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.

Mark Bailey

Co-Founder and Partner

William (Bill) Bryant

General Partner

Chirag Chotalia

Partner

Rob Ciechowski

Associate

Katie Evans

Associate

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Hidden Level

Series C in 2025
Hidden Level develops airspace sensing technologies, specializing in passive radar and drone detection through RF spectrum signal analysis. Its airspace monitoring systems deploy networks of passive sensors to detect and track drones and other aerial vehicles over large geographic areas, supporting critical infrastructure, defense, and public safety customers. The company emphasizes safety through sensing, offering services that cover classical systems engineering, data modeling and analysis, field testing, and full product lifecycle management, including PCB design. Its solutions enable monitoring of low-altitude air traffic while maintaining privacy in compliance with applicable regulations.

Chartbeat

Venture Round in 2018
Chartbeat provides a real-time content intelligence platform for publishers. It empowers digital publishing organizations to understand audience engagement with minute-by-minute analytics across various platforms. The company offers insights into visitors, load times, and referring sites, along with alerts for website performance issues.

Unity Technologies

Series D in 2018
Unity Technologies specializes in providing multiplatform tools and services for developers of interactive content. Founded in 2004, they offer a comprehensive suite of products including game engines, asset stores, cloud-based development tools, empowering users to create, operate, and monetize real-time 3D experiences across various industries.

Unity Technologies

Series C in 2016
Unity Technologies specializes in providing multiplatform tools and services for developers of interactive content. Founded in 2004, they offer a comprehensive suite of products including game engines, asset stores, cloud-based development tools, empowering users to create, operate, and monetize real-time 3D experiences across various industries.

Chartbeat

Series C in 2015
Chartbeat provides a real-time content intelligence platform for publishers. It empowers digital publishing organizations to understand audience engagement with minute-by-minute analytics across various platforms. The company offers insights into visitors, load times, and referring sites, along with alerts for website performance issues.

Chartbeat

Venture Round in 2014
Chartbeat provides a real-time content intelligence platform for publishers. It empowers digital publishing organizations to understand audience engagement with minute-by-minute analytics across various platforms. The company offers insights into visitors, load times, and referring sites, along with alerts for website performance issues.

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.

Chartbeat

Series B in 2012
Chartbeat provides a real-time content intelligence platform for publishers. It empowers digital publishing organizations to understand audience engagement with minute-by-minute analytics across various platforms. The company offers insights into visitors, load times, and referring sites, along with alerts for website performance issues.

Redkite Financial Markets

Venture Round in 2012
Redkite Financial Markets, founded in 2009, specializes in providing financial institutions with advanced tools for monitoring trading activities amid the complexities of contemporary market environments. The company develops real-time market surveillance systems designed to enhance the detection of suspicious trading activities. By analyzing all orders and executions, Redkite's products enable clients to optimize their oversight of market transactions, ensuring compliance and safeguarding against irregular trading practices.

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.

Z2

Series B in 2011
Z2 is a mobile-first game developer and publisher based in Seattle, Washington, specializing in free-to-play multiplayer and social gaming experiences. Established in 2009 by Damon Danieli, David Bluhm, and Lou Fasulo, the company focuses on creating engaging games that foster real-time competition and collaboration among players using iPhones and iPads. Z2 is known for its innovative community features, which include in-game email, text and voice chat, achievements, and integration with social media platforms. One of its standout titles, Trade Nations, has become a prominent city-building game with a vast community, recording over 500 million sessions since its launch. Another notable game, MetalStorm, quickly ascended to top rankings and revenue shortly after its release. Z2 has developed several top-grossing titles and was acquired by King in 2015, becoming part of Activision Blizzard. Its technology resources and studios continue to enhance the mobile gaming landscape with cutting-edge features that support both casual and traditional gaming formats.

Technorati

Series D in 2009
Technorati, Inc., founded in 2002 and based in San Francisco, California, is a technology company that specializes in building advertising platforms designed to enhance programmatic revenues for high-level publishing firms. The company's primary offering includes an advanced advertising platform that leverages real-time market insights and technology to optimize digital advertising interactions across a publisher network. Additionally, Technorati provides Contango, a technology platform that supports publishers by aggregating and managing demand partnerships in real time. As of February 26, 2016, Technorati operates as a subsidiary of Synacor.

Brilliant Telecommunications

Venture Round in 2009
Brilliant Telecommunications, Inc. designs, develops, and distributes network timing, management, and synchronization solutions. Its products include Zurich Z-1000, a zero footprint, outdoor, and pole-mounted Network Time Protocol server that embodies its own timing management interface to provide tools for diagnosis, monitoring, and alarms; Cern C-2000, which is a Primary Reference Source and Clock that provides time stamping accuracy and configurability; and BT-750, a network timing client that delivers multiple synchronous outputs in a flexible platform. The company serves financial markets, legal institutions, telecommunication companies, and manufacturing organizations. Brilliant Telecommunications, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Campbell, California.

Brightkite

Venture Round in 2009
Brightkite is a digital media company that operates a real-time social discovery network, enabling users to connect with people nearby and keep up with friends while exploring new places. With a user base of approximately one million people weekly, Brightkite offers its services for free to anyone with a mobile phone or web browser, facilitating real-world interactions regardless of location. The company is headquartered in Burlingame, California, and serves as a platform for users to enhance their social experiences through location-based networking.

Fastpoint

Series B in 2009
Fastpoint Games develops live data-driven games for Fortune 500 companies.

Technorati

Series D in 2008
Technorati, Inc., founded in 2002 and based in San Francisco, California, is a technology company that specializes in building advertising platforms designed to enhance programmatic revenues for high-level publishing firms. The company's primary offering includes an advanced advertising platform that leverages real-time market insights and technology to optimize digital advertising interactions across a publisher network. Additionally, Technorati provides Contango, a technology platform that supports publishers by aggregating and managing demand partnerships in real time. As of February 26, 2016, Technorati operates as a subsidiary of Synacor.

Tiny Pictures

Series B in 2008
Tiny Pictures operates a mobile media-sharing platform known as Radar, which facilitates the sharing of photos and videos through email and mobile messaging. The company focuses on enhancing communication and shared experiences by leveraging the immediacy and intimacy of mobile technology. Tiny Pictures develops applications that allow users to seamlessly share their visual content across various mobile networks and social media platforms, emphasizing the role of mobile devices as extensions of personal communication rather than mere tools. By combining rich imagery with effortless connectivity, Tiny Pictures aims to transform the way individuals interact and engage with one another in a digital landscape.

Integrated Media Measurement (IMMI)

Series C in 2008
IMMI, a San Mateo, CA-based mobile-based ad tracking and research firm. The IMMI phone randomly samples 10 seconds of room audio every 30 seconds...these sample are uploaded continuously to the IMMI servers. IMMI also tracks all local TV and radio outlets, and then compares mobile-uploaded signatures with the IMMI-monitored TV and radio broadcasts. The mobile phone also receives a signal from an IMMI "Bluetooth beacon" when the panel member is at home, so the servers can interpret media exposure as "in" or "out-of-home."

Fastpoint

Series A in 2007
Fastpoint Games develops live data-driven games for Fortune 500 companies.

Technorati

Series C in 2007
Technorati, Inc., founded in 2002 and based in San Francisco, California, is a technology company that specializes in building advertising platforms designed to enhance programmatic revenues for high-level publishing firms. The company's primary offering includes an advanced advertising platform that leverages real-time market insights and technology to optimize digital advertising interactions across a publisher network. Additionally, Technorati provides Contango, a technology platform that supports publishers by aggregating and managing demand partnerships in real time. As of February 26, 2016, Technorati operates as a subsidiary of Synacor.

Technorati

Series C in 2006
Technorati, Inc., founded in 2002 and based in San Francisco, California, is a technology company that specializes in building advertising platforms designed to enhance programmatic revenues for high-level publishing firms. The company's primary offering includes an advanced advertising platform that leverages real-time market insights and technology to optimize digital advertising interactions across a publisher network. Additionally, Technorati provides Contango, a technology platform that supports publishers by aggregating and managing demand partnerships in real time. As of February 26, 2016, Technorati operates as a subsidiary of Synacor.

Technorati

Series B in 2004
Technorati, Inc., founded in 2002 and based in San Francisco, California, is a technology company that specializes in building advertising platforms designed to enhance programmatic revenues for high-level publishing firms. The company's primary offering includes an advanced advertising platform that leverages real-time market insights and technology to optimize digital advertising interactions across a publisher network. Additionally, Technorati provides Contango, a technology platform that supports publishers by aggregating and managing demand partnerships in real time. As of February 26, 2016, Technorati operates as a subsidiary of Synacor.

Polaris Wireless

Series B in 2004
Polaris Wireless, Inc. specializes in high-accuracy, software-based 3D location solutions tailored for wireless operators, law enforcement, government agencies, and location-based application companies. Established in 1999 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in Zug, Switzerland, and Singapore, the company offers its flagship 3D Location Platform, a cloud-based service that enables real-time location tracking of mobile devices across various environments, including indoor and urban settings. Polaris Wireless also provides OmniLocate, a solution aimed at facilitating quicker integration and time-to-market for clients. Recognized for its innovation, the company has received awards for its indoor positioning systems and actively participates in industry forums and standards organizations, reinforcing its commitment to enhancing location-based technologies.

Polaris Wireless

Series A in 2001
Polaris Wireless, Inc. specializes in high-accuracy, software-based 3D location solutions tailored for wireless operators, law enforcement, government agencies, and location-based application companies. Established in 1999 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in Zug, Switzerland, and Singapore, the company offers its flagship 3D Location Platform, a cloud-based service that enables real-time location tracking of mobile devices across various environments, including indoor and urban settings. Polaris Wireless also provides OmniLocate, a solution aimed at facilitating quicker integration and time-to-market for clients. Recognized for its innovation, the company has received awards for its indoor positioning systems and actively participates in industry forums and standards organizations, reinforcing its commitment to enhancing location-based technologies.
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