HIVE III

The Hive is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in seed, start-up, and early-stage investments. Founded in 2012, The Hive focuses on companies that leverage data science and scale-out infrastructure to develop data-driven applications in various industries including enterprise, Internet of Things, financial services, advertising, and e-commerce. The firm invests between $.5 million to $2 million and provides managerial support to its portfolio companies. Additionally, The Hive incubates and launches businesses that use large volumes of data for intelligent decision-making, hosting events with industry thought leaders in big data technology. Operating in the United States, India, and Brazil, The Hive seeks to support technology-driven start-ups looking to disrupt markets through innovative data applications. For entrepreneurs interested in partnering with The Hive, they can reach out via startup@hivedata.com for more information.

Deepak Agrawal

Assistant Vice President

Dana Moraly

CFO

Kamesh Raghavendra

Chief Product Officer

T. M. Ravi Ph.D

Co-Founder & Managing Director

28 past transactions

Peritus.ai

Seed Round in 2018
Peritus.ai is a stealth mode startup bringing AI productivity breakthroughs to customer service of IT products & services. Our patented pending knowledge engine uses NLP and deep learning to connect content, conversations, and experts to solve problems faster. Peritus.ai was co-founded by industry veterans, Robin Purohit and Santhosh Srinivasan, and is seed funded with several early adopters in production.

LimeTray

Venture Round in 2019
LimeTray! is a web-presence and web-marketing platform for local businesses. They provide a suite of tools that helps merchants build a consistent brand presence across the web to engage better with the local audience.

Perspica

Series A in 2015
Perspica helps companies keep their critical applications and infrastructure running at desired service levels. We provide heuristic anomaly detection, automated troubleshooting and actionable recommendations through deep learning and advanced analytics. We preempt incidents using predictive analytics and provide Incident Replay™, a powerful time machine for data, which is vital for real-time and post-mortem analysis. The Perspica solution is designed for modern apps leveraging micro-services and container technologies to enable TechOps and DevOps teams to collaborate and be more productive. Perspica enhances and adapts to end-user behavior engagement through the use of autonomous bots and a visual analytics platform.

Flutura

Series A in 2017
Flutura is an AI Solutions company focused on improving two core business objectives of "Asset Uptime" and "Operational Efficiency". Flutura does this with Cerebra, their AI Platform tuned for IIOT in Oil & Gas, Process Manufacturing, and Heavy machinery manufacturing industries, powering connected asset and connected operations use cases.

Snips

Seed Round in 2015
Snips SAS operates an AI voice platform for connected devices that animates product interactions with customizable voice experiences. It offers Snips Flow, a natural language voice assistant that runs on-device and offline with privacy built in; Snips Commands that offers embedded natural voice commands customized for products and services; and Snips Satellite, a voice recognition with distributed mesh network that maintains total end-user privacy. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Paris, France with other location in Tokyo, Japan.

LimeTray

Series B in 2018
LimeTray! is a web-presence and web-marketing platform for local businesses. They provide a suite of tools that helps merchants build a consistent brand presence across the web to engage better with the local audience.

Coinalytics Co.

Seed Round in 2015
Coinalytics Co. offers data aggregation, real-time analytics, and tunable predictions for Bitcoin ecosystem. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

E8 Security

Series B in 2016
E8 Security Inc. provides behavioral intelligence driven security solutions. Its product is a big data, security analytics, and machine learning based solution that makes security practitioners become business enablers. The company’s solution provides security analysts with tools to detect and protect against the unknown and unseen harms. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California. As of March 28, 2018, E8 Security Inc. operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc.

Augmented Pixels

Seed Round in 2015
Augmented Pixels is a technology company that features a proprietary simultaneous localization and mapping technology. It specializes in the fields of augmented reality, navigation, drones, 3d mapping, robots, and virtual reality. The company creates a world where drones and robots can see and navigate as humans do. Augmented Pixels also develops augmented and virtual reality solutions for retail, real estate, interior design, and event marketing. Augmented Pixels was founded in 2010 and headquartered in California, United States.

Glide Health

Seed Round in 2020
Glide Health builds intelligent financial solutions that deliver revenue and cash enhancement for healthcare organizations. Its proprietary AI and machine learning technology connects across operations in healthcare entities, providing targeted guidance to improve revenue and cash flow. The Glide Intelligence platform generates predictions and recommendations to support revenue cycle through patient registration, prior authorization, claim submission, denial management and collections. Real-time analysis of financial and clinical data delivers recommendations based on real world changes. Advanced forecasting of key financial metrics, including revenue, cash, and accounts receivable, provide greater visibility to the health of the business.

Sonet.io

Seed Round in 2023
Sonet.io is a software that provides control access to SaaS, web applications, and servers to monitor user activity and prevent data theft.

E8 Security

Series A in 2015
E8 Security Inc. provides behavioral intelligence driven security solutions. Its product is a big data, security analytics, and machine learning based solution that makes security practitioners become business enablers. The company’s solution provides security analysts with tools to detect and protect against the unknown and unseen harms. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California. As of March 28, 2018, E8 Security Inc. operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc.

Astound Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Astound Inc. develops enterprise service management software which automates answers to routine questions, assigns and categorizes incidents, recommends resolutions, and delivers predictive analytics. Its artificial platform (AI) platform contains applications, which includes predict which automatically classifies tickets by category and assigns them to the correct agents; advise that surfaces, analyzes, and correlates data from disparate systems of record to enrich tickets with relevant content; answers that allows fully-autonomous agents use natural language processing, understanding, and natural language generation to help employees; and analyze which provides predictive analytics dashboards providing insights to managers about service health based on historical data trends. Astound Inc. was formerly known as Neva and change its name to Astound in January, 2018. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

CloudWalk

Series B in 2021
CloudWalk, Inc. develops CloudWalk, an open payment cloud platform, which accommodates various payment methods on the same payment device for acquirers, PSPs, and sub-acquirers worldwide. It serves tickets for event, prepaid cell phone, and private label market segments. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Lightning Labs, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Lightning Labs, Inc. develops Lightning, an open protocol layer that leverages the power of blockchains and smart contracts to make private transactions available to anyone around the world. Its products include Lightning Network Daemon, a solution that enables financial applications; Neutrino, a solution that enables users with mobile devices to conduct blockchain; and Lightning Network transactions. Lightning Labs, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Skry

Seed Round in 2015
Skry is the Blockchain analytics and intelligence firm based out of Silicon Valley. The company provides an end-to-end platform that enables enterprises to derive real-time business intelligence and risk assessment from Blockchains and decentralized applications.

Augmented Pixels

Seed Round in 2016
Augmented Pixels is a technology company that features a proprietary simultaneous localization and mapping technology. It specializes in the fields of augmented reality, navigation, drones, 3d mapping, robots, and virtual reality. The company creates a world where drones and robots can see and navigate as humans do. Augmented Pixels also develops augmented and virtual reality solutions for retail, real estate, interior design, and event marketing. Augmented Pixels was founded in 2010 and headquartered in California, United States.

Geminus

Seed Round in 2022
Geminus.AI, Inc. develops artificial intelligence system for industrial processes. The company’s product delivers self-optimized design and predictive operational intelligence of industrial processes. The company serves operators and engineering service providers. The company was incorporated in 1990 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Bayes Holding

Seed Round in 2015
Dojo Madness GmbH develops a set of tools that helps gamers to master their play. The company offers LOLSumo, an Android and iOS based real-time virtual coaching application for League of Legends that enables gamers to build orders and crucial information about their match; OVERSUMO, an overmatches virtual coach, which features detailed performance analysis, gameplay tips, and hero guides; DOTASUMO, a virtual coach for DOTA 2 players seeking to improve their game. It offers post-game insights, and enables users to analyze and improve his or her gameplay; and Shadow.GG, a SaaS platform providing analytics and data visualizations for Counter-Strike. It also offers BRUCE.GG, a platform that allows gamers to get their own plays as videos, share them with their friends, rate their clips, and coach each other with its tools; and offers automatically generated top scenes, match analysis, and tactical insight for coaching. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Jobr

Seed Round in 2014
Jobr, Inc. develops and delivers a mobile application that connects talented individuals with jobs. It also enables recruiters and hiring managers to connect with talented individuals. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 8, 2016, Jobr, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Monster Worldwide, Inc.

Astound

Series A in 2018
Astound is an enterprise software company that develops an AI platform for employee service. The Astound AI platform uses machine learning and natural language processing to automate IT and HR service and support. Astound is the only company to automate the entire lifecycle of service requests, reducing resolution time and improving work life. Astound has partnered with leading workflow platform providers like ServiceNow and Atlassian plus managed service providers like Infosys to deliver deep integrations with IT service management, HR case management, knowledge management, Customer Service Management (CSM), and social collaboration solutions.

Augmented Pixels

Seed Round in 2017
Augmented Pixels is a technology company that features a proprietary simultaneous localization and mapping technology. It specializes in the fields of augmented reality, navigation, drones, 3d mapping, robots, and virtual reality. The company creates a world where drones and robots can see and navigate as humans do. Augmented Pixels also develops augmented and virtual reality solutions for retail, real estate, interior design, and event marketing. Augmented Pixels was founded in 2010 and headquartered in California, United States.

Lightning Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Lightning Labs is building the next generation of decentralized, resilient financial infrastructure. We believe systems based on cryptography, blockchains, and smart contracts will enhance financial cooperation around the world in unprecedented ways at scales both large and small. We have developed Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) the most advanced and most developer-friendly implementation of the Lightning Network protocol. Along with Neutrino, an open platform that enables users with mobile devices to conduct blockchain and Lightning Network transactions quickly and easily. We’re hiring. See our open positions: http://lightning.engineering/careers.html Get involved: http://dev.lightning.community/

Colabo

Series A in 2015
Colabo Inc. develops and delivers enterprise sales automation platform for sales and marketing professionals. The company offers Colabo, a platform that integrates with enterprise CRMs, including Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Oracle Sales Cloud CRM, and SAP CRM allowing teams to harness engagement channels, such as LinkedIn, Xing, Twitter, and Meetup for prospecting, engaging, and tracking new leads. Its platform also allows users to create custom messages and campaign flows that achieve response rates, which are then tracked and synced with their CRM providing real-time actionable data for managers. The company offers solutions for marketing, sales, retail, and finance industries. Colabo Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Carlos, California with an additional office in Herzliya, Israel.

Peritus.ai

Private Placement in 2018
Peritus.ai is a stealth mode startup bringing AI productivity breakthroughs to customer service of IT products & services. Our patented pending knowledge engine uses NLP and deep learning to connect content, conversations, and experts to solve problems faster. Peritus.ai was co-founded by industry veterans, Robin Purohit and Santhosh Srinivasan, and is seed funded with several early adopters in production.