Xfund

Xfund is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 at Harvard University, focused on supporting unconventional entrepreneurs who possess multidisciplinary skills. By collaborating with top venture capital firms and leading research universities, Xfund aims to identify and empower technically-gifted liberal arts entrepreneurs who are often overlooked by traditional venture capital. The firm invests across various sectors, backing innovative companies ranging from data analytics platforms to smart consumer products. With a commitment to fostering a growth mindset among founders, Xfund leverages its extensive network to provide strategic support, including access to industry experts and potential partnerships. Xfund operates offices in Palo Alto, California, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has recently closed its second fund with $100 million in committed capital.

Jadyn Bryden

Vice President

Patrick S. Chung

Co-Founder, Managing General Partner & Board Member

Brandon Farwell

Partner

65 past transactions

Kudos

Seed Round in 2020
Kudos is a retail company that offers natural disposable baby diapers with cotton liners. The company's chemical-free diapers are made of plant-based renewable materials, providing parents with natural diapers that suit babies' sensitive skin. It was founded by Amrita Saigal in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Sirona Medical

Series A in 2020
Sirona Medical, Inc. develops a diagnostic engine for radiologists. Its platform enables radiologists to improve the quality and process of medicine and allowing doctors to focus on patients. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Guideline

Seed Round in 2015
Guideline an all-inclusive 401(k) technology designed for growing businesses. Guideline handles all plan administration, including set-up, participant enrollment and education, recordkeeping, investment management, compliance, and reporting. Guideline is the first full-service 401(k) with straightforward pricing of one flat fee per participant, in contrast to the asset-based fee model predominant in the industry.

Uvaro

Series A in 2021
Kiite is a sales platform provider that allows sales teams to capture, organize, and deliver the information needed to close deals. The company's tech sales training program, operating as Uvaro, equips students to pursue or grow their careers in tech sales. Uvaro’s unique curriculum made up of online, live classes, online collaborative working sessions, and optional internships close common skills gaps and are designed to enrich and level up the talent pool for tech sales roles Donna Liitt, Joseph Fung, and Robert Chaplinsky co-founded the Kiite in 2017 in Waterloo, Ontario.

Curebase

Series B in 2022
Curebase builds a digital clinical trial assistant that would alter how medical providers discover, activate, and administer clinical trials for their patients. It aims to run clinical trials faster and cheaper than anyone else via software that reduces recruitment times, automates manual steps, and lets drug companies distribute their trials to clinics. The company was established in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Font Awesome

Seed Round in 2016
Build and manage icons and typefaces in a single place, then serve them with a single line of code.Fort Awesome has some of the web's best icon sets,so your site has the exact look you need.

Philo

Series A in 2013
Philo offers an entertainment-focused streaming service nationwide. It was inspired by Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television. Philo was created to build a better TV experience. The company started in the college market as a laboratory for creating a next-generation TV platform. Philo has previously received investment from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Rho Ventures, Xfund, Home Box Office Inc. (HBO), Mark Cuban’s Radical Investments, WME, and CBC New Media Group. Philo is based in San Francisco, with offices in New York and Cambridge, Massachusettes.

Lighthouse

Venture Round in 2017
Lighthouse AI, Inc. provides artificial intelligence solutions that notify the user when it detects actual movement triggered by a person it doesn’t recognize. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Vaccitech

Series A in 2018
Vaccitech Limited researches and develops T cell immunotherapeutic products and vaccines. The company offers hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human papillomavirus (HPV) therapeutic products and therapeutic vaccines for prostate cancer. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Kudos

Seed Round in 2021
Kudos is a retail company that offers natural disposable baby diapers with cotton liners. The company's chemical-free diapers are made of plant-based renewable materials, providing parents with natural diapers that suit babies' sensitive skin. It was founded by Amrita Saigal in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Guideline

Series A in 2016
Guideline an all-inclusive 401(k) technology designed for growing businesses. Guideline handles all plan administration, including set-up, participant enrollment and education, recordkeeping, investment management, compliance, and reporting. Guideline is the first full-service 401(k) with straightforward pricing of one flat fee per participant, in contrast to the asset-based fee model predominant in the industry.

BoldVoice

Seed Round in 2021
BoldVoice is a communication coaching app that helps non-native speakers improve their communication and confidence. The company's application helps foreign-born professionals and students in the US to improve their English accents via hyper-personalized content, enabling them to improve their English language pronunciation and confidence via personalized content from Hollywood's top accent coaches BoldVoice was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

AeroVect

Seed Round in 2020
AeroVect Technologies Inc. develops and offers autonomous cargo handling systems for airports. Its autonomous cargo handling systems include autonomous GSE technology and ground handling management software; and LiDARs, cameras, radars, and GPS-RTK for airside operations. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Palantir Technologies

Venture Round in 2011
Palantir Technologies offers a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, fighting fraud, and analyzing information. The software allows analysts within and between government organizations to collaborate and to analyze large quantities of data. Stephen Cohen, Alexander Karp, Garry Tan, Nathan Gettings, and Peter Thiel established the company in Denver, Colorado in 2003.

Uvaro

Seed Round in 2017
Kiite is a sales platform provider that allows sales teams to capture, organize, and deliver the information needed to close deals. The company's tech sales training program, operating as Uvaro, equips students to pursue or grow their careers in tech sales. Uvaro’s unique curriculum made up of online, live classes, online collaborative working sessions, and optional internships close common skills gaps and are designed to enrich and level up the talent pool for tech sales roles Donna Liitt, Joseph Fung, and Robert Chaplinsky co-founded the Kiite in 2017 in Waterloo, Ontario.

Ravel

Series A in 2014
Ravel Law is a legal search, analytics, and visualization platform. Ravel enables lawyers to find, contextualize, and interpret information that turns legal data into legal insights. Ravel's array of powerful tools – which include data-driven, interactive visualizations and analytics – transforms how lawyers understand the law and prepare for litigation. In today's global and increasingly digital world, Ravel empowers attorneys to benefit from this huge influx of information and find value in it. In 2012, Ravel spun out of Stanford University's Law School, Computer Science Department, and d.school, with the support of CodeX (Stanford's Center for Legal Informatics).

Font Awesome

Seed Round in 2015
Build and manage icons and typefaces in a single place, then serve them with a single line of code.Fort Awesome has some of the web's best icon sets,so your site has the exact look you need.

Guideline

Series D in 2020
Guideline an all-inclusive 401(k) technology designed for growing businesses. Guideline handles all plan administration, including set-up, participant enrollment and education, recordkeeping, investment management, compliance, and reporting. Guideline is the first full-service 401(k) with straightforward pricing of one flat fee per participant, in contrast to the asset-based fee model predominant in the industry.

NewtonX

Series A in 2019
NewtonX is the world's first AI-powered Knowledge Marketplace. We connect leading corporate, management consulting and investment professionals to the world's leading technology experts. Our platform focuses on real-time knowledge access through two core technologies: - NewtonX Graph: a universal ontology mapping knowledge profiles against a graph architecture - NewtonX Matching Algorithm: a machine learning-based script maximizing the relevance of the experts proposed for each client search

kea

Seed Round in 2019
Kea empowers restaurants to operate more intelligently and own their relationship with customers. Its product, Kea Voice, takes orders over the phone at a high level of efficiency and consistency so that restaurants can focus on making delicious food. Launched in 2018, Kea is one of the fastest-growing companies on a course to change the way restaurants operate. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Nebula Genomics

Series A in 2018
Nebula Genomics develops an online marketplace for genomic and other health data. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

TonicAI

Seed Round in 2018
Tonic is a synthetic data platform that transforms raw data into more manageable and private data sets usable by software engineers and business analysts. The platform preserves the constraints, statistical correlations, distributions, and interdependencies that make a data set unique and unblocks analytics and software development by getting the user access to the data they crave without breaching customer trust or organizational policies, enabling developers, data scientists, and salespeople to work conveniently without compromising on compliance and privacy. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

23andMe

Series E in 2015
23andMe, Inc. provides consumer genetics and research services. The company offers DNA analysis services through home-based saliva collection kit for consumers to access and understand the human genome. Its services include Health + Ancestry, a genetic insight into ancestry, traits, and health; and Ancestry + Traits, a DNA kit with an ancestry breakdown and 30+ trait reports. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. With an additional office in Mountain View, California.

Chalk

Seed Round in 2023
Chalk AI develops a machine learning platform to help ML teams focus on building products and models which make their business stand out. Its platform is designed to power credit, risk, insurance, medical, and recommendation decisions for innovative companies. Chalk AI makes it easy for teams to build high-performance pipelines that deliver data to models at the right time.

AirOps

Seed Round in 2023
AirOps is a data analytics platform developer that aims to help operators turn data into transformative business outcomes. With its suite of products, the company's no-code platform provides interactive and enterprise data analytics and data discovery, as well as streamlines data analysis, allowing business teams to generate more revenue from their business data.

Pomelo

Seed Round in 2022
Pomelo is a fintech startup combining credit and international money transfer in one unified product.

Factor

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Factor Technology, Inc. develops and operates a supplier relationship management system for product designers and manufacturers around the world. The company’s system provides online visibility from production process to receiving goods, such as supplier, source, order, and performance visibility. Factor Technology, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

ImmuneID

Series A in 2021
ImmuneID is a precision immunology company using its proprietary platform to simultaneously identify and therapeutically target millions of antibody interactions that drive immune diseases.

Deep Discovery

Seed Round in 2021
Deep Discovery is inspired by Jeff's work with the journalists who led the reporting of the Panama Papers, where we uncovered a previously unreported international nuclear trafficking ring, using only public data found across the open Web. There are thousands of similar organized crime networks going undetected, causing banks to be fined billions of dollars for letting them slip through the cracks. At Deep Discovery, we are applying AI to discover hidden patterns in raw data that reveal high-risk activity at an unprecedented global scale. We automatically generate financial crime risk assessment scores, analogous to a FICO score, for every company in the world, including their directors and officers. These risk scores will be available under a simple subscription model to be queried by banks, regulators, and journalists, with the underlying source documentation available for verification and further human analysis. No other software vendor in the marketplace today is able to generate network-based risk assessments, which is a big reason banks have been continuing to get caught doing business with bad actors and receiving massive fines.

Prive

Seed Round in 2021
Prive is the world's first marketplace infrastructure platform for eCommerce brands. We are building for the new generation, enabling brands you know and love to compete and win at scale. Starting with the tools and systems that allow brands to manage and optimize their end-to-end pricing and incentives levers, we are changing the status quo of guess-work and tribal knowledge- hardly what 2021 should look like. Prive enables brands to compete against the Amazons of the world.

NewtonX

Seed Round in 2017
NewtonX is the world's first AI-powered Knowledge Marketplace. We connect leading corporate, management consulting and investment professionals to the world's leading technology experts. Our platform focuses on real-time knowledge access through two core technologies: - NewtonX Graph: a universal ontology mapping knowledge profiles against a graph architecture - NewtonX Matching Algorithm: a machine learning-based script maximizing the relevance of the experts proposed for each client search

Curebase

Series A in 2021
Curebase builds a digital clinical trial assistant that would alter how medical providers discover, activate, and administer clinical trials for their patients. It aims to run clinical trials faster and cheaper than anyone else via software that reduces recruitment times, automates manual steps, and lets drug companies distribute their trials to clinics. The company was established in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Factor

Seed Round in 2021
Factor Technology, Inc. develops and operates a supplier relationship management system for product designers and manufacturers around the world. The company’s system provides online visibility from production process to receiving goods, such as supplier, source, order, and performance visibility. Factor Technology, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Forma

Series A in 2021
Forma AI, Incorporated. develops the software to manage the sales incentives and compensation for the organizations. It offers products such as Forma Operator provides commission compensation processing; Forma Responder manages variable compensation; and Forma Interpreter provides visualization, reporting, and updating of sales payout. Forma AI, Incorporated. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Synapse Technology

Seed Round in 2018
Synapse Technology Corporation, doing business as Synapse Research, develops artificial intelligence (AI) based application that detects and identifies weapons and other prohibited items at security checkpoints. It provides Syntech ONE, an artificial intelligence (AI) based software for a threat detection system that operates on baggage X-Ray and CT scanners to tackles security screening checkpoints. Its software platform integrates on both new and existing checkpoint machines at airports, schools, and office buildings. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Zumper

Series B in 2016
Zumper provides a rental marketplace designed for renters, landlords, and property managers. It was founded in 2012, driven by a mission to make renting an apartment as easy as booking a hotel. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City, Chicago, Scottsdale, and Providence.

Service

Seed Round in 2017
Service gets you paid when your flight is delayed or cancelled.

Guideline

Series E in 2021
Guideline an all-inclusive 401(k) technology designed for growing businesses. Guideline handles all plan administration, including set-up, participant enrollment and education, recordkeeping, investment management, compliance, and reporting. Guideline is the first full-service 401(k) with straightforward pricing of one flat fee per participant, in contrast to the asset-based fee model predominant in the industry.

Uvaro

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Kiite is a sales platform provider that allows sales teams to capture, organize, and deliver the information needed to close deals. The company's tech sales training program, operating as Uvaro, equips students to pursue or grow their careers in tech sales. Uvaro’s unique curriculum made up of online, live classes, online collaborative working sessions, and optional internships close common skills gaps and are designed to enrich and level up the talent pool for tech sales roles Donna Liitt, Joseph Fung, and Robert Chaplinsky co-founded the Kiite in 2017 in Waterloo, Ontario.

NewtonX

Series B in 2021
NewtonX is the world's first AI-powered Knowledge Marketplace. We connect leading corporate, management consulting and investment professionals to the world's leading technology experts. Our platform focuses on real-time knowledge access through two core technologies: - NewtonX Graph: a universal ontology mapping knowledge profiles against a graph architecture - NewtonX Matching Algorithm: a machine learning-based script maximizing the relevance of the experts proposed for each client search

Workstream

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of data analytics software intended to empower every team to make better decisions. The company's software offers a dashboard catalog, in-line context & analysis, data asset management, and other analytical tools, enabling analysts to better analyze the data and make calculated decisions.

Uvaro

Seed Round in 2020
Kiite is a sales platform provider that allows sales teams to capture, organize, and deliver the information needed to close deals. The company's tech sales training program, operating as Uvaro, equips students to pursue or grow their careers in tech sales. Uvaro’s unique curriculum made up of online, live classes, online collaborative working sessions, and optional internships close common skills gaps and are designed to enrich and level up the talent pool for tech sales roles Donna Liitt, Joseph Fung, and Robert Chaplinsky co-founded the Kiite in 2017 in Waterloo, Ontario.

TonicAI

Series A in 2020
Tonic is a synthetic data platform that transforms raw data into more manageable and private data sets usable by software engineers and business analysts. The platform preserves the constraints, statistical correlations, distributions, and interdependencies that make a data set unique and unblocks analytics and software development by getting the user access to the data they crave without breaching customer trust or organizational policies, enabling developers, data scientists, and salespeople to work conveniently without compromising on compliance and privacy. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sirona Medical

Series B in 2021
Sirona Medical, Inc. develops a diagnostic engine for radiologists. Its platform enables radiologists to improve the quality and process of medicine and allowing doctors to focus on patients. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Factor

Seed Round in 2021
Factor.io is a service that makes it easy for developers to define and integrate their continuous deployment and integration workflow. Development teams spend over 30% of their developer resources building the process for deploying and managing their apps and infrastructure, like "Deploy my app to AWS when I push to Github". Most of this time is spent glueing together numerous services (e.g. Github, AWS, Hipchat) and technologies (e.g. Chef, Salt Stack) to work in a cohesive workflow. Factor.io relieves developers of building this veneer layer of glue by connecting all the services and technologies using a simple workflow.

Halo Neuroscience

Series A in 2016
Halo Neuroscience develops and markets neurotechnology systems to help individuals unlock their true potential. Their first product, Halo Sport, utilizes Neuropriming technology to accelerate skill and strength acquisition in elite athletes. Neuropriming is the process of using electrical stimulation during movement-based training to build stronger, more optimized connections between your brain and muscles. This process induces a temporary state of hyper-learning or "hyperplasticity" in the brain, which refines the brain's ability to learn and adapt to training. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, CA.

Kensho

Seed Round in 2014
Kensho Technologies, Inc. provides analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data visualization systems to global banks and investment institutions. It develops Kensho Financial Analytics Software that deploys scalable analytics systems across the commercial institutions. It also offers artificial intelligence (AI) software called Kensho Applied Mind. The company also operates a national security division called Koto. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It has additional offices in New York, New York; McLean, Virginia; and Pacific Palisades, California. As of April 8, 2018, Kensho Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of S&P Global Inc.

Philo

Series B in 2015
Philo offers an entertainment-focused streaming service nationwide. It was inspired by Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television. Philo was created to build a better TV experience. The company started in the college market as a laboratory for creating a next-generation TV platform. Philo has previously received investment from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Rho Ventures, Xfund, Home Box Office Inc. (HBO), Mark Cuban’s Radical Investments, WME, and CBC New Media Group. Philo is based in San Francisco, with offices in New York and Cambridge, Massachusettes.

Parts Market

Seed Round in 2017
PartsMarket allows automotive professionals and private buyers to source the best quality parts from the most trustworthy licensed auto dismantlers.

Curebase

Venture Round in 2018
Curebase builds a digital clinical trial assistant that would alter how medical providers discover, activate, and administer clinical trials for their patients. It aims to run clinical trials faster and cheaper than anyone else via software that reduces recruitment times, automates manual steps, and lets drug companies distribute their trials to clinics. The company was established in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Zumper

Series C in 2018
Zumper provides a rental marketplace designed for renters, landlords, and property managers. It was founded in 2012, driven by a mission to make renting an apartment as easy as booking a hotel. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City, Chicago, Scottsdale, and Providence.

ImmuneID

Venture Round in 2021
ImmuneID is a precision immunology company using its proprietary platform to simultaneously identify and therapeutically target millions of antibody interactions that drive immune diseases.

Landit

Seed Round in 2016
Landit is a technology platform that increases the success and engagement of women and diverse groups in the workplace. The market leader in personalized career pathing, Landit creates a turnkey “one size fits one” solution that enables enterprises to attract, develop, and retain high-potential diverse talent. Landit provides each member with a personalized playbook that empowers them with the tools, resources, know-how, and human connections they need to advance and navigate their career path. Key features include building a personal brand, executive coaching, creating a personal board of advisors, curated skill development and mapping to career opportunities.

Landit

Series A in 2019
Landit is a technology platform that increases the success and engagement of women and diverse groups in the workplace. The market leader in personalized career pathing, Landit creates a turnkey “one size fits one” solution that enables enterprises to attract, develop, and retain high-potential diverse talent. Landit provides each member with a personalized playbook that empowers them with the tools, resources, know-how, and human connections they need to advance and navigate their career path. Key features include building a personal brand, executive coaching, creating a personal board of advisors, curated skill development and mapping to career opportunities.

kea

Series A in 2020
Kea empowers restaurants to operate more intelligently and own their relationship with customers. Its product, Kea Voice, takes orders over the phone at a high level of efficiency and consistency so that restaurants can focus on making delicious food. Launched in 2018, Kea is one of the fastest-growing companies on a course to change the way restaurants operate. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

BoldVoice

Seed Round in 2023
BoldVoice is a communication coaching app that helps non-native speakers improve their communication and confidence. The company's application helps foreign-born professionals and students in the US to improve their English accents via hyper-personalized content, enabling them to improve their English language pronunciation and confidence via personalized content from Hollywood's top accent coaches BoldVoice was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Pomelo

Seed Round in 2021
Pomelo is a fintech startup combining credit and international money transfer in one unified product.

Rest Devices

Seed Round in 2013
Rest Devices, Inc. manufactures baby body suits that record the motion of baby and allow parents to monitor babies. The company offers Mimo, an organic cotton body suit for babies that is fitted with non-contact machine washable sensors that allow parents to check infant’s respiration, skin temperature, body position, and activity level; sends baby’s information to the Lilypad base station via Bluetooth Low Energy; and connects to home’s WiFi. It offers Mimo application for iOS and Android. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Halo Neuroscience

Series B in 2018
Halo Neuroscience develops and markets neurotechnology systems to help individuals unlock their true potential. Their first product, Halo Sport, utilizes Neuropriming technology to accelerate skill and strength acquisition in elite athletes. Neuropriming is the process of using electrical stimulation during movement-based training to build stronger, more optimized connections between your brain and muscles. This process induces a temporary state of hyper-learning or "hyperplasticity" in the brain, which refines the brain's ability to learn and adapt to training. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, CA.

Natalist

Seed Round in 2019
Launched in August 2019, Natalist is built on the values of evidence, education, and usability. The team—moms, doctors, and scientists—started Natalist with a mission to reduce the shame, misinformation, and outdated product offerings they experienced while on the pregnancy journey. Natalist offers evidence-based educational resources, alongside redesigned fertility and pregnancy essentials. The Natalist team believes it is their moral imperative to leave the world a better place for future generations. They launched their Mother Earth sustainability initiative in August 2020, which includes being certified 100% plastic neutral. Natalist was founded by Halle Tecco, a prominent healthcare investor and Founder and former CEO of digital health investment fund, Rock Health.

Forma

Series B in 2022
Forma AI, Incorporated. develops the software to manage the sales incentives and compensation for the organizations. It offers products such as Forma Operator provides commission compensation processing; Forma Responder manages variable compensation; and Forma Interpreter provides visualization, reporting, and updating of sales payout. Forma AI, Incorporated. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.