Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is a venture capital firm that provides strategic advice, capital, and support to bold entrepreneurs across various sectors. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in areas such as artificial intelligence, climate technology, sustainability, enterprise solutions, consumer products, fintech, digital health, medical technology, and therapeutics. Khosla Ventures is particularly interested in innovative solutions that address significant socio-economic challenges and enhance productivity, especially for low-income populations and small businesses in emerging markets. The firm embraces experimentation and is open to investing in unconventional and high-risk ventures, often acting as the sole investor in groundbreaking projects. With a commitment to fostering impactful entrepreneurship, Khosla Ventures seeks to create value through technological advancements and creative business models, with a special emphasis on markets in South Asia.

Bruce Armstrong

Partner

Alex Bentley

Partner and Investor

Nessan Bermingham

Operating Partner

Ryno Blignaut

Operating Partner

Alice Brooks

Principal

Peter Buckland

General Partner and COO

Brian Byun

Venture Partner

Catherine Casuga

Operating Partner

Jonathan Chu

Partner and Investor

Ece Erdagoz

Principal

Bryan Gartner

Partner

Kanu Gulati

Partner

Judy Huang

Operating Partner

Samir Kaul

Founding Partner and Managing Director

Vinod Khosla

Managing Director

Kelly Kinnard

Operating Partner

Evan Moore

Partner

Alexander Morgan

Partner

Arash Rebek

Partner, Capital Formation

Jessy Rivest

Partner and Investor

Leah Scanlan

Operating Partner

Nikita Shamgunov

Partner

Sven Strohband

Managing Director

Rajesh Swaminathan

Partner

David Weiden

Managing Director

Ece Erdagoz Wyrick

Principal and Investor

David Weiden

Founding Partner and Managing Director

Adam Coates

Operating Partner

Kanupriya Gulati Ph.D

Partner and Investor

Past deals in Seed Round

Ravenna

Seed Round in 2025
​Ravenna offers an AI-driven internal help desk platform designed for IT and operations teams. The platform integrates seamlessly with Slack, enabling users to convert any Slack message, including direct messages, into support tickets. Ravenna automates service requests, streamlines workflows, and provides AI-powered knowledge generation to enhance internal support processes. It also offers analytics to help teams measure and improve their performance over time.

Storycraft

Seed Round in 2025
Part social network, part AI creative tool, and part MMO crafting game, Storycraft lets players explore personalized game worlds with real and AI friends, to play their part in a massive, ever growing community storyline!

Redcar

Seed Round in 2025
Redcar is the easiest way for B2B companies to scale their sales teams. We provide building blocks to create AI Agents tailored to each company’s unique workflows, so human sales reps can focus on closing deals.

Hook

Seed Round in 2025
Hook operates as a music expression platform that harnesses the power of AI.

Outsmart Education

Seed Round in 2024
Outsmart Education seeks to increase college accessibility and affordability in the face of growing student loan debt and tuition prices.

Moonvalley

Seed Round in 2024
Moonvalley builds creative studio, powered by the most capable video and image foundational models. The company is creating the place where generative image and video experiences will be built. Backed by Y-Combinator and Khosla Ventures.

Mooncake Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Mooncake Labs is building the modern lakehouse for every developer and application. We are an open source studio based in SF.

Profound

Seed Round in 2024
Profound offers cutting-edge technology that analyzes how AI platforms portray and discuss brands, assisting businesses in managing their online reputation. The platform enables companies to oversee and comprehend their brand's representation in AI-generated responses, ensuring a favorable image. Profound functions as a robust analytics tool tailored for enterprise brands, aimed at improving their visibility and effectiveness in AI search environments.

Swarm Aero

Seed Round in 2024
Swarm Aero is a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) designed to enhance national defense capabilities. The company focuses on enabling small teams to operate thousands of uncrewed vehicles, particularly in communications-limited and contested environments. By leveraging advanced technology, Swarm Aero aims to provide innovative solutions that improve operational efficiency and effectiveness in complex scenarios.

YonedaLabs

Seed Round in 2024
YonedaLabs is a developer of AI-based software designed to assist chemists in optimizing various reaction parameters, including temperature, concentration, and catalysts. Their platform aims to enhance the efficiency of chemical laboratories by streamlining the process involved in drug and material production. By leveraging artificial intelligence, YonedaLabs enables businesses to accelerate their research and development efforts, ultimately improving outcomes in the field of chemistry.

Relation Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2024
Relation Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on humanizing drug discovery and development. It leverages human genetics and clinical omics data and utilizes patient-derived tissue samples with functional genomics interventional experiments to identify, validate, and prosecute therapeutic programs.

Physical Intelligence

Seed Round in 2024
Physical Intelligence is a company working on integrating general-purpose AI with robotics and physical devices. It develops foundation models and learning algorithms for robots to allow industries to perform tasks across various applications.

Raspberry AI

Seed Round in 2024
Raspberry AI employs artificial intelligence technology to design styles that are in high demand. The platform offers the convenience of instantly generating technical packs and CADs for any product image, providing a comprehensive solution for product design requirements. It also features automated, high-conversion product descriptions and photography, along with the capability to create new high-fidelity designs from a sketch or reference image.

Myko AI

Seed Round in 2024
Myko AI is a data-driven financial planning and analysis platform that helps companies spend less time budgeting while making better decisions. They help finance professionals to directly access data and reports from QuickBooks into the Excel or google sheets.

TORTUS AI

Seed Round in 2024
TORTUS AI creates and operates an online tool using artificial intelligence for the healthcare industry. It aims to eliminate human error in medicine through clinician co-working with AI. It provides an AI agent for healthcare, a digital worker that can take over all digital tasks from a clinician such as documentation, requesting tests, access and summarizing patient information. Tortus AI was founded in 2022 and is based in London, England.

Upliance.ai

Seed Round in 2024
Upliance.ai is a startup focused on developing AI-powered home appliances aimed at simplifying the cooking process. The company's flagship product, the AI Cooking Assistant, offers a wide variety of recipes and features smart appliances capable of performing multiple cooking tasks, including chopping, stirring, sautéing, whisking, blending, boiling, steaming, cooking, kneading, and self-cleaning. Additionally, these appliances are equipped with an integrated smart weighing scale, allowing users to prepare meals with ease and convenience, ultimately enhancing their overall cooking experience.

Galileo AI

Seed Round in 2024
Galileo AI is a developer of a user interface design platform that utilizes generative AI to transform simple text descriptions and natural language prompts into editable, high-fidelity UI designs. By enabling users to create interface designs quickly and efficiently, Galileo AI allows individuals and businesses to obtain the necessary designs and illustrations that align with their specific vision and style. The platform streamlines the design process, making it accessible and faster for users, ultimately enhancing their creative capabilities.

Sakana AI

Seed Round in 2024
Sakana AI is an research company focused on creating innovative foundation models inspired by nature. The organization emphasizes evolution and collective intelligence in its AI development processes.

Agrawal's AI initiative

Seed Round in 2024
Agrawal's AI initiative operates as an AI company to create software for LLM developers. Parag Agrawal formerly held the position of Twitter's CEO before Elon Musk's takeover now venturing into artificial intelligence as the venture's name and product details have not been revealed.

Vivodyne

Seed Round in 2023
Vivodyne develops an automated robotic system that discovers life-changing drugs and cellular therapies. Its platform cultures the most realistic human tissues ever lab-grown to answer deep questions about human health.

Black Ore Technologies

Seed Round in 2023
Black Ore Technologies is an AI-driven financial services company. It develops and creates an AI product called Tax Autopilot, that offers end-to-end 1040 tax prep automation for CPAs and tax firms. Black Ore Technologies was founded in 2022 and is based in Texas, USA.

Aleph

Seed Round in 2023
Aleph helps top finance teams work with their data in real time. Businesses can automate financial models and streamline budgeting and forecasting with the fastest-to-implement FP&A platform. Aleph eliminates the need to export data from multiple sources by syncing spreadsheet models with data from 150+ integrations, and allows teams to interact with their data in no-code dashboards. From annual budgeting to ad hoc reporting, scale your financial processes faster with better data without expanding your team. See why over 90% of people who start a trial with Aleph become customers!

Astrus

Seed Round in 2023
Operator of an artificial intelligence-powered analog layout automation platform intended to improve the computation speed. The company's platform uses deep-reinforces learning and planning to take the schematics and generate analog layouts, enabling circuit designers to generate quality layouts rapidly and efficiently.

Coframe

Seed Round in 2023
Coframe empowers your website or app to continuously enhance itself based on real-world performance. Coframe is solving fundamental problems in AI and product, training multimodal models that understand users and business goals to enable user interfaces to continuously and autonomously improve themselves.

Quoherent

Seed Round in 2023
Quoherent develops a portable quantum computer processor using qubits made from topological insulators.

rabbit

Seed Round in 2023
rabbit inc. is a technology company developing consumer electronics driven by novel, simple, and intuitive interactive paradigms. rabbit is the creator of the Large Action Model (LAM), a new type of foundation model for human actions on computer applications, and rabbit OS, a personalized operating system through a natural language interface. rabbit's first product, rabbit r1, is an affordable companion device designed in collaboration with Teenage Engineering.

Vayu Robotics

Seed Round in 2023
Vayu Robotics is an AI robotics company that focuses on developing and commercializing advanced robotics technology for autonomous systems. The company creates a scalable mobile robotics platform that leverages bio-inspired sensing and machine learning to deliver low-cost, environmentally sustainable, and highly adaptable autonomous solutions. By integrating purposeful robotic design, Vayu Robotics aims to enhance the capabilities of automotive sensing and autonomous vehicles, providing users with innovative tools for a variety of applications in the robotics industry.

Terra AI

Seed Round in 2023
Terra's AI platform models and optimizes complex natural resource projects, enabling faster designs, reduced capital costs, and improved energy/resource output for large-scale developments.

Rejuvenation Technologies

Seed Round in 2023
Rejuvenation Technologies Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Mountain View, California, focused on developing nucleoside-modified telomerase reverse transcriptase messenger RNA to extend telomeres and promote human health. The company's innovative approach involves delivering a telomere extender that encodes telomerase reverse transcriptase, which transiently boosts telomerase activity in cells. This technology aims to enhance the proliferative capacity of cells, potentially addressing age-related diseases and conditions in various medical fields, including hepatic, pulmonary, and immunology. Additionally, Rejuvenation Technologies offers a range of cell therapies that encompass tissue engineering, cell transplants, skin grafts, immunotherapy, and regenerative medicine. Established in 2016, the company is dedicated to advancing solutions in regenerative health.

Automat AI

Seed Round in 2023
Automat offers robotic process automation for Chrome using GPT4 and computer vision. With the aid of its LLM automation tools, Automat streamlines procedures and improves operational efficiency.

Reflex Robotics

Seed Round in 2023
Reflex Robotics is building affordable ($10k) humanoid robots to automate dangerous and repetitive tasks in logistics & manufacturing. We envision a future where everyone has their own humanoid robot that can do the boring stuff and help them focus on more fulfilling work. Our robots are designed & built in-house by an engineering team that led development of the Stretch robot at Boston Dynamics & key parts of the Model S,X,Y production line at Tesla.

Alias Technologies

Seed Round in 2023
Alias Technologies seeks to expedite innovation by increasing the value of technological footprint. It assists enterprises in realizing their technology investment through vendor consolidation analyses, cost-cutting approaches, and industry experience.

Arkifi

Seed Round in 2023
Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.

SiPhox Health

Seed Round in 2023
SiPhox Health develops advanced diagnostic solutions for both home use and laboratory settings. The company offers an at-home test kit that evaluates 17 blood biomarkers, focusing on areas such as inflammation, hormonal health, metabolic fitness, and cardiovascular health. Their biosensing platform features a handheld device designed to work with disposable cartridges, integrating biochemistry and photonic chip technology. This innovative approach combines integrated photonics, electronics, and microfluidics to deliver sensitive readings of immunoassays and nucleic acids, facilitating point-of-need testing and enhancing the accessibility of diagnostic tools for users.

Eureka Health

Seed Round in 2023
Helping people with chronic conditions mitigate their symptoms.

Univerbal

Seed Round in 2023
Univerbal is a developer of a conversational language learning tool that enables learners to achieve speaking fluency through dynamic, unscripted conversations on topics of their choice. Utilizing an AI Agent, the platform provides a personalized learning experience by analyzing each user's individual progress and offering tailored feedback and suggestions for improvement. Gamification elements, such as levels, enhance user engagement and motivation, creating a supportive learning environment. By focusing on practical conversational experience from the outset, Univerbal empowers language learners to practice and develop their skills effectively.

Honey Homes

Seed Round in 2023
Honey Homes is a home maintenance firm that specializes in offering a range of services to assist homeowners with various maintenance tasks. The company provides handyman services, electrical work, plumbing, as well as interior and exterior maintenance. Through its user-friendly website and applications, Honey Homes enables homeowners to easily access these services, promoting proactive home upkeep and saving time on small jobs around the house.

WindBorne Systems

Seed Round in 2023
WindBorne Systems Inc., founded in 2019 and based in Stanford, California, specializes in developing and operating a network of smart weather balloons for atmospheric data collection. The company utilizes high-altitude balloons equipped with advanced sensors to gather precise measurements from various layers of the atmosphere. This data is crucial for weather forecasting, climate research, and environmental monitoring, allowing for more accurate predictions and better preparedness for severe weather events. WindBorne Systems distributes its information to both government and private weather services, contributing to efforts aimed at mitigating the impacts of climate change and improving overall understanding of climatic conditions, even in previously inaccessible regions.

Rex

Seed Round in 2023
Rex offers a mobile app that allows users to find, track, and recommend places. Rex app seeks to start sharing recommendations by combining AI and computer vision technology.

TORTUS AI

Seed Round in 2023
TORTUS AI creates and operates an online tool using artificial intelligence for the healthcare industry. It aims to eliminate human error in medicine through clinician co-working with AI. It provides an AI agent for healthcare, a digital worker that can take over all digital tasks from a clinician such as documentation, requesting tests, access and summarizing patient information. Tortus AI was founded in 2022 and is based in London, England.

Realta Fusion

Seed Round in 2023
Realta Fusion is focused on developing fusion energy technology aimed at producing industrial heat and power. The company leverages advancements in superconducting materials, plasma physics, and computing power to create a straightforward linear fusion reactor design. This innovative approach allows Realta Fusion to utilize abundant fuel sources, offering a zero-carbon solution for heat and power generation. By minimizing capital expenditures associated with power plant construction, the company positions itself as a provider of sustainable energy solutions.

Sagespot

Seed Round in 2023
SageSpot is an online platform where people can host book clubs.

MoonHub

Seed Round in 2023
MoonHub is a provider of human capital services that aims to create economic opportunities for individuals globally. The company has developed the world's first AI Recruiter, which utilizes advanced AI technology and automation systems to enhance the recruitment process. By integrating these innovations with recruiting expertise, MoonHub offers staffing solutions that help recruiters efficiently identify and hire the right candidates for job openings. This combination of technology and human insight enables individuals to connect with suitable job opportunities, thereby streamlining the hiring process and improving overall recruitment outcomes.

Daedalus

Seed Round in 2023
Daedalus is building the world’s most advanced factories for precision components. With $40M in funding from Khosla Ventures, Addition, NGP Capital and Y Combinator, and a team from OpenAI, Google, SpaceX and Blue Horizon, we’re building software-defined factories where we’re producing parts for companies in semiconductor, aerospace, medical, energy, defense and more.

Calimero Network

Seed Round in 2023
Calimero Network is a blockchain infrastructure company established in 2022 and based in London. It specializes in providing a private blockchain network platform that enables clients to control their data securely. The platform is designed with privacy as a priority, offering features such as fully interoperable cross-contract calls and the ability to manage public assets. Additionally, it supports the bridging of fungible tokens (FTs) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), while facilitating encrypted interactions with private shards. This comprehensive approach allows businesses to store, share, and protect their data effectively, ensuring user privacy throughout.

Metaplane

Seed Round in 2023
Metaplane provides data observability solutions that help organizations build trust in their data. Its platform is utilized by data teams from various notable companies, including Bose and Sotheby's, to streamline engineering processes and proactively address data issues before they escalate. By automatically monitoring modern data infrastructures—from data warehouses to business intelligence dashboards—the platform identifies normal operational behaviors and alerts users when anomalies occur. This capability allows teams to understand data disruptions and implement corrective measures efficiently. Founded by alumni from MIT and HubSpot, Metaplane is supported by prominent investors, including Y Combinator and various tech industry founders. The company's focus is on enabling businesses to act on data insights rather than sifting through information, ultimately reducing customer churn and enhancing upsell opportunities.

Visible

Seed Round in 2023
Visible is revolutionizing the way we buy, sell, and own property by building a modern technology foundation. It was founded in 2022 and is located in Miami, Florida.

Relay

Seed Round in 2022
Relay lets you create playbooks for the operational workflows your team relies on, letting you combine human tasks and automated actions in a single playbook.

Equii

Seed Round in 2022
Equii is a food technology company established in 2021 and located in San Ramon, California. Founded by Monica Bhatia, the company specializes in discovering and utilizing highly nutritious microbial proteins to enhance the fermentation of grains, resulting in high-protein grain flours. Equii's innovative approach transforms agricultural crops into nutritionally balanced products, catering to various eating occasions and providing consumers with access to healthier food options. Through its breakthrough technology, the company aims to deliver complete nutritional solutions, emphasizing the importance of protein-rich diets.

Carver Biosciences

Seed Round in 2022
Carver Biosciences is a biotechnology firm specializing in the development of CRISPR/Cas13-based antiviral therapies. The company focuses on creating gene therapies that target RNA viruses, particularly respiratory viruses, at the RNA level. By utilizing the Cas13 technology, Carver aims to destroy these viruses and inhibit their replication. This approach is intended to complement existing vaccination efforts and viral inhibitors, providing patients with alternative treatment options to halt the progression of infections.

Swadesh

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Swadesh is a digital banking platform designed for the Indian diaspora, facilitating seamless financial management for customers residing abroad. The platform enables users to open bank accounts, invest, remit funds, and manage their finances in India with ease. By focusing on the unique needs of the Indian community overseas, Swadesh aims to provide a user-friendly experience that simplifies investing and money management across borders.

Sonocharge

Seed Round in 2022
Sonocharge Energy focuses on developing advanced battery technology aimed at improving rechargeable and long-duration batteries. Their platform technology enhances battery performance, safety, and charging efficiency, addressing the growing demand for higher power density in various sectors. This innovation serves a wide range of markets, including transportation, electric vehicles, e-mobility, electric bikes, scooters, aerospace, and drones. By delivering improved energy solutions, Sonocharge aims to meet the evolving needs of industries seeking to enhance their energy applications.

Collaborative Robotics

Seed Round in 2022
Collaborative Robotics is a team of innovators and builders redefining the future of human-robot interaction. A future in which robots are trustworthy extensions of the environment. They operate, adapt, and react in response.

Relation Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
Relation Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on humanizing drug discovery and development. It leverages human genetics and clinical omics data and utilizes patient-derived tissue samples with functional genomics interventional experiments to identify, validate, and prosecute therapeutic programs.

Ivy Homes

Seed Round in 2022
Ivy Homes operates a real estate platform that simplifies the process of buying and selling homes. The company provides instant offers to sellers, allowing them to receive a fair price upfront for their properties. Its platform captures detailed information on real estate transactions and incorporates a pricing model to accurately assess home values. By offering liquidity through immediate purchase options, Ivy Homes enhances the selling experience, making it both easy and secure for homeowners.

Finnt

Seed Round in 2022
Finnt develops automated financial analysis software designed to enhance the efficiency of corporate finance operations. By leveraging artificial intelligence, the software accelerates decision-making processes for financial firms while improving the analytical capabilities of finance teams. It simplifies workflows by eliminating manual and repetitive tasks, allowing users to focus on more strategic activities. Additionally, Finnt's platform supports the establishment of shared savings goals and facilitates tracking of spending habits, enabling individuals to save effectively for family members both domestically and internationally.

Bubbles

Seed Round in 2022
Bubbles is a collaboration tool that lets's tag anything on screen and invite teammates to discuss in-context. Get excited by organic growth and viral loops, and less so by paid advertising. Are active on one or more social platforms like Medium, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc. It was founded in 2018 and is based inSan Francisco, California.

Enso

Seed Round in 2022
Enso is a creative impact agency based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2012. The agency focuses on using strategic, creative, and community-building skills to improve both the planet and people's lives. Enso aims to develop innovative ideas that challenge the status quo and can be scaled through collaborative efforts among brands, organizations, and individuals. Additionally, Enso provides software solutions that enable business leaders, analysts, data scientists, and developers to design workflows collaboratively and communicate effectively, significantly reducing the time required for software creation. Through its dual focus on creativity and technology, Enso seeks to foster meaningful change and enhance collective objectives.

Remio

Seed Round in 2022
Remio is a developer of a virtual reality platform that facilitates interactive collaboration experiences for teams. The company provides pre-configured VR headsets to each team member, enabling them to participate in engaging team-building activities and casual games. In addition to fostering team connection, Remio's platform includes collaboration tools such as whiteboarding, Jira project planning, and presentation rooms. It automates note-taking and post-meeting follow-ups, capturing data in a searchable format to enhance productivity. By leveraging augmented reality and virtual reality technologies, Remio aims to maintain a strong company culture and promote bonding among remote employees.

WorldCoin

Funding Round in 2022
World is a company that connects users through a privacy-focused network designed for secure digital asset management. It offers a digital currency platform that emphasizes both privacy and transparency using a permissionless blockchain. The World App enables users to securely store their World ID, manage digital assets, and access various Mini Apps, promoting global connectivity and trust. Additionally, World provides an iris-scanning device that enhances digital identity security by storing biometric information, which helps discourage spammers from creating multiple accounts. This combination of secure identity management and digital currency aims to facilitate a reliable and user-friendly digital environment.

Myko

Seed Round in 2022
Myko AI is an artificial intelligence tool that pulls financial data from spreadsheets and helps make successful revenue-generating decisions with minimum onboarding. The company's application integrates directly into users' existing CRM platforms and chat applications, allowing data to be analyzed in seconds. This enables businesses to drive more revenue by providing their teams with deeper analytical capabilities and improving the financial reporting process by spending less time copying and pasting data.

Faeth Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
Faeth Therapeutics is a data-driven, evidence-based company that specializes in mechanistic understanding of the way that dietary nutrients influence tumor growth and cancer treatment. It fully focuses on matching specific diets with tumor genotypes and treatment regimens to improve the outcomes of cancer therapy. The company was founded to translate breakthrough discoveries, made by cancer research laboratories, into clinical practice. Its founding team includes some of the industry’s preeminent researchers and clinicians.

Seashell

Seed Round in 2022
Seashell is a financial services provider that focuses on delivering high and stable returns on investments through a compliance-oriented approach. By leveraging blockchain technology, Seashell offers a user-friendly platform that enables customers to earn competitive yields effortlessly. The company's innovative solutions prioritize security and flexibility, allowing individuals to save and grow their money effectively. Through its commitment to compliance and advanced technology, Seashell aims to enhance the flow of money and improve financial outcomes for its users.

Anagenex

Seed Round in 2022
Anagenex is a seed stage biotechnology company focused on advancing drug discovery through its innovative platform. The company aims to tackle challenging pharmaceutical targets by utilizing a technology that combines machine learning with DNA-encoded libraries. This approach allows for the rapid analysis of compounds and the generation of extensive data sets, facilitating parallel biochemical experiments. By leveraging proprietary artificial intelligence models, Anagenex enables researchers to efficiently develop new small molecule drugs for medically significant applications.

GoodTrust

Seed Round in 2021
GoodTrust is a digital legacy management platform focused on helping individuals create online estate plans, including wills and trusts, in a fast and secure manner. Recognizing that a significant portion of U.S. adults desire a will but do not have one, GoodTrust provides an accessible solution that allows users to organize and securely share their digital assets, such as documents, accounts, and devices. The platform also assists in managing a loved one's accounts after their passing, ensuring that digital legacies are preserved and delivered to the appropriate individuals. GoodTrust's services are legally compliant in all 50 states and require no IT integration, allowing for rapid deployment.

NextVivo

Seed Round in 2021
NextVivo is a biotechnology company focused on advancing drug development through its innovative immune organoid technology platform. This platform generates human cell and antibody candidate therapies by harnessing the body's immune system. NextVivo's organoids are miniature 3D cell cultures designed to replicate the composition, structure, and function of human tissues, allowing for a realistic modeling of the humoral and cellular immune responses outside the body. This technology enables the testing of pre-clinical candidates on ex vivo human tissue models, facilitating the identification of the most effective therapies for clinical development. The company's mission is to accelerate the creation of safer and more effective treatments by utilizing immune-competent, human-derived models.

Nabla Bio

Seed Round in 2021
Nabla Bio operates an autoreverse platform that facilitates the rapid discovery of novel protein variants with unique properties. By leveraging insights gained from billions of natural proteins, the company engineers these enhanced proteins for both medical and industrial applications. Through extensive experimentation, Nabla Bio develops new medicines and improves nutritional products, allowing clients to conduct complex measurements of protein function and implement innovative solutions in various fields.

Simplified

Seed Round in 2021
Simplified is an all-in-one, AI-powered platform designed to assist teams and businesses in content creation and marketing. It enables users to design graphics, edit videos, write copy, and manage social media from a single interface, significantly streamlining the content creation process. The platform features a variety of tools, including video editing capabilities, graphic design resources, and a social media scheduler, all aimed at enhancing productivity. Users can take advantage of customizable, ready-made templates that ensure content remains consistent and aligned with brand identity. By simplifying the content creation workflow, Simplified allows clients to engage their audiences more efficiently and effectively.

Daedalus

Seed Round in 2021
Daedalus is building the world’s most advanced factories for precision components. With $40M in funding from Khosla Ventures, Addition, NGP Capital and Y Combinator, and a team from OpenAI, Google, SpaceX and Blue Horizon, we’re building software-defined factories where we’re producing parts for companies in semiconductor, aerospace, medical, energy, defense and more.

Mimica

Seed Round in 2021
Mimica is focused on developing innovative solutions to reduce food waste through its patented product, Bump by Mimica. This temperature-sensitive label or cap provides a tactile indication of food and drink freshness, changing texture when items are no longer safe for consumption based on actual temperature conditions. Designed to meet the needs of various food suppliers, the product is calibrated for different food types, thereby enhancing safety and reducing waste. With approximately one-third of food produced globally wasted, despite much of it still being safe to consume, Mimica aims to significantly lower food waste in both retail and household settings. Research suggests that the use of Bump could cut retail food waste by 50% and home waste by 60%, potentially saving around 13.6 million tonnes of food from landfill in European households annually, particularly among key categories such as juice, milk, and meat. Through its innovative labeling system, Mimica is contributing to a more sustainable food system.

Vertical Oceans

Seed Round in 2021
Vertical Oceans specializes in producing sustainable, same-day farm-to-fork shrimp using innovative vertical aquaculture towers located in major urban markets. The company employs a comprehensive system that integrates 83 technologies across bioengineering, hardware engineering, and computational engineering to enhance the seafood production process. Central to their operation is the Intelligent Habitat, or iHAB, which functions as a self-sustaining and self-cleaning modular production unit. This unique system incorporates a balanced aquatic ecosystem featuring fish and seaweed for biofiltration, promoting a more natural environment for shrimp cultivation. Vertical Oceans' approach allows for the delivery of fresh shrimp with strong sustainability credentials, while simultaneously eliminating the use of chemicals, antibiotics, and effluent.

Pearl Bio

Seed Round in 2021
Pearl Bio is a synthetic biology company focused on advancing the field of biologics and biomaterials. It has developed a platform that incorporates genome engineering, ribosome engineering, and biomanufacturing techniques. This platform allows for the creation of innovative biomaterials and smart biologics, enabling researchers to enhance their understanding of gene function. Pearl Bio's work aims to facilitate the development of products and processes that can be utilized at a commercial scale, ultimately providing new avenues for treating genetic and acquired diseases.

Enso

Seed Round in 2021
Enso is a creative impact agency based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2012. The agency focuses on using strategic, creative, and community-building skills to improve both the planet and people's lives. Enso aims to develop innovative ideas that challenge the status quo and can be scaled through collaborative efforts among brands, organizations, and individuals. Additionally, Enso provides software solutions that enable business leaders, analysts, data scientists, and developers to design workflows collaboratively and communicate effectively, significantly reducing the time required for software creation. Through its dual focus on creativity and technology, Enso seeks to foster meaningful change and enhance collective objectives.

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

House Rx

Seed Round in 2021
House Rx is a health technology platform focused on improving affordability and patient access to specialty medications.

Karma Biotechnologies

Seed Round in 2021
Karma Biotechnologies, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based startup focused on developing therapies for autoimmune diseases, allergies, and food sensitivities. Founded in 2019, the company offers Xavines, a precision immunotherapy platform designed to address the critical need for antigen-specific therapies that target only the rogue immune cells responsible for these conditions. Unlike traditional treatments that rely on general immune suppression, Karma Biotechnologies aims to create tolerogenic immunotherapies that promote antigen-specific immune tolerance in vivo. By leveraging its expertise in immunology and lipid nanoparticle engineering, the company seeks to provide innovative solutions that enhance the treatment landscape for autoimmune diseases and related disorders.

Known Medicine

Seed Round in 2021
Known Medicine Inc., founded in 2020 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, specializes in developing a custom organoid platform designed for tumor sensitivity testing. The company aims to enhance cancer treatment by conducting experiments on tumor responses to drugs in a controlled laboratory setting rather than within the patient’s body. Known Medicine's innovative approach involves breaking down tumor samples into microtumors, which are treated in specialized micro-environments using various methods to identify the most effective treatments. The platform utilizes machine learning-based sensitivity assays and integrates omics data to detect different cell types, including cancerous, stromal, and immune cells. This enables oncologists to analyze multiple microtumors, ultimately helping to determine optimal treatment strategies for individual patients.

Gaiascope

Seed Round in 2021
Gaiascope helps energy companies and investors transition to the future in the most economic way possible, with user-friendly software that makes the electric grid easier to understand, invest in and profit from. Gaiascope's affordable tools are designed with a practical approach to machine learning that values transparency over 'black boxes'​. Guided by a blueprint of physical reality, these tools use available data and scenario analysis to optimize real-time trading, operations and development, addressing the stochastic nature of the grid, the increasing penetration of renewables, and the evolution of power market dynamics.

Encellin

Seed Round in 2021
Encellin develops a novel thin-film cell encapsulation device for cell-based therapeutics. It has dedicated experts focused on the investigation and advancement of next-generation therapies. It aims to help patients with chronic diseases, starting with Type 1 diabetes. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Even

Seed Round in 2021
Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.

DevRev

Seed Round in 2021
DevRev is a business software startup that aims to enhance the relationship between developers and customers by integrating development with customer relationship management (CRM). The company focuses on breaking down barriers between developers and end-users, facilitating direct communication and collaboration to foster customer-centric product development. DevRev employs a unique approach that combines collaboration, artificial intelligence, and analytics, allowing software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies to improve product velocity and minimize customer churn. Its platform is designed to streamline product development and customer service, offering a developer-centric CRM that leverages data and machine intelligence. DevRev serves thousands of businesses seeking low-latency analytics and customizable large language models to thrive in the evolving landscape of generative AI.

Sagespot

Seed Round in 2021
SageSpot is an online platform where people can host book clubs.

Ochre Bio

Seed Round in 2021
Ochre Bio Ltd is a biotechnology company focused on developing genomic medicines to improve outcomes for liver transplant patients. Established in 2019 and headquartered in Headington, United Kingdom, the company specializes in rejuvenating donor livers before transplantation, ensuring that more patients in need of a new liver receive one. Utilizing advanced genomic techniques, Ochre Bio identifies and targets over-active genes that contribute to liver diseases. The company tests its novel RNA-based therapies on discarded donor livers kept alive outside the body, allowing for direct evaluation of treatment efficacy. With roots in over 15 years of liver genomics research, Ochre Bio aims to address liver-related conditions and enhance the availability of healthy livers for transplantation.

Good Health Company (Clinic) (GHC)

Seed Round in 2021
Mars is a men's wellness brand. The company provides hair, beard, skin, performance and wellness products. Mars was established on January 31, 2021 by Samarth Sindhi in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Quadrant Eye

Seed Round in 2021
Quadrant Eye is an innovative company focused on transforming the field of online eye care. It has developed a comprehensive eye care platform that provides instant and reliable remote eye exams. This platform facilitates the screening, diagnosis, and management of various low-acuity and chronic eye conditions, such as cataracts, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy. By enabling patients to receive treatment for these conditions from the comfort of their homes, Quadrant Eye aims to enhance access to essential eye care services and improve patient outcomes.

Briefcase Biotec

Seed Round in 2021
Briefcase Biotec develops KiloBaser, a Nespresso machine of DNA synthesis - enabling cutting edge research without detours. KiloBaser is a device for printing short synthetic DNA sequences. It enables individual scientists to easily produce the DNA they need on their desktops, while speeding up production of the basics for all genetic engineering and synthetic biology research and development. Headquartered in Graz, Steiermark, KiloBaser was founded in 2013 by Martin Jost and Alexander Murer.

Bold

Seed Round in 2021
Bold is an at-home digital fitness program designed to help older adults live their strongest, happiest, and healthiest lives. As a member, you’ll enjoy instant access to expert trainers, scientific assessments, and personalized workout plans to help you improve your strength, flexibility, and balance — so you can chase the life you want, at any age.

vFunction

Seed Round in 2021
VFunction develops an innovative product for businesses to modernize applications and accelerate transformation of existing Java applications to cloud-native architecture. The product enables companies to easily and effectively stay ahead of the curve. The company's team brings unique expertise to change clients’ ability to modernize core business applications.

Cellino

Seed Round in 2021
Cellino is focused on creating an automated biomanufacturing system for personalized cell therapies, with the aim of making these treatments widely accessible. The company leverages an AI-guided laser editing platform that employs image-guided machine learning and robotics to generate autologous induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) at scale. This innovative approach is designed to facilitate the development of potentially curative therapies for chronic degenerative diseases, such as vision loss and Parkinson's disease. By streamlining the process of cell therapy production, Cellino aims to enhance the availability of life-saving medicines for patients around the world.

WorkWhile

Seed Round in 2020
WorkWhile is an hourly labor technology platform that connects workers with flexible job opportunities across various sectors, including warehouse, light industrial, delivery, hospitality, food production, and event services. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the platform utilizes cognitive science and behavioral analysis to effectively match workers to shifts that align with their skills, availability, and location. In addition to facilitating job placements, WorkWhile offers workers benefits such as next-day pay and sick leave credits, enhancing their overall experience. The platform also provides employers with access to a pre-screened workforce, helping them efficiently fill open positions ranging from last-minute shifts to full-time roles.

Quell

Seed Round in 2020
Quell, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2020 that creates an immersive fitness experience combining gaming with physical workouts. The company offers a unique fitness game where players engage in combat within a fantasy world, utilizing low-cost wearable smart resistance bands to enhance their workouts at home. Quell positions itself as a blend of traditional fitness platforms and gaming, providing an innovative approach to achieving fitness goals. To maintain ongoing engagement, Quell charges a monthly subscription fee for access to fresh content and experiences.

Rubedo Life Sciences

Seed Round in 2020
Rubedo Life Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company based in Sunnyvale, California, focused on developing therapies that target senescent cells responsible for various age-related diseases. Established in 2018, the company utilizes its proprietary ALEMBIC drug discovery platform to create a pipeline of innovative therapeutic candidates. These candidates include novel small molecules designed to selectively address senescent cells, which contribute to the progression of several chronic conditions, including pulmonary, dermatological, oncological, neurodegenerative, and fibrotic diseases. Rubedo's leadership team comprises experienced professionals from the fields of chemistry, technology, and life sciences, bringing a wealth of knowledge in drug development and commercialization.

Atmos

Seed Round in 2020
Atmos is a company that has developed a comprehensive home-building platform designed to assist customers in creating and designing customized houses. Established in 2018 by Trent Hedge, Nicholas Donahue, Matthew Rastovac, and Austin Kahn, Atmos aims to streamline the home-building process by offering a managed marketplace that connects home buyers with various design options and personalized packages. The platform provides a diverse selection of designs and interiors, along with integrated financing and construction processes, enabling customers to build homes tailored to their specific preferences and financial situations.

SiPhox Health

Seed Round in 2020
SiPhox Health develops advanced diagnostic solutions for both home use and laboratory settings. The company offers an at-home test kit that evaluates 17 blood biomarkers, focusing on areas such as inflammation, hormonal health, metabolic fitness, and cardiovascular health. Their biosensing platform features a handheld device designed to work with disposable cartridges, integrating biochemistry and photonic chip technology. This innovative approach combines integrated photonics, electronics, and microfluidics to deliver sensitive readings of immunoassays and nucleic acids, facilitating point-of-need testing and enhancing the accessibility of diagnostic tools for users.
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