The Perkins Fund

Founded in 2016 by industry veteran Sonja Perkins, the fund focuses on high technology companies that fill an unmet market need that can only be solved through a combination of technology, marketing savvy and hard work. The fund typically invests in less than 10% of a round and selectively considers board seats. While typically not a board member, the Perkins Fund provides incredible value in fund raising, market positioning and general business strategy. The Perkins Fund has invested in over 35 companies with entrepreneurs of high character and capability. While the Perkins Fund does not only invest in women, over 50% of the Perkins Fund founders are women compared to a venture capital industry average of less than 5%. The fund's focus is on long term, lasting relationships with entrepreneurs. Over 30% of the founders have been backed by founder Sonja Hoel Perkins in the past. The Perkins Fund invests in all stages, including seed, startup and late stage deals. Over 70% of the portfolio has raised venture capital.

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Mercy BioAnalytics

Funding Round in 2021
Mercy BioAnalytics is a biotechnology company that aims to improve and save the lives of people through the early detection of cancer. It has developed a process that uses nano-particles that are extraordinarily abundant in blood and carry information about their parent cell – known as extracellular vesicles, or EVs – to detect stage I cancer. Paul Blavin and Joseph Sedlak founded the Natick, Massachusetts-based company in 2018.

Mistro

Seed Round in 2020
Mistro offers a platform that provides unique benefits plan to each remote employee. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

RadSwan

Seed Round in 2019
RadSwan is a consumer goods company that specializes in providing hair fashion design for black women. The company features a is a socially conscious brand targeting the hair care and protective styling needs of black women with natural hair.

128 Technology

Series D in 2019
128 Technology provides software-based routing solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to build networks. Their professional-grade software teaches routers the language of applications and services, letting them understand the requirements of individual services and segments, and adapt the network dynamically to deliver what the business needs, when and where it needs it. They make routers Session Smart, enabling enterprise customers and service providers to create a service-centric fabric that's more simple, agile, and secure, delivering better performance at a lower cost.

Argent

Venture Round in 2019
Argent is an online retailer of women's clothing and apparel.

Chronicled

Series A in 2019
Chronicled builds trust and automation in the life science industry, powered by blockchain. Based in San Francisco, Chronicled is the custodian of MediLedger, the primary blockchain-based network in the healthcare and life science industry that powers solutions to facilitate trust and automation between companies. Chronicled develops solutions for revenue management and supply chain on the MediLedger Network.

Qordoba

Series B in 2018
Qordoba’s AI helps everyone at a company write with the same style, terminology, and brand voice. With Qordoba’s dynamic content guidelines, organizations can achieve consistency and clarity across all types of content — including communications and marketing, technical documentation, product, customer knowledge bases, HR and legal policies, and more. Companies such as Intuit, Twitter, Braintree, Visa, and Marriott use Qordoba to empower their writers to create better content. We were named a CNBC Upstart 100 company in 2019 and one of Forbes’ Cloud 100 Rising Stars in 2018. Visit qordoba.com to learn more.

Vorstella

Seed Round in 2017
Vorstella is an A.I. agent that stabilizes and optimizes the users' data platforms. Vorstella’s AI agent can forecast future problems, identify an outage root cause, and walk engineers through complex remediation procedures. Vorstella works with the user's existing teams to keep its systems available and performant, so the user can say goodbye to stress and instead focus on system design, innovation and strategy.

ScribbleChat

Venture Round in 2017
ScribbleChat is a mobile messaging application.

Ellevest

Series A in 2017
Ellevest provides an engaging investing experience to help women meet their financial goals in life. Ellevest offers a modern, engaging user experience. The same care, thoughtfulness, and attention to detail that is reflected in its beautiful, easy-to-use interface are applied to the construction of its portfolios, its selection of investments, and the development of the algorithms that drive its forecasts and recommendations.

128 Technology

Series C in 2017
128 Technology provides software-based routing solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to build networks. Their professional-grade software teaches routers the language of applications and services, letting them understand the requirements of individual services and segments, and adapt the network dynamically to deliver what the business needs, when and where it needs it. They make routers Session Smart, enabling enterprise customers and service providers to create a service-centric fabric that's more simple, agile, and secure, delivering better performance at a lower cost.

Sarah Flint

Venture Round in 2016
Sarah Flint is an American luxury brand dedicated to quality and attention to detail. The company specializes in offering silhouettes, flats, sandals, pumps, and boots for women via their online and offline stores. Sarah Flint’s shoes are made with fit and function in mind for women who are out in the world with places to be and things to accomplish. Sarah Flint was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States

Owlet Baby Care

Series B in 2016
The Owlet Baby Monitor is a proactive health monitor for sleeping infants that allows parents to view their child's vital signs in real time. Owlet will alert the parent if there are low blood oxygen and heart rate levels giving parents peace of mind knowing that their baby is watched over.

Aqueduct Critical Care

Series A in 2016
Aqueduct Critical Care addresses the critical care problem of managing inter-cranial pressure. Its working prototypes demonstrate the ability to allow the patient to move, and minimize attention from nursing staff. Aqueduct Critical Care was founded in 2013 and is based in Bothell, Washington.

The RealReal

Series E in 2016
The RealReal is the world’s largest online marketplace for authenticated, resale luxury goods, with more than 37 million members. With a rigorous authentication process overseen by experts, The RealReal has sold nearly 40 million items and provides a safe and reliable platform for consumers to buy and sell their luxury items. They have hundreds of in-house gemologists, horologists and brand authenticators who inspect thousands of items each day. As a sustainable company, The RealReal gives new life to pieces by thousands of brands across numerous categories—including women's and men's fashion, fine jewelry and watches, art and home—in support of the circular economy. They make selling effortless with free virtual appointments, in-home pickup, drop-off and direct shipping. As a full-service, luxury consignment service, The RealReal does all of the work for its consignors, including authenticating, using AI and machine learning to determine optimal pricing, photographing and listing items, as well as handling shipping, payments and customer service.

Informed

Series A in 2016
Informed helps banks accelerate their digital transformation with turn-key robotic process automation capable of performing real-time income verification, identity verification, residence verification, and insurance verification tasks. Banks use Informed to reduce their manual costs associated with reviewing documents, catch fraud, reduce bias, and cut down on errors when originating loans and opening accounts.

Rocksbox

Series A in 2016
Rocksbox is transforming the way women discover and buy jewelry. We are a fast-growing, venture-backed jewelry eCommerce business building the destination retail brand for jewelry and accessories. We’re passionate about delivering products our customers love, leveraging technology and data to do so.Our team is cross-functional, collaborative, and positive. People come first, and we love working with smart, passionate, creative people every day.

GridGain

Series B in 2016
GridGain Systems is revolutionizing real-time data access and processing by offering an in-memory computing platform built on Apache® Ignite™. GridGain solutions are used by global enterprises in financial, software, e-commerce, retail, online business services, healthcare, telecom and other major sectors, with a client list that includes ING, Sberbank, Finastra, IHS Markit, Workday, and Huawei. GridGain delivers unprecedented speed and massive scalability to both legacy and greenfield applications. Deployed on a distributed cluster of commodity servers, GridGain software can reside between the application and data layers (RDBMS, NoSQL and Apache ™ Hadoop®), requiring no rip-and-replace of the existing databases, or it can be deployed as an in-memory transactional SQL database. GridGain is the most comprehensive in-memory computing platform for high-volume ACID transactions, real-time analytics, web-scale applications, continuous learning and HTAP. For more information, visit gridgain.com.

hobnob

Venture Round in 2016
Hobnob Inc. specializes in a mobile application that simplifies the process of event invitation and communication. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Haiku, Hawaii, Hobnob allows users to create and send visually appealing, personalized invitations for various occasions, such as dinner parties, birthdays, and concerts. The app enables users to design invitations and manage events directly from their phones, offering an RSVP feature that allows invitees to respond via text or email. This streamlined approach not only saves time but also enhances the overall experience of organizing gatherings, allowing users to focus on enjoying their events rather than the logistical details.

Tentrr

Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2015, Tentrr connects those seeking the respite and adventure of the outdoors with private landowners and unique, exclusive opportunities to camp in State Parks. Tentrr offers over 1,000 ready-to-go campsites in 44 states. The Tentrr platform is revolutionizing the campsite booking process, providing new income streams for land trusts and landowners, supporting local economies, conserving natural lands, boosting tourism, and getting more people outdoors. Reservations can be booked on Tentrr.com and via popular travel sites like Air BnB, Tripadvisor, Expedia and VRBO. Tentrr is an American company based in New York.

128 Technology

Series B in 2015
128 Technology provides software-based routing solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to build networks. Their professional-grade software teaches routers the language of applications and services, letting them understand the requirements of individual services and segments, and adapt the network dynamically to deliver what the business needs, when and where it needs it. They make routers Session Smart, enabling enterprise customers and service providers to create a service-centric fabric that's more simple, agile, and secure, delivering better performance at a lower cost.

Handle

Venture Round in 2015
Our attention is our most precious resource and we’re wasting it. We could be using it to be better spouses, parents, employees, and friends but instead we’re using it to figure out what needs to get done and too often being diverted to things that don’t matter. The result is feeling perpetually busy but still behind, going through days feeling overwhelmed, and knowing at the end we could have spent the time more wisely. It’s no way to live. Handle is the antidote. Built upon decades of research, Handle is a personal productivity system that helps you stay focused on what matters. It brings together your email, to-do list, and calendar into a single app that lets you make better decisions with your time and relax more with less fear of things falling through the cracks. It's your life. We help you handle it.

BitSight

Series B in 2015
Founded in 2011, BitSight transforms how organizations manage information security risk. The BitSight Security Ratings Platform applies sophisticated algorithms, producing daily security ratings that range from 250 to 900, to help manage third party risk, underwrite cyber insurance policies, benchmark performance, conduct M&A due diligence and assess aggregate risk. Organizations worldwide, including seven of the top 10 cyber insurers, 20% of Fortune 500 companies, and 3 of the top 5 investment banks use BitSight’s proven Security Ratings technology on a daily basis to make integral risk and business decisions. With over 1,000 customers and the largest ecosystem of users and information, BitSight is the most widely used Security Ratings Service. For more information, please visit www.bitsighttech.com or follow @BitSight on Twitter.

Bantam Tools

Venture Round in 2015
Other Machine develops software and hardware products focused on digital desktop manufacturing. Its proprietary product, Othermill, is a portable desktop CNC mill that enables users to create 2D and 3D objects out of durable materials such as wood, metal, and plastic using digital designs. Users can create enclosures, inlay, mechanical parts, stamps, models, molds, and more. Other Machine was founded by Sarah Tappon and Saul Griffith in 2013, and is based in San Francisco, California.

UniKey Technologies

Series A in 2015
UniKey Technologies offers a mobile platform to replace keys, codes, and passwords by turning a smartphone into a universal electronic key. It develops and offers a “touch-to-open” technology, through which a smartphone can stay in a pocket or purse to keep hands free; delivers patent-pending intelligence that detects whether an authorized user is inside or outside of the home or building before granting access to help prevent unauthorized entry; and provides multiple levels of security. The company partners with lock manufactures, including Kwikset and Weiser to create smart locks such as Kevo. Its cloud-based lock management solution enables multifamily properties to manage multiple locks for each unit. It brings leading smart lock and access control technology to address the needs of small and large commercial businesses. UniKey’s eKey systems, paired with its partners’ locks for hospitality, enable complete key management. UniKey Technologies was founded in 2010 by Phil Dumas and is based in Florida, United States.

The RealReal

Series D in 2015
The RealReal is the world’s largest online marketplace for authenticated, resale luxury goods, with more than 37 million members. With a rigorous authentication process overseen by experts, The RealReal has sold nearly 40 million items and provides a safe and reliable platform for consumers to buy and sell their luxury items. They have hundreds of in-house gemologists, horologists and brand authenticators who inspect thousands of items each day. As a sustainable company, The RealReal gives new life to pieces by thousands of brands across numerous categories—including women's and men's fashion, fine jewelry and watches, art and home—in support of the circular economy. They make selling effortless with free virtual appointments, in-home pickup, drop-off and direct shipping. As a full-service, luxury consignment service, The RealReal does all of the work for its consignors, including authenticating, using AI and machine learning to determine optimal pricing, photographing and listing items, as well as handling shipping, payments and customer service.

GoldieBlox

Venture Round in 2015
GoldieBlox's goal is to get girls building. Helping level the playing field in every sense of the phrase. By tapping into girls' strong verbal skills, our story + construction set bolsters confidence in spatial skills while giving young inventors the tools they need to build and create amazing things. Through the integration of storytelling and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) principles, GoldieBlox creates toys, books, apps, videos, animation and merchandise; the tools that empower girls to build their confidence, dreams and ultimately, their futures.

BrightPoint Security

Venture Round in 2015
The BrightPoint Sentinel can help solve one of the biggest challenges facing security and fraud prevention teams today, that challenge is the overwhelming amount of information that they need to analyze and digest on a daily basis to understand if they are currently a victim of a specific cyber threat or if they will be a victim of a specific cyber threat. BrightPoint Security provides an automation and collaboration platform that automates the process of collecting, analyzing, correlating and sharing information on current and emerging cyber-threats and fraud intelligence. BrightPoint Security's platform increases operational efficiency by automating the tasks of discovering if you have been breached by correlating external and internal threat information against your network infrastructure data, and allowing you to quickly move into incident response. The time to resolution and prevention of a security incident is dramatically reduced through secure and anonymous collaboration ensuring control, privacy and protection of your shared information. BrightPoint Security understands that the security of your data is critical and your data should not leave your controlled environment. All of the proprietary information that you need to analyse to understand if you are or will be vulnerable to a security threat, stays within your network. You have control of all the data that you wish to share and only a STIX/TAXII message is used to transfer information in the collaboration environment. With BrightPoint Security you can reduce discovery time, reduce remediation time and reduce your overall risk to cyber-threats by receiving early warning of emerging cyber threats and fraud intelligence within an automated and collaborative environment.

Nextdoor

Series D in 2015
Nextdoor connects neighbors and to everything nearby: Local businesses, services, news updates, recommendations, and stuff for sale from the people down the block. It believes that bringing neighbors together can cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Building connections in the real world is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor to tap into their neighborhoods worldwide, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with many more to come. Nextdoor is a privately-held company based in San Francisco with backing from prominent investors including Benchmark, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Springer, Comcast Ventures, and others. For additional information and images: nextdoor.com/newsroom.

Tempered

Series A in 2015
Tempered is a cyber risk management company that reduces cyber risks by providing point and click identity-based micro-segmentation. Its security and cloud network allow users to segment anything to achieve micro-segmentation for an IP resource without infrastructure change or disruption. Tempered Networks was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Bantam Tools

Venture Round in 2015
Other Machine develops software and hardware products focused on digital desktop manufacturing. Its proprietary product, Othermill, is a portable desktop CNC mill that enables users to create 2D and 3D objects out of durable materials such as wood, metal, and plastic using digital designs. Users can create enclosures, inlay, mechanical parts, stamps, models, molds, and more. Other Machine was founded by Sarah Tappon and Saul Griffith in 2013, and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tempered

Seed Round in 2014
Tempered is a cyber risk management company that reduces cyber risks by providing point and click identity-based micro-segmentation. Its security and cloud network allow users to segment anything to achieve micro-segmentation for an IP resource without infrastructure change or disruption. Tempered Networks was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

128 Technology

Series A in 2014
128 Technology provides software-based routing solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to build networks. Their professional-grade software teaches routers the language of applications and services, letting them understand the requirements of individual services and segments, and adapt the network dynamically to deliver what the business needs, when and where it needs it. They make routers Session Smart, enabling enterprise customers and service providers to create a service-centric fabric that's more simple, agile, and secure, delivering better performance at a lower cost.

GoldieBlox

Venture Round in 2014
GoldieBlox's goal is to get girls building. Helping level the playing field in every sense of the phrase. By tapping into girls' strong verbal skills, our story + construction set bolsters confidence in spatial skills while giving young inventors the tools they need to build and create amazing things. Through the integration of storytelling and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) principles, GoldieBlox creates toys, books, apps, videos, animation and merchandise; the tools that empower girls to build their confidence, dreams and ultimately, their futures.

Chosen

Venture Round in 2014
Chosen is a mobile application company focused on changing how we interact and engage with the performing arts. Chosen makes it easy and fun to create amazing music videos or fun photos to share with your friends! Create, share, and discover the best videos and images or enter challenges and get famous. You can record or upload, add cool effects, and easily share your creations with friends & family.w

Seedling

Venture Round in 2014
Seedling imagines the future of play and brings it to life by uniting modern, scalable technologies and classic materials. Itsr products enable kids 2 to 12 to seamlessly move between the digital and physical worlds they play in, creating a new category of products called reimagined play.

hashed

Venture Round in 2014
hashed offers an application that enables its users to find and follow contents by using hashtags. It provides its services for Instagram users. hashed enables its customers to obtain notifications about topics they are interested in. hashed was founded by Agatha Precourt and Wendy Grad in October 2014.

Handwriting.io

Venture Round in 2014
Handwriting.io is an application programming interface that develops digital handwriting technology into existing mobile apps, desktop applications, and websites and brings personalized communications to the masses.

EdCast

Series A in 2014
EdCast offers a unified SaaS platform powering end-to-end employee experience journeys, spanning learning, skilling and career mobility. Its award-winning platform is used internationally by organizations ranging from large Global 2000 companies to small businesses and government organizations. With EdCast’s platforms, our customers are able to attract, develop and retain a high-performance and future-ready workforce. EdCast’s offerings include its Talent Experience Platform and MyGuide Digital Adoption Platform. EdCast is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award recipient. EdCast's enterprise customers include Dell, Diageo, Danone, Genpact, Spotify, Standard Chartered Bank, ANZ Bank, CHRISTUS Health and NASSCOM, among many others.

Hint

Venture Round in 2014
Hint produces and markets natural-flavored unsweetened essence water. Its products include watermelon, blackberry, cucumber, pear, and lime-flavored water. The company markets and distributes its products through specialty markets, grocery stores, spas, hotels, and an online portal. Hint was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ittavi

Seed Round in 2014
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.

Bantam Tools

Series A in 2014
Other Machine develops software and hardware products focused on digital desktop manufacturing. Its proprietary product, Othermill, is a portable desktop CNC mill that enables users to create 2D and 3D objects out of durable materials such as wood, metal, and plastic using digital designs. Users can create enclosures, inlay, mechanical parts, stamps, models, molds, and more. Other Machine was founded by Sarah Tappon and Saul Griffith in 2013, and is based in San Francisco, California.

GemShare

Seed Round in 2014
GemShare is the first service focused on finding and sharing high-quality recommendations with people you know and trust for the services needed to manage busy daily life. GemShare for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is the easiest and most dependable way to ask for and store the "best" local services - or "gems" - shared among one's own trusted friends and networks. Founded in 2013 by two busy working moms, GemShare focuses on important daily needs where taste, trust and personal endorsements matter – everything from home improvement services, SAT tutors, and orthopedic surgeons to marriage counselors, music and language instructors, trusted childcare, and much more. Transforming the frequent exchanges that already happen when people ask “Does anyone know a good…?,” GemShare organizes this information and “best of” recommendations in one simple, searchable place. GemShare is based in San Francisco and backed by angel and venture capital investors including Second Avenue Partners, Greylock Partners, Rich Barton, Mika Salmi and Ellen Levy, among others.

Rocksbox

Seed Round in 2014
Rocksbox is transforming the way women discover and buy jewelry. We are a fast-growing, venture-backed jewelry eCommerce business building the destination retail brand for jewelry and accessories. We’re passionate about delivering products our customers love, leveraging technology and data to do so.Our team is cross-functional, collaborative, and positive. People come first, and we love working with smart, passionate, creative people every day.

Chosen

Venture Round in 2014
Chosen is a mobile application company focused on changing how we interact and engage with the performing arts. Chosen makes it easy and fun to create amazing music videos or fun photos to share with your friends! Create, share, and discover the best videos and images or enter challenges and get famous. You can record or upload, add cool effects, and easily share your creations with friends & family.w

EdCast

Venture Round in 2014
EdCast offers a unified SaaS platform powering end-to-end employee experience journeys, spanning learning, skilling and career mobility. Its award-winning platform is used internationally by organizations ranging from large Global 2000 companies to small businesses and government organizations. With EdCast’s platforms, our customers are able to attract, develop and retain a high-performance and future-ready workforce. EdCast’s offerings include its Talent Experience Platform and MyGuide Digital Adoption Platform. EdCast is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award recipient. EdCast's enterprise customers include Dell, Diageo, Danone, Genpact, Spotify, Standard Chartered Bank, ANZ Bank, CHRISTUS Health and NASSCOM, among many others.

Chosen

Venture Round in 2013
Chosen is a mobile application company focused on changing how we interact and engage with the performing arts. Chosen makes it easy and fun to create amazing music videos or fun photos to share with your friends! Create, share, and discover the best videos and images or enter challenges and get famous. You can record or upload, add cool effects, and easily share your creations with friends & family.w

Lydell NYC

Venture Round in 2013
Lydell NYC specializes in metal, color and semi-precious designs. We have a long history of working with specialty apparel retailers and major department stores to create inspired fashion jewelry.

Jhana

Venture Round in 2013
Jhana is an online education-based company. It develops and operates an online resource that provides performance support content for managers at technology companies. This helps managers hire, develop, and retain employees. The company features business topics which include delegation, productivity, running meetings, and coaching. They also offer time-saving resources and support to human resource leaders, helping them align learning goals to broader business objectives, remove obstacles to learn, and enable a learning culture. Jhana was founded by Rob Cahill in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Handle

Venture Round in 2013
Our attention is our most precious resource and we’re wasting it. We could be using it to be better spouses, parents, employees, and friends but instead we’re using it to figure out what needs to get done and too often being diverted to things that don’t matter. The result is feeling perpetually busy but still behind, going through days feeling overwhelmed, and knowing at the end we could have spent the time more wisely. It’s no way to live. Handle is the antidote. Built upon decades of research, Handle is a personal productivity system that helps you stay focused on what matters. It brings together your email, to-do list, and calendar into a single app that lets you make better decisions with your time and relax more with less fear of things falling through the cracks. It's your life. We help you handle it.

BitSight

Series A in 2013
Founded in 2011, BitSight transforms how organizations manage information security risk. The BitSight Security Ratings Platform applies sophisticated algorithms, producing daily security ratings that range from 250 to 900, to help manage third party risk, underwrite cyber insurance policies, benchmark performance, conduct M&A due diligence and assess aggregate risk. Organizations worldwide, including seven of the top 10 cyber insurers, 20% of Fortune 500 companies, and 3 of the top 5 investment banks use BitSight’s proven Security Ratings technology on a daily basis to make integral risk and business decisions. With over 1,000 customers and the largest ecosystem of users and information, BitSight is the most widely used Security Ratings Service. For more information, please visit www.bitsighttech.com or follow @BitSight on Twitter.

Seedling

Seed Round in 2013
Seedling imagines the future of play and brings it to life by uniting modern, scalable technologies and classic materials. Itsr products enable kids 2 to 12 to seamlessly move between the digital and physical worlds they play in, creating a new category of products called reimagined play.

GemShare

Venture Round in 2013
GemShare is the first service focused on finding and sharing high-quality recommendations with people you know and trust for the services needed to manage busy daily life. GemShare for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is the easiest and most dependable way to ask for and store the "best" local services - or "gems" - shared among one's own trusted friends and networks. Founded in 2013 by two busy working moms, GemShare focuses on important daily needs where taste, trust and personal endorsements matter – everything from home improvement services, SAT tutors, and orthopedic surgeons to marriage counselors, music and language instructors, trusted childcare, and much more. Transforming the frequent exchanges that already happen when people ask “Does anyone know a good…?,” GemShare organizes this information and “best of” recommendations in one simple, searchable place. GemShare is based in San Francisco and backed by angel and venture capital investors including Second Avenue Partners, Greylock Partners, Rich Barton, Mika Salmi and Ellen Levy, among others.

UrbanSitter

Series A in 2012
UrbanSitter is an app and website that’s making it easier than ever for families to find, book and pay trusted care for the entire household, from backup child care to experienced nannies, tutors, pet sitters, housekeepers, and senior care. Only UrbanSitter taps into a parent’s personal network to connect them with caregivers of friends, co-workers, moms groups and parents from their kid’s school—to find a caregiver they trust. When parents need a last-minute sitter, UrbanSitter comes to the rescue with average response times under three minutes. UrbanSitter is solving the child care and caregiving dilemma for families everywhere.

MeeGenius

Venture Round in 2012
MeeGenius is a reading application for the iPhone, iPad, iTouch, Google TV, Google Chrome Web Store, and the Web. Launched in April 2010 by Wandy Yeap Hoh and David Park after 16 months of research and development, MeeGenius digitizes children's stories, classic and new, and adds features such as word highlighting and audio playback for easy read-along. Also available on certain platforms are text and audio personalization tools, which further engage young readers.

1 Mainstream

Venture Round in 2012
1 Mainstream (Cupertino, CA) is a digital TV distribution platform for deploying HD video services in weeks across the most popular TV, game console, tablet and streaming devices. Leading broadcasters and operators, such as BSkyB, use 1 Mainstream to automate native app creation, content delivery, protection, and monetization. For more information, visit www.1mainstream.com.

Kitchit

Venture Round in 2012
At Kitchit, we believe eating with others enriches our lives and deepens our connections to our community. We are passionate about food’s ability to connect people and have pioneered a powerful way to elevate the experience well beyond a traditional restaurant.

MeeGenius

Venture Round in 2011
MeeGenius is a reading application for the iPhone, iPad, iTouch, Google TV, Google Chrome Web Store, and the Web. Launched in April 2010 by Wandy Yeap Hoh and David Park after 16 months of research and development, MeeGenius digitizes children's stories, classic and new, and adds features such as word highlighting and audio playback for easy read-along. Also available on certain platforms are text and audio personalization tools, which further engage young readers.

HealthTap

Series A in 2011
HealthTap is a virtual-first, affordable urgent and primary care clinic, providing top-quality physician care equitably nationwide to all Americans, with or without insurance.

Ditto

Seed Round in 2011
Ditto is a personalized shopping experience created around the needs of eyewear retailers. Using augmented reality and machine learning, our virtual try-on platform captures facial data — and combines it with personal preferences — to make insightful recommendations, determine precise fit and style, and visualize it all in vivid realism.

Pobts

Venture Round in 2011
OLX is a prominent online classifieds platform that facilitates the buying and selling of a diverse range of goods and services, including electronics, furniture, cars, and household items. Founded in 2006, OLX Group serves over 300 million users monthly through its network of more than 20 consumer brands, including Avito and letgo. The platform is designed to ensure safe and convenient transactions, promoting the reuse of items and contributing to local economies. With an estimated 17 million trades conducted each month, OLX helps individuals and businesses connect, making it easy for them to buy or sell nearly anything. The company operates from over 30 offices worldwide, supported by a team of approximately 6,000 employees.

Prism Skylabs

Seed Round in 2011
Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms ordinary cameras into powerful business tools. Through computer vision, A.I., and machine learning, Prism unlocks valuable information from video that can be immediately understood, shared and acted upon. Leading companies in 80 countries around the world use Prism to better understand, manage and grow their business

MeeGenius

Venture Round in 2011
MeeGenius is a reading application for the iPhone, iPad, iTouch, Google TV, Google Chrome Web Store, and the Web. Launched in April 2010 by Wandy Yeap Hoh and David Park after 16 months of research and development, MeeGenius digitizes children's stories, classic and new, and adds features such as word highlighting and audio playback for easy read-along. Also available on certain platforms are text and audio personalization tools, which further engage young readers.

MeeGenius

Venture Round in 2011
MeeGenius is a reading application for the iPhone, iPad, iTouch, Google TV, Google Chrome Web Store, and the Web. Launched in April 2010 by Wandy Yeap Hoh and David Park after 16 months of research and development, MeeGenius digitizes children's stories, classic and new, and adds features such as word highlighting and audio playback for easy read-along. Also available on certain platforms are text and audio personalization tools, which further engage young readers.

HealthTap

Seed Round in 2011
HealthTap is a virtual-first, affordable urgent and primary care clinic, providing top-quality physician care equitably nationwide to all Americans, with or without insurance.

TrustedID

Series A in 2005
TrustedID, Inc. provides proactive identity protection solutions for corporations, organizations, and government agencies. It offers IDEssentials, a protection system that enables users to detect and stop identity theft before it happens. The company also provides data breach response services that offer identity protection for the victims of various data breach. It offers its products through financial institutions and consumer brands, as well as directly through www.trustedid.com. TrustedID acquired Unsubscribe.com and Reppler.com in 2011. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
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