Soma Capital, established in 2015, is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. It specializes in seed investments, primarily in software-focused startups across various sectors such as B2B SaaS, AI, fintech, and health tech. With a global perspective, Soma Capital has backed numerous successful companies, including unicorns like Cruise, Rappi, and Ironclad, with a combined valuation exceeding $60 billion.
Trieve, established in 2023, specializes in AI-driven search and recommendation solutions. It empowers businesses across various sectors, such as e-commerce, ERP, and social media, by offering a platform that combines search language models, vector search, and ranking tools. This enables companies to enhance their search capabilities, delivering more relevant results and improving user experience.
Inventive AI
Seed Round in 2024
Inventive AI is focused on enhancing the efficiency of sales response workflows through its AI-powered platform, which automates the management of requests for proposals (RFPs) and questionnaires. By leveraging large language models, the platform generates accurate and timely responses to various sales information requests, including security reviews and due diligence questionnaires. This automation enables users to bid on deals more effectively and accelerates their time to revenue, achieving over 70% efficiency in the process.
Paces
Series A in 2024
Paces is developing a data platform aimed at enhancing the profitability and feasibility of green infrastructure projects. By gathering and analyzing data from over 3,500 U.S. counties, Paces offers actionable insights that include environmental, permitting, zoning, interconnection information, and competition risks. The platform also provides modeled signals such as climate risks, profitability forecasts, and parcel rankings, allowing stakeholders to make informed decisions about specific land parcels and green infrastructure assets. This comprehensive approach helps to de-risk the development and operation of renewable projects, ultimately facilitating faster project development and improved financial returns for developers and investors.
Enzo Health
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Enzo Health is a technology company that focuses on enhancing post-acute healthcare documentation. It has developed a reporting tool that analyzes both structured and unstructured text from electronic medical records. By automating compliance and administrative tasks, Enzo Health aims to help healthcare organizations improve their documentation practices, ensuring compliance while optimizing operational and financial efficiency. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to provide insights into the strengths and weaknesses of healthcare documents, thereby enabling firms to make informed decisions and enhance overall performance.
Bench IQ
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Bench IQ is a technology company that provides an AI-powered assistant for elite law firms and litigators. Its platform offers unparalleled insights into the decision-making patterns of judges, enabling attorneys to anticipate potential case outcomes and develop more effective strategies. By analyzing judges' rulings, the platform helps lawyers identify the most persuasive arguments and gain a strategic advantage in their cases.
VectorShift
Seed Round in 2024
VectorShift specializes in creating and implementing custom generative AI workflows. It develops an AI automation platform that allows businesses to efficiently design and deploy AI solutions tailored to their specific needs. These solutions can range from automating responses to requests for proposals to generating customer support chatbots, helping businesses enhance productivity and customer service.
Hegel AI
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Hegel AI specializes in developing open-source tools for large language models. Their platform, Prom, facilitates experimentation with prompts, fine-tuned models, and retrieval-augmented generation systems, streamlining the development lifecycle for next-generation AI applications. This enables software engineers, founders, and researchers to iterate quickly and test prompts and large language models efficiently.
Coframe
Seed Round in 2023
Coframe is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven A/B testing and personalization for websites and applications. Its platform continuously analyzes user interactions to optimize content, improving user experience, engagement, and conversion rates. Coframe's solution involves training multimodal models to understand user behavior and business goals, enabling user interfaces to autonomously enhance themselves over time.
Arkifi
Seed Round in 2023
Arkifi is an AI company specializing in creating financial analyst tools. Its core product is an AI framework that generates accurate, reliable results, minimizing the risk of factual errors often associated with generative AI. This allows financial professionals to enhance their workflow efficiency and make decisions with confidence.
Dynamo AI
Series A in 2023
DynamoFL empowers enterprises to deploy Gen AI solutions in a safe, private, and compliant manner. Our tools offer a scalable and efficient solution for defense against adversarial AI threats, ensuring the integrity and security of ML models throughout their lifecycle. Our suite of proactive AI model defense solutions can be deployed to both identify and remediate security and robustness risks in Generative AI systems. We enable organizations to deploy state-of-the-art LLMs on substantially cheaper hardware, even including CPU resources.
Fileread
Seed Round in 2023
Our AI tools accelerate your progress and elevate your work product whenever facts matter, from early settlement discussions through deposition prep and even at trial.
Openlayer
Seed Round in 2023
Openlayer is an analysis platform that focuses on improving machine learning models by identifying and addressing failure patterns and biases. Its debugging workspace allows users to scrutinize model predictions, efficiently uncovering common failures and challenging edge cases. This functionality simplifies the tracking and versioning of models and datasets, enabling developers to concentrate on creating production-ready models. By enhancing the reliability and effectiveness of machine learning systems, Openlayer aims to facilitate better outcomes in various applications.
Luca
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Luca is an innovative platform designed for enterprise retailers, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance pricing strategies. Founded by individuals who previously developed pricing technology at Uber, Luca addresses the challenges retailers face in optimizing pricing decisions. The platform identifies potential revenue and profit opportunities, provides intelligent recommendations for price adjustments, and significantly reduces the time required for pricing analysis. By offering machine learning-based insights into customer price sensitivities, Luca enables retailers to achieve precise margin and revenue goals tailored to their specific business objectives. Supported by notable investors, Luca aims to transform the way retailers approach pricing, empowering them to leverage sophisticated tools for better financial outcomes.
BlueCargo
Seed Round in 2023
BlueCargo, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2018. It specializes in a platform designed to enhance container management in seaport terminals through the use of predictive algorithms. This platform provides visibility into container operations, helping port operators predict container dwell times and avoid unnecessary movements. By automating planning decisions and streamlining processes, BlueCargo aims to increase terminal productivity, reduce operational costs, and improve service quality. The company's focus is on optimizing real-time efficiency in container management, enabling port operators to secure and manage supply-side events more effectively.
Frenter
Seed Round in 2023
Frenter is a comprehensive platform designed for the rental industry, offering a robust technical infrastructure that enables businesses to make informed decisions and minimize risks. The company provides a suite of tools for fleet management, incorporating telematics, usage data, and equipment health insights. Frenter's software facilitates real-time monitoring of equipment, utilizing cellular and satellite GPS to track assets even in remote locations. With features such as asset management, GPS tracking, fleet analytics, maintenance scheduling, and logistics tracking, Frenter equips rental businesses with the necessary insights to optimize operations and reduce downtime.
Runwise
Series A in 2022
Runwise is a New York-based company that specializes in wireless control, sensor networks, and software platforms designed to optimize heating systems in buildings. Founded in 2010 by Jeff Carleton and Lee Hoffman, the company aims to enhance operational efficiency through intelligent, easy-to-install hardware and software solutions. Runwise employs a proprietary heat computer, a network of indoor temperature sensors, and advanced machine learning systems to effectively manage heating and boiler systems. This technology not only prevents under-heating and overheating but also provides clients with a verifiable online record of their heating performance. By leveraging this innovative approach, Runwise enables users to significantly reduce heating expenses and lower carbon emissions.
Paperplane
Seed Round in 2022
Paperplane offers a platform that assists builders, plumbers, and timber merchants in managing credit risk by predicting customer defaults more than four weeks in advance of any credit report or county court judgment. Additionally, the company provides an online sales recording solution that captures video and audio calls, converting them into concise summaries and reports. This functionality streamlines the process of generating insights from customer interactions, reducing the need for manual data entry and improving pipeline visibility. By enabling businesses to access essential information efficiently, Paperplane helps organizations enhance their decision-making and operational effectiveness.
Integration Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Integration Labs is a data integration platform that simplifies access to customers' accounting, e-commerce, and payment data for businesses. The platform offers a well-documented Unified API, allowing product teams to efficiently read and write data across more than 20 platforms, including popular services like Quickbooks, Shopify, and Stripe. Companies utilize Integration Labs to automate accounting processes, underwrite credit risk, generate valuable business insights, and develop new business tools. By prioritizing safety and reliability, Integration Labs enables organizations to streamline their operations and enhance decision-making capabilities.
Dynamo AI
Seed Round in 2022
DynamoFL empowers enterprises to deploy Gen AI solutions in a safe, private, and compliant manner. Our tools offer a scalable and efficient solution for defense against adversarial AI threats, ensuring the integrity and security of ML models throughout their lifecycle. Our suite of proactive AI model defense solutions can be deployed to both identify and remediate security and robustness risks in Generative AI systems. We enable organizations to deploy state-of-the-art LLMs on substantially cheaper hardware, even including CPU resources.
Paces
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Paces is developing a data platform aimed at enhancing the profitability and feasibility of green infrastructure projects. By gathering and analyzing data from over 3,500 U.S. counties, Paces offers actionable insights that include environmental, permitting, zoning, interconnection information, and competition risks. The platform also provides modeled signals such as climate risks, profitability forecasts, and parcel rankings, allowing stakeholders to make informed decisions about specific land parcels and green infrastructure assets. This comprehensive approach helps to de-risk the development and operation of renewable projects, ultimately facilitating faster project development and improved financial returns for developers and investors.
Nanonets
Series A in 2022
Nanonets is an AI-driven company specializing in automating document processing and data extraction workflows. By utilizing advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and deep learning models, Nanonets assists businesses in managing document-intensive processes such as accounts payable, order processing, and insurance underwriting. The platform effectively processes unstructured documents—such as invoices, receipts, and contracts—transforming them into structured data. Nanonets integrates seamlessly with existing systems through APIs, significantly reducing manual effort by up to 90% while delivering high accuracy and efficiency. The solution not only enhances productivity but also offers substantial cost savings, making it a valuable tool for organizations looking to streamline their operations without the need for complex database management.
TradeX
Seed Round in 2022
TradeX is a financial exchange platform that allows individuals to engage in trading based on their opinions regarding various events. Users can predict outcomes on different topics, answering with a Yes or No, and receive rewards depending on the actual results of those events. This innovative approach not only facilitates personal expression but also enables users to hedge everyday risks associated with their predictions. By providing a structured environment for opinion-based trading, TradeX aims to create a dynamic marketplace that reflects public sentiment on significant issues.
Cloudthread
Seed Round in 2021
Cloudthread is a cloud analytics platform founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California. The platform is designed to assist engineering teams in developing cost-effective applications by integrating cloud cost data into their workflows. It enables users to monitor and understand the cost efficiency of their applications while providing immediate alerts for unexpected cost spikes and identifying their sources. This approach promotes improved decision-making and engineering autonomy, allowing organizations to build applications more efficiently with minimal meetings and better data insights.
Tractian
Seed Round in 2021
Tractian specializes in providing asset management and monitoring solutions designed to enhance the efficiency and reliability of industrial operations. The company offers tools for data collection and analysis that enable businesses to track the performance and condition of their assets effectively. Tractian's system integrates with various sensors and devices, facilitating predictive maintenance by offering real-time monitoring capabilities. This makes it easier for maintenance teams and decision-makers in sectors such as manufacturing, logistics, and energy to gain comprehensive oversight of their operations.
Gridware
Seed Round in 2021
Gridware specializes in advanced grid monitoring solutions aimed at enhancing the safety and reliability of electrical infrastructure. The company develops a sophisticated sensing system equipped with high-precision sensor arrays and artificial intelligence to continuously analyze the electrical and mechanical behavior of grid assets. This technology detects and predicts faults by monitoring the ambient environment around power poles, allowing utilities to identify potential issues before they escalate into serious problems. By facilitating timely repairs and enabling rapid responses to environmental anomalies, Gridware's solutions help mitigate risks such as wildfires and power outages. Headquartered in the Bay Area of California, Gridware is a privately held company supported by prominent climate-tech investors.
Shelf Engine
Series B in 2021
Shelf Engine is a Seattle-based company that offers an automated prediction platform aimed at reducing food waste in the grocery industry. Launched in 2015, the company utilizes machine learning and historical data to forecast demand for perishable goods, enabling grocery stores to optimize their orders and minimize out-of-stock situations. By managing the entire ordering process, including vendor management and shelf optimization, Shelf Engine helps retailers save costs and mitigate risks associated with unsold inventory by buying back remaining items. With over 145 employees, Shelf Engine serves leading grocers across thousands of locations nationwide, significantly increasing their profit margins while addressing the challenges of food waste.
Explo
Seed Round in 2020
Explo is a data exploration and analysis platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The platform enables users to connect directly to various database and data warehouse sources, allowing them to explore, analyze, and visualize data easily through a user-friendly point-and-click interface. By integrating with any data source, Explo facilitates data manipulation and visualization without requiring SQL knowledge, empowering clients to make informed, data-driven decisions to enhance their business growth and scalability.
Loop
Seed Round in 2020
Loop Health is a healthcare provider based in Pune, India, founded in 2018. The company offers a range of services including acute and urgent care, chronic condition management, women's health, health coaching, and preventive care. Loop Health aims to simplify the healthcare experience by connecting patients with family physicians, specialists, and hospitals, facilitating access to major medical treatments. Their team of Loop Coordinators assists patients in finding appropriate doctors, comparing treatment costs, obtaining second opinions, and managing admission procedures, thereby alleviating the stress associated with healthcare decisions. Additionally, Loop Health features a virtual medical practice that supports employees and their families, allowing them to consult with healthcare experts and medical advisors without delay, ultimately promoting better health management and cost-effectiveness.
Explo
Seed Round in 2020
Explo is a data exploration and analysis platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The platform enables users to connect directly to various database and data warehouse sources, allowing them to explore, analyze, and visualize data easily through a user-friendly point-and-click interface. By integrating with any data source, Explo facilitates data manipulation and visualization without requiring SQL knowledge, empowering clients to make informed, data-driven decisions to enhance their business growth and scalability.
Loop
Seed Round in 2020
Loop Health is a healthcare provider based in Pune, India, founded in 2018. The company offers a range of services including acute and urgent care, chronic condition management, women's health, health coaching, and preventive care. Loop Health aims to simplify the healthcare experience by connecting patients with family physicians, specialists, and hospitals, facilitating access to major medical treatments. Their team of Loop Coordinators assists patients in finding appropriate doctors, comparing treatment costs, obtaining second opinions, and managing admission procedures, thereby alleviating the stress associated with healthcare decisions. Additionally, Loop Health features a virtual medical practice that supports employees and their families, allowing them to consult with healthcare experts and medical advisors without delay, ultimately promoting better health management and cost-effectiveness.
Well Principled
Seed Round in 2019
Well Principled Corp. is an artificial intelligence management consulting firm based in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 2018. The company focuses on assisting chief marketing officers and chief supply chain officers by predicting customer buying behavior and optimizing marketing and supply chain processes for retail and consumer packaged goods brands. Its AI-driven software leverages data to deliver actionable insights grounded in academic business theories. By analyzing key factors such as customer retention, pricing, and product development, Well Principled provides businesses with strategic plans that enhance operational efficiency without the need for extensive analyst teams or traditional management consultants. This innovative approach enables brands to improve their growth and streamline operations in various areas, including retail assortments and advertising expenditures.
Searchlight
Seed Round in 2019
Searchlight is a San Francisco-based company that has developed a platform designed to enhance the hiring process through early and automated reference checks. Their Predictive Talent Platform utilizes assessments and analytics to improve hiring efficiency and effectiveness, measuring the quality of hires by linking candidate reference and self-assessment data to post-hire outcomes. By integrating employee outcome data—such as performance and engagement—into the recruiting process, Searchlight's system provides real-time insights that help organizations identify competencies and soft skills, ultimately improving talent acquisition and retention. The company's mission focuses on fostering a people-first approach, aiming to create mutually beneficial hiring experiences by better understanding talent dynamics.
BlueCargo
Seed Round in 2018
BlueCargo, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2018. It specializes in a platform designed to enhance container management in seaport terminals through the use of predictive algorithms. This platform provides visibility into container operations, helping port operators predict container dwell times and avoid unnecessary movements. By automating planning decisions and streamlining processes, BlueCargo aims to increase terminal productivity, reduce operational costs, and improve service quality. The company's focus is on optimizing real-time efficiency in container management, enabling port operators to secure and manage supply-side events more effectively.
Validere
Seed Round in 2018
Validere Technologies Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in providing critical information about liquids through innovative measurement, reporting, and verification solutions. Founded in 2015, Validere develops portable devices, including the Validere Identifier, which assesses the hazardous nature of liquids by referencing a comprehensive library. Additionally, the company offers EDGE Connect, a platform that facilitates secure connections between buyers and sellers, enabling the discovery of arbitrage opportunities. Validere's main focus is on liquid fingerprinting, industrial process monitoring, and optimizing logistics within the energy sector. By delivering accessible and verifiable testing data, Validere aids organizations in making informed business decisions and enhances the accuracy of crude oil testing, ensuring accountability and quality across operations. The company's expertise in emissions management and tracking further positions it as a valuable partner for energy companies seeking to improve their financial and environmental performance.
Shelf Engine
Seed Round in 2018
Shelf Engine is a Seattle-based company that offers an automated prediction platform aimed at reducing food waste in the grocery industry. Launched in 2015, the company utilizes machine learning and historical data to forecast demand for perishable goods, enabling grocery stores to optimize their orders and minimize out-of-stock situations. By managing the entire ordering process, including vendor management and shelf optimization, Shelf Engine helps retailers save costs and mitigate risks associated with unsold inventory by buying back remaining items. With over 145 employees, Shelf Engine serves leading grocers across thousands of locations nationwide, significantly increasing their profit margins while addressing the challenges of food waste.
Biobot Analytics
Seed Round in 2018
Biobot Analytics, Inc. is a wastewater epidemiology company founded in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company has developed technology that transforms wastewater infrastructure into public health observatories by analyzing urine and stool samples. This technology provides health data that is independent of hospital reporting systems and is adaptable to emerging public health threats. Biobot Analytics offers a proprietary tool that measures health risks such as infectious disease outbreaks, antibiotic resistance, and drug consumption patterns, including its Opioid Consumption Monitoring Program, which estimates drug use in urban areas through sewage analysis. By generating anonymized public health data, Biobot delivers actionable insights to government officials, enabling them to prioritize interventions and address public health challenges effectively.
Reverie Labs
Seed Round in 2018
Reverie Labs is a Boston-based company focused on improving drug development processes for pharmaceutical firms through advanced machine learning techniques. The company utilizes these algorithms to predict the bio physicochemical properties of drug candidates, thereby accelerating preclinical development. Reverie Labs specializes in lead generation and optimization by creating structure-based predictive models that assess the potency of small molecules. It also offers a multi-objective molecular optimizer that generates new molecules while ensuring they maintain both potency and synthesizability. This approach allows for the prioritization and optimization of drug candidates, facilitating their progression to animal and human clinical trials more efficiently.
Nanonets
Seed Round in 2017
Nanonets is an AI-driven company specializing in automating document processing and data extraction workflows. By utilizing advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and deep learning models, Nanonets assists businesses in managing document-intensive processes such as accounts payable, order processing, and insurance underwriting. The platform effectively processes unstructured documents—such as invoices, receipts, and contracts—transforming them into structured data. Nanonets integrates seamlessly with existing systems through APIs, significantly reducing manual effort by up to 90% while delivering high accuracy and efficiency. The solution not only enhances productivity but also offers substantial cost savings, making it a valuable tool for organizations looking to streamline their operations without the need for complex database management.
Skymind
Seed Round in 2016
Skymind Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in enterprise software and business intelligence. The company develops solutions that employ machine learning techniques, such as text, image, and sound analysis, to identify and quantify patterns that can impact businesses. Skymind is renowned for creating Deeplearning4j, an open-source deep-learning framework for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Additionally, Skymind offers ND4J, a scientific computing library designed for production environments with fast routines and minimal RAM requirements.
Pomello
Seed Round in 2015
Pomello is a Redwood City, California-based company that offers a cloud-based platform designed to assist organizations in selecting and retaining job candidates who align with their unique company culture. By generating custom culture reports for candidates, Pomello enables faster recruitment and evaluates candidates’ strengths and weaknesses in relation to the existing team culture. The platform integrates seamlessly into existing recruiting processes, allowing organizations to identify candidates who not only possess the necessary skills but also share the company's values and priorities. Founded at Stanford University, Pomello's technology is grounded in three decades of research in Organizational Behavior, providing leadership teams with valuable insights and predictive analytics to enhance employee engagement and overall performance. As of November 2017, Pomello operates as a subsidiary of OutMatch, Inc.
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