Temporal Technologies Inc. is a software company based in Bellevue, Washington, established in 2019. It develops an open-source microservices orchestration engine that enables developers to create and manage scalable distributed applications, workflow functions, and data pipelines. The platform supports seamless execution of development, debugging, and testing processes, along with resource provisioning and monitoring tools. It also offers solutions for financial transactions. Temporal's technology is designed to ensure the reliable completion of workflows of any size and complexity, incorporating features such as built-in support for exponential activity retries and compensation logic through the native saga pattern. Additionally, the company provides cloud services to enhance its offerings.
Flexe, Inc. operates a cloud-based marketplace that connects organizations seeking additional warehousing and fulfillment services with those that have surplus capacity. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, the company specializes in omnichannel logistics solutions, including eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, and same-day delivery. Flexe's platform addresses the challenges of inventory overflow and fulfillment needs by creating an open logistics network, allowing clients such as retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics companies to optimize their distribution capabilities. By integrating technology and flexible economic models, Flexe enables its customers to enhance their operational efficiency and respond swiftly to market demands.
Arcadia, Inc. is a technology company based in Washington, D.C., founded in 2014, that focuses on providing access to clean energy solutions. Through its platform, Arc, the company connects subscribers to renewable energy sources such as wind farms and community solar projects. By enabling users to manage their accounts, track energy usage, and participate in clean energy initiatives, Arcadia aims to democratize access to renewable energy and combat the fossil fuel monopoly. The platform aggregates energy data from over 125 utilities, representing more than 80% of U.S. electric utility accounts, thus facilitating a significant shift toward sustainable energy practices. Additionally, Arcadia's community solar program addresses energy injustice while promoting economic growth, contributing over five Terawatt-hours of energy demand from residential and commercial users.
Jellyfish
Series C in 2022
Jellyfish, Inc. is an engineering management platform that assists engineering leaders in aligning their teams' activities with strategic business objectives. The platform integrates engineering data with contextual business information, enabling users to understand how engineering efforts contribute to overall business growth. Jellyfish's solutions encompass tracking engineering work, analyzing performance, and enhancing productivity, while also providing visibility into resource allocation and operational effectiveness. The platform supports functions such as strategic alignment, communication of value, and R&D cost capitalization. Established in 2007, Jellyfish is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Washington, D.C.
Virtru is a data security company based in Washington, D.C., founded in 2012. It offers a data protection platform that enables organizations to secure sensitive information while ensuring ease of use. The platform supports compliance with various regulations, including HIPAA, FERPA, CJIS, and ITAR, allowing businesses to maintain control over their data throughout its lifecycle—from creation and storage to sharing and analysis. Virtru is known for its development of the Trusted Data Format (TDF), an open industry standard for persistent data protection. More than 20,000 organizations across diverse sectors rely on Virtru's privacy technologies to safeguard their data.
Highspot, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2012 that specializes in a cloud-based sales engagement platform designed to enhance the performance of sales teams. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to facilitate intelligent content management, training, contextual guidance, and customer engagement. Highspot’s offerings include features such as content scoring and recommendations, real-time alerts on customer interactions, and analytics to optimize sales pitches. Additionally, the platform provides marketing and sales portals, along with the ability to create tailored sales playbooks based on seller roles, profiles, and industries. By integrating these functionalities into a unified solution, Highspot aims to elevate customer conversations and drive repeatable revenue for businesses worldwide.
TRM Labs Inc. is a blockchain intelligence company that provides a platform focused on token relationship management, utilizing machine learning to assist clients in managing customer relationships and detecting suspicious activities. The platform offers solutions for on-chain anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, including customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, and relationship management specifically tailored for digital asset firms. Additionally, TRM Labs develops enterprise applications and tools that enable organizations to launch blockchain-based products aimed at identifying fraudulent activities such as money laundering and market manipulation. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company serves a diverse clientele, including financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses, and government agencies, and has established partnerships with notable organizations such as PayPal, Visa, and federal agencies. TRM Labs is committed to enhancing the safety of the financial ecosystem through advanced data engineering and threat intelligence, backed by a team of experts with extensive experience in law enforcement and technology.
OctoAI is an AI infrastructure platform that assists developers in efficiently running, tuning, and scaling generative AI models. By providing a user-friendly interface with pre-built templates for popular open-source models like Stable Diffusion and LLaMA, OctoAI enables seamless deployment and fine-tuning of models. The platform emphasizes flexibility, allowing developers to utilize both off-the-shelf and custom models while ensuring cost-effective performance through model acceleration. Additionally, OctoAI offers automated technology that helps engineering teams deploy machine learning models across various hardware, cloud providers, and edge devices quickly. This managed service leverages machine learning to automate code generation and optimization, ensuring that models operate at peak efficiency and that deployments remain secure in multi-cloud environments. Founded in 2019 and based in Seattle, Washington, OctoAI aims to enhance the capabilities of machine learning engineers and organizations.
Karat Inc. is a company based in Seattle, Washington, specializing in the design and development of technical interviewing software for organizations seeking to hire software engineers. Founded in 2014, Karat offers an interview platform that includes a network of interview engineers and an infrastructure specifically tailored for technical interviews. This platform is designed to enhance the hiring process by recording interviews, capturing candidate code, structuring feedback, and generating recommendations for hiring teams. Additionally, Karat aims to address the global shortage of software engineers by expanding access to diverse talent, reducing bias in hiring, and improving the overall quality of engineering teams.
Arcadia, Inc. is a technology company based in Washington, D.C., founded in 2014, that focuses on providing access to clean energy solutions. Through its platform, Arc, the company connects subscribers to renewable energy sources such as wind farms and community solar projects. By enabling users to manage their accounts, track energy usage, and participate in clean energy initiatives, Arcadia aims to democratize access to renewable energy and combat the fossil fuel monopoly. The platform aggregates energy data from over 125 utilities, representing more than 80% of U.S. electric utility accounts, thus facilitating a significant shift toward sustainable energy practices. Additionally, Arcadia's community solar program addresses energy injustice while promoting economic growth, contributing over five Terawatt-hours of energy demand from residential and commercial users.
BlackSky is a company specializing in real-time geospatial intelligence through the provision of high-quality satellite imagery. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, BlackSky operates a low Earth orbit satellite constellation designed to capture imagery efficiently across more than 95 percent of the Earth's populated areas. This capability allows BlackSky to deliver on-demand, high-frequency monitoring and analytics of key locations and events globally. The company caters to a diverse range of industries, including agriculture, defense, and engineering, as well as governmental clients. Additionally, its Spectra AI software platform enhances the utility of the satellite data by providing actionable insights and analytics, enabling businesses and organizations to make informed decisions based on current and critical information.
Divvy Homes
Series D in 2021
Divvy Homes, founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a technology-driven real estate platform that aims to make homeownership more accessible. The company operates in key markets, including San Francisco, Atlanta, Cleveland, and Seattle, offering a rent-to-own model that allows customers to select any home on the market. Divvy Homes purchases the property on behalf of the renter, who then makes monthly rent payments while building savings toward a future purchase. This approach not only assists individuals in overcoming barriers to homeownership but also provides them with the flexibility to buy their home when they are ready or to walk away and cash out their savings. Through its services, Divvy Homes seeks to address the housing affordability gap and provide a transparent path to homeownership for families.
Prefect is a data workflow orchestration platform that enables data engineers to build, test, and run data workflows efficiently. Founded in 2018 by Jeremiah Lowin, the company has established hubs in Washington, DC, Chicago, and San Francisco. The platform is powered by the open-source Prefect engine and includes features such as flow code, dataflow, a graphic API, and an auto API. It allows users to manage dynamic logic through control flow patterns, handle both expected and unexpected errors, and add parameters for runtime templating and reuse. This functionality supports data engineers in executing complex workflows with greater control and reliability.
Outreach Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in sales engagement solutions designed to enhance revenue growth by streamlining customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. Founded in 2011, Outreach offers a platform that utilizes machine learning to automate repetitive sales tasks, optimize communication, and provide real-time insights based on buyer sentiment. Its features include account-based sales solutions, task management, and comprehensive tracking of email and activity metrics. Outreach's clientele encompasses major companies such as Zoom, Okta, Adobe, and Microsoft, which depend on its technology to improve sales efficiency and effectiveness. The company also maintains an office in London, United Kingdom.
Weee!, Inc. is an online grocery delivery platform based in Fremont, California, that specializes in providing a wide range of products tailored for Asian and Hispanic families. Founded in 2015, the company offers an extensive selection of groceries, including fresh fruits, vegetables, seafood, snacks, beauty products, and daily necessities. Weee! serves various metropolitan areas, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York City, and New Jersey. The platform focuses on delivering authentic gourmet delicacies from Asia and ensures a farm-to-door experience by partnering with local farms and trusted brands to source quality ingredients.
Highspot, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2012 that specializes in a cloud-based sales engagement platform designed to enhance the performance of sales teams. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to facilitate intelligent content management, training, contextual guidance, and customer engagement. Highspot’s offerings include features such as content scoring and recommendations, real-time alerts on customer interactions, and analytics to optimize sales pitches. Additionally, the platform provides marketing and sales portals, along with the ability to create tailored sales playbooks based on seller roles, profiles, and industries. By integrating these functionalities into a unified solution, Highspot aims to elevate customer conversations and drive repeatable revenue for businesses worldwide.
Ally.io (Acquired)
Series C in 2021
Ally.io is a strategic goal-planning and execution management software helping businesses execute strategies and reach their goals. It enables businesses to shift from traditional, disjointed planning and execution to a modern, OKR-based framework that drives strong alignment, agility, transparency and empowers the workforce. The Ally.io solution makes it easy to adopt OKRs as a seamless part of the users' daily workflow. The platform has built-in OKR best practices and provides seamless integration to several enterprise systems including Slack, Salesforce, Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, and ZenDesk. Ally’s comprehensive professional services offer continuous support, dedicated training, and coaching to ensure best-practices for implementation and successful change management. Vetri Vellore launched the company in 2018 in Bellevue, Washington.
Divvy Homes
Series C in 2021
Divvy Homes, founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a technology-driven real estate platform that aims to make homeownership more accessible. The company operates in key markets, including San Francisco, Atlanta, Cleveland, and Seattle, offering a rent-to-own model that allows customers to select any home on the market. Divvy Homes purchases the property on behalf of the renter, who then makes monthly rent payments while building savings toward a future purchase. This approach not only assists individuals in overcoming barriers to homeownership but also provides them with the flexibility to buy their home when they are ready or to walk away and cash out their savings. Through its services, Divvy Homes seeks to address the housing affordability gap and provide a transparent path to homeownership for families.
Zenoti is a provider of cloud-based software solutions tailored for the spa, salon, and med spa industries, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The company offers an all-in-one platform that supports both large chains and small to medium-sized businesses, enabling them to effectively manage operations and enhance performance. Its software includes features such as online appointment bookings, point-of-sale systems, customer relationship management, employee management, and inventory management. Additionally, Zenoti incorporates advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to streamline reporting and marketing efforts. By facilitating omnichannel booking and contactless payments, Zenoti helps businesses reduce wait times and improve customer satisfaction, ultimately fostering growth and retention.
Flexe, Inc. operates a cloud-based marketplace that connects organizations seeking additional warehousing and fulfillment services with those that have surplus capacity. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, the company specializes in omnichannel logistics solutions, including eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, and same-day delivery. Flexe's platform addresses the challenges of inventory overflow and fulfillment needs by creating an open logistics network, allowing clients such as retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics companies to optimize their distribution capabilities. By integrating technology and flexible economic models, Flexe enables its customers to enhance their operational efficiency and respond swiftly to market demands.
Karat
Venture Round in 2020
Karat Inc. is a company based in Seattle, Washington, specializing in the design and development of technical interviewing software for organizations seeking to hire software engineers. Founded in 2014, Karat offers an interview platform that includes a network of interview engineers and an infrastructure specifically tailored for technical interviews. This platform is designed to enhance the hiring process by recording interviews, capturing candidate code, structuring feedback, and generating recommendations for hiring teams. Additionally, Karat aims to address the global shortage of software engineers by expanding access to diverse talent, reducing bias in hiring, and improving the overall quality of engineering teams.
Ally.io (Acquired)
Series B in 2019
Ally.io is a strategic goal-planning and execution management software helping businesses execute strategies and reach their goals. It enables businesses to shift from traditional, disjointed planning and execution to a modern, OKR-based framework that drives strong alignment, agility, transparency and empowers the workforce. The Ally.io solution makes it easy to adopt OKRs as a seamless part of the users' daily workflow. The platform has built-in OKR best practices and provides seamless integration to several enterprise systems including Slack, Salesforce, Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, and ZenDesk. Ally’s comprehensive professional services offer continuous support, dedicated training, and coaching to ensure best-practices for implementation and successful change management. Vetri Vellore launched the company in 2018 in Bellevue, Washington.
Karat Inc. is a company based in Seattle, Washington, specializing in the design and development of technical interviewing software for organizations seeking to hire software engineers. Founded in 2014, Karat offers an interview platform that includes a network of interview engineers and an infrastructure specifically tailored for technical interviews. This platform is designed to enhance the hiring process by recording interviews, capturing candidate code, structuring feedback, and generating recommendations for hiring teams. Additionally, Karat aims to address the global shortage of software engineers by expanding access to diverse talent, reducing bias in hiring, and improving the overall quality of engineering teams.
Flexe, Inc. operates a cloud-based marketplace that connects organizations seeking additional warehousing and fulfillment services with those that have surplus capacity. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, the company specializes in omnichannel logistics solutions, including eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, and same-day delivery. Flexe's platform addresses the challenges of inventory overflow and fulfillment needs by creating an open logistics network, allowing clients such as retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics companies to optimize their distribution capabilities. By integrating technology and flexible economic models, Flexe enables its customers to enhance their operational efficiency and respond swiftly to market demands.
Zenoti is a provider of cloud-based software solutions tailored for the spa, salon, and med spa industries, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The company offers an all-in-one platform that supports both large chains and small to medium-sized businesses, enabling them to effectively manage operations and enhance performance. Its software includes features such as online appointment bookings, point-of-sale systems, customer relationship management, employee management, and inventory management. Additionally, Zenoti incorporates advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to streamline reporting and marketing efforts. By facilitating omnichannel booking and contactless payments, Zenoti helps businesses reduce wait times and improve customer satisfaction, ultimately fostering growth and retention.
Grab Holdings Inc., headquartered in Singapore, operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation and various on-demand services in Southeast Asia. The company, founded in 2012 by Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Ling, offers services such as ride-hailing (GrabTaxi, GrabCar), carpooling (GrabHitch, GrabShare), shuttle services (GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus), and food delivery through its GrabFood platform. Grab also provides financial services, including payments, consumer loans, and enterprise offerings. It operates in eight countries: Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Grab generates revenue by charging commissions to both consumers and service providers, with ride-hailing and food delivery contributing to 89% of its total revenue. The company competes with Foodpanda and Gojek in the region.
OfferUp, Inc. is an online platform based in Bellevue, Washington, that facilitates local buying and selling of a wide range of items. Founded in 2011 by Arean Van Veelen and Nick Huzar, the platform allows users to post items for sale and connect with potential buyers in their vicinity, including friends and community groups. Users can browse a diverse array of categories such as electronics, furniture, vehicles, and collectibles, with new postings available daily. The platform emphasizes ease of communication, enabling users to message each other directly to negotiate prices and arrange meetings. OfferUp aims to create a convenient marketplace for individuals looking to trade goods locally.
Grab Holdings Inc., headquartered in Singapore, operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation and various on-demand services in Southeast Asia. The company, founded in 2012 by Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Ling, offers services such as ride-hailing (GrabTaxi, GrabCar), carpooling (GrabHitch, GrabShare), shuttle services (GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus), and food delivery through its GrabFood platform. Grab also provides financial services, including payments, consumer loans, and enterprise offerings. It operates in eight countries: Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Grab generates revenue by charging commissions to both consumers and service providers, with ride-hailing and food delivery contributing to 89% of its total revenue. The company competes with Foodpanda and Gojek in the region.
Grab Holdings Inc., headquartered in Singapore, operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation and various on-demand services in Southeast Asia. The company, founded in 2012 by Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Ling, offers services such as ride-hailing (GrabTaxi, GrabCar), carpooling (GrabHitch, GrabShare), shuttle services (GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus), and food delivery through its GrabFood platform. Grab also provides financial services, including payments, consumer loans, and enterprise offerings. It operates in eight countries: Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Grab generates revenue by charging commissions to both consumers and service providers, with ride-hailing and food delivery contributing to 89% of its total revenue. The company competes with Foodpanda and Gojek in the region.
GetJar is a prominent mobile application provider, operating the world's largest free app store, which has achieved over 5 billion downloads. The platform offers a diverse range of more than 350,000 mobile applications and has attracted 395,000 registered developers who distribute their apps through its portal. GetJar supports multiple platforms, including Android, Java, Symbian, Blackberry, and iOS, making it accessible to a wide audience. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the company also maintains offices in Seattle, the UK, and Lithuania. Its significant presence in the app distribution market has garnered recognition, including being named one of the ‘Ones To Watch’ by GigaOM Europe in 2011.