XSeed Capital

XSeed Capital, founded in 2006 and located in Portola Valley, California, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in the software, computer science, and information technology sectors. With $110 million under management, XSeed Capital primarily makes initial investments at the seed stage and provides ongoing support to its portfolio companies through follow-on capital and strategic guidance. The firm emphasizes the importance of technological innovation and aims to help entrepreneurs create distinctive value for customers. By assisting companies in defining and achieving risk-reduction milestones, XSeed Capital strives to expedite their growth and facilitate their progression to key value inflection points.

Michael Borrus

General Partner

Nari Choi

Principal

Jeff Thermond

Venture Partner

95 past transactions

Nova Credit

Series C in 2023
Nova Credit Inc. is a credit reporting agency based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2016. The company specializes in providing alternative credit data and analytics, focusing on improving credit access for individuals, particularly immigrants. Nova Credit's platform facilitates cross-border consumer credit services, allowing lenders and property managers to make informed decisions regarding credit applications. Its proprietary solutions, including the Credit Passport® and Cash Atlas™, utilize a unique set of data sources and compliance frameworks to enhance traditional credit analytics. Major organizations such as American Express, Verizon, and HSBC use Nova Credit’s services to navigate the complexities of credit scoring in the open finance landscape. The company is supported by prominent investors and industry executives, emphasizing its role in bridging gaps in credit access and fostering responsible growth for businesses.

FindMine

Venture Round in 2022
FindMine is a leading provider of cloud-based retail technology that aims to enhance the editorial capabilities of iconic brands. By leveraging machine learning, FindMine streamlines the tedious process of product curation, allowing retailers to generate high-quality, brand-aligned content efficiently. This innovative technology significantly reduces the time required for content creation while improving sell-through rates and boosting gross margins and customer lifetime value. FindMine serves a diverse clientele, including well-known brands such as Rent the Runway and Vineyard Vines, by delivering personalized style suggestions and optimizing customer experiences across various channels, including ecommerce and marketing. The company's achievements have been recognized with accolades such as Gartner Cool Vendor and membership in LVMH's Maison des Startups.

Luum

Venture Round in 2022
LUUM is a company that aims to transform the beauty-services market by automating the application of eyelash extensions, which is a significant segment in the $20 billion global market. The company has developed a patented technology that integrates robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine vision to apply a full set of eyelash extensions in just 20 minutes, drastically reducing the typical application time of two hours. This innovative approach not only enhances convenience but also addresses the inconsistencies and safety risks associated with manual application. By leveraging advanced technology, LUUM seeks to provide a more efficient and reliable solution for eyelash extension services.

Lilt

Series C in 2022
Lilt, Inc. is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based enterprise translation software. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Lilt offers a comprehensive platform that integrates adaptive neural machine translation technology with an enterprise translation management system and professional translators. This solution enables organizations to effectively scale their translation programs, accelerate their go-to-market strategies, and enhance the global customer experience. Lilt serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies like Intel and consumer brands such as ASICS, as well as technology firms like Canva and DigitalOcean. The company also maintains additional offices in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Dublin, Ireland, reflecting its global reach in providing professional translation services.

Esports One

Venture Round in 2020
Esports One, Inc. is a data and analytics company focused on enhancing the esports experience for players, fans, and broadcasters. Established in 2012 and based in Santa Monica, California, the company operates an esports information platform that leverages proprietary computer vision and machine learning technology to capture and analyze extensive data in real-time. This platform has developed one of the most comprehensive databases of League of Legends esports statistics, dating back to the first professional matches in 2011. In 2020, Esports One expanded its offerings with the launch of Esports One Fantasy, an all-in-one fantasy platform designed to allow users to research teams and players, set lineups, and compete with friends. Through its innovative approach, Esports One aims to transform how fans engage with esports by providing a robust resource for real-time insights and information.

ArtisanBio

Series A in 2020
ArtisanBio is a company that specializes in cell engineering and data analysis solutions aimed at enhancing cell therapies. Its platform allows partners to optimize candidate designs, facilitating the development of safer and more effective cellular therapies for various human health conditions. By focusing on rapid discovery, editing performance, and data analytics, ArtisanBio addresses the complexities of next-generation cell therapies. The company actively collaborates with innovative partners to deliver customizable solutions, advancing the overall effectiveness of therapeutic applications in the healthcare sector.

Narrative

Series A in 2020
Narrative operates a data streaming platform that simplifies the buying and selling of data, addressing inefficiencies in data transactions. The platform provides tools for efficient data discovery, pricing, optimization, and delivery, allowing businesses to easily access, acquire, and integrate the data they need for growth. By connecting data owners with active data seekers, Narrative facilitates opportunities for monetization and acquisition. This streamlined approach enables organizations to focus on leveraging data to drive business outcomes and shape their narratives effectively.

Lilt

Series B in 2020
Lilt, Inc. is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based enterprise translation software. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Lilt offers a comprehensive platform that integrates adaptive neural machine translation technology with an enterprise translation management system and professional translators. This solution enables organizations to effectively scale their translation programs, accelerate their go-to-market strategies, and enhance the global customer experience. Lilt serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies like Intel and consumer brands such as ASICS, as well as technology firms like Canva and DigitalOcean. The company also maintains additional offices in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Dublin, Ireland, reflecting its global reach in providing professional translation services.

UnitQ

Series A in 2020
UnitQ is an AI-enabled platform that specializes in real-time product quality monitoring. Headquartered in the United States, the company provides a solution that allows organizations to collect and analyze user feedback from various channels and languages. This enables businesses to identify, quantify, and prioritize product bugs effectively. By utilizing machine learning, unitQ's software detects issues across applications and offers real-time translation tools to categorize and display data on a customizable dashboard. This approach helps companies quickly address critical quality issues, understand the impact of product launches, and reduce support ticket volumes, ultimately enhancing user retention and satisfaction.

Migo

Series B in 2019
Migo is an embedded lending software that specializes in microfinance, credit, and loan services.

PeerWell

Series A in 2019
PeerWell, Inc. is a healthcare technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. The company develops an application aimed at assisting candidates for hip and knee replacements in optimizing their health prior to surgery. Its PreHab application combines evidence-based medical content with advanced technology to provide users with tools to prepare both physically and mentally for surgery. This platform not only supports patients in managing pain and immobility but also offers customized daily lessons to facilitate recovery. PeerWell collaborates with various stakeholders, including Workers' Compensation leaders, health plans, and managed care organizations, to enhance patient outcomes and streamline the surgical experience.

Narrative

Seed Round in 2019
Narrative operates a data streaming platform that simplifies the buying and selling of data, addressing inefficiencies in data transactions. The platform provides tools for efficient data discovery, pricing, optimization, and delivery, allowing businesses to easily access, acquire, and integrate the data they need for growth. By connecting data owners with active data seekers, Narrative facilitates opportunities for monetization and acquisition. This streamlined approach enables organizations to focus on leveraging data to drive business outcomes and shape their narratives effectively.

XMACHINES

Venture Round in 2019
XMACHINES is a Hyderabad-based robotics company founded in 2017, focusing on the development of autonomous mobile robots. The company aims to address the technology gap in agriculture and various industrial applications by creating innovative solutions that incorporate robotics and artificial intelligence. Their products are designed for precision agriculture, material handling automation, and advanced academic research, allowing manufacturing and warehouse facilities to enhance operational efficiency through automation. By targeting both consumer and enterprise markets, XMACHINES seeks to transform mundane tasks and improve productivity in various sectors.

Avochato

Series A in 2018
Avochato Inc. develops text messaging software aimed at enhancing customer relationship management. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a platform that allows business teams to communicate effectively with customers throughout the entire customer journey, from lead capture to post-sale support. Avochato's product features a live inbox for managing all customer communications, personalized text broadcasting, a chat widget, and the ability to text-enable office phone numbers. Additionally, it supports multimedia messaging and automated survey generation, making it suitable for sales, support, and operations teams within an organization. The software is designed to improve customer retention, streamline operations, and boost sales through intelligent text messaging.

Lilt

Series A in 2018
Lilt, Inc. is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based enterprise translation software. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Lilt offers a comprehensive platform that integrates adaptive neural machine translation technology with an enterprise translation management system and professional translators. This solution enables organizations to effectively scale their translation programs, accelerate their go-to-market strategies, and enhance the global customer experience. Lilt serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies like Intel and consumer brands such as ASICS, as well as technology firms like Canva and DigitalOcean. The company also maintains additional offices in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Dublin, Ireland, reflecting its global reach in providing professional translation services.

Enya.ai

Seed Round in 2018
Founded by a Stanford team, Enya.ai offers the only secure computation platform optimized for edge devices such as mobile phones, drones, cars, and IoT sensors. With the rise of data privacy concerns and the increasing cost of complying with privacy regulations, companies are looking for solutions that help them reduce their data liability.

Cryptolab Capital

Seed Round in 2018
Cryptolab Capital combines fundamental academic research and realtime blockchain analysis to generate outstanding returns by investing in crypto assets. Applying cutting-edge academic cryptography research as well as proven financial mathematical models, we perform deep due diligence of each crypto asset and analyze their crypto economics to identify attractive investment opportunities. Crypto assets generate new type of data that is nonexistent in traditional markets. Every blockchain transaction is usually transparent, as is the amount of computational resources powering the network, as well as an array of other parameters. We analyze large sets of this data in real-time, extract valuable signals, and translate them into trading strategies.

Luum

Seed Round in 2018
LUUM is a company that aims to transform the beauty-services market by automating the application of eyelash extensions, which is a significant segment in the $20 billion global market. The company has developed a patented technology that integrates robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine vision to apply a full set of eyelash extensions in just 20 minutes, drastically reducing the typical application time of two hours. This innovative approach not only enhances convenience but also addresses the inconsistencies and safety risks associated with manual application. By leveraging advanced technology, LUUM seeks to provide a more efficient and reliable solution for eyelash extension services.

Esports One

Seed Round in 2018
Esports One, Inc. is a data and analytics company focused on enhancing the esports experience for players, fans, and broadcasters. Established in 2012 and based in Santa Monica, California, the company operates an esports information platform that leverages proprietary computer vision and machine learning technology to capture and analyze extensive data in real-time. This platform has developed one of the most comprehensive databases of League of Legends esports statistics, dating back to the first professional matches in 2011. In 2020, Esports One expanded its offerings with the launch of Esports One Fantasy, an all-in-one fantasy platform designed to allow users to research teams and players, set lineups, and compete with friends. Through its innovative approach, Esports One aims to transform how fans engage with esports by providing a robust resource for real-time insights and information.

My90

Seed Round in 2018
My90 is a data-driven platform that assists law enforcement agencies in enhancing community engagement and trust. By collecting anonymized feedback from community members, My90 generates actionable insights that help police departments improve their relationships with the public. The platform utilizes anonymous communication tools, natural language processing, and data analysis to facilitate dialogue between citizens and police agencies. This approach enables police chiefs to foster trust, transparency, and safety within the communities they serve.

Sparta Software Corporation

Seed Round in 2017
Sparta Software Corporation, operating as Sparta Science, specializes in personalized and predictive analytics software designed for athletes, military personnel, and patients. The company offers The Sparta System, which includes The Sparta Scan that assesses movement, balance, and stability to create individualized Movement Signatures. This system enables immediate comparisons of an individual's results against a comprehensive database to identify strengths and potential injury risks. Additionally, it automatically generates tailored training plans aimed at reducing injury risk and enhancing physical performance. Sparta Science's technology is utilized across various sectors, including military, healthcare, sports, and education, providing organizations with tools to measure and optimize physical performance while facilitating safe recovery. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Sparta Software Corporation also maintains a facility in Alexandria, Australia.

AtScale

Series C in 2017
AtScale is a technology company that specializes in business intelligence solutions aimed at enhancing data-driven decision-making for enterprises. Its semantic layer platform simplifies and accelerates business intelligence and data science processes, allowing organizations to democratize data and adopt self-service analytics. By leveraging machine learning, AtScale's platform enables users to query data directly where it resides, minimizing the need for data movement and ensuring performance and scalability across large data environments. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and Boston, AtScale is staffed by experienced professionals from leading technology firms and serves a diverse range of industries globally. The company focuses on helping businesses build agile analytics infrastructures for more effective decision-making.

Citrine Informatics

Series A in 2017
Citrine Informatics, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance materials development. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, with an additional office in Pittsburgh, the company operates a platform that aggregates and analyzes extensive datasets related to materials, chemicals, and devices. This platform aims to streamline research and development, manufacturing, and supply chain processes for organizations involved in producing physical products. By employing data science and machine learning, Citrine Informatics accelerates the discovery of new materials and helps identify defects early in the research process, thereby improving product design and development efficiency across various sectors, including energy, aerospace, and electronics.

Gixo

Series A in 2017
Gixo Inc. is a Sacramento-based company that develops a mobile fitness application providing online workout classes designed for individuals of all fitness levels. Founded in 2016, Gixo offers over 350 live classes each week, with session lengths varying from 15 to 40 minutes, ensuring options are available to fit diverse schedules. The platform features highly motivational professional coaches who guide users through a range of exercises, including high-intensity interval training and injury management courses. Gixo's application also tracks user progress, facilitating improvements in health and activity levels from the comfort of their homes. By making fitness more accessible, Gixo aims to accommodate the busy lifestyles of its users.

Narrative

Seed Round in 2017
Narrative operates a data streaming platform that simplifies the buying and selling of data, addressing inefficiencies in data transactions. The platform provides tools for efficient data discovery, pricing, optimization, and delivery, allowing businesses to easily access, acquire, and integrate the data they need for growth. By connecting data owners with active data seekers, Narrative facilitates opportunities for monetization and acquisition. This streamlined approach enables organizations to focus on leveraging data to drive business outcomes and shape their narratives effectively.

StatX

Seed Round in 2017
StatX Inc. is a developer of a mobile application that provides users with real-time status updates and critical business metrics. The StatX App features a REST API, enabling developers to send push notifications to mobile devices and integrate with various platforms such as QuickBooks Online, Xero, Salesforce, Google Sheets, and MailChimp. Users can easily create and share mobile dashboards that display essential data on sales, financials, and marketing, facilitating team collaboration and keeping everyone in sync. The application is designed for both iOS and Android, offering a fast and visual interface that allows users to respond quickly to changes in their business environment. Founded in 2015 and based in San Jose, California, StatX operates as a subsidiary of TapClicks, Inc.

Luum

Seed Round in 2017
LUUM is a company that aims to transform the beauty-services market by automating the application of eyelash extensions, which is a significant segment in the $20 billion global market. The company has developed a patented technology that integrates robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine vision to apply a full set of eyelash extensions in just 20 minutes, drastically reducing the typical application time of two hours. This innovative approach not only enhances convenience but also addresses the inconsistencies and safety risks associated with manual application. By leveraging advanced technology, LUUM seeks to provide a more efficient and reliable solution for eyelash extension services.

Eloquent Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Eloquent Labs Inc. develops conversational artificial intelligence technology designed for e-commerce platforms, offering solutions to enhance customer support. Founded in 2016 and based in Redwood City, California, the company provides an AI representative named Elle, which autonomously answers customer inquiries regarding orders and handles routine tasks without burdening human support teams. Drawing on expertise from the Stanford Natural Language Processing group, Eloquent Labs’ AI can engage in natural conversations with customers while effectively recognizing when to escalate more complex issues to human agents. The software also has the capability to learn from documents, integrate with existing systems, and perform customized tasks, ultimately aiming to improve customer loyalty, employee satisfaction, and operational efficiency. As of May 2019, Eloquent Labs operates as a subsidiary of Square, Inc.

FindMine

Venture Round in 2017
FindMine is a leading provider of cloud-based retail technology that aims to enhance the editorial capabilities of iconic brands. By leveraging machine learning, FindMine streamlines the tedious process of product curation, allowing retailers to generate high-quality, brand-aligned content efficiently. This innovative technology significantly reduces the time required for content creation while improving sell-through rates and boosting gross margins and customer lifetime value. FindMine serves a diverse clientele, including well-known brands such as Rent the Runway and Vineyard Vines, by delivering personalized style suggestions and optimizing customer experiences across various channels, including ecommerce and marketing. The company's achievements have been recognized with accolades such as Gartner Cool Vendor and membership in LVMH's Maison des Startups.

TROVE

Seed Round in 2016
Trove is a mobile application based in San Francisco that connects consumers with daily content from leading fashion influencers. The platform automatically aggregates content from style bloggers' websites, optimizes it for mobile viewing, and presents it within the app. Users can search, share, and shop for their favorite fashion items all in one place, making it easier to engage with the latest trends and styles. Through this innovative approach, Trove enhances the experience of following fashion influencers while providing a seamless shopping opportunity.

PeerWell

Seed Round in 2016
PeerWell, Inc. is a healthcare technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. The company develops an application aimed at assisting candidates for hip and knee replacements in optimizing their health prior to surgery. Its PreHab application combines evidence-based medical content with advanced technology to provide users with tools to prepare both physically and mentally for surgery. This platform not only supports patients in managing pain and immobility but also offers customized daily lessons to facilitate recovery. PeerWell collaborates with various stakeholders, including Workers' Compensation leaders, health plans, and managed care organizations, to enhance patient outcomes and streamline the surgical experience.

Lilt

Seed Round in 2016
Lilt, Inc. is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based enterprise translation software. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Lilt offers a comprehensive platform that integrates adaptive neural machine translation technology with an enterprise translation management system and professional translators. This solution enables organizations to effectively scale their translation programs, accelerate their go-to-market strategies, and enhance the global customer experience. Lilt serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies like Intel and consumer brands such as ASICS, as well as technology firms like Canva and DigitalOcean. The company also maintains additional offices in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Dublin, Ireland, reflecting its global reach in providing professional translation services.

LifeSignals

Series C in 2016
LifeSignals Group Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Fremont, California, that specializes in the development and manufacturing of system-on-a-chip biosensors and software for medical device manufacturers. Founded in 2006, the company focuses on creating wireless peripherals that enable effective patient health tracking by transmitting and receiving vital signals. Its product offerings include the Life Signal Patch, Life Signal Receiver, and a software development kit that supports sensor-based healthcare devices. Additionally, LifeSignals provides the Life Signal CardiacApp, which serves as a reference design for analyzing and displaying cardiac data from wearable patches. The company's innovative semiconductor platform is designed to capture and communicate vital signs from both humans and animals, facilitating the rapid development and commercialization of cost-effective, clinical-grade remote monitoring wearables.

Disco

Seed Round in 2016
Disco is an HR recognition tool that offers products to recognize, reward, promote, socialize, and analyze a company culture. The tool helps the team recognize one another's contributions, big and small, and quantifies that feedback to keep culture on track. Through recognition, employees adapt company values while strengthening peer relationships, measure the pulse of the company with culture surveys in Slack, reward employees that go above-and-beyond, and publicize company values to every employee through fun and habit-forming social experiences.

Avochato

Seed Round in 2016
Avochato Inc. develops text messaging software aimed at enhancing customer relationship management. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a platform that allows business teams to communicate effectively with customers throughout the entire customer journey, from lead capture to post-sale support. Avochato's product features a live inbox for managing all customer communications, personalized text broadcasting, a chat widget, and the ability to text-enable office phone numbers. Additionally, it supports multimedia messaging and automated survey generation, making it suitable for sales, support, and operations teams within an organization. The software is designed to improve customer retention, streamline operations, and boost sales through intelligent text messaging.

AtScale

Series B in 2016
AtScale is a technology company that specializes in business intelligence solutions aimed at enhancing data-driven decision-making for enterprises. Its semantic layer platform simplifies and accelerates business intelligence and data science processes, allowing organizations to democratize data and adopt self-service analytics. By leveraging machine learning, AtScale's platform enables users to query data directly where it resides, minimizing the need for data movement and ensuring performance and scalability across large data environments. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and Boston, AtScale is staffed by experienced professionals from leading technology firms and serves a diverse range of industries globally. The company focuses on helping businesses build agile analytics infrastructures for more effective decision-making.

ZooZ

Series C in 2016
Zooz is a technology company founded in 2010 that specializes in a payments platform aimed at enhancing merchants' payment performance. The platform offers a comprehensive payment application that integrates various acquirers, e-wallets, alternative payment methods, and fraud management services. By streamlining the transaction process, Zooz enables businesses to optimize their payment operations within a complex ecosystem. In July 2018, Zooz was acquired by PayU, further expanding its reach and capabilities in the payments industry.

Mines

Seed Round in 2016
Mines.io, Inc. is a financial analytics company that operates a platform focused on mobile data. Its flagship product, Mteka, is an in-memory analytics solution capable of processing vast amounts of mobile carrier data rapidly, allowing for the creation and deployment of predictive models in real time. The company's services are designed to assist mobile operators in monetizing their data while enabling financial institutions to expand their customer reach. Among its offerings are a credit scoring service that evaluates consumer credit risk based on mobile behavior, a fraud detection system that identifies suspicious activities in real time, and behavior modeling tools that enhance customer identity verification. Additionally, the company employs risk analysis and machine learning techniques to help insurance providers tailor premiums based on consumer risk profiles. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Mines.io aims to leverage mobile data to improve financial services and consumer access to credit.

Biota

Venture Round in 2016
Biota specializes in DNA sequencing and data science to analyze the earth's subsurface, primarily serving the oil and gas industry. The company offers comprehensive services including sample acquisition, data extraction, sequencing, and analysis, which help clients enhance reservoir economics while minimizing environmental impact. By providing actionable diagnostics, Biota enables oil and gas companies to gain valuable insights into drainage volumes, well connectivity, and engineered completions. Its patented technology has been successfully applied to over 500 wells, primarily by leading producers in the US Shale market, delivering significant economic value and promoting sustainable production practices.

Fearless

Seed Round in 2015
Fearless is a company that specializes in developing virtual and augmented reality software aimed at helping individuals confront and overcome their fears and phobias, such as those related to spiders, heights, and flying. Utilizing exposure therapy within an immersive virtual environment, Fearless provides users with a platform to face their anxieties in a controlled setting, facilitating gradual desensitization without overwhelming them. Founded in 2017, the company focuses on creating interactive simulations that promote mental well-being and personal growth, contributing to a broader mission of improving lives through innovative technology.

Listo

Venture Round in 2015
Listo Financial is a consumer financial services company based in San Jose, California, focused on providing Latino consumers in the United States with accessible insurance products and loans. Founded in 2014, Listo offers a range of services, including responsible credit, auto insurance, and life insurance, delivered through both physical retail locations and online platforms. By leveraging technology, the company aims to empower its customers to make informed financial decisions that align with their investment needs.

Cape

Venture Round in 2015
Cape Productions, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in aerial video capture using drone and cloud technology. Established in 2014 and headquartered in the United States, the company offers a unique platform called Cape Aerial Telepresence™, which allows users to remotely control drones in real-time from any location. This innovative approach streamlines the operation of commercial drones by eliminating the need for on-site technical expertise, making it easier and more cost-effective for various agencies and businesses to utilize drone technology. By focusing on applications such as skiing and snowboarding, Cape enhances the accessibility and safety of aerial videography, catering to a wide range of users seeking to capture high-quality footage without the traditional complexities of drone operation.

SimplyCredit

Seed Round in 2015
SimplyCredit Inc. is a financial services company based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on providing simple interest credit solutions for consumers to manage their department store and credit card bills. Incorporated in 2015, SimplyCredit aims to create fair and transparent lending products by leveraging advanced technologies to enhance the customer experience. The company assesses creditworthiness to establish a new line of credit, including annual percentage rates and limits, in collaboration with its financial partners. SimplyCredit's mission is to transform consumer lending by ensuring that individuals receive the value and service they deserve, thereby simplifying credit access for the everyday consumer.

Slyce

Angel Round in 2015
Slyce is a technology company specializing in visual search and image recognition solutions for retailers and brands. Founded in 2012 and based in Toronto, Ontario, Slyce offers a platform that enables users to identify products in real time through visual recognition, as well as video and audio recognition, QR and barcode scanning, and NFC technology. This platform allows retailers and brands to facilitate transactions at the moment of consumer inspiration, enhancing the shopping experience. Additionally, Slyce's services enable businesses to target new customers and optimize engagement with existing ones. The company also develops tools that harmonize data across food delivery platforms, empowering restaurants to increase their delivery revenue through machine learning and AI-driven marketing strategies. Overall, Slyce aims to simplify and enhance the shopping and dining experiences for consumers while providing valuable insights and operational efficiencies to brands and restaurants.

DropThought

Convertible Note in 2015
DropThought, Inc. is a software company that specializes in feedback management and analysis, enabling businesses to engage with customers and employees in real-time. Founded in 2011 and based in Santa Clara, California, DropThought offers an Instant Feedback Platform that allows companies to gather, respond to, and analyze feedback through various channels, including a mobile app, embedded API integrations, and on-site tablet devices. Its services include a robust Analytics Dashboard and a mobile application for managers, which provide instant notifications and insights, facilitating immediate responses to feedback. Additionally, the platform features text analytics capabilities that track customer experience metrics over time, helping businesses identify improvement opportunities. DropThought also supports social media marketing by allowing companies to promote positive customer feedback online.

AtScale

Series A in 2015
AtScale is a technology company that specializes in business intelligence solutions aimed at enhancing data-driven decision-making for enterprises. Its semantic layer platform simplifies and accelerates business intelligence and data science processes, allowing organizations to democratize data and adopt self-service analytics. By leveraging machine learning, AtScale's platform enables users to query data directly where it resides, minimizing the need for data movement and ensuring performance and scalability across large data environments. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and Boston, AtScale is staffed by experienced professionals from leading technology firms and serves a diverse range of industries globally. The company focuses on helping businesses build agile analytics infrastructures for more effective decision-making.

Caller Zen

Seed Round in 2015
Caller Zen, Inc., founded in 2015 by Alex De Simone, is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in customer support software. The company offers a mobile application that provides SMS support communications technology, enabling businesses to manage support requests efficiently through text messages. This approach helps improve customer satisfaction while reducing operational costs. Caller Zen integrates with popular platforms such as Microsoft, Slack, and Salesforce, allowing for seamless communication and support management. When a customer calls, they receive a customized greeting followed by a text message from the user's registered number, enhancing the overall service experience.

Lilt

Debt Financing in 2015
Lilt, Inc. is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based enterprise translation software. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Lilt offers a comprehensive platform that integrates adaptive neural machine translation technology with an enterprise translation management system and professional translators. This solution enables organizations to effectively scale their translation programs, accelerate their go-to-market strategies, and enhance the global customer experience. Lilt serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies like Intel and consumer brands such as ASICS, as well as technology firms like Canva and DigitalOcean. The company also maintains additional offices in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Dublin, Ireland, reflecting its global reach in providing professional translation services.

Smart Coffee Technology

Seed Round in 2015
Smart Coffee Technology, Inc. manufactures and markets coffee brewing machines, focusing on the specialty coffee industry. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company aims to empower micro-roasters to compete in the expanding single-serve coffee market. Smart Coffee Technology is founded on the belief that consumers desire both choice and convenience in their coffee experience. To meet this demand, the company develops innovative tools and hardware products designed to integrate seamlessly into the coffee industry.

The League

Seed Round in 2015
The League is a dating application founded by Amanda Bradford in June 2014, based in San Francisco, California. It caters to ambitious individuals seeking long-term relationships, emphasizing the importance of equality in both the workplace and personal connections. The app incorporates advanced screening tools that allow users to create detailed profiles and set specific preferences, ensuring that matches align closely with their values and aspirations. This focus on privacy allows users to connect without exposure to friends or co-workers, fostering a community that supports self-awareness and meaningful interactions among like-minded individuals.

Chatous

Seed Round in 2014
Chatous, Inc. is an online chat platform that facilitates social discovery through conversation. Established in 2012 by three Stanford Computer Science students, the service employs big data algorithms to enhance user interactions and predict compatibility among users. As individuals engage in conversations, the platform continuously learns from these interactions, refining its algorithm to improve user experience. Based in the United States, Chatous aims to create meaningful connections by leveraging a data-driven approach to social networking.

LifeSignals

Series B in 2014
LifeSignals Group Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Fremont, California, that specializes in the development and manufacturing of system-on-a-chip biosensors and software for medical device manufacturers. Founded in 2006, the company focuses on creating wireless peripherals that enable effective patient health tracking by transmitting and receiving vital signals. Its product offerings include the Life Signal Patch, Life Signal Receiver, and a software development kit that supports sensor-based healthcare devices. Additionally, LifeSignals provides the Life Signal CardiacApp, which serves as a reference design for analyzing and displaying cardiac data from wearable patches. The company's innovative semiconductor platform is designed to capture and communicate vital signs from both humans and animals, facilitating the rapid development and commercialization of cost-effective, clinical-grade remote monitoring wearables.

Zipline Medical

Series C in 2014
Zipline Medical, Inc. is a healthcare company specializing in the development and commercialization of non-invasive skin closure solutions. Founded in 2009 and based in Campbell, California, the company focuses on its innovative PRELOC™ technology platform, which provides uniform closure forces while minimizing tension that can lead to scarring. The flagship product, Zip Surgical Skin Closure, is applicable across a range of medical specialties, including cardiology, orthopedics, dermatology, and emergency medicine. The technology aims to combine the speed of staples with the cosmetic advantages of sutures, addressing the clinical need for rapid and effective skin closure while reducing the risk of surgical site infections. By eliminating skin punctures and decreasing the risk of needlestick injuries, Zipline Medical enhances surgical outcomes and patient care in various surgical procedures. The company operates as a subsidiary of Stryker Corporation.

Citrine Informatics

Seed Round in 2014
Citrine Informatics, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance materials development. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, with an additional office in Pittsburgh, the company operates a platform that aggregates and analyzes extensive datasets related to materials, chemicals, and devices. This platform aims to streamline research and development, manufacturing, and supply chain processes for organizations involved in producing physical products. By employing data science and machine learning, Citrine Informatics accelerates the discovery of new materials and helps identify defects early in the research process, thereby improving product design and development efficiency across various sectors, including energy, aerospace, and electronics.

ZooZ

Series B in 2014
Zooz is a technology company founded in 2010 that specializes in a payments platform aimed at enhancing merchants' payment performance. The platform offers a comprehensive payment application that integrates various acquirers, e-wallets, alternative payment methods, and fraud management services. By streamlining the transaction process, Zooz enables businesses to optimize their payment operations within a complex ecosystem. In July 2018, Zooz was acquired by PayU, further expanding its reach and capabilities in the payments industry.

GeneWEAVE

Series B in 2014
GeneWeave Biosciences specializes in developing advanced diagnostic solutions to enhance clinical microbiology and address the challenges posed by drug-resistant infections. The company aims to support hospitals and physicians globally by enabling improved antibiotic stewardship and providing rapid determinations of optimal antibiotic therapy for critical bacterial infections. Utilizing its proprietary Smarticles™ technology, GeneWeave delivers homogeneous assays that can quickly measure bacterial drug resistance without the need for enrichment, culture, or extensive sample preparation, thereby streamlining the diagnostic process and contributing to better patient outcomes.

CirroSecure

Seed Round in 2014
CirroSecure is a cloud data security platform that offers enterprises comprehensive visibility and protection for their cloud assets without causing disruption to IT operations. The platform specializes in multi-dimensional compliance and exposure risk analysis, enabling organizations to accurately identify sources of risk. Additionally, CirroSecure provides a monitoring service for provisioned cloud applications, which enhances data protection through automated and manual root cause analysis. This approach allows enterprises to maintain security while effectively managing their cloud environments.

Mines

Seed Round in 2014
Mines.io, Inc. is a financial analytics company that operates a platform focused on mobile data. Its flagship product, Mteka, is an in-memory analytics solution capable of processing vast amounts of mobile carrier data rapidly, allowing for the creation and deployment of predictive models in real time. The company's services are designed to assist mobile operators in monetizing their data while enabling financial institutions to expand their customer reach. Among its offerings are a credit scoring service that evaluates consumer credit risk based on mobile behavior, a fraud detection system that identifies suspicious activities in real time, and behavior modeling tools that enhance customer identity verification. Additionally, the company employs risk analysis and machine learning techniques to help insurance providers tailor premiums based on consumer risk profiles. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Mines.io aims to leverage mobile data to improve financial services and consumer access to credit.

Zipline Medical

Series C in 2014
Zipline Medical, Inc. is a healthcare company specializing in the development and commercialization of non-invasive skin closure solutions. Founded in 2009 and based in Campbell, California, the company focuses on its innovative PRELOC™ technology platform, which provides uniform closure forces while minimizing tension that can lead to scarring. The flagship product, Zip Surgical Skin Closure, is applicable across a range of medical specialties, including cardiology, orthopedics, dermatology, and emergency medicine. The technology aims to combine the speed of staples with the cosmetic advantages of sutures, addressing the clinical need for rapid and effective skin closure while reducing the risk of surgical site infections. By eliminating skin punctures and decreasing the risk of needlestick injuries, Zipline Medical enhances surgical outcomes and patient care in various surgical procedures. The company operates as a subsidiary of Stryker Corporation.

Pixlee TurnTo

Seed Round in 2013
Pixlee TurnTo is a marketing software company that focuses on enhancing brand promotion through the voice of customers. Formed from the merger of Pixlee and TurnTo in early 2021, the company offers a platform that integrates user-generated content (UGC), influencer marketing, and text-based customer content such as ratings and reviews. This approach allows marketers and e-commerce executives to create authentic customer-driven marketing strategies without necessitating additional technical resources. By placing customers at the core of marketing efforts, Pixlee TurnTo aims to boost revenue, brand loyalty, and consumer engagement. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has additional offices in New York and Toronto.

DropThought

Series A in 2013
DropThought, Inc. is a software company that specializes in feedback management and analysis, enabling businesses to engage with customers and employees in real-time. Founded in 2011 and based in Santa Clara, California, DropThought offers an Instant Feedback Platform that allows companies to gather, respond to, and analyze feedback through various channels, including a mobile app, embedded API integrations, and on-site tablet devices. Its services include a robust Analytics Dashboard and a mobile application for managers, which provide instant notifications and insights, facilitating immediate responses to feedback. Additionally, the platform features text analytics capabilities that track customer experience metrics over time, helping businesses identify improvement opportunities. DropThought also supports social media marketing by allowing companies to promote positive customer feedback online.

Breezeworks

Seed Round in 2013
Breezeworks Corporation is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that provides a mobile application designed to transform smartphones into comprehensive business management tools for independent service professionals. Founded in 2012, Breezeworks offers a platform that allows users to manage various aspects of their business from their smartphones, including scheduling appointments, updating arrival times, and sending reminders for follow-up work. The application also enables users to store job notes and photos, manage invoicing, and streamline communication with customers and suppliers. By integrating features such as navigation assistance and payment collection, Breezeworks aims to enhance operational efficiency and improve customer engagement for its users.

SIPX

Series B in 2013
SIPX, Inc. is a web-based service aimed at the higher education marketplace, facilitating the management of copyrights and the delivery of digital documents. Founded in 2012 and based in Palo Alto, California, SIPX allows copyright owners to register their content, set access restrictions, and establish pricing rules. University libraries can integrate their institutional holdings, enabling professors to search for articles through a keyword system and providing students access to digital content for reading and printing. The platform also empowers content owners to monetize article requests from institutions with limited budgets and offers publishers insights into how their material is utilized in academic settings. SIPX enhances the educational experience by enabling professors to create digital reading lists while simplifying the process of legally accessing digital content. As of 2015, SIPX operates as a subsidiary of ProQuest LLC.

Compass Quality Insight

Seed Round in 2013
Compass Quality Insights, Inc. is founded on a simple mission: to build technology that helps people be smarter testers. Compass’ flagship testing product, Compass Profiler, delivers the analytics that QA teams need in order to move faster and release with higher confidence. Founded in 2012, Compass Quality Insights is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and XSeed Capital and is based in San Francisco.

Lex Machina

Series A in 2013
Lex Machina, Inc. is a provider of legal analytics, specializing in Software-as-a-Service solutions that deliver structured data sets related to judges, lawyers, parties, and intellectual property litigation. Founded in 2010 and based in Menlo Park, California, the company offers a suite of applications designed to assist attorneys in developing effective legal strategies, drafting successful motions, and assessing the risk associated with new cases. Its platform, utilizing advanced data mining techniques, allows users to analyze millions of pages of litigation information, enabling them to predict the behaviors and outcomes of various legal strategies. Additionally, Lex Machina provides professional services including early case assessment, judge and party profiling, benchmarking, and customized reporting. As a subsidiary of LexisNexis Group, Lex Machina plays a pivotal role in equipping law firms and businesses with the insights needed to navigate the complexities of the legal landscape.

ZooZ

Series A in 2013
Zooz is a technology company founded in 2010 that specializes in a payments platform aimed at enhancing merchants' payment performance. The platform offers a comprehensive payment application that integrates various acquirers, e-wallets, alternative payment methods, and fraud management services. By streamlining the transaction process, Zooz enables businesses to optimize their payment operations within a complex ecosystem. In July 2018, Zooz was acquired by PayU, further expanding its reach and capabilities in the payments industry.

Neon Labs.

Seed Round in 2013
Neon Open is an innovative platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance advertising inventory through open-source technology. By employing a deep learning model, it quantifies the emotional impact of images and videos, allowing users to predict which visuals will generate increased engagement, including clicks, likes, and shares. The platform caters to a diverse range of users, including journalists, artists, engineers, and non-profit organizations, making it a versatile tool in the marketing landscape. Neon Open's offerings, including Neon for Video, have demonstrated significant effectiveness, with reported increases in video views through real-time optimization of visual content. The company has established partnerships with leading deep learning frameworks to support its mission of improving customer engagement and streamlining the marketing workflow by automating the selection of impactful images and videos.

Playnomics

Series B in 2013
Playnomics is a predictive data and marketing platform designed for free-to-play games and applications. It provides marketers and developers with tools to forecast player value and behavior, enabling them to implement customized messaging based on these insights. The platform features a dynamic player segmentation engine and user-friendly campaign marketing tools, allowing developers to create targeted monetization and retention strategies. By utilizing advanced predictive analytics, Playnomics helps game creators enhance their decision-making processes and optimize revenue from various player segments, including VIPs, new spenders, and non-spenders. The company's focus on behavioral modeling and machine learning further aids in understanding player dynamics, predicting lifetime value, and recommending virtual items, thus enhancing the overall gaming experience.

BrightBox Technologies

Seed Round in 2013
BrightBox Technologies is a Bay Area-based start-up that specializes in developing and marketing advanced HVAC controls designed for large commercial buildings. The company focuses on enhancing both performance and comfort while achieving significant reductions in operating costs. Unlike many energy efficiency software firms that primarily concentrate on monitoring or fault detection, BrightBox offers a comprehensive platform that provides real-time control and ongoing system optimization, along with diagnostics and verification of outcomes. To deliver a complete solution to its clients, the company collaborates with local HVAC controls contractors.

Trifacta

Series A in 2012
Trifacta offers a data engineering cloud platform focused on enhancing the efficiency of data wrangling and ensuring data quality. The platform allows users to connect seamlessly to various data sources, enabling them to evaluate, correct, and validate the quality of their data. With an AI-assisted and collaborative approach, Trifacta facilitates accelerated data transformation and the automation of data pipelines, making data consumable at any scale. The company serves tens of thousands of users across more than 10,000 organizations, including prominent names such as Deutsche Boerse, Google, and PepsiCo, helping them unlock the full potential of their data through its innovative solutions.

SIPX

Series A in 2012
SIPX, Inc. is a web-based service aimed at the higher education marketplace, facilitating the management of copyrights and the delivery of digital documents. Founded in 2012 and based in Palo Alto, California, SIPX allows copyright owners to register their content, set access restrictions, and establish pricing rules. University libraries can integrate their institutional holdings, enabling professors to search for articles through a keyword system and providing students access to digital content for reading and printing. The platform also empowers content owners to monetize article requests from institutions with limited budgets and offers publishers insights into how their material is utilized in academic settings. SIPX enhances the educational experience by enabling professors to create digital reading lists while simplifying the process of legally accessing digital content. As of 2015, SIPX operates as a subsidiary of ProQuest LLC.

Lex Machina

Seed Round in 2012
Lex Machina, Inc. is a provider of legal analytics, specializing in Software-as-a-Service solutions that deliver structured data sets related to judges, lawyers, parties, and intellectual property litigation. Founded in 2010 and based in Menlo Park, California, the company offers a suite of applications designed to assist attorneys in developing effective legal strategies, drafting successful motions, and assessing the risk associated with new cases. Its platform, utilizing advanced data mining techniques, allows users to analyze millions of pages of litigation information, enabling them to predict the behaviors and outcomes of various legal strategies. Additionally, Lex Machina provides professional services including early case assessment, judge and party profiling, benchmarking, and customized reporting. As a subsidiary of LexisNexis Group, Lex Machina plays a pivotal role in equipping law firms and businesses with the insights needed to navigate the complexities of the legal landscape.

CellScape

Venture Round in 2012
CellScape Corporation (formerly Saryna Medical Corp) is a privately funded company headquartered in Newark, California, in the heart of the biotech corridor of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Company has developed whole fetal cell technology to transform prenatal genetic testing using a simple blood test. Their vision is to make comprehensive prenatal genetic testing available to every woman without requiring an invasive procedure that might put the fetus at risk. Their leadership team is accomplished in bringing innovative, cost-effective medical and molecular diagnostics to market.

Zipline Medical

Series B in 2012
Zipline Medical, Inc. is a healthcare company specializing in the development and commercialization of non-invasive skin closure solutions. Founded in 2009 and based in Campbell, California, the company focuses on its innovative PRELOC™ technology platform, which provides uniform closure forces while minimizing tension that can lead to scarring. The flagship product, Zip Surgical Skin Closure, is applicable across a range of medical specialties, including cardiology, orthopedics, dermatology, and emergency medicine. The technology aims to combine the speed of staples with the cosmetic advantages of sutures, addressing the clinical need for rapid and effective skin closure while reducing the risk of surgical site infections. By eliminating skin punctures and decreasing the risk of needlestick injuries, Zipline Medical enhances surgical outcomes and patient care in various surgical procedures. The company operates as a subsidiary of Stryker Corporation.

VitaPath Genetics

Series C in 2012
VitaPath Genetics is developing a family of DNA tests to help individuals reduce the risk of serious and life-threatening disease. Their first product is a genetic test to identify risk factors that are associated with a common birth defect called Spina Bifida and which can be safely corrected with low-risk vitamin supplementation under the care of a physician.

GeneWEAVE

Series A in 2012
GeneWeave Biosciences specializes in developing advanced diagnostic solutions to enhance clinical microbiology and address the challenges posed by drug-resistant infections. The company aims to support hospitals and physicians globally by enabling improved antibiotic stewardship and providing rapid determinations of optimal antibiotic therapy for critical bacterial infections. Utilizing its proprietary Smarticles™ technology, GeneWeave delivers homogeneous assays that can quickly measure bacterial drug resistance without the need for enrichment, culture, or extensive sample preparation, thereby streamlining the diagnostic process and contributing to better patient outcomes.

CellScape

Series B in 2012
CellScape Corporation (formerly Saryna Medical Corp) is a privately funded company headquartered in Newark, California, in the heart of the biotech corridor of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Company has developed whole fetal cell technology to transform prenatal genetic testing using a simple blood test. Their vision is to make comprehensive prenatal genetic testing available to every woman without requiring an invasive procedure that might put the fetus at risk. Their leadership team is accomplished in bringing innovative, cost-effective medical and molecular diagnostics to market.

OPX Biotechnologies

Series C in 2011
OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. is a Colorado-based company focused on sustainable bioproducts. It utilizes proprietary bioengineering technology to convert renewable feedstocks into biofuels and green chemistry products. The company's innovative platform, known as OPX EDGE, enables the efficient optimization of microbes and bioprocesses, allowing for improved product performance and sustainability at lower costs compared to petroleum-based alternatives. This approach facilitates the production of economical, bio-based chemicals, contributing to a more sustainable chemical industry.

Playnomics

Series A in 2011
Playnomics is a predictive data and marketing platform designed for free-to-play games and applications. It provides marketers and developers with tools to forecast player value and behavior, enabling them to implement customized messaging based on these insights. The platform features a dynamic player segmentation engine and user-friendly campaign marketing tools, allowing developers to create targeted monetization and retention strategies. By utilizing advanced predictive analytics, Playnomics helps game creators enhance their decision-making processes and optimize revenue from various player segments, including VIPs, new spenders, and non-spenders. The company's focus on behavioral modeling and machine learning further aids in understanding player dynamics, predicting lifetime value, and recommending virtual items, thus enhancing the overall gaming experience.

CellScape

Series A in 2010
CellScape Corporation (formerly Saryna Medical Corp) is a privately funded company headquartered in Newark, California, in the heart of the biotech corridor of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Company has developed whole fetal cell technology to transform prenatal genetic testing using a simple blood test. Their vision is to make comprehensive prenatal genetic testing available to every woman without requiring an invasive procedure that might put the fetus at risk. Their leadership team is accomplished in bringing innovative, cost-effective medical and molecular diagnostics to market.

GeneWEAVE

Seed Round in 2010
GeneWeave Biosciences specializes in developing advanced diagnostic solutions to enhance clinical microbiology and address the challenges posed by drug-resistant infections. The company aims to support hospitals and physicians globally by enabling improved antibiotic stewardship and providing rapid determinations of optimal antibiotic therapy for critical bacterial infections. Utilizing its proprietary Smarticles™ technology, GeneWeave delivers homogeneous assays that can quickly measure bacterial drug resistance without the need for enrichment, culture, or extensive sample preparation, thereby streamlining the diagnostic process and contributing to better patient outcomes.

LifeSignals

Series A in 2010
LifeSignals Group Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Fremont, California, that specializes in the development and manufacturing of system-on-a-chip biosensors and software for medical device manufacturers. Founded in 2006, the company focuses on creating wireless peripherals that enable effective patient health tracking by transmitting and receiving vital signals. Its product offerings include the Life Signal Patch, Life Signal Receiver, and a software development kit that supports sensor-based healthcare devices. Additionally, LifeSignals provides the Life Signal CardiacApp, which serves as a reference design for analyzing and displaying cardiac data from wearable patches. The company's innovative semiconductor platform is designed to capture and communicate vital signs from both humans and animals, facilitating the rapid development and commercialization of cost-effective, clinical-grade remote monitoring wearables.

Zipline Medical

Series A in 2009
Zipline Medical, Inc. is a healthcare company specializing in the development and commercialization of non-invasive skin closure solutions. Founded in 2009 and based in Campbell, California, the company focuses on its innovative PRELOC™ technology platform, which provides uniform closure forces while minimizing tension that can lead to scarring. The flagship product, Zip Surgical Skin Closure, is applicable across a range of medical specialties, including cardiology, orthopedics, dermatology, and emergency medicine. The technology aims to combine the speed of staples with the cosmetic advantages of sutures, addressing the clinical need for rapid and effective skin closure while reducing the risk of surgical site infections. By eliminating skin punctures and decreasing the risk of needlestick injuries, Zipline Medical enhances surgical outcomes and patient care in various surgical procedures. The company operates as a subsidiary of Stryker Corporation.

Bio Architecture Lab

Series A in 2009
Bio Architecture Lab is a pioneer in the application of synthetic biology and enzyme design to the development of biofuels and renewable chemicals from aquafarmed, native macroalgae (seaweed), which is a low cost, scalable, and sustainable biomass.

VitaPath Genetics

Series A in 2009
VitaPath Genetics is developing a family of DNA tests to help individuals reduce the risk of serious and life-threatening disease. Their first product is a genetic test to identify risk factors that are associated with a common birth defect called Spina Bifida and which can be safely corrected with low-risk vitamin supplementation under the care of a physician.

CellScape

Seed Round in 2009
CellScape Corporation (formerly Saryna Medical Corp) is a privately funded company headquartered in Newark, California, in the heart of the biotech corridor of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Company has developed whole fetal cell technology to transform prenatal genetic testing using a simple blood test. Their vision is to make comprehensive prenatal genetic testing available to every woman without requiring an invasive procedure that might put the fetus at risk. Their leadership team is accomplished in bringing innovative, cost-effective medical and molecular diagnostics to market.

OPX Biotechnologies

Series B in 2009
OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. is a Colorado-based company focused on sustainable bioproducts. It utilizes proprietary bioengineering technology to convert renewable feedstocks into biofuels and green chemistry products. The company's innovative platform, known as OPX EDGE, enables the efficient optimization of microbes and bioprocesses, allowing for improved product performance and sustainability at lower costs compared to petroleum-based alternatives. This approach facilitates the production of economical, bio-based chemicals, contributing to a more sustainable chemical industry.

Siva Power

Series B in 2008
Siva Power, Inc. is a manufacturer of solar modules and panels based in Santa Clara, California. Founded in 2006, the company specializes in third-generation thin-film photovoltaic technologies that aim to enhance solar cell efficiency while significantly reducing manufacturing costs. Siva Power's innovative approach employs co-evaporated copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) and a monolithic integration glass architecture, which utilizes automated laser scribes to streamline the manufacturing process. This technology is designed to halve the number of manufacturing steps compared to traditional methods, enabling the production of solar modules that can generate electricity competitively without relying on government subsidies. The company's advancements facilitate the establishment of solar power plants, contributing to more cost-effective energy production.

Allopartis

Series A in 2008
Allopartis develops enzymes to convert biomass into sugar for cellulosic biofuel production and industrial biotechnology.

Bio Architecture Lab

Seed Round in 2008
Bio Architecture Lab is a pioneer in the application of synthetic biology and enzyme design to the development of biofuels and renewable chemicals from aquafarmed, native macroalgae (seaweed), which is a low cost, scalable, and sustainable biomass.

OPX Biotechnologies

Series A in 2007
OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. is a Colorado-based company focused on sustainable bioproducts. It utilizes proprietary bioengineering technology to convert renewable feedstocks into biofuels and green chemistry products. The company's innovative platform, known as OPX EDGE, enables the efficient optimization of microbes and bioprocesses, allowing for improved product performance and sustainability at lower costs compared to petroleum-based alternatives. This approach facilitates the production of economical, bio-based chemicals, contributing to a more sustainable chemical industry.

LifeSignals

Seed Round in 2007
LifeSignals Group Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Fremont, California, that specializes in the development and manufacturing of system-on-a-chip biosensors and software for medical device manufacturers. Founded in 2006, the company focuses on creating wireless peripherals that enable effective patient health tracking by transmitting and receiving vital signals. Its product offerings include the Life Signal Patch, Life Signal Receiver, and a software development kit that supports sensor-based healthcare devices. Additionally, LifeSignals provides the Life Signal CardiacApp, which serves as a reference design for analyzing and displaying cardiac data from wearable patches. The company's innovative semiconductor platform is designed to capture and communicate vital signs from both humans and animals, facilitating the rapid development and commercialization of cost-effective, clinical-grade remote monitoring wearables.

Siva Power

Series A in 2007
Siva Power, Inc. is a manufacturer of solar modules and panels based in Santa Clara, California. Founded in 2006, the company specializes in third-generation thin-film photovoltaic technologies that aim to enhance solar cell efficiency while significantly reducing manufacturing costs. Siva Power's innovative approach employs co-evaporated copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) and a monolithic integration glass architecture, which utilizes automated laser scribes to streamline the manufacturing process. This technology is designed to halve the number of manufacturing steps compared to traditional methods, enabling the production of solar modules that can generate electricity competitively without relying on government subsidies. The company's advancements facilitate the establishment of solar power plants, contributing to more cost-effective energy production.

OPX Biotechnologies

Seed Round in 2007
OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. is a Colorado-based company focused on sustainable bioproducts. It utilizes proprietary bioengineering technology to convert renewable feedstocks into biofuels and green chemistry products. The company's innovative platform, known as OPX EDGE, enables the efficient optimization of microbes and bioprocesses, allowing for improved product performance and sustainability at lower costs compared to petroleum-based alternatives. This approach facilitates the production of economical, bio-based chemicals, contributing to a more sustainable chemical industry.

MuseAmi

Seed Round in 2007
MuseAmi is a growing, privately held music technology company based in Princeton, NJ. The company was founded in 2007 by world-renowned concert pianist Robert Taub to enhance the ways individuals create, collaborate, learn and share music. With a team of industry leaders in the fields of music, machine learning and audio signal processing, MuseAmi creates highly efficient software to detect, analyze, and categorize visual and audio inputs in real world contexts. The company has developed significant intellectual property and has been awarded several patents that the company commercializes with its world-leading strategic partners. MuseAmi's commercially available apps include ImproVox, a "vocal instrument" app, and the forthcoming Hook'd app.
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