VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDING FOURTH QUARTER 2015

This is a listing of many of the Bay Area firms that received venture capital financing between
Oct. 01 to Dec. 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.
1-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

City

MoneyTree Stage

Amount

Investors

23andMe

Mountain View

Later Stage

New Enterprise Associates, Casdin Capital,

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Undisclosed Firm, Google Ventures,
$35,924,000 MPM Capital, Wuxi Venture Fund

Atreca-1

Redwood City

Early Stage

Undisclosed Firm, Undisclosed Firm, Mission

$56,000,000 Bay Capital

Early Stage
Startup/Seed

OrbiMed Advisors, 5AM Ventures, Sofinnova

Ventures, Foresite Capital Management,
Deerfield Management Co., Undisclosed
Firm, Undisclosed Firm, Undisclosed Firm, T.
Rowe Price Threshold Partnerships, Rock
Springs Capital Management, Versant
$64,999,800 Ventures, Venrock, RA Capital Management
$29,800,000 Undisclosed Firm, Undisclosed Firm

Audentes Therapeutics
Forty-Seven-1

San Francisco
Palo Alto

Gritstone Oncology
Iconic Therapeutics

San Francisco
Startup/Seed
South San Francis Later Stage

Clarus Ventures, Casdin Capital, Column

Group, Frazier Healthcare Partners, Versant
$76,500,200 Ventures, Undisclosed Firm
$38,000,000 MPM Capital, Undisclosed Firm

NEURONA
THERAPEUTICS

South San Francis Startup/Seed

$23,500,000 Column Group

One Medical Group

San Francisco

JP Morgan Investment Management,

$65,000,100 Undisclosed Firm, Undisclosed Firm

ORIC Pharmaceuticals-1

PROFUSA
SFJ Pharmaceuticals

Symic Biomedical
Tigercat Pharma

True North Therapeutics

Later Stage

South San Francis Early Stage

OrbiMed Advisors, Column Group, Foresite

Capital Management, Topspin Partners,
EcoR1 Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &
$52,999,800 Co.

South San Francis Expansion

Pleasanton
Expansion

Asset Management Co., Qihoo 360 Startup

Developers Innovation Fund, Undisclosed
$13,200,000 Firm, Undisclosed Firm
$50,300,000 Undisclosed Firm, Undisclosed Firm

San Francisco
Early Stage
South San Francis Early Stage

Undisclosed Firm, Mission Bay Capital,

Undisclosed Firm, Mitsui & Co. Global
Investment, InCube Ventures, Undisclosed
Firm, Lilly Ventures, Ally Bridge Group
$25,275,000 Capital Partners II, Undisclosed Firm
$45,000,000 Undisclosed Firm

South San Francis Early Stage

OrbiMed Advisors, New Leaf Venture

Partners, MPM Capital, Undisclosed Firm,
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, S.R. One,
$40,499,800 Limited

BUSINESS SERVICES
Name

Align Commerce-1

City

San Francisco

MoneyTree Stage

Early Stage

Amount

Investors

Undisclosed Firm, Pantera Capital

Management, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
$12,499,800 Byers, Silicon Valley Bancventures

AppDirect
Forescout Technologies

San Francisco
Campbell

Expansion
Later Stage

StarVest Partners, JP Morgan Investment

Management, Undisclosed Firm, iNovia
Capital, Mithril Capital Management, Foundry
$140,000,000 Group, Undisclosed Firm
$75,379,000 Amadeus Capital Partners

Marqeta

Emeryville

Expansion

Granite Ventures, Greylock Partners,

Commerce Ventures Management,
$25,000,000 CommerzVentures GmbH, IA Capital Group

Stockpile-1

Palo Alto

Early Stage

Undisclosed Firm, Sequoia Capital, Mayfield

$15,000,000 Fund

CONSUMER
GOODS/SERVICES
Name
BETABRAND

City
San Francisco

MoneyTree Stage

Amount

Investors

Expansion

Foundry Group, Morgan Stanley Venture

$15,000,000 Partners

Bluesmart-1

San Francisco

Early Stage

Y Combinator, Undisclosed Firm, Fairhaven

Capital Partners, Cota Capital, Undisclosed
Firm, Undisclosed Firm, Fenox Venture
Capital, Western Technology Investment,
Undisclosed Firm, FundersClub, Pejman Mar
$11,499,600 Ventures, Undisclosed Firm

BuildZoom

San Francisco

Early Stage

Formation 8 Partners, Undisclosed Firm,

$10,600,000 Founders Fund, Y Combinator

FlightCar

San Francisco

Early Stage

GGV Capital, Softbank Capital Partners,

Undisclosed Firm, Undisclosed Firm, First
$20,719,200 Round Capital, General Catalyst Partners

Gobble

Palo Alto

Expansion

Initialized Capital, Trinity Ventures, Fenox

$10,750,000 Venture Capital, Andreessen Horowitz

Impossible Foods-1
Numi Organic Tea

Redwood City
Oakland

Expansion
Later Stage

Khosla Ventures, Horizon Ventures,

Undisclosed Firm, Undisclosed Firm,
$108,000,000 Undisclosed Firm
$16,000,000 Catamount Ventures

Presencelearning

San Francisco

Expansion

Blue Heron Capital, New Markets Venture

Partners, Catamount Ventures, Birchmere
$25,000,000 Ventures, Catalyst Investors

Quizlet-1

San Francisco

Later Stage

Altos Ventures, Owl Ventures, Costanoa

$12,000,000 Venture Capital, Union Square Ventures
Canaan Partners, Google Ventures, Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, August Capital
$46,999,800 Partners, Trinity Ventures, Shasta Ventures

RelayRides

San Francisco

Expansion

Revolution Foods

Oakland

Later Stage

Udacity

Mountain View

Expansion

Westly Group, Revolution Ventures,

$35,223,000 Catamount Ventures
Andreessen Horowitz, Undisclosed Firm,
Drive Capital, Google Ventures, Charles River
Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media
$104,999,800 Investments, Undisclosed Firm

HARDWARE/INSTRUME
NTS
Name

Atheer
Eargo

City

Mountain View
Mountain View

MoneyTree Stage

Amount

Investors

Expansion
Expansion

RONA Holdings, Shanda Capital Co.,

Undisclosed Firm, Signature Capital,.,
Streamlined Ventures I, Fang Group Co.,
$13,783,700 FundersClub
$25,000,000 New Enterprise Associates

Eyefluence

Milpitas

Early Stage

Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Dolby

Family Ventures, JAZZ Venture Partners, Intel
Capital Corp, Undisclosed Firm, NHN
$13,999,800 Investment Co.

NextInput

San Jose

Early Stage

Undisclosed Firm, Intel Capital Corp, Sierra

$10,989,200 Ventures, Undisclosed Firm

Early Stage
Later Stage

Webb Investment Network, Nyca Partners,

Matrix Partners, Undisclosed Firm, StartX,
$28,000,200 Oak Investment Partners
$30,002,000 Artiman Management

Poynt Co.-1
zSpace

Palo Alto
Sunnyvale

NETWORKING/TELECO
MMUNICATIONS
Name

City

MoneyTree Stage

Amount

Investors

Aquantia

San Jose

Later Stage

Undisclosed Firm, Walden International,

$11,750,000 Cisco Investments, Undisclosed Firm

Eero

San Francisco

Early Stage

First Round Capital, Shasta Ventures,

$28,247,200 Redpoint Ventures, Playground Ventures GP

Spidercloud Wireless

San Jose

Later Stage

Opus Capital, Matrix Partners, Charles River

$15,200,100 Ventures

Swift Navigation

San Francisco

Early Stage

Qualcomm Ventures, Felicis Ventures,

Lemnos Labs, Eclipse Ventures, New
Enterprise Associates, First Round Capital,
$11,000,000 Fall Line Capital GP, Promus Ventures

Vasona Networks
Velocloud Networks

San Jose
Mountain View

Expansion
Early Stage

$12,215,000 New Venture Partners, Undisclosed Firm

$11,000,000 Undisclosed Firm

ENERGY/INDUSTRIAL
Name

City

MoneyTree Stage

Amount

Investors

Blue River Technology

Bolt Threads

Sunnyvale
Emeryville

Expansion
Early Stage

Lily Robotics

San Francisco

Early Stage

Innovation Endeavors, Monsanto Growth

Ventures, Data Collective, Khosla Ventures,
$17,110,800 Syngenta Ventures, Pontifax
$34,855,000 Foundation Capital, Formation 8 Partners
SV Angel II Q, Undisclosed Firm, Spark
$15,000,000 Capital, StartX

Skydio

Menlo Park

Startup/Seed

Andreessen Horowitz, Undisclosed Firm,

$25,000,000 Accel Partners & Co.

Oakland

Expansion

Undisclosed Firm, Undisclosed Firm,

Hercules Technology Growth Capital, GE
$50,000,000 Ventures

Name
Avalanche Technology

City
Fremont

MoneyTree Stage
Later Stage

GCT Semiconductor

San Jose

Later Stage

Sungevity
SEMICONDUCTORS

Amount
Investors
$25,322,000 Thomvest Ventures
$45,120,000 Parakletos Ventures

SOFTWARE
Name

Appdynamics

City

San Francisco

MoneyTree Stage

Amount

Investors

Expansion

Undisclosed Firm, Goldman Sachs & Co.,

Altimeter Capital Management, Cross Creek
Capital, General Atlantic, Industry Ventures,
$157,999,800 Institutional Venture Partners
Allegis Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers, Data Collective, First Round Capital,
Cowboy Capital, Undisclosed Firm, Icon
$15,000,000 Ventures

Area 1 Security

Redwood City

Early Stage

BigPanda

Mountain View

Early Stage

Cask Data
Cimrid

Palo Alto
Redwood City

Expansion
Later Stage

Sequoia Capital, Mayfield Fund, Battery

$16,000,000 Ventures
Safeguard Scientifics, Undisclosed Firm,
$14,039,200 Battery Ventures, Ignition Partners
$15,000,000 Ribbit Capital, Accel Partners & Co.

CollectiveHealth

San Mateo

Early Stage

Redpoint Ventures, Maverick Capital, RRE

Ventures, Google Ventures, New Enterprise
$81,000,000 Associates, Founders Fund

Databricks

San Francisco

Early Stage

$50,000,000 Andreessen Horowitz, Undisclosed Firm

DataVisor-1

Mountain View

Early Stage

Gsr Ventures Management, New Enterprise

$14,500,000 Associates

Expansion

AME Cloud Ventures, Trinity Ventures,

Greylock Partners, Benchmark Capital
$18,000,000 Management Gesellschaft MBH In Liqu

Early Stage

Maveron, Undisclosed Firm, Correlation

Ventures, Battery Ventures, Accomplice,
$75,000,000 Adams Street Partners

Early Stage
Early Stage

Lakestar Advisors GmbH, Sequoia Capital,

Lightspeed Management Company, IDG
$65,000,000 Ventures USA
$14,000,000 Undisclosed Firm, Greylock Partners

Docker

Earnest Operations

Everstring Technology
Figma

San Francisco

San Francisco

San Mateo
San Francisco

Flux Factory

San Francisco

Early Stage

Guardian Analytics

Mountain View

Later Stage

DFJ Frontier, Obvious Ventures Management,

Borealis Ventures, Temasek Holdings
(Private), Undisclosed Firm, Undisclosed
$28,999,800 Firm
Foundation Capital, Undisclosed Firm, Split
$10,850,000 Rock Partners

H2o AI

Mountain View

Early Stage

Capital One Growth Ventures, Undisclosed

Firm, Transamerica Ventures, Nexus Venture
$20,000,000 Partners

IIX

Santa Clara

Expansion

New Enterprise Associates, Undisclosed Firm,

$26,000,000 AME Cloud Ventures, Formation 8 Partners

Instart Logic

Palo Alto

Expansion

Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins

$45,000,000 Caufield & Byers, Undisclosed Firm

ItsOn

Redwood City

Expansion

Delta Partners, Undisclosed Firm, Stellus

Capital Management, Tenaya Capital,
$12,500,000 Andreessen Horowitz

Lucidworks

San Francisco

Later Stage

Granite Ventures, Allegis Capital, Shasta

$14,745,900 Ventures

Lyra Health-1

Burlingame

Startup/Seed

Greylock Partners, Undisclosed Firm, Origin

$34,999,800 Capital, Venrock, Breyer Capital

Mindjet

San Francisco

Later Stage

$13,000,000 Investor Growth Capital

Mindtickle-1

Sunnyvale

Early Stage

Accel Partners & Co., New Enterprise

$12,500,000 Associates,

MyEnerSave
Niantic

Sunnyvale
San Francisco

Expansion
Early Stage

Sanchez Production Partners, Khosla

$16,600,000 Ventures, Undisclosed Firm
$20,000,100 Undisclosed Firm, Undisclosed Firm

Early Stage

Undisclosed Firm, Four Rivers Partners,

Tenaya Capital, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed
$37,500,000 Management Co.

Early Stage

Thrive Capital Partners, Andreessen Horowitz,

Formation 8 Partners, Glynn Capital
Management, Undisclosed Firm, Accelerate$24,999,800 IT Ventures Management, Undisclosed Firm
Correlation Ventures, Tenaya Capital, Pharus
Capital Management, Benchmark Capital
Management Gesellschaft MBH In Liqu,
Danhua Capital, Bain Capital Venture
Partners, Battery Ventures, Index Ventures,
Citi Venture Capital International, Salesforce
$58,500,000 Ventures

Numerify

Opengov.us

Cupertino

Redwood City

Optimizely

San Francisco

Expansion

Palantir Technologies

Palo Alto

Later Stage

PlanGrid

San Francisco

Expansion

Tenaya Capital, Y Combinator, Founders

$40,000,000 Fund, Sequoia Capital, Northgate Capital

$429,830,000 Founders Fund

Platfora

San Mateo

Expansion

Allegis Capital, Undisclosed Firm,

Undisclosed Firm, Tenaya Capital, Harmony
Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Andreessen
$29,999,700 Horowitz, Citi Ventures, Battery Ventures

Quip

San Francisco

Early Stage

Benchmark Capital Management Gesellschaft

$30,000,000 MBH In Liqu, Greylock Partners

Quri

San Francisco

Expansion

Kern Whelan Capital, Undisclosed Firm,

$17,000,000 Matrix Partners, Catamount Ventures

Robin Systems-1

Milpitas

Early Stage

DN Capital Global Venture Capital Ii,

Undisclosed Firm, Hasso Plattner Ventures
$15,000,000 Management GmbH

Segment.io

Burlingame

Early Stage

Accel Partners & Co., Undisclosed Firm,

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Thrive
$27,000,000 Capital Partners

SentinelOne

Mountain View

Early Stage

Sinewave Ventures, Tiger Global

Management, Westly Group, Data Collective,
Third Point Ventures, Granite Hill Capital
$23,589,000 Partners

SnapLogic

San Mateo

Later Stage

Undisclosed Firm, Triangle Peak Partners,

Ignition Partners, Silver Lake Partners,
$27,000,000 Andreessen Horowitz

Splice Machine

San Francisco

Early Stage

Wells Fargo SBIC, InterWest Partners, Mohr

$12,347,000 Davidow Ventures, Wildcat Venture Partners

Expansion

Emergence Capital Partners, Institutional

Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Shasta
$47,999,900 Ventures
Natixis Private Equity SA, Undisclosed Firm,
Undisclosed Firm, Lakestar Advisors GmbH,
$100,000,200 Merus Capital Investment, Undisclosed Firm

SteelBrick

San Mateo

Symphony Communication
Services-1

Palo Alto

Early Stage

SyncHR

Oakland

Later Stage

$16,039,000 Undisclosed Firm

Taulia

San Francisco

Expansion

$38,510,000 Questmark Partners, Trinity Ventures

Trifacta

San Francisco

Early Stage

$25,000,000 Undisclosed Firm, Undisclosed Firm

Trustlook

San Jose

Early Stage

Danhua Capital, Sparkland Capital, Trust

$17,000,000 Bridge Partners, Linear Capital Partners

UserZoom Technologies-1

San Jose

Later Stage

StepStone Group, Trident Capital, TC Growth

$33,999,900 Partners

Varentec
Walkme

Santa Clara
San Francisco

Expansion
Expansion

Undisclosed Firm, 3M NEW VENTURES,

$12,999,900 Khosla Ventures
$36,995,000 Insight Venture Partners

ZenPayroll

San Francisco

Expansion

Zerostack

Mountain View

Early Stage

Google Ventures, Emergence Capital Partners,

Ribbit Capital, Google Capital Management
$22,250,000 Co.
Foundation Capital, Formation 8 Partners,
$16,000,000 Undisclosed Firm

Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree Report, Data: Thomson Reuters

Business Description (edited)

Genetic information services

Biotechnology company

Biotechnology company
Next generation immuno-oncology

Products and services

Biopharmaceutical company
Pre-clinical stage biotechnology company
Personal healthcare services

Cancer therapy company

Mobile health company

Specialty pharma company

Clinical-stage biotherapeutics company

Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company

Therapies that inhibit the complement system

to treat rare disease
Business Description (edited)
Payment service provider (psp) for global
commerce

Cloud services to e-commerce

Monitoring and mitigation solutions
Prepaid card solutions for merchants and
consumers
Gift cards for company stock

Business Description (edited)

Crowdfunding clothing company

Technology company
Contractor finders
Connects vehicle owners with travelers
seeking to rent owners' vehicles
Gourmet meal kits

Food company
Organic teas and teasans
Speech and occupational therapy, and mental
health services
Online study tool

Car rental marketplace

Food company

Online courses and projects

Business Description (edited)

Three dimensional (3D) wearable computing

platforms
Hearing aid product

Eye-interaction technology solutions for head

mounted displays
Micro-electro-mechanical systems-based
force-sensing solutions
Smart payment terminal and open commerce
platform
Technology provider

Business Description (edited)

Ethernet connectivity solutions

Wifi system
Wireless technologies

Global positioning system (gps) technology

Mobile network capacity and resource
management
Cloud-delivered wide area network
Business Description (edited)
Computer vision, machine learning and
robotics for agriculture
Fibers and fabrics for textile industry
A camera on a quadcopter
Drone navigation systems using onboard
sensors

Solar energy
Business Description (edited)
Semiconductor memory technologies
Fourth generation mobile semiconductor
solutions
Business Description (edited)

Application intelligence company

Security company
Data science to automate the manual
processes
Open source big data software company
Application for invoice creation

Health insurance solution

Cloud-based integrated workspace for big data
Big data security analytics

Open source platform

Technology company

Predictive analytics platform

Online tool for interface design

Cloud-based collaboration tools

Banking fraud prevention solutions
Open source parallel processing prediction
engine

Software-defined interconnection company

Web and mobile application delivery solutions

Telecommunications services
Search development solutions
Analytics and screening tools
Software that supports the visual mapping of
information
Sales readiness software
Energy monitoring and management solution
Software development company

Cloud analytical solutions company

Business intelligence and transparency

software

Website optimization platform

Platforms for integrating, managing and
securing data
IPad interface for construction blueprints

Big data analytics platform

Combines documents, spreadsheets,
checklists, and chat
Retail intelligence platform

IT infrastructure

Analytics company for developers

Cyber security company

Integration platform as a service

Sql-compliant database
Applications for sales professionals to create
price quotes

Cloud-based hr, benefits and payroll solution

Cloud-based invoice and dynamic discounting
management solutions
Data wrangling solution for exploratory
analytics
Nextgeneration mobile security solutions

Enterprise software solution

Grid edge control
Interactive online guidance system

Online payroll software

Self-service private cloud platform

ree Report, Data: Thomson Reuters