Kima Ventures

Kima Ventures is a Paris-based venture capital firm that funds seed and early-stage technology startups globally, with a strong focus on Europe and France. The firm typically participates in rounds from seed to Series A, often as a lead investor, and aims to be a significant minority shareholder while co-investing with angels and other funds. It supports portfolio companies with a network of founders and experts to accelerate growth, speed fundraising, and help teams scale. Kima emphasizes rapid decision-making and founder-aligned support, viewing fundraising as one step in a broader journey. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Paris and maintains an office in London, reflecting its European reach and global activity, and it has backed hundreds of startups across multiple countries.

Jeanne Cluset

Associate

Xavier Niel

Investor

Alexis Robert

Partner

Jean de La Rochebrochard

Managing Partner

Past deals in Software

Delos

Seed Round in 2025
Delos is a generative AI platform for organizational and business development for companies.

PyannoteAI

Seed Round in 2025
Pyannote AI specializes in conversational speech technology, specifically offering a state-of-the-art speaker diarization platform. This platform employs artificial intelligence to analyze and segment multi-speaker audio conversations, enhancing transcription accuracy. It identifies individual speakers, removes silent sections, reduces background noise, and focuses on relevant audio parts. This enables businesses in customer support, sales, and internal communications to generate minutes, summaries, and follow-up actions efficiently.

Nopillo

Seed Round in 2024
Nopillo is a Paris-based company founded in 2022 that specializes in providing tools designed to automate and optimize tax declarations and return on investment for property owners. The company operates a rental management platform that assists landlords with administrative management and accounting tasks. Its offerings include a tax simulator, accounting software, and tools for generating lease contracts and recipes. By streamlining these processes, Nopillo aims to simplify the administrative and accounting responsibilities of property owners, allowing them to focus on overall performance and cost management.

Tracklab

Seed Round in 2024
Tracklab is a business-to-business compliance software company that provides solutions for regulated companies to manage their mandatory supplier documentation. The company focuses on developing compliance technology aimed at fostering transparent and sustainable supply chains. Its platform centralizes supplier quality assurance, granting businesses the ability to monitor and control compliance across various dimensions, including requirements, customer needs, certifications, regulations, and products. By enabling better oversight of supplier activities, Tracklab helps organizations ensure that their suppliers adhere to quality, environmental, and social commitments, ultimately contributing to consumer protection and sustainability.

Fullwhere

Seed Round in 2024
Fullwhere is an information technology company that develops AI-driven solutions for businesses. Its primary product is a consumer response application designed to capture online customer feedback, enabling clients to manage their online reputation, improve search engine findability, and adopt a customer-centric approach.

OpsMill

Seed Round in 2024
OpsMill is a technology company that develops a data management platform for IT operations teams. Its platform integrates version control and a network source of truth into a schema-driven database, allowing clients to automate infrastructure management tasks more efficiently.

Klark

Seed Round in 2024
Klark is a developer of AI-based customer service platforms that focus on enhancing customer care through efficient contact management. The company's technology streamlines operations and automates routine tasks, allowing businesses to deliver personalized experiences at scale. By improving customer satisfaction and driving growth, Klark helps organizations remain competitive in a fast-changing market landscape.

Composable Prompts

Seed Round in 2024
We aim to revolutionize the way applications interact with content. While Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT have fundamentally changed our interaction with textual data, we believe in taking a step further. Composable Prompts ensures that every business, regardless of its scale or domain, can leverage the native data processing capabilities of LLMs in the most efficient way possible. We've built the API Studio for LLMs, a comprehensive toolkit for designing, deploying, and operating business-specific APIs. Our suite offers a structured, domain-specific approach, shifting from rudimentary, text-based interactions to a world of structured, efficient, and integrated content processing. Our Core Offerings: Interaction Designer: Crafting intuitive prompt templates and robust data schemas. Prompt Assistance: Using LLMs to enhance prompt design and offer improvement suggestions. API Service: Seamlessly integrating LLMs into your applications and business processes. Cache Service: Ensuring optimal performance by intelligently storing and reusing Interaction Results. Collaboration & Optimization Tools: From sharing prompt segments to monitoring performance, we have developers covered.

Crealo

Seed Round in 2024
Crealo is a copyright management platform that enables clients to control access to documents and digital content effectively. The platform offers a range of services, including copyright management, a right owner portal, business support, process audits, legal support, and social support. It features a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface, along with prebuilt UI kits and a component library. Additionally, Crealo's technology automates the retrieval of sales figures for distribution channels, calculates various royalty types per beneficiary in compliance with legal obligations, and generates detailed statements. This functionality allows clients to save time and resources, enabling them to concentrate on value-added tasks.

Bujeti

Seed Round in 2023
Bujeti is a provider of a web and mobile platform for issuing smart physical and virtual corporate cards and managing company expenses. The platform combines corporate card issuance with an integrated expenses system featuring real-time expense tracking, budget management, policy enforcement, and approval workflows. By centralizing spending data, it helps businesses gain visibility, control costs, and improve policy compliance, enabling streamlined expense processes and better financial governance. Bujeti's solution targets organizations seeking to simplify card-based payments and enforce spending policies across teams through automated workflows and consolidated reporting.

Resolve Stroke

Seed Round in 2023
Resolve Stroke, headquartered in Paris, is a HealthTech company dedicated to revolutionizing medical imaging. It specializes in enhancing ultrasound technology to extract more detailed information, enabling advanced diagnostics, particularly in neurology. The company's innovative software engines improve ultrasound contrast, resolution, and penetration depth, allowing for the visualization of micro-vessels through the human skull in 3D. With a global focus, Resolve Stroke aims to accelerate treatments for over 1 billion people affected by brain diseases. To date, it has secured €3 million in pre-seed funding to pioneer software-based ultrasound innovation.

Filigran

Seed Round in 2023
Filigran is a European company specializing in cyber technology. It provides advanced open-source software for cybersecurity and crisis management teams worldwide. The company's core offerings include cyber threat intelligence, adversary simulation, and crisis management solutions.

Vioo

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Vioo is a professional visual content creation marketplace designed to meet the on-demand needs of companies seeking high-quality visual content for their projects. The platform automates the process of content creation by connecting businesses with specialized professionals in various fields, including photography, video production, virtual reality, drone services, and rendering. By matching project requirements with the appropriate talent, Vioo enables organizations to streamline their workflows, reduce manhours and costs, and focus on their core functions, ultimately enhancing efficiency in visual content production.

Siphon Lab

Seed Round in 2023
Siphon Lab is a cryptocurrency decentralized finance (DeFi) startup focused on enhancing capital efficiency within the SUI ecosystem. The company is developing a blockchain platform that aims to create the Siphon universe on the SUI network. Its offerings include a derivative exchange and a liquidity staking protocol, among other innovative financial products. These initiatives are designed to provide investors with access to decentralized financial services while enabling them to earn high yields.

Flow Engineering

Seed Round in 2022
Flow Engineering is an innovative company that has developed the first engineering data platform specifically designed for agile engineering teams. The platform streamlines the engineering design process by automating much of the manual execution work, thereby enhancing efficiency and accelerating hardware invention. It facilitates seamless integration of essential data across various tools, allowing engineers to easily develop and iterate complex designs. By building critical software infrastructure, Flow Engineering aims to reinvent traditional engineering frameworks, enabling teams to work more effectively and adapt to changing project requirements.

Bearer

Seed Round in 2022
Bearer is a company that specializes in Static Application Security Testing, aiming to enhance the intersection of security and software development within modern enterprises. By integrating sensitive data context with static code analysis, Bearer simplifies security and privacy engineering, thereby maximizing the return on investment for DevSecOps and Application Security programs. The platform is designed to help security and engineering teams implement data security policies effectively, addressing risks associated with data leaks, breaches, and regulatory fines throughout the software development lifecycle. Founded by experts in security and engineering, Bearer is committed to optimizing security efforts by enabling early detection of relevant risks and facilitating the resolution of security findings within the continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline.

Crealo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Crealo is a copyright management platform that enables clients to control access to documents and digital content effectively. The platform offers a range of services, including copyright management, a right owner portal, business support, process audits, legal support, and social support. It features a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface, along with prebuilt UI kits and a component library. Additionally, Crealo's technology automates the retrieval of sales figures for distribution channels, calculates various royalty types per beneficiary in compliance with legal obligations, and generates detailed statements. This functionality allows clients to save time and resources, enabling them to concentrate on value-added tasks.

Tracklab

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Tracklab is a business-to-business compliance software company that provides solutions for regulated companies to manage their mandatory supplier documentation. The company focuses on developing compliance technology aimed at fostering transparent and sustainable supply chains. Its platform centralizes supplier quality assurance, granting businesses the ability to monitor and control compliance across various dimensions, including requirements, customer needs, certifications, regulations, and products. By enabling better oversight of supplier activities, Tracklab helps organizations ensure that their suppliers adhere to quality, environmental, and social commitments, ultimately contributing to consumer protection and sustainability.

Oplit

Seed Round in 2022
Oplit is a technology company that develops software for optimizing production planning. Its platform uses big data and AI to simulate and compare production strategies, track progress, and facilitate collaboration across departments in real-time.

Flynt

Seed Round in 2022
Flynt is a technology company that empowers restaurants with its online platform for order management, revenue tracking, and strategic performance analysis. It specializes in revenue optimization solutions tailored to the restaurant industry.

Liveblocks

Seed Round in 2022
Liveblocks operates an API platform that enables real-time, collaborative experiences within software applications. It provides live presence features, such as avatars that show when a user joins a page, project, or document, and real-time sharing of cursor position, text selection, and content selection. The solution offers customizable pre-built components that allow developers to add multiplayer and AI-ready capabilities without derailing roadmaps, helping teams build collaborative products and keep participants focused on the core product.

Aletiq

Seed Round in 2022
Aletiq provides an online Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software solution for industrial companies. It offers technical data management capabilities, reducing time spent on managing CAD files, drawings, bills of material, configurations, instructions, and quality documents by up to tenfold. Aletiq enables team collaboration on technical data and automates key processes such as approval workflows, technical modifications, and project milestones.

Hera

Seed Round in 2021
Hera is a women's health company that provides consultations, healthcare products, and follow-up care. It fosters a safe environment for women to discuss health-related topics, share experiences, and access fact-checked information.

LaPieza

Seed Round in 2021
LaPieza.io is aMexican company established in 2018 by founders Pol Dauvergne, Carlos Martinez, and Karen Colin. It operates an automated recruiting platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance the hiring process for businesses. The platform focuses on reducing bias in recruitment by implementing a skills and values compatibility test for candidates. The results are provided to recruiters without disclosing the applicants’ identities, resumes, or educational backgrounds. This approach allows companies to make more equitable hiring decisions while assisting individuals in securing positions at leading organizations. LaPieza aims to revolutionize the recruiting landscape by promoting inclusivity and fairness in employment practices.

Pimster

Seed Round in 2021
Pimster enhances brand-customer interaction via digital user manuals. Its platform enables brands to edit content instantly in multiple languages, personalize marketing campaigns, monitor product performance, and provide interactive guidance for consumers.

Conduktor

Seed Round in 2021
Conduktor offers a unified platform for managing operational data streams, enhancing security, governance, and efficiency. It serves prominent enterprises in the US and Europe, such as Capital Group, Lufthansa, and Honda.

Acquire App

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Acquire App, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing checkout solutions for online merchants. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Montreal, Canada, the company offers software that facilitates one-click checkout through direct-checkout links that can be easily embedded in emails, texts, and advertisements. In addition, Acquire App provides a plug-in extension for e-commerce stores to enhance their checkout processes. Following operational challenges in late 2022, the CEO initiated an exit strategy, leading to a transaction recorded in 2023.

Ponicode

Seed Round in 2020
Ponicode is a developer of an artificial intelligence and machine learning-based testing tool platform designed to simplify the testing of computer programs. The platform enables users to create, modify, and visualize unit tests efficiently through an AI-powered interface. With its quick setup process, Ponicode integrates seamlessly into users' existing development environments, allowing them to add test suites to their JavaScript code with minimal disruption. The tool automates the generation and maintenance of test files, alleviating developers from tedious technical tasks and allowing them to concentrate on their core business objectives. Ponicode enhances the testing experience by eliminating the need for extensive configuration research and providing a streamlined approach to JavaScript testing.

NuxtJS

Seed Round in 2020
NuxtJS SAS is a company that specializes in developing an open-source framework for building websites and applications using the Vue.js model. Founded in 2017 and based in Bordeaux, France, NuxtJS aims to enhance web development by providing a progressive framework that incorporates official Vue.js libraries, along with powerful development tools such as webpack, Babel, and PostCSS. The company focuses on delivering a high-quality developer experience while ensuring that web applications are both powerful and efficient.

Shipfix

Seed Round in 2019
Shipfix is a collaborative workflow and data platform tailored for the maritime and trade sectors, utilizing advanced AI-enabled tools to enhance operational efficiency. The platform is designed to streamline workflows by providing market and operational intelligence, catering to shipowners, commodity traders, industrials, freight forwarders, and shipbrokers. By enabling teams to share offers, leads, contacts, and business opportunities, Shipfix helps organizations reduce time spent on managing emails and improves overall decision-making processes. Its user-friendly interface transforms complex data into a clear, searchable market overview, allowing maritime professionals to work more effectively and respond to opportunities with greater speed.

GitGuardian

Series A in 2019
GitGuardian specializes in Non-Human Identity security, offering solutions for detecting secrets in code, enhancing productivity tools, and preventing leaks. With over 600K developers worldwide using its platform, GitGuardian helps organizations identify exposed sensitive information and mitigate potential damage.

OpenReplay

Seed Round in 2019
OpenReplay, established in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, specializes in developing an open-source, self-hostable session replay stack for web applications. Their software enables developers to reproduce and debug issues efficiently by aggregating errors and monitoring application performance across various stacks, thereby facilitating quicker issue resolution.

Bearer

Seed Round in 2018
Bearer is a company that specializes in Static Application Security Testing, aiming to enhance the intersection of security and software development within modern enterprises. By integrating sensitive data context with static code analysis, Bearer simplifies security and privacy engineering, thereby maximizing the return on investment for DevSecOps and Application Security programs. The platform is designed to help security and engineering teams implement data security policies effectively, addressing risks associated with data leaks, breaches, and regulatory fines throughout the software development lifecycle. Founded by experts in security and engineering, Bearer is committed to optimizing security efforts by enabling early detection of relevant risks and facilitating the resolution of security findings within the continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline.

GitGuardian

Seed Round in 2018
GitGuardian specializes in Non-Human Identity security, offering solutions for detecting secrets in code, enhancing productivity tools, and preventing leaks. With over 600K developers worldwide using its platform, GitGuardian helps organizations identify exposed sensitive information and mitigate potential damage.

Shipup

Venture Round in 2018
Shipup enhances online retailers' post-purchase experience by transforming deliveries into marketing opportunities. It tracks all parcels centrally, enabling customized experiences for customers during delivery.

Zenaton

Seed Round in 2018
Zenaton, a French-based company, offers a cloud-based SaaS platform designed to simplify workflow management for developers. It enables them to programmatically build, run, and scale various background tasks and business processes, streamlining their workflows and enhancing overall operational efficiency.

Aiva Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
Aiva Technologies is an artificial intelligence company founded in 2016 and based in Luxembourg, specializing in the creation of personalized soundtracks. The company utilizes its advanced AI-based platform to compose music for a variety of entertainment mediums, including motion pictures, video games, commercials, and television shows. Aiva's technology allows for the rapid generation of soundtracks across multiple genres, such as symphonic, electronic, jazz, pop, rock, and ambient. This facilitates collaboration among musicians and artists, enabling them to produce compelling audio themes tailored to specific projects. Through its innovative approach, Aiva Technologies aims to enhance the creative process in the music and entertainment industries.

Ludus

Seed Round in 2017
Ludus N, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in web-based presentation software. The platform enables users to create presentations easily and integrates dynamic images from various external sources. Ludus aims to be a comprehensive destination for content creation and sharing, offering an intuitive tool that simplifies the presentation-making process. Its browser-based design allows users to access the platform without the need for additional software installations, making it accessible to a wide range of users.

Flow Engineering

Seed Round in 2017
Flow Engineering is an innovative company that has developed the first engineering data platform specifically designed for agile engineering teams. The platform streamlines the engineering design process by automating much of the manual execution work, thereby enhancing efficiency and accelerating hardware invention. It facilitates seamless integration of essential data across various tools, allowing engineers to easily develop and iterate complex designs. By building critical software infrastructure, Flow Engineering aims to reinvent traditional engineering frameworks, enabling teams to work more effectively and adapt to changing project requirements.

Shine.fr

Seed Round in 2017
Shine.fr is a French fintech company founded in 2017, headquartered in Paris. It offers an all-in-one platform designed specifically for freelance workers, combining online banking with contract and invoice management. This streamlines administrative and financial tasks, providing freelancers with a comprehensive solution to manage their finances efficiently.

Andjaro

Seed Round in 2017
Andjaro is a software platform designed to enhance workforce management in medium and large organizations, particularly those with employees distributed across multiple locations. It enables organizations to map, reallocate, and balance their internal workforce effectively, allowing them to utilize available and willing internal staff instead of resorting to costly temporary or fixed-term hires from external agencies. This approach not only reduces staffing costs but also provides employees with opportunities to experience different roles within the company, fostering a more interconnected and satisfied workforce. The platform has facilitated over 120,000 staff movements and has generated significant cost savings for its clients, empowering managers to address staffing needs in response to fluctuating activity levels.

Noke

Convertible Note in 2016
Nokē is a company focused on reinventing commercial security through innovative hardware and software solutions. Founded by David Gengler and Cameron Gibbs and based in Lehi, Utah, Nokē specializes in cloud-based Bluetooth locks that connect to smartphones, eliminating the need for traditional keys and combinations. Its offerings include an intuitive analytics dashboard, wireless locks, and integrated systems designed to enhance access control and asset tracking. By simplifying security management and providing customized access options, Nokē aims to improve the protection of employees, buildings, and resources, allowing for efficient monitoring of locks and the movement of items in transit.

Stamplay

Series A in 2016
Stamplay is a low-code platform that empowers organizations to automate business processes by integrating multiple cloud services. It focuses on streamlining manual tasks through workflow automation, allowing users to create efficient workflows that reflect real business processes. This integration facilitates better collaboration between business users and IT, enabling them to build and deploy automations effectively. The platform is designed to eliminate delays in information transfer between departments, thereby enhancing operational efficiency. Stamplay's diverse customer base includes notable companies such as Box, MSC Cruise, Lennar, and Cisco, highlighting its capability to serve various industries.

Avocode

Seed Round in 2016
Avocode is a software company that develops collaboration tools for designers and developers. Its platform enables teams to import designs from major tools and automatically generate specifications, assets, colors, fonts, and CSS for hand-off. It offers design review, design copywriting, and cloud access to design data via API. The software acts as a bridge between designers and developers, helping to synchronize design and development workflows for web and mobile projects. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, Avocode focuses on streamlining the transition from design to implementation and improving consistency across products.

Sqreen

Seed Round in 2016
Sqreen offers Application Security Management (ASM), providing unified protection for over 500 companies. It empowers developers and security teams with real-time threat detection, incident monitoring, and automated application protection without requiring a reverse proxy.

Gitter

Seed Round in 2015
Gitter is an open-source chat and networking platform based in London, United Kingdom, designed to facilitate the management, growth, and connection of communities through messaging and content discovery. The platform offers instant messaging services that streamline community collaboration, making it easy for users to create, organize, and expand their communities with simple invitations. Gitter integrates with various tools such as GitHub, Trello, and Jenkins, enhancing its functionality and usability for developers. Its core mission is to connect developers, fostering meaningful relationships among users and the technologies they utilize.

Orah

Seed Round in 2015
Orah is a prominent provider of virtual reality solutions, specializing in both software and hardware for 360° video creation. Founded in 2012 in Paris as VideoStitch, the company quickly gained recognition for its high-quality live and postproduction software. In 2016, Orah expanded into hardware with the launch of the Orah 4i, an all-in-one 4K camera designed specifically for VR live streaming. Orah's offerings cater to a wide range of clients, from small production houses to large Fortune 500 companies, and its services are utilized in over 62 countries, primarily within the entertainment and media sectors. Currently headquartered in California, Orah continues to innovate in the VR video production space, providing comprehensive solutions that streamline the photography and live streaming processes.

CodersClan

Seed Round in 2015
CodersClan is a community-driven marketplace designed to simplify software outsourcing by streamlining the process of completing code tasks. It aims to minimize the overhead typically associated with outsourcing, making it a more frequent and seamless experience for both clients and developers. The platform boasts a robust community of thousands of skilled developers, many of whom are recognized contributors on platforms like Stack Overflow and GitHub. By connecting clients with top-tier coding talent, CodersClan transforms what is often viewed as a cumbersome chore into a regular and efficient practice for software development needs.

CodersClan

Seed Round in 2014
CodersClan is a community-driven marketplace designed to simplify software outsourcing by streamlining the process of completing code tasks. It aims to minimize the overhead typically associated with outsourcing, making it a more frequent and seamless experience for both clients and developers. The platform boasts a robust community of thousands of skilled developers, many of whom are recognized contributors on platforms like Stack Overflow and GitHub. By connecting clients with top-tier coding talent, CodersClan transforms what is often viewed as a cumbersome chore into a regular and efficient practice for software development needs.

Cursogram

Angel Round in 2014
Cursogram is an online training video platform that specializes in offering a diverse range of courses aimed at enhancing knowledge and skills across both technical and creative domains. The platform provides high-quality video courses in areas such as software development, professional design and editing, photography, audio production, business skills, and social media marketing. Cursogram's curriculum is designed to cater to learners of all ages, featuring instruction from experienced educators who are experts in their respective fields. By focusing on practical skills relevant to the business world, Cursogram enables users to effectively manage projects and leverage social networks, thereby fostering personal and professional growth.

MakeLeaps

Seed Round in 2014
MakeLeaps Corporation is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in developing bilingual Japanese invoicing software. Since its founding in 2014, MakeLeaps has provided a cloud invoicing management solution that allows users to create, manage, and send quotes, delivery slips, and invoices. Targeting freelancers, consultants, small and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and accountants in Japan, the platform offers customizable invoice features, including the option to incorporate company logos and traditional hanko stamps. Additionally, MakeLeaps provides a service to print and deliver invoices throughout Japan, facilitating efficient billing processes and improving productivity for users.

ActiveEon

Seed Round in 2014
ActiveEon S.A.S. is a French company founded in 2007, specializing in open source solutions that enhance application performance and facilitate enterprise-level grid and cloud environments. Based in Valbonne, the company co-develops the ProActive Parallel Suite®, a middleware designed for parallel computing, which simplifies the acceleration and scaling of applications. ActiveEon's offerings include workflow and scheduling tools, cloud automation solutions, and support for distributed computing environments using technologies like Matlab, Scilab, and R. The company's services encompass training, consulting, integration, and ongoing subscription support, all aimed at maximizing efficiency and return on investment for its clients. ActiveEon's solutions are designed to be infrastructure-independent, allowing businesses to optimize their existing technology investments effectively.

PredictionIO

Seed Round in 2014
PredictionIO is a developer-focused company that specializes in an open-source machine learning server designed to facilitate the creation of predictive features for software applications. By providing a comprehensive machine learning platform, PredictionIO enables developers and data engineers to easily integrate functionalities such as personalization, recommendations, and content discovery into their web and mobile applications. The platform allows for the seamless addition of predictive features through a straightforward set of APIs, enabling developers to implement capabilities similar to those used by major companies like Amazon for product recommendations and Flipboard for news suggestions, all with minimal coding effort.

Poetica

Angel Round in 2014
Poetica Ltd. is a software company based in London, United Kingdom, that specializes in developing innovative text editing solutions designed to enhance editorial workflows. Founded in 2012 by Blaine Cook, a former founding engineer at Twitter, Poetica offers a browser-based document editor that facilitates real-time collaboration across various platforms, including GitHub, WordPress, Dropbox, and Evernote. The company's technology allows users to create inline annotations, suggest edits, and maintain a history of their work, while enabling seamless synchronization of content both online and offline. Additionally, Poetica provides a Chrome extension that integrates with popular applications, enhancing the user experience by simplifying collaborative tasks. As of 2016, Poetica operates as a subsidiary of Condé Nast.

Stor.ai

Seed Round in 2014
Stor.ai is a digital commerce platform designed to assist grocery retailers in creating omnichannel shopping experiences while maintaining ownership of customer relationships, brand identity, and data. Formerly known as Self Point, the company focuses on e-commerce digitization, offering services such as mobile ordering, order fulfillment, brand identification, personalized customer engagement, analytics, and marketing automation. By providing these tools, Stor.ai aims to help grocers and retailers increase transaction volumes, enhance customer loyalty, and drive sales growth. The company's commitment to innovation underpins its platform and solutions, ensuring that retailers can adapt to the evolving landscape of digital commerce.

Caktus

Seed Round in 2014
Caktus is a software development company founded in 2013 by Panu Keski-Pukkila and based in Clifton, New Jersey. The company specializes in sensor-based technology aimed at promoting balanced hydration. Its flagship product, the Hug, is a sensor band that tracks the user's hydration levels and communicates with a companion mobile application. This application calculates the optimal hydration level and motivates users to maintain adequate water intake throughout the day. Caktus focuses on helping individuals achieve better hydration and overall performance through its innovative solutions.

Aniways

Venture Round in 2014
Aniways Ltd. is a technology company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2012. It specializes in developing a cross-platform software development kit (SDK) that enhances chat applications by introducing dynamic and interactive emoticons. This SDK enables users to enrich their messaging experience while providing developers and advertisers with new revenue opportunities. By analyzing real-time text input, Aniways’ platform can suggest contextually relevant content and branded emoticons, allowing chat services to effectively monetize their traffic without compromising the native user experience. The company caters to a diverse range of clients, including end users, developers, and advertisers, helping to transform traditional messaging into a more engaging and profitable medium.

Obvious Engineering

Seed Round in 2014
Obvious Engineering is a research and development-driven company specializing in computer vision technology aimed at enhancing consumer devices and products. The company focuses on creating fundamental technologies that enable smart devices to perceive and interact with their physical surroundings. By developing a platform that allows users to capture, share, and apply 3D content through iOS and Android smartphones, Obvious Engineering transforms standard mobile devices into advanced 3D scanners. This innovation empowers users to locate themselves in space and map visual environments, representing a significant advancement in the integration of digital content with the physical world.

Thrive

Seed Round in 2013
Thrive is a developer of a project management tool designed to address the challenges faced by creative businesses. The platform combines time-tracking, project management, and invoicing functionalities, allowing users to streamline their daily operations. By replacing multiple existing products, Thrive's tool helps users efficiently manage quotes, staff, workloads, and timesheets, thereby reducing distractions that hinder creativity. It also provides real-time business and market intelligence, enabling clients to review performance, analyze deadline adherence, and access actionable metrics. This comprehensive approach empowers founders, managers, and professionals to enhance productivity while focusing on their creative endeavors.

AmigoCAT

Seed Round in 2013
AmigoCAT is a technology startup developing an innovative computer-assisted translation tool designed for professionals. The company aims to enhance the translation process by incorporating user-friendly features into an online platform, catering specifically to translators' needs. AmigoCAT's tool leverages a vast global translation memory containing over 70 billion words across multiple languages, enabling real-time collaboration and compatibility with diverse file formats. Backed by Kima Ventures, AmigoCAT seeks to revolutionize the translation industry by offering a modern, efficient solution for its users.

Aniways

Seed Round in 2013
Aniways Ltd. is a technology company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2012. It specializes in developing a cross-platform software development kit (SDK) that enhances chat applications by introducing dynamic and interactive emoticons. This SDK enables users to enrich their messaging experience while providing developers and advertisers with new revenue opportunities. By analyzing real-time text input, Aniways’ platform can suggest contextually relevant content and branded emoticons, allowing chat services to effectively monetize their traffic without compromising the native user experience. The company caters to a diverse range of clients, including end users, developers, and advertisers, helping to transform traditional messaging into a more engaging and profitable medium.

7 Elements Studios

Seed Round in 2013
7 Elements Studios, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in the development and sale of mobile and computer games, focusing on cross-platform strategy titles. The studio aims to engage mid-core professional gamers by offering a dynamic gaming environment where players can personalize their experiences, explore diverse game worlds, and socialize with others. Through its innovative platform, 7 Elements Studios creates games that are seamlessly integrated into players' lives, allowing them to experience the excitement of battle, share victories, and forge genuine friendships while participating in strategic gameplay.

PredictionIO

Seed Round in 2013
PredictionIO is a developer-focused company that specializes in an open-source machine learning server designed to facilitate the creation of predictive features for software applications. By providing a comprehensive machine learning platform, PredictionIO enables developers and data engineers to easily integrate functionalities such as personalization, recommendations, and content discovery into their web and mobile applications. The platform allows for the seamless addition of predictive features through a straightforward set of APIs, enabling developers to implement capabilities similar to those used by major companies like Amazon for product recommendations and Flipboard for news suggestions, all with minimal coding effort.

FocusMotion Health

Seed Round in 2013
FocusMotion Health is a company dedicated to advancing fitness and rehabilitation technology. It is the parent organization of TRAINR, a pioneering fitness software that automatically quantifies training workouts using wrist sensors. FocusMotion Health is focused on developing next-generation quantified-self fitness devices that monitor and guide resistance and sport-specific training. Additionally, the company offers an innovative orthopedic recovery technology, which includes a smart knee brace paired with an application that integrates with various smartwatches and fitness bands. This technology allows for comprehensive tracking of patient activity, capturing metrics related to walking and exercise. By utilizing advanced sensors such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, magnetometers, and electromyography, FocusMotion Health enables healthcare professionals to monitor user movements and performance effectively, thereby enhancing rehabilitation and fitness outcomes.

22seeds

Seed Round in 2013
22seeds specializes in the development, product management, and marketing of mobile and web applications. Makers of the hit iPhone app "Last Night Never Happened" and the recently launched social network Echoer.

NimbusBase

Seed Round in 2013
NimbusBase Inc. is a cloud storage solution provider that enables users to transform their personal cloud storage into personal databases for application data. Founded in 2012 and based in New York, the company serves application developers and personal cloud storage providers by offering an alternative to traditional cloud services. Its platform allows seamless synchronization of data across various devices and operating systems, including iOS, Android, and desktop environments. By integrating with existing personal cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive, NimbusBase facilitates data accessibility and management, significantly reducing scaling costs for developers while enhancing user experience.

Greenbox Technologies

Seed Round in 2013
Greenbox's home irrigation solution enables users to control yard watering easily, remotely and affordably. The system includes a hardware controller and an accompanying software application. The company places special emphasis on user experience and aims to eliminate the need for professional installation or maintenance of irrigation scheduling. Greenbox provides remote access from anywhere in the world using a smartphone, tablet, or desktop computer. Instead of basing the watering schedule on solely on time as legacy controllers do, Greenbox has an underlying irrigation algorithm which adjusts the schedule based on local climate conditions and other relevant data, in order to optimize water usage, save money, and increase the health of the user's grass and plants.

CodeBox.io

Seed Round in 2013
Codebox is an open source integrated development environment (IDE) that provides cloud and desktop tools designed to enhance collaboration among software developers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oro Valley, Arizona, the platform enables programmers to host, manage, and share their development environments through a user-friendly dashboard or API. It supports various applications, including remote team collaboration, freelancing, pair programming, job interviews, and programming education. Codebox's services facilitate real-time collaborative code editing and integrate seamlessly with FTP servers and other tools, addressing the diverse needs of developers. The company operates as a subsidiary of Corvisa Services, LLC.

Codelearn

Seed Round in 2012
Codelearn lets users learn new technology (currently ruby-on-rails) through tutorial which teach to build a full fledged app and by providing an in-browser app development environment to build web apps. Its heroku + codecademy bundled into one. Try it at www.codelearn.org. We recently launched Android tutorial as well - www.codelern.org/android-tutorial . Instead of going cloud IDE way, there is an Eclipse plugin built which evaluates user's app at every lesson making it truly interactive.

iSale

Seed Round in 2012
iSale is a mobile guided selling solution designed for both B2B and B2C businesses, aimed at enhancing the sales capabilities of personnel by providing them with comprehensive product knowledge and real-time information. This platform enables salespeople to access up-to-date catalogs, pricing, inventory, and promotional materials directly from their devices, redefining the sales experience for both customers and sales staff. By leveraging historical sales data, iSale helps businesses identify the most promising customers and recommend suitable products, resulting in increased sales and profitability. Customers utilizing iSale have reported revenue growth of 10%-20% for new models and significant cost savings in inventory and logistics. The system is securely integrated with corporate ERP and CRM systems, ensuring that all sales-related information is current and accessible. The leadership team at iSale consists of industry experts with extensive technical knowledge and business acumen, driving the company's commitment to innovation in sales solutions.

Whitetruffle

Seed Round in 2012
Whitetruffle, Inc., founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California, operates a talent sourcing platform designed to streamline the process of connecting candidates with suitable jobs. The company's platform employs advanced machine learning algorithms to match candidates with job opportunities, eliminating the need for traditional methods like database searches and cold calling. Candidates can create profiles and receive notifications when companies express interest in meeting them, while employers can post jobs, review candidate matches, and initiate contact. Whitetruffle draws inspiration from the meticulous process of hunting white truffles, emphasizing the precision and depth involved in sourcing top tech talent.

DocRun

Seed Round in 2012
DocRun is a software as a service (SaaS) company that specializes in the creation of customized legal contracts and agreements. Its intuitive platform allows users, regardless of their experience level, to generate complex legal documents by simply answering a series of straightforward questions. This user-friendly approach enables even those with little legal knowledge to produce and comprehend intricate contracts effectively. By streamlining the contract creation process, DocRun aims to assist attorneys and small businesses in managing their legal documentation with ease and efficiency.

Formlabs

Seed Round in 2011
Formlabs designs and manufactures professional 3D printing systems and materials for engineers, designers, educators, and manufacturers. The company offers high-resolution stereolithography printers such as Form 3, Form 3B, and Form 3L, along with post-processing equipment Form Wash and Form Cure, and the SLS-based Fuse 1 printer. It develops in-house high-performance resins and materials used across industries including education, dentistry, healthcare, jewelry, and manufacturing. Its software ecosystem includes PreForm, which prepares models for printing, and Form Cell for automated manufacturing. Formlabs serves customers worldwide and maintains headquarters in Somerville, Massachusetts with international offices. The company focuses on enabling designers and engineers to produce detailed, functional parts and complex geometries, expanding access to professional-grade 3D printing through scalable hardware, materials, and software solutions.

Joshfire

Seed Round in 2011
Joshfire is an innovation consulting agency that specializes in simplifying app development processes for various electronic devices. The company addresses the challenges faced by content publishers and service providers in adapting their services to new devices such as mobiles, tablets, and connected TVs. Joshfire's platform streamlines and industrializes the creation of brand and content experiences across all connected objects, enabling customers to maintain consistent marketing, communication, and innovation applications on every device and platform available.

DocRun

Seed Round in 2011
DocRun is a software as a service (SaaS) company that specializes in the creation of customized legal contracts and agreements. Its intuitive platform allows users, regardless of their experience level, to generate complex legal documents by simply answering a series of straightforward questions. This user-friendly approach enables even those with little legal knowledge to produce and comprehend intricate contracts effectively. By streamlining the contract creation process, DocRun aims to assist attorneys and small businesses in managing their legal documentation with ease and efficiency.

OpenSearchServer

Seed Round in 2011
OpenSearchServer is a comprehensive open-source enterprise solution developed in Java, initially launched as an in-house project in 2007 by Infopro, a prominent French B2B media group. Since its public release on Sourceforge in 2009, OpenSearchServer has evolved into an independent company as of February 2010. The platform features an integrated crawler that facilitates the creation of advanced index-based applications, capable of managing data from web pages, file systems, and JDBC databases. OpenSearchServer offers a range of services, including community support for developers, roadmap coordination, technical assistance, training, and professional customization services, catering to clients seeking to implement and optimize their search engine solutions.

Sparrow

Seed Round in 2011
Sparrow was an email client designed for OS X and iOS, known for its simplified user interface that offered a different experience compared to traditional email applications like Apple's Mail and Mozilla Thunderbird. Launched on February 9, 2011, after a four-month beta period, Sparrow quickly became the top paid and grossing app in the Mac App Store within a day of its release. On July 20, 2012, the company was acquired by Google, which led to the cessation of further development of the application, with the exception of critical bug fixes.

SureVisit

Seed Round in 2010
SEO Coach removes the need for prior SEO knowledge or experience when optimising a site. Their patented technology walks users through every step, including automatically selecting the best search topics to focus on, structural and geographic optimisation and most importantly authoring quality, semantically relevant content that will be both of interest to their site visitors and as well as boosting their ranking on search engines. Users receive real-time suggestions when creating their site, embedding SEO into site creation. They are targeting small local business websites, that despite having the same needs as enterprises, have been largely neglected when it comes to digital marketing solutions (a recent survey by the Boston group found only 3% of SMB marketing budget made it online.) Their technology can be used by SMBs who are "DIYing" it or by service providers' fulfillment teams, allowing them to scale SEO for their customers to provide a high value service and improve retention.

TekTrak

Angel Round in 2010
TekTrak Inc., established in 2010 and headquartered in Culver City, California, specializes in developing mobile security applications for both iOS and Android platforms. Their primary product is an application that enables users to remotely track their lost or misplaced smartphones and secure sensitive information stored on the device.

StatusNet

Seed Round in 2010
StatusNet Inc., based in Montreal, Quebec, develops open-source microblogging software called StatusNet. This allows users to run their own microblogging services, similar to traditional blogging platforms like WordPress. The company's primary product is Identi.ca, a popular site powered by StatusNet. They also offer cloud-based solutions for public and private microblogging sites, akin to the business model of WordPress.

StatusNet

Seed Round in 2009
StatusNet Inc., based in Montreal, Quebec, develops open-source microblogging software called StatusNet. This allows users to run their own microblogging services, similar to traditional blogging platforms like WordPress. The company's primary product is Identi.ca, a popular site powered by StatusNet. They also offer cloud-based solutions for public and private microblogging sites, akin to the business model of WordPress.

Plakar

Plakar is a software company specializing in secure and efficient data backup and recovery solutions. Its platform simplifies modern data management, offering features such as compression, encryption, and data deduplication to ensure businesses maintain full control and compliance over their critical information. Plakar's open-source design and Unix-like commands make it accessible to developers, while its robust capabilities meet the compliance needs of enterprises.
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