Academia.edu is the largest and fastest-growing platform in the world for sharing academic research. Its mission is to accelerate and democratize academic research. Over 150 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 25 million papers. Over 100,000 people join Academia.edu each day. Academia.edu attracts over 52 million unique visitors a month. 40% of the world's faculty log in to Academia.edu every month. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Affinity’s patented technology structures and analyzes millions of data points across emails, calendars, and third-party sources to offer users the tools they need to automatically manage their most valuable relationships, prioritize important connections, and discover untapped opportunities. Affinity uses artificial intelligence to analyze relationship strength and illuminate the best paths to warm introductions. The platform also offers a holistic view of users’ networks in a centralized, automatically updated database without any manual upkeep. Founded in 2014, Affinity is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Affinity has raised $120M to date and is backed by leading investors including Menlo Ventures, Advance Venture Partners, 8VC and MassMutual Ventures.
Capsule is rebuilding the $425 billion pharmacy industry from the inside out with an emotionally resonant experience, and technology that enables customized outcomes for doctors, hospitals, insurers, and manufacturers. Our team makes the same promise to each other as the one we’ve made to our customers, doctors, and partners: everybody needs some looking after sometimes. We’ll never lose sight of the fact that behind all the craziness of the healthcare system, we’re just people looking after other people. Capsule has raised $70 million from Thrive Capital, Glade Brook Capital, and The Virgin Group.
Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup. Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital. It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California.
At Chariot, we are on a mission to get more dollars into the hands of nonprofits. Our widget enables charities to accept payments from the $234B that sit in Donor Advised Fund (DAF) accounts. Nonprofits add Chariot's payment option to their website, allowing donors to ‘one-click’ give with their Donor Advised Fund. Chariot enables this by creating a payment network connecting Donor Advised Funds and nonprofits. Chariot is backed by leading investors including; Spark Capital, SV Angel, and Y Combinator.
Datasembly's goal is to collect every price of every product sold in every store, every day. This product info is then used by our CPG, retailer, and quick-serve restaurant clients to make quick and cost-effective business decisions. The Datasembly technology provides access to millions of grocery and retail-pricing records, aggregated from hundreds of grocery delivery and online shopping websites. This data is highly volatile and notoriously difficult to collect, but using specialized technology, Datasembly aggregates and transforms this data into usable, customized reports, so organizations can use it effectively. The data provided currently powers economic indicators, market research, and consumer apps.