognition technology is used and all data is anonymized to protect customer privacy. Founded in 2016, Grabango is based in Berkeley, California.

Nightcorn

Seed Round in 2018
Nightcorn is a media app designed specifically for video content.

Upwave

Series B in 2018
Upwave is a marketing analytics company providing brand marketing measurement technology to brands, agencies, and publishers. The company offers scaling, real-time brand insights, and optimization. Their customers include CPG, technology, and financial services as well as advertising agencies.

Outlier

Series A in 2018
Outlier offers analytic solutions that enable businesses to make better decisions. Moreover, Outlier monitors business data and notifies the user when unexpected changes occur.

Kazoo

Corporate Round in 2018
Kazoo is an all-in-one Employee Experience platform that combines recognition, performance, and engagement in one powerful solution. By bringing together Real-time Recognition & Rewards, Continuous Performance Management, and Employee Engagement Surveys, Kazoo’s employee-first solution enables companies to build purpose-driven cultures while increasing productivity, retention, and revenue. With over 600 global customers, the Kazoo platform puts actionable analytics in the hands of business leaders, connecting them to what really matters. Kazoo is when work is working.

KIXEYE

Series D in 2018
Founded in 2007, KIXEYE (formerly Casual Collective) is an independent game developer that makes games for gamers by gamers. Responsible for popular titles like Desktop Defender, Backyard Monsters, Battle Pirates and War Commander. KIXEYE is the first to deliver proper game play experiences on social networks. The company is based in San Francisco and backed by Trinity Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Phoenix Labs

Series B in 2018
Phoenix Labs is an independent game studio that specializes in creating AAA multiplayer games. The company focuses on providing its clients with online co-operative experiences with strong narratives. Phoenix Labs was founded in 2014 by Jesse Houston, Sean Bender, and Robin Mayne. It is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Trifacta

Series D in 2018
Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative, visual data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate data pipelines, enabling consumable data at any scale. With universal data connectivity, Trifacta provides flexibility to connect to any data from any source for any application. Using an AI-assisted, self-service approach, Trifacta users can collaborate to evaluate, correct, and validate data quality, accelerate data transformation, and automate robust data pipelines. Trifacta’s open cloud platform drives increased business value through informed decisions. Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 10,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data engineering cloud platform. Learn more at https://www.trifacta.com

nWay

Series B in 2017
nWay was founded in 2011 with the goal of creating fun console-quality multiplayer games for both the web and mobile platforms. All of nWay’s games will be free-to-play and will feature synchronous multiplayer gameplay. The company is led by gaming and startup veterans and is based in San Francisco. The company is currently working on its first title, ChronoBlade, a free-to-play Action RPG game for the web and mobile platforms. Play the beta at www.chronoblade.com.

Tempered

Venture Round in 2017
Tempered is a cyber risk management company that reduces cyber risks by providing point and click identity-based micro-segmentation. Its security and cloud network allow users to segment anything to achieve micro-segmentation for an IP resource without infrastructure change or disruption. Tempered Networks was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Braze

Series D in 2017
Braze is a comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. Context underpins every Braze interaction, helping brands foster human connection with consumers through interactive conversations across channels that deliver value quickly and continuously. The company was named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms and was recognized as one of Inc Magazine's 2019 Best Workplaces. Braze is headquartered in New York with offices in Chicago, London, San Francisco, and Singapore. Learn more at braze.com.

Super Bit Machine

Series A in 2017
Super Bit Machine is a revolutionizing, spectator-friendly, and competitive gaming for tablet and smartphone devices. The company develops competitive and real-time multiplayer games. The company’s first product is Armajet, which is currently under development stages. Armajet is an accessible, free-to-play multiplayer shooter game designed for mobile that pits teams of players against each other in fast-paced jetpack combat. Super Bit Machine is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2015 by Nicola Geretti and Alexander Krivicich.

Fastly

Series E in 2017
Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust the Fastly edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand. The company's edge cloud platform enables the best of the web to thrive and helps to deliver better online experiences. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SafeGraph

Series A in 2017
SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI. Its high-precision places data covers business listings, building footprints, and aggregated foot traffic data for millions of points of interest (POI) and thousands of brands in the US and Canada. With detailed brand affiliation, spatial hierarchy, and other key business details, SafeGraph data informs market analytics, investment research, site selection, and more. It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kazoo

Series A in 2017
Kazoo is an all-in-one Employee Experience platform that combines recognition, performance, and engagement in one powerful solution. By bringing together Real-time Recognition & Rewards, Continuous Performance Management, and Employee Engagement Surveys, Kazoo’s employee-first solution enables companies to build purpose-driven cultures while increasing productivity, retention, and revenue. With over 600 global customers, the Kazoo platform puts actionable analytics in the hands of business leaders, connecting them to what really matters. Kazoo is when work is working.

Espresa

Series A in 2016
Espresa is the world’s first Culture Benefits® platform that includes a suite of integrated tools with a modern digital experience that people love. Supporting HR and people teams, Espresa drives workplace culture through employee experience and engagement programs such as rewards and recognition, employee resource groups, wellbeing and fitness, challenges and achievements, reimbursements and allowances, and meetups and event scheduling. Discover how Espresa makes heroes out of HR teams while engaging people, wherever they are. Espresa is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Learn more at Espresa.com The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

LeapLife

Pre Seed Round in 2016
LeapLife is an established insurtech platform and digital life insurance agency that utilizes data science, deep underwriting knowledge, and proprietary technology, enabling consumers to apply for instant-decision life insurance policies with real-time quotes. LeapLife works with best-in-class insurance carriers to offer consumers a seamless experience from beginning to end. This approach made Even and LeapLife a perfect match.

Tempered

Series B in 2016
Tempered is a cyber risk management company that reduces cyber risks by providing point and click identity-based micro-segmentation. Its security and cloud network allow users to segment anything to achieve micro-segmentation for an IP resource without infrastructure change or disruption. Tempered Networks was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

JumpCloud

Series B in 2016
JumpCloud is an open directory platform for secure, frictionless access from any device to any resource, anywhere. JumpCloud’s mission is to Make Work Happen, providing simple, secure access to corporate technology resources from any device, or any location. The JumpCloud Directory Platform gives IT, security operations, and DevOps a single, cloud-based solution to control and manage employee identities, their devices, and apply Zero Trust principles. JumpCloud has a global user base of more than 100,000 organizations, with over 3,000 customers including Cars.com, GoFundMe, Grab, ClassPass, Uplight, Beyond Finance, and Foursquare. JumpCloud is backed by BlackRock, General Atlantic, OpenView, and Foundry Group.

Heymarket

Seed Round in 2016
Heymarket is omnichannel messaging with customers. It provides business grade features, like shared inboxes, assignments, templates, and reminders, for SMS and Facebook Messenger. With Heymarket, businesses can communicate with customers and partners with the channels they're most comfortable with. Heymarket's native iOS and Android apps that have been featured. The web app includes powerful administrative features to help businesses manage permissions, messages, contacts, and integrations.

Braze

Series C in 2016
Braze is a comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. Context underpins every Braze interaction, helping brands foster human connection with consumers through interactive conversations across channels that deliver value quickly and continuously. The company was named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms and was recognized as one of Inc Magazine's 2019 Best Workplaces. Braze is headquartered in New York with offices in Chicago, London, San Francisco, and Singapore. Learn more at braze.com.

Projector

Seed Round in 2016
Projector, founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, develops a mobile notification platform aimed at enhancing product experiences for developers and product teams. The company focuses on creating collaborative tools for visual communication, enabling users to integrate videos, GIFs, social media, and presentations into their applications. By facilitating visual storytelling, Projector helps teams expand their creative capabilities beyond traditional app boundaries.

Trifacta

Series C in 2016
Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative, visual data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate data pipelines, enabling consumable data at any scale. With universal data connectivity, Trifacta provides flexibility to connect to any data from any source for any application. Using an AI-assisted, self-service approach, Trifacta users can collaborate to evaluate, correct, and validate data quality, accelerate data transformation, and automate robust data pipelines. Trifacta’s open cloud platform drives increased business value through informed decisions. Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 10,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data engineering cloud platform. Learn more at https://www.trifacta.com

Chubbies Shorts

Series A in 2016
Chubbies is an eCommerce company dedicated to men's short shorts. The company revolves around a customer service-focused business model offering free three-day shipping, free returns, social advertising campaigns, and dedicated human customer service lines. Currently, they are only sold on the Chubbies website.

ThirdLove

Series A in 2016
ThirdLove is a women’s lifestyle brand that offers a range of lingerie and underwear to every woman. The company's mission is to help every woman find her perfect fit by combining design and technology. Instead of using standard industry measurements, ThirdLove bras are designed with real women in mind and developed proprietary ½-cup sizes based on thousands of real women’s measurements to help women everywhere find a better-fitting bra.

Next Games

Series B in 2016
Next Games is a free-to-play developer based in Helsinki, Finland. Our priority is to create compelling and easy gameplay experience. It specializes in games based on entertainment franchises, such as movies, TV series, or books. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.

Espresa

Seed Round in 2015
Espresa is the world’s first Culture Benefits® platform that includes a suite of integrated tools with a modern digital experience that people love. Supporting HR and people teams, Espresa drives workplace culture through employee experience and engagement programs such as rewards and recognition, employee resource groups, wellbeing and fitness, challenges and achievements, reimbursements and allowances, and meetups and event scheduling. Discover how Espresa makes heroes out of HR teams while engaging people, wherever they are. Espresa is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Learn more at Espresa.com The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

cClearly, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
cClearly is a marketing analytics and optimization technology provider that helps marketers increase revenues and lower their customer acquisition costs by using its machine learning algorithms and its proprietary database of millions of external facts and events to automatically find and act on insights in the marketer's data.

Fastly

Series D in 2015
Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust the Fastly edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand. The company's edge cloud platform enables the best of the web to thrive and helps to deliver better online experiences. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Beepi

Series B in 2015
Beepi is a Los Altos, California company offering an online peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling used cars, where transactions can be carried out entirely with a smart phone or a PC. It was launched in April 2014. The Internet has changed everything. Well, not quite. Buying and selling used cars, unfortunately, hasn't changed for decades. Now that painful world is waking up. It's going from sleepi to Beepi. Beepi replaces the used car lot with a system that connects buyers and sellers in a radical new way. No negotiating, no trips to the dealer, no surprises – and no commission to the guy with the plaid jacket. Which means a better price for everyone. Join the car revolution. Join Beepi.

Upwave

Series A in 2015
Upwave is a marketing analytics company providing brand marketing measurement technology to brands, agencies, and publishers. The company offers scaling, real-time brand insights, and optimization. Their customers include CPG, technology, and financial services as well as advertising agencies.

RevCascade

Venture Round in 2015
Introducing RevCascade, purpose built to help brands make more money, save time, and stay in total control of products, pricing, and merchandising.

Sense

Seed Round in 2015
Sense is a smart talent engagement and communication platform built for the staffing industry. It helps reduce turnover, increases re-deployment rates, and gives a real-time 360 view of the pulse of consultants. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

Vouch Financial

Series A in 2015
Vouch brings friend-powered finance to the lending industry. It helps borrowers get personal loans at better terms than other lending institutions or marketplaces typically offer. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tempered

Series A in 2015
Tempered is a cyber risk management company that reduces cyber risks by providing point and click identity-based micro-segmentation. Its security and cloud network allow users to segment anything to achieve micro-segmentation for an IP resource without infrastructure change or disruption. Tempered Networks was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Soothe

Seed Round in 2015
Soothe is the world’s leading wellness marketplace, connecting individual and corporate clients with wellness providers who meet their personalized needs through the Soothe app, Soothe Residential, Hospitality & Spa staffing, and Soothe Corporate Wellness services. Soothe was founded in 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

The League

Seed Round in 2015
The League is a dating application that enables users to find and socialize with similar individuals. It was launched by Amanda Bradford in June 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

MindMeld

Series A in 2014
MindMeld is an advanced AI platform powering a new generation of intelligent conversational interfaces. It is the first platform capable of powering intelligent conversational experiences for any app, device or website. Companies use this platform to create conversational assistants that understand what users say and find the information they need.

Splitwise

Seed Round in 2014
Splitwise is a mobile application and web-based platform that helps its users share expenses with one another, including roommates, travelers, couples, friends, and family. It organizes all its users’ shared expenses and IOUs in one place so that everyone can see who they owe. It sends its users monthly reminders about outstanding debts. The application also provides its users with mediation advice about fairness issues through its fairness calculators. These calculators turn crowdsourced data into a neutral fairness opinion about its users’ personal situations. Splitwise was launched in 2011 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

Uplift

Series A in 2014
Uplift is an enterprise buy now, oay later solution serving over 100 of the world's top travel brands. Through personalized, flexible payment options, Uplift helps consumers take control of their budget and experience a world of travel. With a complete range of payment options, Uplift unlocks higher conversions and lifetime customer value for merchant partners.

Braze

Series B in 2014
Braze is a comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. Context underpins every Braze interaction, helping brands foster human connection with consumers through interactive conversations across channels that deliver value quickly and continuously. The company was named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms and was recognized as one of Inc Magazine's 2019 Best Workplaces. Braze is headquartered in New York with offices in Chicago, London, San Francisco, and Singapore. Learn more at braze.com.

UpOut

Seed Round in 2014
We get locals out to something fun in their city. We provide two main services: (1) an invite-only membership that gets members complimentary tickets to events; and (2) an event guide to your city's coolest underground events and experiences. UpOut is backed by Tandem Cap, Sand Hill Angels and other SV-based angels.

Freeform Development

Venture Round in 2014
Freeform makes it easy for artists to create engaging mobile apps. Those apps attract the most fans by leading with free music. And those fans can become a source of recurring revenue. Freeform apps reimagine the digital listening experience, creating entire worlds for fans to discover. Free music brings them in; lyrics, liner notes, videos, animation and games keep them coming back. Beautiful, rich and customizable album packaging for the mobile digital age.

Fastly

Series C in 2014
Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust the Fastly edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand. The company's edge cloud platform enables the best of the web to thrive and helps to deliver better online experiences. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Datanyze

Seed Round in 2014
Datanyze is the leader in technographics -- real-time insights based on a company's technology choices and buying signals. With technographics, we help our customers find great accounts and convert them into customers. Datanyze is used by 600 companies around the world and has been recognized as both a Gartner Cool Vendor and G2Crowd High Performer.

Phoenix Labs

Venture Round in 2014
Phoenix Labs is an independent game studio that specializes in creating AAA multiplayer games. The company focuses on providing its clients with online co-operative experiences with strong narratives. Phoenix Labs was founded in 2014 by Jesse Houston, Sean Bender, and Robin Mayne. It is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Sapho

Seed Round in 2014
Sapho empowers employees with a modern portal experience that surfaces personalized and relevant tasks and data using micro-apps. Sapho micro apps are built by IT on top of existing systems using pre-built templates and a drag-and-drop micro app builder. These micro apps available on any device, intranet, or messenger provide employees proactive notifications about interesting system data, actions that need to be completed, and changes in business data that require attention. It was founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.

Mastermind Studios

Venture Round in 2014
Mastermind Studios was founded in 2014 to make fun mobile games. They most recently came from Funzio which was acquired by GREE in 2012. They led the game design and engineering for hit titles such as Crime City, Modern War, Kingdom Age, and War of Nations. They have VC funding and are extremely excited to start work on their first title. They want mobile games to have more strategy, decision-making and interactivity than They've seen in the past. Stay tuned!

Krux

Series B in 2014
Krux helps companies deliver personalized commerce, media, and marketing experiences to the right people, in the right way, at the right time across all devices, browsers, and operating systems. Krux’s cloud-based data management platform (DMP) unifies people data from multiple screens and sources into a single view of the individual, analyzes the data to understand each individual’s preferences, and activates the data across every channel (desktop, mobile, social, display, web, set-top) in real time. Founded in 2010, Krux interacts with over two billion browsers and devices worldwide, serves over 20 billion page views per month, and processes more than 1.5 billion CRM records per month. Krux is a venture-backed company headquartered in San Francisco with offices across four continents. Krux clients such as Kellogg, Time Warner, and Meredith have achieved a 10x return or higher on their investment. Follow Krux on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.

Loup

Venture Round in 2014
Loup believe that affordable, convenient, & comfortable local transportation should be available for everyone.

Beauty Noted

Seed Round in 2014
Beauty Noted is an e-commerce company that specializes in the fields of fashion, beauty, personalized style. It allows its users to connect with a professional beauty stylist to get the look they want. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in California, United States.

Simply Hired

Series E in 2014
Simply Hired, a technology company based in Sunnyvale, California, operates job search engines in 24 countries and 12 languages. With more than 30 million unique visitors per month, the company provides job seekers access to millions of job openings across all job categories and industries, reaching job seekers on the web, mobile devices, email, and via thousands of partner sites including The Washington Post, Fox Business, Bloomberg Businessweek, Computerworld, International Nurses Association, and Hero2Hired. Simply Hired enables employers to efficiently and cost-effectively reach candidates searching for jobs through its full-service pay-per-click (PPC) and self-service pay-per-post job advertising solutions. Simply Hired was founded in 2005 and is privately held with funding from Foundation Capital and IDG Ventures. For more information, visit www.simplyhired.com.

Chubbies Shorts

Venture Round in 2014
Chubbies is an eCommerce company dedicated to men's short shorts. The company revolves around a customer service-focused business model offering free three-day shipping, free returns, social advertising campaigns, and dedicated human customer service lines. Currently, they are only sold on the Chubbies website.

Next Games

Series A in 2014
Next Games is a free-to-play developer based in Helsinki, Finland. Our priority is to create compelling and easy gameplay experience. It specializes in games based on entertainment franchises, such as movies, TV series, or books. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.

GuideSpark

Series B in 2014
GuideSpark is the leader in change communications guiding over 1,000 enterprise customers to business success by changing the hearts and minds of employees. GuideSpark Communicate Cloud™ drives organizational change with communication journeys, targeted experiences that reach, engage and change employee behavior to achieve your critical business goals around Talent Strategies, M&A, and Digital Transformation. Manage, measure and scale your internal communication effectiveness with GuideSpark.

Midverse Studios

Venture Round in 2014
Midverse is a next-generation mobile gaming platform, founded in 2012. The Midverse AppEngage Network solves mobile game developers' monetization and user acquisition needs. Midverse Studios also is a developer and publisher of high-quality first-party and third-party mobile games with millions of downloads. Midverse is funded by top-tier Silicon Valley venture capitalists and angel investors.
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