Samsung Ventures

The primary responsibilities of the group are to source, qualify, and invest in technology related companies. Our major investment areas include semiconductors, materials, mobile service, internet, software, security, enterprise solutions, bio engineering & medical, while potential investment subjects range from early-stage startups to pre-IPO companies. Currently, the group has over $1.8B under management and invests $250M annually. Samsung Ventures was founded on October 8, 1999, and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Liam Ahn

Principal

SangChul Bae

Senior Investment Manager

Ju Won Cha

Investment Principal

Jeong-ho Cha

Associate Principal - Investment Team 1

Jung-woon Cho

Principal - Investment Team 3

Young-Jin Choi

MD and Head of Investment Team 3

Myungseok Choi

Senior Investment Manager

Siddharth Gupta

MD

Seok-cheol Hong

EVP

Jihye Hong

Senior Investment Manager

TaeWoo Jeon

Senior Investment Manager

Thomas Jueng

MD

Yongsung Jun

Senior Investment Director

Han-Young Jung

Head of Investment Team 3 and Principal

Myeong-gu Kang

MD and Head of Business Support Team

Min-Su Kim

MD and Head of Investment Team 1

Eric Kim

Senior Investment Manager

Taek-hoon Kim

Associate - Investment Team 4

Jung-ho Kim

MD and Head of Investment Team 2

Hye Kim

Senior Investment Manager

Yang- Jin Kim

Director and Head of Investment Team 3

Hwaseok Patrik Kim

Principal

Jong-Won Kim

MD

Samjin Kim

Director

Min Jeong Kim

Assistant Investment Manager

Min-jeong Kim

Assistant Investment Manager

Jihong Kim

MD

Jongwook Kim

Senior Investment Manager

Eunji Ko

Senior Investment Manager

Ji Hoon Kwon

Principal

Hyuk-ryul Kwon

Associate Principal - Investment Team 2

Hyemin Lee

Investment Manager

Byong Hoon Lee

Senior Investment Manager

Jaemin Lee

Senior Investment Manager

Charlie Lee

Investment Director

Seoho Lee

Senior Investment Manager

Kyu Min Lee

Investment Manager

Stan Lee

Investment Director

Helena Lee

Senior Investment Manager

Stephen Lee

Manager at the U.S. office and Principal

Chulhan Lee

Investment Director

Kevin Lenehan

Investment Director

Sangmin Lim

Senior Investment Manager

Jin-woo Ok

Associate Principal - Investment Team 3

Michael Pachos

MD

Junki Park

Senior Investment Manager

Wookyoung Park

Senior Investment Manager

Shinichi Sato

Senior Investment Manager

Jae-young Shin

Associate Principal - Investment Team 1

Heonbae Sohn

Investment Director

David Suh

MD

Jingyi Wang

Investment Manager

Sung Hoon Yang

VP

Sung-hoon Yang

Associate Principal - Investment Team 1

Il-Seok Yoon

Regional Director, VP and Head of the Investment Team in the U.S.

419 past transactions

LearnSprout

Series A in 2014
MISSION: To help K-12 educators use data to analyze the past, understand the present, and anticipate the future. THE PROBLEM: K-12 districts collect an enormous amount of student data. Educators now recognize that data can inform decisions that improve student outcomes, but few are equipped to make sense of data in a timely manner. Efforts to be “data-driven” require costly software, time-consuming setup, and extensive training. The resulting reports, which are often complex and outdated, fail to provide the information needed for daily decision-making. WHAT IS LEARNSPROUT? LearnSprout is an online data insights service for K-12 educators. It is the only education analytics solution available that uses live data directly from a district’s student information system. LearnSprout combines assessment results, course grades, and attendance to provide actionable insights into student and school performance. Supported by simple setup, and clear, purposeful design, LearnSprout creates an experience that engages and informs.

StoreDot

Series C in 2017
StoreDot Ltd. develops and provides Nanodots, which are micro-crystals of uniform size and consist of bioorganic peptide molecules. These are used for coating of new generation-batteries and supercapacitors. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Sentinel Labs, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Sentinel Labs, Inc., doing business as SentinelOne, provides endpoint security solutions. It offers SentinelOne Endpoint Detection & Response that stops advanced threats and provides real-time forensics across multiple platforms; and SentinelOne Endpoint Protection Platform, an endpoint security solution that combines prevention, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensic capabilities for Windows, OS X, and Android devices. The company also provides SentinelOne Ranger that gives machines the ability to detect and protect other machines enabling them to become environmentally aware and fend off attacks from one another without human intervention; and SentinelOne Vigilance, a solution that augments security and IT teams in accelerating the detection, prioritization, and response to advanced cyber threats and reducing the risk of missing critical alerts. In addition, it offers professional services, including forensic consultation and malware analysis; and support services. The company has a strategic partnership with Exclusive Networks and Exabeam; and a strategic alliance with Nuspire, LLC. Sentinel Labs, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Mountain View, California with additional offices in Eugene, Oregon; and Boston, Massachusetts.

Elice

Series B in 2020
elice Inc. offers various courses through online medium. The company offers courses on design and development of web applications, programming, including, C++, Python, and Java. The company is headquartered in Daejeon, South Korea.

Yellowbrick Learning

Series C in 2019
Yellowbrick's mission is to empower the next generation of talent to achieve their calling by tapping into passion points that spark success, fuel personal advancement, and unlock doors to fulfilling careers. With integrated partnerships across top-tier educational institutions and brands, our courses and experiences put learners on a path toward doing what they love. Find out more at www.yellowbrick.co.

Giraffic

Series A in 2013
Giraffic, Inc. provides video-on-demand (VoD) streaming acceleration technology that enables online content providers to deliver high definition (HD) VoD and other rich media. Its technology enables to retrieve data from multiple sources simultaneously in random order. The company’s video acceleration end-user application eliminates re-buffering pauses during video playback time. It enables media companies and content distributors to deliver media assets on demand in HD; supports games and software download platforms; and enables social networks and video sharing sites to store and share high-definition videos and images. The company offers its product through cloud. Giraffic, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Swiggy

Series I in 2020
Swiggy provides a complete food ordering and delivery solution from the best neighborhood restaurants to the urban foodie. Swiggy aims to stand out by offering a more curated list of restaurants and services, not to mention its own in-house delivery fleet that pick up orders from restaurants and deliver it to the customers. It charges between 15-40 percent in commission to restaurants and for smaller orders, customers pay an additional delivery charge between 20 and 50 rupees depending on their city. Currently, Swiggy is in eight cities where it has more than 9,000 restaurants on its platform.

Ubicom

Series D in 2008
Ubicom develops communications and media processor (CMP) and software platforms that address the unique demands of real-time interactive applications and multimedia content delivery in the digital home. The company provides optimized system-level solutions to OEMs for a wide range of products including wireless routers, access points, VoIP gateways, streaming media devices, print servers and other network devices. Ubicom's unique multithreaded processor design, real-time operating system, and application-level solutions combine to ensure a high-quality user experience with unprecedented ease of use. Ubicom is a venture-backed, privately held company with corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.

LoomAi, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
LoomAi, Inc. develops and provides a real-time platform to create, customize, and animate automatic and talking avatars for live video and interactive 3D applications. The company offers 3D loomie avatar platform for enterprises and developers that consists of Loom Avatar SDK for building a personalized loomie avatar; Loom Editor SDK to customize the 3D accessories that attach to a loomie face or body; Loom Mapper SDK for animating a FACS rig in real-time from RGB video and audio using deep learning; and LoomieLive, a virtual communication app that uses 3D avatars and works as a companion to desktop video conferencing services, such as Zoom, MS Teams, Webex, etc. It offers its solutions as cloud-based SDKs or native libraries on mobile or PC that bring expressive and interactive 3D loomie avatars into mobile messaging, video conferencing, games, entertainment, AR/VR, live streaming, online education, training, and more. LoomAi, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of December 14, 2020, LoomAi, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Roblox Corporation.

Genvid Technologies

Series C in 2021
Genvid Technologies develops software tools for eSports interactive streaming. It was created by a team of veterans who pioneered innovations in server-side gaming. Genvid's technologies are built for game developers and broadcasting companies looking for tools tailored with games in mind. It is the first developer-grade broadcast technology, integrated with game engines. Founded in 2016, Genvid Technologies is based in New York City.

Fabric Technologies

Private Placement in 2020
Fabric Insurance Agency, LLC, an insurance agency, offers life insurance, health insurance, and accidental death coverage services. The company offers Fabric Instant, an accidental death insurance policy and Fabric Premium, a term life insurance policy that that covers death caused by accidents and illnesses. It also offers Web-based insurance services. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York with locations throughout the United States. Fabric Insurance Agency, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Fabric Technologies, Inc.

Bitfusion.io

Corporate Round in 2018
Bitfusion was founded with a vision to make at-scale heterogeneous computing accessible to any organization and build the operating system for the next generation computing. The company’s products allow AI developers to cluster, share, scale and manage compute resources to reduce the costs and complexity associated with the AI application lifecycle. Bitfusion has offices in Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas.

Sense Photonics

Series A in 2019
Sense Photonics is an RTP high technology company that enables reliable, modular, and configurable 3D sensing. The company produces advanced LiDAR and 3D sensor solutions for an autonomous vehicles, robotics, and industrial automation markets. Their core technology protected by over 200 patents enables a simple, high-performance, solid-state solution with no moving parts that can uniquely meet the rigorous performance, reliability and cost requirements for automotive and industrial applications. Sense Photonics was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

iBeam Materials, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
iBeam Materials, Inc. develops ion-beam alignment of thin layers for optoelectronic devices. The company makes IBAD textured substrates on metal tapes and wafer; and crystal-aligned MgO coatings on metal, glass, ceramic, and polymer substrates that are utilized for deposition of superconductors, such as copper oxide or iron-based products, and other functional materials. iBeam Materials, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Aryballe Technologies

Series B in 2020
Aryballe Technologies was created in Grenoble/France by a team of scientists and entrepreneurs. As a technology platform their main objectives are to develop new generations of universal sensors which can be adapted to different applications. In parallel to their core hardware development activities they are also organized to handle the software + database development and full manufacturing of their sensors and devices.

IntrCity

Series B in 2020
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Strix Systems

Venture Round in 2007
Strix Systems designs, develops, and markets enterprise wireless networks that enhance productivity and efficiency by providing users with instant information via continuous, secure connections to company networks.

Digital Asset

Series C in 2020
Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight through processing tools. Its technology offer tools for digital ledgers to track and settle digital and mainstream financial assets in a cryptographically secure environment, enabling the financial services industry to improve their efficiency, security, compliance and settlement speed.

IVWorks

Series B in 2019
IVWorks Co., Ltd. manufactures wafer products used by chip companies. It offers materials for markets, including wireless communications, solar power, LED lighting, and power switching, as well as a range of consumer and industrial applications. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Daejeon, South Korea.

Blocko

Series B in 2018
Blocko is a commercial blockchain startup offering multinational organizations the ability to design, deploy, and manage digital services on a secure distributed network. It provides a blockchain operating system and a development platform with stable APIs. The company supports AERGO, a new open-source enterprise blockchain solution based on a hybrid blockchain design with advanced cloud deployment capabilities.

Phunware

Series E in 2014
Phunware is a multiscreen as a service integrated enterprise software platform for mobile. Its platform provides companies the products, solutions, and data and services necessary to engage, manage, and monetize its mobile application audiences.

AdHawk Microsystems

Venture Round in 2019
AdHawk Microsystems Inc. develops eye and gesture tracking software technology and micro-electromechanical systems for mobiles and wearable devices. Its camera-free eye tracking system enables mobile data capture and paves the way for a new generation of augmented and virtual reality solutions. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.

Sentinel Labs, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Sentinel Labs, Inc., doing business as SentinelOne, provides endpoint security solutions. It offers SentinelOne Endpoint Detection & Response that stops advanced threats and provides real-time forensics across multiple platforms; and SentinelOne Endpoint Protection Platform, an endpoint security solution that combines prevention, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensic capabilities for Windows, OS X, and Android devices. The company also provides SentinelOne Ranger that gives machines the ability to detect and protect other machines enabling them to become environmentally aware and fend off attacks from one another without human intervention; and SentinelOne Vigilance, a solution that augments security and IT teams in accelerating the detection, prioritization, and response to advanced cyber threats and reducing the risk of missing critical alerts. In addition, it offers professional services, including forensic consultation and malware analysis; and support services. The company has a strategic partnership with Exclusive Networks and Exabeam; and a strategic alliance with Nuspire, LLC. Sentinel Labs, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Mountain View, California with additional offices in Eugene, Oregon; and Boston, Massachusetts.

Rabbit Care

Series B in 2020
Rabbit Care is your first choice for insurance and banking advise. We provide great customer experience through our digital platform and customer care center.

SolidFire

Series C in 2013
SolidFire is building the first and only primary storage system designed specifically for cloud service providers. Using an all-solid-state, scale-out architecture with patented efficiency technologies for dramatically reduced power, cooling, and capacity consumption, our high-performance and high-efficiency storage solution lets cloud providers guarantee sustained performance to thousands of servers from a single storage system. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Synos Technology

Venture Round in 2012
Synos Technology is the first company dedicated exclusively to the design & manufacture of high throughput ALD for large & flexible substrate, and is the technology’s acknowledged leader Since its founding in 2008, Synos has focused on improving ALD processes, observing that most ALD processing problems originate from the inefficiency in gas-solid reaction Synos has developed a unique remote plasma technology to deposit advantageous ALD films at extremely low temperature for use in flexible OLED encapsulation application In August 2008, Synos was incorporated and many key patents were filed In September 2009, Synos Display, LLC was launched and the SEALCap™ solutions were being developed for OLED encapsulation application November 2009 – JDP with SAINT (SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology) November 2012 – 3 patents granted and 45 patents pending in US

Oxford Semantic Technologies Limited

Private Placement in 2019
Oxford Semantic Technologies Limited provides linked data solutions to the industry. The company address the challenges posed by data integration by providing a flexible graph data model for representing semi structured data, ontologies for representing a unified conceptual view of the data, and reasoning systems that combine information from the ontology and the data in order to answer user queries. It owns RDFox, the RDF triple store and parallel datalog reasoning engine developed at the University of Oxford. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Abingdon, United Kingdom.

Deep Optics

Venture Round in 2019
For the past 3 years, Deep Optics has been developing the Omnifocals: dynamic focal eyeglasses, designed to allow over 2 billion people who need multifocal vision correction to see the world naturally and seamlessly. Exactly as they should. These unique eyeglasses are based on our revolutionary Liquid Crystal lens technology. We began this journey as developers of dynamic optics technology, and during the process of research and development we happened upon a breakthrough: we found a way to create an active lens that was suitable (in terms of optical power and size) for use in multifocal glasses. This is something that was not possible until today.

Quellan

Series C in 2007
Quellan, Inc. designs, develops, and markets analog signal processing and radio frequency noise cancellation integrated circuits (IC) for application in automotive, computing, data center, storage, consumer electronics, and wireless markets. The company’s products include noise cancellers that sense unwanted noise and then apply an opposite signal to the receive path; system developer kits for mobile television applications and GPS applications; quad lane extenders ICs, which deliver analog signal integrity to data center equipment and interconnects; single lane extenders ICs; evaluation boards and kits; cable modules and active cables; and cable module kits. Its products are used in various data center applications, such as active cable, linecard, and backplane; and wireless applications, including global positioning systems and mobile television. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. As of August 6, 2009, Quellan, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Intersil Corp.

Mapillary

Private Placement in 2018
Mapillary AB operates an online street-level imagery platform that scales and automates mapping through collaboration, cameras, and computer vision. The company enables users to collect photos that are combined into a collective street level photo view through tools, such as smartphones and action cameras. It offers updated maps, automated mapping, mapillary driver, desktop uploader, and command line tools. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Malmö, Sweden. As of June 18, 2020, Mapillary AB operates as a subsidiary of Facebook, Inc.

Deep Instinct

Series A in 2016
Deep Instinct Ltd. develops a cybersecurity solution that provides on-device and real-time detection and prevention of zero-day threats and advanced persistent threat attacks for various mobile devices, endpoints, platforms, and operating systems. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with an additional office in New York, New York.

Raydiance

Series D in 2012
Raydiance is the world’s leading developer of ultrafast laser technology. Raydiance has built a deeply experienced team that draws expertise from the software, microelectronics, telecommunications and photonics industries. Creator of the first compact, reliable, “industrial grade” femtosecond laser platform, Raydiance is powering an explosion of innovation in manufacturing, healthcare, defense and more. Raydiance began when senior Defense Department officials introduced technology pioneer Barry Schuler to a DARPA project designed to miniaturize ultrafast lasers for military applications. Schuler immediately grasped the compelling capabilities of ultrafast lasers – if they could be liberated from highly controlled lab environments and transformed into small, inexpensive photonic engines that could power many applications. Schuler brought together a world-class team to build the world’s first miniaturized, computer controlled, software driven “plug and play” ultrafast laser platform. Raydiance’s Smart LightTM technology is transforming a wide array of sectors, including medical micro-devices, clean tech energy, consumer electronics and defense applications. The company has built the world’s first high-volume manufacturing facility capable of scaling production to thousands of units per year. Further, it has invented key technologies—such as its proprietary fiber delivery system—that support volume commercialization. By aggregating many markets onto its platform, Raydiance is using volume-manufacturing techniques to drive costs down and open market opportunities. The company is rapidly transforming ultrafast technology from a unique research tool into a practical and broadly accessible platform technology.

Light Field Lab

Private Placement in 2019
Light Field Lab, Inc. develops holographic capture display technology systems. It offers integrated processing and imaging solutions that allow immersive visuals to be delivered over commercial network speeds. The company also develops a universal application programming interface to streamline the process of bringing existing content to a light field display with holographic media. Light Field Lab, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Morgan Hill, California.

Alereon

Venture Round in 2006
Alereon is a fabless semiconductor company developing innovative Ultrawideband (UWB) wireless chipsets. Their mission is to simplify networking by removing cables, allowing effortless connections between PCs, consumer electronics, peripherals and mobile devices. We want to change the way consumers connect to the world.

Quanergy Systems

Seed Round in 2014
Quanergy Systems, Inc. develops and markets light detection and ranging(LiDAR) sensors and smart perception software solutions. It offers mechanical LiDAR sensors for mapping, security, and smart city and smart space applications. The company also provides solid state LiDAR sensors. In addition, it offers Flow Management Platform, a 3D AI-powered LiDAR flow management technology that provides a perception platform to enable real-time analysis for people counting, object detection, classification, tracking, and more. The company’s products are used in various applications, such as mapping, security, smart city & smart spaces, industrial automation, and transportation applications. Quanergy Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Quanergy, Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

CARVI

Series B in 2020
- CARVI is the only company that offers "Vision-based Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) + Contextual Data Platform based on Driver Behaviors and 3D road data“ - CARVI helps safe driving by eliminating the risk of accidents while driving and analyzing/managing the driver's habits. - CARVI also supports Smoke detection, Drunk Driving detection, Parking Violation detection and Keyless lock/unlock solution for Insurance, Fleets and Car-sharing services. - CARVI has experienced vision-based ADAS as an OEM to the car manufacturer, and now focuses on Telematics which has a market share of 100B dollars on 2025. - The "Camera-based driving, driver's habits, road conditions and environment" data acquired by CARVI has core values such as 3D road Map for self-driving cars.

Zhangshang Tangyi

Series C in 2019
Zhangshang Tangyi is a health management platform with a focus on diabetes. It allows patients to upload their own health data to their mobile app and receive treatment guidance from doctors. Zhangshang Tangyi was founded in 2014 and is based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

Laundrygo

Series B in 2020
Laundrygo is a on-demand laundry service.

MindMeld

Convertible Note in 2013
MindMeld, Inc. develops a platform that adds voice interfaces, including question-answering and language-understanding capabilities, to applications and devices. It allows users to browse through music and video content, check weather, and work with connected home devices. The company was formerly known as Expect Labs, Inc. and changed its name to MindMeld, Inc. in December, 2015. MindMeld, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. As of May 26, 2017, MindMeld, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

CNEX Labs

Series D in 2018
CNEX Labs, Inc. develops storage semiconductor and software solutions. It offers NVMe PCIe SSD controller ASIC that supports LightNVM/Open-Channel operation that includes native NVMoE I/O connectivity. The company’s NVMe and Open-Channel SSD controller ASICs deliver high-performance with low and predictable latency, scalability, and flexibility for software-defined-storage. Its controller products accelerate the capabilities of big data computing and analytics for cloud, hyperscale, and enterprise data centers. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California with additional offices in Copenhagen, Denmark; Shanghai, China; Hangzhou, China; and Tokyo, Japan.

Datera

Series C in 2018
Datera is bringing the software-defined revolution to enterprise data storage with automation and applied machine learning in partnership with the leaders in server-based infrastructure, including HPE, Intel, Fjuistu, Lenovo, Dell and Cisco, all at a 70% lower total cost of ownership and operation. Datera was founded by the authors and maintainers of the Linux I/O storage stack and is backed by Khosla Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Silicon Valley luminaries including Sun Microsystems' Andy Bechtolsheim and Juniper Networks' Pradeep Sindhu.

Deep Instinct

Private Placement in 2018
Deep Instinct Ltd. develops a cybersecurity solution that provides on-device and real-time detection and prevention of zero-day threats and advanced persistent threat attacks for various mobile devices, endpoints, platforms, and operating systems. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with an additional office in New York, New York.

VeriSilicon, Inc.

Series A in 2018
VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. is an integrated circuit (IC) design foundry that provides custom silicon solutions and system-on-chip (SoC) turnkey services for a wide range of electronic devices and systems, including smart phones, media tablets, HDTVs, set-top boxes, blu-ray DVD players, home gateways, networking, and data centers. VeriSilicon's technology solutions leverage licensable digital signal processing cores, Hantro Video IPs, eDRAM, and others that can be targeted for a wide range of process technology, including advanced nodes like 28nm and FD-SOI.

Tamr

Series B in 2018
Tamr is an enterprise data unification company that is cost-effective, scalable, and accessible to any enterprise. Following the success of initial research at MIT CSAIL, the Tamr team began building a commercial-grade solution designed to tackle the challenge of connecting and enriching diverse data at scale, quickly and cost effectively. Launched in the spring of 2014 and backed by a series of investors, such as Google Ventures and New Enterprise Associates, Tamr is deployed in production at a variety organizations, including information services providers, pharmaceutical firms and retailers. Tamr, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded in 2013 by database industry veterans Andy Palmer, Mike Stonebraker and Ihab Ilyas with George Beskales, Daniel Bruckner and Alex Pagan.

Trell

Series A in 2020
Trell Experiences Private Limited provides a mobile video blogging application for wanderers, foodies, and travelers. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Silvan Innovation Labs

Private Placement in 2019
Silvan Innovation Labs Pvt. Ltd. manufactures and develops home automation and security systems and solutions to homeowners and builders. It offers home automation solutions that include entrance management, security, lifestyle controls, and music zoning and entertainment management solutions; smart security systems for communities; and custom home automation solutions, including hotel automation, conference room automation, bank security, ATM security, and school integrated security systems. The company also provides WiFi enables wireless security systems that include CBELL, a wireless video door bell system, which allows users to view and monitor their home main door; and SECURE, a wireless DIY security system. Silvan Innovation Labs Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2008 and is based in Bengaluru, India with additional offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, and Surat, India.

SentinelOne

Series E in 2020
SentinelOne is shaping the future of endpoint security with a uniquely integrated platform that combines behavioral-based detection, advanced mitigation, and forensics to stop threats in real-time. Specializing in attacks that utilize sophisticated evasion techniques, SentinelOne is the only vendor who offers complete protection against malware, exploit and insider-based attacks. This led Gartner to recognize SentinelOne as a Visionary in their recent Endpoint Protection Magic Quadrant. SentinelOne is also the only next-generation endpoint protection company to be independently certified as a true antivirus replacement for Windows, OS X, and Linux, including certification for both HIPAA and PCI. SentinelOne was formed by an elite team of cybersecurity and defense experts from IBM, Intel, Check Point Software Technologies, Cylance, McAfee, and Palo Alto Networks.

Aromajoin

Venture Round in 2018
Aromajoin develops scent devices that combine hardware, software, and chemical technology. Its services include the “Aroma Shooter”, the aroma display based on space-time aroma control technique and “Aroma Stage”, an internet-based platform where users can log in. In addition, it also develops various contents like aroma integrated applications or aroma integrated games. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan.

8Cups

Seed Round in 2016
8Cups Inc. develops smart cups and its technologies. This company pursues to collect all of drinking/eating data and turn to be a platform business.

Advanced Analogic Technologies

Venture Round in 2004
Advanced Analogic Technologies Incorporated (AATI), or AnalogicTech, develops advanced semiconductor system solutions that play a key role in the continuing evolution of feature-rich, energy efficient electronic devices. The company focuses on addressing the application-specific power management needs of consumer devices such as mobile handsets, digital cameras, tablets, notebooks, TV and LCD displays, as well as devices in a broad range of industrial, medical and telecom applications. AATI also licenses device, process, package, and application-related technologies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, AATI has design centers in Santa Clara and Shanghai, and Asia-based operations and logistics.

RailYatri

Series B in 2020
RailYatri's goal is to provide the most up to date information to the 25 million passengers who board a train every day. RailYatri mobile app provides real-time information on live train status, PNR Status, seat availability predictions, fare calculator, platforms/ facilities at stations, personalized alerts, access to essential travel services like meals and taxi.... and much more. RailYatri provides information on over 9000 locations and 14500 trains (including long distance trains, local trains and metros). Within its first year of the launch, RailYatri's Android app has crossed 1 million downloads. The company has also partnered with taxi services firms across 20 cities and food vendors across 300 stations. RailYatri's mission is to simplify train travel and they are doing it one traveller at a time.

Blocko

Private Placement in 2018
Blocko is a commercial blockchain startup offering multinational organizations the ability to design, deploy, and manage digital services on a secure distributed network. It provides a blockchain operating system and a development platform with stable APIs. The company supports AERGO, a new open-source enterprise blockchain solution based on a hybrid blockchain design with advanced cloud deployment capabilities.

bubl

Seed Round in 2015
The bublcam captures life in a bublº. It is a market ready spherical camera that captures 100% of the spherical range through panoramic photos and videos. The innovative tetrahedral design allows the 4, 190º lenses to overlap capturing everything inside what we’ve dubbed a digital bubl. It’s small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.

SiFive

Series C in 2018
SiFive designs chips for the semiconductor industry. It offers the system on a chip for the microcontroller, embedded, IoT, and wearable applications; and toolset to provide debug capabilities. SiFive brings the power of open source and software automation to the semiconductor industry, making it possible to develop new hardware faster and more affordably than ever before. With our platform for rapidly designing, testing, and building RISC‑V-based core IP and chips, we’re accelerating the pace of innovation for businesses large and small.

Raven

Venture Round in 2022
Raven is a producer of green hydrogen and synthetic fuels using organic waste. They transform waste destined for landfills into environmentally friendly, efficient, and profitable clean hydrogen and Fischer-Tropsch synthetic fuels with our patented Steam/CO2 Reformer technology. Raven was in 2018 and is based in Pinedale, Wyoming.

Mattrix Technologies

Private Placement in 2019
Mattrix Technologies develops full-aperture OLET display. OLET is a new paradigm for emissive displays that circumvents the OLED backplane problem that has prevented widespread adoption of OLED displays.

MoBeam

Series A in 2012
Mobeam, inc. is transforming mobile commerce with its unique and patented light-based communications technology. Overcoming the technical barrier preventing mobile phones from interacting with laser scanners at checkout, Mobeam’s technology provides universal access at the point of sale (POS), enabling the transmission of coupons, gift cards, tickets, and other barcode data at retailers worldwide. Mobeam’s technology powers new capabilities for existing mobile phone designs, and requires no changes to retailer POS infrastructure. Mobeam was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

ZConverter

Series A in 2023
ZConveter is the one of the world leaders of cloud migration SaaS and system image backup software companies. They have been serving enterprises and channel partners for over 10 years through ZConverter Software solutions. Enterprises of various industries are experiencing the benefits of ZConverter Cloud Migration and ZConveter Server Backup solutions. ZConverter Cloud Migration SaaS is the world leading software which provides an automated cloud migration Software as a Service for OpenStack, CloudStack, AWS and Microsoft Azure clouds. By a few clicks, it allows enterprises or cloud service providers to move On-premises to cloud or cloud instances to any cloud. Enterprises don't have to re-configure or re-install their applications or workloads when they are migrating them to private or public clouds. ZConverter Server Backup is also the one of the world leaders of windows and linux OS image backup softwares. It helps enterprises securely protect and recover their critical windows and linux workloads wherever it is running on physical, virtual or cloud environments. They have been serving migration and system backup & recovery software since 2004. They are headquarterd in San Jose and support ZConverter products by certified global partner networks or cloud support center.

Solid Power

Series A in 2018
Solid Power is an industry-leading developer of the next-generation of all solid-state rechargeable batteries. Possessing no volatile or flammable liquid components, our solid-state batteries are extremely energy dense while also possessing ultimate safety and reliability. Together, these performance attributes can enable profound performance improvements of battery-powered devices such as portable electronics, electric vehicles, aircraft and satellites through increased run time, increased safety and lower cost.

Datera

Series A in 2013
Datera is bringing the software-defined revolution to enterprise data storage with automation and applied machine learning in partnership with the leaders in server-based infrastructure, including HPE, Intel, Fjuistu, Lenovo, Dell and Cisco, all at a 70% lower total cost of ownership and operation. Datera was founded by the authors and maintainers of the Linux I/O storage stack and is backed by Khosla Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Silicon Valley luminaries including Sun Microsystems' Andy Bechtolsheim and Juniper Networks' Pradeep Sindhu.

ATTO Research

Venture Round in 2019
ATTO Research lead open networking innovations. ATTO Research is a network virtualization innovator with advanced SDN and NFV technologies. We are specialized in security-enhanced SDN control, network management, and cloud network virtualization.

IntegenX

Series B in 2009
IntegenX, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets automation systems that enable reliable microsample preparation and analysis for the life sciences. It offers Apollo 100, a platform that allows the processing of DNA sequencing reactions; Apollo 200, an integrated sample preparation system for human DNA identification; microfluidics for DNA sequencing, molecular diagnostics, and human identification applications; and Apollo 324 system, a benchtop robotic workstation that automates the construction of DNA fragment libraries for next-generation sequencing. The company was formerly known as Microchip Biotechnologies, Inc. and changed its name to IntegenX, Inc. in March 2010. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Pleasanton, California.

Seeo

Series E in 2014
Seeo, Inc. develops and manufactures rechargeable lithium polymer batteries. It serves transportation, electric grid, telecommunication backup, and other markets. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Hayward, California with facilities in Shanghai, China. As of August 16, 2015, Seeo, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH.

aveni

Series B in 2017
aveni, Inc. provides metallization technologies for damascene through silicon vias, MEMS, and other electronic applications. Its portfolio includes Electrografting (eG), a wet electrochemical-based process that enables the growth of extremely high-quality thin films of various types on conducting and semiconducting surfaces; and Chemicalgrafting (cG), which is used on non-conductive substrates. The company’s eG and cG processes are implemented on hardware platforms or run on tools ranging from wet benches to automated systems. It serves semiconductor and renewable energy companies worldwide. aveni, Inc. was formerly known as Alchimer S.A. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Massy, France.

Mattrix Technologies

Series A in 2019
Mattrix Technologies develops full-aperture OLET display. OLET is a new paradigm for emissive displays that circumvents the OLED backplane problem that has prevented widespread adoption of OLED displays.

Flickstree

Series A in 2020
Flickstree creates and aggregates short engaging videos. Publishers (websites and apps) embed Flickstree's video player on their platform, to engage and monetize their traffic, without any investment on part of any Publisher. Videos include entertainment content, performance marketing content and user-generated content. These are all localized in multiple languages. OTT platforms and telecom companies license these videos too. Entertainment videos are monetised through branding campaigns - pre roll and mid roll video ads. Brands use Flickstree's 50Mn+ reach to create Impact at scale and force-multiply their campaign goals. Flickstree's "Glocal" publisher network acts as a huge catalyst to achieve brand objectives. Performance marketing videos are monetized through Cost Per Sale (CPS) campaigns - best in industry affiliate commission, achieved on the sale of products across various categories. Flickstree is backed by Samsung Ventures Investment, SOSV, LionRock Capital, Accretio Investment, Facebook FBStart program and the star cricketer Sourav Ganguly, amongst others.

Nanosys

Venture Round in 2015
Nanosys, Inc. develops and delivers quantum dot technology for high definition viewing experience for the display industry. It offers Quantum Dot Concentrate material; quantum dot nanomaterials; and Quantum Dot Enhancement film to industrial supply chain partners. Its products are used in tablets, televisions, smartphones, and other consumer electronics applications. Nanosys, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Milpitas, California.

Audiobus

Private Placement in 2017
Audioburst is an audio content search and discovery platform powered by AI. Pulling from podcasts and talk radio, Audioburst is connecting listeners to the world’s largest library of audio content through its powerful search engine while working with companies such as Hyundai, LG, Samsung, Bose, and Flipboard to develop next-gen listening experiences across a range of devices. For SMBs, Audioburst Studio is currently offering a light solution for easy integration of audio content playlists into an existing app or site. The company also serves podcasters and radio show producers through Audioburst Creators, a suite of tools to transcribe, edit, amplify, and monetize audio content.

Searcheese

Venture Round in 2019
Searcheese is a marketplace where individuals as well as companies can capitalize their data.

MontaVista Software

Venture Round in 2004
MontaVista Software is the leader in embedded Linux commercialization. They help you get the most of open source by providing commercial quality Linux and developer tools that significantly reduce the time and effort required to deliver commercial products to market. Combine that with their expert support, hardware enablement, and the resources of the MontaVista community and you can see why there are over 50 million devices in the market today running on MontaVista Linux.

Moloco

Private Placement in 2018
Moloco empowers mobile apps to run their own advertising business by providing all of the required components as a cloud service. The company's focus is on delivering quality and scale to our advertisers and publishers has been recognized by the industry. The company is heavily tech-driven with top talents from Google, Amazon, Twitter, and Goldman Sachs. Founded in 2013 with a vision to empower mobile businesses to thrive.

Urban Engines

Seed Round in 2014
Urban Engines, Inc. reduces congestion by combining insights and incentives to ease the time and stress of daily commutes. Its software and mobile solutions facilitate better use of already-existing infrastructure, improve city planning and operations, and spur healthier city growth. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Los Altos, California. As of September 12, 2016, Urban Engines, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Google Inc.

Intellon Corporation

Venture Round in 2006
Intellon Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company, engages in the design, develop, manufacture, and marketing of integrated circuits (ICs) for powerline communications or high-speed communications over existing electrical wiring in the United States and internationally. They provides HomePlug-based ICs for home networking, networked entertainment, broadband over powerline access, ethernet-over-coax, smart grid management, and other commercial applications. The HomePlug-based ICs provide connectivity between broadband modems or routers and personal computers, set-top boxes, gaming consoles, and other electronic products within a home; and monitors electrical distribution system, as well as helps in distributing Internet, video-on-demand, and other services.

Datera

Series B in 2015
Datera is bringing the software-defined revolution to enterprise data storage with automation and applied machine learning in partnership with the leaders in server-based infrastructure, including HPE, Intel, Fjuistu, Lenovo, Dell and Cisco, all at a 70% lower total cost of ownership and operation. Datera was founded by the authors and maintainers of the Linux I/O storage stack and is backed by Khosla Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Silicon Valley luminaries including Sun Microsystems' Andy Bechtolsheim and Juniper Networks' Pradeep Sindhu.

Solid Power

Series A in 2020
Solid Power is an industry-leading developer of the next-generation of all solid-state rechargeable batteries. Possessing no volatile or flammable liquid components, our solid-state batteries are extremely energy dense while also possessing ultimate safety and reliability. Together, these performance attributes can enable profound performance improvements of battery-powered devices such as portable electronics, electric vehicles, aircraft and satellites through increased run time, increased safety and lower cost.

Imagry

Venture Round in 2017
Imagry LLC designs and develops mapless autonomous driving platform. Its technology utilizes mapless, real-time software to identify the road, route, vehicles, obstructions, pedestrians and more without requiring a cloud connection or GPS. The company uses Aleph Star algorithm technology that uses physics-based planning to compensate for perception errors in real-time. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Columbus, Ohio with another location in Israel.

DoubleMe

Series A in 2022
DoubleMe, Inc. develops 3D capture systems. The company offers HoloPortal, a 3D capture system that converts 2D videos into 3D models in real-time for various 3D content markets, such as game, 3D animation, VR/AR, and 3D printing; and Voxelo, a viewpoint video player for Windows, which enables users to watch 3D video content of real captured scenes. It primarily captures moving subjects, such as humans or animals and generates animated 3D models, as well as still subjects, such as furniture. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California.

iBeam Materials, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
iBeam Materials, Inc. develops ion-beam alignment of thin layers for optoelectronic devices. The company makes IBAD textured substrates on metal tapes and wafer; and crystal-aligned MgO coatings on metal, glass, ceramic, and polymer substrates that are utilized for deposition of superconductors, such as copper oxide or iron-based products, and other functional materials. iBeam Materials, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

nanolux

Private Placement in 2018
Nanolux co., ltd. researches and develops imaging sensor to enable color night vision camera and peripheral equipment to perform surveillance and monitor visibility. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Tsukuba, Japan.

Atrenta

Venture Round in 2006
Atrenta’s SpyGlass Predictive Analysis software platform significantly improves design efficiency for the world’s leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. Patented solutions provide early design insight into the demanding performance, power and area requirements of the complex system on chips (SoCs) fueling today’s consumer electronics revolution. More than two hundred companies and thousands of design engineers worldwide rely on SpyGlass to reduce risk and cost before traditional EDA tools are deployed. SpyGlass functions like an interactive guidance system for design engineers and managers, finding the fastest and least expensive path to implementation for complex SoCs. SpyGlass from Atrenta: Insight. Efficiency. Confidence.

Kazan Networks

Series A in 2016
Kazan Networks Corporation develops solutions in the areas of iSCSI controllers, FC-to-SATA bridges, SAS controllers, and high-performance networking solutions. It offers KN-EVAL_1.0, a customer evaluation kit that enables customers and partners to test the emerging NVMe over Fabrics standard; and enables easy plug-and-play connectivity between host and an SSD over an Ethernet link. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Auburn, California. As of September 10, 2019, Kazan Networks Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation.

Blocko

Series A in 2016
Blocko is a commercial blockchain startup offering multinational organizations the ability to design, deploy, and manage digital services on a secure distributed network. It provides a blockchain operating system and a development platform with stable APIs. The company supports AERGO, a new open-source enterprise blockchain solution based on a hybrid blockchain design with advanced cloud deployment capabilities.

BioAmber

Series A in 2010
BioAmber is a private US company registered in the state of Delaware. The company, formerly known as DNP Green Technology, changed its name to BioAmber following its acquisition of its joint venture with ARD. Following the transaction, they adopted the name BioAmber, which had been used to that point by the joint venture.
Oxford Semantic Technologies develop RDFox, the first market-ready high-performance knowledge graph designed from ground up with semantic reasoning in mind. Oxford Semantic Technologies was founded in 2017 as a spin-out of the University of Oxford with a mission to bring cutting-edge research in semantic web technologies to industry. The team started working on RDFox in 2011 at the Computer Science Department of the University of Oxford with the conviction that flexible and high-performance reasoning was a possibility for data extensive applications without jeopardising the correctness of the results. Patented modern computing techniques underpin RDFox’s ability to deliver responses to complex queries on the fly. This has unlocked a new wave of enterprise applications for prestigious partners.

Fitpet

Venture Round in 2019
Fitpet's mission to create sustainable and wholesome pet-friendly society with IT over the world.

Bitfusion.io

Private Placement in 2018
Bitfusion was founded with a vision to make at-scale heterogeneous computing accessible to any organization and build the operating system for the next generation computing. The company’s products allow AI developers to cluster, share, scale and manage compute resources to reduce the costs and complexity associated with the AI application lifecycle. Bitfusion has offices in Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas.

Genvid Technologies

Series B in 2020
Genvid Technologies develops software tools for eSports interactive streaming. It was created by a team of veterans who pioneered innovations in server-side gaming. Genvid's technologies are built for game developers and broadcasting companies looking for tools tailored with games in mind. It is the first developer-grade broadcast technology, integrated with game engines. Founded in 2016, Genvid Technologies is based in New York City.

Indus OS

Series B in 2019
Indus OS is World's First Regional Operating System to connect 100 million users with internet. Indus, is set to revolutionize the mobile industry by introducing World's first Regional Operating System. Indus OS is built on Android and is designed for first time internet users. The crux of a country’s culture lies in her language and Indus is in unison with this by bringing to people a simplified smartphone experience in their native tongue. Indus’s vision is to build an end-to-end ecosystem that would bridge the digital divide and get the whole country on the information highway, language being the key.

IonQ

Private Placement in 2019
IonQ, Inc. develops general-purpose quantum information computers. The company combines physical performance, qubit replication, optical networkability, and optimized algorithms to create a quantum computer. Its product quantum computing represents a radical departure from classical computing and overcomes limitations, such as superposition and entanglement that emerge at atomic scale. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in College Park, Maryland.

Sonics

Series D in 2005
Sonics is a pioneer of network-on-chip (NoC) technology and today offers SoC designers the largest portfolio of intelligent, on-chip communications solutions for home entertainment, wireless, networking and mobile devices. With a broad array of silicon-proven IP, Sonics helps designers eliminate memory bottlenecks associated with complex, high-speed SoC design, streamline and unify data flows and solve persistent network challenges in embedded systems with multiple cores. As the leading supplier of on-chip communications networks for the embedded market, Sonics has enabled its customers to ship more than 750 million units worldwide. Founded in 1996, Sonics is headquartered in Milpitas, Calif. with offices worldwide.

Collab Asia

Private Placement in 2019
Collab Asia, Inc. operates as a digital content studio. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Angeles, California. It has additional offices in Hong Kong; Jakarta, Indonesia; Manila, the Philippines; Seoul, South Korea; Singapore; and Tokyo, Japan.

Neubility

Series A in 2023
Neubility.Inc engages in developing robot software. Neubility.Inc provides their software for the process of food or parcel delivery. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.