8VC

8VC is a technology and life sciences investment firm that partners with founders to develop transformational technologies and create long-term value. Its activities span sectors such as healthcare, logistics, software, energy, manufacturing, enterprise IT, and life sciences, with a focus on supporting early-stage and growth opportunities in the United States and beyond.

Denis Aven

Investor

Isabela Becerra

Investment Team Member

Sebastian Caliri

Partner

Serena Ge

Campus Associate

Bhaskar Ghosh

Partner

Francisco Gimenez

Partner

Vivek Gopalan

Investor

Jin-Young Kim

Partner

Alex Kolicich

Partner

Seth Lieblich

Principal

Alex Moore

Partner

Jack Moshkovich

Principal

David Moskowitz

Principal

Kevin Niechen

Investment Team Member

Drew Oetting

Founder

Allison Pavlick

Principal

Justin Rose

Associate

Past deals in San Francisco Bay Area

Sirona Medical

Series C in 2024
Founded in San Francisco, Sirona Medical develops a cloud-native platform designed specifically for radiologists. This platform unifies worklist, viewer, reporter, archive, and AI into a single workspace, simplifying complex workflows, enhancing productivity, and empowering practitioners to deliver better, faster care.

Default

Seed Round in 2024
Founded in 2020, Default specializes in an all-in-one platform for qualifying, scheduling, and routing inbound leads from websites. It automates workflows, enabling businesses to efficiently manage their sales processes.

Quince

Series C in 2024
Quince, LLC, established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a retailer specializing in affordable luxury apparel, accessories, and home goods. The company offers a wide range of products for men and women, including jewelry, clothing, and home textiles, all sourced directly from manufacturers using a just-in-time production model. This approach enables Quince to provide high-quality items at competitive prices while minimizing waste.

Zenreach

Venture Round in 2023
Zenreach, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in online marketing solutions tailored for businesses with physical locations. The company's flagship product, Walk-Through Marketing, integrates digital marketing efforts with in-store results to enhance customer acquisition and lifetime value. Zenreach Engage tracks customer visits and builds detailed customer profiles, while Zenreach Attract optimizes ad performance by targeting audiences based on a business's best customers. The effectiveness of these campaigns is measured using the Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that indicates when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and notable brands such as Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris, and BCBG Max Azria.

Quince

Series B in 2023
Quince, LLC, established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a retailer specializing in affordable luxury apparel, accessories, and home goods. The company offers a wide range of products for men and women, including jewelry, clothing, and home textiles, all sourced directly from manufacturers using a just-in-time production model. This approach enables Quince to provide high-quality items at competitive prices while minimizing waste.

Mantra Bio

Series A in 2023
Mantra Bio, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on developing targeted therapeutics through its proprietary platform for engineering Targeted Exosome Vehicles (TEVs). Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, the company utilizes its REVEAL platform, which integrates computational biology, wet lab techniques, and automation. This innovative approach leverages the diversity of exosomes to design and optimize therapeutics aimed at various tissue and cellular targets. Mantra Bio has also established a scalable biomanufacturing process to ensure the reproducibility and high purity of its next-generation therapeutics, enabling medical practitioners to address challenging diseases effectively.

Raydiant

Series B in 2022
Raydiant Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in designing, developing, and providing an experience platform that connects employees and customers with brands across various industries such as banking, retail, hospitality, and healthcare. The company's solution comprises kiosks, virtual agents, and multimedia devices for screen management, enabling businesses to create engaging in-store experiences through digital signage. Raydiant works with over 5,000 brands worldwide, including notable clients like Johnson & Johnson and Chick-Fil-A, helping them streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive sales growth.

Quince

Series A in 2021
Quince, LLC, established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a retailer specializing in affordable luxury apparel, accessories, and home goods. The company offers a wide range of products for men and women, including jewelry, clothing, and home textiles, all sourced directly from manufacturers using a just-in-time production model. This approach enables Quince to provide high-quality items at competitive prices while minimizing waste.

Sirona Medical

Series B in 2021
Founded in San Francisco, Sirona Medical develops a cloud-native platform designed specifically for radiologists. This platform unifies worklist, viewer, reporter, archive, and AI into a single workspace, simplifying complex workflows, enhancing productivity, and empowering practitioners to deliver better, faster care.

Wage

Seed Round in 2021
Wage is building an API infrastructure for instant income and employment verification. It is an infrastructure software solution that allows its users to seamlessly and securely share payroll data. The company was originally founded as Verix in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Raydiant

Series A in 2021
Raydiant Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in designing, developing, and providing an experience platform that connects employees and customers with brands across various industries such as banking, retail, hospitality, and healthcare. The company's solution comprises kiosks, virtual agents, and multimedia devices for screen management, enabling businesses to create engaging in-store experiences through digital signage. Raydiant works with over 5,000 brands worldwide, including notable clients like Johnson & Johnson and Chick-Fil-A, helping them streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive sales growth.

Quince

Seed Round in 2021
Quince, LLC, established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a retailer specializing in affordable luxury apparel, accessories, and home goods. The company offers a wide range of products for men and women, including jewelry, clothing, and home textiles, all sourced directly from manufacturers using a just-in-time production model. This approach enables Quince to provide high-quality items at competitive prices while minimizing waste.

Sirona Medical

Series A in 2020
Founded in San Francisco, Sirona Medical develops a cloud-native platform designed specifically for radiologists. This platform unifies worklist, viewer, reporter, archive, and AI into a single workspace, simplifying complex workflows, enhancing productivity, and empowering practitioners to deliver better, faster care.

Mantra Bio

Series A in 2020
Mantra Bio, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on developing targeted therapeutics through its proprietary platform for engineering Targeted Exosome Vehicles (TEVs). Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, the company utilizes its REVEAL platform, which integrates computational biology, wet lab techniques, and automation. This innovative approach leverages the diversity of exosomes to design and optimize therapeutics aimed at various tissue and cellular targets. Mantra Bio has also established a scalable biomanufacturing process to ensure the reproducibility and high purity of its next-generation therapeutics, enabling medical practitioners to address challenging diseases effectively.

Quince

Seed Round in 2019
Quince, LLC, established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a retailer specializing in affordable luxury apparel, accessories, and home goods. The company offers a wide range of products for men and women, including jewelry, clothing, and home textiles, all sourced directly from manufacturers using a just-in-time production model. This approach enables Quince to provide high-quality items at competitive prices while minimizing waste.

Raydiant

Seed Round in 2019
Raydiant Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in designing, developing, and providing an experience platform that connects employees and customers with brands across various industries such as banking, retail, hospitality, and healthcare. The company's solution comprises kiosks, virtual agents, and multimedia devices for screen management, enabling businesses to create engaging in-store experiences through digital signage. Raydiant works with over 5,000 brands worldwide, including notable clients like Johnson & Johnson and Chick-Fil-A, helping them streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive sales growth.

Side

Series B in 2019
Side operates an online platform that connects students with flexible, location-based job opportunities, streamlining the hiring process for both students and companies. It offers a location-based job board, admin and management tools, and automates administrative tasks such as invoicing and payments. Side was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Quince

Seed Round in 2019
Quince, LLC, established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a retailer specializing in affordable luxury apparel, accessories, and home goods. The company offers a wide range of products for men and women, including jewelry, clothing, and home textiles, all sourced directly from manufacturers using a just-in-time production model. This approach enables Quince to provide high-quality items at competitive prices while minimizing waste.

Camino

Seed Round in 2018
Camino.ai is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing workflow-based software aimed at reforming the permitting and development processes for cities. By partnering with local governments, Camino seeks to enhance economic development, helping municipalities attract new businesses, construct safe and affordable housing, and foster vibrant communities. The company offers a virtual assistant known as Permit Guide, which streamlines the permit application process for individuals, businesses, and government entities. Its software incorporates Artificial Intelligence to assist governmental staff in managing their growing workload efficiently. Camino is dedicated to simplifying the permitting experience, making it as straightforward as booking a flight online.

Mammoth Biosciences

Series A in 2018
Mammoth Biosciences harnesses diverse CRISPR systems for various applications. It offers DETECTR™ for nucleic acid detection in diseases like cancer and infections, and CRISPR-Cas systems for therapeutic genome editing in immuno-oncology, autoimmune diseases, and liver disorders. Its solutions span healthcare, agriculture, environmental monitoring, biodefense, and other sectors.

Penrose Studios

Series A in 2018
Penrose Studios, Inc. is a company that specializes in the creation and production of virtual reality (VR) worlds and narratives for the entertainment industry. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, Penrose is dedicated to advancing augmented and virtual reality storytelling. By collaborating with top storytellers and technologists, the company aims to innovate and define the language of real-time cinema for both augmented and virtual reality platforms.

Coral Genomics

Seed Round in 2018
Coral Genomics, Inc. is a biotechnology company founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company focuses on optimizing drug development and deployment by leveraging genomic data from patients. It specializes in developing clinical tests that assist healthcare providers in streamlining prior authorization processes and selecting effective medications tailored to individual patients, particularly in the context of autoimmune conditions like Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis. Additionally, Coral Genomics has identified a distinct group of non-responder patients and collaborates with pharmaceutical developers to address the unmet medical needs of this population. By measuring cell responsiveness to drugs and understanding variability across patients, Coral Genomics aims to enhance treatment strategies and improve patient outcomes.

Mammoth Biosciences

Seed Round in 2017
Mammoth Biosciences harnesses diverse CRISPR systems for various applications. It offers DETECTR™ for nucleic acid detection in diseases like cancer and infections, and CRISPR-Cas systems for therapeutic genome editing in immuno-oncology, autoimmune diseases, and liver disorders. Its solutions span healthcare, agriculture, environmental monitoring, biodefense, and other sectors.

Zenreach

Series C in 2017
Zenreach, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in online marketing solutions tailored for businesses with physical locations. The company's flagship product, Walk-Through Marketing, integrates digital marketing efforts with in-store results to enhance customer acquisition and lifetime value. Zenreach Engage tracks customer visits and builds detailed customer profiles, while Zenreach Attract optimizes ad performance by targeting audiences based on a business's best customers. The effectiveness of these campaigns is measured using the Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that indicates when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and notable brands such as Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris, and BCBG Max Azria.

SyntheX

Seed Round in 2017
SyntheX specializes in drug discovery using synthetic biology platforms. It identifies protein interaction modulators and enables functional protein degradation, focusing on unique mechanisms for cancer and rare disease treatments.

Flexport

Series B in 2016
Flexport, established in 2013, is a San Francisco-based company specializing in global freight forwarding and customs brokerage services. It offers an online platform that simplifies and streamlines international trade for businesses. Flexport's services include customs clearance, freight transportation by ocean, air, and road, along with value-added services such as cargo insurance, warehousing, and trade finance. The company's user-friendly dashboard enables clients to understand, purchase, manage, and track these services in real-time, optimizing their supply chain and logistics operations.

Side

Seed Round in 2016
Side operates an online platform that connects students with flexible, location-based job opportunities, streamlining the hiring process for both students and companies. It offers a location-based job board, admin and management tools, and automates administrative tasks such as invoicing and payments. Side was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Ada Diamonds

Venture Round in 2016
Ada Diamonds designs, fabricates, and sells diamond jewelry for women in the United States, focusing on laboratory-grown, conflict-free diamonds that support ethical and sustainable sourcing. The company offers pieces such as diamond studs, hoop and dangle earrings, and pendants in platinum and gold finishes, with options across white, yellow, rose, and black tones and various gemstone shapes. Its collections cover workplace, holiday, bridal, engagement, anniversary, and birthday themes, and it provides made-to-order jewelry. The Ada Diamonds brand is owned by Alexander Primak Jewelry, ensuring a transparent supply chain and high material standards. The business combines precision craftsmanship with customizable design to deliver durable, aesthetically distinctive jewelry.
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