Threshold Ventures

Threshold Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It pursues a high-conviction, early-stage investment strategy and partners with entrepreneurs to build technology-driven companies in consumer, enterprise, and healthcare sectors. The firm provides venture and growth capital to technology companies and has historical ties to the broader Draper Fisher Jurvetson network. Threshold focuses on supporting early-stage ventures across software, consumer, and healthcare technologies, and seeks to back innovative teams aiming to reach market leadership.

Brian Akin

Associate

William (Bill) Bryant

General Partner

Chirag Chotalia

Partner

Rob Ciechowski

Associate

Katie Evans

Associate

Randall Glein

Co-Founder and Partner

Mohammad Islam

General Partner

Justin Kao

Partner

Megan Kelly

Principal

Emily Melton

Managing Partner

Arpit Mittal

Principal

William Morrison

Principal

Heidi Roizen

Partner

Ramin Sayar

Venture Partner

Chris Shanahan

Principal

Sam Shapiro

Principal

Andreas Stavropoulos

Partner

Josh Stein

Managing Partner

Kevin Tu

Principal

Past deals in Developer Tools

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.

OpsLevel

Series A in 2022
OpsLevel is a platform that enables developers to manage microservices catalogs, enhancing software reliability and expediting incident resolution. It offers built-in maturity features for measuring, building, and deploying services across various clouds. Through service ownership and developer portals, OpsLevel facilitates high-quality software shipping and operation.

Alchemy

Series C in 2022
Alchemy Insights, Inc. is a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that serves hedge funds and financial institutions. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for analyzing blockchain data, including on-chain data, market trends, and community activity. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to help users identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain, thereby aiding in sales, security, and strategic decision-making. Alchemy's emphasis on providing developers with essential tools allows for the creation of scalable and reliable decentralized applications without the complexities of managing blockchain infrastructure. The company is backed by notable organizations and individuals, reflecting its prominent position in the blockchain space.

Alchemy

Series C in 2021
Alchemy Insights, Inc. is a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that serves hedge funds and financial institutions. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for analyzing blockchain data, including on-chain data, market trends, and community activity. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to help users identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain, thereby aiding in sales, security, and strategic decision-making. Alchemy's emphasis on providing developers with essential tools allows for the creation of scalable and reliable decentralized applications without the complexities of managing blockchain infrastructure. The company is backed by notable organizations and individuals, reflecting its prominent position in the blockchain space.

LaunchDarkly

Series D in 2021
LaunchDarkly is a software company that provides a feature management platform designed to enhance collaboration between development teams and business stakeholders. Its core product enables DevOps teams to safely deploy new features incrementally, targeting specific user segments across various platforms. This controlled rollout process facilitates standardized releases at scale, accelerates cloud migration, and improves overall software delivery efficiency.

Sanity

Series B in 2021
Sanity develops a collaboration platform for software developers. Its core product is a content management system that enables real-time collaboration, live multi-user editing, and change tracking. Sanity's platform supports GraphQL and JavaScript APIs, allowing teams to build hosted content infrastructure for various applications such as e-commerce sites, mobile apps, and marketing platforms. Founded in Norway, the company operates offices in Oslo and San Francisco.

Set Labs

Series A in 2021
Set Labs develops tools for creating and managing bundled crypto assets, known as 'Sets'. These Sets enable users to create diverse cryptocurrency baskets, including non-fungibles and on-chain securities.

CircleCI

Series F in 2021
CircleCI provides a continuous integration and delivery platform that automates build, test, and deploy processes to help software teams release code rapidly and with confidence. The platform supports version control integration, automated testing frameworks, and containerization, enabling developers to scale workflows, detect and fix defects early, and reduce deployment risk. Notable customers include Facebook, Spotify, Kickstarter, and Shyp, reflecting wide adoption across tech companies. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco with a global remote workforce, CircleCI is backed by venture firms Scale Venture Partners, DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital.

Sanity

Series A in 2020
Sanity develops a collaboration platform for software developers. Its core product is a content management system that enables real-time collaboration, live multi-user editing, and change tracking. Sanity's platform supports GraphQL and JavaScript APIs, allowing teams to build hosted content infrastructure for various applications such as e-commerce sites, mobile apps, and marketing platforms. Founded in Norway, the company operates offices in Oslo and San Francisco.

LaunchDarkly

Venture Round in 2020
LaunchDarkly is a software company that provides a feature management platform designed to enhance collaboration between development teams and business stakeholders. Its core product enables DevOps teams to safely deploy new features incrementally, targeting specific user segments across various platforms. This controlled rollout process facilitates standardized releases at scale, accelerates cloud migration, and improves overall software delivery efficiency.

Balena

Series B in 2019
Balena is a technology company that provides a complete set of tools and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. Its platform enables fleet owners to develop applications, deploy firmware using Linux containers and open technologies, provision devices, collect logs, and perform cross-compilation, while supporting any Linux-supported language, library, and API on embedded products. Devices and their services can be managed, monitored, and updated through a web dashboard, API, CLI, or SDK. The platform is used across industries such as connected homes, manufacturing, logistics, marketing, and retail. Balena was established in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, with additional offices in Greece and the United Kingdom.

CircleCI

Series D in 2019
CircleCI provides a continuous integration and delivery platform that automates build, test, and deploy processes to help software teams release code rapidly and with confidence. The platform supports version control integration, automated testing frameworks, and containerization, enabling developers to scale workflows, detect and fix defects early, and reduce deployment risk. Notable customers include Facebook, Spotify, Kickstarter, and Shyp, reflecting wide adoption across tech companies. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco with a global remote workforce, CircleCI is backed by venture firms Scale Venture Partners, DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital.

LaunchDarkly

Series C in 2019
LaunchDarkly is a software company that provides a feature management platform designed to enhance collaboration between development teams and business stakeholders. Its core product enables DevOps teams to safely deploy new features incrementally, targeting specific user segments across various platforms. This controlled rollout process facilitates standardized releases at scale, accelerates cloud migration, and improves overall software delivery efficiency.

Set Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Set Labs develops tools for creating and managing bundled crypto assets, known as 'Sets'. These Sets enable users to create diverse cryptocurrency baskets, including non-fungibles and on-chain securities.

Balena

Funding Round in 2018
Balena is a technology company that provides a complete set of tools and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. Its platform enables fleet owners to develop applications, deploy firmware using Linux containers and open technologies, provision devices, collect logs, and perform cross-compilation, while supporting any Linux-supported language, library, and API on embedded products. Devices and their services can be managed, monitored, and updated through a web dashboard, API, CLI, or SDK. The platform is used across industries such as connected homes, manufacturing, logistics, marketing, and retail. Balena was established in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, with additional offices in Greece and the United Kingdom.

CircleCI

Series C in 2018
CircleCI provides a continuous integration and delivery platform that automates build, test, and deploy processes to help software teams release code rapidly and with confidence. The platform supports version control integration, automated testing frameworks, and containerization, enabling developers to scale workflows, detect and fix defects early, and reduce deployment risk. Notable customers include Facebook, Spotify, Kickstarter, and Shyp, reflecting wide adoption across tech companies. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco with a global remote workforce, CircleCI is backed by venture firms Scale Venture Partners, DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital.

LaunchDarkly

Series A in 2016
LaunchDarkly is a software company that provides a feature management platform designed to enhance collaboration between development teams and business stakeholders. Its core product enables DevOps teams to safely deploy new features incrementally, targeting specific user segments across various platforms. This controlled rollout process facilitates standardized releases at scale, accelerates cloud migration, and improves overall software delivery efficiency.

Balena

Series A in 2016
Balena is a technology company that provides a complete set of tools and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. Its platform enables fleet owners to develop applications, deploy firmware using Linux containers and open technologies, provision devices, collect logs, and perform cross-compilation, while supporting any Linux-supported language, library, and API on embedded products. Devices and their services can be managed, monitored, and updated through a web dashboard, API, CLI, or SDK. The platform is used across industries such as connected homes, manufacturing, logistics, marketing, and retail. Balena was established in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, with additional offices in Greece and the United Kingdom.

CircleCI

Series B in 2016
CircleCI provides a continuous integration and delivery platform that automates build, test, and deploy processes to help software teams release code rapidly and with confidence. The platform supports version control integration, automated testing frameworks, and containerization, enabling developers to scale workflows, detect and fix defects early, and reduce deployment risk. Notable customers include Facebook, Spotify, Kickstarter, and Shyp, reflecting wide adoption across tech companies. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco with a global remote workforce, CircleCI is backed by venture firms Scale Venture Partners, DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital.

Reflect

Seed Round in 2016
Reflect Technologies, Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, specializes in data visualization solutions for software developers. It offers a platform that simplifies the integration of analytics capabilities into web and mobile applications. The platform comprises a studio and an API, allowing developers to create and embed visualizations efficiently, without the need to build these features from scratch. Reflect was acquired by Puppet, Inc. in 2021.

Balena

Series A in 2015
Balena is a technology company that provides a complete set of tools and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. Its platform enables fleet owners to develop applications, deploy firmware using Linux containers and open technologies, provision devices, collect logs, and perform cross-compilation, while supporting any Linux-supported language, library, and API on embedded products. Devices and their services can be managed, monitored, and updated through a web dashboard, API, CLI, or SDK. The platform is used across industries such as connected homes, manufacturing, logistics, marketing, and retail. Balena was established in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, with additional offices in Greece and the United Kingdom.

CircleCI

Series A in 2014
CircleCI provides a continuous integration and delivery platform that automates build, test, and deploy processes to help software teams release code rapidly and with confidence. The platform supports version control integration, automated testing frameworks, and containerization, enabling developers to scale workflows, detect and fix defects early, and reduce deployment risk. Notable customers include Facebook, Spotify, Kickstarter, and Shyp, reflecting wide adoption across tech companies. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco with a global remote workforce, CircleCI is backed by venture firms Scale Venture Partners, DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital.

RethinkDB

Series A in 2013
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database management platform specifically designed for the realtime web. It enables developers to build scalable applications efficiently by allowing the database to continuously push updated query results to applications, eliminating the need for polling. RethinkDB supports storage of data in JSON documents and features a powerful query language that includes advanced functionalities like table joins and groupBy. The platform is built with a highly parallelized architecture, ensuring reliability across various workloads and edge cases. Additionally, it offers web-based tools for managing clusters, providing users with live statistics and complete visibility into ongoing operations.

RethinkDB

Series A in 2011
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database management platform specifically designed for the realtime web. It enables developers to build scalable applications efficiently by allowing the database to continuously push updated query results to applications, eliminating the need for polling. RethinkDB supports storage of data in JSON documents and features a powerful query language that includes advanced functionalities like table joins and groupBy. The platform is built with a highly parallelized architecture, ensuring reliability across various workloads and edge cases. Additionally, it offers web-based tools for managing clusters, providing users with live statistics and complete visibility into ongoing operations.

Sanity

Sanity develops a collaboration platform for software developers. Its core product is a content management system that enables real-time collaboration, live multi-user editing, and change tracking. Sanity's platform supports GraphQL and JavaScript APIs, allowing teams to build hosted content infrastructure for various applications such as e-commerce sites, mobile apps, and marketing platforms. Founded in Norway, the company operates offices in Oslo and San Francisco.
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