Slow Ventures

Slow Ventures, founded in 2009, is a San Francisco-based private equity firm specializing in early-stage investments in technology-related companies across the United States. With a community focused on collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow Ventures supports founders on their entrepreneurial journey by providing resources, connections, experiences, and empathy necessary to build strong, sustainable companies. By investing at the intersection of technology, science, society, and culture, Slow Ventures aims to empower entrepreneurs and foster innovation in the business landscape.

Kevin Colleran

MD

Sam Lessin

Partner

William Quist

Partner

Yoni Rechtman

Principal

Sam Le ssin

Partner

578 past transactions

Neuromotion Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Neuromotion Inc. develops a bioresponsive game platform that teaches kids emotion calming skills through play. It gaming platform under to treat behaviors associated with emotional dysregulation for kids in the age group of for kids 6-14 years. The company develops software which works with preexisting games by making them bio responsive. It enables kids to practice and learn emotional control. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Trustify

Seed Round in 2016
Trustify, Inc. operates an on-demand technology platform that helps to connect and hire private investigators in the United States. The company offers real-time observation and digital monitoring services. It also provides services in the areas of background checks, social and digital media analysis, and real-time observations for staffing; finding witnesses, serving papers, locating assets, and collecting evidence for law; and workman's compensation, scene investigation, liability, witness identification, property and casualty, recorded statements, surveillance, subrogation potential, fact of loss, and SIU support services for insurance businesses. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.

Bansho

Seed Round in 2021
Bansho provides live learning that boosts confidence in kids and supports busy parents. It empowers parents to help in their kid's learning journey by providing access to text, video, and audio messaging with a dedicated learning partner. It was founded in 2020 and is based in New York City, New York.

Freshly

Series A in 2015
Freshly, Inc. provides freshly prepared meals online. The company’s meals menu includes entrees and breakfasts with dairy products, eggs, pork, tree nuts, chicken, beef, turkey, fish, soy, and shellfish. It offers monthly and weekly subscriptions. Freshly, Inc. was formerly known as F3 Foods of Arizona, Inc. and changed its name to Freshly, Inc. in December 2014. Freshly, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York. As of October 30, 2020, Freshly, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Nestlé USA, Inc.

Metropolis

Series A in 2021
Metropolis is an AI and computer vision start-up built to modernize parking and empower the future of mobility. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Roadster

Seed Round in 2014
Roadster Online Inc. operates an online marketplace for buying new cars. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Pillow

Series A in 2015
Pillow provides Internet-based management services. It offers information about a property, essential amenities, and other apartments and houses. The company is an Expedia group that solves short-term rentals for multifamily properties, allowing building owners and property managers to have control and transparency over short-term rentals while enabling their residents to rent their units short-term on listings sites such as Homeaway, VRBO, and Airbnb.

Pinterest

Series C in 2012
Pinterest, Inc. provides visual discovery engine in the United States and internationally. The company’s engine allows people to find inspiration for their lives, including recipes, home and style ideas, travel destinations, and others. It shows them visual recommendations based on people personal taste and interests. The company was formerly known as Cold Brew Labs Inc. and changed its name to Pinterest, Inc. in April 2012. Pinterest, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Wanelo

Series A in 2013
Wanelo, Inc. operates a social media shopping site whose products are linked to an online store. It develops a shopping app that allows users to find, buy, and sell various products. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Archblock

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
TrustToken, Inc. develops and operates a platform to create asset-backed tokens that can be used for buying and selling around the world. Its product TrustToken pays fiduciaries accounting requirements and aligns incentives between platform participants and disincentives. The company’s TrustProtocol specifies how contract direct fiduciaries to manage assets and creates audit trail of fiduciary behavior. TrustToken, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

AngelList

Series B in 2015
AngelList is a platform for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups. AngelList's goal is also to democratize the investment process. In 2014, the company raised $104 million online. It has also funded 243 startups. In 2015, they've made over 548K introductions between job-seekers and companies. Founded by Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant in 2010, AngelList is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Ro

Seed Round in 2017
Ro is a mission-driven healthcare technology company that handles everything from online diagnosis to the delivery of medication. It aims to be the patient’s first call for all of their healthcare needs. Using technology, it empowers physicians to provide high-quality, affordable care when and where patients need it most. It powers three digital health clinics which are Roman for men’s health, Rory for women’s health, and Zero for fighting addiction.

Ratter

Seed Round in 2014
Ratter is a tabloid-style site founded by AJ Daulerio

Casper

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

Handy

Series B in 2014
Handy Technologies, Inc., doing business as Handy, operates an online platform for connecting individuals looking for household services with independent service professionals. It offers repair and maintenance services, which includes air conditioner services, furniture assembly services, plumbing services, electrical services, and home cleaning services. Handy Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Handybook, Inc. and changed its name to Handy Technologies, Inc. in September 2014. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York having additional offices in Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Vancouver. Handy Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ANGI Homeservices Inc.

Sunrise

Seed Round in 2014
Sunrise is a free calendar app. Designed with love, Sunrise is a new experience that will make your life easier. Available on Android, iPhone, iPad & Web.

Spring

Series A in 2014
Spring is a retail company that sells a wide range of items from apparel to home and garden items. It is a shopping application for iOS devices. Spring enables its users to follow the brands they love as well as purchase new arrivals, exclusives, and one-of-a-kind products. The company originally operated as Jello Labs and announced the name change in July 2014. Spring was founded by David Tisch, Alan Tisch, and Octavian Costache in New York.

Sunrise

Seed Round in 2013
Sunrise is a free calendar app. Designed with love, Sunrise is a new experience that will make your life easier. Available on Android, iPhone, iPad & Web.

Embark Veterinary, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Embark Veterinary, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Ithaca, New York.

Moxxly

Seed Round in 2015
Moxxly takes the guesswork out of modern motherhood through beautiful, connected devices. Moxxly’s first product is a smart, stylish, and high performing breast pump system that enables today’s mobile mom to pump wherever she is, with her shirt on, while receiving real-time data about her breastmilk supply. Moxxly is female-founded, San Francisco-based, and a proud alum of PCH International's Highway 1 hardware incubator as well as a current participant in Stanford's StartX accelerator.

Meadow

Seed Round in 2016
Meadow builds software for California’s cannabis industry. In 2014 the company launched getmeadow.com, an on-demand directory connecting patients to dispensaries for quick and reliable cannabis delivery. The following year, Meadow became the first Y-Combinator company to operate in the cannabis space and launched Meadow MD (https://meadowmd.com), a telemedicine platform connecting patients to physicians. In 2016 the company launched Meadow Platform, a SaaS platform built from the ground up for California cannabis retail and delivery (https://getmeadow.com/dispensary-software). The suite powers a POS system, inventory management, analytics, online and mobile ordering, delivery tracking and logistics, compliance, and patient intake. These tools help dispensaries work faster, serve more patients, remain compliant with state and local regulations, and earn more revenue per patient. Meadow is born and raised in San Francisco and serves patients, customers. and dispensaries across California.

Nexar

Series B in 2018
Nexar Ltd. develops Dashcam, a mobile application which helps in predicting road accidents. The company's mobile application offers insights and alerts about surrounding cars and enables users to provide feedback and alerts to other drivers on the road. Its application records the road while driving; detects a hard break or an accident; records past, present, and future of an incident; and automatically creates an incident and uploads it to the cloud. Nexar Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in Tel Aviv Yafo, Israel

Hodinkee

Seed Round in 2015
Established in 2008, HODINKEE is the destination for all things in the world of horology. Over the past decade, ​founder Ben Clymer and team have​ grown HODINKEE into a robust media and retail platform by providing its respected point of view on industry news and releases, investing in engaging and creative storytelling, producing a designated podcast, printing a bi-annual publication, and launching and growing its own retail outlet, HODINKEE Shop. At its core, HODINKEE’s goal is to bring its readers and consumers the best in luxury products in a way that is approachable, authentic, and honest.

Friendsy

Seed Round in 2015
Friendsy is a social networking platform created exclusively for college students enabling them to chat, compliment, and connect with students everywhere. It was launched in 2013 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

NationBuilder

Series A in 2012
NationBuilder is software for leaders. The company was founded in November 2009 by Jim Gilliam, in partnership with Co-Founders Jesse Haff and Lea Endres, and launched in April 2011. By the summer of 2012, the company had secured more than $14 million in Series A and Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Omidyar Network, and added Ben Horowitz, Stacy Donohue, and Sean Parker to its board. Jim Gilliam became Executive chairman in fall of 2017 and welcomed Lea Endres to the role of CEO. NationBuilder is based in downtown Los Angeles with offices in New York, Washington DC, Vancouver, and London.

Stork Club

Seed Round in 2017
We're a second-generation family planning benefits company focusing on reducing overall medical spend, improving employee health outcomes, and helping support employees' emotionally when navigating stressful fertility issues. Trusted by Metromile, Airtable, Lookout, Branch and other happy customers. Stork Club is backed by top-tier investors and supported by advisory board experts from UCSF, One Medical, LinkedIn, Y Combinator, Castlight Health, and Facebook.

Metropolis

Seed Round in 2019
Metropolis is an AI and computer vision start-up built to modernize parking and empower the future of mobility. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Nexar

Series A in 2016
Nexar Ltd. develops Dashcam, a mobile application which helps in predicting road accidents. The company's mobile application offers insights and alerts about surrounding cars and enables users to provide feedback and alerts to other drivers on the road. Its application records the road while driving; detects a hard break or an accident; records past, present, and future of an incident; and automatically creates an incident and uploads it to the cloud. Nexar Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in Tel Aviv Yafo, Israel

Stride Funding

Series A in 2021
Stride Funding (AlmaPact Inc.) is a mission-driven company focused on enabling debt-free lives for students, by supplementing student loans with flexible income sharing agreements. Unlike student loans that lock students into a single rigid payment, Stride’s payments rise and fall with a student’s income so that payments are always affordable. The company has been recognized as a visionary leader by FinTech analysts for its efforts on income protection and career support. Stride was created by students, for students, aiming to change student lives for the better. The company has been recognized by Harvard and MIT as a top new venture. Stride has received venture investments from GSV Accelerate, Slow Ventures, Sinai Ventures and Pear VC; and its strategic investors include Strada Education. Its advisors include serial entrepreneurs, Doug Levin and Tina Sharkey. Fund your Future, Find your Stride!

Birchbox

Seed Round in 2010
Launched in 2010, Birchbox is the discovery commerce platform redefining the retail process by offering consumers a personalized way to discover, sample, shop, and learn about the best products and brands available. Birchbox members have first-touch experiences with products each month and access to educational content to help them get the most out of their products. Top brands like Kiehl’s, Benefit, Deborah Lippmann, and Stila have partnered with Birchbox.

Gusto

Series B in 2015
Gusto develops web-based payroll solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. It operates an online platform that provides payroll, benefits, human resource, and integration services for employers and employees in the United States. Gusto offers health benefits and workers’ compensation benefits that include medical insurance, commuter benefits, and 401(k) contributions as well as workers’ compensation insurance plans, time tracking and integration services, and access to employees for processing payroll from web-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. It also provides access to employees and contractors to browse their previous pay stubs, review their payroll forms, verify their personal details, and statistics about their pay, tax payments and federal forms filing services, and security and support services. Gusto serves startups, coffee shops, doctors, creative agencies, lawyers, and boutiques. Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London founded ZenPayRoll in 2011 that became Gusto, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California with an additional office in Denver in Colorado.

Mosaic

Private Placement in 2020
Mosaic Building Group, Inc. provides construction services to homebuilders to build homes, communities, neighborhoods, and cities. It offers general contracting, framing mechanical, plumbing, electrical, drywall, and site work services. The company provides single family homebuilding, multi family homebuilding, custom homebuilding, and build to rent casitas. Mosaic Building Group, Inc. was formerly known as Fuelmouse Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona with additional offices in San Francisco, California.

Tonkean

Private Placement in 2019
Tonkean uses AI to autonomously coordinate, execute and manage your business workflows, across data and people, so nothing falls through the cracks. The company's platform automatically connects to the interfaces users already use such as forms, email, chat, or other tools, based on the needs and preferences of each individual, enabling operations teams to quickly create adaptive modules to solve their unique challenges in a way that doesn't require new systems or engineering work.

Human Capital, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Human Capital, Inc. offers online help to small businesses to set up a 401k. Human Capital, Inc. was formerly known as Captain401 Inc. and changed its name to Human Capital, Inc. in February 2018. Human Capital, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Pearpop

Seed Round in 2021
Pearpop is the marketplace for social collaborations between the teeming hordes of musicians, craftspeople, chefs, clowns, diarists, dancers, artists, actors, acrobats, aspiring celebrities, and actual celebrities.

Seed Health

Series A in 2021
Seed Health, Inc. is a microbial sciences company pioneering applications of bacteria to impact human and environmental health. In collaboration with leading academic partners, our foundry model accelerates breakthrough science to develop live biotherapeutics and consumer innovations. Our Scientific Advisory Board is comprised of leading scientists with expertise in microbiology, immunology, genetics, metabolomics, gastroenterology, pediatrics, environmental sciences, and women’s health. Learn more—seedhealth.com Our consumer portfolio, Seed®, develops next-generation probiotics for specific developmental stages and various ecosystems of the body—seed.com

Smart Coffee Technology

Seed Round in 2015
Smart Coffee Technology (SCT), headquartered in San Francisco, is revolutionizing the specialty coffee industry. Micro-roasters will be able to compete in the growing single serve coffee market. SCT is founded on the premise that coffee drinker’s demand choice coupled convenience. We create innovative tools and hardware products that seamlessly integrate in the industry.

NewCo

Seed Round in 2016
NewCo Platform, Inc. connects people with businesses through its events, media, and business partnerships. The company also produces a multi-platform publication, NewCo Shift, revealing the companies, leaders, and issues driving the transition to a positive-impact business ecosystem. It hosts business festivals throughout North America, Europe, and Latin America. NewCo Platform, Inc. was formerly known as OpenCo Media, Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Citizen

Seed Round in 2016
Citizen is a free mobile application that notifies its users with safety alerts and real-time incident updates. It is a powerful force for good that has already evacuated people from burning buildings, diverted school buses from nearby terrorist attacks, and, in one instance, led to the rescue of a one-year-old boy from a stolen car. It is a truly unique proposition that provides you with alerts from 911 data that until now has never been made available to the public. The alerts are accompanied by live stories, real-time updates, and user-generated content to provide you with the information you need so you know what’s happening around you rather than having to wonder why police are on your corner or there are helicopters above you. Today, over a million people across the United States have downloaded the app and use it to keep themselves, their families, and their friends safe. Emergency services and community activists alike hail the app as a ground-breaking development in personal and community safety. Over 1 million New Yorkers have citizens, and the app has seen similar growth, usage, and engagement in LA, SF, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The company was founded in 2017 and based in New York City, New York.

Thimble

Seed Round in 2016
Verifly Insurance Services, Inc., doing business as Thimble Insurance Services, develops and offers on-demand insurance software solutions. The company allows small businesses to obtain A-rated insurance for customers. It serves events and entertainment, freelancers and consultants, contractors and handymen, janitors and cleaners, landscaping, beauty, fitness, pet sitters, and drone operators. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York. Verifly Insurance Services, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Verifly Holdings Ltd.

Beam

Series A in 2019
Beam is a venture-backed regulatory technology (“regtech”) software company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our proprietary transaction monitoring technologies incorporate advanced machine learning and new data sources. The result? Immediate, meaningful reduction in false positives, better catch rates, and increased efficiency. Beam’s tools help our bank, credit union, and fintech customers make the financial system safer and maximize the value and utility of critical compliance resources. Beam’s end-to-end compliance solution brings new data sources and advanced machine learning models to cut false positives and enhance transaction monitoring. Our unique transparent-box approach demystifies machine learning, exposes all data sources, and is built for regulator understanding and approval. Beam is supported by an experienced group of officers, directors, advisors, and investors.

MikMak

Seed Round in 2015
MikMak helps brands better understand consumers by connecting digital investments to online retailer insights. It offers a dashboard that aggregates the eCommerce customer journey across any number of digital channels and retailers. Brands get standardized reporting and benchmarks, so users can act on unbiased insights in real-time. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Symbiose Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Symbiose Technologies is a communications company that creates AI-powered products that bring unprecedented depth, memory, and serendipity to your conversations. Symbiose is creating the highest-fidelity way to communicate -- a new paradigm for messaging and audio where conversations transform.

Stem Disintermedia

Venture Round in 2022
Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians to collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings. It develops a platform intended to provide distribution and payments solution for artists and their teams. The platform aggregates cross-platform earnings, create contracts, and honor splits with collaborators, disburse payments and statements to all stakeholders in a project and visualizes performance data for each platform, enabling businesses to bring clarity to the complicated process of revenue management and ensure everyone involved in the creative process gets paid. Milana Rabkin, Tim Luckow, and Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith formed Stem Disintermedia in Los Angeles, California in 2015.

Solana Co., Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
Solana Co., Ltd. manufactures food products. The company offers food products including frozen, dried, and preserved. Solana Co., Ltd. was founded in 1982 and is based in Yannawa, Thailand.

Managed by Q

Angel Round in 2014
Managed by Q Inc. operates a workplace management platform, which offers on demand cleaning and maintenance services. The company offers facility services, which includes cleaning, maintenance, IT support, and security services; workplace staffing services; project management services, which includes pre lease planning, vendor management, office build, interior design, office move, and renovation services; and task management services. Managed by Q Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York. As of March 3, 2020, Managed by Q Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Eden Technologies, Inc.

Tempest

Private Placement in 2019
Tempest, Inc. operates an online recovery school that offers a virtual course for people wanting to quit alcohol. It also offers email courses. It offers tools to help participants learn the importance of purpose, meaning, and creativity in living a life without alcohol. Tempest, Inc. was formerly known as Hip Sobriety, Inc. and changed its name to Tempest, Inc. in May 2019. The company founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Phylos

Series C in 2017
Phylos Biosciences LLC, a crop science company, develops genetic testing products and plant varieties for the hemp and cannabis industry. It offers AutoCBD, a day-neutral variety hemp seed that produces CBD-rich flower for extraction; Plant Sex Test, a test to identify male hemp and cannabis seedlings; Genotype Test, a tool that provides genetic identification, and insights for hemp and cannabis. Phylos Biosciences LLC was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Class.com

Series B in 2021
Class provides Class for Zoom, which integrates the Class software on the Zoom Meetings platform to help teachers take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz or test, grade work, proctor exams, or talk one-on-one with a student.

Birdies

Seed Round in 2017
Founded in 2015 by Bianca Gates and Marisa Sharkey, Birdies is a female-founded footwear brand that was born out of a need for stylish, comfortable shoes to wear inside the home. The brand has evolved for versatile everyday use, offering a range of signature styles that combine the support of a sneaker, the softness of a slipper, and the style of a designer flat, all featuring the company’s exclusive 7-layer comfort technology.

Kip

Seed Round in 2016
Kip combines traditional in-person therapy with a private app so that you get the most out of every session. Meet your therapist in person and start working on your personalized care plan. Share daily thoughts, feelings, and events with your therapist on Kip's private app. Achieve measurable results with Kip's science-backed, results-driven approach. Not your average therapy service, Kip makes therapy more effective by combining in-person visits with digital support in-between.

Kip

Seed Round in 2016
Kip combines traditional in-person therapy with a private app so that you get the most out of every session. Meet your therapist in person and start working on your personalized care plan. Share daily thoughts, feelings, and events with your therapist on Kip's private app. Achieve measurable results with Kip's science-backed, results-driven approach. Not your average therapy service, Kip makes therapy more effective by combining in-person visits with digital support in-between.

Do

Seed Round in 2015
Do offers a platform that works as one place for all the notes, presentations, docs, and all other collateral to live together. The company gives the user the tools to frame the discussion, ensure things get done, and make decisions clear.

Comm Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Comm Technologies is scaling E2E encryption with personal private servers.

Kickpay

Seed Round in 2014
Kickpay is transforming how hardware companies finance their inventory. By leveraging a client's data, Kickpay enables them to access financing that was previously unavailable, allowing them to grow faster.

OpenPhone

Seed Round in 2020
OpenPhone Technologies, Inc. designs and develops a business phone application for startups, small businesses, and individuals. It offers OpenPhone that provides unlimited messaging and calling. The company’s OpenPhone provides business phone numbers, as well as enables users to assign numbers to individuals and teams in a company. The company provides its application in mobile and desktop versions. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Yup.com

Seed Round in 2015
Yup Technologies Inc. develops an iOS and Android app that provides on demand tutoring for math and science through mobile chat. It offers Yup, a mobile tutoring app that instantly connects students with expert tutors; and enables tutors to provide academic support for students to solve their chemistry, math, and physics problems. The company was formerly known as MathCrunch Services and changed its name to Yup Technologies Inc. in April 2016. Yup Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

StyleSeat

Series B in 2015
At StyleSeat, our mission is to help people look and feel their best. We are on the path to achieving this mission by being the go-­to platform for consumers to discover, book, and pay for beauty and grooming services (hair stylists, colorists, nail artists, estheticians, barbers, etc). We are also the premiere solution for all independent professionals in the industry to run and grow their business. We have powered over 100 million appointments booked and $7B in revenue for small businesses and are on the path to much more.

Complex Polygon

Seed Round in 2014
Complex Polygon, Inc. is a product studio that designs, builds, develops, and launches mobile applications for the purpose of bringing people closer together. Its products include Tag and Swipe. Complex Polygon, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of July 14, 2017, Complex Polygon, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc.

Formagrid, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Formagrid, Inc., doing business as Airtable, develops Airtable, a mobile and desktop application that enables users to edit, comment, and collaborate in real time. The company's solution helps to build database. It offers applications in various categories, including personal, sales and customers, human resources, event planning, project management, and software development. The company serves startup, venture capital, nonprofit, local business, real estate, and PR and communications companies. Formagrid, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Parcl

Seed Round in 2021
Parcl is a digital real estate protocol built on the blockchain. The company's headquarters are in New York City.

CoinAlpha, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Hummingbot is an open source high-frequency (HFT) software client that allows anyone to run automated, algorithmic trading strategies that were previously available only to Wall Street hedge funds. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Stanford University's StartX Fund, Hummingbot is the leading open source algorithmic trading platform for crypto. The Hummingbot client also powers our liquidity mining platform, which is a data-driven, digital marketplace for crowd-sourced, decentralized market making that is changing the way financial markets are created and traded.

Upshot

Series A in 2021
Upshot is a blockchain-based protocol that incentivizes experts to answer subjective questions honestly and captures the value of truth. Its first product aims to provide an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs by paying experts for honest appraisals unlocking new opportunities for experts and enabling a number of powerful new DeFi primitives.

WillCall

Seed Round in 2013
WillCall curates a list of the best shows happening in your city and makes it easy to buy tickets with just a few taps — no waiting in line or dealing with the box office required. It’s the music discovery and ticketing app for people who want to have fun. A lot of love is put into the shows featured on the WillCall list, so you'll have no excuse to stay home.

Yik Yak

Series B in 2014
Yik Yak is a location-based social network that helps people discover their local community, letting them share news, crack jokes, offer support, ask questions, and interact freely. It's home to the casual, relatable, heartfelt, and silly things that connect people with their community.

Cadre

Series A in 2015
Cadre is an online marketplace that connects investors and operators of real estate. It enables investments and transactions, provides a sophisticated technology product for managing processes, and powers predictive analytics for its investors. Investors are able to sell their interest on the secondary marketplace thereby introducing liquidity into an antiquated industry. They are able to gain transparency, efficiency, and liquidity through the use of its proprietary technology, and are able to make better, more data-driven decisions. Founded by Ryan Williams, and Josh and Jared Kushner, Cadre was launched in 2014.

Managed by Q

Series B in 2016
Managed by Q Inc. operates a workplace management platform, which offers on demand cleaning and maintenance services. The company offers facility services, which includes cleaning, maintenance, IT support, and security services; workplace staffing services; project management services, which includes pre lease planning, vendor management, office build, interior design, office move, and renovation services; and task management services. Managed by Q Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York. As of March 3, 2020, Managed by Q Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Eden Technologies, Inc.

Stem Disintermedia

Private Placement in 2020
Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians to collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings. It develops a platform intended to provide distribution and payments solution for artists and their teams. The platform aggregates cross-platform earnings, create contracts, and honor splits with collaborators, disburse payments and statements to all stakeholders in a project and visualizes performance data for each platform, enabling businesses to bring clarity to the complicated process of revenue management and ensure everyone involved in the creative process gets paid. Milana Rabkin, Tim Luckow, and Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith formed Stem Disintermedia in Los Angeles, California in 2015.

Contactually

Seed Round in 2013
Contactually converts your contacts to relationships, all through email. The system identifies when you email a new lead, shows what you already know about him, and asks a few specific questions to learn more: how did you meet, how important is he, what are the next steps. The system then parses your response and automatically pushes all rich data to your CRM.

Good Dog

Seed Round in 2019
Good Dog, Inc. develops a web based platform for buying and adopting dogs. The company offers Good Dog platform, which provides prospective dogs list and streamlines the process of dog ownership. It also provides a learning center, through its platform, which provides information about raising a dog. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Cozy Finance

Seed Round in 2020
Cozy Finance, Inc. develops a risk management software for decentralized finance space. Its software is used by developers to unlock the value for crypto investors by creating useful ways for them to manage their assets. Cozy Finance, Inc. was formerly known as CozyCo, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Percolate

Seed Round in 2011
Percolate's complete web and mobile marketing software increases productivity, elevates your brand and helps you generate more sales. From governance, planning and content creation to audience acquisition, customer management and analytics, Percolate unites your brand, your data and your stories across every team, location, integrated system and customer interaction.

Nextdoor

Series C in 2013
Nextdoor, Inc. operates a social networking platform for neighborhoods in San Francisco. Its platform enables local conversations among neighbors. It owns and operates Help Map, an interactive map allows residents to mark themselves as available to help vulnerable neighbors during the Covid-19 pandemic. The company was formerly known as Nextdoor.com, Inc. and changed its name to Nextdoor, Inc. in January 2014. Nextdoor, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has an additional location in London, United Kingdom.

Wonderbelly

Seed Round in 2022
Ginger Health Company provides solutions for digestive health and offers product options, education, and guidance for consumers. Ginger Health Company was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Roman Health Ventures Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Roman Health Ventures Inc. operates as a telehealth company that provides personalized treatment online. It offers Roman for adult men who are experiencing erectile dysfunction and prefer to receive treatment from home; Rory for women; Plenity for weight management; and Zero that includes products to quit smoking, such as medication (buproprion), a nicotine replacement gum, and a mobile application. It also provides Ro Pharmacy, an online cash pay pharmacy offering generic medications. Roman Health Ventures Inc. was formerly known as Roman Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Roman Health Ventures Inc. in May 2017. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Primer

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Primer is making transformative home-improvement projects accessible to everyone by reimagining the hardware store for the mobile generation. The company uses augmented reality (AR) tools to help people plan inspiring projects from home and order custom kits with everything they’ll need to get it done. Founded in 2018 by Russ Maschmeyer and Adam Debreczeni, Primer is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Joymode

Seed Round in 2016
Joymode, Inc. offers leisure equipment for periodic and short-term use on rent. It enables users to reserve and rent tents, sleeping pads, stoves, headlamps, etc. The company offers its services through its mobile applications and related services. Joymode, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Facet

Series B in 2020
Facet Wealth, Inc. provides wealth management and financial planning services to small accounts. Its services include retirement planning, retirement income, education planning, income tax planning, estate planning, insurance planning, life planning, asset management, and legacy planning. The company serves professionals, pre-retirement, and retiree clients. Facet Wealth, Inc. was formerly known as Onek Financial, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Parallel Finance

Series A in 2021
Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services.

Shippabo

Seed Round in 2016
Shippabo is an online platform that provides its users with shipping rates and shipment scheduling solutions. The platform offers freight forwarding, government filings, and trucking and drayage services to its users. It features online bookings, online custom bond purchases, real-time notifications, and shipment management. Shippabo was launched by Calvin Lo, Nina Luu, Wes Chien, and Sam Luu and is based in California.

15Five

Seed Round in 2014
15Five develops cloud-based software designed to evaluate employee performance. Its web-based employee engagement and performance software helps create high performing teams by combining OKRs, pulse surveys, peer recognition, and feedback in one simple weekly check-in. Over 1,100 businesses worldwide use 15Five to allow employees to share their triumphs and challenges, stay focused on key objectives, and get regular feedback from managers who support them in reaching their potential. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Hydra Studios

Private Placement in 2020
Hydra Studios provides membership based wellness spaces. The company offers fitness suites, rainfall showers, towel service, locker storage, steam, infrared sauna, vanities, and bookable nap and meditation rooms. Hydra Studios was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Tachyus

Debt Financing in 2013
Tachyus develops a technology platform to optimize energy production for the oil and gas industry. Its platform provides prescriptive and predictive analytics, descriptive analytics, integration, and measurement features. Tachyus offers solutions for production optimization in cyclic steaming, steam-flooding, CO2-flooding, water-flooding, pump optimization, workover prioritization, and shale fracking. It production responses to stimulation, relationships between completion design and initial production, and optimal injection rates through its platform enables users to predict mechanical equipment failure. Tachyus serves through iOS applications. Dakin Sloss, Francisco Leport, and Paul Orland founded Software Revolution in 2013 that became Tachyus in April 2013. It has its headquarters in San Mateo in California.

Amper Technologies

Series A in 2022
Amper Technologies, Inc. develops and operates a clip-on device that helps factory owners and managers to analyze power consumption of their machines, predict downtime, and deploy predictive maintenance. It offers hardware and software to improve productivity and OEE. The company offers a solution from the hardware to the software, including non-invasive sensors, Internet-connected gateway, and web dashboards, as well as online dashboard to configure and see alerts, real-time status, key metrics, and rich reports. Its technologies also provides plant managers in factories to increase machine and labor productivity by having retrofit sensor that monitors across machine types. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

EcoSapiens

Seed Round in 2023
Ecosapiens is a Web3/NFT project enabling consumers to make a positive impact on the climate.

Able Lending

Series A in 2013
Able Lending LLC, doing business as ablelending.com, provides term loans for small businesses in the United States. It offers Able Start loan product that enables funding with the help of friends, family, and fans; Able Growth loan product for the next stage of the growing business; and Able Refi, a loan product for refinancing high-interest loans and credit cards to free up the cash flow. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Sawa Credit

Seed Round in 2022
Sawa is building a technology platform that uses behavioral science and machine learning to create a community support system for borrowers. Founded in 2021, the company is based in Castro Valley, California, United States.

Fly Labs

Convertible Note in 2014
Fly Labs Inc. develops a video editing application for customers in the United States and internationally. Its application enables users to string clips together into one video; trim and arrange clips; add music from their own library to set the tone for how their video feels; add voiceover to narrate their story and tie it all together; find and isolate small perfect moments within their larger clips; and crop their vertical videos. The company’s apps are available on the App Store. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. As of November 6, 2015, Fly Labs Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

Robocorp

Seed Round in 2019
RoboCorp Oy develops and delivers a cloud-based platform for open source robotic process automation. The company is based in Helsinki, Finland with an additional location in San Francisco, California. Robocorp Oy operates as a subsidiary of RoboCorp Technologies, Inc.

Facet

Series A in 2018
Facet Wealth, Inc. provides wealth management and financial planning services to small accounts. Its services include retirement planning, retirement income, education planning, income tax planning, estate planning, insurance planning, life planning, asset management, and legacy planning. The company serves professionals, pre-retirement, and retiree clients. Facet Wealth, Inc. was formerly known as Onek Financial, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Breather

Series B in 2015
Breather is an app and a provider of space-as-a-service, with a growing network of private workspaces built for productivity. It enables businesses to access flexible workspace by the hour, day, or month. Every space is designed to be comfortable, private, and productive, with plug-and-play technology that ensures that can get to work as soon as the arrival. Founded by CEO Julien Smith in 2012, the company has grown to include hundreds of locations in 10 major across the globe including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London.

Magic

Series A in 2015
Magic, Inc. provides on-demand personal assistant services. It offers a phone number that allows users to text for booking travels, scheduling meetings, ordering food products, and more in the United States and internationally. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tiplinks Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Tiplinks Inc., doing business as Fetcher, provides an automated candidate sourcing and recruiting platform for recruiters. It offers Fetcher, an automated sourcing engine, which combines artificial intelligence and human expertise to fill positions at the time and cost of traditional recruiting tools. The company’s technology also helps organizations to find the candidates from a database whose talents, interests, and experience match the needs of the job and the culture of the team. Tiplinks Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Heal

Series A in 2016
Heal brings technology innovation to re-humanize the practice of medicine in a way that is fulfilling for doctors and patients alike. Heal brings a licensed, background-checked pediatrician or family doctor to you, on-demand, on your schedule, for $99 or for an in-network co-pay with select insurance plans. Great doctors are available in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and San Diego from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.

Fixed

Seed Round in 2014
Fixed is a mobile app that fights parking tickets by finding erroneous information in the ticket through their algorithm. The company was founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California.

Mindie

Seed Round in 2014
Mindie is a new way to share life through music video, in seconds. Choose the track of your choice and record video while the music is playing! Any video gets insanely better with music.

Ephemeral Tattoos

Seed Round in 2017
Ephemeral Solutions, Inc. operates tattoo shops. It applies ephemeral inks that have a shorter lifespan. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Athena

Pre Seed Round in 2019
As a mom with a young child over 20 years ago, Simone had a child support collection problem. She learned how to navigate the system and collect her money, making herself her own first customer. After her success, she started helping other moms at her home at her kitchen table, and eventually, she opened a bricks and mortar on a busy street in a store-front and operated it for many years. She has taken her years of experience and packaged it into a tech platform to help women collect the back child support they are entitled to.