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Granite Ventures has been helping early-stage technology companies build solid foundations for success since 1992. T Granite has invested over $1 billion in more than 90 private companies. They partner with promising and successful entrepreneurs to create businesses that have a competitive edge and help them achieve category leadership.

Granite Ventures

Crosslink, founded in 1989, is a premier early-stage venture capital firm with over $1.3B in assets.  Crosslink partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators, typically at the Seed-Series A stage, across highly dynamic enterprise and consumer technology sectors. Over its history, Crosslink has had the opportunity to partner with defining companies such as Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), BuildingConnected (acquired by ADSK), Chime, Coupa (COUP), DataStax, Molekule, Omniture (acquired by ADBE), Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement), Postmates (acquired by UBER), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Verodin (acquired by FEYE), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone) and Weave.

Crosslink Capital

In 1968, while the semiconductor and biotechnology industries in the San Francisco Bay Area were on the verge of carrying the world into the next technology revolution, the J.F. Shea Co. was working nearby on the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system. They were in the perfect position to see and to appreciate the potential future impact of these emerging technologies, and to invest in them wisely. Providing venture capital and other support for promising technology companies made sense for a business that was working hard at making major infrastructure improvements in the surrounding area. It was another way to care for the communities in which they worked and to bring continued financial stability to the company as a whole. J. F. Shea Co.'s investments increased in value and provided additional capital and financial strength that allowed Shea Homes and Shea Properties to compete with public home builders and commercial developers and to acquire key assets in California and Colorado. This legacy is now led by Shea Ventures, whose activities extend across the country with early-stage investments in companies across a wide range of industries, including computer software, semiconductors, biotechnology and medical devices. Shea Ventures' sustained record of successful early stage investments in new technology provides the J.F. Shea Companies with a solid foundation for growth â€¦ and another way to care for future generations.

Shea Ventures

Invest in top tier VC funds as well as direct co-investment

Cherry Tree Investments

Rock Creek Capital provides investments of $1 to $25 million in the venture, growth capital, buyout, or recapitalization transactions. The firm is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.

Rock Creek Capital

Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Floodgate

M12 - Microsoft’s venture fund, invests in early-stage enterprise software companies with a focus on AI, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, developer tools, vertical SaaS, and Web3/Gaming. Since 2016, M12 has invested in over 100 companies, helping startups accelerate growth with unparalleled access to Microsoft.

M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund

Notable Capital is named for the founders we invest with, the ideas they pursue, the causes they champion, and the remarkable companies they build. Notable is a U.S.-based venture capital firm focused on early-to-growth stage companies in cloud infrastructure and business and consumer applications across the U.S., Israel, Europe, Latin America, and select go-global opportunities. Notable portfolio companies include Affirm, Airbnb, Block, Brightwheel, Drata, Handshake, HashiCorp, Ibotta, Orca Security, Quince, Slack, Slice, StockX, Stori, Vercel, Zendesk, and more.

Notable Capital

Workday Ventures is the strategic investment arm of Workday focused on identifying, investing, and partners with early to growth-stage companies. The company helps accelerate innovation and connects the next generation of enterprise technology companies with Workday’s customers, partners, and employees.

Workday Ventures

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

SoftBank Vision Fund is a subsidiary of Softbank Group that specializes in growth capital and social impact investments. Sectors that the fund invests in include the internet of things, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, communications infrastructure, telecoms, computational biology, biotech, cloud technologies and software, consumer internet businesses, financial technology, and mobile apps. The Fund is designed to be a catalyst for technology progress in anticipation that it will expand SoftBank's capabilities, accelerating progress towards SoftBank 2.0. It aims to invest in businesses and foundational platforms that SoftBank believes to revolutionize and innovate the world tomorrow.

SoftBank Vision Fund

Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, edge, 5G, autonomy, cybersecurity, client & gaming, enterprise applications, silicon design and manufacturing, and a wide range of other disruptive technologies. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested US$12.9 billion in more than 1,582 companies worldwide. Intel Capital has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Intel Capital

SVB Capital is a venture capital investment arm of [SVB Financial Group the](/financial-organization/svb-financial-group) holding company of Silicon Valley Bank. SVB Capital specializes in fund of funds and direct investments. Within fund of funds, the firm invests predominantly in top brand firms with a small allocation to smaller VC firms. For direct investments, it seeks to co-invest in equity rounds sponsored by other venture capital firms. The firm prefers to invest in the technology sector in the United States. SVB Capital was founded in 2000 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

SVB Capital

Capital One Ventures is a strategic investor, funding startups that are driving the future of data, technology, and financial services. Founded in 2014, Capital One Ventures has invested in more than 70 companies that help deliver superior experiences to consumers and businesses. Capital One Ventures is based in San Francisco, New York and at Capital One's headquarters outside of Washington, DC.

Capital One Ventures

Workboard

Workboard is an enterprise SaaS company that helps companies unlock growth by making alignment and accountability remarkably easy. The Workboard SaaS Solution transforms an antiquated approach to strategy alignment and progression into a dynamic, data-driven practice augmented by analytics and intelligence. It helps organizations align OKRs and FAST goals, automate business reviews, and execute for growth. Workboard enables goal and execution alignment with full transparency for faster, better results. The Workboard solution helps teams make results in a habit with software to localize, activate, and execute strategic priorities fast and efficiently, and coaching to rapidly localize​ strategy through the org so everyone's engaged on this quarter's results. It sustains high speed, focus, and purpose as the organization grows exponentially. Workboard was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States.

Workboard offers objective and key results (OKR) software for large enterprises and startups to help align and track goals and outcomes across divisions. The company provides Trello-like Kanban boards for organizing tasks, due dates, and statuses.&nbsp; Workboard also offers GenAI-backed tools (launched in May 2023) to suggest key results based on OKRs, setting relationships between workstreams, publishing progress summaries and summarizing team ideas.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Distributed workforces require new solutions for office operations, HR, payment, and more.

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WorkBoard

WorkBoard Extends AI Capabilities to Supercharge Strategy Execution and Drive Peak Performance

Microsoft

The integration will bring business priorities and related facts, KPIs and execution managed in WorkBoard into business conversations and daily line of sight in Microsoft Teams.

Companies offering tools to infer employee morale (through surveys and quick assessments) and productivity, including functions for goal setting, review, and feedback.

Workboard offers objective and key results (OKR) software for large enterprises and startups to help align and track goals and outcomes across divisions. The company provides Trello-like Kanban boards for organizing tasks, due dates, and statuses.&nbsp; Workboard also offers GenAI-backed tools (launched in May 2023) to suggest key results based on OKRs, setting relationships between workstreams, publishing progress summaries and summarizing team ideas.&nbsp; &nbsp;The platform is also deeply integrated with Microsoft Teams with options to automate status updates, celebrate weekly results, automatically calculate progress toward targets and implement calendar agendas, among other features. Further, the platform integrates with Azure DevOps (auto updating the team’s key results) and Office 365 (create smart meeting agendas), alongside other third party applications (Jira, Slack, etc). Other services offered include OKR coaching including relevant courses and certifications and management programs.In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34350">October 2024</a>, WorkBoard extended its AI capabilities for productivity improvement and performance assessmentKey customers and partnershipsWorkboard stated that it had ‘hundreds’ of clients (May 2021), across a range of industries, notably including Comcast, Microsoft, Cisco and Workday, among others.&nbsp;

ActivTrak is a cloud-based productivity monitoring software provider. The platform offers data and analytics which can be used to detect workplace productivity gaps. The platform collects data from employee activity logs and computer screenshots, although it does not log keystrokes or record video of a user’s screen. ActivTrak also facilitates a range of tasks for admins such as blocking websites, flagging suspicious activities, IP address connections, and monitoring web, and app traffic.Other features offered include productivity reports and coaching, headcount and workload management and personal insights. In November 2023, the company added capabilities to measure the usage of AI tools, automatically detecting and classifying the use of such tools and websites to help organizations manage and improve AI adoption across the workforce.Activtrak generates revenue via monthly subscriptions (USD 10 and USD 17) per user, and custom pricing for larger enterprises.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, over 9,500 enterprises used ActivTrak’s platform, notably including Allstate, asembia and Nobu. ActivTrak closed 2023 with a 40% growth in its customer base (adding ~2,200 customers).Funding and financialsIn November 2020, ActivTrak raised USD 50 million in a Series B round led by Sapphire Ventures. Sapphire Ventures CEO and managing director joined ActivTrak’s board as part of the deal. The new proceeds were earmarked for scaling global sales and marketing campaigns, expansion of its platform using AI driven analytics, and improving integration with its technology partners.

ActivTrak

inFeedo is a people predictive analytics company based in India. The Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2013 is currently focused on “Amber” (launched in 2016), an AI-enabled bot that helps manage employee engagement, predict attrition, and get a pulse on company culture in real time. The company also offers AI-driven exit surveys and analytics to improve retention.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, over 700,000 users across 250 organizations utilized inFeedo’s platform. Notable clients included GE Healthcare, Puma, Tata Group, and Lenovo.Funding and financialsIn its latest funding round (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9099">March 2022</a>) inFeedo raised USD 12 million in Series A funding led by Jungle Ventures, reportedly tripling its valuation from less than 18 months ago. The fresh funds will be used for its second employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) buyback for all employees and its go-to-market activities in North America. Further, the company claims it has achieved annual revenue of USD 1.6 million as of November 2020.

inFeedo

Donut provides solutions to keep employees engaged with casual conversations. Its first product, Intros, makes connections between teammates via Slack to emulate quick meetups and in-person introductions at work, which are now virtual.Donut’s new product, Watercooler, launched in October 2020. It attempts to reinvent the micro-interactions between employees at the office watercooler online. The product will integrate with Slack, where a newly-designated channel for Watercooler will be created. The product will post questions automatically within the customers’ desired frequency and pre-selected topics.The company uses a freemium subscription model with paid plans starting at approximately USD 2 per user per month.Key customers and partnershipsThe company claims it has supported four million connections (one million since the Covid-19 pandemic) across its 12,000 customers, including companies such as Okta, Zapier, Slack, The New York Times, and Invision.Funding and financialsDonut announced a USD 12 million funding round led by Accel, along with its new product, Watercooler. The USD 12 million raised was accumulated over multiple rounds before the Covid-19 pandemic, with proceeds earmarked for product development.

Donut

Matter is an employee feedback platform founded by Brett Hellman. Hellman was the founder of messaging app “Hall”, which was founded in 2011 and later sold to Atlassian for USD 20 million in 2015.Matter uses 360-degree feedback to evaluate skills in employees which are linked to career success. The platform links skills such as influence, inclusiveness, empathy, resourcefulness, and multitasking to evaluations. Matter is currently available in beta.

Matter

Mesh is a Y Combinator-backed company that allows employees to set goals, track tasks, share feedback, and engage in one-on-ones. The company also offers an AI coach (Mesh Maven) to help employees stay in line with their key objectives, improve the quality of feedback provided and summarize 1:1s. Mesh also offers nudges and surveys to improve employee engagement alongside relevant analytics.The company generates revenue via monthly subscriptions per user, priced at USD 4 (Base) and USD 7 (Premium).&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, the company served over 100+ enterprises, including NTT Data, Grant Thornton and Groww. The platform also offers integrations with third-party software such as Gmail, Microsoft Teams and Slack, among others.Funding and financialsIn its most recent funding round (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9768">April 2022</a>) Mesh raised USD 11 million in Series A funding led by RTP Global. The fresh funds were earmarked to expand its global footprint across the US and APAC regions. In line with this, the company planned to expand its headcount across the engineering and sales departments.

Mesh

Companies that offer the entire spectrum of HR tools including payroll processing benefits, onboarding, compliance, analytics, scheduling etc

Companies providing either standalone or combined payroll and benefits services to businesses.

EoR - Companies that assist businesses in hiring distributed teams globally in compliance with foreign labor laws. EoRs become the legal employer of offshore employees. Solutions include payroll, benefits, and taxes.

PEO - Companies that offer similar services to EoRs but establish a co-employment arrangement with businesses and do not become the legal employer.

Companies offering tools such as chatbots, surveys, games, and other activities to infer, assess and improve employee morale and sentiment.

Companies that provide a centralized space for employees to access internal and external resources, enterprise applications, and enable workers to communicate across departments, and stay up to date on organizational announcements.

Solutions in this industry hub are predominantly offered under a B2B SaaS model

Employee and performance management solutions use AI/Ml to infer engagement insights and sentiment analysis

Offers tools for companies to hire contractors globally, and conduct employee and performance management

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 WorkBoard, an enterprise strategy execution platform provider, recently launched new Artificial Intelligence (AI) features. The announcement was made at the Accelerate user conference and aims to enhance organizational, managerial, and team performance.
 The AI functionalities include creating draft objectives and key results (OKRs) from different sources, pinpointing cross-organization dependencies, formulating suggested action plans, providing personalized AI-based briefings, and giving managers access to an AI "Coach on Call." Performance auditing tools, like generating Impact Summaries and formatting performance review templates, are also included.
 WorkBoard believes these AI features will facilitate effective strategic priority translation, promote accountability and focus, and enable better team member coaching for managers.
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 AI features are increasingly integrated into performance and engagement platforms to improve employee goal-setting and performance evaluations. WorkBoard's wide range of clients, from tech firms to healthcare and financial services, will benefit from the introduction of these AI-based tools.

WorkBoard

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