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Connect corporate document and web apps to devices on-the-go without changing anything.

Twilio provides a cloud-based communications platform that enables businesses to integrate voice, messaging, and video into applications using APIs.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Jeff Lawson(Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer)inEvan Cooke(Director)John WolthuisLee Kirkpatrick(Chief Financial Officer)Roy Ng(Executive Officer)Karyn Smith(Executive Officer)

Co-investors500 GlobalBessemer Venture PartnersDraper AssociatesFounders Circle CapitalFounders FundIcon Ventures+16 more

Dealkit (formerly Docasaurus) was a transaction management platform for venture capital financings, serving founders, investors, and legal teams by managing the workflow from term sheet to close.

FintechLegalTechSaaS

James AlonsoinJeff SmitinAdam Zolyakin

Co-investorsCraft Ventures

Workona is a browser-based workspace tool that organizes tabs into project-based spaces, with autosave, tab syncing across devices, tab suspension, and search to switch between work contexts.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS

Quinn(Leads product and marketing)Alma(Leads engineering and UX design)

Co-investorsAugust Capital

Compound Eye builds camera-based sensing and perception technology (VIDAS) that combines AI with classical computer vision to give autonomous machines depth measurement, scene understanding, and positioning without LiDAR or radar.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareRoboticsRedwood City, US

Jason Devitt(Founder)Haoyang Wang(Founder)

BoardManu Kumar(Director)inSven Strohband(Director)in

Board seatDr. Manu Kumar· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsKhosla Ventures

Los Altos, US

John Hastings Granbery(Executive Officer, Director)

Board seatDr. Manu Kumar· per SEC Form D

eShares, Inc., doing business as Carta, builds capitalization table management and equity valuation software.

Palo Alto, US

Henry Shozen Ward(Executive Officer)Charly Kevers(Executive Officer)Michael Chien Hsing Wu(Executive Officer)

BoardAndrew Daniel Parker(Director)Manu Kumar(Director)inJohn Ward Buttrick(Director)

Board seatDr. Manu Kumar· per SEC Form D · $41.5M raise · filed Oct 2017

Co-investorsBattery VenturesExpansion Venture CapitalAndreessen HorowitzUnion Square Ventures (USV)

Everlaw develops advanced software for e-discovery and litigation, helping organizations manage digital evidence and navigate complex legal proceedings.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechNew York, US

Ajeet Shankar(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardManu Kumar(Director)inSteven Sinofsky(Director)inTyler Sosin(Director)inJeff Friedman(Director)

Board seatDr. Manu Kumar· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzCapitalGH.I.G. CapitalH.I.G. Growth PartnersMenlo VenturesMudita Venture+2 more

Forethought builds self-improving AI agents for customer service, now integrated into Zendesk's platform.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Mateo, US

Deon Chris Nicholas(Founder)Deon Nicholas(Founder)inSami Ghoche(Founder)in

Board seatDr. Manu Kumar· per SEC Form D

Co-investors8VCFrontline VenturesGeodesic CapitalInspired CapitalNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Village Global+4 more

Gradescope is a web platform for administering and grading assessments—paper-based, digital, code, and bubble-sheet assignments—with flexible rubrics, AI-assisted grouping of similar answers, and per-question analytics.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaSBerkeley, US

Arjun Singh(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardDave Samuel(Director)Manu Kumar(Director)inSergey Karayev(Director)

Board seatDr. Manu Kumar· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsGSV VenturesBloomberg BetaFreestyle CapitalHouseReach Capital

Berkeley, US

Sooinn Lee(Executive Officer, Director)Gunho Lee(Executive Officer)Garett Wiley(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardManu Kumar(Director)inSean Lee(Director)

Board seatDr. Manu Kumar· per SEC Form D · $4M raise · filed Feb 2015

San Francisco, US

Anjali Menon(Executive Officer, Director)Brooke Krajancich(Executive Officer)Asaf Zilberfarb(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardManu Kumar(Director)in

Board seatDr. Manu Kumar· per SEC Form D · $3M raise · filed Sep 2021

Twindo converts iPhone/iPad scans, floor plans, and point clouds into accurate, editable CAD and BIM files for architectural and construction professionals.

Construction TechDeep TechSaaSBoulder, US

Kevin Albert(Founder)in

Board seatDr. Manu Kumar· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsTechstarsTrilogy Equity PartnersFoundryIntel Capital

San Francisco, US

Vivek Nair(Executive Officer, Director)Douglas Steven Safreno(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardManu Kumar(Director)inJett Fein(Director)Daniel Liem(Director)Kojo Osei(Director)

Board seatDr. Manu Kumar· per SEC Form D

Mountain View, US

Lewis Anderson(Executive Officer, Director)

Board seatDr. Manu Kumar· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsHomebrew

Agenda Hero offers an AI-powered tool that converts text, images, and PDFs into calendar events for Google, Apple, Outlook, and its own platform, and lets users build shareable, printable, and digital calendars.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerSaaS

Caren Cioffi(Founder)Tim Walling(Founder)

Co-investorsUpfront VenturesPrecursor Ventures

Auth0 is an authentication and authorization platform that secures applications, AI agents, and internal tools by providing identity management, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and fine-grained access control capabilities.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBellevue, US

Carlos Eugenio Pace(Executive Officer, Director)Matias Woloski(Director)inEugenio P.(Founder)inJonathan I. Gelsey(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardSunil Nagaraj(Director)Karan Mehandru(Director)in

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersEndeavor CatalystFounders Circle CapitalFUSENTT DOCOMO VenturesNXTP+11 more

Avoma is a meeting intelligence platform that automatically captures, transcribes, and analyzes meetings, delivering summaries and key takeaways to Microsoft Teams channels to keep teams aligned.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechPalo Alto, US

Albert Lai(Founder)

Co-investorsHubSpot VenturesInvariantes FundStorm VenturesTSVCTwin Ventures

BackType provides analytics tools for monitoring and understanding social conversations and content performance across the web.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Christopher Golda(Founder)inMike Montano(Founder)inMichael Montano

Co-investors500 GlobalY CombinatorFounder CollectiveTrue Ventures

Baydin builds a task manager for teams that integrates with Google Workspace products like Docs and Drive to prioritize tasks and workflows.

Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS

Aye Moah(Founder)in

Bugsee is a mobile bug and crash reporting SDK that captures video, network requests, console logs and symbolicated stack traces leading up to failures in live apps.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS

CardMunch turned photographs of paper business cards into digital contact records.

Media & Entertainment

Bowei GaiManu KumarSid Viswanathan

Co-investors500 Global

Carta is a cloud-based ERP platform for private capital markets that manages cap tables, equity administration, fund management, and valuations for startups, private companies, and venture funds globally.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Henry Ward(Co-founder)Manu Kumar(Co-founder)inCharly Kevers(Chief Financial Officer)Jeff Perry(Chief Revenue Officer)Nick Avery(Chief People Officer)Nicole Baer(Chief Marketing Officer)

Co-investorsA*Align VenturesAmity VenturesAndreessen HorowitzAnthemis VentureDraper Associates+35 more

Crave provides one-click cloud infrastructure and containerized "Devspaces" — unified remote dev environments that let engineering teams onboard, build, debug, and run CI consistently.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSSanta Clara, US

Alvin C.(Founder)inYuvraaj Kelkar(Founder)

Co-investorsSignalFire

Co-investorsQuest Venture Partners

Co-investorsHeavybit

DNAnexus operates a cloud platform for managing, analyzing, and collaborating on multiomic and clinical data, supporting bioinformatics workflows, AI/ML analytics, and cohort analysis.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureMountain View, US

Andreas Sundquist(Executive Officer, Director)Richard Daly(Executive Officer, Director)George Asimenos, PhD(Chief Product Officer)in

BoardMICHAEL GOLDBERG(Director)GEOFF DUYK(Director)KRISHNA YESHWANT(Director)in

Co-investorsClaremont Creek VenturesForesite CapitalGV (Google Ventures)Uncork CapitalWireframe Ventures

Ello builds an AI-powered 1:1 reading tutor for children using a custom low-latency AI stack for real-time teaching decisions.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechSan Francisco, US

Tom Sayer(Co-founder, CEO)Dr. Elizabeth Adams(Co-founder, CXO)Catalin Voss(Co-Founder, CTO)Tom S(Founder)

Co-investorsGoodwater CapitalHomebrewKhosla VenturesProject A VenturesReach CapitalVisible Ventures+2 more

Enuma, based in South Korea, makes game-based learning software for young children.

EdTech

Sooinn Lee(Founder)inEmir EzwanGunho Lee

Co-investors500 GlobalK3 VenturesKakao VenturesLG Technology VenturesSamsung Next

Machine learning software platform that transforms unlabeled data into high-quality AI training data.

Co-investorsCanvas VenturesCheyenne VenturesGen CapitalPromus VenturesThe Perkins FundTrinity Ventures

Integrated platform that helps you build and manage your full stack of fintech services.

Gentrace has shut down and is no longer operating; its code has been released on GitHub under the MIT license.

Co-investorsMatrixHeadline

HiHello provides an enterprise platform for digital business cards, email signatures, and video-call branding, letting companies deploy and control brand-consistent contact identities across every employee's devices and platforms.

ConsumerEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkMarketing TechSaaSPalo Alto, US

Manu Kumar(Co-founder & CEO)Hari Ravi(Co-founder)

Co-investorsAugust CapitalFoundryLux CapitalTenOneTen Ventures

HighlightCam is a free iOS and Android app that continuously buffers the last 15 seconds of video so users can capture a sports highlight after it happens by tapping to save the preceding footage.

ConsumerSocialSports Tech

Invisible AI develops computer vision and AI solutions for the manufacturing industry, with expertise in human body and motion tracking derived from autonomous vehicle technology.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning

Eric Danziger(Founder)inPrateek Sachdeva(Founder)in

Co-investorsFraser McCombs CapitalSierra Ventures8VCSilent VenturesSlow Ventures

Lucidchart is a diagramming and visualization platform that enables teams to create process maps, org charts, technical diagrams, and system architecture visualizations using AI-powered features, data linking, and automation.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Karl Sun(Founder)inDave Growin

Co-investorsBling CapitalGlynn Capital Management

Co-investorsForward Venture Capital

Lyft operates an on-demand ride-hailing platform connecting riders with drivers for scheduled, commute, and late-night trips, along with bikes and scooters in select regions.

ConsumerMarketplacesMobility & Transportation

Logan Green(Founder)inJohn Zimmer(Founder)inDavid Risherin

Co-investorsFidelity Investments

Co-investorsAndreessen Horowitz

Meld operates a network for onboarding users to stablecoins and digital assets, offering onramp/offramp orchestration, multi-chain token support, and KYC/bank-linking tools accessible via API.

Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsFintechSan Francisco, US

Pankaj Bengani(Founder)

Co-investorsCoatue ManagementFactionYolo InvestmentsLightspeed Faction

Aurora develops self-driving technology for autonomous vehicles.

AI & Machine LearningHardwareLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationPittsburgh, US

Chris Urmson(CEO)Drew BagnellSterling AndersonRandy R. Reibel(Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer)Stephen Crouch(Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer)Trenton Berg(Senior Hardware Engineer (listed as a founder on Crunchbase))

Co-investorsGeodesic CapitalGreylock PartnersIndex VenturesKhosla VenturesMillennium New HorizonsMillennium Technology Value Partners+7 more

Nexkey offers a mobile access control platform that turns a smartphone or Apple Watch into a digital key, letting businesses grant, revoke, and schedule keyless door access from one app.

IoTPropTechSaaS

Co-investorsUpfront Ventures

Occipital's Twindo turns iPhone/iPad scans, floor plans, and point clouds into accurate, editable CAD and BIM files for architecture, design, and construction professionals.

Construction TechPropTechSaaS

Co-investorsGrishin RoboticsFoundryIntel CapitalShea Ventures, LLC

Osmo makes hands-on educational games that combine physical, tactile pieces with technology to teach children subjects such as music, coding, and math.

EdTechGamingHardware

Co-investorsAccelUpfront VenturesBain Capital VenturesCollaborative FundMVP Ventures

OtterTune was a database tuning service, originally a start-up spun out of Carnegie Mellon University.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Dana Van Aken(Founder)in

Co-investorsAccel

Row Zero is a cloud spreadsheet built for large-scale enterprise data, scaling to billion-row datasets and connecting directly to data warehouses like Snowflake, Databricks, and Redshift with two-way SQL connections.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSeattle, US

Nick End(Executive Officer, Director)inBreck Fresen(Founder)inGrant B. Fresen(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsLudlow VenturesTrilogy Equity PartnersIA Ventures

A brand new way to create, share, and update schedules so that everyone is on the same page.

Teleo provides a remote command center solution that enables a single operator to supervise multiple machines, improving site productivity and workforce attraction through enhanced safety and comfort, while offering real-time analytics for operational visibility.

Advanced ManufacturingConstruction TechRoboticsSan Francisco, US

Rom Clément(Co-Founder and CTO)inVinay Shet(Founder)in

BoardAdam Grosser(Director)inRoger Fradin(Director)

Co-investorsTrousdale VenturesTrucks VCUP PartnersY Combinator

Torbit sells a cloud-based service for speeding up websites.

Developer Tools

Jon FoxJosh Fraser

Co-investors500 Global

Seamless transaction management for getting deals closed.

Valet parking on demand service.