Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria to protect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets.

Ginkgo Bioworks

Popular Pays is a platform connecting content creators with brands who want the content to tell their stories. It is a tech company, with an in-house built iOS app and dashboard that delivers direct communication, workflow tools, and powerful statistics.

Popular Pays

Final is an Oakland-based startup focused on combating fraud online and offline, while giving consumers more control over their spending. The credit card startup provides its users with a physical card and a mobile application that protects the user’s account from fraud, theft, breaches, and card cancellation. Through its application, the company allows its users to give a credit card number to each merchant or a disposable one-time use number for one-off purchases, and provides view of transactions and buying habits. Founded in 2014, Final is a venture-backed company that went through Y Combinator in Winter 2015.

Final

Outbound.io is a web-based tool for non-technical marketers and product people to set up automated emails, push notifications, SMSs, or voice messages when they need their users to take an action and then test how well each message works.

The tool organizes the messages its users send around the actions their customers take.

Outbound.io was launched on April 23, 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Outbound.io

Remix is a platform for planning public transit, designing streets, and managing new mobility. Trusted by 4,000 planners in 300+ cities on three continents, Remix helps cities understand how streets, public transit, and private mobility work together. Remix brings critical datasets from disparate sources together into a unified view so you can understand existing conditions and gain insights across many dimensions.

The company was founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California.

Remix

Cymmetria is a cybersecurity company at the forefront of deception technology. Cymmetria’s deception products, MazeRunner and ActiveSOC, give organizations the ability to hunt attackers, detect lateral movement inside the perimeter, automate incident response, and mitigate attacks. The company also offers deception as a service, enabling organizations to customize deception technologies for their business environment. Founded in 2014 by security expert Gadi Evron, Cymmetria is changing the asymmetry of cybersecurity, giving defenders the upper hand.

Cymmetria

Circle Medical provides primary care Doctors in-person at your home or work. Your care will be led by one of their board-certified physicians, all of whom were selected for their experience and patient-centered approach. Doctor visits are insured under most plans. Using the app, you may scan your insurance card to check for eligibility and coverage. Doctors are available in San Francisco including evenings and weekends.

Circle Medical

Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card-issuing technology. Its modern architecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards, and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California, and is certified to operate in 40 countries globally.

Marqeta

Open Listings is a homebuying app designed to make buying a home simple and more affordable.

Open Listings was born out of a desire to change the way of buying homes. The company aims to improve and demystify every aspect of the process, from browse to close. The founders came together in 2014 after their own frustrating experiences buying their first homes. It was clear to them that, although technology had already made its mark on many of life’s most critical moments, it had largely left homebuying behind. In a few short years, we’ve made a ton of progress towards reshaping that experience for the better.

Open Listings

Freebird is a first-of-its-kind mobile rebooking tool that empowers travelers to skip the line and instantly book a new ticket – on any airline at no additional cost – in the event of a flight cancellation, four-hour delay, or missed connection. Freebird provides travelers with instant notifications in the event of a flight disruption, and offers the ability to rebook in less than 30 seconds with only three taps on their mobile device.

Freebird

As of July 21, 2016, Breeze suspended operations. 

Breeze offers fleet management technology that modernizes car ownership by making it flexible and accessible to all.

Breeze was launched in 2014 by [Jeff Pang](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jeff-pang#/entity), [Ned Ryan](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ned-ryan#/entity), and [Charlie Fang](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/charlie-fang#/entity). It is active in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Washington, and Boston, although the company is no longer accepting new customers (for its old leasing platform).

Breeze

Founded in 2015, Barkly Pets is a technology company dedicated to making high-quality pet care solutions easily accessible and affordable. Barkly Pets is the only app that let's users hand-pick from a curated list of insured, vetted, and highly-trained local dog walkers that they can book again and again. We believe the bond formed between a dog and their pet care provider is special - our unique business model and technology consistently delivers customers' their preferred dog walker in more than 90% of all bookings, consistency customers seek and only Barkly Pets is able to provide. We are currently the number one rated dog walking app on Apple's iTunes Store.

Barkly Pets

Lygos is providing biotechnology solutions for today’s renewable chemical challenges. They engineer microbes to convert sugars into high-value, industrial chemicals, targeting compounds where biological production is cost-advantaged over petrochemical production. The company's throughput screening and strain construction facilitate the rapid optimization of pathways to convert cheap and renewable feedstock to high-value chemicals.

Founded in 2011, Lygos is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Lygos

Hippo Insurance Services offers a different kind of home insurance, built from the ground up to provide a new standard of care and protection for homeowners. Our goal is to make homes safer and better protected so customers spend less time worrying about the burdens of homeownership and more time enjoying their homes and the life within. Harnessing real-time data, smart home technology, and a growing suite of home services, we are creating the first integrated home protection platform. Hippo is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas, and insurance products available to more than 80 percent of U.S. homeowners in 37 states. Hippo Insurance Services is a licensed property casualty insurance agent with products underwritten by various insurance companies.

Hippo Insurance

Mystery Science features ready-to-teach multimedia science and STEM lessons for K-5 students.

Mystery Science

Rescue Ops is a digital forensic that archives massive quantities of data from classified advertisement websites specializing in commercial sex ads for law enforcement agencies to use in anti-trafficking investigations.

Rescue Forensics

We believe every family deserves a secure financial future. That’s why we’re building Fabric – a smarter way for new parents to get insured. Life insurance has become too complicated and expensive, and we’re here to change that.

Fabric Technologies

Cyberfend offers a robust security solution to protect your web and mobile applications from sophisticated attacks and fraudulent activity. Cyberfend uses a new security paradigm – human cognitive science combined with advanced machine learning. The solution detects account takeover, payment fraud and stolen credentials, in real time with near zero false positives.

Cyberfend's Cognitive Security Engine solves several challenging problems with zero false positives. Cyberfend's BotFender is the most comprehensive bot/automation detection service available in the market today.

Cyberfend

Young Alfred is an online marketplace to easily compare and buy home insurance. We use machine learning to identify customer risks and needs prior to presenting custom recommendations. We solve the insurance distribution problem with one platform to shop, bind, and manage coverage.

Young Alfred

We help growing companies remain personal with their customers

Windsor.io

ZeroDown is a real estate startup that focuses on providing an affordable homeownership solution. It is an alternative to the rent-or-own dilemma, offering the benefits of homeownership with the flexibility of renting.

It was founded in 2018 by Abhijeet Dwivedi (Previously COO and CSO at Zenefits, McKinsey), Hari Viswanathan (Previously Staff Engineer at Zenefits) and Laks Srini (Previously Co-founder and CTO at Zenefits, SigFig and D. E. Shaw & Co). The three founders worked together at Zenefits -- which processes $2B+ a year in payroll for SMBs, provides access to healthcare and insurance for 100,000+ employees and serves more than 10,000 SMBs.

ZeroDown

Cloosiv was a mobile ordering app that allowed users to skip the line and earn rewards at their favorite local coffee shops.

Cloosiv

Digit is a finance app that analyzes your spending habits and automatically saves the perfect amount every day. The platform automates the day-to-day work of managing money so you don’t have to think about it. They help eliminate the stress and anxiety people feel about their finances while helping them build a proven foundation for the future they’re trying to achieve. 

Digit keeps your money socked away in a separate account and your savings will depend on a number of variables, including how much money you keep in your checking account and what your saving and spending pattern. Their technology combines machine learning and behavioral psychology to provide a financial assistant you can trust to work toward your goals while you spend your time and effort on what’s most meaningful in your life. It saves the amount of money every day based on your spending and income and tells you the intelligent timeline for achieving them. 

Digit was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Digit

Caribu is a family video calling and reading platform that provides an engaging long-distance communication experience for kids. It integrates children’s picture books into a simple, child-friendly video calling app. It also brings together interactivity and education to create a communication tool for the modern family.

Caribu was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Caribu

Opendoor is an operator of an online real estate marketplace used to streamline the sales process of home buying and selling.

It helps sellers to receive an offer without listing or showing their home and buyers to browse for homes on sale and instantly unlock them using the company's application that enables customers to buy and sell properties in a hassle freeway. They aim to provide a hassle-free experience for both buyers and sellers, simplifying the often complex and time-consuming process of buying or selling a home.

Opendoor

RubiconMD is a web-based eConsult service that enables primary care providers to quickly and easily discuss their cases with top specialists, so they can provide better care—improving the patient experience and reducing costs.

RubiconMD was founded in 2013 by Gil Addo, Carlos Reines, and Julien Pham. It is headquartered in New York, New York.

RubiconMD

Qulture.Rocks is a San-Francisco based software company that builds people management applications for some of the world's most influential companies. Its platform enables organizations to implement 1:1s, goals/OKRs, performance reviews, 360-degree and ongoing, on-the-spot feedback and recognition.

Qulture.Rocks

Earnest was built on the principle that getting a loan shouldn’t be difficult for financially responsible people. Earnest offers student loan refinancing and personal loan. It uses its unrivaled technology to consider more than just a credit score; it looks at thousands of data points such as education, saving patterns, investments, and career trajectory. Customers apply online and can manage their account payment preferences with the online dashboard and mobile app.

Earnest was founded in 2013, by Louis Beryl and Ben Hutchinson, and had its official launch in early 2014. Earnest raised several rounds of funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Maveron, Battery Ventures, Atlas Ventures, and several others. In 2017, Earnest was acquired by Navient Corp. Navient maintains Earnest as a separate brand while allowing Earnest to be backed by a larger company.

Earnest has grown from distributing $8M loans in its first year of business to distributing nearly $2B in student loans and having a roughly $500M loan portfolio in 2017. Earnest has been included in Fast Company’s World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies list. The company lends across the United States in 45 states and the District of Columbia. In August 2017, it was announced that Earnest would open a second office in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Earnest

Louis Beryl

San Francisco, California, United States, North America

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Money Raised
Aug 08, 2022	Cashmere	Seed Round - Cashmere	3.0M
Nov 03, 2022	Meez Culinary Solutions	Series A - Meez Culinary Solutions	9.0M
Feb 16, 2023	Stelo Labs	Seed Round - Stelo Labs	6.0M
Jul 18, 2024	OnRamp	Series A - OnRamp	14.2M

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Investor Name	Money Raised
Aug 18, 2020	Odeko	Series A - Odeko	Four Cities Capital	12.0M
Jan 01, 2023	Craftwork	Pre Seed Round - Craftwork	Four Cities Capital	4.0M

Louis Beryl

Louis Beryl has made 96 investments. Their Latest investment was Series A - OnRamp on Jul 18, 2024

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