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Drive Capital — 2020 Investments

12 investments dated 2020 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all

Civis Analyticscivisanalytics.cominDec 2020 · $30.7M

Civis Analytics offers an all-in-one, fully managed analytics and AI platform that includes data warehousing, ELT ingestion, reporting and self-service analytics, data activation, GenAI/LLM tools, and identity-resolution matching.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaSChicago, US

Dan Wagner(Executive Officer, Director)inAlan Fu(Executive Officer)Tim O'Reilly(Director)

BoardEric Schmidt(Director)

Board seatChristopher Olsen· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsAlumni VenturesCastor VenturesVerizon Ventures

Forge Biologicsforgebiologics.comin𝕏Series C · Jul 2020 · $90M

Forge Biologics is a US-based gene therapy CDMO (contract development and manufacturing organization) offering AAV manufacturing services, technologies, and infrastructure.

Advanced ManufacturingBiotechHealthtechMedical DevicesGrove City, US

Timothy J. Miller(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardChris Garabedian(Director)inMolly McCartin(Director)in

Board seatMolly Bonakdarpour· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsAisling CapitalRA Capital

ApplyBoard Inc.applyboard.cominSeries C · May 2020 · $72M

ApplyBoard operates a platform connecting international students with educational institutions across Canada, the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, and Germany.

AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesEdTechMarketplacesSaaSLondon, CA

Meti Basiri(Founder)inMartin Basiri(Founder)inMassi Basiri(Founder)in

Co-investors500 GlobalArtiman VenturesBDC Growth Venture FundCandou VenturesCeltic House Asia PartnersETS Strategic Capital+13 more

DisruptOpsdisruptops.comin𝕏Mar 2020 · $9M

DisruptOps provides a platform for managing and controlling firewall policies across firewalls, clouds, and segmentation tools in enterprise environments.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareKansas City, US

Joseph Brazil(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Rothman(Executive Officer, Director)Richard Mogull(Executive Officer)

BoardCharles Beeler(Director)

Co-investorsRally Ventures Management, Llc

Immutaimmuta.comin𝕏Series A · Jun 2020 · $40M

Immuta provides data access and governance solutions that enable safe, instant provisioning of data at scale for humans and AI systems.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareAnnapolis, US

Steven Touw(Director)inMatthew Carroll(Executive Officer, Director)inMichael Schiller(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardSapan Shah(Director)

Co-investorsConversion CapitalDell Technologies CapitalGreycroftIntel CapitalMarch Capital PartnersNat Turner+11 more

Oliveoliveai.comin𝕏Sep 2020 · $106Macquired by Waystar Holding

Olive was a Columbus, Ohio-based healthcare automation company that used AI and robotic process automation to handle administrative tasks like prior authorizations and revenue cycle workflows for hospitals.

AI & Machine LearningHealthtechSaaS

Co-investorsChicago VenturesLRVHealthOak HC/FTTRANSFORMATION CAPITALAscension VenturesGeneral Catalyst

Olive01ive.co.jpin𝕏Sep 2020 · $106M

Olive develops machine learning and signal processing technology with applications across education, mobility, and healthcare sectors.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechHealthtechNagoya, JP

Seiji Takeuchi(CEO)in

Co-investorsGlobal BrainHiroshima Venture Capital Co. Ltd.Ignition Point Venture PartnersX-HUB TOKYO Global Startup AcceleratorAscension VenturesGeneral Catalyst+1 more

Olivefromolive.cominSep 2020 · $106M

Olive is an AI tool that connects to a company's database or data warehouse, understands the schema, and builds and deploys production-ready business intelligence dashboards and tools from natural-language descriptions.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Bardia Safari(CEO)inShrey Gupta(CTO)inShailesh Gupta(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Combinator1984 Ventures Management, LlcAscension VenturesGeneral CatalystGlobal BrainHashed+5 more

Oliveolive.isSep 2020 · $106M

Olive develops speech-to-text technology that preserves linguistic detail (timing, emphasis, prosody) in transcripts to address dialect bias in AI systems.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Ella McChesney(Founder)in

Co-investorsOwl VenturesAscension VenturesDragoneer Investment GroupGeneral CatalystOak HC/FT

Oliveolive.legalMar 2020 · $51M

Olive uses AI to convert large, unstructured medical records into a date-ordered chronology with summaries and tables, flagging relevant pre-injury medical events and cross-referencing medical bills to detect missing records.

AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS

Co-investorsDniproAscension VenturesGeneral CatalystOak HC/FTVista Equity Partners

Udacityudacity.comin𝕏Nov 2020 · $75M

Udacity is an online education platform that offers digital upskilling programs, including Nanodegree certificates and courses, developed with industry leaders to address talent shortages.

AI & Machine LearningEdTech

Sebastian Thrun(Founder (Stanford instructor who started Udacity))inPeter Norvig(Founder (Stanford instructor who started Udacity))in

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzCrimson Investment FundCRV (Charles River Ventures)GV (Google Ventures)InvestXValor Capital Group+4 more

Verataveratainsight.cominDec 2020 · $225M

Verata is an AI-powered platform for executive search professionals that combines company intelligence, executive data, backchannel discovery, and search management tools.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Nicholas Manske(Founder)inJosh Gardner(Founder)inNick(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsY CombinatorEight CapitalGeneral CatalystPhoenix FundTiger Global Management

Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.