Felicis

Felicis Ventures, established in 2006 and based in Menlo Park, California, is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage, innovative companies. The firm focuses on backing founders who are building transformative businesses across various sectors, including AI, health, and security. Felicis provides more than just capital, offering active mentoring and advisory services to support its portfolio companies. Since inception, Felicis has invested in over 120 technology companies, with 50 having been acquired or gone public.

Nicole Bae

Partner, Operations

Daniel Bartus

Partner

Kristin Beach

CFO, COO and Partner

Maddie Chavez

Partner, Operations

Tobi Coker

Senior Associate

Viviana Faga

General Partner

Gabriella Garcia

Deal Partner

Ryan Isono

Vice President

Dasha Maggio

Co-COO

Astasia Myers

General Partner

Niki Pezeshki

General Partner

Larissa Rainey

Operating Partner

Javier Soltero

Senior Venture Partner

Jake Storm

Vice President

Victoria Treyger

General Partner and Managing Director

Mischa Vaughn

Partner, Head of Content

Past deals in Developer Tools

Supabase

Series D in 2025
Supabase Pte. Ltd. is a company that provides an open-source alternative to Firebase, designed to enhance PostgreSQL databases with real-time and RESTful APIs without requiring extensive coding. Founded in 2020 and based in Singapore, Supabase offers a suite of tools to assist developers, including a Postgres database with self-documenting APIs, user authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, real-time subscriptions, and storage solutions. The platform enables users to manage database changes, perform queries with filtering and pagination, and handle user permissions through an intuitive interface. By focusing on simplifying database management and enhancing scalability, Supabase allows developers to concentrate on building their core products efficiently.

Semgrep

Series D in 2025
Semgrep is a static code analysis tool that focuses on improving software security and reliability. The platform empowers developers to write secure code by automatically examining and evaluating code across the software ecosystem. It identifies vulnerabilities, questionable practices, and exemplary coding patterns from both leading technology companies and open-source projects. This functionality allows developers, security teams, and researchers to assess the safety of open-source initiatives and enhance their understanding of secure coding practices. Semgrep aims to streamline the security process in software development, ensuring that it supports rather than hinders rapid development efforts.

Stainless

Series A in 2024
Generate best-in-class SDKs with Stainless. Developers expect your API to come with a typesafe client library in their language. With Stainless, you can deliver idiomatic SDKs while you stay focused on building the API.

Supabase

Series C in 2024
Supabase Pte. Ltd. is a company that provides an open-source alternative to Firebase, designed to enhance PostgreSQL databases with real-time and RESTful APIs without requiring extensive coding. Founded in 2020 and based in Singapore, Supabase offers a suite of tools to assist developers, including a Postgres database with self-documenting APIs, user authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, real-time subscriptions, and storage solutions. The platform enables users to manage database changes, perform queries with filtering and pagination, and handle user permissions through an intuitive interface. By focusing on simplifying database management and enhancing scalability, Supabase allows developers to concentrate on building their core products efficiently.

Operant

Series A in 2024
Operant is a developer of an application protection platform tailored for cloud-native environments. The platform provides automatic discovery and analytics, along with real-time risk rankings and intelligent runtime enforcement. It offers comprehensive catalogs for APIs, services, and role-based access controls across various clusters and cloud infrastructures, facilitating quick visibility into API endpoints, service interactions, and security vulnerabilities. By utilizing risk-weighted scorecards that prioritize security gaps based on criticality, access, and exposure, Operant effectively highlights the most severe security issues. Additionally, the platform employs contextual controls to enforce fine-grained security constraints on legacy endpoints, data storage, and APIs, ensuring robust protection across all interactions in a seamless manner.

Depot

Seed Round in 2024
Depot is developing an advanced build platform focused on enhancing the efficiency of software development for developers. By leveraging cloud computing, Depot aims to expedite the building process and eliminate computing bottlenecks. Its platform integrates seamlessly with existing container tools and services, providing features such as optimized build computing and a speed-up system. This enables clients to create and iterate on core products more frequently without extensive delays. The goal is to simplify the development process, allowing developers to build Docker files and other related components more quickly, ultimately facilitating faster product iterations.

Predibase

Series A in 2023
Predibase is a developer platform that simplifies the process of fine-tuning and serving small open-source language models in the cloud. It enables engineering teams to efficiently create high-performance machine learning algorithms with a low-code approach, allowing users to define AI systems with minimal coding. Founded by a team with experience from Apple and Uber, Predibase offers a scalable and cost-effective solution built on open-source foundations, including LoRAX. The platform features a user-friendly interface for training models and leverages high-end GPU capacity for production serving, ensuring that performance is not compromised. Predibase is designed for deployment in private clouds, allowing organizations to maintain control over their data and models. The platform is currently utilized by both Fortune 500 companies and high-growth firms, facilitating rapid delivery of AI-driven solutions.

Operant

Seed Round in 2023
Operant is a developer of an application protection platform tailored for cloud-native environments. The platform provides automatic discovery and analytics, along with real-time risk rankings and intelligent runtime enforcement. It offers comprehensive catalogs for APIs, services, and role-based access controls across various clusters and cloud infrastructures, facilitating quick visibility into API endpoints, service interactions, and security vulnerabilities. By utilizing risk-weighted scorecards that prioritize security gaps based on criticality, access, and exposure, Operant effectively highlights the most severe security issues. Additionally, the platform employs contextual controls to enforce fine-grained security constraints on legacy endpoints, data storage, and APIs, ensuring robust protection across all interactions in a seamless manner.

Semgrep

Series C in 2023
Semgrep is a static code analysis tool that focuses on improving software security and reliability. The platform empowers developers to write secure code by automatically examining and evaluating code across the software ecosystem. It identifies vulnerabilities, questionable practices, and exemplary coding patterns from both leading technology companies and open-source projects. This functionality allows developers, security teams, and researchers to assess the safety of open-source initiatives and enhance their understanding of secure coding practices. Semgrep aims to streamline the security process in software development, ensuring that it supports rather than hinders rapid development efforts.

Dylibso

Seed Round in 2023
Dylibso, founded in 2022 and based in Boulder, Colorado, specializes in software and development tools aimed at enhancing the deployment of WebAssembly. The company offers a range of applications that facilitate secure and isolated execution, along with a universal binary format that integrates seamlessly with WebAssembly. Dylibso's tools support vital functions such as code signing and verification, module delivery, observability, runtime debugging, and performance monitoring. By providing these resources, Dylibso aims to simplify the development process for software developers, allowing them to produce high-quality applications efficiently.

Replay

Venture Round in 2022
Replay is a debugging platform that assists web developers in recording, playing back, and inspecting software issues. Founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, California, Replay enables developers to capture the necessary context to address bugs efficiently. Its browser-based solution allows team members to navigate through any point in the software's execution, add console logs in real-time, and share recorded bugs with the development team. By integrating familiar browser development tools, Replay streamlines the debugging process and enhances collaboration among developers.

Rye

Seed Round in 2022
Rye develops a commerce platform designed to assist organizations in creating and scaling their eCommerce workflows. By offering a suite of developer tools and APIs, Rye enables businesses to sell products from various merchants and build comprehensive, native commerce experiences efficiently. The platform provides the flexibility and agility necessary for businesses to thrive in a competitive marketplace, allowing them to adapt quickly to changing demands and enhance their operational capabilities.

Meilisearch

Series A in 2022
Meilisearch is a developer of an open-source search engine API platform that offers a fast and customizable solution for users seeking an efficient search experience. The platform leverages advanced algorithms and natural language processing capabilities to deliver relevant search results, effectively managing challenges such as typos, synonyms, and n-grams. Its language-agnostic design ensures that clients can cater to diverse user needs, ultimately enhancing conversion rates and overall user experience. By providing a readily deployable alternative for businesses, Meilisearch positions itself as a valuable tool for those aiming to improve their search functionalities.

Goldsky

Seed Round in 2022
Goldsky is a developer-focused platform that enables the creation of real-time application programming interfaces (APIs) using data from Ethereum and other blockchain networks. The company's software simplifies the process for developers by providing the necessary tools to build reliable, real-time applications without the need for extensive data manipulation in their front-ends or back-ends. By streamlining access to blockchain data, Goldsky empowers developers to quickly and efficiently develop applications that rely on real-time information.

Pipedream

Series A in 2022
Pipedream is an online integration platform founded in 2018 by Jason Endo, Dan Hsiung, TJ Koblentz, and Tod Sacerdoti in San Francisco, California. It enables developers to connect APIs and create workflows by selecting triggers, such as HTTP requests and app events, and adding customizable steps. The platform generates production-ready code quickly and includes features like state management, authentication, observability, and error handling. By simplifying the workflow creation process, Pipedream allows developers to focus on building applications without the need to manage servers or cloud resources.

Komodor

Series B in 2022
Komodor is a developer-focused platform designed to automate Kubernetes operations and enhance troubleshooting for modern distributed systems. By ingesting daily Kubernetes events, the platform captures essential insights to improve system management. It allows developers to track and correlate every deployment, configuration, and code change with the status of various Kubernetes infrastructure elements, such as nodes, pods, and endpoints. Komodor integrates with a range of tools to provide a unified dashboard that organizes information and monitors changes and alerts. This capability enables clients to gain a comprehensive understanding of system events and dependencies, facilitating easier analysis and informed decision-making.

Supabase

Series B in 2022
Supabase Pte. Ltd. is a company that provides an open-source alternative to Firebase, designed to enhance PostgreSQL databases with real-time and RESTful APIs without requiring extensive coding. Founded in 2020 and based in Singapore, Supabase offers a suite of tools to assist developers, including a Postgres database with self-documenting APIs, user authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, real-time subscriptions, and storage solutions. The platform enables users to manage database changes, perform queries with filtering and pagination, and handle user permissions through an intuitive interface. By focusing on simplifying database management and enhancing scalability, Supabase allows developers to concentrate on building their core products efficiently.

Sleuth

Series A in 2022
Sleuth Enterprises, Inc. specializes in deployment tracking software aimed at companies utilizing continuous delivery processes. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides a platform that enhances visibility into software delivery performance through the use of DORA metrics. Sleuth’s software allows developers to communicate effectively about changes in the delivery system and their impacts, promoting collaboration within teams. By integrating with various tools such as source control, CI, feature flags, and incident management systems, Sleuth tracks the entire deployment cycle from issue creation to production deployment. This comprehensive approach helps organizations identify inefficiencies, reduce deployment-related issues like downtime and bugs, and ultimately facilitates smoother and more frequent software releases.

Spekit

Series B in 2022
Spekit, Inc. is a digital training solutions provider based in Denver, Colorado, incorporated in 2018. The company specializes in an AI-powered enablement platform that integrates seamlessly into an organization’s key applications, delivering just-in-time training and guidance to enhance productivity and efficiency for sales teams. Spekit's offerings include extensions for Outlook and Salesforce, which allow users to access essential content and embed training materials directly within their workflows. The platform is designed to provide bite-sized knowledge and support employees as they navigate new processes and technologies, thereby reducing onboarding time and increasing digital adoption. By serving various industries, Spekit aims to empower organizations to scale their revenue teams and improve performance without interrupting their daily operations.

Semgrep

Series B in 2021
Semgrep is a static code analysis tool that focuses on improving software security and reliability. The platform empowers developers to write secure code by automatically examining and evaluating code across the software ecosystem. It identifies vulnerabilities, questionable practices, and exemplary coding patterns from both leading technology companies and open-source projects. This functionality allows developers, security teams, and researchers to assess the safety of open-source initiatives and enhance their understanding of secure coding practices. Semgrep aims to streamline the security process in software development, ensuring that it supports rather than hinders rapid development efforts.

Stream

Series B in 2021
Stream.io, Inc. specializes in developing an open-source platform that enables the creation of customizable newsfeeds and messaging applications. The company provides a range of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow product teams to implement chat features and activity feeds tailored to their specific needs. Its offerings include flat feeds for displaying followed content, aggregated feeds for grouping similar content, notification feeds for site alerts, and profile pages for user activity storage. Stream's solutions cater to various sectors, including finance, healthcare, dating, education, and social networking, facilitating community engagement. Established in 2014, the company is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with an additional office located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Stream’s products are recognized for their scalability and security, serving over a billion end-users globally.

Commsor

Series A in 2021
Commsor is a developer of a community platform aimed at enhancing the growth and engagement of community-led organizations and teams. The platform offers software, educational resources, and support designed to help manage community-driven businesses effectively. By facilitating customer acquisition, streamlining support, and enhancing retention, Commsor enables organizations to build trusted partnerships with distinct audience segments. The tools provided assist community leaders in managing online communities, thereby fostering deeper connections and insights that are crucial for product development and overall business success.

Sourcegraph

Series B in 2020
Sourcegraph, Inc. is a company that develops a universal code search tool designed to enhance code discovery, code intelligence, and code change management. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Sourcegraph provides developers with the ability to quickly locate, understand, and manage code across growing codebases and diverse repositories. Its platform enables seamless navigation of code in any repository and branch through a web browser, allowing developers to maintain local context while working. This capability improves productivity, facilitates efficient code reviews and onboarding for new hires, and automates large-scale code changes. Sourcegraph serves a wide range of users, including startups, enterprises, developers, DevOps teams, site reliability engineers, and engineering leaders, thereby empowering them to focus on solving problems rather than struggling with code search.

Troops

Series B in 2019
Troops.ai is a revenue communications platform that enhances sales velocity, visibility, and collaboration for sales teams. It operates as a Slackbot, providing real-time transparency into Salesforce information. Users can configure Salesforce reports, communicate deal wins, and access both standard and custom Salesforce data through Slack. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to generate customizable notifications and facilitate data updates across various applications. By delivering actionable pipeline alerts, Troops.ai aims to increase sales activity and improve overall performance. The company has attracted investments from notable firms, including First Round Capital, Founder Collective, and others, reflecting its significant potential in the sales technology market.

Troops

Series A in 2016
Troops.ai is a revenue communications platform that enhances sales velocity, visibility, and collaboration for sales teams. It operates as a Slackbot, providing real-time transparency into Salesforce information. Users can configure Salesforce reports, communicate deal wins, and access both standard and custom Salesforce data through Slack. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to generate customizable notifications and facilitate data updates across various applications. By delivering actionable pipeline alerts, Troops.ai aims to increase sales activity and improve overall performance. The company has attracted investments from notable firms, including First Round Capital, Founder Collective, and others, reflecting its significant potential in the sales technology market.

Pluralsight

Series B in 2014
Pluralsight, Inc. is a cloud-based technology skills platform headquartered in Farmington, Utah, that offers comprehensive learning solutions for software developers, IT administrators, and creative professionals. Founded in 2004, the company provides an extensive library of over 3,000 expert-authored courses, along with skill assessments, directed learning paths, and interactive content to facilitate technology skills development. Pluralsight serves customers in more than 150 countries, enabling organizations to align around digital initiatives, enhance workforce capabilities, and adapt to evolving industry demands. Additionally, the platform includes Pluralsight Flow, which offers technology leaders analytical insights into workflow patterns, helping to measure and improve software development productivity. Through its offerings, Pluralsight aims to democratize professional technology learning and equip individuals and businesses with the skills necessary to succeed in a competitive landscape.

Gigster

Seed Round in 2013
Gigster is a San Francisco-based company offering on-demand software development services. It connects clients such as IBM with its team of developers, designers, and product managers to build applications and websites efficiently. Gigster's platform improves project management by enabling businesses to recruit and manage distributed teams, enhancing efficiency by up to 30%, reducing risk by 60%, and increasing satisfaction levels significantly.

Iddiction

Seed Round in 2011
Iddiction specializes in mobile application discovery, offering a platform that connects developers with the right users for their apps and games. The company's mobile distribution software enables developers to effectively share information about their mobile applications, ensuring that users receive relevant recommendations. By streamlining the process of app discovery, Iddiction enhances the visibility of mobile offerings, facilitating better access for users seeking new applications and games.

AppJet

Convertible Note in 2009
AppJet was an online programming tool designed for building simple web applications, founded by former MIT students and backed by Y Combinator. The platform aimed to streamline the web application development process using a web-based text editor that employed JavaScript for both server and client-side programming. It provided users with various code libraries, including those for database management and Facebook API integration. To efficiently host user applications, AppJet developed a unique application virtualization system that managed processor allocation and prevented excessive resource consumption. While the platform was innovative in its approach to web app development, it appears to be inactive today, with only some legacy downloads available.

Chalk

Chalk is a data platform designed to enhance the deployment of machine learning and generative AI by streamlining data infrastructure. It provides a robust developer experience, allowing data teams to define features and their dependencies using Python across various environments, including online, streaming, and batch processing. Chalk compiles these definitions into efficient parallel pipelines that operate on a Rust-based engine, ensuring that training sets for data scientists and live feature values for models remain temporally consistent. This approach minimizes discrepancies between online and offline contexts, significantly reducing development time. By managing data infrastructure, Chalk allows engineers, data scientists, and analysts to concentrate on their specific projects, facilitating better access to analytics and machine learning capabilities.
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