Tao Capital Partners

Tao Capital Partners invests in technology, transportation, healthcare, education, and food businesses that have a sustainable positive impact. It is an active investor that supports companies through various stages of their life-cycle. Tao Capital Partners was founded in 2002 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Nicholas Pritzker JD

Principal

Jacob Pritzker

Director

Isaac Pritzker

Investor

Joby Pritzker

Managing Director

85 past transactions

AMP

Series C in 2023
AMP is an AI technology company that modernizes recycling infrastructure through smart sortation solutions. The company focuses on maximizing resource recovery while minimizing labor costs for waste management operations. With numerous deployments globally, AMP aims to transform the economics of recycling.

Elephas

Series B in 2022
Disruption in healthcare is accelerated by the need for improved diagnostics, novel pharmaceutical therapies, and the shift to patient-centric solutions. With the mission to tackle the massive oncology dilemma, Elephas is leading the way to change how clinicians treat cancer patients. By harnessing the latest advances in cancer biology, multimodal microscopy, and artificial intelligence, the Elephas platform has the ability to empower clinical decision-making and accelerate drug development.

Blue Ocean Barns

Series A in 2022
Blue Ocean Barns produces dairy and beef products from real cattle in order to preserve natural ecosystems for human consumption.

Vizgen

Series C in 2022
Vizgen is a privately held biotech company developing the next generation of spatially resolved, single-cell transcriptomics technology and toolbox. The company's patented MERFISH technology enables massively multiplexed, genome-scale nucleic acid imaging with high accuracy and detection efficiency at subcellular resolution.

Apnimed

Series C in 2022
Apnimed is a clinical-stage company dedicated to the discovery of novel pharmacologic therapies for sleep apnea and related disorders. Sleep apnea is a common, serious condition with significant morbidity, increased mortality, and substantial effects on daily functioning. Sleep apnea affects more than 20 million Americans and has serious consequences. OSA is caused by a combination of predisposing anatomical factors and sleep-related decrements of activity in upper airway muscles. Current treatments primarily rely on positive pressure devices, e.g., CPAP, to maintain airway patency. Less commonly used treatments include mandibular advancement devices, nerve stimulation, and surgical interventions. Apnimed was founded in 2017 and is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

TemperPack

Venture Round in 2022
TemperPack is seeking to solve the world's packaging problems through sustainable design. The company specializes in custom solutions for clients to scale in the perishable food and life sciences industries. TemperPack is also the first insulated packaging company to develop a certified fully curbside recyclable insulated shipping solution. TemperPack was founded in 2015 for the purpose of bringing sustainable packaging technology to companies that ship large volumes of perishable goods.

Activ Surgical

Series B in 2022
Activ Surgical is a digital surgery company focused on improving surgical efficiency, accuracy, patient outcomes, and accessibility. Its scalable and patent-protected surgical software platform technology is driven by computer vision, artificial intelligence, analytics, and machine learning to enhance a surgeon’s intra-operative decision making, and reduce unintended and preventable surgical complications. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Kallyope

Series D in 2022
Kallyope is pioneering the science and understanding of gut and gut-brain biology to create medicines that transform human health. Based in New York City, Kallyope is home to some of the world’s most intrepid scientific minds from the world’s top institutions, working alongside a seasoned team with a proven track record of success in drug discovery and development. Kallyope leverages a unique combination of leading technologies and a foundation of internally-developed capabilities to bring fundamentally new solutions to some of the most pressing unmet needs in human health – from diabetes, obesity, and gut disorders to inflammatory disease, migraine, allergies, and more.

Verge Genomics

Series B in 2021
Verge Genomics transforms drug discovery with artificial intelligence. Verge was founded by a unique combination of the field's top machine learning experts and seasoned neuroscience drug developers. Together, they share the vision that exponential advances in computational genomics combined with new insights into neuroscience has created a breakthrough opportunity to discover drugs that dramatically improve the lives of patients suffering from neurodegenerative disease.

100 Thieves

Series C in 2021
100 Thieves, is an American e-sports, lifestyle, and apparel brand located in Los Angeles in California. It began operation in 2017.

Arbor Biotechnologies

Series B in 2021
Arbor Biotechnologies is an operator of a bio-discovery company intended to provide human diagnostic development services. The company's platform employs a diverse set of technologies and techniques including artificial intelligence, genome sequencing, gene synthesis, and high-throughput screening, enabling drug developers to accelerate the discovery of proteins for improving human health and sustainability.

Kingdom Supercultures

Series A in 2021
Kingdom Supercultures create microbial cultures that help food manufacturers to create new foods with boosted benefits. It re-assembles nature's microbes into new combinations, creating plant-based foods that taste like dairy, low-alcohol beverages with full flavor, and natural preservatives that work as well as artificial ones. They work with clients across diverse industries including food, beverage, personal care, beauty, and more. Their technology comprises an expansive biobank of GRAS microbial strains, high-resolution strain characterization, and new algorithms for predicting and assembling microbial communities.

Activ Surgical

Series B in 2021
Activ Surgical is a digital surgery company focused on improving surgical efficiency, accuracy, patient outcomes, and accessibility. Its scalable and patent-protected surgical software platform technology is driven by computer vision, artificial intelligence, analytics, and machine learning to enhance a surgeon’s intra-operative decision making, and reduce unintended and preventable surgical complications. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ripple Foods

Series E in 2021
Ripple Foods specializes in making non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar. Ripple has 8x the protein of almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk. It’s high in bioavailable calcium (50% more than milk), potassium and provides a good source of omega-3s. It’s lower in calories than milk and best of all, it has the creamy, delicious texture our dairy-free friends are missing. No more thin, chalky almond/ soy/ cashew milk. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

XellSmart

Seed Round in 2021
Xellsmart develops stem cell treatment solutions for a variety of degenerative diseases for which there are now no clinical treatments. Xellsmart is located in Minhang District, Shanghai, China.

Panorama Education

Series C in 2021
Panorama Education brings the power of data to education through a SaaS platform used by hundreds of school districts across the US. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Panorama Education is a data analytics company for K-12 education. They help school districts, charter networks, and state governments conduct surveys of students, parents, teachers, and staff. Their classroom surveys collect feedback about individual teachers, and their school surveys gather data about the school environment and administrators. They believe that stakeholder feedback is a powerful professional development tool, and they believe that stakeholder surveys--when done correctly--make educator evaluation systems fairer and more effective.

Holo

Series B in 2021
Holo enables digital manufacturing at scale for high-quality, pure copper and other metals. Their patented technology excels at 3D printing complex geometries with specialized materials for a wide range of performance driven applications.

Apeel Sciences

Series E in 2021
Apeel Sciences produces products including avocados, apples, mangos, cucumbers, and citrus protected by plants. They support the plant’s natural ability to protect against environmental stress by maintaining moisture and reducing oxidation.

IMIDomics

Series A in 2021
IMIDomics is a unique company tackling Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases (IMIDs). As an innovative leader in discovery and application of biomarkers and new targets to monitor and cure IMIDs, we create value through the combination of the world's largest IMID biobank, extensive relevant clinical expertise, high-throughput genomic and genetic analysis, and intellectual property. IMIDomics is located at Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain and on the HudsonAlpha Institute campus in Huntsville, Alabama.

Meati

Series B in 2021
Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that provides fungi-based meat alternatives to everyone. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day. Meati Foods was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boulder, United States.

RapidDeploy

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2016, and based in Austin, TX, RapidDeploy is the leading cloud-native platform for public safety. We provide Next Generation 911 solutions that deliver intelligent information throughout the emergency response journey, empowering agencies and first responders to drive better outcomes in mission-critical situations. With a curated partner network, our platform combines mobile signals, critical datasets, and call information into a single operating system, improving emergency response with location accuracy, situational awareness, modern communications, and actionable insights. Our products improve outcomes and ultimately save lives.

Ultivue

Series D in 2021
Ultivue is a biotechnology company that specializes in tissue imaging, diagnostics, and multiplexing. Ultivue produces reagents that enable researchers to obtain microscopic images at an unprecedented resolution that helps to understand of biology and medicine. Ultivue's products are designed for fluorescent microscopy-based research and will eventually be valuable for clinical diagnostic use.

Vizgen

Series B in 2021
Vizgen is a privately held biotech company developing the next generation of spatially resolved, single-cell transcriptomics technology and toolbox. The company's patented MERFISH technology enables massively multiplexed, genome-scale nucleic acid imaging with high accuracy and detection efficiency at subcellular resolution.

Apnimed

Series B in 2021
Apnimed is a clinical-stage company dedicated to the discovery of novel pharmacologic therapies for sleep apnea and related disorders. Sleep apnea is a common, serious condition with significant morbidity, increased mortality, and substantial effects on daily functioning. Sleep apnea affects more than 20 million Americans and has serious consequences. OSA is caused by a combination of predisposing anatomical factors and sleep-related decrements of activity in upper airway muscles. Current treatments primarily rely on positive pressure devices, e.g., CPAP, to maintain airway patency. Less commonly used treatments include mandibular advancement devices, nerve stimulation, and surgical interventions. Apnimed was founded in 2017 and is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Newsela

Series D in 2021
Newsela is an Edtech startup that takes real and new content from trusted providers and turns it into learning materials.

Brightloom

Venture Round in 2021
Brightloom is a restaurant technology company that provides end-to-end, cloud-based software as a service platform that weaves digital solutions into the entire guest experience. Brightloom’s configurable technology suite combines convenience (digital ordering channels), personal connection (personalized marketing), and engagement (loyalty) for restaurant brands in today’s new digital era. Brightloom was originally incubated as a technology-powered fast-casual restaurant concept.

Premise Data

Series E in 2021
Premise is a data and analytics platform that empowers decision-makers with real-time, actionable intelligence. By combining the power of a global network of on-the-ground contributors with industry-leading data science and machine learning Premise is ‘The Source of Ground Truth.’ A $66M Series C venture capital organization, we are backed by Valor Equity Partners, Social Capital, Google Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz, among others. Premise is headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Portland.

Encodia

Series C in 2020
Encodia provides in-depth information on cellular processes to enable personalized medicine. Our technology reverse translates peptide sequence information into a DNA library. This means scientists can scale their research more easily to accelerate novel approaches to our most challenging diseases. Encodia was established on January 1, 2015 in San Diego, California.

Ouster

Series B in 2020
Ouster builds high-resolution lidar sensors for industrial automation, smart infrastructure, robotics, and automotive applications. Using its unique digital lidar design, Ouster brings Moore's Law to lidar with an all-semiconductor approach to 3D sensing. Ouster is a privately held, venture-backed company located in San Francisco, California.

Meati

Series A in 2020
Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that provides fungi-based meat alternatives to everyone. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day. Meati Foods was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boulder, United States.

TemperPack

Series C in 2020
TemperPack is seeking to solve the world's packaging problems through sustainable design. The company specializes in custom solutions for clients to scale in the perishable food and life sciences industries. TemperPack is also the first insulated packaging company to develop a certified fully curbside recyclable insulated shipping solution. TemperPack was founded in 2015 for the purpose of bringing sustainable packaging technology to companies that ship large volumes of perishable goods.

Activ Surgical

Venture Round in 2020
Activ Surgical is a digital surgery company focused on improving surgical efficiency, accuracy, patient outcomes, and accessibility. Its scalable and patent-protected surgical software platform technology is driven by computer vision, artificial intelligence, analytics, and machine learning to enhance a surgeon’s intra-operative decision making, and reduce unintended and preventable surgical complications. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sonder

Series E in 2020
Sonder is revolutionizing hospitality through innovative, tech-powered service and inspiring, thoughtfully designed accommodations combined into one seamlessly managed experience. Sonder is making a world of better stays open to all with a variety of accommodation options — from rooms to suites and apartments — found in more than 30 cities spanning eight countries and three continents. Sonder’s innovative app empowers guests by making self-service features and 24/7 on-the-ground support just a tap away.

GreenLight Biosciences

Series D in 2020
GreenLight Biosciences is an integrated life sciences company with a cutting-edge platform to deliver higher-quality RNA at a lower cost and more quickly than was ever before possible. GreenLight develops RNA products and collaborates with industry leaders to advance vaccine development, pandemic preparation, crop management, plant protection and support the health of bees and other pollinators.

Apeel Sciences

Series D in 2020
Apeel Sciences produces products including avocados, apples, mangos, cucumbers, and citrus protected by plants. They support the plant’s natural ability to protect against environmental stress by maintaining moisture and reducing oxidation.

FoodMaven

Series B in 2019
FoodMaven is a food distributor, bringing agility and flexibility to the big food system. It sells local and oversupplied food–lost food–to commercial kitchens, at about half price. Its zero-waste sustainability philosophy means unsold food is donated to food banks, animal feed, and composting operations, benefiting both hunger initiatives and the environment. With its Internet marketplace, big data optimization technology, and agile logistics model, FoodMaven is for profits, for people, and for the planet.

Truvian Sciences

Series B in 2019
Truvian Sciences is a diagnostic company that is transforming the blood testing industry by developing an automated, benchtop system capable of providing lab-accurate results. The company's comprehensive wellness panel covers commonly ordered routine blood tests, including complete blood count, metabolic panel, lipid panel, and more, all from a single sample.

Activ Surgical

Series A in 2019
Activ Surgical is a digital surgery company focused on improving surgical efficiency, accuracy, patient outcomes, and accessibility. Its scalable and patent-protected surgical software platform technology is driven by computer vision, artificial intelligence, analytics, and machine learning to enhance a surgeon’s intra-operative decision making, and reduce unintended and preventable surgical complications. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

IonQ

Series B in 2019
IONQ develops general-purpose quantum information processors using a trapped ion approach. The method enables qubit replication, optical networkability, and optimized algorithms to support scalable quantum computing.

Proterra

Series H in 2019
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission, heavy-duty electric vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities across North America. The company’s configurable Catalyst platform is designed to serve the daily mileage needs of a wide range of transit routes on a single charge. With industry-leading durability and energy efficiency based on rigorous U.S. independent testing, Proterra products are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles. Proterra's revolutionary battery-electric transit vehicles help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality, and reduce operating costs. Together with their customers, they have prevented more than 55 million pounds of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere and avoided burning some 2 million gallons of fuel. The company was established in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California, USA.

Brightloom

Corporate Round in 2019
Brightloom is a restaurant technology company that provides end-to-end, cloud-based software as a service platform that weaves digital solutions into the entire guest experience. Brightloom’s configurable technology suite combines convenience (digital ordering channels), personal connection (personalized marketing), and engagement (loyalty) for restaurant brands in today’s new digital era. Brightloom was originally incubated as a technology-powered fast-casual restaurant concept.

Sonder

Series D in 2019
Sonder is revolutionizing hospitality through innovative, tech-powered service and inspiring, thoughtfully designed accommodations combined into one seamlessly managed experience. Sonder is making a world of better stays open to all with a variety of accommodation options — from rooms to suites and apartments — found in more than 30 cities spanning eight countries and three continents. Sonder’s innovative app empowers guests by making self-service features and 24/7 on-the-ground support just a tap away.

Powerhive

Series B in 2019
Powerhive offers key tools and services for implementing profitable rural electrification projects in energy access markets. Its technology platform is ideal for energy providers and developers of any size and can be integrated with new projects or as a retrofit for existing mini-grids.

Skupos

Series B in 2019
Skupos enables smarter, more lucrative retail by bringing independent businesses, brands, and distributors together on a single platform. The company provides c-store operators with real-time inventory, automated purchasing, sales, ordering, and operational analytics.

908 Devices

Series E in 2019
908 Devices is bringing the powerful capabilities of Mass Spectrometry out of the confines of centralized facilities and mobile laboratories. The company makes battery-operated, handheld, chemical detection tools, rugged enough to exceed military standards, and trusted enough for immediate action in the field. For biologists and chemists in need of answers, 908 Devices makes personal analyzers, small and simple enough for every workspace.

PAX Labs

Venture Round in 2019
PAX Labs is a leader in the design and development of premium, app-controlled vaporization technologies and devices. Headquartered in San Francisco, PAX has become an industry leader through innovation and product design. PAX is committed to taking the guesswork out of cannabis with products that offer quality, transparency, and predictability. The company was founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco, California.

RapidDeploy

Series A in 2019
Founded in 2016, and based in Austin, TX, RapidDeploy is the leading cloud-native platform for public safety. We provide Next Generation 911 solutions that deliver intelligent information throughout the emergency response journey, empowering agencies and first responders to drive better outcomes in mission-critical situations. With a curated partner network, our platform combines mobile signals, critical datasets, and call information into a single operating system, improving emergency response with location accuracy, situational awareness, modern communications, and actionable insights. Our products improve outcomes and ultimately save lives.

FoodMaven

Series A in 2019
FoodMaven is a food distributor, bringing agility and flexibility to the big food system. It sells local and oversupplied food–lost food–to commercial kitchens, at about half price. Its zero-waste sustainability philosophy means unsold food is donated to food banks, animal feed, and composting operations, benefiting both hunger initiatives and the environment. With its Internet marketplace, big data optimization technology, and agile logistics model, FoodMaven is for profits, for people, and for the planet.

TemperPack

Series B in 2019
TemperPack is seeking to solve the world's packaging problems through sustainable design. The company specializes in custom solutions for clients to scale in the perishable food and life sciences industries. TemperPack is also the first insulated packaging company to develop a certified fully curbside recyclable insulated shipping solution. TemperPack was founded in 2015 for the purpose of bringing sustainable packaging technology to companies that ship large volumes of perishable goods.

GreenLight Biosciences

Venture Round in 2019
GreenLight Biosciences is an integrated life sciences company with a cutting-edge platform to deliver higher-quality RNA at a lower cost and more quickly than was ever before possible. GreenLight develops RNA products and collaborates with industry leaders to advance vaccine development, pandemic preparation, crop management, plant protection and support the health of bees and other pollinators.

100 Thieves

Series A in 2018
100 Thieves, is an American e-sports, lifestyle, and apparel brand located in Los Angeles in California. It began operation in 2017.

PAX Labs

Venture Round in 2018
PAX Labs is a leader in the design and development of premium, app-controlled vaporization technologies and devices. Headquartered in San Francisco, PAX has become an industry leader through innovation and product design. PAX is committed to taking the guesswork out of cannabis with products that offer quality, transparency, and predictability. The company was founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco, California.

Proterra

Series G in 2018
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission, heavy-duty electric vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities across North America. The company’s configurable Catalyst platform is designed to serve the daily mileage needs of a wide range of transit routes on a single charge. With industry-leading durability and energy efficiency based on rigorous U.S. independent testing, Proterra products are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles. Proterra's revolutionary battery-electric transit vehicles help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality, and reduce operating costs. Together with their customers, they have prevented more than 55 million pounds of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere and avoided burning some 2 million gallons of fuel. The company was established in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California, USA.

Benson Hill

Series C in 2018
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.

Verge Genomics

Series A in 2018
Verge Genomics transforms drug discovery with artificial intelligence. Verge was founded by a unique combination of the field's top machine learning experts and seasoned neuroscience drug developers. Together, they share the vision that exponential advances in computational genomics combined with new insights into neuroscience has created a breakthrough opportunity to discover drugs that dramatically improve the lives of patients suffering from neurodegenerative disease.

Raken, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Raken provides mobile-first technology to streamline field workflows for the construction industry. Raken's digital toolbox connects the field to the office with daily reports, time cards, toolbox talks, photo management, production tracking and more. Swinerton Renewable Energy, John W. Danforth, Broadway Mechanical and thousands of other top general contractor and subcontractor firms use Raken for their field reporting needs. To find out more, visit www.rakenapp.com.

Accolade

Series F in 2018
Accolade is a health, wellness, and fitness company that features personalized health and benefits solutions that help to improve the experience, outcomes, and cost of healthcare for employers. It specializes in healthcare process improvement, healthcare savings, employee engagement, and personalized advocacy. The company was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania.

Seurat Technologies

Series A in 2018
Seurat Technologies is transforming manufacturing for people and our planet. Area Printing by Seurat is the next generation of 3D metal printing designed for high-volume, decarbonized industrial production. By decoupling resolution and speed, Seurat is creating a scalable process that can compete with traditional manufacturing in every way. Seurat’s pioneering approach was originally developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and has over130 patents granted and pending.

Ouster

Series A in 2017
Ouster builds high-resolution lidar sensors for industrial automation, smart infrastructure, robotics, and automotive applications. Using its unique digital lidar design, Ouster brings Moore's Law to lidar with an all-semiconductor approach to 3D sensing. Ouster is a privately held, venture-backed company located in San Francisco, California.

MycoTechnology

Series B in 2017
MycoTechnology utilizes fungi-based food-processing platforms to transform the flavor and value of agricultural products. The platform can be used to solve a variety of challenges faced by the food, beverage, and flavor industries. MycoTechnology has released ClearTaste, an all-natural, GMO-free, organic bitter blocker that is Kosher and Halal certified. ClearTaste improves the flavor of various agricultural products. MycoTechnology also engages in fermenting agricultural products with strains of gourmet fungi. The company offers myceliated chocolate as well as robusta and arabica coffee beans. It develops and licenses technology to the industry to naturally improve the flavor of robusta and arabica coffee. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Aurora, Colorado.

Soylent

Series B in 2017
Soylent is a pioneer in food technology, producing delicious, functional foods, with complete nutrition that are good for the body and the planet. In 2013, our founders developed the first iteration in their kitchen after recognizing the need for a simpler, more efficient food source. The company has grown to become both a disruptor and a driver in the Food Tech world. Soylent is on a mission to provide complete, sustainable nutrition that is accessible, appealing and affordable to all; and its line of products are engineered from the ground up to provide the vitamins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates and protein that the body needs - all in convenient packages. The Company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

MJ Freeway

Series B in 2017
Mj Freeway offers a cloud-based, seed-to-sale, cannabis compliance software for marijuana businesses including retail, delivery, wholesale, cultivation, and manufacturing. Their platform is currently being used throughout the United States and globally. MJ Platform is the only generation 2 cannabis software built specifically for growing, tracking, manufacturing, and selling medical and recreational cannabis. Since 2010, they’ve helped 2,000+ clients implement their software. MJ Platform was built based on their voices, growing needs, and evolving businesses.

908 Devices

Series D in 2017
908 Devices is bringing the powerful capabilities of Mass Spectrometry out of the confines of centralized facilities and mobile laboratories. The company makes battery-operated, handheld, chemical detection tools, rugged enough to exceed military standards, and trusted enough for immediate action in the field. For biologists and chemists in need of answers, 908 Devices makes personal analyzers, small and simple enough for every workspace.

Proterra

Series E in 2017
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission, heavy-duty electric vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities across North America. The company’s configurable Catalyst platform is designed to serve the daily mileage needs of a wide range of transit routes on a single charge. With industry-leading durability and energy efficiency based on rigorous U.S. independent testing, Proterra products are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles. Proterra's revolutionary battery-electric transit vehicles help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality, and reduce operating costs. Together with their customers, they have prevented more than 55 million pounds of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere and avoided burning some 2 million gallons of fuel. The company was established in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California, USA.

Apeel Sciences

Series B in 2016
Apeel Sciences produces products including avocados, apples, mangos, cucumbers, and citrus protected by plants. They support the plant’s natural ability to protect against environmental stress by maintaining moisture and reducing oxidation.

Zymergen

Series B in 2016
Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence. The company partner with nature to create materials and products across industries from agriculture to electronics, consumer care to pharmaceuticals, and more.

Ripple Foods

Series B in 2016
Ripple Foods specializes in making non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar. Ripple has 8x the protein of almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk. It’s high in bioavailable calcium (50% more than milk), potassium and provides a good source of omega-3s. It’s lower in calories than milk and best of all, it has the creamy, delicious texture our dairy-free friends are missing. No more thin, chalky almond/ soy/ cashew milk. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Revinate

Series C in 2016
Revinate, Inc. is a provider of customer relationship management (CRM) and email marketing software specifically designed for the hospitality industry. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in Amsterdam, Singapore, and Dubai, Revinate helps hotels enhance their understanding of guests through data-driven insights and personalized experiences. The platform enables hotels to engage their audiences effectively by utilizing guest profiles, reputation management, and marketing automation technology. With features such as email marketing, upselling opportunities, and guest surveys, Revinate empowers hotels to build lasting relationships with guests and improve their overall experiences. The company serves over 30,000 hotels worldwide, assisting them in driving customer loyalty and increasing revenue.

BitTitan

Series A in 2016
BitTitan empowers IT service professionals to successfully deploy and manage cloud technologies through automation. While MigrationWiz® is the industry-leading SaaS solution for mailbox, document and public-folder migrations between a wide range of Sources and Destinations, MSPComplete® is an IT services automation and management platform that allows IT professionals to implement one-click automation for all of their service delivery needs. Since 2009, BitTitan has moved over 13 million users to the cloud for 36,000 customers in 187 countries and supports leading cloud ecosystems including Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Dropbox.

Enlighted

Series D in 2016
Designed to give you more control over the buildings you manage, increase efficiency and make you smarter about virtually everything in your commercial spaces, Enlighted converts the abstract Internet of Things into something tangible. Enlighted’s mission is to help our customers reach long-range sustainability goals while saving money and increasing efficiency. Using our first-in-class sensor and analytics platform, we provide smart energy solutions for commercial buildings. Our technology reduces costs and improves the comfort of workspaces and the efficiency of the people who work in them. Our solutions go beyond theory. Customers are saving millions in energy costs - up to 70% in some instances - while making smarter business decisions based on the actionable data we provide. To date, our sensors have been installed in over 70,000 square-feet and are deployed in Fortune 1000 company workplaces, like AT&T and Oracle.

Powerhive

Series A in 2016
Powerhive offers key tools and services for implementing profitable rural electrification projects in energy access markets. Its technology platform is ideal for energy providers and developers of any size and can be integrated with new projects or as a retrofit for existing mini-grids.

MJ Freeway

Series B in 2015
Mj Freeway offers a cloud-based, seed-to-sale, cannabis compliance software for marijuana businesses including retail, delivery, wholesale, cultivation, and manufacturing. Their platform is currently being used throughout the United States and globally. MJ Platform is the only generation 2 cannabis software built specifically for growing, tracking, manufacturing, and selling medical and recreational cannabis. Since 2010, they’ve helped 2,000+ clients implement their software. MJ Platform was built based on their voices, growing needs, and evolving businesses.

DreamBox Learning

Series B in 2015
DreamBox Learning is an online software provider that offers elementary mathematics education through its intelligent adaptive learning platform. Its adaptive engine looks beyond the answer to see how a student is solving problems, and adjusts accordingly to build a personalized learning path for them.

Granular

Series B in 2015
Granular is a software and analytics platform that helps farmers operate more efficiently and make better business decisions. It powers the world’s most efficient farms. The company’s cloud software and analytics platform help farmers become more efficient and make better business decisions and is backed by Silicon Valley investors Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, and Khosla Ventures. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

JUUL

Series C in 2015
JUUL is an electronics company that specializes in improving alternatives for adult smokers and has launched a nicotine vaporizer in US. The company is a simply satisfying alternative for adult smokers. JUUL Labs’ mission is to eliminate combustible cigarettes. The company was founded to provide the 1 billion smokers worldwide a true alternative to cigarettes that enables them to permanently switch. Its research indicates hundreds of thousands of smokers have already switched to JUUL, and they are working to enable millions more to switch in the coming years. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Metabiota

Series A in 2015
Metabiota provides data, analytics, advice, and training to prepare for global health threats and mitigate their impacts. With a strategic global presence and sustained partnerships, Metabiota’s agile approach is helping the world track, transfer, and terminate the risk associated with epidemic threats. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Revinate

Series B in 2015
Revinate, Inc. is a provider of customer relationship management (CRM) and email marketing software specifically designed for the hospitality industry. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in Amsterdam, Singapore, and Dubai, Revinate helps hotels enhance their understanding of guests through data-driven insights and personalized experiences. The platform enables hotels to engage their audiences effectively by utilizing guest profiles, reputation management, and marketing automation technology. With features such as email marketing, upselling opportunities, and guest surveys, Revinate empowers hotels to build lasting relationships with guests and improve their overall experiences. The company serves over 30,000 hotels worldwide, assisting them in driving customer loyalty and increasing revenue.

Eat Just

Series C in 2014
Eat Just offers a plant-based egg substitute intended to provide healthy and nutritional food alternatives. It applies innovative science and technology to create healthier, more sustainable foods the key ingredient is protein from the mung bean and it is cholesterol-free, non-GMO, and packed with as much protein as many animal proteins and while it cooks and tastes like eggs. Its ingredients use less water and less land, and emit less CO2e than conventional animal sources, enabling customers to prepare their food items with the required nutrients and protein of an egg. It was founded by Josh Balk and Josh Tetrick in San Francisco, California in 2011.

Aquion Energy

Series E in 2014
Aquion Energy is fundamentally­­ changing the economics of power generation, transmission and distribution by developing and commercializing cost-effective energy storage solutions that are safe, reliable, and sustainable from nontoxic components as simple as saltwater. Based on the research of Carnegie Mellon University Professor Jay Whitacre, Aquion's proprietary Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI™) battery overcomes the pitfalls of conventional energy storage technologies. AHI systems enhance the electrical grid by providing flexible, emissions-free capacity that optimizes existing generation assets and enables broad adoption of renewable energy technologies.

Metabiota

Seed Round in 2014
Metabiota provides data, analytics, advice, and training to prepare for global health threats and mitigate their impacts. With a strategic global presence and sustained partnerships, Metabiota’s agile approach is helping the world track, transfer, and terminate the risk associated with epidemic threats. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Proterra

Series C in 2014
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission, heavy-duty electric vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities across North America. The company’s configurable Catalyst platform is designed to serve the daily mileage needs of a wide range of transit routes on a single charge. With industry-leading durability and energy efficiency based on rigorous U.S. independent testing, Proterra products are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles. Proterra's revolutionary battery-electric transit vehicles help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality, and reduce operating costs. Together with their customers, they have prevented more than 55 million pounds of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere and avoided burning some 2 million gallons of fuel. The company was established in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California, USA.

Aquion Energy

Series D in 2014
Aquion Energy is fundamentally­­ changing the economics of power generation, transmission and distribution by developing and commercializing cost-effective energy storage solutions that are safe, reliable, and sustainable from nontoxic components as simple as saltwater. Based on the research of Carnegie Mellon University Professor Jay Whitacre, Aquion's proprietary Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI™) battery overcomes the pitfalls of conventional energy storage technologies. AHI systems enhance the electrical grid by providing flexible, emissions-free capacity that optimizes existing generation assets and enables broad adoption of renewable energy technologies.

Proterra

Series C in 2013
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission, heavy-duty electric vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities across North America. The company’s configurable Catalyst platform is designed to serve the daily mileage needs of a wide range of transit routes on a single charge. With industry-leading durability and energy efficiency based on rigorous U.S. independent testing, Proterra products are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles. Proterra's revolutionary battery-electric transit vehicles help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality, and reduce operating costs. Together with their customers, they have prevented more than 55 million pounds of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere and avoided burning some 2 million gallons of fuel. The company was established in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California, USA.

Proterra

Series A in 2011
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission, heavy-duty electric vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities across North America. The company’s configurable Catalyst platform is designed to serve the daily mileage needs of a wide range of transit routes on a single charge. With industry-leading durability and energy efficiency based on rigorous U.S. independent testing, Proterra products are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles. Proterra's revolutionary battery-electric transit vehicles help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality, and reduce operating costs. Together with their customers, they have prevented more than 55 million pounds of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere and avoided burning some 2 million gallons of fuel. The company was established in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California, USA.
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