AI Fleet is a long-haul trucking company built from the ground up using software. The majority of VC dollars in this industry have been spent on software companies marketing unsuccessfully to change-resistant trucking companies. AI Fleet is taking market share in a heavily fragmented market by eliminating glaring sector inefficiencies using proprietary software algorithms, allowing them to offer greater benefits, more flexibility and substantially higher pay to employees.

Notable co-investors: Compound VC, Obvious Ventures

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AGT is a biotechnology company pursuing cures and treatments for infectious diseases, cancers and monogenic disorders. AGT has an extensive patent portfolio surrounding its platform of innovations that accelerate the development of a wide variety of drug candidates. AGT's proprietary platform technologies provide reusable components that allow AGT to create new therapies in a fraction of the time of competitors. AGT began clinical trials this year for an HIV cure.

Notable co-investors: 10X Ventures, Alumni Ventures

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Amplion is an AI-powered actionable biomedical intelligence for precision medicine. Over 90% of drug programs fail to get to market, even after many years and billions invested in their development. Amplion’s mission is to leverage AI to become the leading provider of stats, scientific details and outcomes on every drug development program, enabling the industry to leverage outcomes data to drive better data-driven decisions.

Notable co-investors: Greycroft Partners, Revolution Ventures

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Axiom is a space infrastructure developer headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company is planning commercial missions in 2022 to the International Space Station and aims to own and operate the world's first commercial space station. The company's leadership team is largely composed of former NASA employees and astronauts. The company's planned commercial activities include human spaceflight for space tourists, as well as government-funded and commercial astronauts engaging in in-space research, in-space manufacturing, and space exploration.

Notable co-investors: TQS Advisors, Horizon Tech Finance

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Cambrian is a multi-asset biotech company that combines the advantages of a biotech business, a venture capital fund, and an incubator as it creates a platform for developing longevity therapeutics. The company was co-founded by Christian Angermayer, co-founder of ATAI Life Sciences (IPO June 2021, market cap >$2.5B) and Ribopharma (today Alnylam, ~$20B market cap). Cambrian’s long-term strategy is to become the first longevity pharmaceuticals company - an industry the company believes will have some of the highest grossing products over the next decade.

Notable co-investors: Future Ventures, Apeiron Group, SALT Fund, Joe Lonsdale

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Canvas wants to make the world more equitable by building a collaborative talent marketplace that can create more opportunity for everyone. Canvas’ platform is a SaaS that enables companies to gauge the diversity of their recruiting pipeline, source underrepresented talent, and measure ROI of their diversity recruiting initiatives. Current partnerships include Amazon, Google, J.P. Morgan, Dropbox, Pinterest, Stripe, Hulu, and hundreds more. They have 100+ additional companies in late stages (proposal or procurement) of their pipeline for Q2 and Q3 alone (e.g., Twitter, Salesforce, GE, etc.).

Notable co-investors: Sequoia Capital, Owl Ventures, Lachy Groom

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Caribou is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, founded by pioneers in CRISPR genome editing, leveraging their proprietary technology to develop genome-edited off-the-shelf immune cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. They are developing a pipeline of genome-edited, off-the-shelf CAR-T and CAR-NK cell therapies for a range of tumor types. Caribou’s proprietary chRDNA (CRISPR hybrid RNA-DNA) technology enables improved genome-editing specificity at high efficiency, and they are applying chRDNA to develop sophisticated genome-edited cell therapies. Caribou was founded by Jennifer Doudna, co-recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and focal point of Walter Isaacson’s recent biography The Code Breaker.

Notable co-investors: Maverick Capital, Farallon Capital, F-Prime Capital

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Crowdvocate is a SaaS platform for B2B customer engagement and advocacy. They empower companies to create better relationships based on proactive customer & partner communities and leverage those communities, through automation, for advocacy and growth. 65% of the B2B buying decision is impacted by the voice of the customer - what is said about the product. Crowdvocate generates, automates and scales the voice of customers and word-of-mouth. The company’s SaaS enables B2B companies to create branded and targeted customer / partner communities (or tap into existing communities), build a competitive advantage, and leverage the community for business growth.

Notable co-investors: Wing VC, Vertex Ventures, GoAhead VC

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Drip Capital is a California and India based Fintech company focused on solving the $3T working capital problem for SME exporters using technology and a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) model for international trade. The company's vision is to build the world’s largest cross border B2B trade finance platform, a $2 trillion opportunity. Every year, small business exporters and importers forgo over $2 trillion of global trade because of a lack of access to trade credit. Banks do not have the automation and processes to cater to SMB customers at scale, leaving them underserved.  Using data science and automation, Drip has built a full stack trade finance platform that serves exporters and importers in over 50 countries. 

Notable co-investors: Accel Partners, Sequoia India, TI Platform

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Equi is a first of its kind, digital family office product that lets individual investors invest in a portfolio of top performing hedge fund and alternative investments. Without $100M+ it's almost impossible to access the top performing alternative investments in the world. Equi makes it safe and easy to invest in a custom, diversified, and managed portfolio of top performing private market investments with little to no correlation to the public markets, e.g. private equity, niche hedge funds, real estate, collateralized lending, etc. The top performing alternative investments are not on public platforms; they’re hidden around the world, in the long tail of the private fund universe, which Equi assembles into an easy to use managed service. 

Notable co-investors: Foundation Capital, Hyper, Phil Hellmuth

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Esper is a government policy management platform and end-to-end solution for the entire policymaking process. Their technology is used for policy writing collaboration management and results tracking of that policy over time. Government workers are often hindered by paper processes that overload them with unnecessary work, and the pandemic has also demonstrated the need for quickened governmental policy responsiveness. By getting better data access and tools to experts and policymakers, policies can be better coordinated, have better socioeconomic impact, and be cheaper to compose. Esper was founded by Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir along with Peter Thiel.

Notable co-investors: 8VC, Cota Capital, Peter Thiel

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Fantasy Sports Co. is a data analytics and consumer rewards platform for sports betting. This industry has been changing materially since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized sports gambling in 2018, and now legal sports betting is expected to grow from $1.5B to $81B by 2030. New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and over 40% of all U.S. states are live or about to legalize sports gambling. Fantasy Sports Co is primed to take advantage of this policy shift as a first mover in the space. The company has accumulated over 500,000 users across all sports gambling and features proprietary tech products including LineStar for Daily Fantasy Sports, TrackWiz for Horse Racing, and BetFully for Sports Gambling.

Notable co-investors: Social Leverage VC, Tech Coast Angels

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Foresight is a mental health and wellness clinic providing members with a wide range of treatments and services related to improving mental health and lifestyle. The company is composed of a team of psychiatrists, therapists, neuropsychologists, nutritionists, bioengineers, data scientists, and researchers with a mission to revolutionize mental healthcare through the use of modern technology — enabling it to deliver highly personalized, data-backed treatment plans to its members. Foresight’s innovative approach incorporates genetic testing, voice analysis, biometric monitoring through wearables, social media sentiment analysis, and AI to recommend optimal drugs & dosages.

Notable co-investors: Sequoia Capital, Polaris Partners, Jazz Ventures

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Gatsby is a no-commission trading platform that provides users with a less intimidating way to enter the options market. With a simple layout and social trading features, Gatsby offers investors an easier way to trade options without incurring expensive commissions. Gatsby aims to take on Robinhood by offering traders no commission trading, no per-contract fees and no excessive jargon. Beyond that, the platform offers users a way to earn revenues from trade activity through a rewards program. It also hosts a social network that can be a source for trade ideas or a place for Gatsby traders to share on their wins. Gatsby’s young founders already have one successful exit in Dealtable.com.

Notable co-investors: Barclays, SWS Venture Capital, Rosecliff Ventures

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General Fusion was founded in 2002 with a goal to transform the world’s energy supply by developing the fastest, most practical, and cost-competitive path to commercial fusion power. Fusion is a potential planet saving technology that is finally going from theory to reality, partially as a result of advances in high-speed computing, AI, superconducting magnets, 3-D printing and materials science. General Fusion specifically is planning to break ground on a fusion demonstration power plant plant next year as a proof of concept before building its first commercial facility. It will be the world’s first magnetized fusion power station. The long-term implications are revolutionary.

Notable co-investors: Temasek, Bezos Expedition, GIC

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Knix is a direct to consumer intimate apparel brand that is re-inventing intimates for real life. Through their innovative products and their engaged community, Knix is empowering people everywhere to be unapologetically free. The comapny’s engagement is orders of magnitudes higher than Victoria Secret, ThirdLove, Lively or Lululemon. They involve their customers every step of the way and by listening and iterating, they are creating intimate apparel that their customers love to live in. Knix currently sells a broad array of products including underwear, bras, tanks, t-shirts and loungewear. Launched in 2013, Knix is one of the fastest growing companies in Canada and globally recognized as an innovator within the apparel space.

Notable co-investors: TZP Group, Alumni Ventures

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Malomo is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of E-commerce, SaaS, and the internet. It is the leading retention marketing platform for high-growth online merchants. It helps eCommerce brands generate revenue, loyalty, and engagement by turning their shipment tracking experience into a marketing channel. Its proactive, personalized push notifications reduce support tickets up to 75%. Malomo is trusted by 80+ merchants and counting - Judy, Rhone, Caraway, Death Wish Coffee, Misen, Rebag, Magic Spoon, Made In, Cuts, Summersalt and many others. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Notable co-investors: Hyde Park Venture Partners, Base10 Partners

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Marketfeed is building the eToro ($10B+)/Public.com($1B+) + Robinhood ($35B+) for India, a learning-first, community-powered stock trading platform. Marketfeed is adapting the very successful community-powered brokerage model pioneered in the US and Europe, but has effectively tailored it for the India market by layering a cohort-based learning approach and lucrative subscription-based revenue stream on top of the brokerage business model. India is seeing an explosive growth in the number of investors participating in the public stock markets. The number of trading accounts is growing at a rate of over two million per month and is accelerating, with projected growth from 60 million to 100 million by 2026.

Notable co-investors: Soma Capital, Dragon Capital

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Minicircle is developing a human genetic enhancement platform designed to facilitate life extension capabilities. The company uses expressive DNA minicircles to add genes to the human body without altering your pre-existing genome, enabling healthcare practitioners to relieve suffering and enrich the condition through means of developing and delivering safe, accessible gene therapy. Minicircle claims to have developed the world's first reversible gene therapy technology for humans, allowing easy and safe genetic prototyping without editing chromosomal DNA, and which if successful could extend life, prolong disease and increase muscle, while reducing fat among other benefits. Minicircle’s goal is to develop a suite of plasmid gene therapies to extend life and enhance the human condition that’s also distributable and available to the masses.

Notable co-investors: Peter Thiel, Naval Ravikant, Sam Altman

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Moonshot is a rapidly growing platform that buys, launches, and scales direct-to-consumer and marketplace e-commerce brands. Moonshot is on a mission to buy, launch and grow the most loved e-commerce brands of the future. The company partners with the most successful owner-operators of third-party marketplace businesses and direct-to-consumer brands. Moonshot then helps these brands achieve their potential through growth capital, data, deep expertise in operations, supply chain management, marketing, omnichannel distribution, and international expansion. Moonshot is blitzing its way through a roll-up of e-commerce brands, and has adopted a business model that has already produced multiple unicorns such as Thrasio and Perch. Moonshot has already raised $160M in funding with financing in part coming from Y Combinator.

Notable co-investors: Victory Park Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures (Joe Montana)

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Muze is a Sequoia-backed communication medium built for a younger, digital generation that frequently communicates in memes; with similar upside to Snapchat. The New York-based startup is rethinking mobile messaging. While today’s messaging apps have expanded over the years to include support for sharing photos and videos, voice messages, reactions and more, Muze has fully redesigned the traditional messaging experience as a blank canvas, allowing for more creative interactions. The company’s new mobile app on iOS allows users to add text, pin their photos and GIFs, zoom in and out on content and even draw on the messaging canvas itself using different pen sizes and colors, among other things. The end result looks nothing like your standard messaging conversation; instead, a chat in Muze resembles a collaborative art project.

Notable co-investors: Sequoia, Tribe Capital, Maveron

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NorthOne is a mobile-first API-based bank account and mobile app that helps startups and small businesses bank, manage their finances and integrate all of their financial tools in a simple and intuitive way. One of the country’s leading banking apps for small businesses, NorthOne has eliminated all non-sufficient funds and overdraft fees for all its current and future customers. By using NorthOne, small business owners can focus on what matters: running their business. NorthOne is a financial technology provider, not a bank. Banking services are provided by The Bancorp Bank, Member FDIC. Their headquarters are in New York with additional offices in San Francisco and Toronto.

Notable co-investors: Battery Ventures, Redpoint Ventures

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NXCR is a vehicle subscription startup that makes mobility flexible, affordable and fully digital. NextCar is on a mission to create a platform that enables vehicle subscriptions to scale profitably. The company was started by the founders of Fair ($2bn raised) +TreuCar (IPO). NXCR is the next auto fintech company from Scott Painter, one of the leading serial entrepreneurs in the automotive space. Scott previously founded Fair (~$2B raise), TrueCar (public exit), and CarsDirect.com (now Internet Brands). NextCar is innovating through technology, finance and insurance. NextCar will power automobile subscriptions for the used vehicle sector, as well as the burgeoning green and electric vehicle sector.

Notable co-investors: Moonshots Capital, Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus

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Orderful is a B2B SaaS platform connecting the world’s supply chain through modernizing electronic data interchange (EDI). For context, EDI is a legacy protocol that has been around since the late 1960’s that’s still being used today despite its deficiencies. We believe Orderful has a meaningful chance to replace a significant portion of $25B EDI market via its API and add second layer data monetization on top, increasing TAM further. The founder market fit on the deal is ideal from a perspective as the CEO has spent over a decade in EDI, starting his own EDI consulting firm in 2013. Much of the core engineering team has remained with the Company since inception.

Notable co-investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital

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Payflow is a mobile app that allows workers to get paid whenever they want. Payflow integrates with employers who can then offer Payflow to their employees as a benefit. Both employers and employees love this product. Payflow can give employees more control over their earned wages, which may eliminate their need for loans and paydays. The solution is free for employees, sold to companies as an employee benefit. The company is growing fast; they started in Southern Europe (Spain) and are now also in LatAm. Payflow has integrated with 20+ payroll systems including 10 cloud-based systems to make it easy for both employers and employees. With this done, the company feels it can really scale.

Notable co-investors: E14 Fund (MIT), Grant Par

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PearPop is a social media marketplace that allows celebrities to charge smaller creators for different types of engagement on TikTok and soon to be other social platforms. PearPop is essentially a market between popular celebrities on TikTok and a myriad of other creators — upcoming musicians, chefs, dancers, actors or aspiring celebrities & influencers — looking to pay for collaborations or engagement on social media to grow their own audiences. Celebrities on the site can charge as they’d like for comments, song features from the smaller creator, or duet videos. PearPop currently boasts over 100,000 creators on TikTok and plans to launch on Instagram and Snapchat. PearPop can be the platform to unlock the hundreds of billions of potential in social capital, cut out the middlemen and be a system to seamlessly power this type of influencer spend and collaboration.

Notable co-investors: Bessemer, 776 Ventures, Mark Cuban, Kevin Durant, P Diddy, Snoop Dogg, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer

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Perch is a fintech platform that helps underserved communities leverage their rent payment and recurring expenses to build credit. Perch requires minimal effort from the user as it’s just piggybacking off of your already recurring payments like rent (and can retroactively add up to 24 months of rental payment history) and Spotify to build credit. Perch broke their yearly goal of 100K downloads in Q1 and has 114k users on the waitlist with 1,000+ Perch cards issued. FICO reports that 79 million Americans have subprime credit and another 53 million can’t be scored because they lack a sufficient credit history. 71% of college students who have little viable way of building their credit score – these underrepresented communities are Perch’s target.

Notable co-investors: Pendulum Holdings, Marcy Venture Partners (Jay-Z)

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Polymer Search's mission includes democratizing data accessibility, visualization, and insights by making complex data analysis simple for the modern data user. Data driven intelligence from pervasive structured data remains surprisingly manual and complex for the average non-technical business user. Spreadsheets remain the go-to tool of choice for granular or contextual problem solving (for around 1B+ business users). Other dynamic data science intelligence tools like SQL or Python remain out of reach. Enterprise BI tools like Tableau or Mode remain focused on data scientists, remain high friction to get to deeper insights quickly for any new business data sets, and are geared towards building visualizations, dashboards and reports. Polymer is seeking to be the only option that can make spreadsheet data immediately useful, engaging and presentation-ready for non-technical teams.

Notable co-investors: Sierra Ventures, Vela Partners, Westwave Partners

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Promakhos Therapeutics provides a drug discovery & development platform for curing inflammatory diseases with the innate immune system. Through molecules derived from gut bacteria, Promakhos is mapping out methods for curing Crohn’s disease (for which they have already been successful in curing mice) and other autoimmune disorders. Big Pharma has recently validated the innate immunity drug market. In the last 4 years, pharma titans such as Novartis, Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), Merck, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have entered into deals for innate immunity drugs in the inflammation, oncology and neurology sectors - with just the initial upfront payments ranging from $300M to $700M. Promakhos’ beachhead market for direct drug development is autoimmune disorders - starting with Crohn’s disease, which is estimated at $10B annually.

Notable co-investors: Pioneer Fund, Allston Fund

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Quantum Designed Materials has developed intellectual property to manufacture and deploy superconductors that function at normal temperatures and pressures, across a range of applications - such as power transmission and storage, electric vehicles, quantum computers, nuclear reactors, and much more.  They’ve already taken their technology from the lab R&D stage, to design of an actual commercial manufacturing facility. The company intends to engage in public utility pilots and partnerships over the next few years before commencing direct sales of wires & other electrical infrastructure. If this company is successful, they will transform multiple massive industries: Transmission & storage of electricity, Computing & data centers, Design of electronics, High-speed rail, Electric vehicles, Nuclear reactors

Notable co-investors: Larry Ellison, Dadi Perlmutter

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Redcliffe is India’s fastest-growing diagnostics & precision medicine company focused on reproductive health testing, rare diseases, and cancer gene diagnostics. It also operates branded IVF clinics. Redcliffe’s "Crysta" IVF Clinics are the only asset-light full-stack genome testing / molecular testing / reproductive assistance platform in India. Redcliffe is capturing valuable data across pre-conception, pre-implantation and pre-natal stages - both across DNA and clinical. Data gathered across multiple stages will generate significant business opportunities such as therapeutic drug discovery and pharma trials. This is the only integrated platform in India that is bringing technology, DNA / Molecular Testing / Assisted Fertility. Redcliffe solves a significant pain point in the world’s largest reproductive health market, using a unique combination of B2C and B2C2B Model. The company is led by a stellar founding team with previous exits

Notable co-investors: Chiratae Ventures, Alkemi Ventures

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Rejuvenation Technologies is a biotechnology company developing a nucleoside-modified TERT mRNA based method for halting, and even reversing, telomere shortening - a major cause of aging. Scientists have known for some time that telomeres are implicated in senescence and aging-related health declines. They've observed that in certain animals such as bats and sea urchins, the telomeres have length-preserving features that allow those organisms to enjoy remarkably long lives. But until recently, science hadn't come up with a good way to preserve (much less increase) the length of telomeres in humans. When Rejuvenation's TERT mRNA was applied to mice that had diseased livers, the results were dramatic: not only did the TERT mRNA extend the mice's telomeres, but it also reduced fibrosis (an aging-related malfunction of tissue maintenance), and ultimately extended median survival time by more than 40%.

Notable co-investors: SP Investment Fund, Dev X, 99 Startups

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Rizzle is the home of short videos, allowing users to create original content easily from a phone. Rizzle is becoming a breakout platform for short video series, differentiating it from competitors and allowing Rizzle to have fast, cost-efficient growth and good retention as it builds what could become one of the primary video/entertainment applications globally. Rizzle's focus on series has enabled them to onboard many more semi-pro creators than their competitors, which gives them a much larger number of high-quality shows at a fraction of the acquisition cost of Snap, Quibi, and others. With a much larger number of creators, Rizzle uses an AI-based feed to identify and promote rising stars, so the best creators rise to the top and users see more engaging content (whereas competitors other than TikTok rely on curated feeds). Rizzle has a winning team which has built products used by 100s of millions of users. The founders are ex-Google and ex-Qualcomm leaders.

Notable co-investors: Orbit Venture Partners, David Welch

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Sepion combines the latest in nanoscience, polymer chemistry, and cell engineering to deliver lithium-metal batteries with disruptive performance and economic benefits relative to incumbent lithium-ion technology. The EV battery cell market is forecasted to grow from $25B today to $90B in 2030. This represents only a 20% penetration of electric vehicles of total global vehicles sales in 2030. The opportunity is potentially five-fold larger as electric vehicles surpass combustion engine vehicles in both performance and cost moving toward 100% of all new vehicles sales (as has been mandated by many governments or promised by many automotive manufacturers). Sepion’s unique nano-porous membrane technology is changing how lithium ions move in a battery with the net resulting in a 40% improvement in range, 15% reduction in $/kWh, and more capital efficiency. If successful, Sepion’s batteries would significantly produce more energy density and at a lower cost than Quantumscape, which went public last year and sits at a $10B market cap.

Notable co-investors: Fidelity’s Fine Structure Ventures

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StormX is a Blockchain and micro-task company that provides crypto cash back. By utilizing the powers of blockchain technology, the company has been able to offer its users crypto rewards. Its app is available on iOS and Android and features over 32 million downloads globally, and has paid out over $2.8m in crypto cash back rewards. When a user shops from any of the company’s supported brands like Nike, eBay, or other stores, the brands offer StormX a discount where they pass most of it to the user and collect a small fee in between. StormX scaled from 0 to 500k users in just 11 months, growing 25% MoM. They are already working with over 750 stores globally. The world is evolving into a digital workforce. Even in the emerging countries, people can use smart devices to access online activity. There’s no single platform that offers an easy place to earn money online. Through StormX’s three services Play, Shop, and Gigs (launching in the future), the company aims to be a single platform where users can come and earn money online through the app.

Notable co-investors: Optimista Capital

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Thumbtack is an American home services website. It is an online directory that allows users to search for, rate, and hire local service providers to work on a variety of personal projects, including home improvement, financial and legal services, and event planning. How we fix, maintain and improve our homes hasn’t kept up with how we live the rest of our lives: instantly, on our phones. With Thumbtack, that is going to change, and the momentum has been impressive, with both user growth and also adjustments Thumbtack has made to improve the user experience. The company has successfully executed a move from a request for quote (RFQ) model to instant booking. This better customer experience resulted in dramatic improvements in NPS score, retention rates, repurchase rates, revenue per project, and growth rate. The company has many prominent backers including Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Qatar Investment Authority, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, Baillie Gifford, and Capital G, among others.

Notable co-investors: Sequoia, Tiger Global, Qatar Investment Authority, Blackstone

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Tribevest’s mission is to simplify the formation of investment groups with people you know and trust. They plan to accomplish this with their subscription-based SaaS that helps groups with the necessary but time consuming pieces of forming an investment group – legal structure, money transfers, finance tracking, and document storage. In short, it’s a one-stop-shop for small groups of investors to form an official investment group and leverage their network for larger investment opportunities. Tribevest garnered attention after they won Techstars’ Columbus Pitch Competition, was awarded HubSpot's 2018 Startup Scholarship, has been added to VentureOhio’s Startups to Watch, and was mentioned by Money 20/20 as “one of the brightest startups." By targeting high earners who are looking to invest but don’t have the capital to do it alone, they believe they can break into massive markets like real estate ($177B), business ventures ($60B), and experiences ($1T).

Notable co-investors: Sequoia, Lightspeed

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Tripp is a digital therapeutic platform for mental health and emotional wellbeing. The company provides a variety of guided experiences, but users can also use the company’s “Tripp composer” to build their own visual flows. Beyond customization, one of Tripp’s major sells is giving consumers deeper, quicker meditative experiences, claiming that users can alleviate stress with sessions as short as eight minutes inside their headset. The startup is also exploring the platform’s use in enterprise in-office wellness solutions. Tripp is currently in the midst of clinical trials to study the software platform’s effectiveness as a therapeutic device. The pandemic has helped consumers dial into the importance of mindfulness and mental health awareness, something that has also pushed investors to get bolder in what projects in the space that they’re backing. Tripp has apps on both the Oculus and PlayStation VR stores. The company’s users have gone through over 2 million sessions inside the app so far.

Notable co-investors: Mayfield, Grit Ventures, Fenwick & West, Keanu Reeves

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Verse Medical is a free SaaS solution to manage patients' medical supplies. Presently, doctors refer patients out to suppliers for $50B of medical supplies over phone and fax, which, besides being painful as a process, results in a host of issues, including 35% of orders facing supplier issues, delays, limited order visibility for nurses, and more. There is a ton of overhead in prescription product companies that make prices higher than they should be (like contact lenses). These overheads costs come down to ads (40% of the product price is due to marketing), prescription verification, and fulfillment. The incumbents, some of the bigger ones focused more on extracting value than innovation, use generic software for marketing and fulfillment. As a result, costs for these products remain high. Verse sources and fulfills their products from medical distributors through our software integrations. The gross margins are present day since they reflect the margin between the Medicare reimbursement and distributor pricing.

Notable co-investors: YCombinator, SOMA Capital

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VideoAmp is a software and data company creating a more sophisticated data-driven advertising ecosystem that redefines how media is valued, bought and sold. Their platform provides measurement and optimization tools that unify audiences across the disparate systems of traditional TV, streaming video and digital media. VideoAmp can increase return on investment for advertisers, revenue for publishers and improve the viewing experience for consumers. They are striving to not just explain what happened in the past, but provide tactical suggestions on what they can do next to better optimize objectives. The ultimate goal is to help clients capture the intended value of advanced measurement, versus just giving them a story of the past with no way to actually add value going forward.

Notable co-investors: Raine Group, MediaOcean, RTL Group

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The Virtuix Omni is an omnidirectional treadmill simulator for virtual reality games and other applications. It uses a platform to simulate locomotion i.e. the motion of walking, requiring both special shoes or shoe covers and a surface that reduces friction. It works in conjunction with the HTC Vive, and allows a vive user to walk within a limited number of games. Omniverse currently features 24 virtual reality games optimized for arcade use. Walking and running in virtual reality creates an unprecedented sense of immersion - not to mention an alternative to gaming while sitting on the couch. Since its Kickstarter campaign in 2013, Virtuix has raised over $35MM from investors including Mark Cuban and 12 venture capital funds. The company has grown to a team of 35 employees with headquarters in Austin, TX.

Notable co-investors: Mark Cuban, Scentan Ventures, Scout Ventures

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Weights & Biases is a developer-first MLOps platform enabling users to build better models faster with experiment tracking, dataset versioning, and model management. The company’s Experiment Tracking platform is transforming how teams build and collaborate on Machine Learning (ML) models and operations (MLOps). The extensions and implications of the company’s technology are vast - agriculture giant John Deere is using the startup’s platform to continually improve the way it uses robotics to spray fertilizer, rather than pesticides, to kill weeds and pests. And there are pharmaceutical companies using the platform for how they model how different molecules will behave. Weights & Biases now has more than 70,000 users at more than 200 enterprises.The Co-Founder & CEO sold his prior company for multi-nine figures in 2018.

Notable co-investors: Bond Capital, Felicis, Coatue, Insight Partners.

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