Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. It provides capital and strategic guidance to startups across stages, focusing on technology-driven companies in areas such as artificial intelligence, climate and sustainability, enterprise software and services, fintech, digital health, medical technology and diagnostics, therapeutics, consumer products, and frontier technologies. The firm backs bold ventures with the potential to disrupt markets and improve lives, supporting companies from early to growth stages and working closely with entrepreneurs to apply science, technology and innovative business models. While primarily investing in North American technology companies, Khosla Ventures pursues opportunities globally and emphasizes experimentation and impact alongside financial returns. The firm also maintains related impact initiatives that support entrepreneurs addressing socio-economic challenges in emerging markets.

Alex Bentley

Partner and Investor

Nessan Bermingham Ph.D

Operating Partner

Ryno Blignaut

Operating Partner

Alice Brooks

Partner

Peter Buckland JD

General Partner and COO

Past deals in Big Data

Sarvam AI

Series A in 2023
Sarvam AI specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform tailored to India's diverse linguistic landscape. The platform aims to enhance the robustness, performance, and cost-effectiveness of generative AI app development, deployment, and distribution.

Gather Health

Series A in 2023
Gather Health is an international healthcare technology company dedicated to empowering chronic disease patients to enhance their health. The company develops mobile and cloud-based healthcare applications that utilize cutting-edge medical and behavioral research to motivate and educate patients. By connecting physicians, patients, their families, and communities, Gather Health aims to provide continuous and holistic care that leads to improved health outcomes. The rise in chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension has created a pressing need for effective patient care solutions, especially given the shortage of healthcare providers. Gather Health's flagship product, the Gather Health Diabetes platform, is currently utilized by physicians and patients in various cities across Hong Kong and India, including Mumbai and Bangalore, demonstrating positive health outcomes for users. Headquartered in Hong Kong, with additional offices in Beijing, New York, and India, the company boasts a diverse team of clinicians, health experts, interaction designers, and engineers experienced in the global healthcare landscape.

Breeze

Venture Round in 2022
Breeze is a fully automated and digital insurance solution, specifically tailored for freight forwarders and logistics companies, backed by advanced technology, big data and an industry-first machine learning platform. Breeze’s digital insurance solution fully integrates with existing systems and workflows, allowing forwarders and logistics companies to seamlessly offer shippers better protection for their cargo (from issuing insurance policies to end-to-end claims processing), while also generating more revenue for their business. There are no implementation costs or any operational effort to setting up Breeze’s platform, and it can take minutes to be up and running. For more information visit breezeai.com

Helium

Series D in 2022
Helium Systems Inc. develops Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, focusing on sensor devices that monitor environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, motion, and light. These sensors are utilized in various applications, including facility monitoring and quality control for medical products, energy management, air quality assessment, and refrigeration temperature regulation. The company offers a web and mobile dashboard for users to manage and access sensor data. Additionally, Helium operates a decentralized wireless network that enables low-power IoT devices to connect to the internet. This network incentivizes individuals to become network operators, rewarding them with a cryptocurrency for validating network transactions and contributing to the network's integrity. Incorporated in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Helium Systems continues to innovate within the IoT landscape, enhancing the ability to gather insights from smart devices.

ThoughtSpot

Series F in 2021
ThoughtSpot provides an AI-native intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to explore any data, ask questions, and uncover actionable insights. It offers intuitive natural language search, enabling users to generate answers from business data at every point of decision-making. ThoughtSpot serves various industries, with clients including NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One, and Huel.

Breeze

Seed Round in 2021
Breeze is a fully automated and digital insurance solution, specifically tailored for freight forwarders and logistics companies, backed by advanced technology, big data and an industry-first machine learning platform. Breeze’s digital insurance solution fully integrates with existing systems and workflows, allowing forwarders and logistics companies to seamlessly offer shippers better protection for their cargo (from issuing insurance policies to end-to-end claims processing), while also generating more revenue for their business. There are no implementation costs or any operational effort to setting up Breeze’s platform, and it can take minutes to be up and running. For more information visit breezeai.com

Gaiascope

Seed Round in 2021
Gaiascope, Inc. is a software-as-a-service company based in Brooklyn, New York, that specializes in developing innovative analytics solutions for the energy industry. Founded in 2019, Gaiascope employs machine learning techniques to analyze large datasets, enabling energy companies and investors to better understand and navigate the complexities of the electric grid. Their user-friendly software provides critical insights, including locational marginal pricing, grid constraints, and demand forecasts, facilitating more informed decision-making in real-time trading, operations, and development. Gaiascope emphasizes transparency in its tools, which are designed to optimize the management of power markets while addressing the challenges posed by increasing renewable energy integration and evolving market dynamics.

Avvir

Series A in 2021
Avvir, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in automated construction monitoring services. It offers an enterprise platform designed to streamline construction verification and progress tracking by regularly scanning sites and comparing progress scans to detect defects automatically. The platform integrates with existing systems, enabling seamless workflows from photo capture to construction management. By automating progress tracking, quality control, and as-built documentation, Avvir helps identify potential risks and slowdowns, ultimately reducing costly rework and protecting projects from budget and schedule overruns. This innovative approach transforms Building Information Modeling (BIM) into an official system of record, providing valuable insights to enhance project efficiency and productivity.

vFunction

Seed Round in 2021
VFunction specializes in application modernization for businesses. Its core product facilitates the transformation of existing Java applications into cloud-native architectures, helping companies stay competitive through digital evolution. The company's team, with their unique expertise, empowers clients to modernize their core business applications efficiently.

Lumiata

Series B in 2021
Lumiata is a predictive health analytics company that applies artificial intelligence to healthcare data to deliver real-time, patient-level predictions. It builds a medical graph to organize symptoms, diagnoses, procedures and medications, enabling risk-bearing organizations such as payers, hospital networks, and population health programs to forecast health trajectories, cost, and care needs. The Lumiata Risk Matrix provides time-based predictions with explanations of medical reasoning. The platform combines big data, clinical knowledge, and proprietary intellectual property drawn from over 120 million patient records to support use cases like underwriting and care management. Founded in 2013 and based in San Mateo, California, Lumiata serves providers, payers, and digital health companies, enabling predictive analytics at scale while protecting privacy.

E25Bio

Venture Round in 2020
E25Bio Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2018, that focuses on developing rapid diagnostic tests for epidemic fever viruses. The company designs paper-based diagnostic systems and kits that facilitate the detection of viruses such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika. E25Bio's innovative platform enables multiplexed testing that quickly identifies viral antigens during infections, allowing for real-time data reporting through a mobile application. This capability supports epidemiologic predictions and disease mapping, empowering governments and health organizations to respond effectively to outbreaks and manage public health crises. Through its commitment to fast, mobile testing solutions, E25Bio aims to prevent severe health outcomes associated with viral epidemics.

ThoughtSpot

Series E in 2019
ThoughtSpot provides an AI-native intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to explore any data, ask questions, and uncover actionable insights. It offers intuitive natural language search, enabling users to generate answers from business data at every point of decision-making. ThoughtSpot serves various industries, with clients including NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One, and Huel.

Avvir

Seed Round in 2019
Avvir, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in automated construction monitoring services. It offers an enterprise platform designed to streamline construction verification and progress tracking by regularly scanning sites and comparing progress scans to detect defects automatically. The platform integrates with existing systems, enabling seamless workflows from photo capture to construction management. By automating progress tracking, quality control, and as-built documentation, Avvir helps identify potential risks and slowdowns, ultimately reducing costly rework and protecting projects from budget and schedule overruns. This innovative approach transforms Building Information Modeling (BIM) into an official system of record, providing valuable insights to enhance project efficiency and productivity.

Helium

Series C in 2019
Helium Systems Inc. develops Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, focusing on sensor devices that monitor environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, motion, and light. These sensors are utilized in various applications, including facility monitoring and quality control for medical products, energy management, air quality assessment, and refrigeration temperature regulation. The company offers a web and mobile dashboard for users to manage and access sensor data. Additionally, Helium operates a decentralized wireless network that enables low-power IoT devices to connect to the internet. This network incentivizes individuals to become network operators, rewarding them with a cryptocurrency for validating network transactions and contributing to the network's integrity. Incorporated in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Helium Systems continues to innovate within the IoT landscape, enhancing the ability to gather insights from smart devices.

Avvir

Seed Round in 2019
Avvir, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in automated construction monitoring services. It offers an enterprise platform designed to streamline construction verification and progress tracking by regularly scanning sites and comparing progress scans to detect defects automatically. The platform integrates with existing systems, enabling seamless workflows from photo capture to construction management. By automating progress tracking, quality control, and as-built documentation, Avvir helps identify potential risks and slowdowns, ultimately reducing costly rework and protecting projects from budget and schedule overruns. This innovative approach transforms Building Information Modeling (BIM) into an official system of record, providing valuable insights to enhance project efficiency and productivity.

Nebula Genomics

Series A in 2018
Nebula Genomics is a biotechnology company founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California. It specializes in human genome sequencing and the creation of a marketplace for genomic and health data aimed at consumers, researchers, and the medical community. The company's mission is to facilitate genomic sequencing and enhance personalized medicine by aggregating a substantial repository of genetic information. Utilizing blockchain technology, Nebula Genomics ensures that consumers retain control over their data and receive compensation for its use. The marketplace enables researchers to analyze rich genetic datasets, which can accelerate drug development and improve the efficiency of clinical trials. Founded by prominent genomics researcher George Church and his associates, Nebula Genomics offers advanced DNA sequencing technology that allows clients to explore all genes and genetic variants in the genome, thereby providing comprehensive insights into individual health.

Remedy

Seed Round in 2018
Remedy is a prescriptive chronic care analytics platform employing artificial intelligence to help value-based health systems determine who should get what care, when, how, and by whom to maximize patient health outcomes per dollar spent. We are a design-driven company with core medical AI technology capable of diagnosing disease, catching hidden high-risk diagnoses, and projecting the development of patient’s health into the future. Built around our core AI engine, our first product Remedy Sentinel helps value-based providers identify hidden chronic, co-morbid conditions and intervene by engaging high-risk patients prior to onset. We envision a world where healthcare marries the science of “health” with the art of “care”: scientific, data-driven decision making drives the best outcomes for each individual patient, and frees providers to focus on applying their human touch. Remedy combines novel artificial intelligence algorithms for predictive medical analytics with a healthcare-optimized product development process to give leaders the tools they need to transform their delivery networks and thrive in a value-based care environment. With this approach, Remedy builds a scalable suite of products that, when deployed, learn from experience, and grow into a solution optimized to fit the needs of specific provider groups and the populations they serve. Remedy systematically maximizes the patient health outcome achieved with each dollar spent by using AI to help determine what care is delivered to whom, when it is delivered, where it is delivered, how it is delivered, followed, and supported, and who should deliver it. We not only surface insights, but also build the necessary tools and helps coordinate step-by-step implementation processes to affect real change.

Lumiata

Series B in 2018
Lumiata is a predictive health analytics company that applies artificial intelligence to healthcare data to deliver real-time, patient-level predictions. It builds a medical graph to organize symptoms, diagnoses, procedures and medications, enabling risk-bearing organizations such as payers, hospital networks, and population health programs to forecast health trajectories, cost, and care needs. The Lumiata Risk Matrix provides time-based predictions with explanations of medical reasoning. The platform combines big data, clinical knowledge, and proprietary intellectual property drawn from over 120 million patient records to support use cases like underwriting and care management. Founded in 2013 and based in San Mateo, California, Lumiata serves providers, payers, and digital health companies, enabling predictive analytics at scale while protecting privacy.

ThoughtSpot

Series D in 2018
ThoughtSpot provides an AI-native intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to explore any data, ask questions, and uncover actionable insights. It offers intuitive natural language search, enabling users to generate answers from business data at every point of decision-making. ThoughtSpot serves various industries, with clients including NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One, and Huel.

D2iQ

Series D in 2018
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.

Lumiata

Series A in 2017
Lumiata is a predictive health analytics company that applies artificial intelligence to healthcare data to deliver real-time, patient-level predictions. It builds a medical graph to organize symptoms, diagnoses, procedures and medications, enabling risk-bearing organizations such as payers, hospital networks, and population health programs to forecast health trajectories, cost, and care needs. The Lumiata Risk Matrix provides time-based predictions with explanations of medical reasoning. The platform combines big data, clinical knowledge, and proprietary intellectual property drawn from over 120 million patient records to support use cases like underwriting and care management. Founded in 2013 and based in San Mateo, California, Lumiata serves providers, payers, and digital health companies, enabling predictive analytics at scale while protecting privacy.

Xcalar

Series A in 2017
Xcalar, Inc. is a data infrastructure services company based in San Jose, California, founded in 2013. It provides a business analytics platform that enables users to extract meaningful insights directly from petabytes of raw data without the need for data preparation or movement, thanks to its patented True Data In Place technology. This innovative approach allows for fundamental discovery of insights at unprecedented speed and scale, significantly reducing the time required to analyze complex datasets. Xcalar's platform simplifies the management, modeling, and analysis of big data, making it an essential tool for modern data applications, business intelligence, and reporting tools. By eliminating the need for data shuffling, Xcalar enhances efficiency and accessibility, facilitating a more straightforward pathway to uncover valuable information from extensive data resources.

vFunction

Seed Round in 2017
VFunction specializes in application modernization for businesses. Its core product facilitates the transformation of existing Java applications into cloud-native architectures, helping companies stay competitive through digital evolution. The company's team, with their unique expertise, empowers clients to modernize their core business applications efficiently.

PatternEx

Series A in 2016
PatternEx, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing artificial intelligence software aimed at enhancing cybersecurity measures. Founded in 2013 and based in San Jose, California, it focuses on identifying malicious user intent to predict and prevent cyber-attacks across enterprises in real time. The company's Virtual Analyst Platform plays a crucial role in transforming log data from multiple sources into actionable behaviors, utilizing AI Pipelines for in-depth analysis. This platform significantly improves attack detection accuracy and minimizes false positives, allowing organizations to concentrate on meaningful alerts. Key features include AutoCorrelate, which expedites threat investigations by twenty times, and custom analytics that empower users to perform tailored analysis on raw logs. By integrating AI with human analyst insights, PatternEx aims to redefine the landscape of information security, making it more effective and efficient.

Lumiata

Series B in 2016
Lumiata is a predictive health analytics company that applies artificial intelligence to healthcare data to deliver real-time, patient-level predictions. It builds a medical graph to organize symptoms, diagnoses, procedures and medications, enabling risk-bearing organizations such as payers, hospital networks, and population health programs to forecast health trajectories, cost, and care needs. The Lumiata Risk Matrix provides time-based predictions with explanations of medical reasoning. The platform combines big data, clinical knowledge, and proprietary intellectual property drawn from over 120 million patient records to support use cases like underwriting and care management. Founded in 2013 and based in San Mateo, California, Lumiata serves providers, payers, and digital health companies, enabling predictive analytics at scale while protecting privacy.

ThoughtSpot

Series C in 2016
ThoughtSpot provides an AI-native intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to explore any data, ask questions, and uncover actionable insights. It offers intuitive natural language search, enabling users to generate answers from business data at every point of decision-making. ThoughtSpot serves various industries, with clients including NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One, and Huel.

Helium

Series B in 2016
Helium Systems Inc. develops Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, focusing on sensor devices that monitor environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, motion, and light. These sensors are utilized in various applications, including facility monitoring and quality control for medical products, energy management, air quality assessment, and refrigeration temperature regulation. The company offers a web and mobile dashboard for users to manage and access sensor data. Additionally, Helium operates a decentralized wireless network that enables low-power IoT devices to connect to the internet. This network incentivizes individuals to become network operators, rewarding them with a cryptocurrency for validating network transactions and contributing to the network's integrity. Incorporated in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Helium Systems continues to innovate within the IoT landscape, enhancing the ability to gather insights from smart devices.

D2iQ

Series C in 2016
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.

Xcalar

Venture Round in 2016
Xcalar, Inc. is a data infrastructure services company based in San Jose, California, founded in 2013. It provides a business analytics platform that enables users to extract meaningful insights directly from petabytes of raw data without the need for data preparation or movement, thanks to its patented True Data In Place technology. This innovative approach allows for fundamental discovery of insights at unprecedented speed and scale, significantly reducing the time required to analyze complex datasets. Xcalar's platform simplifies the management, modeling, and analysis of big data, making it an essential tool for modern data applications, business intelligence, and reporting tools. By eliminating the need for data shuffling, Xcalar enhances efficiency and accessibility, facilitating a more straightforward pathway to uncover valuable information from extensive data resources.

Pixel Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Pixel Labs is a media technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. It specializes in hyperlocal content discovery, operating in 40 US cities with a focus on delivering news and information down to a 0.2-mile radius. The company uses machine learning and AI to transform raw data into automated stories, producing thousands of hyperlocal articles monthly. Pixel Labs' platform also tags and contextualizes content from various partner publications, adding precise location data and other metadata. Its technology, known as Atlas, analyzes vast amounts of unstructured data to identify and validate the most relevant signals, creating local stories and videos through a blend of editorial input, machine learning, and data science. The company's partners include major entities like ABC, Yahoo Search, MSN, Eventbrite, Uber, CBS, Advance Digital, Zumper, and McClatchy. Pixel Labs has a team of 28 employees and has attracted investments from notable firms such as Greylock, Rakuten, Disney, Social Capital, CRV, Innovation Endeavors, and Joi Ito.

Citus Data

Series A in 2015
Citus Data, Inc. is a database technology company specializing in scaling PostgreSQL to enhance real-time applications. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Istanbul, Turkey, Citus Data provides a distributed database platform that efficiently handles massive parallelism and supports complex queries. Its flagship product, CitusDB, integrates the capabilities of PostgreSQL with features like native JSON support, enabling businesses to manage and analyze large volumes of data effectively. The platform simplifies database sharding, allowing organizations to partition large datasets for improved performance and manageability. Citus Data serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, security, and advertising, facilitating interactive analytics and operational workloads. In 2019, Citus Data became a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

Helium

Series A in 2014
Helium Systems Inc. develops Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, focusing on sensor devices that monitor environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, motion, and light. These sensors are utilized in various applications, including facility monitoring and quality control for medical products, energy management, air quality assessment, and refrigeration temperature regulation. The company offers a web and mobile dashboard for users to manage and access sensor data. Additionally, Helium operates a decentralized wireless network that enables low-power IoT devices to connect to the internet. This network incentivizes individuals to become network operators, rewarding them with a cryptocurrency for validating network transactions and contributing to the network's integrity. Incorporated in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Helium Systems continues to innovate within the IoT landscape, enhancing the ability to gather insights from smart devices.

D2iQ

Series B in 2014
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.

Idibon

Series A in 2014
Idibon, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing natural language processing solutions to help organizations comprehend their unstructured language data. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides advanced text analytics across hundreds of languages, achieving high levels of accuracy. Idibon's technology transforms unstructured data from sources such as emails, social media, and websites into structured answers for critical business intelligence queries. Utilizing a proprietary human-in-the-loop machine learning approach, Idibon enables marketers, data scientists, and application developers to create adaptable and precise natural language processing solutions tailored to specific business challenges, all without the need for coding expertise.

ThoughtSpot

Series B in 2014
ThoughtSpot provides an AI-native intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to explore any data, ask questions, and uncover actionable insights. It offers intuitive natural language search, enabling users to generate answers from business data at every point of decision-making. ThoughtSpot serves various industries, with clients including NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One, and Huel.

ClearStory Data

Series B in 2014
ClearStory Data Inc. is a data analytics company based in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 2011, it provides business-oriented data analytics solutions that cater to a variety of industries, including consumer packaged goods, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services. ClearStory Data's platform enables organizations to discover, analyze, and utilize data from various sources, such as relational databases, web applications, and third-party providers. The solution is designed to simplify access to disparate data, automate data harmonization, and facilitate interactive analysis at scale. By offering tools for data preparation, intelligent harmonization, and collaborative insights, ClearStory Data empowers business users to make informed decisions quickly and efficiently. As of April 2019, ClearStory Data operates as a subsidiary of Alteryx, Inc.

Lumiata

Series A in 2014
Lumiata is a predictive health analytics company that applies artificial intelligence to healthcare data to deliver real-time, patient-level predictions. It builds a medical graph to organize symptoms, diagnoses, procedures and medications, enabling risk-bearing organizations such as payers, hospital networks, and population health programs to forecast health trajectories, cost, and care needs. The Lumiata Risk Matrix provides time-based predictions with explanations of medical reasoning. The platform combines big data, clinical knowledge, and proprietary intellectual property drawn from over 120 million patient records to support use cases like underwriting and care management. Founded in 2013 and based in San Mateo, California, Lumiata serves providers, payers, and digital health companies, enabling predictive analytics at scale while protecting privacy.

ParStream

Series B in 2013
ParStream is a company specializing in IoT analytics, offering a platform designed to efficiently manage and analyze large volumes of IoT data at high speeds. Founded in 2011 by Michael Hummel and Jörg Bienert, the company addresses the growing demand for real-time data processing in various industries, including telecommunications, manufacturing, renewable energy, and telematics. ParStream's platform features a column-oriented database with unique indexing technology and a parallel architecture, enabling real-time insights with low latency and high throughput. It supports common interface technologies like JDBC and ODBC, making integration into existing IT infrastructures seamless. The software operates on standard CPU infrastructure and is available in single server, cluster, and cloud editions across most Linux distributions. ParStream has its main offices in Cupertino, California, and Cologne, Germany, and maintains sales teams throughout Europe and Korea. The company has received recognition for its innovative approach, being named a top startup by CIO Magazine and recognized by Gartner and Database Trends and Applications Magazine.

Idibon

Venture Round in 2013
Idibon, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing natural language processing solutions to help organizations comprehend their unstructured language data. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides advanced text analytics across hundreds of languages, achieving high levels of accuracy. Idibon's technology transforms unstructured data from sources such as emails, social media, and websites into structured answers for critical business intelligence queries. Utilizing a proprietary human-in-the-loop machine learning approach, Idibon enables marketers, data scientists, and application developers to create adaptable and precise natural language processing solutions tailored to specific business challenges, all without the need for coding expertise.

Evolv

Series D in 2013
Evolv is a big data company that helps solve workforce performance issues for the C-suite by utilizing a configurable cloud services platform. Evolv's patent-pending technology platform unifies and supplements existing data from current systems, then utilizes that dataset to identify fact-based workforce insights that drive measurable ROI. By using objective, data-driven methodology, Evolv helps companies uncover the core reasons behind workforce performance, enabling executives to make better operational business decisions that generally result in tens of millions of dollars in measureable value per year.

Arista Networks

Seed Round in 2012
Arista Networks is a computer networking firm that specializes in delivering cloud networking solutions tailored for large data centers and high-performance computing environments. Founded in 2004, the company provides a range of Ethernet switches and software, with its flagship product being the extensible operating system (EOS), which operates uniformly across all its devices. Arista has deployed over three million cloud networking ports globally, offering products that include 1/10/40 and 100 GbE solutions. The firm has steadily increased its market share, primarily serving high-speed applications, and counts major corporations such as Microsoft and Meta Platforms among its largest customers. Approximately three-quarters of Arista's sales are generated from the North American market.

ParStream

Series A in 2012
ParStream is a company specializing in IoT analytics, offering a platform designed to efficiently manage and analyze large volumes of IoT data at high speeds. Founded in 2011 by Michael Hummel and Jörg Bienert, the company addresses the growing demand for real-time data processing in various industries, including telecommunications, manufacturing, renewable energy, and telematics. ParStream's platform features a column-oriented database with unique indexing technology and a parallel architecture, enabling real-time insights with low latency and high throughput. It supports common interface technologies like JDBC and ODBC, making integration into existing IT infrastructures seamless. The software operates on standard CPU infrastructure and is available in single server, cluster, and cloud editions across most Linux distributions. ParStream has its main offices in Cupertino, California, and Cologne, Germany, and maintains sales teams throughout Europe and Korea. The company has received recognition for its innovative approach, being named a top startup by CIO Magazine and recognized by Gartner and Database Trends and Applications Magazine.

ClearStory Data

Venture Round in 2012
ClearStory Data Inc. is a data analytics company based in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 2011, it provides business-oriented data analytics solutions that cater to a variety of industries, including consumer packaged goods, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services. ClearStory Data's platform enables organizations to discover, analyze, and utilize data from various sources, such as relational databases, web applications, and third-party providers. The solution is designed to simplify access to disparate data, automate data harmonization, and facilitate interactive analysis at scale. By offering tools for data preparation, intelligent harmonization, and collaborative insights, ClearStory Data empowers business users to make informed decisions quickly and efficiently. As of April 2019, ClearStory Data operates as a subsidiary of Alteryx, Inc.

Evolv

Series C in 2011
Evolv is a big data company that helps solve workforce performance issues for the C-suite by utilizing a configurable cloud services platform. Evolv's patent-pending technology platform unifies and supplements existing data from current systems, then utilizes that dataset to identify fact-based workforce insights that drive measurable ROI. By using objective, data-driven methodology, Evolv helps companies uncover the core reasons behind workforce performance, enabling executives to make better operational business decisions that generally result in tens of millions of dollars in measureable value per year.

Hunch

Series B in 2010
Hunch is a consumer web application that is building the "taste graph" of the internet, mapping every person on the internet to every entity on the internet and their affinity for that entity. An entity could be a web site, a cookbook, a hotel room, a celebrity, a restaurant, etc. Hunch creates a taste profile by asking them a series of questions which range from serious to profound and subsequently can make recommendations personalized to that user, which live in "topics". Topics vary widely, from entertaining subjects like 'Which superhero would you be' to more conventional questions like 'Should I Switch to A Mac?' The system then uses the answers to these questions to offer the user a suggested solution, a "hunch" of what the user would like.

ClickHouse

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database management system designed for online analytical processing. It enables real-time analytical reporting by executing SQL queries over large datasets. Its columnar storage reduces data footprint and speeds up query performance by eliminating unnecessary data, while vector-based processing enhances CPU efficiency for large-scale workloads. The system handles vast numbers of rows and gigabytes of data per server, delivering secure, reliable, and scalable analytics that help enterprises streamline data processing.
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