Actuate is a technology company that specializes in security software utilizing computer vision and artificial intelligence to enhance public safety. Its innovative solution integrates with existing security camera systems to automatically detect firearms and other safety threats, such as intruders and unusual crowd behaviors. By providing real-time alerts, Actuate significantly improves response times for security teams and empowers bystanders with critical information for making informed decisions in emergency situations. The company's commitment to harnessing data through advanced analytics and reporting tools aims to drive better safety outcomes for organizations and communities.
Haus provides a marketing science platform that enables brands to run experiments and measure the incremental impact of marketing investments. By focusing on real business outcomes rather than traditional metrics, Haus helps optimize marketing spend and supports decisions on revenue, customer acquisition, and other key performance indicators. The platform analyzes data, evaluates performance, and delivers attribution and insights in a privacy conscious environment to deliver accurate measurements.
The Easy Company
Seed Round in 2023 
The Easy Company develops a social wallet platform designed to enhance usability and security in Web3. Its platform combines user-curated profiles with engaging social features, enabling users to explore, navigate, and discover Web3 communities independently.
Fursure
Seed Round in 2022 
Fursure is a provider of pet health insurance services focused on delivering personalization and transparency to pet owners across the United States. The company specializes in research and guidance, aiming to simplify the process of selecting pet insurance plans. Fursure offers a customized approach that helps pet parents find suitable insurance options without the need for extensive online searches filled with confusing terminology and outdated information. Additionally, Fursure emphasizes ongoing support even after the policy is purchased, ensuring that customers have access to continual service tailored to their needs.
Stable provides software solutions designed to assist electric vehicle (EV) fleets and charging providers in efficiently planning and managing their charging infrastructure. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a siting and forecasting platform that utilizes a proprietary machine learning model to predict site utilization and optimize the placement and sizing of charging stations. By consolidating essential data and insights, Stable enables customers to make informed decisions regarding the deployment of charging stations, ensuring that they are installed in locations where they are most needed.
Smallstep
Series A in 2022 
Smallstep builds an identity authority and open-source toolkit for dev/sec/ops to secure connected applications across clouds, containers, serverless, and devices. Its platform provides infrastructure components and operational tools to implement zero-trust security, enabling access to financial data, code repositories, and other sensitive resources from company-managed devices and delivery pipelines, with the goal of reducing reliance on VPNs and firewalls while integrating security into software delivery.
Apella is a medical technology company that uses artificial intelligence, computer vision, and sensor data from operating rooms to digitize surgical workflows. Its platform collects real-time data from in-room devices to analyze surgical procedures and provide actionable insights for process improvement, quality control, training, and real-time decision support, with the goal of improving surgical outcomes. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco.
Twic Inc. is a software company based in Fremont, California, founded in 2017, that specializes in wellness programs for employees. The company offers two main products: Wellness Wallet and Wellness Suite. Wellness Wallet provides a monthly wellness stipend to employees as an incentive for maintaining a healthy lifestyle, while Wellness Suite serves as a platform for organizing and sharing information about onsite wellness events. Twic's solutions are designed to simplify the process for employees, giving them direct access to their benefits through an intuitive interface. This allows employees to utilize their benefits stipend with a curated selection of vendors, which offers preferred pricing and eliminates the need for reimbursement, thus saving time and money for both employees and employers.
CommonStock
Series A in 2021 
CommonStock is a developer of an online platform that facilitates collaborative investing by allowing users to trade stocks together with their friends, family, classmates, or colleagues. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform enables users to link their brokerage accounts to shareholdings by percentage, receive real-time alerts on trades made by their network, and replicate each other's investment strategies. Additionally, it fosters a community where users can monitor and guide each other's investment decisions, enhancing engagement and knowledge sharing among investors. The platform is accessible for free on the web and via an iPhone app, with plans for an Android app in the future.
Retain.ai
Series A in 2021 
Retain is the first Customer Insights Engine (CIE) that enables everyone responsible for delighting customers to be customer-obsessed. Retain delivers a trusted, flexible system for identifying and sharing customer teams’ best habits that drive revenue and retention. By sitting naturally in a team’s workflow, Retain enables everyone responsible for engaging customers to make data-driven decisions by giving them a complete view into every customer lifecycle. As one of AngelList’s “Hot Startups Hiring Now,” the company is headquartered in San Francisco and is backed by Emergence Capital, Baseline Ventures, Upside Partnership, Afore Capital, and Industry Ventures.
Metrist
Seed Round in 2021 
Metrist is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that specializes in monitoring the performance and availability of cloud applications and APIs. Its platform provides real-time visibility into the functionality of these services, ensuring that application developers and users can understand the impact of external services on their operations. The software features actionable data and service level agreement (SLA) reporting, which helps businesses optimize customer experiences. Additionally, Metrist offers an infrastructure that supports embedded analytics, payment processing, and user identity management, facilitating a comprehensive approach to application performance monitoring.
Side Door
Seed Round in 2021 
Side Door is an online platform that connects artists with hosts to book live performances in various locations. It offers flexible pricing, revenue sharing, audience management tools, automated payouts, and performance royalty management.
Trustworthy.
Seed Round in 2021 
Trustworthy provides an OS designed to safeguard, organize, and optimize sensitive family information. Trustworthy arranges information in an organized view without the need for tagging, classification, or thinking. Families are organized and completely prepared for all of life's moments with Trustworthy, now and across generations.
Privacy Dynamics
Seed Round in 2021 
Privacy Dynamics is a company that specializes in data de-identification solutions aimed at minimizing privacy risks associated with data access and usage. Its innovative tool enables engineering teams to securely access the necessary data for development, testing, model training, and analytics without compromising privacy. By ensuring referential integrity and preserving original data formats and indices, Privacy Dynamics allows clients to work with realistic datasets that reflect the complexities of real-world information. The tool integrates seamlessly into existing projects, maintaining high data utility while significantly reducing privacy distortion, all without the need for extensive classification, policy management, or data mapping.
ChannelApe
Series A in 2021 
ChannelApe, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in supply chain and e-commerce management software. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Scranton, Pennsylvania, ChannelApe develops an enterprise fulfillment platform designed to automate back-end processes for direct-to-consumer brands. The software offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including third-party logistics reporting, data modeling, and distributed order management, along with integrations for major online marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, and BigCommerce. By providing features like real-time inventory availability, label event tracking, and ship-from-store capabilities, ChannelApe enables businesses to streamline their operations, thereby saving time and resources, allowing them to concentrate on growth and customer engagement.
Rewatch is a communication platform that provides teams with a private and secure channel for managing video content. It integrates seamlessly with video conferencing tools like Zoom and Google Meet, automatically importing and transcribing video chats. This functionality allows teams to organize and search their spoken knowledge, enhancing collaboration and productivity. By offering a centralized repository for video communications, Rewatch enables users to easily access and leverage their team's collective insights and discussions.
Lobus
Venture Round in 2021 
Lobus, Inc. is a New York-based company that designs and develops a platform for assessing the value of artworks through both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Established in 2017, Lobus provides verified information about artists alongside publicly available market data, aiming to enhance the management of art assets. The platform offers tools for financial management and industry insights, enabling art owners to make informed decisions about their collections. By integrating mechanisms similar to those found in NFT marketplaces, Lobus seeks to enable partial ownership of physical artworks, allowing sellers to retain a stake in their pieces and benefit from future transactions.
Actuate is a technology company that specializes in security software utilizing computer vision and artificial intelligence to enhance public safety. Its innovative solution integrates with existing security camera systems to automatically detect firearms and other safety threats, such as intruders and unusual crowd behaviors. By providing real-time alerts, Actuate significantly improves response times for security teams and empowers bystanders with critical information for making informed decisions in emergency situations. The company's commitment to harnessing data through advanced analytics and reporting tools aims to drive better safety outcomes for organizations and communities.
Distrobird
Pre Seed Round in 2021 
Distrobird provides a unified go-to-market platform for businesses to manage inbound and outbound sales processes across email, SMS, calls, a shared inbox, form tracking, and lead routing. By integrating multiple workflows across channels, it automates manual tasks in lead management and sales closing, improves sales team productivity, and provides visibility into each prospect's journey through the funnel.
Ease is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by Courtney Guertin and David A. Reid, dedicated to modernizing and personalizing the employee experience. The company offers a cloud-based platform that simplifies benefits enrollment, HR management, and payroll processes for businesses. Ease provides a single solution for setting up and managing benefits, onboarding new hires, ensuring compliance, and offering employees a unified destination for all their human resources information. With over 70,000 businesses trusting Ease for online enrollment and HR services, the company has been recognized for its growth and popularity in the industry.
Gowalla
Seed Round in 2021 
Gowalla is a social travel guide platform that lets users discover, share, and explore places worldwide. Its mobile app and website provide curated city, park, and neighborhood guides, enriched with photos, experiences, and recommendations from the community and partners such as Disney and National Geographic. Launched in 2009 and based in Austin, Texas, Gowalla combines social networking with location‑based features, including augmented‑reality tools that help users navigate and experience local attractions. The service encourages friends and families to share moments on the go, turning everyday travel into a collaborative adventure.
Projector
Series B in 2020 
Projector, established in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing collaborative visual storytelling tools for developers and product teams. Their platform enables professionals to create engaging content such as videos, GIFs, social media posts, and presentations outside the confines of their app, enhancing overall product experiences.
AlphaFlow
Series A in 2020 
AlphaFlow, Inc. is a technology-driven investment company based in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in New York. Founded in 2015, AlphaFlow operates an online investment platform focused on real estate assets, specifically providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors and accredited individuals. The platform underwrites loans from residential real estate lenders nationwide, utilizing over 50 evaluation factors to identify optimal investment opportunities. By automating best practices in investment management, including diversification and data analytics, AlphaFlow allows investors to benefit from a simplified and intelligent approach to real estate investing without the high fees associated with traditional methods. This enables clients to build and manage diversified investment portfolios across multiple states and loan types, offering access to previously inaccessible asset classes while generating high-income streams through debt-based real estate investments.
Twic Inc. is a software company based in Fremont, California, founded in 2017, that specializes in wellness programs for employees. The company offers two main products: Wellness Wallet and Wellness Suite. Wellness Wallet provides a monthly wellness stipend to employees as an incentive for maintaining a healthy lifestyle, while Wellness Suite serves as a platform for organizing and sharing information about onsite wellness events. Twic's solutions are designed to simplify the process for employees, giving them direct access to their benefits through an intuitive interface. This allows employees to utilize their benefits stipend with a curated selection of vendors, which offers preferred pricing and eliminates the need for reimbursement, thus saving time and money for both employees and employers.
CommonStock
Seed Round in 2020 
CommonStock is a developer of an online platform that facilitates collaborative investing by allowing users to trade stocks together with their friends, family, classmates, or colleagues. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform enables users to link their brokerage accounts to shareholdings by percentage, receive real-time alerts on trades made by their network, and replicate each other's investment strategies. Additionally, it fosters a community where users can monitor and guide each other's investment decisions, enhancing engagement and knowledge sharing among investors. The platform is accessible for free on the web and via an iPhone app, with plans for an Android app in the future.
PANTASTIC
Seed Round in 2020 
Pantastic was created to help independent brands collaborate to showcase their products, protect their creations, secure their data, and scale their businesses. It aims to provide indie brands with the technology they require, the data they deserve, and the exposure they seek.
Sora is a low-code intelligent workflow automation and data integration tool that connects different corporate applications such as HR, IT, and other systems and data sets to provide a smarter, more user-friendly experience for employees, business owners, and HR professionals.
Command E
Seed Round in 2020 
Command E is a company that specializes in developing a productivity tool aimed at enhancing workspace navigation. Its primary offering is a simple keyboard shortcut that allows users to quickly access any document, contact, file, or record stored in the cloud. This tool streamlines the search process, enabling users to find information efficiently without the need to sift through multiple tabs or systems. By focusing on ease of use, Command E enhances productivity for individuals and teams alike.
Lobus, Inc. is a New York-based company that designs and develops a platform for assessing the value of artworks through both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Established in 2017, Lobus provides verified information about artists alongside publicly available market data, aiming to enhance the management of art assets. The platform offers tools for financial management and industry insights, enabling art owners to make informed decisions about their collections. By integrating mechanisms similar to those found in NFT marketplaces, Lobus seeks to enable partial ownership of physical artworks, allowing sellers to retain a stake in their pieces and benefit from future transactions.
Textio
Venture Round in 2020 
Textio is a software company that offers an augmented writing platform for creating job listings, including Textio Hire, which uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to forecast how a listing will perform and provide guidance to improve applicant quality and diversity. The platform accelerates content creation by turning notes into a polished post and helps organizations attract, hire, and retain talent across the hiring cycle, with a focus on reducing bias and expanding access to diverse candidates. Founded in 2014 and based in Seattle, Textio helps companies write more effective job posts and build high-performing teams.
Range Labs Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company offers a suite of tools designed to enhance team collaboration and synchronization. Its primary product, Range, integrates various platforms such as GitHub, Jira, Asana, Google Docs, and Calendar, allowing users to manage schedules, track personal accomplishments, and view tasks in a centralized location. Range also facilitates communication through features like check-ins, objectives, and notifications, helping teams stay aligned and informed. The company's solutions cater to a diverse clientele, including individuals, managers, organizations, and both engineering and design teams, with a focus on fostering healthy, inclusive, and creative work environments.
Privacy Dynamics
Pre Seed Round in 2020 
Privacy Dynamics is a company that specializes in data de-identification solutions aimed at minimizing privacy risks associated with data access and usage. Its innovative tool enables engineering teams to securely access the necessary data for development, testing, model training, and analytics without compromising privacy. By ensuring referential integrity and preserving original data formats and indices, Privacy Dynamics allows clients to work with realistic datasets that reflect the complexities of real-world information. The tool integrates seamlessly into existing projects, maintaining high data utility while significantly reducing privacy distortion, all without the need for extensive classification, policy management, or data mapping.
Planetary
Pre Seed Round in 2019 
Planetary is a humane decentralized social network. We've built an open protocol and platform for social media and software. A place where you control your data and relationships. This new platform does for social media what open source did for software, creating a common platform for all to build upon secure scuttlebutt.
Social media is the public sphere and it needs to be owned and controlled by the people who create it.
Twic Inc. is a software company based in Fremont, California, founded in 2017, that specializes in wellness programs for employees. The company offers two main products: Wellness Wallet and Wellness Suite. Wellness Wallet provides a monthly wellness stipend to employees as an incentive for maintaining a healthy lifestyle, while Wellness Suite serves as a platform for organizing and sharing information about onsite wellness events. Twic's solutions are designed to simplify the process for employees, giving them direct access to their benefits through an intuitive interface. This allows employees to utilize their benefits stipend with a curated selection of vendors, which offers preferred pricing and eliminates the need for reimbursement, thus saving time and money for both employees and employers.
Skylight Healthcare Systems
Series A in 2019 
Skylight Healthcare Systems, Inc. specializes in providing interactive patient care system technology for hospitals and healthcare administrators. The company operates the ACCESS interactive patient system, a two-way digital communications platform that transforms hospital television sets into comprehensive information, communication, education, and entertainment networks. This system enables patients to access essential information about their hospital stay, request assistance from support departments, view on-demand health education, provide real-time feedback through surveys, and enjoy various entertainment options. Additionally, Skylight offers iCarePassport, a web-based patient care and outcomes system designed to enhance ongoing patient engagement by facilitating personalized communication throughout the continuum of care. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Skylight Healthcare Systems addresses the critical needs of patients in education, health literacy, and access to services, thereby improving the overall healthcare experience.
ChannelApe
Pre Seed Round in 2019 
ChannelApe, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in supply chain and e-commerce management software. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Scranton, Pennsylvania, ChannelApe develops an enterprise fulfillment platform designed to automate back-end processes for direct-to-consumer brands. The software offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including third-party logistics reporting, data modeling, and distributed order management, along with integrations for major online marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, and BigCommerce. By providing features like real-time inventory availability, label event tracking, and ship-from-store capabilities, ChannelApe enables businesses to streamline their operations, thereby saving time and resources, allowing them to concentrate on growth and customer engagement.
Actuate
Seed Round in 2019 
Actuate is a technology company that specializes in security software utilizing computer vision and artificial intelligence to enhance public safety. Its innovative solution integrates with existing security camera systems to automatically detect firearms and other safety threats, such as intruders and unusual crowd behaviors. By providing real-time alerts, Actuate significantly improves response times for security teams and empowers bystanders with critical information for making informed decisions in emergency situations. The company's commitment to harnessing data through advanced analytics and reporting tools aims to drive better safety outcomes for organizations and communities.
CybeReady
Venture Round in 2019 
CybeReady Learning Solutions Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in developing and providing automated anti-phishing training solutions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, CybeReady offers a fully-managed platform that includes phishing simulations, behavior-based learning, and continuous training assessments. The company’s innovative approach leverages machine learning to create adaptive training content that effectively engages employees, aiming to significantly reduce the number of high-risk individuals within organizations. CybeReady's solutions are designed for a range of sectors, including financial institutions, healthcare organizations, insurance companies, and government agencies. With deployments in numerous enterprises worldwide, CybeReady has established itself as a leader in security awareness training, known for its low total cost of ownership.
Emparty
Pre Seed Round in 2019 
Emparty, Inc. is a marketplace dedicated to celebration planning, specializing in the discovery, organization, and booking of events. Founded in 2018 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company provides a platform that streamlines the event management process. Users can explore a variety of venues tailored to their preferences and access a comprehensive list of party items for purchase through a mobile-friendly application. This approach allows individuals to efficiently plan and execute social events and gatherings, eliminating the complexities often associated with event organization.
Projector
Seed Round in 2019 
Projector, established in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing collaborative visual storytelling tools for developers and product teams. Their platform enables professionals to create engaging content such as videos, GIFs, social media posts, and presentations outside the confines of their app, enhancing overall product experiences.
Retain.ai
Funding Round in 2019 
Retain is the first Customer Insights Engine (CIE) that enables everyone responsible for delighting customers to be customer-obsessed. Retain delivers a trusted, flexible system for identifying and sharing customer teams’ best habits that drive revenue and retention. By sitting naturally in a team’s workflow, Retain enables everyone responsible for engaging customers to make data-driven decisions by giving them a complete view into every customer lifecycle. As one of AngelList’s “Hot Startups Hiring Now,” the company is headquartered in San Francisco and is backed by Emergence Capital, Baseline Ventures, Upside Partnership, Afore Capital, and Industry Ventures.
CybeReady
Seed Round in 2019 
CybeReady Learning Solutions Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in developing and providing automated anti-phishing training solutions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, CybeReady offers a fully-managed platform that includes phishing simulations, behavior-based learning, and continuous training assessments. The company’s innovative approach leverages machine learning to create adaptive training content that effectively engages employees, aiming to significantly reduce the number of high-risk individuals within organizations. CybeReady's solutions are designed for a range of sectors, including financial institutions, healthcare organizations, insurance companies, and government agencies. With deployments in numerous enterprises worldwide, CybeReady has established itself as a leader in security awareness training, known for its low total cost of ownership.
Ease is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by Courtney Guertin and David A. Reid, dedicated to modernizing and personalizing the employee experience. The company offers a cloud-based platform that simplifies benefits enrollment, HR management, and payroll processes for businesses. Ease provides a single solution for setting up and managing benefits, onboarding new hires, ensuring compliance, and offering employees a unified destination for all their human resources information. With over 70,000 businesses trusting Ease for online enrollment and HR services, the company has been recognized for its growth and popularity in the industry.
Side Door
Seed Round in 2019 
Side Door is an online platform that connects artists with hosts to book live performances in various locations. It offers flexible pricing, revenue sharing, audience management tools, automated payouts, and performance royalty management.
Airlock
Seed Round in 2019 
Airlock is a decentralized security platform that strengthens the ability to tackle online threats.
Skylight Healthcare Systems
Seed Round in 2019 
Skylight Healthcare Systems, Inc. specializes in providing interactive patient care system technology for hospitals and healthcare administrators. The company operates the ACCESS interactive patient system, a two-way digital communications platform that transforms hospital television sets into comprehensive information, communication, education, and entertainment networks. This system enables patients to access essential information about their hospital stay, request assistance from support departments, view on-demand health education, provide real-time feedback through surveys, and enjoy various entertainment options. Additionally, Skylight offers iCarePassport, a web-based patient care and outcomes system designed to enhance ongoing patient engagement by facilitating personalized communication throughout the continuum of care. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Skylight Healthcare Systems addresses the critical needs of patients in education, health literacy, and access to services, thereby improving the overall healthcare experience.
Dragonfruit AI
Seed Round in 2019 
Dragonfruit.ai is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, specializing in artificial intelligence-driven cloud storage and video analysis software. The company offers an enterprise video AI platform that enables organizations to utilize their existing video infrastructure for a variety of applications. This includes remotely managing multiple locations, investigating incidents for safety and loss prevention, and optimizing occupancy across buildings. Additionally, the platform integrates real-world traffic data with revenue metrics to provide actionable insights. Dragonfruit.ai's solutions are designed to be cost-effective and scalable, facilitating digital investigations and retail intelligence through a hybrid deployment model that allows clients to pay based on consumption.
NextGrid
Seed Round in 2018 
NextGrid develops and operates distributed solar energy and storage projects across the United States. It focuses on building project portfolios in Massachusetts, New Jersey, District of Columbia, Maine, California, and other regions. The company pays property owners to host solar farms, provides capital and support for developers, and facilitates direct investments in distributed energy.
Turvo Inc. operates a collaborative logistics platform that connects shippers, brokers, and carriers, streamlining supply chain management. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including real-time tracking of assets, drivers, and freight, as well as features for task management, digital invoicing, document handling, and payment processing. By unifying various business systems, Turvo enables users to enhance operational efficiency, improve analytics, and automate processes, while minimizing redundant manual tasks. The company serves a diverse clientele, ranging from large Fortune 500 logistics providers to small and mid-sized freight brokers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Turvo also has an office in India, emphasizing its commitment to revolutionizing supply chain communication and collaboration.
SFOX, Inc. is a cryptocurrency prime dealer based in Los Angeles, California, that caters to high-volume traders and institutional investors. Established in 2014, the company utilizes a global integrated order book to facilitate trade execution, ensuring clients receive the best available pricing through smart routing. By sourcing liquidity from a network of exchanges, over-the-counter desks, and market makers, SFOX enables clients to trade large volumes effectively without adversely affecting market prices. Additionally, the platform provides professional-grade tools, including reporting and analytics, to support complex multi-user accounts, further enhancing the trading experience for its users.
CommonStock
Seed Round in 2018 
CommonStock is a developer of an online platform that facilitates collaborative investing by allowing users to trade stocks together with their friends, family, classmates, or colleagues. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform enables users to link their brokerage accounts to shareholdings by percentage, receive real-time alerts on trades made by their network, and replicate each other's investment strategies. Additionally, it fosters a community where users can monitor and guide each other's investment decisions, enhancing engagement and knowledge sharing among investors. The platform is accessible for free on the web and via an iPhone app, with plans for an Android app in the future.
EveryTeam
Seed Round in 2018 
EveryTeam is a company that offers an online platform designed to connect and organize shared content within teams. By prioritizing trust and accountability, EveryTeam aims to enhance collaboration similar to how GitHub serves engineering teams. The platform facilitates effective workflow management by enabling users to assign tasks, establish review schedules, and manage document revisions, ensuring that content remains reliable and up-to-date. This centralized repository allows teams to access important information easily, fostering a collaborative environment where actionable insights can be derived. EveryTeam's focus on improving the organization of shared content seeks to empower teams to work more efficiently and cohesively.
Grove is a personal trainer for the client's moneyThe company assesses where you are today and create a plan to make the client confident about their money. Through proprietary software combined with a team of Certified Financial Planners, Grove is able to offer personalized advice at a fraction of the price of traditional financial advisors.
Perceptive Automata
Seed Round in 2018 
Perceptive Automata, Inc. is a technology company specializing in machine learning and computer vision solutions aimed at predicting human behavior in the context of automated driving. Founded in 2014 and located in Somerville, Massachusetts, the company addresses the complex challenges associated with the safe deployment of highly automated and fully autonomous vehicles, particularly in urban settings. Its advanced AI inference models allow vehicles to anticipate the actions of pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers, enhancing safety and enabling smoother navigation in human-dominated environments. By integrating its software into autonomous driving systems, Perceptive Automata facilitates a more natural driving experience, which is crucial for the acceptance of autonomous vehicles and robotaxi services. The company's team comprises experts from prestigious institutions such as Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, reflecting a strong foundation in neuroscience and artificial intelligence.
FoxCommerce
Seed Round in 2018 
FoxCommerce is an intelligent modern commerce platform that supports digitally-native brands in transforming the eCommerce landscape. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company provides a comprehensive solution for users to build feature-rich, scalable, and fast eCommerce websites. Its platform includes advanced tools for pricing, promotions, and personalization, enabling users to enhance their competitiveness in the market. With an API-first architecture, FoxCommerce facilitates sales across various channels, devices, and geographic locations from a centralized system. The platform also optimizes conversion rates and user experience through real-time caching capabilities across nearly every element within the system.
Turbine Labs
Seed Round in 2018 
Turbine Labs is a computer software that improves the iteration pace of current architecture or rebuild it from scratch.
WhaleAlerts
Seed Round in 2018 
WhaleAlerts develops enterprise SaaS sales acceleration tools on top of a user data platform
Quilt, Inc. is an online platform based in Santa Monica, California, that facilitates a co-working community for women. Established in 2016, it enables female users to host co-working sessions in their homes or select from available locations, with each session lasting four hours. The platform not only connects female freelancers and entrepreneurs but also provides a system for hosts to receive payment for their services. Through this model, Quilt fosters an online to offline community that supports collaboration and networking among women in the workforce.
AlphaFlow
Seed Round in 2017 
AlphaFlow, Inc. is a technology-driven investment company based in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in New York. Founded in 2015, AlphaFlow operates an online investment platform focused on real estate assets, specifically providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors and accredited individuals. The platform underwrites loans from residential real estate lenders nationwide, utilizing over 50 evaluation factors to identify optimal investment opportunities. By automating best practices in investment management, including diversification and data analytics, AlphaFlow allows investors to benefit from a simplified and intelligent approach to real estate investing without the high fees associated with traditional methods. This enables clients to build and manage diversified investment portfolios across multiple states and loan types, offering access to previously inaccessible asset classes while generating high-income streams through debt-based real estate investments.
Notable Labs
Seed Round in 2017 
Notable Labs, Inc. is a clinical-stage company that specializes in personalized lab testing services for cancer patients, particularly those with brain cancer. Founded in 2014 and based in Foster City, California, the company utilizes its proprietary Predictive Precision Medicines Platform to conduct drug combination experiments on patients' tumors. This platform allows Notable Labs to simulate cancer treatments and predict patient responses to specific therapies, enabling healthcare providers to prioritize combinations of FDA-approved treatments that can be prescribed without the need for clinical trials. By providing detailed reports to physicians, Notable Labs aims to enhance treatment efficacy and expedite therapeutic development for patients.
Notable Labs
Series B in 2017 
Notable Labs, Inc. is a clinical-stage company that specializes in personalized lab testing services for cancer patients, particularly those with brain cancer. Founded in 2014 and based in Foster City, California, the company utilizes its proprietary Predictive Precision Medicines Platform to conduct drug combination experiments on patients' tumors. This platform allows Notable Labs to simulate cancer treatments and predict patient responses to specific therapies, enabling healthcare providers to prioritize combinations of FDA-approved treatments that can be prescribed without the need for clinical trials. By providing detailed reports to physicians, Notable Labs aims to enhance treatment efficacy and expedite therapeutic development for patients.
Stable provides software solutions designed to assist electric vehicle (EV) fleets and charging providers in efficiently planning and managing their charging infrastructure. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a siting and forecasting platform that utilizes a proprietary machine learning model to predict site utilization and optimize the placement and sizing of charging stations. By consolidating essential data and insights, Stable enables customers to make informed decisions regarding the deployment of charging stations, ensuring that they are installed in locations where they are most needed.
Clara Labs
Series A in 2017 
Clara Labs is a technology company that specializes in developing Clara, an online platform designed to facilitate meeting scheduling via email for enterprises and their employees. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Clara Labs has been recognized for its innovative contributions to human-in-the-loop natural language processing systems and for creating one of the earliest successful conversational user experience products. In 2019, the company was acquired by Third Street Data, Inc., which subsequently became a subsidiary of TopFunnel. This acquisition allowed TopFunnel to continue operating Clara's services, while Twitter secured the research and development talent along with certain intellectual property for its content moderation efforts.
Skylight Healthcare Systems
Seed Round in 2017 
Skylight Healthcare Systems, Inc. specializes in providing interactive patient care system technology for hospitals and healthcare administrators. The company operates the ACCESS interactive patient system, a two-way digital communications platform that transforms hospital television sets into comprehensive information, communication, education, and entertainment networks. This system enables patients to access essential information about their hospital stay, request assistance from support departments, view on-demand health education, provide real-time feedback through surveys, and enjoy various entertainment options. Additionally, Skylight offers iCarePassport, a web-based patient care and outcomes system designed to enhance ongoing patient engagement by facilitating personalized communication throughout the continuum of care. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Skylight Healthcare Systems addresses the critical needs of patients in education, health literacy, and access to services, thereby improving the overall healthcare experience.
Textio is a software company that offers an augmented writing platform for creating job listings, including Textio Hire, which uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to forecast how a listing will perform and provide guidance to improve applicant quality and diversity. The platform accelerates content creation by turning notes into a polished post and helps organizations attract, hire, and retain talent across the hiring cycle, with a focus on reducing bias and expanding access to diverse candidates. Founded in 2014 and based in Seattle, Textio helps companies write more effective job posts and build high-performing teams.
Ease is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by Courtney Guertin and David A. Reid, dedicated to modernizing and personalizing the employee experience. The company offers a cloud-based platform that simplifies benefits enrollment, HR management, and payroll processes for businesses. Ease provides a single solution for setting up and managing benefits, onboarding new hires, ensuring compliance, and offering employees a unified destination for all their human resources information. With over 70,000 businesses trusting Ease for online enrollment and HR services, the company has been recognized for its growth and popularity in the industry.
Range Labs Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company offers a suite of tools designed to enhance team collaboration and synchronization. Its primary product, Range, integrates various platforms such as GitHub, Jira, Asana, Google Docs, and Calendar, allowing users to manage schedules, track personal accomplishments, and view tasks in a centralized location. Range also facilitates communication through features like check-ins, objectives, and notifications, helping teams stay aligned and informed. The company's solutions cater to a diverse clientele, including individuals, managers, organizations, and both engineering and design teams, with a focus on fostering healthy, inclusive, and creative work environments.
Grove is a personal trainer for the client's moneyThe company assesses where you are today and create a plan to make the client confident about their money. Through proprietary software combined with a team of Certified Financial Planners, Grove is able to offer personalized advice at a fraction of the price of traditional financial advisors.
Turvo Inc. operates a collaborative logistics platform that connects shippers, brokers, and carriers, streamlining supply chain management. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including real-time tracking of assets, drivers, and freight, as well as features for task management, digital invoicing, document handling, and payment processing. By unifying various business systems, Turvo enables users to enhance operational efficiency, improve analytics, and automate processes, while minimizing redundant manual tasks. The company serves a diverse clientele, ranging from large Fortune 500 logistics providers to small and mid-sized freight brokers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Turvo also has an office in India, emphasizing its commitment to revolutionizing supply chain communication and collaboration.
Smyte Inc. is a Software-as-a-Service company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in trust and safety solutions for websites and mobile applications. Founded in 2014, Smyte employs a combination of manual heuristics, machine learning, and proprietary reputation data to assist organizations in proactively combating spam, fraud, bots, phishing, harassment, and account takeovers. The company caters to a diverse clientele that includes enterprises, marketplaces, and social networks, processing nearly five billion online actions each month. Smyte's automated labeling system identifies potentially malicious activities by analyzing various signals, allowing risk teams to effectively manage threats. As of June 30, 2018, Smyte operates as a subsidiary of Twitter, Inc.
Astro Technology
Series A in 2017 
Astro Technology is a software startup based in Palo Alto that specializes in enhancing workplace messaging and collaboration through the use of artificial intelligence. The company has developed an intelligent email application that leverages AI and natural language processing to integrate various forms of communication, including emails, calendar invitations, and group messages. This application aims to improve efficiency by prioritizing important information and streamlining communication for teams. Notably, Astro's AI-powered assistant, Astrobot, helps users access key emails and insights through platforms like Slack and Amazon Alexa. The founding team comprises experienced professionals who have previously held significant roles at major tech companies, contributing to the startup's innovative approach and successful development trajectory. Astro Technology was acquired by Slack in September 2018.
DashBase
Seed Round in 2017 
Dashbase Inc, founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, specializes in providing a database platform that supports real-time semi-structured data management. The company focuses on empowering users to deliver high-quality Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services by enabling the ingestion of large volumes of logs, often in the terabyte range per day, while maintaining a reduced footprint. Dashbase's platform is designed to aggregate logs in accordance with open-source software standards, allowing clients to efficiently and reliably collect and analyze extensive data logs.
Delete is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in the cleaning and removal of household products. Founded in 2015, Delete has developed a unique service model that allows customers to text pictures of unwanted items for removal, streamlining the pickup process. As of April 2017, Delete operates as a subsidiary of Rubbish Boys Disposal Service Inc.
CommonStock
Seed Round in 2016 
CommonStock is a developer of an online platform that facilitates collaborative investing by allowing users to trade stocks together with their friends, family, classmates, or colleagues. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform enables users to link their brokerage accounts to shareholdings by percentage, receive real-time alerts on trades made by their network, and replicate each other's investment strategies. Additionally, it fosters a community where users can monitor and guide each other's investment decisions, enhancing engagement and knowledge sharing among investors. The platform is accessible for free on the web and via an iPhone app, with plans for an Android app in the future.
Knit Health
Seed Round in 2016 
Knit Health, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in sleep monitoring technology for children. Founded in 2015 by three parents with backgrounds in design and technology, Knit Health develops a device called Knit, which utilizes advanced computer vision and machine learning to monitor a child's sleep. This innovative camera captures details about the child's pose, position, and breathing patterns, interpreting this data to predict their stage of sleep. By leveraging decades of scientific sleep research, Knit provides personalized insights and feedback to families, empowering them to improve their sleep health without the need for wearable devices. The company's mission is to enhance family well-being by combining cutting-edge technology with a focus on human-centered design, ultimately helping families achieve better rest and overall happiness.
Foray Collective
Pre Seed Round in 2016 
Foray Collective, Inc. is an online retailer that specializes in women's clothing and accessories in the United States. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, the company offers a diverse range of products, including activewear, dresses, loungewear, and swimwear, along with accessories such as bags, jewelry, and sunglasses. Foray operates as an inventory-less platform that integrates marketing capabilities, enabling tastemakers to generate user-generated content and drive traffic to their own digital storefronts. This approach allows consumers to shop by influencer, blending content and commerce seamlessly. Additionally, Foray has developed unique travel experiences called Foray Getaways, which bring together top brands and influencers to create curated content and promote brand visibility through various social media campaigns.
Smallstep
Seed Round in 2016 
Smallstep builds an identity authority and open-source toolkit for dev/sec/ops to secure connected applications across clouds, containers, serverless, and devices. Its platform provides infrastructure components and operational tools to implement zero-trust security, enabling access to financial data, code repositories, and other sensitive resources from company-managed devices and delivery pipelines, with the goal of reducing reliance on VPNs and firewalls while integrating security into software delivery.
Liveneighborly
Pre Seed Round in 2016 
Liveneighborly is an online platform that simplifies the process of hiring local gardeners. It connects users with pre-screened and background-checked gardening professionals who have demonstrated a good rating, ensuring a reliable and quality service. The platform is designed to make yard maintenance more convenient, allowing users to easily book gardening services tailored to their needs. By streamlining the connection between homeowners and skilled gardeners, Liveneighborly aims to enhance the gardening experience and promote smarter gardening practices.
Openvote
Seed Round in 2016 
Openvote is a crowd-voting platform established in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. The platform enables users to engage in political discourse by allowing them to debate policies, share opinions, and pledge their votes on various political articles and agendas. By encouraging users to spread their voting intentions among friends and provide arguments for their positions, Openvote fosters a collaborative environment for understanding and discussing political scenarios. This approach empowers individuals to express their views and participate actively in the political landscape.
June Life Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in the manufacturing of smart ovens, having pioneered this market in 2016 with the introduction of its innovative countertop convection oven. The June Oven combines multiple cooking functionalities, serving as an air fryer, slow cooker, roaster, broiler, baker, dehydrator, toaster, reheater, and warming device, effectively replacing seven kitchen appliances and reducing clutter. The company aims to enhance the cooking experience by leveraging technology, elegant design, and exceptional performance, making cooking accessible and easy for everyone. Established in 2013, June Life Inc. continues to focus on transforming the culinary landscape through its advanced kitchen solutions.
Lily, founded in September 2013 in a UC Berkeley robotics lab, specializes in developing innovative camera drones designed for ease of use and portability. The company's flagship product is a throw-and-shoot camera that can be conveniently stored in a backpack while withstanding challenging weather conditions. Utilizing advanced technology, including global positioning and computer vision, Lily's drones autonomously capture high-quality images and videos from the sky. With a mission to enhance human creativity, Lily focuses on creating tools that facilitate effortless expression, ensuring that users can easily document their experiences from unique aerial perspectives.
Textio is a software company that offers an augmented writing platform for creating job listings, including Textio Hire, which uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to forecast how a listing will perform and provide guidance to improve applicant quality and diversity. The platform accelerates content creation by turning notes into a polished post and helps organizations attract, hire, and retain talent across the hiring cycle, with a focus on reducing bias and expanding access to diverse candidates. Founded in 2014 and based in Seattle, Textio helps companies write more effective job posts and build high-performing teams.
Turvo Inc. operates a collaborative logistics platform that connects shippers, brokers, and carriers, streamlining supply chain management. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including real-time tracking of assets, drivers, and freight, as well as features for task management, digital invoicing, document handling, and payment processing. By unifying various business systems, Turvo enables users to enhance operational efficiency, improve analytics, and automate processes, while minimizing redundant manual tasks. The company serves a diverse clientele, ranging from large Fortune 500 logistics providers to small and mid-sized freight brokers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Turvo also has an office in India, emphasizing its commitment to revolutionizing supply chain communication and collaboration.
Tonal is a smart home gym company that specializes in strength training through a digital fitness platform. Founded in 2015 by Aly Orady and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Tonal manufactures innovative fitness equipment that is wall-mounted and utilizes artificial intelligence to deliver personalized workouts. The system generates variable resistance using magnets and electricity, allowing users to perform a wide range of exercises without traditional weights. Tonal's platform tracks workouts in real-time and offers tailored workout plans aimed at muscle building, strength balancing, and athletic performance. Additionally, the company provides live and recorded classes led by expert coaches, enhancing the user experience and accessibility of full-body fitness training from home.
Ease is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by Courtney Guertin and David A. Reid, dedicated to modernizing and personalizing the employee experience. The company offers a cloud-based platform that simplifies benefits enrollment, HR management, and payroll processes for businesses. Ease provides a single solution for setting up and managing benefits, onboarding new hires, ensuring compliance, and offering employees a unified destination for all their human resources information. With over 70,000 businesses trusting Ease for online enrollment and HR services, the company has been recognized for its growth and popularity in the industry.
Smyte Inc. is a Software-as-a-Service company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in trust and safety solutions for websites and mobile applications. Founded in 2014, Smyte employs a combination of manual heuristics, machine learning, and proprietary reputation data to assist organizations in proactively combating spam, fraud, bots, phishing, harassment, and account takeovers. The company caters to a diverse clientele that includes enterprises, marketplaces, and social networks, processing nearly five billion online actions each month. Smyte's automated labeling system identifies potentially malicious activities by analyzing various signals, allowing risk teams to effectively manage threats. As of June 30, 2018, Smyte operates as a subsidiary of Twitter, Inc.
Copper develops innovative tools aimed at simplifying online service interactions by enabling password-free signups. The company's approach allows users to enter their personal information once, which is then utilized to create accounts across various applications and websites. This not only streamlines the signup process but also empowers users to manage their personal information more effectively. By prioritizing user control over data sharing, Copper enhances the overall experience of online services, making it easier and more secure for individuals to engage with digital platforms.
Assist is a developer of a platform that provides automated services tailored for leading brands such as Fandango, 1800Flowers, and Hyatt. The platform aims to create a new standard by moving away from pre-defined scripts, offering users more dynamic and adventure-type experiences. It integrates seamlessly with major messaging platforms, utilizing its proprietary data and APIs to enhance user interactions. This approach enables customers to obtain the services they need with minimal friction, streamlining the overall experience.
Laurel & Wolf
Series A in 2015 
Laurel & Wolf, Inc. is an online interior design company based in West Hollywood, California, founded in 2014 by professional designer Leura Fine. The company aims to make professional interior design services accessible and affordable for consumers across the United States. By operating as a marketplace, Laurel & Wolf allows customers to connect with skilled designers who can transform their spaces according to individual needs and lifestyles. The platform offers a unique opportunity for designers to showcase their work, earn additional income, and enhance their brand visibility while serving a diverse clientele. Customers benefit from a streamlined design process, receiving tailor-made solutions at a low, flat fee.
Textio is a software company that offers an augmented writing platform for creating job listings, including Textio Hire, which uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to forecast how a listing will perform and provide guidance to improve applicant quality and diversity. The platform accelerates content creation by turning notes into a polished post and helps organizations attract, hire, and retain talent across the hiring cycle, with a focus on reducing bias and expanding access to diverse candidates. Founded in 2014 and based in Seattle, Textio helps companies write more effective job posts and build high-performing teams.
Clara Labs
Seed Round in 2015 
Clara Labs is a technology company that specializes in developing Clara, an online platform designed to facilitate meeting scheduling via email for enterprises and their employees. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Clara Labs has been recognized for its innovative contributions to human-in-the-loop natural language processing systems and for creating one of the earliest successful conversational user experience products. In 2019, the company was acquired by Third Street Data, Inc., which subsequently became a subsidiary of TopFunnel. This acquisition allowed TopFunnel to continue operating Clara's services, while Twitter secured the research and development talent along with certain intellectual property for its content moderation efforts.
BlockCypher
Seed Round in 2015 
BlockCypher, founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, specializes in developing a cloud-optimized platform for blockchain applications. Its platform, BlockCypher, is designed to simplify the creation and management of blockchain-based solutions by providing APIs that enable interaction with multiple blockchains. This allows businesses and developers to build and scale applications across various industries such as payments, identity management, cybersecurity, and fraud prevention, without needing to rebuild infrastructure from scratch each time.
TINYpulse
Series A in 2014 
TINYpulse is a software company that specializes in employee engagement solutions. Its flagship product, TINYpulse Perform, is an intuitive tool designed to measure employee engagement levels and provide leaders with actionable insights. This platform facilitates real-time feedback collection from employees, empowering enterprises to enhance workforce communication, foster transparency, improve performance, and drive positive cultural changes within their organizations.
TINYpulse
Seed Round in 2014 
TINYpulse is a software company that specializes in employee engagement solutions. Its flagship product, TINYpulse Perform, is an intuitive tool designed to measure employee engagement levels and provide leaders with actionable insights. This platform facilitates real-time feedback collection from employees, empowering enterprises to enhance workforce communication, foster transparency, improve performance, and drive positive cultural changes within their organizations.
Digit, Inc. is a financial technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in a mobile application designed to help users manage their finances effectively. Founded in 2012, the app analyzes users' spending habits and automatically saves a tailored amount of money each day, based on their income and expenditure patterns. By utilizing machine learning and insights from behavioral psychology, Digit aims to reduce the stress associated with financial management and assists users in building a secure financial future. The platform keeps savings in a separate account and adjusts the savings amount daily, helping users achieve their financial goals without requiring constant attention.
Zen99 is an all-in-one dashboard to manage your 1099 work. We help with tracking finances, estimating/minimizing taxes, and getting insurance - things every contractor is required by law to do, but struggles to figure out due to complex regulations.
Why contractors? They’re about to be over 40% of the workforce, and are growing at twice the rate of traditional employees. Our platform serves contractors both in service industries (rideshare drivers, web development and creative services, athletic trainers, etc) and in asset-based industries (Airbnb hosts, Ebay sellers, etc).
Ultimately, we make it easier to manage being a contractor, and allow people greater control over their economic freedom.
Laurel & Wolf
Seed Round in 2014 
Laurel & Wolf, Inc. is an online interior design company based in West Hollywood, California, founded in 2014 by professional designer Leura Fine. The company aims to make professional interior design services accessible and affordable for consumers across the United States. By operating as a marketplace, Laurel & Wolf allows customers to connect with skilled designers who can transform their spaces according to individual needs and lifestyles. The platform offers a unique opportunity for designers to showcase their work, earn additional income, and enhance their brand visibility while serving a diverse clientele. Customers benefit from a streamlined design process, receiving tailor-made solutions at a low, flat fee.
Lily, founded in September 2013 in a UC Berkeley robotics lab, specializes in developing innovative camera drones designed for ease of use and portability. The company's flagship product is a throw-and-shoot camera that can be conveniently stored in a backpack while withstanding challenging weather conditions. Utilizing advanced technology, including global positioning and computer vision, Lily's drones autonomously capture high-quality images and videos from the sky. With a mission to enhance human creativity, Lily focuses on creating tools that facilitate effortless expression, ensuring that users can easily document their experiences from unique aerial perspectives.