Venture Capital Funding Survey, Second Quarter 2015
VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDING, SECOND QUARTER 2015 This is a listing of many of the Bay Area firms that received venture capital financing between June 30 and Aug. 31, 2015. Most of the data was compiled from a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association in conjunction with the Mercury News. In the case of some investments there may have been other participants in the round who are not credited. Also, the amounts listed may not include all venture funding the company received during the quarter. *Indicates this is a seed or first-round infusion of money from venture capitalists. These companies may have received money previously from other investors and aren't necessarily start-ups. BIOTECHNOLOGY / HEALTH Name
Aduro BioTech
City
Berkeley
Advanced Cell Diagnostics Hayward
Aegea Medical
Autonomic Technologies
Redwood City
Redwood City
Stage
Later Stage
Amount
Investors
$200,000,000 Undisclosed firm
Description
Clinical research services
Later Stage
Kenson Ventures, Morningside Technologies, New Leaf Venture Cell and tissue-based $22,000,000 Partners, Summit Partners diagnostic tests
Expansion
Alloy Ventures, Covidien Ventures, Delphi Ventures, $36,000,000 undisclosed firm
Manufactures surgical and medical instruments
Later Stage
Aberdare Ventures, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners SAS, Forbion Capital Partners, InterWest Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Novartis Venture Funds, $43,199,800 undisclosed firm
Miniaturized implantable neurostimulation device
Early Stage
Canaan Partners, Deerfield Management Company, Tekla Healthcare Investors, undisclosed firms, Venrock, Wellington Management $70,000,100 Company
Biotechnology company
CytomX Therapeutics
South San Francisco
Denali Therapeutics*
South San Francisco
Early Stage
First Aid Shot Therapy
Burlingame
Expansion
Arch Venture Partners, Fidelity Biosciences, Flagship Ventures, $217,000,000 undisclosed firm Biotechnology company
$20,332,000 Sofinnova Ventures
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Consumer healthcare company
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Kezar Life Sciences*
South San Francisco
Metabiota*
San Francisco
MyoKardia
South San Francisco
Discovery and development of drugs targeting protein homeostasis for autoimmune disorders
Early Stage
Aju IB Investment Co., EcoR1 Capital, Morningside Technologies, Omega Fund $28,369,200 Management, undisclosed firms
Expansion
Capricorn Investment Group, Data Collective, Industry Ventures, Rosemont Seneca Builds a framework to Technology Partners, WP Global identify, analyze and $30,200,000 Partners investigate health threats
Early Stage
Developing a pipeline of small molecule $46,000,000 Sanofi-Sunrise, undisclosed firms therapeutics
Natera
San Carlos
Later Stage
Franklin Templeton Investimentos Brasila, HealthCor Partners Management, OrbiMed Advisors, RA Capital Management, Sofinnova $55,500,200 Ventures, undisclosed firm Genetic testing company
Outset Medical
San Jose
Expansion
CRG, undisclosed firms, Vertical $59,594,000 Group, Warburg Pincus Hemodialysis solutions
Scanadu
Moffett Field
Expansion
AME Cloud Ventures, CBC Capital, Relay Ventures, Tencent Collaboration Fund, undisclosed Consumer medical device $34,850,400 firms, iGlobe Partners products
SFJ Pharmaceuticals
Pleasanton
Expansion
$27,311,000 Undisclosed firms
Specialty pharma company
Intravascular devices for calcified cardiovascular disease
Shockwave Medical
Fremont
Early Stage
Ally Bridge Group Capital Partners II, Deerfield Management Company, RA Capital Management, Sectoral Asset Management, Sofinnova Partners SAS, undisclosed firm, $39,843,200 Venrock
SI-Bone
San Jose
Expansion
Sacroiliac joint medical $21,000,000 Redline Capital Management SA device company
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True North Therapeutics
Twelve
South San Francisco
Redwood City
Twist Bioscience
Zymergen*
San Francisco
Emeryville
Early Stage
Baxter Ventures, Kleiner Perkins therapies that inhibit the Caufield & Byers, MPM Capital, complement system to $35,000,000 OrbiMed Advisors, Sr One treat rare disease
Early Stage
Domain Associates, Longitude Capital Management Co., Morgenthaler Ventures, Versant $35,250,000 Ventures
Medical device incubator
Early Stage
Applied Ventures, Arch Venture Partners, Foresite Capital Management, Paladin Capital $36,999,900 Management, undisclosed firms
DNA production and drug development
Early Stage
AME Cloud Ventures, Data Collective, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Innovation Endeavors, Obvious Ventures Management, True Ventures, Two Sigma Designs and creates $44,143,200 Investments, undisclosed firm microbial strains
BUSINESS SERVICES Name
Adallom
Bill.Com
Coho Data
Docker
City
Palo Alto
Palo Alto
Palo Alto
San Francisco
Stage
Amount
Investors
Description
Early Stage
Hewlett-Packard Ventures, Index Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Content security services $24,300,000 Management, Sequoia Capital provider
Later Stage
Emergence Capital Partners, $30,000,000 TTV Capital
Offers bill payment, invoicing and cash flow management solutions
Expansion
Andreessen Horowitz, HewlettPackard Ventures, Ignition Partners, Intel Capital, March $30,000,100 Capital Partners GP
Storage for the cloud generation
Expansion
AME Cloud Ventures, Benchmark Capital Management Gesellschaft MBH In Liqu, Coatue Management, Goldman Sachs & Co., Greylock Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Trinity Ventures, Open platform for $95,000,400 undisclosed firm distributed applications
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Instart Logic
Jelli
Palo Alto
San Mateo
Expansion
Andreessen Horowitz, Four Rivers Partners, Hermes Growth Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Tenaya Cloud application delivery $43,000,200 Capital, undisclosed firm service
Expansion
First Round Capital, Intel Capital, Relay Ventures, undisclosed $21,000,000 firms Social radio platform
Ripple Labs
San Francisco
Early Stage
AME Cloud Ventures, China Growth Capital, ChinaRock Capital Management, Core Innovation Capital I, IDG Capital Partners, Liquidity Ventures I, RRE Ventures, Route 66 Ventures, Seagate Technology PLC, undisclosed firms, Vast Ventures, venture51 Capital Payment protocol and $27,999,400 Fund exchange network
Saama Technologies*
Campbell
Later Stage
Carrick Capital Management $35,753,000 Company
Big Data solutions and services company
Expansion
August Capital Management, Continental Investors, Financial Technology Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Ignition $40,000,000 Partners, Rakuten Ventures
Online payment service provider
Wepay
Palo Alto
CONSUMER GOODS / SERVICES Name
AirBnB
City
San Francisco
Stage
Expansion
Amount
Investors
CBC Capital, Fidelity Investment Funds II, GGV Capital, General Atlantic, Hillhouse Capital Management, Horizon Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, T. Rowe Price Threshold Partnerships, Temasek Holdings (Private), Tiger Global $1,500,000,000 Management, undisclosed firms Community marketplace
AltSchool
San Francisco
Early Stage
Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Founders Fund, The, Learn Capital Venture Partners, Omidyar Network $100,000,000 Commons, undisclosed firms
Blue Bottle Coffee
Oakland
Later Stage
$74,959,000 Index Ventures, True Ventures
Credit Karma
San Francisco
Later Stage
Description
Tiger Global Management, $174,999,900 undisclosed firm
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Network of micro-schools Coffee roasting and retailing
Offers credit scores and recommendations for loans and insurance products
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Honor Technology*
Joyus
Munchery
Naturebox
San Francisco
San Francisco
San Francisco
San Carlos
Early Stage
Andreessen Horowitz, Kapor $20,000,100 Capital, undisclosed firm
Offers online service that connects in-home caregivers and seniors
Expansion
Accel Partners & Co., InterWest Partners, Marker Financial Advisors, Steamboat Ventures, $24,000,000 Time Warner Investments
Online video shopping platform
Expansion
137 Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Menlo Ventures, Northgate Capital, SherpaVentures, undisclosed $86,590,000 firm, e.ventures
Food marketplace platform provider
Early Stage
Canaan Partners, General Catalyst Partners, Global Founders Capital Management GmbH, Kensington Capital Partners, Neuberger Berman, Softbank Capital Partners, Valley Delivers boxes filled with $29,999,900 Oak Investments snacks
Nerdwallet*
San Francisco
Expansion
Institutional Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, undisclosed firm, Financial education and $64,000,000 iGlobe Partners empowerment
PAX Labs*
San Francisco
Later Stage
Sand Hill Angels, Tao Capital $46,685,800 Partners, undisclosed firms
Poshmark
Prosper Marketplace
San Francisco
Menlo Park
San Francisco
Expansion
Expansion
Later Stage
Vaporization delivery systems for smokers
Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Fidelity Investment Funds II, FirstMark Capital, Goldman Sachs & Co., SV Angel II Q, undisclosed firm, Wellington Management Internet scrapbooking $186,000,000 Company company Inventus Capital Partners Fund I, J. F. Shea Co., Mayfield Fund, Menlo Ventures, Softtech VC, Buying and selling Union Grove Venture Partners fashionable closets from $25,000,200 2014 the iPhone
BBVA Ventures, Breyer Capital, Credit Suisse Private Equity, Neuberger Berman, Passport $165,000,000 Capital, USAA, undisclosed firm
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Peer-to-peer lending marketplace
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Sprig
San Francisco
Expansion
500 Startups, Accel Partners & Co., Battery Ventures, Greylock Partners, IDG Ventures USA, Ludlow Ventures, Lumia Capital, Social+Capital Partnership, Sozo Food delivery service $44,660,200 Ventures, undisclosed firms company
Online learning marketplace Health and beauty products company
Udemy
San Francisco
Expansion
Insight Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, $65,000,000 Stripes Group
Walker & Company Brands
Palo Alto
Early Stage
Andreessen Horowitz, $22,000,000 undisclosed firm
HARDWARE / INSTRUMENTS Name
Tegile Systems
City
Newark
Stage
Expansion
Amount
Investors
August Capital Management, Capricorn Investment Group, Cross Creek Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, undisclosed $70,000,000 firms
Description
Flash-driven storage arrays for database
NETWORKING / TELECOMMUNICATIONS Name
Planet Labs
City
San Francisco
Stage
Expansion
Amount
Investors
$69,877,000 International Financeoration
Description Space and analytics company
ENERGY / INDUSTRIAL Name
Bolt Threads
City
Emeryville
Stage
Early Stage
Amount
Investors
Alafi Capital Co., Formation 8 Partners, Foundation Capital, $32,385,200 Founders Fund, The
Description
Fibers and fabrics for textile industry
SEMICONDUCTORS Name
City
Stage
Amount
Investors
Aquantia
Milpitas
Later Stage
Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Management Company, New Enterprise Associates, ., Rossiyskaya Korporatsiya $25,250,000 Nanotekhnologiy GK
Samsara Networks*
San Francisco
Early Stage
Andreessen Horowitz, $25,000,000 undisclosed firm
Description
Ethernet connectivity solutions Internet connected sensor system products
SOFTWARE Name
Actiance
City
Redwood City
Stage
Later Stage
Amount
Investors
Credit Suisse Private Equity, Golub Capital Master Funding, JK&B Capital, Scale Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, $28,000,200 undisclosed firm
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Description
Communications solution provider
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Adaptive Insights
Palo Alto
Later Stage
Bessemer Venture Partners, Cardinal Venture Capital, Information Venture Partners, JMI Management, Monitor Venture Associates, Norwest Venture Partners, ONSET $74,999,800 Ventures
Appirio
San Francisco
Later Stage
$35,000,000 Undisclosed firm
Global cloud consultancy and services company
Automatic Labs
San Francisco
Expansion
Comcast Ventures, USAA, $24,000,000 undisclosed firm
Driver assistance software applications
Banjo
Redwood City
Expansion
Bluerun Ventures, Softbank $100,000,000 Capital Partners
Expansion
Foundation Capital, Polaris Venture Partners, Translink $24,000,000 Capital, undisclosed firm
Early Stage
Bain Capital Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Mayfield $25,000,000 Fund Networking company
Early Stage
Accel Partners &Co, Artis Ventures, Battery Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Data platform for Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Wing converged secondary $70,000,000 Venture Partners storage
Later Stage
Battery Ventures, Crosslink Capital, El Dorado Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Rally Ventures, T. Rowe Price Threshold Partnerships, $80,000,000 undisclosed firm
Early Stage
AME Cloud Ventures, Index Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, undisclosed Applications that allow $25,000,000 firm consumers to buy products
Expansion
Foundation Capital, Matrix Partners, Sapphire Ventures, $30,000,000 Trinity Ventures
Advanced threat monitoring and mitigation platform
Early Stage
Jump Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Tenaya Capital, undisclosed $48,500,000 firms, Venrock
Video consultation services
CliQr Technologies
Cloudgenix
Cohesity
Coupa Software
Curbside
Cyphort
Doctor On Demand
Santa Clara
Santa Clara
Santa Clara
San Mateo
Palo Alto
San Jose
San Francisco
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Cloud-based business analytics solutions
Social discovery application Hybrid cloud-application migration and management solutions
Cloud-based spend management solutions
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DocuSign
Freshdesk
Grab A Bucket
Guavus
HackerOne
HyTrust
Illumio
Jiff
San Francisco
San Francisco
San Francisco
San Mateo
San Francisco
Mountain View
Sunnyvale
Palo Alto
Later Stage
Bain Capital Venture Partners, Brookside International, Dell Ventures, Generation Investment Management, Ignition Partners, Intel Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sands Capital Management, Scale Venture Offers e-Signature Partners, undisclosed firm, transaction management $278,099,900 Wellington Management Co. solutions
Expansion
Accel Partners & Co., Google Capital Management Company, $50,000,100 Tiger Global Management
Early Stage
Bessemer Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Trinity Allows users to have their $30,000,000 Ventures cars valeted from locations
Later Stage
Artiman Management, Investor Growth Capital, Sofinnova Ventures, Translink Capital, $50,875,900 undisclosed firm
Early Stage
Benchmark Capital Management Gesellschaft MBH In Liqu, New $25,000,000 Enterprise Associates Security firm
Later Stage
Accelerate-IT Ventures Management, Cisco Systems, Epic Ventures, Granite Ventures, Intel Capital, Trident Capital, undisclosed firm, Vanedge Cloud security automation $25,000,200 Capital company
Early Stage
Accel Partners & Co., Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Formation 8 Partners, General Catalyst $100,531,200 Partners, undisclosed firm
Cloud-based customer support software
Big Data analytics solutions
Cloud security company
Expansion
Aberdare Ventures, Aeris Capital AG, GE Ventures, Rosemark Social network and digital $23,450,000 Capital Group, Venrock health applications platform
Offers data-driven business applications
Offers a peer-to-peer realtime ride matching platform
Lattice Engines
San Mateo
Later Stage
Blue Cloud Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Piper Jaffray Ventures, River Cities $28,300,100 Capital Funds, Sequoia Capital
Lyft
San Francisco
Later Stage
Fontinalis Partners, undisclosed $150,000,000 firm
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MarkLogic
Matterport
Menlo Security
San Carlos
Mountain View
Menlo Park
Later Stage
Northgate Capital, Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, undisclosed firms, Wellington $102,277,800 Management Company
Expansion
Felicis Ventures, Gic Special Investments Pte, Qualcomm $30,000,000 Ventures, undisclosed firm
Solutions for 3-D scanning of spaces and objects
Early Stage
Engineering Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Osage $25,000,000 Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures
Offers protection to organizations from cyberattacks
Enterprise NoSQL database platform
Bay Partners, Cisco Investments, Hummer Winblad Venture Partner, Lightspeed Management Company, Meritech Capital Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Salesforce Ventures, Sands Ontegration platform for Capital Management, Sapphire connecting SaaS and $128,299,500 Ventures, undisclosed firms applications
MuleSoft
San Francisco
Later Stage
Nexenta Systems
Santa Clara
Later Stage
Sierra Ventures, Translink $30,000,000 Capital, undisclosed firm
Software-defined Storage solutions
Niara
Sunnyvale
Early Stage
Index Ventures, New Enterprise $20,000,100 Associates, Venrock
Stealth security analytics company
Postmates
San Francisco
Expansion
$73,176,000 Tiger Global Management
On-demand delivery services
Expansion
Accel Partners & Co., Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, Disruptive, Innovation Endeavors, Redpoint Transparent and video $25,000,000 Ventures, undisclosed firm delivery solutions
Later Stage
Activant Capital Group, August Capital Management, Commerce One Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, Pereg Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Siguler Guff & Co., StarVest Partners, Retail analytics for brick$29,003,400 undisclosed firm and-mortar stores
Early Stage
Index Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Ribbit Capital, Social $50,000,000 Leverage, Vaizra Investments Broker-dealer
Qwilt
RetailNext
Robinhood Markets
Redwood City
San Jose
Palo Alto
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Rubrik
Palo Alto
Early Stage
Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Management Company, $41,000,100 undisclosed firm
Live data access for recovery and application development
Mobile application for shipping needs Enterprise security company
Shyp
San Francisco
Early Stage
Homebrew, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, SherpaVentures, undisclosed $43,644,000 firm
Skyport Systems*
Mountain View
Expansion
Index Ventures, Intel Capital, $30,000,000 Sutter Hill Ventures
Slack Technologies
Smule
Snowflake Computing
Sumo Logic
Switch Communications
Tapingo
Tidemark Systems
Twilio
San Francisco
San Francisco
San Mateo
Redwood City
San Francisco
San Francisco
Redwood City
San Francisco
Expansion
Accel Partners & Co., Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Index Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mail.Ru Group, Social+Capital Partnership, Platform for team $160,000,000 Spark Capital communication
Expansion
Adams Street Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, undisclosed $26,045,200 firm
Early Stage
Altimeter Capital Management, Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill $45,000,000 Ventures, Wing Venture Partners Data warehouse
Expansion
Accel Partners & Co., Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Greylock Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sutter Cloud-based machine data $80,100,000 Hill Ventures analytics service
Expansion
Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, Google Ventures, SoftBank Group, undisclosed $34,999,800 firm
Early Stage
Carmel Ventures IV Principals Fund, Doll Capital Management, Khosla Ventures, Kinzon Capital, $22,000,000 Qualcomm Ventures Mobile shopping platform
Expansion
Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Tenaya Capital, ., undisclosed $25,000,000 firm
Expansion
Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, $100,000,000 undisclosed firm
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Social music making applications
Online accelerator engine provider
Set of enterprise performance management (EPM) applications
Business communications solutions
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Vessel Group
San Francisco
Early Stage
Benchmark Capital Management Gesellschaft MBH In Liqu, Bezos Expeditions, Greylock Partners, Service to consumers and $58,000,000 Institutional Venture Partners content creators
Vlocity*
San Francisco
Early Stage
Salesforce Ventures, undisclosed $42,800,000 firm
Expansion
Gemini Capital Fund Management, Giza Venture Capital, Greenspring Associates, interactive online guidance $25,000,000 Scale Venture Partners system
Walkme
Zenefits Insurance Services
ZenPayroll
San Francisco
San Francisco
San Francisco
Early Stage
Expansion
Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity Ventures, Founders Fund, The, Insight Venture Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Tpg Growth, $499,999,600 undisclosed firms
HR software that manages payroll, benefits, and compliance
Emergence Capital Partners, General Catalyst Partners, Google Capital Management Company, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Cloud-based payroll $41,600,000 Ribbit Capital provider
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