Soma Capital

Soma Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It focuses on investing in seed-stage startups primarily in the software sector, with a particular interest in areas such as B2B SaaS, artificial intelligence, fintech, clean-tech, frontier-tech, prop-tech, cryptocurrency, health tech, and consumer industries. Soma Capital aims to support founders by leveraging insights from its own founding experience. The firm has successfully invested in several high-profile startups, which collectively are valued at over $60 billion, including notable companies such as Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School. Soma Capital operates as a Registered Investment Adviser and targets opportunities across diverse regions, including Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Asia.

Juan Abundes

Venture Partner

Willem van den Bosch

Investment Partner

Douglas Carney

Investor

Mir Faiyaz

Partner and Head of Growth Investments

Fouad Farhat

Investment Partner

Juliet Fern

Investor

Nikhita Jaaswal

Investment Partner

Taryn Livingstone

Investor

Vishnu Srinivasan

Investor

Past deals in Analytics

Optery

Seed Round in 2023
Developer of a privacy management technology designed to put consumers in control of their personal data. The company's technology removes a user's information from dozens of data brokers and prevents identity theft and fraud, reduces phishing, spam calls, and emails, along with provides tools and services that give consumers visibility into their profiles, enabling consumers and data brokers to interact in fairness and transparency in a way that honors consumers' preferences and legal rights.

Openlayer

Seed Round in 2023
Unbox is a novel, collaborative error analysis platform that "opens up" machine learning models by detecting and eliminating failure patterns and biases. Unbox makes it easy to keep track of all models and datasets, allowing the team to focus on building production-ready models.

Luca

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Luca is an innovative platform designed for enterprise retailers, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance pricing strategies. Founded by individuals who previously developed pricing technology at Uber, Luca addresses the challenges retailers face in optimizing pricing decisions. The platform identifies potential revenue and profit opportunities, provides intelligent recommendations for price adjustments, and significantly reduces the time required for pricing analysis. By offering machine learning-based insights into customer price sensitivities, Luca enables retailers to achieve precise margin and revenue goals tailored to their specific business objectives. Supported by notable investors, Luca aims to transform the way retailers approach pricing, empowering them to leverage sophisticated tools for better financial outcomes.

Mentum

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a business intelligence and analytics tool intended to help organizations optimize their supply chain process. The company's platform offers customizable dashboards, real-time data visualization, and advanced reporting features, enabling enterprises to effectively analyze and interpret complex data sets, improve operational efficiency, and drive strategic insights.

Nanonets

Series A in 2022
NanoNets is machine learning API for developers which requires 1/10th of data and no machine learning expertise to train a model. Upload the data, wait for a few minutes and get a model you can query over their easy to use cloud API. Often companies do not have enough data to train a machine learning model on their own using state of the art algorithms as well as don't have enough data scientists to work on those problems. NanoNets solves both these problems for companies.

Cloudthread

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a cloud cost telemetry platform intended to help engineering teams build cost-efficiently in the cloud. The company's platform integrates cloud unit costs into engineering workflows, understands the cost efficiency of applications, and instantly catches cloud cost spikes and the endpoint driving them, enabling organizations to build cost-efficient applications with few meetings, improved data, and engineering autonomy.

Secoda

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a collaborative knowledge management tool designed to make data teams share metadata, queries, charts, and documentation. The company's platform helps employees find and understand the right information in a few time, and track the relationships between people and data to help users visualize all the interactions between the different collaborators of the enterprise, enabling users to implement data discovery efficiently.

Akiba Digital

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Akiba Digital is a financial data aggregation company, that houses a data consolidation and enrichment engine that clusters, visualises and predicts consumer behaviour. Our vision is to build a company that is most effective at understanding and enhancing personal financial management for the African consumer.

Haystack

Seed Round in 2021
Our mission is to bring the competitive advantage data-driven engineering teams like Google have to everyone. We help teams track their delivery process and optimization opportunities instead of relying solely on gut feelings - resulting in 40% faster delivery on average.

Albedo

Seed Round in 2021
Albedo designs and operates satellites that capture imagery at a resolution 9x higher than what's available today. We're modernizing how satellite imagery is used by providing transparent, near real-time access to our ultra-high resolution datasets.

Biodock

Seed Round in 2021
Biodock's cloud platform accelerates microscopy analysis, automating months of microscopy analysis and infrastructure to minutes with our end-to-end AI architecture. Scientists enjoy auto-scaling storage, GPU compute, and 30-50% more accurate analysis. We also have a data flywheel built into our product - we process millions of cells weekly for our free academic and enterprise customers, and we're building the largest image dataset for microscopy images, which gives us a competitive data advantage.

Harmonic

Venture Round in 2021
Developer of enterprise software designed to transform business activities into actionable insights that drive growth. The company's software accesses the sourcing pipeline of leading venture firms, targets new accounts, leads, and customer intent signals before competitors, and tracks the strategic movements of companies and professionals with customizable workflows and alerts, enabling clients to automate sourcing and networking.

Gisual

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Gisual provides outage intelligence for telecoms and service providers We automate the collection and dissemination of 3rd party outage intel. Gisual’s data intelligence dramatically reduces complexity, costs, and resolution times. We enhance your network monitoring system, but instead of telling you what's happening inside your network we tell you everything happening outside of your network.

Gisual

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Gisual provides outage intelligence for telecoms and service providers We automate the collection and dissemination of 3rd party outage intel. Gisual’s data intelligence dramatically reduces complexity, costs, and resolution times. We enhance your network monitoring system, but instead of telling you what's happening inside your network we tell you everything happening outside of your network.

Explo

Seed Round in 2020
Explo, founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, operates a data exploration and analysis platform that facilitates the creation of customer-facing dashboards and reports. The platform connects directly to various data sources, allowing users to manipulate and visualize data through a user-friendly point-and-click interface. This functionality enables clients to make informed, data-driven decisions, ultimately supporting their business growth and scalability.

Via

Seed Round in 2020
SaaS customer engagement platform that helps businesses with customer discovery and customer acquisition

API Tracker

Seed Round in 2020
API Tracker is a software company that specializes in tracking and managing APIs. It monitors all API integrations, increases reliability, and features a simple deployment model. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Explo

Seed Round in 2020
Explo, founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, operates a data exploration and analysis platform that facilitates the creation of customer-facing dashboards and reports. The platform connects directly to various data sources, allowing users to manipulate and visualize data through a user-friendly point-and-click interface. This functionality enables clients to make informed, data-driven decisions, ultimately supporting their business growth and scalability.

Glisten.AI

Seed Round in 2020
Glisten AI is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing artificial intelligence software tailored for the e-commerce industry. The company focuses on automating the representation of product data for retailers, transforming inconsistent product and listing information into structured, workable data. Glisten AI's technology consolidates and classifies products using a standardized taxonomy, enabling better data organization. Additionally, it enhances existing product information by generating new insights and making the data accessible for machine learning, search, and analytics applications. Founded by Sarah Wooders and Alice Deng, Glisten AI aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of product data management in the retail sector.

Gisual

Seed Round in 2019
Gisual provides outage intelligence for telecoms and service providers We automate the collection and dissemination of 3rd party outage intel. Gisual’s data intelligence dramatically reduces complexity, costs, and resolution times. We enhance your network monitoring system, but instead of telling you what's happening inside your network we tell you everything happening outside of your network.

Biobot Analytics

Seed Round in 2018
Biobot Analytics, Inc. is a wastewater epidemiology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017. The company specializes in transforming sewer systems into public health observatories through innovative technology that analyzes wastewater samples. By deploying proprietary sampling devices and spatial analytics, Biobot measures various health threats, including infectious disease outbreaks, antibiotic resistance, and fluctuations in drug consumption. One of its key initiatives is the Opioid Consumption Monitoring Program, which assesses opioid usage by analyzing sewage to provide estimates of drug consumption in urban areas. This approach creates a health database that operates independently of traditional hospital reporting systems, enabling rapid adaptation to emerging public health challenges while minimizing societal biases in healthcare access.

Nanonets

Seed Round in 2017
NanoNets is machine learning API for developers which requires 1/10th of data and no machine learning expertise to train a model. Upload the data, wait for a few minutes and get a model you can query over their easy to use cloud API. Often companies do not have enough data to train a machine learning model on their own using state of the art algorithms as well as don't have enough data scientists to work on those problems. NanoNets solves both these problems for companies.

SocialRank

Convertible Note in 2015
SocialRank is an online service that enables users to identify, organize, and manage their followers on Twitter and Instagram. SocialRank's product empowers their users to segment and filter their followers based on location, interests, bio keywords, hashtags, influence, engagement, and more. Fortune 500 brands have used SocialRank to mobilize marketing campaigns ranging from local events and prize giveaways to targeted advertising and competitive analysis. SocialRank was launched by Alexander Taub and Michael Schonfeld in February 2014.

ListenLoop

Seed Round in 2015
ListenLoop is a B2B marketing platform that enhances account-based marketing (ABM) strategies by enabling businesses to deliver targeted banner ads to specific accounts. The platform allows users to select key accounts, upload advertisements, and initiate campaigns efficiently. It facilitates the nurturing of target accounts through drip campaigns, which deliver a series of ads over time to maintain engagement without overwhelming potential buyers. Additionally, ListenLoop provides account-level reporting that integrates with Salesforce, enabling clients to measure the impact of their advertising efforts on target accounts. With its focus on user behavior and customer insights, ListenLoop empowers businesses to refine their marketing strategies effectively.

Sensai

Venture Round in 2015
Sensai is a Content Analytics platform for Sales, Operations, and Finance teams. Analysts use Sensai to find and trend emerging concepts within enterprise repositories and from public and private feeds. Sensai features novel methods of clustering and tuning results so that users can quickly test theories, quantify and iterate on patterns in the data.
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