Founders' Co-op

Founders' Co-op is a Seattle-based venture capital investment firm established in 2008, specializing in seed-stage investments. Focused on the Pacific Northwest, it supports early-stage entrepreneurs, particularly in the software sector, by providing access to capital and resources essential for building successful companies. As the largest and longest-running seed-stage venture fund in the region, Founders' Co-op has established itself as a trusted partner for founders and a key point of access for out-of-region investors seeking opportunities in the Pacific Northwest. The firm is dedicated to fostering strong entrepreneurial talent and helping startups attract the attention of leading growth investors.

Rudy Gadre

General Partner, Fund III

Aviel Ginzburg

General Partner

Past deals in Washington

AdaptX

Series B in 2023
AdaptX is a healthcare data analytics and AI company that specializes in enhancing clinical and workflow outcomes for hospitals and surgery centers. Founded in Seattle in 2016 as a spin-off from Seattle Children's Hospital, AdaptX provides a platform that enables medical leaders and clinicians to access and analyze clinical data effectively. The platform integrates algorithms with existing electronic data systems, allowing healthcare providers to monitor performance, compare treatment approaches, and define patient cohorts. Through automated analytics, AdaptX helps healthcare service providers improve the quality and safety of care while also reducing costs.

Spice AI

Seed Round in 2022
Spice AI is a technology startup based in Seattle, Washington, focused on simplifying access to artificial intelligence and machine learning for developers. Founded in June 2021 by former engineers from Microsoft and GitHub, the company aims to streamline the development of intelligent applications, making the process as straightforward as creating a modern web page. Spice AI combines an open-source decision engine with machine learning-ready data to empower developers in building next-generation AI-driven applications. By enhancing the accessibility of AI technologies, Spice AI seeks to improve quality of life through innovative solutions.

Logixboard

Series B in 2022
Logixboard, Inc. is a Seattle-based company established in 2016 that specializes in developing a cloud platform specifically for freight forwarders. This platform enhances transparency and communication between logistics service providers and their customers. As a white-labeled customer experience software, Logixboard allows these providers to increase sales and improve customer retention by integrating seamlessly with their existing internal systems. The implementation of Logixboard's solution can be completed in less than three weeks with minimal effort from the logistics teams. Additionally, the platform offers real-time tracking and big data analytics, equipping the supply chain and logistics sector with the necessary tools to stay competitive amidst the ongoing digitization of the industry.

Spice AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Spice AI is a technology startup based in Seattle, Washington, focused on simplifying access to artificial intelligence and machine learning for developers. Founded in June 2021 by former engineers from Microsoft and GitHub, the company aims to streamline the development of intelligent applications, making the process as straightforward as creating a modern web page. Spice AI combines an open-source decision engine with machine learning-ready data to empower developers in building next-generation AI-driven applications. By enhancing the accessibility of AI technologies, Spice AI seeks to improve quality of life through innovative solutions.

LevelTen Energy

Series C in 2021
LevelTen Energy, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016 that operates a renewable energy transaction marketplace. This platform serves to connect corporate and industrial power buyers with power purchase agreements (PPAs) from utility-scale wind, solar, and storage projects. By facilitating access to a wide range of renewable energy options, LevelTen Energy enables clients to secure fixed-price renewable energy solutions and benefit economically from large-scale projects. The company's technology-driven marketplace enhances the efficiency of transactions, allowing buyers, advisors, and sellers to achieve better deals in a streamlined manner. Through its services, LevelTen Energy plays a significant role in advancing the adoption of renewable energy in the corporate sector.

Ganaz

Series A in 2021
Ganaz Inc. is a public benefit corporation that specializes in developing a workforce management platform for the agriculture and food manufacturing sectors. Founded in 2017 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company’s application connects employers with farm workers, streamlining communication and management processes. The platform enables farmers to manage multiple individual conversations, automatically translate messages between languages, and categorize workers into groups. It also allows employers to send work-related updates, facilitating recruitment, retention, onboarding, training, and payroll processes. By simplifying people management, Ganaz aims to help agricultural businesses save time, effort, and resources.

Logixboard

Series A in 2021
Logixboard, Inc. is a Seattle-based company established in 2016 that specializes in developing a cloud platform specifically for freight forwarders. This platform enhances transparency and communication between logistics service providers and their customers. As a white-labeled customer experience software, Logixboard allows these providers to increase sales and improve customer retention by integrating seamlessly with their existing internal systems. The implementation of Logixboard's solution can be completed in less than three weeks with minimal effort from the logistics teams. Additionally, the platform offers real-time tracking and big data analytics, equipping the supply chain and logistics sector with the necessary tools to stay competitive amidst the ongoing digitization of the industry.

Shelf Engine

Series B in 2021
Shelf Engine is a Seattle-based company that offers an automated prediction platform aimed at reducing food waste in the grocery industry. Launched in 2015, the company utilizes machine learning and historical data to forecast demand for perishable goods, enabling grocery stores to optimize their orders and minimize out-of-stock situations. By managing the entire ordering process, including vendor management and shelf optimization, Shelf Engine helps retailers save costs and mitigate risks associated with unsold inventory by buying back remaining items. With over 145 employees, Shelf Engine serves leading grocers across thousands of locations nationwide, significantly increasing their profit margins while addressing the challenges of food waste.

Ally.io (Acquired)

Series C in 2021
Ally.io is a strategic goal-planning and execution management software helping businesses execute strategies and reach their goals. It enables businesses to shift from traditional, disjointed planning and execution to a modern, OKR-based framework that drives strong alignment, agility, transparency and empowers the workforce. The Ally.io solution makes it easy to adopt OKRs as a seamless part of the users' daily workflow. The platform has built-in OKR best practices and provides seamless integration to several enterprise systems including Slack, Salesforce, Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, and ZenDesk. Ally’s comprehensive professional services offer continuous support, dedicated training, and coaching to ensure best-practices for implementation and successful change management. Vetri Vellore launched the company in 2018 in Bellevue, Washington.

Fusebit

Venture Round in 2021
Fusebit is a technology company based in Redmond, Washington, founded in 2019, that specializes in application integration and customization. The company's platform provides developers with powerful API building blocks to facilitate quick and efficient integration of third-party applications. By abstracting complex APIs and simplifying the development process, Fusebit allows engineers to focus on enhancing customer experiences rather than dealing with integration challenges. This approach democratizes integration development, reduces implementation time, and lowers costs, ultimately accelerating customer acquisition and improving retention for businesses.

Reflective

Seed Round in 2020
Reflective, Inc. is a company that develops a workflow automation application designed to streamline and manage recurring business processes. Founded in 2020 and based in Mercer Island, Washington, Reflective offers a no-code platform that allows users to design and automate workflows across different software systems, whether in the cloud or on-premise. This application minimizes the need for context switching between various applications, enabling enterprise workers to efficiently manage their tasks from a single interface. By simplifying workflow management, Reflective aims to enhance productivity and reduce the complexity of routine operations.

Shelf Engine

Series A in 2020
Shelf Engine is a Seattle-based company that offers an automated prediction platform aimed at reducing food waste in the grocery industry. Launched in 2015, the company utilizes machine learning and historical data to forecast demand for perishable goods, enabling grocery stores to optimize their orders and minimize out-of-stock situations. By managing the entire ordering process, including vendor management and shelf optimization, Shelf Engine helps retailers save costs and mitigate risks associated with unsold inventory by buying back remaining items. With over 145 employees, Shelf Engine serves leading grocers across thousands of locations nationwide, significantly increasing their profit margins while addressing the challenges of food waste.

AdaptX

Venture Round in 2020
AdaptX is a healthcare data analytics and AI company that specializes in enhancing clinical and workflow outcomes for hospitals and surgery centers. Founded in Seattle in 2016 as a spin-off from Seattle Children's Hospital, AdaptX provides a platform that enables medical leaders and clinicians to access and analyze clinical data effectively. The platform integrates algorithms with existing electronic data systems, allowing healthcare providers to monitor performance, compare treatment approaches, and define patient cohorts. Through automated analytics, AdaptX helps healthcare service providers improve the quality and safety of care while also reducing costs.

Kaskada

Series A in 2020
Kaskada, Inc. is a machine learning studio based in Seattle, Washington, that specializes in developing a platform for big data aimed at enhancing the feature engineering process. Founded in 2018, Kaskada provides a collaborative interface that allows data scientists to work together effectively, facilitating the design, visualization, and deployment of features for machine learning models. The platform supports organizations in connecting to data, exporting features, and monitoring predictions, thereby enabling the successful implementation of models in production environments. Kaskada's robust data infrastructure ensures that teams can compute and serve features efficiently, ultimately driving impactful decision-making through data-driven insights.

Ally.io (Acquired)

Series B in 2019
Ally.io is a strategic goal-planning and execution management software helping businesses execute strategies and reach their goals. It enables businesses to shift from traditional, disjointed planning and execution to a modern, OKR-based framework that drives strong alignment, agility, transparency and empowers the workforce. The Ally.io solution makes it easy to adopt OKRs as a seamless part of the users' daily workflow. The platform has built-in OKR best practices and provides seamless integration to several enterprise systems including Slack, Salesforce, Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, and ZenDesk. Ally’s comprehensive professional services offer continuous support, dedicated training, and coaching to ensure best-practices for implementation and successful change management. Vetri Vellore launched the company in 2018 in Bellevue, Washington.

Logixboard

Seed Round in 2019
Logixboard, Inc. is a Seattle-based company established in 2016 that specializes in developing a cloud platform specifically for freight forwarders. This platform enhances transparency and communication between logistics service providers and their customers. As a white-labeled customer experience software, Logixboard allows these providers to increase sales and improve customer retention by integrating seamlessly with their existing internal systems. The implementation of Logixboard's solution can be completed in less than three weeks with minimal effort from the logistics teams. Additionally, the platform offers real-time tracking and big data analytics, equipping the supply chain and logistics sector with the necessary tools to stay competitive amidst the ongoing digitization of the industry.

Ally.io (Acquired)

Series A in 2019
Ally.io is a strategic goal-planning and execution management software helping businesses execute strategies and reach their goals. It enables businesses to shift from traditional, disjointed planning and execution to a modern, OKR-based framework that drives strong alignment, agility, transparency and empowers the workforce. The Ally.io solution makes it easy to adopt OKRs as a seamless part of the users' daily workflow. The platform has built-in OKR best practices and provides seamless integration to several enterprise systems including Slack, Salesforce, Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, and ZenDesk. Ally’s comprehensive professional services offer continuous support, dedicated training, and coaching to ensure best-practices for implementation and successful change management. Vetri Vellore launched the company in 2018 in Bellevue, Washington.

LevelTen Energy

Series B in 2019
LevelTen Energy, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016 that operates a renewable energy transaction marketplace. This platform serves to connect corporate and industrial power buyers with power purchase agreements (PPAs) from utility-scale wind, solar, and storage projects. By facilitating access to a wide range of renewable energy options, LevelTen Energy enables clients to secure fixed-price renewable energy solutions and benefit economically from large-scale projects. The company's technology-driven marketplace enhances the efficiency of transactions, allowing buyers, advisors, and sellers to achieve better deals in a streamlined manner. Through its services, LevelTen Energy plays a significant role in advancing the adoption of renewable energy in the corporate sector.

AdaptX

Venture Round in 2019
AdaptX is a healthcare data analytics and AI company that specializes in enhancing clinical and workflow outcomes for hospitals and surgery centers. Founded in Seattle in 2016 as a spin-off from Seattle Children's Hospital, AdaptX provides a platform that enables medical leaders and clinicians to access and analyze clinical data effectively. The platform integrates algorithms with existing electronic data systems, allowing healthcare providers to monitor performance, compare treatment approaches, and define patient cohorts. Through automated analytics, AdaptX helps healthcare service providers improve the quality and safety of care while also reducing costs.

Loftium

Series A in 2019
Loftium Inc is a Seattle-based startup founded in 2016 that provides innovative mortgage financing solutions for new homeowners. The company offers down payment assistance in exchange for a portion of the income generated from renting out a spare room through platforms like Airbnb. By identifying homes with the potential for short-term rentals, Loftium enables clients to benefit from reduced housing costs, offering up to 50% discounted rent while managing the Airbnb listings. The company furnishes the rental spaces and handles the logistics of hosting, paying landlords market rent under long-term leases of up to three years. Loftium's model supports families in high-cost cities by creating affordable housing options and generating additional income for homeowners.

Ganaz

Seed Round in 2018
Ganaz Inc. is a public benefit corporation that specializes in developing a workforce management platform for the agriculture and food manufacturing sectors. Founded in 2017 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company’s application connects employers with farm workers, streamlining communication and management processes. The platform enables farmers to manage multiple individual conversations, automatically translate messages between languages, and categorize workers into groups. It also allows employers to send work-related updates, facilitating recruitment, retention, onboarding, training, and payroll processes. By simplifying people management, Ganaz aims to help agricultural businesses save time, effort, and resources.

Kaskada

Seed Round in 2018
Kaskada, Inc. is a machine learning studio based in Seattle, Washington, that specializes in developing a platform for big data aimed at enhancing the feature engineering process. Founded in 2018, Kaskada provides a collaborative interface that allows data scientists to work together effectively, facilitating the design, visualization, and deployment of features for machine learning models. The platform supports organizations in connecting to data, exporting features, and monitoring predictions, thereby enabling the successful implementation of models in production environments. Kaskada's robust data infrastructure ensures that teams can compute and serve features efficiently, ultimately driving impactful decision-making through data-driven insights.

Downstream

Seed Round in 2018
Downstream Impact, now part of Jungle Scout, is an Amazon advertising software platform which allows brands to better measure, manage, and optimize their presence on Amazon. Founded in 2017 by former Amazon employees Connor Folley and Salim Hamed, Downstream’s powerful AI-driven algorithms help brands capitalize on the explosive growth of Amazon’s explosive ad business — and all the complexity, competition, and opportunity it involves.

The Riveter

Funding Round in 2018
The Riveter, Inc. is a co-working space and community platform based in Seattle, Washington, designed specifically for women and their allies. Founded in 2016, The Riveter offers a range of services including individual office spaces, dedicated desks, and private offices, as well as amenities such as fitness studios and meditation rooms. The company emphasizes the importance of skill development through daily programming, which covers topics from podcasting to investment pitching. Additionally, The Riveter provides event spaces for hosting workshops, classes, and community gatherings, alongside facilities for pop-up retail, allowing members to showcase and sell their original goods. By combining professional workspace with wellness offerings, The Riveter aims to empower women entrepreneurs and foster a supportive community.

Strix Leviathan

Seed Round in 2018
Strix Leviathan, LLC is a Seattle-based company specializing in the development of an enterprise-grade cryptocurrency investment management platform. Founded in 2018, it caters to large entities such as hedge funds, banks, and traditional enterprises that require a robust trading infrastructure without the need to build one from scratch. The platform features a data ingestion and transformation engine, proprietary trading algorithms, and a trade execution engine. This enables institutional investors to automate their trading processes, implement programmable automated trading strategies, and optimize their trading strategies to mitigate risks in volatile cryptocurrency markets. The team comprises technologists and data scientists with extensive experience in computing, cloud infrastructure, and entrepreneurship.

LevelTen Energy

Series A in 2017
LevelTen Energy, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016 that operates a renewable energy transaction marketplace. This platform serves to connect corporate and industrial power buyers with power purchase agreements (PPAs) from utility-scale wind, solar, and storage projects. By facilitating access to a wide range of renewable energy options, LevelTen Energy enables clients to secure fixed-price renewable energy solutions and benefit economically from large-scale projects. The company's technology-driven marketplace enhances the efficiency of transactions, allowing buyers, advisors, and sellers to achieve better deals in a streamlined manner. Through its services, LevelTen Energy plays a significant role in advancing the adoption of renewable energy in the corporate sector.

Loftium

Venture Round in 2017
Loftium Inc is a Seattle-based startup founded in 2016 that provides innovative mortgage financing solutions for new homeowners. The company offers down payment assistance in exchange for a portion of the income generated from renting out a spare room through platforms like Airbnb. By identifying homes with the potential for short-term rentals, Loftium enables clients to benefit from reduced housing costs, offering up to 50% discounted rent while managing the Airbnb listings. The company furnishes the rental spaces and handles the logistics of hosting, paying landlords market rent under long-term leases of up to three years. Loftium's model supports families in high-cost cities by creating affordable housing options and generating additional income for homeowners.

Boundless

Seed Round in 2017
Boundless is a company based in Seattle, Washington, that aims to simplify the immigration process for individuals, families, and businesses. Founded in 2017, it offers a corporate immigration platform designed to empower users to navigate the complexities of immigration confidently and affordably. The platform provides essential tools, information, and personalized support, enabling clients to access legal expertise and file their applications online. By combining innovative software with expert legal guidance, Boundless is committed to making immigration more accessible and streamlined for everyone involved.

Loftium

Seed Round in 2017
Loftium Inc is a Seattle-based startup founded in 2016 that provides innovative mortgage financing solutions for new homeowners. The company offers down payment assistance in exchange for a portion of the income generated from renting out a spare room through platforms like Airbnb. By identifying homes with the potential for short-term rentals, Loftium enables clients to benefit from reduced housing costs, offering up to 50% discounted rent while managing the Airbnb listings. The company furnishes the rental spaces and handles the logistics of hosting, paying landlords market rent under long-term leases of up to three years. Loftium's model supports families in high-cost cities by creating affordable housing options and generating additional income for homeowners.

Shelf Engine

Seed Round in 2017
Shelf Engine is a Seattle-based company that offers an automated prediction platform aimed at reducing food waste in the grocery industry. Launched in 2015, the company utilizes machine learning and historical data to forecast demand for perishable goods, enabling grocery stores to optimize their orders and minimize out-of-stock situations. By managing the entire ordering process, including vendor management and shelf optimization, Shelf Engine helps retailers save costs and mitigate risks associated with unsold inventory by buying back remaining items. With over 145 employees, Shelf Engine serves leading grocers across thousands of locations nationwide, significantly increasing their profit margins while addressing the challenges of food waste.

Jobalign

Series B in 2017
Jobalign.com is the leading mobile and bilingual cloud based recruiting technology and marketplace for hourly jobs. Jobalign was founded to make the process of hiring hourly workers simple and efficient by reinventing in the cloud a series of dated and inefficient systems and processes used to match over 44 million low-wage workers with jobs every year. It makes it easy to find, apply and get matched for jobs from any mobile phone, tablet or computer. Employers pay only for local pre-screened candidates or per-hire. The company serves directly and through their network of certified partners, mid-size and very large corporations that, on average, report a reduction of 60 percent in recruitment expenses and 50 percent in time-to-hire, while saving hundreds of hours in manual pre-screening. For job seekers, the experience is mobile, and free of advertising and marketing solicitations -- ultimately reducing their time to get hired. Jobalign is a private company headquartered in Kirkland, Wash.

OMNI Retail Group

Venture Round in 2016
OMNI Retail Group, Inc. specializes in providing cloud-based solutions tailored for retailers and manufacturers to enhance the shopping experience. The company offers a suite of products, including the Sidekick Product Discovery Platform, which facilitates product selection and purchasing based on individual preferences. Its Sidekick Mobile application allows shoppers to discover and buy products across various categories using smartphones and tablets, while Sidekick Web enhances the online shopping experience with guided navigation. Additionally, Sidekick Pro equips retail sales associates with the knowledge to assist customers effectively. OMNI's Shopping Intelligence Platform merges data from online and in-store shopping, offering demand signals and analytics to optimize merchandising and inventory management. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, OMNI Retail Group aims to improve the browse-to-buy process for retailers and brands.

LevelTen Energy

Seed Round in 2016
LevelTen Energy, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016 that operates a renewable energy transaction marketplace. This platform serves to connect corporate and industrial power buyers with power purchase agreements (PPAs) from utility-scale wind, solar, and storage projects. By facilitating access to a wide range of renewable energy options, LevelTen Energy enables clients to secure fixed-price renewable energy solutions and benefit economically from large-scale projects. The company's technology-driven marketplace enhances the efficiency of transactions, allowing buyers, advisors, and sellers to achieve better deals in a streamlined manner. Through its services, LevelTen Energy plays a significant role in advancing the adoption of renewable energy in the corporate sector.

Bloomz

Seed Round in 2016
Bloomz Inc. is a developer of a mobile and web application aimed at enhancing communication between teachers and parents. Founded in 2013 and based in Redmond, Washington, the Bloomz App provides a secure and user-friendly platform where teachers can share class photos, updates, and coordinate activities such as volunteer scheduling and parent-teacher conferences. The application facilitates direct communication between educators and parents, allowing for instant messaging and sharing of important announcements. Additionally, it helps parents track their child's activities and school events, fostering a more engaged community while also saving teachers time in their interactions with parents. Bloomz aims to improve parent-teacher coordination and support child development through its innovative technology.

Ripl

Venture Round in 2016
Ripl, Inc. is a company that provides a mobile application designed for small businesses and social media influencers to create and share engaging content across platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Founded in 2012 and based in Kirkland, Washington, Ripl enables users to personalize their posts by integrating their own photos into professionally-designed templates, allowing for the creation of animated video posts. The application offers simple customization options for text, colors, and music, making it user-friendly for on-the-go content creation. Ripl launched a premium subscription service, Ripl PRO, in 2016, which provides access to a comprehensive library of design templates and additional features, including custom branding and content scheduling. In addition to its mobile application, Ripl expanded its offerings by introducing an Android app in 2017 and a web application for desktop users in 2018, thus broadening its accessibility and functionality across various devices.

Giftbit

Seed Round in 2016
Giftbit is an online rewards platform that specializes in the buying, sending, and tracking of digital gift cards for businesses. Established in 2011 by Peter Locke and Leif Baradoy and headquartered in Washington, D.C., Giftbit provides a user-friendly solution for companies to send incentives and rewards via email or through unique links, without requiring recipients to create accounts or download apps. The platform offers features that allow for the tracking of gift card delivery, open rates, and redemption status, ensuring transparency and accountability for organizations. By collaborating with partners like Qualtrics, Giftbit aims to streamline the process of distributing digital rewards and enhance the overall experience for both clients and recipients.

Giftbit

Seed Round in 2016
Giftbit is an online rewards platform that specializes in the buying, sending, and tracking of digital gift cards for businesses. Established in 2011 by Peter Locke and Leif Baradoy and headquartered in Washington, D.C., Giftbit provides a user-friendly solution for companies to send incentives and rewards via email or through unique links, without requiring recipients to create accounts or download apps. The platform offers features that allow for the tracking of gift card delivery, open rates, and redemption status, ensuring transparency and accountability for organizations. By collaborating with partners like Qualtrics, Giftbit aims to streamline the process of distributing digital rewards and enhance the overall experience for both clients and recipients.

Kitt.ai

Seed Round in 2016
Kitt.ai develops advanced natural language understanding technologies that facilitate effective communication between users and machines. The company specializes in various applications, including open domain question answering, semantic parsing for interpreting natural language commands, and real-time hot word detection. Its product portfolio features tools like Parsetron, which converts natural language commands into executable API calls, and Answertron, which enhances web search and knowledge base interactions. Kitt.ai also provides solutions for home automation and the Internet of Things, allowing developers to integrate natural language functionality into their hardware. Based in Seattle, Washington, Kitt.ai has been operating as a subsidiary of Baidu, Inc. since 2017.

Karat

Seed Round in 2015
Karat Inc. specializes in technical interviewing software designed to assist organizations in hiring software engineers. Founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, Karat offers a platform that enables the recording of technical interviews, captures candidates' coding abilities, structures feedback, and generates recommendations for hiring teams. Through its network of interview engineers and a purpose-built interviewing infrastructure, Karat aims to address the global shortage of software engineers by expanding hiring capacity and improving the quality of engineering talent. The platform also focuses on reducing pedigree bias and increasing access to underrepresented candidates in the tech industry, thereby fostering a more diverse talent pool.

Sirqul

Series A in 2015
Sirqul.com is a Seattle-based startup that has created a ubiquitous social platform enabling consumers and brands to create their own distributed, Social-Location-Mobile solutions as a means of driving awareness and engagement through viral adoption. It removes the complexity associated with scalable, enterprise-quality software and enables the rapid deployment of interoperable IoT ecosystems based upon plug-and-play APIs, tool kits, and starter projects. The company's platform and patented technologies empower the Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers, enterprises, and cloud-enabled application ecosystem owners (AEO’s) to rapidly create dynamic, connected, and engaging experiences and applications for their customers, users, and employees. Sirqul was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Auth0

Series A in 2015
Auth0, Inc. is a cloud-based identity platform that specializes in providing authentication and authorization solutions for developers and security professionals. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, the company offers a comprehensive suite of APIs and tools that streamline the process of user authentication across various applications and platforms. The platform supports single sign-on capabilities, allowing users to authenticate via multiple identity providers while enabling developers to customize the authentication pipeline. Auth0's services also include multi-factor authentication and passwordless login options, enhancing security and user experience. Additionally, the company offers Auth0 Signals, a set of threat intelligence tools designed to protect against identity attacks by leveraging information from the dark web. With a global presence that includes offices in London, Singapore, Buenos Aires, Sydney, and Tokyo, Auth0 serves a diverse clientele, ranging from startups to large enterprises.

CSATS

Series A in 2015
C-SATS provides a personalized surgical skills assessment platform using a unique combination of data analytics, artificial intelligence. It specializes in the fields of robotic surgery, surgical skills, surgical insights, laparoscopic surgery, and minimally invasive surgery. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Shippable

Series A in 2014
Shippable, Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides a continuous integration and deployment platform designed to enhance the software development process for businesses globally. Founded in 2013 and based in Bellevue, Washington, Shippable enables clients to integrate their GitHub and Bitbucket repositories with automated workflows for packaging, testing, and deployment of web applications. The platform is built on Docker and facilitates streamlined collaboration across teams and tools, helping organizations release software more frequently and reliably. Shippable was previously known as Qhode Inc. and became a subsidiary of JFrog Ltd. in 2019.

Ghostruck

Seed Round in 2014
Ghostruck is a mobile application designed to connect users with professional movers for itemized moving services. Founded in 2013 by Matt Hocking and Nathanael Nienaber and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the platform allows consumers to share images of items they need to transport, facilitating a match with movers who have available space or downtime. By providing a user-friendly interface, Ghostruck simplifies the process of moving bulky items, enabling efficient and convenient relocation solutions.

CSATS

Debt Financing in 2014
C-SATS provides a personalized surgical skills assessment platform using a unique combination of data analytics, artificial intelligence. It specializes in the fields of robotic surgery, surgical skills, surgical insights, laparoscopic surgery, and minimally invasive surgery. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Apptentive

Series A in 2014
Apptentive’s Mobile Customer Experience software empowers companies to build brands customers love by understanding their behavior and expectations. The product gives brands the opportunity to listen to, engage with, and retain their customers through intelligently timed surveys, messages, and prompts. Integrated into thousands of mobile apps, Apptentive helps companies proactively engage customer segments, track customer sentiment, boost app ratings, drive downloads, and earn loyalty. The company powers millions of customer interactions every month for companies including Buffalo Wild Wings, eBay, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Philips, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Viacom. The company is based in Seattle, Washington.

Jobalign

Series B in 2014
Jobalign.com is the leading mobile and bilingual cloud based recruiting technology and marketplace for hourly jobs. Jobalign was founded to make the process of hiring hourly workers simple and efficient by reinventing in the cloud a series of dated and inefficient systems and processes used to match over 44 million low-wage workers with jobs every year. It makes it easy to find, apply and get matched for jobs from any mobile phone, tablet or computer. Employers pay only for local pre-screened candidates or per-hire. The company serves directly and through their network of certified partners, mid-size and very large corporations that, on average, report a reduction of 60 percent in recruitment expenses and 50 percent in time-to-hire, while saving hundreds of hours in manual pre-screening. For job seekers, the experience is mobile, and free of advertising and marketing solicitations -- ultimately reducing their time to get hired. Jobalign is a private company headquartered in Kirkland, Wash.

FlexMinder

Series A in 2014
FlexMinder, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that develops enterprise software solutions aimed at private health exchanges, health carriers, and third-party administrators (TPAs). Founded in 2011, FlexMinder focuses on automating the healthcare reimbursement process, enhancing the management of medical spending for flexible spending accounts. The company aggregates healthcare information from various sources to streamline claims submission, significantly reducing manual processing time and costs for TPAs. By providing online tools for managing the reimbursement process, FlexMinder aims to improve the user experience for consumers utilizing their flexible spending arrangements. In 2013, the company secured $1.4 million in Series AA financing to support its growth initiatives and was selected for the TechStars incubator program. As of January 2017, FlexMinder operates as a subsidiary of Jelleyvision Lab Inc.

Shippable

Seed Round in 2013
Shippable, Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides a continuous integration and deployment platform designed to enhance the software development process for businesses globally. Founded in 2013 and based in Bellevue, Washington, Shippable enables clients to integrate their GitHub and Bitbucket repositories with automated workflows for packaging, testing, and deployment of web applications. The platform is built on Docker and facilitates streamlined collaboration across teams and tools, helping organizations release software more frequently and reliably. Shippable was previously known as Qhode Inc. and became a subsidiary of JFrog Ltd. in 2019.

TUNE

Series A in 2013
TUNE, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in developing a cloud-based platform for managing marketing partnerships across mobile and web channels. The TUNE Partner Marketing Platform offers flexible solutions for building and optimizing partner programs, enabling marketers to enhance performance and mitigate risks. The company's services include migration, onboarding, development, and consulting, all aimed at maximizing return on investment through comprehensive performance marketing and attribution analytics. TUNE's clientele includes a diverse range of notable brands, and it has established strategic partnerships with various industry players to enhance its offerings. Founded in 2009 and formerly known as HasOffers, TUNE operates as a subsidiary of Perseus Operating Group.

Haiku Deck

Series A in 2013
Haiku Deck is a Seattle-based company that offers a user-friendly software application designed for creating visually appealing presentations on iOS devices and the web. The platform provides a variety of stylish fonts, layouts, and image filters, allowing users to produce professional-quality presentations without requiring design expertise. Founded by Adam Tratt and Kevin Leneway, Haiku Deck aims to simplify the presentation-making process, making it accessible for users ranging from educators to entrepreneurs. The company has garnered positive recognition for its ease of use and aesthetic appeal, attracting investment from notable firms such as Trilogy Partnership and Madrona Venture Group.

Outreach

Seed Round in 2013
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform that enhances revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, with an office in London, the company offers solutions for account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention and expansion. Its platform employs machine learning to automate repetitive tasks, track sales statistics, and provide insights into buyer sentiment, allowing sales teams to tailor their approaches based on real-time emotive signals. Outreach's client base includes prominent companies such as Zoom, Adobe, and Microsoft, who utilize the platform to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their sales processes, ultimately driving predictable and measurable growth.

FlexMinder

Series A in 2013
FlexMinder, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that develops enterprise software solutions aimed at private health exchanges, health carriers, and third-party administrators (TPAs). Founded in 2011, FlexMinder focuses on automating the healthcare reimbursement process, enhancing the management of medical spending for flexible spending accounts. The company aggregates healthcare information from various sources to streamline claims submission, significantly reducing manual processing time and costs for TPAs. By providing online tools for managing the reimbursement process, FlexMinder aims to improve the user experience for consumers utilizing their flexible spending arrangements. In 2013, the company secured $1.4 million in Series AA financing to support its growth initiatives and was selected for the TechStars incubator program. As of January 2017, FlexMinder operates as a subsidiary of Jelleyvision Lab Inc.

Apptentive

Seed Round in 2012
Apptentive’s Mobile Customer Experience software empowers companies to build brands customers love by understanding their behavior and expectations. The product gives brands the opportunity to listen to, engage with, and retain their customers through intelligently timed surveys, messages, and prompts. Integrated into thousands of mobile apps, Apptentive helps companies proactively engage customer segments, track customer sentiment, boost app ratings, drive downloads, and earn loyalty. The company powers millions of customer interactions every month for companies including Buffalo Wild Wings, eBay, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Philips, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Viacom. The company is based in Seattle, Washington.

MobileDevHQ

Seed Round in 2012
MobileDevHQ is an enterprise organic app marketing platform that offers mobile marketers with app store optimization (ASO) solutions. The platform enables app marketers to analyze and optimize the app store presence of an app, track an app’s relevant search ranking queries in an app store, discover top chart rankings, analyze keywords, and receive daily email updates. It helps them increase organic downloads in iStore and Google Play. MobileDevHQ was launched in February 2012 and its operations are based in Washington, United States.

Zipline Games

Seed Round in 2012
Zipline Games, Inc. is a mobile games company based in Mercer Island, Washington, founded in 2010. The company specializes in game development platforms, notably its Moai platform, which serves as an open-source framework for creating and operating mobile games on iOS and Android. Moai is powered by the Lua scripting language and offers tools for managing graphics, animations, inputs, physics, and collisions. Additionally, the Moai cloud provides hosting for game logic, databases, and other essential content, facilitating the development and administration of games. In addition to its platform services, Zipline Games also operates as a mobile game studio, focusing on the creation of casual and arcade games.

Haiku Deck

Seed Round in 2012
Haiku Deck is a Seattle-based company that offers a user-friendly software application designed for creating visually appealing presentations on iOS devices and the web. The platform provides a variety of stylish fonts, layouts, and image filters, allowing users to produce professional-quality presentations without requiring design expertise. Founded by Adam Tratt and Kevin Leneway, Haiku Deck aims to simplify the presentation-making process, making it accessible for users ranging from educators to entrepreneurs. The company has garnered positive recognition for its ease of use and aesthetic appeal, attracting investment from notable firms such as Trilogy Partnership and Madrona Venture Group.

EveryMove

Series A in 2012
EveryMove, Inc. is a company based in Seattle, Washington, that operates a rewards platform aimed at encouraging healthy lifestyle choices among users. Established in 2008, the company offers a web-based application available on both Android and iOS, which allows individuals and organizations to engage in fitness activities and challenges. This platform enables insurance companies, employers, and brands to provide incentives and rewards based on users' health-related decisions. EveryMove's application facilitates communication among users, allowing them to network, share personal fitness data, and participate in employer rewards programs. In addition, the company has developed a cloud-based analytics platform called Tandem, designed to enhance the relationship between health plans and individuals by promoting targeted actions that align with healthcare goals, thereby improving care management and overall health engagement. As of 2017, EveryMove operates as a subsidiary of higi SH LLC.

Haiku Deck

Seed Round in 2011
Haiku Deck is a Seattle-based company that offers a user-friendly software application designed for creating visually appealing presentations on iOS devices and the web. The platform provides a variety of stylish fonts, layouts, and image filters, allowing users to produce professional-quality presentations without requiring design expertise. Founded by Adam Tratt and Kevin Leneway, Haiku Deck aims to simplify the presentation-making process, making it accessible for users ranging from educators to entrepreneurs. The company has garnered positive recognition for its ease of use and aesthetic appeal, attracting investment from notable firms such as Trilogy Partnership and Madrona Venture Group.

Massively Fun

Seed Round in 2010
Massively Fun is a small social gaming company dedicated to building the biggest games in the world. Our first game, Word², pits players against one another in real time on an infinitely large game board. Massively Fun is based in Seattle, WA. We’re privately owned and funded by a great group of investors.

Lighter Capital

Series A in 2010
Lighter Capital is a fintech company based in Seattle, Washington, that offers a unique fundraising solution for early-stage technology companies. Founded in 2010, it specializes in providing non-dilutive growth capital, allowing founders to access up to $2 million quickly and efficiently. Lighter Capital employs a transparent, data-driven approach to financing, streamlining the process compared to traditional funding methods. The firm serves a diverse range of sectors, including software, media, human capital services, food products, and commercial banking, focusing on helping growth-oriented businesses secure the financial resources they need to expand.

Bonanza

Venture Round in 2010
Bonanza, Inc. operates an online marketplace that facilitates the buying and selling of a diverse range of products, including antiques, clothing, collectibles, jewelry, and home goods. Founded in 2007 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company was initially known as Bonanzle before rebranding in 2010. Bonanza aims to simplify the process of starting an online business by removing the technical barriers typically associated with e-commerce. Its platform allows sellers to publish listings with a single click to major buyer channels at no upfront cost, only charging once sales are made. Additionally, Bonanza offers tools for creating high-quality product images and automatically generates webstores for sellers, enhancing their ability to reach repeat customers. The marketplace has received recognition for its user-friendly interface, having been voted as the best online marketplace for "Ease of Use" in multiple annual seller surveys. Bonanza's mission is to foster entrepreneurship by providing an accessible and efficient platform for sellers.

Simply Measured

Seed Round in 2010
Simply Measured is a social analytics platform that enables marketers to effectively monitor and analyze social media content and campaigns. The platform is utilized by over 100,000 marketers, including a significant portion of the Interbrand 100 companies, to identify opportunities, plan and optimize social campaigns, and report on results to demonstrate the value of social media efforts. Simply Measured is uniquely certified by major social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, providing users with valuable insights from these platforms. Its robust analytics solution integrates data from various social media channels, such as Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube, and presents this information in visual dashboards that facilitate easy sharing across organizations. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Simply Measured employs more than 130 individuals and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in 2015.

BigDoor

Pre Seed Round in 2009
BigDoor Inc. is a Seattle-based company that provides a white label software platform designed to enhance customer engagement and loyalty for various brands. Founded in 2009, BigDoor offers a range of loyalty programs and campaigns that enable businesses to reward users, increase conversions, and improve return on investment. Its platform is customizable and mobile-ready, allowing brands to tailor their loyalty solutions to meet specific needs. BigDoor serves multiple industries, including retail, dining, entertainment, travel, telecommunications, and publishing, by helping them understand and track customer behavior. The company's approach includes continuous analysis and iteration to foster strong relationships between brands and their users.

MobileDevHQ

Seed Round in 2009
MobileDevHQ is an enterprise organic app marketing platform that offers mobile marketers with app store optimization (ASO) solutions. The platform enables app marketers to analyze and optimize the app store presence of an app, track an app’s relevant search ranking queries in an app store, discover top chart rankings, analyze keywords, and receive daily email updates. It helps them increase organic downloads in iStore and Google Play. MobileDevHQ was launched in February 2012 and its operations are based in Washington, United States.

Inkd.com

Series A in 2008
Inkd (formerly Pressplane) has two main products: Inkd, a true "buy & sell" community (rather like CafePress, Zazzle, Etsy and even stock image companies) wherein designers upload print creative and businesses can download and use the content as a cost effective alternative to hiring a designer, and Zapd, an app that allows users to create instant, themed websites straight from their iPhones.
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