Builders We’ve Backed

Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the internet.
IPO: ABNB
Giving patients control over their health records by collecting, summarizing and encoding full medical records for patients, caregivers and researchers
Acquired By: Invitae
Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin.
IPO: COIN
Facebook operates as a social networking Website. It enables members to look up friend's Web pages, as well as share photos and videos. The company also provides messaging services among its users, as well as mobile applications for Java-powered feature phones. Facebook, Inc. has a strategic alliance with The Nielsen Company. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Palo Alto, California with sales offices in Hong Kong and Singapore.
IPO: FB
GitHub helps people build better software, together. Its powerful collaboration, review and code management for open source and private development projects.
Acquired By: Microsoft
Instacart works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The platform offers retailers a suite of enterprise-grade technology products and services to power their e-commerce experiences, fulfill orders, digitize brick-and-mortar stores, provide advertising services, and glean insights.
IPO: CART
Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Acquired By: Facebook
Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ridesharingcompany in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population. Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.
IPO: LYFT
Large scale, single-molecule proteomics platform that will deliver superior sensitivity far more quickly, more completely, and less expensively than is currently possible
SPAC: NAUT
New switch operating system that is 1/10 the cost of Cisco with comparable performance and management 10x easier.
Acquired By: VMware
Oculus is a technology company revolutionizing the way people experience video games. The company was founded by Palmer Luckey and veterans of RedOctane, developers of the acclaimed Guitar Hero series; Scaleform, the #1 user interface software in the gaming; and Gaikai, the cloud gaming company.
Acquired By: Facebook
Okta is a management platform that secures critical resources from cloud to ground for workforce and customers. Okta is the provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud connects and protects employees of many enterprises. It also securely connects enterprises to their partners, suppliers, and customers. With deep integrations to over 5,000 apps, the Okta Identity Cloud enables simple and secure access from any device. Okta helps customers fulfill their missions faster by making it safe and easy to use the technologies they need to do their significant work.
IPO: OKTA
PagerDuty is an operations performance platform delivering visibility and actionable intelligence across the entire incident lifecycle.
IPO: PD
Care coordination platform that generates real-time notifications when patients transition across sites of care
Acquired By: Appriss Health
Pinterest is a visual discovery and planning tool. People use the site and apps to get ideas for their future, such as recipes, places to travel, and products to buy, and save the things they love to their own boards. Pinners also follow the boards of others who they find interesting.
IPO: PINS
Roblox is a global platform where people come together in real time to connect, create, and express themselves through immersive, interactive shared experiences.
IPO: RBLX
Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, a system of record that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations.
IPO: IOT
Skype provides a telecommunications platform that offers free video chat and voice calls to internet-connected devices.
Acquired By: Microsoft
Slack is a real-time messaging, archiving and search tool for modern teams. Slack enables users to port in conversations and links to other work from dozens of other apps (including Dropbox, Google Docs, GitHub and Asana) so that they can track progress on different projects in one common platform.
IPO: WORK
The Wise account is the universal way for people and businesses to manage money internationally.
DPO: WPLCF

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