Sand Hill Angels

Sand Hill Angels is a Silicon Valley based venture group that invests in private companies at all stages and favors investments in the Internet, Information Technology, and Life Sciences. They are an early stage venture and mentor capital firm.

Amos Ben-Meir

Angel

EC

Edward C. Driscoll

Founding Director and Member

Ralph Eschenbach

VP

Past deals in Madagascar

Clutter

Series D in 2019
Clutter Inc. operates as a full-service storage company in Los Angeles. It manages the pick-up, storage, and retrieval of customers’ extra belongings. The company stores boxes, furniture, bicycles, golf bags, holiday decor, baby clothes, books, appliances, and other products except liquids, illegal substances, perishables, and hazardous materials. It also insures against theft, loss, natural disasters, and water damage. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Culver City, California.

Sonoma Beverage Works

Venture Round in 2016
Sonoma Beverage Works, Inc. produces and markets apple, bourbon, and pear flavored ciders. It serves customers through a network of distributors. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Healdsburg, California.

Bolt Financial, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Bolt was a social networking and video website active from 1996 to 2007 before reopening in April 2008. It was shut down for a period of one year due to copyright violations leading to bankruptcy. It was acquired by new owners on January 4, 2008 and operated successfully for several months before announcing plans to go offline in October 2008.

StrongArm Tech

Series A in 2016
StrongArm Tech is a safety science company that develops data collection, assessment, and safety solutions for the industrial worker. It offers a risk monitoring device that uses machine learning to capture and analyze physiological and environmental risk; and FUSE Risk Management Platform which is a cloud-based IoT enabled software informed by an array of motion-interpreting sensors that allow organizations to monitor, assess, and intervene. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Volumetric Bio

Venture Round in 2020
Volumetric, Inc. develops bioprinting platform, which offers 3D bioprinters creating vascularized human tissue. It provides bioprinters and bio inks for applications in the life sciences, drug discovery, and medical devices. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Mechanodontics, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2019
Mechanodontics is a revolutionary method that can be used instead of braces or aligners that moves the teeth independently. Placed behind the teeth so they cannot be seen, this method considerably shortens treatment time, allows for easier cleaning than traditional braces, and is more comfortable than any other behind-the-teeth braces.

Joinedapp, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
Joinedapp is the leader in "Conversational Commerce"​ enabling brands & retailers to sell on messaging apps, connected screens, and home assistant devices. With over 3B users, these are the largest untapped sales & marketing channels in the world today. Our sophisticated AI-powered platform produces additional revenue by targeting the growing demographics of younger, social-savvy, mobile-first consumers on these channels, and removing friction in the browse-to-buy journey by providing native user experiences.

Limelight Platform Inc.

Funding Round in 2017
Limelight Platform, Inc. operates Limelight platform that provides tools to build automated, data driven live marketing campaigns. Its SaaS based platform provides various elements, such as live strategy, activation tools, consumer communication, social amplification, real time data, and analysis to run a live marketing program. The company offers solutions for mall tours, contests and surveys, events, experiential marketing, activations and in store experiences, kiosks, samplings, sponsorships and activations, and test drives. Limelight Platform, Inc. is based in Toronto, Canada.

Collective Health

Series F in 2021
Collective Health gives companies a smarter alternative to traditional health insurance. Through a cloud-based, integrated health benefits platform, the company enables self-insured employers to get more out of their healthcare investment while taking better care of their people. Collective Health has seen exponential traction in the $1.2 trillion employer-sponsored insurance market -- its membership has grown by 500x in just three sales cycles. Currently, the company covers 70,000 employee and dependent lives across 15 employers; clients include Activision Blizzard, Crossfit, eBay, Palantir and Red Bull. For more information, visit https://www.collectivehealth.com.

Nowait

Series A in 2012
Nowait is the shortcut to amazing dining experiences. Nowait integrates, streamlines, and optimizes the entire front of the house—from waitlists to table turnover to analytics and more—so that they efficiently provide amazing service. Guests can the most valuable asset of their life back, their time, by accessing Nowait's network of restaurants from its consumer application and get in line at thousands of restaurants across the US. Nowait provides the ideal restaurant experience for both sides of the table. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

ZenOptics

Convertible Note in 2019
ZENOPTICS, Inc. develops software platform that aggregates business intelligence, data, and analytics tools in a unifying portal, allowing users to access, share, and report data. The product can be used for accessing all analytics assets, holistic enterprise search, certification of reports, to customize workflows, AI driven recommendations, cross platform report details, dashboard for impact analyses, and report statistics. ZENOPTICS, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Jose, California.

Catheter Connections, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Catheter Connections, Inc. develops and commercializes vascular access products to protect patients from acquiring infections during intravenous infusion therapy (IV). The company offers DualCap System, a set of user-friendly products that provides healthcare facilities with an integrated solution for IV disinfection and protection by helping in the fight against IV catheter-related blood stream infections. Its DualCap System safely disinfects IV tubing end connectors and IV catheter access valves for infection control. The company offers its products through sales representatives. Catheter Connections, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As of January 31, 2017, Catheter Connections, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Merit Medical Systems, Inc.

TwoSix Labs

Venture Round in 2021
Two Six Labs pushes the boundaries of the possible to protect the future. We design innovative solutions to complex challenges in cyber security, advanced analytics, and tactical mobility. We empower our customers’ critical missions, expanding operational capabilities and bringing new technologies to market.

Firework

Convertible Note in 2021
Firework is one of the fastest growing interactive video platforms on mobile.

RallyPoint Networks, Inc

Venture Round in 2009
RallyPoint is an online military network with 1.7 million service members, veterans, and their civilian supporters (family, recruiters, etc.). RallyPoint's mission is to help all members of the military community lead more successful and fulfilling lives. Members can build their professional network, connect with other members in a safe environment, and explore career opportunities both within the military and in the private sector. Bob McDonald, the retired P&G CEO and the 8th Secretary of Veterans Affairs is the chairman of RallyPoint's board. RallyPoint provides employers highly targeted tools for hiring from and advertising into the military community.

InvVax

Convertible Note in 2021
InvVax, Inc. develops and commercializes influenza vaccine that prevents pandemics. It focuses on identifying influenza vaccines for HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

New Wave Foods

Convertible Note in 2020
New Wave Foods is a provider of algae and plant-based food used to preserve and enrich seafood traditions. Its foods are sustainable, plant-based shrimp alternatives made from sustainably sourced seaweed, soy protein, and natural flavors which contain the eight amino acids that are found in meats that enable consumers to enjoy low calories and zero cholesterol healthy products.

ESS, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Since their founding in 2011, ESS has been focused on laying the groundwork for a future powered by clean and reliable energy. With a team that boasts decades of experience in distributed power generation and energy storage technologies, ESS has developed an extremely cost-effective energy management system that combines a safe, abundant and non-toxic iron electrolyte with their patented flow cell design. This combination of high performance with low cost means that ESS’s technology is ideally suited for applications that range in size from retail energy management to utility-scale renewables integration.

Coherent Navigation

Venture Round in 2014
Coherent Navigation Inc provides space based navigation services. The Company offers satellite navigation hardware, software which includes precise, secure, robust positioning, timing, and communication solutions.

Pangaea

Series A in 2021
Pangaea Holdings Inc. manufactures and sells skin care products for men. It offers skin products, such as moisturizers and oils; drapes; and dental products, including toothpastes, toothbrushes, and mouth rinse products. Pangaea Holdings Inc. was formerly known as Skin Inc. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Dasera, Inc

Seed Round in 2021
Dasera helps build trust between consumers & companies by enabling safe internal use of sensitive consumer data in the cloud. Our unique solution can find, flag and rewrite unsafe queries in data warehouses. Dasera is a must-have for companies that give engineers, analysts and contractors broad access to data but lack granular visibility into how the data is used.

Storefront

Series A in 2014
Storefront, Inc. operates an online marketplace for artists, designers, and brands to find and rent retail space in San Francisco and New York, as well as temporary spaces at shopping center properties in Canada. The company lists spaces from a booth at a street fair to a space inside a boutique store and to an entire store on a busy street. It also enables store owners, brokers, or landlords to make money from their spaces. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Mission Bio

Venture Round in 2015
Mission Bio delivers targeted solutions for high-impact applications with the Tapestri Platform. The Tapestri Platform is the industry’s first and only single-cell multi-omics platform, enabling genotype and phenotype from the same cell and precise detection of heterogeneity in disease progression and treatment response. Application areas include oncology blood cancers, solid tumors, and genome editing validation.

Eridan Communications

Venture Round in 2019
Eridan is building the world’s first digital sampling radio for 4G, 5G, and beyond. Eridan's unique transceiver architecture produces all sub-6GHz cellular signals at full transmit power, eliminating the need for linear power amplifiers. This fully digital wireless signal generation approach consumes 5-10x less power to transmit the same amount of data.

Gluware

Venture Round in 2018
Gluware pioneered the industry’s first network orchestration engine enabling software-defined networking (SDN) from the data center to campus LAN and WAN. Gluware automates network lifecycle management on existing networks, allowing companies to roll-out a robust suite of advanced network and security features while reducing manual deployment and support costs. Gluware currently powers mission-critical networks of blue-chip enterprises and managed service providers.

e-Chromic Technologies

Seed Round in 2014
e-Chromic Technologies offers reflective electrochromic thin film for retrofitting windows. The electrochromic thin film turns diffuse reflective when switched on. It is the only smart window technology that is suitable for retrofitting existing windows. Unlike other dynamic window products which are only sold as expensive new window units, their thin film that can be installed on to existing windows from inside a commercial or residential building. According to DOE energy models, their reflective electrochromic thin film is 43% more effective than the state of the art absorptive technologies and will be priced at less than 50% of competing smart windows. The use of their product can reduce air conditioning costs and related CO2 emissions by ~35%. It is wireless and user-controllable. Their product is transparent when switched off, allowing a maximum amount of light into the building. When switched to fully reflective, it will prevent ~90% of solar heating from entering. It is anticipated that it will have a 3rd mode, which will be visually transparent while rejecting infrared heating.

FreshBooks

Series D in 2019
FreshBooks is the #1 accounting software in the cloud designed exclusively for service-based small business owners and independent professionals. The company has helped more than 10 million people worldwide process billions of dollars with its ridiculously easy-to-use invoicing, time tracking, expense management features. Recognized with eight Stevie awards for best customer service in the world, the company’s mantra is to “execute extraordinary experiences everyday.” Based in Toronto, Canada, FreshBooks serves paying customers in 160 countries.

Collectable

Convertible Note in 2021
Collectable.com, Inc. designs and develops mobile applications for the assistance of sports memorabilia collectors by offering an online marketplace to browse auction markets and historical prices. The company's products include historical price guide, universal auction finder, and automated wishlist matching service. It also offers online marketing services by offering market trend analytic reports. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Concord, Massachusetts.
Catheter Connections, Inc. develops and commercializes vascular access products to protect patients from acquiring infections during intravenous infusion therapy (IV). The company offers DualCap System, a set of user-friendly products that provides healthcare facilities with an integrated solution for IV disinfection and protection by helping in the fight against IV catheter-related blood stream infections. Its DualCap System safely disinfects IV tubing end connectors and IV catheter access valves for infection control. The company offers its products through sales representatives. Catheter Connections, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As of January 31, 2017, Catheter Connections, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Merit Medical Systems, Inc.

Aligned Carbon Inc.

Convertible Note in 2022
Aligned Carbon is a supplier of aligned carbon nanotubes, enabling 1000x improvement in computing. It has provided its product of wafer-scale aligned carbon nanotube arrays to more than a dozen university research groups and industrial research labs. Aligned Carbon was formed in early 2018 by three friends and labmates from Stanford University. Collectively Aligned Carbon’s team represents over 35 years of nanotechnology experience with 100+ peer-reviewed publications and inventorship for 15+ patents.

Connected Signals, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2019
Connected Signals, Inc. offers a cloud-based, centralized system that connects vehicles to traffic signals to provide prioritization of buses, pedestrians, EMS vehicles, and others. It develops Transit Signal Priority (TSP) that works on hardware already outfitted in the buses, and operates along the city’s fixed bus routes to reduce trip time by extending a green light or by having a signal return to green more quickly. Its application provides traffic light data and predictions to drivers, automakers, municipalities, and local traffic regulation agencies in the United States. Connected Signals, Inc. was formerly known as Green Driver, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Eugene, Oregon.

Jackpocket, Inc.

Series D in 2021
Jackpocket, Inc. develops a mobile application that allows users to buy lottery tickets while playing games. Its application can be downloaded on iOS and Android devices. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Relativity Space, Inc.

Series E in 2021
Relativity Space, Inc. manufactures and supplies orbital rockets. It also provides production, testing, and launching services for satellites in the United States. Relativity Space, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Long Beach, California.

Cephasonics

Convertible Note in 2012
Cephasonics, Inc. provides mixed-signal semiconductors and subsystem products. The company offers ultrasound beamforming front-end systems and development kits; AutoFocus ultrasound beamforming technology for ultrasound OEMs to implement customized and various algorithms; analog-to-digital converters; and ultrasound analog front end receiver modules for an ultrasound analog front end subsystems. It serves medical imaging and ultrasound device markets through distributors worldwide. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Ampaire

Series A in 2021
The Third Revolution in Aviation has begun and Ampaire is leading the charge by developing aircraft that make flying clean, quiet, safe, reliable, affordable, and more accessible to more people than ever before. With key innovations in energy storage, propulsion, and aircraft architecture, the Ampaire team is maximizing the potential of the aircraft industry. Ampaire is a portfolio company of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator. It was founded in year 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Sift Shopping

Convertible Note in 2012
Sift is a free shopping app shop for Christmas and BlackFriday Sales. Find products and stay connected to brands and retailers. See what’s trending at BestBuy, Macy’s, Nordstom, Toys-R-Us, Target and 3000 more stores. They have millions of products and thousands of stores. Also, discover new stores and products.

CirrusMD Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
CirrusMD Inc. operates a healthcare communication platform for doctors and patients in the United States. The company’s CirrusMD platform facilitates patients to send secure messages and images; schedule a video chat; access to health information; and 24/7 physician access to local doctors. It offers doctor-to-patient video chat and direct messaging through a HIPAA compliant patient profile. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

TheraDep Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
TheraDep Technologies, Inc. manufactures biologic materials. It offers TheraDep, a technology solution that provides treatment for numerous medical conditions and influences the performance of various medical devices; TherGen, a solution that combines the therapeutic benefits of Cold Atmospheric Plasma (CAP) to apply a layer of collagen; BioDep, medical device coatings that offer coating deposition of biologic materials and drugs for the medical devices, and laboratory analysis equipment and supplies; and BioDep Labware offers a single step dry process to apply biologic materials used in diagnostics and laboratory equipment. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

SPARTAN, SAS

Convertible Note in 2021
SPARTAN SAS develops and manufactures radiation-blocking men’s branded underwear. The company designs and develops Wavestopper Technology, a conductive wire-mesh that blocks microwaves, which includes Wi-Fi radiation, Bluetooth, and cellphone radiation. The company offers silver and cotton mesh-based boxers which prevents radiation exposure. It provides its products in one boxer, three boxers kit, five boxers kit, and 10 boxers kit. Additionally, the company sells boxer briefs, trunks, beanie, T-shirts, silver lined protective masks, and women’s underwear through its online website. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Bagnolet, France.

Augmedix, Inc.

Private Equity Round in 2020
Augmedix is a tech-enabled service that reclaims the hours physicians spend on the computer entering or retrieving data from electronic health records and refocuses them on what matters most: patient care. It uses wearable technology to connect its clinic with the Augmedix charting service. It is powered by Google Glass and Smartphone devices. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Whodini

Series A in 2011
Founded in 2010, Whodini is a Los Altos based startup using artificial intelligence to help employees in large enterprises find expert coworkers. Whodini has created a multi-platform application that automatically generates detailed professional profiles to help users discover coworkers who can help.

Thread Robotics

Series A in 2021
Thread Robotics provides medical devices and services with a focus on fertility care. It was founded in 2020 and operates in Mountain View, California.

Quip NYC Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
Quip NYC, Inc., doing business as quip, designs, manufactures, and sells oral healthcare products. It offers electric toothbrushes; toothpastes; refillable floss pick and string; toothpaste; and supplies, such as toothbrush heads, travel cover mounts, manual toothbrushes, and refresh bag and chargers. The company sells its products through its online platform. Quip NYC, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

BiPar Sciences

Series A in 2008
BiPar Sciences Inc. is a Brisbane, CA based developer of PARP inhibitors as cancer therapies. BiPar's key experimental product is BSI-201, currently in mid-stage trials for advanced breast cancer, ovarian cancer and other tumors. BiPar has raised around $60 million in VC funding, from firms like [Domain Associates](/financial-organization/domain-associates), [Canaan Partners](/financial-organization/canaan-partners-3), [Vulcan Capital](/financial-organization/vulcan-capital), [PolyTechnos Venture Partners](/financial-organization/polytechnos-venture-partners), [Asset Management Company](/financial-organization/asset-management), and [Quantum Technology Partners](/financial-organization/quantum-technology-partners). It also has raised venture debt from [Lighthouse Capital Partners](/financial-organization/lighthouse-capital-partners). On April 15th, 2009, French drug maker [Sanofi-Aventis S.A.](/organization/sanofi-aventis-2) announced it was acquiring BiPar Sciences for up to $500 million.

Cake

Convertible Note in 2019
Their mission is to help you have great online conversations around topics that fascinate you.

ZenSports

Convertible Note in 2021
ZenSports, Inc. develops a decentralized sports betting mobile application platform. The platform enables users to create and accept bets without the need for a centralized bookmaker. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Cardea Bio, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
Cardea Bio Inc., a biotech company, develops, manufactures, and delivers commercial graphene-based digital biosensor hardware, software, and molecular infrastructure. The company focuses on creating products and applications that enable precision healthcare by improving diagnostic ease, speed, and cost. Its insight biosensors use the conductive and biocompatible nanomaterial graphene to convert biomolecules into digital elements enabling biology to connect directly to digital networks and creating access to biological data. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

OWL Autonomous Imaging

Convertible Note in 2019
Owl Autonomous Imaging, Inc. develops and delivers two-color infrared camera for the US Air Force. The company also developing a 4D-camera that combines 1550nm Flash-LiDAR and Thermal imaging (IR) within a single solid-state mega-pixel focal plane, targeting ADAS and Autonomous vehicles. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Fairport, New York.

AlphaFlow, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2022
AlphaFlow, Inc. owns and operates an online investment platform for real estate assets. Its platform operates as a tech-driven investment manager that provides professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors and allows accredited investors to organize and understand their peer-to-peer investment portfolio. AlphaFlow, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in New York, New York.

UpOut

Series A in 2012
UpOut Inc. provides an online guide and mobile app for discovering events in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. The company also provides membership options and subscription services for events in various categories, including fitness and active, comedy, live music, classes, food and drink, theater and shows, and art and exhibits. In addition, it arranges contests and operates a culture blog; and offers gift cards. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Flume

Convertible Note in 2017
Flume is bringing connectivity and intelligence to an industry that is ripe for disruption; water, or the lack thereof. The connected-home market is their initial target with their first product: a patent-pending IoT system that intelligently detects leaks, protects homes from devastating damage and enables customers to reduce consumption. The team has already established partnerships with two of the largest insurers in the world and is excited to continue expanding into the consumer market, as well as establish new partnerships with service providers and water utilities.

HoorayFoods

Convertible Note in 2021
Hooray makes delicious plant-based meats that are designed to look, cook, and taste just like the real thing. Plants that remind us of our favorite meats while being made of ingredients we can feel good about? Now that's something to celebrate and say Hooray!

Liftopia

Convertible Note in 2018
Liftopia, Inc. owns and operates a platform, Liftopia.com, which retails ski lift tickets on the Web. It sells lift tickets, rentals, and lessons at various alpine resorts in North America. Its platform enables alpine resorts to sell advance purchase, date specific tickets, rentals, and lessons. Liftopia, Inc. was formerly known as Liftopia Holding Corp. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California.

ZenOptics

Convertible Note in 2020
ZENOPTICS, Inc. develops software platform that aggregates business intelligence, data, and analytics tools in a unifying portal, allowing users to access, share, and report data. The product can be used for accessing all analytics assets, holistic enterprise search, certification of reports, to customize workflows, AI driven recommendations, cross platform report details, dashboard for impact analyses, and report statistics. ZENOPTICS, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Jose, California.

Mirada Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Mirada Technologies develops the enabling components for advanced LiDAR. It builds the critical components for advanced LiDAR: laser scanning and detector technology. Its flagship product is a breakthrough laser scanner that delivers ranging distance, field of view, reliability, and volume scalability. Mirada is based in San Francisco, California.

CLIPr

Convertible Note in 2021
Clipr applies imperfect AI and machine learning to process and personalize video session recordings to make working and learning more effective. With Clipr, employees, students and attendees can quickly search, skim, share, review and learn what they need in a fraction of the time.

Sonavi Labs

Convertible Note in 2020
Sonavi Labs is an innovative device and software company that focuses on developing modern medical products that analyze body sounds for the diagnosis of diseases. The company creates technology rooted in artificial intelligence that will evolve the patient experience and enhance the capabilities of providers. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

StrongArm Tech

Seed Round in 2016
StrongArm Tech is a safety science company that develops data collection, assessment, and safety solutions for the industrial worker. It offers a risk monitoring device that uses machine learning to capture and analyze physiological and environmental risk; and FUSE Risk Management Platform which is a cloud-based IoT enabled software informed by an array of motion-interpreting sensors that allow organizations to monitor, assess, and intervene. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Diatomix

Seed Round in 2020
Diatomix is an air-purifying technology company that offers an all-inclusive OEM air-purifying additive. Their patented additive rapidly traps dangerous chemical compounds and continuously converts them to safe, non-toxic byproducts. The company improves indoor air quality when applied as an additive to coatings products such as floor coatings, furniture polish, and wall paint. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon.

Swiftly, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Swiftly provides the operating system for retailers. Swiftly is a technology platform for supermarkets that takes the friction out of grocery shopping and brings the advantages of e-commerce to brick and mortar stores, enabling supermarkets to beat online retailers on price, convenience and selection. Swiftly’s technology and machine learning helps grocery stores become the go-to destination for customers’ shopping needs while opening additional revenue streams for retailers.

Awaken, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Awaken, Inc. operates a genome research and data platform. The company’s platform allows users to upload their DNA data and learn their different genetic traits. It provides ancestry, body traits, food, nutrition, sports, personality, and intelligence information. Awaken, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Tokyo, Japan.

LeaseLock

Convertible Note in 2022
LeaseLock Inc. provides lease guarantor services for renters through online application. It eliminates the need for a cosigner, grants instant lease approval, and helps property owners in reducing vacancy rates. LeaseLock Inc. has a strategic partnership with QBE Holdings, Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Marina Del Rey, California.

Storefront

Seed Round in 2013
Storefront, Inc. operates an online marketplace for artists, designers, and brands to find and rent retail space in San Francisco and New York, as well as temporary spaces at shopping center properties in Canada. The company lists spaces from a booth at a street fair to a space inside a boutique store and to an entire store on a busy street. It also enables store owners, brokers, or landlords to make money from their spaces. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Gifnote by Audiobyte

Series A in 2021
Songclip™ is a new licensed music format built specifically for texting, social posts, and quick communication. Songclip’s multi-patented networked product solution, the Songclip API, integrates seamlessly into social platforms, mobile apps, and virtual marketplaces to drive expression, monetization, and music streaming. Songclip operates the world’s foremost searchable library of 5-30 second meta-tagged music clips, in partnership with the music industry. For more information, visit songclip.com

Ordermark

Series C in 2021
Ordermark is an online ordering management system for restaurants. It addresses a big and growing challenge for restaurants: online ordering services, which drive tremendous revenue to restaurants, each operates differently with their own technology and procedures for handling orders. This makes adding new online ordering services costly and time consuming for restaurants. It helps restaurants increase efficiency and grow profits by aggregating mobile orders across all of the major online-ordering service providers into a single dashboard and printer. Ordermark powers the technology behind Nextbite, one of the early pioneers in the virtual restaurant space. Nextbite’s portfolio of virtual-only restaurant brands generates incremental orders for under-utilized kitchens. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Magnetic Insight

Series B in 2021
Magnetic Insight (MI) introduced magnetic particle imaging into the preclinical diagnostic research market enabling quantitative cell tracking, imaging of vascular function, detecting metastatic tumors, visualizing inflammation, CAR-T cell therapies and initial research into regenerative medicine.

Pace Avenue

Convertible Note in 2017
Pace Avenue provides finance solutions for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and water conservation upgrades to buildings. It offers financing solutions to upgrade solar panels renewable energy, drought tolerant landscaping, heating and air conditioning, LED's and lighting controls, roofing and insulation, and windows and door installation. The company serves homeowners and contractors in residential homes, commercial buildings, agricultural sector, and industrial structures. Pace Avenue was founded in 2016 and is based in Oakland, California.

Nwave Technologies

Convertible Note in 2019
Nwave is leveraging its low power wide area wireless network, parking space sensor, analytics, and payment technologies to disrupt the transportation market by acquisition, analysis and real time provisioning of vehicle parking data. For ultimate accuracy our vehicle detection sensors use 3 different sensing technologies combined with advanced filtering and signal processing algorithms that differentiate parking events from interference or false events such as an underground train passing or DC current spikes. No wiring or street furniture is required, thousands of units communicate directly to a single gateway in up to 3 miles range. Having a battery life of 5 - 8 years sensors fit directly into each parking space, and integrate with all existing mobile and web frameworks.

Cadence Biomedical

Series A in 2013
Cadence Biomedical, Inc. manufactures and markets medical devices for restoring walking abilities. It offers Kickstart, a neurorehabilitation device to accelerate walking recovery in individuals with impairments from stroke, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and other neurological conditions. The company’s Kickstart uses Exotendon technology that functions like an artificial tendon to provide stability, support, and swing assistance. Its solutions are used for outpatients and home use. Cadence Biomedical, Inc. was formerly known as Empowering Engineering Technologies, Corp. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

BotFactory

Convertible Note in 2018
BotFactory Inc. develops and manufactures desktop electronic circuit printers. The company offers Squink, a circuit printer that allows clients to design and create 3D printed electronic prototypes using print conductive ink, dispense solder paste or glue, and pick and place components. Its products print and create single-multilayered rigid and flexible circuits on various substrates. The company offers its products for Fortune 500 research labs, aerospace companies, universities, and electronics makers. BotFactory Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Long Island City, New York.

New Wave Foods

Series A in 2021
New Wave Foods is a provider of algae and plant-based food used to preserve and enrich seafood traditions. Its foods are sustainable, plant-based shrimp alternatives made from sustainably sourced seaweed, soy protein, and natural flavors which contain the eight amino acids that are found in meats that enable consumers to enjoy low calories and zero cholesterol healthy products.

VenJuvo

Venture Round in 2008
VenJuvo specializes in consumer electronics trade-in services, which means they can offer you the greatest value for your pre-owned MP3 Player or Video Game Console. The 3 step process involves first receiving your online quote online, then sending the item in, and lastly receiving a gift card that can go toward the purchase of the item that you want.

HoorayFoods

Seed Round in 2021
Hooray makes delicious plant-based meats that are designed to look, cook, and taste just like the real thing. Plants that remind us of our favorite meats while being made of ingredients we can feel good about? Now that's something to celebrate and say Hooray!

Apex Trading

Convertible Note in 2018
Apex Trading is decisively disrupting conventional wholesale cannabis commerce channels. Developed by a team of entrepreneurs armed with extensive real-world cannabis applications experience, Apex is built to facilitate multiple marketplaces, custom storefronts, and data-rich dashboards. The Apex platform provides cultivators, product manufacturers, distributors and retailers with comprehensive tools and services exceeding all available systems.

Beyond Meat

Series F in 2019
Beyond Meat specializes in providing plant-based meat. The company aims to make a positively impact on four growing global issues such as human health, climate change, constraints on natural resources, and animal welfare. Its plant-based meats are made by combining expert innovation with simple, non-GMO ingredients. Beyond Meat's products offer greater or equal protein levels than their animal counterparts, no cholesterol, less saturated fat, and no antibiotics or hormones.

Orbital Composites

Convertible Note in 2018
Orbital Composites specializes in the fields of 3D printing, Composites, robotics automation, and carbon fiber. Their Robotic automation offers tremendous advantages at the fraction of the cost of traditional manufacturing systems, including scalability, and complex 3D printing on curves.

Acoustic Technologies

Venture Round in 2000
Acoustic Technologies, Inc. develops hands-free audio processing software for consumer electronics companies. The company offers SoundClear, hands-free software that provides echo cancellation, noise reduction, and full-duplex technologies for mobile handsets, smartphones, tablets, Bluetooth headsets, car radios, GPS navigation devices, and hands-free car kits. Acoustic Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Mesa, Arizona.

emocha Mobile Health

Seed Round in 2017
emocha Mobile Health Inc. provides mobile health platforms for patient engagement and medication adherence. The company provides customizable reports to the care team and provides a summary of adherence and insights gleaned from daily video submissions. It offers miDOT, an application that improves medication adherence and links patients to care; and outbreak monitoring systems for public health officials that enable them to conduct active and direct-active monitoring of people. The company also provides care coordination solutions, including primary health clinic application for collecting critical identification information; linkage officer application that checks results and follows up with patients; and MDR-TB clinic application that allows nurses to check patients by initiating care guided by clinical decision support algorithms. emocha Mobile Health Inc. was formerly known as Seiguer Associates Incorporated. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

RealKey

Convertible Note in 2017
Realkey, Inc. operates in the technology industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

UpOut

Series A in 2013
UpOut Inc. provides an online guide and mobile app for discovering events in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. The company also provides membership options and subscription services for events in various categories, including fitness and active, comedy, live music, classes, food and drink, theater and shows, and art and exhibits. In addition, it arranges contests and operates a culture blog; and offers gift cards. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Frontdesk, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
Frontdesk is changing the face of both hospitality and real estate as we know it today. It offers securely-managed short-term stays at apartments in cities, catering to both business and leisure travelers. Until now, travelers have had to choose between stuffy hotel rooms or unpredictable Airbnb-style stays. Frontdesk bridges the world between short-term and long-term stays in urban apartment communities with custom-built technology, a value-driven culture, and flawless execution, to create a secure and consistent experience for all.

Front Range Biosciences, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2016
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.

Appbistro

Convertible Note in 2010
Appbistro is an application marketplace for Facebook pages. At Appbistro, page administrators can quickly find applications that they can easily plug into their pages and quickly increase the engagement and reach of their pages. The applications within the marketplace are built by known and vetted Facebook developers, and feature applications for Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, and more. Appbistro's parent company, MMTG Labs, Inc., was acquired by InMobi in July 2012.

Movellus Inc

Series B in 2022
Movellus, Inc. designs, develops, fabricates, tests, and manufactures mixed-signal semiconductors for the semiconductor market. It offers clock generators/PLLs, locked loops, programmable oscillators, pulse width modulators, and near threshold analogs. The company's products include Movellus PLL, DLL, and LDO generators. It serves semiconductor and systems companies in the artificial intelligence, networking, and FPGA segments. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California with additional offices in Silicon Valley, California; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Toronto, Canada.

TomboyX

Convertible Note in 2019
TomboyX operates as a retail clothing company that primarily sells underwear and apparel for living without labels. It also offers bras, boxers, trunks, shorts, hats, socks, and underwear. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Saildrone, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Saildrone designs and manufactures wind and solar powered autonomous surface vehicles called Saildrones, which make cost-effective ocean data collection possible at scale. We are busy building the world's largest high resolution ocean datasets, working with governments and private companies around the globe. We believe that better inputs in planetary models in turn yield better outputs and that the new insights gained in weather forecasting, carbon cycling, global fishing and climate change will have tremendous impact on humanity.

AnyMeeting

Series A in 2013
AnyMeeting offers a full-featured web conferencing product designed and priced for small business, including a completely free ad-supported option. They provide all the features a small business needs – including 6-way video conferencing, conference calling, built-in VoIP, screen sharing, presentation sharing, video sharing, recording, mobile, social media integration, webinar ticketing, and more – in one, easy-to-use package. Their software is completely web based and runs inside a web browser. That means no annoying downloads required for your attendees, unlike with many of their competitors. Attendees can join with just a single click on the meeting link. It’s lighting fast and super easy. AnyMeeting costs less than major competitors, starting at just $18/month for meetings with up to 25 attendees, and $78/month for webinars with up to 200 attendees. Of course, there's always the completely free ad-supported option that allows you to host meetings or webinars with up to 200 attendees.

Arcadia, Inc.

Series C in 2020
Arcadia, Inc. operates an online platform for users to manage their account, track their account activity, and view their energy usage. It serves houses, apartments, and businesses in the United States. The company was formerly known as Arcadia Power, Inc. Arcadia, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Washington, District Of Columbia.

ARK Diagnostics

Venture Round in 2009
ARK Diagnostics Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes in vitro diagnostic products. ARK’s proprietary assays accurately measure drug levels in biological fluids. Clinicians use these measurements to guide dosing decisions for safe, effective, and personalized drug therapy. By optimizing drug levels, clinicians improve outcomes, reduce toxicity, and lower healthcare costs. ARK is dedicated to improving the quality of patient health through better therapeutic drug management. ARK’s quality management system is certified to ISO 13485:2003 and the Canadian Medical Devices Conformity Assessment Scheme (CMDCAS). The company is committed to quality compliance through its strong management principles and carefully follows Good Manufacturing Practices. From conception to commercialization, ARK uses its unique blend of scientific expertise and deep industry knowledge to deliver high-quality assays for new generations of drugs. Its highly regarded homogeneous enzyme immunoassay technology is adaptable to a wide variety of automated clinical chemistry analyzers. Proprietary projects for kitted products and OEM projects are engaged. Founded in 2003, ARK Diagnostics, Inc. is a privately held company in Fremont, California.

Qurasense Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Qurasense Inc. provides menstrual blood diagnostics services. The company uses Q-pads, menstrual pads that captures and preserves period blood for medical analysis. The company also develops menstrual tracking application that tracks menstrual period cycle for women and also analyses health data. Qurasense Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Zimbio

Series A in 2007
Zimbio are delighted to announce that Livingly Media has been acquired by aufeminin! Read More. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Livingly Media is a digital lifestyle brand that owns and operates three top ranked sites. Zimbio launched in 2006 and quickly became a top entertainment news site. In 2010 they launched StyleBistro, which became a top fashion/beauty/style site. They acquired Lonny Magazine in 2012, re-launched it on their platform as Lonny.com, and grew its audience tenfold to become a top-ranking site in comScore’s home design category. Collectively, their sites reach more than 25 million users and provide them with unmatched depth and breadth of content. Each site captures more pageviews per visit than any other among their respective competitive sets. Brands can connect with their massive audience through any of their platforms – desktop, tablet, mobile – with the help of their creative services team and a suite of proprietary offerings that are built in-house specifically to maximize engagement and awareness. The company has offices in San Carlos, CA, Chicago and New York City, and is venture-backed by Menlo Ventures and Draper Richards.

Juul Labs

Venture Round in 2018
JUUL is an electronics company that specializes in improving alternatives for adult smokers and has launched a nicotine vaporizer in US. The company is a simply satisfying alternative for adult smokers. JUUL Labs’ mission is to eliminate combustible cigarettes. The company was founded to provide the 1 billion smokers worldwide a true alternative to cigarettes that enables them to permanently switch. Its research indicates hundreds of thousands of smokers have already switched to JUUL, and they are working to enable millions more to switch in the coming years. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

StrongArm Tech

Venture Round in 2021
StrongArm Tech is a safety science company that develops data collection, assessment, and safety solutions for the industrial worker. It offers a risk monitoring device that uses machine learning to capture and analyze physiological and environmental risk; and FUSE Risk Management Platform which is a cloud-based IoT enabled software informed by an array of motion-interpreting sensors that allow organizations to monitor, assess, and intervene. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Mojo Mobility

Convertible Note in 2020
Mojo Mobility, Inc. designs and manufactures wireless charging systems. Its charging solutions allow various devices with various power requirements to charge simultaneously on the same charging surface. The company provides position-free wireless charging surface for mobile products, such as mobile phones, laptops, tablets, and wireless accessories. Its wireless charging technologies are also used in various industries and applications, such as mobile devices, industrial and medical devices, and electric vehicles. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Flywheel Software, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2011
Flywheel Software, Inc. provides Flywheel, a cloud based computerized location based dispatching and mobile-hailing technology for fleets in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle. The company was formerly known as UpStart Mobile, Inc. and changed its name to Flywheel Software, Inc. in December 2009. Flywheel Software, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Redwood City, California. As of April 7, 2017, Flywheel Software, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cabconnect Inc.

Filtricine, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2021
Filtricine, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer. The company develops a cancer therapy through targeted depletion of the nutrients that are critical to the growth of cancer cells only. Filtricine, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Figure 8 Surgical, Inc.

Series A in 2010
Figure 8 is an FDA approved, simple, strong, and cost-effective device. It was specifically developed to replace simple steel wire for primary sternal closure following open-heart surgery. Figure 8 retains the simplicity of wire cerclage with innate engineering to deliver superior multi-vector strength and ease of placement.

Membrion

Series A in 2019
Membrion, Inc. manufactures and commercializes membranes that filter molecules. It filters molecules, such as ions under various conditions, such as hot, cold, acidic, caustic, vacuum, and biologically sensitive conditions. The company’s products are used in flow batteries, water purification, fuel cells, and pharmaceutical applications. Membrion, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Parsley Health, Inc.

Series B in 2020
Parsley Health is a new kind of healthcare service that integrates technology, nutrition, wellness and prevention into cutting-edge primary care. The company was founded in 2016 by Dr. Robin Berzin, M.D., a Columbia-trained physician, digital health expert and leader in functional medicine. Parsley clinics are currently open in Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco. Learn more at www.parsleyhealth.com

LandWright

Series A in 2021
LEX is a commercial real estate securities marketplace. A real estate fintech company, delivering a revolutionary new solution to the illiquidity problems facing real estate owners and investors through a new real estate investment platform.

Future Family, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2021
Future Family, Inc. offers subscription plans which cover all healthcare costs and include guided care through concierge service. The company's features include, personal fertility planning, clinic matching, dedicated nurse concierge, 24/7 access to care team, digital health platform, clinic visits and procedures, labs, and medications. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Appington

Convertible Note in 2013
Add the Power of Voice to your mobile app with Appington! Apps are simply better with professional sounding voice! Appington is the fastest and easiest way to add professional quality voice prompts to your mobile app. Typically used to boost retention and drive more sales, their service allows you to create professional quality voice prompts, deliver multiple versions, analyze their effectiveness, and make changes on the fly without issuing new updates. And the Appington SDK is small, requiring only a few lines of code. To learn more or get started for FREE, log on to Appington.com and let the Power of Voice start working for you!

Hall

Series A in 2013
Hall (formerly CompanyLine) helps teams and companies communicate in real-time. Our all-in-one unified communications app has everything your company needs to communicate and get things done. Hall was part of **[AngelPad](http://angelpad.org) #4** in 2012.

The Fabric

Venture Round in 2013
The Fabric is a startup co-creation foundry with a focus on cloud/IoT infrastructure space. The Fabric has a team of proven company creators who under one roof deeply collaborate with founders to help them grow from concept to company in the cloud and infrastructure space. The Fabric co-creates, funds, and launches companies in the cloud/IoT infrastructure space.

Chimera Bioengineering

Series A in 2019
They aspire to control the immune system. By the time a patient is sitting in front of an oncologist, cancer has evaded their immune system. Chimeric antigen receptor T-cells (CARs) are reprogrammed immune cells, hot-wired to circumvent immune-evasion. Clinical trials for CARs against liquid tumor cancers, like acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoma, have shown transformative results for patients unresponsive to standard therapy. However, limited efficacy against solid tumor cancers, life-threatening toxicities, and limited persistence are impediments to these therapies making a wider impact on cancer patients. Chimera Bioengineering solves the challenges of CARs with drug-responsive gene regulators, which allow us to re-program the "software" of the immune system. They design CAR behavior that promises to minimize toxicity, maximize efficacy and extend persistence so that CARs can lead to cures.w

Second Front Systems, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2021
Second Front provides advisory services to state-of-the-art technology firms seeking to inject their product or offering into the national security market. Through proof-of-concept pilots, lightweight systems integration, and a range of contracting vehicles, Second Front supports solutions to address specific and pressing national security needs.

Future Family, Inc.

Series B in 2022
Future Family, Inc. offers subscription plans which cover all healthcare costs and include guided care through concierge service. The company's features include, personal fertility planning, clinic matching, dedicated nurse concierge, 24/7 access to care team, digital health platform, clinic visits and procedures, labs, and medications. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Xplore Inc

Convertible Note in 2020
Xplore Inc engages in developing space aircraft and provides space as a service. It also provides mission planning, spacecraft engineering, flight financing, payload insurance, communications, data management, and spacecraft operations. It serves government agencies and commercial space companies. Its missions include moon, earth, venus, mars, asteroid, and custom expeditions. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Mercer Island, Washington.

Bionaut Labs, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Bionaut Labs, Inc. designs, manufactures and controls the first intra- tissue navigation platform, using Bionaut nano/micro robots operating inside the body. The company offers a delivery mechanism which is anatomically precise by design. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

MyLabBox

Convertible Note in 2019
At myLAB Box we believe the way we think, talk and test for STDs is long overdue for a change. Our new service, the Safe Box, is the first-ever e-commerce service empowering users to take control of their sexual health with easy and affordable at-home screening solutions.

Cargo Chief, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Cargo Chief arithmetically matches trucking supply and demand with unparalleled integrations. Leveraging award-winning patented technology we help buyers of freight services instantly find available well vetted capacity. Our well received technology provides data, automation and network advantages for our clients and us. Our experienced team is backed by dozens of angels and a seed VC.

Team Labs (Teampay)

Series B in 2021
Teampay is reinventing the corporate card, delivering smart purchasing for empowered teams. Teampay is a purchasing software built for modern, technology-enabled businesses. Their products enable companies to request, approve, and track employee spending in real-time. Teampay helps companies focus their resources on growth, not overhead.

Petal Card, Inc.

Series D in 2022
Petal Card, Inc. provides and issues credit cards to people who do not have a traditional credit history, students, and immigrants. It offers Petal Visa, a credit card and through its machine learning, it analyzes users' digital financial records which allows them to offer higher credit limits and lower rates than competing cards. The company also provides an application to make payments. Petal Card, Inc. was formerly known as CreditBridge, Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Sandstone Diagnostics

Convertible Note in 2019
Sandstone Diagnostics offers a centrifuge system that provides plasma and serum collection at-home and the point-of-care. It specializes in the fields of clinical diagnostics, home healthcare, and fertility. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Mythical Games

Series A in 2021
Mythical Games Inc., a game technology studio, develops games for personal computers, mobiles, and consoles. It offers Blankos, a casual multiplayer game that allows players to buy, trade, and sell their designs with other players. The company also provides tools for content creators and brands to customize and provide ownership of game assets. Mythical Games Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Sherman Oaks, California with an additional office in Seattle, Washington.

MycoTechnology

Venture Round in 2021
MycoTechnology utilizes fungi-based food-processing platforms to transform the flavor and value of agricultural products. The platform can be used to solve a variety of challenges faced by the food, beverage, and flavor industries. MycoTechnology has released ClearTaste, an all-natural, GMO-free, organic bitter blocker that is Kosher and Halal certified. ClearTaste improves the flavor of various agricultural products. MycoTechnology also engages in fermenting agricultural products with strains of gourmet fungi. The company offers myceliated chocolate as well as robusta and arabica coffee beans. It develops and licenses technology to the industry to naturally improve the flavor of robusta and arabica coffee. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Aurora, Colorado.

Figure 8 Surgical, Inc.

Series C in 2013
Figure 8 is an FDA approved, simple, strong, and cost-effective device. It was specifically developed to replace simple steel wire for primary sternal closure following open-heart surgery. Figure 8 retains the simplicity of wire cerclage with innate engineering to deliver superior multi-vector strength and ease of placement.

Iotera

Venture Round in 2016
Iotera, a wireless IoT networking company, was was acquired by Ring.com in 2017. Ring was subsequently acquired by Amazon in 2018.

Glue Networks

Series A in 2010
Glue Networks specializes in providing an enterprise-grade cloud networking service. Glue Virtual Office is available to enterprise customers through partnerships between Glue Networks and top service providers and value-added resellers. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Sacramento, California.

Carbon38, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
Carbon38, Inc. owns and operates an e-commerce destination for active and performance wear for women. The company offers its own proprietary label along with curated selection of contemporary brands. It offers bodysuits, sweaters, sweatshirts, crop tops, leggings, pants, capris, and shoes. The company was formerly known as KCR Ventures, Inc. Carbon38, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Nanomedical Diagnostics

Series A in 2019
Nanomed is a provider of graphene biosensor products used in life science research, drug discovery, and diagnostics, and health-monitoring. They provide fast and affordable tools for small molecule drug discovery. They have developed a breakthrough electrical assay based on proprietary Field Effect Biosensing (FEB) technology that detects molecular interactions. This technology employs a unique graphene biosensor to enable label-free, highly sensitive binding studies of small molecules to proteins. With a wide dynamic range, small sample requirements, and minimal signal contributions from common solvents and detergents, their technology complements existing technology and accelerates small molecule drug discovery. As the world’s leading mass-manufacturer of next-generation graphene biosensors, their mission is to transform the healthcare industry with innovative new products that accelerate cutting-edge life science and drug discovery research. It was founded in 2013 and is based in San Diego, California.

Anzu

Series A in 2020
Anzu is an exciting, fast-growing startup founded by a group of physicians and technologists with a shared vision for creating inspiring products to benefit medical practices, doctors and patients. Headquartered in Phoenix, with operations in Boston, Silicon Valley and India, Anzu is privately held.

ECFX

Convertible Note in 2019
ECFX, Inc. develops and offers software for legal industry. It offers ECFX Notice, an enterprise notice management system that uses intelligent automation to streamline the electronic court notice workflow. The company’s ECFX Notice automates repetitive manual tasks, such as processing electronic court notices, as well as provides firm-defined policies for profiling documents. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in Venice, California.

HiQ Solar, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
HiQ Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, assembles, tests, and markets solar inverters for commercial 3-phase installations in the United States. Its products include TrueString 480v 3-phase inverters and 208v 3-phase inverters, as well as accessories, such as communications gateways, AC splices, and inverter ballast mounting kits. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Samba TV

Series C in 2021
Samba TV personalizes television leveraging the world’s most comprehensive source of real-time viewership data across broadcast, cable TV, OTT and digital media. Through software applications in smart TVs, set-top boxes and mapped to millions of connected devices, Samba makes TV audiences more addressable and measurable to help marketers activate cross-screen campaigns and analyze the impact of their media investment. Samba TV is headquartered in San Francisco with offices across the United States, Asia and Europe. For more information, please visit www.samba.tv or follow @samba_tv on Twitter.

Mission Bio

Series B in 2018
Mission Bio delivers targeted solutions for high-impact applications with the Tapestri Platform. The Tapestri Platform is the industry’s first and only single-cell multi-omics platform, enabling genotype and phenotype from the same cell and precise detection of heterogeneity in disease progression and treatment response. Application areas include oncology blood cancers, solid tumors, and genome editing validation.

Encellin, Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Encellin develops a novel thin-film cell encapsulation device for cell-based therapeutics. It has dedicated experts focused on the investigation and advancement of next-generation therapies. It aims to help patients with chronic diseases, starting with Type 1 diabetes. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ZenOptics

Seed Round in 2017
ZENOPTICS, Inc. develops software platform that aggregates business intelligence, data, and analytics tools in a unifying portal, allowing users to access, share, and report data. The product can be used for accessing all analytics assets, holistic enterprise search, certification of reports, to customize workflows, AI driven recommendations, cross platform report details, dashboard for impact analyses, and report statistics. ZENOPTICS, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Jose, California.

Imprint Energy

Series B in 2020
Imprint Energy, Inc. develops and commercializes zinc-based rechargeable battery technology solutions. It offers ZincPoly, a battery technology that removes longstanding limitations on the recharge ability of zinc-based batteries and enables the production of rechargeable batteries. ZincPoly batteries are developed for small portable electronics markets, including mobile accessories, compact wireless devices, wearable technology, health and fitness monitoring, and medical devices. Imprint Energy, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Alameda, California.

Vaxart

Convertible Note in 2008
Vaxart is a privately held biotechnology company near UCSF Mission Bay in San Francisco. Their mission is to develop rapid and efficient vaccine technology to fight infectious diseases. Vaxart was founded in 2004 and has filed patents covering its novel platform technology for vaccination using vectors together with TLR ligands.

emocha Mobile Health

Convertible Note in 2019
emocha Mobile Health Inc. provides mobile health platforms for patient engagement and medication adherence. The company provides customizable reports to the care team and provides a summary of adherence and insights gleaned from daily video submissions. It offers miDOT, an application that improves medication adherence and links patients to care; and outbreak monitoring systems for public health officials that enable them to conduct active and direct-active monitoring of people. The company also provides care coordination solutions, including primary health clinic application for collecting critical identification information; linkage officer application that checks results and follows up with patients; and MDR-TB clinic application that allows nurses to check patients by initiating care guided by clinical decision support algorithms. emocha Mobile Health Inc. was formerly known as Seiguer Associates Incorporated. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Chimera Bioengineering

Convertible Note in 2021
They aspire to control the immune system. By the time a patient is sitting in front of an oncologist, cancer has evaded their immune system. Chimeric antigen receptor T-cells (CARs) are reprogrammed immune cells, hot-wired to circumvent immune-evasion. Clinical trials for CARs against liquid tumor cancers, like acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoma, have shown transformative results for patients unresponsive to standard therapy. However, limited efficacy against solid tumor cancers, life-threatening toxicities, and limited persistence are impediments to these therapies making a wider impact on cancer patients. Chimera Bioengineering solves the challenges of CARs with drug-responsive gene regulators, which allow us to re-program the "software" of the immune system. They design CAR behavior that promises to minimize toxicity, maximize efficacy and extend persistence so that CARs can lead to cures.w

OWL Autonomous Imaging

Series A in 2022
Owl Autonomous Imaging, Inc. develops and delivers two-color infrared camera for the US Air Force. The company also developing a 4D-camera that combines 1550nm Flash-LiDAR and Thermal imaging (IR) within a single solid-state mega-pixel focal plane, targeting ADAS and Autonomous vehicles. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Fairport, New York.

Ploom

Series A in 2009
Ploom is an upstart tobacco company based in San Francisco. Really. We are creating a line of products starting with the ModelOne. Reimagining the smoking paradigm, we wed modern technologies, materials and processes to the best tobacco and botanical ingredients. We handcraft our pods at our micro-factory in San Francisco. Ploom began as a conversation between a smoker and a non-smoker outside a studio at Stanford's Joint Program in Design in 2004. "What do you hate about smoking?" Adam asked. "What do you love about it?" James responded. The two had already been collaborating on eccentric thesis explorations but those were quickly dropped to answer the question: What if smoking were reinvented today? The thesis generated support from some of the most well respected thinkers and doers in and around the University. James and Adam founded Ploom in a tiny orange painted room on an apple orchard in Palo Alto, determined to bring a better alternative to people who love (and hate) smoking. Hundreds of prototypes, consumer insights and a business plan later, the two developed a unique startup in the historic Dogpatch area of San Francisco with a handful of the best engineers, advisors, marketing and biotech veterans in the country. The model One and Ploom's first six flavors are the first glimpse of the future of smoking: a new ritual for a modern society from a new kind of company.

HitRecord

Series A in 2020
HitRecord is an online community working together as a production company. Since 2010 it has developed into an innovative community of over 100,000 artists of all disciplines (writers, filmmakers, musicians, etc.) adding 250 new members and 2,500+ new pieces of art every day. It was founded by actor and director Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is headquartered in Glendale, California.

OWL Autonomous Imaging

Convertible Note in 2020
Owl Autonomous Imaging, Inc. develops and delivers two-color infrared camera for the US Air Force. The company also developing a 4D-camera that combines 1550nm Flash-LiDAR and Thermal imaging (IR) within a single solid-state mega-pixel focal plane, targeting ADAS and Autonomous vehicles. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Fairport, New York.

Varo Money, Inc.

Series E in 2021
Varo Money, Inc. provides online banking products and services. It offers bank and savings accounts; and online checking accounts and overdraft protection solutions. Varo Money, Inc. Varo Money, Inc. was formerly known as Ascendit Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Varo Money, Inc. in February 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

OncoHealth

Convertible Note in 2012
OncoHealth designs screening devices that detects and diagnoses cancer. Its devices focus on the development of protein bio-markers for screening and diagnostics of cervical cancer and other HPV-associated cancers, enabling medical professionals to monitor, diagnose, and treat cancer.

OncoHealth

Series A in 2011
OncoHealth designs screening devices that detects and diagnoses cancer. Its devices focus on the development of protein bio-markers for screening and diagnostics of cervical cancer and other HPV-associated cancers, enabling medical professionals to monitor, diagnose, and treat cancer.

CirrusMD Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
CirrusMD Inc. operates a healthcare communication platform for doctors and patients in the United States. The company’s CirrusMD platform facilitates patients to send secure messages and images; schedule a video chat; access to health information; and 24/7 physician access to local doctors. It offers doctor-to-patient video chat and direct messaging through a HIPAA compliant patient profile. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Overtime

Series B in 2020
Overtime Sports Inc. develops an application to create and edit sports video highlights. It offers Overtime, an application that allows users to film highlights and add slow-motion to capture the best moments in a sporting event of schools and amateur sports through video. The company’s application can be used to create a professional looking feed of content. It also sells skullies, socks, shirts, and snapbacks online. Overtime Sports Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Saccharo

Convertible Note in 2021
Saccharo is a biotech start-up in the immuno-oncology space that develops therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer and other novel diseases. Saccharo discovered a polysaccharide that surrounds human cancer cells. The Sacchario approach has a mechanism of action that allows drugs to have multiple killing effects, a predicted safety profile, a broad therapeutic window, and applications to many cancers.

MyHealthTeams, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
MyHealthTeams is a San Francisco-based company building deeply engaging social networks for people living chronic conditions. MyHealthTeams is leading the way in patient engagement, making it easy for consumers to find and connect with others who understand what they face daily because they have been in their shoes. Eric Peacock & Mary Ray co-founded MyHealthTeams in 2012. As of 2019, MyHealthTeams has built and operates over 30 social networks to serve 90% of the addressable chronic condition population in 13 countries.

ReplyBuy

Seed Round in 2015
ReplyBuy Inc. operates an online platform that enables businesses to create and manage personalized conversations with consumers at scale through text messaging. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. As of September 24, 2020, ReplyBuy Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Airship, Inc.

Imperative Group, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Imperative is a fully automated peer coaching technology platform. The video-based peer coaching experience enables every employee to be an effective coach with no training through a dynamic and structured online environment. Imperative makes the benefits of coaching accessible to ten times as many employees for the same cost as traditional coaching. The platform is being deployed by leading employers to address the needs of the new workforce and boost employee retention, development, productivity, and fulfillment. Imperative, a certified B Corp, was founded in New York City and is headquartered in Seattle. Imperative's customers range from Sony Music and MetLife to Zillow and Airbnb. The company was founded by Aaron Hurst and Arthur Woods in 2014.

Destiny (D/XYZ)

Convertible Note in 2020
Over the last decade, we have spent our lives living and breathing the silicon valley start-up life. From coding in our living room to enacting hundred-million-dollar acquisitions, we came to Silicon Valley with a vision. We envisioned a future that many wrote off as unnecessary, but today is the inevitable future of the private market economy. But while we have thrived from the unparalleled growth and opportunity in the private market, the rest of the world has not. Instead, our friends and family stand outside, looking in as class divisions have widened, and a sense of inequality has become pervasive. In this time of growth — this era of technological wonder, innovation, and entrepreneurship — how can we do better? How can we scale the most significant opportunity of our generation? By providing public access to the private market. As a society, we must make innovation accessible, because making sure that the next generation of innovators can have ownership of the future is the first step in inspiring them to take ownership of the future. Invest in access for everyone, invest in shared future, invest in progress. D/XYZ is a future for everyone. Own a piece of the future, today.

Ploom

Series B in 2011
Ploom is an upstart tobacco company based in San Francisco. Really. We are creating a line of products starting with the ModelOne. Reimagining the smoking paradigm, we wed modern technologies, materials and processes to the best tobacco and botanical ingredients. We handcraft our pods at our micro-factory in San Francisco. Ploom began as a conversation between a smoker and a non-smoker outside a studio at Stanford's Joint Program in Design in 2004. "What do you hate about smoking?" Adam asked. "What do you love about it?" James responded. The two had already been collaborating on eccentric thesis explorations but those were quickly dropped to answer the question: What if smoking were reinvented today? The thesis generated support from some of the most well respected thinkers and doers in and around the University. James and Adam founded Ploom in a tiny orange painted room on an apple orchard in Palo Alto, determined to bring a better alternative to people who love (and hate) smoking. Hundreds of prototypes, consumer insights and a business plan later, the two developed a unique startup in the historic Dogpatch area of San Francisco with a handful of the best engineers, advisors, marketing and biotech veterans in the country. The model One and Ploom's first six flavors are the first glimpse of the future of smoking: a new ritual for a modern society from a new kind of company.

Lifewave Biomedical, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2021
Lifewave Biomedical, Inc. develops a connected health solution that improves the clinical management of patients living with congestive heart failure in hospital, ambulatory, and home settings. Its solution comprises a small and non-invasive lung sensor that provides measurement of lung fluids and respiratory parameters. The company’s sensor is coupled to a smartphone/cloud application that provides insights to improve hospitalization decision support and patient self-management. Lifewave Biomedical, Inc. is based in Los Altos, California.

Ploom

Series A in 2008
Ploom is an upstart tobacco company based in San Francisco. Really. We are creating a line of products starting with the ModelOne. Reimagining the smoking paradigm, we wed modern technologies, materials and processes to the best tobacco and botanical ingredients. We handcraft our pods at our micro-factory in San Francisco. Ploom began as a conversation between a smoker and a non-smoker outside a studio at Stanford's Joint Program in Design in 2004. "What do you hate about smoking?" Adam asked. "What do you love about it?" James responded. The two had already been collaborating on eccentric thesis explorations but those were quickly dropped to answer the question: What if smoking were reinvented today? The thesis generated support from some of the most well respected thinkers and doers in and around the University. James and Adam founded Ploom in a tiny orange painted room on an apple orchard in Palo Alto, determined to bring a better alternative to people who love (and hate) smoking. Hundreds of prototypes, consumer insights and a business plan later, the two developed a unique startup in the historic Dogpatch area of San Francisco with a handful of the best engineers, advisors, marketing and biotech veterans in the country. The model One and Ploom's first six flavors are the first glimpse of the future of smoking: a new ritual for a modern society from a new kind of company.

KeyMe, Inc.

Series F in 2021
KeyMe, Inc. develops KeyMe, a mobile application that allows users to store, copy, share, and duplicate their physical keys using a digital scan. Its KeyMe supports various types, including home, office, mailbox, padlock, Mul-T-Lock, and select Medeco keys in its mobile app and kiosks. The company offers custom keys, including sports teams, movie characters, and designer; and accessories ranging from emergency chargers to bottle openers. It provides its products and services through retailers. KeyMe, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Finless Foods

Series B in 2022
Finless Foods is an early-stage biotechnology company whose mission is to develop and mass manufacture pioneering marine animal food products for human consumption. Their objective is to create seafood sustainably using scientific cellular agriculture technologies, which will provide a cost-effective and appetizing alternative to conventionally-caught and commercially-farmed seafood. Their products will also be healthier to consume and better for the environment than conventionally-produced seafood.
Foresight insures safety-critical businesses with a technology-first workers compensation program. A rigorous third-party evaluation by leading insurance actuaries found Foresight's proprietary risk management software improves safety engagement and reliably reduces workplace incident frequency. With fast pricing indications, online submissions, and in-app reporting, Foresight™ provides unrivaled value for brokers and businesses seeking safety and savings through technology.

Peloton Technology

Convertible Note in 2019
Peloton Technology Inc. was founded in 2011 by a team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to address major pain points of today’s trucking fleets – accidents and fuel costs. Peloton's system uses radar and DSRC vehicle-to-vehicle communications to link active safety systems between pairs of trucks, reducing collision-related expenses and fuel costs. The drivers remain fully engaged and retain steering control, while the system controls acceleration and braking similar to adaptive cruise control. The dramatic reduction in aerodynamic drag in these platoons provides substantial improvements in fuel economy for both the trailing and leading trucks: with on-road testing showing average savings over 7% between the two trucks.

First Republic Bank

Post in 2021
First Republic Bank, together with its subsidiaries, provides private banking, private business banking, real estate lending, and wealth management services to clients in metropolitan areas in the United States. It operates through two segments, Commercial Banking and Wealth Management. The company accepts deposit products, such as checking, money market checking, savings, passbook deposits, and individual retirement accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. It also offers a range of lending products that comprise residential mortgage loans, home equity lines of credit, multifamily loans, commercial real estate loans, personal loans, business loans, construction loans, and smaller loans and lines of credit to businesses and individuals. The company’s loans are secured by single family residences, multifamily buildings, and commercial real estate properties. In addition, it provides wealth management services, which include various investment strategies and products, online investment management services, trust and custody services, online brokerage, financial and estate planning, and access to alternative investments, as well as investing, insurance, and foreign exchange services; and treasury services. Additionally, the company offers online and mobile banking services; student loan refinancing services; and ATM and debit cards. As of December 31, 2019, the company offered its services through 89 offices, including 78 licensed deposit-taking offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Newport Beach, and San Diego, California; Portland, Oregon; Boston, Massachusetts; Palm Beach, Florida; Greenwich, Connecticut; New York, New York; Jackson; and Wyoming, as well as 11 offices that provided lending, wealth management, and trust services. First Republic Bank was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bagaveev Corporation

Venture Round in 2014
Bagaveev Corporation is a startup backed by Adam Draper's Boost accelerator (boost.vc) and advised by Tim Draper (dfj.com) is designing, building and testing 3D printed aerospike rocket engines that will power both lower and upper stages of a 3-ton, 35 foot rocket, designed to deliver 10-12 kg nanosatellites to low Earth orbit and Sun-synchronous orbit.

Imperative Group, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Imperative is a fully automated peer coaching technology platform. The video-based peer coaching experience enables every employee to be an effective coach with no training through a dynamic and structured online environment. Imperative makes the benefits of coaching accessible to ten times as many employees for the same cost as traditional coaching. The platform is being deployed by leading employers to address the needs of the new workforce and boost employee retention, development, productivity, and fulfillment. Imperative, a certified B Corp, was founded in New York City and is headquartered in Seattle. Imperative's customers range from Sony Music and MetLife to Zillow and Airbnb. The company was founded by Aaron Hurst and Arthur Woods in 2014.

Jetty National, Inc

Convertible Note in 2021
Jetty is a financial services company on a mission to make renting a home more affordable and effortless for everyone. Jetty's solution helps property managers increase lease conversion, reduce bad debt, and streamline operations. For the renter, Jetty lowers the barrier to entry, saving residents thousands of dollars on move-in costs. Jetty was founded by Mike Rudoy and Luke Cohler in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Hall

Convertible Note in 2013
Hall (formerly CompanyLine) helps teams and companies communicate in real-time. Our all-in-one unified communications app has everything your company needs to communicate and get things done. Hall was part of **[AngelPad](http://angelpad.org) #4** in 2012.

PlayHaven

Series C in 2012
PlayHaven is the business engine for mobile games offering developers flexible tools to intelligently manage player acquisition, engagement, and monetization. PlayHaven is the only end-to-end solution that helps developers manage users at every valuable point in their lifecycle. PlayHaven’s platform spans 20,000+ games, 800+ million unique users, 176+ million monthly active users, and more than 14 billion in-game events each month. Game developers including Cartoon Network, Glu Mobile, Game Circus, Namco Bandai, NaturalMotion, Nickelodeon, and SEGA leverage PlayHaven’s tools to manage the business of their games. Visit www.playhaven.com for more information. Follow PlayHaven on Facebook and Twitter.

ESS, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
Since their founding in 2011, ESS has been focused on laying the groundwork for a future powered by clean and reliable energy. With a team that boasts decades of experience in distributed power generation and energy storage technologies, ESS has developed an extremely cost-effective energy management system that combines a safe, abundant and non-toxic iron electrolyte with their patented flow cell design. This combination of high performance with low cost means that ESS’s technology is ideally suited for applications that range in size from retail energy management to utility-scale renewables integration.

SellHound Inc.

Debt Financing in 2021
SellHound is a price comparison engine for secondhand marketplaces that makes it easy to sell second-hand items. Its product includes a multi-marketplace virtual assistant listing app for used goods, as well as, the first-ever aggregator of secondhand marketplaces. Their smart recommerce platform is designed to make selling as easy as buying. Our goal is to make reuse more mainstream by making recommerce easier and more successful for everyone. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California.

PlusPlus

Seed Round in 2021
PlusPlus is a peer learning platform for larger companies. It automates the management of onboarding, workshops, and tech-talks at scale. With PlusPlus, companies attract and develop employees. Their people are happier and more effective.

Lottery Now

Convertible Note in 2021
Customers use Lottery Now’s “Mido Lotto” mobile app to purchase Lottery tickets for themselves, for gifting to friends, and to play in teams from their phone. Lottery Now fulfills the order, digitizes the tickets, manages tracking results, and claims the winnings on the customer’s behalf. There is a strong social / gamification component. The Lottery Now team has a deep background in social games, user acquisition, monetization, and retention. Early user metrics and demographics show that Lottery Now is growing the market and facilitating occasional and non-Lottery players to play more regularly.

Buoy Labs, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2018
Buoy Labs offers a smart device that measures and categorizes homeowners’ household water usage, provides leak notifications, and allows remote water shutoff. The company focuses on helping its users save money on their utilities and costs associated with water damage. Calliope Waterworks was founded in 2015 by Keri Waters and Joel Boutros.

Nwave Technologies

Convertible Note in 2017
Nwave is leveraging its low power wide area wireless network, parking space sensor, analytics, and payment technologies to disrupt the transportation market by acquisition, analysis and real time provisioning of vehicle parking data. For ultimate accuracy our vehicle detection sensors use 3 different sensing technologies combined with advanced filtering and signal processing algorithms that differentiate parking events from interference or false events such as an underground train passing or DC current spikes. No wiring or street furniture is required, thousands of units communicate directly to a single gateway in up to 3 miles range. Having a battery life of 5 - 8 years sensors fit directly into each parking space, and integrate with all existing mobile and web frameworks.

One Potato

Convertible Note in 2020
One Potato is an organic, family friendly, semi prepared food company. One Potato delivers all the fresh, organic ingredients you need to make delicious meals in exactly the right proportions. First, tell us the size of your family and your meal preferences. We send you an email with pictures and recipes of the incredibly delicious dinners you’ll be having the following week. Going out of town? Just click and tell us you don’t need the help. We have no membership fee, and no minimum commitment. You can skip any week’s delivery in advance or cancel at any time.

AddThis

Venture Round in 2012
AddThis provide online marketers easy-to-use tools to deliver personalized experiences to users across the web. Over 15 million domains reaching 2B unique users, leverage the AddThis platform to drive traffic and engagement. <a href="https://luckypatcherforum.com/modded-play-store/">Modded Pay Store</a> The company leverages a footprint of 1 trillion page views yearly to power their unique offering.

FiscalNote, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
FiscalNote is a privately-held company that uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact. FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaign finance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions.

Aligned Carbon Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Aligned Carbon is a supplier of aligned carbon nanotubes, enabling 1000x improvement in computing. It has provided its product of wafer-scale aligned carbon nanotube arrays to more than a dozen university research groups and industrial research labs. Aligned Carbon was formed in early 2018 by three friends and labmates from Stanford University. Collectively Aligned Carbon’s team represents over 35 years of nanotechnology experience with 100+ peer-reviewed publications and inventorship for 15+ patents.

Noken

Seed Round in 2019
Noken curates trips to introduce people to a new country. Travelers adapt a Noken Travel Blueprint based on their budgets and timelines and book their accommodations, experiences and transportation. These Travel Blueprints balance helpful guidance with the ability to create your own adventure, introducing travelers to the country’s iconic landmarks as well as local gems. Once on the trip, travelers can find everything they need in the App Guide and chat with the Experience Team for real-time support. Noken gives travelers the best of both worlds: the liberation from countless hours of planning and the guidance on the ground to meet a new country.

Drive Time Metrics

Seed Round in 2017
Drive Time Metrics, Inc. develops a cloud-based platform for accessing, displaying, and reporting data of the connected cars. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

SellHound Inc.

Convertible Note in 2019
SellHound is a price comparison engine for secondhand marketplaces that makes it easy to sell second-hand items. Its product includes a multi-marketplace virtual assistant listing app for used goods, as well as, the first-ever aggregator of secondhand marketplaces. Their smart recommerce platform is designed to make selling as easy as buying. Our goal is to make reuse more mainstream by making recommerce easier and more successful for everyone. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California.

AvantStay

Series B in 2021
AvantStay is a technology-first hospitality brand for group travel. It delivers affordable, world-class, authentic, tech-enabled short-term rental (STR) group experiences targeted at the millennial generation. AvantStay was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Pathwork Diagnostics

Series D in 2012
Pathwork Diagnostics is based in Redwood City, California. The company develops and delivers innovative molecular diagnostics for oncology. The Pathwork Tissue of Origin Test for frozen tissue was the first to receive FDA clearance for a microarray-based gene expression test that aids in identifying challenging tumors, including poorly differentiated, undifferentiated, and metastic cancer.

Magnetic Insight

Series B in 2022
Magnetic Insight (MI) introduced magnetic particle imaging into the preclinical diagnostic research market enabling quantitative cell tracking, imaging of vascular function, detecting metastatic tumors, visualizing inflammation, CAR-T cell therapies and initial research into regenerative medicine.

LandWright

Seed Round in 2020
LEX is a commercial real estate securities marketplace. A real estate fintech company, delivering a revolutionary new solution to the illiquidity problems facing real estate owners and investors through a new real estate investment platform.

Spinnaker

Convertible Note in 2012
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Peloton Technology

Convertible Note in 2020
Peloton Technology Inc. was founded in 2011 by a team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to address major pain points of today’s trucking fleets – accidents and fuel costs. Peloton's system uses radar and DSRC vehicle-to-vehicle communications to link active safety systems between pairs of trucks, reducing collision-related expenses and fuel costs. The drivers remain fully engaged and retain steering control, while the system controls acceleration and braking similar to adaptive cruise control. The dramatic reduction in aerodynamic drag in these platoons provides substantial improvements in fuel economy for both the trailing and leading trucks: with on-road testing showing average savings over 7% between the two trucks.

Tivic Health

Convertible Note in 2021
Tivic Health is a bioelectronic therapeutics company. We translate neuroscience into consumer-friendly medical devices, expanding the role of bioelectronic therapies in the healthcare ecosystem. Their first innovation, ClearUP™ Sinus Pain Relief, delivers temporary relief of sinus pain. It’s a small handheld device that’s easy to use, re-usable, and clinically proven. The company received FDA Clearance January 2, 2019 and will be shipping product in September 2019.
Sentinel Healthcare Corporation manufactures and offers a bluetooth-enabled blood pressure device. It also offers a platform that monitors blood pressure data, makes actionable treatment recommendations, improves medication adherence, and generates revenue for healthcare systems. Its product is connected to a mobile application, which enables two-way communication between patients and care team. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Figure 8 Surgical, Inc.

Series C in 2012
Figure 8 is an FDA approved, simple, strong, and cost-effective device. It was specifically developed to replace simple steel wire for primary sternal closure following open-heart surgery. Figure 8 retains the simplicity of wire cerclage with innate engineering to deliver superior multi-vector strength and ease of placement.

MasonHub, Inc.

Series A in 2021
MasonHub, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence (AI) based platform for the logistics industry. The company offers a software as a service (SaaS) based platform, MasonHub, which provides real-time omni-channel inventory, order management, returns processing, outbound shipments and inbound receiving, inventory placement, and shipping rate optimization services. It also operates a fulfillment center for shipping. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Rancho Cucamonga, California.

Thinkster Math

Seed Round in 2013
Thinkster is a tablet-based math learning program that combines world-class curriculum with personalization from real, experienced teachers and groundbreaking artificial intelligence.

OnScale

Series A in 2021
OnScale Inc. develops on-demand scalable engineering simulation software that accelerates research and development, reduces costs, and helps engineers build future. The company offers OnScale Multiphysics CAE software that empowers engineers to accelerate innovation across various industries, including next-generation technologies, such as MEMS IoT, 5G, biomedicine, and autonomous vehicles. Its software is used in MEMS and filters, sensors, NDE and NDT, medical, and sonar applications. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Molekule

Series C in 2020
Molekule is a San Francisco-based science and clean air company that has developed a fundamentally new approach to cleaning air. While current air purifiers are essentially trying to catch pollutants in filters, Molekule uses nanotechnology to break down and completely eliminate pollutants on a molecular level.

Fund That Flip

Series B in 2021
Fund That Flip, Inc. operates an online investment platform for residential real estate redevelopment projects. It sources, underwrites, and originates projects; and offers investors the opportunity to invest in borrower dependent notes related to each project. The company provides short-term loans to real estate redevelopers who buy and renovate residential properties. It serves accredited investors and re-developers in the United States. Fund That Flip, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Cleveland, Ohio.

Kneron

Series B in 2021
Kneron focuses on the design and development of integrated software and hardware on-device Edge artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for smart home, smart surveillance, smartphones, robots, drones, and IoT devices. Its solutions include AI System-on-Chips (SoCs), visual recognition SDKs, and neural processing unit (NPU) IP. Kneron's vision is to empower AI on everyday devices and build the Edge AI Net.

Stellar Cyber Inc.

Series A in 2020
Stellar Cyber is an automated detection and response (Open-XDR) platform that correlates detections from existing solutions as well as its own security applications to deliver comprehensive protection across the cybersecurity kill chain and present them through one intuitive dashboard. Customers can leverage 20 native applications and a growing list of open ecosystem partners to detect and respond automatically to attacks within seconds wherever they occur on servers, in the network, at endpoints, or in cloud-based applications. Stellar Cyber deploys easily on premises, in public clouds or with service providers.

LeadCrunch

Convertible Note in 2017
LeadCrunch, Inc. develops self-service artificial intelligence based business-to-business (B2B) lead and demand generation tools. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Diego, California.

Ten Degrees, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Ten Degrees provides SaaS indoor location services and human motion data analytics by using the sensors and radio receivers in modern smart phones and IoT wearable devices. These services are critical for the implementation of Smart Manufacturing (Industry 4.0) and for worker safety location awareness. These services are also key digital enablers for retail, travel, medical, and event facilities.

AddThis

Venture Round in 2010
AddThis provide online marketers easy-to-use tools to deliver personalized experiences to users across the web. Over 15 million domains reaching 2B unique users, leverage the AddThis platform to drive traffic and engagement. <a href="https://luckypatcherforum.com/modded-play-store/">Modded Pay Store</a> The company leverages a footprint of 1 trillion page views yearly to power their unique offering.

Qurasense Inc.

Series A in 2020
Qurasense Inc. provides menstrual blood diagnostics services. The company uses Q-pads, menstrual pads that captures and preserves period blood for medical analysis. The company also develops menstrual tracking application that tracks menstrual period cycle for women and also analyses health data. Qurasense Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

BluWrap

Series B in 2011
BluWrap provides shelf-life technology and solutions for fresh food supply chains worldwide. The company's fuel cell technology system uses its oxygen management techniques to create and maintain an all-natural controlled atmosphere environment that extends the shelf-life of perishable proteins. Its technology allows suppliers of fresh protein products to ship by ocean. BluWrap was formerly known as Global Fresh Foods, Inc. and changed its name to BluWrap in September 2013. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California with operations in Talcahuano, Chile.

Orbital Insight

Series E in 2021
Orbital Insight is a geospatial analytics company, used by data-driven organizations that need to understand the changing physical world. Our SaaS technology unlocks global insights, anywhere and anytime, revealing hidden infrastructure, supply chain, socio-economic and geopolitical trends. That’s because our cloud solutions use AI, computer vision and data science to ingest, analyze and transform billions of geospatial data points (including satellite, cell phone “pings”, AIS, SAR, aerial, connected devices, etc) into actionable intelligence used to make superior business and policy decisions. Orbital Insight was established in 2013 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Captiv8 Inc.

Series B in 2022
Captiv8 Inc. develops an analytics platform and marketplace that connects marketers with influencers on social platforms. The company provides brands with Marketplace, an artificial intelligence platform to discover and match with talent based on real-time audience data across social platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, Vine, YouTube, and Facebook. The analysis includes factors such as geography, household income, ethnicity, age, and gender to predict which Influencers will generate the maximum result for brands. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Mateo, California with additional offices in Los Angeles and New York.

RallyPoint Networks, Inc

Venture Round in 2008
RallyPoint is an online military network with 1.7 million service members, veterans, and their civilian supporters (family, recruiters, etc.). RallyPoint's mission is to help all members of the military community lead more successful and fulfilling lives. Members can build their professional network, connect with other members in a safe environment, and explore career opportunities both within the military and in the private sector. Bob McDonald, the retired P&G CEO and the 8th Secretary of Veterans Affairs is the chairman of RallyPoint's board. RallyPoint provides employers highly targeted tools for hiring from and advertising into the military community.

LaderaTech

Convertible Note in 2019
LaderaTech is a biomaterials company with commercial technology in wildfire prevention and the delivery of agriculture chemicals. FORTIFY™ can be deployed at sites of particularly high fire danger for the entire duration of a fire season, providing a protective barrier that can prevent a vast number of wildland fires from starting in the first place. FORTIFY™ is powered by VISMOTECH™, an environmentally-benign hydrogel platform made from renewable resources. FORTIFY™ can be deployed using standard equipment for simple application to a diverse array of target fuels and enable season-long retention of polyphosphate retardants. This approach is impossible with current technologies.
Natural Fiber Welding develops a technology that can use plants and natural fibers to make textiles and other durable items. By working with plant based fibrous materials, the company's scientists and engineers are creating new opportunities to improve and leverage plentiful and renewable resources on the planet for applications associated with synthetic products. It is NFW's goal to develop solutions that can be implemented by communities across the economic spectrum using abundant local resources to develop sustainable, scalable products that minimize processing and cost while improving quality and usability. NFW was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Peoria, IL, USA.

Frontdesk, Inc.

Series B in 2022
Frontdesk is changing the face of both hospitality and real estate as we know it today. It offers securely-managed short-term stays at apartments in cities, catering to both business and leisure travelers. Until now, travelers have had to choose between stuffy hotel rooms or unpredictable Airbnb-style stays. Frontdesk bridges the world between short-term and long-term stays in urban apartment communities with custom-built technology, a value-driven culture, and flawless execution, to create a secure and consistent experience for all.

Cargo Chief, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2015
Cargo Chief arithmetically matches trucking supply and demand with unparalleled integrations. Leveraging award-winning patented technology we help buyers of freight services instantly find available well vetted capacity. Our well received technology provides data, automation and network advantages for our clients and us. Our experienced team is backed by dozens of angels and a seed VC.

Astra Space, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2021
Astra Space, Inc. designs and builds rockets. It engages in providing satellite delivery services and launch services. The company offers online reservations for payload deliveries to sun synchronous and low inclination orbits. Additionally, it owns and operates test facilities. Astra Space, Inc. was formerly known as Ventions LLC and changed its name to Astra Space, Inc. in 2016. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Alameda, California.

ProbiusDx Inc.

Convertible Note in 2018
ProbiusDx Inc. manufactures portable diagnostic device based on electronic sensing platform that can analyze multiple target proteins in real time. It enables doctors to suggest appropriate therapy to patients in need of critical care within clinical settings. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in El Cerrito, California.

AlphaFlow, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2021
AlphaFlow, Inc. owns and operates an online investment platform for real estate assets. Its platform operates as a tech-driven investment manager that provides professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors and allows accredited investors to organize and understand their peer-to-peer investment portfolio. AlphaFlow, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in New York, New York.

GLOW Beverages, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2019
GLOW Beverages, Inc. produces and sells vitamin drink. The company’s products include mango apricot enrgy, mango apricot hydration, and spicy watermelon energy. It sells its products online. GLOW Beverages, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Rancho Cucamonga, California.

KidzToPros

Convertible Note in 2018
KidzToPros, LLC operates after-school sports coaching program at school facilities. It owns an end-to-end online platform that connects parents with private sports coaches for sports, such as soccer, basketball, tennis, chess, martial arts, coding, street hockey, lacrosse, cricket, baseball, softball, fun science, and gymnastics. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.

Movellus Inc

Convertible Note in 2017
Movellus, Inc. designs, develops, fabricates, tests, and manufactures mixed-signal semiconductors for the semiconductor market. It offers clock generators/PLLs, locked loops, programmable oscillators, pulse width modulators, and near threshold analogs. The company's products include Movellus PLL, DLL, and LDO generators. It serves semiconductor and systems companies in the artificial intelligence, networking, and FPGA segments. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California with additional offices in Silicon Valley, California; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Toronto, Canada.

HiQ Solar, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
HiQ Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, assembles, tests, and markets solar inverters for commercial 3-phase installations in the United States. Its products include TrueString 480v 3-phase inverters and 208v 3-phase inverters, as well as accessories, such as communications gateways, AC splices, and inverter ballast mounting kits. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

SkillMil Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
SkillMil Inc. provides precision hiring services for the U.S. military veterans and their spouses. The company, through its SkillMil machine learning technology, matches the unique profile of veterans with employers searching for specific military skills. SkillMil Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Jupiter, Florida.

OncoHealth

Series A in 2010
OncoHealth designs screening devices that detects and diagnoses cancer. Its devices focus on the development of protein bio-markers for screening and diagnostics of cervical cancer and other HPV-associated cancers, enabling medical professionals to monitor, diagnose, and treat cancer.

Swiftly, Inc.

Series B in 2022
Swiftly provides the operating system for retailers. Swiftly is a technology platform for supermarkets that takes the friction out of grocery shopping and brings the advantages of e-commerce to brick and mortar stores, enabling supermarkets to beat online retailers on price, convenience and selection. Swiftly’s technology and machine learning helps grocery stores become the go-to destination for customers’ shopping needs while opening additional revenue streams for retailers.

Orbit Fab, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2021
Orbit Fab offers a supply of satellite propellant in Earth Orbit that expands the operational potential of new and existing space assets. It develops the infrastructure needed to grow a thriving in-space market for products and services that support both existing space businesses (communications and Earth observation) and new industries like space tourism, manufacturing, and mining. The future for satellites is no longer restricted to the fuel they are launched with. Orbit Fab was founded in 2018 by its Co-Founders Daniel Faber and Jeremy Schiel.

KidzToPros

Series A in 2021
KidzToPros, LLC operates after-school sports coaching program at school facilities. It owns an end-to-end online platform that connects parents with private sports coaches for sports, such as soccer, basketball, tennis, chess, martial arts, coding, street hockey, lacrosse, cricket, baseball, softball, fun science, and gymnastics. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.

OnScale

Convertible Note in 2021
OnScale Inc. develops on-demand scalable engineering simulation software that accelerates research and development, reduces costs, and helps engineers build future. The company offers OnScale Multiphysics CAE software that empowers engineers to accelerate innovation across various industries, including next-generation technologies, such as MEMS IoT, 5G, biomedicine, and autonomous vehicles. Its software is used in MEMS and filters, sensors, NDE and NDT, medical, and sonar applications. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Anifie, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2021
Anifie, Inc. provides online virtual concerts through an application. The company develops an application that allows people to connect online for virtual concerts, through Virtual Reality (VR). It allows users to create an avatar that looks like them, buy tickets, and join live with their friends. Anifie, Inc. is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Wingsure

Seed Round in 2022
Wingsure is a farmer-first, technology-first digital insurance enterprise that provides simple solutions for risk management to help farmers. It is a farmer-first, technology-first digital insurance enterprise.

Beyond Meat

Series G in 2019
Beyond Meat specializes in providing plant-based meat. The company aims to make a positively impact on four growing global issues such as human health, climate change, constraints on natural resources, and animal welfare. Its plant-based meats are made by combining expert innovation with simple, non-GMO ingredients. Beyond Meat's products offer greater or equal protein levels than their animal counterparts, no cholesterol, less saturated fat, and no antibiotics or hormones.

StrongArm Tech

Seed Round in 2019
StrongArm Tech is a safety science company that develops data collection, assessment, and safety solutions for the industrial worker. It offers a risk monitoring device that uses machine learning to capture and analyze physiological and environmental risk; and FUSE Risk Management Platform which is a cloud-based IoT enabled software informed by an array of motion-interpreting sensors that allow organizations to monitor, assess, and intervene. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Owlized

Convertible Note in 2016
Owlized provides location-based virtual reality solutions which help people connect deeply with the most visited destinations on Earth. OWL VR and our mobile mixed-reality tools help travelers experience cultural heritage while enabling citizens to visualize and influence the future of cities.

Shuttl

Convertible Note in 2019
Shuttl exists to take the pain away from the daily commute. Currently, the company provides an app-based office shuttle service to make daily commute safe, reliable, affordable and dignified for everyone. The future of mass transit, according to us, will be shared, eco-friendly, tech-enabled commute. Shuttl is the future of public transport. It's a mobile-based minibus service aimed at making your daily commute more convenient. Their vehicles are air-conditioned and operate with high frequency on fixed routes freeing you from the hassles of existing public transport options at a very economical price point.

HepaTx Corporation

Convertible Note in 2020
HepaTx is developing regenerative medicine solutions to address the need for better therapies for life-threatening liver diseases. The technology invented at Stanford University enables efficient hepatocyte production for therapeutic purposes. Its therapeutics can replace lost liver function to treat those with end-stage of liver disease, potentially saving the cost and morbidity of whole organ transplant. Hepatx was established in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

ParkStash

Seed Round in 2020
ParkStash is an early stage startup focusing on providing innovative solutions to parking issues. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Jose, California.

Perkville

Convertible Note in 2013
Perkville is a leading retention and referral solution for the health, fitness, salon, spa, and retail industries. Their rewards program integrates directly with POS or scheduling systems and can be custom-tailored for every business. Featured in businesses around the world, the Perkville system can drive referrals, reward clients for return visits and make purchases, and even generate social media posts. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

AnyMeeting

Series A in 2012
AnyMeeting offers a full-featured web conferencing product designed and priced for small business, including a completely free ad-supported option. They provide all the features a small business needs – including 6-way video conferencing, conference calling, built-in VoIP, screen sharing, presentation sharing, video sharing, recording, mobile, social media integration, webinar ticketing, and more – in one, easy-to-use package. Their software is completely web based and runs inside a web browser. That means no annoying downloads required for your attendees, unlike with many of their competitors. Attendees can join with just a single click on the meeting link. It’s lighting fast and super easy. AnyMeeting costs less than major competitors, starting at just $18/month for meetings with up to 25 attendees, and $78/month for webinars with up to 200 attendees. Of course, there's always the completely free ad-supported option that allows you to host meetings or webinars with up to 200 attendees.

ClearFlame Engines, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
ClearFlame decarbonizes heavy-duty engines while reducing operating costs, to protect the future from the challenge of diesel fuel. The company's technology enables heavy-duty engine manufacturers to produce engines at a lower cost, while simultaneously providing their customers with higher performance and fuel cost savings. Founded in 2016 by BJ Johnson and Julie Blumreiter, ClearFlame Engines is headquartered in Woodridge, Illinois.

Airbanq, Inc.

Angel Round in 2014
Airbanq is a social mobile service that provides financial services. The mobile service offers high quality and affordable financial services to under-served communities by helping them cross the digital divide and adopt mobile financial services, with an innovative online to offline model. It has developed a check-cashing application that gives customers access to quality and fairly-priced mobile financial services. Airbanq enables households to receive secure, alternative financial services (AFS) from within their trusted communities at the highest convenience and lowest possible cost. They also allow the users to remotely upload their checks and pick up the money at the express lines of their cash-out locations with adoption levels over 94% and retention levels of 76%.

Yumi

Convertible Note in 2021
Yumi is the definitive source for parents seeking to understand what they are feeding their children and why, offering a science-based early childhood meal delivery program that is the most convenient and most nutritional option in the market.

Joinedapp, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
Joinedapp is the leader in "Conversational Commerce"​ enabling brands & retailers to sell on messaging apps, connected screens, and home assistant devices. With over 3B users, these are the largest untapped sales & marketing channels in the world today. Our sophisticated AI-powered platform produces additional revenue by targeting the growing demographics of younger, social-savvy, mobile-first consumers on these channels, and removing friction in the browse-to-buy journey by providing native user experiences.

Fieldwire

Convertible Note in 2013
Fieldwire is the field management platform construction pros count on to easily manage the jobsite. Construction companies of all sizes use Fieldwire to power clear communication on over 500,000 projects worldwide. With its easy-to-use mobile application, Fieldwire saves each user 1 hour every day by enabling more efficient information sharing onsite. Fieldwire’s key features include plan viewing, task management, issue tracking, reporting, and more — all accessible from one place. Fieldwire is venture-backed by top investors in the industry and is already transforming the way dispersed teams communicate and collaborate on projects. Fieldwire is the easiest way for construction companies to stay organized on the jobsite.

Baobab Studios Inc.

Convertible Note in 2021
Baobab Studios, headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., is a virtual reality company that creates story and character-driven cinematic experiences. The company was founded by Maureen Fan, who was most recently VP of Games at Zynga; and Eric Darnell, the director of such DreamWorks animated features as the four "Madagascar” franchise films and “Antz.” Baobab is funded by Comcast Ventures, HTC, Samsung, Advancit Capital, The Chernin Group and Freelands Ventures, along with individuals including Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.

Tivic Health

Convertible Note in 2020
Tivic Health is a bioelectronic therapeutics company. We translate neuroscience into consumer-friendly medical devices, expanding the role of bioelectronic therapies in the healthcare ecosystem. Their first innovation, ClearUP™ Sinus Pain Relief, delivers temporary relief of sinus pain. It’s a small handheld device that’s easy to use, re-usable, and clinically proven. The company received FDA Clearance January 2, 2019 and will be shipping product in September 2019.

DellFer, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2021
DellFer, Inc. designs and develops a security software to detect and prevent zero day attacks. Its solution can be used for life and mission critical safety of Internet of things. DellFer, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Novato, California.

WaterSmart Software

Seed Round in 2012
WaterSmart Software provides intelligence beyond the meter to make the lives of water utility managers easier. Water providers using WaterSmart’s cloud-based, customer engagement, and analytics platform have been proven to reduce costs, protect revenue, and increase customer satisfaction by more than 25%. The company has won the globally coveted World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers Award for their potential to impact business and society through the design, development, and implementation of new technologies and innovation.

Mindshare Medical

Convertible Note in 2019
Mindshare Medical is focused on the development of evidence-based clinical decision support technology solutions. The company’s proprietary solution provides personalized diagnostics and guidance on the effectiveness of follow-up procedures and treatments. This approach is intended to improve quality of patient care and reduce financial liability for healthcare organizations. Mindshare Medical was founded by Samir Chowdhury and Michael Calhoun in May 2014.

RealKey

Seed Round in 2016
Realkey, Inc. operates in the technology industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

AppTheGame

Convertible Note in 2014
AppTheGame is an online sports platform that allows fans to talk about games and get news and stats. It allows fans to engage with other fans and uses proprietary algorithms to analyze stats, game info, social media, and play-by-play events to provide fans what they want, when they want it.

Flywheel Software, Inc.

Series A in 2010
Flywheel Software, Inc. provides Flywheel, a cloud based computerized location based dispatching and mobile-hailing technology for fleets in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle. The company was formerly known as UpStart Mobile, Inc. and changed its name to Flywheel Software, Inc. in December 2009. Flywheel Software, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Redwood City, California. As of April 7, 2017, Flywheel Software, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cabconnect Inc.

Joinedapp, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Joinedapp is the leader in "Conversational Commerce"​ enabling brands & retailers to sell on messaging apps, connected screens, and home assistant devices. With over 3B users, these are the largest untapped sales & marketing channels in the world today. Our sophisticated AI-powered platform produces additional revenue by targeting the growing demographics of younger, social-savvy, mobile-first consumers on these channels, and removing friction in the browse-to-buy journey by providing native user experiences.

Pace Avenue

Convertible Note in 2016
Pace Avenue provides finance solutions for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and water conservation upgrades to buildings. It offers financing solutions to upgrade solar panels renewable energy, drought tolerant landscaping, heating and air conditioning, LED's and lighting controls, roofing and insulation, and windows and door installation. The company serves homeowners and contractors in residential homes, commercial buildings, agricultural sector, and industrial structures. Pace Avenue was founded in 2016 and is based in Oakland, California.

HiQ Solar, Inc.

Series C in 2018
HiQ Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, assembles, tests, and markets solar inverters for commercial 3-phase installations in the United States. Its products include TrueString 480v 3-phase inverters and 208v 3-phase inverters, as well as accessories, such as communications gateways, AC splices, and inverter ballast mounting kits. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Cadence Biomedical

Series A in 2011
Cadence Biomedical, Inc. manufactures and markets medical devices for restoring walking abilities. It offers Kickstart, a neurorehabilitation device to accelerate walking recovery in individuals with impairments from stroke, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and other neurological conditions. The company’s Kickstart uses Exotendon technology that functions like an artificial tendon to provide stability, support, and swing assistance. Its solutions are used for outpatients and home use. Cadence Biomedical, Inc. was formerly known as Empowering Engineering Technologies, Corp. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Eridan Communications

Series B in 2021
Eridan is building the world’s first digital sampling radio for 4G, 5G, and beyond. Eridan's unique transceiver architecture produces all sub-6GHz cellular signals at full transmit power, eliminating the need for linear power amplifiers. This fully digital wireless signal generation approach consumes 5-10x less power to transmit the same amount of data.

Aether Bio

Convertible Note in 2021
Aether Bio is a developer of machine learning technology used to re-purpose enzymes in order to create a new compound. Its technology utilizes machine learning combined with high-throughput robotic laboratories to create an entirely new compound and reinvent the production of previously discovered compounds that enable healthcare institutes to get the chemicals and materials they need that are more cheap and sustainable. The company's proprietary hardware allows massively parallelized experimentation, generating datasets orders of magnitude larger than the competition.
Sentinel Healthcare Corporation manufactures and offers a bluetooth-enabled blood pressure device. It also offers a platform that monitors blood pressure data, makes actionable treatment recommendations, improves medication adherence, and generates revenue for healthcare systems. Its product is connected to a mobile application, which enables two-way communication between patients and care team. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Thinkster Math

Convertible Note in 2012
Thinkster is a tablet-based math learning program that combines world-class curriculum with personalization from real, experienced teachers and groundbreaking artificial intelligence.

MycoTechnology

Series E in 2021
MycoTechnology utilizes fungi-based food-processing platforms to transform the flavor and value of agricultural products. The platform can be used to solve a variety of challenges faced by the food, beverage, and flavor industries. MycoTechnology has released ClearTaste, an all-natural, GMO-free, organic bitter blocker that is Kosher and Halal certified. ClearTaste improves the flavor of various agricultural products. MycoTechnology also engages in fermenting agricultural products with strains of gourmet fungi. The company offers myceliated chocolate as well as robusta and arabica coffee beans. It develops and licenses technology to the industry to naturally improve the flavor of robusta and arabica coffee. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Aurora, Colorado.

Jackpocket, Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Jackpocket, Inc. develops a mobile application that allows users to buy lottery tickets while playing games. Its application can be downloaded on iOS and Android devices. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

ClearLaw AI

Seed Round in 2020
ClearLaw provides seamless design, artificial intelligence, and innovative natural language processing tools. ClearLaw uses machine-learning to make the corporate in-house contract negotiation and review process more efficient by informing the user what is standard contract language for every new inbound contract. It puts the organization’s historical data at the reviewer’s fingertips, enabling the discovery of useful insights and reducing the chance of errors. The company was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Stanford, California.

BiPar Sciences

Venture Round in 2005
BiPar Sciences Inc. is a Brisbane, CA based developer of PARP inhibitors as cancer therapies. BiPar's key experimental product is BSI-201, currently in mid-stage trials for advanced breast cancer, ovarian cancer and other tumors. BiPar has raised around $60 million in VC funding, from firms like [Domain Associates](/financial-organization/domain-associates), [Canaan Partners](/financial-organization/canaan-partners-3), [Vulcan Capital](/financial-organization/vulcan-capital), [PolyTechnos Venture Partners](/financial-organization/polytechnos-venture-partners), [Asset Management Company](/financial-organization/asset-management), and [Quantum Technology Partners](/financial-organization/quantum-technology-partners). It also has raised venture debt from [Lighthouse Capital Partners](/financial-organization/lighthouse-capital-partners). On April 15th, 2009, French drug maker [Sanofi-Aventis S.A.](/organization/sanofi-aventis-2) announced it was acquiring BiPar Sciences for up to $500 million.

Magnolia Broadband

Venture Round in 2006
Magnolia Broadband, Inc. provides RF services to the wireless market. It offers value proposition and broadband technology products to the multimedia services. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Englewood, New Jersey.

Mojo Mobility

Convertible Note in 2019
Mojo Mobility, Inc. designs and manufactures wireless charging systems. Its charging solutions allow various devices with various power requirements to charge simultaneously on the same charging surface. The company provides position-free wireless charging surface for mobile products, such as mobile phones, laptops, tablets, and wireless accessories. Its wireless charging technologies are also used in various industries and applications, such as mobile devices, industrial and medical devices, and electric vehicles. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Equator Therapeutics

Convertible Note in 2021
Equator Therapeutics develops drug that helps burn calories and improve metabolism. The drug targets the mitochondria to help people dealing with obesity and type 2 diabetes by resolving metabolic disorders. The drug helps users burn calories like exercise does by identifying compounds that selectively activate the target the protein that mitochondria naturally uses to produce heat. Equator Therapeutics is based in San Francisco, California.

Cover Financial, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Cover is an Android and iOS mobile application that allows its users to insure anything by taking a picture of what they need to insure. It partners with many insurance companies and brokers to provide its users with the best available rates. The application allows its users to insure vehicles, mobile phones, pets, jewelry, houses, boats, tours, and more. It was launched in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Respira Technologies

Convertible Note in 2021
Respira Technologies is a platform device and biotechnology company focusing on aerosol science. The company is creating breakthrough aerosol devices and formulations that safely deliver a broad range of pharmaceuticals and nicotine. Respira Technologies' mission is to create novel medical devices of unparalleled efficiency and to advance the protection of public health with consumer devices through novel innovation, responsible sourcing, draft legislative proposals, transparent product information, and common sense oversight.

Liftopia

Series C in 2013
Liftopia, Inc. owns and operates a platform, Liftopia.com, which retails ski lift tickets on the Web. It sells lift tickets, rentals, and lessons at various alpine resorts in North America. Its platform enables alpine resorts to sell advance purchase, date specific tickets, rentals, and lessons. Liftopia, Inc. was formerly known as Liftopia Holding Corp. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California.

BluWrap

Series B in 2010
BluWrap provides shelf-life technology and solutions for fresh food supply chains worldwide. The company's fuel cell technology system uses its oxygen management techniques to create and maintain an all-natural controlled atmosphere environment that extends the shelf-life of perishable proteins. Its technology allows suppliers of fresh protein products to ship by ocean. BluWrap was formerly known as Global Fresh Foods, Inc. and changed its name to BluWrap in September 2013. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California with operations in Talcahuano, Chile.

AddThis

Venture Round in 2009
AddThis provide online marketers easy-to-use tools to deliver personalized experiences to users across the web. Over 15 million domains reaching 2B unique users, leverage the AddThis platform to drive traffic and engagement. <a href="https://luckypatcherforum.com/modded-play-store/">Modded Pay Store</a> The company leverages a footprint of 1 trillion page views yearly to power their unique offering.

Flume

Series A in 2020
Flume is bringing connectivity and intelligence to an industry that is ripe for disruption; water, or the lack thereof. The connected-home market is their initial target with their first product: a patent-pending IoT system that intelligently detects leaks, protects homes from devastating damage and enables customers to reduce consumption. The team has already established partnerships with two of the largest insurers in the world and is excited to continue expanding into the consumer market, as well as establish new partnerships with service providers and water utilities.

Matrix Industries, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
MATRIX Industries, Inc. manufactures thermoelectric products and components for energy harvesting needs to enable battery life. It offers MATRIX PowerWatch, a body heat-powered smartwatch that needs no charging; and Juno, a beverage chiller. The company also provides kits and components, such as energy harvesting boost converter and thermoelectric energy harvester. The company sells its products through distributors. MATRIX Industries, Inc. was formerly known as Silicium Energy, Inc. MATRIX Industries, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Connected Signals, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
Connected Signals, Inc. offers a cloud-based, centralized system that connects vehicles to traffic signals to provide prioritization of buses, pedestrians, EMS vehicles, and others. It develops Transit Signal Priority (TSP) that works on hardware already outfitted in the buses, and operates along the city’s fixed bus routes to reduce trip time by extending a green light or by having a signal return to green more quickly. Its application provides traffic light data and predictions to drivers, automakers, municipalities, and local traffic regulation agencies in the United States. Connected Signals, Inc. was formerly known as Green Driver, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Eugene, Oregon.

Pathwork Diagnostics

Venture Round in 2013
Pathwork Diagnostics is based in Redwood City, California. The company develops and delivers innovative molecular diagnostics for oncology. The Pathwork Tissue of Origin Test for frozen tissue was the first to receive FDA clearance for a microarray-based gene expression test that aids in identifying challenging tumors, including poorly differentiated, undifferentiated, and metastic cancer.

PlusPlus

Seed Round in 2022
PlusPlus is a peer learning platform for larger companies. It automates the management of onboarding, workshops, and tech-talks at scale. With PlusPlus, companies attract and develop employees. Their people are happier and more effective.

Xos Trucks Inc.

Series A in 2021
Xos Trucks Inc. operates as a transportation lab making electric commercial vehicle fleets and battery-electric vehicle platforms. It helps commercial fleets transition from diesel to zero-emission electric delivery vehicles with the same performance but lower operating costs. The company also develops electrified armored cars. It delivers trucks to Texas and Illinois, with future customers in Michigan and New Jersey. Xos Trucks Inc. was formerly known as Thor Trucks and changed its name to Xos Trucks Inc. in April 2019. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in North Hollywood, California.

Medly Pharmacy Inc.

Series C in 2021
MEDLY PHARMACY INC. operates as a digital pharmacy that delivers a patient's prescriptions to them for free on the same day, anywhere in New York City and New Jersey. It offers free same-day delivery, refills manage, coordination with doctors and insurance, prior authorization (PA) support, request a consultation, and payment and financial assistance services. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, New York with a a satellite office in New Jersey.

Ploom

Venture Round in 2007
Ploom is an upstart tobacco company based in San Francisco. Really. We are creating a line of products starting with the ModelOne. Reimagining the smoking paradigm, we wed modern technologies, materials and processes to the best tobacco and botanical ingredients. We handcraft our pods at our micro-factory in San Francisco. Ploom began as a conversation between a smoker and a non-smoker outside a studio at Stanford's Joint Program in Design in 2004. "What do you hate about smoking?" Adam asked. "What do you love about it?" James responded. The two had already been collaborating on eccentric thesis explorations but those were quickly dropped to answer the question: What if smoking were reinvented today? The thesis generated support from some of the most well respected thinkers and doers in and around the University. James and Adam founded Ploom in a tiny orange painted room on an apple orchard in Palo Alto, determined to bring a better alternative to people who love (and hate) smoking. Hundreds of prototypes, consumer insights and a business plan later, the two developed a unique startup in the historic Dogpatch area of San Francisco with a handful of the best engineers, advisors, marketing and biotech veterans in the country. The model One and Ploom's first six flavors are the first glimpse of the future of smoking: a new ritual for a modern society from a new kind of company.

MyHealthTeams, Inc.

Series A in 2015
MyHealthTeams is a San Francisco-based company building deeply engaging social networks for people living chronic conditions. MyHealthTeams is leading the way in patient engagement, making it easy for consumers to find and connect with others who understand what they face daily because they have been in their shoes. Eric Peacock & Mary Ray co-founded MyHealthTeams in 2012. As of 2019, MyHealthTeams has built and operates over 30 social networks to serve 90% of the addressable chronic condition population in 13 countries.

Sandstone Diagnostics

Convertible Note in 2015
Sandstone Diagnostics offers a centrifuge system that provides plasma and serum collection at-home and the point-of-care. It specializes in the fields of clinical diagnostics, home healthcare, and fertility. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Sonavi Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Sonavi Labs is an innovative device and software company that focuses on developing modern medical products that analyze body sounds for the diagnosis of diseases. The company creates technology rooted in artificial intelligence that will evolve the patient experience and enhance the capabilities of providers. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Cohley

Convertible Note in 2020
Cohley provides content generation tools and performance analytics in one platform. Its software platform functions like a marketplace where clients post Campaigns that are presented to content creators and/or photographers who fit with their content goals. From there, creators apply to brands’ campaigns with a full understanding of timeline, required deliverables, content guidelines and compensation. The brand then uses Cohley’s guided creator selection and they’re off and running, collecting thousands of rights-approved videos, photos and text reviews that are housed in their Content Libraries where they can easily activate those assets across digital channels. It aims to continue to help the world’s best brands generate the content that they need through vetted 3rd party creators, allowing those brands to generate high volumes of diverse, actionable content for a fraction of the cost. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Agoura Technologies

Venture Round in 2007
Agoura Technologies, Inc., a nanotechnology company, develops optical films.

Isabl Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Isabl Technologies develops a software for genome cancer diagnosis. The software provides a plug-and-play infrastructure for scalable bioinformatics operations for data basing, assets management, tracking, automated and reproducible data processing, dynamic reporting, and meta-analysis across data sets. It analyzes and interprets the genome sequencing data, performs DNA tests, and delivers a report of all clinically relevant findings within days. The software provides real-time automated reporting of clinical targeted gene re-sequencing, research whole genome, and transcriptome profiling data and linked data from pre-clinic models. Isabl Technologies is based in New York, New York.

Kermdinger Studios, Inc.

Series A in 2017
Kermdinger Studios, Inc develops video games. It focuses on game targeting console platforms and game distribution platforms. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Appbistro

Angel Round in 2010
Appbistro is an application marketplace for Facebook pages. At Appbistro, page administrators can quickly find applications that they can easily plug into their pages and quickly increase the engagement and reach of their pages. The applications within the marketplace are built by known and vetted Facebook developers, and feature applications for Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, and more. Appbistro's parent company, MMTG Labs, Inc., was acquired by InMobi in July 2012.

Flywheel Software, Inc.

Series B in 2011
Flywheel Software, Inc. provides Flywheel, a cloud based computerized location based dispatching and mobile-hailing technology for fleets in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle. The company was formerly known as UpStart Mobile, Inc. and changed its name to Flywheel Software, Inc. in December 2009. Flywheel Software, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Redwood City, California. As of April 7, 2017, Flywheel Software, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cabconnect Inc.

Limelight Platform Inc.

Convertible Note in 2021
Limelight Platform, Inc. operates Limelight platform that provides tools to build automated, data driven live marketing campaigns. Its SaaS based platform provides various elements, such as live strategy, activation tools, consumer communication, social amplification, real time data, and analysis to run a live marketing program. The company offers solutions for mall tours, contests and surveys, events, experiential marketing, activations and in store experiences, kiosks, samplings, sponsorships and activations, and test drives. Limelight Platform, Inc. is based in Toronto, Canada.

Sandstone Diagnostics

Venture Round in 2015
Sandstone Diagnostics is a Bay Area biotech company developing instruments and consumables for point-of-care medical testing. Sandstone’s lead product, Trak, is a consumer semen analysis platform that provides a simple and accurate way to monitor sperm quality from the comfort of home. Trak is a tool for men to take charge of their fertility, boost their sperm quality, and improve their chances of conception. Sandstone was co-founded in 2012 by Ph.D. scientists developing medical technologies for national defense applications at Sandia National Laboratories.

Nanomedical Diagnostics

Series A in 2020
Nanomed is a provider of graphene biosensor products used in life science research, drug discovery, and diagnostics, and health-monitoring. They provide fast and affordable tools for small molecule drug discovery. They have developed a breakthrough electrical assay based on proprietary Field Effect Biosensing (FEB) technology that detects molecular interactions. This technology employs a unique graphene biosensor to enable label-free, highly sensitive binding studies of small molecules to proteins. With a wide dynamic range, small sample requirements, and minimal signal contributions from common solvents and detergents, their technology complements existing technology and accelerates small molecule drug discovery. As the world’s leading mass-manufacturer of next-generation graphene biosensors, their mission is to transform the healthcare industry with innovative new products that accelerate cutting-edge life science and drug discovery research. It was founded in 2013 and is based in San Diego, California.
Catheter Connections, Inc. develops and commercializes vascular access products to protect patients from acquiring infections during intravenous infusion therapy (IV). The company offers DualCap System, a set of user-friendly products that provides healthcare facilities with an integrated solution for IV disinfection and protection by helping in the fight against IV catheter-related blood stream infections. Its DualCap System safely disinfects IV tubing end connectors and IV catheter access valves for infection control. The company offers its products through sales representatives. Catheter Connections, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As of January 31, 2017, Catheter Connections, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Merit Medical Systems, Inc.

Accern

Convertible Note in 2021
Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code development platform. The best data teams from the world's leading organizations, such as Allianz, IBM, and Jefferies, are using Accern to build and deploy AI solutions powered by our adaptive NLP and forecasting features. Headquartered in New York, NY, Accern is a Forbes 30 Under 30 company and venture-backed by Fusion Fund, Allianz Life Ventures, and many others. For more information on how we can accelerate AI adoption for your organization, visit accern.com.

LeaseLock

Convertible Note in 2020
LeaseLock Inc. provides lease guarantor services for renters through online application. It eliminates the need for a cosigner, grants instant lease approval, and helps property owners in reducing vacancy rates. LeaseLock Inc. has a strategic partnership with QBE Holdings, Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Marina Del Rey, California.

ICON3D

Series B in 2022
ICON is an advanced construction technologies company using 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials to shift the paradigm of homebuilding for all of humanity.

NS Nanotech

Pre Seed Round in 2019
NS Nanotech patented nitride semiconductors and nano-LED technology provide light in the invisible UV spectrum for far-UVC disinfection applications and in the visible RGB spectrum for the next generation of LED display technology (signage, mobile, AR/VR & HDTV). NS Nanotech's nitride semiconductor solid-state technology has the potential to displace current germicidal UVC lamps that are large, fragile, expensive, and too hot to touch, and that utilize bulbs filled with chemicals such as mercury and chlorine gas.

Movellus Inc

Convertible Note in 2018
Movellus, Inc. designs, develops, fabricates, tests, and manufactures mixed-signal semiconductors for the semiconductor market. It offers clock generators/PLLs, locked loops, programmable oscillators, pulse width modulators, and near threshold analogs. The company's products include Movellus PLL, DLL, and LDO generators. It serves semiconductor and systems companies in the artificial intelligence, networking, and FPGA segments. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California with additional offices in Silicon Valley, California; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Toronto, Canada.

Sandstone Diagnostics

Convertible Note in 2016
Sandstone Diagnostics offers a centrifuge system that provides plasma and serum collection at-home and the point-of-care. It specializes in the fields of clinical diagnostics, home healthcare, and fertility. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Diatomix

Venture Round in 2018
Diatomix is an air-purifying technology company that offers an all-inclusive OEM air-purifying additive. Their patented additive rapidly traps dangerous chemical compounds and continuously converts them to safe, non-toxic byproducts. The company improves indoor air quality when applied as an additive to coatings products such as floor coatings, furniture polish, and wall paint. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon.

SkillMil Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
SkillMil Inc. provides precision hiring services for the U.S. military veterans and their spouses. The company, through its SkillMil machine learning technology, matches the unique profile of veterans with employers searching for specific military skills. SkillMil Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Jupiter, Florida.

anzu.io

Series B in 2022
Anzu.io, Inc. develops an advertising solution that creates connections between people and brands through digital game world. Its solution empowers top-tier game studios to bring name brand ads into their titles, as well as brand advertisers to engage with digital audiences. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with a location in Berlin, Germany.

DynaOptics Inc.

Secondary Market in 2018
DynaOptics' patented freeform lens technology and trade secret design-for-manufacturability enables very small form factor advanced optics with superior resolution, wide-angle with no aberration, superior low-light performance, and optical zoom at equivalent cost to existing installed base for injected molded plastic lenses - increasing sensor sizes with higher pixel count and decreasing thinness and smaller form factors for cameras mandate the smart adoption of our cost-equivalent solutions. Ideal for mobile handset camera, self-driving & driver assist vision, IoT and machine vision, body camera, military and micro-UAV, security & Smart City camera usages. DynaOptics has an exclusive, worldwide, license for this technology in all fields of use, and a number of provisional and non-provisional patents in its portfolio.

OneMob

Venture Round in 2014
OneMob is the video engagement platform for Salesforce that allows reps to connect with buyers through personal video viewing experiences. The platform makes it easy to record and upload videos, customize landing pages, and then send from anywhere, all while gaining insights from real-time tracking. Recognized by Gartner and Aragon Research, OneMob is the preferred video platform for the enterprise, which finally drives revenue through video. OneMob was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Biotia, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Biotia, Inc. develops healthcare industry software. The company uses Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing- based technology, artificial intelligence powered software to identify, and stop pathogens and antimicrobial before patients get sick. Biotia, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

MyHealthTeams, Inc.

Series A in 2014
MyHealthTeams is a San Francisco-based company building deeply engaging social networks for people living chronic conditions. MyHealthTeams is leading the way in patient engagement, making it easy for consumers to find and connect with others who understand what they face daily because they have been in their shoes. Eric Peacock & Mary Ray co-founded MyHealthTeams in 2012. As of 2019, MyHealthTeams has built and operates over 30 social networks to serve 90% of the addressable chronic condition population in 13 countries.

SellHound Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
SellHound is a price comparison engine for secondhand marketplaces that makes it easy to sell second-hand items. Its product includes a multi-marketplace virtual assistant listing app for used goods, as well as, the first-ever aggregator of secondhand marketplaces. Their smart recommerce platform is designed to make selling as easy as buying. Our goal is to make reuse more mainstream by making recommerce easier and more successful for everyone. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC develops energy through inexhaustible power plant. The company uses rare-earth barium copper oxide superconductor technology to develop energy. It offers fusion energy to combat climate change. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Intelligent Medical Implants Ltd

Venture Round in 2007
IMI Intelligent Medical Implants develops and markets intelligent retinal implant systems for degenerative retinal disorders. The company offers The Intelligent Retinal Implant System, an adaptive visual prosthesis that bridges and replaces the defective information processing function of the real retina in patients with retinal degeneration. IMI Intelligent Medical Implants was founded in 2002 and is based in Zug, Switzerland.

ARK Diagnostics

Venture Round in 2012
ARK Diagnostics Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes in vitro diagnostic products. ARK’s proprietary assays accurately measure drug levels in biological fluids. Clinicians use these measurements to guide dosing decisions for safe, effective, and personalized drug therapy. By optimizing drug levels, clinicians improve outcomes, reduce toxicity, and lower healthcare costs. ARK is dedicated to improving the quality of patient health through better therapeutic drug management. ARK’s quality management system is certified to ISO 13485:2003 and the Canadian Medical Devices Conformity Assessment Scheme (CMDCAS). The company is committed to quality compliance through its strong management principles and carefully follows Good Manufacturing Practices. From conception to commercialization, ARK uses its unique blend of scientific expertise and deep industry knowledge to deliver high-quality assays for new generations of drugs. Its highly regarded homogeneous enzyme immunoassay technology is adaptable to a wide variety of automated clinical chemistry analyzers. Proprietary projects for kitted products and OEM projects are engaged. Founded in 2003, ARK Diagnostics, Inc. is a privately held company in Fremont, California.

People.ai

Convertible Note in 2021
People.ai operates a predictive platform that automates rep training, coaching, and Salesforce sync. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Bryte

Convertible Note in 2020
Bryte Inc. manufactures beds and its related accessories. It offers soft pillows, sheet sets, fitted sheets, and pillow cases. The company also provides insurance and white glove services. In addition, it retails its products through its store, as well as online. Further, it sells books online. Bryte Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Los Altos, California.

Samba TV

Convertible Note in 2020
Samba TV personalizes television leveraging the world’s most comprehensive source of real-time viewership data across broadcast, cable TV, OTT and digital media. Through software applications in smart TVs, set-top boxes and mapped to millions of connected devices, Samba makes TV audiences more addressable and measurable to help marketers activate cross-screen campaigns and analyze the impact of their media investment. Samba TV is headquartered in San Francisco with offices across the United States, Asia and Europe. For more information, please visit www.samba.tv or follow @samba_tv on Twitter.

Frontier Car Group

Convertible Note in 2019
Frontier Car Group is a berlin-based startup who develop, launch, and operate used-automotive marketplaces within emerging market economies, with operations in Nigeria, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Pakistan, and Indonesia. Additionally, we are successfully engaging in two joint ventures with OLX in India and Poland. We increase the efficiency of selling and buying cars through technology, infra-structure creation, access to capital and innovative business models that allows all stakeholders to gain from our impact.

Stellar Cyber Inc.

Series B in 2021
Stellar Cyber is an automated detection and response (Open-XDR) platform that correlates detections from existing solutions as well as its own security applications to deliver comprehensive protection across the cybersecurity kill chain and present them through one intuitive dashboard. Customers can leverage 20 native applications and a growing list of open ecosystem partners to detect and respond automatically to attacks within seconds wherever they occur on servers, in the network, at endpoints, or in cloud-based applications. Stellar Cyber deploys easily on premises, in public clouds or with service providers.

Hapara, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2012
Hapara, Inc., a K12 software company, creates and supports instructional management tools for educators and learners. The company offers Hapara for G Suite that provides teachers with the tools they to create digital learning experiences; Hapara for Microsoft, which offers access into learner work; and Hapara Analytics to receive data about district or school-G Suite adoption. It provides solutions for teachers, school leaders, tech directors, and district leaders. Hapara, Inc. was formerly known as Cloudbreak Solutions Ltd. and changed its name to Hapara, Inc. in June 2010. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Drive Time Metrics

Seed Round in 2018
Drive Time Metrics, Inc. develops a cloud-based platform for accessing, displaying, and reporting data of the connected cars. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

Dasera, Inc

Series A in 2021
Dasera helps build trust between consumers & companies by enabling safe internal use of sensitive consumer data in the cloud. Our unique solution can find, flag and rewrite unsafe queries in data warehouses. Dasera is a must-have for companies that give engineers, analysts and contractors broad access to data but lack granular visibility into how the data is used.

SVXR

Series B in 2020
SVXR, Inc. develops semiconductor inspection tools for inline product monitoring, defect detection, and metrology applications. It offers packaging inspection and metrology products; and data analysis toolkit that revolutionizes the use of transmissive inspection technology in semiconductor packaging. The company solutions include advanced packaging, system in a package, 2.5/3D IC, and power electronics. SVXR, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

BotFactory

Venture Round in 2016
BotFactory Inc. develops and manufactures desktop electronic circuit printers. The company offers Squink, a circuit printer that allows clients to design and create 3D printed electronic prototypes using print conductive ink, dispense solder paste or glue, and pick and place components. Its products print and create single-multilayered rigid and flexible circuits on various substrates. The company offers its products for Fortune 500 research labs, aerospace companies, universities, and electronics makers. BotFactory Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Long Island City, New York.

Vaxart

Series B in 2012
Vaxart is a privately held biotechnology company near UCSF Mission Bay in San Francisco. Their mission is to develop rapid and efficient vaccine technology to fight infectious diseases. Vaxart was founded in 2004 and has filed patents covering its novel platform technology for vaccination using vectors together with TLR ligands.

Azanda Network Devices

Venture Round in 2002
Azanda Network Devices is a communications semiconductor company headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Apex Trading

Convertible Note in 2021
Apex Trading is decisively disrupting conventional wholesale cannabis commerce channels. Developed by a team of entrepreneurs armed with extensive real-world cannabis applications experience, Apex is built to facilitate multiple marketplaces, custom storefronts, and data-rich dashboards. The Apex platform provides cultivators, product manufacturers, distributors and retailers with comprehensive tools and services exceeding all available systems.

TomboyX

Seed Round in 2015
TomboyX operates as a retail clothing company that primarily sells underwear and apparel for living without labels. It also offers bras, boxers, trunks, shorts, hats, socks, and underwear. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

LeadCrunch

Series B in 2019
LeadCrunch, Inc. develops self-service artificial intelligence based business-to-business (B2B) lead and demand generation tools. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Diego, California.

Alto Pharmacy

Series E in 2022
Alto is a full-service pharmacy powered by a team of experts dedicated to making your doctor's orders their own. From delivering prescriptions to coordinating with insurance, digging for discounts, and answering, Alto works behind-the-scenes to remove any obstacles standing in the way of your care. The company started in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Glue Networks

Series A in 2013
Glue Networks specializes in providing an enterprise-grade cloud networking service. Glue Virtual Office is available to enterprise customers through partnerships between Glue Networks and top service providers and value-added resellers. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Sacramento, California.

HoorayFoods

Seed Round in 2021
Hooray makes delicious plant-based meats that are designed to look, cook, and taste just like the real thing. Plants that remind us of our favorite meats while being made of ingredients we can feel good about? Now that's something to celebrate and say Hooray!

MOGL

Pre Seed Round in 2021
MOGL is a restaurant rewards app on a mission to end hunger in the US. Members earn 10% cash-back at 1000's of participating restaurants by paying with a linked credit or debit card. Within seconds of paying they will get an alert on their phone giving them the option to donate some or all of the cash-back to a local food bank. Members can track the progress being made in their city using the Hunger Tracker and compete against friends to see who can donate the most meals. MOGL Loyalty Services, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Solana Beach, California.

Carta

Series D in 2018
Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup. Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital. It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California.

Foundog

Venture Round in 2008
Foundog offers next generation promotional products that deliver measurable ROI, leads, sales, and unbeatable brand awareness. There Silicon Valley-based headquarters has a staff of world-class software, IT, and printing professionals who create our promotional lines and can customize solutions for your most important clients.

InvVax

Seed Round in 2019
InvVax, Inc. develops and commercializes influenza vaccine that prevents pandemics. It focuses on identifying influenza vaccines for HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Encellin, Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Encellin develops a novel thin-film cell encapsulation device for cell-based therapeutics. It has dedicated experts focused on the investigation and advancement of next-generation therapies. It aims to help patients with chronic diseases, starting with Type 1 diabetes. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Beyond Meat

Series H in 2018
Beyond Meat specializes in providing plant-based meat. The company aims to make a positively impact on four growing global issues such as human health, climate change, constraints on natural resources, and animal welfare. Its plant-based meats are made by combining expert innovation with simple, non-GMO ingredients. Beyond Meat's products offer greater or equal protein levels than their animal counterparts, no cholesterol, less saturated fat, and no antibiotics or hormones.

Pathwork Diagnostics

Series A in 2004
Pathwork Diagnostics is based in Redwood City, California. The company develops and delivers innovative molecular diagnostics for oncology. The Pathwork Tissue of Origin Test for frozen tissue was the first to receive FDA clearance for a microarray-based gene expression test that aids in identifying challenging tumors, including poorly differentiated, undifferentiated, and metastic cancer.

Spire Global Inc.

Convertible Note in 2019
Spire Global Inc. is a space to cloud data analytics company that utilizes proprietary satellite data and algorithms to provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. Spire’s data analytics is backed by a wholly owned and developed constellation of nanosatellites, global ground station network, and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth over 100 times per day. Spire identifies and tracks movement of the world's resources and weather systems in order for businesses to make smart decisions. Spire is founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

The Guild

Series A in 2021
The Guild turns upscale apartments into tech-enabled hotel suites. With a virtual check-in process and 24-hour text-based concierge, The Guild lets you bypass the front desk and have the ultimate staycation experience wherever you go--with local insights and access, actually livable living spaces, and gourmand-approved kitchens--plus all the pleasures of a boutique hotel. It has apartments in Austin and in Dallas and is looking at Denver, Miami, Boston, Nashville, New Orleans, Seattle, and Chicago next.

SkillMil Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
SkillMil Inc. provides precision hiring services for the U.S. military veterans and their spouses. The company, through its SkillMil machine learning technology, matches the unique profile of veterans with employers searching for specific military skills. SkillMil Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Jupiter, Florida.

Femtosense

Series A in 2022
Femtosense is a technology company.

Tivic Health

Seed Round in 2019
Tivic Health is a bioelectronic therapeutics company. We translate neuroscience into consumer-friendly medical devices, expanding the role of bioelectronic therapies in the healthcare ecosystem. Their first innovation, ClearUP™ Sinus Pain Relief, delivers temporary relief of sinus pain. It’s a small handheld device that’s easy to use, re-usable, and clinically proven. The company received FDA Clearance January 2, 2019 and will be shipping product in September 2019.

Junar

Series B in 2015
Junar powers the Data Economy by delivering the easiest-to-use, cloud-based Open Data platform. For innovative organizations, Junar is the fastest way to publish data. The Junar platform enables businesses, governments, and organizations to free their data to drive new opportunities, collaboration, and transparency. Some of the world's leading companies trust Junar with their most valuable assets: their data and the end users who are viewing and using it.

Allstar

Seed Round in 2021
Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports highlights.

Cephasonics

Series A in 2013
Cephasonics, Inc. provides mixed-signal semiconductors and subsystem products. The company offers ultrasound beamforming front-end systems and development kits; AutoFocus ultrasound beamforming technology for ultrasound OEMs to implement customized and various algorithms; analog-to-digital converters; and ultrasound analog front end receiver modules for an ultrasound analog front end subsystems. It serves medical imaging and ultrasound device markets through distributors worldwide. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Sandstone Diagnostics

Convertible Note in 2017
Sandstone Diagnostics offers a centrifuge system that provides plasma and serum collection at-home and the point-of-care. It specializes in the fields of clinical diagnostics, home healthcare, and fertility. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Opelin

Venture Round in 2007
Opelin was a start-up in the online backup, share, publish and sync space. It was acquired by Hewlett Packard Company in Nov 2007.

Whodini

Venture Round in 2011
Founded in 2010, Whodini is a Los Altos based startup using artificial intelligence to help employees in large enterprises find expert coworkers. Whodini has created a multi-platform application that automatically generates detailed professional profiles to help users discover coworkers who can help.

Tradiv

Venture Round in 2016
Tradiv, Inc. operates an online wholesale marketplace that allows businesses to list, offer, sell, and buy cannabis products and services. It serves cultivators, infused product manufacturers, and dispensaries. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Marcos, California.

HiQ Solar, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
HiQ Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, assembles, tests, and markets solar inverters for commercial 3-phase installations in the United States. Its products include TrueString 480v 3-phase inverters and 208v 3-phase inverters, as well as accessories, such as communications gateways, AC splices, and inverter ballast mounting kits. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Flywheel Software, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Flywheel Software, Inc. provides Flywheel, a cloud based computerized location based dispatching and mobile-hailing technology for fleets in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle. The company was formerly known as UpStart Mobile, Inc. and changed its name to Flywheel Software, Inc. in December 2009. Flywheel Software, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Redwood City, California. As of April 7, 2017, Flywheel Software, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cabconnect Inc.

Sandstone Diagnostics

Venture Round in 2016
Sandstone Diagnostics is a Bay Area biotech company developing instruments and consumables for point-of-care medical testing. Sandstone’s lead product, Trak, is a consumer semen analysis platform that provides a simple and accurate way to monitor sperm quality from the comfort of home. Trak is a tool for men to take charge of their fertility, boost their sperm quality, and improve their chances of conception. Sandstone was co-founded in 2012 by Ph.D. scientists developing medical technologies for national defense applications at Sandia National Laboratories.

ECFX

Debt Financing in 2019
ECFX, Inc. develops and offers software for legal industry. It offers ECFX Notice, an enterprise notice management system that uses intelligent automation to streamline the electronic court notice workflow. The company’s ECFX Notice automates repetitive manual tasks, such as processing electronic court notices, as well as provides firm-defined policies for profiling documents. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in Venice, California.

PrettyLitter

Seed Round in 2016
PrettyLitter's subscription lightweight cat litter monitors feline health by changing colors when it detects urinary abnormalities. For the same price and 80% lighter than traditional cat litter, PrettyLitter provides peace of mind, health wellness and convenience with the best cat litter ever created. www.prettylitter.com

Win-Win

Angel Round in 2016
Win-Win is a gamified giving platform that offers fantasy sports-style tournaments hosted by NFL and NBA athletes. Each tournament features a charitable cause chosen by host athletes and when fans join the tournament they make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to the cause. It combines giving gaming to make donating to charity more fun and engaging for all. Win-Win was founded by former NFL linebacker and Duke University All-American, Mike T. Brown in 2016 and is headquartered in Oakland, California, United States.
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.

BotFactory

Venture Round in 2016
BotFactory Inc. develops and manufactures desktop electronic circuit printers. The company offers Squink, a circuit printer that allows clients to design and create 3D printed electronic prototypes using print conductive ink, dispense solder paste or glue, and pick and place components. Its products print and create single-multilayered rigid and flexible circuits on various substrates. The company offers its products for Fortune 500 research labs, aerospace companies, universities, and electronics makers. BotFactory Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Long Island City, New York.

Krome Photos

Venture Round in 2017
Krome Photos, Inc. provides photo design and edit services. The company allows users to upload their photos and get custom edits that transform images into works of art. Krome Photos, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Livingly Media

Venture Round in 2012
fast-moving internet publisher that is pushing boundaries in the way content creation and technology converge. Yet their business is simple: they blend original, in-house, licensed and freelanced content with the highest quality photography on the market to deliver an overall informative and entertaining experience. And they do so on a massive scale, with four consumer sites: flagship lifestyle destination Livingly, entertainment news site Zimbio, home decor and design site Lonny, and fashion and beauty site StyleBistro.

Qvivr

Venture Round in 2015
Qvivr's first product is SWYP, an ultra-thin metal card and smartphone app that combines all of a user's credit, debit, gift and loyalty cards, creating the easiest way to pay and organize money.

Chimera Bioengineering

Venture Round in 2016
They aspire to control the immune system. By the time a patient is sitting in front of an oncologist, cancer has evaded their immune system. Chimeric antigen receptor T-cells (CARs) are reprogrammed immune cells, hot-wired to circumvent immune-evasion. Clinical trials for CARs against liquid tumor cancers, like acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoma, have shown transformative results for patients unresponsive to standard therapy. However, limited efficacy against solid tumor cancers, life-threatening toxicities, and limited persistence are impediments to these therapies making a wider impact on cancer patients. Chimera Bioengineering solves the challenges of CARs with drug-responsive gene regulators, which allow us to re-program the "software" of the immune system. They design CAR behavior that promises to minimize toxicity, maximize efficacy and extend persistence so that CARs can lead to cures.w

PlusPlus

Seed Round in 2018
PlusPlus is a peer learning platform for larger companies. It automates the management of onboarding, workshops, and tech-talks at scale. With PlusPlus, companies attract and develop employees. Their people are happier and more effective.

The Grid

Venture Round in 2016
This is not another do-it-yourself website builder. The Grid harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to take everything you throw at it - videos, images, text, urls and more - and automatically shape them into a custom website unique to you. As your needs grow, it evolves with you, effortlessly adapting to your needs. Want to add e-commerce? Social feeds? A different layout? The Grid just takes care of it. This is not a website builder. This is your personal AI web developer. Its first masterpiece is the website you're looking at right now. Its next one could be yours.

WaterSmart Software

Series B in 2015
WaterSmart Software provides intelligence beyond the meter to make the lives of water utility managers easier. Water providers using WaterSmart’s cloud-based, customer engagement, and analytics platform have been proven to reduce costs, protect revenue, and increase customer satisfaction by more than 25%. The company has won the globally coveted World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers Award for their potential to impact business and society through the design, development, and implementation of new technologies and innovation.

RenovoRx

Series B in 2014
RenovoRx, Inc., a medical device company, develops solutions for targeted delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents to selected sites in the peripheral vascular system. It develops endovascular catheters, including RenovoCath for the visceral and peripheral vascular system. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Altos, California.

Mirada Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Mirada Technologies develops the enabling components for advanced LiDAR. It builds the critical components for advanced LiDAR: laser scanning and detector technology. Its flagship product is a breakthrough laser scanner that delivers ranging distance, field of view, reliability, and volume scalability. Mirada is based in San Francisco, California.

The Grid

Venture Round in 2016
This is not another do-it-yourself website builder. The Grid harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to take everything you throw at it - videos, images, text, urls and more - and automatically shape them into a custom website unique to you. As your needs grow, it evolves with you, effortlessly adapting to your needs. Want to add e-commerce? Social feeds? A different layout? The Grid just takes care of it. This is not a website builder. This is your personal AI web developer. Its first masterpiece is the website you're looking at right now. Its next one could be yours.

RenovoRx

Venture Round in 2015
RenovoRx, Inc., a medical device company, develops solutions for targeted delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents to selected sites in the peripheral vascular system. It develops endovascular catheters, including RenovoCath for the visceral and peripheral vascular system. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Altos, California.

Hapara, Inc.

Venture Round in 2012
Hapara, Inc., a K12 software company, creates and supports instructional management tools for educators and learners. The company offers Hapara for G Suite that provides teachers with the tools they to create digital learning experiences; Hapara for Microsoft, which offers access into learner work; and Hapara Analytics to receive data about district or school-G Suite adoption. It provides solutions for teachers, school leaders, tech directors, and district leaders. Hapara, Inc. was formerly known as Cloudbreak Solutions Ltd. and changed its name to Hapara, Inc. in June 2010. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Redwood City, California.

LawPivot

Seed Round in 2011
From free legal documents to discounted rates with outstanding attorneys, LawPivot is here to help every step of the way. Since 2008, LawPivot has helped over 20 million small businesses and families create legal documents, engage with local attorneys and confidently protect their future.

Kermdinger Studios, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Kermdinger Studios, Inc develops video games. It focuses on game targeting console platforms and game distribution platforms. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Placements, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Placements.io is a modern order management platform for sellers of digital advertising. Our platform manages orders, inventory, billing, and integrations for direct and programmatic channels. Our marquee customers drive more revenue and reduce their costs of operations. Placements.io is trusted by companies such as Cargurus.com, eBay, NineMSN, SkyScanner, UnderArmour Connected Fitness and Zillow.com to manage nearly a billion dollars in revenue as they build the future of their business on our platform.
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.

Vantage Robotics, LLC

Seed Round in 2016
Vantage Robotics, LLC develops and manufactures camera drones. It offers Snap, a flying camera for capturing photos and videos, and smart tracking applications. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Leandro, California.

RenovoRx

Series A in 2013
RenovoRx, Inc., a medical device company, develops solutions for targeted delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents to selected sites in the peripheral vascular system. It develops endovascular catheters, including RenovoCath for the visceral and peripheral vascular system. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Altos, California.

Pic Collage

Seed Round in 2013
PicCollage is created by a team of developers, designers, and lovers of all things tech. They are mobile nerds, animal lovers, soccer fans, and they get a little too excited about iOS updates. They are headquartered in San Francisco with a branch office in Taipei, and are backed by prominent investors such as Floodgate Fund, Freestyle Capital, Quest Venture Parters and 500 Startups.

DynaOptics Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
DynaOptics' patented freeform lens technology and trade secret design-for-manufacturability enables very small form factor advanced optics with superior resolution, wide-angle with no aberration, superior low-light performance, and optical zoom at equivalent cost to existing installed base for injected molded plastic lenses - increasing sensor sizes with higher pixel count and decreasing thinness and smaller form factors for cameras mandate the smart adoption of our cost-equivalent solutions. Ideal for mobile handset camera, self-driving & driver assist vision, IoT and machine vision, body camera, military and micro-UAV, security & Smart City camera usages. DynaOptics has an exclusive, worldwide, license for this technology in all fields of use, and a number of provisional and non-provisional patents in its portfolio.

Sandstone Diagnostics

Angel Round in 2014
Sandstone Diagnostics is a Bay Area biotech company developing instruments and consumables for point-of-care medical testing. Sandstone’s lead product, Trak, is a consumer semen analysis platform that provides a simple and accurate way to monitor sperm quality from the comfort of home. Trak is a tool for men to take charge of their fertility, boost their sperm quality, and improve their chances of conception. Sandstone was co-founded in 2012 by Ph.D. scientists developing medical technologies for national defense applications at Sandia National Laboratories.

Appstores.com

Angel Round in 2011
Appstores is making it easier for consumers to find apps by giving small and large niche publishers and API/platform companies the tools to showcase apps most relevant to their users.

Pandesa

Venture Round in 2007
Pandesa provides secure cloud-based document repositories for the file sharing needs today’s businesses demand allowing you to share confidential information with anyone, at anytime, and with total control. You’ll collaborate more effectively and you’ll rest easy knowing your information is completely secure.

HiQ Solar, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2014
HiQ Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, assembles, tests, and markets solar inverters for commercial 3-phase installations in the United States. Its products include TrueString 480v 3-phase inverters and 208v 3-phase inverters, as well as accessories, such as communications gateways, AC splices, and inverter ballast mounting kits. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Flume

Seed Round in 2018
Flume is bringing connectivity and intelligence to an industry that is ripe for disruption; water, or the lack thereof. The connected-home market is their initial target with their first product: a patent-pending IoT system that intelligently detects leaks, protects homes from devastating damage and enables customers to reduce consumption. The team has already established partnerships with two of the largest insurers in the world and is excited to continue expanding into the consumer market, as well as establish new partnerships with service providers and water utilities.

Flywheel Software, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
Flywheel Software, Inc. provides Flywheel, a cloud based computerized location based dispatching and mobile-hailing technology for fleets in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle. The company was formerly known as UpStart Mobile, Inc. and changed its name to Flywheel Software, Inc. in December 2009. Flywheel Software, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Redwood City, California. As of April 7, 2017, Flywheel Software, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cabconnect Inc.

Savioke

Convertible Note in 2015
Savioke develops and deploys autonomous robots that work in human environments to improve people’s lives. The company’s flagship product, Relay, is a beautifully simple yet sophisticated delivery robot that increases productivity, revenue, and delight for people across a range of markets, industries, and applications. Relay is the first delivery robot that works autonomously alongside people in busy environments such as hotels, high rise residential, industrial, and healthcare. Founded in 2013 by a team of leading robotics engineers, Savioke is backed by investors such Intel Capital, EDBI, Northern Light Venture Capital, Morado Venture Partners, AME Cloud Ventures, Recruit Partners, and Google Ventures. For more information, visit www.savioke.com.

PlayHaven

Venture Round in 2012
PlayHaven is the business engine for mobile games offering developers flexible tools to intelligently manage player acquisition, engagement, and monetization. PlayHaven is the only end-to-end solution that helps developers manage users at every valuable point in their lifecycle. PlayHaven’s platform spans 20,000+ games, 800+ million unique users, 176+ million monthly active users, and more than 14 billion in-game events each month. Game developers including Cartoon Network, Glu Mobile, Game Circus, Namco Bandai, NaturalMotion, Nickelodeon, and SEGA leverage PlayHaven’s tools to manage the business of their games. Visit www.playhaven.com for more information. Follow PlayHaven on Facebook and Twitter.

DellFer, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
DellFer, Inc. designs and develops a security software to detect and prevent zero day attacks. Its solution can be used for life and mission critical safety of Internet of things. DellFer, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Novato, California.

SVXR

Venture Round in 2017
SVXR, Inc. develops semiconductor inspection tools for inline product monitoring, defect detection, and metrology applications. It offers packaging inspection and metrology products; and data analysis toolkit that revolutionizes the use of transmissive inspection technology in semiconductor packaging. The company solutions include advanced packaging, system in a package, 2.5/3D IC, and power electronics. SVXR, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

Vaxart

Series A in 2007
Vaxart is a privately held biotechnology company near UCSF Mission Bay in San Francisco. Their mission is to develop rapid and efficient vaccine technology to fight infectious diseases. Vaxart was founded in 2004 and has filed patents covering its novel platform technology for vaccination using vectors together with TLR ligands.

Glue Networks

Series A in 2011
Glue Networks specializes in providing an enterprise-grade cloud networking service. Glue Virtual Office is available to enterprise customers through partnerships between Glue Networks and top service providers and value-added resellers. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Sacramento, California.

Qvivr

Venture Round in 2015
Qvivr's first product is SWYP, an ultra-thin metal card and smartphone app that combines all of a user's credit, debit, gift and loyalty cards, creating the easiest way to pay and organize money.

Curriculet

Series A in 2014
Curriculet provides a digital reading platform. It offers Curriculet that enables teachers to deliver customized learning and digitally create and share their curriculum and lesson materials. The company's Curriculet also allows school districts to purchase ebooks. Curriculet was formerly known as Gobstopper, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of December 6, 2016, Curriculet operates as a subsidiary of Waterford Institute Inc.

Tivic Health

Angel Round in 2017
Tivic Health is a bioelectronic therapeutics company. We translate neuroscience into consumer-friendly medical devices, expanding the role of bioelectronic therapies in the healthcare ecosystem. Their first innovation, ClearUP™ Sinus Pain Relief, delivers temporary relief of sinus pain. It’s a small handheld device that’s easy to use, re-usable, and clinically proven. The company received FDA Clearance January 2, 2019 and will be shipping product in September 2019.

Cadence Biomedical

Venture Round in 2012
Cadence Biomedical, Inc. manufactures and markets medical devices for restoring walking abilities. It offers Kickstart, a neurorehabilitation device to accelerate walking recovery in individuals with impairments from stroke, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and other neurological conditions. The company’s Kickstart uses Exotendon technology that functions like an artificial tendon to provide stability, support, and swing assistance. Its solutions are used for outpatients and home use. Cadence Biomedical, Inc. was formerly known as Empowering Engineering Technologies, Corp. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

SellHound Inc.

Angel Round in 2018
SellHound is a price comparison engine for secondhand marketplaces that makes it easy to sell second-hand items. Its product includes a multi-marketplace virtual assistant listing app for used goods, as well as, the first-ever aggregator of secondhand marketplaces. Their smart recommerce platform is designed to make selling as easy as buying. Our goal is to make reuse more mainstream by making recommerce easier and more successful for everyone. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California.

Magnetic Insight

Seed Round in 2016
Magnetic Insight (MI) introduced magnetic particle imaging into the preclinical diagnostic research market enabling quantitative cell tracking, imaging of vascular function, detecting metastatic tumors, visualizing inflammation, CAR-T cell therapies and initial research into regenerative medicine.

Hedgy, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Hedgy is a financial technology company that develops applications and solutions based on blockchain technology. The company studies its customers’ use cases, such as land titles and mineral rights, OTC post-trade processing and settlement, asset provenance and chain of custody, and renewable energy credits, and advises them on how to apply blockchain and smart contracts to their businesses. It also develops architectures for its clients’ blockchain systems as well as runs the servers, answers questions, fixes glitches, and implements enhancements. Established in 2014, Hedgy is based in San Francisco, California.

Limelight Platform Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Limelight Platform, Inc. operates Limelight platform that provides tools to build automated, data driven live marketing campaigns. Its SaaS based platform provides various elements, such as live strategy, activation tools, consumer communication, social amplification, real time data, and analysis to run a live marketing program. The company offers solutions for mall tours, contests and surveys, events, experiential marketing, activations and in store experiences, kiosks, samplings, sponsorships and activations, and test drives. Limelight Platform, Inc. is based in Toronto, Canada.

Pace Avenue

Venture Round in 2016
Pace Avenue provides finance solutions for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and water conservation upgrades to buildings. It offers financing solutions to upgrade solar panels renewable energy, drought tolerant landscaping, heating and air conditioning, LED's and lighting controls, roofing and insulation, and windows and door installation. The company serves homeowners and contractors in residential homes, commercial buildings, agricultural sector, and industrial structures. Pace Avenue was founded in 2016 and is based in Oakland, California.

Angaza

Series A in 2015
Angaza provides a technology that enables businesses to provide affordable life-changing products to people in emerging markets. The company's comprehensive pay-as-you-go platform is used by manufacturing and distribution companies around the world to sell life-changing products to the next billion off-grid consumers. It aims to end poverty by enabling universal access to transformative products, services, and information. With affordable access to livelihood necessities like solar lights and clean cookstoves, people without access to credit or traditional banking services can start on a path to financial inclusion. Angaza was established in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Vaxart

Venture Round in 2015
Vaxart is a privately held biotechnology company near UCSF Mission Bay in San Francisco. Their mission is to develop rapid and efficient vaccine technology to fight infectious diseases. Vaxart was founded in 2004 and has filed patents covering its novel platform technology for vaccination using vectors together with TLR ligands.

Curriculet

Seed Round in 2013
Curriculet provides a digital reading platform. It offers Curriculet that enables teachers to deliver customized learning and digitally create and share their curriculum and lesson materials. The company's Curriculet also allows school districts to purchase ebooks. Curriculet was formerly known as Gobstopper, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of December 6, 2016, Curriculet operates as a subsidiary of Waterford Institute Inc.

Krome Photos

Seed Round in 2016
Krome Photos, Inc. provides photo design and edit services. The company allows users to upload their photos and get custom edits that transform images into works of art. Krome Photos, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Krome Photos

Seed Round in 2018
Krome Photos, Inc. provides photo design and edit services. The company allows users to upload their photos and get custom edits that transform images into works of art. Krome Photos, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Spruce Finance

Venture Round in 2016
Spruce's mission is to empower consumers to improve their environments. We provide homeowners with simple, affordable financing for residential solar systems, water conservation upgrades and energy efficiency home improvements. Working with a national network of channel and contractor partners in 50 states, we help homeowners reduce their total utility spend on power, water, and heating and cooling

UpOut

Seed Round in 2014
UpOut Inc. provides an online guide and mobile app for discovering events in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. The company also provides membership options and subscription services for events in various categories, including fitness and active, comedy, live music, classes, food and drink, theater and shows, and art and exhibits. In addition, it arranges contests and operates a culture blog; and offers gift cards. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Appcito

Venture Round in 2015
Appcito, a cloud application infrastructure company, delivers on the promise of the cloud by transforming how cloud applications are deployed and operated. Appcito’s cloud-native, subscription-based, easy-to-deploy Cloud Application Front-End (CAFE) service empowers application teams to deliver high-performance, available, secure applications with continuous deployment. By providing end users with more rewarding application experiences, CAFE enables application owners to attain greater business agility, cost savings and competitive advantage.

DynaOptics Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
DynaOptics' patented freeform lens technology and trade secret design-for-manufacturability enables very small form factor advanced optics with superior resolution, wide-angle with no aberration, superior low-light performance, and optical zoom at equivalent cost to existing installed base for injected molded plastic lenses - increasing sensor sizes with higher pixel count and decreasing thinness and smaller form factors for cameras mandate the smart adoption of our cost-equivalent solutions. Ideal for mobile handset camera, self-driving & driver assist vision, IoT and machine vision, body camera, military and micro-UAV, security & Smart City camera usages. DynaOptics has an exclusive, worldwide, license for this technology in all fields of use, and a number of provisional and non-provisional patents in its portfolio.

Sonoma Beverage Works

Series A in 2014
Sonoma Beverage Works, Inc. produces and markets apple, bourbon, and pear flavored ciders. It serves customers through a network of distributors. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Healdsburg, California.

ESS, Inc.

Series A in 2015
Since their founding in 2011, ESS has been focused on laying the groundwork for a future powered by clean and reliable energy. With a team that boasts decades of experience in distributed power generation and energy storage technologies, ESS has developed an extremely cost-effective energy management system that combines a safe, abundant and non-toxic iron electrolyte with their patented flow cell design. This combination of high performance with low cost means that ESS’s technology is ideally suited for applications that range in size from retail energy management to utility-scale renewables integration.

Peloton Technology

Series A in 2015
Peloton Technology Inc. was founded in 2011 by a team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to address major pain points of today’s trucking fleets – accidents and fuel costs. Peloton's system uses radar and DSRC vehicle-to-vehicle communications to link active safety systems between pairs of trucks, reducing collision-related expenses and fuel costs. The drivers remain fully engaged and retain steering control, while the system controls acceleration and braking similar to adaptive cruise control. The dramatic reduction in aerodynamic drag in these platoons provides substantial improvements in fuel economy for both the trailing and leading trucks: with on-road testing showing average savings over 7% between the two trucks.

Clevernet

Venture Round in 2016
Starflow Networks/Clevernet is a B2B software that improves WAN speeds by up to 25x while ensuring the security of data in motion. Whether your enterprise has one or multiple public or private WAN connections, Clevernet can improve WAN performance by exploiting multiple paths across networks thus also guaranteeing availability and reliability. The technology is placed Site-to-Site, Site-to-SaaS and/or Cloud-to-Cloud, providing the most robust global communication system.

Front Range Biosciences, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.

Trash Warrior

Seed Round in 2020
Trash Warrior is a developer of an enterprise application platform created for enterprise insurance and financial services. . The company's platform allows users to build, deploy, and manage complex applications without writing a single line of code and streamlines product sales process to improve customer experience, enabling large companies to build complex custom software faster with higher quality, and lower costs than conventional approaches.

Appstores.com

Angel Round in 2010
Appstores is making it easier for consumers to find apps by giving small and large niche publishers and API/platform companies the tools to showcase apps most relevant to their users.

ByteLight

Series A in 2013
ByteLight is the location-based marketing solution for big retail. ByteLight’s location-based marketing solution uses existing lighting infrastructure to pinpoint consumer location with unmatched accuracy. The company’s consumer engagement platform allows retailers to deliver hyper-targeted content to any shopper with a smartphone, based on precisely what aisle—or part of the aisle—they’re currently shopping. ByteLight’s game changing location-based marketing solution uses retailers’ own lighting infrastructure to deliver custom content to consumers based on their exact location in-store—without the need for batteries or beacons. For more information, visit: http://www.bytelight.com

Sonavi Labs

Venture Round in 2020
Sonavi Labs is an innovative device and software company that focuses on developing modern medical products that analyze body sounds for the diagnosis of diseases. The company creates technology rooted in artificial intelligence that will evolve the patient experience and enhance the capabilities of providers. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Diyotta

Venture Round in 2017
Diyotta is the next-generation data integration tool that connects enterprises to all their data. It provides a single integrated platform that makes it easy to quickly and efficiently integrate enormous volumes of data from any source to any target, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. Diyotta is built for modern data architectures where data can be processed in batch, or real-time streams, in the most optimized fashion. It also scales in all dimensions with its agent-based architecture and optimizes the data movement easily and efficiently across several data-points. Diyotta accelerates time to value for new investments in big data platforms and ongoing modernization of data warehouses. With Diyotta, companies fully leverage their existing platform investment, move to modern data platforms with the highest level of reuse possible, and quickly respond to business needs for new data and analytics.

AnyMeeting

Angel Round in 2013
AnyMeeting offers a full-featured web conferencing product designed and priced for small business, including a completely free ad-supported option. They provide all the features a small business needs – including 6-way video conferencing, conference calling, built-in VoIP, screen sharing, presentation sharing, video sharing, recording, mobile, social media integration, webinar ticketing, and more – in one, easy-to-use package. Their software is completely web based and runs inside a web browser. That means no annoying downloads required for your attendees, unlike with many of their competitors. Attendees can join with just a single click on the meeting link. It’s lighting fast and super easy. AnyMeeting costs less than major competitors, starting at just $18/month for meetings with up to 25 attendees, and $78/month for webinars with up to 200 attendees. Of course, there's always the completely free ad-supported option that allows you to host meetings or webinars with up to 200 attendees.
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.

Spinnakr

Seed Round in 2013
Spinnakr helps websites display different messages to different kinds of visitors. Most websites show visitors the same message, no matter who they are, even though a targeted message makes them far more likely to buy or sign-up. Spinnakr makes it simple to group your visitors into audiences that you can reach with simple, targeted messages. Someone referred by a blog in Spain sees a special offer in Spanish, while an investor sees your latest fundraising details. Spinnakr is based in DC but currently in Mountain View, CA as a 500 Startups company.

Cephasonics

Seed Round in 2014
Cephasonics, Inc. provides mixed-signal semiconductors and subsystem products. The company offers ultrasound beamforming front-end systems and development kits; AutoFocus ultrasound beamforming technology for ultrasound OEMs to implement customized and various algorithms; analog-to-digital converters; and ultrasound analog front end receiver modules for an ultrasound analog front end subsystems. It serves medical imaging and ultrasound device markets through distributors worldwide. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Vaxart

Series D in 2014
Vaxart is a privately held biotechnology company near UCSF Mission Bay in San Francisco. Their mission is to develop rapid and efficient vaccine technology to fight infectious diseases. Vaxart was founded in 2004 and has filed patents covering its novel platform technology for vaccination using vectors together with TLR ligands.

Half.com

Venture Round in 2012
Half.com is a person-to-person online marketplace that was acquired by [eBay](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ebay) in June 2000. Half.com was founded in 1999 by American entrepreneur Josh Kopelman (Infonautics, Turntide, Comcast Interactive Capital, First Round Capital) and Sunny Balijepalli (who more recently founded ZoomIn.com).[2] As an advertising gimmick, in December of the same year, the company paid the town of Halfway, Oregon US$100,000 and donated 20 new computers to change its name to "Half.com, Oregon" for a year.

Junar

Convertible Note in 2014
Junar powers the Data Economy by delivering the easiest-to-use, cloud-based Open Data platform. For innovative organizations, Junar is the fastest way to publish data. The Junar platform enables businesses, governments, and organizations to free their data to drive new opportunities, collaboration, and transparency. Some of the world's leading companies trust Junar with their most valuable assets: their data and the end users who are viewing and using it.

Kiana Analytics

Venture Round in 2016
Kiana Analytics Their founding team's experience in Big Data analytics has driven Their technology goals towards providing an entirely new depth of customer understanding through Presence Analytics. Kiana can help retailers increase store performance and sales conversion by matching web-based vendor capabilities to analyze customer traffic before the Point of Sale.
Swoopt is a mobile application that offers daily fantasy sports games to its users. Users of the mobile app are capable of playing free and paid fantasy sports games and win cash prizes. Swoopt was founded in 2011 by Matthew Himelstein and Michael Ferguson and is based in California.

Liftopia

Series B in 2009
Liftopia, Inc. owns and operates a platform, Liftopia.com, which retails ski lift tickets on the Web. It sells lift tickets, rentals, and lessons at various alpine resorts in North America. Its platform enables alpine resorts to sell advance purchase, date specific tickets, rentals, and lessons. Liftopia, Inc. was formerly known as Liftopia Holding Corp. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Niveus Medical

Series A in 2011
Niveus Medical, Inc. provides muscle stimulation systems that provide stimulation to the quadriceps. Its muscle stimulation system is indicated for maintaining or increasing range of motion of the knee joint; and engages in prevention or retardation of disuse atrophy in the quadriceps, muscle re-education of the quadriceps, and relaxation of muscle spasms, as well as increases local blood circulation. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Peloton Technology

Convertible Note in 2014
Peloton Technology Inc. was founded in 2011 by a team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to address major pain points of today’s trucking fleets – accidents and fuel costs. Peloton's system uses radar and DSRC vehicle-to-vehicle communications to link active safety systems between pairs of trucks, reducing collision-related expenses and fuel costs. The drivers remain fully engaged and retain steering control, while the system controls acceleration and braking similar to adaptive cruise control. The dramatic reduction in aerodynamic drag in these platoons provides substantial improvements in fuel economy for both the trailing and leading trucks: with on-road testing showing average savings over 7% between the two trucks.

Iotera

Seed Round in 2015
Iotera, a wireless IoT networking company, was was acquired by Ring.com in 2017. Ring was subsequently acquired by Amazon in 2018.

Cardinal Blue Software, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Cardinal Blue Software, Inc. builds social applications on Facebook and iPhone. It offers PIC COLLAGE, a way to create photo collages on iPad/iPhone and share with users’ family and friends; TRIBUTE BALLOON, an application where in each balloon carries a message of hope; FRIEND STOCK, a social game; and SNAPBIT, an application that enables users to snap and share their visual ideas. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Kiana Analytics

Convertible Note in 2015
Kiana Analytics Their founding team's experience in Big Data analytics has driven Their technology goals towards providing an entirely new depth of customer understanding through Presence Analytics. Kiana can help retailers increase store performance and sales conversion by matching web-based vendor capabilities to analyze customer traffic before the Point of Sale.

Cephasonics

Venture Round in 2016
Cephasonics, Inc. provides mixed-signal semiconductors and subsystem products. The company offers ultrasound beamforming front-end systems and development kits; AutoFocus ultrasound beamforming technology for ultrasound OEMs to implement customized and various algorithms; analog-to-digital converters; and ultrasound analog front end receiver modules for an ultrasound analog front end subsystems. It serves medical imaging and ultrasound device markets through distributors worldwide. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Sigsense Technologies, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
Sigsense Technologies, Inc. develops equipment monitoring software solutions. It offers intelligent monitoring platform that uses real-time equipment data to provide customers with the insights they need into their machinery; and tracks context-rich data on the operation of any given machine to detect operational issues before failure. It serves service organizations, asset owners, and manufacturers. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Cadence Biomedical

Series B in 2015
Cadence Biomedical, Inc. manufactures and markets medical devices for restoring walking abilities. It offers Kickstart, a neurorehabilitation device to accelerate walking recovery in individuals with impairments from stroke, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and other neurological conditions. The company’s Kickstart uses Exotendon technology that functions like an artificial tendon to provide stability, support, and swing assistance. Its solutions are used for outpatients and home use. Cadence Biomedical, Inc. was formerly known as Empowering Engineering Technologies, Corp. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Junar

Angel Round in 2013
Junar powers the Data Economy by delivering the easiest-to-use, cloud-based Open Data platform. For innovative organizations, Junar is the fastest way to publish data. The Junar platform enables businesses, governments, and organizations to free their data to drive new opportunities, collaboration, and transparency. Some of the world's leading companies trust Junar with their most valuable assets: their data and the end users who are viewing and using it.

SVXR

Venture Round in 2016
SVXR, Inc. develops semiconductor inspection tools for inline product monitoring, defect detection, and metrology applications. It offers packaging inspection and metrology products; and data analysis toolkit that revolutionizes the use of transmissive inspection technology in semiconductor packaging. The company solutions include advanced packaging, system in a package, 2.5/3D IC, and power electronics. SVXR, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

CirrusMD Inc.

Series A in 2017
CirrusMD Inc. operates a healthcare communication platform for doctors and patients in the United States. The company’s CirrusMD platform facilitates patients to send secure messages and images; schedule a video chat; access to health information; and 24/7 physician access to local doctors. It offers doctor-to-patient video chat and direct messaging through a HIPAA compliant patient profile. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Drive Time Metrics

Seed Round in 2016
Drive Time Metrics, Inc. develops a cloud-based platform for accessing, displaying, and reporting data of the connected cars. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

HiQ Solar, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
HiQ Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, assembles, tests, and markets solar inverters for commercial 3-phase installations in the United States. Its products include TrueString 480v 3-phase inverters and 208v 3-phase inverters, as well as accessories, such as communications gateways, AC splices, and inverter ballast mounting kits. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Tackk

Venture Round in 2015
Tackk helps you easily create content and share with friends all in one place. It’s a fun, social tool that allows you to share creativity and have conversations using photos, video and other media.

The Audience Awards

Seed Round in 2017
The Audience Awards, LLC operates as a mediator for filmmaker and opportunity, audience and high-quality content, and visionary brands and talented storytellers. Its platform provides filmmakers opportunities to connect with brands and fund their film careers; allows audiences to vote favorite films; and connects filmmakers to brands to provide story-driven content through video contests and film challenges providing brand engagement and social media visibility. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Missoula, Montana.

New Age Meats

Seed Round in 2020
New Age Meats engages in producing meat through an automated data-driven platform. The company produces meat by using stem cell technology. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Sift Shopping

Seed Round in 2013
Sift is a free shopping app shop for Christmas and BlackFriday Sales. Find products and stay connected to brands and retailers. See what’s trending at BestBuy, Macy’s, Nordstom, Toys-R-Us, Target and 3000 more stores. They have millions of products and thousands of stores. Also, discover new stores and products.

Tactical Haptics, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Tactical Haptics, Inc. manufactures haptic game controllers. It offers Reactive Grip motion controller, a touch feedback that is used to convey motion and force information using tactile feedback integrated into the handle of a device; and creates physical interaction in virtual environments. The company also develops games for virtual reality applications. It serves virtual reality, navigation aids for the blind, physical therapy (upper limb rehabilitation), robotic and minimally invasive surgery, piloting drones/UAVs, sports/swing training, education, and tele-robotics markets. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

WaterSmart Software

Seed Round in 2011
WaterSmart Software provides intelligence beyond the meter to make the lives of water utility managers easier. Water providers using WaterSmart’s cloud-based, customer engagement, and analytics platform have been proven to reduce costs, protect revenue, and increase customer satisfaction by more than 25%. The company has won the globally coveted World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers Award for their potential to impact business and society through the design, development, and implementation of new technologies and innovation.

Kiana Analytics

Venture Round in 2017
Kiana Analytics Their founding team's experience in Big Data analytics has driven Their technology goals towards providing an entirely new depth of customer understanding through Presence Analytics. Kiana can help retailers increase store performance and sales conversion by matching web-based vendor capabilities to analyze customer traffic before the Point of Sale.

Peloton Technology

Series B in 2017
Peloton Technology Inc. was founded in 2011 by a team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to address major pain points of today’s trucking fleets – accidents and fuel costs. Peloton's system uses radar and DSRC vehicle-to-vehicle communications to link active safety systems between pairs of trucks, reducing collision-related expenses and fuel costs. The drivers remain fully engaged and retain steering control, while the system controls acceleration and braking similar to adaptive cruise control. The dramatic reduction in aerodynamic drag in these platoons provides substantial improvements in fuel economy for both the trailing and leading trucks: with on-road testing showing average savings over 7% between the two trucks.

OptTown

Seed Round in 2011
OptTown, Inc. provides a mobile app that connects a client to client’s favorite places to shop, eat, drink, and play. It connects consumers with their favorite businesses and businesses to their customers. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Pleasanton, California.

Volumetric Bio

Seed Round in 2019
Volumetric, Inc. develops bioprinting platform, which offers 3D bioprinters creating vascularized human tissue. It provides bioprinters and bio inks for applications in the life sciences, drug discovery, and medical devices. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Houston, Texas.

HiQ Solar, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2014
HiQ Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, assembles, tests, and markets solar inverters for commercial 3-phase installations in the United States. Its products include TrueString 480v 3-phase inverters and 208v 3-phase inverters, as well as accessories, such as communications gateways, AC splices, and inverter ballast mounting kits. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Liftopia

Series A in 2008
Liftopia, Inc. owns and operates a platform, Liftopia.com, which retails ski lift tickets on the Web. It sells lift tickets, rentals, and lessons at various alpine resorts in North America. Its platform enables alpine resorts to sell advance purchase, date specific tickets, rentals, and lessons. Liftopia, Inc. was formerly known as Liftopia Holding Corp. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California.

LawPivot

Seed Round in 2010
From free legal documents to discounted rates with outstanding attorneys, LawPivot is here to help every step of the way. Since 2008, LawPivot has helped over 20 million small businesses and families create legal documents, engage with local attorneys and confidently protect their future.

Sigsense Technologies, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Sigsense Technologies, Inc. develops equipment monitoring software solutions. It offers intelligent monitoring platform that uses real-time equipment data to provide customers with the insights they need into their machinery; and tracks context-rich data on the operation of any given machine to detect operational issues before failure. It serves service organizations, asset owners, and manufacturers. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Nanotech Biomachines

Venture Round in 2014
Nanotech Biomachines develops a sensor technology for therapeutic discovery and development applications.

ClearFlame Engines, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
ClearFlame decarbonizes heavy-duty engines while reducing operating costs, to protect the future from the challenge of diesel fuel. The company's technology enables heavy-duty engine manufacturers to produce engines at a lower cost, while simultaneously providing their customers with higher performance and fuel cost savings. Founded in 2016 by BJ Johnson and Julie Blumreiter, ClearFlame Engines is headquartered in Woodridge, Illinois.

HiQ Solar, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
HiQ Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, assembles, tests, and markets solar inverters for commercial 3-phase installations in the United States. Its products include TrueString 480v 3-phase inverters and 208v 3-phase inverters, as well as accessories, such as communications gateways, AC splices, and inverter ballast mounting kits. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Vantage Robotics, LLC

Venture Round in 2015
Vantage Robotics, LLC develops and manufactures camera drones. It offers Snap, a flying camera for capturing photos and videos, and smart tracking applications. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Leandro, California.

Nanomedical Diagnostics

Venture Round in 2015
Nanomed is a provider of graphene biosensor products used in life science research, drug discovery, and diagnostics, and health-monitoring. They provide fast and affordable tools for small molecule drug discovery. They have developed a breakthrough electrical assay based on proprietary Field Effect Biosensing (FEB) technology that detects molecular interactions. This technology employs a unique graphene biosensor to enable label-free, highly sensitive binding studies of small molecules to proteins. With a wide dynamic range, small sample requirements, and minimal signal contributions from common solvents and detergents, their technology complements existing technology and accelerates small molecule drug discovery. As the world’s leading mass-manufacturer of next-generation graphene biosensors, their mission is to transform the healthcare industry with innovative new products that accelerate cutting-edge life science and drug discovery research. It was founded in 2013 and is based in San Diego, California.

Front Range Biosciences, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.

Magnetic Insight

Convertible Note in 2017
Magnetic Insight (MI) introduced magnetic particle imaging into the preclinical diagnostic research market enabling quantitative cell tracking, imaging of vascular function, detecting metastatic tumors, visualizing inflammation, CAR-T cell therapies and initial research into regenerative medicine.

Matrix Industries, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
MATRIX Industries, Inc. manufactures thermoelectric products and components for energy harvesting needs to enable battery life. It offers MATRIX PowerWatch, a body heat-powered smartwatch that needs no charging; and Juno, a beverage chiller. The company also provides kits and components, such as energy harvesting boost converter and thermoelectric energy harvester. The company sells its products through distributors. MATRIX Industries, Inc. was formerly known as Silicium Energy, Inc. MATRIX Industries, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

New Age Meats

Seed Round in 2019
New Age Meats engages in producing meat through an automated data-driven platform. The company produces meat by using stem cell technology. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Sonoma Beverage Works

Venture Round in 2013
Sonoma Beverage Works, Inc. produces and markets apple, bourbon, and pear flavored ciders. It serves customers through a network of distributors. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Healdsburg, California.

Xos Trucks Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Xos Trucks Inc. operates as a transportation lab making electric commercial vehicle fleets and battery-electric vehicle platforms. It helps commercial fleets transition from diesel to zero-emission electric delivery vehicles with the same performance but lower operating costs. The company also develops electrified armored cars. It delivers trucks to Texas and Illinois, with future customers in Michigan and New Jersey. Xos Trucks Inc. was formerly known as Thor Trucks and changed its name to Xos Trucks Inc. in April 2019. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in North Hollywood, California.

HiQ Solar, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2014
HiQ Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, assembles, tests, and markets solar inverters for commercial 3-phase installations in the United States. Its products include TrueString 480v 3-phase inverters and 208v 3-phase inverters, as well as accessories, such as communications gateways, AC splices, and inverter ballast mounting kits. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

HiQ Solar, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
HiQ Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, assembles, tests, and markets solar inverters for commercial 3-phase installations in the United States. Its products include TrueString 480v 3-phase inverters and 208v 3-phase inverters, as well as accessories, such as communications gateways, AC splices, and inverter ballast mounting kits. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

ParkStash

Seed Round in 2019
ParkStash is an early stage startup focusing on providing innovative solutions to parking issues. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Jose, California.

Juul Labs

Series C in 2015
JUUL is an electronics company that specializes in improving alternatives for adult smokers and has launched a nicotine vaporizer in US. The company is a simply satisfying alternative for adult smokers. JUUL Labs’ mission is to eliminate combustible cigarettes. The company was founded to provide the 1 billion smokers worldwide a true alternative to cigarettes that enables them to permanently switch. Its research indicates hundreds of thousands of smokers have already switched to JUUL, and they are working to enable millions more to switch in the coming years. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

UpOut

Seed Round in 2013
UpOut Inc. provides an online guide and mobile app for discovering events in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. The company also provides membership options and subscription services for events in various categories, including fitness and active, comedy, live music, classes, food and drink, theater and shows, and art and exhibits. In addition, it arranges contests and operates a culture blog; and offers gift cards. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Sigsense Technologies, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2014
Sigsense Technologies, Inc. develops equipment monitoring software solutions. It offers intelligent monitoring platform that uses real-time equipment data to provide customers with the insights they need into their machinery; and tracks context-rich data on the operation of any given machine to detect operational issues before failure. It serves service organizations, asset owners, and manufacturers. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Crowd Mics

Seed Round in 2015
Crowd Mics turns the audiences iOS and Android devices into wireless microphones for live events. Crowd Mics is an award winning app that powers audience engagement. They have created the first downloadable microphone for live events. The audience can talk into their phones and be heard over the sound system. The app also includes text commenting and live polling features. Crowd Mics is the microphone for the people!

Spinnaker

Convertible Note in 2014
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RenovoRx

Series C in 2015
RenovoRx, Inc., a medical device company, develops solutions for targeted delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents to selected sites in the peripheral vascular system. It develops endovascular catheters, including RenovoCath for the visceral and peripheral vascular system. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Altos, California.

HiQ Solar, Inc.

Venture Round in 2012
HiQ Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, assembles, tests, and markets solar inverters for commercial 3-phase installations in the United States. Its products include TrueString 480v 3-phase inverters and 208v 3-phase inverters, as well as accessories, such as communications gateways, AC splices, and inverter ballast mounting kits. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Perkville

Series A in 2014
Perkville is a leading retention and referral solution for the health, fitness, salon, spa, and retail industries. Their rewards program integrates directly with POS or scheduling systems and can be custom-tailored for every business. Featured in businesses around the world, the Perkville system can drive referrals, reward clients for return visits and make purchases, and even generate social media posts. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Peloton Technology

Venture Round in 2014
Peloton Technology Inc. was founded in 2011 by a team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to address major pain points of today’s trucking fleets – accidents and fuel costs. Peloton's system uses radar and DSRC vehicle-to-vehicle communications to link active safety systems between pairs of trucks, reducing collision-related expenses and fuel costs. The drivers remain fully engaged and retain steering control, while the system controls acceleration and braking similar to adaptive cruise control. The dramatic reduction in aerodynamic drag in these platoons provides substantial improvements in fuel economy for both the trailing and leading trucks: with on-road testing showing average savings over 7% between the two trucks.

HiQ Solar, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
HiQ Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, assembles, tests, and markets solar inverters for commercial 3-phase installations in the United States. Its products include TrueString 480v 3-phase inverters and 208v 3-phase inverters, as well as accessories, such as communications gateways, AC splices, and inverter ballast mounting kits. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Mojo Mobility

Venture Round in 2008
Mojo Mobility, Inc. designs and manufactures wireless charging systems. Its charging solutions allow various devices with various power requirements to charge simultaneously on the same charging surface. The company provides position-free wireless charging surface for mobile products, such as mobile phones, laptops, tablets, and wireless accessories. Its wireless charging technologies are also used in various industries and applications, such as mobile devices, industrial and medical devices, and electric vehicles. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Frontdesk, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Frontdesk is changing the face of both hospitality and real estate as we know it today. It offers securely-managed short-term stays at apartments in cities, catering to both business and leisure travelers. Until now, travelers have had to choose between stuffy hotel rooms or unpredictable Airbnb-style stays. Frontdesk bridges the world between short-term and long-term stays in urban apartment communities with custom-built technology, a value-driven culture, and flawless execution, to create a secure and consistent experience for all.

TomboyX

Venture Round in 2016
TomboyX operates as a retail clothing company that primarily sells underwear and apparel for living without labels. It also offers bras, boxers, trunks, shorts, hats, socks, and underwear. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

XGraph

Venture Round in 2010
Formerly a standalone company, XGraph is now part of AddThis. It serves as the first social targeting platform to use multi-graph data analysis to target Connected Audiences. XGraph's approach is based on the proven premise that people who share similar lifestyles, values, and purchasing habits with an advertiser's core customers are the optimal audience for targeting display advertising. Social network analysis applied to privacy-friendly data is the core of XGraph's unique multi-graph methodology, enabling high-value targeting at scale.

MyLabBox

Seed Round in 2018
At myLAB Box we believe the way we think, talk and test for STDs is long overdue for a change. Our new service, the Safe Box, is the first-ever e-commerce service empowering users to take control of their sexual health with easy and affordable at-home screening solutions.

Turpitude

Series A in 2011
Turpitude provides clients, including developers, publishers and property holders, with AAA game design consulting services along with creating games as well.

BluWrap

Venture Round in 2007
BluWrap provides shelf-life technology and solutions for fresh food supply chains worldwide. The company's fuel cell technology system uses its oxygen management techniques to create and maintain an all-natural controlled atmosphere environment that extends the shelf-life of perishable proteins. Its technology allows suppliers of fresh protein products to ship by ocean. BluWrap was formerly known as Global Fresh Foods, Inc. and changed its name to BluWrap in September 2013. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California with operations in Talcahuano, Chile.

BiPar Sciences

Series B in 2008
BiPar Sciences Inc. is a Brisbane, CA based developer of PARP inhibitors as cancer therapies. BiPar's key experimental product is BSI-201, currently in mid-stage trials for advanced breast cancer, ovarian cancer and other tumors. BiPar has raised around $60 million in VC funding, from firms like [Domain Associates](/financial-organization/domain-associates), [Canaan Partners](/financial-organization/canaan-partners-3), [Vulcan Capital](/financial-organization/vulcan-capital), [PolyTechnos Venture Partners](/financial-organization/polytechnos-venture-partners), [Asset Management Company](/financial-organization/asset-management), and [Quantum Technology Partners](/financial-organization/quantum-technology-partners). It also has raised venture debt from [Lighthouse Capital Partners](/financial-organization/lighthouse-capital-partners). On April 15th, 2009, French drug maker [Sanofi-Aventis S.A.](/organization/sanofi-aventis-2) announced it was acquiring BiPar Sciences for up to $500 million.

Ploom

Series A in 2015
Ploom is an upstart tobacco company based in San Francisco. Really. We are creating a line of products starting with the ModelOne. Reimagining the smoking paradigm, we wed modern technologies, materials and processes to the best tobacco and botanical ingredients. We handcraft our pods at our micro-factory in San Francisco. Ploom began as a conversation between a smoker and a non-smoker outside a studio at Stanford's Joint Program in Design in 2004. "What do you hate about smoking?" Adam asked. "What do you love about it?" James responded. The two had already been collaborating on eccentric thesis explorations but those were quickly dropped to answer the question: What if smoking were reinvented today? The thesis generated support from some of the most well respected thinkers and doers in and around the University. James and Adam founded Ploom in a tiny orange painted room on an apple orchard in Palo Alto, determined to bring a better alternative to people who love (and hate) smoking. Hundreds of prototypes, consumer insights and a business plan later, the two developed a unique startup in the historic Dogpatch area of San Francisco with a handful of the best engineers, advisors, marketing and biotech veterans in the country. The model One and Ploom's first six flavors are the first glimpse of the future of smoking: a new ritual for a modern society from a new kind of company.

Nowait

Series B in 2014
Nowait is the shortcut to amazing dining experiences. Nowait integrates, streamlines, and optimizes the entire front of the house—from waitlists to table turnover to analytics and more—so that they efficiently provide amazing service. Guests can the most valuable asset of their life back, their time, by accessing Nowait's network of restaurants from its consumer application and get in line at thousands of restaurants across the US. Nowait provides the ideal restaurant experience for both sides of the table. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Fieldwire

Seed Round in 2014
Fieldwire is the field management platform construction pros count on to easily manage the jobsite. Construction companies of all sizes use Fieldwire to power clear communication on over 500,000 projects worldwide. With its easy-to-use mobile application, Fieldwire saves each user 1 hour every day by enabling more efficient information sharing onsite. Fieldwire’s key features include plan viewing, task management, issue tracking, reporting, and more — all accessible from one place. Fieldwire is venture-backed by top investors in the industry and is already transforming the way dispersed teams communicate and collaborate on projects. Fieldwire is the easiest way for construction companies to stay organized on the jobsite.

Zokets

Venture Round in 2015
Zokets offers one-of-a-kind container delivery platform that is designed for next generation cloud applications. By taking an application-centric approach instead of infrastructure approach, Zokets platform makes deployment and scaling of mission-critical container workloads into any environment simple, fast, and reliable.

Zum

Seed Round in 2016
Zūm is a provider of safe, efficient, and reliable child transportation for school districts and busy families. Zūm saves schools money and parents time by providing flexible transportation options through its network of highly vetted drivers and advanced scheduling, routing, and tracking technology. The company currently provide children’s transportation service in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. Zūm was founded in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Membrion

Seed Round in 2018
Membrion, Inc. manufactures and commercializes membranes that filter molecules. It filters molecules, such as ions under various conditions, such as hot, cold, acidic, caustic, vacuum, and biologically sensitive conditions. The company’s products are used in flow batteries, water purification, fuel cells, and pharmaceutical applications. Membrion, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Nanotech Biomachines

Venture Round in 2015
Nanotech Biomachines develops a sensor technology for therapeutic discovery and development applications.

Cadence Biomedical

Series A in 2012
Cadence Biomedical, Inc. manufactures and markets medical devices for restoring walking abilities. It offers Kickstart, a neurorehabilitation device to accelerate walking recovery in individuals with impairments from stroke, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and other neurological conditions. The company’s Kickstart uses Exotendon technology that functions like an artificial tendon to provide stability, support, and swing assistance. Its solutions are used for outpatients and home use. Cadence Biomedical, Inc. was formerly known as Empowering Engineering Technologies, Corp. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Flux Bioscience

Venture Round in 2020
Flux Biosciences is a company spun out of Stanford University, where the technology used to read and write computer hard drives has been repurposed to perform sensitive and quantitative point-of-care in vitro medical diagnostics. This technology uses blood, urine, or saliva to measure biomarkers related to exercise, stress, fertility, and diet and will correlate those measurements to sleep and activity data collected from wearable technologies.

Sift Shopping

Angel Round in 2013
Sift is a free shopping app shop for Christmas and BlackFriday Sales. Find products and stay connected to brands and retailers. See what’s trending at BestBuy, Macy’s, Nordstom, Toys-R-Us, Target and 3000 more stores. They have millions of products and thousands of stores. Also, discover new stores and products.

Jump Gaming, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2016
Jump Gaming, Inc. provides Jump, a multiplatform digital game subscription service. It serves as the central access point for video games across various gaming devices. The company’s Jump helps gamers to get instant access to games on desktop, mobile, console, and VR devices. Jump Gaming, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California. Jump Gaming, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Kermdinger Studios, Inc.

Whodini

Convertible Note in 2014
Founded in 2010, Whodini is a Los Altos based startup using artificial intelligence to help employees in large enterprises find expert coworkers. Whodini has created a multi-platform application that automatically generates detailed professional profiles to help users discover coworkers who can help.

Ploom

Venture Round in 2014
Ploom is an upstart tobacco company based in San Francisco. Really. We are creating a line of products starting with the ModelOne. Reimagining the smoking paradigm, we wed modern technologies, materials and processes to the best tobacco and botanical ingredients. We handcraft our pods at our micro-factory in San Francisco. Ploom began as a conversation between a smoker and a non-smoker outside a studio at Stanford's Joint Program in Design in 2004. "What do you hate about smoking?" Adam asked. "What do you love about it?" James responded. The two had already been collaborating on eccentric thesis explorations but those were quickly dropped to answer the question: What if smoking were reinvented today? The thesis generated support from some of the most well respected thinkers and doers in and around the University. James and Adam founded Ploom in a tiny orange painted room on an apple orchard in Palo Alto, determined to bring a better alternative to people who love (and hate) smoking. Hundreds of prototypes, consumer insights and a business plan later, the two developed a unique startup in the historic Dogpatch area of San Francisco with a handful of the best engineers, advisors, marketing and biotech veterans in the country. The model One and Ploom's first six flavors are the first glimpse of the future of smoking: a new ritual for a modern society from a new kind of company.

DynaOptics Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
DynaOptics' patented freeform lens technology and trade secret design-for-manufacturability enables very small form factor advanced optics with superior resolution, wide-angle with no aberration, superior low-light performance, and optical zoom at equivalent cost to existing installed base for injected molded plastic lenses - increasing sensor sizes with higher pixel count and decreasing thinness and smaller form factors for cameras mandate the smart adoption of our cost-equivalent solutions. Ideal for mobile handset camera, self-driving & driver assist vision, IoT and machine vision, body camera, military and micro-UAV, security & Smart City camera usages. DynaOptics has an exclusive, worldwide, license for this technology in all fields of use, and a number of provisional and non-provisional patents in its portfolio.