Band of Angels

Band of Angels is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, that focuses on investing in early-stage high technology companies. Established in 1994, the firm comprises over 130 former and current executives from prominent tech companies, including Symantec and Hewlett Packard. It primarily targets startups in sectors such as internet services, life sciences, biotechnology, software, energy, communications, and networking, with a strong emphasis on businesses located in Silicon Valley, though it also considers opportunities in Louisiana and San Diego. Band of Angels typically invests between $300,000 and $750,000, often leading syndications that can total between $1 million and $1.5 million. The firm aims to acquire a one-third ownership stake for a $1 million investment and prefers to take board seats in its portfolio companies. With a track record of seeding 225 companies, the group has achieved over 50 profitable mergers and acquisitions and nine initial public offerings.

Sonja Markova

Executive Director

Ian Sobieski

Managing Director

127 past transactions

AiDEN Auto

Seed Round in 2025
AiDEN Auto specializes in a software platform that enables real-time communication between vehicles and various in-car services. The company's technology allows third-party developers to interact with vehicles in a standardized manner, facilitating seamless communication across different automotive brands. Additionally, AiDEN Auto supports original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in managing monetization strategies while empowering vehicle owners with control over their data. This approach aids industries in effectively delivering and managing digital services, enhancing the overall connectivity and functionality of modern vehicles.

Materna Medical

Venture Round in 2024
Materna Medical, Inc. is a medical device company based in Mountain View, California, focused on developing innovative solutions to reduce childbirth-related injuries during vaginal delivery. Incorporated in 2010, the company addresses significant unmet needs in women's pelvic health, operating within a $6 billion market. Materna Medical combines expertise from a diverse team of engineers, scientists, and commercial leaders to transform the standard of care in obstetrics and gynecology. The company's mission centers on empowering women to safeguard their pelvic health through advanced medical technology.

Champions Round

Series A in 2023
Champions Round, Inc. is a gaming application developer specializing in football and esports, based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2018, the company offers an online sports platform that enhances the spectator experience for fans, particularly targeting Gen Z. Its application allows users to participate in fantasy leagues and tournaments, answer live questions, earn points, and win cash prizes. By enabling users to join leagues without the need for group assembly, Champions Round lowers barriers to entry and fosters greater engagement among sports fans. The application is accessible via the App Store, providing a user-friendly interface for players to learn about the games while enjoying the competitive aspects of fantasy sports.

Rhaeos

Seed Round in 2021
Rhaeos is a pioneering company that has developed the first wearable shunt monitor to enhance care for patients with hydrocephalus. Utilizing a novel thermal biosensor, the device allows for noninvasive, real-time monitoring of cerebrospinal fluid flow. This innovative technology, born from collaborative research at Northwestern University involving experts from engineering, medicine, and management, addresses a significant clinical need by providing timely data to improve treatment for chronic medical conditions. Rhaeos's patches are designed to detect fluid flow in various bodily systems, including blood and lymph, facilitating quicker medical responses and advancing the standard of care in neurosurgery and beyond.

Fogarty Institute of Innovation

Series A in 2021
The mission of the Fogarty Institute for Innovation is to promote medical innovation by providing support to promising innovators and researchers as they transform their creative ideas into practical solutions to improve patient care. They offer mentorship and education at every step of the process, coordinating access to intellectual, physical, and financial resources to propel medical concepts from initiation to application.

Raydiant Oximetry

Series A in 2021
Raydiant Oximetry is a medical device company focused on improving outcomes for mothers and babies during childbirth. The company develops a low-cost, non-invasive biomedical device to monitor the oxygen levels in fetal blood. It develops and distributes a non-invasive technology that directly monitors a babies' oxygenation during pregnancy. This technology will lead to better patient care and greatly reduce the number of unnecessary cesarean sections. Founded in 2015 by Neil Ray, Raydiant Oximetry is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Overplay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Overplay is a venture-backed startup that provides a platform for users to create, share, and play casual mobile games quickly and without the need for coding. The company's patented technology transforms traditional video content into interactive experiences, allowing users to engage with videos actively. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Overplay's game engine facilitates the development of creative games, including racing, jumping, and drone piloting scenarios. Additionally, brands can utilize Overplay's platform to generate playable game ads based on their video content, significantly reducing the cost and time typically associated with game creation. This innovative approach enhances user engagement and entertainment in digital media.

Loopie

Angel Round in 2021
Loopie operates a managed marketplace laundry delivery service that aims to enhance lives and improve the laundry experience. By leveraging a peer-to-peer model, Loopie transforms underutilized washers and dryers into revenue-generating assets, offering a faster and more cost-effective alternative to traditional laundry wash and fold services. Since its beta launch in Seattle in 2018, Loopie has successfully validated its business model, achieving over $1.25 million in early sales and expanding to six additional markets. The company has also raised over $2.25 million in early-stage and venture capital, which supports its mission of providing convenient and efficient laundry solutions for both businesses and consumers.

Bone Health Technologies

Venture Round in 2021
Bone Health Technologies, Inc. is a health-tech company based in Redwood City, California, focused on developing innovative solutions for individuals with low bone density. The company's flagship product, OsteoBoost, is a wearable medical device that has received FDA clearance and is clinically proven to significantly slow bone density loss and improve bone strength, particularly in postmenopausal women with osteopenia. Utilizing patented precision vibration therapy inspired by NASA-funded research, OsteoBoost provides a non-invasive, non-pharmacological treatment option that mimics the effects of weight-bearing exercise through mechanical stimulation. This device aims to offer a convenient, pain-free solution to the nearly 64 million Americans at risk of osteoporotic fractures, positioning itself as a potential new standard of care in bone health management.

Materna Medical

Series A in 2021
Materna Medical, Inc. is a medical device company based in Mountain View, California, focused on developing innovative solutions to reduce childbirth-related injuries during vaginal delivery. Incorporated in 2010, the company addresses significant unmet needs in women's pelvic health, operating within a $6 billion market. Materna Medical combines expertise from a diverse team of engineers, scientists, and commercial leaders to transform the standard of care in obstetrics and gynecology. The company's mission centers on empowering women to safeguard their pelvic health through advanced medical technology.

Opscruise

Seed Round in 2021
OpsCruise is a developer of a cloud management application that focuses on performance assurance within cloud operations. The company's innovative platform integrates various signals, including logs, metrics, and flows, as well as tools for Kubernetes and anomaly detection, to enable real-time root cause analysis and dynamic application behavior modeling. This model-driven closed-loop platform addresses the operational challenges associated with cloud-native applications, providing a fundamentally different approach to monitoring and observability. By leveraging popular open-source and cloud monitoring tools, OpsCruise positions itself as a leader in container, Kubernetes, and serverless monitoring, aiming to automate the performance assurance processes within digital businesses.

C. Light Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
C. Light Technologies, Inc. is a neurotechnology company based in Berkeley, California, specializing in eye tracking technology for neurological health assessment. Founded in 2014, the company has developed a retinal eye-tracking platform that utilizes advanced machine learning algorithms and a highly accurate eye tracker. This technology is particularly focused on monitoring multiple sclerosis by measuring neurological activity through imaging the retina. C. Light's clinical devices combine sophisticated hardware and software to enhance the diagnosis and monitoring of neurodegenerative diseases, enabling healthcare professionals to assess neurological health with greater precision.

Strategikon Pharma

Seed Round in 2020
Strategikon Pharma, Inc. specializes in developing software that optimizes the outsourcing processes between sponsors and providers in the pharmaceutical industry. Its flagship product, Clinical Maestro, is a unique platform designed for the comprehensive management of clinical business operations, particularly in planning, outsourcing, and budgeting clinical trials. By facilitating an integrated virtual environment, Clinical Maestro enables biopharmaceutical companies to efficiently manage complex relationships with numerous global service providers who often operate with varying processes and reporting structures. The software replaces traditional, labor-intensive methods—primarily reliant on Excel—leading to significant cost savings and enhanced operational efficiency. Case studies with major pharmaceutical firms highlight the platform's effectiveness, achieving over 80% savings compared to manual processes and over 95% accuracy in predicting clinical study budgets. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Rafael, California, Strategikon Pharma also offers consulting services to support new clinical business operations.

Champions Round

Seed Round in 2020
Champions Round, Inc. is a gaming application developer specializing in football and esports, based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2018, the company offers an online sports platform that enhances the spectator experience for fans, particularly targeting Gen Z. Its application allows users to participate in fantasy leagues and tournaments, answer live questions, earn points, and win cash prizes. By enabling users to join leagues without the need for group assembly, Champions Round lowers barriers to entry and fosters greater engagement among sports fans. The application is accessible via the App Store, providing a user-friendly interface for players to learn about the games while enjoying the competitive aspects of fantasy sports.

EternaTear

Series A in 2020
EternaTear is developing a next-generation therapy for the over-the-counter dry eye market. Dry eye is the inability of the tear film and lids to protect the surface of the eye, resulting in itching, burning, and pain. With a dozen or more underlying causes, dry eye is notoriously difficult to diagnose and treat, and if left untreated, it can lead to permanent corneal damage. Patients with even moderate dry eye can suffer from debilitating symptoms that lead to a drastically reduced quality of life. Current treatment options are limited, and most patients rely on over-the-counter eye drops for temporary relief. But because they neither treat the root cause nor appropriately address the symptoms, current products on the market fail to provide adequate relief and must be reapplied as often as 6-12 times every day. By pairing proven technologies with pioneering research, EternaTear™ is developing a product that is closest to natural tears. Using a previously unrecognized mechanism, EternaTear™ can remain on the eye for an extended period of time, reducing the number of applications per day and giving Dry Eye patients lasting relief.

WaveOn

Seed Round in 2019
WaveOn is a company that specializes in transforming physical products into innovative Web3 marketing, sales, and service experiences without the need for apps or search engines. By utilizing a combination of award-winning software and contactless technology, WaveOn effectively merges offline and online commerce, allowing products to serve as digital points of sale. This approach enhances customer engagement both before and after purchase. The company develops metaverse-ready solutions for prominent sports brands, including BMC and Firewire, among others. WaveOn's platform aims to improve supply chain management and strengthen customer relationships by facilitating seamless connections between businesses and consumers.

eyecandylab

Seed Round in 2019
eyecandylab enables content creators to build engaging and interactive AR-experiences on video, driving user engagement and monetize it by uniting all devices into one seamless experience. The company offers a revolutionary AR solution for broadcasters and content producers to add an interactive component to their video content. By pointing AR-enabled smartphones or tablets at any video screen, the interaction layer is overlaid on the core content, harmonizing them into a singular, seamless experience.

UNest

Seed Round in 2019
UNest is a digital platform designed to assist families in saving for their children's education and future financial needs. Founded in 2018 by Ksenia Yudina in North Hollywood, California, the app allows parents to open a Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) account for their children within minutes and without the need for paperwork. UNest offers features such as advisor-guided investment plans, a simple gifting option, and the ability to set up recurring contributions, making it easier for parents to manage their savings. Additionally, the platform provides regular updates to help users track their savings progress, empowering families to invest in their children's financial futures from an early stage.

Car IQ

Series A in 2019
Car IQ Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in a cloud-based vehicle management platform and payment gateway tailored for auto dealer groups, car sharing services, and autonomous drivers. Founded in 2016, the company has developed an automotive-grade payment solution that allows vehicles to initiate payments directly to merchants without the need for credit cards. By leveraging telematics and vehicle data, Car IQ's platform provides detailed insights into fleet operations, enabling clients to monitor transactions and prevent fraud effectively. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing technologies, consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, and facilitates management of spending, customer service, and inventory.

Resonado

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Resonado Labs specializes in audio hardware solutions that enhance sound reproduction across various applications. The company focuses on transducer design and engineering, creating innovative products such as miniaturized sub-woofer drivers for integrated sound bars and advanced sonic projection arrays that can deliver sound over distances exceeding 1500 meters. Resonado aims to revolutionize the audio market through continuous experimentation with materials, motor structures, and industrial designs, all conducted at their headquarters in Chicago. By leveraging proprietary audio tools, Resonado enables clients to develop sound field control technologies that combine design innovation with high-fidelity acoustic performance, thereby expanding the potential applications of their technology across different industries.

Irrigreen

Seed Round in 2019
Irrigreen, Inc. is a company based in Edina, Minnesota, that designs, manufactures, and distributes innovative lawn irrigation systems. Founded in 2010, the firm specializes in an IoT digital sprinkler system that significantly reduces water usage by up to 50% compared to traditional methods. Utilizing advanced technology inspired by inkjet printing, Irrigreen's system features a patent-pending nozzle design that ensures even water distribution tailored to the specific shape of any landscape. The company targets homes, landscape contractors, municipalities, and water districts, distributing its products through a network of distributors across the United States. By integrating digital technology into irrigation, Irrigreen aims to lower water bills for its customers while minimizing waste.

Your Fare

Seed Round in 2018
Your Fare, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing an online ordering management platform for restaurants. Established in 2016, the company provides a solution that consolidates orders from various online sources into a single application, allowing restaurateurs to manage their online ordering processes more efficiently. The platform enables restaurants to replace multiple ordering tablets and track daily sales through a unified dashboard. Additionally, it integrates third-party delivery services, simplifying the ordering experience and enhancing operational efficiency. By automating the management of online meal orders, Your Fare helps restaurants increase their profit margins while streamlining order handling and reducing delivery times.

Onedome Global

Convertible Note in 2018
ONEDOME is a San Francisco-based location-based entertainment and immersive media company founded in 2017. It offers a unique mixed reality experience through its immersive gallery, which features 15 interactive rooms curated from artists around the globe. The company focuses on providing a community space for immersive media and storytelling, showcasing alien flora, 3D art, and interactive installations. Additionally, ONEDOME enhances its offerings with five-course meals that incorporate interactive tabletop art, music, and carefully paired beverages, allowing customers to fully engage in a multi-sensory experience.

Parrable

Series A in 2017
Parrable, Inc. is a privacy-friendly identification platform that offers solutions to replace the need for third-party cookies. By eliminating cookie syncs, Parrable enables marketers and publishers to effectively deliver content across the web. The company provides a device identification service that helps clients identify and target the right audiences, enhance engagement through retargeting, and measure attribution. Parrable's offerings include Colibri, an inline video player designed to deliver eye-catching video ads. Founded in 2010 and based in New York, with additional offices in San Francisco and Mexico City, Parrable caters to a diverse range of clients, including advertisers, brands, e-commerce partners, data management platforms, and media groups. The company was previously known as WingTips Interactive LLC.

Nwave

Seed Round in 2017
Nwave Technologies Ltd. specializes in developing and manufacturing wireless Internet of Things (IoT) hardware and software solutions. The company offers a range of products, including wireless network technologies, sensors, and devices that capture real-time data for various applications. Its hardware portfolio features radio modules, universal modems, and a parking sensor that integrates with existing mobile and web frameworks. Nwave's solutions enhance parking management by utilizing advanced sensing technologies to accurately detect parking events while minimizing false readings. The company's offerings extend to traffic management, agriculture, security, and asset management across multiple industries, including government, healthcare, and logistics. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, Nwave also operates offices in Dallas and Eastern Europe.

NGX Bio

Venture Round in 2017
NGX Bio is an online marketplace that facilitates access to DNA sequencing services, connecting researchers with high-quality genomic resources. By streamlining the sequencing process, the platform allows customers to complete their projects in a single transaction, ensuring cost-effectiveness through partnerships with providers that have available capacity. NGX Bio offers a comprehensive range of services, including design and planning, sample preparation, sequencing, and data analysis. Additionally, the company features an online project management tool that enhances sample tracking through the use of barcoded tubes and plates. Serving a global clientele, NGX Bio simplifies the sequencing experience for researchers worldwide.

Social Standards

Series A in 2017
Social Standards, Inc. specializes in developing market research tools that provide actionable business insights through comprehensive analysis of social data. Focused on sectors such as beverage alcohol, beauty, personal care, food and beverage, and quick serve restaurants, the company employs a market vertical approach that integrates sales data to ensure a thorough understanding of each industry. Founded in 2015 by experienced professionals from Dolby and Gracenote, Social Standards has established itself as a leader in consumer voice measurement and marketing insights. The firm, originally known as BarTrendr, Inc. before its rebranding in 2016, is headquartered in Oakland, California, and has garnered support from investors including the Band of Angels and Keiretsu Capital, as well as strategic backing from e.l.f. Cosmetics.

Thinnect

Convertible Note in 2017
Thinnect, Inc. is a developer of wireless mesh networking technology focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) sector, particularly in commercial and street lighting applications. Established in 2015 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the company provides solutions that enhance LED lighting products with intelligent control, allowing for energy savings and improved functionality. Thinnect's offerings include controllers for lighting management and sensors for environmental monitoring, along with advanced cloud, fog, and mist computing technologies. The company's innovations support a range of applications, including building security, smoke detection, and asset tracking, all operating seamlessly on a single network. Thinnect aims to deliver security, dependability, and usability across various smart environments.

Sift wallet

Seed Round in 2017
Sift wallet is a free application that maximizes credit card benefits and earns reimbursements for consumers. The app analyzes hidden benefits that are buried in complex credit card policies and file the appropriate claims on the user’s behalf, getting consumers back tens of billions currently left on the table every year. It tracks all of their purchases in one place, maps benefits to individual purchases, and automatically streamlines claims. In BETA, Sift has gotten its users an average of 5–10% back on their purchases 1 Sift is the first service to comprehensively map all the benefits for 90% of all credit cards in the United States.

Car IQ

Seed Round in 2017
Car IQ Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in a cloud-based vehicle management platform and payment gateway tailored for auto dealer groups, car sharing services, and autonomous drivers. Founded in 2016, the company has developed an automotive-grade payment solution that allows vehicles to initiate payments directly to merchants without the need for credit cards. By leveraging telematics and vehicle data, Car IQ's platform provides detailed insights into fleet operations, enabling clients to monitor transactions and prevent fraud effectively. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing technologies, consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, and facilitates management of spending, customer service, and inventory.

HealthCrowd

Seed Round in 2015
HealthCrowd is a comprehensive engagement platform focused on the healthcare sector, designed to enhance patient interactions through unified, automated, and optimized communication strategies. The platform integrates healthcare expertise with advertising analytics to provide personalized engagement at scale, aiming to improve clinical quality and financial outcomes for healthcare organizations. By facilitating multimodal outreach, HealthCrowd enables its clients to drive healthy behaviors and increase consumer satisfaction while maintaining compliance. The company has been recognized by various programs, including Springboard Enterprises Life Sciences and Launch Silicon Valley, highlighting its innovative approach to patient engagement.

NG1Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
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Gate Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Gate Labs Inc., incorporated in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing innovative technology for secure and flexible home access solutions. The company has created a smart lock that features a motion-activated camera, two-way audio, keyed deadbolt, and an integrated Wi-Fi antenna, all powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. This smart lock allows homeowners to provide trusted access to family, friends, and service providers, enabling secure unattended entry to homes, commercial properties, and rental units. Gate Labs aims to enhance security and convenience for users while they are away from their properties. The company was later acquired by Smartfrog Group.

NextInput

Venture Round in 2015
NextInput markets a set of proprietary touch technologies that solve key pains in the $20 billion market for touch technology. NextInput's ForceTouch technology is useful for a variety of electronic device interface applications, including touchscreens for next-generation smartphones and tablet PCs. NextInput was formed by a team of engineers and business professionals from Georgia Tech to commercialize a force-sensitive touch technology developed by COO Ian Campbell. Following a seed funding round in mid-2012, the company has brought successful products to market incorporating the technology and has developed market-ready touch surface demonstration kits.

Savvy.is

Seed Round in 2015
Savvy is a global platform where learners and teachers connect for live, one on one video learning sessions. One on one learning is the most effective way to learn anything, from how to manage your personal finances to how to put on makeup. Savvy gives anyone with expertise the ability to teach, and makes it easy for learners to book, learn, and pay for sessions whenever and wherever they want.

Social Standards

Seed Round in 2015
Social Standards, Inc. specializes in developing market research tools that provide actionable business insights through comprehensive analysis of social data. Focused on sectors such as beverage alcohol, beauty, personal care, food and beverage, and quick serve restaurants, the company employs a market vertical approach that integrates sales data to ensure a thorough understanding of each industry. Founded in 2015 by experienced professionals from Dolby and Gracenote, Social Standards has established itself as a leader in consumer voice measurement and marketing insights. The firm, originally known as BarTrendr, Inc. before its rebranding in 2016, is headquartered in Oakland, California, and has garnered support from investors including the Band of Angels and Keiretsu Capital, as well as strategic backing from e.l.f. Cosmetics.

Peloton Technology

Series A in 2015
Peloton Technology Inc., founded in 2011 and based in Menlo Park, California, develops advanced active safety systems aimed at enhancing the efficiency of trucking fleets. The company employs radar and Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) to establish vehicle-to-vehicle links between pairs of trucks. This technology allows for the coordination of acceleration and braking while keeping drivers fully engaged and in control of steering. By forming platoons, Peloton's system significantly reduces aerodynamic drag, resulting in fuel savings of over 7% during on-road testing for both the leading and trailing trucks. In addition to improving fuel efficiency, Peloton's solutions help mitigate collision-related expenses, addressing critical issues faced by the trucking industry.

DecisionNext

Seed Round in 2015
DecisionNext, Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based predictive analytics platform tailored for commodities-driven businesses, including sectors such as minerals, agribusiness, fishing, forestry, oil, and gas. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Brisbane, Australia, the company focuses on enhancing decision-making processes for its clients. The platform offers a range of solutions, including commodity price forecasting, purchasing optimization, product mix optimization, capacity optimization, and pricing and promotion optimization. By integrating these functionalities into a unified system, DecisionNext enables clients to improve end-to-end performance, maximize profit margins, and reduce uncertainty through real-time validation of forecasting models and simulation of market scenarios.

NextInput

Angel Round in 2014
NextInput markets a set of proprietary touch technologies that solve key pains in the $20 billion market for touch technology. NextInput's ForceTouch technology is useful for a variety of electronic device interface applications, including touchscreens for next-generation smartphones and tablet PCs. NextInput was formed by a team of engineers and business professionals from Georgia Tech to commercialize a force-sensitive touch technology developed by COO Ian Campbell. Following a seed funding round in mid-2012, the company has brought successful products to market incorporating the technology and has developed market-ready touch surface demonstration kits.

ClinCapture

Seed Round in 2014
ClinCapture is revolutionizing the clinical trial industry with Virtual Data Capture® (VDC®), a leading-edge suite of products designed to expedite remote and decentralized clinical trials.

Vidcaster

Series A in 2014
Vidcaster provides an out-of-the-box solution for implementing and managing video experiences.

Safe H2O

Seed Round in 2014
Safe H2O operates as a water bio detection company that provides pathogen test systems and data services. It engages in assisting water managers and water treatment service providers in reducing fatalities and illnesses related to waterborne pathogens and assuring the sustainability of water systems.

HealthCrowd

Seed Round in 2013
HealthCrowd is a comprehensive engagement platform focused on the healthcare sector, designed to enhance patient interactions through unified, automated, and optimized communication strategies. The platform integrates healthcare expertise with advertising analytics to provide personalized engagement at scale, aiming to improve clinical quality and financial outcomes for healthcare organizations. By facilitating multimodal outreach, HealthCrowd enables its clients to drive healthy behaviors and increase consumer satisfaction while maintaining compliance. The company has been recognized by various programs, including Springboard Enterprises Life Sciences and Launch Silicon Valley, highlighting its innovative approach to patient engagement.

Peloton Technology

Seed Round in 2013
Peloton Technology Inc., founded in 2011 and based in Menlo Park, California, develops advanced active safety systems aimed at enhancing the efficiency of trucking fleets. The company employs radar and Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) to establish vehicle-to-vehicle links between pairs of trucks. This technology allows for the coordination of acceleration and braking while keeping drivers fully engaged and in control of steering. By forming platoons, Peloton's system significantly reduces aerodynamic drag, resulting in fuel savings of over 7% during on-road testing for both the leading and trailing trucks. In addition to improving fuel efficiency, Peloton's solutions help mitigate collision-related expenses, addressing critical issues faced by the trucking industry.

OndaVia

Venture Round in 2013
OndaVia specializes in microfluidics and nanotechnology to provide rapid detection of contaminants in water. The company has developed a portable water analysis system that includes a small, transportable instrument and disposable, chemical-specific cartridges. This system allows for real-time monitoring and decision-making for various applications, including process control, wastewater management, site surveys, and pollution detection. OndaVia's technology enables detection capabilities down to parts-per-billion levels, making it particularly beneficial for industries such as oil and gas, chemicals, and agriculture, where proper monitoring can enhance yields and reduce operational costs.

Labdoor

Seed Round in 2013
Labdoor is a testing lab that publicly verifies the quality of consumer products, starting with supplements. On Labdoor.com, consumers can find scientific product reviews and shop for hundreds of quality-tested supplements all in one place. They also offer a "Labdoor Certified" program to companies who submit every lot of their products to us for quality control testing. From their chemistry lab in South San Francisco, Labdoor analyzes the purity and potency of popular products to find out which ones have what they claim and if they have any harmful ingredients or contaminants. Then, they grade and rank those products, write reports, and publish that information for free, so consumers can confidently buy the best supplements for their needs.

Uppidy

Seed Round in 2013
Uppidy, Inc. provides mobile application services. Its application lets users to save, search, and share their sms and text messages; backup, search, and view their sms messages in real time; and link Facebook and Twitter to share their status updates from texting app. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Columbia, Maryland.

NScaled

Series A in 2013
nScaled provides hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for the enterprise. They serve customers with highly confidential data and zero tolerance for system downtime or data loss. Their unique Hybrid Cloud architecture gives customers maximum flexibility and dependability; their services agreement is the strongest, most customer-centric available; and our 24x7 customer support is unmatched in expertise and responsiveness. nScaled offers customers multiple cloud solutions, including primary application hosting, disaster recovery, and test/dev. All services take advantage of their global network of Remote Cloud data centers plus their on-premises Local Cloud Appliance, all managed as one secure, seamless infrastructure. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London.

Perkville

Seed Round in 2013
Perkville, Inc. is a customer loyalty and referral platform that specializes in enhancing retention and driving referrals for businesses in the health, fitness, salon, spa, and retail sectors. Founded in 2010 and based in Oakland, California, Perkville offers a rewards program that seamlessly integrates with clients' point of sale or scheduling systems, allowing businesses to automatically reward customer actions such as visits and referrals. The platform is designed to be customizable, enabling businesses to tailor loyalty programs to their specific needs. By facilitating social media engagement and rewarding customer loyalty, Perkville helps businesses increase revenue and strengthen customer relationships.

Bell Biosystems

Seed Round in 2012
Bell Biosystems is a biotechnology company based in Berkeley, CA, and focused on developing tools for the tracking and imaging of cellular therapies. Bell combines expertise in stem cell research, cell biology, biomedical imaging, molecular biology and clinical regenerative medicine. Our vision is to create tools that accelerate the "bench-to-bedside" progress of innovations in cell therapy pre-clinical and clinical delivery and tracking of transplanted cells.

Scopix

Venture Round in 2012
Scopix is a leader in intelligent video analytics tailored for retailers, consumer packaged goods companies, and manufacturers. The company offers a cloud-based platform that delivers actionable insights through its Real.Suite™ family of solutions. This platform collects data on key performance indicators such as store personnel effectiveness, customer feedback, and queue lengths, which are essential for enhancing retail operations. By providing timely information via a web-based portal, Scopix enables store personnel, regional managers, and corporate executives to optimize the customer experience and improve overall business performance, ultimately driving sales and maximizing profits.

Cephasonics

Seed Round in 2012
Cephasonics, Inc. specializes in ultrasound technology integrated with mixed-signal semiconductors and system-level design. Founded in 2012 and based in Santa Clara, California, the company develops ultrasound beamforming front-end systems and development kits, as well as AutoFocus ultrasound beamforming technology that allows original equipment manufacturers to implement customized algorithms. Cephasonics also provides analog-to-digital converters and ultrasound analog front end receiver modules for subsystem integration. Its innovative embedded-ultrasound technology enhances performance, reduces power consumption, and accelerates the time-to-market for ultrasound-based products across medical, industrial, and imaging sectors. The company serves a global market through a network of distributors.

CareinSync

Venture Round in 2012
At CareinSync, their mission is to significantly improve patient care quality & efficiency by enhancing communication across care providers & patients over a real-time, mobile, collaboration platform.

Audioscribe

Venture Round in 2012
Audioscribe offers real-time speech recognition software for court reporters and medical transcription activities.

OncoHealth

Venture Round in 2012
OncoHealth designs screening devices that detects and diagnoses cancer. Its devices focus on the development of protein bio-markers for screening and diagnostics of cervical cancer and other HPV-associated cancers, enabling medical professionals to monitor, diagnose, and treat cancer.

Practice Fusion

Series C in 2012
Practice Fusion, Inc. is a cloud-based electronic health records (EHR) company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2005. The company provides a comprehensive practice management software platform that includes features such as charting, scheduling, billing, e-prescribing, lab integrations, and secure messaging. This platform is designed to connect medical professionals, patients, labs, billers, imaging centers, and life science partners, facilitating improved healthcare delivery. Additionally, Practice Fusion offers a healthcare database called Practice Fusion Insight to support medical professionals. Its services cater to a diverse range of users, including independent practices, community clinics, large medical groups, and non-profit organizations. As of February 2018, Practice Fusion operates as a subsidiary of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions.

Aidin

Venture Round in 2012
Aidin is a healthcare technology company focused on enhancing the discharge planning process for hospitals and social workers. Its platform streamlines the workflow for discharge planning professionals by automating the generation of provider listings, thereby minimizing administrative tasks and allowing social workers to concentrate more on patient care. Aidin provides patients with access to quality ratings and reviews of available post-acute care providers, facilitating informed decision-making. The platform also tracks patient experiences and outcomes, equipping case managers with valuable insights to identify the most effective providers for specific health conditions. By connecting patients with the right post-hospital care options, Aidin aims to reduce readmissions and improve overall patient satisfaction.

TrustedAd

Angel Round in 2012
TrustedAd is a social sales service where users can send ads and earn a commission when their ad guides a purchase. 1. Users can help their inner circle make purchases by creating an ad for a product or service. 2. When the ad recipient makes a purchase through the ad, the TrustedAd user gets paid. 3. Commissions can go into a PayPal account, or TrustedAd will donate to charity on the users’ behalf. TrustedAd’s model is based on informed 1:1 relationships, not broadcast or spam. Ads are from one sender to one recipient (a friend, family member, or colleague), for a specific product or service they know the recipient will want to buy. Ad Senders can draw on their professional expertise, interpersonal relationships, or extensive product knowledge to send trusted ads and help guide purchases. TrustedAd has selected merchants that provide a wide range of products from electronics, to clothing and accessories, to music, travel and more.

PV Evolution Labs

Seed Round in 2012
PV Evolution Labs LLC provides solar panel test and characterization services. PV Evolution Labs LLC was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

PromoJam

Series A in 2012
The PromoJam Social Marketing Platform provides enterprise businesses a comprehensive and powerful social marketing suite to reach users everywhere - both online and offline. With PromoJam, businesses can easily launch engaging promotions that spark conversations and consumer engagement across multiple social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn and Foursquare at once. PromoJam is used by many of the biggest brands and artists in the world to build, launch and track social media promotions that reach new and existing customers. Customers include: NBC Universal, Office Max, Blackberry, The North Face, Clear Channel Radio, Paramount Home Entertainment, Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Pearl Jam.

Fin Quiver

Venture Round in 2012
Fin Quiver received investments from a company known as Band of Angels.

Cool Lumens

Venture Round in 2011
Cool Lumens, established in 2010, specializes in designing and manufacturing high-performance LED lighting solutions tailored for industrial and commercial settings. The company focuses on developing area and task lighting that enhances task efficiency in various applications, including space manufacturing, warehousing, food processing, and cold storage. Since beginning to ship its products in 2012, Cool Lumens has actively pursued innovation, filing for six patents to protect its unique designs.

100Plus

Seed Round in 2011
100Plus is a rapidly growing remote patient monitoring platform designed to enhance the care of elderly patients with chronic conditions. The platform provides comprehensive services, including patient outreach, device setup, patient engagement, and automatic billing, all integrated with medical devices. By enabling doctors to monitor high-risk seniors remotely, 100Plus helps to prevent costly episodic care and promotes a higher quality of life for patients. When a Medicare patient receives a 100Plus medical device, it is delivered at no cost to them or their healthcare providers, fully configured and ready for immediate use, eliminating the need for smartphones, apps, Bluetooth, or WiFi.

Niveus Medical

Series A in 2011
Niveus Medical, Inc. is a company that specializes in muscle stimulation systems aimed at preventing muscle atrophy, particularly in patients who are sedated or on bed rest. Founded in 2008 and based in Redwood City, California, Niveus Medical develops technologies that stimulate the quadriceps, facilitating the maintenance or increase of knee joint range of motion. Their systems are designed to re-educate muscles, alleviate spasms, and enhance local blood circulation. By providing effective stimulation, Niveus Medical's products enable faster treatment initiation, ultimately improving the chances of successful patient recovery in intensive care settings. The company operates under the brand IntelliSTIM.

Hive Media

Series A in 2011
Hive Media, a San Carlos, CA-based company that creates social media games. Led by CEO Brian Laing, Hive Media creates social media games that allow fans to extend their engagement and live their favorite hit movies, TV series or brands via Facebook, iPad and mobile devices. The company selects shows that have significant brand recognition, large ardent fan bases, and high profile marketing and ad sales programs.

SchoolCare

Seed Round in 2011
SchoolCare is a digital health platform dedicated to enhancing pediatric healthcare in K-12 public schools. By providing free health technology, it assists school nurses in delivering effective care and ensuring student safety. The platform captures essential health information, including student medical charts, medications, and immunizations, while facilitating communication between schools, families, and healthcare providers. This connectivity allows for timely alerts about health events and supports the efficient operation of public school health programs. By addressing gaps in traditional care coordination, SchoolCare aims to improve health outcomes for children, ensuring that they receive consistent and comprehensive care throughout their school experience.

Turpitude

Series A in 2011
Turpitude provides clients, including developers, publishers and property holders, with AAA game design consulting services along with creating games as well.

Everloop

Venture Round in 2011
Targeting tween girls and boys ages 8 to 13, Everloop's mission is to give tweens a protected space where they can connect with friends they know, express themselves, play games, collaborate on projects and discover talents. Everloop's Social Loop, a loop of safety around kids' connections, introduces state-of-the-art privacy protection and monitoring, keeping tweens from sharing more than they should with people outside their approved loops. Everloop’s user experience offers easy profile customization and realtime communications, including email, IM, chat and voice chat. Real-time posts and video uploading, Loops of common interest and a universal Evercredit system are among the site’s many unique features. In addition, Everloop Video Network publishes original tween-centric web series, like “In the Loop with Dani,” hosted by Everloop tween spokesperson Dani; and the Everloop Games Arcade offers more than 1,500 games. The site’s virtual Everstore lets members cash in their Evercredits for stickers and fun interactive Goobs.

Navera

Seed Round in 2011
Navera is a leading provider of cloud-based apps for real-time employee communications, delivering the knowledge and performance of a company’s HR professionals and their partners at their employees’ fingertips. Taking its lead from the champions of customer relationship management (CRM), Navera is bringing together personalization, analytics, and mobile technologies to employee communications management. Navera’s mobile and web-based apps deliver highly personalized communications with the ease and responsiveness of a best-in-class consumer app and are powered by “voice of the employee” analytics. Navera integrates information from multiple channels, HR applications, and third-party systems to put personal and company information at an employees’ fingertips—all from a single point of access.

OncoHealth

Series A in 2011
OncoHealth designs screening devices that detects and diagnoses cancer. Its devices focus on the development of protein bio-markers for screening and diagnostics of cervical cancer and other HPV-associated cancers, enabling medical professionals to monitor, diagnose, and treat cancer.

OncoHealth

Angel Round in 2011
OncoHealth designs screening devices that detects and diagnoses cancer. Its devices focus on the development of protein bio-markers for screening and diagnostics of cervical cancer and other HPV-associated cancers, enabling medical professionals to monitor, diagnose, and treat cancer.

Materna Medical

Angel Round in 2010
Materna Medical, Inc. is a medical device company based in Mountain View, California, focused on developing innovative solutions to reduce childbirth-related injuries during vaginal delivery. Incorporated in 2010, the company addresses significant unmet needs in women's pelvic health, operating within a $6 billion market. Materna Medical combines expertise from a diverse team of engineers, scientists, and commercial leaders to transform the standard of care in obstetrics and gynecology. The company's mission centers on empowering women to safeguard their pelvic health through advanced medical technology.

VoiceBase

Series A in 2010
VoiceBase, Inc. is a privately held company that specializes in speech analytics and voice communication solutions, founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, California. The company provides an online platform that enables businesses to store, search, and share voice communications, facilitating better decision-making through access to spoken information. VoiceBase's offerings include speech-to-text capabilities, conversational analytics, and predictive analytics, which can be integrated into various voice applications via flexible APIs and pre-built dashboards. Their clientele includes notable organizations such as Tableau, Amazon Web Services, The Home Depot, Twilio, and Nasdaq. This comprehensive approach allows developers and enterprises to create scalable services that leverage voice data effectively.

GlobalMotion

Series A in 2009
GlobalMotion aims to be the leading platform for user-generated location data. GlobalMotion provides a platform that enables users to describe the physical world in a collaborative wiki model. Creating content at GlobalMotion is easy, quick and fun. GlobalMotion's data can be consumed online and on connected location-aware devices. Locations on GlobalMotion encompass a wide variety of types of places or areas, for example: landmarks, buildings, stadiums, travel destinations, parking spots, gas stations, speed cameras, restaurants, and many more. Powered by the proven, scalable MediaWiki platform and integrated with leading location-based web services including Google Maps, Flickr, Panoramio, and Geonames.org, it is made quick, easy and fun for consumers to create content and collaboratively describe locations.

Arrayent

Venture Round in 2009
Arrayent, Inc. is a provider of an Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud Platform-as-a-Service that assists consumer brands in bringing connected products to market. The platform enables traditional products to become connected devices, facilitating the acquisition and transmission of usage data that informs business intelligence systems. It supports device interoperability through integration with third-party ecosystems and offers a range of services, including Connect Cloud Service for brand and customer connectivity, Insight Cloud Service for consumer behavior analysis, and EcoAdaptor Cloud Service for product line integration. Arrayent serves various industries, such as appliances, HVAC, lighting, and wellness, with notable clients including Chamberlain, Maytag Commercial Laundry, and Whirlpool Corporation. The company also collaborates with several technology partners to enhance its offerings. Founded in 2002, Arrayent is based in Redwood City, California, and operates as a subsidiary of Prodea Systems, Inc.

Life360

Angel Round in 2009
Life360, Inc. is a mobile application company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that focuses on enhancing family connectivity and safety. Founded in 2007, Life360 provides a platform for families to communicate, share locations, and monitor driving safety. The app, which serves millions of users in over 140 countries, offers features such as private location sharing, location history, crash detection, roadside assistance, and emergency alerts through both free and paid subscriptions. As the world's largest family-oriented social network, Life360 has over 50 million monthly active users and consistently ranks among the top social networking apps in the United States. The company's mission is to help families stay connected and secure by providing essential tools that address the needs of modern family life.

Vapore

Series A in 2009
Vapore offers a proprietary germ-free water vapor technology for the therapeutic treatment of a variety of medical conditions. Vapore's Capillary Force Vaporizer Technology provides germ-free water vapor for the therapeutic treatment of a variety of medical conditions. It is FDA approved, patent-protected, proven in hospital settings, CFV Technology is changing medical humidification.

Mixbook

Series A in 2008
Mixbook is an online platform specializing in personalized photo goods, allowing users to create and share unique photo books, cards, calendars, and wall art. With a focus on creativity, Mixbook empowers individuals to transform their cherished memories into beautifully designed products. The platform is recognized as the number one rated photo book service in the United States, boasting over 26,000 five-star reviews. Utilizing advanced technologies, including AI design and cloud-based architectures, Mixbook enhances the user experience through interactive and intuitive design tools. By facilitating meaningful connections through personalized creations, Mixbook serves a diverse community of over six million users, helping them celebrate and share their most treasured moments.

Ustream

Series A in 2008
Ustream is a provider of a live interactive broadcast platform that allows users to view and stream a variety of content, including sporting events, political gatherings, concerts, conferences, and personal milestones. Founded in 2007 by John Ham, Brad Hunstable, and Gyula Feher, the company caters to diverse audiences by offering solutions for mobile devices, streaming players, and connected TVs. Ustream's services extend beyond broadcasting, including event production, program development, account management, tech support, and performance analytics. The company has established partnerships with notable organizations such as Cisco, Sony, Discovery Communications, Georgetown University, and Samsung. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Ustream also maintains offices in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Budapest.

Rover

Seed Round in 2008
Rover Rover is an advanced personalization and recommendation technology app. Its Recommendation Engine is also used to power discovery on numerous third party news and media sites. Rover helps people discover content they love, that they never knew existed from a wide variety of over 15,000 topics. The recommendation engine uses machine learning to learn a user's fine-grained interests through content a user engages with while being respectful of a user's need for privacy. Rover also connects to other people who are influential in topics that care about and help discover other people with similar interests. Rover uses Machine Learning to help people discover content they love that they never knew existed. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Ustream

Seed Round in 2007
Ustream is a provider of a live interactive broadcast platform that allows users to view and stream a variety of content, including sporting events, political gatherings, concerts, conferences, and personal milestones. Founded in 2007 by John Ham, Brad Hunstable, and Gyula Feher, the company caters to diverse audiences by offering solutions for mobile devices, streaming players, and connected TVs. Ustream's services extend beyond broadcasting, including event production, program development, account management, tech support, and performance analytics. The company has established partnerships with notable organizations such as Cisco, Sony, Discovery Communications, Georgetown University, and Samsung. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Ustream also maintains offices in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Budapest.

Fyreball

Angel Round in 2007
Fyreball is stealthy start-up founded by former members of the Halo development team and says it is planning on bringing a gaming element to email. Few details have come out, but founder and former general manager at Bungie Studios Parsons stated that that the email alternative "allows users to track messages and discussions as they circulate around the Web," according to the Seattle P-I.

Podaddies

Angel Round in 2007
Podaddies is the leading video advertising solution for online and mobile video publishers, online game companies and app developers — supported by their very own video ad network. Podaddies' proprietary, standards-based, innovative and flexible advertising platform allows marketers to reach a targeted audience, wherever they are. Mission: To deliver the highest quality, targeted and measurable in-stream and mobile video advertising for video publishers and advertisers. Podaddies provides technology and services that empower marketers and agencies, video publishers and video consumers to work together successfully and profitably. Podaddies is a privately-held California C Corporation backed by experienced value-add angel and strategic investors. They're headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Therative

Series C in 2007
Therative, Inc. engages in the development of skin care devices and solutions for consumers. The company focuses on converting advanced treatments into consumer products for medical and cosmetic treatments. Its products include ThermaClear, a hand-held medical device for the treatment of inflammatory acne; and ThermaClear Essentials, a preventative treatment and skin care regimen consisting of topical applications, such as ThermaClear cleansing pads, clarifying cleanser, and acne clearing gel containing benzoyl peroxide. The company was formerly known as DermaCare, Inc. Therative, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California. On August 20, 2009, Therative, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for liquidation under Chapter 7 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California.

Therative

Series B in 2007
Therative, Inc. engages in the development of skin care devices and solutions for consumers. The company focuses on converting advanced treatments into consumer products for medical and cosmetic treatments. Its products include ThermaClear, a hand-held medical device for the treatment of inflammatory acne; and ThermaClear Essentials, a preventative treatment and skin care regimen consisting of topical applications, such as ThermaClear cleansing pads, clarifying cleanser, and acne clearing gel containing benzoyl peroxide. The company was formerly known as DermaCare, Inc. Therative, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California. On August 20, 2009, Therative, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for liquidation under Chapter 7 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California.

UGOBE

Series B in 2006
Ugobe is formerly the parent company UGOBE is behind Pleo, a lifelike Camarasaurus robot that displays distinct emotional and developmental behaviors. Pleos weigh about 3.5 pounds and measure 21 inches from head to tail, and retailed for $349. The Pleo is full of infrared and motion sensors that detect how the Pleo is being interacted with, and speakers to help the robot make its emotions known. After Ugobe filed for bankruptcy, [Jetta Company Limited](/organization/jetta-company-limited) relaunched PLEO as part of its [Innvo Labs](/organization/innvo-labs) subsidiary.

SoundThinking

Series B in 2006
SoundThinking, formerly known as ShotSpotter, is a public safety technology company dedicated to enhancing community safety through innovative solutions and advisory services for law enforcement and civic leadership. The company offers a comprehensive platform called SafetySmart, which includes several key tools: ShotSpotter, an acoustic gunshot detection system; CrimeTracer, a leading search engine for law enforcement; CaseBuilder, a centralized investigation management system; and ResourceRouter, software designed to optimally allocate patrol and community anti-violence resources. By integrating these technologies, SoundThinking aims to improve public safety and support effective law enforcement practices.
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