Think + Ventures

Think + is a research-driven and thesis-based early stage venture firm. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs and help them with guidance, support and our proprietary research. Our investments include Tubi.tv, ApplyBoard, Uber, Qventus, Angellist, Signifyd, PayJoy, and many other game-changing companies. We focus on digital health, consumer, and leading edge enterprise solutions. We look for entrepreneurs who are driven to disrupt an old, inefficient system, and are focused on large markets that target millions of people. We help our portfolio companies to focus on design, accessibility, and efficiency of their platform.

45 past transactions

AIKON

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2017 by an encryption technology pioneer, a former political operative and a banking veteran, AIKON’s vision is to build technology products that decentralize and catalyze the global digital economy. AIKON believes that the world must become a decentralized global economy to facilitate worldwide collaboration and equal opportunity regardless of location, background, or easy access to banks or credit cards. AIKON has raised $2 million from Palo Alto-based OVO Fund and various angel investors from the U.S., Japan and Europe.

Ply

Venture Round in 2022
Ply is a finished materials procurement platform that increases cash flow predictability for mechanical contractors by offering buyer augmentation, actionable insights, and flexible funding.

Forta

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Forta provides healthcare services. They also provide applied behavior analysis therapy services through online training programs. They offer AI-driven programs and applied behavior analysis therapy for children.

Empowerly

Venture Round in 2021
Empowerly is a data-driven education technology company providing a platform for personalized college and career guidance. Empowerly provides college application counseling that ensures college admission success through trained counselors who tailor services to students' specific needs. Empowerly enables students to be their best selves in college admissions and beyond.

Serve Robotics

Seed Round in 2021
Serve Robotics develops self-driving robotic carriers to deliver and serve food. The company's zero-emissions rovers are designed to serve people in public spaces, starting with food delivery. It also partners with platforms and merchants to help local businesses reach more customers.

Contilio

Seed Round in 2021
Contilio is the built world's #1 Insight Platform, delivering millions in CO2, Cost, FTE and Time saving for general contractors, asset owners and real estate developers globally. Our unique 3D AI technology delivers actionable, timely, and connected insights from 3D site data (Laser Scans and 360-photos) in hours, fully automating quantity/progress, installation quality and CO2 tracking/optimization for all structural, architectural, MEP/service elements, across all asset types and complexity levels. This empowers our customers to make timely decisions, proactively manage risks/issues, and significantly reduce errors, rework costs and waste/CO2. This is in addition to hugely reduced construction delay, handover duration, man-hour, and time to profit/cashflow enabled by our intelligent digital twins that connect AI insights, augmented BIM, updated schedule, intelligent as-built data, risks/issues, etc. throughout construction & operations. Contilio is a step change from ‘reality capture and visualization tools’ to ‘intelligent insights, connected data and faster, cheaper, CO2 efficient construction and operations’, arming our customers with a 10X competitive edge in the generative-AI era for the $300 Trn built environment!

Serve Robotics

Seed Round in 2021
Serve Robotics develops self-driving robotic carriers to deliver and serve food. The company's zero-emissions rovers are designed to serve people in public spaces, starting with food delivery. It also partners with platforms and merchants to help local businesses reach more customers.

Altro (fka Perch)

Seed Round in 2020
Altro helps you build your credit with everyday payments and subscriptions. We help you earn credit by counting the recurring payments and subscriptions you’re already making. Our free Altro app allows you to easily link these recurring payments to leverage unseen and uncounted payments that build your credit score. Build credit and your financial power with the free Altro app and make every payment count.

Kritik

Venture Round in 2020
Kritik is a platform for collaborative online learning between groups. They developed to improve student critical thinking abilities in person or online classes. Their function are calibration, custom activities, discussions, enhance their lms, feedback, insightsa and analytics, rubrics, spotlight, and support.

TuMeke Ergonomics

Seed Round in 2020
TuMeke offers an ergonomic assessment platform to eliminate workplace musculoskeletal injuries. Its platform includes a phone and web app that work together to allow teams to collaborate across locations, get automatic recommendations on postures to investigate, and a dashboard to track performance over time. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Properly

Series A in 2019
Properly is a Canadian tech-enabled real estate brokerage transforming the home buying and selling experience.Buy when you find the home you love, move on your timeline, then sell your old home from the comforts of your new one.

Snapwire

Venture Round in 2019
Snapwire is a platform where talented creators shoot custom visual content for brands and businesses around the world. Simply post a creative brief and top performing creators respond by submitting their best shots. Buyers get unique content that matches their vision, and the creators get paid fairly. Our mission is to enable people with a passion for creativity to thrive doing what they love.

ApplyBoard

Series B in 2019
ApplyBoard is a technology company that simplifies the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and educational institutions on a single platform. Through its platform and team of experts, the application process is streamlined from discovery and application to enrollment, assisting thousands of students in pursuing their dreams of studying abroad. In 2023, ApplyBoard was named one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada by Deloitte as part of its Fast 50 and Fast 500 rankings. This marked the fifth consecutive year that ApplyBoard was recognized by Deloitte as one of North America’s fastest-growing companies. The ApplyBoard Team has grown rapidly in the past 8 years, employing more than 1,200 team members. The ApplyBoard headquarters is located in downtown Kitchener, Ontario, a dedicated office in Gurugram, India, and team members in 30 countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States.

Blendid

Series A in 2019
Blendid is an autonomous robotic food kiosk that builds robotic and AI-enabled food automation solutions. The company’s first product, a fully autonomous robotic kiosk, crafts healthy and delicious smoothies that are made fresh on demand and customized to individual tastes and nutrition preferences. Having served over 40K smoothies already, Blendid is working on scaling operations to achieve its mission of making healthy food more personalized and accessible. Blendid's kiosks craft fresh smoothies using only the healthiest fruits, vegetables, juices, and superfoods. The system can serve a smoothie in less than three minutes and process as many as 45 drinks an hour and nine beverages at the same time. Blendid has a signed partnership with Jamba and has deployed its commercial product in multiple locations, including select Walmart locations in California, with plans to expand aggressively. Blendid’s proprietary contactless, food-safe, and NSF-certified technology is poised for increased market adoption in the post-COVID world. Their AI-driven platform has 10 patents granted or in process.

XGenomes

Seed Round in 2019
XGenomes is a developer of DNA sequencing technologies. Their platform is accessible throughout an individual’s lifetime taking base-lines pre and post-birth, monitoring health, picking up early signals of disease, and tracking the effect of interventions.

Uber

Venture Round in 2019
Uber Technologies, Inc. is a technology company that operates a mobile application connecting consumers with independent drivers for ridesharing services, as well as facilitating food delivery through its Eats segment. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, Uber has expanded its operations to over 600 cities worldwide, serving customers across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company has diversified its offerings into five segments: Rides, Eats, Freight, Other Bets, and Advanced Technologies Group. The Rides segment enables users to request rides from a variety of vehicle types, while the Eats segment allows for restaurant discovery and food delivery. The Freight segment connects carriers with shippers for logistics services. Uber is also focused on developing autonomous vehicle technology through its Advanced Technologies Group. By leveraging its platform, Uber aims to enhance urban mobility and deliver innovative transportation solutions globally.

Clusterone

Seed Round in 2019
Clusterone is a deep learning platform that offers infrastructure freedom and flexible workflows data scientists love.

ApplyBoard

Series A in 2018
ApplyBoard is a technology company that simplifies the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and educational institutions on a single platform. Through its platform and team of experts, the application process is streamlined from discovery and application to enrollment, assisting thousands of students in pursuing their dreams of studying abroad. In 2023, ApplyBoard was named one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada by Deloitte as part of its Fast 50 and Fast 500 rankings. This marked the fifth consecutive year that ApplyBoard was recognized by Deloitte as one of North America’s fastest-growing companies. The ApplyBoard Team has grown rapidly in the past 8 years, employing more than 1,200 team members. The ApplyBoard headquarters is located in downtown Kitchener, Ontario, a dedicated office in Gurugram, India, and team members in 30 countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States.

Panda

Seed Round in 2018
Panda is a new kind of TV show starring you and your friends record and watch new episodes together each week until the season is over.

Boxbot

Seed Round in 2018
Boxbot’s proprietary software and hardware platform transforms package handling by making ordinary conveyors three-dimensional. Headquartered in Alameda, CA, Boxbot’s modular solution can store, sort, and sequence size-agnostic, high throughput payloads while requiring a minimal physical footprint. Boxbot is driving down the costs of last mile delivery by enabling faster, more intelligent, and denser routing of packages at the warehouse.

Signifyd

Series D in 2018
Signifyd is a SaaS-based, enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores. It simplifies fraud detection through a financial guarantee, allowing businesses to increase sales while reducing fraud losses. It was founded based on the belief that e-commerce businesses should be able to grow without fear of fraud. The solution solves the challenges that growing e-commerce businesses persistently face: billions of dollars lost in chargebacks, customer dissatisfaction from mistaken declines, and operational costs due to tedious, manual transaction investigations. Launched in 2011, Signifyd is used by multiple companies on the Fortune 1000 and Internet Retailer Top 500 lists.

Qventus

Series B in 2018
Qventus offers AI-powered automation solutions designed to streamline healthcare operations and improve patient flow. The company's platform enhances operational efficiency by reducing staff workloads and optimizing resource utilization. Qventus focuses on helping healthcare organizations unlock capacity and drive revenue through intelligent process automation.

SwiftShift

Seed Round in 2018
There is a growing need for pediatric home care which is currently not being met. Many children are spending time in hospitals and institutional care unnecessarily while home care is 10 times less expensive, more effective, and convenient. The pediatric home care market has not kept pace with this growing demand and is in need of thousands more nurses. To address the growing demand for pediatric home care, Swift Shift is reimagining pediatric home care delivery by creating the first nurse-managed pediatric home care service. Our long term mission is to increase the number of pediatric nurses who choose to work in this field so that every child can access reliable home care. Our unique offering creates more meaningful relationships between patients, families, and nurses. We’ve replaced office-based case managers with nurse care teams and empower them to manage the safe transition from the hospital to long-term home-based care. These self-managed teams choose their patients and control their schedules, creating a greater sense of ownership over their care management. We use an AI-based home care management platform to help our care teams focus on delivering care. No more manuals, no more paper! By providing all the relevant data in an easy-to-access interface, nurses can make better decisions for the well-being of their patients. Most importantly, at Swift Shift we know the best patient outcomes start and end with the best nursing experience. That’s why we are committed to our nurses’ professional development by providing 24/7 training and support services.

AIKON

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2017 by an encryption technology pioneer, a former political operative and a banking veteran, AIKON’s vision is to build technology products that decentralize and catalyze the global digital economy. AIKON believes that the world must become a decentralized global economy to facilitate worldwide collaboration and equal opportunity regardless of location, background, or easy access to banks or credit cards. AIKON has raised $2 million from Palo Alto-based OVO Fund and various angel investors from the U.S., Japan and Europe.

Clusterone

Seed Round in 2018
Clusterone is a deep learning platform that offers infrastructure freedom and flexible workflows data scientists love.

One Concern

Series A in 2017
One Concern is a climate resilience technology company, enables organizations to focus on adaptation and resilience strategies by using newly developed resilience analytics for supporting risk selection, mitigation, pricing and risk management. Applying machine learning and state-of-the-art resilience modeling, One Concern helps organizations better understand and prepare for physical climate risks with the mission of making disasters less disastrous. A 2019 Technology Pioneer, One Concern is part of the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators community.

Lily AI

Seed Round in 2017
Lily AI is the first platform that bridges the gap between brand-speak and customer-speak to drive exponential growth for commerce companies large and small. Lily AI seamlessly injects customer-centric product attributes into site search engines, recommendation systems, SEO/SEM capabilities and item setup processes to drive exponential lifts in traffic, conversion, revenue and brand loyalty. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

PayJoy

Convertible Note in 2017
PayJoy's mission is to deliver access to credit to the next billion people in emerging markets worldwide. Our unique mobile security technology gives customers the ability to afford their first smartphone on credit, using the phone itself as collateral, and then provides further access to credit to help weather life's unexpected financial surprises and climb the ladder of economic well-being. Founded in 2015, today PayJoy has reached over 10 million of customers in emerging markets around the globe, including Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and South Africa, and is solidly profitable and growing.

Spry Health

Series A in 2017
Spry health provides health care payers with real-time analytics to manage chronically ill patients, avoid preventable hospitalizations, and save money on the 5% of patients who drive 50% of health spending.

6d bytes

Seed Round in 2017
6D Bytes builds robotics systems to prepare and serve fresh & delicious meals. The company uses robotics, machine vision, and AI to transform the way the food and beverage industry approaches the preparation and serving of healthy foods.

Prospect Bio

Seed Round in 2016
Prospect Bio is a synthetic biology company that specializes in building biosensors (living cells) that can measure chemicals. Biosensors are powerful measurement tools which can perform highly complex testing tasks while being near costless to manufacture, field deployable, and massively scalable. As such, Prospect's work generally focusses on taking broken testing processes - often ones that rely on expensive ($0.5M+), slow, and lab-bound equipment - and replacing them with an affordable, scalable, and on-site biosensor based solutions. The need for improved testing solutions is being driven on a variety of fronts, including growing regulation, increased QC, and concerns about supply chain assurance. This problem set affects numerous industries, as shown by Prospect's diverse partner list which includes one of the three largest wine companies in the the world, a leading California-based Ag company, a prenatal diagnostics maker, and Ginkgo Bioworks. Prospect Bio has raised $2.8M, and is supported by investors including Illumina, Viking Capital, Stanford-StartX, Digital Sky Technologies, and Rising Tide Fund.

MetaMixis

Seed Round in 2016
Their founding team possesses a unique combination of expertise in synthetic biology, environmental genomics, and bioinformatics. They founded MetaMixis to enable the emergence of the bioeconomy by revolutionizing enzyme and pathway discovery. Along the way, they've brought in a world-class Board who they enjoy learning from every day.

PayJoy

Seed Round in 2015
PayJoy's mission is to deliver access to credit to the next billion people in emerging markets worldwide. Our unique mobile security technology gives customers the ability to afford their first smartphone on credit, using the phone itself as collateral, and then provides further access to credit to help weather life's unexpected financial surprises and climb the ladder of economic well-being. Founded in 2015, today PayJoy has reached over 10 million of customers in emerging markets around the globe, including Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and South Africa, and is solidly profitable and growing.

Snapwire

Seed Round in 2015
Snapwire is a platform where talented creators shoot custom visual content for brands and businesses around the world. Simply post a creative brief and top performing creators respond by submitting their best shots. Buyers get unique content that matches their vision, and the creators get paid fairly. Our mission is to enable people with a passion for creativity to thrive doing what they love.

Qventus

Venture Round in 2015
Qventus offers AI-powered automation solutions designed to streamline healthcare operations and improve patient flow. The company's platform enhances operational efficiency by reducing staff workloads and optimizing resource utilization. Qventus focuses on helping healthcare organizations unlock capacity and drive revenue through intelligent process automation.

Thinair

Seed Round in 2015
ThinAir is a technology company that designs a platform for the detection and investigation of insider threats, effectively minimizing insider risk within organizations. It is a cloud-based SaaS product designed to address security problems impacting healthcare, finance, public sector, technology, and a host of other organizations.

Levyx

Seed Round in 2015
Levyx was founded by Reza Sadri and Tony Givargis in Irvine, CA with the vision of bringing the benefits of high-speed data processing to the masses. This is accomplished by fundamentally disrupting the economics of how Big Data gets processed. No longer reserved only for large web-scale companies who have grown their datacenters to a massive proportion, processing of large data sets has become much more affordable to enterprises of all sizes, thanks to Levyx.

Tubi

Series A in 2014
Tubi is the world’s largest ad-supported video on demand service with over 12,000 movies and television shows from nearly every major Hollywood studio. The service gives fans of films and television programs an easy way to discover new content which is available completely free. Currently available in the US and Canada, Tubi can be accessed through a large number of devices and apps including Samsung televisions, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Comcast’s X1, iOS, and Android.

AngelList

Series A in 2013
AngelList is a platform that connects startups, angel investors, and job-seekers, aiming to democratize the investment process. Founded in 2010 by Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant and headquartered in San Francisco, AngelList facilitates fundraising, recruitment, and product launches for startups. The platform has a significant impact on the startup ecosystem, having funded numerous companies and made hundreds of thousands of introductions between job-seekers and startups. It operates several subsidiaries, including AngelList Venture and AngelList Talent, and has a portfolio that includes over 20 unicorns. Additionally, AngelList has supported the launch of more than 100,000 products, playing a crucial role in shaping the future of technology.

Signifyd

Seed Round in 2012
Signifyd is a SaaS-based, enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores. It simplifies fraud detection through a financial guarantee, allowing businesses to increase sales while reducing fraud losses. It was founded based on the belief that e-commerce businesses should be able to grow without fear of fraud. The solution solves the challenges that growing e-commerce businesses persistently face: billions of dollars lost in chargebacks, customer dissatisfaction from mistaken declines, and operational costs due to tedious, manual transaction investigations. Launched in 2011, Signifyd is used by multiple companies on the Fortune 1000 and Internet Retailer Top 500 lists.

adRise

Series A in 2012
AdRise is an internet TV ad platform that distributes and monetizes TV shows and movies by partnering with premium content owners. The company partners with premium content owners to distribute and monetize TV shows and movies across Xbox, Roku, TiVO, Smart TVs & Blu-ray players (such as Samsung & Sony), tablets, mobile devices, and streaming boxes.

OpenGov

Series A in 2012
OpenGov is a provider of modern cloud software that enables government operations for local governments and state agencies. The company's software is designed specifically for the public sector's particular budgeting, procurement, and community development requirements.

BaseHealth

Venture Round in 2012
BaseHealth is a predictive health platform that is evidence-based and data-driven without reliance on retrospective claims and ICD data. The company’s proprietary platform leverages machine learning to sift through millions of medical journals and patient records curated by scientists and physicians to offer healthcare providers the ability to identify patients with underlying risks for 43 chronic diseases and prevent costly treatments before they’re needed. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Medrio

Venture Round in 2011
Medrio provides advanced Electronic Data Capture (EDC) and eClinical tools suitable for the most complex clinical trials but built on a platform that makes us faster, lower in cost, and more streamlined than the competition. Since 2005 Medrio has been building a true Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for data management in clinical trials. Based in San Francisco, California, Medrio puts the control in your hands with our smart, forward thinking eClinical offering.

BaseHealth

Series A in 2011
BaseHealth is a predictive health platform that is evidence-based and data-driven without reliance on retrospective claims and ICD data. The company’s proprietary platform leverages machine learning to sift through millions of medical journals and patient records curated by scientists and physicians to offer healthcare providers the ability to identify patients with underlying risks for 43 chronic diseases and prevent costly treatments before they’re needed. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
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