The Angels' Forum

The Angels' Forum LLC is a venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California, that focuses on seed and early-stage investments in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Founded in 1997 by Carol Sands, the firm specializes in disruptive technologies, targeting sectors such as software, information technology, life sciences, and consumer products. The Angels' Forum typically invests between $0.1 million and $1 million in companies that are often seeking Series A financing, with the potential for follow-on investments in subsequent rounds. The firm has a preference for companies headquartered within 50 miles of Mountain View and generally collaborates with other venture funds for co-investments. While it does not typically take a board seat, it may seek observation rights in its portfolio companies. The firm invests in a select number of companies each year, focusing on leveraging its expertise in technology and life sciences to support innovative startups.

Nagesh Mhatre

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Pierre Tapia

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40 past transactions

VIDA

Series C in 2020
VIDA modernizes lung and respiratory care, empowering healthcare organizations and physicians to improve patient outcomes, streamline care coordination and drive efficiencies through a comprehensive approach, proven quality, and clinical leadership. Through quantitative data intelligence and impactful visualizations, VIDA helps physicians manage patients with or at risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial lung disease (ILD), lung cancer, and now, COVID-19. VIDA’s software is FDA cleared, CE-marked, Health Canada licensed and TGA registered for clinical use in the US, European Economic Area, Canada, and Australia. Learn more at vidalung.ai.

Halio

Series C in 2017
Halio is transforming glass into responsive, intelligent, beautiful architectural elements that transition from clear to tinted to dark – automatically or on command. We're transforming architecture and design by offering a much more versatile architectural element for windows, walls, and skylights. We're transforming buildings and homes to be more efficient, beautiful, and comfortable. Most importantly, we're transforming lives by giving people unprecedented comfort and control of their indoor environments and more connection to the outside world, while creating inspiring spaces for living and working. We’re doing it through technology. Halio technology is so advanced that we don’t call it electrochromic. Though it does tint when it receives an electrical charge, Halio tints up to 10x faster, it tints uniformly (no more iris or curtain effect), it looks like natural clear glass (no more honey hues), it tints to classic, neutral shades of gray (no more smurf blue), and finally, we give you unlimited tint level options. It's why we thought it needed to be called "smart-tinting glass."​ And that’s just the glass itself. Our software and hardware controls are best-of-class – and they’re designed to work seamlessly with building management/automation systems. Beyond performance, our manufacturing techniques result in yields that match the flat panel display industry – and that means on-time deliveries, no matter where in the world your project is located.

OneMob

Venture Round in 2017
OneMob is a leading platform revolutionizing sales and marketing enablement with innovative solutions for creating impactful and personalized digital experiences. Designed to enhance lead generation and engagement, OneMob empowers businesses with microsites that consolidate personalized content, digital sales rooms for seamless buyer collaboration, and video prospecting tools to captivate audiences. OneMob integrates AI-powered video creation and writing assistants, enabling users to craft compelling, professional-grade communications with minimal effort. From dynamic templates and advanced video editing tools to CRM integrations for Salesforce, HubSpot, and more, OneMob ensures teams can efficiently scale their outreach while maintaining personalization. The platform’s robust email campaign capabilities and actionable insights—powered by performance and funnel metrics—enable data-driven decision-making to optimize engagement and conversions. Trusted by enterprise clients such as IBM, HPE, Intuit, Liberty Mutual, Fidelity, and Microsoft, OneMob has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor, Aragon Hot Vendor, and a Gold Stevie Award Winner, cementing its reputation as a market leader. Ranked among the San Francisco Business Times Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies, OneMob continues to drive innovation in sales and marketing with a focus on measurable impact and cutting-edge technology.

Kiana Analytics

Series A in 2017
Kiana Analytics Their founding team's experience in Big Data analytics has driven Their technology goals towards providing an entirely new depth of customer understanding through Presence Analytics. Kiana can help retailers increase store performance and sales conversion by matching web-based vendor capabilities to analyze customer traffic before the Point of Sale.

Glue Networks

Venture Round in 2017
Glue Networks specializes in providing an enterprise-grade cloud networking service. Glue Virtual Office is available to enterprise customers through partnerships between Glue Networks and top service providers and value-added resellers. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Sacramento, California.

Hospi

Venture Round in 2017
Hospi Corporation improves the quality of life by innovating practical, high impact medical devices that enhance patient comfort and wellbeing, ease caregiver burden, and reduce cost. Its patient-centric focus is informed by a nursing perspective and has guided the development of Hospi’s first product, the Macy Catheter®, which has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is now available in the United States. The Macy Catheter was invented by Hospi co-founder Brad Macy, a 20-year hospice nurse veteran, who leveraged his experience to address the need for a product to help improve patient comfort and wellbeing. The Macy Catheter is a simple, patented, and innovative medical device designed to facilitate discreet and comfortable rectal administration of liquids or medications. The rectal route of administration is relevant, yet underutilized, in the hospice, palliative care, and home health settings. It is particularly useful for the management of symptoms when a patient has difficulty swallowing or the oral route is otherwise compromised.

Chimera Bioengineering

Venture Round in 2016
They aspire to control the immune system. By the time a patient is sitting in front of an oncologist, cancer has evaded their immune system. Chimeric antigen receptor T-cells (CARs) are reprogrammed immune cells, hot-wired to circumvent immune-evasion. Clinical trials for CARs against liquid tumor cancers, like acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoma, have shown transformative results for patients unresponsive to standard therapy. However, limited efficacy against solid tumor cancers, life-threatening toxicities, and limited persistence are impediments to these therapies making a wider impact on cancer patients. Chimera Bioengineering solves the challenges of CARs with drug-responsive gene regulators, which allow us to re-program the "software" of the immune system. They design CAR behavior that promises to minimize toxicity, maximize efficacy and extend persistence so that CARs can lead to cures.w

Sonoma Orthopedics

Venture Round in 2016
Sonoma Orthopedic Products designs, develops, and delivers proprietary orthopedic implants for physicians to address problematic fractures. The WaviBodyâ„¢ technology platform allows for quick, minimally invasive surgical solutions for active patients. Direct to Bone...Back To Life.

Glue Networks

Venture Round in 2016
Glue Networks specializes in providing an enterprise-grade cloud networking service. Glue Virtual Office is available to enterprise customers through partnerships between Glue Networks and top service providers and value-added resellers. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Sacramento, California.

The Detection Group

Venture Round in 2016
The Detection Group technology started in a San Diego garage in 2006. The idea was the brainchild of our founders, who had managed a company in the remediation business. From this experience, our founders were very familiar with the expense and disruption caused by water leaks in multi-story properties, but at the time they found no solution for it. They founded a company called Dtection, Inc., which developed and marketed the Dtection wireless water leak detection system and service. In 2013, Dtection was purchased by The Detection Group, Inc., which is headquartered in Mountain View, in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Ittavi

Venture Round in 2016
Ittavi, Inc. was the original creator of SupportPay, a payment platform designed to assist single, divorced, separated, and blended families in managing their financial relationships. The platform enabled parents to handle child support and shared expenses, facilitating direct communication and transactions between them. Users could track expenses, store receipts, dispute items, and process payments through the application. However, Ittavi, Inc. was liquidated in early 2018, and its assets, including SupportPay, were acquired by Smart Family Tech, Inc., which now operates the platform.

RenovoRx

Series C in 2015
RenovoRx is a developing innovative solutions for targeted delivery of fluids, including diagnostic and therapeutic agents, to selected sites in the peripheral vascular system. RenovoRx received FDA clearance for the RenovoCath™ RC120 and is currently introducing this innovative technology to the clinical market. RenovoRx has a motivated Management Team with broad experience and an exciting vision for the future of targeted delivery. The company also has a broad Advisory Board of interventional radiologists, surgical oncologists and gastroenterologists that guide the company's clinical development strategies. RenovoRx is backed by a strong Board of Directors committed to long-term, continuous support of the company, whose members provide critical expertise in the medical and biotechnology industry and the visionary thinking to succeed.

DecisionNext

Seed Round in 2015
DecisionNext develops a predictive analytics platform that helps customers across industries make high-value decisions and improve end-to-end performance. DecisionNext solutions include commodity price forecasting, purchasing optimization, product mix optimization, capacity optimization, and pricing and promotion optimization. Importantly, it is connecting these optimizations into a single system that delivers the most value to our customers.

Zephyrus Biosciences

Seed Round in 2014
Zephyrus Biosciences provides research tools to enable protein analysis at the single-cell level. Addressing the burgeoning single-cell analysis market, our first product, the scWestern system, enables western blotting on individual cells for the first time. Researchers will utilize Zephyrus’s products to gain new insights into the biology of cancer, stem cells, neurology, and human disease and development. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Gemmus Pharma

Series B in 2014
Gemmus Pharma is a drug development company founded in 2007 to commercialize in-licensed technology from a major pharmaceutical company. Gemmus' lead candidate is a cardiovascular drug currently marketed in Asia that has been repurposed for use as a treatment for influenza. Gemmus has received support from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and has completed a Series A round. Gemmus plans to file an investigational new drug (IND) application with the FDA for treatment of influenza infections in 2014.

RenovoRx

Series B in 2014
RenovoRx is a developing innovative solutions for targeted delivery of fluids, including diagnostic and therapeutic agents, to selected sites in the peripheral vascular system. RenovoRx received FDA clearance for the RenovoCath™ RC120 and is currently introducing this innovative technology to the clinical market. RenovoRx has a motivated Management Team with broad experience and an exciting vision for the future of targeted delivery. The company also has a broad Advisory Board of interventional radiologists, surgical oncologists and gastroenterologists that guide the company's clinical development strategies. RenovoRx is backed by a strong Board of Directors committed to long-term, continuous support of the company, whose members provide critical expertise in the medical and biotechnology industry and the visionary thinking to succeed.

Intrapace

Venture Round in 2012
IntraPace® has developed a novel implantable system to treat obesity. It is built on the proven technology used in millions of cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators each year. The abiliti® system is designed to be implanted via standard laparoscopic instruments without making any changes to the anatomy of the digestive system or placing any limitations on what a person can eat or drink.

Gemmus Pharma

Series A in 2012
Gemmus Pharma is a drug development company founded in 2007 to commercialize in-licensed technology from a major pharmaceutical company. Gemmus' lead candidate is a cardiovascular drug currently marketed in Asia that has been repurposed for use as a treatment for influenza. Gemmus has received support from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and has completed a Series A round. Gemmus plans to file an investigational new drug (IND) application with the FDA for treatment of influenza infections in 2014.

Turpitude

Series A in 2011
Turpitude provides clients, including developers, publishers and property holders, with AAA game design consulting services along with creating games as well.

OncoHealth

Series A in 2011
OncoHealth designs screening devices that detects and diagnoses cancer. Its devices focus on the development of protein bio-markers for screening and diagnostics of cervical cancer and other HPV-associated cancers, enabling medical professionals to monitor, diagnose, and treat cancer.

Taulia

Series A in 2010
Developer of a financial supply chain platform designed to help companies strengthen supplier relationships. The company's platform helps businesses to turn every invoice into a revenue opportunity using their cash or third-party cash to fund early payments, lower the barriers for e-invoicing participation by accepting all forms of electronic invoices without having to charge suppliers and empower suppliers to be self-sufficient by giving them access to free self-service and management tools, enabling businesses to unlock financing opportunities and manage their working capital.

Qumu

Debt Financing in 2010
Qumu is the leading provider of a best-in-class platform to create, manage, secure, distribute and measure the success of live and on demand video for the intelligent enterprise.

Bella Pictures

Debt Financing in 2009
Bella Pictures provides an innovative approach to wedding photography and offers affordable, world-class photography for weddings. Bella Pictures' services include photography and videography packages for weddings, expert advice, a variety of album options, and other add-on services. Bella Pictures, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Qumu

Series C in 2008
Qumu is the leading provider of a best-in-class platform to create, manage, secure, distribute and measure the success of live and on demand video for the intelligent enterprise.

MOG

Series C in 2008
MOG Inc. is a next-generation music media company founded in June 2005 by David Hyman, former CEO for Gracenote. MOG has one simple goal: to perfect your music listening experience. MOG's on-demand streaming music service provides multi-platform access to a deep library of over 14 million songs from over a million albums through its award-winning mobile apps on iPhone and Android, on the Web, desktop app for Mac and soon for Windows, streaming entertainment devices such as Roku, Sonos and internet-connected TVs, and very soon, integrations with automobile navigation devices in BMW & Mini. It surpasses all other music subscription services in its ease-of-use, discovery features and audio quality. MOG Inc. is also the provider of The MOG Music Network (MMN), the premier destination for music content online and largest music-focused website advertising network, consisting of over 1500 music sites receiving over 60 million unique visitors a month. Headquartered in Berkeley, California, MOG Inc. investors include Menlo Ventures, Balderton Capital, Simon Equity Partners, Universal Music Group and Sony Music. Grammy-winning record producer, Rick Rubin, named by TIME Magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World," is a member of MOG's Board of Directors.

Podaddies

Angel Round in 2007
Podaddies is the leading video advertising solution for online and mobile video publishers, online game companies and app developers — supported by their very own video ad network. Podaddies' proprietary, standards-based, innovative and flexible advertising platform allows marketers to reach a targeted audience, wherever they are. Mission: To deliver the highest quality, targeted and measurable in-stream and mobile video advertising for video publishers and advertisers. Podaddies provides technology and services that empower marketers and agencies, video publishers and video consumers to work together successfully and profitably. Podaddies is a privately-held California C Corporation backed by experienced value-add angel and strategic investors. They're headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MOG

Series B in 2007
MOG Inc. is a next-generation music media company founded in June 2005 by David Hyman, former CEO for Gracenote. MOG has one simple goal: to perfect your music listening experience. MOG's on-demand streaming music service provides multi-platform access to a deep library of over 14 million songs from over a million albums through its award-winning mobile apps on iPhone and Android, on the Web, desktop app for Mac and soon for Windows, streaming entertainment devices such as Roku, Sonos and internet-connected TVs, and very soon, integrations with automobile navigation devices in BMW & Mini. It surpasses all other music subscription services in its ease-of-use, discovery features and audio quality. MOG Inc. is also the provider of The MOG Music Network (MMN), the premier destination for music content online and largest music-focused website advertising network, consisting of over 1500 music sites receiving over 60 million unique visitors a month. Headquartered in Berkeley, California, MOG Inc. investors include Menlo Ventures, Balderton Capital, Simon Equity Partners, Universal Music Group and Sony Music. Grammy-winning record producer, Rick Rubin, named by TIME Magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World," is a member of MOG's Board of Directors.

Sonoma Orthopedics

Series B in 2007
Sonoma Orthopedic Products designs, develops, and delivers proprietary orthopedic implants for physicians to address problematic fractures. The WaviBodyâ„¢ technology platform allows for quick, minimally invasive surgical solutions for active patients. Direct to Bone...Back To Life.

Catalist Homes

Series D in 2007
Catalist Homes is a real estate company providing a higher quality of client service through professional personnel working out of local offices and backed with tremendous corporate support. A reduction in fees would be meaningless if your home did not achieve its maximum value on the market. The good news for CataList Home's clients is they not only save thousands of dollars in fees, but yield higher prices and almost identical marketing times than other homes sold in the market. Data from hundreds of CataList sales in Los Angeles and Orange County prove that they achieve the highest sold price to listing price The truth is, it does not cost any real estate agent more than 3% to sell a home. Fees in excess of 3% represent an excessive charge to the home seller for the use of a real estate agent involved in an old, inefficient and costly system. Instead, you should be asking: "How can Realtors continue to charge five and six percent commissions (typically eliminating 20-25% of homeowner equity) when the average home is sold in less than 30 days?" When you consider the fact that home prices have virtually doubled in the last five years, how can Realtors keep the commission percentage the same and essentially double their fee? Your conventional agent is asking you for a 100% pay raise in 5 years, and he wants you to pay for it. A 3% commission in 2006 is the same dollar cost as 6% just five years ago when you factor in home appreciation. This is how they offer all the essential service for 3%.

Sonoma Orthopedics

Series A in 2007
Sonoma Orthopedic Products designs, develops, and delivers proprietary orthopedic implants for physicians to address problematic fractures. The WaviBodyâ„¢ technology platform allows for quick, minimally invasive surgical solutions for active patients. Direct to Bone...Back To Life.

Mobile Content Networks

Series A in 2006
MCN (Mobile Content Networks) provides mobile search management and revenue solutions that connect mobile users directly to the content they seek while delivering profitable new revenue streams for operators and content providers. MCN is led by an experienced, global management team and backed by some of the most successful venture capital firms in the U.S. and Japan. Before launching the company in 2004, MCN conducted a multi-year study of the unique characteristics of the mobile commerce ecosystem. Equipped with a thorough understanding of the industry’s unique needs, MCN pioneered real-time federated search management, as well as the mobile industry’s highest performing paid search program, allwords.

Qumu

Series B in 2006
Qumu is the leading provider of a best-in-class platform to create, manage, secure, distribute and measure the success of live and on demand video for the intelligent enterprise.

MOG

Series A in 2006
MOG Inc. is a next-generation music media company founded in June 2005 by David Hyman, former CEO for Gracenote. MOG has one simple goal: to perfect your music listening experience. MOG's on-demand streaming music service provides multi-platform access to a deep library of over 14 million songs from over a million albums through its award-winning mobile apps on iPhone and Android, on the Web, desktop app for Mac and soon for Windows, streaming entertainment devices such as Roku, Sonos and internet-connected TVs, and very soon, integrations with automobile navigation devices in BMW & Mini. It surpasses all other music subscription services in its ease-of-use, discovery features and audio quality. MOG Inc. is also the provider of The MOG Music Network (MMN), the premier destination for music content online and largest music-focused website advertising network, consisting of over 1500 music sites receiving over 60 million unique visitors a month. Headquartered in Berkeley, California, MOG Inc. investors include Menlo Ventures, Balderton Capital, Simon Equity Partners, Universal Music Group and Sony Music. Grammy-winning record producer, Rick Rubin, named by TIME Magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World," is a member of MOG's Board of Directors.

Modviz

Seed Round in 2004
Modviz is a Virtual Graphics Platform for data visualization. The company provides software solutions which help organizations to visualize large 3D data sets on computing clusters. The company also provides a 3D graphics computing platform that enables data visualization and custom OpenGL applications.

Clairvoyante, Inc.

Series B in 2004
Clairvoyante develops PenTile RGBW technology to optimize screen brightness, resolution, and power consumption of flat-panel liquid crystal displays that enables high-brightness and low-power displays that needs to support data-centric 3G applications and contents. Clairvoyante is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2000 by Candice Brown Elliott. The company was acquired by Samsung Electronics on March, 2008.

NeoGuide Systems

Series B in 2003
NeoGuide Systems Inc. develops robotic endoscopic technology for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery. Its technology is used in colonoscopy application to provide access to abdominal and thoracic cavities. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in San Jose, California.

Media Publisher

Series A in 2003
Media Publisher, Inc. (MPI) is the leader in Enterprise Video Communication, enabling Fortune 2000 companies to UNIFY content from a wide array of content providers and file types, CREATE live and on-demand video presentations, MANAGE video assets in a scalable and robust EVC platform, and DELIVER video content to an organization's existing network and computing infrastructure. Media Publisher Solutions offer significant value to the enterprise in Corporate Communications, Sales and Channel Enablement, and Engineering/R&D Distance Learning. Many large-scale, international customers have adopted Media Publisher Solutions to drive significant revenue generation benefits across the enterprise. Additionally, Media Publisher leverages past infrasturucture investments to deliver dramatic efficiency-gain and productivity benefits. Business video delivered via the internet is now a reliable and cost-effective communications tool for the enterprise. Corporate networks, video software applications, and enterprise infrastructure have matured to allow companies to broadcast streaming video presentations cost-effectively and easily without expensive proprietary hardware or satellite networks. Far more compelling than audio or web conferences, broadcast video helps companies communicate more effectively, improve productivity, and cut costs. Media Publisher enterprise software eliminates much of the technical complexity involved in creating, broadcasting and managing business video. Their products help large organizations remove IT as a process bottleneck while allowing IT to maintain control of their infrastructure and enabling even non-technical employees to fully utilize business video publishing and management tools. Enterprise-class and fully deployed and tested in eight of the Fortune 50, Media Publisher 4.0 is helping companies make broadcast video communications over IP a mission critical application.

Qumu

Series A in 2003
Qumu is the leading provider of a best-in-class platform to create, manage, secure, distribute and measure the success of live and on demand video for the intelligent enterprise.

AirPrime

Series B in 2000
The company develops code division multiple access chipsets for wireless voice and data products.

YY Technologies

Venture Round in 2000
YY is the world leader in Natural Language Processing technology, offering software that enables computers to really understand language as people naturally speak or write it. This means that YY software understands: - Full sentences, not just keywords and menu choices - Multiple sentences and multiple topics in the same message - Sentences with incorrect grammar, structure, spelling or punctuation - Either text or voice input YY software translates natural language sentences and paragraphs to detailed XML instructions, thus enabling written or spoken natural language to be the interface to a variety of database and other applications. With YY, automatic machine-generated responses are 99% accurate the first time, are generated within 60 seconds of the input, and include order processing information, embedded links to relevant documents, and other data relevant to responding to the user's need.
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