Funding and support for concept and seed stage startups.  K9 Ventures is a true early stage venture fund that provides funding and support for concept-stage and seed-stage technology companies. We work with entrepreneurs, sometimes even before a company has been formed, to help evaluate, evolve and fund a company in its nascent stages. K9 Ventures focuses on startups in the San Francisco Bay Area that have a strong entrepreneur/team, an idea that has a clear path to revenue, which can be capital efficient and where they can add value.

K9 Ventures

Ulu Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture fund in Silicon Valley investing in diverse entrepreneurial teams as well as Enterprise IT, EdTech, FinTech, Healthcare, and Sustainability startups.  Ulu is the first Latina-led venture fund in Silicon Valley and is one of the largest in the country with over $200M in assets under management. As well, the firm has designed its investment process to reduce risk and produce better, more consistent returns. Ulu’s process structures intuition and applies it intelligently to investments, avoiding cognitive biases common in VC; systematically identifies key drivers of risk and uncertainty, streamlining due diligence; and calculates a probability-weighted multiple(PWM) on invested capital, ensuring consistent decision-making.

Ulu 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

Menlo Ventures provides capital for multi-stage consumer, enterprise, and life sciences technology companies. Since 1976, the firm’s market-driven analysis has led to the identification of opportunities and successful investments in innovative markets. Notable areas of investment include Marketplaces (Uber, Rover.com, Poshmark); Consumer Services (Tumblr, Betterment, Roku, Siri); Dev/Ops (Harness, Edge Delta, Fire hydrant); SaaS (Carta, ScoutRFP, Qualia, Benchling, Everlaw); Fintech (Betterment, Bluevine, Chime); Cybersecurity (Cavium, IronPort, BitSight, Abnormal, StackRox); and Life Sciences Technology (Synthego, Cofactor Genomics, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, 3T Biosciences). Menlo’s portfolio includes more than 70 public companies, and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, with $5 billion under management. The firm is currently investing in Menlo Ventures XV, a $500 million early-stage fund, as well as its $500 million Inflection Fund, which targets early-growth investments.

Menlo Ventures

CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund, invests in remarkable companies transforming the fields of consumer products and services, enterprise tech, cybersecurity, fintech, cryptocurrency, and transportation tech. CapitalG partners with growth-stage companies in their transition from startup to scale-up through hands-on assistance from its in-house growth team and connections to Google's engineering, product, marketing, sales, and people operations experts worldwide. More than 2,500 Googlers and Alphabet leaders have already engaged with CapitalG portfolio companies, including Airbnb, Collibra, CrowdStrike, Curated, DCG, Duolingo, Freshworks, Gusto, ID.me, Lyft, Robinhood, Stripe, UiPath, Whatnot, among others.

CapitalG

TPG Growth was founded in 2007 to specialize in growth equity and middle-market buyout opportunities. Taking a long-term and hands-on approach to partnership, we identify unique companies across the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Asia and help them achieve their full potential. We can assist at all stages of a company’s growth, from its inception to its international expansion, by drawing on our geography-specific experience and expert global operational resources from the TPG platforms. TPG Growth manages more than $7 billion in assets across a variety of sectors including media, technology, and industrials.

TPG Growth

H.I.G. Growth Partners is the dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a leading global private equity investment firm with over $13 billion of capital under management. We seek to make both majority and minority investments in strong, growth oriented businesses located throughout North America, South America and Europe. We will invest $5 million to $30 million in equity in a given company and target investments in profitable growth oriented businesses with between $10 million and $100 million in revenues. We consider investments across all industries, but focus on certain high-growth sectors where H.I.G. has extensive in-house expertise such as technology, healthcare, internet and media, consumer products and technology-enabled financial and business services. Growth Partners strives to work closely with our management teams to serve as an experienced resource, providing broad-based strategic, operational, recruiting and financial management services from a vast in-house team and a substantial network of third-party relationships. For more information, please refer to the H.I.G

H.I.G. Growth Partners

Everlaw

Everlaw is a legal technology company that provides a platform for document analysis to law firms, government, and corporations. It is a cloud-based litigation platform for corporate counsels, litigators, and government attorneys that enables teams to discover, reveal, and act on information to drive internal investigations and positively impact the outcome of the litigation. The company combines speed, security, and ease-of-use into a comprehensive solution that unlocks the collaborative power of teams and allows them to investigate issues more thoroughly, uncover a truth more quickly, and present their findings more clearly. It was established in 2010 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

<div><p>Everlaw is a legal technology company that provides a platform for document analysis to law firms, government, and corporations. It is a cloud-based litigation platform for corporate counsels, litigators, and government attorneys that enables teams to discover, reveal, and act on information to drive internal investigations and positively impact the outcome of the litigation. The company combines speed, security, and ease-of-use into a comprehensive solution that unlocks the collaborative power of teams and allows them to investigate issues more thoroughly, uncover a truth more quickly, and present their findings more clearly. It was established in 2010 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.</p></div>

Using AI to mimic and understand human language

Natural Language Processing Tools

Promises increased productivity, cost-efficiency, and competitiveness in the legal industry

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    Everlaw is a legal technology company that provides a platform for document analysis to law firms, government, and corporations. It is a cloud-based litigation platform for corporate counsels, litigators, and government attorneys that enables teams to discover, reveal, and act on information to drive internal investigations and positively impact the outcome of the litigation. The company combines speed, security, and ease-of-use into a comprehensive solution that unlocks the collaborative power of teams and allows them to investigate issues more thoroughly, uncover a truth more quickly, and present their findings more clearly. It was established in 2010 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.
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    Reduct is an AI-powered cloud video platform that aims to allow for richer human communication. The company is led by Prabhas Pokharel and Robert Ochshor, based in San Francisco.
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Reduct

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    MonkeyLearn provides a simple graphical interface where users can create customized text classification and extraction analysis by training machine learning models such as sentiment analysis, topic detection, keyword extraction, and more. MonkeyLearn can be integrated with hundreds of other applications through its direct integrations and open API.All of that without the need of roping in developers or data scientists.
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MonkeyLearn

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    Keatext will help you cultivate meaningful relationships with your customers by providing you with instant clarity on what they care about most, and by increasing your ability to respond rapidly to their needs by synthesizing large volumes of unstructured feedback data from multiple channels (such as open-survey questions, online reviews, chat logs and social media posts) to produce actionable insights delivered on one comprehensive custom dashboard.
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Keatext

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    Powerful in-meeting sales tools and intelligence.
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Aircover

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    NeuralSpace is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform which offers developers a suite of APIs for Natural Language Processing (NLP) that you can use without having any Machine Learning (ML) or Data Science knowledge. Along with some of the common languages like English, German, French, etc., the platform supports various languages spoken acrossIndia, South East Asia, Africa, Middle East, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, aka, low-resource languages. The primary goal is to democratize NLP and make sure any developer can create apps with advanced language processing in any language and not just English. The platform comes with various language processing Apps that can help you classify long or short text into categories, identify speakers in a given audio file, transcribe speech into text, and much more. The AI models that power our platform are state-of-the-art, quality assured and ready for you to customize or consume out-of-the-box. The NeuralSpace platform is designed as a no-code/low-code platform for you to go to market faster and focus on the business problems you are solving, while we take care of all your language processing needs.
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NeuralSpace

NLP tools such as chatbots are used to cater to each individual

NLP tools are built using AI/ML technologies

Some NLP tools are built using foundation models

NLP tools are provided for other companies to integrate into their workflows

Solutions that use techniques such as named entity recognition, part-of-speech tagging, or summarization to produce insights from unstructured textual documents.

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    At anecdotes, we empower compliance leaders with innovation by streamlining their infosec compliance efforts.    The anecdotes compliance platform is the first enterprise-grade solution to automate the tedious, unreliable manual work of the evidence collection process, lifting the compliance burden off your organization. Our plug and play platform continuously collects and maps relevant data into normalized, credible evidence and offers advanced visibility and data sharing to ensure the best collaboration between the compliance leaders and the auditors.    Trusted by large global enterprises like Lemonade, Fiverr and AppsFlyer and backed by top VCs, anecdotes strives to help compliance leaders scale their compliance efforts with ease.
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    Exterro, Inc. is the recognized leader for legal governance, risk management, and compliance software solutions. Its solutions enable legal teams to control risks, reduce costs, enforce compliance and streamline processes by tightening collaboration between outside counsel, in-house legal teams, cross-platform business units, service providers, and resources. Exterro pioneered e-discovery workflow management technology, and continues to expand its innovative Fusion suite of applications Genome, Legal Hold, Discovery Workflow Management, and FusionGo. The complete Fusion platform provides an end-to-end risk assessment and information management solution. Regardless of industry or system environment, Fusion integrates seamlessly with existing business processes and enterprise systems. Exterro solutions assure regulatory compliance and create sustainable ROI. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Exterro has operations across the United States and abroad.
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Exterro

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    Transcend is the data privacy infrastructure that makes it simple for companies to give their users control over their personal data. Personal data is disorganized, hard to spot, and stored across many systems. That makes offering data rights—like deleting your data—very hard for companies. Transcend automatically fulfills data subject requests inside companies, across all of their data systems and vendors. Transcend also provides their end-users with a control panel, or “Privacy Center”, hosted at privacy.<company>.com where users can manage their privacy preferences, export their data, or delete it. By making data subject requests painless for companies, Transcend is putting users everywhere in the driver’s seat of their personal data.
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Transcend

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    Evisort is an AI-powered contract management company founded in 2016 by Harvard Law and MIT researchers to develop artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to help companies mine contracts for data. Evisort's AI understands meaning and context in legal language, virtually eliminating the need to read contracts. Evisort helps companies organize, understand, and extract data from their contracts. With Evisort, information locked away in documents becomes searchable, and key terms can be surfaced to the right people at the right time. It can be used across all documents across an organization and helps companies reduce costs and improve their compliance and business operations.
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Evisort

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    Icertis specializes in contract life cycle management (CLM) solutions, providing organizations with comprehensive visibility and efficient contract management across the enterprise. It leverages advanced technologies, including generative AI, in its flagship product, the Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform, which covers the entire contract life cycle&mdash;contract setup, authoring, approvals, and ongoing contract operations. It goes beyond contract execution by offering advanced tools for governance, risk, and compliance. Additionally, Icertis Contract Intelligence Copilots, powered by AI, assists professionals in contract reviews, negotiations, and insight generation. The AI applications and services enable efficient contract management, from importing third-party contracts at scale to analyzing negotiation history and visualizing deep data insights. The business applications address specific needs, including clinical trial agreements and budgeting, collaboration with external partners, GDPR compliance, obligation management, rebates and growth incentives, proposal management, risk management, sourcing, supplier onboarding and diversity compliance, and supplier relationship management. It also integrates with enterprise systems like Microsoft, SAP, and Salesforce to automate end-to-end business processes. As of September 2023, the company had managed more than 10 million contracts across 90+ countries.
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    As of October 2022, Icertis served clients such as Microsoft, Boeing, Google, Johnson &amp; Johnson, Sanofi, Mercedes-Benz, and Qantas, as well as public sector agencies.
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    In October 2022, the company raised USD 150 million in funding consisting of a revolving credit facility and convertible financing from Silicon Valley Bank. It planned to use the funds to accelerate the application of technologies like AI, NLP, ML, and blockchain to deliver significant value to its customers. Icertis&rsquo; valuation stood at USD 2.8 billion in March 2021 and reportedly surged to USD 5 billion in early 2022.
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    For FY2022, the company reported an annual recurring revenue of USD 225 million, marking a 41% YoY growth from USD 160 million in FY2021.&nbsp;
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Icertis

AI reviews documents and contracts and derives insights from multimedia data sources

Includes platforms that provide legal content from various publishers; tools that support legal teams with conventional and contextual search of relevant case law and authoritative sources; and tools that search, analyze, and organize copious numbers of documents and large datasets. AI-based legal research systems replicate the work of a human legal research assistant and are referred to as AI lawyers/attorneys, digital lawyers/attorneys, or virtual lawyers/attorneys. Analytics tools include those that support lawyers with tracking trial cases, receiving email alerts for cases, and predicting trial timelines, along with those that mine big data to determine lawyers' success rates, when to settle, and when to press the advantage. It also includes tools for corporations that predict the outcomes of litigation.

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