Felicis is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 and based in Menlo Park, California. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, backing founders who are creating innovative companies that can redefine industries and develop frontier technologies. Felicis seeks to support a diverse range of sectors, including artificial intelligence, healthcare, and security, while primarily targeting consumer internet startups. The firm employs a hands-on approach, combining angel investing with active mentoring and advisory services to provide entrepreneurs with more than just capital. Felicis typically invests between $100,000 and $1 million in its portfolio companies, which span various nationalities and countries, with a significant concentration in the Bay Area. Since its inception, Felicis has invested in over 120 technology companies, achieving notable success with 50 of these companies either being acquired or going public. Aydin Senkut, the founder and president, brings prior experience from a senior management role at Google to guide the firm’s investment strategy.
n8n GmbH, founded in 2019 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing an open-source workflow automation tool that allows users to connect various applications and automate business processes. Its platform features a visual, node-based interface that enables users to create custom workflows without requiring extensive coding skills. n8n's solution facilitates the automation of daily tasks, data synchronization, and integration of AI capabilities, making it accessible for businesses to streamline their operations. The tool also offers features for notification management, security access, and data storage, allowing clients to manage and synchronize information across different applications and databases efficiently.
Wherobots
Series A in 2024
Wherobots is a company focused on harnessing spatial intelligence across various domains, including earth, society, and business. It operates a cloud-native data analytics platform designed to assist businesses in processing data within a geospatial context. The platform enables users to collect, analyze, visualize, integrate, store, and manage geospatial data effectively. By leveraging advanced data and AI technologies, Wherobots simplifies the utilization of spatial intelligence, allowing organizations to derive meaningful insights from their enterprise data and make informed, data-driven decisions.
Brevian
Seed Round in 2024
BREVIAN's no-code platform enables business users to create secure AI agents, integrate with data and applications, answer queries, and automate tasks without requiring a developer.
Metaplane
Series A in 2024
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.
n8n
Series A in 2024
n8n GmbH, founded in 2019 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing an open-source workflow automation tool that allows users to connect various applications and automate business processes. Its platform features a visual, node-based interface that enables users to create custom workflows without requiring extensive coding skills. n8n's solution facilitates the automation of daily tasks, data synchronization, and integration of AI capabilities, making it accessible for businesses to streamline their operations. The tool also offers features for notification management, security access, and data storage, allowing clients to manage and synchronize information across different applications and databases efficiently.
Puzzle Financial
Series A in 2023
Puzzle Financial is a modern data platform for startups
Warmly
Series A in 2023
Warmly, Inc. is a software company that provides an autonomous revenue orchestration platform tailored for small and midsize business (SMB) revenue teams. Established in 2019 and based in Redwood City, California, Warmly's platform utilizes metadata from sales enablement tools, B2B intent data, and enrichment tools to identify and connect with website visitors primed for conversion. By aggregating and integrating insights from various sources, the platform enables users to efficiently track leads, prevent customer churn, cross-sell into new departments, and facilitate warm introductions. This comprehensive approach helps sales teams engage in meaningful conversations with qualified prospects, ultimately enhancing their lead generation and sales effectiveness.
MotherDuck
Series B in 2023
MotherDuck specializes in data infrastructure and analytics, providing a serverless platform designed to handle both small and large datasets. By integrating the performance of DuckDB with cloud capabilities, the company offers a user-friendly solution that facilitates collaborative data analysis. Its platform employs an embedded database to support hybrid execution, allowing users to analyze data locally and remotely. This enables businesses to effectively prototype and optimize their data strategies, enhancing their ability to derive insights and maximize profits in a streamlined environment.
GreenPlaces
Series A in 2023
GreenPlaces is a sustainability software company founded in 2021 and based in Raleigh, North Carolina. It operates as a comprehensive platform that helps businesses measure and manage their carbon emissions while providing tools to reduce their environmental impact. The software offers features for tracking and benchmarking carbon footprints, along with access to strategies for emissions reduction and high-quality carbon credits for offsetting. GreenPlaces also facilitates clear communication of sustainability progress to both employees and customers. By providing accurate reporting and tailored carbon reduction plans, GreenPlaces enables companies to effectively achieve their climate goals and enhance their overall sustainability efforts.
MadKudu
Series A in 2022
MadKudu Inc. is a software company based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2014. It specializes in a predictive lead-scoring platform tailored for high-volume B2B SaaS companies, enabling them to utilize customer data for growth acceleration. The platform analyzes customer behavior and integrates this data with publicly available information to provide actionable insights. It allows users to generate and share reports, as well as simulate monthly recurring revenue (MRR), enhancing decision-making processes. By operationalizing data science, MadKudu empowers clients to create a predictive revenue engine that drives significant revenue growth.
GreenPlaces
Angel Round in 2022
GreenPlaces is a sustainability software company founded in 2021 and based in Raleigh, North Carolina. It operates as a comprehensive platform that helps businesses measure and manage their carbon emissions while providing tools to reduce their environmental impact. The software offers features for tracking and benchmarking carbon footprints, along with access to strategies for emissions reduction and high-quality carbon credits for offsetting. GreenPlaces also facilitates clear communication of sustainability progress to both employees and customers. By providing accurate reporting and tailored carbon reduction plans, GreenPlaces enables companies to effectively achieve their climate goals and enhance their overall sustainability efforts.
Explo
Series A in 2022
Explo is a data exploration and analysis platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The platform enables users to connect directly to various database and data warehouse sources, allowing them to explore, analyze, and visualize data easily through a user-friendly point-and-click interface. By integrating with any data source, Explo facilitates data manipulation and visualization without requiring SQL knowledge, empowering clients to make informed, data-driven decisions to enhance their business growth and scalability.
PreQL
Seed Round in 2022
Preql integrates with the modern data stack to empower business users and manage business metrics. Preql was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
Criya
Seed Round in 2022
Criya AI is a venture-backed startup that offers an intelligent content system designed to enhance business operations for women entrepreneurs. The platform enables users to seamlessly integrate various data sources to conduct prospect research and generate hyper-personalized marketing materials, including pitch decks, landing pages, and email campaigns with a single click. Additionally, Criya provides an all-in-one studio and business platform tailored for creative businesses, featuring a pre-built storefront along with automated tools for booking, payment invoicing, digital contracts, and project management. By streamlining these processes, Criya empowers women to effectively establish and grow their businesses online.
Kandji
Series C in 2021
Kandji, Inc. is a cloud-based software provider that specializes in customizable security, compliance, and reporting solutions for Apple devices, including Mac computers, iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs. Founded in 2018 and based in San Diego, California, Kandji offers a platform that enables IT teams to configure and enforce macOS security parameters while automating monitoring and remediation processes. The software features one-click compliance templates and over 150 pre-built automations, apps, and workflows, significantly reducing the time spent on manual tasks. Kandji's mission is to simplify and enhance the management of Apple devices for businesses, ensuring they remain secure, compliant, and productive through continuous innovation and a focus on user experience.
Ontic
Series B in 2021
Ontic is a developer of a protective intelligence platform designed for corporate and government security professionals to enhance threat management and risk mitigation. The platform integrates and unifies critical data, business processes, and collaboration tools, consolidating security intelligence and operations into a single system. By leveraging big data and digital technology, Ontic aggregates various data sources to provide actionable insights for early threat detection, surfacing pre-incident indicators related to acts of violence, mental health concerns, and suspicious behavior. This enables security teams to effectively investigate and address potential threats, ultimately protecting executives, workplaces, and educational institutions.
Torch
Funding Round in 2021
Torch Dental offers an all-in-one technology platform that addresses the supply ordering and inventory management needs of dental practices. By digitizing and optimizing traditional manual processes, Torch Dental simplifies the ordering experience for dental professionals. This allows dentists to dedicate more time to patient care rather than administrative tasks. The company's focus is on enhancing operational efficiency within dental practices, ultimately benefiting both practitioners and their patients.
n8n
Series A in 2021
n8n GmbH, founded in 2019 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing an open-source workflow automation tool that allows users to connect various applications and automate business processes. Its platform features a visual, node-based interface that enables users to create custom workflows without requiring extensive coding skills. n8n's solution facilitates the automation of daily tasks, data synchronization, and integration of AI capabilities, making it accessible for businesses to streamline their operations. The tool also offers features for notification management, security access, and data storage, allowing clients to manage and synchronize information across different applications and databases efficiently.
Kandji
Series B in 2021
Kandji, Inc. is a cloud-based software provider that specializes in customizable security, compliance, and reporting solutions for Apple devices, including Mac computers, iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs. Founded in 2018 and based in San Diego, California, Kandji offers a platform that enables IT teams to configure and enforce macOS security parameters while automating monitoring and remediation processes. The software features one-click compliance templates and over 150 pre-built automations, apps, and workflows, significantly reducing the time spent on manual tasks. Kandji's mission is to simplify and enhance the management of Apple devices for businesses, ensuring they remain secure, compliant, and productive through continuous innovation and a focus on user experience.
Mosaic.tech
Series A in 2021
Mosaic.tech is a strategic finance platform that leverages big data and machine learning to offer predictive reporting capabilities. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company provides startups with tools and insights typically available to large enterprises. Its software platform features one-click integrations, real-time analytics, dashboards, and data visualization tools that enable users to connect with data swiftly, automate financial forecasts, and report seamlessly. By delivering clear insights and straightforward recommendations, Mosaic enhances visibility into critical business dynamics, empowering clients to make informed decisions and effectively execute their plans.
Ontic
Series A in 2020
Ontic is a developer of a protective intelligence platform designed for corporate and government security professionals to enhance threat management and risk mitigation. The platform integrates and unifies critical data, business processes, and collaboration tools, consolidating security intelligence and operations into a single system. By leveraging big data and digital technology, Ontic aggregates various data sources to provide actionable insights for early threat detection, surfacing pre-incident indicators related to acts of violence, mental health concerns, and suspicious behavior. This enables security teams to effectively investigate and address potential threats, ultimately protecting executives, workplaces, and educational institutions.
KYKLO
Seed Round in 2020
KYKLO is a technology company that specializes in providing a white-labeled e-commerce platform for wholesale distributors, enabling them to create customized webstores. The platform offers access to millions of product SKUs, which are enriched and managed by KYKLO. By focusing on the Electrical and Automation sector, KYKLO aims to facilitate the digitization of the substantial $5.6 trillion wholesale distribution market. The company's services also include integrating a comprehensive database of product data from various manufacturers and employing advanced search engine optimization tools to enhance online visibility for retailers and distributors. Established in 2015, KYKLO operates from locations in New York City and Bangkok.
Crunchbase
Series C in 2019
Crunchbase is a comprehensive platform that assists over 80 million investors, analysts, and dealmakers in identifying and acting on private market opportunities through detailed analysis of company activities. It enables users to discover significant companies via its homepage, Crunchbase Scout, and search functionalities. The platform offers proprietary predictions and insights on organizational profiles, facilitating informed decision-making. Additionally, Crunchbase enhances team efficiency with various features such as data exports, administrative tools, and integrations. By providing unique private company intelligence, Crunchbase bridges the gap between data access and actionable business decisions, ultimately supporting users in navigating the complexities of the investment landscape.
Factual
Venture Round in 2018
Factual is the location data company the world’s most valuable brands and tech companies trust to understand and intelligently grow their businesses. Factual provides product and engineering teams, marketers and data analysts access to the world’s most trusted, accurate and comprehensive data on places and people worldwide, transforming products, advertising and businesses with data that puts everything in context.
Gamalon
Series A in 2018
Gamalon, Inc. specializes in statistical machine learning solutions, focusing on Bayesian probabilistic programming languages. Founded in 2013 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company has developed an AI-driven machine intelligence technology that automates the writing and rewriting of its own Bayesian programs. This innovation allows businesses to convert unstructured text into structured data efficiently, enabling e-commerce and manufacturing sectors to train their systems with minimal data while achieving accuracy comparable to extensively trained neural networks. Additionally, Gamalon offers a conversational machine intelligence platform that interprets and summarizes customer messages, facilitating data-driven decision-making and enhancing customer experience.
TalkIQ
Series A in 2017
Since 2014, TalkIQ has offered voice‐to‐text transcription and analytics for clients across a wide variety of industries. Using cutting edge deep‐learning algorithms, proprietary speech recognition and predictive analytics technology, we give our clients visibility into all of their phone conversations, extracting insights for uses ranging from sales optimization, to customer service, compliance, and more. Our recommendations enable teams to save time and maximize productivity, though quick access to action-oriented data & analysis. TalkIQ is backed by prominent Silicon Valley VC firms and is helmed by an advisory board with decades of experience in the speech and language recognition fields.
Crunchbase
Series B in 2017
Crunchbase is a comprehensive platform that assists over 80 million investors, analysts, and dealmakers in identifying and acting on private market opportunities through detailed analysis of company activities. It enables users to discover significant companies via its homepage, Crunchbase Scout, and search functionalities. The platform offers proprietary predictions and insights on organizational profiles, facilitating informed decision-making. Additionally, Crunchbase enhances team efficiency with various features such as data exports, administrative tools, and integrations. By providing unique private company intelligence, Crunchbase bridges the gap between data access and actionable business decisions, ultimately supporting users in navigating the complexities of the investment landscape.
Fluxx
Series B in 2017
Fluxx’s provides a cloud-based platform that powers impact philanthropy. It connects givers and doers, creating capacity, increasing visibility, and improving collaboration for organizations throughout the philanthropy ecosystem. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Gamalon
Seed Round in 2017
Gamalon, Inc. specializes in statistical machine learning solutions, focusing on Bayesian probabilistic programming languages. Founded in 2013 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company has developed an AI-driven machine intelligence technology that automates the writing and rewriting of its own Bayesian programs. This innovation allows businesses to convert unstructured text into structured data efficiently, enabling e-commerce and manufacturing sectors to train their systems with minimal data while achieving accuracy comparable to extensively trained neural networks. Additionally, Gamalon offers a conversational machine intelligence platform that interprets and summarizes customer messages, facilitating data-driven decision-making and enhancing customer experience.
TalkIQ
Seed Round in 2016
Since 2014, TalkIQ has offered voice‐to‐text transcription and analytics for clients across a wide variety of industries. Using cutting edge deep‐learning algorithms, proprietary speech recognition and predictive analytics technology, we give our clients visibility into all of their phone conversations, extracting insights for uses ranging from sales optimization, to customer service, compliance, and more. Our recommendations enable teams to save time and maximize productivity, though quick access to action-oriented data & analysis. TalkIQ is backed by prominent Silicon Valley VC firms and is helmed by an advisory board with decades of experience in the speech and language recognition fields.
Zodiac
Seed Round in 2016
Zodiac Inc. specializes in predictive analytics solutions that forecast individualized customer lifetime value by leveraging real-time sales data. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the company aims to transform businesses into customer-centric organizations by providing insights into customer behavior. Zodiac’s cloud-based platform employs advanced data models and customer analytics to predict future behaviors, enabling marketers to make informed decisions about campaign optimization and sales forecasting. By focusing on individual customer metrics, Zodiac helps organizations acquire and retain high-value customers while minimizing ineffective spending. The company operates as a subsidiary of NIKE, Inc.
Ascend.io
Seed Round in 2015
Ascend.io, based in Palo Alto, California, offers an advanced platform designed to streamline big data analytics and engineering workflows. The platform integrates essential capabilities such as data ingestion, transformation, delivery, orchestration, and observability into a unified solution, enabling data teams to operate significantly faster. By leveraging declarative configurations and automation, Ascend.io manages cloud infrastructure, optimizes data pipelines, and reduces maintenance throughout the data lifecycle. This innovative approach supports business managers in initiating projects and making informed decisions by simplifying connections to various applications. Recognized as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor, Ascend.io is supported by prominent venture capital firms and notable advisors in the tech industry.
Crunchbase
Series A in 2015
Crunchbase is a comprehensive platform that assists over 80 million investors, analysts, and dealmakers in identifying and acting on private market opportunities through detailed analysis of company activities. It enables users to discover significant companies via its homepage, Crunchbase Scout, and search functionalities. The platform offers proprietary predictions and insights on organizational profiles, facilitating informed decision-making. Additionally, Crunchbase enhances team efficiency with various features such as data exports, administrative tools, and integrations. By providing unique private company intelligence, Crunchbase bridges the gap between data access and actionable business decisions, ultimately supporting users in navigating the complexities of the investment landscape.
Fluxx
Series A in 2015
Fluxx’s provides a cloud-based platform that powers impact philanthropy. It connects givers and doers, creating capacity, increasing visibility, and improving collaboration for organizations throughout the philanthropy ecosystem. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Zenreach
Series A in 2015
Zenreach, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides online marketing solutions aimed at improving customer acquisition and lifetime value for businesses with physical locations. Founded in 2011, Zenreach developed Walk-Through Marketing to integrate digital marketing with in-store outcomes. Their Zenreach Engage platform automatically tracks customer visits, creating and updating detailed customer profiles. Additionally, Zenreach Attract enhances advertising effectiveness by targeting audiences based on existing customer data, reportedly improving ad performance by four times. The company measures success through its proprietary Walk-Through Rate™, which indicates when an individual exposed to an advertisement subsequently visits a location. Zenreach serves a diverse clientele, including thousands of independent merchants and well-known brands.
LeanData
Series A in 2014
LeanData, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in San Jose, California, specializes in SaaS-based data management solutions tailored for business-to-business enterprises. The company is recognized for its leadership in Revenue Operations, providing essential tools for Lead-to-Account Matching, Routing, and Marketing Attribution. LeanData's platform enhances the integration of sales and marketing efforts by ensuring a consistent data flow throughout the revenue process. This approach enables businesses to streamline their go-to-market strategies, facilitating faster revenue generation and improving the overall buyer experience. By offering a comprehensive suite of applications, LeanData allows revenue teams to efficiently plan, execute, and analyze their operations from a centralized platform that is adaptable and transparent.
Kissmetrics
Series B in 2013
Kissmetrics offers behavioral analytics, segmentation, and email campaign automation all in one place. The company connect their experiment results to key business metrics they already track using Kissmetric, streamlines workflow by reviewing experiment results in their familiar Kissmetrics dashboard, and uncover new insights about your experiment using Kissmetrics capabilities Founded in 2008, Kissmetrics is run by a team of designers, developers, and entrepreneurs that are passionate about helping online businesses measure, grow, and monetize.
Optimizely
Seed Round in 2012
Optimizely, Inc. operates a website optimization platform that offers A/B testing, multivariate testing, and website personalization, catering to both technical and non-technical users. The platform facilitates data-driven decision-making through experiments that enhance user engagement and conversion rates. It integrates web content management, digital experience software, multi-channel marketing, and predictive analytics into a single solution, making it accessible to a diverse range of clients, including agencies, e-commerce businesses, and small enterprises. Optimizely serves a global clientele, with a presence in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Spain, among other countries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company also has offices in Amsterdam, Sydney, and Austin. Optimizely functions as a subsidiary of EPiServer AB.
Factual
Series A in 2010
Factual is the location data company the world’s most valuable brands and tech companies trust to understand and intelligently grow their businesses. Factual provides product and engineering teams, marketers and data analysts access to the world’s most trusted, accurate and comprehensive data on places and people worldwide, transforming products, advertising and businesses with data that puts everything in context.
Erply
Seed Round in 2010
ERPLY provides SaaS-based solutions for commercial retail inventory that handles data across physical shops, online stores, and warehouses. It also offers real-time dashboards with relevant data. The company’s software is integrated with other platforms, including a range of accounting and web-shop outlets; and mobile credit card readers for handheld mobile devices to deliver payments for large and small businesses. It offers its solutions to retail stores to build customer relationships and track valuable inventory; car service markets to maintain cars and schedule and assign jobs; salons and spas to avoid double booking; and cafes and delis. ERPLY was founded in 2009 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Kissmetrics
Series A in 2009
Kissmetrics offers behavioral analytics, segmentation, and email campaign automation all in one place. The company connect their experiment results to key business metrics they already track using Kissmetric, streamlines workflow by reviewing experiment results in their familiar Kissmetrics dashboard, and uncover new insights about your experiment using Kissmetrics capabilities Founded in 2008, Kissmetrics is run by a team of designers, developers, and entrepreneurs that are passionate about helping online businesses measure, grow, and monetize.
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