Stensul streamlines enterprise marketing by offering a centralized email generation platform. It enables marketers to create mobile-responsive emails that adhere to brand guidelines, bypassing the need for designer, developer, and QA involvement. Emails can be instantly sent through popular ESPs or Marketing Clouds.
Sunnyside
Series A in 2023
Sunnyside develops an alcohol tracking app that helps individuals build healthier drinking habits. It creates personalized plans based on users' current habits and goals, setting daily reminders via text messages to limit alcohol intake.
Front is a communication hub that centralizes customer interactions across various digital channels to enhance relationship management. The platform focuses on streamlining conversations by integrating collaboration tools and contextual data from multiple systems, allowing teams to provide timely, accurate, and personalized communications. Over 7,500 businesses, including notable names like Shopify, Airbnb, and Hulu, utilize Front to improve their customer engagement. The company's multi-channel inbox platform specializes in consolidating communication, facilitating internal discussions, and incorporating social features, thus enabling users to chat effectively and save time. By placing customer conversations at the forefront, Front empowers organizations to build stronger relationships through each interaction.
Sunnyside
Seed Round in 2022
Sunnyside develops an alcohol tracking app that helps individuals build healthier drinking habits. It creates personalized plans based on users' current habits and goals, setting daily reminders via text messages to limit alcohol intake.
Founded in 2013, Poka develops performance support software that connects factory workers with digital manufacturing operations. Its platform aids manufacturers by facilitating on-the-floor training, knowledge building, and communication among workers, leading to improved productivity, reduced downtime, and enhanced quality and safety.
Sunnyside
Seed Round in 2021
Sunnyside develops an alcohol tracking app that helps individuals build healthier drinking habits. It creates personalized plans based on users' current habits and goals, setting daily reminders via text messages to limit alcohol intake.
Stensul streamlines enterprise marketing by offering a centralized email generation platform. It enables marketers to create mobile-responsive emails that adhere to brand guidelines, bypassing the need for designer, developer, and QA involvement. Emails can be instantly sent through popular ESPs or Marketing Clouds.
Poka
Venture Round in 2020
Founded in 2013, Poka develops performance support software that connects factory workers with digital manufacturing operations. Its platform aids manufacturers by facilitating on-the-floor training, knowledge building, and communication among workers, leading to improved productivity, reduced downtime, and enhanced quality and safety.
Front is a communication hub that centralizes customer interactions across various digital channels to enhance relationship management. The platform focuses on streamlining conversations by integrating collaboration tools and contextual data from multiple systems, allowing teams to provide timely, accurate, and personalized communications. Over 7,500 businesses, including notable names like Shopify, Airbnb, and Hulu, utilize Front to improve their customer engagement. The company's multi-channel inbox platform specializes in consolidating communication, facilitating internal discussions, and incorporating social features, thus enabling users to chat effectively and save time. By placing customer conversations at the forefront, Front empowers organizations to build stronger relationships through each interaction.
GreatHorn
Series B in 2019
GreatHorn, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, that specializes in protecting cloud communication infrastructure from sophisticated threats such as spear phishing and credential theft. Founded in 2015, GreatHorn offers a range of solutions including Inbound Email Security, which provides automated protection against phishing attacks; Collaboration and Chat Security, designed to help IT and security teams manage their communication security; Continuous Credential Monitoring for real-time threat detection; and Mailbox Protection, which equips users with insights to enhance their email interactions. The company's platform leverages advanced machine learning and anomaly-based threat detection to secure email communications from various types of cyberattacks, including malware and social engineering schemes, thereby enabling clients to maintain secure and efficient operations across multiple cloud platforms.
Charlie Finance
Series A in 2018
Charlie Finance Co. is a financial services company established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in developing a text message application designed to simplify personal finance for users. By monitoring transactions, the application identifies opportunities for savings, helps reduce expenses, and provides insights into spending habits. Additionally, it alerts users to significant financial matters, enabling them to manage their finances more effectively and reduce debt. Through its innovative approach, Charlie Finance aims to assist ordinary Americans in achieving greater financial stability and peace of mind.
Stensul streamlines enterprise marketing by offering a centralized email generation platform. It enables marketers to create mobile-responsive emails that adhere to brand guidelines, bypassing the need for designer, developer, and QA involvement. Emails can be instantly sent through popular ESPs or Marketing Clouds.
Charlie Finance
Venture Round in 2018
Charlie Finance Co. is a financial services company established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in developing a text message application designed to simplify personal finance for users. By monitoring transactions, the application identifies opportunities for savings, helps reduce expenses, and provides insights into spending habits. Additionally, it alerts users to significant financial matters, enabling them to manage their finances more effectively and reduce debt. Through its innovative approach, Charlie Finance aims to assist ordinary Americans in achieving greater financial stability and peace of mind.
Founded in 2013, Poka develops performance support software that connects factory workers with digital manufacturing operations. Its platform aids manufacturers by facilitating on-the-floor training, knowledge building, and communication among workers, leading to improved productivity, reduced downtime, and enhanced quality and safety.
Front is a communication hub that centralizes customer interactions across various digital channels to enhance relationship management. The platform focuses on streamlining conversations by integrating collaboration tools and contextual data from multiple systems, allowing teams to provide timely, accurate, and personalized communications. Over 7,500 businesses, including notable names like Shopify, Airbnb, and Hulu, utilize Front to improve their customer engagement. The company's multi-channel inbox platform specializes in consolidating communication, facilitating internal discussions, and incorporating social features, thus enabling users to chat effectively and save time. By placing customer conversations at the forefront, Front empowers organizations to build stronger relationships through each interaction.
GreatHorn
Series A in 2017
GreatHorn, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, that specializes in protecting cloud communication infrastructure from sophisticated threats such as spear phishing and credential theft. Founded in 2015, GreatHorn offers a range of solutions including Inbound Email Security, which provides automated protection against phishing attacks; Collaboration and Chat Security, designed to help IT and security teams manage their communication security; Continuous Credential Monitoring for real-time threat detection; and Mailbox Protection, which equips users with insights to enhance their email interactions. The company's platform leverages advanced machine learning and anomaly-based threat detection to secure email communications from various types of cyberattacks, including malware and social engineering schemes, thereby enabling clients to maintain secure and efficient operations across multiple cloud platforms.
Sapho, Inc., a subsidiary of Citrix Systems, Inc., is headquartered in San Bruno, California, and specializes in enhancing employee productivity through its enterprise workforce portal. Founded in 2014, the company leverages micro-apps to deliver personalized and relevant tasks and data to employees across various platforms, including devices, intranets, and messaging systems. These micro-apps, which are developed by IT using pre-built templates and a user-friendly drag-and-drop builder, facilitate proactive notifications about critical system data, necessary actions, and important changes that require attention. By streamlining access to actionable information, Sapho enables employees to work more efficiently and make informed decisions.
Stensul
Seed Round in 2016
Stensul streamlines enterprise marketing by offering a centralized email generation platform. It enables marketers to create mobile-responsive emails that adhere to brand guidelines, bypassing the need for designer, developer, and QA involvement. Emails can be instantly sent through popular ESPs or Marketing Clouds.
SendGrid is a cloud-based customer communication platform that helps businesses manage email-driven engagement. It offers an email API for developers to integrate email into applications, marketing tools to manage contact lists, create and test templates, and run campaigns with analytics to measure performance. The platform also provides expert services aimed at optimizing email delivery and deliverability. SendGrid handles large-scale email sending for a wide range of customers, from consumer internet services to enterprise brands, emphasizing reliable delivery and engagement. Founded in 2009 and based in Denver, Colorado, SendGrid grew to serve billions of emails monthly across diverse industries. In 2019, the company was acquired by Twilio, expanding Twilio’s communications platform with robust email capabilities.
Charlie Finance
Seed Round in 2016
Charlie Finance Co. is a financial services company established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in developing a text message application designed to simplify personal finance for users. By monitoring transactions, the application identifies opportunities for savings, helps reduce expenses, and provides insights into spending habits. Additionally, it alerts users to significant financial matters, enabling them to manage their finances more effectively and reduce debt. Through its innovative approach, Charlie Finance aims to assist ordinary Americans in achieving greater financial stability and peace of mind.
Founded in 2013, Poka develops performance support software that connects factory workers with digital manufacturing operations. Its platform aids manufacturers by facilitating on-the-floor training, knowledge building, and communication among workers, leading to improved productivity, reduced downtime, and enhanced quality and safety.
Sapho, Inc., a subsidiary of Citrix Systems, Inc., is headquartered in San Bruno, California, and specializes in enhancing employee productivity through its enterprise workforce portal. Founded in 2014, the company leverages micro-apps to deliver personalized and relevant tasks and data to employees across various platforms, including devices, intranets, and messaging systems. These micro-apps, which are developed by IT using pre-built templates and a user-friendly drag-and-drop builder, facilitate proactive notifications about critical system data, necessary actions, and important changes that require attention. By streamlining access to actionable information, Sapho enables employees to work more efficiently and make informed decisions.
Front is a communication hub that centralizes customer interactions across various digital channels to enhance relationship management. The platform focuses on streamlining conversations by integrating collaboration tools and contextual data from multiple systems, allowing teams to provide timely, accurate, and personalized communications. Over 7,500 businesses, including notable names like Shopify, Airbnb, and Hulu, utilize Front to improve their customer engagement. The company's multi-channel inbox platform specializes in consolidating communication, facilitating internal discussions, and incorporating social features, thus enabling users to chat effectively and save time. By placing customer conversations at the forefront, Front empowers organizations to build stronger relationships through each interaction.
Envoy is the trusted Family Concierge service for seniors and their families. Thousands have already turned to Envoy for lightweight help and support to stay in their homes longer, maintain their independence, and live life to the fullest.
The heart of our service is our wonderful community of Family Concierge assistants, whom we call our Envoys, serving clients in their local neighborhoods. Each and every day, our Envoys enjoy the freedom to earn flexible income they need, as they build trusted relationships with their clients, while being out and about doing something they love - helping others.
Whether it’s simply for grocery shopping from favorite local stores or as a compelling alternative to traditional in-home care or assisted living, our software and apps make managing everything just a tap away. Families have a trusted, 1:1 relationship with their Envoy while enjoying full transparency and peace of mind like never before - with notifications, photos, and receipts documenting every visit.
GreatHorn
Seed Round in 2016
GreatHorn, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, that specializes in protecting cloud communication infrastructure from sophisticated threats such as spear phishing and credential theft. Founded in 2015, GreatHorn offers a range of solutions including Inbound Email Security, which provides automated protection against phishing attacks; Collaboration and Chat Security, designed to help IT and security teams manage their communication security; Continuous Credential Monitoring for real-time threat detection; and Mailbox Protection, which equips users with insights to enhance their email interactions. The company's platform leverages advanced machine learning and anomaly-based threat detection to secure email communications from various types of cyberattacks, including malware and social engineering schemes, thereby enabling clients to maintain secure and efficient operations across multiple cloud platforms.
Lantern is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 that focuses on improving emotional well-being through accessible and effective web and mobile programs. By harnessing cognitive behavioral therapy, Lantern provides users with exercises designed to cultivate healthy habits and offers personalized coaching through one-on-one messaging. The company aims to remove the stigma and barriers associated with mental health care, promoting a holistic approach to emotional self-improvement. Lantern's mission is to empower individuals to take proactive steps in managing their mental health, making support for emotional well-being both affordable and attainable.
Envoy is the trusted Family Concierge service for seniors and their families. Thousands have already turned to Envoy for lightweight help and support to stay in their homes longer, maintain their independence, and live life to the fullest.
The heart of our service is our wonderful community of Family Concierge assistants, whom we call our Envoys, serving clients in their local neighborhoods. Each and every day, our Envoys enjoy the freedom to earn flexible income they need, as they build trusted relationships with their clients, while being out and about doing something they love - helping others.
Whether it’s simply for grocery shopping from favorite local stores or as a compelling alternative to traditional in-home care or assisted living, our software and apps make managing everything just a tap away. Families have a trusted, 1:1 relationship with their Envoy while enjoying full transparency and peace of mind like never before - with notifications, photos, and receipts documenting every visit.
Marco Polo
Series A in 2015
Marco Polo is a technology company that develops a video communication application. Its primary business is creating user-friendly software that facilitates high-quality video calls, mimicking the ease of text messaging for both individual and group conversations. The platform aims to strengthen bonds among friends and family by providing a convenient means to stay connected visually.
Founded in 2013, Poka develops performance support software that connects factory workers with digital manufacturing operations. Its platform aids manufacturers by facilitating on-the-floor training, knowledge building, and communication among workers, leading to improved productivity, reduced downtime, and enhanced quality and safety.
Thanx is a guest engagement platform for offline businesses, including brick-and-mortar retailers, restaurants, and malls, that links purchases from card networks to a CRM and marketing automation suite. The platform enables data capture from card transactions, personalized customer interactions, and loyalty programs through messages, email marketing, and real-time feedback tools, along with revenue reporting and online ordering integrations. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thanx helps merchants improve retention and revenue by turning purchase data into personalized engagement across channels.
Lantern
Venture Round in 2014
Lantern is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 that focuses on improving emotional well-being through accessible and effective web and mobile programs. By harnessing cognitive behavioral therapy, Lantern provides users with exercises designed to cultivate healthy habits and offers personalized coaching through one-on-one messaging. The company aims to remove the stigma and barriers associated with mental health care, promoting a holistic approach to emotional self-improvement. Lantern's mission is to empower individuals to take proactive steps in managing their mental health, making support for emotional well-being both affordable and attainable.
Front is a communication hub that centralizes customer interactions across various digital channels to enhance relationship management. The platform focuses on streamlining conversations by integrating collaboration tools and contextual data from multiple systems, allowing teams to provide timely, accurate, and personalized communications. Over 7,500 businesses, including notable names like Shopify, Airbnb, and Hulu, utilize Front to improve their customer engagement. The company's multi-channel inbox platform specializes in consolidating communication, facilitating internal discussions, and incorporating social features, thus enabling users to chat effectively and save time. By placing customer conversations at the forefront, Front empowers organizations to build stronger relationships through each interaction.
Sapho, Inc., a subsidiary of Citrix Systems, Inc., is headquartered in San Bruno, California, and specializes in enhancing employee productivity through its enterprise workforce portal. Founded in 2014, the company leverages micro-apps to deliver personalized and relevant tasks and data to employees across various platforms, including devices, intranets, and messaging systems. These micro-apps, which are developed by IT using pre-built templates and a user-friendly drag-and-drop builder, facilitate proactive notifications about critical system data, necessary actions, and important changes that require attention. By streamlining access to actionable information, Sapho enables employees to work more efficiently and make informed decisions.
Stitch helps salespeople close more deals and be more responsive. They are building the best mobile-first, sales productivity platform. Their first product is a mobile email application for salespeople. With Stitch, salespeople can communicate faster by having the right information, insights, and tools at their fingertips.
In today’s highly competitive world, they believe it’s not only possible, it’s essential, to be as effective and responsive on the go as when sitting in front of a desk. In sales, being responsive means delivering immediate and complete answers to prospects’ questions. They enable salespeople to respond NOW, not later, to every mobile email.
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.
Kato is fixing the problem of business communication - enabling teams to communicate faster and more efficiently, reduce email overload and easily access their organizational knowledge.
We're on a mission to make life a little better -- to make our jobs easier and more pleasurable, to help businesses work more efficiently, to improve how we communicate with each other.
Kato brings the power of text, voice and video to team communication and intelligently manages information coming from other services, preventing data silos while reducing organizational noise.
Companies large and small are more efficient and productive using Kato, both internally and with external partners, vendors and customers. Kato makes it possible to bypass the email blackhole and communicate with customers and partners in real-time. Organizations send less email and leverage knowledge better with Kato’s best-in-class search.
We're built for business, with enterprise-grade security and administrative control. No hardware to maintain, software to update, or database to backup. It’s for distributed teams and remote workers, small businesses and large multi-nationals, and everything in between.
Nuzzel, Inc. is a professional news discovery service founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California. The company operates an online platform that curates industrial news and media intelligence for professionals, offering its services through a website, mobile applications, messaging bots, and email newsletters. Nuzzel continuously scans thousands of news publications and tracks trending stories shared on social networks, enabling users to receive personalized and curated content. The platform is particularly popular among influencers in media, technology, and finance, and has received accolades from notable publications such as Google Play, the New York Times, Fast Company, and Time Magazine. Nuzzel operates as a subsidiary of Scroll.
Thanx is a guest engagement platform for offline businesses, including brick-and-mortar retailers, restaurants, and malls, that links purchases from card networks to a CRM and marketing automation suite. The platform enables data capture from card transactions, personalized customer interactions, and loyalty programs through messages, email marketing, and real-time feedback tools, along with revenue reporting and online ordering integrations. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thanx helps merchants improve retention and revenue by turning purchase data into personalized engagement across channels.
SendGrid is a cloud-based customer communication platform that helps businesses manage email-driven engagement. It offers an email API for developers to integrate email into applications, marketing tools to manage contact lists, create and test templates, and run campaigns with analytics to measure performance. The platform also provides expert services aimed at optimizing email delivery and deliverability. SendGrid handles large-scale email sending for a wide range of customers, from consumer internet services to enterprise brands, emphasizing reliable delivery and engagement. Founded in 2009 and based in Denver, Colorado, SendGrid grew to serve billions of emails monthly across diverse industries. In 2019, the company was acquired by Twilio, expanding Twilio’s communications platform with robust email capabilities.
InboxQ
Angel Round in 2010
InboxQ is a browser extension that offers a continuous stream of questions sourced from Twitter, allowing users to engage with potential customers in real time. By delivering inquiries related to business, products, industry, or general interests, InboxQ enables users to leverage their expertise to address the needs and challenges of their audience. This innovative tool facilitates meaningful interactions, fostering a dynamic connection between businesses and their customers.
Wildfire, acquired by Google in 2012, is a leading provider of social media marketing software, serving over 21,000 paying customers globally, including many of the world's most valuable brands. The company operates its own entity and offers a comprehensive Social Marketing Suite that integrates social promotion and advertising tools with mobile and desktop page management, messaging, and real-time analytics. This platform enables marketers, regardless of technical expertise, to design social campaigns, interact with their audience, and evaluate social media performance. Wildfire's solutions are utilized by major brands and agencies, as well as numerous small businesses, to enhance engagement on prominent social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter. The company has a global presence with offices in multiple cities, including California, Chicago, New York, London, Paris, Munich, and Singapore.
SendGrid is a cloud-based customer communication platform that helps businesses manage email-driven engagement. It offers an email API for developers to integrate email into applications, marketing tools to manage contact lists, create and test templates, and run campaigns with analytics to measure performance. The platform also provides expert services aimed at optimizing email delivery and deliverability. SendGrid handles large-scale email sending for a wide range of customers, from consumer internet services to enterprise brands, emphasizing reliable delivery and engagement. Founded in 2009 and based in Denver, Colorado, SendGrid grew to serve billions of emails monthly across diverse industries. In 2019, the company was acquired by Twilio, expanding Twilio’s communications platform with robust email capabilities.
SendGrid is a cloud-based customer communication platform that helps businesses manage email-driven engagement. It offers an email API for developers to integrate email into applications, marketing tools to manage contact lists, create and test templates, and run campaigns with analytics to measure performance. The platform also provides expert services aimed at optimizing email delivery and deliverability. SendGrid handles large-scale email sending for a wide range of customers, from consumer internet services to enterprise brands, emphasizing reliable delivery and engagement. Founded in 2009 and based in Denver, Colorado, SendGrid grew to serve billions of emails monthly across diverse industries. In 2019, the company was acquired by Twilio, expanding Twilio’s communications platform with robust email capabilities.
Get Satisfaction
Seed Round in 2009
Get Satisfaction, Inc. is a company that offers an online community platform designed to connect businesses with their customers, enhancing relationships that create mutual value. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Austin and Boston, the platform enables organizations to modernize customer support, accelerate sales, and differentiate their brands through innovative customer engagement. The service integrates seamlessly with various applications, including CRM and marketing tools, allowing companies of all sizes—from large corporations like Kellogg's and Procter & Gamble to smaller enterprises—to establish vibrant online communities. This approach aims to foster collaboration and drive new ideas, ensuring companies can effectively respond to the evolving needs of today's consumers. As of 2015, Get Satisfaction operates as a subsidiary of Sprinklr Inc.