Zelkova Ventures

Zelkova Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage companies, often providing a company's first institutional capital. The firm focuses on sectors such as Software Services, Internet Technologies, Environmental Technologies, and Consumer Products. Zelkova Ventures takes an active role in its portfolio companies, offering expertise and insight to help entrepreneurs build successful businesses. With a focus on funding in various disciplines including technology, green tech, internet, and luxury goods, Zelkova Ventures aims to partner with innovative startups to support their growth and development.

Jay Levy

Managing Partner

Larry Scheinfeld

Co-Founder and Partner

97 past transactions

Hem

Venture Round in 2018
Hem Design Studio Sweden AB manufactures and sells furniture, rugs, lights, and other accessories. Its products include rugs, such as stripe, rain, grid, and dune rugs; furniture, chairs and stools, sofas and poufs, tables and side tables, and storage and shelving; lights, dusk lamp, alphabeta, and levels lamp; and accessories, blankets and cushions, organization and decoration, table accessories, hooks and mirrors. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

klout

Series C in 2012
Klout measures influence based on the ability to drive action across the social web. Any person can connect their social network accounts and Klout will generate a score on a scale of 1-100 that represents their ability to engage other people and inspire social actions. Klout enables everyone to gain insights that help them better understand how they influence others. Klout also provides people with opportunities to shape and be recognized for their influence.

Astro

Seed Round in 2015
Astro specializes in developing an automated home system of devices. It requires no installation, no new infrastructure, and no new wireless networks making it the simplest platform on the market.

The Financial Gym

Venture Round in 2021
The Financial Gym, Inc. provides financial planning services. The company helps in paying off debt, buying a house, and saving for wedding. It also offers services in the areas of goal setting, budgeting and saving, travel hacking, debt repayment, credit cards, investment education, and secure retirement. The Financial Gym, Inc. was formerly known as The Financial Gym, LLC. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Plancast

Seed Round in 2010
The best way to discover events and activities with friends.

Locus Energy

Series A in 2012
Locus Energy offers a technology platform providing automated monitoring support and data analytics for distributed generation systems (residential, commercial, & industrial), focusing in solar PV. The company was founded in 2007, and its web-based platform enables project stakeholders to maximize the efficiency and transparency of installed systems. Locus Energys software aggregates performance data from a network of distributed renewable systems and provides customized interfaces and analytics to owners, operators, OEMs and regulators.

Simplecast

Series A in 2019
Simplecast is an podcast platform that powers shows from many of the most well-known creators and brands, from Netflix, Twitter, Facebook, TechCrunch and Politico to Dax Shepard and Alyssa Milano. Our hosting, management, distribution and analytics intelligence suite enables creators of all sizes to grow, understand, and better connect with their audiences.

BrandYourself

Series A in 2012
BrandYourself provides tools and services that help people look better online. This includes dealing with unwanted items – like an old divorce record or ill-advise tweet – as well as helping promote positive items that benefit someones career. In 2012, BrandYourself launched the first DIY online reputation management tool that walks users through the process of monitoring and improving their online presence. BrandYourself also offers reputation management services for individuals and businesses with a team of in-house content creators, web developers, social media managers, brand strategists and placement specialists. BrandYourself has secured over $6 million in venture capital, including investments from prominent angel investor Barney Pell (former Head Search Strategist at Microsoft & Architect at Bing), John Galanti (former President at Hudson Valley Datanet), Ryan Holmes (CEO & Co-founder at Hootsuite) as well as firms FF Angels, New Atlantic Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, and LeFrak Investments. BrandYourself has been recognized by the White House, named a "Best Entrepreneurial Company in America" by Entrepreneur Magazine, declared "Best Online Reputation Services for Individuals" by Business News Daily and appeared on ABC's Shark Tank, where they walked away from a $2 million offer - one of the highest offers in the show's history.

Lettuce

Seed Round in 2012
Lettuce is a simple order management system with a mobile sales app enabling your business to capture, track, and process orders anywhere in real time. We primarily focus on small and medium sized businesses.

Dispatch

Seed Round in 2011
Dispatches are intelligent group email addresses for your projects. No more noise. No more hassle. The Simplicity of Email + The Power of a Project Management System. Dispatch began at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon 2011. It was created by a team of three, including 17 year old [Alex Godin](http://twitter.com/#!/alex_godin), to solve organization problems with file sharing by consolidating files from different web pages.

Fab

Seed Round in 2010
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

YayPay

Venture Round in 2017
YayPay builds modern accounts receivables management software powered by data science for finance, credit and collections teams. It serves mid-market and enterprise customers through automation of the credit to cash process with credit assessment, invoicing, collections management, online payment portal, cash application and predictive analytics. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

adHawk

Seed Round in 2015
Broadlume, formally AdHawk, is the world’s largest provider of digital technology to the flooring industry. With its family of companies—FloorForce, Creating Your Space, Bridgeway Interactive, and FlooringStores—Broadlume is redefining the way flooring is bought and sold.

2Morrow

Venture Round in 2021
2Morrow, Inc. provides evidence-based behavioral change programs and applications. The company’s programs include SmartQuit, an evidence-based smoking cessation program that uses protocols based on acceptance commitment therapy that helps smokers quit; My Pocket Coach, a personal goal and habit platform that gives individuals the focus and daily practice required to achieve personal goals, sustain new habits, or break bad habits; and Healthy Habits, a program that helps people to create good habits or break bad ones. It distributes its programs through employers, states, wellness programs, and health plans. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Kirkland, Washington.

Vitally

Series A in 2021
Vitally, Inc. develops an analytics platform for B2B businesses. The company’s product includes Vitally which enables SaaS companies track the product metrics critical to customer retention alongside the impact their post-sales process has on those metrics. Further, the company offers analytics tools, success metrics, and indicators to locate customers, as well as provides insights into each customer's engagement with the product. Additionally, it automatically highlights opportunity or risk states which the customers transition in to. Vitally, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Yaguara

Private Placement in 2019
Yaguara, Inc operates a business growth, planning, and management platform. It offers Yaguara, a solution for that aligns team behind goals and allows the users to measure the performance. The company serves marketing, product, sales, and project management teams. Yaguara, Inc was founded in 2016 and is based in Denver, Colorado. It has additional offices in New York, New York; and San Francisco, California.

Onboard

Seed Round in 2021
SaaS, B2B SaaS, Customer Onboarding, Customer Implementation, Automated Project Management, Customer Success Management, Project Management

Livefyre

Series A in 2010
Livefyre helps companies engage consumers through a combination of real-time content, conversation and social curation

Vitally

Seed Round in 2019
Vitally, Inc. develops an analytics platform for B2B businesses. The company’s product includes Vitally which enables SaaS companies track the product metrics critical to customer retention alongside the impact their post-sales process has on those metrics. Further, the company offers analytics tools, success metrics, and indicators to locate customers, as well as provides insights into each customer's engagement with the product. Additionally, it automatically highlights opportunity or risk states which the customers transition in to. Vitally, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

BlackJet

Venture Round in 2012
BlackJet allows consumers to book seats on private jets in 10 seconds. Guaranteed seat availability. The most affordable private jet solution. BlackJet will have two primary routes available: New York to Los Angeles and New York to South Florida. But soon it will be connecting San Francisco with Los Angeles, New York, and Las Vegas. Other additional routes will primarily be based on user demand, Camp told me.

GameChanger Media

Series A in 2011
GameChanger is a mobile app and website providing scorekeeping, stats, live gamestream plays, and recap stories for amateur sports teams. GameChanger software is changing the way amateur sports teams collect, manage and share real-time information. Their mobile app and website provide scorekeeping, stats, live GameStream plays and recap stories for thousands of youth, high school and college teams. The GameChanger is free for coaches and scorekeepers. Their business is supported by parents and fans that purchase premium team content.

Netra

Seed Round in 2016
Netra Systems Inc. develops an artificial intelligence technology that automatically analyzes and interprets the contents of images and videos. The company offers its technology for multi-camera object, event, and activity recognitions/detections; automatic scene summarizations; instant cross-camera search options; and cross-camera object tracking needs. It provides its products for applications in healthcare, military, customs and border security, retail, security/surveillance, etc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Opstarts

Series A in 2016
Opstarts was founded to help businesses forecast more accurately and make smarter decisions by replacing cumbersome spreadsheets with a nimble and powerful web-based planning application. Thier founders and advisors have deep financial and operational modeling experience, and the company is backed by a set of great venture capital and angel investors.

GreatHorn

Convertible Note in 2015
GreatHorn is a computer software company that provides protection for cloud email systems, via advanced threat detection, automated defense, and integrated incident response. The company specializes in the fields of machine learning, information security, predictive security, and cybersecurity. GreatHorn was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Ambassador

Series A in 2015
Ambassador provides referral, partner, and affiliate tracking and management. Ambassador is the best way to reward customers for promoting products online. Ambassador provides an end-to-end solution: you can create, track, and manage all your custom referral programs from a single dashboard. Build on the Ambassador API to seamlessly integrate into your own application, you can also integrate Ambassador into many popular 3rd party CRM, Email and Billing applications.

ReTel Technologies

Seed Round in 2009
Based in San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL, ReTel Technologies develops advanced analytics that help businesses optimize their security, operations and consumer experience through ongoing analysis of surveillance video. ReTel's unique system seamlessly augments computer vision with human auditing to uncover actionable insights previously unavailable at scale or low cost. ReTel was founded in 2007, and is also a 2009 TechStars company.

Thinknear

Series A in 2011
Thinknear is a location technology company and full-service mobile advertising platform focused on delivering amazing advertising campaigns for agencies, brands, and consumers. Thinknear’s platform delivers the accuracy, scale and technology required to effectively leverage mobile location data to power better consumer experiences. In mobile, accuracy matters, and as a division of Telenav, Thinknear leverages exclusive access to over 15 years of proprietary location data. To learn more, please visit www.thinknear.com and follow @thinknear on Twitter and Instagram.

SocialSign.in

Seed Round in 2015
Socialsign.in, Inc. provides wireless Internet access at grocery stores, theaters, and other venues where people shop and socialize. The company enables users to log in with their online accounts, and access personalized offers and promotions at its participating venues. It provides its services through various Internet-enabled devices, including computers, tablets, smart phones, and personal Internet devices, as well as through its Website. Socialsign.in, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

FullContact

Seed Round in 2011
FullContact create an amazing customer experience with SaaS-based identity resolution and consumer insights. Using unique data insights and a patented identity graph, they enable brands to create a sustainable advantage by improving their customer experience across all touchpoints. They resolve identities across internal silos and enrich contact records with unparalleled data dimensions so brands can instantly recognize and authentically engage with their customers across channels.

Appstores.com

Angel Round in 2011
Appstores is making it easier for consumers to find apps by giving small and large niche publishers and API/platform companies the tools to showcase apps most relevant to their users.

The Shared Web

Convertible Note in 2011
The Shared Web is an online content discovery platform that enables users to get and share personalized news feeds from the internet. It was launched by Nicolae Rusan, Nav Patel, and Kareem Amin, and is operated from New York, USA.

RelTel

Seed Round in 2009
RelTel develops software to break down and analyze footage caught by surveillance cameras. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Pollsb

Series A in 2009
Pollsb.com is a social identity facilitator and a polling platform that helps users and companies learn new things about themselves, get quick self-feedback, and brainstorm with others.

Foodspotting

Seed Round in 2010
Foodspotting is visual guide to good food and where to find it: Instead of reading and writing restaurant reviews, you can find and share great dishes.

Maxwell Financial Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Hi, we're Maxwell. We’re on a mission to revolutionize the $8.5T residential mortgage market by reimagining how mortgage lenders collaborate with homebuyers and real estate agents to buy a home. We connect our hundreds of lenders onto one seamless, intuitively-designed platform, so the focus isn’t the paperwork, it’s the place to call home. Today, hundreds of lenders across the United States use Maxwell’s digital mortgage platform to originate billions in mortgage loans each month at a cycle time 45 percent faster than the national average.

Automox

Seed Round in 2017
Automox is an information technology company that keeps its users continuously connected to all local, cloud-hosted, and remote endpoints. It enables them to inventory all hardware and software, manages and apply OS and third-party patches, enforces security configurations, deploys software, and script.

Spiro.AI

Seed Round in 2018
Spiro Technologies, Inc. develops a relationship management platform that works in the background and recommends sales teams on different actions. The company’s platform creates contacts; eliminates data entry; provides sales suggestions; delivers reports; assists in making, receiving, and transcribing calls and texts from Spiro Voice number; and assists sales teams to track and manage opportunities. It serves construction, finance, manufacturing, professional service, and technology industries. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

LendKey Technologies

Series A in 2010
LendKey is a financial technology company that creates white-labeled lending solutions that transform financial institutions into profitable digital lending businesses. The company manages the entire lending process, which includes: demand generation, online decisioning, loan origination, customer service and balance sheet management. Based in New York and Cincinnati, the company was founded in 2009.

Stitch

Seed Round in 2012
Stitch, Inc. offers a managed ETL service for developers. It helps users in connecting to all their data sources and sends to SaaS tools to streams that data to their warehouse. It serves developers and small businesses. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As of November 9, 2018, Stitch, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Talend Inc..

Help Scout

Seed Round in 2011
Help Scout Inc. develops and provides a customer service software solution for businesses in the United States and internationally. Its solution makes customers to weave through a maze of customer portals, ticket numbers, and unhelpful automations to get what they need. Help Scout Inc. was formerly known as Brightwurks, Inc. and changed its name to Help Scout Inc. on August 2011. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Superhuman

Venture Round in 2015
Superhuman is not just another email client. We are rebuilding the inbox from the ground up to make you brilliant at what you do. We specifically designed it for those of you who want the best. Superhuman is gorgeous. Blazingly fast. And comes with advanced features that make you feel superhuman. A.I. Triage. Undo Send. Insights from social networks. Follow-up Reminders, Scheduled Messages, and Read Statuses. To name but a few. Superhuman is so fast, delightful, and intelligent — you’ll feel like you have superpowers. Our team previously founded Rapportive (acquired by LinkedIn), created pry (used by 25% of ruby developers), and co-founded Rapleaf/Liveramp (acquired for $310M). We are based in San Francisco, and funded by all-star investors from Silicon Valley and NYC.

Crowdly

Pre Seed Round in 2012
Crowdly is an advocate marketing platform empowering large consumer brands to build a base of authentic advocates, activate them, and learn from their behavior to increase word-of-mouth promotion and brand advocacy. It specializes in the fields of finance, social media, advertising, and social media marketing. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Podia

Venture Round in 2017
Podia is an operator of an online storefront for online courses and digital products. It provides customized and easy-to-use content for free providing tutors with a website, course builder, and online tools to help them grow their businesses and reach more students. Podia was established in 2014 and is headquartered in New York.

Space Monkey

Seed Round in 2012
Space Monkey is an affordable subscription-based data storage solution that is taking the cloud out of the datacenter, creating a faster and more durable way to store data from any device. Space Monkey combines the benefits of local hardware storage and cloud storage by providing a device that stores one terabyte of online storage. Space Monkey provides central access and sharing from anywhere in the world, and from any device including iOS and Android mobile devices, Windows, Mac and Linux clients, as well as any other web browser enabled technology. Founded by entrepreneurs, Clint Gordon-Carroll and Alen Peacock in July 2011, Space Monkey is headquartered in Midvale, UT, a suburb of Salt Lake City. For more information, please visit: www.spacemonkey.com

Ampjar

Seed Round in 2019
Our vision is for a world where every time we spend money it brings us joy and fulfilment. The act of supporting communities around us brings more purpose and meaning to our lives. Supporting what brings us joy and fulfilment will have a revolutionary effect on our lives individually and society as a whole. We're achieving our mission by build a community where people and brands thrive together through meaningful, joyful and rewarding relationships. The community engages through a closed-loop, peer-to-peer platform where brands discover each other. and then shout each other out, driving connections with new customers. We're platform agnostic and so sharing happens wherever it best works for the brands such as in emails, in social stories, on post-checkout pages and in blog posts.

Jibe

Series A in 2011
At Jibe, we create global recruiting software solutions to help the world’s leading companies identify, engage, and hire the best talent. Jibe's core technology is the Jibe Recruiting Cloud, a SaaS-based platform that enables leading companies to hire the best talent, regardless of their existing systems. Through this platform, Jibe provides a suite of products including personalized career sites and recruiting tools for sourcing, nurturing and marketing to candidates. Jibe currently serves the world's leading Fortune 500 companies, including Johnson & Johnson, FedEx, Marriott, and American Express. Elevated by strategic partnerships with Google and LinkedIn and backed by their expertise in recruiting technology, Jibe continues to be an innovative leader in the changing world of talent acquisition.

adHawk

Seed Round in 2015
Broadlume, formally AdHawk, is the world’s largest provider of digital technology to the flooring industry. With its family of companies—FloorForce, Creating Your Space, Bridgeway Interactive, and FlooringStores—Broadlume is redefining the way flooring is bought and sold.

Fab

Series A in 2011
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

LendKey Technologies

Debt Financing in 2009
LendKey is a financial technology company that creates white-labeled lending solutions that transform financial institutions into profitable digital lending businesses. The company manages the entire lending process, which includes: demand generation, online decisioning, loan origination, customer service and balance sheet management. Based in New York and Cincinnati, the company was founded in 2009.

Teal

Seed Round in 2022
Teal Labs, Inc. develops and operates an online platform that offers career navigation and development solutions to students and individuals. The company provides career-assistance services. It develops a platform for job searching and engages in career development and resources program. It also provides a membership program that allows users to access career expertise and provides chat-based career support. Teal Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in New York, New York.

Altruik

Series A in 2009
Altruik was acquired and merged with SearchDex. www.searchdex.com Altruik is focused on making search engine optimization easy and scalable for eCommerce companies and online businesses. By using their technology to increase visibility in the search engines, companies can generate more site traffic, more visits to their content and product inventory pages, and higher click-through rates. Their automated Search Engine Optimization (SEO) solution easily integrates with all Content Management Systems (CMS) and legacy systems and efficiently manages the search engine optimization process. Plus, it offers several advantages over other options by: 1. Handling many of the labor-intensive and tedious tasks associated with implementing site-wide SEO changes. As a result, eCommerce companies and site owners save the time and ongoing cost of ensuring that their site content is visible to prospective customers 2. Ensuring that SEO best practices are implemented in a way that is fully compliant with the search engines 3. Seamlessly overcoming SEO barriers created by a company’s infrastructure, including inflexible legacy or Content Management Systems, limited technology resources, and lack of access to relevant performance and search data

Jibe

Seed Round in 2010
At Jibe, we create global recruiting software solutions to help the world’s leading companies identify, engage, and hire the best talent. Jibe's core technology is the Jibe Recruiting Cloud, a SaaS-based platform that enables leading companies to hire the best talent, regardless of their existing systems. Through this platform, Jibe provides a suite of products including personalized career sites and recruiting tools for sourcing, nurturing and marketing to candidates. Jibe currently serves the world's leading Fortune 500 companies, including Johnson & Johnson, FedEx, Marriott, and American Express. Elevated by strategic partnerships with Google and LinkedIn and backed by their expertise in recruiting technology, Jibe continues to be an innovative leader in the changing world of talent acquisition.

Everyday Life

Venture Round in 2020
Everyday Life Insurance uses technology to redefine financial security for middle income families. Its first product, Predictive Protection, saves consumers money by automatically adjusting coverage based on predictable life events like kids growing up or retirement. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Liveoak Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
LiveOak Technologies, Inc. provides a cloud-based real time communication, collaboration, and eSignature platform that helps users to ease financial processes. Its platform enables to collaborate with one or more people in an environment; communicate with video, audio, and text chat directly through browser; and capture and store compliant data. LiveOak Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Liveoakapps, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Austin, Texas. As of July 6, 2020, LiveOak Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of DocuSign, Inc.

Yaguara

Seed Round in 2020
Yaguara, Inc operates a business growth, planning, and management platform. It offers Yaguara, a solution for that aligns team behind goals and allows the users to measure the performance. The company serves marketing, product, sales, and project management teams. Yaguara, Inc was founded in 2016 and is based in Denver, Colorado. It has additional offices in New York, New York; and San Francisco, California.

BrandYourself

Series A in 2014
BrandYourself provides tools and services that help people look better online. This includes dealing with unwanted items – like an old divorce record or ill-advise tweet – as well as helping promote positive items that benefit someones career. In 2012, BrandYourself launched the first DIY online reputation management tool that walks users through the process of monitoring and improving their online presence. BrandYourself also offers reputation management services for individuals and businesses with a team of in-house content creators, web developers, social media managers, brand strategists and placement specialists. BrandYourself has secured over $6 million in venture capital, including investments from prominent angel investor Barney Pell (former Head Search Strategist at Microsoft & Architect at Bing), John Galanti (former President at Hudson Valley Datanet), Ryan Holmes (CEO & Co-founder at Hootsuite) as well as firms FF Angels, New Atlantic Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, and LeFrak Investments. BrandYourself has been recognized by the White House, named a "Best Entrepreneurial Company in America" by Entrepreneur Magazine, declared "Best Online Reputation Services for Individuals" by Business News Daily and appeared on ABC's Shark Tank, where they walked away from a $2 million offer - one of the highest offers in the show's history.

Peaberry Software

Venture Round in 2014
Peaberry Software makes Customer.io, a product that helps apps activate and retain their users.

Rapportive

Seed Round in 2010
Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. You can immediately see what people look like, where they're based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You can grow your network by connecting on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more. And you can record thoughts for later by leaving notes.

COLOURlovers

Venture Round in 2011
COLOURlovers is an international creative community that helps people discover their inner designer. We provide people with a wealth of user created & shared color inspiration as well as tools that make the creative process as simple as possible. Whether you’re simply looking for a color palette to kickstart your next project or want to produce a piece of vector art, we have the tools and services to help anybody from go from design inspiration to execution. As of 5/1/2011 there are 563,438 COLOURlovers around the world who have created 3,766,464 Colors, 1,562,273 Palettes and 1,461,132 Patterns.

FullContact

Series A in 2012
FullContact create an amazing customer experience with SaaS-based identity resolution and consumer insights. Using unique data insights and a patented identity graph, they enable brands to create a sustainable advantage by improving their customer experience across all touchpoints. They resolve identities across internal silos and enrich contact records with unparalleled data dimensions so brands can instantly recognize and authentically engage with their customers across channels.

Encoding.com

Series B in 2014
Encoding.com Inc. provides video encoding services. It offers studio-class media transcoding services; and video encoding as a Web service, as well as cloud computing architecture, flexible integration, and mobile device support solutions. The company offers its services on SaaS model with integrations with the Amazon Web Services and Rackspace cloud computing platforms. Its encoding platform enables publishers and developers to scale; and supports various Web and mobile formats. Further, the company offers Vid.ly, a universal video platform. It offers its services to various firms, including enterprises, SMBs, and business customers across a range of media and entertainment, eLearning, retail, telecommunications, lifestyle, and advertising brands in the United States and internationally. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ambassador

Seed Round in 2011
Ambassador provides referral, partner, and affiliate tracking and management. Ambassador is the best way to reward customers for promoting products online. Ambassador provides an end-to-end solution: you can create, track, and manage all your custom referral programs from a single dashboard. Build on the Ambassador API to seamlessly integrate into your own application, you can also integrate Ambassador into many popular 3rd party CRM, Email and Billing applications.

Worldly Developments

Seed Round in 2010
Worldly Developments is a software development team in San Francisco with a focus on designing social web applications. They are best known for creating the social event discovery service Plancast.

Food52

Series A in 2012
Food52 is an online portal that provides a curated shop, content and community for kitchen and home enthusiasts. It is a growing community of 13M cooks and home enthusiasts and a one-stop-shop where individuals can be inspired by great ideas and find the tools and tips to bring them to life. The company is driven by a mission to reimagine every room in the house and remake everything in it. It was founded in 2009 by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs.

NewsBasis

Angel Round in 2009
NewsBasis, Inc. develops and operates a platform for media relations. It designs a platform and tools for journalists and companies to find relevant experts for their stories. The company allows media companies to discover relevant story ideas and connect with experts, as well as enables users to get answers on media requests from subject-matter experts and connectors. NewsBasis, Inc. was formerly known as Plato's Forms. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Altruik

Series B in 2011
Altruik was acquired and merged with SearchDex. www.searchdex.com Altruik is focused on making search engine optimization easy and scalable for eCommerce companies and online businesses. By using their technology to increase visibility in the search engines, companies can generate more site traffic, more visits to their content and product inventory pages, and higher click-through rates. Their automated Search Engine Optimization (SEO) solution easily integrates with all Content Management Systems (CMS) and legacy systems and efficiently manages the search engine optimization process. Plus, it offers several advantages over other options by: 1. Handling many of the labor-intensive and tedious tasks associated with implementing site-wide SEO changes. As a result, eCommerce companies and site owners save the time and ongoing cost of ensuring that their site content is visible to prospective customers 2. Ensuring that SEO best practices are implemented in a way that is fully compliant with the search engines 3. Seamlessly overcoming SEO barriers created by a company’s infrastructure, including inflexible legacy or Content Management Systems, limited technology resources, and lack of access to relevant performance and search data

NutshellMail

Seed Round in 2009
[NutshellMail](http://nutshellmail.com/) makes it easy for any small business to manage and monitor their social media presence and online brand reputation in just 5 to 10 minutes a day. NutshellMail works like your own personal assistant by monitoring your social media accounts, filtering out the noise and delivering the most important and actionable activity in an easy-to-read email digest sent on your schedule. NutshellMail was part of the 2009 fbFund Rev incubator program and was acquired by Constant Contact, Inc (NASDAQ: CTCT) in May 2010.

Fama

Seed Round in 2015
Fama is an AI-based solution that identifies and offers an opportunity to address problematic behavior among potential hires and current employees by analyzing publicly available online information. This type of content can ultimately lead to brand risk and toxic culture, and is often missed in the hiring and management process.

Appbistro

Angel Round in 2010
Appbistro is an application marketplace for Facebook pages. At Appbistro, page administrators can quickly find applications that they can easily plug into their pages and quickly increase the engagement and reach of their pages. The applications within the marketplace are built by known and vetted Facebook developers, and feature applications for Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, and more. Appbistro's parent company, MMTG Labs, Inc., was acquired by InMobi in July 2012.

GreatHorn

Seed Round in 2016
GreatHorn is a computer software company that provides protection for cloud email systems, via advanced threat detection, automated defense, and integrated incident response. The company specializes in the fields of machine learning, information security, predictive security, and cybersecurity. GreatHorn was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Hungryroot

Seed Round in 2015
Hungryroot is a direct-to-consumer brand of fresh, healthy packaged foods. We offer a variety of clean-ingredient food products ranging from plant-based pastas and versatile sauces to thoughtfully sourced proteins and wholesome desserts. We're sold online and deliver directly to your home, and the entire experience is tailored to your personal preferences so it gets better as we get to know you. Our goal is to make it as simple, convenient, and inspiring as possible to eat healthy.

Envexergy, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Envexergy, Inc. develops platform that enable anyone in the world to raise or invest capital in real estate using blockchain smart-contracts. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Kapost

Seed Round in 2010
Kapost is the leading provider of Content Marketing software that enables companies to manage their content marketing as a structured business process. Through its platform that manages the ideation, production, distribution, audience development and analytics of content marketing, Kapost empowers marketers to generate more content, more traffic and more leads. Kapost customers include brands like Eloqua, Marketo, AT&T, Intel and more. Kapost also produces The Content Marketeer, a blog providing content and education for marketers.

Appstores.com

Angel Round in 2010
Appstores is making it easier for consumers to find apps by giving small and large niche publishers and API/platform companies the tools to showcase apps most relevant to their users.

Pogoseat

Seed Round in 2014
Pogoseat is an enterprise solution for sports teams and concert venues that enables their fans to upgrade seats and purchase unique VIP upgrades during events. Their mission is to provide fans with the ability to optimize their live entertainment experience and teams and venues a platform to increase fan engagement, monetize unused inventory and gather data to improve the fan experience.

Maxwell Financial Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Hi, we're Maxwell. We’re on a mission to revolutionize the $8.5T residential mortgage market by reimagining how mortgage lenders collaborate with homebuyers and real estate agents to buy a home. We connect our hundreds of lenders onto one seamless, intuitively-designed platform, so the focus isn’t the paperwork, it’s the place to call home. Today, hundreds of lenders across the United States use Maxwell’s digital mortgage platform to originate billions in mortgage loans each month at a cycle time 45 percent faster than the national average.

Teckst

Angel Round in 2015
Teckst, Inc. develops a WebTeckst platform that helps businesses receive and send texts to their customers, vendors, friends, and families. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York. As of December 10, 2019, Teckst, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of LiveVox, Inc.

Kohort

Seed Round in 2011
Kohort helps you connect your community with best in class management tools for membership directories, communications, events, ticketing, dues, and the ability to manage any organizational structure through subgroups all with robust privacy settings.

Confirm

Seed Round in 2016
Instant ID verification that is simple, safe & secure. Run ID authentication checks on any government issued ID using our RESTful API. Confirm authenticates with advanced forensics, extracts ID information for easy use, and retains zero personal information. Confirm.io makes authenticating a government issued ID easy, fast & secure. Our simple API lets you integrate in minutes, and confirm a person’s identity for any transaction that requires or benefits from proof of identity. https://confirm.wistia.com/medias/kxyi9dlhiq

Postmaster

Seed Round in 2013
Postmaster is a simple API for integrating shipping into your software stack. Postmaster saves businesses money on shipping by simplifying carrier integration, optimizing shipments in real time, and providing historical analytics to improve the logistics pipeline.

RealBlocks

Seed Round in 2019
RealBlocks is a technology platform that connects advisors and investors to the best alternative investment managers. Today many real estate and alternative investment managers are limited to raising capital locally. However with RealBlocks, these managers can now raise capital globally through institutional and intermediary channels. RealBlocks also offers a secondary trading mechanism for enhanced liquidity options.

Cliptone

Seed Round in 2013
Cliptone is a messaging application that enables its users to send creative voice messages to their friends. It allows its users to record a clip up to 10 seconds; apply voice filters and background music; and more. Cliptone was launched on March 3, 2012 in Toronto, Ontario.

Encoding.com

Series A in 2010
Encoding.com Inc. provides video encoding services. It offers studio-class media transcoding services; and video encoding as a Web service, as well as cloud computing architecture, flexible integration, and mobile device support solutions. The company offers its services on SaaS model with integrations with the Amazon Web Services and Rackspace cloud computing platforms. Its encoding platform enables publishers and developers to scale; and supports various Web and mobile formats. Further, the company offers Vid.ly, a universal video platform. It offers its services to various firms, including enterprises, SMBs, and business customers across a range of media and entertainment, eLearning, retail, telecommunications, lifestyle, and advertising brands in the United States and internationally. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kepler Communications

Seed Round in 2016
Kepler Communications Inc. designs, develops, and operates satellites and infrastructure for space-based connectivity that connects space stations, habitats, machines, and devices with satellites on orbit. The company provides Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), a satellites that spin around the earth and deliver coverage to the planet; PolarConnect, a communication solution that enables organizations operating at the earth’s extremes to connect and share information with other regions of the globe; Global Data Service, a high bandwidth solution for transferring large data files between remote sites and the internet; and everywhereIOT, a solution that provides cellular quality and standardized connection for Internet of Things (IoT) devices through a globally available satellite services. It serves maritime, natural resources, research and exploration, defense, and shipping and logistics industries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Respondology

Series A in 2023
Respondology LLC owns and operates a Cost-Per-Click (CPC) reply-based advertising platform that turns social channels into search-like advertising medium. The platform scans the content of millions of social posts each day to identify customer sentiment and intent, and replies with marketing messages in real-time. It develops management tools that enable marketers to estimate, build, and optimize return on investment (ROI)-positive campaigns using key phrases, keywords, and emojis. The company engages individual consumers based on just-posted wants and needs. It also provides reporting technology with dashboards that displays real-time data, including replies, clicks, and conversions by phrases and keywords. Respondology LLC was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

MarketMuse

Series A in 2020
MarketMuse, Inc., doing business as MarketMuse, designs and develops an artificial intelligence (AI) based content intelligence and strategy platform to research, plan, and craft content. It offers MarketMuse that provides workflows for the entire content life cycle ranging from researching and planning to creation and optimization. The company’s solution is used by SEOs, content strategists, editors, and marketers. MarketMuse, Inc. was formerly known as Informite Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Teckst

Seed Round in 2016
Teckst, Inc. develops a WebTeckst platform that helps businesses receive and send texts to their customers, vendors, friends, and families. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York. As of December 10, 2019, Teckst, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of LiveVox, Inc.

klout

Series A in 2010
Klout measures influence based on the ability to drive action across the social web. Any person can connect their social network accounts and Klout will generate a score on a scale of 1-100 that represents their ability to engage other people and inspire social actions. Klout enables everyone to gain insights that help them better understand how they influence others. Klout also provides people with opportunities to shape and be recognized for their influence.

FlyCleaners

Seed Round in 2013
FlyCleaners is a New York-based company that provides local premium on-demand pickup and delivery services for dry-cleaning and laundry through a mobile app Offering customized convenience at your doorstep, users simply open the app, make a request for pickup, have their clothes cleaned according to their specific preferences, and delivered, all from their mobile device.

Crimson Hexagon

Series A in 2010
Crimson Hexagon helps global brands better understand their consumers. With instant access to the world’s largest volume of unstructured text and images across social, online public, and enterprise-held data sources, Crimson Hexagon’s AI-powered consumer insights platform allows clients to analyze audiences, track brand perception and campaign performance, and even detect competitive and market trends. Their clients include Anheuser-Busch InBev, Adidas, General Mills, Paramount Pictures, Starbucks, and Twitter.

Livefyre

Series B in 2011
Livefyre helps companies engage consumers through a combination of real-time content, conversation and social curation