Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that backs startups across enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, healthtech, and cleantech from seed through growth stages. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it maintains offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya to engage markets in the United States, Asia, and Israel. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and has supported companies across software, mobile, data, e-commerce, and services, spanning early-stage to expansion rounds. It offers strategic guidance, network access, and capital, and has historically included debt financing as part of its investment approach. With a multi-region footprint and a broad multi-stage mandate, Lightspeed seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to scale innovative companies globally.

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

Vaibhav Agrawal

Venture Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Luke Beseda

Partner

Akshay Bhushan

Partner

Taggart Bonham

Partner

Ashley Brasier

Partner

Cai Wei

Partner

Guru Chahal

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Amish Desai

Partner

Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Partner

Barry Eggers

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

James Ephrati

Partner

Faraz Fatemi

Partner

Jack Fowler

Partner

Aaron Frank

Venture Partner

Adam Goldberg

Venture Partner

Merci Grace

Partner

Globin Guo

Executive Director

Gaurav Gupta

Partner

David Gussarsky

Partner

Herry Han

Co-Founder and Partner

Lisa Han

Partner

Rob Horton JD

COO

Hu Peipei

Investment Manager

Galym Imanbayev MD

Partner

Galym Imanbayev

Partner

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner

Arif Janmohamed

Partner

Julie Kainz

Partner

Francis Kao

Partner

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Alex Kayyal

Partner

Dev Khare

Partner

Issac Kim

Partner

Will Kohler

Partner

Harsha Kumar

Associate Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Pachara Lawjindakul

Partner

Will Leas

Partner

Jeremy Liew

Partner

Connor Love

Partner

John Luongo

Venture Partner

Natalie Luu

Partner

Jonathan MacQuitty

Partner

Naveed Matinfar

Partner

Ravi Mhatre

Managing Director

James Mi

Partner

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner

Andrew Moley

Operating Partner and CFO

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Antoine Moyroud

Partner

Paul Murphy

Partner

Justin Overdorff

Partner

Zac Pan

Associate Partner

Apoorva Pandhi

Associate

Krish Parikh

Partner of Business Services

Nicole Quinn

General Partner

Adrian Nicholas Radu

Partner

Chris Schaepe

Co-Founder

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Semil Shah

Venture Partner

Shan Shan

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Justin Shen

Partner

Shuvi Shrivastava

Partner

Ishaan Preet Singh

Investor

Bipul Sinha

Venture Partner

Bejul Somaia

Partner

Ajay Sudan

Venture Partner

Sun Daniel

Partner

Sydney Sykes

Partner

Alex Taussig

Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

John Thompson

Venture Partner

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner

Jason Wang

Partner

Nathan Wang

Vice President

Nathan Wu

Partner

Mark Xu

Partner

Mark Xu

Partner

Cici Yang

Vice President

Jerry Ye

Partner, Data Platform

Haowei Zhai

Vice President

Ju Zhang

Executive Director

Issac Zhang

Vice President

Gavin Zhu

Partner

Past deals in Machine Learning

Endor Labs

Series B in 2025
Endor Labs specializes in enhancing application security with a focus on managing open-source software dependencies. The company aids developers in integrating safe Open Source Software (OSS) to expedite development processes while minimizing time spent on security issues. Its Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform targets the vulnerabilities in software supply chain security caused by ungoverned use of open-source software within enterprises.

Goodfire

Series A in 2025
Goodfire is an applied research lab dedicated to advancing humanity's understanding of AI through interpretability. It develops a tooling system that interprets and edits the behavior of generative AI models, reducing the need for costly retraining or trial-and-error prompt engineering. This enables developers to debug AI systems by gaining deep insights into their internal workings.

Safe Superintelligence

Venture Round in 2025
Safe Superintelligence is an AI research lab dedicated to developing superhuman intelligence, prioritizing safety through innovative engineering. It operates independently, focusing on long-term, impactful advancements without commercial pressure.

Straiker

Series A in 2025
Straiker is a technology company that specializes in AI-native security solutions. It develops AI risk assessment software to enhance security through one-time or continuous testing. The company's technology simulates attacks against AI applications and agents, conducting a suite of security checks to identify and mitigate critical AI risks, providing protection beyond prompt-level threats and enabling automated threat blocking.

Nexthop AI

Series A in 2025
Nexthop AI develops AI infrastructure and custom networking solutions for large cloud operators, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency and connectivity within complex network environments. The company offers a range of services, including network automation, data management, and analytics, enabling clients to optimize their network performance and streamline their operations. Through its innovative solutions, Nexthop AI addresses the challenges faced by cloud operators, providing tools that facilitate seamless integration and scalability in dynamic computing environments. Additionally, Nexthop AI emphasizes compatibility with open-source network operating systems, allowing clients to leverage existing technologies while implementing advanced networking strategies.

Cartesia

Series A in 2025
Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.

Dexterity

Venture Round in 2025
Dexterity Inc develops robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain applications. The company offers a robotics as a service model that enables businesses to integrate robotics into their operations. Its flagship DexR is a two-armed robot designed for tasks such as truck loading and material handling, equipped with machine vision and force sensing. The company combines artificial intelligence, software, and hardware in a platform to deliver high productivity, precision, and safety in industrial environments, allowing clients to delegate repetitive tasks to robots and augment human potential.

Nirvana Insurance

Series C in 2025
Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs. The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleet operators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers.

Reflection.Ai

Series A in 2025
Reflection.AI is a start-up that develops artificial intelligence solutions, focusing on computer vision. The company provides tools to create personalized AIs that can interact and chat just like real people, using cutting-edge technology.

Anthropic

Series E in 2025
Anthropic is an AI research company specializing in the safety of artificial intelligence systems. Its work spans natural language processing, human feedback integration, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability. The company's flagship product is Claude, an AI assistant designed for various tasks. Anthropic develops AI systems that emphasize safety, transparency, and alignment with human values.

X Square

Seed Round in 2025
X Square is a company focused on developing universal embodied large models for robots, aiming to create a universal brain-cerebellum system that offers comprehensive capabilities from perception to action.

Fiddler AI

Series B in 2024
Fiddler Labs, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform designed to help businesses analyze, manage, and deploy their machine learning models effectively. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Fiddler offers an Explainable AI Engine that promotes transparency and understanding in AI solutions. This platform allows users across data science, product, and business teams to comprehend, validate, and manage their AI implementations, ensuring that these systems deliver reliable and trustworthy experiences for end-users. By providing statistical metrics, performance monitoring, and centralized controls, Fiddler aims to make AI more accessible and trustworthy for enterprises, ultimately unlocking the complexities of AI and enhancing user confidence in its applications.

Cartesia

Series A in 2024
Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.

xAI

Series C in 2024
XAI is a technology company specializing in artificial intelligence. It creates and deploys AI solutions, primarily using machine learning, to enhance data analysis and decision-making processes. XAI caters to the finance, healthcare, and logistics sectors, aiming to improve accuracy and efficiency in these industries.

Trail Security

Series A in 2024
Trail Security, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in data loss prevention. It offers an AI-driven platform that safeguards sensitive data across cloud, endpoint, and network systems. The company employs real-time monitoring, automated classification, and machine learning to detect, block, and remediate potential data breaches, and to identify unusual user behavior. It provides real-time insights into data access and sharing, protecting data at rest, in use, and transit. Currently, Trail Security operates in stealth mode.

EvenUp

Series D in 2024
EvenUp is a legal technology company that specializes in cloud-based and AI-driven solutions for managing personal injury cases. The company offers a platform that automates various aspects of legal practices, particularly in valuing personal injury claims. By leveraging its Claims Intelligence Platform, which is underpinned by extensive data records, EvenUp enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of legal case management. Its software employs machine learning and artificial intelligence to assess the worth of lawsuits, helping plaintiffs secure fair outcomes and avoid premature settlements or excessive debts. Additionally, the platform provides attorneys with valuable data to facilitate principled settlement negotiations.

Distyl AI

Series A in 2024
Distyl AI collaborates with organizations worldwide to enhance their artificial intelligence readiness. It develops integrated AI-based solutions tailored to clients' unique data, workflows, and employee requirements, enabling seamless integration with existing technologies.

Glean

Series E in 2024
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool integrated into any company's existing workflows. Its platform, Workplace Search, connects to internal data sources, enabling employees to find information and receive personalized answers using advanced search techniques, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models.

Goodfire

Seed Round in 2024
Goodfire is an applied research lab dedicated to advancing humanity's understanding of AI through interpretability. It develops a tooling system that interprets and edits the behavior of generative AI models, reducing the need for costly retraining or trial-and-error prompt engineering. This enables developers to debug AI systems by gaining deep insights into their internal workings.

Meta Sota

Venture Round in 2024
Meta Sota is a technology company that specializes in smart search engines for lawyers. Using artificial intelligence technology to create useful AI office tools for legal practitioners and other text workers, the legal industry and other text workers will be greatly improved. Work efficiency, allowing users to take advantage of technology's convenience. "Mita Translation" is a Chinese-English artificial intelligence translation software that focuses on legal and official documents. To complete semantic analysis and semantic association, use a self-developed heterogeneous unstructured data engine.

Contextual AI

Series A in 2024
Contextual AI offers a pioneering approach to generative AI for the workplace.

Patronus AI

Series A in 2024
Patronus AI specializes in an automated evaluation and security platform for large language models. Its AI-powered engine assesses and secures these models, identifying potential issues and providing customizable security solutions. The platform helps businesses safely adopt and deploy large language models by automating and scaling manual evaluation processes, thereby minimizing risks and ensuring model reliability.

Suno

Series B in 2024
Suno is a music startup empowering users to create unique songs through generative AI. Its platform enables users to write lyrics and choose genres or vibes, generating distinct tunes with varying lyrics.

Augment Code

Series B in 2024
Augment Code is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven coding assistance software. Their platform, designed to enhance the work of software developers, provides real-time suggestions for APIs and coding patterns, as well as custom AI models tailored to a company's codebase. This helps developers write code more efficiently, with fewer errors, and improves software quality and team productivity. The software is integrated into popular IDEs and Slack, making it easily accessible to users. Augment Code aims to augment, rather than replace, the work of software developers, with a mission to improve software development at scale using AI.

Xaira Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2024
Xaira Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that leverages artificial intelligence to revolutionize drug discovery and development. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Xaira brings together machine learning experts, expansive data generation, and robust therapeutic product development to advance treatments for various diseases.

Foundry

Series A in 2024
Foundry is a public cloud supported by an orchestration platform designed to simplify the utilization of AI computing resources. Foundry addresses fundamental economic and technical obstacles encountered in AI and deep learning. Current challenges faced by businesses, such as the notable GPU scarcity and inefficient use of computing capabilities, hinder their effective utilization of resources. Foundry employs pioneering approaches to overcome these hurdles, offering scalable GPU instances with unparalleled price-performance ratios.

Glean

Series D in 2024
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool integrated into any company's existing workflows. Its platform, Workplace Search, connects to internal data sources, enabling employees to find information and receive personalized answers using advanced search techniques, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models.

Intenseye

Series B in 2024
Intenseye Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, specializing in an AI-powered video analytics platform designed to enhance health and safety in workplace environments. Founded in 2018, Intenseye's platform utilizes advanced computer vision and machine learning to analyze real-time video feeds from existing cameras, enabling clients to monitor workplace conditions continuously. The system provides automated inspections and immediate notifications of safety violations, such as improper use of personal protective equipment or hazardous behaviors. By focusing on privacy, Intenseye ensures that the visual data processed does not include personally identifiable information. The company's solutions are particularly beneficial for large enterprises seeking to improve employee safety while minimizing accidents and operational errors.

Mistral AI

Series A in 2023
Mistral AI specialises in developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions. They focus on creating state-of-the-art AI models for natural language processing and complex problem-solving, aiming to enhance business efficiency and decision-making.

Sarvam AI

Series A in 2023
Sarvam AI specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform tailored to India's diverse linguistic landscape. The platform aims to enhance the robustness, performance, and cost-effectiveness of generative AI app development, deployment, and distribution.

Sarvam AI

Seed Round in 2023
Sarvam AI specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform tailored to India's diverse linguistic landscape. The platform aims to enhance the robustness, performance, and cost-effectiveness of generative AI app development, deployment, and distribution.

Seismic Therapeutic

Series B in 2023
Seismic Therapeutic is a biotechnology company focused on advancing immunology drug development through the integration of machine learning in the biologics discovery process. Utilizing its proprietary IMPACT™ platform, Seismic Therapeutic addresses critical challenges in the development of biologics by combining machine learning with structural biology, protein engineering, and translational immunology. This innovative approach aims to create optimized therapies for patients more efficiently. The company is developing a pipeline of biologics specifically targeting adaptive immune system dysregulation to treat various autoimmune diseases.

EvenUp

Series C in 2023
EvenUp is a legal technology company that specializes in cloud-based and AI-driven solutions for managing personal injury cases. The company offers a platform that automates various aspects of legal practices, particularly in valuing personal injury claims. By leveraging its Claims Intelligence Platform, which is underpinned by extensive data records, EvenUp enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of legal case management. Its software employs machine learning and artificial intelligence to assess the worth of lawsuits, helping plaintiffs secure fair outcomes and avoid premature settlements or excessive debts. Additionally, the platform provides attorneys with valuable data to facilitate principled settlement negotiations.

Radiant Security

Series A in 2023
Radiant Security is a cybersecurity software company that develops autonomous triage and investigation capabilities for security alerts at scale. Its platform uses machine learning, artificial intelligence, and a knowledge graph to automate security operations and emulate the decision-making of a seasoned analyst. Deployed in minutes via API, the solution rapidly reduces analyst workload and improves incident response by classifying, ranking, and routing alerts while maximizing the value of existing security investments, guided by an autonomous decision-making engine that drives actions to accelerate threat handling.

Nirvana Insurance

Series B in 2023
Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs. The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleet operators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers.

Patronus AI

Seed Round in 2023
Patronus AI specializes in an automated evaluation and security platform for large language models. Its AI-powered engine assesses and secures these models, identifying potential issues and providing customizable security solutions. The platform helps businesses safely adopt and deploy large language models by automating and scaling manual evaluation processes, thereby minimizing risks and ensuring model reliability.

Portkey AI

Seed Round in 2023
Portkey enables businesses to design, deploy, maintain, and improve their generative AI apps and features more quickly, through a quick integration, businesses may add observability, model management, experimentation, and compliance to their products.

Endor Labs

Series A in 2023
Endor Labs specializes in enhancing application security with a focus on managing open-source software dependencies. The company aids developers in integrating safe Open Source Software (OSS) to expedite development processes while minimizing time spent on security issues. Its Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform targets the vulnerabilities in software supply chain security caused by ungoverned use of open-source software within enterprises.

Inworld AI

Venture Round in 2023
Inworld AI is an AI framework powering massive consumer applications. Inworld is funded by VCs including Lightspeed, Stanford University, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Section 32, M12, Intel Capital, CRV, Bitkraft, and Meta, as well as a team of all-star angels including corporate executives, top VC funds' partners, scouts, and industry veterans.

AI4Bhārat

Venture Round in 2023
AI4Bhrat is focused on developing open-source language AI for Indian languages, including datasets, models, and applications.

Mistral AI

Seed Round in 2023
Mistral AI specialises in developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions. They focus on creating state-of-the-art AI models for natural language processing and complex problem-solving, aiming to enhance business efficiency and decision-making.

Contextual AI

Seed Round in 2023
Contextual AI offers a pioneering approach to generative AI for the workplace.

Langfuse

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Langfuse is a developer of an open-source analytics platform specifically designed for large language model (LLM) applications. The platform offers observability and analytics features that allow users to explore and debug complex logs and traces through a visual interface. By providing intuitive dashboards, Langfuse enables companies to enhance their applications by tracking and analyzing key metrics such as quality, cost, and latency across various product releases and use cases. This unified approach to the monetization stack helps organizations gain insights into their production environments, ultimately leading to improved performance and efficiency in their LLM applications.

Tome

Series B in 2023
Tome enhances sales team efficiency by employing custom LLMs that assist throughout the sales process. It automates tasks such as account research, outreach, call summaries, and CRM syncing, allowing sales reps to focus more on customer interactions. The platform also optimizes sales playbooks using insights on messaging effectiveness.

DAISCH

Series A in 2022
DAISCH, established in 2015 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, specializes in high-precision motion and position sensing systems and tool chains for autonomous driving. The company offers industrial unmanned aerial vehicles and autonomous vehicles, leveraging technologies such as carrier phase differential, inertial navigation, and machine vision to provide precise positioning and environmental information for self-driving vehicles across varied road conditions.

circle labs

Seed Round in 2022
circle labs is a platform that enables anyone to create their own virtual characters powered by AI.

Endor Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Endor Labs specializes in enhancing application security with a focus on managing open-source software dependencies. The company aids developers in integrating safe Open Source Software (OSS) to expedite development processes while minimizing time spent on security issues. Its Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform targets the vulnerabilities in software supply chain security caused by ungoverned use of open-source software within enterprises.

Balance

Series B in 2022
Balance provides a digital payments platform for B2B online purchasing, aiming to simplify the experience for both buyers and vendors. Founded in 2019 by Bar Geron and Yoni Shuster, it is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The B2B checkout platform processes online payments and employs a machine learning engine for real-time authentication and financial risk assessment, offering flexibility for businesses to pay on their own terms.

NextBillion.ai

Series B in 2022
NextBillion.ai is a company focused on delivering AI-powered hyperlocal solutions, primarily in the realm of mapping. It is dedicated to building the geospatial infrastructure necessary for enhancing location-based experiences for a rapidly growing user base in markets such as India, Indonesia, and Nigeria. These regions present unique challenges due to underdeveloped infrastructure, the emergence of megacities, complex addressing systems, and dynamic road networks. To address these complexities, NextBillion.ai develops a spatial data platform that enables enterprises to effectively manage location data and implement an AI-first approach across various use cases and geographies. The platform assists clients in building and scaling their mapping ecosystems, addressing routing and scheduling challenges, and optimizing routes and dispatch processes. By combining data, artificial intelligence, and human expertise, NextBillion.ai aims to solve intricate location problems and improve navigation technology.

Glean

Series C in 2022
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool integrated into any company's existing workflows. Its platform, Workplace Search, connects to internal data sources, enabling employees to find information and receive personalized answers using advanced search techniques, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models.

Laiye

Series C in 2022
Laiye is a digital workforce platform that specializes in integrating artificial intelligence to enhance organizational productivity and creativity. The company offers a comprehensive automation process platform that includes capabilities such as robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent document processing (IDP). Laiye's intelligent dialogue robot platform is designed to simulate human tasks, enabling automated processing of emails, documents, and report generation, as well as data entry into customer relationship management systems. By leveraging these technologies, Laiye helps enterprises streamline their operations, improve efficiency, and reduce operational costs.

METiS Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2022
Jitai Medicine (METiS) is a biotechnology company that uses artificial intelligence to drive drug delivery and drug discovery. It combines advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantum simulation to achieve more effective design of innovative delivery materials, drug candidate selection and formulation design, "programmable nucleic acid drug" development, and nucleic acid delivery design.

METiS Therapeutics

Series B in 2022
METiS Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that aims to drive therapies in a wide range of disease areas by integrating drug discovery and delivery with AI, machine learning, and quantum simulation.

NyquistAI

Seed Round in 2022
NyquistAI is a developer of a global data platform that specializes in transforming unstructured life science data into actionable insights. By leveraging advanced machine learning technology, NyquistAI connects various data sources, including global clinical trials and real-world information, to offer a comprehensive view of the Medtech landscape. The platform is designed to help healthcare professionals access and compile critical life science data, enabling them to make informed decisions in research and business strategy development. NyquistAI aims to provide a customizable experience that equips users with credible, up-to-date content and expertise throughout the entire innovation lifecycle, thereby facilitating enhanced research and the identification of new opportunities within the life sciences sector.

Ponder

Seed Round in 2022
Ponder Data Inc., founded in 2019, specializes in enterprise-level tools for efficient data experimentation and analysis at scale. The company's core offering is a platform that empowers data teams by facilitating faster insights while maintaining ease of use and flexibility akin to the popular pandas API. This enables users to perform diverse data science tasks across varying workload scales effectively.

Nirvana Insurance

Series A in 2022
Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs. The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleet operators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers.

Voltron Data

Series A in 2022
Voltron Data develops tools to enhance the existing data analytics ecosystem. It focuses on improving efficiency by creating modular and composable analytics building blocks.

Voltron Data

Seed Round in 2022
Voltron Data develops tools to enhance the existing data analytics ecosystem. It focuses on improving efficiency by creating modular and composable analytics building blocks.

Seismic Therapeutic

Series A in 2022
Seismic Therapeutic is a biotechnology company focused on advancing immunology drug development through the integration of machine learning in the biologics discovery process. Utilizing its proprietary IMPACT™ platform, Seismic Therapeutic addresses critical challenges in the development of biologics by combining machine learning with structural biology, protein engineering, and translational immunology. This innovative approach aims to create optimized therapies for patients more efficiently. The company is developing a pipeline of biologics specifically targeting adaptive immune system dysregulation to treat various autoimmune diseases.

Dremio

Series E in 2022
Founded in 2015, Dremio develops a data lake engine that accelerates analytical processing for business intelligence tools, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients. Its platform enables self-service analytics by delivering query speed and a semantic layer operating directly against the data lake storage.

Darwinbox

Series D in 2022
Darwinbox is a cloud‑based human resources management platform that supports the entire employee lifecycle from hiring to retirement. The system combines a mobile‑first interface with AI and machine‑learning capabilities such as an HR voicebot, advanced talent analytics, automated candidate shortlisting, and OCR‑based expense scanning. Designed for mid‑to large‑sized enterprises, it offers e‑onboarding, merit planning, continuous feedback, performance journals, and insightful analytics to streamline core HR operations and boost engagement. Since its founding in 2015, the company has helped more than 350 global enterprises, including major brands, manage the lives of over 850,000 employees.

Apex.AI

Series B in 2021
Apex.AI develops software for autonomous mobility, offering a framework and tools that simplify the development of safe and secure autonomous driving applications. Its platform includes Apex.OS, which abstracts hardware, middleware, kernels, interfaces, and drivers into usable APIs, and Apex.Autonomy for safety-critical applications. It also offers MARV.Automotive, a data management platform that transfers vehicle data to the cloud, enables dynamic search-based analytics, analyzes partial logs, runs algorithms on real data, and provides graphical data introspection and team collaboration. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, Apex.AI builds on open-source software such as ROS and Eclipse iceoryx to provide building blocks for developers creating AI and safety-critical software for autonomous vehicles.

METiS Pharmaceuticals

Series A in 2021
Jitai Medicine (METiS) is a biotechnology company that uses artificial intelligence to drive drug delivery and drug discovery. It combines advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantum simulation to achieve more effective design of innovative delivery materials, drug candidate selection and formulation design, "programmable nucleic acid drug" development, and nucleic acid delivery design.

METiS Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
METiS Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that aims to drive therapies in a wide range of disease areas by integrating drug discovery and delivery with AI, machine learning, and quantum simulation.

Kodiak Robotics

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2018, Kodiak Robotics specializes in developing autonomous technology for long-haul trucking. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company focuses on creating safe and efficient self-driving trucks equipped with advanced sensor fusion systems.

Geniebook

Series A in 2021
Geniebook is an online learning platform designed to enhance students' learning and revision processes. It leverages artificial intelligence to create personalized questions and answers that focus on areas where individual students struggle, thereby fostering effective learning experiences. The platform also generates detailed reports on student progress, allowing parents to monitor their child's development and assign appropriate worksheets for further practice. By providing tailored support and promoting visibility in academic performance, Geniebook empowers students to build confidence and master their studies anytime and anywhere.

Dexterity

Series B in 2021
Dexterity Inc develops robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain applications. The company offers a robotics as a service model that enables businesses to integrate robotics into their operations. Its flagship DexR is a two-armed robot designed for tasks such as truck loading and material handling, equipped with machine vision and force sensing. The company combines artificial intelligence, software, and hardware in a platform to deliver high productivity, precision, and safety in industrial environments, allowing clients to delegate repetitive tasks to robots and augment human potential.

Aquant

Series C in 2021
Aquant develops an AI-driven platform that maximizes equipment uptime by predicting faults, diagnosing service issues, and optimizing van stock. Serving industries such as life sciences, capital equipment, and food service, Aquant's solution aggregates real-time signals, identifies failures, and provides actionable insights to enhance operational efficiency.

LeapYear

Venture Round in 2021
LeapYear Technologies, Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, specializes in developing a platform that enables enterprises to securely extract value from their most sensitive data. The platform employs differential privacy, a mathematically proven standard, to protect data while allowing it to be leveraged for machine learning purposes. This allows domain experts, data scientists, and partner organizations to create automated machine learning applications and APIs, monetizing previously inaccessible or restricted data sources. LeapYear has collaborated with major companies across various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, technology, and insurance, to combine, analyze, and securely utilize previously siloed information.

Balance

Series A in 2021
Balance provides a digital payments platform for B2B online purchasing, aiming to simplify the experience for both buyers and vendors. Founded in 2019 by Bar Geron and Yoni Shuster, it is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The B2B checkout platform processes online payments and employs a machine learning engine for real-time authentication and financial risk assessment, offering flexibility for businesses to pay on their own terms.

Market AI

Seed Round in 2021
Market is a business focused on enhancing financial health and fostering partnerships within various industries. Founded in 2019 and based in Santa Monica, California, it provides advisory services that assist direct-to-consumer and app-based companies in gaining insights into their financial performance. By offering analytics and insights, Market empowers businesses to make informed decisions and improve their overall financial health. Additionally, Market facilitates better understanding among companies, helping them identify and connect with potential partners to drive growth.

Snorkel AI

Series C in 2021
Snorkel AI, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an end-to-end machine-learning platform designed to facilitate the creation, management, and monitoring of AI applications. Founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers Snorkel Flow, a platform that enables programmatic data labeling, augmentation, and curation. This platform supports the clean integration and management of data for AI, as well as the training and deployment of various models. Snorkel AI's technology is particularly adept at extracting entities, relationships, and structured information from complex documents and forms, while also ranking content based on relevance and other factors. The company serves diverse sectors, including finance, government, telecommunications, insurance, healthcare, and e-commerce, and is recognized for its contributions to AI research through peer-reviewed publications.

Blameless

Series B in 2021
Blameless, Inc. is a company that develops a comprehensive site reliability engineering (SRE) platform aimed at automating incident response for software businesses. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Blameless provides tools for setting and monitoring service level objectives and agreements, facilitating coordinated incident response, and conducting root cause analysis. The platform enhances collaboration among engineering teams by assigning roles and checklists, and it features capabilities such as blameless postmortems and analytics dashboards. By leveraging AI-driven incident resolution and reliability insights, Blameless enables organizations to optimize their operational reliability while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

3T Biosciences

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2017, 3T Biosciences is a biotechnology company based in Menlo Park, California. It specializes in immunotherapies for cancer treatment.

Moveworks

Series C in 2021
Moveworks is a cloud-based AI platform for enterprises that automates IT support and related administrative tasks. The platform autonomously handles requests such as ordering hardware, provisioning software and account access, locating colleagues and conference rooms, checking ticket status, and obtaining software licenses, all through conversational interfaces. It integrates with enterprise chat tools like Slack to interact with users and trigger automated workflows. The solution uses a Reasoning Engine that combines public and proprietary large language models to interpret complex requests, execute multi-step processes, and adapt from past interactions. It surfaces information and automates tasks across multiple systems with an agentic AI assistant that enables conversational automation across business functions. Moveworks was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Culver City, California.

Fiddler AI

Series B in 2021
Fiddler Labs, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform designed to help businesses analyze, manage, and deploy their machine learning models effectively. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Fiddler offers an Explainable AI Engine that promotes transparency and understanding in AI solutions. This platform allows users across data science, product, and business teams to comprehend, validate, and manage their AI implementations, ensuring that these systems deliver reliable and trustworthy experiences for end-users. By providing statistical metrics, performance monitoring, and centralized controls, Fiddler aims to make AI more accessible and trustworthy for enterprises, ultimately unlocking the complexities of AI and enhancing user confidence in its applications.

Laiye

Series C in 2021
Laiye is a digital workforce platform that specializes in integrating artificial intelligence to enhance organizational productivity and creativity. The company offers a comprehensive automation process platform that includes capabilities such as robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent document processing (IDP). Laiye's intelligent dialogue robot platform is designed to simulate human tasks, enabling automated processing of emails, documents, and report generation, as well as data entry into customer relationship management systems. By leveraging these technologies, Laiye helps enterprises streamline their operations, improve efficiency, and reduce operational costs.

Snorkel AI

Series B in 2021
Snorkel AI, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an end-to-end machine-learning platform designed to facilitate the creation, management, and monitoring of AI applications. Founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers Snorkel Flow, a platform that enables programmatic data labeling, augmentation, and curation. This platform supports the clean integration and management of data for AI, as well as the training and deployment of various models. Snorkel AI's technology is particularly adept at extracting entities, relationships, and structured information from complex documents and forms, while also ranking content based on relevance and other factors. The company serves diverse sectors, including finance, government, telecommunications, insurance, healthcare, and e-commerce, and is recognized for its contributions to AI research through peer-reviewed publications.

Glean

Series B in 2021
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool integrated into any company's existing workflows. Its platform, Workplace Search, connects to internal data sources, enabling employees to find information and receive personalized answers using advanced search techniques, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models.

Balance

Seed Round in 2021
Balance provides a digital payments platform for B2B online purchasing, aiming to simplify the experience for both buyers and vendors. Founded in 2019 by Bar Geron and Yoni Shuster, it is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The B2B checkout platform processes online payments and employs a machine learning engine for real-time authentication and financial risk assessment, offering flexibility for businesses to pay on their own terms.

Darwinbox

Series C in 2021
Darwinbox is a cloud‑based human resources management platform that supports the entire employee lifecycle from hiring to retirement. The system combines a mobile‑first interface with AI and machine‑learning capabilities such as an HR voicebot, advanced talent analytics, automated candidate shortlisting, and OCR‑based expense scanning. Designed for mid‑to large‑sized enterprises, it offers e‑onboarding, merit planning, continuous feedback, performance journals, and insightful analytics to streamline core HR operations and boost engagement. Since its founding in 2015, the company has helped more than 350 global enterprises, including major brands, manage the lives of over 850,000 employees.

Dremio

Series D in 2021
Founded in 2015, Dremio develops a data lake engine that accelerates analytical processing for business intelligence tools, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients. Its platform enables self-service analytics by delivering query speed and a semantic layer operating directly against the data lake storage.

Nirvana Insurance

Seed Round in 2021
Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs. The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleet operators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers.

METiS Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2020
METiS Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that aims to drive therapies in a wide range of disease areas by integrating drug discovery and delivery with AI, machine learning, and quantum simulation.

DataFleets

Seed Round in 2020
DataFleets Ltd. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2018, that specializes in developing data analytics software focused on privacy preservation. Its core offering is a federated intelligence platform that enables organizations to unify and analyze distributed data while ensuring compliance with data protection standards. The platform allows data scientists and developers to create analytics, machine learning models, and applications using sensitive data sets without direct access to the data itself. By utilizing advanced techniques such as federated computation and differential privacy, DataFleets addresses the challenges of balancing data privacy with innovation, facilitating agile analytics and automated compliance for its clients. Additionally, the company provides a web-based notebook editor, allowing users to test hypotheses effectively.

Rephrase.ai

Seed Round in 2020
Rephrase.ai develops AI-powered video creation technology. It transforms any given text into photorealistic videos of people speaking that content, enabling clients to produce training videos, personalized sales videos, AR/VR characters, and digital assistants.

Dexterity

Series A in 2020
Dexterity Inc develops robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain applications. The company offers a robotics as a service model that enables businesses to integrate robotics into their operations. Its flagship DexR is a two-armed robot designed for tasks such as truck loading and material handling, equipped with machine vision and force sensing. The company combines artificial intelligence, software, and hardware in a platform to deliver high productivity, precision, and safety in industrial environments, allowing clients to delegate repetitive tasks to robots and augment human potential.

NextBillion.ai

Series A in 2020
NextBillion.ai is a company focused on delivering AI-powered hyperlocal solutions, primarily in the realm of mapping. It is dedicated to building the geospatial infrastructure necessary for enhancing location-based experiences for a rapidly growing user base in markets such as India, Indonesia, and Nigeria. These regions present unique challenges due to underdeveloped infrastructure, the emergence of megacities, complex addressing systems, and dynamic road networks. To address these complexities, NextBillion.ai develops a spatial data platform that enables enterprises to effectively manage location data and implement an AI-first approach across various use cases and geographies. The platform assists clients in building and scaling their mapping ecosystems, addressing routing and scheduling challenges, and optimizing routes and dispatch processes. By combining data, artificial intelligence, and human expertise, NextBillion.ai aims to solve intricate location problems and improve navigation technology.

MemVerge

Series B in 2020
MemVerge specializes in memory storage convergence software designed to optimize cloud infrastructure. Its proprietary Distributed Memory Objects (DMO) technology leverages Intel's Optane DC persistent memory, enabling data-intensive workloads like AI/ML and big data analytics to run at memory speed with consistent data across systems.

Turing

Convertible Note in 2020
Turing.com operates an online platform that connects tech companies with remote software developers for both short- and long-term projects. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company specializes in vetting candidates through comprehensive assessments that evaluate their technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and communication proficiency. This rigorous selection process allows Turing to provide its clients with access to the top 1% of remote engineers across a variety of skill sets, including full stack, backend, frontend, DevOps, AI/ML, and mobile development. Turing serves a diverse clientele, including startups and Fortune 1000 companies, and has become a popular choice for developers, with over 180,000 professionals across 10,000 cities utilizing the platform to find remote job opportunities. Backed by prominent investors, Turing aims to streamline the hiring process for companies, enabling them to quickly and efficiently acquire Silicon Valley-caliber talent.

Dremio

Series C in 2020
Founded in 2015, Dremio develops a data lake engine that accelerates analytical processing for business intelligence tools, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients. Its platform enables self-service analytics by delivering query speed and a semantic layer operating directly against the data lake storage.

Sleek

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Sleek is a deep learning startup that specializes in enhancing customer experiences by reducing wait times through its innovative AI-based platform. By integrating various data sources, the company's patent-pending technology offers virtual queuing solutions that allow customers to avoid long lines while enabling businesses, such as popular merchants and event organizers, to generate additional revenue streams. The platform accurately assesses real wait times and creates a dynamically priced virtual priority lane, requiring no additional hardware or workflow changes. Serving over 20,000 businesses, Sleek is backed by prominent investors and was founded by a team of Forbes U30 honorees, including former engineers from Google and Stanford. With a dedicated team of eight, Sleek aims to transform how customers interact with service environments.

Laiye

Series C in 2020
Laiye is a digital workforce platform that specializes in integrating artificial intelligence to enhance organizational productivity and creativity. The company offers a comprehensive automation process platform that includes capabilities such as robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent document processing (IDP). Laiye's intelligent dialogue robot platform is designed to simulate human tasks, enabling automated processing of emails, documents, and report generation, as well as data entry into customer relationship management systems. By leveraging these technologies, Laiye helps enterprises streamline their operations, improve efficiency, and reduce operational costs.

PredictHQ

Series B in 2020
PredictHQ provides a Software-as-a-Service platform offering event and business intelligence. Its platform enables visibility of campaign management across various channels such as performance advertising, email, social media, and SEO. The company offers a web application, an API, and FOCUS, a Chrome extension. PredictHQ's platform aggregates and verifies millions of demand causal factors to help businesses make better decisions faster.

Aquant

Series B in 2020
Aquant develops an AI-driven platform that maximizes equipment uptime by predicting faults, diagnosing service issues, and optimizing van stock. Serving industries such as life sciences, capital equipment, and food service, Aquant's solution aggregates real-time signals, identifies failures, and provides actionable insights to enhance operational efficiency.

Dong Diaodu

Series A in 2019
Dong Diaodu provides the logistics industry with optimized delivery solutions of smart dispatch and optimized route based on “key dynamic cellular algorithm+ bump mapping + optimized smart search engine+ AI”.

Apex.AI

Venture Round in 2019
Apex.AI develops software for autonomous mobility, offering a framework and tools that simplify the development of safe and secure autonomous driving applications. Its platform includes Apex.OS, which abstracts hardware, middleware, kernels, interfaces, and drivers into usable APIs, and Apex.Autonomy for safety-critical applications. It also offers MARV.Automotive, a data management platform that transfers vehicle data to the cloud, enables dynamic search-based analytics, analyzes partial logs, runs algorithms on real data, and provides graphical data introspection and team collaboration. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California, Apex.AI builds on open-source software such as ROS and Eclipse iceoryx to provide building blocks for developers creating AI and safety-critical software for autonomous vehicles.

Moveworks

Series B in 2019
Moveworks is a cloud-based AI platform for enterprises that automates IT support and related administrative tasks. The platform autonomously handles requests such as ordering hardware, provisioning software and account access, locating colleagues and conference rooms, checking ticket status, and obtaining software licenses, all through conversational interfaces. It integrates with enterprise chat tools like Slack to interact with users and trigger automated workflows. The solution uses a Reasoning Engine that combines public and proprietary large language models to interpret complex requests, execute multi-step processes, and adapt from past interactions. It surfaces information and automates tasks across multiple systems with an agentic AI assistant that enables conversational automation across business functions. Moveworks was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Culver City, California.

Fiddler AI

Venture Round in 2019
Fiddler Labs, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform designed to help businesses analyze, manage, and deploy their machine learning models effectively. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Fiddler offers an Explainable AI Engine that promotes transparency and understanding in AI solutions. This platform allows users across data science, product, and business teams to comprehend, validate, and manage their AI implementations, ensuring that these systems deliver reliable and trustworthy experiences for end-users. By providing statistical metrics, performance monitoring, and centralized controls, Fiddler aims to make AI more accessible and trustworthy for enterprises, ultimately unlocking the complexities of AI and enhancing user confidence in its applications.

Cognicept Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Cognicept Systems specializes in hybrid robotics artificial intelligence, offering innovative solutions through its Smart+ telerobotic intervention technology and remote robot pilots. The company focuses on enhancing the deployment of robotic systems by addressing the gap between technological capabilities and customer needs. Cognicept's platform provides supervised autonomy tools that ensure reliability in unpredictable applications, thereby expanding the operational potential of robots. This technology is particularly valuable during the prototyping and testing phases of robotics development, allowing teams to avoid the complexities of creating these tools in-house. By delivering a robust operating system for remote intervention, Cognicept empowers clients to efficiently manage tasks in unstructured environments.
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