LiquidStack
Series B in 2024
LiquidStack specializes in liquid cooling technology for servers. Its innovative solution eliminates the need for air conditioning, fans, heat sinks, chillers, and water, resulting in significant reductions in power, water, and carbon usage effectiveness.
Yuno is a developer of payment infrastructure technology that allows companies to seamlessly accept a wide range of payment methods and effectively manage fraud through a single integration. The company's platform enhances the customer experience by enabling customizable checkout options and simplifying the addition of new payment methods. Yuno's technology optimizes revenue by intelligently routing transactions to the most suitable processors and automatically retrying declined transactions. It provides a user interface that facilitates the management of various payment methods and fraud prevention services, enabling enterprises to orchestrate transactions and reconcile accounts efficiently.
Battery Smart
Series B in 2023
Battery Smart is an electric vehicle (EV) battery-swapping network based in Delhi, India, founded in 2019. The company focuses on providing advanced lithium-ion batteries specifically designed for electric two-wheelers and three-wheelers. Its innovative retrofittable 48V lithium-ion twin battery system is compatible with various electric rickshaw and two-wheeler models. Battery Smart's fully interoperable battery-swapping solution allows EV drivers to efficiently swap their batteries in just two minutes, alleviating concerns related to range anxiety, charging downtime, and the recurring costs of battery replacements. By offering a practical and quick solution for battery management, Battery Smart aims to enhance the convenience and accessibility of electric mobility in India.
Ariga is a company that specializes in providing innovative solutions for database schema management, aimed at enhancing the efficiency and safety of software engineering teams. Its technology features an open-source engine that employs a declarative syntax for managing database schemas, facilitating quick and secure changes. Additionally, Ariga's platform includes migration plan generation and an online repository for workflow management, allowing software engineers to declare, plan, simulate, and deploy schema changes effectively. Through its offerings, Ariga streamlines the process of database management, helping teams to maintain better control over their data infrastructures.
Cortex is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in providing an internal developer portal that enhances service quality and operational efficiency for software development teams. Cortex's application suite includes tools for managing microservices, documenting tribal knowledge, conducting service health audits, and preventing outages. The platform automates workflows for onboarding by scanning and mapping metadata from various microservices sources, inferring critical details like ownership and on-call rotations. This comprehensive approach enables developers to prioritize work effectively, ensuring a smoother incident response and facilitating the creation of production readiness checklists, security audits, and assessments of operational maturity.
QuickNode
Series B in 2023
Founded in Miami in 2017, QuickNode is a comprehensive blockchain development platform that empowers developers and businesses with fast, reliable APIs and supportive tools to execute Web3 ideas efficiently.
Humalect
Seed Round in 2022
Humalect is a low-code platform that specializes in automating DevOps processes. It offers an end-to-end automation solution aimed at facilitating the launch of cloud infrastructure and the deployment of applications. By streamlining developer operations, Humalect reduces the time required for software delivery while maintaining high standards of quality in cloud and security services. This enables clients to lessen their infrastructure management demands and concentrate on achieving their business objectives.
Lysto is a gaming hub that focuses on facilitating growth for game studios and enhancing the gaming experience for players. The company offers services that include playtesting, acquisition, and retention strategies, effectively supporting studios in optimizing their game development processes. Additionally, Lysto provides verification tools and infrastructure that allow gamers to digitize their credentials on the blockchain. This feature enables players to verify their credentials and carry them across various gaming platforms seamlessly. By bridging the gap between game studios and gamers, Lysto aims to create a rewarding ecosystem for both parties.
CloudQuery
Series A in 2022
CloudQuery provides an open-source cloud asset inventory platform powered by SQL, delivering visibility across multi-cloud environments for security, compliance, and cost management. The platform enables unified tracking and querying of cloud resources, real-time identification of resource ownership and changes, scalable enforcement of security policies, detection of unused assets to reduce cloud waste, and zero-ETL data pipelines for seamless integration with data warehouses. This supports governance, optimized cloud spending, and compliance across complex cloud infrastructures.
Battery Smart
Series A in 2022
Battery Smart is an electric vehicle (EV) battery-swapping network based in Delhi, India, founded in 2019. The company focuses on providing advanced lithium-ion batteries specifically designed for electric two-wheelers and three-wheelers. Its innovative retrofittable 48V lithium-ion twin battery system is compatible with various electric rickshaw and two-wheeler models. Battery Smart's fully interoperable battery-swapping solution allows EV drivers to efficiently swap their batteries in just two minutes, alleviating concerns related to range anxiety, charging downtime, and the recurring costs of battery replacements. By offering a practical and quick solution for battery management, Battery Smart aims to enhance the convenience and accessibility of electric mobility in India.
Stellate provides a cloud-based platform to optimize GraphQL APIs by combining edge caching, real-time analytics, and security features. The service caches and serves queries at the edge to reduce origin traffic, handle traffic spikes, and prevent downtime, while offering rate limiting and protection against malicious queries. The platform monitors usage and performance with real-time metrics and streamlines client requests by routing queries and cached responses, enabling faster, more reliable operation and cost savings through reduced load on origin services.
Cribl develops software to manage and control data ingestion, enabling transformation and routing of logs and metrics in motion to the most cost-effective destinations while reusing existing agents. Its platform supports an observability pipeline capable of handling large-scale data with centralized management for many worker nodes. Cribl provides a single platform for accessing, processing, exploring, and collecting data from diverse sources, reducing waste by identifying low-value ingestion and applying business context to data. The software helps secure data in line with privacy and compliance mandates and gives enterprises observability, intelligence, and control over real-time data.
Komodor is a platform that automates Kubernetes operations. It ingests daily Kubernetes events, tracks deployments, configurations, and code changes, correlating them with cluster status for clear understanding of system events.
Beam is the infrastructure provider for the fastest growing AI products for companies who need performance, control, and reliability.
Skyhawk Security
Series A in 2022
Skyhawk Security is the originator of Cloud threat Detection and Response (CDR), helping hundreds of users map and remediate sophisticated threats to cloud infrastructure in minutes. Led by a team of security professionals who built the original CSPM category, Skyhawk Security evolves cloud security far beyond scanning and static configuration analysis. Instead, using sequencing of context-based behaviors, Skyhawk provides CDR in a real-time ‘Runtime Hub’ – drawing attention to live critical sequences of risky events to distill and reduce the noise that other tools create.
Skyhawk is a spin-off of Radware’s (NASDAQ: RDWR) cloud security product.
Minka is a developer of open banking cloud software focused on enhancing the financial experience for users. The company's platform enables rapid interbank transactions, supports mobile wallets, and manages online tax collection. Additionally, it facilitates transfers of digital currencies and cryptocurrencies, allowing financial institutions to process transactions efficiently. Minka's technology not only streamlines transaction processes but also empowers financial organizations to create and launch new products, ultimately improving how individuals and businesses interact with their finances.
ARMO offers a runtime-powered, Kubernetes-driven, Cloud Security Platform.
ARMO Platform is the only platform that continuously minimizes cloud attack surface based on runtime insights, while actively detecting and responding to cyberattacks with real risk context.
Today there is a vicious cycle of endless back and forth between security and DevOps/Engineering teams. Thousands of security tickets are opened, and an overwhelming number of real time alerts are triggered, but the majority of them are ignored or remain unsolved, and no real security is achieved.
The use of runtime insights and Kubernetes context is crucial for securing the cloud and breaking this cycle.
ARMO Platform uses an eBPF-based runtime sensor to record application behavior and related activities. The recorded baseline is then enriched with relevant context from Kubernetes events, CI/CD data, cloud data and containers’ data. The result is an Application Profile DNA (APDTM), which is the holistic baseline for applications’ normal behavior, configuration, and policies.
Using APDTM, ARMO Platform enables automatic and continuous cloud security posture management to harden cloud-native infrastructure and workloads and to remediate security risks without breaking applications. By detecting and responding to anomalous behaviors, malicious activities and malware, ARMO cloud detection & response (CDR) protects workloads from cyberattacks at runtime. It instantly detects and responds to them without flooding teams with alerts.
ARMO Platform enables DevOps, security, and platform teams to eliminate the security noise in their clusters from thousands of irrelevant alerts and focus on the most important and exploitable threats. This allows them to shift from managing hypothetical security issues to mitigating actual risks and providing them with the means to remediate them.
ARMO Platform protects any type of cloud and Kubernetes deployments: managed, on-premises, and air-gapped.
ARMO is an open-source-driven company and the creator of Kubescape, a leading open-source Kubernetes security project, now an official CNCF project. Kubescape is deployed and tested across over 100K clusters in environments as small as a few workloads, and up to enterprise scales with over 50K running workloads.
Union54
Seed Round in 2022
Union54 is a debit card issuing API that facilitates the issuance of debit cards for fintech companies and corporates without the need for a bank or credit card processor. Founded in 2020 and based in Lusaka, Zambia, the company provides essential services such as BIN sponsorship, transaction processing, and settlement. This allows software companies to seamlessly integrate debit card services into their offerings. In addition to its core services, Union54 is involved in the development of secure messaging and instant payment systems, providing tools for both civilian and government use. Its software solutions include a messaging application with an integrated wallet and an API for creating chat applications, enabling clients to securely communicate and manage payments.
NEAR
Private Equity Round in 2022
NEAR is a blockchain platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and run decentralized applications. It offers NEAR Protocol, a scalable smart contract platform with decentralized storage and compute capabilities, along with developer tools such as documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer. The platform supports a broad ecosystem of components and aims to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream software by refining the development experience and enabling agents and clients to own assets, make decisions, and transact across networks. NEAR was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California.
NEAR
Venture Round in 2022
NEAR is a blockchain platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and run decentralized applications. It offers NEAR Protocol, a scalable smart contract platform with decentralized storage and compute capabilities, along with developer tools such as documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer. The platform supports a broad ecosystem of components and aims to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream software by refining the development experience and enabling agents and clients to own assets, make decisions, and transact across networks. NEAR was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California.
Ascend.io
Series B in 2022
Ascend.io is a Palo Alto, California-based company that has developed an advanced platform for managing and automating big data pipelines. The platform integrates essential data engineering capabilities, including data ingestion, transformation, delivery, orchestration, and observability, allowing data teams to operate significantly faster. By employing declarative configurations and automation, Ascend.io optimizes cloud infrastructure management and streamlines the entire data lifecycle, reducing maintenance efforts. This innovative approach enables business managers to initiate projects, connect applications, and make informed decisions with ease. Recognized as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor, Ascend.io is supported by prominent venture capital firms and a notable group of industry advisors.
LayerZero
Series A in 2022
LayerZero develops a blockchain interoperability platform that enables data exchange between disparate blockchains. Its platform achieves speed and security by validating as an on-chain light node, allowing companies to build cross-chain applications using a low-level communication primitive.
Starry, Inc. is an innovative internet company based in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional operation in New York City. Founded in 2014, the company specializes in developing user-friendly Wi-Fi products and high-speed internet services. Its flagship product, Starry Station, is the first ambient touchscreen Wi-Fi router, designed to provide users with enhanced visibility and control over their home networks. In addition to its hardware, Starry employs advanced technologies to deliver high-speed broadband using hybrid-fiber fixed wireless solutions, offering gigabit-capable internet without the constraints of bundles, data caps, or long-term contracts. The company is committed to prioritizing customer needs, ensuring privacy, and promoting affordable connectivity and digital equity within communities.
Aptos is a web3 startup founded in 2021 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company develops a scalable Layer 1 blockchain that allows developers to create future-proof applications. Aptos aims to provide universal access to decentralized assets through its network, utilizing a safe and reliable programming language that facilitates application development. The team at Aptos is composed of skilled engineers, researchers, strategists, designers, and builders, all working towards enhancing the accessibility and scalability of blockchain infrastructure for developers.
Yuno is a developer of payment infrastructure technology that allows companies to seamlessly accept a wide range of payment methods and effectively manage fraud through a single integration. The company's platform enhances the customer experience by enabling customizable checkout options and simplifying the addition of new payment methods. Yuno's technology optimizes revenue by intelligently routing transactions to the most suitable processors and automatically retrying declined transactions. It provides a user interface that facilitates the management of various payment methods and fraud prevention services, enabling enterprises to orchestrate transactions and reconcile accounts efficiently.
Run:AI is a technology company based in Tel-Aviv, Israel, founded in 2018. The company specializes in developing application software that creates an abstraction layer for analyzing computational workloads and optimizing their execution through graph-based parallel computing algorithms. Run:AI's platform streamlines AI infrastructure management by enabling efficient resource allocation, particularly for GPUs and other hardware used in AI projects. Its tools facilitate workload scheduling and resource pooling, allowing organizations to enhance their AI capabilities and accelerate development cycles. By leveraging deep learning and parallel computing technologies, Run:AI provides a high-performance compute virtualization layer that optimizes and manages training workloads, ultimately helping clients reduce inefficiencies and conduct experiments more cost-effectively.
Dialect
Seed Round in 2022
Dialect is a company that specializes in enhancing decentralized application (dapp) experiences through smart messaging protocols. It focuses on providing seamless, on-chain messaging solutions, including wallet-to-wallet chat and app notifications. Dialect has developed tools such as a blockchain monitoring toolkit and web component libraries for notifications and chat, making it easier for projects to integrate composable, on-chain messages into their applications.
Timescale
Series C in 2022
Timescale develops an open-source time-series SQL database, TimescaleDB, designed for scale and complex queries. It integrates directly into query planning and execution engines to optimize performance, enabling clients to organize, store, analyze, and interpret time-series and machine data.
Devron is a data science product platform established in 2020 by Kartik Chopra in North Brunswick, New Jersey. The company aims to democratize machine learning across distributed data silos by utilizing federated machine learning and advanced privacy technologies. This approach allows users to access and analyze data in its original location, mitigating the costs, time, and risks associated with duplicating data in centralized storage. By facilitating direct access to data, Devron enables clients to accelerate their decision-making processes and enhance the generalizability of their models, all while upholding the privacy of the underlying data sources and methodologies.
Blockdaemon
Series C in 2022
Blockdaemon facilitates blockchain deployment by offering a node management platform that supports over 30 protocols. It empowers businesses and developers to quickly launch and manage blockchain applications, with tools for exchanges, custodians, and financial institutions.
The Graph
Venture Round in 2022
The Graph is an indexing and query protocol for decentralized networks that enables developers to publish open APIs, called subgraphs, which applications can query with GraphQL to retrieve blockchain data. A hosted service is in production to help developers start quickly, while a decentralized network is launching. It currently indices data from Ethereum, IPFS and POA, with more networks planned. Thousands of developers have deployed subgraphs for DApps such as Uniswap, Synthetix, Aragon, Aave, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, DAOstack and Decentraland. The Graph supports a global community of participants, including indexers and curators, to maintain and curate the data network.
Mach9 Robotics specializes in integrated hardware and software solutions aimed at enhancing the accuracy and cost-effectiveness of utility infrastructure inspection. The company has developed a digital surveyor platform that creates multi-scale, real-time models of subsurface environments, utilizing advanced technologies such as sensors, underground penetrating radar, thermal cameras, and multi-dimensional scanners. This platform, combined with machine-learning-based mobile mapping, enables the clear mapping of underground mines, voids, pipes, and other critical infrastructure. By providing intelligent analysis software, Mach9 Robotics assists clients in simplifying infrastructure inspections and effectively planning for large construction and utility projects, as well as maintenance activities in urban settings.
Cortex is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in providing an internal developer portal that enhances service quality and operational efficiency for software development teams. Cortex's application suite includes tools for managing microservices, documenting tribal knowledge, conducting service health audits, and preventing outages. The platform automates workflows for onboarding by scanning and mapping metadata from various microservices sources, inferring critical details like ownership and on-call rotations. This comprehensive approach enables developers to prioritize work effectively, ensuring a smoother incident response and facilitating the creation of production readiness checklists, security audits, and assessments of operational maturity.
QuickNode
Series A in 2021
Founded in Miami in 2017, QuickNode is a comprehensive blockchain development platform that empowers developers and businesses with fast, reliable APIs and supportive tools to execute Web3 ideas efficiently.
Union54
Seed Round in 2021
Union54 is a debit card issuing API that facilitates the issuance of debit cards for fintech companies and corporates without the need for a bank or credit card processor. Founded in 2020 and based in Lusaka, Zambia, the company provides essential services such as BIN sponsorship, transaction processing, and settlement. This allows software companies to seamlessly integrate debit card services into their offerings. In addition to its core services, Union54 is involved in the development of secure messaging and instant payment systems, providing tools for both civilian and government use. Its software solutions include a messaging application with an integrated wallet and an API for creating chat applications, enabling clients to securely communicate and manage payments.
Magic is a technology company that specializes in password-less authentication solutions, providing an alternative login method that enhances security and user experience. Its innovative technology employs a plug-and-play kit combined with blockchain infrastructure, enabling developers to easily integrate customizable password-less login features into their applications. With just a few lines of code, developers can implement this scalable solution, allowing users to access services without traditional passwords, thus streamlining the login process and reducing security risks associated with password management.
Xanadu, founded in 2016, is a company dedicated to advancing quantum computing technology, focusing on its societal implications and practical applications. The organization aims to provide quantum computing on demand, achieving significant computational enhancements beyond classical methods for complex real-world challenges. Xanadu operates a quantum photonic platform that integrates quantum silicon photonic chips with existing hardware, creating a comprehensive quantum computing solution. By combining the expertise of leading scientists with industry professionals, Xanadu seeks to develop scalable quantum technologies that are accessible to a wide range of users, enabling them to address various business problems efficiently.
VAST Data
Series D in 2021
VAST Data, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing innovative data storage solutions. Headquartered in New York, with additional offices in San Jose, California, the company offers a universal storage platform that utilizes Intel’s Optane SSDs as a cache for data stored on quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs. VAST Data's solutions cater to various sectors, including animation and visual effects, deep learning, life sciences, media and broadcasting, and enterprise backup and recovery. The platform is designed to enhance productivity, streamline data management, and accelerate time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, making it particularly valuable for AI-driven organizations. Founded in 2016, VAST Data has rapidly established itself as a leading player in the data infrastructure market.
Ariga is a company that specializes in providing innovative solutions for database schema management, aimed at enhancing the efficiency and safety of software engineering teams. Its technology features an open-source engine that employs a declarative syntax for managing database schemas, facilitating quick and secure changes. Additionally, Ariga's platform includes migration plan generation and an online repository for workflow management, allowing software engineers to declare, plan, simulate, and deploy schema changes effectively. Through its offerings, Ariga streamlines the process of database management, helping teams to maintain better control over their data infrastructures.
Run:AI is a technology company based in Tel-Aviv, Israel, founded in 2018. The company specializes in developing application software that creates an abstraction layer for analyzing computational workloads and optimizing their execution through graph-based parallel computing algorithms. Run:AI's platform streamlines AI infrastructure management by enabling efficient resource allocation, particularly for GPUs and other hardware used in AI projects. Its tools facilitate workload scheduling and resource pooling, allowing organizations to enhance their AI capabilities and accelerate development cycles. By leveraging deep learning and parallel computing technologies, Run:AI provides a high-performance compute virtualization layer that optimizes and manages training workloads, ultimately helping clients reduce inefficiencies and conduct experiments more cost-effectively.
CTO.ai enhances developer productivity by offering a DevOps software suite. This includes application modernization, platform engineering, and cloud infrastructure management, enabling intuitive and measurable workflows that accelerate software delivery without requiring additional operational teams.
SignalFx, Inc. is a provider of cloud monitoring solutions designed to detect and analyze anomalies across infrastructure, applications, and business service level agreements (SLAs). Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in London and Krakow, the company offers a modern monitoring platform that streams real-time analytics, allowing for immediate insights into issues as they arise. Utilizing its proprietary SignalFlow technology, SignalFx processes and analyzes data in real time, enabling organizations to replace traditional monitoring tools with its scalable architecture optimized for cloud environments and microservices. The platform includes advanced features such as proactive alerting, powerful visualization, and collaborative troubleshooting, empowering DevOps teams to quickly identify and resolve problems. SignalFx serves a diverse range of clients in various sectors, including technology, finance, and retail, and operates as a subsidiary of Splunk Inc. since October 2019.
Starry, Inc. is an innovative internet company based in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional operation in New York City. Founded in 2014, the company specializes in developing user-friendly Wi-Fi products and high-speed internet services. Its flagship product, Starry Station, is the first ambient touchscreen Wi-Fi router, designed to provide users with enhanced visibility and control over their home networks. In addition to its hardware, Starry employs advanced technologies to deliver high-speed broadband using hybrid-fiber fixed wireless solutions, offering gigabit-capable internet without the constraints of bundles, data caps, or long-term contracts. The company is committed to prioritizing customer needs, ensuring privacy, and promoting affordable connectivity and digital equity within communities.
Starry
Venture Round in 2016
Starry, Inc. is an innovative internet company based in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional operation in New York City. Founded in 2014, the company specializes in developing user-friendly Wi-Fi products and high-speed internet services. Its flagship product, Starry Station, is the first ambient touchscreen Wi-Fi router, designed to provide users with enhanced visibility and control over their home networks. In addition to its hardware, Starry employs advanced technologies to deliver high-speed broadband using hybrid-fiber fixed wireless solutions, offering gigabit-capable internet without the constraints of bundles, data caps, or long-term contracts. The company is committed to prioritizing customer needs, ensuring privacy, and promoting affordable connectivity and digital equity within communities.
Ather Energy
Series A in 2015
Ather Energy specializes in manufacturing electric scooters and developing an extensive charging network called AtherGrid. The company focuses on creating a comprehensive ecosystem for India's electric vehicles, with all products designed and manufactured locally.
Pure Storage
Secondary Market in 2014
Pure Storage is a U.S.-based enterprise data storage company that offers a storage platform designed to exploit flash memory. Its products accelerate random I/O–intensive workloads such as server and desktop virtualization, databases and OLTP, analytics, SQL and NoSQL, and cloud computing. The platform enables cost-effective deployment of flash across the data center, helping organizations scale within existing power and space constraints. Revenue arises from product hardware and embedded operating system software, as well as subscription services including Evergreen Storage, Pure as a Service, Cloud Block Store, Portworx, and professional services such as installation and implementation.
Pure Storage
Series F in 2014
Pure Storage is a U.S.-based enterprise data storage company that offers a storage platform designed to exploit flash memory. Its products accelerate random I/O–intensive workloads such as server and desktop virtualization, databases and OLTP, analytics, SQL and NoSQL, and cloud computing. The platform enables cost-effective deployment of flash across the data center, helping organizations scale within existing power and space constraints. Revenue arises from product hardware and embedded operating system software, as well as subscription services including Evergreen Storage, Pure as a Service, Cloud Block Store, Portworx, and professional services such as installation and implementation.
Pure Storage
Series E in 2013
Pure Storage is a U.S.-based enterprise data storage company that offers a storage platform designed to exploit flash memory. Its products accelerate random I/O–intensive workloads such as server and desktop virtualization, databases and OLTP, analytics, SQL and NoSQL, and cloud computing. The platform enables cost-effective deployment of flash across the data center, helping organizations scale within existing power and space constraints. Revenue arises from product hardware and embedded operating system software, as well as subscription services including Evergreen Storage, Pure as a Service, Cloud Block Store, Portworx, and professional services such as installation and implementation.
Polygon is a blockchain scalability platform designed to enhance the usability and convenience of decentralized transactions. By offering a structured and user-friendly environment for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development, Polygon aims to address the slow, expensive, and complex nature of current decentralized systems. The platform combines various scaling solutions and development tools, prioritizing user experience to facilitate quicker and more secure transactions. Polygon's mission is to drive mainstream adoption of blockchain technology, enabling a more accessible and efficient decentralized ecosystem.