Temporal Technologies
Series C in 2025
Temporal Technologies develops an open-source microservices orchestration platform that enables developers to build and operate resilient, scalable distributed applications. The platform provides workflow orchestration for tasks of any size, with built-in support for exponential activity retries and native saga pattern coordination to ensure reliable execution across microservice architectures. It also offers development, debugging, testing, resource provisioning, and monitoring tools, along with cloud services to run Temporal workloads and manage data pipelines. The company focuses on helping teams coordinate complex distributed workflows and ensure fault tolerance. Temporal Technologies was founded in 2019 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.
Cortex is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in providing an internal developer portal that enhances service quality and operational efficiency for software development teams. Cortex's application suite includes tools for managing microservices, documenting tribal knowledge, conducting service health audits, and preventing outages. The platform automates workflows for onboarding by scanning and mapping metadata from various microservices sources, inferring critical details like ownership and on-call rotations. This comprehensive approach enables developers to prioritize work effectively, ensuring a smoother incident response and facilitating the creation of production readiness checklists, security audits, and assessments of operational maturity.
QuickNode
Series B in 2023
Founded in Miami in 2017, QuickNode is a comprehensive blockchain development platform that empowers developers and businesses with fast, reliable APIs and supportive tools to execute Web3 ideas efficiently.
Humalect
Seed Round in 2022
Humalect is a low-code platform that specializes in automating DevOps processes. It offers an end-to-end automation solution aimed at facilitating the launch of cloud infrastructure and the deployment of applications. By streamlining developer operations, Humalect reduces the time required for software delivery while maintaining high standards of quality in cloud and security services. This enables clients to lessen their infrastructure management demands and concentrate on achieving their business objectives.
CloudQuery
Series A in 2022
CloudQuery provides an open-source cloud asset inventory platform powered by SQL, delivering visibility across multi-cloud environments for security, compliance, and cost management. The platform enables unified tracking and querying of cloud resources, real-time identification of resource ownership and changes, scalable enforcement of security policies, detection of unused assets to reduce cloud waste, and zero-ETL data pipelines for seamless integration with data warehouses. This supports governance, optimized cloud spending, and compliance across complex cloud infrastructures.
Stellate provides a cloud-based platform to optimize GraphQL APIs by combining edge caching, real-time analytics, and security features. The service caches and serves queries at the edge to reduce origin traffic, handle traffic spikes, and prevent downtime, while offering rate limiting and protection against malicious queries. The platform monitors usage and performance with real-time metrics and streamlines client requests by routing queries and cached responses, enabling faster, more reliable operation and cost savings through reduced load on origin services.
Komodor is a platform that automates Kubernetes operations. It ingests daily Kubernetes events, tracks deployments, configurations, and code changes, correlating them with cluster status for clear understanding of system events.
Appwrite is a technology company that provides an open-source platform for developers to build scalable applications. Their platform offers services such as user authentication, databases, serverless functions, and storage, allowing developers to use their preferred coding languages and tools. The platform aims to simplify backend development by abstracting complexities and promoting secure application building.
Aptos is a web3 startup founded in 2021 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company develops a scalable Layer 1 blockchain that allows developers to create future-proof applications. Aptos aims to provide universal access to decentralized assets through its network, utilizing a safe and reliable programming language that facilitates application development. The team at Aptos is composed of skilled engineers, researchers, strategists, designers, and builders, all working towards enhancing the accessibility and scalability of blockchain infrastructure for developers.
Cider Security
Series A in 2022
Cider Security is an innovative company that offers an AppSec Operating System tailored for security and engineering teams. Founded in late 2020 by cybersecurity veterans Guy Flechter and Daniel Krivelevich, the company provides a unified platform that streamlines the orchestration and implementation of end-to-end security within continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes. By adopting a holistic approach to securing engineering systems from code to deployment, Cider Security creates a comprehensive Technical DNA of the engineering environment. This enables security teams to gain essential transparency and visibility, allowing them to optimize application security and enhance resilience. The company's mission is to address the prevalent challenges faced by Chief Information Security Officers and security engineers in today's fast-paced technological landscape.
Dialect
Seed Round in 2022
Dialect is a company that specializes in enhancing decentralized application (dapp) experiences through smart messaging protocols. It focuses on providing seamless, on-chain messaging solutions, including wallet-to-wallet chat and app notifications. Dialect has developed tools such as a blockchain monitoring toolkit and web component libraries for notifications and chat, making it easier for projects to integrate composable, on-chain messages into their applications.
Founded in 2016, dbt Labs develops an open-source analytics engineering tool that empowers data analysts with SQL knowledge to build and share organizational knowledge through data modeling. Its platform facilitates collaborative deployment of analytics code, adhering to software engineering practices.
PopSQL Inc. is a software company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing a collaborative SQL query editing tool for development teams. Founded in 2017, PopSQL provides a platform that allows data analysts, product managers, and other professionals to write SQL queries, visualize data, and share results effectively. The software enables users to organize SQL queries into folders, which can be kept private or shared within teams, and includes features for tracking changes to facilitate collaboration. By offering support for multiple operating systems, including web, macOS, Windows, and Linux, PopSQL aims to streamline the data analysis process and enhance teamwork among users.
Aleo provides a platform for building fully private applications using zero-knowledge technology. It offers a comprehensive toolkit that includes an application runtime environment, allowing software to compile, execute, and finalize its state autonomously. Aleo also supports a statically-typed programming language called Leo, designed specifically for private application development on the Aleo blockchain. The company engages its community through blogs and incentive programs to test the bounds of its decentralized technology.
Blockdaemon
Series C in 2022
Blockdaemon facilitates blockchain deployment by offering a node management platform that supports over 30 protocols. It empowers businesses and developers to quickly launch and manage blockchain applications, with tools for exchanges, custodians, and financial institutions.
SeekOut is an advanced AI-powered recruitment management platform that specializes in identifying and engaging hard-to-find and diverse talent. The company's unique capabilities allow recruiters to access a vast pool of over 80 million profiles, particularly in engineering and life sciences, by utilizing data from patents and research publications. SeekOut provides recruiters with tools to discover untapped deep tech talent through its proprietary sourcing solution for GitHub. It also offers best-in-class AI search functionality over 500 million profiles, ensuring that recruiters can efficiently match candidates to job vacancies. With features like one-click access to diverse candidates, automated messaging campaigns, and custom search engines across 37 social networks and websites, SeekOut enhances the recruiting process, allowing teams to focus on strategic tasks while improving overall return on investment.
Buf Technologies
Series B in 2021
Buf Technologies develops tools to simplify the lifecycle of Protocol Buffers APIs. Its product suite includes a linter that enforces API design best practices, a breaking-change detector that checks compatibility at the source or wire level, and a configurable file builder that generates images. The company helps teams create, lint, and distribute consistent APIs, protect against incompatible schema changes during evolution, and manage protocols across an organization so development remains focused on core work. Based in Buffalo, New York, Buf supports teams in standardizing API design and ensuring cross-team compatibility throughout the API lifecycle.
Cortex is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in providing an internal developer portal that enhances service quality and operational efficiency for software development teams. Cortex's application suite includes tools for managing microservices, documenting tribal knowledge, conducting service health audits, and preventing outages. The platform automates workflows for onboarding by scanning and mapping metadata from various microservices sources, inferring critical details like ownership and on-call rotations. This comprehensive approach enables developers to prioritize work effectively, ensuring a smoother incident response and facilitating the creation of production readiness checklists, security audits, and assessments of operational maturity.
QuickNode
Series A in 2021
Founded in Miami in 2017, QuickNode is a comprehensive blockchain development platform that empowers developers and businesses with fast, reliable APIs and supportive tools to execute Web3 ideas efficiently.
Cloudsmith
Series A in 2021
Cloudsmith is a software-as-a-service provider of a cloud-native artifact and package management platform designed to secure and streamline software supply chains. The platform supports a broad range of package formats including npm, Docker, Maven, PyPI, RubyGems, and Debian, enabling developers to store, manage, and distribute artifacts across ecosystems. It provides hosted repositories with access controls, authentication, and integration with identity providers, along with features such as discoverability, malware scanning, detailed logs and analytics, private repositories, retention policies, and integrations with development tools. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Belfast, Cloudsmith focuses on secure artifact repositories that help teams manage packages and automate distribution across cloud and local environments.
SeekOut is an advanced AI-powered recruitment management platform that specializes in identifying and engaging hard-to-find and diverse talent. The company's unique capabilities allow recruiters to access a vast pool of over 80 million profiles, particularly in engineering and life sciences, by utilizing data from patents and research publications. SeekOut provides recruiters with tools to discover untapped deep tech talent through its proprietary sourcing solution for GitHub. It also offers best-in-class AI search functionality over 500 million profiles, ensuring that recruiters can efficiently match candidates to job vacancies. With features like one-click access to diverse candidates, automated messaging campaigns, and custom search engines across 37 social networks and websites, SeekOut enhances the recruiting process, allowing teams to focus on strategic tasks while improving overall return on investment.
CTO.ai enhances developer productivity by offering a DevOps software suite. This includes application modernization, platform engineering, and cloud infrastructure management, enabling intuitive and measurable workflows that accelerate software delivery without requiring additional operational teams.
Glitch, Inc. is a New York City-based company that offers an online platform designed for users to create web applications easily. Founded in 2000, Glitch serves a diverse community of creators, ranging from novice coders to experienced developers. The platform features a collaborative code editor that allows multiple users to work on the same project simultaneously, akin to Google Docs for coding. Users can initiate projects without complex installation processes, with all creations automatically published to the web and updates applied in real time. Glitch has fostered a community that has developed over 2.5 million apps, which are available for remixing and customization. The company was originally founded as Fog Creek Software by Joel Spolsky and Michael Pryor, with Anil Dash currently serving as its CEO.
Retention
Series A in 2015
Retention offers a mobile-only analytics platform designed to assist developers, product managers, and entrepreneurs in understanding user behavior through precise data analysis. Unlike traditional web analytics that may not effectively cater to mobile environments, Retention focuses specifically on the unique dynamics of mobile applications. By providing insights into application performance across various devices, the platform enables users to make informed decisions based on relevant metrics. This tailored approach helps streamline the analytics process for mobile developers, ensuring they can concentrate on key performance indicators that truly matter in the mobile landscape.