Synapse Partners

Synapse Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2016. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in startups that develop data-driven software applications and technologies, particularly in sectors such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and enterprise software. Synapse Partners aims to identify and address strategic industry challenges by collaborating with global corporations in fields like automotive, transportation, telecommunications, and financial services. By leveraging proprietary databases and extensive networks of advisors and entrepreneurs, the firm selects promising startups to invest in, utilizing its partners' expertise in big data, AI, and venture capital to support portfolio companies in scaling their operations and achieving successful exits.

Alex Cowan

Managing Director, Advising

Evangelos Simoudis

Founder and Managing Director

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Satoshis Games

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
After building the first Lightning-based gaming Platform in 2018, Satoshi’s Games is now pioneering the micro-reward gaming industry by creating games and gaming Platforms enabling a new level of interaction between gamers and with developers. Bitcoin micro-payments and tokenized items plus improved security levels will bring higher freedom to users to manage their owned assets, and empower developers/publishers to offer higher value to their end users.

Humanising Autonomy

Series A in 2021
Humanising Autonomy is a predictive AI company focused on enhancing the interaction between vehicles and people across various environments. The company develops behavior artificial intelligence software that integrates behavioral psychology, computer vision, and large language models to predict human decision-making. Its platform analyzes camera data in real-time to interpret and forecast the behavior of pedestrians, passengers, and vehicles. This capability supports automated decision-making processes, improving driver alerts and vehicle motion response. By providing an end-to-end software solution for dashcam manufacturers, Humanising Autonomy aims to establish a global standard for safety and efficiency in vehicle operations.

Miles

Series A in 2021
Miles is a universal rewards app empowering anyone to earn miles automatically for all forms of travel and commute. You can then redeem your miles from retailers such as HP, DoorDash, Garmin, Peet’s, Shipt, Pandora, Reebok, Chewy, Home Chef, and many more. Similar to a frequent flyer program, but for all forms of transportation, Miles delivers value for every mile traveled, across every mode of travel, anywhere in the world. Whether by car (as a driver, passenger or rideshare), plane, train, subway, bus, boat, bicycle, or on foot, the Miles app effortlessly awards users’ travel - regardless of where their journey takes them. Miles can be saved or redeemed at any time - with the value increasing every month as more merchants accept them as a form of payment. Download Miles today to start getting rewarded!

Awake Mobility

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a predictive maintenance platform designed to support public and private bus operators with their digital transformation. The company's platform uses IoT and machine learning for city buses in order to prevent breakdowns and failures in the field, resulting in a pleasant customer experience for the passengers, enabling bus operators to have access to real-time data about the health situation of their entire fleet.

Datatron

Seed Round in 2019
Datatron Technologies Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in machine learning model lifecycle management. Founded in 2016, it offers a platform that streamlines the deployment of machine learning models, allowing organizations to rapidly transition these models into production. The platform encompasses various automated features, including model deployment, monitoring, governance, management, and troubleshooting, thus simplifying the complexities of managing multiple models. Datatron's technology is vendor, language, and framework agnostic, supporting a range of programming environments such as Python and TensorFlow. By facilitating real-time feature extraction and data cleansing, the platform enhances operational efficiency and enables data-driven decision-making for businesses leveraging artificial intelligence and data science.

Humanising Autonomy

Seed Round in 2019
Humanising Autonomy is a predictive AI company focused on enhancing the interaction between vehicles and people across various environments. The company develops behavior artificial intelligence software that integrates behavioral psychology, computer vision, and large language models to predict human decision-making. Its platform analyzes camera data in real-time to interpret and forecast the behavior of pedestrians, passengers, and vehicles. This capability supports automated decision-making processes, improving driver alerts and vehicle motion response. By providing an end-to-end software solution for dashcam manufacturers, Humanising Autonomy aims to establish a global standard for safety and efficiency in vehicle operations.

Humanising Autonomy

Seed Round in 2018
Humanising Autonomy is a predictive AI company focused on enhancing the interaction between vehicles and people across various environments. The company develops behavior artificial intelligence software that integrates behavioral psychology, computer vision, and large language models to predict human decision-making. Its platform analyzes camera data in real-time to interpret and forecast the behavior of pedestrians, passengers, and vehicles. This capability supports automated decision-making processes, improving driver alerts and vehicle motion response. By providing an end-to-end software solution for dashcam manufacturers, Humanising Autonomy aims to establish a global standard for safety and efficiency in vehicle operations.

Divergent

Series C in 2018
Divergent Technologies, Inc., based in Los Angeles, California, is focused on transforming the automotive industry through innovative 3D printing technology. Founded in 2014, the company has developed a patented production system that utilizes 3D printed metal connectors, known as Nodes, along with lightweight materials to construct strong and efficient complex structures. This approach eliminates traditional tooling, fostering significant advancements in cost reduction and sustainability within vehicle manufacturing. Divergent's engineering prototype, the Blade, is recognized as the world's first 3D printed supercar, showcasing the potential for radical innovation in automotive design and production. The company has established a strategic partnership with PSA Group to further its mission of empowering a new generation of creative innovators in the automotive sector.

understand.ai

Seed Round in 2018
understand.ai provides the highest possible training and validation data to make autonomous driving safe and reliable. Their company was founded in the belief that a human’s ability to understand, meaning to interpret or view something in a particular way, can be complemented, enhanced and accelerated by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to a highly repetitive task. Their mission is to push the boundaries of technology and AI to advance the state of autonomous driving. understand.ai provides high-quality training and validation data to enable mobility companies to develop with confidence computer vision and machine learning models that reliably and safely power autonomous vehicles.Their advanced capabilities include segmentation and bounding box annotations for LiDAR and 2D camera data, with specific meta-attributes and instance ID labeling for object tracking. By applying specialized AI technology and continuous quality improvement to accurately and quickly annotate millions of images, they accelerate production of the ground-truth required to make autonomous driving a reality.

Metamoto

Seed Round in 2017
Metamoto brings superior simulation-centric products, services, and best practices for training, testing, developing and validating autonomous system software to world-class enterprises. Metamoto was founded in 2016 by a veteran team of enterprise software entrepreneurs with numerous software engineering and autonomous systems successes. The team features scalable continuous test and integration discipline and expertise steeped in simulation, computer vision, machine learning, standards and regulations.

Renovo Auto

Venture Round in 2017
Renovo builds technology for Automated Mobility on Demand systems. Its technology merges self-driving software, data analytics, and automotive-grade safety systems into a unified high-performance solution. Renovo-enabled vehicles command hundreds of sensors generating multiple terabytes of data—each hour—on a safe, secure, and scalable platform developed in extremely demanding environments.

SafeGraph

Series A in 2017
SafeGraph Inc., founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, specializes in the collection, storage, and processing of data for machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. The company develops a data platform that democratizes access to comprehensive datasets by integrating information from thousands of diverse sources. This platform classifies and verifies various business-related data, including names, addresses, industry classifications, and operational hours. By providing accurate records, SafeGraph enables organizations to gain insights into human movement and make informed decisions, ultimately assisting in addressing complex societal questions.

Divergent

Series A in 2017
Divergent Technologies, Inc., based in Los Angeles, California, is focused on transforming the automotive industry through innovative 3D printing technology. Founded in 2014, the company has developed a patented production system that utilizes 3D printed metal connectors, known as Nodes, along with lightweight materials to construct strong and efficient complex structures. This approach eliminates traditional tooling, fostering significant advancements in cost reduction and sustainability within vehicle manufacturing. Divergent's engineering prototype, the Blade, is recognized as the world's first 3D printed supercar, showcasing the potential for radical innovation in automotive design and production. The company has established a strategic partnership with PSA Group to further its mission of empowering a new generation of creative innovators in the automotive sector.

Siftery

Seed Round in 2016
Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.

Ikasi

Venture Round in 2016
IKASI helps marketers grow revenue by identifying the most at risk and valuable customer relationships. Our easy to use platform enables marketers of any level of technical expertise to target customers with machine learning. IKASI will improve your outbound marketing performance. All you need to provide is data on your customers and prospects and their response to prior marketing efforts, and IKASI will do the rest.

Namogoo

Venture Round in 2015
Namogoo specializes in enhancing online customer experiences while safeguarding user privacy. The company’s client-side platform uniquely addresses Customer Journey Hijacking by preventing unauthorized ad injections that divert online customers to competitors. It also mitigates privacy and compliance risks associated with third and fourth-party vendors. By analyzing over 500 million web sessions weekly, Namogoo's self-learning solutions provide enterprises with enhanced visibility and governance over their online ecosystems. This approach helps businesses optimize customer interactions, drive conversions, and ultimately improve revenue growth. Recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor, Namogoo has garnered accolades for its innovative contributions to the digital landscape and was named the Best Israeli Startup to Work For in 2019 by Dun & Bradstreet. Leading online brands trust Namogoo to maintain control over their customer journeys and achieve better business outcomes.

Renovo Auto

Seed Round in 2014
Renovo builds technology for Automated Mobility on Demand systems. Its technology merges self-driving software, data analytics, and automotive-grade safety systems into a unified high-performance solution. Renovo-enabled vehicles command hundreds of sensors generating multiple terabytes of data—each hour—on a safe, secure, and scalable platform developed in extremely demanding environments.

Paxata

Series B in 2013
Paxata, Inc. provides adaptive data preparation platform that delivers raw data to ready data for business analysts in the United States and internationally. Its platform enables users to connect, explore, transform, and combine data on their own or work with peers in a shared and transparent environment as they shape data for analytics. The company also provides Data Time Machine, a cloud-based data governance solution that provides security, versioning, and usage visibility; and Adaptive Information Platform, a self-service information platform for Microsoft Azure. Paxata, Inc. has a strategic relationship with Cisco. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. As of December 12, 2019, Paxata, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of DataRobot, Inc.
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