SoftBank Capital

SoftBank Capital is the venture capital arm of SoftBank Corp, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Newton Center, Massachusetts, with additional offices in Buffalo and San Carlos, California, as well as New York City. The firm specializes in investments in technology-based services, focusing on socially-driven applications, digital media, online advertising, financial technology, and various other sectors, including mobile applications and cloud computing. SoftBank Capital typically invests between $5 million and $15 million, primarily in early to growth-stage companies in the United States and Indonesia. It favors co-investing and often takes a minority stake in its portfolio companies, securing one or more board seats. While no longer actively investing, SoftBank Capital has a history of supporting entrepreneurs building disruptive businesses and has established connections with leading companies in the Asian technology sector, offering unique insights and strategic guidance to its portfolio.

Jordan Levy

General Partner

Paulo Passoni

Managing Investment Partner

309 past transactions

AI WORLD

Seed Round in 2023
AI WORLD is an artificial intelligence technology service provider, focusing on global projects of artificial intelligence technology innovation and blockchain application.

Trela

Series A in 2022
Trela is the consumer app with the highest NPS in Brazil and the grocer with the highest NPS worldwide. Our mission is to help people eat better. We are curating the highest-quality food and beverage products in Brazil and implementing a just-in-time supply chain that maximizes freshness and minimizes waste of everything we sell. At Trela, you will find a one-stop shop for healthy groceries in São Paulo, all delivered to your doorstep at the most competitive prices. We are fortunate to work with some of the leading technology investors in Latin America and the world, including SoftBank, Kaszek, General Catalyst and Y Combinator.

DNABLOCK

Seed Round in 2022
DNABLOCK is leading the way to personalized entertainment, interaction, and inclusion by removing the barriers of 3D content creation. Our platform and REPLIKANT™ animation engine allows creatives, brands, and individuals the ability to generate bespoke, high-quality, digital beings without prohibitive post-production costs or specialized 3D programming knowledge. Our platform supports the exporting of content onto ANY device, making it simple to create fulfilling interactions with an enormous reach. We operate a scalable, high-end, computer graphics pipeline. This pipeline, combined with advanced machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis, is our recipe for engaging, real-time, interactive, digital beings and the future of digital interface. As a forward-thinking company, we have focused on likeness protection and ownership; adding authentication mechanisms to guarantee control and transparency.

Energy Vault

Post in 2022
Energy Vault SA offers an energy storage technology utilizing fundamental principles of science to deliver a storage solution that's as compassionate to the planet as it is efficient to build and operate. The Energy Vault solution utilizes the same fundamentals of physics and kinetic energy as pumped hydro but replaces the water with custom made cylindrical blocks utilizing an extremely innovative use of low-cost materials. The system is modular and can be designed with a capacity of between 10 and 35MWh and a power output of up to 5MW. The system has been designed for a 30+ year life with no degradation in storage capacity.

Birdie

Seed Round in 2022
Remove the noise from feedback to validate assumptions, discover new opportunities, and gather evidence to support better product decisions with Birdie. We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to transform countless customer feedback into quantifiable evidence to be used as a strategic input for product strategies and decisions.

Satellogic

Post in 2022
Satellogic is the first company to develop a scalable earth observation platform with the ability to remap the entire planet at both high-frequency and high-resolution. The company's low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation, platform, and data science teams work together to deliver high-frequency, high resolution, end-to-end solutions at the right price point.

Qraft Technologies

Series C in 2022
Qraft Technologies they are data scientists and researchers, data engineers, and investment experts, who develop investment solutions powered by AI (artificial intelligence).

Tata Group

Post in 2021
Tata group is an international conglomerate that owns and operates independent companies, with a main focus on steel, hydro-power, hospitality, and airlines industries. The group operates over hundred companies in more than hundred countries across six continents. The group operates in various sectors: agrochemicals and agricultural services; air conditioning and refrigeration; automobile and automotive services; automobiles, auto assemblies and auto components; chemicals; construction equipment; consumer products; consumer products; defense & aerospace; drugs; engineering services; financial services; hotels and hospitality; industrial infrastructure; industrial machinery and equipment; investment services; it and it-enabled services; logistics; material handling equipment; media and entertainment; mining; power; realty and infrastructure; renewable energy; retail chains; miscellaneous services; steel products and services; and telecom products and solutions. Each Tata company and enterprise operates independently under the guidance and supervision of its own board of directors and shareholders. Tata Sons is the principal investment holding company and promoter of Tata companies. The Tata trusts, majority shareholders of Tata Sons, have endowed institutions for science and technology, medical research, social studies and the performing arts. The trusts also provide aid and assistance to non-government organizations working in the areas of education, health care, and livelihoods. Tata companies include Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Global Beverages, Tata Teleservices, Titan, Tata Communications, Indian Hotels, and more. Some of its popular brands include Jaguar, Bolt, Zest, Tata Tea, Taj Hotels, Skinn Perfumes, Nano, Vista, Tata AIA Life Insurance, Vitax, World of Titan, Landmark, Tata Sky, Goldplus, and more. Tata group was founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868.

Starmerx

Series D in 2021
Starmerx mainly deals with cross-border e-commerce, mobile computing and internet data mining. The company is a high-tech enterprise in Shenzhen, is applying for national high-tech enterprises. The company's core technical team has made more than a dozen software copyrights and published dozens of papers in related fields such as data mining and information retrieval. The company has developed a number of projects in computer AI and information processing and has accumulated technology, in which e-commerce category development technology based on massive data mining has taken the lead in the field of international e-commerce.

Praxis Labs

Series A in 2021
Praxis reimagines corporate bias training, integrating research-backed curriculum with cutting-edge VR technology. Praxis Labs advances diversity and inclusion outcomes through perspective-taking VR-based unconscious bias training. It was established in 2019 and is based in Stanford, California.

CRMBonus

Venture Round in 2021
CRM&Bonus is a platform that aims to increase the sales of your stores from 10% to 20% (in up to 100 days) with an effective discount of less than 2%. Our objective is to increase the profitability of companies, diluting their fixed costs through the real increase in sales that we generate. CRM & BÔNUS was established in April, 2018 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Roivant Sciences

Post in 2021
Roivant Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company focused on completing the development of promising late-stage drug candidates. Roivant’s mission is to reduce the time and cost of developing new medicines for patients and to share those savings with the healthcare system. Roivant does this by building Vants - nimble, entrepreneurial biotech and healthcare technology companies with a unique approach to sourcing talent, aligning incentives, and deploying the technology. In addition to its biopharmaceutical subsidiaries, Roivant also builds technology-focused Vants focused on improving the process of developing and commercializing medicines.

SomaLogic

Post in 2021
SomaLogic operates as a protein biomarker discovery and clinical diagnostics company. It offers SOMAmers (Slow-Offrate Modified Aptamers), which are modified nucleic acid-based protein-binding reagents that are specific for their cognate protein; and SOMAscan that provides protein detection and equipment. The company’s SOMAmer/SOMAscan technology enables to discover protein biomarker signatures; drug discovery and development; and clinical diagnostics. Its products have applications in the diagnostics of various diseases in oncology, neurology, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and other diseases and conditions. SomaLogic was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Humane

Series B in 2021
Humane is a platform that creates and sells consumer hardware, software, and services that feel familiar, natural, and humane. The company is dedicated to creating cutting-edge technology that is both human and natural-feeling.

Airspan Networks

Post in 2021
Airspan Networks is a global provider of 4G broadband wireless systems and solutions that deliver high-speed data, voice, and multimedia services. Airspan’s products serve operators and vertical markets such as smart utilities, transportation, and public safety around the world in both licensed and unlicensed frequency bands covering from 700MHz up to 6GHz. Its products have been deployed in over 100 countries by 500 operators, 100 of which use Airspan’s 4G products. Airspan has a unique combination of in-house skills addressing the LTE, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, and VoIP technologies and develops industry-leading products by combining these technologies in innovative ways in order to deliver new and advanced solutions. Airspan offers a comprehensive range of products to meet the connectivity requirements of a wide variety of applications. With a pioneering suite of 4G radio access network (RAN) products, Airspan delivers first-ever solutions to bridge connectivity gaps, provide improved end-user personal broadband experiences, and connect a myriad of vertical market organizations to reliable, robust 4G broadband. Airspan was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

InterVenn

Series C in 2021
InterVenn is a life science company unlocking the value of glycoproteomics—glycosylated proteins which are responsible for driving protein function—for the development of transformational healthcare solutions. The glycoproteome is a source of life-critical information about human biology that has the potential to improve patient outcomes significantly. Still, it has remained inaccessible due to its vast complexity. InterVenn has pioneered a first-of-its-kind AI-powered platform to decode this layer of biology at a clinically meaningful scale for the first time in history. The company’s platform can produce a robust pipeline of powerful clinical applications, ranging from early disease screening to diagnostics and, potentially, therapeutics. Its proprietary technology platform is accessible to pharma partners seeking rich biology insights to propel their research and development efforts. Founded by Nobel Laureate Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, world-class scientist and distinguished professor Dr. Carlito Lebrilla and leading AI/ML expert & serial entrepreneur Aldo Carrascoso, InterVenn will contribute to making the new era of personalized, predictive, and preventative care a reality. For more information about InterVenn, visit www.intervenn.com.

Doma

Post in 2021
Doma enables an instant real estate closing experience. The company uses machine intelligence and its patented technology solution to transform residential real estate, making closings instant and affordable.

GeneDx

Post in 2021
GeneDx is focused on delivering personalized, actionable insights that improve health outcomes. GeneDx sit at the intersection of diagnostics and data science, pairing decades of genomic expertise with an unmatched ability to interpret clinical data at scale.

Berkshire Grey

Post in 2021
Berkshire Grey develops a materials handling system intended to automate omnichannel fulfillment. Its system utilizes artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and novel sensing to deploy intelligent robotic systems that automate tasks never before performed by machines in commercial settings, enabling customers to achieve higher accuracy and throughput speeds than traditional approaches as well as handle the broadest assortment of products, packaging, and parcels with ease.

Oda

Venture Round in 2021
Oda is an online grocery retailer that provides door-to-door delivery services. It offers a huge range of fresh produce groceries to millions of doorsteps. Using the data-driven methodology, with a focus on sustainability all the way along the chain, the company aims to build an efficient retail system in the world. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

seer

Seed Round in 2021
A SaaS-based sales and communication platform for Luxury retailers that enables sales associates to seamlessly and meaningfully connect their customers to relevant inventory, enabling them to more easily reach and exceed their sales goals.

Appier

Venture Round in 2021
Appier is a technology company providing an AI-powered platform to brands and retailers to help increase customer engagement. The company makes it easy for businesses to use artificial intelligence to grow and succeed in a cross-screen era. It also offers a platform that facilitates real-time bidding and programmatic media buying, artificial intelligence, data, and cross-screen targeting solutions. Appier also provides deep learning to help publishers and brands discover new audiences for their products. Appier’s products help retailers retain customers and advertisers understand and capitalize on consumer tendencies, predicting user behavior using its AI platform. The company uses a technology known as automated machine learning that enables clients to better target users without the hassle of hiring specialized AI engineers. Appier serves around 1,000 global brands and agencies from offices in 14 markets across Asia, including Taipei, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Osaka, Sydney, Ho Chi Minh City, Manila, Hong Kong, Mumbai, New Delhi, Jakarta, Seoul, and Bangkok. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

OneWeb

Venture Round in 2021
OneWeb LLC is focused on developing a global communications network through a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites designed to provide high-speed, low-latency internet access worldwide. Founded in 2012 and based in McLean, Virginia, the company aims to deliver connectivity solutions for various sectors, including broadband, government, and cellular backhaul. By utilizing its interconnected satellite network, OneWeb offers mobility solutions for industries such as aviation, maritime, automotive, and rail transport. The company's satellite launches began in February 2019, and by March 2020, it had successfully deployed 74 of the planned 648 satellites, positioning itself as a key player in enhancing global internet access.

Humane

Series A in 2020
Humane is a platform that creates and sells consumer hardware, software, and services that feel familiar, natural, and humane. The company is dedicated to creating cutting-edge technology that is both human and natural-feeling.

Qingju

Venture Round in 2020
Qingju is a company that provides bike-sharing platforms and services. It is a division of the taxi-hailing and car-sharing service provider, Didi Chuxing. The company's e-bike is a smart and accessible solution for long-distance transportation, which embodies Qingju's experience in quality manufacturing, the sharing economy, smart technology, and modern design language. It is designed and equipped with GPS and proprietary smart Drum Brake Lock System, making locking and unlocking automatically controlled by the software and Bluetooth, which solves the biggest problem - disorderly parking.

Meditation.live

Venture Round in 2019
We are a wellness platform backed by some of the best investors in the world. Our mission is to inspire 5 billion people find their true purpose. We do this by featuring meditation and movement classes that help you go inward, reduce mental clutter, improve happiness and ultimately find true purpose for lasting happiness. Our unique platform allows anyone to ask questions to our teachers live, which improves learning while on demand meditations help you with your daily practice.

Fetch Robotics

Series C in 2019
Fetch Robotics is a San Jose, California-based industrial robotics startup that develops and manufactures collaborative, autonomous mobile robot solutions for the warehousing and logistical markets. It takes advantage of its deep robotics expertise to provide reliable and safe collaborative AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robot) solutions for two commercial applications: material handling and data collection. Fetch Robotics is a venture-backed Silicon Valley startup founded in 2014.

TThunder Animation

Series B in 2019
TThunder Animation is a company specializing in animation video content development, production, and operation for preschool children.

Overtime

Series B in 2019
Overtime is a sports network for the next generation of sports fans. It produces original content across YouTube, Snapchat, and IGTV, as well as highly engaging short-form content on Instagram and TikTok. Based in NYC, Overtime is funded by top VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Greycroft Ventures as well as industry leaders like Kevin Durant and former NBA Commissioner David Stern.

EdCast

Series C in 2018
EdCast offers a unified SaaS platform powering end-to-end employee experience journeys, spanning learning, skilling and career mobility. Its award-winning platform is used internationally by organizations ranging from large Global 2000 companies to small businesses and government organizations. With EdCast’s platforms, our customers are able to attract, develop and retain a high-performance and future-ready workforce. EdCast’s offerings include its Talent Experience Platform and MyGuide Digital Adoption Platform. EdCast is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award recipient. EdCast's enterprise customers include Dell, Diageo, Danone, Genpact, Spotify, Standard Chartered Bank, ANZ Bank, CHRISTUS Health and NASSCOM, among many others.

Payactiv

Series B in 2018
Payactiv liberates earned wages from pay-cycle lag time, by providing timely access to money, revolutionizing how people earn, access, and use wages. Thriving comes after surviving. Financial wellness begins after all livelihood needs are met—their livelihood app does just that for the modern workforce.

YourMechanic

Series B in 2018
YourMechanic is an online marketplace that enables vehicle owners to find local mechanics for home or office car repair services. Its aim is to make car repair and maintenance affordable and convenient.

hugmo

Corporate Round in 2018
Hugmo provides childcare, ICT business development, construction, and consulting services. The company offers attendance management, child management, staff management, attendance QR stamping, and billing management services.

HoloLab

Venture Round in 2018
HoloLab will continue to broadly propose know-how to build new computing styles, expressions, and experiences by connecting the real and the virtual. Using Microsoft HoloLens, iPad, and other devices, the company plans and develops customer-specific AR/MR applications and systems.

Reonomy

Series C in 2018
Reonomy leverages big data, partnerships, and machine learning to connect the fragmented world of commercial real estate. Reonomy products empower individuals, teams, and companies to unlock insights and discover new opportunities by providing unparalleled access to property intelligence.

Mobile Posse

Venture Round in 2018
Mobile Posse, Inc. provides mobile content discovery solutions that help wireless carriers and device manufacturers capitalize on the mobile advertising economy. It offers First Feed, a mobile content discovery platform on handsets that allows carriers’ customers to opt in to receive engaging daily content; a CRM solution that enables direct customer outreach to resolve issues; and a web portal, which provides engaging default home pages that turn cost centers into profit centers. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Arlington, Virginia with an additional office in New York, New York. As of February 28, 2020, Mobile Posse, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Digital Turbine Media, Inc.

Neighborhood Fuel

Series A in 2018
Neighborhood Fuel is an on-demand fuel service that brings the gas station to you via its app available on google play and itunes

ACV

Series C in 2018
ACV provides a pricing application (app) for franchise dealers. It offers ACV, a mobile auction platform that enables wholesale dealers to sell trade-ins by creating app-based auctions.

PayPay

Venture Round in 2017
PayPay is an online payment application. This benefit is not applicable when paying with PayPay online payment service. For PayPay, per person, the granting limit for one payment is equivalent to 15,000 yen, and the total granting limit for one month is equivalent to 30,000 yen.

Altaeros Energies

Venture Round in 2017
Altaeros Energies develops airborne wind turbines to produce abundant, low-cost, renewable energy. The company manufactures buoyant airborne turbines, a renewable energy solution that integrates proven aerospace and wind turbine technology; and high altitude winds, untapped renewable energy resources. It offers its products to customers in various sectors that include rural communities, island and arctic communities, mining, oil and gas, agriculture, entertainment, emergency response, disaster relief, military sites, and offshore power. Altaeros Energies has received funding for wind turbine technology development from a number of sources, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Science Foundation, the California Energy Commission, the Maine Technology Institute, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Cleantech Innovations New England, and the Alaska Energy Authority. In addition, Altaeros Energies received the 2011 ConocoPhillips Energy Prize. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Social Native

Seed Round in 2017
Social Native is an online platform that enables its users to create customized branded content. The platform enables its users to connect with relevant creators based on interests and brand affinity. It offers images and videos on demand, personalized content, age-targeting, testimonials, product placements, and brand affinity.

ACV

Series B in 2017
ACV provides a pricing application (app) for franchise dealers. It offers ACV, a mobile auction platform that enables wholesale dealers to sell trade-ins by creating app-based auctions.

PayPay

Venture Round in 2017
PayPay is an online payment application. This benefit is not applicable when paying with PayPay online payment service. For PayPay, per person, the granting limit for one payment is equivalent to 15,000 yen, and the total granting limit for one month is equivalent to 30,000 yen.

ACV

Series A in 2016
ACV provides a pricing application (app) for franchise dealers. It offers ACV, a mobile auction platform that enables wholesale dealers to sell trade-ins by creating app-based auctions.

Interactions

Venture Round in 2016
Interactions develops and markets award-winning natural language understanding technology used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Built on its patented Adaptive-Understanding™ technology that seamlessly integrates both human and machine intelligence, Interactions provides highly conversational virtual assistant solutions. Companies such as Hyatt, Best Western, Humana, TXU Energy, Asurion and AllConnect deploy Interactions’ solutions, The company’s sales, service and support solutions are delivered across any device with type, touch or talk capabilities, and have handled more than one billion transactions to date. Rooted in natural speech recognition and built to adapt to human conversation, Interactions’ solutions have delivered cost-savings and increased efficiencies in sales and support for some of the largest companies in the world. Interactions Corporation, founded in 2004, is headquartered in Franklin, Massachusetts and has additional offices located in Bedminster, New Jersey, New York, New York, Indianapolis, Indiana and Austin, Texas.

Rize

Seed Round in 2016
Rize is an 3D printing company manufacturing full-color multi-material office-friendly industrial 3D printers. It enables sustainable and inclusive innovation to achieve additive at scale. The company's 3D printers, the world’s first hybrid 3D printers, are a breakthrough combining two discrete technologies, material extrusion and material jetting. This enables a one-touch experience to produce parts that mimic injection-molded parts and the capability to digitally connect to Industry 4.0 technologies, at the lowest total cost of ownership.

EdCast

Series B in 2016
EdCast offers a unified SaaS platform powering end-to-end employee experience journeys, spanning learning, skilling and career mobility. Its award-winning platform is used internationally by organizations ranging from large Global 2000 companies to small businesses and government organizations. With EdCast’s platforms, our customers are able to attract, develop and retain a high-performance and future-ready workforce. EdCast’s offerings include its Talent Experience Platform and MyGuide Digital Adoption Platform. EdCast is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award recipient. EdCast's enterprise customers include Dell, Diageo, Danone, Genpact, Spotify, Standard Chartered Bank, ANZ Bank, CHRISTUS Health and NASSCOM, among many others.

x.ai

Series B in 2016
x.ai is a productivity tool powered by artificial intelligence that lets you schedule meetings effortlessly. With x.ai, you can automate the most tedious parts of scheduling — things like finding compatible times to meet with large groups, sending follow-ups and reminders, as well as managing cancellations and reschedule requests. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

PayPay

Venture Round in 2016
PayPay is an online payment application. This benefit is not applicable when paying with PayPay online payment service. For PayPay, per person, the granting limit for one payment is equivalent to 15,000 yen, and the total granting limit for one month is equivalent to 30,000 yen.

YourMechanic

Series B in 2016
YourMechanic is an online marketplace that enables vehicle owners to find local mechanics for home or office car repair services. Its aim is to make car repair and maintenance affordable and convenient.

Payactiv

Series A in 2016
Payactiv liberates earned wages from pay-cycle lag time, by providing timely access to money, revolutionizing how people earn, access, and use wages. Thriving comes after surviving. Financial wellness begins after all livelihood needs are met—their livelihood app does just that for the modern workforce.

YourMechanic

Series A in 2015
YourMechanic is an online marketplace that enables vehicle owners to find local mechanics for home or office car repair services. Its aim is to make car repair and maintenance affordable and convenient.

The Dodo

Series B in 2015
The Dodo is a digital media company devoted to animals. Part news, part entertainment, part advocacy, The Dodo aims to be the definitive online community for people who love animals.

Curacity

Seed Round in 2015
Curacity is a data analytics company focused on the travel sector. It has built content and data-driven marketplace serving the travel industry. Using proprietary technology, its products help hotels reach and monetize travelers at the critical point of inspiration while enabling publishers to earn OTA-like commissions for hotel bookings catalyzed by their content within a 12-month window. Curacity was founded by Mike Keriakos and Nick Slavin in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

SoapBox

Seed Round in 2015
SoapBox provides software solutions that help organizations adapt to the needs of a changing workforce by creating a real time feedback loop between employees and leaders. Employees can easily share their ideas on how to improve the organization, while leaders ensure that ideas are aligned to business priorities. The entire feedback loop is a transparent process - which improves engagement, performance, and culture.

Soapbox

Seed Round in 2015
Soapbox was conceived as an idea in early 2012, by taking Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London, as an inspiration. Soon after development began later that year, Soapbox acquired its first investor. Soapbox is an early stage startup in beta.

Glamsquad

Series B in 2015
Glamsquad is a next-generation, omni-channel beauty brand offering services as well as hair styling and makeup products. It delivers hair, makeup and nail services, in NYC, LA, Miami, DC, Boston and San Francisco/Bay Area. Glamsquad’s mission is to connect like-minded beauty enthusiasts through personalized, in-home beauty experiences between clients and beauty professionals, and to create a new retail channel leveraging these connections. Their talented and trusted beauty professionals are hand-selected and rigorously vetted to guarantee consistent, high-quality results. Using our intelligent, data-driven technology, they expertly match their professionals and clients to ensure an elevated and customized experience with every appointment. The recent introduction of Glamsquad’s eight high-powered hair products and collection of four makeup heroes were created after hearing from clients the need for a selection of intuitive and easy-to-use products. While all Glamsquad Pros carry the products for use during appointments, they are sold through the app or online at shop.glamsquad.com. Glamsquad services are also easily booked through the Glamsquad app or website. Simply select a service, choose a date and time, provide your location and enjoy the convenience, confidence and quality of Glamsquad hair, makeup and/or nail services. For more information about Glamsquad, please visit www.glamsquad.com.

FlightCar

Series B in 2015
Launched in early 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, FlightCar connects visitors who need cars at the airport with locals looking to park them. By making it convenient and enjoyable for anyone to experience traveling in an original way at a great value, FlightCar saves travelers money, creates a more interesting experience, and offers a practical and novel new option for a collaborative community of travelers.

Yieldify

Series A in 2015
Yieldify creates smart and simple marketing technology products that predict customer behaviour to optimize customer experience with brand revenue. Trusted by over 500 brands on more than 1,000 websites globally, Yieldify helps some of the world’s innovative companies drive incremental revenue, including Marks and Spencer, French Connection, Steiner Sports, Omni Hotels and Anthropologie. 3 years ago Yieldify only existed in the minds of its two founders. Fast forward to today and the company holds a position as one of the fastest growing tech startups in UK history with 5 offices spanning 3 continents, over 170 employees, 1000+ customers and 7 digit funding (from Google Ventures and Softbank). Plus a few awards thrown in for good measure.

NatureBox

Series C in 2015
NatureBox is building a personalized food shopping experience online that caters to the consumer’s taste and dietary preferences. It is initially focusing on the $64B snack food category. By creating its own line of products, NatureBox intends to build a multi-channel and multi-category brand in the food industry. NatureBox continues to grow its customer base 50-100% per month of an already large base. NatureBox serves customers in all 50 states. The company has partnered with WhyHunger to help provide nutritious food to the millions of Americans who go hungry. Through WhyHunger, the company works directly with community organizations, emergency food providers, and summer meal programs for low-income children. Previously, NatureBox donated over 150,000 meals to Feeding America. NatureBox has over 500,000 fans on Facebook and receives over 450,000 visits per month.

Sherpaa

Venture Round in 2015
Sherpaa was co-founded by Dr. Jay Parkinson MD, MPH, trained in pediatrics and preventive medicine at St. Vincent’s and Johns Hopkins. He’s given talks for TED and The Clinton Global Initiative. He’s been referred to as “The Doctor of the Future”. Cheryl Swirnow, Sherpaa’s co-founder, graduated from Cornell’s Hotel School with a concentration in HR. With fifteen years' experience in Human Resources, she has worked for the likes of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Quintessentially, Nike, The Barbarian Group and Rent the Runway.

Swirl Networks

Series C in 2015
Swirl is an in-store mobile marketing platform provider that is helping retailers leverage the power of mobile to attract and influence consumers while they shop in retail stores. The company's indoor location-based marketing platform allows retailers to deliver highly targeted messages, content and offers to consumer smartphones while they shop in specific areas of the store. The platform combines patent-pending indoor location beacons with cloud-based marketing campaign management services and a software development kit that allows retailers to add an in-store mobile experience to any existing mobile app.

RebelMouse

Series A in 2015
RebelMouse is the first digital publishing platform that is fully wired for social. Its solution enables brands, media companies and individuals to create vibrant content experiences that build communities and continually reach and grow audiences across the social web. Unlike conventional approaches that focus on managing content workflows within specific channels, RebelMouse liberates content across sites, social, apps and ads, and amplifies engagement with intelligent recommendations, social calls to action, real-time trending alerts and more. Founded in 2012 by former Huffington Post CTO Andrea Breanna, RebelMouse's modern approach to traffic helped create huge online hits like Axios and The Dodo, while also relaunching existing publishers like PAPER Magazine and helping them "Break the Internet." RebelMouse also helps brands who want to act more like a media company, including helping United Airlines Hub become the most popular airline blog. For more information, visit rebelmouse.com and follow RebelMouse on Twitter at @rebelmouse.

FlashNotes

Series B in 2015
Flashnotes provides college students with immediate access to online tutors and student created, course-specific study materials they need to achieve academic success. The marketplace allows college students to buy and sell course-specific notes, study guides, flashcards, and other items to help students study and/or earn money throughout their college years. The Flashnotes Do Better Guarantee ensures a student’s grade will improve or they will receive a full refund. At the same time, Luvo empowers sellers to set their own prices to earning the compensation their expertise and experience should command.

WorkMarket

Series C in 2015
WorkMarket provides a marketplace for managing contractors and freelancers. WorkMarket helps companies to unlock new levels of productivity, engagement, and growth. It was founded in 2010 with a simple yet ambitious vision: to power the future of work.

Taykey

Series D in 2015
Taykey empowers Fortune 500 brands to act on what’s trending, delivering real-time advertising solutions that drive relevance and results. Taykey mines data from thousands of online sources, discovers what is trending for specific audiences and automates the media buying process. Ultimately, Taykey’s real-time advertising solution helps brands like American Express, BestBuy, General Electric, Paramount and Volkswagen transform unique insights into audiences, trending conversations and consumer sentiment. For more information, visit: www.taykey.com.

Dering Hall

Series A in 2015
Dering Hall is an online marketplace for the finest interior designers, architects, artisans, and design galleries to showcase their work and sell new, high-end home furnishings and accessories. At Dering Hall we are passionate about design and broadening the audience for the best the industry has to offer. Our ongoing mission is to assemble a community of the world’s leading creators in one place and to connect them with other designers and savvy, sophisticated consumers. We provide our roster of top talent with permanent storefronts, where they present a curated assortment of products to highly engaged shoppers. These customers, in turn, gain access to unique pieces previously available only to select designer clients. It’s an entirely new approach to furnishing a home—and one that makes hunting for that perfect bespoke sideboard a dynamic and enjoyable experience. Buyers can effortlessly browse Dering Hall’s storefronts, search product listings, or keep up to date on favorite designers with our innovative "Follow" function. We also offer special Featured Sales as well as a range of compelling and inspiring design content. Welcome to Dering Hall, from the best designers in the world!

Reonomy

Series B in 2015
Reonomy leverages big data, partnerships, and machine learning to connect the fragmented world of commercial real estate. Reonomy products empower individuals, teams, and companies to unlock insights and discover new opportunities by providing unparalleled access to property intelligence.

x.ai

Series A in 2015
x.ai is a productivity tool powered by artificial intelligence that lets you schedule meetings effortlessly. With x.ai, you can automate the most tedious parts of scheduling — things like finding compatible times to meet with large groups, sending follow-ups and reminders, as well as managing cancellations and reschedule requests. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

NowThis

Series C in 2014
NowThis News is a digital video news outlet that provides original news content for mobile devices and social platforms. Its content is geared towards 18 to 34 year olds who have adopted mobile devices and social platforms as a portal for finding and sharing news and commentary. NowThis News addresses four key trends in digital consumption: social, video, digital, and mobile. NowThis News publishes content to iOS and Android applications, NowThisNews.com, and distributes content through social media channels including Facebook and Twitter, and through distribution partnerships with Buzzfeed, MSN, Forbes and Mashable. The company was founded by Huffington Post co-founder and former chairman Kenneth Lerer, former Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau, and Bedrocket founder Brian Bedol. Co-Founder Hippeau said, “The idea came as Ken and I were tossing around thoughts in mobile news. It was evident that there was no video news, breaking news, that was created in video format just for mobile devices”. NowThis News has raised $5 million from backers Lerer Ventures, Bedrocket Media Ventures, and Oak Ventures.

Altaeros Energies

Venture Round in 2014
Altaeros Energies develops airborne wind turbines to produce abundant, low-cost, renewable energy. The company manufactures buoyant airborne turbines, a renewable energy solution that integrates proven aerospace and wind turbine technology; and high altitude winds, untapped renewable energy resources. It offers its products to customers in various sectors that include rural communities, island and arctic communities, mining, oil and gas, agriculture, entertainment, emergency response, disaster relief, military sites, and offshore power. Altaeros Energies has received funding for wind turbine technology development from a number of sources, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Science Foundation, the California Energy Commission, the Maine Technology Institute, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Cleantech Innovations New England, and the Alaska Energy Authority. In addition, Altaeros Energies received the 2011 ConocoPhillips Energy Prize. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Grab

Series D in 2014
Grab operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for driver-partners and customers in South East Asia. It offers services like GrabTaxi, GrabCar, GrabHitch, GrabShare, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus, GrabFamily, JustGrab, GrabNow, and GrabRental. Grab offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Lng founded it in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore. It has additional offices in Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta, and Vietnam.

InMobi

Venture Round in 2014
InMobi provides mobile advertising services in Asia and Africa. It develops an advertisement serving algorithm that helps in optimizing the ranking of the advertisements served on mobile phones. InMobi also provides campaign management services, such as strategy, designing, executing, managing, and optimizing campaigns, and advertisement creation, format, and targeting services for advertisers. Moreover, it offers monetization strategies to monetize site traffic by using a combination of performance and branding advertisements, and an advertisement serving algorithm to rank the advertisements available based on user targeting and past performance for publishers. Further, InMobi provides advertisers and publishers with access to near real-time reports to monitor the performance of advertisement campaigns and the status of site monetization. Furthermore, it offers InMobi Ad Tracker, a mobile campaign conversion tracking solution; and Lifetime Value Platform, a platform that identifies in-application user groups and provides behavior insight to publishers or application developers. InMobi has a strategic partnership with TalkingData. Naveen Tewari, Mohit Saxena, Amit Gupta, and Abhay Singhal founded mKhoj Solutions Private Limited in 2006 that became InMobi Technologies in August 2009, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India and additional offices in New Delhi and Mumbai in India.

BigCommerce

Series D in 2014
BigCommerce Pty. Ltd. offers a comprehensive e-commerce platform designed to support retailers in launching, promoting, and managing online stores. The platform includes features for storefront design, product configuration, order processing, inventory management, and shipping, all accessible through a central control panel. BigCommerce also provides tools for social media marketing, email marketing, promotions, search engine optimization, and e-commerce analytics, catering to a diverse clientele ranging from startups to established brands. The company serves over 60,000 businesses globally, including more than 2,000 mid-market firms and several Fortune 1000 companies. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Ultimo, Australia, with additional offices in Sydney, Austin, and San Francisco, BigCommerce operates as a subsidiary of Bigcommerce Inc. Its mission is to facilitate online sales growth for merchants at every stage of their business journey.

Housing.com

Venture Round in 2014
Housing.com is an Indian online real estate listing portal that simplifies finding, renting, and selling homes in India. It is capable of providing 3D models for every single new project and in delivering 360 degree views for every piece of land listed with Housing.com. Housing.com was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Mumbai.

Lover.ly

Series A in 2014
Lover.y is the wedding inspiration and content site helping savvy couples plan their weddings online. From thousands of helpful wedding planning articles to their weekly free wedding planning newsletter, couples turn to Loverly as their trusted source for planning their dream wedding.

Ola

Series D in 2014
Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporate travel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India.

Glamsquad

Series A in 2014
Glamsquad is a next-generation, omni-channel beauty brand offering services as well as hair styling and makeup products. It delivers hair, makeup and nail services, in NYC, LA, Miami, DC, Boston and San Francisco/Bay Area. Glamsquad’s mission is to connect like-minded beauty enthusiasts through personalized, in-home beauty experiences between clients and beauty professionals, and to create a new retail channel leveraging these connections. Their talented and trusted beauty professionals are hand-selected and rigorously vetted to guarantee consistent, high-quality results. Using our intelligent, data-driven technology, they expertly match their professionals and clients to ensure an elevated and customized experience with every appointment. The recent introduction of Glamsquad’s eight high-powered hair products and collection of four makeup heroes were created after hearing from clients the need for a selection of intuitive and easy-to-use products. While all Glamsquad Pros carry the products for use during appointments, they are sold through the app or online at shop.glamsquad.com. Glamsquad services are also easily booked through the Glamsquad app or website. Simply select a service, choose a date and time, provide your location and enjoy the convenience, confidence and quality of Glamsquad hair, makeup and/or nail services. For more information about Glamsquad, please visit www.glamsquad.com.

Legendary Entertainment

Private Equity Round in 2014
Legendary Entertainment is a media company that creates and distributes content for television and digital platforms around the world. Through a strategic partnership with other production studios, the company creates, develops, co-produces, co-finances, and distributes motion pictures dedicated to owning, producing, and delivering content to mainstream audiences with a targeted focus on the powerful fandom demographic. It owns, produces, and distributes box-office movies and films, television shows, and comic story lines.

EdCast

Series A in 2014
EdCast offers a unified SaaS platform powering end-to-end employee experience journeys, spanning learning, skilling and career mobility. Its award-winning platform is used internationally by organizations ranging from large Global 2000 companies to small businesses and government organizations. With EdCast’s platforms, our customers are able to attract, develop and retain a high-performance and future-ready workforce. EdCast’s offerings include its Talent Experience Platform and MyGuide Digital Adoption Platform. EdCast is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award recipient. EdCast's enterprise customers include Dell, Diageo, Danone, Genpact, Spotify, Standard Chartered Bank, ANZ Bank, CHRISTUS Health and NASSCOM, among many others.

FlightCar

Series A in 2014
Launched in early 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, FlightCar connects visitors who need cars at the airport with locals looking to park them. By making it convenient and enjoyable for anyone to experience traveling in an original way at a great value, FlightCar saves travelers money, creates a more interesting experience, and offers a practical and novel new option for a collaborative community of travelers.

The Dodo

Series A in 2014
The Dodo is a digital media company devoted to animals. Part news, part entertainment, part advocacy, The Dodo aims to be the definitive online community for people who love animals.

GroundTruth

Series D in 2014
GroundTruth is a global location technology company that drives results with real data. They believe in the power of place. Build your brand, increase sales and more by building off what real people are doing in the real world, mapped using their proprietary Blueprints technology. GroundTruth delivers superior consumer insights by seeing more people and places than anyone else, with an unrivaled first-party database of 95 million active monthly users and 17 million active daily users, across 100 million places and points of interest. GroundTruth currently serves 21 countries globally.

MobileDay

Series A in 2014
MobileDay provides one-touch access to any conference call or online meeting from iOS or Android devices. By seamlessly syncing with the device's native calendar, the app provides a convenient 'My Day' schedule view of all upcoming calls and meetings, each accompanied by an easy one-touch join button that does all the dialing. In addition to the individual-focused consumer app, the company released 'MobileDay Business' in April 2015, for companies and organizations looking to enable full teams with the one-tap dialing functionality of MobileDay.

Wildcard

Series A in 2014
Wildcard is a seamless replacement for the Internet on your phone. Wildcard's vast library of cards delivers the mobile web faster than any browser, and in a fraction of the time it takes to download native apps.

RedMart

Series B in 2014
RedMart is an online supermarket in Singapore that delivers groceries and home essentials to your door. RedMart is not a traditional retailer. They are a platform that enables manufacturers to bypass retailers and engage shoppers directly. Their platform provides manufacturers with pioneering marketing capabilities and data analytics.

Chloe + Isabel

Series C in 2014
Chloe + Isabel is an innovative social commerce jewelry company that empowers and connects women through their own social selling experience. Launched in 2011, Chloe + Isabel is disrupting the traditional direct sales model to provide an entrepreneurial opportunity. Chloe + Isabel has developed a platform that powers a seller's personal e-commerce experience. Users who sign up as Merchandisers receive a customized digital workplace to create their boutique shopping experience, and earn commission from every sale. Merchandisers may participate in streaming video training, are able to curate personal collections of Chloe + Isabel jewelry on their online boutiques, and receive real-time trends, insights and recommendations to help support their businesses. Chloe + Isabel founder and CEO Chantel Waterbury has over 14 years of expert experience developing jewelry for major retailers in the United States, including Target Corp, Macy's, Gap Inc, LVMH and Kenneth Cole. Waterbury, who supported herself through college by direct-selling, says she made the jump from working for multi-billion dollar retailers to launching a startup so she could empower the next generation of women.

CrowdTwist

Series B in 2014
CrowdTwist is an industry-leading provider of comprehensive multichannel loyalty and analytics solutions that drive engagement and incremental spend, leading to better customer data, stronger insight, and more personalized experiences. We are revolutionizing loyalty, helping top brands including Pepsi, Nestlé Purina, L'Oreal, and Zumiez develop a deeper understanding of customers. For more information visit: www.crowdtwist.com.

IgnitionOne

Series B in 2014
IgnitionOne is a marketing technology and services that offers cloud-based customer intelligence solutions to enterprise marketers. It provides a customer intelligence platform that empowers marketers to find and engage their most valuable customers across channels to maximize overall results. Its solution also provides a single platform to leverage customer data from a range of systems to power effective omnichannel targeting and personalization. IgnitionOne was founded in 2004 and is based in New York, United States.

Kony

Series E in 2014
Kony is a mobile application development platform provider enabling companies to deliver innovative mobile solutions. Kony helps organizations of all sizes drive business ingenuity transforming ideas into innovative and secure omnichannel applications. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.

x.ai

Seed Round in 2014
x.ai is a productivity tool powered by artificial intelligence that lets you schedule meetings effortlessly. With x.ai, you can automate the most tedious parts of scheduling — things like finding compatible times to meet with large groups, sending follow-ups and reminders, as well as managing cancellations and reschedule requests. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Shareablee

Series A in 2014
Launched in 2013, Shareablee Inc (http://www.shareablee.com) is the leading authority on audience intelligence, competitive benchmarking and actionable insights for social media. The official social media analytics partner of comScore, Shareablee measures a census of global properties and collects brand audience and engagement data across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Tumblr, LinkedIn, YouTube and Pinterest.

Fieldlens

Series A in 2014
Fieldlens offers a tool that improves communication and collaboration for construction project teams. It knows what each member of the team needs to do now and reminds them, and it gives decision-makers a bird’s-eye view of every project without stepping on-site, enabling them to spot trends and see who the best performers are.

Kabbage

Series D in 2014
Kabbage is a financial technology and data company pioneering a new, automated way for small businesses to access working capital. The company simplifies the manual application process to one that is 100% online and automated. Businesses can use their business data to submit an application online and receive an answer in minutes instead of waiting weeks and filling out numerous forms like traditional lending methods. Businesses can access ongoing lines of credit up to $250,000. Kabbage leverages business data generated such as revenue, accounting data, business transactions, shipping data, social media and other sources to understand a business’s overall health and calculate credit lines throughout the customer lifecycle. The company began serving online merchants in 2011 and extended its automated lending platform to all small businesses – online and brick-and-mortar – in February 2014. In November 2013, Kabbage expanded its business to mobile with an iOS and Android app that enables users to apply or access their funds from their smartphones. Kabbage used to provide a consumer lending product, Karrot, but it is no longer available. Kabbage expanded the application of its platform in March 2015 by licensing the data and technology platform to power lending for other organizations. The company was named one of Forbes magazine’s Most Promising Companies list for the second year in a row. Kabbage further extended its lending reach in May 2015 with the announcement of the new Kabbage Card, which gives businesses the ability to pay for items at the point of sale with a purchasing card tied to their Kabbage account. Kabbage also collaborated with MasterCard in May 2015 to make Kabbage’s data and technology platform available through MasterCard’s network of acquirers. In August 2015, Kabbage was named the 36th fastest-growing private company in America on the Inc. 500 list. In October 2015, Kabbage completed a Series E funding round of $135 million led by Reverence Capital Partners. Holland’s ING, Spain’s Santander (via InnoVentures, Santander's venture capital arm); and Canada’s Scotiabank also participated in the round. Kabbage also announced a strategic partnership with ING to deliver instant capital to small businesses throughout Spain. In June 2016, Kabbage was named to CNBC's annual Disruptor 50 list of the most forward-thinking and ambitious companies that are revolutionizing industries and markets worldwide. Two months later, Kabbage was named to the Inc. 500 list of the country's fastest-growing private companies for the second year in a row In August 2016, Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) upgraded and affirmed ratings on Class A2-2 Certificates issued by Kabbage Funding 2014-1 Resecurization Trust. The certificates were upgraded from BBB+(sf) to A-(sf) based on structural improvements to the transaction’s concentration requirements and the existence of more historical data relating to Kabbage’s collateral. KBRA also affirmed the ratings on the Class B2A Certificates of BB-(sf), Class B2B Certificates of BB-(sf) and Class B2C Certificates of B+(sf), which were initially rated in November 2015. In 2017, the company raised $250 million from Softbank Group Corp., raising its total equity funding to $500 million, making Kabbage one of the most well-funded companies with a female co-founder at the helm. It also secured the largest asset-backed securitizations of small business loans in the online lending industry of $525 million. In November, it diversified its debt-funding sources further with a $200 million revolving credit facility with Credit Suisse, earning investment-grade ratings of ‘A’ and ‘BBB’ by DBRS. It ranked on the Inc. 500 list as one of the country’s fasting-growing private companies for a third consecutive year, on Deloitte’s Fast 500 list, among CB Insights Fintech 250, in the top 10 of KPMG’s Fiintech 100, and its co-founder, Kathryn Petralia, was named one of Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World.

NatureBox

Series B in 2014
NatureBox is building a personalized food shopping experience online that caters to the consumer’s taste and dietary preferences. It is initially focusing on the $64B snack food category. By creating its own line of products, NatureBox intends to build a multi-channel and multi-category brand in the food industry. NatureBox continues to grow its customer base 50-100% per month of an already large base. NatureBox serves customers in all 50 states. The company has partnered with WhyHunger to help provide nutritious food to the millions of Americans who go hungry. Through WhyHunger, the company works directly with community organizations, emergency food providers, and summer meal programs for low-income children. Previously, NatureBox donated over 150,000 meals to Feeding America. NatureBox has over 500,000 fans on Facebook and receives over 450,000 visits per month.

Updater

Series A in 2014
Updater is a company that develops technology to help consumers relocate more easily. They help to relocate consumers, organize and complete their moving-related logistics, and partner with real estate agents and brokers, property managers, and moving companies. The company was founded in 2010 by David Greenberg and is headquartered in New York.

Reonomy

Series A in 2014
Reonomy leverages big data, partnerships, and machine learning to connect the fragmented world of commercial real estate. Reonomy products empower individuals, teams, and companies to unlock insights and discover new opportunities by providing unparalleled access to property intelligence.

FlashNotes

Series A in 2014
Flashnotes provides college students with immediate access to online tutors and student created, course-specific study materials they need to achieve academic success. The marketplace allows college students to buy and sell course-specific notes, study guides, flashcards, and other items to help students study and/or earn money throughout their college years. The Flashnotes Do Better Guarantee ensures a student’s grade will improve or they will receive a full refund. At the same time, Luvo empowers sellers to set their own prices to earning the compensation their expertise and experience should command.

The Dodo

Seed Round in 2014
The Dodo is a digital media company devoted to animals. Part news, part entertainment, part advocacy, The Dodo aims to be the definitive online community for people who love animals.
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