8
Funding Rounds
$58.2b
Money raised
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment platform.
Location:
Key people:
- Sam Altman ***@openai.com
- Ilya Sutskever ****@cs.utoronto.ca
- Wojciech Zaremba ********@openai.com
4
Funding Rounds
$964.2m
Money raised
Neuralink is a company that develops brain-computer interface (BCI) devices to assist people with paralysis and blindness and technologies that may expand the abilities of humans.
9
Funding Rounds
$570.0m
Money raised
Dialpad is a San Francisco-headquartered business communications platform company.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Craig Walker (entrepreneur) *****.******@dialpad.com
- Alex Cornell linkedin
- Brian Peterson *****@dialpad.com
6
Funding Rounds
$5.0b
Money raised
We're an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Dario Amodei *******@anthropic.com
- Daniela Amodei *******@anthropic.com
- Tom Brown (Engineer) ***@anthropic.com
1
Funding Rounds
$9.0m
Money raised
Tendermint is now Ignite. Tendermint was the core contributor to the Cosmos blockchain network.
6
Funding Rounds
$799.8m
Money raised
A bank offering online banking services with no user no bank fees, and an option to receive direct deposit up to two days early. Chris Britt and Ryan King founded Chime in 2013, and the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Ryan King ****@chime.com
- Chris Britt (entrepreneur) *****@chime.com
3
Funding Rounds
$17.5m
Money raised
Numerai is a hedge fund with stock market trades determined by crowdsourced artificial intelligence models. The best models receive rewards in the form of a cryptographic token called Numeraire (NMR) on the Ethereum blockchain.
1
Funding Rounds
$10.0m
Money raised
LangChain is an open-source framework for developing applications powered by language models.
1
Funding Rounds
$31.0m
Money raised
An online publishing platform used by amateur and professional writers. Membership fees are used to pay writers.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur) linkedin
- Biz Stone ****@twitter.com
- Adil Yusuf linkedin
5
Funding Rounds
$126.5m
Money raised
Celo is an open platform that offers financial tools to mobile phone users.
Location:
Key people:
- Marek Olszewski *****.*********@clabs.co
- Sepandar Kamvar
- Rene Reinsberg ****.*********@celo.org
4
Funding Rounds
$583.6m
Money raised
TriNet Zenefits is a software as a service (SaaS) company providing a digital human resources platform for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Location:
Key people:
- Laks Srini twitter
- Parker Conrad *******@rippling.com
5
Funding Rounds
$263.1m
Money raised
Mammoth Biosciences is an American company based in San Francisco founded on June 1, 2017. Mammoth Biosciences uses CRISPR technology to develop bio-sensing technologies for diagnostics in industries such as healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, and forensics and genome editing therapeutics.
Industries:
Key people:
- Janice Chen ******@mammoth.bio
- Lucas Harrington *****@mammoth.bio
- Jennifer Doudna ******@berkeley.edu
3
Funding Rounds
$119.2m
Money raised
Phantom is a cryptocurrency wallet by Solana to manage digital assets and access decentralized applications.
Location:
Key people:
- Brandon Millman *******@phantom.app
- Francesco Agosti *********@phantom.app
4
Funding Rounds
$230.0m
Money raised
Humane develops and commercializes consumer hardware, software, and services.
1
Funding Rounds
$50.0k
Money raised
Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
9
Funding Rounds
$307.0m
Money raised
Forge, formerly Equidate, is a company that offers a marketplace for private stock liquidation.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Sohail Prasad ******@forgeglobal.com
- Gil Silberman ***@equityllp.com
- Samvit Ramadurgam ******.**********@forgeglobal.com
5
Funding Rounds
$349.2m
Money raised
HashiCorp is a software company providing tools for developers and security professionals to provision, secure, and run infrastructure for distributed applications for organizations.
Location:
Key people:
- Armon Dadgar *****@hashicorp.com
- Mitchell Hashimoto ********@hashicorp.com
4
Funding Rounds
$74.3m
Money raised
Pachama is a company estimating carbon storage in forests and predicting future deforestation or potential for forest restoration with the use of satellite images.
5
Funding Rounds
$5.1m
Money raised
Indee Labs focuses on the development of microfluidic vortex shedding for rapidly and efficiently transfecting human primary immune cells with negligible perturbation. The team is focused on developing its core technology for short turnaround chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) development and manufacturing.
10
Funding Rounds
$1.3b
Money raised
Brex is a credit card company that issues corporate credit cards with no security deposit.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Henrique Dubugras ********@brex.com
- Pedro Franceschi *****@brex.com
4
Funding Rounds
$204.7m
Money raised
Primer is a San Francisco-based company developing AI to generate written intelligence reports.
Location:
Key people:
- Sean Gourley ****@primer.ai
1
Funding Rounds
$150.0k
Money raised
GitStart is a "Pull Request as a Service" platform founded in 2019 by Hamza Zia.
2
Funding Rounds
$336.0m
Money raised
Mysten Labs creates foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of Web3.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Sam Blackshear ***@mystenlabs.com
- Kostas Chalkias linkedin
- Evan Cheng ****@mystenlabs.com
JSquare is a San Francisco-based company founded in 1985 by Jeff Herman.
Location:
Key people:
- Jeff Herman (entrepreneur) ****.******@fabric8labs.com
6
Funding Rounds
$157.0m
Money raised
Data.ai, formerly known as App Annie, is a unified data and artificial intelligence (AI) company that combines consumer and market data to provide AI-powered insights into mobile app market data.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
4
Funding Rounds
$165.0m
Money raised
Elastic is a software company that creates products for searching for information on the Internet. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam.
Location:
Key people:
7
Funding Rounds
$711.5m
Money raised
Perfect Day Foods (formerly Muufri) engineered yeast capable of producing the proteins found in cows milk. They use these proteins to make their own line of animal-free dairy products.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Ryan Pandya ****@perfectday.com
- Perumal Gandhi *******.******@perfectday.com
- Isha Datar ****@new-harvest.org
3
Funding Rounds
$47.0m
Money raised
Paravision is a San Francisco-based provider of facial recognition and activity monitoring software. Paravision was previously known as Ever AI.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Andrew Dudum ******@atomic.vc
- Don Holly ***@forhims.com
- Jonathan Mumm linkedin
9
Funding Rounds
$217.2m
Money raised
Density is a San Francisco-based company building a people-counting system to measure the number of people in or passing through a physical space such as a hallway, lobby, or conference hall.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Robert Grazioli ******.********@density.io
- Jordan Messina ******.*******@density.io
- Ben Redfield ***.********@density.io
5
Funding Rounds
$241.5m
Money raised
Hasura is a software and development tools company, offering tools for developers to simplify application development.
Location:
Key people:
- Rajoshi Ghosh *******@hasura.io
- Tanmai Gopal ******@hasura.io
1
Funding Rounds
$1.2m
Money raised
Artificial intelligence company who uses models and IBM's Watson in the management of their AI Powered Equity Fund ETF (AIEQ) and AI Powered International Equity ETF (AIIQ)
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Chida Khatua *****@equbot.com
- Art Amador ***@equbot.com
- Chris Natividad linkedin
5
Funding Rounds
$121.0m
Money raised
A company offering an email client designed to be the fastest email experience. The company was founded by Conrad Irwin, Rahul Vohra, and Vivek Sodera in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Rahul Vohra *****@superhuman.com
- Vivek Sodera *****@superhuman.com
- Conrad Irwin ******@superhuman.com
6
Funding Rounds
$203.6m
Money raised
Loom is a software company that develops communication software for asynchronous presentations through sharable video recordings.
Location:
Key people:
- Vinay Hiremath linkedin
- Joe Thomas (entrepreneur) ***@loom.com
- Shahed Khan ******@loom.com
4
Funding Rounds
$107.0m
Money raised
TrustArc is a San Francisco-based developer of privacy compliance and risk management software for GDPR, CCPA, and related regulations.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Charles Jennings (entrepreneur) *******@duntroon.com
- Fran Maier ****@babyquip.com
- Lori Fena ****.****@edzlabs.com
1
Funding Rounds
$13.5m
Money raised
MetaMap aims to digitize trust
5
Funding Rounds
$87.5m
Money raised
CodeSignal is developing a skills-based assessment platform for unbiased hiring within companies.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Aram Shatakhtsyan
- Sophia Baik ******.****@codesignal.com
- Tigran Sloyan ******.******@codesignal.com
1
Funding Rounds
$1.2m
Money raised
Zapier is an American for-profit corporation and a web-based service that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Mike Knoop ****@zapier.com
- Wade Foster ****@zapier.com
- Bryan Helmig *****@zapier.com
9
Funding Rounds
$20.3m
Money raised
New Wave Foods is a biotechnology company developing plant-based shellfish food products. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Dominique Barnes and Michelle Wolf.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
4
Funding Rounds
$43.9m
Money raised
Iterative.ai is a machine learning and artificial intelligence training platform provider.
4
Funding Rounds
$108.0m
Money raised
PlanetScale is a database-as-a-service platform acting as a middleware system for MySQL.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Sugu Sougoumarane ****@planetscale.com
- Jiten Vaidya *****@planetscale.com
5
Funding Rounds
$433.0m
Money raised
Postman is a San Francisco-based software company offering an API development environment.
Industries:
Location:
9
Funding Rounds
$37.5m
Money raised
Finless Foods is a biotechnology company producing cultured marine animal food products through implementing cellular agriculture and manufacturing technologies.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Michael Selden
- Michael Selden linkedin
- Brian Wyrwas *****@finlessfoods.com
8
Funding Rounds
$220.0m
Money raised
Just, Inc. (formerly known as Hampton Creek) is a food technology company developing and selling plant based food products around the world.
5
Funding Rounds
$115.9m
Money raised
Nurx is a telemedicine service company that delivers oral contraceptives and various testing kits to its customers. It was founded in 2015 and has headquarters in San Francisco, California.
2
Funding Rounds
$8.5m
Money raised
DeHorizon is committed to becoming the next generation of Metaverse Game Ecosystem, where players can immersively create, socialize, entertain with other peer players.
Industries:
8
Funding Rounds
$180.7m
Money raised
Bugcrowd is an enterprise cloud computing and computer security crowdsourcing company that offers a platform for security testing, web, mobile, source code, and client-side applications.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Casey Ellis *****.*****@jobs.bugcrowd.com
- Chris Raethke linkedin
- Sergei Belokamen facebook
8
Funding Rounds
$551.0m
Money raised
Eat Just is a San Francisco based food technology company founded in 2011. The company is known for its bean-based egg substitute called Just Egg. Eat Just also produces egg-free mayonnaise.
4
Funding Rounds
$580.8m
Money raised
Upside Foods is a San Francisco-based company making cultured meat products. The company was founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese, and Will Clem.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Uma Valeti ***@upsidefoods.com
- Nicholas Genovese linkedin
- Will Clem linkedin
4
Funding Rounds
$1.8b
Money raised
Grail is a biotechnology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California that was founded as a spinoff of Illumina Inc and initially headed by Jeffrey Huber in 2016, focused on making a medical device that can detect early stage cancer.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
3
Funding Rounds
$22.8m
Money raised
Distil Networks was an American cybersecurity company founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Rami Essaid ****.******@hq.bill.com
- Engin Akyol linkedin
- Sean Harmer ****@nurvee.com
1
Funding Rounds
Stämm is downsizing a whole biotech facility into an all-in-one, pug-n-play desktop unit called The Bioprocessor.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
5
Funding Rounds
$335.0m
Money raised
Notion is a software company offering a platform for writing, planning, and organizing note-taking.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Jessica Lam linkedin
- Ivan Zhao ****@makenotion.com
- Chris Prucha *****.******@stratasys.com
10
Funding Rounds
$1.1b
Money raised
Deel is a technology company offering a human resources management system solution for businesses working with global remote contractors.
Location:
Key people:
- Alex Bouaziz ****.*******@deel.com
- Shuo Wang (entrepreneur) ****@deel.com
- Ofer Simon
2
Funding Rounds
$15.3m
Money raised
Alloy is a San Francisco-based software company developing a platform for inventory and shipment visibility, including sell-in and sell-through analytics.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Zack Reynolds ********@alum.mit.edu
- Evan Goldenberg linkedin
- Joel Beal ****@alloy.ai
3
Funding Rounds
$21.0m
Money raised
Kite.Com is a San Francisco-based company that builds AI-powered auto-complete features for developers.
9
Funding Rounds
$312.9m
Money raised
Prosper is an online peer-to-peer lending marketplace connecting people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions who want to lend money.
Industries:
Location:
5
Funding Rounds
$90.0m
Money raised
Strapi is a company offering an open-source headless content management system (CMS).
Location:
Key people:
- Jim Laurie
- Pierre Burgy ******@strapi.io
- Aurélien Georget ********@strapi.io
8
Funding Rounds
$398.6m
Money raised
Patreon is a San Francisco-based crowdfunding platform for artists and creators founded by Jack Conte and Sam Yam in 2013.
5
Funding Rounds
$19.7m
Money raised
Khan Academy is a nonprofit online educational organization that was founded in 2008.
Industries:
Key people:
- Sal Khan *******@khanacademy.org
4
Funding Rounds
$92.0m
Money raised
Forethought is a San Francisco-based company providing customer service automation using generative AI technology.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Deon Nicholas ****.********@forethought.ai
- Colm Doyl ****@forethought.ai
- Sami Ghoche ****@forethought.ai
2
Funding Rounds
$3.4m
Money raised
Chai Biotechnologies (also known as Chai and Chai Bio) is a biotechnology company building real-time PCR, qPCR and devices that detect pathogens, speciate meat and genotype DNA.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
6
Funding Rounds
$200.0m
Money raised
A software company making a workplace email communication platform for remote and office work.
6
Funding Rounds
$215.0m
Money raised
Tecton is a machine learning DevOps platform for data scientists.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Kevin Stumpf *****@tecton.ai
- Jeremy Hermann *******@tecton.ai
- Mike Del Balso ****@tecton.ai
8
Funding Rounds
$890.1m
Money raised
Lyra helps companies improve access to effective, high-quality mental health care for their employees.
Location:
Key people:
- David Ebersman *****@lyrahealth.com
- Dena Bravata linkedin
8
Funding Rounds
$3.0b
Money raised
Postmates is a food delivery service company operating a network of couriers for local goods delivery.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Sam Street (entrepreneur) linkedin
- Bastian Lehmann *******@tiptop.xyz
- Sean Plaice
2
Funding Rounds
$415.0m
Money raised
Adept AI Labs is a machine learning research and product lab building general intelligence systems
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- David Luan *****@adept.ai
- Ashish Vaswani ******@essential.ai
- Niki Parmar ****@anthropic.com
3
Funding Rounds
$125.0m
Money raised
Synchron, Inc. is a technology company building implantable neural interface solutions, including endovascular brain-computer interface.
4
Funding Rounds
$215.6m
Money raised
A federally regulated financial exchange that allows investors to trade directly on the anticipated outcome of future events. It was founded in 2019 and is located in New York, New York.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Luana Lopes Lara *****@kalshi.com
- Tarek Mansour *****.*******@kalshi.com
7
Funding Rounds
$120.0m
Money raised
Lever is an Applicant Tracking System which recruiters and hiring managers can use to track their candidates. The company participated in the S12 cohort of Y Combinator.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Sarah Nahm *********@lever.co
- Nate Smith (entrepreneur) ****.*****@lever.co
- Randal Truong