First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies, including Uber, Square, and Warby Parker. Through custom-built software, incredible in-person experiences, and a host of other unique services, First Round helps tiny companies get big while constantly reimagining the role of venture capital. It offers a growing number of services and products to help founders build companies from scratch. First Round has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

First Round Capital

Pathfinder is the early stage investment vehicle of Founders Fund, a venture capital firm investing in science and technology companies solving difficult problems. The firm and its partners have been early backers of some of the most impactful companies of the past decade, including SpaceX, Palantir, Facebook and Airbnb. Founders Fund pursues a founder-friendly investment strategy, providing maximum support with minimum interference.

Pathfinder

Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in cutting-edge technologies to drive generational change in order to solve problems that matter. The firm’s central investment thesis, the Super Evolution, combines data, computational capacity, and advanced engineering to transform a range of industries including engineering health, climate, computing infrastructure, intelligent software, the physical economy, and more. Its investments include Afresh, AlphaSense, Atom Computing, Color, Gatik, Eikon Therapeutics, Fabric, Homelight, Kong, Formlabs, Panther, Planet, Replica, SoFi, Uber, Upstart, Vicarious Surgical, and more. For more information, visit www.InnovationEndeavors.com.

Innovation Endeavors

Capricorn Investment Group was created in 2000 to demonstrate the promise that it is possible to invest profitably while driving sustainable positive change.  Today Capricorn manages the assets for Jeff Skoll, the Skoll Foundation, and others who strive for extraordinary investment results by leveraging market forces to accelerate large-scale impact.  The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, private equity, and real assets markets across the globe.  Capricorn has offices in Palo Alto, California, and New York, New York.

Capricorn Investment Group

DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost. Deep Tech is a potent approach to this challenge that enables more for less - now and for this century. The transformative companies in their portfolio combine the latest advances in science and technology with unique computing and algorithmic advantage, reducing CAPEX and OPEX.

DCVC

O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) is in the business of funding disruptors, innovators, and hackers of the status quo. From open source to the early days of the web and its recent resurgence, O'Reilly Media has played a key role as trend spotter and advocate for putting world-changing technologies on the map. OATV effort is  to bring the legacy, resources, and relationships of O'Reilly to each investment they make.

Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures

Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors and industries reinventing core markets, as well as those creating frontier technologies. Felicis currently manages over $2B in capital across 8 funds. The firm is an early backer of more than 40 companies valued at $1B+. More than 90 of its portfolio companies have been acquired or gone public since the firm was founded by Aydin Senkut in 2006.

Felicis

Founded in 2000, Industry Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on making venture capital investments. The firm makes investments through secondary opportunities, primary fund investments and direct co-investments in venture-backed companies. The firm has $3.5B in AUM and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Industry Ventures

Lux Capital manages over $5 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments at the intersection of technology and the sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high-growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investment strategy ensures portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.

Lux Capital

AME Cloud Ventures focuses on seed to later stage companies building infrastructure and value chains around data. It specializes in technology-heavy companies gathering or creating unique data at every stage of the data stack — from infrastructure all the way to applications, mobile, and sensors.  It strives to find, fund, and support true entrepreneurs. The firm provides a unique and genuine set of resources to our founding teams, from strong operational and business experience to networks of amazing mentors and international partners, particularly in China. AME Cloud Ventures is the venture fund led by Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!

AME Cloud Ventures

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests at every stage in companies building revolutionary technologies. It has been investors, founders, and early employees of prominent technology companies. It has historically invested in a wide variety of sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, and consumer Internet.

Founders Fund

The Westly Group focuses on the digitization and sustainability of energy, mobility, buildings, industrial tech, and cybersecurity.

The Westly Group

RedSeal develops security risk management (SRM) software and solutions and helps companies eliminate cyber threats. RedSeal was founded in 2004, helps Global 2000 organizations defend their critical digital assets. RedSeal gets ahead of cyber criminals by calculating every possible internal and external “attack path” to the most valuable network assets – before they do. Customers get a prioritized list of the most vulnerable paths to their most valuable assets.  More than 200 corporations and government agencies worldwide have RedSealed their networks, including five of the top 50 financial institutions, all of the major security vendors, fifteen of the Fortune 100 retail companies, and a number of US government organizations including the US Army, US Navy, US Postal Service and the FAA. Key commercial customers include Nationwide, Oracle, Cisco and First Data. RedSeal partners with all of the top suppliers of network infrastructure (Cisco, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, Arista, Aruba, Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, F5). Its software integrates with all industry leading security solutions (McAfee, Symantec, Qualys, HP ArcSight, Rapid7, Splunk,Tripwire, MaxPatrol, nMap) as well as with major workflow vendors (ServiceNow, Remedy), providing the most comprehensive validation of network security. RedSeal is backed by prominent venture investors including Venrock, Leapfrog Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, JAFCO Ventures, Olympic Venture Partners and In-Q-Tel.

RedSeal

Syngenta Ventures is the corporate venture capital (VC) team of Syngenta, a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling farmers to make better use of available resources. Created in 2009, Syngenta Ventures was one of the first venture capital teams dedicated to agriculture. With an experienced team of investment professionals possessing more than 45 collective years of VC experience, Syngenta Ventures has established itself as one of the most active and knowledgeable agricultural investors. Syngenta Ventures is stage agnostic, from investing in seed rounds to larger growth equity rounds. They typically invest alongside other financial and corporate VC investors, and they avoid asking for any rights or options for Syngenta as they recognize the importance of having the interests of all shareholders aligned. They use their deep experience as investors and running commercial Ag businesses to work with their portfolio companies to help them maximize their potential value. They often take board or board observer roles, spending the time needed with the company and management to help them achieve their goals. Finally, they are connected into Syngenta, ranging from R&D to commercial teams, around the world. They can help their portfolio companies validate new products in field trials, increase market visibility, and share industry knowledge and contacts. While they encourage technical and/or commercial collaboration with Syngenta, these are negotiated by Syngenta and not connected to their investment. Linked to this, they maintain a strict firewall with Syngenta to protect any confidential information from being shared. They take this responsibility seriously and can provide references from their portfolio companies to demonstrate this.

Syngenta Ventures

DFJ Growth invests in growth stage technology companies that are scaling rapidly and poised for market leadership.  Based in Silicon Valley, DFJ Growth is the later stage investing practice of [Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/draper-fisher-jurvetson), a global venture capital firm. DFJ Growth partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs who set out to change the world by creating a new generation of iconic technology-driven businesses.

DFJ Growth

Fifth Third Bancorp is a diversified financial services company, that specializes in small business, retail banking, investments, and mortgage.

Fifth Third Bank

Space Capital is a venture capital firm investing in the Space economy, specifically focused on unlocking the value in Space technology stacks such as GPS, Geospatial Intelligence, and Communications.

Space Capital

Impact: 80+ startups. 31 exits. $150+ bn in value.

Chang Corporation

IFC VC’s direct equity and early stage investments are meant to create a continuum so that the accelerated businesses that make it can also go further and attract additional sources of finance. IFC will initially target startups and seed funds in “medium-sized markets” such as Nigeria, Egypt, Mexico, Argentina, and Ukraine

IFC Venture Capital Group

DBL Partners is an investment venture focused on companies that deliver high venture capital returns and economic benefits. DBL Partners uses venture capital to accelerate innovation in a way that positively affects an organization’s social impact, as well as its financial success. They believe these two drivers –positive social change and a healthy financial performance– are inherently connected. DBL invests in and helps nurture outstanding entrepreneurs and companies in Cleantech, Information Technology, Sustainable Products and Services, and Healthcare.

DBL Partners

137 Ventures is a San Francisco-based growth-stage venture firm with an innovative investing model. The fund has a flexible mandate with an emphasis on structured transactions with founders, senior executives, early investors and early employees at venture-backed companies with proven business models. With more than $850 million of assets under management, the firm invests in companies across a broad range of areas including: space exploration, digital health, financial technology, enterprise SaaS, and consumer internet.

137 Ventures

Rothenberg Ventures invests in early-stage frontier technology startups. Its team of investors, operators, and community builders support founders through portfolio success programs across virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, space, next-generation hardware, and IoT.   It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Rothenberg Ventures

Prelude Ventures invests in and supports early-stage startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. Our goal is to help build the next generation of category-defining businesses.

Prelude Ventures

The International Finance Corporation is a member of the World Bank Group that focuses on private sector development in developing countries. It provides financial and advisory services to support economic activities. It serves various industries, including infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing, and financial services.

International Finance Corporation

Planet

Planet is a startup based in San Francisco and founded by former NASA employees that collects information about its changing planet via a fleet of compact, highly capable Earth-imaging satellites. The broad coverage and high frequency of Planet's satellite imagery will enable customers with unprecedented access to global and local insights that currently are either impossible or cost-prohibitive to obtain. It designs, builds, and operates the largest fleet of satellites, as well as online software, tools, and analytics needed to deliver data to users.  Planet offers a diverse selection of imagery and analytic solutions, all made available online through our platform and web-based tools. They provide geospatial insights at the speed of change, equipping users with the data necessary to make informed, timely decisions.

<div>Planet is a startup based in San Francisco and founded by former NASA employees that collects information about its changing planet via a fleet of compact, highly capable Earth-imaging satellites. The broad coverage and high frequency of Planet's satellite imagery will enable customers with unprecedented access to global and local insights that currently are either impossible or cost-prohibitive to obtain. It designs, builds, and operates the largest fleet of satellites, as well as online software, tools, and analytics needed to deliver data to users. Planet offers a diverse selection of imagery and analytic solutions, all made available online through our platform and web-based tools. They provide geospatial insights at the speed of change, equipping users with the data necessary to make informed, timely decisions. In addition to California, Planet has offices in Germany and Canada where they deliver market-leading geospatial imagery to a global network of customers and partners in over 100 countries. The Planet's mission is to image the entire Earth every day and make global change visible, accessible, and actionable.</div>

Planet Partners with SynMax to Provide Energy Intelligence and Monitor Dark Vessels

Planet Labs Imagery: The Entire Earth, Everyday

Satellite Data Services Companies - Planet Labs, PBC (US) and L3Harris Technologies, Inc (US) are the Key Players

Global Satellite Imaging Market Size To Worth USD 15.9 Billion By 2033 | CAGR of 10.80%

NASA Expands Contract with Planet Labs Inc. for Satellite Imagery

Planet Labs

Deriving insights from uncommon data streams

Alternative Data

Planet Reports Financial Results for Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2025

SpaceX

To leverage NVIDIA's Jetson platform, C-band and Ka-band radios, and multispectral imaging capabilities to enable AI-powered solutions for object detection, vegetation classification, and disaster response, with faster data delivery.

Technology providers that enhance satellite operations

Next-gen Satellites

Companies that offer launch capabilities to get satellites into orbit, including last-mile delivery of satellites and value-added services including launch mission planning and execution

NVIDIA

BASF

To leverage Planet's satellite data and services to enhance BASF's digital farming solutions, enabling more efficient, profitable, and sustainable crop production for over 100,000 registered users worldwide.

Sustainably solving the food shortages of the future

Smart Farming

Start-ups offering software and related hardware solutions for crop operation, crop modelling, weather forecasting, soil analysis, and overall irrigation management using sensors, big data, AI and machine learning.

Microsoft

Microsoft collaborates with the  Planet to use AI solutions in assessing wildfire damage extent through advanced AI models and satellite imagery, they evaluate affected regions like Lahaina, generating detailed maps of building conditions in the impacted area.

AXA Group

AXA partners with Planet Labs PBC to offer continued satellite data-driven insights for the development of parametric insurance products, which help protect farmers against the effects of drought on their livelihoods

Climate Risk Analytics

Provides long-term climate risk analytics to cover the gap in traditional insurance products

Accenture

Accenture Ventures Project Spotlight initiative, has entered into a collaboration agreement with Planet Labs PBC on an array of sustainability and impact initiatives, including measurement, traceable supply chain strategy and data-based climate risk assessments to mitigate disruption across global value chains.

Bayer

Bayer AG and Planet Labs PBC are expanding their partnership in an effort to bolster sustainable agriculture.

Google Cloud

The two companies will create joint solutions that combine Planet’s high-frequency Earth observation data with Google Cloud’s cloud-based infrastructure to enable better data-driven decision-making.

Farmers Edge

Through this partnership, Farmers Edge will process Planet’s satellite data with its proprietary algorithms, integrate it into other field-centric datasets, then distribute to thousands of customers and partners in the agriculture industry who need accurate insights to make informed and profitable decisions. Farmers Edge will leverage Planet’s high resolution satellite imagery to enhance its robust product suite, which serves as an essential tool that empowers farmers, ag professionals, insurance companies, and other stakeholders of the digital agricultural ecosystem across the globe to make data-driven, climate-smart decisions.

Start-ups offering drone or satellite imagery to measure and monitor fields, spray pesticides, accurately present biological parameters, control the quality of sowing, etc.

To deliver timely satellite imagery and data to European farmers to enable more effective agronomic decision making. BASF  uses Planet's daily, global satellite imaging to develop analytics to power field zone metrics and insights for its digital farming platform, marketed under the xarvio™ brand.

Airbus

Airbus and Planet have entered into a partnership to facilitate access to each other’s data and the co-development of new geospatial solutions, by establishing a framework agreement to explore opportunities for joint cooperation in new and existing markets, product offerings, sales and marketing efforts

Generated by sensors. Satellite imagery captures objects on the ground (e.g., cars in a parking lot and ships at a port), lights, pollution, and particulate matter in the air.

To share data and jointly develop new geospatial solutions including the creation of new analytic solutions for a range of commercial markets

Satellite companies that offer location-based intelligence, navigation, mapping, spatial awareness, and data analytics services

GAF AG

GAF customers in Germany, Europe, and around the world will be able to access Planet’s portfolio of optical satellite data and derived value-added products through this partnership

Conservation Tech

Companies focusing on observing and tracking changes in forest ecosystems using satellite imagery, AI, etc.

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 Planet is a startup based in San Francisco and founded by former NASA employees that collects information about its changing planet via a fleet of compact, highly capable Earth-imaging satellites. The broad coverage and high frequency of Planet's satellite imagery will enable customers with unprecedented access to global and local insights that currently are either impossible or cost-prohibitive to obtain. It designs, builds, and operates the largest fleet of satellites, as well as online software, tools, and analytics needed to deliver data to users. Planet offers a diverse selection of imagery and analytic solutions, all made available online through our platform and web-based tools. They provide geospatial insights at the speed of change, equipping users with the data necessary to make informed, timely decisions. In addition to California, Planet has offices in Germany and Canada where they deliver market-leading geospatial imagery to a global network of customers and partners in over 100 countries. The Planet's mission is to image the entire Earth every day and make global change visible, accessible, and actionable.
 
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Neudata is a leading fintech firm that provides data intelligence services to asset managers, private equity firms, venture capitalists, consultancies, and corporations globally. It specializes in scouting, sourcing, and evaluating alternative datasets across various industries and domains. Neudata's core offering is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that houses a catalogue of over 6,900 dataset reports, enabling users to search, manage, and compare data sources effectively.
The company's strength lies in its unbiased and objective approach to data assessment, as it does not buy, sell, or take commissions from data vendors. Instead, Neudata evaluates datasets based on over 100 unique factors and delivers metadata reports and advice to clients for a fee. This neutral stance ensures that clients receive tailored intelligence aligned with their specific strategies and goals.
In addition to its SaaS platform, Neudata provides expert insights through its team of data scouting professionals based in London, New York, and Shanghai. The company also offers a service called AltDating, which facilitates connections between data buyers and sellers, streamlining the process of finding and acquiring relevant datasets.
Neudata has expanded its offerings to include specialized products like Neudata Scout ESG, launched in February 2022. This tool helps organizations identify and manage alternative data sources related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, enabling them to comply with regulations and build their own ESG evaluation models.
The company has established itself as a prominent player in the alternative data ecosystem, hosting influential events like the London Data Summit, where industry leaders gather to explore the past, present, and future of data. Neudata's commitment to innovation and its collaborative approach have positioned it as a trusted partner for firms seeking to unlock the value of alternative data.

Neudata

Orbital Insight is a leading geospatial intelligence company that provides AI-powered analytics solutions to help organizations gain insights and understand trends from geospatial data. The company's flagship product, the Orbital Insight Go platform, combines multiple data sources such as satellite imagery, anonymized location data, ship GPS, and IoT data to deliver actionable insights through machine learning algorithms. Orbital Insight's technology enables customers across various industries, including government agencies, corporations, and non-profits, to monitor supply chains, analyze land use patterns, detect illegal activities, and make data-driven decisions.
In February 2022, Orbital Insight secured a contract from the US Department of Defense to develop a platform for identifying intentional Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) interference and manipulation operations worldwide. This technology leverages the company's multisensor data stack and AI capabilities to alert analysts about potential jamming and spoofing events, presenting risks to national security and commercial operations.
Orbital Insight has established partnerships with leading Earth observation companies like Satellogic to enhance its data capabilities. In April 2022, the company announced plans to integrate Satellogic's high-resolution satellite imagery and full-motion video into its platform, providing customers with access to higher quality data, improved revisit rates, and lower-cost analytics.

Orbital Insight

Premise is a market intelligence platform that enables organizations to obtain real-time, granular insights from a global network of contributors. By blending machine learning with human intelligence, the company's proprietary methodology allows clients to gather and analyze local insights quickly and efficiently from almost anywhere in the world.
Premise transforms client questions into tasks distributed through its mobile app marketplace. Contributors perform these tasks, capturing data through images, surveys, or on-site observations. The collected data undergoes rigorous quality control, including location verification, image analysis, and fraud detection algorithms, ensuring accuracy and reliability. Verified insights are then presented to clients through customized dashboards or exported in various formats for integration into existing systems.
Premise caters to diverse industries, including consumer goods companies, international development organizations, and public sector entities. Its solutions provide actionable intelligence for execution monitoring, consumer behavior analysis, community understanding, and supply chain optimization. With a global reach spanning over 140 countries, the company facilitates data collection from even the most challenging regions.
Premise distinguishes itself through rapid insights gathering, unparalleled data granularity, and stringent quality assurance measures. As of 2024, the company recorded over 25 million submissions per year, garnering trust from industry leaders.

Premise

PriceStats is a company that specializes in transforming data into meaningful tools for economic analysis. The company's primary focus is on developing global, real-time economic statistics using online data. PriceStats produces daily inflation statistics and Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) series, which are utilized by various financial institutions and policymakers worldwide. The company's technology leverages online retail prices to reveal offline street price changes, often weeks before official numbers reflect inflation trends. This approach allows for more timely and accurate economic insights, potentially enabling policymakers to better prepare for economic fluctuations.
PriceStats has continuously expanded its product offerings since its inception in September 2010. The company has developed inflation series for numerous countries, including the US, UK, Brazil, Germany, France, Canada, Mexico, Poland, and China, among others. In addition to country-specific inflation indices, PriceStats also produces global inflation series, including World Inflation, Food Inflation, and Fuel Inflation series. The company launched its PPP Series in May 2014, providing charts on real exchange rates, relative prices, and over/undervaluation for various countries compared to the US dollar. In January 2024, PriceStats released the China Aggregate Inflation Series, further expanding its coverage of major economies.
Key customers and partnerships
PriceStats distributes its daily inflation statistics and PPP series through an exclusive partnership with State Street Global Markets and State Street Global Exchange. This partnership, established in May 2011, brings PriceStats' indices to the financial sector. Target clients include hedge funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and other financial institutions interested in accessing high-frequency inflation and PPP measures. State Street provides access to these indices through its proprietary research website, Insights.
In addition to its commercial partnerships, PriceStats has demonstrated a commitment to social responsibility. Since early 2020, the company has provided its indicators for free to 16 central banks worldwide to help navigate the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. In May 2022, PriceStats began distributing its Global Food Inflation series to the public on a complimentary basis through its partnership with State Street, aiming to assist policymakers in addressing rapidly rising food prices and supply shortages driven by global events. The company has also collaborated with statistical offices, offering item-level data free of charge to institutions such as the UK Office for National Statistics and the Central Statistics Office of Ireland during the Covid-19 pandemic.

PriceStats

Generated by sensors. Collected by a variety of sensors and has many uses including agriculture and other commodities sensitive to the weather.

Generated by sensors. Data gathered from the GPS, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth signals on mobile phones or other electronic devices, which can be used to track consumer movement such as high footfall areas, time spent at specific locations, and routes.

Generated by individuals. Includes website usage (e.g., time spent on a website, actions, and volume of queries), mobile app usage, social sentiment (based on social media posts, news, videos, and online interactions on social media), product reviews, and surveys.

Generated by individuals. E-receipts gathered from consumers on an opt-in basis provide data on user purchases and product demand. Data are anonymized and provided to corporations for targeted marketing.

Generated by businesses. Credit/debit card transaction and POS system data are structured and sought after and are used to track retail and business spending (e.g., sales volumes and prices).

Generated by businesses. Data sources used to assess consumers' creditworthiness such as income and employment information, consumer banking data, payments to specialty lenders, utilities payments, rental payments, and peer-to-peer lending records. Other data types include local prices, business banking records, commercial transactions (e.g., shipping container receipts), supply chain data, and government and corporation data.

Firms that acquire individual data streams and bundle them for sale to investors or structure/analyze the data to create data products for sale to investors.

Alternative data personalizes products/services by leveraging geolocation, social media, and transaction data for businesses

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 Planet Labs PBC, a satellite data startup, announced the arrival of Pelican-2 satellite and 36 SuperDoves at Vandenberg Space Force Base. They plan to launch them via SpaceX's Transporter-12 Rideshare mission in early 2025.
 The high-resolution Pelican-2 satellite is incorporated with NVIDIA Jetson platform for Edge AI computing, C-band and Ka-band radios for satellite-to-satellite communications. The satellite is capable of capturing 40 cm resolution imagery across six multispectral bands and is designed to provide AI-powered solutions for object detection, vegetation classification, and disaster response.
 Planet Labs states that the integration of NVIDIA's GPU and satellite-to-satellite communications can reduce data delivery time from hours to minutes. This significant reduction in time can tremendously benefit security and disaster response applications that require quick data access.
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