Headline

Headline is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1998 (formerly e.ventures). It maintains a global footprint with activity in seven cities and invests across geographies, leading rounds at every stage. The firm operates Early Stage Funds aligned with regional focus in the US, Europe, Asia, and Brazil to invest locally, and a Growth Fund based in San Francisco that participates from Series B onward. It backs companies across consumer, media, retail, financial services, healthcare, information technology, software-as-a-service, mobile, cybersecurity, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, advertising technology, and digital health. Notable portfolio companies include Sonos, The RealReal, Creditas, Sorare, Pismo, AppFolio, goPuff, Acorns, Farfetch, Segment, Bumble, and Yeahka. Headline is a registered investment adviser.

Gabriel Alves

Partner, LatAm

Conrad Chu

CTO, US and Operating Partner

Akihiko Okamoto

Partner, Asia

Ketul Patel

Investor, US

Toshiaki Shimakawa

Principal, Asia

Akio Tanaka

Partner

Dominic Wilhelm

Partner, Europe

Past deals in Data Visualization

Heidi Health

Series A in 2025
Heidi Health enhances primary care through AI-powered software, improving care quality and accessibility.

Motion

Series B in 2024
Motion creates platform that combines visual content with performance metrics to help growth teams improve their creative strategy.

Prescient AI

Series A in 2024
Prescient AI is a leading automation software provider for marketers and direct-to-consumer brands. It offers precise data insights, helping businesses measure, forecast, optimize, and continuously backtest marketing funnels to save time and money. Prescient's AI-powered platform simulates various scenarios to derive actionable insights, enabling brands to optimize ad campaigns, drive growth, and maximize revenue.

Motion

Series A in 2023
Motion creates platform that combines visual content with performance metrics to help growth teams improve their creative strategy.

Motion

Seed Round in 2023
Motion creates platform that combines visual content with performance metrics to help growth teams improve their creative strategy.

DBeaver

Seed Round in 2023
DBeaver is an established software company specializing in database management tools for over two decades. It offers a comprehensive data solution that caters to diverse user needs, supporting popular relational databases and cloud data sources through its platform.

Honeycomb

Series D in 2023
Honeycomb is a software company that specializes in full-stack observability for engineering teams, enabling them to understand, debug, and enhance their production systems. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Honeycomb's platform allows users to visualize and query various metrics, facilitating the identification of trends and summarizing results for deeper insights into complex systems. Its tools support fast incident response and system optimization, helping teams deliver efficient software releases. By empowering engineers to instrument and analyze system behavior, Honeycomb aims to improve the overall software engineering process, ultimately leading to greater satisfaction for both developers and end-users.

Attio

Seed Round in 2021
Attio develops a cloud-based CRM platform that leverages real-time data and offers customizable workflows. It provides global contact databases, relationship intelligence, conversation tracking, and interaction timelines to optimize sales and connections.

Honeycomb

Series C in 2021
Honeycomb is a software company that specializes in full-stack observability for engineering teams, enabling them to understand, debug, and enhance their production systems. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Honeycomb's platform allows users to visualize and query various metrics, facilitating the identification of trends and summarizing results for deeper insights into complex systems. Its tools support fast incident response and system optimization, helping teams deliver efficient software releases. By empowering engineers to instrument and analyze system behavior, Honeycomb aims to improve the overall software engineering process, ultimately leading to greater satisfaction for both developers and end-users.

Kili Technology

Series A in 2021
Kili Technology specializes in developing annotation software that facilitates the transformation of raw data into high-quality annotated datasets for artificial intelligence applications. Its platform supports the management of diverse data types, including images, videos, text, PDFs, and audio, allowing for seamless annotation and collaboration. The software also includes tools for quality control and data management, ensuring that clients can efficiently scale their machine learning projects. Kili Technology's solutions are designed to meet various requirements, offering both online and on-premise options to accommodate the specific needs of large organizations.

Honeycomb

Series B in 2021
Honeycomb is a software company that specializes in full-stack observability for engineering teams, enabling them to understand, debug, and enhance their production systems. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Honeycomb's platform allows users to visualize and query various metrics, facilitating the identification of trends and summarizing results for deeper insights into complex systems. Its tools support fast incident response and system optimization, helping teams deliver efficient software releases. By empowering engineers to instrument and analyze system behavior, Honeycomb aims to improve the overall software engineering process, ultimately leading to greater satisfaction for both developers and end-users.

Kili Technology

Seed Round in 2021
Kili Technology specializes in developing annotation software that facilitates the transformation of raw data into high-quality annotated datasets for artificial intelligence applications. Its platform supports the management of diverse data types, including images, videos, text, PDFs, and audio, allowing for seamless annotation and collaboration. The software also includes tools for quality control and data management, ensuring that clients can efficiently scale their machine learning projects. Kili Technology's solutions are designed to meet various requirements, offering both online and on-premise options to accommodate the specific needs of large organizations.

Polygon.io

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2016, Polygon.io operates a real-time financial data platform. It provides institutional-level market data via API for stocks, currencies, forex, and crypto to individual developers, companies, and government institutions.

Honeycomb

Series A in 2019
Honeycomb is a software company that specializes in full-stack observability for engineering teams, enabling them to understand, debug, and enhance their production systems. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Honeycomb's platform allows users to visualize and query various metrics, facilitating the identification of trends and summarizing results for deeper insights into complex systems. Its tools support fast incident response and system optimization, helping teams deliver efficient software releases. By empowering engineers to instrument and analyze system behavior, Honeycomb aims to improve the overall software engineering process, ultimately leading to greater satisfaction for both developers and end-users.

Zippia

Series A in 2019
Zippia, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that operates an online platform offering career information and tools for professionals across various industries. Founded in 2015, Zippia provides a comprehensive Career Map, which visually outlines career paths, salary expectations, necessary skills for hiring and promotions, job tenure, and the companies that are actively hiring. The platform is designed to empower users by providing access to a wide range of career options and insights derived from real-world experiences. It utilizes machine learning and data analytics to match individuals with suitable job openings, ensuring that both job seekers and recruiters have access to personalized and intelligent resources. Zippia’s mission is to enable individuals to make informed career decisions, facilitating better employment outcomes for users.

Segment

Series D in 2019
Segment.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in customer data infrastructure, enabling businesses to collect, unify, and connect their customer data across various platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Segment offers a single API that allows organizations to track customer information across multiple devices and channels. This data can be seamlessly sent to a variety of third-party tools, internal systems, or SQL databases. Additionally, Segment provides a product known as Data Lakes, which assists companies in leveraging their customer data to enhance user experiences. The company also maintains an office in Dublin, Ireland, and operates as a subsidiary of Twilio Inc. as of November 2020.

Honeycomb

Series A in 2018
Honeycomb is a software company that specializes in full-stack observability for engineering teams, enabling them to understand, debug, and enhance their production systems. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Honeycomb's platform allows users to visualize and query various metrics, facilitating the identification of trends and summarizing results for deeper insights into complex systems. Its tools support fast incident response and system optimization, helping teams deliver efficient software releases. By empowering engineers to instrument and analyze system behavior, Honeycomb aims to improve the overall software engineering process, ultimately leading to greater satisfaction for both developers and end-users.

Segment

Series C in 2017
Segment.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in customer data infrastructure, enabling businesses to collect, unify, and connect their customer data across various platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Segment offers a single API that allows organizations to track customer information across multiple devices and channels. This data can be seamlessly sent to a variety of third-party tools, internal systems, or SQL databases. Additionally, Segment provides a product known as Data Lakes, which assists companies in leveraging their customer data to enhance user experiences. The company also maintains an office in Dublin, Ireland, and operates as a subsidiary of Twilio Inc. as of November 2020.

Segment

Series B in 2015
Segment.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in customer data infrastructure, enabling businesses to collect, unify, and connect their customer data across various platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Segment offers a single API that allows organizations to track customer information across multiple devices and channels. This data can be seamlessly sent to a variety of third-party tools, internal systems, or SQL databases. Additionally, Segment provides a product known as Data Lakes, which assists companies in leveraging their customer data to enhance user experiences. The company also maintains an office in Dublin, Ireland, and operates as a subsidiary of Twilio Inc. as of November 2020.

Segment

Series A in 2014
Segment.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in customer data infrastructure, enabling businesses to collect, unify, and connect their customer data across various platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Segment offers a single API that allows organizations to track customer information across multiple devices and channels. This data can be seamlessly sent to a variety of third-party tools, internal systems, or SQL databases. Additionally, Segment provides a product known as Data Lakes, which assists companies in leveraging their customer data to enhance user experiences. The company also maintains an office in Dublin, Ireland, and operates as a subsidiary of Twilio Inc. as of November 2020.

Segment

Seed Round in 2014
Segment.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in customer data infrastructure, enabling businesses to collect, unify, and connect their customer data across various platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Segment offers a single API that allows organizations to track customer information across multiple devices and channels. This data can be seamlessly sent to a variety of third-party tools, internal systems, or SQL databases. Additionally, Segment provides a product known as Data Lakes, which assists companies in leveraging their customer data to enhance user experiences. The company also maintains an office in Dublin, Ireland, and operates as a subsidiary of Twilio Inc. as of November 2020.

Segment

Seed Round in 2013
Segment.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in customer data infrastructure, enabling businesses to collect, unify, and connect their customer data across various platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Segment offers a single API that allows organizations to track customer information across multiple devices and channels. This data can be seamlessly sent to a variety of third-party tools, internal systems, or SQL databases. Additionally, Segment provides a product known as Data Lakes, which assists companies in leveraging their customer data to enhance user experiences. The company also maintains an office in Dublin, Ireland, and operates as a subsidiary of Twilio Inc. as of November 2020.

Upsight

Series B in 2011
Upsight is a leading mobile analytics and marketing platform that processes over 500 billion data points each month, serving thousands of applications globally. The company offers a robust, flexible, and scalable data platform that supports large-scale data ingestion, collection, processing, and storage, catering to the needs of enterprises. Its data-driven marketing tools allow businesses to analyze user behaviors and execute targeted engagement, retention, re-engagement, and monetization campaigns. Accessible through flexible APIs, these tools integrate seamlessly with both third-party solutions and Upsight's own offerings. Upsight is trusted by a diverse range of mobile-focused companies, including prominent brands such as Warner Brothers, Viacom, and Turner, along with major game publishers like Electronic Arts, Activision, Glu Mobile, and BigFish. The platform empowers marketers to build meaningful relationships with customers by providing comprehensive data visualization and analysis tools that enhance campaign effectiveness and maximize customer lifetime value.
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