SV Angel

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based seed fund founded by Ron Conway, specializing in early-stage investments primarily in the Internet software sector. Established in 1992, the firm distinguishes itself from traditional venture capital by adopting a portfolio approach, investing in a larger number of companies while refraining from taking board seats. This allows SV Angel to focus on providing extensive business development, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic advice to its portfolio companies. Over the years, SV Angel has supported numerous high-profile startups, including Facebook, Google, and Airbnb. The firm continues to leverage its extensive network to facilitate growth and innovation within the companies it invests in, aiming to foster a thriving startup ecosystem across the United States.

Ron Conway

Founder and Managing Partner

Ronald Conway

Founder and Managing Partner

Topher Conway

Managing Partner

Sourav Gupta

Principal

Steven Lee

Partner

Robert Pollak

Partner

Beth Turner

Managing Partner - Seed

Past deals in Human Resources

HumanFirst

Series A in 2021
HumanFirst, formerly known as Elektra Labs, is a healthcare-security company based in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, that focuses on enhancing healthcare operations in home settings. Established in 2017, the company has developed a digital measures platform called Atlas, which streamlines the evaluation and implementation of connected technologies for collecting behavioral and physiological data. HumanFirst caters to a diverse clientele, including leading organizations involved in decentralized clinical trials and virtual care. Notably, 22 of the 25 largest pharmaceutical companies globally have utilized the HumanFirst platform to assess and facilitate the deployment of health technology products. The company provides command center and infrastructure solutions that ensure the reliability and trustworthiness of telehealth operations, matching the standards typically found in hospitals and laboratories.

Rippling

Seed Round in 2021
Rippling is a human resource management company that streamlines various employee-related processes, including payroll, benefits, device management, and application access. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, Rippling offers a platform that automates manual tasks, such as the onboarding of new hires. In a matter of 90 seconds, businesses can set up or disable employee payroll, health insurance, and access to essential third-party applications like Gmail, Microsoft Office, and Slack. By unifying all employee systems, Rippling effectively reduces administrative burdens, allowing organizations to focus on their core activities.

Haystack

Seed Round in 2020
Haystack is a developer of business software aimed at enhancing organizational connectivity and communication. Its platform serves as a centralized hub where employees can access information about colleagues and teams, facilitating seamless collaboration. By integrating data from various enterprise systems, Haystack allows organizations to create unified profiles for individuals, teams, and projects. This approach not only improves alignment and engagement within large companies but also aids in scaling organizational culture and accelerating the onboarding process for new hires. The team at Haystack comprises professionals with backgrounds from leading technology firms, and the company has secured over $8 million in funding from notable investors.

Talentdrop

Seed Round in 2020
Talentdrop is turning to recruit into an open marketplace, where hiring companies post bounties for their open roles, and any recruiter or other professional can collect it by referring a successful candidate. Companies get more people working on their hiring problem without having to pay more for it, and now anyone can earn big recruiting bonuses previously limited to a few firms.

Seso

Seed Round in 2020
SESO Inc. operates an online agricultural labor recruitment platform that connects U.S. farms with qualified seasonal workers through the H-2A visa program. This program allows agricultural employers to hire foreign workers for temporary or seasonal labor. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, the company addresses the significant labor shortage in U.S. agriculture, which results in annual losses of $15 billion. SESO offers a comprehensive service package that includes recruiting, qualifying, and training workers, as well as automating the H-2A visa process. Additionally, SESO provides workforce management software to assist employers in maintaining compliance with local and federal regulations. By facilitating access to a better quality workforce at a lower cost, SESO aims to create meaningful and safe employment opportunities for agricultural workers.

PostHog

Pre Seed Round in 2020
PostHog is increasing the number of successful products in the world. We do that by providing a platform for open-source product analytics. This helps software teams understand user behaviour. We took part in Y Combinator’s W20 cohort, and had the most successful B2B software launch on HackerNews since 2012, with a product that was just 4 weeks old. Our team is a combination of former CTOs and YC founders all turned developers, alongside some of the best developers from the world's largest tech companies who have the experience to help us handle scalability. We're all remote, and we've raised enough to pay top of market. We are proudly backed by some of the best VCs and Investors in the world, such as Y Combinator. We believe in product-led growth, while we build something awesome and let our product bring the users, rather than an outbound sales team and regular cold calls. Check out posthog.com/careers if you want to be part of this journey.

HumanFirst

Seed Round in 2019
HumanFirst, formerly known as Elektra Labs, is a healthcare-security company based in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, that focuses on enhancing healthcare operations in home settings. Established in 2017, the company has developed a digital measures platform called Atlas, which streamlines the evaluation and implementation of connected technologies for collecting behavioral and physiological data. HumanFirst caters to a diverse clientele, including leading organizations involved in decentralized clinical trials and virtual care. Notably, 22 of the 25 largest pharmaceutical companies globally have utilized the HumanFirst platform to assess and facilitate the deployment of health technology products. The company provides command center and infrastructure solutions that ensure the reliability and trustworthiness of telehealth operations, matching the standards typically found in hospitals and laboratories.

Agave

Venture Round in 2019
Agave is a free hiring platform that offers job postings, hosted career pages, customer relationship management tools and full API read and write access. Today's hiring software is slow, expensive, and painful. They are on a mission to make hiring software faster, better, and cost-effective.

By HumanKind

Seed Round in 2019
By Humankind, Inc. is a New York-based company that develops and manufactures natural personal care products with a focus on sustainability. Founded in 2017, the brand offers a range of items, including deodorants, mouthwash tablets, and shampoo bars, designed to reduce single-use plastic waste by 90 percent or more compared to traditional products. By Humankind emphasizes a refillable model that allows consumers to minimize their environmental impact while enjoying clean-ingredient solutions. The company utilizes eco-friendly materials, such as hyaluronic acid, and packages its products in reused plastics. By Humankind aims to create a community-driven approach to personal care, measuring the collective environmental impact of its users over time.

By HumanKind

Seed Round in 2018
By Humankind, Inc. is a New York-based company that develops and manufactures natural personal care products with a focus on sustainability. Founded in 2017, the brand offers a range of items, including deodorants, mouthwash tablets, and shampoo bars, designed to reduce single-use plastic waste by 90 percent or more compared to traditional products. By Humankind emphasizes a refillable model that allows consumers to minimize their environmental impact while enjoying clean-ingredient solutions. The company utilizes eco-friendly materials, such as hyaluronic acid, and packages its products in reused plastics. By Humankind aims to create a community-driven approach to personal care, measuring the collective environmental impact of its users over time.

RemoteHQ

Angel Round in 2018
RemoteHQ is an internet company that offers a collaborative video conferencing platform aimed at enhancing remote interactions. The platform is designed to replicate the experience of being physically present, facilitating activities such as team meetings, sales demonstrations, support calls, and training sessions. Utilizing computer vision and artificial intelligence, RemoteHQ enables features such as whiteboard sharing, annotation, archiving, and transcription. This functionality allows users to engage seamlessly through a web application that is accessible on any browser, eliminating the need for downloads or logins.

Willow

Seed Round in 2018
Willow is a new kind of employee onboarding and continuous performance development software for employee-centric companies. Our software and services give both employees and HR the intuitive and seamless experiences they demand. We help HR teams attract and onboard talent, develop better leaders, and understand and improve their employee experience. As the partner of choice for leading businesses around the world including Cathay Pacific, Bupa, and the Australian Red Cross, our mission is to help make every employee more productive and successful. Get in touch to learn more: https://withwillow.co/contact

Merlin

Series A in 2017
Merlin is an internet company that specializes in the fields of the marketplace, consumer software, delivery, and human resources. It provides a software platform that helps employers to find, screen and select the candidates for every opening. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Lattice

Series A in 2017
Lattice is a people management platform that helps organizations enhance employee engagement and performance. It combines continuous performance management with employee feedback, providing real-time analytics that generate actionable insights. This enables HR and People teams to support managers in developing their leadership skills and fosters a culture of high performance among employees. The platform streamlines the performance management process, allowing companies to efficiently conduct performance reviews and track employee goals throughout the year. Targeting primarily medium-sized organizations, Lattice aims to transform workplaces into environments where employees can thrive and succeed.

Rippling

Seed Round in 2017
Rippling is a human resource management company that streamlines various employee-related processes, including payroll, benefits, device management, and application access. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, Rippling offers a platform that automates manual tasks, such as the onboarding of new hires. In a matter of 90 seconds, businesses can set up or disable employee payroll, health insurance, and access to essential third-party applications like Gmail, Microsoft Office, and Slack. By unifying all employee systems, Rippling effectively reduces administrative burdens, allowing organizations to focus on their core activities.

Lattice

Seed Round in 2016
Lattice is a people management platform that helps organizations enhance employee engagement and performance. It combines continuous performance management with employee feedback, providing real-time analytics that generate actionable insights. This enables HR and People teams to support managers in developing their leadership skills and fosters a culture of high performance among employees. The platform streamlines the performance management process, allowing companies to efficiently conduct performance reviews and track employee goals throughout the year. Targeting primarily medium-sized organizations, Lattice aims to transform workplaces into environments where employees can thrive and succeed.

Jyve

Seed Round in 2016
Jyve Corporation is a technology platform that connects companies with on-demand labor to fulfill their in-store execution needs. Incorporated in 2015 and based in San Francisco, Jyve serves a range of customers, including grocers, brands, and retailers, throughout most of the United States. The platform provides access to certified skilled workers, known as Jyvers, who handle various tasks such as stocking, auditing, ordering, and display building. By identifying talent suited for merchandising and digital shopping requirements, Jyve enables businesses to improve efficiency, enhance revenue growth, and gain real-time insights into employee performance.

Jyve

Seed Round in 2016
Jyve Corporation is a technology platform that connects companies with on-demand labor to fulfill their in-store execution needs. Incorporated in 2015 and based in San Francisco, Jyve serves a range of customers, including grocers, brands, and retailers, throughout most of the United States. The platform provides access to certified skilled workers, known as Jyvers, who handle various tasks such as stocking, auditing, ordering, and display building. By identifying talent suited for merchandising and digital shopping requirements, Jyve enables businesses to improve efficiency, enhance revenue growth, and gain real-time insights into employee performance.

Human Interest

Seed Round in 2016
Human Interest provides accessible and affordable employee retirement plans, addressing a significant gap in the market where traditionally only large companies offered such benefits. This leaves over half of working Americans without a secure financial future. The company operates an administration and advising platform that automatically creates employee accounts and syncs deductions with payroll providers. Additionally, Human Interest offers personalized investment advice to empower small and medium-sized businesses in providing their employees with essential financial security. By democratizing access to retirement planning, Human Interest aims to foster financial independence for individuals across diverse occupations.

Lattice

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Lattice is a people management platform that helps organizations enhance employee engagement and performance. It combines continuous performance management with employee feedback, providing real-time analytics that generate actionable insights. This enables HR and People teams to support managers in developing their leadership skills and fosters a culture of high performance among employees. The platform streamlines the performance management process, allowing companies to efficiently conduct performance reviews and track employee goals throughout the year. Targeting primarily medium-sized organizations, Lattice aims to transform workplaces into environments where employees can thrive and succeed.

Interviewed

Seed Round in 2015
Interviewed is a company that specializes in employee assessment tools aimed at streamlining the hiring process. By utilizing job simulations, Interviewed allows candidates to engage in realistic scenarios that reflect the actual responsibilities of the positions they are applying for. This approach enables hiring managers to observe candidates in action, evaluating their real-world skills such as communication, technical abilities, and emotional intelligence. For instance, candidates can interact with simulated customers while managing a customer relationship management system, showcasing their speed, accuracy, and adaptability. This method provides a more objective and effective way for employers to identify and select the right talent, making the hiring process faster, more cost-effective, and fairer.

Bluecrew

Seed Round in 2015
BlueCrew, Inc. is an on-demand staffing platform based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in connecting employers with temporary workers in the Bay Area. The platform allows companies to post job openings and enables applicants to easily sign up and apply for positions. BlueCrew focuses on filling short-term, low-complexity roles in areas such as commercial moving, furniture pickup, data entry, truck driving, and on-the-move sales. By combining transparency and automation, BlueCrew aims to enhance the staffing experience for blue-collar positions while providing the flexibility of a mobile-based interface along with the legal protections typically associated with traditional employment models. As of February 2018, BlueCrew operates as a subsidiary of IAC/InterActiveCorp.

Human Interest

Seed Round in 2015
Human Interest provides accessible and affordable employee retirement plans, addressing a significant gap in the market where traditionally only large companies offered such benefits. This leaves over half of working Americans without a secure financial future. The company operates an administration and advising platform that automatically creates employee accounts and syncs deductions with payroll providers. Additionally, Human Interest offers personalized investment advice to empower small and medium-sized businesses in providing their employees with essential financial security. By democratizing access to retirement planning, Human Interest aims to foster financial independence for individuals across diverse occupations.

Guideline

Seed Round in 2015
Guideline, Inc. offers an automated technology solution for retirement plan administration and compliance, focusing primarily on 401(k) planning for growing businesses. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an additional office in Portland, Maine, the company provides a comprehensive platform that manages all aspects of retirement planning, including plan design, participant enrollment, education, recordkeeping, investment management, and compliance reporting. Unique in its approach, Guideline utilizes a straightforward pricing model based on a flat fee per participant, distinguishing itself from the traditional asset-based fee structures commonly found in the industry. The platform continuously integrates users' financial ecosystems, offering ongoing recommendations and adjustments to help optimize retirement savings potential.

Lever

Series A in 2014
Lever, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in talent acquisition software aimed at mid-sized and enterprise organizations. Its primary product, Lever Hire, integrates applicant tracking system (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) functionalities into a single platform. The software facilitates the entire hiring process, allowing teams to post jobs, source candidates, conduct interviews, and make hiring decisions. Additionally, Lever offers a suite of tools that enhance recruitment marketing and analytics, including Lever Nurture, Lever Talent Intelligence, and Lever Data Warehouse Sync. With a diverse clientele that includes notable companies such as Netflix, Mercedes-Benz, KPMG, and Spotify, Lever has established itself as a prominent player in the recruitment technology sector.

Workpop

Series A in 2014
Workpop, Inc. is an online job posting and hiring platform headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and was incorporated in 2014. It serves both job seekers and employers, offering a comprehensive suite of tools for candidate sourcing, applicant screening, employee onboarding, and team management. As a subsidiary of Cornerstone OnDemand, Workpop distinguishes itself by focusing on the candidate experience throughout the hiring process. Its technology automates sourcing and engages candidates from the initial job posting, while its user-friendly screening tools facilitate effective communication between hiring managers and applicants. Additionally, Workpop provides a paperless onboarding system that reduces costs and enables new hires to contribute effectively from their first day. The platform is particularly tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, enhancing their ability to attract and hire top talent in a competitive market.

Zenefits

Series B in 2014
Zenefits is a digital HR platform tailored for small and medium businesses, providing a comprehensive solution for managing various human resources functions. The platform integrates essential applications such as HR, benefits, payroll, and compliance with partner tools for email, collaboration, and employee engagement. This all-in-one approach allows businesses to streamline their HR processes, including employee onboarding and off-boarding, benefits management, and compliance tracking, all from a single online dashboard. Zenefits aims to empower businesses to manage their workforce effectively while ensuring compliance with relevant regulations. Thousands of companies utilize Zenefits to enhance their HR capabilities and improve employee experience.

Zenefits

Series B in 2014
Zenefits is a digital HR platform tailored for small and medium businesses, providing a comprehensive solution for managing various human resources functions. The platform integrates essential applications such as HR, benefits, payroll, and compliance with partner tools for email, collaboration, and employee engagement. This all-in-one approach allows businesses to streamline their HR processes, including employee onboarding and off-boarding, benefits management, and compliance tracking, all from a single online dashboard. Zenefits aims to empower businesses to manage their workforce effectively while ensuring compliance with relevant regulations. Thousands of companies utilize Zenefits to enhance their HR capabilities and improve employee experience.

Simpler

Seed Round in 2013
We started Simpler because after years of working in high-growth companies, we realized how important good onboarding is to the success of new hires. But it almost always goes neglected, because it's a painful process and good tools are hard to come by. We're fixing that with Simpler.

Gusto

Seed Round in 2012
Gusto is a company that provides a cloud-based platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses to manage payroll, benefits, and human resources. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Denver, Gusto offers an array of services including payroll processing, health benefits, workers' compensation, and time tracking. The platform allows employers and employees to access payroll information from various devices, enabling features such as browsing pay stubs, reviewing tax forms, and verifying personal details. Gusto caters to a diverse clientele, including startups, coffee shops, medical practices, creative agencies, and law firms, aiming to simplify the administrative tasks associated with employee management.

Lever

Convertible Note in 2012
Lever, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in talent acquisition software aimed at mid-sized and enterprise organizations. Its primary product, Lever Hire, integrates applicant tracking system (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) functionalities into a single platform. The software facilitates the entire hiring process, allowing teams to post jobs, source candidates, conduct interviews, and make hiring decisions. Additionally, Lever offers a suite of tools that enhance recruitment marketing and analytics, including Lever Nurture, Lever Talent Intelligence, and Lever Data Warehouse Sync. With a diverse clientele that includes notable companies such as Netflix, Mercedes-Benz, KPMG, and Spotify, Lever has established itself as a prominent player in the recruitment technology sector.

Fancy Hands

Venture Round in 2012
Fancy Hands, Inc. provides assistant services and provides solutions for businesses, and developers.in the United States. It allows businesses to expense reports, creating target lists, find contact info, and data entry; and research, calling, scheduling, purchases, and concierge assistance. It provides assistance to employees in personal to-dos, waiting on hold, travel itineraries, home service provider vetting, activity event planning, doctors’ appointments, and gift suggestions / purchases. The company offers tools, official software development kits, and third party software development kits for developers. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

Fond

Seed Round in 2012
Fond is a SaaS platform that seamlessly consolidates employee rewards and recognition processes into one easy-to-use solution. With Fond, employees and managers can recognize each other, redeem rewards, access exclusive corporate discounts, and measure success so HR departments spend less time managing programs and more time driving results. Fond is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Learn more at https://www.fond.co.

EmployInsight

Seed Round in 2012
EmployInsight, a web-based platform for measuring and quantifying employees "soft skills" in the workplace. Using EmployInsight's products, employees and potential employees can be measured to determine where their personalities fit in with the work involved. With HireInsight, the company's first product, the focus is on measuring interview candidates.

Lever

Seed Round in 2012
Lever, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in talent acquisition software aimed at mid-sized and enterprise organizations. Its primary product, Lever Hire, integrates applicant tracking system (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) functionalities into a single platform. The software facilitates the entire hiring process, allowing teams to post jobs, source candidates, conduct interviews, and make hiring decisions. Additionally, Lever offers a suite of tools that enhance recruitment marketing and analytics, including Lever Nurture, Lever Talent Intelligence, and Lever Data Warehouse Sync. With a diverse clientele that includes notable companies such as Netflix, Mercedes-Benz, KPMG, and Spotify, Lever has established itself as a prominent player in the recruitment technology sector.

Fancy Hands

Convertible Note in 2011
Fancy Hands, Inc. provides assistant services and provides solutions for businesses, and developers.in the United States. It allows businesses to expense reports, creating target lists, find contact info, and data entry; and research, calling, scheduling, purchases, and concierge assistance. It provides assistance to employees in personal to-dos, waiting on hold, travel itineraries, home service provider vetting, activity event planning, doctors’ appointments, and gift suggestions / purchases. The company offers tools, official software development kits, and third party software development kits for developers. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

HackerRank

Seed Round in 2011
HackerRank is a skills-based tech hiring platform that assists businesses in attracting, evaluating, and hiring top technical talent globally. With over 2,000 clients across various industries, including a significant portion of the Fortune 100, HackerRank aims to enhance the hiring process. The platform specializes in automated skill assessments, allowing tech recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate candidates at each stage of recruitment. More than 11 million developers utilize HackerRank to learn and practice coding skills, with developers completing assessments every eight seconds. The company's focus on skill-based evaluation positions it as a valuable resource for organizations seeking to improve their technical hiring processes.

Career planet Infotech

Series C in 2011
Career Planet InfoTech is a Faridabad based HR consultancy, started its operations way back in 2009 and from there on it has made a place for itself in all these years by growing from strength to strength. From Talent sourcing and Talent administration we deliver seamless solutions through excellent cross service collaboration. As all our efforts are made keeping client satisfaction in mind, we can provide all Human Resource related assistance. Our Service offerings include: Recruitments Staffing Permanent/Contractual Payroll Services Campus Placements

TalentBin

Seed Round in 2010
TalentBin is a talent search engine designed for technical recruiters and hiring managers to locate passive candidates. Founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform provides access to a comprehensive database of candidates. It includes detailed information about candidates' professional and personal interests, as well as personal email addresses and social communication channels. Additionally, TalentBin offers organizational tools that help recruiters manage their hiring processes through notes, stages, tasks, and reminders. This functionality enables more efficient and targeted recruitment efforts.

Kanjoya

Seed Round in 2007
Kanjoya, Inc. operates a workforce intelligence and management platform for enterprise companies. The company offers employee engagement solutions that enable companies to capture feedback, analyze results in real-time, and distribute critical intelligence; Kanjoya Perception that reveals employee emotions, attitude, and intent, as well as predicts behavior; Workday directory that guides employee surveys and performance review insights; and Perception for Performance, a tool that managers use to evaluate, reward, and motivate employees. Its solutions deliver authoritative data and direction that address workforce-related challenges that companies face. Kanjoya, Inc. was formerly known as Experience Project, Inc. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of September 29, 2016, Kanjoya, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc.
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