Unusual Ventures

Founded in 2018, Unusual Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on enterprise software and consumer products, with a typical investment range of $3 million to $7 million.

Lars Albright

General Partner

Jyoti Bansal

Partner

Tyler Crown

Vice President

Haley Daiber

Senior Associate

Wei Lien Dang

General Partner

Sandhya Hegde

General Partner

Andy Johns

Partner

Sarah Leary

Venture Partner

Dakota McKenzie

Senior Associate, GTM

Corinne Moran

Senior Associate, Sales GTM

Eric Peter

Partner

Scott Schwarzhoff

Partner

Rachel Star

Principal

Guergana Tomova

CFO

John Vrionis

Managing Partner

Ryan Wexler

Vice President

140 past transactions

Faye

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Faye gives working households a trusted advisor to help with tailored, multi-step tasks where AI alone is insufficient, like event and trip planning, home services, personal purchasing, vendor management, and decision-making.

Navro

Series B in 2025
Navro specializes in providing payment and banking infrastructure for software companies. Its platform offers tools for real-time insights into payments, efficient tracking of money movements, and streamlined international transactions.

Sotira

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Sotira is a B2B SaaS startup that operates an integrated marketplace powered by artificial intelligence. It connects surplus inventory suppliers with buyers, enabling suppliers to recoup value from unsold items and secure upfront cash, while buyers benefit from streamlined sourcing processes and access to high-quality goods. The platform offers tools for financial tracking, analytics, profit forecasting, expense management, and pricing discovery to facilitate efficient transactions between parties.

Paxton

Series A in 2025
Paxton is a legal tech company that utilizes cutting-edge AI technology to transform the way legal professionals work. Our robust AI platform ingests vast sources of legal information, including all state and federal laws and regulations, and provides precise, relevant, and insightful responses to user queries. From answering questions about regulations to drafting legal documents, Paxton AI transforms the legal research and analysis process, saving time and increasing efficiency.

WiseLayer

Seed Round in 2025
WiseLayer is a company that creates AI-powered digital workers specifically designed for finance and accounting teams. The company offers a suite of specialized AI agents, including Angela, who focuses on accruals and revenue recognition, and Dennis, who addresses discrepancies and financial anomalies. In total, WiseLayer provides six AI agents that assist with various financial tasks such as bank reconciliations, fixed asset depreciation and amortization, lease accounting, and prepaid expenses. Additionally, WiseLayer develops an early warning system that employs artificial intelligence and analytics to help companies identify and address potential financial issues. This system includes pre-built tools that notify clients of known and emerging problems, enabling them to resolve issues swiftly through automation and reduce operational stress.

Stigg

Series A in 2024
Stigg is a platform designed to assist software companies in optimizing their pricing and packaging strategies. By providing a user-friendly interface and application programming interfaces, Stigg enables businesses to define, refine, and implement their pricing strategies effectively. The platform allows product and growth teams to manage pricing and packaging options independently, facilitating quicker deployment of enhanced plans to customers. This capability not only streamlines the pricing process but also alleviates the burden on development resources, allowing teams to focus on delivering better products.

Strella

Seed Round in 2024
Strella is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that allows innovative product teams to run fast, continuous user research using AI.

Relyance AI

Series B in 2024
Relyance AI provides a comprehensive platform for data compliance and governance, ensuring that businesses meet regulatory obligations. The service enables visibility into data processing activities while helping to manage risks associated with data security and privacy. This integrated approach supports sales teams in making informed decisions that drive business growth.

AirOps

Series A in 2024
AirOps is a technology company specializing in data analytics platforms. It empowers operators to transform business data into actionable insights, offering interactive enterprise analytics, data discovery tools, and streamlined analysis processes. This enables businesses to generate more revenue from their data.

Resolve.ai

Seed Round in 2024
Resolve AI is a firm dedicated on automating software processes. The company creates AI solutions that can automatically troubleshoot and resolve manufacturing challenges.

GovSignals

Seed Round in 2024
GovSignals is a technology company that specializes in automating the process of identifying and bidding on government contracts using artificial intelligence. It analyzes structured and unstructured data from various government sources to help innovative businesses find and respond to funding opportunities efficiently and compliantly. The platform condenses months of research into minutes, enabling clients to focus on differentiating their proposals. Founded by experts in government contracting, procurement, and AI, GovSignals aims to bring advanced technology to companies crucial for U.S. defense and innovation.

Connectly.ai

Series B in 2024
Connectly.ai is a conversational commerce company that focuses on simplifying how small and medium-sized businesses harness their customer messages to transform connections into revenue. Its business solution drives sales for message-first SMBs by running all stages of the customer support and marketing funnel, enabling campaign activation and retargeting, and removing the friction from message-driven sales by treating customers like people, not tickets.

Skymel

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Skymel is a pioneering technology company specializing in AI infrastructure. It develops an AI integration platform that simplifies the construction and upkeep of AI-driven applications. The platform intelligently manages AI models, automatically choosing the most suitable one for each request, and offers features such as intelligent request routing, unified error handling, and real-time performance optimization. This enables clients to efficiently build AI applications.

Purple Dot

Series A in 2024
Purple Dot specializes in enhancing pre-order experiences for e-commerce brands, allowing them to sell products before they are physically in stock. By utilizing a wait-listing platform, Purple Dot enables brands to implement high-converting waitlists, which help reduce inventory risk and boost sales. This system allows customers to secure purchases at full or discounted prices, with the option to wait for potential discounts, thereby giving merchants control over pricing strategies. The company's innovative approach supports brands in launching influencer-driven product drops and 'never go out of stock' strategies, ultimately enabling modern e-commerce businesses to increase their sales by selling earlier and managing their supply chains more effectively.

Traceable

Venture Round in 2024
Traceable Inc. is a security solutions provider focused on protecting cloud-native applications, particularly through comprehensive API security. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company offers an end-to-end application security monitoring platform that safeguards application activity from users to APIs and code. Its innovative approach includes an API Data Lake at the core of its platform, enabling intelligent and context-aware security management. Traceable’s solutions encompass threat protection, security posture management, and insights for forensic analysis, all designed to minimize risks and enhance the value of APIs within organizations' software development lifecycles. By leveraging machine learning technology, Traceable analyzes user interactions and application behavior to detect anomalies and assess attack attempts, thereby enabling businesses to strengthen their security operations effectively.

Theia Insights

Venture Round in 2024
Theia Insights develops advanced AI technologies for the global investment community. Its platform is designed by experts in science, engineering, mathematics, and industry practice, offering tools for portfolio construction, optimization, analytics, and risk management to support informed decision-making.

Navro

Venture Round in 2024
Navro specializes in providing payment and banking infrastructure for software companies. Its platform offers tools for real-time insights into payments, efficient tracking of money movements, and streamlined international transactions.

Qdrant

Series A in 2024
Qdrant develops an open-source vector database written in Rust, offering high-dimensional vector search capabilities. It enables applications for matching, searching, recommending, and more, using embeddings or neural network encoders. Additionally, Qdrant provides a managed cloud solution.

Kusari

Seed Round in 2024
Kusari is a company focused on enhancing software supply chain security by providing solutions that ensure the integrity of the development process. Its mission is to promote transparency within the software supply chain while facilitating secure development practices. The company has developed a platform that prevents and responds to supply chain attacks, offering tools that establish security guardrails for builds and leverage metadata for deep visibility into security issues. This platform enables users to identify vulnerabilities, understand their potential impact, and effectively address their root causes, ultimately allowing clients to construct secure pipelines and maintain a resilient software supply chain. Additionally, Kusari engages with the developer community through its GitHub repositories, further supporting its commitment to software security.

Chalk

Seed Round in 2023
Chalk is a data platform that empowers machine learning and generative AI. It enables data teams to declare features and dependencies using idiomatic Python, which are then compiled into parallel pipelines running on a Rust-based engine. This ensures temporally consistent training sets for data scientists and live feature values for models, reducing development time significantly.

AppMap

Venture Round in 2023
AppMap develops dynamic runtime code analysis tools for identifying performance, security, and stability issues early in the development process. Its software integrates with popular code editors, providing real-time insights to help developers maintain clear and secure code.

Nova AI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Nova AI is a technology company that specializes in generative artificial intelligence. It has developed a platform that automates repetitive software development tasks, including unit testing, end-to-end user acceptance testing, and documentation. This automation helps clients reduce their development costs and save time by streamlining these mundane chores. The platform is designed for ease of use, allowing tests to be generated and run on any device with just a single click.

Paxton

Seed Round in 2023
Paxton is a legal tech company that utilizes cutting-edge AI technology to transform the way legal professionals work. Our robust AI platform ingests vast sources of legal information, including all state and federal laws and regulations, and provides precise, relevant, and insightful responses to user queries. From answering questions about regulations to drafting legal documents, Paxton AI transforms the legal research and analysis process, saving time and increasing efficiency.

CO2 AI

Venture Round in 2023
CO2 AI is a technology company that specializes in carbon management software. It assists large, intricate organizations in tracking and reducing their environmental impact at a substantial scale. The platform ingests and analyzes emissions data, providing clear visualizations and actionable insights. It also simulates reduction strategies and helps businesses create detailed roadmaps towards net-zero emissions.

Socket

Series A in 2023
Socket is a cybersecurity company dedicated to protecting applications from software supply chain attacks. It adopts a novel approach to address significant challenges in security, particularly within a sector that has primarily focused on identifying known vulnerabilities. Founded by a team of open source maintainers with extensive experience, Socket aims to safeguard the open source ecosystem and make it safer for all users. The company's platform employs innovative technology to secure software applications by detecting and blocking supply chain threats, thereby minimizing potential damage before attacks can occur. Socket specializes in providing proactive protection and enhancing visibility for JavaScript and Python dependencies, ultimately assisting organizations in reducing their overall security risks.

Portrait Analytics

Seed Round in 2023
Portrait Analytics develops an AI-driven tool designed to assist analysts in accelerating and enhancing investment research. The platform offers features such as Q&A-based search using filings and research, stock chart case studies, stock ideas and recommendations, and qualitative/quantitative screeners.

AptEdge

Seed Round in 2023
AptEdge develops AI-driven software for managing technical support issues. Its platform connects product activity with support knowledge, reducing resolution times and escalations, thereby enhancing customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Bits Technology

Seed Round in 2023
Bits Technology develops automation software that simplifies business onboarding processes. Its platform connects data sources, orchestrates workflows, and ensures secure, compliant operations for financial technology services.

Qdrant

Seed Round in 2023
Qdrant develops an open-source vector database written in Rust, offering high-dimensional vector search capabilities. It enables applications for matching, searching, recommending, and more, using embeddings or neural network encoders. Additionally, Qdrant provides a managed cloud solution.

Roboto AI

Seed Round in 2023
Roboto AI is a tech company specializing in accelerating the search, transformation, and analysis of robotics data. Based in Seattle and Zurich, it was spun out of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). The company's platform enables efficient management and processing of multimodal sensor data using proprietary AI algorithms, facilitating rapid identification of system defects.

Connectly.ai

Seed Round in 2023
Connectly.ai is a conversational commerce company that focuses on simplifying how small and medium-sized businesses harness their customer messages to transform connections into revenue. Its business solution drives sales for message-first SMBs by running all stages of the customer support and marketing funnel, enabling campaign activation and retargeting, and removing the friction from message-driven sales by treating customers like people, not tickets.

Navro

Series A in 2023
Navro specializes in providing payment and banking infrastructure for software companies. Its platform offers tools for real-time insights into payments, efficient tracking of money movements, and streamlined international transactions.

Descope

Seed Round in 2023
Descope empowers developers to implement secure, seamless authentication and user experiences across diverse applications. Its platform focuses on enhancing application security while minimizing user friction, enabling businesses to adopt passwordless authentication with minimal coding effort.

Vizcom

Seed Round in 2023
Vizcom is an AI-powered creative tool tailored for industrial designers and artists. The company specializes in developing innovative tools that leverage machine learning to enhance the creative process. Its platform features an automatic digital rendering tool that streamlines tasks such as color, shading, and rendering, which helps users efficiently generate and explore synthesized images. By providing these advanced capabilities, Vizcom enables designers and artists to bring their ideas to life more quickly and effectively, ultimately fostering greater creativity and inspiration in their work.

Vizcom

Seed Round in 2023
Vizcom is an AI-powered creative tool tailored for industrial designers and artists. The company specializes in developing innovative tools that leverage machine learning to enhance the creative process. Its platform features an automatic digital rendering tool that streamlines tasks such as color, shading, and rendering, which helps users efficiently generate and explore synthesized images. By providing these advanced capabilities, Vizcom enables designers and artists to bring their ideas to life more quickly and effectively, ultimately fostering greater creativity and inspiration in their work.

Orum

Series B in 2022
Orum Inc., founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing sales acceleration software that enhances communication efficiency for businesses. The company utilizes artificial intelligence to streamline the sales process by enabling sales representatives to make parallel calls, swiftly identifying live prospects while automatically handling voicemails and call dispositions. Orum's technology integrates seamlessly with popular CRM platforms like Salesforce, Outreach, and SalesLoft, allowing users to connect with more potential clients without the delays associated with manual dialing and account research. By automating these processes, Orum empowers sales teams to focus on conversation and engagement, ultimately boosting sales productivity.

Dopt

Seed Round in 2022
Dopt is a developer of a user adoption platform designed to streamline the creation of user onboarding and engagement flows. The company offers a combination of a visual flow builder, software development kits, and application programming interfaces, allowing teams to build and launch effective onboarding experiences in a fraction of the time typically required. By simplifying the process of managing user engagement, Dopt empowers product, growth, and engineering teams to enhance user experiences and drive adoption with minimal effort.

Goldcast

Series A in 2022
Goldcast is an enterprise-focused platform for creating and hosting online events and AI-powered video campaigns that aim to measure and improve marketing ROI. The platform supports events such as client summits, workshops, product launches, thought leadership summits, regional conferences, webinars, and other virtual experiences, with dashboards and tools to quantify ROI and lead qualification. By enabling repurposing of event content and providing engaging video assets, Goldcast helps marketers enhance audience engagement, build brand authority, and drive revenue growth for business-to-business audiences.

Connectly.ai

Seed Round in 2022
Connectly.ai is a conversational commerce company that focuses on simplifying how small and medium-sized businesses harness their customer messages to transform connections into revenue. Its business solution drives sales for message-first SMBs by running all stages of the customer support and marketing funnel, enabling campaign activation and retargeting, and removing the friction from message-driven sales by treating customers like people, not tickets.

Kona

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in Los Angeles in 2021, Kona is a burnout prevention platform designed for remote teams. It operates within Slack, transforming leadership best practices into manageable routines and providing workforce analytics to help businesses scale positive cultural aspects.

Try Your Best

Seed Round in 2022
Try Your Best is a blockchain technology company that develops an online play-to-earn portal. The platform is designed to reward user engagement within a sustainable Web3 ecosystem, offering an energy-efficient experience where participation earns rewards and perks for users and their communities.

Ordr

Series C in 2022
Ordr, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Santa Clara, California, established in 2015. It specializes in securing Internet of Things (IoT) devices across various sectors, including healthcare, manufacturing, retail, public venues, and logistics. Ordr's platform utilizes advanced machine learning and deep packet inspection to autonomously identify, classify, and monitor devices within an enterprise network. Its Systems Control Engine, a software-as-a-service solution, maps all connected devices, assesses their risk and behavior, and enforces traffic flow and access policies to enhance security. Organizations worldwide rely on Ordr for real-time asset inventory, risk management, compliance, and to streamline IT initiatives.

Champify

Seed Round in 2022
Champify is a sales generation application that focuses on transforming customer job changes into valuable leads. The company’s platform provides features such as job change alerts, contact data enrichment, and strategic playbooks for engaging with key contacts. By monitoring when previous customers or champions change jobs, Champify enables businesses to build relationships with individuals who have already shown a preference for their services. This proactive approach not only helps in developing new sales pipelines but also aids in reducing churn by keeping track of important contacts within customer accounts.

HumanSignal

Seed Round in 2022
HumanSignal is a developer of data labeling software and annotation tools that enable companies to create precise artificial intelligence products. The company provides a platform that integrates automation with human oversight, streamlining the processes of preparing training data, fine-tuning AI models, and validating outputs. By offering features such as project management, collaborative data labeling, and quality assurance, HumanSignal facilitates efficient dataset annotation, helping businesses achieve accuracy in their machine learning initiatives. Additionally, HumanSignal is recognized for creating and maintaining Label Studio, a widely used open-source data labeling tool. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

HumanSignal

Series A in 2022
HumanSignal is a developer of data labeling software and annotation tools that enable companies to create precise artificial intelligence products. The company provides a platform that integrates automation with human oversight, streamlining the processes of preparing training data, fine-tuning AI models, and validating outputs. By offering features such as project management, collaborative data labeling, and quality assurance, HumanSignal facilitates efficient dataset annotation, helping businesses achieve accuracy in their machine learning initiatives. Additionally, HumanSignal is recognized for creating and maintaining Label Studio, a widely used open-source data labeling tool. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Vivun

Series C in 2022
Vivun Inc is a technology company that specializes in presales pipeline management, offering a comprehensive platform designed to enhance strategic potential and improve the interconnection between sales and product teams. Founded in 2018 and based in Oakland, California, Vivun provides tools such as opportunity management, battle cards, and competitive intelligence, which integrate seamlessly with existing customer relationship management systems. The platform aims to increase forecast accuracy, revive dormant opportunities, and leverage collective insights from the field. Additionally, Vivun is known for its AI Sales Engineer, which empowers organizations to scale technical expertise, optimize operations, and ultimately secure more deals at a lower cost. Prominent clients, including ADP, Coupa, and Docusign, utilize Vivun's solutions to drive efficiency and enhance their sales processes.

Socket

Seed Round in 2022
Socket is a cybersecurity company dedicated to protecting applications from software supply chain attacks. It adopts a novel approach to address significant challenges in security, particularly within a sector that has primarily focused on identifying known vulnerabilities. Founded by a team of open source maintainers with extensive experience, Socket aims to safeguard the open source ecosystem and make it safer for all users. The company's platform employs innovative technology to secure software applications by detecting and blocking supply chain threats, thereby minimizing potential damage before attacks can occur. Socket specializes in providing proactive protection and enhancing visibility for JavaScript and Python dependencies, ultimately assisting organizations in reducing their overall security risks.

Traceable

Series B in 2022
Traceable Inc. is a security solutions provider focused on protecting cloud-native applications, particularly through comprehensive API security. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company offers an end-to-end application security monitoring platform that safeguards application activity from users to APIs and code. Its innovative approach includes an API Data Lake at the core of its platform, enabling intelligent and context-aware security management. Traceable’s solutions encompass threat protection, security posture management, and insights for forensic analysis, all designed to minimize risks and enhance the value of APIs within organizations' software development lifecycles. By leveraging machine learning technology, Traceable analyzes user interactions and application behavior to detect anomalies and assess attack attempts, thereby enabling businesses to strengthen their security operations effectively.

KiwiDrop

Series A in 2022
KiwiDrop operates a social commerce platform designed to facilitate growth in retail fashion and beauty businesses. Its platform offers wholesale and community buying options, along with an inventory catalog in the cloud, software services, online customer support, standard shipping, and hassle-free returns.

Streamlined

Seed Round in 2022
Streamlined is a fintech company that enhances B2B transactions through its AI-powered invoicing and payment platform. It offers customizable payment options, automated receivables tracking, seamless third-party application integration, and automatic data syncing to accelerate payments, reduce manual effort, and improve customer payment experiences.

Harness

Series D in 2022
Harness is a software company that provides a continuous delivery-as-a-service platform designed to automate and streamline the end‑to‑end software development lifecycle. Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, the platform offers AI‑driven pipeline automation, real‑time delivery analytics, automated verification, intelligent testing, security orchestration, and cloud cost management. It supports modern cloud environments, containers, and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Amazon ECS, enabling engineering and DevOps teams to accelerate deployment cycles, reduce manual effort, and improve software reliability. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on simplifying the process of moving code from artifact to production.

Stigg

Seed Round in 2022
Stigg is a platform designed to assist software companies in optimizing their pricing and packaging strategies. By providing a user-friendly interface and application programming interfaces, Stigg enables businesses to define, refine, and implement their pricing strategies effectively. The platform allows product and growth teams to manage pricing and packaging options independently, facilitating quicker deployment of enhanced plans to customers. This capability not only streamlines the pricing process but also alleviates the burden on development resources, allowing teams to focus on delivering better products.

Grain

Series A in 2022
Grain is a platform designed to enhance the understanding of customer needs through effective meeting insights. It facilitates the recording, transcription, and clipping of key moments from research interviews, sales calls, and customer meetings, making it accessible for anyone in customer-focused roles. By integrating with various meeting platforms, Grain allows users to create impactful video stories and access a comprehensive library of company and market knowledge. This functionality enables organizations to share insights seamlessly, fostering customer-aligned teams and supporting informed decision-making. Through its user-friendly approach, Grain simplifies the process of capturing and communicating vital customer perspectives.

Enterpret

Seed Round in 2022
Enterpret is a company that specializes in customer feedback analytics, focusing on enhancing product development and customer insights. Its platform centralizes customer feedback from various channels, allowing businesses to collect and analyze this information efficiently. By leveraging advanced technologies in API design, analytics user interface and experience, and natural language processing, Enterpret helps organizations identify emerging trends and anomalies in customer feedback. This enables sales teams to transform unstructured feedback into actionable intelligence, facilitating a deeper understanding of customer needs and driving business growth.

Goldcast

Seed Round in 2022
Goldcast is an enterprise-focused platform for creating and hosting online events and AI-powered video campaigns that aim to measure and improve marketing ROI. The platform supports events such as client summits, workshops, product launches, thought leadership summits, regional conferences, webinars, and other virtual experiences, with dashboards and tools to quantify ROI and lead qualification. By enabling repurposing of event content and providing engaging video assets, Goldcast helps marketers enhance audience engagement, build brand authority, and drive revenue growth for business-to-business audiences.

Endgame

Series B in 2022
Endgame enhances enterprise sales by turning sellers into trusted advisors. It integrates first- and third-party data sources like emails, calls, CRM, LinkedIn, news, and financial reports to provide intelligent, actionable insights for every account and contact. This enables sales teams to prepare effectively for meetings and prioritize high-value opportunities based on behavioral signals.

Banyan Security

Series B in 2022
Banyan Security is a developer of a Security Service Edge (SSE) platform that provides secure remote access for corporate enterprises. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company focuses on enhancing network security by reducing attack surfaces, preventing unauthorized access, and eliminating lateral movement within networks. Banyan Security's platform continuously evaluates and enforces risk and security in real-time across hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments. It ensures that both users and devices are authenticated and authorized before granting access to sensitive corporate applications and servers, thereby delivering dynamic, real-time protection tailored for modern hybrid work environments.

Wonderschool

Series B in 2022
Founded in California in 2016, Wonderschool supports experienced educators to start licensed infant and toddler programs or preschools from their homes. The company provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing, and offers a software platform for managing students, parents, and operations. It also features a marketplace for parents to search programs, schedule visits, enroll children, and make payments.

Grid

Series A in 2022
Grid is a company that offers a comprehensive management platform for financial services aimed at simplifying financial processes for clients. The platform provides tools for tracking payrolls, taxes, bills, and refunds, as well as managing individual paychecks. Additionally, Grid has developed a financial application that facilitates online tax filing and advisory services. This application collects financial information from clients and pairs them with in-house advisors, helping taxpayers maximize deductions and prepare their annual returns efficiently. By combining these features, Grid aims to optimize financial management for its users while maintaining transparency in costs through a flat fee structure.

Alto Solutions

Series B in 2022
Alto Solutions provides an online platform designed to facilitate self-directed individual retirement accounts (IRAs), enabling users to invest in a variety of alternative assets. The company offers several solutions, including Alto IRA for general investing, Checkbook+ IRA for real estate investments with check-writing control, and Alto CryptoIRA for direct cryptocurrency trading via Coinbase. Additionally, Alto Solutions provides a dashboard for managing clients, accounts, and investments, as well as assistance in determining investment eligibility and identifying financial trust companies for asset custody. The company serves wealth managers, investors, registered investment advisors, real estate owners, and entrepreneurs. Founded in 2015, Alto Solutions is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Purple Dot

Venture Round in 2021
Purple Dot specializes in enhancing pre-order experiences for e-commerce brands, allowing them to sell products before they are physically in stock. By utilizing a wait-listing platform, Purple Dot enables brands to implement high-converting waitlists, which help reduce inventory risk and boost sales. This system allows customers to secure purchases at full or discounted prices, with the option to wait for potential discounts, thereby giving merchants control over pricing strategies. The company's innovative approach supports brands in launching influencer-driven product drops and 'never go out of stock' strategies, ultimately enabling modern e-commerce businesses to increase their sales by selling earlier and managing their supply chains more effectively.

Fractional

Seed Round in 2021
Fractional is a company that focuses on making real estate investing more accessible through its innovative social platform for fractional ownership. It has developed an investment application that lowers both the cost of entry and the time commitment required for property investment. The platform allows users to directly own fractions of various investment properties, which include single-family and multi-family homes. Investors can benefit from rental income and appreciation gains without incurring annual fees or being bound by holding periods. Moreover, Fractional enhances user experience by enabling them to visualize returns, cash flow, and associated costs for properties listed on the marketplace.

KeyCaliber

Seed Round in 2021
KeyCaliber offers a cybersecurity platform focused on cyber resilience and exposure management. The platform automatically identifies the organization’s Minimum Viable Company, i.e., the core cyber assets and applications required to operate during a cyber attack or IT outage. It uses machine learning to analyze existing security logs and telemetry, assigning importance scores to assets without relying on manual interviews, software agents, network scanners, or switch port analyzers. By highlighting essential systems and applications, the solution helps organizations prioritize resources and harden exposure to threats, enabling continuous operation and faster recovery.

Databento

Series A in 2021
Databento is a company that specializes in providing streamlined access to financial market data. Founded by experienced traders and engineers from renowned quantitative hedge funds, Databento offers a self-service platform that allows users to quickly obtain live exchange feeds and extensive historical data. The platform automates data licensing and minimizes onboarding time, making it easier for businesses and financial institutions to access high-quality, institutional-grade data directly from the source. Databento's servers are strategically located in colocation facilities at various trading venues, ensuring low-latency and reliable data capture. Users can choose between a pay-as-you-go model or flat-rate pricing, allowing them to manage costs effectively according to their data usage needs.

Contra

Series B in 2021
Contra is a networking platform founded in 2019 by Ben Huffman and Gajus Kuizinas. It connects independent professionals with flexible work opportunities through an exclusive community, enabling freelancers to earn a living on their own terms.

Socratic

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Socratic is a developer of an AI-powered task management platform designed to enhance team productivity by providing access to actionable data. The platform integrates task management with performance intelligence, allowing teams to benefit from automatically generated average task durations based on historical data. Socratic offers a comprehensive view of pull requests across various repositories, as well as insights into trends related to review and merge timelines. This functionality enables organizations to effectively curate work across teams, ultimately promoting improved work health and more informed decision-making.

RunX

Seed Round in 2021
RunX is a company that specializes in creating an automated infrastructure stack designed for developers to efficiently deploy cloud infrastructure. Its microservices platform aims to simplify the deployment process and enhance developer productivity by running seamlessly over existing cloud systems. This enables clients to achieve production-grade infrastructure without requiring extensive development or operations expertise, thereby streamlining the overall workflow for development teams.

Lounge

Pre Seed Round in 2021
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Relyance AI

Series A in 2021
Relyance AI provides a comprehensive platform for data compliance and governance, ensuring that businesses meet regulatory obligations. The service enables visibility into data processing activities while helping to manage risks associated with data security and privacy. This integrated approach supports sales teams in making informed decisions that drive business growth.

Relyance AI

Seed Round in 2021
Relyance AI provides a comprehensive platform for data compliance and governance, ensuring that businesses meet regulatory obligations. The service enables visibility into data processing activities while helping to manage risks associated with data security and privacy. This integrated approach supports sales teams in making informed decisions that drive business growth.

Pikup

Seed Round in 2021
Pikup, developed by Runerra Technologies Inc., operates an online platform that facilitates commerce through a hyperlocal, peer-to-peer marketplace. Incorporated in 2018 and based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, the platform leverages community traffic to connect neighbors who are already traveling within a neighborhood with shoppers in need of specific items. By matching these individuals, Pikup enhances convenience for consumers while also providing merchants with valuable data from each transaction once an order is completed. This innovative approach not only enables shoppers to obtain necessary items efficiently but also fosters community interaction and offers merchants an opportunity to engage with their local market more effectively.

Clak

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Clak enables online digital product sales on their website. It can be accessed by adding products and links to profiles, enabling rapid sales notifications, and optimising analytics on the effectiveness of the links and products. There are no subscriptions or other unstated costs.

Arrange

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Arrange is a consumer platform designed to enhance calendar usage by transforming inspiration into actionable tasks. It offers a catalog of to-dos and reminders that users can browse, subscribe to, and easily integrate into their calendars. The platform aims to revolutionize reminder management by automating the scheduling of these tasks, ensuring users receive timely notifications for completing their activities. Through its user-friendly approach, Arrange facilitates efficient personal task management, helping individuals stay organized and focused on their goals.

Launchable

Series A in 2021
Launchable, Inc., founded in 2019 and based in San Jose, California, provides an intelligence platform that enhances the software testing process for development teams. Its platform leverages machine learning to identify and prioritize meaningful tests, significantly reducing wait times and optimizing continuous integration (CI) pipeline efficiency. By focusing on critical tests, Launchable enables developers to detect bugs more swiftly, thereby lowering risks, increasing commit frequency, and expediting the time-to-production. This approach not only improves productivity but also helps teams deliver higher-quality software more efficiently, contributing to a framework of Continuous Quality in software development.

Scout

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Scout is a startup focused on connecting people through content via its platform.

Orum

Series A in 2021
Orum Inc., founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing sales acceleration software that enhances communication efficiency for businesses. The company utilizes artificial intelligence to streamline the sales process by enabling sales representatives to make parallel calls, swiftly identifying live prospects while automatically handling voicemails and call dispositions. Orum's technology integrates seamlessly with popular CRM platforms like Salesforce, Outreach, and SalesLoft, allowing users to connect with more potential clients without the delays associated with manual dialing and account research. By automating these processes, Orum empowers sales teams to focus on conversation and engagement, ultimately boosting sales productivity.

Endgame

Seed Round in 2021
Endgame enhances enterprise sales by turning sellers into trusted advisors. It integrates first- and third-party data sources like emails, calls, CRM, LinkedIn, news, and financial reports to provide intelligent, actionable insights for every account and contact. This enables sales teams to prepare effectively for meetings and prioritize high-value opportunities based on behavioral signals.

Endgame

Series A in 2021
Endgame enhances enterprise sales by turning sellers into trusted advisors. It integrates first- and third-party data sources like emails, calls, CRM, LinkedIn, news, and financial reports to provide intelligent, actionable insights for every account and contact. This enables sales teams to prepare effectively for meetings and prioritize high-value opportunities based on behavioral signals.

Rasgo

Series A in 2021
Rasgo is a developer of a feature store workflow platform that focuses on streamlining data processes for businesses. By eliminating inconsistencies in metrics, Rasgo enables data consumers to discover, explore, create, and monitor standardized business metrics essential for their operations. The platform facilitates data acquisition, integration, and feature engineering, allowing data scientists to operate more efficiently and deliver value effectively. The company serves a variety of industries, including Finance, Manufacturing, Biotech, Retail, and Alternative Energy, and has achieved over $25 million in Series A funding. With a fully remote work environment and a people-first culture, Rasgo has assembled a talented team with experience from leading organizations in the data field.

YourBase

Seed Round in 2021
YourBase, Inc. is a software development company based in Redmond, Washington, founded in 2017. It offers an online development platform that accelerates software testing and development for large code bases. The platform achieves this by instrumenting system calls and runtime environments to infer build graphs, thereby enabling safe incremental continuous integration builds. By scanning code bases and recording system calls, YourBase eliminates redundancies and enhances workflow efficiency, allowing clients to develop computer applications and software more effectively.

Styra

Series B in 2021
Styra, Inc. is a technology company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in developing a cloud-native authorization platform that enables organizations to enforce and monitor authorization policies across their applications and infrastructure. The core offering, the Styra Declarative Authorization Service, provides context-based admission control to enhance security, streamline compliance, and minimize human errors in cloud-native environments. Styra's platform incorporates features such as policy design, validation, distribution, monitoring, and auditing, allowing users to implement authorization policy-as-code effectively. By utilizing declarative models, the platform helps prevent security drift and errors before deployment. Styra's solutions are compatible with various technologies, including microservices, containers, and multi-cloud environments, ensuring comprehensive security management for modern application development.

BluBracket

Series A in 2021
BluBracket, Inc. is a company that specializes in enterprise security solutions, focusing specifically on the integrity and security of code. Founded in 2018 and based in Palo Alto, California, BluBracket offers a suite of products, including CodeInsight and CodeSecure, that help organizations discover and classify their code, detect and monitor risks, and enforce security policies effectively. The company provides a comprehensive app code scanning platform designed to identify security vulnerabilities while allowing companies to maintain their development speed and innovation. By blocking potential risks and monitoring real-time risk scores across codebases, BluBracket enables businesses to secure their most critical asset—code—without disrupting developer workflows or productivity.

Outlier

Series B in 2021
Outlier is an online education platform that offers intro-level college courses online at a relatively affordable price. Their courses employ engaging content and cutting-edge educational technology to create an immersive, student-friendly learning experience. Outlier is reimagining higher education as a resource that is accessible, equitable, and affordable for everyone.

Alto Solutions

Series A in 2021
Alto Solutions provides an online platform designed to facilitate self-directed individual retirement accounts (IRAs), enabling users to invest in a variety of alternative assets. The company offers several solutions, including Alto IRA for general investing, Checkbook+ IRA for real estate investments with check-writing control, and Alto CryptoIRA for direct cryptocurrency trading via Coinbase. Additionally, Alto Solutions provides a dashboard for managing clients, accounts, and investments, as well as assistance in determining investment eligibility and identifying financial trust companies for asset custody. The company serves wealth managers, investors, registered investment advisors, real estate owners, and entrepreneurs. Founded in 2015, Alto Solutions is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

CoScreen

Seed Round in 2021
CoScreen is a developer of innovative screen-sharing software aimed at enhancing remote collaboration. Its platform transforms a secondary display into a shared team desktop, allowing multiple users to simultaneously share and interact with application windows while maintaining the privacy of their primary desktop. Each participant is equipped with their own mouse pointer, enabling seamless interaction as if they were using the applications on their own devices. This functionality supports more effective teamwork and communication in remote work environments.

Databento

Convertible Note in 2021
Databento is a company that specializes in providing streamlined access to financial market data. Founded by experienced traders and engineers from renowned quantitative hedge funds, Databento offers a self-service platform that allows users to quickly obtain live exchange feeds and extensive historical data. The platform automates data licensing and minimizes onboarding time, making it easier for businesses and financial institutions to access high-quality, institutional-grade data directly from the source. Databento's servers are strategically located in colocation facilities at various trading venues, ensuring low-latency and reliable data capture. Users can choose between a pay-as-you-go model or flat-rate pricing, allowing them to manage costs effectively according to their data usage needs.

Armorblox

Series B in 2021
Armorblox, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2017 and based in Cupertino, California. It specializes in developing data security solutions that focus on protecting the human layer within organizations. Utilizing advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques, Armorblox addresses identity-based attacks and data loss, providing comprehensive security for its clients. The company's innovative approach aims to enhance overall data protection and safeguard sensitive information in an increasingly complex digital landscape.

Contra

Series A in 2021
Contra is a networking platform founded in 2019 by Ben Huffman and Gajus Kuizinas. It connects independent professionals with flexible work opportunities through an exclusive community, enabling freelancers to earn a living on their own terms.

Vivun

Series B in 2021
Vivun Inc is a technology company that specializes in presales pipeline management, offering a comprehensive platform designed to enhance strategic potential and improve the interconnection between sales and product teams. Founded in 2018 and based in Oakland, California, Vivun provides tools such as opportunity management, battle cards, and competitive intelligence, which integrate seamlessly with existing customer relationship management systems. The platform aims to increase forecast accuracy, revive dormant opportunities, and leverage collective insights from the field. Additionally, Vivun is known for its AI Sales Engineer, which empowers organizations to scale technical expertise, optimize operations, and ultimately secure more deals at a lower cost. Prominent clients, including ADP, Coupa, and Docusign, utilize Vivun's solutions to drive efficiency and enhance their sales processes.

Connectly.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Connectly.ai is a conversational commerce company that focuses on simplifying how small and medium-sized businesses harness their customer messages to transform connections into revenue. Its business solution drives sales for message-first SMBs by running all stages of the customer support and marketing funnel, enabling campaign activation and retargeting, and removing the friction from message-driven sales by treating customers like people, not tickets.

Mem

Seed Round in 2021
The world's first self-organizing workspace.

Webflow

Venture Round in 2021
Webflow, Inc. is a web development platform founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California. It enables users, particularly professional designers and developers, to create and update custom, dynamic websites through a visual interface. The platform includes a range of features such as a drag-and-drop tool for building responsive websites, content management system (CMS) capabilities, e-commerce functionality, and hosting services. Webflow allows users to design, build, and launch websites without needing to write code, while also ensuring that the generated code is clean and semantic. This comprehensive approach empowers clients to develop websites that function seamlessly across various devices and to push them to live production independently.

Enterpret

Seed Round in 2021
Enterpret is a company that specializes in customer feedback analytics, focusing on enhancing product development and customer insights. Its platform centralizes customer feedback from various channels, allowing businesses to collect and analyze this information efficiently. By leveraging advanced technologies in API design, analytics user interface and experience, and natural language processing, Enterpret helps organizations identify emerging trends and anomalies in customer feedback. This enables sales teams to transform unstructured feedback into actionable intelligence, facilitating a deeper understanding of customer needs and driving business growth.

Sunshine

Venture Round in 2020
Sunshine is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded by Marissa Mayer and Enrique Muñoz Torres in November 2020. Originally called Lumi Labs, the company focuses on creating advanced applications that simplify everyday tasks and enhance productivity. Its flagship product, Sunshine Contacts, utilizes artificial intelligence to help users keep their mobile contact lists organized and up to date. The application streamlines processes by eliminating duplicate entries and assists with scheduling, event organization, and small group communication. Through its innovative solutions, Sunshine aims to make mundane tasks effortless, allowing users to focus on more meaningful activities.

Arrikto

Series A in 2020
Arrikto Inc. is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, that specializes in developing solutions to democratize machine learning and automate complex workflows. Founded in 2014, Arrikto provides an integrated platform designed for data scientists and machine learning engineers, streamlining the development process through advanced MLOps workflows and software management. Its flagship offerings include the Arrikto Data Science Development Studio, which simplifies the environment for users, and MiniKF, a production-ready local deployment of Kubeflow that supports complete ML pipelines. By enabling collaboration across teams and optimizing workflows, Arrikto allows organizations to efficiently turn data into actionable insights and deploy machine learning models with greater speed and effectiveness.

Vivun

Series A in 2020
Vivun Inc is a technology company that specializes in presales pipeline management, offering a comprehensive platform designed to enhance strategic potential and improve the interconnection between sales and product teams. Founded in 2018 and based in Oakland, California, Vivun provides tools such as opportunity management, battle cards, and competitive intelligence, which integrate seamlessly with existing customer relationship management systems. The platform aims to increase forecast accuracy, revive dormant opportunities, and leverage collective insights from the field. Additionally, Vivun is known for its AI Sales Engineer, which empowers organizations to scale technical expertise, optimize operations, and ultimately secure more deals at a lower cost. Prominent clients, including ADP, Coupa, and Docusign, utilize Vivun's solutions to drive efficiency and enhance their sales processes.

Transposit

Series B in 2020
Transposit Corporation is a data platform developer based in San Francisco, California, established in 2016. The company offers a platform designed to enhance operational efficiency for engineering teams by managing APIs and integrating various tools and processes. Transposit's platform provides a unified approach to incident management and operations, utilizing bi-directional integrations and workflow automation to improve uptime and simplify daily tasks for developers. It enables organizations to accelerate actions with direct access to information, automate processes through interactive runbooks, and maintain comprehensive documentation of activities. The platform also supports customization for various DevOps ecosystems through a developer console, allowing teams to codify institutional knowledge and create repeatable, data-driven processes. By connecting people, tools, and data, Transposit helps organizations enhance workflow agility and improve service reliability, ultimately delivering greater value to their operations.

OrthoFX

Series A in 2020
OrthoFX, LLC is a Fremont, California-based company that specializes in online clear aligner technology for orthodontic treatment. Established in 2018, OrthoFX offers a comprehensive clear aligner solution tailored for orthodontists and general dentists, enhancing the patient experience through innovative technologies. Its platform includes features such as virtual treatment coordinators, wear-time tracking sensors, and AI-driven remote treatment monitoring. Additionally, OrthoFX utilizes proprietary polymers and provides insurance concierge services, all aimed at streamlining the orthodontic process and reducing the need for treatment reboots. Through these advancements, OrthoFX seeks to improve both the efficiency of dental practices and the overall experience for patients seeking teeth straightening solutions.
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