Spero Ventures

Spero Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2018 and located in Burlingame, California. The firm focuses on making investments in companies that prioritize health and wellness, sustainability, learning, work, and human connection. Spero Ventures targets both software and software-enabled hardware within the technology sector, seeking to support innovations that enhance quality of life. As a Registered Investment Adviser, it aims to foster growth in industries that contribute to well-being and purposeful living.

Sara Eshelman

General Partner

Shripriya Mahesh

Co-Founder and General Partner

Marc Tarpenning

Venture Partner

Brandon Walker

Investor

Stephen Wemple

Investor

Lisa Zieger

Partner, Community and Network

52 past transactions

Mast Reforestation

Series B in 2025
Mast Reforestation is a provider of vertically integrated reforestation services focused on restoring forests damaged by wildfires. The company addresses barriers to reforestation, including financial, procedural, and seed supply challenges, facilitating the reforestation of millions of acres. By acquiring two legacy businesses, Mast has become the largest seed and seedling vendor in the Western United States, which is crucial for overcoming reforestation bottlenecks. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services, including seed collection, seedling cultivation, site preparation, planting, and ongoing monitoring. Additionally, Mast leverages project finance to generate high-quality carbon removal credits, allowing landowners to reforest their land at no cost while contributing to the reduction of carbon emissions and making reforestation scalable to combat climate change.

Aralez Bio

Series A in 2024
Aralez Bio is a biotechnology company specializing in the sustainable production of noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs), also known as unusual or unnatural amino acids. The company has developed a novel enzymatic method that allows for the synthesis of over 100 ncAAs with perfect enantiopurity in a single step, producing water as the sole byproduct. This proprietary approach provides clients in various sectors, including pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and functional materials, with access to essential amino acids needed for innovation and development in their respective fields.

Corvus Robotics

Series A in 2024
Corvus Robotics develops indoor drones specifically designed for warehouse inventory management. These drones facilitate data collection and analytics, enabling continuous cycle counting and conducting inspections within warehouse and manufacturing environments. The software integrated with the drones provides comprehensive analytics and audit capabilities, helping businesses identify and resolve discrepancies more efficiently. By streamlining inventory processes, Corvus Robotics aims to enhance operational efficiency and inform financial decision-making for its clients.

Leaf Agriculture

Series A in 2024
Leaf Agriculture is a technology company based in Florianopolis, Brazil, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing a unified application programming interface (API) platform that offers data services tailored for the agriculture industry. This platform facilitates seamless access to agricultural data by connecting various AgTech APIs, enabling users to validate access and retrieve information through a single API. Leaf Agriculture aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of agricultural practices by leveraging digital solutions to improve data management and accessibility in the sector.

Juno

Series A in 2024
Juno is an insurance company focused on providing child insurance solutions for parents, catering to families from the stage of expecting a child through to empty nesting. The company offers products designed to cover serious diseases and disabilities affecting children, aiming to support nearly 2 million families in the United States who are impacted by rare diseases. Juno sells its insurance products through employers, delivering financial assistance and personalized guidance to parents seeking long-term protection for their children in the event of severe illness or disability.

Telo Trucks

Seed Round in 2024
Telo Trucks is a manufacturer of compact electric vehicle trucks designed for urban dwellers and outdoor enthusiasts. The company focuses on creating affordable, cleverly designed trucks that cater to the needs of city workers and weekend adventurers alike. By providing efficient electric vehicle options, Telo Trucks aims to enhance the urban living experience while promoting sustainable transportation solutions.

Tiny Health

Series A in 2024
Tiny Health is a prominent microbiome health platform focused on addressing chronic health conditions and optimizing overall well-being. The company offers innovative at-home microbiome testing kits, including the Gut Health Test specifically designed for pregnant mothers and their babies, as well as tests for older children and adults and Vaginal Health Tests. By utilizing shotgun metagenomics, Tiny Health provides families with personalized insights into their gut and vaginal microbiomes, allowing them to make informed dietary and lifestyle changes. To date, approximately 30,000 families have relied on Tiny Health's expertise to correct microbiome imbalances and enhance health outcomes, with many experiencing significant symptom reduction or even reversal of chronic conditions. The team at Tiny Health comprises leading scientists and medical professionals from prestigious institutions, ensuring a strong foundation in evidence-based health solutions.

Eli

Venture Round in 2024
Eli is a digital platform that simplifies access to incentives, rebates, and low-interest financing for contractors, installers, and retailers involved in consumer decarbonization projects. These projects encompass a range of technologies, including heat pumps, electric vehicle chargers, heat pump water heaters, solar energy systems, and battery storage solutions. Eli’s technology is built upon extensive user testing and real-world data, aiming to assist individuals facing significant barriers to access these programs. The platform effectively screens and qualifies applicants for various incentives by navigating complex eligibility rules, verifying income, and collecting necessary documentation, all while providing personalized information about incentive eligibility. This approach ensures that users receive comprehensive support without the need to visit multiple third-party websites, enabling businesses to maximize the incentives available to them.

Base Operations

Series A in 2023
Base Operations Inc. is a security solutions provider specializing in threat analysis through its advanced threat intelligence platform. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., the company focuses on aggregating, visualizing, and interpreting threat data to help organizations mitigate risks and safeguard their personnel and assets. Its offerings include street-level threat assessments, neighborhood threat ratings, and sophisticated visualizations, which utilize crowdsourced and official data to address geolocation-based challenges. The platform features a granular threat database enhanced by AI-powered predictive analytics, enabling organizations to derive actionable insights and improve response times for security tasks. Additionally, it includes a dashboard for security personnel, facilitating communication with employees in the field and enhancing overall safety during travel.

Talkshoplive

Seed Round in 2023
Talkshoplive is a leading live stream commerce network that provides an interactive shopping experience through its social streaming platform. The company offers a patent-pending embeddable video player that facilitates real-time transactions directly within the video, allowing for seamless sales execution. Talkshoplive enables sellers to create live shows, showcase product details, and engage with buyers in real-time through chat functionalities. Customers can follow their favorite brands and receive notifications about upcoming live shows and sales, enhancing their shopping experience. The platform supports a comprehensive range of services, including order processing, shipping, and payouts, making it a versatile tool for both buyers and sellers in the evolving landscape of e-commerce.

Confirm

Series A in 2023
Confirm HR, Inc. is a data-driven hiring platform founded in November 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company has developed an application that assists organizations in making informed hiring decisions by collecting feedback from secondary and backchannel references. This application helps identify candidate traits, verify compatibility, and reduce bias, thereby improving the chances of hiring qualified candidates. Confirm's platform utilizes quantitative methods to assess candidate quality, allowing employers to uncover the right skills and credentials for job roles. By streamlining the hiring process, Confirm aims to match job seekers with their ideal positions more efficiently, facilitating better talent decisions without the influence of subjectivity or politics.

Oova

Series A in 2023
Oova Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in personalized fertility diagnostics. Founded in 2017 and spun out from Mount Sinai Hospital, Oova develops a fertility test kit that utilizes a paper-based strip to measure key hormones present in women’s urine. This innovative device allows users to monitor their fertility profile over time through daily urine samples, leveraging patent-pending biochemistry and artificial intelligence. By accurately tracking hormone levels, Oova aids women in cycle management, assesses menstrual health post-pregnancy, and identifies reproductive health issues such as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). The system is designed for convenience, enabling women to achieve their conception goals without significantly disrupting their daily routines, while providing valuable insights to both patients and healthcare providers through real-time testing and wellness guidance via a mobile application.

Hyro

Series B in 2023
Hyro develops a conversational artificial intelligence platform that enhances user interactions across various digital channels. By leveraging natural language understanding, the platform allows organizations to create plug-and-play AI assistants capable of engaging customers through voice and chat. Hyro's innovative approach enables seamless ingestion of existing data to automatically build knowledge graphs, facilitating frictionless deployment and maintenance without the need for integration, playbooks, or extensive training data. The platform also features an advanced analytics dashboard, allowing organizations to customize conversations and improve customer engagement effectively.

Euclid Power

Seed Round in 2022
Euclid Power is a developer of platforms focused on renewable energy project management, investment, and execution. The company provides data-driven systems that support the entire project lifecycle, from development to execution and asset management. Its services include energy storage modeling, risk management, project feasibility assessment, underwriting, and ongoing asset management. By offering these tools, Euclid Power aims to simplify technical and financial diligence for renewable energy developers and investors, effectively reducing risks associated with project investments.

Clarity Movement

Series A in 2022
Clarity Movement transforms how governments, communities, and businesses understand and respond to air pollution with IoT-based air quality monitoring technology. Our turn-key air quality monitoring solution supplements existing regulatory monitors with networks of hundreds to thousands of continuously-calibrated air quality sensors, making air quality management more accessible, cost-effective, and actionable than ever before. Founded in 2014, we have now deployed our next-generation, highly-accurate indicative air quality monitoring networks in more than 60 countries around the world — empowering our customers to build healthier communities with better data.

Singularity Energy

Seed Round in 2022
Singularity Energy, Inc. is a technology company focused on developing a platform for real-time carbon tracking and energy optimization. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company utilizes artificial intelligence to integrate real-time carbon dioxide signals from the energy grid into its solutions. This enables corporate clients, including climate regulators and sustainability directors, to visualize and co-optimize their energy usage and carbon emissions effectively. Singularity Energy's innovative approach combines data analytics with carbon forecasting and optimization algorithms, allowing organizations to minimize their emissions while maximizing economic benefits. The company's mission is to support entities in achieving their sustainability goals with transparency and confidence.

Empowerly

Seed Round in 2022
Empowerly, Inc. is an education technology company based in San Mateo, California, that specializes in personalized college counseling and tutoring services for students in grades 7-12, as well as transfer and graduate students. Formerly known as Synocate, the company utilizes a data-driven approach to provide tailored college application counseling, connecting students with trained counselors who cater to their individual needs. Empowerly's platform operates on a team-based human intelligence model, facilitating personalized guidance for college admissions and career planning. By leveraging expert recommendations, Empowerly aims to help students achieve their goals of acceptance into preferred universities and securing internships, ultimately empowering them to succeed in their academic and professional journeys.

Huckleberry Labs

Series A in 2021
Huckleberry makes behavioral expertise accessible and affordable to all families by combining AI with human experts, starting with children's sleep.

Gencove

Series A in 2021
Gencove is a software platform that specializes in high-throughput, cost-effective genome sequencing, utilizing low-pass sequencing technology. The company focuses on developing molecular and computational tools aimed at making whole-genome sequencing fast, affordable, and actionable. By setting a new standard in genomics research and diagnostics, Gencove caters to a wide range of industries, including agriculture and pharmaceuticals, thereby providing researchers with accessible genomic data.

BIOMILQ

Series A in 2021
BIOMILQ is a women-owned start-up based in Durham, North Carolina, founded in 2020. The company specializes in producing nutritionally equivalent breastmilk using cultured human mammary cells. By leveraging a unique biomanufacturing platform, BIOMILQ aims to create bioauthentic human milk ingredients that support early-life nutrition. Its products are designed to provide a sustainable and nutritious alternative for mothers and caregivers, promoting immune, gut, and neurological development in infants. Through its patented technology, BIOMILQ seeks to empower families with options that mirror the benefits of natural breastmilk, enhancing infant health and nutrition.

Mast Reforestation

Series A in 2021
Mast Reforestation is a provider of vertically integrated reforestation services focused on restoring forests damaged by wildfires. The company addresses barriers to reforestation, including financial, procedural, and seed supply challenges, facilitating the reforestation of millions of acres. By acquiring two legacy businesses, Mast has become the largest seed and seedling vendor in the Western United States, which is crucial for overcoming reforestation bottlenecks. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services, including seed collection, seedling cultivation, site preparation, planting, and ongoing monitoring. Additionally, Mast leverages project finance to generate high-quality carbon removal credits, allowing landowners to reforest their land at no cost while contributing to the reduction of carbon emissions and making reforestation scalable to combat climate change.

AllHere Education

Series A in 2021
AllHere, Inc. is a Boston-based company that focuses on reducing chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools through its intervention management platform. The platform offers various tools, including referral management to analyze chronic absence data at multiple levels, intervention tracking applications for monitoring attendance interventions such as home visits and mentoring, and automated analytics reports to assess the effectiveness of intervention programs. Additionally, AllHere employs artificial intelligence and supervised machine learning to enhance its chatbot software, facilitating real-time, one-on-one communication between schools and families. This approach aims to create engaging experiences that support student recruitment, retention, and success by providing timely assistance and information to families.

Nana

Series A in 2021
Nana is a vertically integrated trade skills school that specializes in training individuals in appliance repair. The organization aims to address the impending job displacement caused by technological automation, specifically targeting the 35 million people projected to lose their jobs by 2030. Nana provides comprehensive training in trade skills, enhances participants' experience through a mentorship program, and facilitates job placements in collaboration with leading brands such as Samsung and GE. By refining this educational and employment pipeline, Nana not only equips a new generation of tradespeople with essential skills but also plays a critical role in revitalizing America's workforce and generating economic opportunities.

Hyro

Series A in 2021
Hyro develops a conversational artificial intelligence platform that enhances user interactions across various digital channels. By leveraging natural language understanding, the platform allows organizations to create plug-and-play AI assistants capable of engaging customers through voice and chat. Hyro's innovative approach enables seamless ingestion of existing data to automatically build knowledge graphs, facilitating frictionless deployment and maintenance without the need for integration, playbooks, or extensive training data. The platform also features an advanced analytics dashboard, allowing organizations to customize conversations and improve customer engagement effectively.

Tortuga AgTech

Series A in 2021
Tortuga AgTech is a company dedicated to enhancing agricultural practices through the development of digital horticulture systems. By integrating advanced technologies such as robotics, automation, precision data analytics, and machine learning, the company aims to empower growers to produce unique, nutritious, and sustainable food. Tortuga AgTech focuses on automating labor-intensive tasks such as picking, packing, and trimming, which significantly reduces the need for manual labor and increases crop yields by optimizing growing conditions and layouts. The company's mission is to foster a healthier society and thriving ecosystem by enabling farmers to compete with large-scale agriculture while providing fresher and healthier products to local communities. Additionally, Tortuga AgTech creates full-time local technical jobs, contributing to economic growth in agricultural regions.

Talkshoplive

Seed Round in 2021
Talkshoplive is a leading live stream commerce network that provides an interactive shopping experience through its social streaming platform. The company offers a patent-pending embeddable video player that facilitates real-time transactions directly within the video, allowing for seamless sales execution. Talkshoplive enables sellers to create live shows, showcase product details, and engage with buyers in real-time through chat functionalities. Customers can follow their favorite brands and receive notifications about upcoming live shows and sales, enhancing their shopping experience. The platform supports a comprehensive range of services, including order processing, shipping, and payouts, making it a versatile tool for both buyers and sellers in the evolving landscape of e-commerce.

BrainsGate

Series F in 2020
BrainsGate, Ltd. is a medical device company based in Caesarea, Israel, specializing in therapies for central nervous system diseases, particularly acute ischemic stroke. Founded in 2000, the company has developed a technology platform that utilizes electrical stimulation of the spheno-palatine ganglion (SPG) to enhance cerebral blood flow. Its innovative treatment approach involves a miniature electrode implanted in the roof of the mouth through a minimally invasive procedure performed under local anesthesia. BrainsGate's key product is an ischemic stroke system that delivers targeted stimulation to the SPG, with the aim of improving outcomes for stroke patients. The company has conducted significant clinical trials, including a pivotal study with 300 participants that demonstrated the safety and efficacy of its treatment. Currently, BrainsGate is advancing the ImpACT-24b trial, a multinational randomized study assessing the treatment's effectiveness within a critical 24-hour window following stroke onset.

MetaMap

Series A in 2020
MetaMap is a customer identity platform that focuses on providing accurate and unique identity verification solutions, particularly in emerging markets. The company offers a suite of tools designed to transform unknown users into trusted individuals online by leveraging regional data sources integrated with global information. This comprehensive approach enables businesses to enhance their understanding of users, ultimately allowing merchants to extend more opportunities to a broader audience. By partnering with developers and enterprises, MetaMap supports the scaling and differentiation of their services through improved trust-based interactions.

Nana

Seed Round in 2020
Nana is a vertically integrated trade skills school that specializes in training individuals in appliance repair. The organization aims to address the impending job displacement caused by technological automation, specifically targeting the 35 million people projected to lose their jobs by 2030. Nana provides comprehensive training in trade skills, enhances participants' experience through a mentorship program, and facilitates job placements in collaboration with leading brands such as Samsung and GE. By refining this educational and employment pipeline, Nana not only equips a new generation of tradespeople with essential skills but also plays a critical role in revitalizing America's workforce and generating economic opportunities.

Fluent Forever

Seed Round in 2020
Fluent Forever Inc. is a language learning application company founded in 2013 and based in Chicago, Illinois. The company's app is designed to help users learn and retain foreign languages effectively, offering courses in languages such as Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, German, Portuguese, Korean, and Japanese. Fluent Forever provides a range of resources, including learning guides, pictures, animated templates, grammar books, and voice training tips, allowing users to customize their learning experience. The platform emphasizes improving pronunciation and fluency, making it a comprehensive tool for language acquisition.

Fiveable

Venture Round in 2020
Fiveable, Inc. is an educational technology company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 2018. It operates an interactive social learning platform designed for Advanced Placement (AP) students and teachers, aiming to foster educational equity. The platform combines content, community, and courses to enhance the learning experience. It features a comprehensive content library and interactive community spaces, allowing students to engage with peers studying similar subjects. Fiveable offers online instruction led by accredited teachers across various disciplines, including history, social sciences, STEM, and languages. The company's mission is to empower students by building their skills and confidence, enabling them to earn college credit through placement exams and succeed in their educational endeavors.

Empowerly

Venture Round in 2020
Empowerly, Inc. is an education technology company based in San Mateo, California, that specializes in personalized college counseling and tutoring services for students in grades 7-12, as well as transfer and graduate students. Formerly known as Synocate, the company utilizes a data-driven approach to provide tailored college application counseling, connecting students with trained counselors who cater to their individual needs. Empowerly's platform operates on a team-based human intelligence model, facilitating personalized guidance for college admissions and career planning. By leveraging expert recommendations, Empowerly aims to help students achieve their goals of acceptance into preferred universities and securing internships, ultimately empowering them to succeed in their academic and professional journeys.

Skillshare

Series D in 2020
Skillshare, Inc. is an online learning community that was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, New York. The platform offers a diverse array of classes in various fields such as illustration, design, photography, video, and business. It provides practitioners the opportunity to take online courses, watch instructional videos, engage in projects and workshops, and even teach their own classes. By facilitating a creative space for individuals to learn and improve their skills, Skillshare enables members to explore new interests and enhance their expertise in multiple domains, from culinary arts to technology and entrepreneurship.

Huckleberry Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Huckleberry makes behavioral expertise accessible and affordable to all families by combining AI with human experts, starting with children's sleep.

MetaMap

Seed Round in 2020
MetaMap is a customer identity platform that focuses on providing accurate and unique identity verification solutions, particularly in emerging markets. The company offers a suite of tools designed to transform unknown users into trusted individuals online by leveraging regional data sources integrated with global information. This comprehensive approach enables businesses to enhance their understanding of users, ultimately allowing merchants to extend more opportunities to a broader audience. By partnering with developers and enterprises, MetaMap supports the scaling and differentiation of their services through improved trust-based interactions.

Clarity Movement

Series A in 2020
Clarity Movement transforms how governments, communities, and businesses understand and respond to air pollution with IoT-based air quality monitoring technology. Our turn-key air quality monitoring solution supplements existing regulatory monitors with networks of hundreds to thousands of continuously-calibrated air quality sensors, making air quality management more accessible, cost-effective, and actionable than ever before. Founded in 2014, we have now deployed our next-generation, highly-accurate indicative air quality monitoring networks in more than 60 countries around the world — empowering our customers to build healthier communities with better data.

RushTix

Pre Seed Round in 2020
RushTix, Inc. is a subscription-based live entertainment platform founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in offering a diverse range of live events, including music, health, and comedy shows. Additionally, RushTix has developed an AI-driven platform that enhances interactive entertainment, allowing users to engage in immersive 3D story worlds and real-time gaming experiences. Through its product, ReelMagic, users can influence narratives and interact with virtual characters while creators have the opportunity to monetize their experiences within a dedicated marketplace. RushTix aims to foster connections among individuals through innovative online experiences.

Base Operations

Seed Round in 2019
Base Operations Inc. is a security solutions provider specializing in threat analysis through its advanced threat intelligence platform. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., the company focuses on aggregating, visualizing, and interpreting threat data to help organizations mitigate risks and safeguard their personnel and assets. Its offerings include street-level threat assessments, neighborhood threat ratings, and sophisticated visualizations, which utilize crowdsourced and official data to address geolocation-based challenges. The platform features a granular threat database enhanced by AI-powered predictive analytics, enabling organizations to derive actionable insights and improve response times for security tasks. Additionally, it includes a dashboard for security personnel, facilitating communication with employees in the field and enhancing overall safety during travel.

INDUS.AI

Series A in 2019
INDUS.AI is a leading provider of construction intelligence solutions, established in 2017, with offices in San Francisco and Toronto. The company offers a cloud-based platform that leverages 3D computer vision technology, utilizing live video streams from secure IP cameras to deliver real-time visibility and actionable insights into construction site activities. This platform enables real estate investors, owners, developers, and general contractors to identify inefficiencies, manage risks, and enhance productivity on their projects. By providing tools for project control, INDUS.AI helps clients optimize labor, equipment, and materials, ultimately aiming to improve safety, efficiency, and transparency within the construction industry. The company serves clients across the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, and Brazil.

Core

Seed Round in 2019
Core is a health, wellness, and fitness company based in San Francisco, California. It specializes in developing innovative meditation device technology that utilizes haptics and biofeedback to enhance the meditation experience. By guiding users through their meditation journey and personalizing techniques, Core aims to help individuals improve their ability to meditate, relax, and achieve better sleep.

Tortuga AgTech

Venture Round in 2019
Tortuga AgTech is a company dedicated to enhancing agricultural practices through the development of digital horticulture systems. By integrating advanced technologies such as robotics, automation, precision data analytics, and machine learning, the company aims to empower growers to produce unique, nutritious, and sustainable food. Tortuga AgTech focuses on automating labor-intensive tasks such as picking, packing, and trimming, which significantly reduces the need for manual labor and increases crop yields by optimizing growing conditions and layouts. The company's mission is to foster a healthier society and thriving ecosystem by enabling farmers to compete with large-scale agriculture while providing fresher and healthier products to local communities. Additionally, Tortuga AgTech creates full-time local technical jobs, contributing to economic growth in agricultural regions.

Gencove

Series A in 2019
Gencove is a software platform that specializes in high-throughput, cost-effective genome sequencing, utilizing low-pass sequencing technology. The company focuses on developing molecular and computational tools aimed at making whole-genome sequencing fast, affordable, and actionable. By setting a new standard in genomics research and diagnostics, Gencove caters to a wide range of industries, including agriculture and pharmaceuticals, thereby providing researchers with accessible genomic data.

Huckleberry Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Huckleberry makes behavioral expertise accessible and affordable to all families by combining AI with human experts, starting with children's sleep.

ROAM

Series A in 2018
ROAM is a San Francisco-based robotics company. Their goal is to reinvent the way they make powered orthotics - otherwise known as exoskeletons - making them inexpensive, comfortable, and safe for home use. They are also developing a new class of exoskeleton that uses high strength fabrics and a pneumatic powertrain, resulting in power to weight ratios that are unmatched by existing exoskeleton systems at a significantly lower cost.

SafeTraces

Series A in 2018
SafeTraces is a prominent company specializing in sustainable indoor air quality solutions, offering the only verification method that actively measures pathogen risk. It has developed a traceability and environmental monitoring platform that assesses the performance of ventilation and filtration systems in indoor environments using real-world data. This innovative approach not only enhances safety but also helps clients build public trust and confidence in the safety of their indoor spaces. SafeTraces is recognized for its commitment to improving indoor air quality, underpinned by the first UL mark for verified ventilation and filtration, ensuring that individuals can breathe safer air in various settings.

RevUp Software

Series A in 2018
RevUp Software is bringing leading-edge, easy to use analytics to Non-Profits, Academic Institutions and Political Organizations. We help fundraisers, while working with existing software, create new ways to identify, target, and engage their networks.

INDUS.AI

Seed Round in 2018
INDUS.AI is a leading provider of construction intelligence solutions, established in 2017, with offices in San Francisco and Toronto. The company offers a cloud-based platform that leverages 3D computer vision technology, utilizing live video streams from secure IP cameras to deliver real-time visibility and actionable insights into construction site activities. This platform enables real estate investors, owners, developers, and general contractors to identify inefficiencies, manage risks, and enhance productivity on their projects. By providing tools for project control, INDUS.AI helps clients optimize labor, equipment, and materials, ultimately aiming to improve safety, efficiency, and transparency within the construction industry. The company serves clients across the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, and Brazil.

Skillshare

Series C in 2018
Skillshare, Inc. is an online learning community that was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, New York. The platform offers a diverse array of classes in various fields such as illustration, design, photography, video, and business. It provides practitioners the opportunity to take online courses, watch instructional videos, engage in projects and workshops, and even teach their own classes. By facilitating a creative space for individuals to learn and improve their skills, Skillshare enables members to explore new interests and enhance their expertise in multiple domains, from culinary arts to technology and entrepreneurship.

Mast Reforestation

Venture Round in 2017
Mast Reforestation is a provider of vertically integrated reforestation services focused on restoring forests damaged by wildfires. The company addresses barriers to reforestation, including financial, procedural, and seed supply challenges, facilitating the reforestation of millions of acres. By acquiring two legacy businesses, Mast has become the largest seed and seedling vendor in the Western United States, which is crucial for overcoming reforestation bottlenecks. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services, including seed collection, seedling cultivation, site preparation, planting, and ongoing monitoring. Additionally, Mast leverages project finance to generate high-quality carbon removal credits, allowing landowners to reforest their land at no cost while contributing to the reduction of carbon emissions and making reforestation scalable to combat climate change.

Persist AI

Persist AI is a company that aids pharmaceutical firms in the development of long-acting drug formulations by leveraging artificial intelligence and automation. Traditional formulation development is a lengthy process, typically spanning 5 to 10 years, which includes extensive pre-clinical and clinical testing phases. Persist AI aims to significantly reduce this timeline by streamlining pre-clinical formulation development to just three months, enhancing the efficiency of the drug development process by 50%. The company employs AI-driven automation technologies, such as automated drug release testing and high-throughput formulation screening, to facilitate quicker and more reliable drug formulation. By doing so, Persist AI not only accelerates drug development but also contributes to improving patient outcomes.
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