WorldQuant Ventures

WorldQuant Ventures LLC is a leading early stage investment firm founded in 2014 as a private investment vehicle for WorldQuant, LLC's founder, Igor Tulchinsky. The firm is focused on disruptive companies in technology, with a particular focus on data and finance, and has investments in over 40 companies. WorldQuant Ventures LLC is a separate entity from WorldQuant, LLC, a global quantitative investment management firm. For more information, please visit www.worldquantventures.com and www.worldquant.com.

Blomberg, Jeffrey A.

Manager

Steve Lau

Managing Partner

43 past transactions

Princeton NuEnergy

Seed Round in 2022
Princeton NuEnergy is a clean-tech startup that focuses on the direct recycling of lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles and consumer electronics. Princeton NuEnergy's patented Direct Battery Recycling technology produces high-quality and high-value-added cathode active materials with low operating costs from spent lithium-ion batteries and delivers sustainable energy and environmental solutions.

Engage Bio

Seed Round in 2022
Engage Bio is developing mRNA treatments that change cancer cells into production facilities for immunotherapies. With the help of these treatments, the immune system is activated and directed toward the tumour.

Good Chemistry

Seed Round in 2022
Good Chemistry Company is making the world healthier, cleaner, and more sustainable by accelerating material design.Their proprietary QEMIST Cloud, a cloud-based computational chemistry platform, provides the building blocks for computational chemistry developers to build chemical simulation applications and workflows, using emerging algorithms in quantum chemistry, machine learning, and quantum computing.

Spaced Ventures

Seed Round in 2021
Spaced Ventures is a public investment platform for the space industry. Their platform gives direct access to investment deals and lets them back the hottest space startups. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Florida.

COGOS Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
COGOS Technologies is one such enterprise. Its innovative solutions coupled with the founders’ dedication have the potential to transform the Indian logistics ecosystem for the better.

Sorcero

Venture Round in 2021
Sorcero supports an enterprise’s subject matter experts to make better decisions, at scale. Our Language Intelligence Platform is engineered for medical, insurance, and engineering experts in STEM industries who need fluid and fluent control over high-volume, complex data to deliver life-changing services for their customers, everyday. Sorcero’s approach enables the deployment of intelligent applications that understand and apply expert analysis, leveraging biomedical and technical expertise, at scale. The Sorcero Language Intelligence Platform is being used to enhance medical investigation of claims, support life insurance underwriting, navigate benefit & coverage tables, support real-time medical guideline monitoring and management, and more. Sorcero has garnered recognition as being in the top percentile of digital health/insurtech startups, with high acclaim by industry innovation leaders: * InsurTech NY 2020 * DC Inno On Fire Award in the B2B category * Plug and Play Health & InsurTech - Top 10 Insurtech company for 2020 * Startup Creasphere - Winner of 2020 Pitch for EU’s leading Digital Health program

Ramon.Space

Series A in 2021
Ramon.Space is making the final frontier possible by bringing Earth-like computing infrastructure to space. The company equips satellites with powerful space-resilient computers that have advanced storage, computing, and connectivity capabilities to enable the next-generation of space applications and services. The core is an SW-based, low-power, reliable, and durable computing platform, allowing innovators to perform infinite data processing and storage in space, enabling much-needed real-time insights. From small satellites to deep space exploration, Ramon.Space's computing products ensure that missions are smart, adaptable, and future-proof.

Skyroot Aerospace

Series A in 2021
Skyroot Aerospace is an aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider developing launch vehicles for cost-effective access to space. Skyroot builds technologies for responsive, reliable, and economic access to space. They envision a future where spaceflight is as regular, reliable, and affordable as air flight. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Hyderabad, India.

Dopple

Funding Round in 2021
Dopple is a retail e-commerce platform that offers children's clothing to reach today’s savvy parents. Dopple uses a personalized quiz, rich behavioral data, and machine learning to deliver a quarterly “Dopple Drop” of custom-curated outfits to their door. Dopple is the trusted partner for childrenswear brands, including Stella McCartney Kids, Chloé, Versace, Petit Bateau, Vilebrequin, Lele Sadoughi, Rylee + Cru, Bobo Choses, Dôen, Andy & Evan, Tea Collection, and over 200+ other brands. By partnering with Dopple, these brands acquire and retain customers, monetize past- and current-season merchandise without brand dilution, nimbly scale logistics and collect unparalleled consumer insights.

Holler

Series B in 2021
Holler is a Conversational Media company, focused on the creation and delivery of content that helps peer-to-peer messages be more engaging and effective. Powered by the company’s Suggestion AI Technology, relevant content is provided to users at just the right moment in time. With a diverse team of technologists, digital animators, and media industry veterans, Holler services upwards of 1 billion messages each day. For more information on Holler, please visit holler.io.

Cosmic Shielding Corporation

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cosmic Shielding Corporation provides the commercial and government space industry with next generation computing performance, operational life extension, mission reliability, and safety through shielded components and subsystems. Cosmic Shielding Corporation was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Atlanta, United States.

Sorcero

Convertible Note in 2020
Sorcero supports an enterprise’s subject matter experts to make better decisions, at scale. Our Language Intelligence Platform is engineered for medical, insurance, and engineering experts in STEM industries who need fluid and fluent control over high-volume, complex data to deliver life-changing services for their customers, everyday. Sorcero’s approach enables the deployment of intelligent applications that understand and apply expert analysis, leveraging biomedical and technical expertise, at scale. The Sorcero Language Intelligence Platform is being used to enhance medical investigation of claims, support life insurance underwriting, navigate benefit & coverage tables, support real-time medical guideline monitoring and management, and more. Sorcero has garnered recognition as being in the top percentile of digital health/insurtech startups, with high acclaim by industry innovation leaders: * InsurTech NY 2020 * DC Inno On Fire Award in the B2B category * Plug and Play Health & InsurTech - Top 10 Insurtech company for 2020 * Startup Creasphere - Winner of 2020 Pitch for EU’s leading Digital Health program

PsiQuantum

Series C in 2020
PsiQuantum is building the first utility-scale quantum computer to solve some of the world’s most important challenges. PsiQuantum’s approach is based on photonic qubits, which have significant advantages at the scale required to deliver a fault-tolerant, general-purpose quantum computer. With quantum chips now being manufactured in a world-leading semiconductor fab, PsiQuantum is uniquely positioned to deliver quantum capabilities that will drive advances in climate, healthcare, finance, energy, agriculture, transportation, communications, and beyond.

Cogni

Seed Round in 2019
Cogni is revolutionizing digital banking; providing easy, transparent, accessible financial lifestyle services - TradFi, DeFi, NFTs & more.

Pitstop

Seed Round in 2019
Pitstop is a cloud-based Prognostic Maintenance Platform that enables enterprises to leverage the wealth of information available from their vehicle fleets. Their data engine integrates Connected Vehicles, Dealerships, Fleet Manager, Tier 1 Suppliers, OEMs, Insurance Companies and the Aftermarket Supply Chain.

Gamma.AI

Seed Round in 2018
Gamma.AI, now part of Palo Alto Networks, is an AI-powered, enterprise-ready, cloud data discovery, data classification and data loss prevention platform. Gamma conducts deep contextual introspection of your enterprise data across cloud applications, to understand its true meaning from a sensitivity, criticality and privacy point of view, with less than 0.1% false positive rate. Gamma helps answer questions such as "where is all of my confidential data located?", "who has access to read, modify or share it?", "which data keys or secrets have been exposed?" and allows you to fully customize the remediation of any data loss instances across cloud applications. Gamma.AI was acquired by PANW within 2.5 years of founding and has formed the basis of their core NG-CASB data protection technology. For more information about the acquisition, read the blog post here: https://bit.ly/3WDoZea

Kebotix

Seed Round in 2018
Kebotix is a high-tech materials discovery and production company. It is to reinvent the materials industry and enable a new age of discovery of new materials using AI, machine learning, and robotics. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Cerebri AI

Series A in 2018
Cerebri AI uses best-in-class data engineering and AI modeling to provide answers to some of the toughest questions in customer experience ( CX ), and now traveler experience ( TX ). We provide our answers using our unique "Answers-as-a-Service" data engineering and AI modeling platform, which process series-related datasets such as customer and traveler journeys in near real-time. We are experts in crucial CX and TX business issues, including solving complex data engineering and reconciliation problems such as those found in TX in reconciling corporate credit card data, expense report data, and TMC data, and in AI modeling for such CX issues as customer churn and dormancy. We provide our Answers in near real-time - in other words - as fast as the data is provided, we update our time series, including recasting any related engineered features - the best answers always use the latest up-to-the-minute data for the best-in-class decisions. How innovative are our solutions - our team has filed 27 patents to date - 11 granted or awarded, 16 pending. We have offices in Austin + Toronto.

QxBranch

Seed Round in 2018
QxBranch specializes in developing algorithms and software for quantum and classical computers, with a focused on predictive analytics, forecasting, and optimization. The company develops solutions for industry-leading organizations facing difficult analytics challenges in domains including finance, insurance, pharmaceuticals, media, and energy. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., QxBranch has offices in Adelaide, Australia, and London, UK.

Axiom Exergy

Series A in 2018
Axiom Exergy is an energy storage company that develops energy management solutions for supermarkets and commercial buildings. Axiom Exergy offers a thermal energy storage retrofit and software solutions to monitor and manage the energy use of refrigerators. The company also offers a system integrator and thermal storage tank. Axiom Exergy was founded by Anthony Diamond and Amrit Robbins in 2014. It is headquartered in Richmond, California.

Extend

Seed Round in 2018
Extend provides digital card solutions for businesses. Using their existing credit card, companies and innovators everywhere can now access the full power of virtual cards for their businesses, products, and clients. Extend offers several products, including a suite of aggregated virtual card APIs, a digital corporate card app, and an industry-first card tokenization service.

ReviveMed

Seed Round in 2018
ReviveMed is a precision-medicine platform that leverages the data from small molecules or metabolites. The company's technology is based on a network-based machine learning algorithm for integrative analysis of untargeted metabolomic data with other large-scale molecular information, including data from genes, proteins, drugs and diseases, transforming metabolomic data into actionable insights, enabling development of in-house therapeutics for patients suffering from liver diseases and ailments.

Tentrr

Series A in 2018
Founded in 2015, Tentrr connects those seeking the respite and adventure of the outdoors with private landowners and unique, exclusive opportunities to camp in State Parks. Tentrr offers over 1,000 ready-to-go campsites in 44 states. The Tentrr platform is revolutionizing the campsite booking process, providing new income streams for land trusts and landowners, supporting local economies, conserving natural lands, boosting tourism, and getting more people outdoors. Reservations can be booked on Tentrr.com and via popular travel sites like Air BnB, Tripadvisor, Expedia and VRBO. Tentrr is an American company based in New York.

Sequentum

Venture Round in 2017
Sequentum intelligent agents are designed for institutions with a critical reliance on enterprise-grade web data collection, structure and enrichment. By providing reliable quality data at scale and with governance, we insure the success of any data science operation. Our point and click interface automates 95% of what your data science teams would otherwise need to hand code, driving efficiency, accuracy and value. Sequentum powers government agencies, large enterprise, sec governed institutions and startups looking to gain an edge from data. We source, transform and deliver in any format to any endpoint and have easy APIs to integrate directly into your end to end data engineering pipeline. Sequentum Inc. was set up as a US parent entity in 2017 with funding from Worldquant Ventures and the current SaaS business model and enterprise grade product was born of this new startup.

Fluent City

Series A in 2017
Fluent City is a language company that offers online classes in 11 different languages. We're on a mission to help you achieve your language-learning goals by teaching you how to talk about the things you care about most. Our team uses AI and natural language processing technology to provide hyper-relevant content and personalized, engaging lesson plans that help you get fluent faster.

Basket

Series A in 2017
Never overpay for groceries again. Join the world's largest community of shoppers working together to save time and money. Basket believes you should never overpay for groceries again. As the only Shopper-First grocery platform, Basket brings instant transparency for pricing and availability on all your favorite products across all retailers, both local and online so you’ll be empowered to make informed decisions about where to complete your next shopping trip. Basket streamlines the path to purchasing grocery and everyday products and gives Shoppers their time back. Basket believes no one should spend more money or more time searching for their favorite products and having to guess at which is a better choice, online vs in-store pricing and availability. Using Basket, Shoppers take back control with each grocery list. The Basket Platform leverages billions of records and millions of Shopper interactions to power our consumer-facing products and business intelligence offerings. Using Basket’s state of the art technology stack and machine learning models, our community of Shoppers can unlock information previously only available to top retailers and manufacturers.

EquityZen

Series B in 2017
Since 2013, the EquityZen marketplace has made it easy to buy and sell shares in the private companies shaping the future. EquityZen brings together investors and shareholders, providing liquidity to early shareholders and private market access to accredited investors. With low investment minimums through our funds and with more than 37,000 private placements completed across 400+ companies, EquityZen leads the way in delivering “Private Markets for the Public”.

Canalyst

Series A in 2017
Canalyst is the leading destination for public company data and analysis. The company’s SaaS platform provides instant access to the cleanest, richest, best structured fundamental data and models on global public companies. Hundreds of firms across financial services and corporate markets globally rely on Canalyst to reduce duplicative work and ground their financial analysis on sound fundamental data. Founded in 2015, Canalyst employs 200 people with offices in New York and Vancouver. Visit canalyst.com to start a trial or learn about joining the Canalyst team.

Untapt

Convertible Note in 2016
untapt, headquartered in New York, NY, is an Artificial Intelligence company specializing in Human Capital and Talent. The business's core technology is a Deep Learning Neural Network, untapt Codex. Codex assesses massive pools of job applicants and open roles, pairing people to jobs that demonstrate a high likelihood of success. These models are trained on millions of data points and years of real-life hiring decisions. We also bring recruitment businesses and startups online with our best-in-class custom marketplace technology. Unlike traditional job boards, untapt platforms create lasting connections and relationships for your clients and candidates, all powered by untapt Codex. With an immersive, custom experience on all devices, our technology helps businesses 3x their placements per recruiter.

Benzinga

Venture Round in 2016
Benzinga is a financial news and analysis service providing timely, actionable insights for investors. It is a dynamic and innovative financial media outlet that empowers investors with unique content that is coveted by Wall Street's top traders. From breakouts to unusual volume, analyst ratings, futures; and options, and full-service, one-stop shop for investors of all stripes and styles. It also helps people to improve their investing and trading results by providing superior market information, tool, and data. Benzinga was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Michigan, USA.

RackN

Seed Round in 2016
RackN creates reusable, standardized IaC pipelines for platform and infrastructure teams, enabling collaboration, self-management and control at scale. RackN Digital Rebar standardizes the full lifecycle management of infrastructure, enabling enterprises to mitigate risk and tame automation so that they can innovate faster. Digital Rebar’s infrastructure pipeline creates a consistent, automated workflow between compute, storage, networking, security and access control.

SteadyServ Technologies

Venture Round in 2016
SteadyServ Technologies is a developer of a revolutionary mobile, SaaS-based inventory, and order management system for the beer industry. SteadyServ's iKeg technology is an IoT driven SaaS solution which measures and reports, on a near-real-time basis, down to the ounce, the exact volume of beer remaining in a retailer's kegs. Up until today, it has been nearly impossible to track and manage draft beer inventory effectively. Given that draft sales exceed $23 billion dollars each year in just the U.S., the cost of waste lost sales and unimproved yields and the margin is staggering. The system uses collected intelligence to make a purchase and product mix decisions based on the distributor’s current inventory, past on-premise performance, profitability goals, comparative popularity, and availability at nearby competitors. The average retailer sees a 400% cash on cash return on investment. SteadyServ has also developed a dynamic digital menu that showcases, and auto-curates every draft beer currently on tap, as well as, automatically updates and corrects beers when they change status (volume, price, availability). This information can be manipulated based on consumption patterns and is augmented with contextual advertising, which has a positive impact on sales. SteadyServ can provide retailers and brewers with onsite performance analytics to provide insights on marketing and promotion attribution. SteadyServ also owns the world's largest database of beer, which it uses as part of the iKeg and Kegonomics solutions. Moreover, SteadyServ ingests every retail transaction across every SKU its retail base sells, which provides SteadyServ a massive, rich, and real-time database of draft beer and on-premise retail activity that before has been unavailable. SteadyServ has been awarded 2 PCT patents with two additional ones in the process of moving from 'pending' to active and four other patents pending. The company operates throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and several EU countries currently.

Trunomi

Seed Round in 2016
Trunomi’s rules-based platform is the leader in Enterprise Data Privacy Compliance. Enabling businesses for the first time to understand what data they hold, under what regulation and why. Allowing companies to comply with current and future global regulations from a single platform. Trunomi never sees or stores your customer’s personal data due to its patented technology; and for this reason, Trunomi’s technology is not bound by jurisdictional borders surrounding personal data. Certified to operate to NSA security standards and validated by Baker McKenzie, Trunomi is a zero-risk solution allowing businesses to: • Prove Compliance with all Global Regulations - now and forever • Visualise your customer data from a single screen • Map your customer data • Automate Data Subject Request (DSR) management • Turn Privacy into a customer experience • Switch on Privacy easily, with a developer-first approach

True Anthem

Venture Round in 2016
True Anthem is an AI-Powered Content Distribution Platform for media companies and publishers. Clients use their Platform to drive significant increases in monetization by efficiently distributing their most popular stories across social media. They pioneered the use of artificial intelligence to identify the right content for social audiences and then automatically post it at the right time. Unlike legacy scheduling tools and manual social media processes, the resulting increases in traffic, revenue, and efficiency, typically result in a 300% lift in ROI for our clients. The company partner with-local media and global news organizations including Tribune, Hearst, and Reuters; feature publishers such as Meredith, and online giants including CBS Interactive. True Anthem is based in San Francisco, California.

Certrax

Venture Round in 2016
Certrax provides organizations with end-to-end compliance transparency to identify and resolve gaps in 3rd party risk. Certrax Insurance Compliance Solutions provides customers with a complete 3rd party and tenant risk compliance solution to track COI compliance and contract management and effectively transfer risk back to where it belongs. Pertrax Building Compliance Solutions helps organizations track and maintain government regulation compliance.

Goji

Convertible Note in 2016
Goji is an American online insurance agency, combining smart tech with human expertise to find you the right policy at the best price. Goji combines human expertise with smart technology to match customers with the right coverage at the best price. Since 2007, Goji has helped hundreds of thousands of Americans compare rates from top brands and buy the policy that's best for them. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Pivit

Venture Round in 2015
Founded in January 2011 by a group of financial and media industry veterans, Binary Event Network (“BEN”) combines a global financial trading platform with proprietary real-time pricing content to create a new category of consumer facing applications for the web and mobile devices. BEN's live app, Pivit, is the first live moment-to-moment gaming platform for sports fans. Play during live games, compete to call in-game swings, beat your friends and outscore the crowd. Install for free: http://bit.ly/1anbEvk

Estimize

Series B in 2015
Estimize is an online crowdsourcing platform that shares and reviews fundamental financial estimates from independent, buy-side, and sell-side analysts, along with those of private investors and students. It acts as an online community and discussion forum for hedge funds and asset management professionals to interact and get a true view of market expectations. Estimize is also available on major financial research platforms such as Bloomberg, Quantopian, and more. The platform was launched in 2011 and its operations are based in New York, United States.

ClearServe

Series A in 2015
ClearServe is disrupting a cottage industry of manual Excel spreadsheets and legacy software used by Family Offices, Multi-Managers, and Private Investors. They are building an elegant solution to empower users, to create data transparency, and to solve real pain-points in the industry.

Dataminr

Series D in 2015
Dataminr is an AI platform that detects the earliest signs of high-impact events and emerging risks from publicly available information. It discovers, distills, and delivers alerts from the increasingly diverse and complex landscape of publicly available information including social media, blogs, information sensors, and the dark web, ensuring that businesses have the knowledge they need to act with confidence.

Mobile System 7

Convertible Note in 2015
Mobile System 7 is an enterprise security company led by former Intelligence Community professionals. Mobile System 7's product, Interlock, protects enterprise data from unauthorized access and malicious attacks. Most enterprise security solutions rely on securing the endpoint. In contrast, Interlock monitors and protects what's truly important to the enterprise - access to data and services. Interlock combines the power of analytics and real time access controls to protect enterprise data.

L'atelier des Chefs

Venture Round in 2015
L’atelier des Chefs is a cooking school that offers hands-on cooking classes with professional chefs in Central London. It is a contemporary cookery school that provides a culinary experience with a difference. It is comprised of interactive classes ranging from 30 minutes to 4 hours and menus inspired by cuisines from around the world. L’atelier des Chefs’ prices start at 15 euros for a 30 minute class and all classes are listed on the website and are bookable up to 28 days in advance. It was founded in 2004 and is based in London.

Remesh

Seed Round in 2014
Remesh offers an AI-powered platform that enables users to have live conversations with their customers at scale and organize audience responses in real-time. It helps users to understand their customers or employees and make more informed business decisions by empowering them to engage with up to 1,000 people at once- online and in real-time.
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