Yutori is an AI startup specializing in the development of autonomous agents designed to perform various everyday digital tasks on the web. With an agent-first approach, the company emphasizes the use of advanced post-training foundation models to create AI systems that are both agentic and capable of executing multiple tasks and sub-tasks simultaneously. This innovative focus aims to offer consumers more accurate and reliable AI assistants, enhancing the efficiency of digital interactions and automating routine processes.
Browser Use
Seed Round in 2025
Browser Use is a technology company specializing in web accessibility software for AI agents. It enables AI agents to interact with websites by extracting interactive elements, managing multiple browser tabs, and supporting custom actions. The company's software combines visual understanding with HTML extraction, allowing developers to build capable web-based AI agents using various large language models.
Halliday automates workflows across systems, enhancing player onboarding and engagement in Web3 games and virtual environments.
Abridge is a healthcare technology company that uses generative AI to automate transcription and summarization of medical conversations, turning patient-clinician discussions into structured clinical notes in real time and integrating with electronic health record systems. The platform reduces manual note-taking, improves documentation accuracy, and enhances patient understanding by providing clear, understandable summaries. It supports clinicians across clinical, nursing, and revenue cycle workflows while prioritizing data security and patient privacy and complying with healthcare regulations. The system offers an audio-based recording and summarization approach with a customizable interface to tailor notes to patient needs.
Fifteenth
Seed Round in 2025
Fifteenth is a technology company that specializes in tax planning and filing services for individuals with complex financial portfolios, particularly those in the tech industry. The company's AI-powered platform integrates with major systems like Workday, offering tailored tax strategies, expert consultation, and optimization solutions for various income sources such as private and public equity, rental incomes, and angel investments.
Wordware
Seed Round in 2024
Wordware specializes in providing a unified platform for developing, training, and deploying language models. It streamlines AI application development by integrating essential components into a single environment.
Reducto
Seed Round in 2024
Reducto develops a retrieval augmented generation platform that converts complex, unstructured documents into optimized chunks compatible with vector databases and LLM retrieval pipelines. Its software uses AI and computer vision to parse and extract information from various data formats, enhancing RAG performance.
Safe Superintelligence
Series A in 2024
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.
Astranis develops innovative satellite technology to provide targeted internet access to underserved regions. The company manufactures small satellites for high-orbit deployment, serving diverse sectors such as defense, commercial communications, oil and gas, and telecommunications.
Reworkd
Seed Round in 2024
Reworkd is an AI-driven automation platform focused on streamlining business processing workflows through innovative technology. The company has developed a data extraction tool that enables systematic web browsing to collect essential information efficiently. By automatically generating code to extract specific data from web pages, Reworkd significantly reduces the reliance on manual coding. The platform also manages request frequency to prevent access issues with websites, thereby facilitating market research teams in generating valuable insights. Committed to democratizing access to artificial intelligence, Reworkd aims to make advanced AI capabilities available to a broader audience, fostering community-driven innovation.
Formation Bio
Series D in 2024
Formation Bio is a biotechnology company dedicated to accelerating drug development and enhancing patient access to new treatments by reimagining clinical trials. The company has developed a platform that scales a network of clinical trial sites integrated within existing medical practices. By utilizing a roaming cohort of certified research coordinators and leveraging advanced software and data analytics, Formation Bio enables researchers to optimize their access to human subjects for various studies, including clinical trials and psychological research. This innovative approach aims to streamline the clinical trial process, ultimately facilitating faster delivery of new therapies to patients.
Ideogram is an artificial intelligence startup focused on generative text-to-image technology. The company develops innovative media tools designed to enhance creative expression and accessibility for users. Its platform incorporates advanced functionalities, allowing individuals to explore and experiment with creative projects using generative artificial intelligence. Through its unique approach, Ideogram aims to empower users to unleash their creativity by simplifying the process of generating visual content from textual input.
Factory
Seed Round in 2023
Factory is a technology company that develops an AI-based platform for software engineering. Its platform reviews code, addresses bugs, answers questions, and handles routine tasks such as code review, debugging, and refactoring, allowing engineers to delegate tasks and focus on complex problems.
P0 Security
Seed Round in 2023
P0 Security is a technology company that specializes in cloud-access governance. Its platform is designed to secure both human and machine identities in cloud environments, without disrupting developer workflows. P0's services include automating privileged access workflows, identifying risks in cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM), and automating periodic access reviews. This enables security engineers to provide timely and short-lived access to customer data in the cloud, promoting a continuous least privilege approach.
OpenAI
Venture Round in 2023
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops general-purpose artificial intelligence technologies and applies them to real-world problems. It conducts machine learning research and builds systems such as large-scale language models, multimodal input handling, and code generation to support automation, data analysis, content generation, and interactive problem solving across industries including technology, healthcare, and education. The organization offers platforms and APIs that enable enterprises, developers, and researchers to build, test, and deploy intelligent systems, with plug-in extensibility and ongoing model updates to improve performance and safety.
Coactive AI
Series A in 2023
Coactive AI is a machine learning platform focused on transforming unstructured image and video data into actionable insights. By providing an application programming interface, the company empowers data practitioners and teams to effectively utilize visual data alongside conventional big data tools. Coactive AI employs advanced techniques in data-centric artificial intelligence to enhance the usability of visual data, allowing analysts to derive meaningful insights quickly and efficiently. The platform aims to simplify the challenges associated with managing unstructured data, making it accessible and valuable for data-driven decision-making.
Coactive AI
Seed Round in 2023
Coactive AI is a machine learning platform focused on transforming unstructured image and video data into actionable insights. By providing an application programming interface, the company empowers data practitioners and teams to effectively utilize visual data alongside conventional big data tools. Coactive AI employs advanced techniques in data-centric artificial intelligence to enhance the usability of visual data, allowing analysts to derive meaningful insights quickly and efficiently. The platform aims to simplify the challenges associated with managing unstructured data, making it accessible and valuable for data-driven decision-making.
Character.ai
Venture Round in 2023
Character.ai develops an open-ended conversational platform where users can create characters and engage in dialogues. The company focuses on neural language models to power these interactions, facilitating creativity, learning, and entertainment.
Character.ai
Seed Round in 2023
Character.ai develops an open-ended conversational platform where users can create characters and engage in dialogues. The company focuses on neural language models to power these interactions, facilitating creativity, learning, and entertainment.
M-Work
Pre Seed Round in 2022
M-Work is a developer of a workplace management platform tailored for hybrid work environments. The company has created an ergonomic and intelligent platform that facilitates the organization of teams between remote and office settings. M-Work's platform features employee scheduling, desk booking, and meeting room booking, all integrated with existing tools for ease of deployment. Additionally, it offers analytics tools that enable businesses to monitor employee work patterns and optimize space utilization. By doing so, M-Work aims to enhance employee productivity, lower operational costs, and promote a more sustainable workplace.
CreatorDAO
Seed Round in 2022
CreatorDAO is a decentralized community established in 2022 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company focuses on investing in creators by offering a comprehensive platform that provides capital, technology, and operational support. CreatorDAO empowers creators by granting them access to essential resources such as mentorship and professional tools necessary for brand growth. By facilitating these investments, CreatorDAO aims to strengthen the creator economy and enhance the success of individuals within this domain.
Halliday
Seed Round in 2022
Halliday automates workflows across systems, enhancing player onboarding and engagement in Web3 games and virtual environments.
Overwatch Research
Seed Round in 2021
Overwatch Research Limited is a company based in Belfast, United Kingdom, specializing in the design and development of in-vivo tracking software for preclinical laboratories. Established in 2017, the company aims to enhance laboratory workflows for contract research organizations, pharmaceutical firms, and academic institutions. Overwatch Research provides an integrated experimental tracking solution that facilitates the management of scientific experiments, thereby saving time, reducing errors, and fostering collaboration among researchers. By automating many manual processes associated with in-vivo study tracking, the company's software enables scientists to produce more reproducible research and improves overall efficiency in laboratory settings.
AON3D develops advanced manufacturing technologies for industrial 3D printing. They specialize in physics-informed software, sensing systems, and hardware designed to print high-performance thermoplastics. Their printers operate under hot conditions suitable for advanced materials, serving clients across aerospace, research & development, automotive, and industrial sectors.
Magic is a technology company that specializes in password-less authentication solutions, providing an alternative login method that enhances security and user experience. Its innovative technology employs a plug-and-play kit combined with blockchain infrastructure, enabling developers to easily integrate customizable password-less login features into their applications. With just a few lines of code, developers can implement this scalable solution, allowing users to access services without traditional passwords, thus streamlining the login process and reducing security risks associated with password management.
Rome is a comprehensive development toolchain designed to streamline the coding process for developers. It integrates multiple tools into a single application, supporting programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS. The software allows users to manage dependencies, check for errors, run tests, and bundle code through a unified command-line interface, enhancing overall efficiency. By consolidating functionality and minimizing the need for extensive configurations, Rome provides developers with a cohesive experience that simplifies code processing, error display, task parallelization, and caching.
Pyroscope
Seed Round in 2021
Pyroscope is an open-source platform founded in 2020, based in Oakland, California, that specializes in continuous profiling to monitor and debug applications and APIs. The platform provides tools for code editing, debugging, and sampling profiling, allowing users to identify performance issues and optimize their software effectively. By enabling developers to build custom data storage engines for profiling data, Pyroscope aims to help improve application performance and efficiency. The company focuses on addressing and resolving bottlenecks within code, making it a valuable resource for software engineering teams seeking to enhance their applications' responsiveness and overall performance.
Airplane is a software development company founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides a cloud-based platform designed to assist engineers in creating internal tools that facilitate recurring workflows within organizations. By enabling the transformation of scripts, SQL queries, and other functions into enterprise-grade applications, Airplane allows clients to streamline their processes and concentrate on core backend operations, ultimately saving time and enhancing productivity. The company's focus lies in software engineering and information technology, positioning it as a valuable resource for organizations seeking to optimize their internal workflows.
Metaphor
Seed Round in 2020
Metaphor is a search and discovery tool designed for data scientists, engineers, and AI practitioners. It helps organizations understand and manage their data by leveraging the power of metadata knowledge graphs.
Isovalent
Series A in 2020
Isovalent develops open-source software and enterprise solutions for cloud-native networking, security, and observability. Its flagship product, Cilium, enables enterprises to connect, monitor, and secure workloads in modern environments. Isovalent serves leading global organizations and has offices in Cupertino, CA and Zurich, Switzerland.
Haystack
Seed Round in 2020
Haystack is an employee experience platform that centralizes an organization's communication, knowledge, and people into a single branded hub accessible via mobile and web. By unifying internal channels and resources, it helps organizations improve alignment, boost employee engagement, scale culture, and accelerate onboarding for new hires.
Talentdrop
Seed Round in 2020
Talentdrop is a recruiting software company that aims to improve the hiring process by enabling hiring managers and recruiters to tap into their personal networks for sourcing candidates. By facilitating the sharing of open roles across platforms like LinkedIn, Slack, and Twitter, Talentdrop enhances the recruitment experience through a more personalized approach. The platform allows users to create customized hiring pages and drop referrals into a private pipeline, thus incentivizing industry experts to assist in the recruitment process without incurring additional costs. Founded by experienced professionals from high-growth consumer tech companies, Talentdrop focuses on transforming traditional hiring methods by fostering a collaborative environment that prioritizes human connections and effective talent sourcing.
Magic is a technology company that specializes in password-less authentication solutions, providing an alternative login method that enhances security and user experience. Its innovative technology employs a plug-and-play kit combined with blockchain infrastructure, enabling developers to easily integrate customizable password-less login features into their applications. With just a few lines of code, developers can implement this scalable solution, allowing users to access services without traditional passwords, thus streamlining the login process and reducing security risks associated with password management.
Fly.io is a company that provides an Application Delivery Network (ADN) designed to connect website owners with their customers effectively. Its platform allows users to build application servers using JavaScript, enabling them to write, test, and run code locally before deploying it. By utilizing a network of servers, Fly.io accepts visitor traffic, processes requests through middleware, and routes them to backend applications. This infrastructure allows website owners to direct their visitors securely and efficiently, ensuring that applications can scale and operate close to end users.
Sunshine
Seed Round in 2020
Sunshine is a Palo Alto, California-based technology company that develops an AI-powered photo-sharing app. The platform automates the identification and curation of the best moments for sharing with friends and family, while supporting group sharing, event coordination, invites, and shared albums, all with a focus on privacy and user control. Founded by Marissa Mayer and Enrique Muñoz Torres, Sunshine aims to simplify memory sharing by making moments easier to select and share.
Garner Health
Seed Round in 2020
Garner Health is a technology company established in 2019 and based in New York, NY, that focuses on enhancing the healthcare experience for employees through employer partnerships. By leveraging a doctor quality analytics platform, Garner Health provides insights into clinical quality and total care costs, helping employers direct their employees to high-quality healthcare providers. The platform also offers an overlay account that covers employee deductibles and coinsurance, allowing employees to reduce out-of-pocket expenses while ensuring employers achieve guaranteed savings. Through this approach, Garner Health aims to improve healthcare quality and affordability for both employees and their employers.
Tikkit
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Tikkit is a New York-based mobile-first ticketing and event-management platform founded in 2015. It offers an app-driven solution that enables hosts to promote, fund, and digitally ticket events and allows attendees to manage payments and interactions for private gatherings and larger concerts. The platform supports event discovery, guest management, and check-in, integrating payments and social tools into a single mobile experience to simplify planning and participation for organizers and attendees.
IdeaFlow
Venture Round in 2019
IdeaFlow is a Palo Alto-based company developing an intelligent platform that combines human and artificial intelligence to help teams of analysts create, visualize, and analyze networks of information. Founded in 2015, the platform acts as a shared memory for organizations, connecting fragments from siloed sources and merging them into a single database. It provides AI parsing, voice transcription, and search capabilities to support collaboration, enabling users to access collective knowledge and uncover insights faster. The solution focuses on intelligence amplification, augmenting human thinking by integrating previously stagnant data sources into an organized, searchable information network.
Baton Trucking, Inc. is a logistics company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in enhancing long-haul trucking efficiency through its innovative drop zone network. This network allows for the segmentation of long routes, facilitating the use of specialized vehicles for different sections of the journey. Additionally, Baton provides a real estate infrastructure designed for highway-only autonomous trucks to seamlessly interchange loads with human drivers for final-mile delivery. Incorporated in 2019, the company also operates a technology innovation laboratory that collaborates with Ryder System, focusing on a digital platform that utilizes optimization and artificial intelligence to streamline freight networks and reduce waste in trucking operations.
Raydiant
Seed Round in 2019
Raydiant Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in designing, developing, and providing an experience platform that connects employees and customers with brands across various industries such as banking, retail, hospitality, and healthcare. The company's solution comprises kiosks, virtual agents, and multimedia devices for screen management, enabling businesses to create engaging in-store experiences through digital signage. Raydiant works with over 5,000 brands worldwide, including notable clients like Johnson & Johnson and Chick-Fil-A, helping them streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive sales growth.
Gel Data
Seed Round in 2019
EdgeDB is a company that specializes in reinventing the relational database stack through its open-source object-relational database platform. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, it addresses significant design challenges in existing databases by offering a streamlined data model and a powerful query language. This platform effectively resolves the impedance mismatch by returning structured result objects, allowing developers to construct queries, subqueries, and nested inserts that are fully composable. EdgeDB's technology aims to enhance productivity and efficiency for developers and data engineers, enabling them to build safe and effective software with reduced complexity.
The Org
Seed Round in 2019
The Org is a New York-based company founded in 2017 that operates an online platform showcasing public organizations. It specializes in creating crowdsourced organizational charts, which visually represent the managerial structures of various enterprises. By providing detailed insights into teams and their hierarchies, The Org assists companies in their hiring processes and helps individuals understand their colleagues and organizational dynamics. This platform not only enables users to stay informed about new hires but also facilitates recognition of professional contributions within organizations.
Aether Bio
Seed Round in 2019
Aether Bio is a technology company that focuses on re-purposing enzymes to create new compounds using machine learning. By integrating machine learning with high-throughput robotic laboratories, Aether Bio engineers enzymes rapidly and enables massively parallelized experimentation. This innovative approach generates significantly larger datasets compared to competitors, allowing researchers to manufacture complex and novel products more efficiently and at a lower cost. The company's technology aims to provide healthcare institutions with sustainable and affordable chemicals and materials essential for their operations.
Snorkel AI
Seed Round in 2019
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.
Highlighter
Seed Round in 2019
Highlighter is a company focused on enhancing the reading experience for students and educators by providing an innovative HTML5 reader. This platform enables teachers and professors to publish PDF and ePUB documents at no cost, making them accessible on any device. Highlighter significantly reduces the cost of textbooks while promoting student engagement through features that allow users to highlight, annotate, comment, share, and save snippets of text. Additionally, the company's tools facilitate the automatic highlighting and sharing of engaging content from articles and blogs, fostering a dynamic interaction between publishers and readers.
Binti
Venture Round in 2019
Binti operates a digital platform that streamlines child welfare processes. It serves over 30% of children in US child welfare through its tools used by 300+ agencies across 33 states. The platform covers end-to-end services, including foster parent recruitment, family reunification support, and adoption paperwork assistance. Binti's AI-driven system enhances efficiency, reducing approval times by up to 16% and saving social worker time by 20-40%. Incorporated in 2013, it is headquartered in Oakland, California.
Tecton offers an enterprise-grade feature store, empowering businesses to harness machine learning effectively. Its platform addresses unique ML data requirements, enabling teams to build, serve, and scale features swiftly and reliably.
Atom Computing
Seed Round in 2018
Atom Computing Inc. is a technology company based in Berkeley, California, focused on the development of scalable quantum computers utilizing individual atoms. Founded in 2018, the company leverages the quantum mechanical properties of these atoms to process information and tackle complex problems that are beyond the capabilities of traditional computing. Atom Computing's innovative approach enables precise control, scaling, and stabilization of atoms, allowing quantum engineers and researchers to conduct advanced calculations in various fields, including drug design, computational chemistry, and other areas of general computing.
Celo
Venture Round in 2018
Celo is an open platform focused on providing financial tools to individuals with mobile phones, aiming to foster prosperity for all. It has developed a mobile-first blockchain platform that facilitates access to financial services and aims to enhance financial stability. The platform employs alphanumeric strings for cryptocurrency transactions, allowing users to transfer money quickly, securely, and reliably. Through these innovations, Celo seeks to democratize financial access and create a more inclusive monetary system.
Magic is a technology company that specializes in password-less authentication solutions, providing an alternative login method that enhances security and user experience. Its innovative technology employs a plug-and-play kit combined with blockchain infrastructure, enabling developers to easily integrate customizable password-less login features into their applications. With just a few lines of code, developers can implement this scalable solution, allowing users to access services without traditional passwords, thus streamlining the login process and reducing security risks associated with password management.
Thunkable
Venture Round in 2018
Thunkable is a United States-based no-code platform that enables users to create native mobile applications without writing code. It offers a drag-and-drop interface, built-in templates, and design elements to simplify app development, with online design and instant previews on devices. The platform supports cross-platform deployment to major mobile platforms and enables direct submission to the iOS and Android app stores, allowing individuals and developers to build functional apps without traditional coding.
Karuna Health
Seed Round in 2018
Karuna Health, Inc. is a healthcare technology company that specializes in developing a patient engagement and task management platform designed to improve communication between healthcare providers and patients. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Karuna's platform automates essential patient care management tasks, enabling health guides to assist patients with appointment reminders, health status updates, and communication with care managers. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools that facilitate scheduling, transportation organization, and the secure exchange of information, all while ensuring compliance with HIPAA regulations. By integrating workflow and automation, Karuna Health aims to enhance the patient experience and streamline interactions among patients, their families, and healthcare teams.
Brud Inc. is a transmedia studio based in Los Angeles that specializes in the development of digital and robotic characters which are designed to engage audiences across various social platforms. Founded in 2014 and originally known as Miquela Media, the company focuses on creating virtual influencers and character-driven story worlds. Brud combines expertise in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to enhance media experiences, enabling the creation of innovative and popular digital personalities. The company is dedicated to leveraging technology in creative ways to redefine storytelling in the digital age.
Dreams is a New York City-based company that specializes in a mobile-only television platform, focusing on a modern, mobile-first news experience. Founded in 2016 by Tom Bender and Greg Hochmuth, Dreams employs patent-pending computer vision technology to transform live television news into a vertical video format in real-time. This innovative approach allows for the creation of the first-ever live, 24/7 vertical video news channels. The Dreams app is available for free in the United States on both the App Store and Google Play, and it does not require any login or registration, making it accessible to a wide audience.
Spell
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Spell is an artificial intelligence and deep learning infrastructure company that provides an end-to-end ML platform to prepare, train, deploy, and manage machine learning projects. The platform combines command-line tools and a web console to run code and experiments on remote hardware, streamline data science workflows, and support team collaboration, project monitoring, and experiment reproducibility. It handles environment setup, code and data management, and resource orchestration to simplify DevOps tasks and accelerate ML development across applications such as natural language processing, computer vision, and speech recognition. Founded in 2017 and based in New York City, Spell aims to make advanced AI tooling accessible to teams of any size.
Tecton offers an enterprise-grade feature store, empowering businesses to harness machine learning effectively. Its platform addresses unique ML data requirements, enabling teams to build, serve, and scale features swiftly and reliably.
SelfMade operates a technology platform that transforms and shares images on social media. It offers professional photo editing services and social media support to help members grow their online following. The company's app provides access to its follower growth technology, allowing users to determine their brand aesthetic, growth strategy, and posting schedule.
Phil, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in improving patient access to essential medications through its innovative prescription management software. The company operates a specialty Rx distribution platform that automates medication refills according to prescription schedules, acting as an intermediary between patients, prescribers, manufacturers, and pharmacists. Phil also offers complimentary home delivery services for medications. Its technology-driven approach aims to remove barriers to medication access, ensuring seamless therapy initiation and adherence. By providing end-to-end visibility into the prescription life cycle, Phil helps maximize reimbursement for brands while enhancing patient outcomes and provider experiences.
Buoyant Inc., established in 2015 and based in San Francisco, specializes in developing open-source software to enhance the performance, reliability, and security of cloud-native applications. The company's flagship product is Linkerd, an open-source network proxy designed for service mesh deployment, facilitating efficient management, control, and monitoring of service-to-service communication within applications. Buoyant's team comprises senior ex-Twitter infrastructure engineers aiming to provide advanced capabilities to various companies, as they previously helped conquer Twitter's "Fail Whale" issue. The company is well-funded and backed by prominent investors.
Brud Inc. is a transmedia studio based in Los Angeles that specializes in the development of digital and robotic characters which are designed to engage audiences across various social platforms. Founded in 2014 and originally known as Miquela Media, the company focuses on creating virtual influencers and character-driven story worlds. Brud combines expertise in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to enhance media experiences, enabling the creation of innovative and popular digital personalities. The company is dedicated to leveraging technology in creative ways to redefine storytelling in the digital age.
Jerry is a technology-driven platform that helps drivers manage car ownership. It uses an AI-powered insurance comparison engine to simplify finding affordable car insurance and also enables refinancing auto loans, tracking driving scores, and gaining transparency into maintenance and repair costs. By combining insurance, financing, maintenance, and safety insights, the service aims to streamline the ownership experience for U.S. customers. The platform serves more than five million users and seeks to provide clarity and efficiency in choosing coverage, arranging loans, and understanding vehicle costs.
RankScience
Convertible Note in 2017
RankScience provides a continuous-optimization platform for website search engine optimization, combining automated A/B testing and data science. The system automates running multiple tests to identify changes that improve the ranking of web pages in organic search results and optimize page delivery, helping businesses enhance visibility and performance of their websites.
Raydiant
Seed Round in 2017
Raydiant Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in designing, developing, and providing an experience platform that connects employees and customers with brands across various industries such as banking, retail, hospitality, and healthcare. The company's solution comprises kiosks, virtual agents, and multimedia devices for screen management, enabling businesses to create engaging in-store experiences through digital signage. Raydiant works with over 5,000 brands worldwide, including notable clients like Johnson & Johnson and Chick-Fil-A, helping them streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive sales growth.
Their mission is to help bring farmers the future of farming. They challenge what is possible and invent new ways of applying cutting-edge technology to the world's oldest and most foundational industry.
Farmers are the core of agriculture and they help them use technology to be more successful. Farmer success is their success. They will never make a decision that doesn't benefit farmers.
Their world depends on agriculture. By making farming more efficient and helping farmers grow more using less, they have the opportunity to make a massive positive impact.
And, they've brought together a world-class team to make it happen.
Fly.io
Pre Seed Round in 2017
Fly.io is a company that provides an Application Delivery Network (ADN) designed to connect website owners with their customers effectively. Its platform allows users to build application servers using JavaScript, enabling them to write, test, and run code locally before deploying it. By utilizing a network of servers, Fly.io accepts visitor traffic, processes requests through middleware, and routes them to backend applications. This infrastructure allows website owners to direct their visitors securely and efficiently, ensuring that applications can scale and operate close to end users.
Cerebras Systems
Series B in 2016
Cerebras Systems Inc. is a technology company that specializes in manufacturing artificial intelligence chips specifically designed for deep learning applications. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Altos, California, the company is dedicated to creating advanced computing systems that significantly accelerate deep learning tasks. By integrating expertise in computer architecture with machine learning, Cerebras develops innovative technologies that aim to enhance AI performance and transform the landscape of artificial intelligence. Through its unique design principles, the company seeks to push the boundaries of what is possible in AI computing.
Hooked is a pioneering entertainment platform that specializes in chat fiction, a novel storytelling format popular among teens and millennials. With over 50 million readers worldwide and top rankings in the App Store across multiple countries, Hooked is transforming digital entertainment. Backed by prominent investors from Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher and Jamie Foxx, the company aims to become the next major player in media.
CodeSignal
Series A in 2016
CodeSignal is a cloud-based skills platform that helps organizations discover, assess, and develop technical talent. It provides custom tests aligned with interview processes and assessments that test more than data structures and algorithms, enabling employers to screen engineers more effectively. The platform also supports AI-powered learning solutions and strives to broaden access to opportunities by tapping into underrepresented candidate pools, helping teams save engineering resources and increase speed-to-hire. Used by major companies and learners worldwide, CodeSignal has powered millions of skills evaluations and supports both hiring and development initiatives across tech, finance, and other industries.
Limbix is a company dedicated to developing prescription digital therapeutics for adolescent mental health. Their flagship product, SparkRx, is an evidence-based, clinically validated tool designed to treat depression and anxiety in teenagers. Limbix combines clinical expertise with technological innovation to deliver effective mental health treatments.
tCell Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in cloud-based application security solutions. The company develops in-application instrumentation and analytics tools that identify suspicious activities within web applications, APIs, and microservices. tCell's technology offers unparalleled visibility into application behavior, reducing false positives and providing actionable data to prevent future attacks. It serves prominent clients such as Veeva, Zenefits, and John Muir Health. As of October 2018, tCell operates as a subsidiary of Rapid7 Inc., following an acquisition.
Pathmind
Venture Round in 2016
Pathmind develops a SaaS platform that leverages cloud computing and AI to optimize decisions in industrial operations and supply chains. It integrates with simulation software like AnyLogic, enabling users to discover better decision paths through complex scenarios.
Pathmind
Seed Round in 2016
Pathmind develops a SaaS platform that leverages cloud computing and AI to optimize decisions in industrial operations and supply chains. It integrates with simulation software like AnyLogic, enabling users to discover better decision paths through complex scenarios.
Color is a healthcare technology company that offers a comprehensive platform for population health management, facilitating equitable and accessible healthcare delivery. The company specializes in large-scale health initiatives, providing solutions that include population genomics programs and high-throughput testing services, such as those for COVID-19. By centralizing essential healthcare capabilities, Color enables businesses, schools, and state public health departments to implement effective preventive health programs, regardless of the geographical distribution of their populations. Its innovative approach addresses various healthcare logistics challenges, streamlining processes related to testing, screening, treatment, and referrals, while creating diverse market opportunities and revenue streams for clinical teams.
Nucleus develops a wireless home intercom system designed to enhance family communication. Inspired by traditional intercoms, the system integrates features such as video calling and smart home management, providing a comprehensive communication tool for modern households. By connecting to the home’s WiFi, Nucleus enables instant, hands-free communication among family members, whether they are in different rooms or located far away. The devices can be easily installed in various rooms, ensuring seamless interaction and connectivity within the home.
SigOpt, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides an advanced optimization platform designed to enhance model development across various applications, including web, mobile, machine learning, and physical experiments. Founded in 2014 and now a subsidiary of Intel Corporation, SigOpt offers a REST API that seamlessly integrates into existing machine learning workflows. The platform employs a black-box optimization approach, allowing users to input parameter spaces and performance metrics without needing to disclose underlying training data or models. By continuously analyzing performance, SigOpt suggests optimal hyperparameter configurations, thereby accelerating the model development process and enabling clients to achieve reliable results more efficiently and cost-effectively.
Heap Inc. is a company that develops an analytics infrastructure designed for online businesses, enabling them to capture and analyze customer interactions across web, mobile, and cloud platforms. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Heap's solution automates the collection and organization of customer behavioral data, such as clicks, transactions, and form submissions, without requiring additional coding. This streamlined approach allows businesses to gain a comprehensive understanding of their users, facilitating informed decision-making and enhancing product development. Heap serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, financial services, and SaaS, with over 6,000 clients that include notable companies across various sectors. The company is committed to empowering organizations to focus on insights and actions that drive business success.
Expo
Convertible Note in 2016
Expo lets you write native apps that run on web, iOS, and Android with a single React codebase. Expo is trusted in production by tens of thousands of companies including Brex, Flexport, Valve, Blackline, Burger King, sweetgreen, Cameo, Codecademy, DailyPay, TriNet, ShapeShift, Warpcast, and Insider and is depended on by over 1,000,000 projects on GitHub.
Founded in 2014, Shipbob Inc. specializes in online shipping and fulfillment software for small e-commerce businesses. It aggregates services from major carriers like FedEx, UPS, and USPS, offering pickup, packaging, warehousing, batch fulfillment, and tracking solutions through its mobile app.
Marble is a San Francisco-based company that designs, develops, and manufactures robots specifically for last mile logistics applications. The company has created a fleet of intelligent courier robots capable of securely and reliably transporting various essential goods such as groceries, meals, and medicine. These robots are engineered to enhance efficiency in delivery processes, addressing the growing demand for effective logistics solutions.
Culture Biosciences
Pre Seed Round in 2016
Culture Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California, that offers an innovative biomanufacturing platform designed for scientists to efficiently run, monitor, and analyze bioreactor experiments through the cloud. Founded in 2016, the company specializes in developing automated bioreactors and fermentation tools that enable biotech companies to optimize their manufacturing processes. By leveraging robotic sample handling and cloud-based data monitoring and analysis, Culture Biosciences significantly accelerates the ability of scientists to manage bioreactor operations compared to traditional methods. This allows for faster product development and market readiness, streamlining the biomanufacturing workflow for its clients.
Founded in 2015, Jyve is a technology platform that connects businesses with skilled on-demand labor. It operates across most of America, serving grocer, brand, and retailer customers by matching their in-store execution needs with certified skilled workers for tasks such as stocking, auditing, ordering, display building, and e-commerce fulfillment.
Thunkable
Seed Round in 2016
Thunkable is a United States-based no-code platform that enables users to create native mobile applications without writing code. It offers a drag-and-drop interface, built-in templates, and design elements to simplify app development, with online design and instant previews on devices. The platform supports cross-platform deployment to major mobile platforms and enables direct submission to the iOS and Android app stores, allowing individuals and developers to build functional apps without traditional coding.
Founded in 2015, Jyve is a technology platform that connects businesses with skilled on-demand labor. It operates across most of America, serving grocer, brand, and retailer customers by matching their in-store execution needs with certified skilled workers for tasks such as stocking, auditing, ordering, display building, and e-commerce fulfillment.
Spot Tech, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company, established in 2013, that specializes in developing a travel planning platform. This application provides users with recommendations for food, coffee, and drinks, while also facilitating collaborative trip exploration. Users can browse and research various destinations, compile lists of interesting locations and activities, and easily plan their trips with friends. Spot aims to enhance the travel experience by making it more interactive and user-friendly.
Forward
Convertible Note in 2016
Forward is a startup focused on transforming healthcare delivery by incorporating advanced technologies that have been underutilized in the industry, such as sensors, mobile applications, and artificial intelligence. Founded in January 2016 by former executives from Google and Uber, Forward operates primary care clinics that emphasize personalized patient care. Through its mobile application and natural language processing system, the company enhances healthcare services, offering features like body scanning, genetic screening, real-time blood testing, and home monitoring of vital signs. These innovations empower patients to take control of their health, promote transparency, and foster better collaboration with their primary care physicians. Backed by prominent investors and entrepreneurs, Forward aims to redefine the patient experience in healthcare.
SelfMade
Seed Round in 2016
SelfMade operates a technology platform that transforms and shares images on social media. It offers professional photo editing services and social media support to help members grow their online following. The company's app provides access to its follower growth technology, allowing users to determine their brand aesthetic, growth strategy, and posting schedule.
Lily, founded in September 2013 in a UC Berkeley robotics lab, specializes in developing innovative camera drones designed for ease of use and portability. The company's flagship product is a throw-and-shoot camera that can be conveniently stored in a backpack while withstanding challenging weather conditions. Utilizing advanced technology, including global positioning and computer vision, Lily's drones autonomously capture high-quality images and videos from the sky. With a mission to enhance human creativity, Lily focuses on creating tools that facilitate effortless expression, ensuring that users can easily document their experiences from unique aerial perspectives.
Crunchbase
Series A in 2015
Crunchbase is a data-driven platform that enables over 80 million investors, analysts, and dealmakers to identify and capitalize on private market opportunities by analyzing company activities and trends. It provides tools for discovering significant companies through its homepage, Crunchbase Scout, and robust search functionalities. The platform offers proprietary predictions and insights to facilitate informed decision-making regarding organizational profiles. Additionally, Crunchbase enhances team productivity with features for data exports, administrative tools, and integrations, which streamline workflows. By delivering unique private company intelligence, Crunchbase bridges the gap between data access and actionable business decisions, empowering users to navigate the evolving landscape of investments effectively.
PatientPing
Series A in 2015
PatientPing, Inc. is a health technology company that has developed a national care coordination network aimed at enhancing communication among healthcare providers. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers real-time notifications and care guidelines to various healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, case managers, and care coordinators. This network spans hospitals, emergency departments, accountable care organizations, physician practices, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and payers. PatientPing's platform includes a tool called Spotlights, which leverages real-time data to analyze utilization and performance trends in patient care. By improving information sharing among care teams, PatientPing facilitates higher quality, cost-effective care, ultimately aiming to enhance patient outcomes and experiences. The company also maintains a strategic partnership with MedAllies, Inc. and operates as a subsidiary of SVB Leerink Holdings LLC.
Hooked
Pre Seed Round in 2015
Hooked is a pioneering entertainment platform that specializes in chat fiction, a novel storytelling format popular among teens and millennials. With over 50 million readers worldwide and top rankings in the App Store across multiple countries, Hooked is transforming digital entertainment. Backed by prominent investors from Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher and Jamie Foxx, the company aims to become the next major player in media.
Triplebyte
Venture Round in 2015
Triplebyte is a recruiting and technical screening platform based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. The company specializes in providing technical hiring solutions for tech companies, utilizing a credentials-blind process to evaluate candidates based on their technical skills rather than traditional qualifications. Through online coding tests and subsequent technical interviews, Triplebyte helps screen candidates, enabling engineers to showcase their strengths and find programming jobs that align with their skills and interests. By focusing on a more effective hiring process, Triplebyte aims to improve the way technical talent is matched with suitable job opportunities.
Hooked is a pioneering entertainment platform that specializes in chat fiction, a novel storytelling format popular among teens and millennials. With over 50 million readers worldwide and top rankings in the App Store across multiple countries, Hooked is transforming digital entertainment. Backed by prominent investors from Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher and Jamie Foxx, the company aims to become the next major player in media.
Triplebyte
Seed Round in 2015
Triplebyte is a recruiting and technical screening platform based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. The company specializes in providing technical hiring solutions for tech companies, utilizing a credentials-blind process to evaluate candidates based on their technical skills rather than traditional qualifications. Through online coding tests and subsequent technical interviews, Triplebyte helps screen candidates, enabling engineers to showcase their strengths and find programming jobs that align with their skills and interests. By focusing on a more effective hiring process, Triplebyte aims to improve the way technical talent is matched with suitable job opportunities.
Phil, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in improving patient access to essential medications through its innovative prescription management software. The company operates a specialty Rx distribution platform that automates medication refills according to prescription schedules, acting as an intermediary between patients, prescribers, manufacturers, and pharmacists. Phil also offers complimentary home delivery services for medications. Its technology-driven approach aims to remove barriers to medication access, ensuring seamless therapy initiation and adherence. By providing end-to-end visibility into the prescription life cycle, Phil helps maximize reimbursement for brands while enhancing patient outcomes and provider experiences.
Interviewing.io
Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2015, Interviewing.io operates a platform that connects software engineers with senior engineers from top tech companies for anonymous mock interviews. This approach helps candidates prepare for technical job interviews and saves hiring managers time by fast-tracking strong performers.
Teleport
Pre Seed Round in 2015
Teleport develops software products that enable businesses to deploy and manage applications across diverse cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure environments. Its unified platform offers secure, identity-based access management for servers, Kubernetes clusters, applications, and clouds.
Teleport
Seed Round in 2015
Teleport develops software products that enable businesses to deploy and manage applications across diverse cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure environments. Its unified platform offers secure, identity-based access management for servers, Kubernetes clusters, applications, and clouds.
Cyberfend
Seed Round in 2015
Cyberfend is a security solutions provider based in Fremont, California, established in 2014 and currently operating as a subsidiary of Akamai Technologies. The company specializes in real-time web and mobile security, focusing on protecting applications from sophisticated attacks, account takeovers, payment fraud, and credential theft. Cyberfend employs a unique approach that integrates human cognitive science with advanced machine learning techniques to deliver its services. Its offerings include a Cognitive Security Engine designed to address complex security challenges while maintaining near-zero false positives. Additionally, Cyberfend features BotFender, a comprehensive bot and automation detection service, enhancing its capability to safeguard user accounts from automated cyber threats.
Shipbob
Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2014, Shipbob Inc. specializes in online shipping and fulfillment software for small e-commerce businesses. It aggregates services from major carriers like FedEx, UPS, and USPS, offering pickup, packaging, warehousing, batch fulfillment, and tracking solutions through its mobile app.
Buoyant
Venture Round in 2015
Buoyant Inc., established in 2015 and based in San Francisco, specializes in developing open-source software to enhance the performance, reliability, and security of cloud-native applications. The company's flagship product is Linkerd, an open-source network proxy designed for service mesh deployment, facilitating efficient management, control, and monitoring of service-to-service communication within applications. Buoyant's team comprises senior ex-Twitter infrastructure engineers aiming to provide advanced capabilities to various companies, as they previously helped conquer Twitter's "Fail Whale" issue. The company is well-funded and backed by prominent investors.