SV Angel

Founded in 2009, SV Angel is a San Francisco-based angel investment firm and service organization that backs early-stage startups, particularly in software and technology, by providing business development support, financing, strategic guidance on mergers and acquisitions, and other resources. It leverages a broad network to assist founders at critical inflection points, helping with market strategy, partnerships, and access to capital to build durable companies across the United States.

Ashvin Bachireddy

Managing Partner

Topher Conway

Managing Partner

Ronald Conway Sr.

Managing Partner

Ron Conway

Managing Partner

Sourav Gupta

Principal

Beth Turner

General Partner

Past deals in Big Data

David AI

Seed Round in 2025
David AI is a technology company that specializes in transforming audio data into valuable insights. It develops an AI-powered platform designed to help businesses manage and analyze multimodal data, enabling them to create high-quality, proprietary datasets for AI model training. The platform automates data labeling, qualifies and manages data quality, and generates metadata to track data origin and changes. This allows clients to enhance their AI models, detect and remove irrelevant or duplicated data, and create new revenue streams.

Kudos Technology

Series A in 2024
Kudos Technology offers an AI-powered smart wallet service designed to enhance consumer rewards and benefits during purchases. The service efficiently tracks credit card rewards and analyzes data from multiple cards across numerous online merchants. When consumers are ready to check out, the smart assistant identifies the optimal card to use, maximizing the rewards and benefits associated with each transaction. This technology empowers customers to easily manage their payment options, ensuring they select the most advantageous card for every purchase.

Together AI

Series A in 2024
Together is a technology services platform that offers a decentralized cloud specifically for artificial intelligence development. The company focuses on constructing open-source generative AI models and infrastructure, providing tools and resources that enable developers and researchers to train, refine, and deploy these models efficiently. Together's platform emphasizes accessibility and user-friendliness, allowing organizations of various sizes to leverage and enhance AI capabilities. By contributing innovative open-source research, models, and datasets, Together plays a significant role in advancing the field of AI and fostering collaborative development efforts.

Reask

Seed Round in 2023
Reask is a technology-focused company specializing in natural hazard modeling, particularly for weather-related catastrophes. It offers real-time and post-event analysis, along with long-term predictive solutions powered by artificial intelligence. Reask's core services include global risk mapping and probabilistic trend forecasting to help businesses assess and manage their catastrophe risk exposure effectively.

Together AI

Seed Round in 2023
Together is a technology services platform that offers a decentralized cloud specifically for artificial intelligence development. The company focuses on constructing open-source generative AI models and infrastructure, providing tools and resources that enable developers and researchers to train, refine, and deploy these models efficiently. Together's platform emphasizes accessibility and user-friendliness, allowing organizations of various sizes to leverage and enhance AI capabilities. By contributing innovative open-source research, models, and datasets, Together plays a significant role in advancing the field of AI and fostering collaborative development efforts.

Coactive AI

Series A in 2023
Coactive AI is a machine learning platform focused on transforming unstructured image and video data into actionable insights. By providing an application programming interface, the company empowers data practitioners and teams to effectively utilize visual data alongside conventional big data tools. Coactive AI employs advanced techniques in data-centric artificial intelligence to enhance the usability of visual data, allowing analysts to derive meaningful insights quickly and efficiently. The platform aims to simplify the challenges associated with managing unstructured data, making it accessible and valuable for data-driven decision-making.

Coactive AI

Seed Round in 2023
Coactive AI is a machine learning platform focused on transforming unstructured image and video data into actionable insights. By providing an application programming interface, the company empowers data practitioners and teams to effectively utilize visual data alongside conventional big data tools. Coactive AI employs advanced techniques in data-centric artificial intelligence to enhance the usability of visual data, allowing analysts to derive meaningful insights quickly and efficiently. The platform aims to simplify the challenges associated with managing unstructured data, making it accessible and valuable for data-driven decision-making.

MotherDuck

Series A in 2022
MotherDuck is a company that specializes in data infrastructure and analytics, providing a serverless platform designed for both small and large datasets. By integrating the efficiency of DuckDB with cloud capabilities, MotherDuck delivers a user-friendly analytics solution that supports hybrid execution. Its platform utilizes an embedded database to facilitate the analysis of big data, enabling businesses to prototype with both local and remote data seamlessly. This integrated environment allows organizations to effectively analyze their data, enhancing collaboration and maximizing profitability.

Kudos Technology

Seed Round in 2022
Kudos Technology offers an AI-powered smart wallet service designed to enhance consumer rewards and benefits during purchases. The service efficiently tracks credit card rewards and analyzes data from multiple cards across numerous online merchants. When consumers are ready to check out, the smart assistant identifies the optimal card to use, maximizing the rewards and benefits associated with each transaction. This technology empowers customers to easily manage their payment options, ensuring they select the most advantageous card for every purchase.

Graft

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Graft offers a modern AI platform that empowers data teams to create production-ready AI solutions with minimal effort. It leverages foundation models and requires no machine learning expertise, additional hiring, or infrastructure maintenance.

Reask

Seed Round in 2022
Reask is a technology-focused company specializing in natural hazard modeling, particularly for weather-related catastrophes. It offers real-time and post-event analysis, along with long-term predictive solutions powered by artificial intelligence. Reask's core services include global risk mapping and probabilistic trend forecasting to help businesses assess and manage their catastrophe risk exposure effectively.

Overwatch Research

Seed Round in 2021
Overwatch Research Limited is a company based in Belfast, United Kingdom, specializing in the design and development of in-vivo tracking software for preclinical laboratories. Established in 2017, the company aims to enhance laboratory workflows for contract research organizations, pharmaceutical firms, and academic institutions. Overwatch Research provides an integrated experimental tracking solution that facilitates the management of scientific experiments, thereby saving time, reducing errors, and fostering collaboration among researchers. By automating many manual processes associated with in-vivo study tracking, the company's software enables scientists to produce more reproducible research and improves overall efficiency in laboratory settings.

Xata.io

Seed Round in 2021
Xata provides a serverless database platform that combines the capabilities of traditional databases with the user-friendly interface of a spreadsheet application. This service is designed to seamlessly integrate into users' development workflows, facilitating tasks such as data insertion, querying, aggregation, and searching across various development environments, including JavaScript and APIs. Xata's architecture ensures that data is automatically replicated in multiple global regions, which enhances performance by minimizing response times for end users.

HumanFirst

Series A in 2021
HumanFirst is a company focused on enhancing patient-centered clinical trials through its advanced precision measures platform, which is recognized as the world's largest AI-powered software-as-a-service solution for improving health outcomes. The platform offers insights and validated evidence data to support biopharmaceutical companies in their drug development processes, enabling them to incorporate digital health technologies, digital biomarkers, and electronic clinical outcome assessments. By providing industry educational tools and facilitating collaboration with research partners, HumanFirst helps biopharma organizations increase research efficiency and accelerate the deployment of innovative treatments. The platform has been utilized by a significant majority of the largest pharmaceutical companies globally, underscoring its role in transforming clinical research and driving the evolution of drug development.

Clara

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Clara is a Latin American fintech company specializing in corporate spending management. It offers locally-issued corporate cards, bill pay services, financing solutions, and a software platform designed to streamline expense reporting and provide real-time insights into spending.

ReadySet Technology

Seed Round in 2021
ReadySet is a distributed SQL caching layer that precomputes the results of parameterized SQL queries and incrementally updates these results as the underlying data changes. It is wire-compatible with MySQL and Postgres, plugs directly into existing databases and applications without any code changes, and elastically scales read throughput to meet fluctuating demands. ReadySet offers the low latencies of a custom caching system and the high query throughputs of read replicas with the straightforward developer experience of using a single relational database.

Metaphor

Seed Round in 2020
Metaphor is a search and discovery tool designed for data scientists, engineers, and AI practitioners. It helps organizations understand and manage their data by leveraging the power of metadata knowledge graphs.

Canvas

Seed Round in 2020
Canvas is a developer of a no-code data platform that simplifies data exploration, visualization, and reporting. The platform enables users to understand and analyze their data without writing code, significantly reducing reliance on data engineers and the need for costly data warehouses. By streamlining the process of data management, Canvas allows data teams to focus on deriving insights instead of spending excessive time on SQL queries and dashboard maintenance. This approach empowers organizations to make informed decisions based on comprehensive data analysis.

Splitgraph

Seed Round in 2020
Splitgraph is a developer of integrated data catalog software that enables users to combine various data sources into reproducible data images. The company provides an HTTP API and a PostgreSQL-compatible endpoint, allowing users to run queries on datasets using familiar PostgreSQL syntax. Splitgraph's technology leverages columnar storage optimized for fast aggregation queries, making it suitable for modern web applications. By offering access to a diverse array of live databases and versioned data snapshots, the platform facilitates the creation, sharing, and extension of datasets for data scientists and engineers, promoting a simple and reproducible approach to data management.

Isovalent

Series A in 2020
Isovalent develops open-source software and enterprise solutions for cloud-native networking, security, and observability. Its flagship product, Cilium, enables enterprises to connect, monitor, and secure workloads in modern environments. Isovalent serves leading global organizations and has offices in Cupertino, CA and Zurich, Switzerland.

Octant Bio

Series A in 2020
Octant Bio is a company focused on developing synthetic technology to enhance health and treat diseases. The firm employs synthetic biology, genome engineering, next-generation sequencing, and computational tools to measure the activity of thousands of receptor pathways in human cells simultaneously. This approach allows scientists to use machine learning methods to engineer small molecules that can interact with multiple receptors, offering new potential for treating complex diseases.

HumanFirst

Seed Round in 2019
HumanFirst is a company focused on enhancing patient-centered clinical trials through its advanced precision measures platform, which is recognized as the world's largest AI-powered software-as-a-service solution for improving health outcomes. The platform offers insights and validated evidence data to support biopharmaceutical companies in their drug development processes, enabling them to incorporate digital health technologies, digital biomarkers, and electronic clinical outcome assessments. By providing industry educational tools and facilitating collaboration with research partners, HumanFirst helps biopharma organizations increase research efficiency and accelerate the deployment of innovative treatments. The platform has been utilized by a significant majority of the largest pharmaceutical companies globally, underscoring its role in transforming clinical research and driving the evolution of drug development.

Helium

Series C in 2019
Helium Systems Inc. develops Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, focusing on sensor devices that monitor environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, motion, and light. These sensors are utilized in various applications, including facility monitoring and quality control for medical products, energy management, air quality assessment, and refrigeration temperature regulation. The company offers a web and mobile dashboard for users to manage and access sensor data. Additionally, Helium operates a decentralized wireless network that enables low-power IoT devices to connect to the internet. This network incentivizes individuals to become network operators, rewarding them with a cryptocurrency for validating network transactions and contributing to the network's integrity. Incorporated in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Helium Systems continues to innovate within the IoT landscape, enhancing the ability to gather insights from smart devices.

Snorkel AI

Seed Round in 2019
Snorkel AI, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an end-to-end machine-learning platform designed to facilitate the creation, management, and monitoring of AI applications. Founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers Snorkel Flow, a platform that enables programmatic data labeling, augmentation, and curation. This platform supports the clean integration and management of data for AI, as well as the training and deployment of various models. Snorkel AI's technology is particularly adept at extracting entities, relationships, and structured information from complex documents and forms, while also ranking content based on relevance and other factors. The company serves diverse sectors, including finance, government, telecommunications, insurance, healthcare, and e-commerce, and is recognized for its contributions to AI research through peer-reviewed publications.

Golden

Seed Round in 2019
Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge platform designed to aggregate information from various public and private sources, creating a comprehensive repository. The company's platform employs natural language processing to facilitate structured representation of entities and topics, making detailed and canonical information easily searchable and accessible. By leveraging both human effort and machine intelligence, Golden enhances the process of knowledge gathering and communication. Its features include powerful search capabilities, fine-grain alerts to track changes, and semi-automatic research assistance, all aimed at helping organizations stay informed and leverage the latest industry trends. This approach improves collaboration among researchers and academics while enhancing operational efficiency.

Determined AI

Series A in 2019
Determined AI is a machine learning technology company founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California. It specializes in developing software that enhances deep learning workflows, GPU cluster management, and work tracking. The company's platform streamlines the process of building, training, and deploying deep learning models by facilitating distributed training and hyperparameter optimization. This approach enables clients to accelerate model development, improve resource utilization, and enhance overall productivity, thereby reducing the time-to-market for machine learning applications. By automating the tracking, sharing, and reproduction of experiments and metrics, Determined AI aims to minimize risks associated with model deployment.

Tecton

Seed Round in 2018
Tecton offers an enterprise-grade feature store, empowering businesses to harness machine learning effectively. Its platform addresses unique ML data requirements, enabling teams to build, serve, and scale features swiftly and reliably.

Etleap

Seed Round in 2018
Etleap provides an ETL platform that lets data analytics teams build and maintain data pipelines from day one without extensive coding or engineering. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, it automates most ETL setup and maintenance, reducing manual work and enabling analysts to own quick, ten-minute tasks. The tool collects data from diverse sources, cleans, structures, and manages it to simplify access to big data and improve data integration across warehouses, enhancing business value.

Harbor

Series A in 2018
Harbor is reengineering private securities with blockchain technology to help usher in a new wave of tokenized securities backed by real-world assets, such as real estate, company equity, investment funds, and fine art. The Harbor platform, powered by its compliance protocol, is the first to ensure tokenized securities comply with existing securities laws on every trade, everywhere across the globe.

Tecton

Seed Round in 2018
Tecton offers an enterprise-grade feature store, empowering businesses to harness machine learning effectively. Its platform addresses unique ML data requirements, enabling teams to build, serve, and scale features swiftly and reliably.

Octant Bio

Seed Round in 2017
Octant Bio is a company focused on developing synthetic technology to enhance health and treat diseases. The firm employs synthetic biology, genome engineering, next-generation sequencing, and computational tools to measure the activity of thousands of receptor pathways in human cells simultaneously. This approach allows scientists to use machine learning methods to engineer small molecules that can interact with multiple receptors, offering new potential for treating complex diseases.

Golden

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge platform designed to aggregate information from various public and private sources, creating a comprehensive repository. The company's platform employs natural language processing to facilitate structured representation of entities and topics, making detailed and canonical information easily searchable and accessible. By leveraging both human effort and machine intelligence, Golden enhances the process of knowledge gathering and communication. Its features include powerful search capabilities, fine-grain alerts to track changes, and semi-automatic research assistance, all aimed at helping organizations stay informed and leverage the latest industry trends. This approach improves collaboration among researchers and academics while enhancing operational efficiency.

Upbeat

Venture Round in 2017
Upbeat is a cloud-based public relations company that specializes in connecting businesses with journalists and media outlets through innovative software and data analysis. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, Upbeat offers a range of services designed to enhance media outreach campaigns, including customer dashboards, account management workflows, email campaign management, and a comprehensive journalist database. The company also provides media monitoring and analytical tools to track the effectiveness of outreach efforts. Catering to various industries such as education, real estate, trucking, pharmaceuticals, and human resources, Upbeat combines the expertise of software engineers and PR professionals to modernize traditional public relations practices, transforming story ideas into compelling narratives and ensuring effective communication between clients and the media.

Pathmind

Venture Round in 2016
Pathmind develops a SaaS platform that leverages cloud computing and AI to optimize decisions in industrial operations and supply chains. It integrates with simulation software like AnyLogic, enabling users to discover better decision paths through complex scenarios.

Pathmind

Seed Round in 2016
Pathmind develops a SaaS platform that leverages cloud computing and AI to optimize decisions in industrial operations and supply chains. It integrates with simulation software like AnyLogic, enabling users to discover better decision paths through complex scenarios.

Incorta

Series A in 2016
Incorta offers a real-time analytics platform designed to aggregate and analyze large, complex business data. Its Direct Data Platform enables enterprises to acquire, enrich, analyze, and act on their data with speed and insight, resolving complex analytics challenges. Backed by prominent investors such as GV, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Telstra Ventures, and Sorenson Capital, Incorta serves Fortune 500 to Global 2000 customers.

Apollo

Seed Round in 2016
Apollo is a revenue platform offering a scalable go-to-market solution for sales and marketing teams. The platform consolidates data on contacts and companies into a single interface, enabling users to identify, analyze, and engage potential customers throughout the lifecycle. It provides access to verified data for more than 210 million B2B contacts and about 35 million companies worldwide, supporting targeted outreach and conversion and helping revenue professionals find accurate information, nurture leads, and accelerate sales velocity.

Culture Biosciences

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Culture Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California, that offers an innovative biomanufacturing platform designed for scientists to efficiently run, monitor, and analyze bioreactor experiments through the cloud. Founded in 2016, the company specializes in developing automated bioreactors and fermentation tools that enable biotech companies to optimize their manufacturing processes. By leveraging robotic sample handling and cloud-based data monitoring and analysis, Culture Biosciences significantly accelerates the ability of scientists to manage bioreactor operations compared to traditional methods. This allows for faster product development and market readiness, streamlining the biomanufacturing workflow for its clients.

Cumulus Networks

Series C in 2016
Cumulus Networks, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing Linux-based operating systems for networking hardware applications. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in San Francisco and Cary, North Carolina, the company aims to simplify data center operations through its innovative solutions. Cumulus Linux, its flagship product, facilitates the disaggregation of top-of-rack data center switching, while Cumulus VX serves as a virtual appliance for testing its technology in various environments. Additionally, Cumulus Networks offers the Rack Management Platform for out-of-band management and NetQ, a telemetry-based system for fabric validation. The company provides a range of networking solutions, including cloud orchestration, data center automation, and network virtualization, catering to diverse customers from large web-scale operations to small businesses across multiple industries. As of June 2020, Cumulus Networks operates as a subsidiary of NVIDIA Corporation.

Ascend.io

Seed Round in 2015
Ascend.io is a Palo Alto, California-based company that has developed an advanced platform for managing and automating big data pipelines. The platform integrates essential data engineering capabilities, including data ingestion, transformation, delivery, orchestration, and observability, allowing data teams to operate significantly faster. By employing declarative configurations and automation, Ascend.io optimizes cloud infrastructure management and streamlines the entire data lifecycle, reducing maintenance efforts. This innovative approach enables business managers to initiate projects, connect applications, and make informed decisions with ease. Recognized as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor, Ascend.io is supported by prominent venture capital firms and a notable group of industry advisors.

Crunchbase

Series A in 2015
Crunchbase is a data-driven platform that enables over 80 million investors, analysts, and dealmakers to identify and capitalize on private market opportunities by analyzing company activities and trends. It provides tools for discovering significant companies through its homepage, Crunchbase Scout, and robust search functionalities. The platform offers proprietary predictions and insights to facilitate informed decision-making regarding organizational profiles. Additionally, Crunchbase enhances team productivity with features for data exports, administrative tools, and integrations, which streamline workflows. By delivering unique private company intelligence, Crunchbase bridges the gap between data access and actionable business decisions, empowering users to navigate the evolving landscape of investments effectively.

LiftIgniter

Seed Round in 2015
LiftIgniter is a San Francisco-based company specializing in machine learning-based personalization solutions. Its core offering is a personalization API that facilitates intelligent, real-time interactions across various customer touchpoints. By employing data science techniques, LiftIgniter's platform optimizes key metrics such as click-through rates, engagement, sharing, and conversion for businesses. The technology effectively analyzes user actions and responds with tailored recommendations, enhancing the overall customer experience. This dynamic learning capability allows businesses to better connect with their customers, improve communication, and ultimately drive sales. LiftIgniter was part of the Winter 2014 YCombinator class, underscoring its innovative approach in the field of personalized digital interactions.

Clearbit

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Clearbit, Inc. is a business intelligence company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in providing application program interface tools to help organizations gather detailed information about their customers. Its suite of tools is designed for customer analysis, geolocation, fraud prevention, background checks, and address verification. By delivering accurate and actionable data, Clearbit enables businesses to enhance their sales processes and mitigate the risks of fraud, ultimately supporting informed decision-making and improving operational efficiency.

Helium

Series A in 2014
Helium Systems Inc. develops Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, focusing on sensor devices that monitor environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, motion, and light. These sensors are utilized in various applications, including facility monitoring and quality control for medical products, energy management, air quality assessment, and refrigeration temperature regulation. The company offers a web and mobile dashboard for users to manage and access sensor data. Additionally, Helium operates a decentralized wireless network that enables low-power IoT devices to connect to the internet. This network incentivizes individuals to become network operators, rewarding them with a cryptocurrency for validating network transactions and contributing to the network's integrity. Incorporated in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Helium Systems continues to innovate within the IoT landscape, enhancing the ability to gather insights from smart devices.

D2iQ

Series B in 2014
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.

PipelineDB

Seed Round in 2014
PipelineDB, Inc. is a company that specializes in real-time analytics databases designed to process streaming data. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, PipelineDB offers an open-source extension to PostgreSQL, enabling continuous SQL queries on time-series data. This innovative platform allows users to submit queries in advance, with results updated incrementally as new data streams in. By facilitating real-time reporting applications, PipelineDB helps clients streamline their data management processes, allowing them to prioritize high-performance time-series data aggregation without the necessity of recording data. As of May 1, 2019, PipelineDB operates as a subsidiary of Confluent, Inc.

LotusFlare

Seed Round in 2014
LotusFlare, Inc. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in digital commerce and monetization solutions for communications and media service providers. Founded in 2013, the company develops a cloud-native business support system known as LotusFlare Digital Network Operator (DNO) Cloud, which enhances customer experience and streamlines technological processes. This platform enables telecommunications operators and application developers to create data packages and services without disrupting existing networks, facilitating easier access to mobile data for users, especially in rural areas. Additionally, LotusFlare's DataEye app helps users manage their mobile data and battery usage effectively. The company serves a diverse range of clients, including major telecommunications providers such as T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, and Globe Telecom, assisting them in launching new digital brands and monetizing their network assets.

LotusFlare

Seed Round in 2014
LotusFlare, Inc. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in digital commerce and monetization solutions for communications and media service providers. Founded in 2013, the company develops a cloud-native business support system known as LotusFlare Digital Network Operator (DNO) Cloud, which enhances customer experience and streamlines technological processes. This platform enables telecommunications operators and application developers to create data packages and services without disrupting existing networks, facilitating easier access to mobile data for users, especially in rural areas. Additionally, LotusFlare's DataEye app helps users manage their mobile data and battery usage effectively. The company serves a diverse range of clients, including major telecommunications providers such as T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, and Globe Telecom, assisting them in launching new digital brands and monetizing their network assets.

Urban Engines

Seed Round in 2014
Urban Engines, Inc. is a technology company based in Los Altos, California, founded in 2011. It focuses on improving urban mobility by leveraging big data and spatial analytics to enhance transportation efficiency. The company's software solutions optimize the use of existing infrastructure, aid in city planning, and promote healthier urban growth. Urban Engines harnesses data from various sources, including transit systems and delivery vehicles, to facilitate better decision-making for individuals, cities, and businesses. Its cloud-based software can be implemented rapidly and is designed to scale effectively as transportation systems expand. Additionally, the Urban Engines mobile app provides commuters with city-level insights and optimized routing options, helping to alleviate congestion and streamline daily commutes. As of 2016, Urban Engines operates as a subsidiary of Google Inc.

Theorem

Seed Round in 2014
Theorem operates an investment management platform that leverages machine learning and data science to invest in loans from online lending platforms. Founded in 2014, the company initially managed $50,000 in assets and has since grown to manage over $800 million in assets under management, with a significant increase over the past few years. Theorem's approach combines statistical analysis with credit assessments and human insights, which enables it to generate strong yields across various economic conditions. This dual focus benefits both investors, who receive attractive returns, and borrowers, who gain access to low-interest loans. The leadership team includes experienced professionals with backgrounds in finance and technology.

EPINOMICS

Funding Round in 2014
Epinomics Inc. specializes in advancing personalized medicine by leveraging big data analytics and proprietary epigenomics technology. Founded in 2013 and located in Menlo Park, California, the company focuses on decoding the human genome to enhance drug development and clinical applications. By utilizing innovative DNA sequencing technology, Epinomics aims to improve existing methodologies in the field, facilitating deeper scientific research and the development of clinical applications. As of March 31, 2018, Epinomics operates as a subsidiary of 10X Genomics, Inc., furthering its mission to revolutionize healthcare through precision medicine.

Quid

Convertible Note in 2013
Quid, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in New York and London. Founded in 2006, Quid develops a platform that enables users to search, analyze, and visualize collective intelligence derived from written language. Its software specializes in text-based data analysis, utilizing artificial intelligence and natural language processing to uncover insights from vast datasets, including patents, news articles, and blog posts. Quid's proprietary algorithms facilitate the identification of patterns and connections, allowing non-technical users in various sectors, such as marketing, consulting, technology, healthcare, and finance, to independently access and derive meaningful insights from high-value information. In January 2020, Quid merged with NetBase Solutions, forming a combined entity known as Netbase Quid.

Helium

Seed Round in 2013
Helium Systems Inc. develops Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, focusing on sensor devices that monitor environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, motion, and light. These sensors are utilized in various applications, including facility monitoring and quality control for medical products, energy management, air quality assessment, and refrigeration temperature regulation. The company offers a web and mobile dashboard for users to manage and access sensor data. Additionally, Helium operates a decentralized wireless network that enables low-power IoT devices to connect to the internet. This network incentivizes individuals to become network operators, rewarding them with a cryptocurrency for validating network transactions and contributing to the network's integrity. Incorporated in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Helium Systems continues to innovate within the IoT landscape, enhancing the ability to gather insights from smart devices.

Databricks

Series A in 2013
Databricks offers a unified data analytics platform that simplifies data integration, enables real-time experimentation, and facilitates robust deployment of production applications for developers and data scientists. Serving diverse industries worldwide, Databricks' platform supports collaborative data science, machine learning workflows, and integrates with various cloud services.

Usermind

Series A in 2013
Usermind, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in creating a unified orchestration platform aimed at enhancing business operations and customer experiences. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Usermind addresses the challenges posed by siloed enterprise systems and fragmented customer data. Its platform integrates various SaaS applications and on-premise systems, facilitating entity mapping and the automation of complex customer journeys. By providing a customer data platform alongside a customer journey orchestration engine and analytics capabilities, Usermind enables organizations to deliver data-driven, omnichannel engagement throughout the customer lifecycle. This comprehensive approach empowers businesses to increase revenue, enhance customer engagement, and optimize costs.

Cumulus Networks

Series A in 2013
Cumulus Networks, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing Linux-based operating systems for networking hardware applications. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in San Francisco and Cary, North Carolina, the company aims to simplify data center operations through its innovative solutions. Cumulus Linux, its flagship product, facilitates the disaggregation of top-of-rack data center switching, while Cumulus VX serves as a virtual appliance for testing its technology in various environments. Additionally, Cumulus Networks offers the Rack Management Platform for out-of-band management and NetQ, a telemetry-based system for fabric validation. The company provides a range of networking solutions, including cloud orchestration, data center automation, and network virtualization, catering to diverse customers from large web-scale operations to small businesses across multiple industries. As of June 2020, Cumulus Networks operates as a subsidiary of NVIDIA Corporation.

D2iQ

Seed Round in 2013
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.

Tubular Labs

Series A in 2012
Tubular Labs is a leading video measurement and analytics platform that serves broadcasters, publishers, and brands by providing insights into video consumption patterns. The platform tracks over 4 billion videos and 1 trillion views, analyzing a vast array of data that includes 10 million influencers and 90,000 brands. It offers a comprehensive view of the social video ecosystem, allowing businesses to create effective content and scale their audiences more rapidly. Tubular Labs delivers valuable ratings and context for digital video, helping companies refine their content strategies, enhance distribution, and optimize paid media campaigns. The platform is trusted by several top global media companies, who rely on its analytics to make informed strategic decisions in the dynamic landscape of video content.

Wedgies

Seed Round in 2012
Wedgies, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing interactive polling services on the web. Founded in April 2012 and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, Wedgies enables publishers and clients to create and customize polls across various platforms, including social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, as well as on web pages and blog posts. The company's platform is designed to facilitate real-time data aggregation and user interaction through survey questions, allowing for seamless participation via tablets, mobiles, and desktops. Additionally, Wedgies offers features such as CSS customization, API access, and analytics to enhance the polling experience.

Citus Data

Seed Round in 2012
Citus Data, Inc. is a database technology company specializing in scaling PostgreSQL to enhance real-time applications. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Istanbul, Turkey, Citus Data provides a distributed database platform that efficiently handles massive parallelism and supports complex queries. Its flagship product, CitusDB, integrates the capabilities of PostgreSQL with features like native JSON support, enabling businesses to manage and analyze large volumes of data effectively. The platform simplifies database sharding, allowing organizations to partition large datasets for improved performance and manageability. Citus Data serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, security, and advertising, facilitating interactive analytics and operational workloads. In 2019, Citus Data became a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

Priceonomics

Seed Round in 2012
Priceonomics Inc. is a company that specializes in providing price guide services to facilitate the buying and selling of used products. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Priceonomics offers price estimates across a diverse array of categories, including appliances, electronics, furniture, vehicles, and sporting goods, among others. The company conducts research on past transactions to generate accurate price estimates, enabling users to make informed purchasing and selling decisions. Priceonomics aims to eliminate the uncertainty associated with valuing second-hand items, helping consumers to avoid over-paying or getting ripped off. Their services are particularly useful for transactions on platforms like Craigslist and eBay, and they continue to expand their offerings to cover more product categories, ensuring that users can confidently navigate the used goods market.

WibiData

Series A in 2012
WibiData is a software company that specializes in big data applications aimed at helping enterprises create personalized experiences across various channels. Founded in 2010 in San Francisco under the name Odiago by Christophe Bisciglia, Aaron Kimball, and Garrett Wu, WibiData leverages open-source technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, Apache Avro, and the Kiji Project. The company is supported by several notable investors, including Canaan Partners and New Enterprise Associates. Through its innovative platform, WibiData enables organizations to effectively analyze and utilize their data for enhanced customer engagement.

RJMetrics

Debt Financing in 2012
RJMetrics is a provider of business intelligence software that addresses the analytical challenges faced by high-growth online businesses. By consolidating data from various sources such as backend databases, marketing platforms, CRM systems, and e-commerce systems, RJMetrics creates a unified cloud-based data warehouse. This platform offers users an intuitive interface for exploring their data, enabling them to gain actionable insights into customer life-cycles and optimize their operations. The company's service is designed to facilitate data-driven decision-making by providing a comprehensive view of business metrics, ultimately helping organizations manage and analyze their scattered data more effectively.

Priceonomics

Seed Round in 2012
Priceonomics Inc. is a company that specializes in providing price guide services to facilitate the buying and selling of used products. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Priceonomics offers price estimates across a diverse array of categories, including appliances, electronics, furniture, vehicles, and sporting goods, among others. The company conducts research on past transactions to generate accurate price estimates, enabling users to make informed purchasing and selling decisions. Priceonomics aims to eliminate the uncertainty associated with valuing second-hand items, helping consumers to avoid over-paying or getting ripped off. Their services are particularly useful for transactions on platforms like Craigslist and eBay, and they continue to expand their offerings to cover more product categories, ensuring that users can confidently navigate the used goods market.

FoundationDB

Angel Round in 2011
FoundationDB is a company that specializes in scalable NoSQL database solutions, focusing on high-performance multi-key ACID transactions. Founded in 2009 by Nick Lavezzo, Dave Rosenthal, and Dave Scherer, the company was established to fill a gap in the market for transactional NoSQL database systems. FoundationDB's technology is designed for mission-critical applications, offering features such as multi-model data storage, fault tolerance, and consistency. This allows developers to create applications capable of managing large datasets and complex workloads while maintaining performance and reliability. The team's background in executive and technology roles has been instrumental in developing innovative data processing technologies.

Comprehend Systems

Seed Round in 2011
Comprehend Systems, Inc. is a Redwood City, California-based company that specializes in cloud-based continuous quality solutions for clinical operations. Founded in 2010, the company offers a comprehensive suite of clinical intelligence applications designed to enhance the efficiency, safety, and quality of clinical trials. These applications cater to clinical operations executives, data managers, and medical monitors, providing tools for portfolio monitoring, continuous quality assessment, collaboration with contract research organizations (CROs), and risk and medical monitoring. Comprehend Systems aims to deliver actionable insights across studies, systems, sites, and vendors, thereby improving the overall clinical trial process. In 2019, it became a subsidiary of Saama Technologies, Inc.

Kaggle

Series A in 2011
Kaggle Inc. is a prominent platform for data prediction competitions, catering to a diverse range of industries including pharmaceuticals, financial services, energy, and retail. Founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, the company allows organizations to post their data for analysis by a global community of data scientists. Through its competitions, Kaggle fosters collaboration and innovation in solving complex data science problems, utilizing advanced machine learning techniques. In addition to hosting competitions, Kaggle offers tools such as Kaggle Prospect, which assists companies and governments in transforming their data sets into actionable insights. As a subsidiary of Google, Kaggle serves both domestic and international clients, delivering cutting-edge business results and addressing real-world challenges across various sectors.

Prism Skylabs

Seed Round in 2011
Prism Skylabs is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that enhances the functionality of standard video cameras, turning them into effective business tools. Utilizing computer vision, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, Prism extracts valuable insights from video data, making the information easily understandable and actionable. The platform is employed by leading companies across 80 countries, helping them to gain a deeper understanding of their operations, manage resources effectively, and drive business growth.

Yext

Series D in 2011
Yext is a digital presence platform designed for multi-location brands, enabling them to manage their online information consistently and accurately across various digital channels. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York, Yext's platform allows businesses to structure and control the facts about their brands in a database called a Knowledge Graph. This structured data powers direct answers on a business' own website and across a network of approximately 175 third-party services, including maps, apps, search engines, GPS systems, digital assistants, directories, and social networks. Yext's AI and machine learning technology automates workflows and provides actionable insights for data-driven decisions. The company serves industries such as healthcare, retail, and financial services, helping brands deliver engaging experiences to customers across the digital world.

Quid

Series C in 2011
Quid, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in New York and London. Founded in 2006, Quid develops a platform that enables users to search, analyze, and visualize collective intelligence derived from written language. Its software specializes in text-based data analysis, utilizing artificial intelligence and natural language processing to uncover insights from vast datasets, including patents, news articles, and blog posts. Quid's proprietary algorithms facilitate the identification of patterns and connections, allowing non-technical users in various sectors, such as marketing, consulting, technology, healthcare, and finance, to independently access and derive meaningful insights from high-value information. In January 2020, Quid merged with NetBase Solutions, forming a combined entity known as Netbase Quid.

140 Proof

Series B in 2011
140 Proof is a mobile-based software company that specializes in social advertising, utilizing individuals' social activity to tailor advertisements based on their interests. Founded in 2010 by Jon Elvekrog and John Manoogian III, along with Vanessa Naylon, Ryan Matsumura, and Andy Scott, the company has developed a patented technology known as the Blended Interest Graph. This technology allows 140 Proof to reach over 66 million unique social users by analyzing data from various social platforms to create detailed interest-based profiles, or "personas." The company offers a Relevance API that serves as a primary revenue stream for premium applications, providing targeted brand advertisements that are presented as concise messages or short videos. Unlike traditional ads on platforms like Facebook or Twitter, 140 Proof's approach combines insights from multiple social networks to deliver more relevant and personalized advertising experiences.

Factual

Series A in 2010
Factual Inc. is a location data company that specializes in providing accurate and comprehensive data for mobile advertising, developers, and enterprise solutions. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with additional offices in New York and Shanghai, Factual offers various services, including local business and point of interest data through APIs, geofencing capabilities for targeted advertising, and a UPC-centric dataset for consumer packaged goods. The company also features Geotag, a reverse geocoder designed for high-volume geotagging. Factual's platform supports product and engineering teams, marketers, and data analysts by enabling them to build digital products and execute impactful marketing strategies based on reliable location data. As of April 2020, Factual operates as a subsidiary of Foursquare Labs, Inc.

Tasty Labs

Series A in 2010
Tasty Labs is a startup founded by Joshua Schachter, known for creating Delicious, alongside Paul Rademacher, a former Google employee, and Nick Nguyen, the former Director of Add-Ons at Mozilla. The company focuses on enhancing social software by facilitating connections between users and problem solvers. Tasty Labs offers a social recommendation service that aims to integrate practical utility into social interactions, allowing users to navigate challenges collaboratively.

WibiData

Seed Round in 2010
WibiData is a software company that specializes in big data applications aimed at helping enterprises create personalized experiences across various channels. Founded in 2010 in San Francisco under the name Odiago by Christophe Bisciglia, Aaron Kimball, and Garrett Wu, WibiData leverages open-source technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, Apache Avro, and the Kiji Project. The company is supported by several notable investors, including Canaan Partners and New Enterprise Associates. Through its innovative platform, WibiData enables organizations to effectively analyze and utilize their data for enhanced customer engagement.

Magnetic

Series A in 2010
Magnetic Media Online, Inc. is a digital marketing and artificial intelligence company that provides a comprehensive advertising platform for enterprises, brands, and agencies. It specializes in data-driven advertising solutions, enabling marketers to effectively find, retain, and re-engage customers across various channels and devices. The company's offerings include a media buying platform, audience targeting through AI-optimized strategies, and capabilities for video, connected television, native, and cross-device advertising. Magnetic leverages extensive data sources, including purchase intent data from over 450,000 partner sites and insights from more than 250 million shopping profiles, to deliver targeted and effective programmatic campaigns. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York City, Magnetic has established a presence in multiple U.S. cities as well as in Europe and Canada, reflecting its commitment to serving a diverse clientele across various verticals.

CitizenNet

Seed Round in 2010
CitizenNet, Inc. is a technology company based in Beverly Hills, California, founded in 2008. It specializes in providing tools for real-time social media analytics and advertising, leveraging a semantic platform that aggregates and filters social content from platforms like Twitter and Facebook. The company's offerings include Social Streams, which capture and moderate real-time social activity, content analytics to monitor sentiment and trending topics, user analytics to gather insights on social interactions, and outreach tools to connect with potential customers. CitizenNet employs advanced natural language processing and semantic analysis to enhance ad targeting and optimize social media advertising performance. The company serves a diverse range of clients across various sectors, including e-commerce, education, entertainment, consumer packaged goods, and retail, drawing on a team with extensive experience from leading technology and advertising firms. As of early 2017, CitizenNet operates as a subsidiary of Condé Nast.

SimpleGeo

Seed Round in 2009
SimpleGeo is a company that specializes in providing location infrastructure designed to facilitate the integration of location-aware features into applications. Founded in 2009 by Matt Galligan and Joe Stump, the company focuses on delivering services such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Location-Based Services (LBS). These offerings enable mobile applications to access and utilize geographical information effectively, allowing users to store and manage their own location data while performing complex geospatial and temporal queries. SimpleGeo was acquired by Urban Airship in October 2011.

DNAnexus

Series A in 2009
DNAnexus, Inc. is a cloud-based provider of genome informatics and data management tools, primarily serving enterprises and organizations involved in genomic medicine. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company offers a platform that facilitates the analysis of raw sequencing data and the integration of genomic data with clinical information. Its suite of products includes MOSAIC Microbiome for collaborative research on the human microbiome, DNAnexus Apollo for clinico-genomic data exploration, and DNAnexus Titan for data analysis. Additionally, the DNAnexus Portals provide secure online workspaces for cross-disciplinary collaboration, while the Clinico-Genomic Data Solution addresses the need for disease-specific datasets through partnerships with healthcare providers. The company has established itself as a key player in the biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and academic research sectors, enabling clients to tackle complex challenges in human health with enhanced security and scalability. DNAnexus also maintains a strategic alliance with WuXi NextCODE Genomics and has locations in San Francisco, London, and Prague.

Cloudera

Series A in 2009
Cloudera, Inc. is a provider of data analytics and management solutions, operating primarily in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company offers a comprehensive suite of products through its Subscription and Services segments. Its flagship Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub enables organizations to perform various analytics on a governed and secure data set across public and private clouds or data centers. Cloudera also provides a hybrid cloud solution known as Cloudera Data Warehouse for self-service analytics, along with tools like Cloudera Data Science and Engineering for big data processing and Cloudera Operational DB for real-time analytics. Additional offerings include the Hortonworks Data Platform, Cloudera DataFlow for data collection and analysis, and Cloudera SDX for security and governance. Cloudera supports its clients—corporate enterprises and public sector organizations—through software subscriptions and professional services that include consultation, training, and machine learning expertise. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Cloudera aims to transform complex data into actionable insights while ensuring efficiency and security.

Hunch

Series A in 2009
Hunch is a consumer web application that is building the "taste graph" of the internet, mapping every person on the internet to every entity on the internet and their affinity for that entity. An entity could be a web site, a cookbook, a hotel room, a celebrity, a restaurant, etc. Hunch creates a taste profile by asking them a series of questions which range from serious to profound and subsequently can make recommendations personalized to that user, which live in "topics". Topics vary widely, from entertaining subjects like 'Which superhero would you be' to more conventional questions like 'Should I Switch to A Mac?' The system then uses the answers to these questions to offer the user a suggested solution, a "hunch" of what the user would like.

Adara

Seed Round in 2009
Adara is a company that provides an online audience targeting platform designed to enhance business planning through actionable insights. By leveraging proprietary data and audience segmentation, Adara offers travel brands and advertisers a comprehensive view of their audience. This enables them to personalize their offerings effectively, aligning with specific consumer buying habits. Through its predictive analytics capabilities, Adara helps brands improve consumer engagement and gain a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving digital marketplace.

Aster Data Systems

Angel Round in 2005
Aster Data Systems is a leader in big data management and analysis, specializing in providing innovative solutions for data-driven applications. The company's flagship product, nCluster, features a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehouse architecture that integrates application logic directly within the database engine, enabling rapid and comprehensive analysis of large datasets. Aster Data's unique "applications-within" approach utilizes its proprietary SQL-MapReduce technology, allowing for efficient parallel data processing to tackle the complexities of big data. The company offers a range of services including analytics, data loading optimization, query performance enhancement, and consulting. Headquartered in San Carlos, California, Aster Data serves a diverse clientele, including notable firms such as Coremetrics, MySpace, and Akamai.
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