Uncork Capital

Uncork Capital, formerly known as SoftTech VC, is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 and based in Palo Alto, California. The firm specializes in seed-stage investments, focusing on various sectors including software as a service (SaaS), consumer goods, healthcare, technology, and marketplace startups. It manages two primary funds: a $100 million Seed fund and a $100 million Opportunity fund, which targets larger investments in mature portfolio companies. Uncork Capital typically invests between $250,000 and $5 million in each portfolio company, with a preference for equity investments, particularly for raises above $750,000. The firm actively seeks opportunities in both B2B and B2C sectors and aims to maintain a portfolio duration of five to seven years. While it primarily invests in the United States, particularly in regions such as Silicon Valley and New York, it may consider opportunities in Canada or elsewhere if a strong local lead is involved. Uncork Capital also provides support in product development, marketing, business strategy, and financing.

Jeff Clavier

Founder and Managing Partner

Jean-Francois Clavier

Founder & Managing Partner

Ashley Cravens

Head of Operations and Platform

Tripp Jones

Partner

Susan Liu

Partner

Andrew McLoughlin

Managing Partner

Amy Saper

Partner

Past deals in San Francisco Bay Area

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.

Front

Series D in 2022
Front is a collaborative customer communication platform that integrates email and applications to enhance interactions between teams and customers. By offering a shared inbox, Front enables businesses to manage communications efficiently and foster meaningful relationships. The platform is utilized by over 6,000 organizations to scale personalized customer engagement and streamline workflows, ultimately driving significant business impact. Through its focus on facilitating natural conversations, Front helps companies cultivate enduring customer relationships and transform their operational effectiveness.

Fountain

Series C in 2022
Fountain, Inc. operates a hiring platform designed to assist companies that rely on an hourly workforce in optimizing and expanding their recruitment processes globally. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a mobile-first solution that facilitates data-driven hiring decisions and enhances candidate engagement. Its platform features automated scheduling and communication tools, including text and email reminders, which help reduce candidate drop-off rates. Fountain supports various industries, including retail, restaurants, gig economy, hospitality, grocery, manufacturing, and health and beauty. The platform is utilized by prominent companies worldwide to manage their employee hiring and contractor vetting needs efficiently, demonstrating its capability to scale operations in diverse markets.

Mutiny

Series B in 2022
Mutiny is a company based in the United States that specializes in personalizing websites and landing pages for business-to-business and Software-as-a-Service companies. By enabling these companies to tailor their online experiences for individual visitors, Mutiny aims to reduce the high bounce rate typically seen in web traffic. Different visitors, coming from various industries and company sizes, often have distinct needs, and Mutiny addresses this by providing customized experiences that help users find what they are looking for more efficiently. Clients such as Segment, Brex, Amplitude, and Carta have implemented Mutiny's solutions and reported significant improvements in conversion rates, with some experiencing increases of up to 200%.

quadric.io

Series B in 2022
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.

Neo.tax

Series A in 2022
Neo.tax is a tax preparation and filing service based in Mountain View, California, that specializes in assisting early-stage startups. The company offers a tax automation platform that employs machine learning algorithms to streamline the collection and organization of data from various sources, including emails, documents, project management tools, and financial systems. This technology generates comprehensive reports that detail all activities, expenses, and methodologies used to claim tax credits. By enhancing accuracy and simplifying the review process, Neo.tax aims to ensure that businesses are audit-ready, thereby facilitating a more efficient and reliable tax filing experience.

CodeSee

Seed Round in 2022
CodeSee analyzes the data flowing through your system to maintain an updated map of your system architecture, its components, and the connections between them. Developers can explore at a high level, or dive in and see the data right next to the code. In other words...We make grokking a codebase easy. Developers stop feeling like outsiders and start feeling like high performers. Faster.

Wonderschool

Series B in 2022
Started in 2016 by a group of educators and technologists in California, Wonderschool offers a platform where people can start infant and toddler programs and preschools out of their homes. Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own. Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments. It’s been proven time and time again that children should start developing cognitive, motor, behavioral, and social skills from as early as 6 months and Wonderschool is committed to increasing families’ access to high quality care and learning environments for children.

Sukha

Venture Round in 2021
Centered is the first Flow State app that brings modern mindfulness techniques into the workplace and productivity industry.

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.

Loft Orbital

Series B in 2021
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.

Fountain

Series C in 2021
Fountain, Inc. operates a hiring platform designed to assist companies that rely on an hourly workforce in optimizing and expanding their recruitment processes globally. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a mobile-first solution that facilitates data-driven hiring decisions and enhances candidate engagement. Its platform features automated scheduling and communication tools, including text and email reminders, which help reduce candidate drop-off rates. Fountain supports various industries, including retail, restaurants, gig economy, hospitality, grocery, manufacturing, and health and beauty. The platform is utilized by prominent companies worldwide to manage their employee hiring and contractor vetting needs efficiently, demonstrating its capability to scale operations in diverse markets.

Hallow

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

UserGems

Series A in 2021
UserGems is an AI-powered prospecting solution for revenue teams. By delivering prospects that are most likely to convert, UserGems helps companies drive bigger pipeline, faster sales cycle, and larger deals. Whenever your customers change their jobs, UserGems automatically surfaces them as new prospects to your sales reps. This allows your reps to be in front of the right buyers at the right time, and before the competition is. Leveraging machine learning, UserGems automatically identifies other prospects that look exactly like your best customers. That means you get a complete, up-to-date list of leads that match your ideal customer profile, persona and other key criteria without requiring reps to spends hours on researching.

Groove

Series B in 2021
Groove Labs, Inc. is a sales engagement platform that specializes in automating non-sales activities to enhance the productivity of sales teams. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in San Diego and Bellevue, the company offers a range of solutions, including email and calendar integration, custom multi-step campaign creation, and a dialer tool designed to streamline the sales process. Groove's Salesforce-native architecture allows for accurate reporting and compliance with global privacy laws, making it suitable for enterprises. Its platform is utilized by over 50,000 sales representatives and customer success managers at major companies, helping them reclaim valuable time for relationship-building and revenue generation. Groove has consistently received high customer satisfaction ratings and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States.

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.

CodeSee

Seed Round in 2021
CodeSee analyzes the data flowing through your system to maintain an updated map of your system architecture, its components, and the connections between them. Developers can explore at a high level, or dive in and see the data right next to the code. In other words...We make grokking a codebase easy. Developers stop feeling like outsiders and start feeling like high performers. Faster.

Mutiny

Series A in 2021
Mutiny is a company based in the United States that specializes in personalizing websites and landing pages for business-to-business and Software-as-a-Service companies. By enabling these companies to tailor their online experiences for individual visitors, Mutiny aims to reduce the high bounce rate typically seen in web traffic. Different visitors, coming from various industries and company sizes, often have distinct needs, and Mutiny addresses this by providing customized experiences that help users find what they are looking for more efficiently. Clients such as Segment, Brex, Amplitude, and Carta have implemented Mutiny's solutions and reported significant improvements in conversion rates, with some experiencing increases of up to 200%.

LaunchDarkly

Series D in 2021
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that enables software teams to enhance their development processes by utilizing feature flags, which allow for the safe deployment of new or risky code changes. By wrapping specific code sections with flags, teams can independently toggle features on or off, facilitating a practice known as "dark launching." This approach helps mitigate risks associated with software development and operations. The platform serves over 100 billion feature flags daily and offers Software Development Kits (SDKs) compatible with all major web and mobile platforms. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in California, LaunchDarkly is committed to building a diverse team to deliver robust products and services while fostering a supportive and fast-paced work environment.

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.

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.

MakersPlace

Series A in 2021
MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators. The company enables creators to protect and sell authentic and unique editions of digital creations. The company connects creators with fans and collectors worldwide through a marketplace and network of partners. Creators are able to sign and set a limited supply on the work while delivering proof of authenticity, ownership. and scarcity on the blockchain. With MakersPlace, creators are able to better capture the full underlying value of the digital work. MakersPlace was founded on 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Overflow

Series A in 2021
Overflow is an online donation platform that helps charities accept online donations of publicly-traded stock. Overflow automates the transfer of publicly-traded stocks from donors to nonprofit organizations.

Shippo

Series E 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.

Inscribe

Series A in 2021
Developer of a fraud document detection platform designed to automate the process of identifying fraudulent documents. The company's platform uses a combination of natural language processing and computer vision to scan documents, enabling businesses in the financial services sector to streamline onboarding and underwriting processes, reduce fraud losses, and approve customers.

Hallow

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

Memfault

Series A in 2021
Memfault provides solutions for firmware delivery, monitoring, and diagnostics to consumer electronics businesses. The company takes care of software updates and diagnostics, so that the user can focus on what makes its products unique. Memfault’s SDK works with existing hardware. Monitor and deploy a firmware to low level devices via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB, or proprietary protocol. Memfault is based in San Francisco, California.

Phil

Series C in 2021
Phil, Inc. is a prescription management software service that facilitates medication acquisition and management for patients. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company operates a specialty Rx distribution platform that automates medication refills based on prescription schedules. By connecting patients, prescribers, pharmacies, and manufacturers, Phil streamlines the specialty pharmacy ecosystem, enhancing access to affordable medications and improving patient outcomes. Additionally, the company offers complimentary home delivery services for medications, ensuring convenience for patients in managing their health needs.

Trace

Seed Round in 2021
Trace is a cloud platform for intelligent business spend management. We help finance teams get real-time spend visibility, close their books faster and more accurately, and empower their employees while reducing risk. Trace provides flexible purchase workflows built for how businesses spend today. We own the full lifecycle of the transaction from purchase request to payment and reconciliation. Trace was founded with a mission to improve the financial health of all businesses so their people can thrive. We've led Finance teams through hyper-growth, restructurings, and everything in between. We believe Finance teams are most effective when they collaborate with their colleagues and empower them to move fast and make smart decisions. We set out to change how budget-owners and employees experience working with Finance. We want our customers to be the most efficient, insightful, and helpful financial operators. Our team has deep expertise in a massive and fast-growing market. We've built and sold startups in the past, and have a big vision and long horizon for Trace. We want to build with great people above all else. We love beautifully simple products, work hard because we love what we do, and look out for each other like family. Our team is growing! Let’s work together to build the future of Finance.

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.

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.

Sukha

Seed Round in 2021
Centered is the first Flow State app that brings modern mindfulness techniques into the workplace and productivity industry.

UserGems

Seed Round in 2021
UserGems is an AI-powered prospecting solution for revenue teams. By delivering prospects that are most likely to convert, UserGems helps companies drive bigger pipeline, faster sales cycle, and larger deals. Whenever your customers change their jobs, UserGems automatically surfaces them as new prospects to your sales reps. This allows your reps to be in front of the right buyers at the right time, and before the competition is. Leveraging machine learning, UserGems automatically identifies other prospects that look exactly like your best customers. That means you get a complete, up-to-date list of leads that match your ideal customer profile, persona and other key criteria without requiring reps to spends hours on researching.

Sym

Series A in 2020
Sym is a security workflow platform designed to bridge the gap between policies and execution for engineering teams. Launched in 2020 in San Francisco by Adam Buggia, Jonathan Bass, and Yasyf Mohamedali, the platform integrates various tools, including AWS and policy-as-code solutions, allowing developers to create efficient security and privacy workflows. By offering customizable serverless templates and a focus on compliance, Sym enables teams to implement best-practice controls without sacrificing productivity. The platform ultimately aims to streamline operations and enhance security in the development process.

Craft

Series A in 2020
Craft is a data and analytics platform that leverages machine learning to create a comprehensive "Source of Truth" on companies and the global economy. By aggregating financial, operational, and human capital data from a multitude of sources, Craft offers detailed sector and company profiles that cater to a wide range of organizations, from startups to large corporations. The platform features tools such as signal alerts, trend analysis, and benchmarking to help users monitor and optimize their supply chains and enterprise ecosystems. Its cloud-based portal is designed to seamlessly integrate into existing workflows, enabling clients to access valuable insights and compare key metrics across various companies worldwide.

Carrot Fertility

Series B in 2020
Carrot offers a fertility benefit for modern companies, focused on making fertility care easier, accessible, and more affordable. The company partners with modern companies to provide fertility coverage for the millions of employees. Through its software, Carrot helps employees to personalize a fertility plan, chat with fertility experts, order medications, and access unique content. It helps them access the care they need, such as egg freezing, in-vitro fertilization, fertility diagnoses, and more.

Flux

Seed Round 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.

MonkeyLearn

Seed Round 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!

Neo.tax

Seed Round in 2020
Neo.tax is a tax preparation and filing service based in Mountain View, California, that specializes in assisting early-stage startups. The company offers a tax automation platform that employs machine learning algorithms to streamline the collection and organization of data from various sources, including emails, documents, project management tools, and financial systems. This technology generates comprehensive reports that detail all activities, expenses, and methodologies used to claim tax credits. By enhancing accuracy and simplifying the review process, Neo.tax aims to ensure that businesses are audit-ready, thereby facilitating a more efficient and reliable tax filing experience.

Groove

Series A in 2020
Groove Labs, Inc. is a sales engagement platform that specializes in automating non-sales activities to enhance the productivity of sales teams. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in San Diego and Bellevue, the company offers a range of solutions, including email and calendar integration, custom multi-step campaign creation, and a dialer tool designed to streamline the sales process. Groove's Salesforce-native architecture allows for accurate reporting and compliance with global privacy laws, making it suitable for enterprises. Its platform is utilized by over 50,000 sales representatives and customer success managers at major companies, helping them reclaim valuable time for relationship-building and revenue generation. Groove has consistently received high customer satisfaction ratings and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States.

Shippo

Series C in 2020
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.

Human Interest

Series C in 2020
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.

Molekule

Series C in 2020
Molekule is a San Francisco-based science and clean air company that has developed a fundamentally new approach to cleaning air. While current air purifiers are essentially trying to catch pollutants in filters, Molekule uses nanotechnology to break down and completely eliminate pollutants on a molecular level.

Front

Series C in 2020
Front is a collaborative customer communication platform that integrates email and applications to enhance interactions between teams and customers. By offering a shared inbox, Front enables businesses to manage communications efficiently and foster meaningful relationships. The platform is utilized by over 6,000 organizations to scale personalized customer engagement and streamline workflows, ultimately driving significant business impact. Through its focus on facilitating natural conversations, Front helps companies cultivate enduring customer relationships and transform their operational effectiveness.

LaunchDarkly

Venture Round in 2020
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that enables software teams to enhance their development processes by utilizing feature flags, which allow for the safe deployment of new or risky code changes. By wrapping specific code sections with flags, teams can independently toggle features on or off, facilitating a practice known as "dark launching." This approach helps mitigate risks associated with software development and operations. The platform serves over 100 billion feature flags daily and offers Software Development Kits (SDKs) compatible with all major web and mobile platforms. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in California, LaunchDarkly is committed to building a diverse team to deliver robust products and services while fostering a supportive and fast-paced work environment.

Huckleberry

Series A in 2019
At Huckleberry, they’re on a mission to give small business owners back time. Over the last decade, software has replaced most paper-based business management systems – from accounting, to tax preparation, to payments. But commercial insurance is still bought and managed almost entirely offline, in a process that can involve layers of bureaucracy and take weeks to complete.

Memfault

Seed Round in 2019
Memfault provides solutions for firmware delivery, monitoring, and diagnostics to consumer electronics businesses. The company takes care of software updates and diagnostics, so that the user can focus on what makes its products unique. Memfault’s SDK works with existing hardware. Monitor and deploy a firmware to low level devices via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB, or proprietary protocol. Memfault is based in San Francisco, California.

Loft Orbital

Series A 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.

Aizon

Series B in 2019
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.

Fountain

Series B in 2019
Fountain, Inc. operates a hiring platform designed to assist companies that rely on an hourly workforce in optimizing and expanding their recruitment processes globally. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a mobile-first solution that facilitates data-driven hiring decisions and enhances candidate engagement. Its platform features automated scheduling and communication tools, including text and email reminders, which help reduce candidate drop-off rates. Fountain supports various industries, including retail, restaurants, gig economy, hospitality, grocery, manufacturing, and health and beauty. The platform is utilized by prominent companies worldwide to manage their employee hiring and contractor vetting needs efficiently, demonstrating its capability to scale operations in diverse markets.

Hallow

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

Human Interest

Series B in 2019
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.

Phil

Series B in 2019
Phil, Inc. is a prescription management software service that facilitates medication acquisition and management for patients. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company operates a specialty Rx distribution platform that automates medication refills based on prescription schedules. By connecting patients, prescribers, pharmacies, and manufacturers, Phil streamlines the specialty pharmacy ecosystem, enhancing access to affordable medications and improving patient outcomes. Additionally, the company offers complimentary home delivery services for medications, ensuring convenience for patients in managing their health needs.

The Lobby

Seed Round in 2019
The Lobby is an innovative video shopping platform that combines the convenience of online shopping with the engagement of in-store experiences. By featuring influencer-created videos, it offers a dynamic shopping environment reminiscent of a QVC-meets-TikTok format, allowing consumers to discover and explore top fashion brands in an inspiring way. The platform enables a seamless transition between digital and physical retail, enhancing the shopping experience. Additionally, The Lobby introduces a unique try-before-you-buy payment option, providing customers with a risk-free method to shop online, thereby addressing common concerns associated with e-commerce.

Tempo Automation

Series C in 2019
Tempo Automation Inc. is a San Francisco-based electronics manufacturer specializing in the prototyping and low-volume production of printed circuit board assemblies. Founded in 2013, the company leverages a proprietary automation platform that integrates software, data analytics, and advanced manufacturing techniques to enhance speed, precision, and transparency in the development process. This innovative approach creates a seamless digital connection from design to delivery, allowing hardware developers to accelerate innovation and bring new products to market more efficiently. The company's smart factory is designed to optimize the complexities of electronics manufacturing, providing significant advantages in quality and agility for its clients. Tempo Automation is backed by various investors, including venture capital firms and individual investors, who support its mission to transform electronic product development.

quadric.io

Series A 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.

TruckLabs

Series A in 2019
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.

MakersPlace

Seed Round in 2019
MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators. The company enables creators to protect and sell authentic and unique editions of digital creations. The company connects creators with fans and collectors worldwide through a marketplace and network of partners. Creators are able to sign and set a limited supply on the work while delivering proof of authenticity, ownership. and scarcity on the blockchain. With MakersPlace, creators are able to better capture the full underlying value of the digital work. MakersPlace was founded on 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

LaunchDarkly

Series C in 2019
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that enables software teams to enhance their development processes by utilizing feature flags, which allow for the safe deployment of new or risky code changes. By wrapping specific code sections with flags, teams can independently toggle features on or off, facilitating a practice known as "dark launching." This approach helps mitigate risks associated with software development and operations. The platform serves over 100 billion feature flags daily and offers Software Development Kits (SDKs) compatible with all major web and mobile platforms. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in California, LaunchDarkly is committed to building a diverse team to deliver robust products and services while fostering a supportive and fast-paced work environment.

ClassDojo

Series C in 2019
ClassDojo, Inc. is an online school communication platform designed to connect teachers, students, and families, fostering a community that enhances learning and character development. Founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California, ClassDojo enables educators to share classroom experiences through photos, videos, and messages, facilitating real-time communication with parents about their children's progress. The platform allows teachers to create classes, monitor student behavior, and reward achievements, while parents can stay informed and engaged in their child's education. Available in 35 languages and utilized in 180 countries, ClassDojo has become a widely adopted tool in 90% of American school districts. The application is accessible via web browsers and mobile devices, ensuring ease of use for all participants. Over the years, ClassDojo has received several accolades, including recognition as one of the "25 Most Disruptive Companies" by Inc. and inclusion in Forbes' "100 Most Promising Companies."

Inscribe

Seed Round in 2018
Developer of a fraud document detection platform designed to automate the process of identifying fraudulent documents. The company's platform uses a combination of natural language processing and computer vision to scan documents, enabling businesses in the financial services sector to streamline onboarding and underwriting processes, reduce fraud losses, and approve customers.

Charlie Finance Co.

Series A in 2018
Charlie Finance Co. is a financial services company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2016. The company has developed a text message application designed to simplify personal finance for its users. This application monitors users' transactions, identifies opportunities for saving money, and helps reduce expenses. Additionally, it provides insights into spending habits and alerts users to important financial matters, making it easier for individuals to manage their finances effectively.

Currant

Seed Round in 2018
Currant, Inc. is a company that specializes in smart home products, particularly a smart outlet that allows users to monitor and manage their energy consumption. By providing tools for viewing and analyzing electricity usage, Currant empowers consumers to optimize their energy habits without compromising on comfort and convenience. Founded in 2015, the company is based in Palo Alto, California, and sells its products online.

Molekule

Series B in 2018
Molekule is a San Francisco-based science and clean air company that has developed a fundamentally new approach to cleaning air. While current air purifiers are essentially trying to catch pollutants in filters, Molekule uses nanotechnology to break down and completely eliminate pollutants on a molecular level.

YourMechanic

Series B in 2018
YourMechanic is an online marketplace that enables vehicle owners to find local mechanics for home or office car repair services. Its aim is to make car repair and maintenance affordable and convenient.

Arch Systems

Series A in 2018
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.

Mutiny

Seed Round in 2018
Mutiny is a company based in the United States that specializes in personalizing websites and landing pages for business-to-business and Software-as-a-Service companies. By enabling these companies to tailor their online experiences for individual visitors, Mutiny aims to reduce the high bounce rate typically seen in web traffic. Different visitors, coming from various industries and company sizes, often have distinct needs, and Mutiny addresses this by providing customized experiences that help users find what they are looking for more efficiently. Clients such as Segment, Brex, Amplitude, and Carta have implemented Mutiny's solutions and reported significant improvements in conversion rates, with some experiencing increases of up to 200%.

Wonderschool

Series A in 2018
Started in 2016 by a group of educators and technologists in California, Wonderschool offers a platform where people can start infant and toddler programs and preschools out of their homes. Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own. Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments. It’s been proven time and time again that children should start developing cognitive, motor, behavioral, and social skills from as early as 6 months and Wonderschool is committed to increasing families’ access to high quality care and learning environments for children.

test.ai

Series A in 2018
Test.ai provides an AI-powered test automation platform to help organizations deliver quality mobile app experiences. The platform scales and can test thousands of apps in parallel without the need to code or maintain tests. Test.ai automates testing for the most impactful user experiences so that app teams can focus on improving them. The team at test.ai wrote the book on testing— having worked on some of the world’s most used software such as Chrome and Bing and co-authoring books such as How Google Tests Software and App Quality: Secrets for Agile App Teams. Test.ai is dedicated to elevating the quality of the world’s apps and is uniquely qualified to do so.

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.

Expo

Series A in 2018
Expo is an on-demand marketplace designed to connect restaurant owners and operators with the staff they need, streamlining the hiring process for restaurant workers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Expo aims to simplify the complexities of staffing in the restaurant industry. By facilitating access to qualified personnel, the platform seeks to enhance operational efficiency and support the dynamic needs of restaurant businesses.

Intermix.io

Seed Round in 2018
Intermix Software, Inc. designs and develops performance-monitoring products that help data teams to monitor mission-critical data flows. It offers an analytics platform to find and fix the issues impacting data health, spot bottlenecks in data pipelines, detect troublesome queries, and optimize resources. Intermix Software, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Huckleberry

Seed Round in 2018
At Huckleberry, they’re on a mission to give small business owners back time. Over the last decade, software has replaced most paper-based business management systems – from accounting, to tax preparation, to payments. But commercial insurance is still bought and managed almost entirely offline, in a process that can involve layers of bureaucracy and take weeks to complete.

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.

Halo Neuroscience

Series B in 2018
Halo Neuroscience is a neurotechnology company based in San Francisco that focuses on enhancing human performance through innovative systems. Since its incorporation in 2013, the company has developed its flagship product, Halo Sport, which employs Neuropriming technology. This technology involves delivering electrical stimulation during physical training to enhance the brain's learning capacity, a state referred to as "hyperplasticity." By improving the connections between the brain and muscles, Halo Sport aims to accelerate skill acquisition and strength development, particularly for elite athletes. Through its advancements in neurotechnology, Halo Neuroscience seeks to help individuals maximize their potential in various performance domains.

Front

Series B in 2018
Front is a collaborative customer communication platform that integrates email and applications to enhance interactions between teams and customers. By offering a shared inbox, Front enables businesses to manage communications efficiently and foster meaningful relationships. The platform is utilized by over 6,000 organizations to scale personalized customer engagement and streamline workflows, ultimately driving significant business impact. Through its focus on facilitating natural conversations, Front helps companies cultivate enduring customer relationships and transform their operational effectiveness.

Aizon

Seed Round in 2017
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.

Pi Inc.

Series A in 2017
Pi Inc. is a technology company that specializes in wireless charging solutions for consumer devices. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Bruno, California, Pi Inc. has developed a unique wireless charging technology that adjusts the angle of its magnetic field to align with the user's device. This innovation aims to enhance the efficiency and convenience of wireless charging for consumers.

LaunchDarkly

Series B in 2017
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that enables software teams to enhance their development processes by utilizing feature flags, which allow for the safe deployment of new or risky code changes. By wrapping specific code sections with flags, teams can independently toggle features on or off, facilitating a practice known as "dark launching." This approach helps mitigate risks associated with software development and operations. The platform serves over 100 billion feature flags daily and offers Software Development Kits (SDKs) compatible with all major web and mobile platforms. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in California, LaunchDarkly is committed to building a diverse team to deliver robust products and services while fostering a supportive and fast-paced work environment.

LaunchDarkly

Series B in 2017
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that enables software teams to enhance their development processes by utilizing feature flags, which allow for the safe deployment of new or risky code changes. By wrapping specific code sections with flags, teams can independently toggle features on or off, facilitating a practice known as "dark launching." This approach helps mitigate risks associated with software development and operations. The platform serves over 100 billion feature flags daily and offers Software Development Kits (SDKs) compatible with all major web and mobile platforms. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in California, LaunchDarkly is committed to building a diverse team to deliver robust products and services while fostering a supportive and fast-paced work environment.

Poshmark

Series E in 2017
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.

Loft Orbital

Seed Round in 2017
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.

Shippo

Series B in 2017
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.

Focal Systems

Series A in 2017
Focal Systems is a technology company based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-driven retail automation platform that addresses various challenges faced by retailers. Using deep learning and computer vision, the platform offers solutions to the Out-of-Stock problem by providing real-time inventory detection and analyzing in-store shopping behavior. Additionally, it includes features such as location-based advertising, product locators, and auto-checkout capabilities. By leveraging this technology, Focal Systems enables retailers to enhance product availability and improve customer satisfaction while also assisting shoppers in navigating the store more effectively.

Carrot Fertility

Seed Round in 2017
Carrot offers a fertility benefit for modern companies, focused on making fertility care easier, accessible, and more affordable. The company partners with modern companies to provide fertility coverage for the millions of employees. Through its software, Carrot helps employees to personalize a fertility plan, chat with fertility experts, order medications, and access unique content. It helps them access the care they need, such as egg freezing, in-vitro fertilization, fertility diagnoses, and more.

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.

Phil

Series A in 2017
Phil, Inc. is a prescription management software service that facilitates medication acquisition and management for patients. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company operates a specialty Rx distribution platform that automates medication refills based on prescription schedules. By connecting patients, prescribers, pharmacies, and manufacturers, Phil streamlines the specialty pharmacy ecosystem, enhancing access to affordable medications and improving patient outcomes. Additionally, the company offers complimentary home delivery services for medications, ensuring convenience for patients in managing their health needs.

Tempo Automation

Series B in 2017
Tempo Automation Inc. is a San Francisco-based electronics manufacturer specializing in the prototyping and low-volume production of printed circuit board assemblies. Founded in 2013, the company leverages a proprietary automation platform that integrates software, data analytics, and advanced manufacturing techniques to enhance speed, precision, and transparency in the development process. This innovative approach creates a seamless digital connection from design to delivery, allowing hardware developers to accelerate innovation and bring new products to market more efficiently. The company's smart factory is designed to optimize the complexities of electronics manufacturing, providing significant advantages in quality and agility for its clients. Tempo Automation is backed by various investors, including venture capital firms and individual investors, who support its mission to transform electronic product development.

Molekule

Series A in 2017
Molekule is a San Francisco-based science and clean air company that has developed a fundamentally new approach to cleaning air. While current air purifiers are essentially trying to catch pollutants in filters, Molekule uses nanotechnology to break down and completely eliminate pollutants on a molecular level.

Fountain

Series A in 2017
Fountain, Inc. operates a hiring platform designed to assist companies that rely on an hourly workforce in optimizing and expanding their recruitment processes globally. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a mobile-first solution that facilitates data-driven hiring decisions and enhances candidate engagement. Its platform features automated scheduling and communication tools, including text and email reminders, which help reduce candidate drop-off rates. Fountain supports various industries, including retail, restaurants, gig economy, hospitality, grocery, manufacturing, and health and beauty. The platform is utilized by prominent companies worldwide to manage their employee hiring and contractor vetting needs efficiently, demonstrating its capability to scale operations in diverse markets.

BetterDoctor

Series B in 2017
BetterDoctor, Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing web and mobile applications to assist users in finding healthcare providers. Founded in 2011, BetterDoctor allows users to specify the type of doctor they need and select their insurance plan to view a list of verified healthcare professionals. The company's platform provides accurate provider data to health plans, health systems, and various organizations through its API, facilitating the search for doctors and improving healthcare access. BetterDoctor's services have reached millions of users, powering numerous health plans and companies by enhancing the transparency and reliability of doctor data. As of June 2018, BetterDoctor operates as a subsidiary of Quest Analytics, L.L.C.

Wonderschool

Seed Round in 2017
Started in 2016 by a group of educators and technologists in California, Wonderschool offers a platform where people can start infant and toddler programs and preschools out of their homes. Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own. Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments. It’s been proven time and time again that children should start developing cognitive, motor, behavioral, and social skills from as early as 6 months and Wonderschool is committed to increasing families’ access to high quality care and learning environments for children.

Wonderschool

Seed Round in 2017
Started in 2016 by a group of educators and technologists in California, Wonderschool offers a platform where people can start infant and toddler programs and preschools out of their homes. Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own. Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments. It’s been proven time and time again that children should start developing cognitive, motor, behavioral, and social skills from as early as 6 months and Wonderschool is committed to increasing families’ access to high quality care and learning environments for children.

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.

TruckLabs

Seed Round in 2017
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.

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.

Headnote

Seed Round in 2017
Headnote is a technology company founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in payment and accounts receivable automation software specifically designed for the legal industry. The platform simplifies the payment process for law firms, making it as user-friendly as consumer payment services while ensuring compliance with legal regulations across all states. This innovation allows law firms to significantly improve their payment timelines, with Headnote customers typically receiving payments within an average of four days, compared to the industry standard of 60 to 94 days. Additionally, Headnote automates the tracking and management of accounts receivable, streamlining traditionally manual and time-consuming processes. The company also serves a range of legal professionals and partners, enhancing the efficiency of financial operations within the legal sector.

quadric.io

Seed Round in 2017
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.

Expo

Seed Round in 2017
Expo is an on-demand marketplace designed to connect restaurant owners and operators with the staff they need, streamlining the hiring process for restaurant workers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Expo aims to simplify the complexities of staffing in the restaurant industry. By facilitating access to qualified personnel, the platform seeks to enhance operational efficiency and support the dynamic needs of restaurant businesses.

Reputation

Venture Round in 2017
Reputation.com, Inc. specializes in online reputation management solutions for businesses and individuals, operating both in the United States and internationally. The company offers a comprehensive platform that provides tools for managing negative search results, personal data removal, and executive privacy, along with services tailored for local search listings, online reviews, social media management, surveys, and analytics. Their offerings include advanced features like Reputation Score X, which merges performance metrics with prescriptive analytics, and Feedback Anywhere, an integration platform for customer feedback. Additionally, the company provides mobile applications for clients to engage with customer reviews and social media. With a focus on enhancing operational efficiency and customer service, Reputation.com serves a diverse range of sectors, including automotive, healthcare, hospitality, and retail. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company was previously known as ReputationDefender, Inc. before rebranding in 2011.