Uncork Capital

Uncork Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2004 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in San Francisco. The firm specializes in seed-stage investments, primarily targeting startups in sectors such as software as a service (SaaS), consumer services, technology, hardware, and emerging technologies. It invests in various industries, including digital health, education technology, and innovative platforms like artificial intelligence and blockchain. Uncork Capital typically makes initial investments ranging from $0.25 million to $5 million, with an average investment of about $4 million, and holds a targeted ownership stake of 7 to 10 percent. The firm primarily invests in companies located in Silicon Valley, New York, Boulder, Boston, and parts of Canada, while also considering opportunities outside these regions if a strong local relationship exists. Uncork Capital manages two funds, a $100 million Seed fund and a $100 million Opportunity fund, aimed at supporting both early-stage and mature portfolio companies.

Jean-Francois Clavier

Founder and Managing Partner

Jeff Clavier

Founder and Managing Partner

Ashley Cravens

Director of Operations

Tripp Jones

Partner

Susan Liu

Partner

Andrew McLoughlin

Managing Partner

475 past transactions

Human Interest

Series C in 2021
Human Interest offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans. Previously, only large companies offered employee retirement plans, leaving more than half of all working Americans without a path to a secure financial future. The company believes that a path to financial independence should be accessible to people in all lines of work.

Arch Systems

Seed Round in 2016
Arch Systems Inc. designs and develops a device-to-cloud modular hardware platform for industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company’s device-to-cloud hardware is used for a range of custom IoT applications from electronics to mobile and cloud. Its hardware platform allows clients to design custom connected devices and take them to production, as well as enables software developers to create physical applications for sectors, such as food, water, and energy. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.

The Lobby

Seed Round in 2019
The Lobby is a video shopping platform that bridges the gap between online and offline shopping. By bringing together top fashion brands and influencers in a QVC-meets-TikTok shopping experience, The Lobby makes shopping as easy and inspiring as scrolling your Instagram feed. And with a unique try-before-you-buy payment option, The Lobby makes online shopping truly risk-free.

Sunnyside

Seed Round in 2022
Creating a new wellness category around proactive alcohol health, with the goal of helping anyone who regularly drinks alcohol build mindfulness around their consumption.

TownHog

Seed Round in 2008
TownHog connects businesses and local audiences, while enabling leading publishers to further monetize and engage their geo-segmented users. TownHog is the latest creation by Dotblu, Inc. Dotblu is a San Francisco based company founded in 2007 and backed by Silicon Valley veterans and D. E. Shaw Ventures

MonetizeNow

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of enterprise monetization platform designed to help businesses increase sales targets. The company's API-based platform features omnichannel, integrated CPQ and billing, testable code, customer relationship management, data administration, and other related features, enabling clients to monetize their business, boost sales and generate profits.

Fatherly

Seed Round in 2015
Fatherly operates a parenting resource platform for men. The company provides fatherly tips in the areas of gear, food and health, work and money, and relationships. It also provides gifts for expecting guys, sleepless nights, one/two/three-year olds, tech toys, and playground products; and books, grownups, travel, and home fitness products online. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York. Fatherly operates as a subsidiary of Some Spider Inc.

Grovo

Series D in 2017
Grovo Learning Inc. operates a platform that provides microlearning solutions to workplace for companies. Its microlearning approach include bite-sized video lessons, exercises, and practice that range from digital skills to leadership training solutions. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in New York and San Francisco. As of November 9, 2018, Grovo Learning Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc.

LaunchDarkly

Series D in 2021
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves over 100 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software. Feature flagging is an industry best practice of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka ”dark launching”). Their vision is to eliminate the risk for developers and operations teams from the software development cycle. LaunchDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. They are building a diverse team so that they can offer robust products and services. Their team culture is fast-paced, friendly, and supportive. LaunchDarkly was founded on July 14, 2014, and is headquartered in California, USA.

Hallow

Series A in 2021
Hallow is a digital platform that aims to energize faith lives and enable conversations with God through guided prayer.

Phil

Series C in 2021
Phil, Inc. provides a prescription management software service for obtaining medications. The company operates a specialty Rx distribution platform that assists patients in managing their medications by automatically refilling based on the prescription cadence. It acts a liaison between patients, prescribers, manufacturers, and pharmacists. The company also provides complimentary home delivery services for medications. Phil, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Byliner

Series A in 2012
Byliner works directly with the world's best writers to deliver their stories to readers. Hailed by Fast Company as “One of the 10 Most Innovative Media Companies in the World,” we publish original fiction and nonfiction e-shorts by top authors such as Amy Tan, Margaret Atwood, Jon Krakauer, Nick Hornby, Sebastian Junger, and more. These e-shorts are written to be read in two hours or less, and can be purchased individually through major digital bookstores. The entire Byliner Originals library is also available online to Byliner subscribers, who get access to premium content from Byliner's by-invitation community of writers--including thousands of rarely-seen and exclusive stories from bestselling authors.

DroneDeploy

Series C in 2018
DroneDeploy is a provider of cloud-control software solutions for drones which include automated flight safety checks, workflows, and real-time mapping and data processing. The company has partnered with leading drone manufacturers like DJI to provide its software to end users in a variety of industries, including agriculture, real estate, mining, construction and many other commercial and consumer arenas. DroneDeploy is compatible with any drone.

Fitbit

Series A in 2008
Fitbit inspires people to exercise more, eat better and live healthier lifestyles. The company is developing an ultra-compact wireless wearable sensor, called the Fitbit Tracker, that automatically tracks data about a person's activities, such as calories burned, sleep quality, steps and distance. The Fitbit Tracker collects activity data automatically while it is worn by the user all day. The collected data is wirelessly uploaded to a website where the wearer can see their data and track their progress toward personal goals. The website provides a motivational interface where users can share their progress, compare themselves against similar people and work toward virtual goals with their friends, family and co-workers. At the website, users can also manually log nutrition, weight and other health information in order to gain a complete picture of their health. Fitbit makes it easy to achieve a healthy lifestyle by automating the collection of health data and providing a motivating and entertaining user interface.

Expo

Series A in 2018
Pared is an on-demand tool for restaurant workers. The company's mission is to make restaurant life easier by connecting restaurant owners and operators with the restaurant staff they need, when they need them. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Hallow

Seed Round in 2019
Hallow is a digital platform that aims to energize faith lives and enable conversations with God through guided prayer.

Circle of Moms

Seed Round in 2008
Circle of Moms is a parenting social network for mothers to share stories, problems, and tips of motherhood. Users can connect with the moms to whom they are closest and trust most (we call this group their circle of moms), like-minded moms or other users in their community. The site offers public communities such as Toddler Moms, Recipe Swap, Money Saving Tips, communities by birth month for pregnant mothers and mothers of infants, or create a new community of their own. Users can also use the "Moms Near Me" feature to find other moms that live nearby to keep up to date on the best restaurants, events and resources for moms and their families in their local community. Circle of Moms works both on its own social networking site and as a Facebook application.

Marco Polo

Series A in 2015
Joya Communications creates applications that enable people to remain connected in convenient and meaningful ways. Joya develops Marco Polo, FlipLip, and Cleo applications. These applications help people feel closer together. Joya was founded in 2012.

Human Interest

Series A in 2018
Human Interest offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans. Previously, only large companies offered employee retirement plans, leaving more than half of all working Americans without a path to a secure financial future. The company believes that a path to financial independence should be accessible to people in all lines of work.

SendGrid

Series B in 2012
SendGrid is a proven, cloud-based customer communication platform that drives engagement and business growth. SendGrid is a leader in email deliverability and its proven, cloud-based platform successfully delivers over 30 billion emails each month for Internet and mobile-based customers like Airbnb, Pandora, HubSpot, Spotify, Uber and FourSquare as well as more traditional enterprises like Intuit and Costco.

Top Hat

Series A in 2012
As a student engagement and interactive teaching platform, Top Hat’s software helps college professors activate classrooms. In a world of digital distractions, countless academic studies have reinforced the reality that students better understand the day’s lesson if they’re asked to engage with peers, interact with complex material and participate in class. By requiring students to use their personal devices to answer quizzes, reply to polls, and tackle difficult simulations, Top Hat transforms the passive lecture hall into an engaging learning environment. As an advocate for traditional, on-campus education, Top Hat not only modernizes established teaching methods but also facilitates new approaches including the ‘flipped classroom,’ ‘group learning,’ and other creative solutions. Top Hat is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, hosts 120 full-time employees, and has been operating since its 2009 launch behind $22M in venture funding.

quadric.io

Private Placement in 2019
quadric.io is an end-to-end architecture optimized for real-time edge computing. It aims to empower developers in every industry with superpowers to create tomorrow’s technology, today. The company also designed to meet the powerful needs of next-level autonomous products, like self-driving cars and robots. quadric.io was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA, USA.

SendGrid

Series A in 2009
SendGrid is a proven, cloud-based customer communication platform that drives engagement and business growth. SendGrid is a leader in email deliverability and its proven, cloud-based platform successfully delivers over 30 billion emails each month for Internet and mobile-based customers like Airbnb, Pandora, HubSpot, Spotify, Uber and FourSquare as well as more traditional enterprises like Intuit and Costco.

Bitly

Series A in 2009
Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels. Through branded bitlinks, mobile deep linking, and omnichannel campaign tracking, the platform offers a complete marketing solution to drive customer experiences. Using HTTP 301 redirects for its links, companies can use their own custom domains to generate shortened links. This allows the company to push brand awareness on services such as Twitter but use the Bitly engine to generate the shortened URLs and track marketing metrics. Bitly was launched in July 2008 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver.

LaunchDarkly

Series B in 2017
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves over 100 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software. Feature flagging is an industry best practice of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka ”dark launching”). Their vision is to eliminate the risk for developers and operations teams from the software development cycle. LaunchDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. They are building a diverse team so that they can offer robust products and services. Their team culture is fast-paced, friendly, and supportive. LaunchDarkly was founded on July 14, 2014, and is headquartered in California, USA.

Fab

Seed Round in 2010
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

Craft

Series A in 2020
Craft is a machine-learning powered data and analytics platform building the “Source of Truth” on companies and mapping the global economy. The company organizes financial, operating and human capital data from thousands of sources to provide comprehensive, up-to-date sector and company profiles, ranging from early-stage to the largest companies in the world, with analytics and tools such as signal alerts, trends and benchmarking.

Sunnyside

Seed Round in 2021
Creating a new wellness category around proactive alcohol health, with the goal of helping anyone who regularly drinks alcohol build mindfulness around their consumption.

Panorama Education

Series A in 2015
Panorama Education, Inc., a data analytics company, provides survey and analysis programs for K-12 education. The company’s platform provides research-based surveys and feedback data; offers teachers, principals, and district administrators with reports; and analyzes results across classrooms, schools, respondent subgroups, or any demographic data. It helps school districts, charter networks, and state governments to conduct surveys of students, parents, teachers, and staff. In addition, the company provides implementation consultation, technical assistance, and training to its clients in the United States. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Flux

Private Placement in 2020
Flux is an internal mobility platform that helps employees grow while contributing to the work the business needs to get done. Employees are intelligently matched to opportunities they can excel at: from part-time projects and rotations, to learning, mentorship, or full-time roles. Companies gain full visibility into their workforce and fill roles faster while promoting a culture of recognition and progression.

Wrapbook

Series B in 2021
For employers and project based workforces who work in media production, Wrapbook provides digital profiles that facilitate onboarding, paying and insuring workforces compliantly. Unlike traditional payroll, Wrapbook is easy to use, fast to wrap, and costs less. Wrapbook is enabling the world's very best creative work by empowering producers, creative directors, HR teams & accountants -- and talented cast and crew -- to focus on their great work and less on complex systems and the burdens of compliance & expensive transactional costs.

VigLink

Series A in 2010
VigLink, Inc. operates a platform for content-driven commerce that processes various page-views and clicks. The company monetizes content that drives commerce for various sites and works with merchants to drive sales. Its products include VigLink Convert that transforms existing product links into valuable marketing traffic; VigLink Insert that identifies commercial linking opportunities from customer’s content and transforms text into links on their behalf; and VigLink Anywhere that enables users to create and share revenue-generating links across collaborative networks, such as social and email. The company provides its solutions for publishers, advertisers, forums, blogs, mobile applications, affiliate marketers, and developers. VigLink, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of December 13, 2018, VigLink, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of sovrn Holdings, Inc.

Appdiff, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Appdiff, Inc., doing business as test.ai, an application testing platform that analyzes screens, elements, and flows in a mobile application while measuring performance and tracking the user experience, enabling agile, lean, and continuous engineering teams. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

ClassDojo

Series A in 2013
ClassDojo, Inc. operates an online school communication platform that connects teachers, students, and families to build communities by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages. The company was formerly known as Class Twist, Inc. and changed its name to ClassDojo, Inc. in December 2017. ClassDojo, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Britely

Seed Round in 2009
The fastest way to capture the best ideas you read, and keep them where you can see them.

Get Satisfaction

Seed Round in 2009
Based in San Francisco, Get Satisfaction provides an online community platform connecting companies with customers to foster relationships that unlock new value for both sides. Companies of all sizes and industries—from Kellogg's and P&G to [Sonos](/organization/sonos), [HootSuite](/organization/hootsuite) and [SugarCRM](/organization/sugarcrm)—rely on Get Satisfaction to deliver online communities that modernize customer support, accelerate sales, differentiate their brand and inspire new innovations. Get Satisfaction's community platform offers the fastest time to value for companies ready to embrace the way today’s customers want to engage.

Catamorphic Co.

Private Placement in 2019
Catamorphic Co., doing business as LaunchDarkly, develops a feature management platform that allows software teams to deliver, measure, and control their features. It offers LaunchDarkly to launch and control application features in real-time; and create, organize, and maintain flags. Its solution is used by teams to innovate, reduce risk, and break down the barriers between developer, product, marketing, and sales. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Oakland, California.

Front

Series D in 2022
Front powers the heart of business — the meaningful connections between teams and customers that lead to lasting relationships. Bringing email and apps together in a collaborative customer communication platform, Front drives business impact by scaling the natural conversations that create customers for life. More than 6,000 businesses are using Front today to cultivate personalized customer relationships at scale and transform their work into impact. Learn more at frontapp.com.

Catamorphic Co.

Private Placement in 2019
Catamorphic Co., doing business as LaunchDarkly, develops a feature management platform that allows software teams to deliver, measure, and control their features. It offers LaunchDarkly to launch and control application features in real-time; and create, organize, and maintain flags. Its solution is used by teams to innovate, reduce risk, and break down the barriers between developer, product, marketing, and sales. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Oakland, California.
Ubiquitous unlocks influencer marketing for the biggest brands in the world with a heavy focus on TikTok. We are a full-service solution built with mature data infrastructure that utilizes predictive analytics and machine learning to optimize influencer marketing strategy on top of our world class strategy and execution team. Whether you're focused on brand awareness, improving social presence through creator-led organic content creation, or developing a direct growth strategy, we've got you covered. We've worked with brands and marketing agencies of all sizes - including Lyft, Disney, American Eagles, Netflix, Lyft, FabFitFun, and 200+ others. We believe that brands need more than just self-service software to efficiently utilize the fastest growing marketing vertical, which is why we use incredible marketers layered on top of the most mature data infrastructure in the space to solve any influencer marketing challenge.

Continuum Technology

Series A in 2022
Continuum Technology offers software that manages executive availability, contracts, invoices, and payments. It is a platform that enables fractional time executives, allowing them to monetize their expertise and automate your back office.

Charlie Finance Co.

Series A in 2018
Charlie Finance Co. develops a text message application that simplifies personal finance. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.Charlie Finance Co. monitors user’s transactions, finds ways to save money, cuts expenses, understands users spending, and alerts users when there is something worth paying attention. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Arch Systems

Venture Round in 2022
Arch Systems Inc. designs and develops a device-to-cloud modular hardware platform for industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company’s device-to-cloud hardware is used for a range of custom IoT applications from electronics to mobile and cloud. Its hardware platform allows clients to design custom connected devices and take them to production, as well as enables software developers to create physical applications for sectors, such as food, water, and energy. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Nuzzel

Seed Round in 2012
Nuzzel is a professional news discovery service used by many of the top influencers in media, technology, and finance. Nuzzel was named one of the best apps of the year by Google Play, the New York Times, Fast Company, and Time Magazine. Nuzzel is backed by top Silicon Valley investors including Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Homebrew, Lowercase Capital, Uncork Capital, Marc Benniof, and Max Levchin.

Sym

Series A in 2020
Sym is a security workflow platform that solves the intent-to-execution gap between policies and workflows by providing fast-moving engineering teams with the just-right primitives to roll out best-practice controls. The platform integrates AWS, IDPs, policy-as-code tools, and more and empowers engineers to create security and privacy workflows for their teams. This helps engineers save time. Sym also offers its serverless templates for custom integrations. Adam Buggia, Jonathan Bass, and Yasyf Mohamedali launched the company in San Francisco, California in 2020.

Human Interest

Series D in 2021
Human Interest offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans. Previously, only large companies offered employee retirement plans, leaving more than half of all working Americans without a path to a secure financial future. The company believes that a path to financial independence should be accessible to people in all lines of work.

Mob.ly

Series A in 2008
Mob.ly, formerly Goodrec, is a mobile and online recommendation service that provides brief, to-the-point recommendations from friends and trusted sources that launched at TechCrunch50 in 2008. The service makes it easy to make, find and remember actionable recommendations from anywhere: online, via its iPhone application or from any mobile browser. Mobly was acquired by [Groupon](/organization/groupon) in May 2010.

Hallow

Series B in 2021
Hallow is a digital platform that aims to energize faith lives and enable conversations with God through guided prayer.

Bitly

Debt Financing in 2010
Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels. Through branded bitlinks, mobile deep linking, and omnichannel campaign tracking, the platform offers a complete marketing solution to drive customer experiences. Using HTTP 301 redirects for its links, companies can use their own custom domains to generate shortened links. This allows the company to push brand awareness on services such as Twitter but use the Bitly engine to generate the shortened URLs and track marketing metrics. Bitly was launched in July 2008 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver.

ClassDojo

Private Placement in 2019
ClassDojo, Inc. operates an online school communication platform that connects teachers, students, and families to build communities by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages. The company was formerly known as Class Twist, Inc. and changed its name to ClassDojo, Inc. in December 2017. ClassDojo, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Focal Systems

Seed Round in 2016
Focal Systems designs an indoor positioning system for shopping carts that helps shoppers navigate the store while providing marketing intelligence to retailers. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Rapleaf

Venture Round in 2011
Providing data on 80% of U.S. email addresses, Rapleaf, a division of TowerData, makes it incredibly easy for marketers to learn who their customers are and what other channels they can be contacted on. Our data helps brands segment their subscribers and personalize their content, driving more relevant interactions and keeping customers happy and engaged.

Groove

Series B in 2021
Groove Labs, Inc. develops a sales engagement and acceleration platform. It offers Groove, a solution for email and calendar integration; Groove Flow, a solution that enables users to create custom multi-step campaigns, which help reps and account managers to send personalized emails and make informed phone calls. The company also provides Groove Dialer, a solution that helps user to close more deals by eliminating manual tasks and making reps and account managers more strategic and better informed; and performance tracking and analytics solutions. It serves organizations, divisions, and teams ranging from sales leaders, AEs, SDRs, and sales opps to account management leaders and CSMs. Groove Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has additional offices in San Diego, California; and Bellevue, Washington.

Rapleaf

Series A in 2006
Providing data on 80% of U.S. email addresses, Rapleaf, a division of TowerData, makes it incredibly easy for marketers to learn who their customers are and what other channels they can be contacted on. Our data helps brands segment their subscribers and personalize their content, driving more relevant interactions and keeping customers happy and engaged.

Mutiny

Seed Round in 2018
Mutiny helps B2B companies personalize their website for each visitor in order to convert the 99% of traffic that bounces. Visitors bounce because customers from different industries and company sizes are looking for different things on your site. Mutiny enables you to engage them with a tailored experience made just for them, so they get what they want, faster. Companies such as Segment, Brex, Amplitude and Carta are using Mutiny and seeing up to 200% lift in conversion.

TruckLabs

Series A in 2021
XStream Trucking Inc. develops GapGorilla, a device that eliminates the gap between the tractor and the trailer to increase fuel efficiency. The company also offers TruckWings, an active-aero device that automatically deploys at highway speeds to deliver streamlined aerodynamics, fuel savings, and lower carbon emissions. It serves the long-haul trucking industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Zenreach

Series B in 2016
Zenreach created Walk-Through Marketing to help businesses with physical locations dramatically improve customer acquisition and lifetime value by connecting digital marketing with in-store results. Zenreach Engage automatically tracks customer visits, effortlessly builds rich customer profiles and keeps them up to date. Zenreach Attract improves ad performance 4x by targeting audiences based on your best customers. Results are measured with our Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that shows when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Founded in 2012, Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and leading brands like Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris and BCBG Max Azria.

Continuum Technology

Seed Round in 2021
Continuum Technology offers software that manages executive availability, contracts, invoices, and payments. It is a platform that enables fractional time executives, allowing them to monetize their expertise and automate your back office.

Sperta

Seed Round in 2021
Sperta helps financial services and tech companies automate decisions and manage fraud, credit, and compliance risks. It provides a rules engine, integration with data vendors and models, and a case management tool. Sperta was founded in June 2021. The co-founders previously built Uber's rules engine, Mastermind and Google Cloud AI Feature Store.

TextDigger

Series A in 2009
[TextDigger](http://www.textdigger.com) provides semantic search services to increase the "findability" of a company's internal web pages as well as external pages on major search engines. Their search technology can discern between various meanings of words and matches words to pages where different words are used to describe the same ideas.

Phil

Series B in 2019
Phil, Inc. provides a prescription management software service for obtaining medications. The company operates a specialty Rx distribution platform that assists patients in managing their medications by automatically refilling based on the prescription cadence. It acts a liaison between patients, prescribers, manufacturers, and pharmacists. The company also provides complimentary home delivery services for medications. Phil, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Upwave

Series B in 2018
Upwave (formerly Survata) is a marketing analytics company providing brand marketing measurement technology to the world's leading brands, agencies, and publishers. Upwave was launched in Y Combinator, and is backed by leading Silicon Valley venture capital investors including Uncork Capital, PivotNorth Capital, Conductive Ventures, Ridge Ventures and Bloomberg Beta. The company is based in San Francisco and New York.

Shippo

Series D in 2021
Shippo is a multi-carrier shipping API and web app. E-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and platforms are able to connect to multiple shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard, through Shippo. Businesses can get shipping rates, print labels, automate international documents, track shipments, and facilitate returns. The company processes millions of shipments per month for more than 35,000 customers. Businesses are able to instantly access multiple shipping carriers for real-time rates, shipping labels, international paperwork, package tracking, and return logistics. Shippo was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Poshmark

Series C in 2015
Poshmark, Inc. owns and operates a social marketplace to buy and sell lifestyle products in the United States. The company offers apparel, footwear, home, and beauty products, as well as accessories. As of September 30, 2020, it had 31.7 million active users, 6.2 million active buyers, and 4.5 million active sellers. The company was formerly known as GoshPosh, Inc. and changed its name to Poshmark, Inc. in 2011. Poshmark, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Koan

Private Placement in 2019
Koan helps companies manage goals and status in a collaborative way. Employee alignment and engagement remains a top challenge for almost every organization. With the shift to remote work, communication gets siloed, priorities shift and information gets lost in the daily spreadsheet shuffle. Koan enables teams to align and engage through the power of habit, keeping everyone connected to the mission and focused on achieving their most critical goals. Inspire, align, and focus your remote workforce with Koan’s easy to use OKR and status platform. Learn more at koan.co.

Vivid Vision

Seed Round in 2017
Vivid Vision, Inc. develops interactive, immersive, and 3D games for people with amblyopia and strabismus. It offers Vivid Vision software suite that provides interactive tests for eye dominance, suppression, angle of deviation, contrast sensitivity, and more. The company’ Vivid Vision software suite also enables clinicians to monitor and control different aspects of patient's experience from a touchscreen monitor. It offers its products for eye clinics in North America. Vivid Vision, Inc. was formerly known as Apollo VR Corporation and changed its name to Vivid Vision, Inc. in March 2015. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Sapho

Series B in 2017
Sapho empowers employees with a modern portal experience that surfaces personalized and relevant tasks and data using micro-apps. Sapho micro apps are built by IT on top of existing systems using pre-built templates and a drag-and-drop micro app builder. These micro apps available on any device, intranet, or messenger provide employees proactive notifications about interesting system data, actions that need to be completed, and changes in business data that require attention. It was founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.

Aizon

Convertible Note in 2016
Aizon is an AI software provider that transforms manufacturing operations with the use of advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and other smart factory technologies focused on optimizing production within highly regulated industries. The Aizon AI platform seamlessly integrates unlimited sources of structured and unstructured data to deliver actionable insights across all manufacturing sites. Aizon offers an intuitive way to gain meaningful operational intelligence by enabling real-time visibility and predictive insights in a GxP compliant manner with end-to-end data integrity.

Kahuna

Series B in 2015
Kahuna creates highly personalized experiences for every buyer and every seller for the world’s leading marketplaces. Kahuna is the platform of choice for meeting the needs of marketplaces, using state of the art machine-learning technology to drive extreme personalization, product and pricing optimization, trust, and engagement. With more than 144 million engaged users, over 4 billion messages sent, and 46 billion optimized events, Kahuna is the proven solution for marketplaces of all sizes. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with global locations, Kahuna investors include Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Uncork Capital. Learn more at http://www.kahuna.com

Sameroom

Series A in 2013
Sameroom is an online platform to help teams communicate with users on different chat platforms. It provides real-time interoperability between Slack and other chat systems through virtual tubes or by giving users the ability to connect multiple teams together on all different services. Sameroom was launched by Andrei Soroker and Peter Hizalev in March 2015 and is based in Oakland, California.

Niche

Seed Round in 2014
They're a community of relevant and influential social media creators, prominent on rising platforms like Vine, Instagram and Tumblr. With both software and services, they help creators engage, thrive and monetize. Their partners — leading brands, studios, start-ups, and agencies — look to Niche to supercharge their social presences. Alongside their creators, they help partners acquire new users, develop audience, generate buzz and solicit engagement.

Escher Reality

Seed Round in 2017
Escher Reality, Inc develops augmented reality API. It builds a cross-platform toolkit and custom backend for mobile AR developers. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. As of February 1, 2018, Escher Reality, Inc operates as a subsidiary of Niantic, Inc.

Farmeron

Seed Round in 2012
Farmeron helps farmers across the world to manage their farming data online and to do farm performance analysis using exciting statistics. By integrating Farmeron with machinery being used on farms of the world, we're able to speed up data retrieval process and ease core farming data management operations. Adding an analytics layer on top this data, Farmeron delivers statistics and reports to farmers, and these can be used to monitor production performance, adjust production plans but also for government reporting needs.

Focal Systems

Series A in 2017
Focal Systems designs an indoor positioning system for shopping carts that helps shoppers navigate the store while providing marketing intelligence to retailers. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Loft Orbital

Private Placement in 2019
LOFT ORBITAL SOLUTIONS INC. provides an end-to-end service to host and operate customers' payloads. The company provides satellite platform and integration, standard hardware interfaces, launch booking and integration, finance and insurance solutions to reduce risk and the financial barriers to accessing space, and regulatory compliance and licensing. LOFT ORBITAL SOLUTIONS INC. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Driftrock

Venture Round in 2016
Driftrock Limited provides applications and tools for multi-channel marketing. It offers Marketing Overview to pull multi-channel marketing reports into a single place; sync marketing, conversion, and visit data; optimize mobiles; download data to CSV; and assist conversions. The company also provides Open Book to identify the ads and campaigns that work and the ones that do not work, create best performing ads, detect and pause worst performing ads, optimize ad images and text, and manage campaigns on the go. In addition, it offers Lead Response to manage, track, and respond to email leads in real-time; and Swift, a paid Twitter analysis solution for campaigns and tweets with near real-time reporting. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Handshake

Series B in 2016
Handshake Corp. provides an online sales order application. The company’s application enables mobile order writing, Web order management, and back office integration. It serves music, gift, toys, fashion, eyewear, healthcare, and outdoor industries. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York. As of May 7, 2019, Handshake Corp. operates as a subsidiary of Shopify Inc.

8tracks, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
8tracks, Inc. is a non-interactive Internet radio service that allows users to make and discover playlists. Its Internet radio platform allows members to upload songs from their own collections to make a virtual mix tape that can be shared. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Marvel

Series A in 2016
Bringing the world's ideas to life. Started as a side-project in 2013, we're now home to nearly 2 million individuals and teams around the world who use Marvel to make ideas a reality.

WeGame

Series A in 2008
WeGame is a social platform that connects gamers with the games they should be playing. By using WeGame, gamers seamlessly build their gamer social and interest graphs, which in turn powers WeGame's recommendation and commerce engine. Once a gamer discovers a game on WeGame, they can instantly purchase and play it using the service. Currently, the service's core focus is on PC gaming. WeGame was founded by [Jared Kim] in 2007.

Home-Account

Series A in 2009
Home Account Inc., is a mortgage-finding service designed to help America's 75 million borrowers save money and make smart mortgage choices. The service grades and analyzes borrowers' current mortgages, presents scenarios to improve their financial situation, and then matches each borrower to the best mortgage options in the market.

Craft Machine Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Craft Machine Inc. owns and operates an artificial intelligence driven data and analytics platform that provides commercial data, analytics, and actionable insights for organizations to make data-informed business decisions. It offers Craft Intelligence Portal, a company intelligence portal; and Craft API that provides access to the Craft data platform for developers and data scientists. The company also provides Craft Supply Chain Intelligence Coupa to de-risk and optimize supply base directly from Coupa; Craft Company Intelligence for Salesforce that provides insights and alerts from hundreds of data types and data sources; and Craft for Google Chrome that provides access to data on companies as the users browse the web. The company's services include career search, market and sector research, customer lead generation, and competitive analysis. It offers its solutions for enterprise, supply chain, and sales intelligence. Craft Machine Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; and Minsk, Belarus.

Tulip

Seed Round in 2013
Tulip Retail is the world’s first cloud-based retail platform built exclusively for store associates. It was founded in 2013 by a team of mobile and e-commerce experts who are passionate about shaping the future in-store experience. Dedicated to store associate empowerment, Tulip is bringing the best of online shopping to the selling floor with an intuitive, simple to use mobile app that enables: assisted selling, endless aisle, clienteling, store communications and point of sale. Leading retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, Kate Spade, Coach, Frye Boots, Bonobos, and Toys”R”Us use Tulip to help them deliver an unparalleled omnichannel shopping experience.

Onchain Labs, Inc

Private Placement in 2019
Onchain Labs, Inc develops MakersPlace platform to discover and collect digital creations. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Crossbeam

Series B in 2020
Crossbeam, Inc. develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) based collaborative data platform that helps companies to build partnerships. It offers Crossbeam that helps companies to find overlapping customers and prospects with their partners. The company’s Crossbeam is used to connect data, create populations, make partners, and analyze the overlaps in populations. Crossbeam, Inc. was formerly known as Mtrebor, Inc. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

InboxQ

Angel Round in 2010
InboxQ is a browser extension that delivers a persistent stream of questions from Twitter directly to you. There is no better way to engage with potential customers than by using your expertise to help them solve their problems.

ZEFR

Series B in 2011
Zefr is a video advertising company that creates targeted video ad placements with it's unique and proprietary technology. With our custom packages, we leverage both technology and human review to selected individual videos, ensuring brands can safely and effectively scale their video ad campaigns. Why the name Zefr? Before Venice became “Silicon Beach” it was the grimy paradise of the 1970's Zephyr skate team. The Z-boys were a group of broken-home-punks that pioneered today’s skate culture. They did more than just push the physical boundaries of the sport—they created the culture that defines Venice today. At Zefr, we embrace the Z-boy’s drive for innovation, performance, and pushing boundaries. Our motto? Go Big. Go Fast.

Gnip

Series A in 2008
Gnip provides social media data for customers in sectors such as social media monitoring, business intelligence, government, and finance. The company customers deliver social media analytics to over 95% of the Fortune 500. It also delivers more than 120 billion real-time social data activities each month, providing access to data from dozens of sources. Gnip was founded by Eric Marcoullier in March 2008 and is based in Boulder, Colorado with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Washington.

MonkeyLearn

Private Placement in 2020
MonkeyLearn provides a simple graphical interface where users can create customized text classification and extraction analysis by training machine learning models such as sentiment analysis, topic detection, keyword extraction, and more. MonkeyLearn can be integrated with hundreds of other applications through its direct integrations and open API. All of that without the need of roping in developers or data scientists!

DanceJam

Series B in 2008
DanceJam is a social media destination where users hang out and watch people dance, learn how to dance, or show off their moves online. DanceJam provides a community where users can watch and rate videos of people dancing, promote their profiles, compete in head-to-head dance-offs and competitions, register and get matched with people who share similar interests, and learn about local dance-related events. DanceJam is founded by Geoffrey Arone, Anthony Young, and MC Hammer.

Visually

Seed Round in 2011
Visually is the content creation platform that enables businesses to connect with their audiences through engaging, beautiful visual content. The world’s top brands rely on us for premium videos, infographics, ebooks, presentations, web interactives and more — created fast and cost-effectively. With over 1000 certified creative professionals, our clients get access to the best designers, writers, researchers, and developers available, with a wide range of skills to support their business needs. Using our easy-to-use online collaboration platform, clients work closely with their team and enjoy a high-degree of creative control. And they are supported every step of the way—from talent assignment to creative direction—to create content that connects and converts.

FreshPlanet

Series A in 2010
FreshPlanet, creator of SongPop, has quickly become a leading social and mobile game developer in New York City. The company is developing and publishing apps and games around Pop Culture. Recently SongPop attracted over 90 million players around the world. The company is venture-backed and led by a team of internet and game veterans, including serial entrepreneurs and brothers Mathieu and Romain Nouzareth.

Breezy

Angel Round in 2011
Breezy is a cloud-based mobile printing solution that makes it easy to print anything from any device to any printer. Breezy's architecture supports hundreds of file types and all printers, regardless of whether the printers are wifi or Bluetooth-capable. The free Breezy Connector software acts as a bridge between users' printer and the company's servers, which keep an up-to-date list of printers available to each user; documents are then sent securely from a user's mobile device, through the server and to the printer selected by the user.

ZEFR

Series C in 2012
Zefr is a video advertising company that creates targeted video ad placements with it's unique and proprietary technology. With our custom packages, we leverage both technology and human review to selected individual videos, ensuring brands can safely and effectively scale their video ad campaigns. Why the name Zefr? Before Venice became “Silicon Beach” it was the grimy paradise of the 1970's Zephyr skate team. The Z-boys were a group of broken-home-punks that pioneered today’s skate culture. They did more than just push the physical boundaries of the sport—they created the culture that defines Venice today. At Zefr, we embrace the Z-boy’s drive for innovation, performance, and pushing boundaries. Our motto? Go Big. Go Fast.

Coder

Seed Round in 2018
Coder Technologies Inc. develops cloud based integrated development environments (IDE) to write codes on any device. It offers Coder Enterprise that automatically configures, secures, and powers an organization's development environments, allowing developers to focus on the product. The company’s Coder Enterprise enables engineers to continue using the development tools, CI/CD pipelines, source code management systems, and editors. Its Coder Enterprise is used to keep source on servers, source controlled environments, and simplify updates. Coder Technologies Inc. was formerly known as Genesee, Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Mission Motor

Series A in 2008
[Mission Motor Company](http://www.ridemission.com) (DBA: Mission Motors) is an American company founded in 2007 in San Francisco, California. The company was originally founded with the aim of creating high-performance electric motorcycles, but later focused on being a supplier of electric vehicle components. The company designs and supplies high-performance EV powertrains, including energy storage systems, drive systems and software, to the vehicle manufacturers, targeting a wide range of applications—including battery-electric, plug-in hybrid electric and hybrid-electric vehicles.

Postmates

Series B in 2014
Postmates is an on-demand food delivery. The platform gives customers access to the most selection of merchants in the US with more than 600,000 restaurants and retailers available for delivery and pickup, many of which are exclusive to Postmates. The market leader in Los Angeles and markets across the southwest, Postmates covers 80% of US households, across all 50 states. Customers can get free delivery on all merchants by joining Postmates Unlimited, the industry's first subscription service.

SocialMedia.com

Series A in 2007
SocialMedia.com makes digital advertising better through People Powered Advertisements that leverage people's social relationships in the ad units. They have ad formats incorporating Twitter, social networks, and community websites. People Powered advertising makes digital advertising better by amplifying people's personal endorsements to friends or communities. SocialMedia.com's People Powered Ad formats: Twitter Pulse — Twitter Pulse ads run within IAB standard units anywhere on the web. The ads show readers the latest Tweets matching the campaign's filters and prompt them to share tweets of their own. Friend To Friend — Friend to Friend ads run within social networks. Users first see an opt-in ad with an option to share their opinion with friends. If the user decides to participate, their response will be shared with friends who visit a SocialMedia.com ad in the future in the form of a light, yet effective, endorsement. Community Poll — Community Poll taps into the opinions of a website's community to deliver compelling feedback about how the audience feels about a subject. Community ads can run on any web content vertical. Community Stream — Community Stream shares personal endorsements about your product from a web community's pool of passionate readers.

Expo

Seed Round in 2017
Pared is an on-demand tool for restaurant workers. The company's mission is to make restaurant life easier by connecting restaurant owners and operators with the restaurant staff they need, when they need them. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Upwave

Seed Round in 2013
Upwave (formerly Survata) is a marketing analytics company providing brand marketing measurement technology to the world's leading brands, agencies, and publishers. Upwave was launched in Y Combinator, and is backed by leading Silicon Valley venture capital investors including Uncork Capital, PivotNorth Capital, Conductive Ventures, Ridge Ventures and Bloomberg Beta. The company is based in San Francisco and New York.