AMINO Capital is a global venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, with investment theme of data moat and network effect.  With over $1 billion in capital under management, Amino has funded hundreds of companies in seed-to-growth stages across Consumer, PLG SaaS, Frontier Tech, and Web3, including 25 successful exits, 15 unicorns and over 30 companies which are valued over $100M, such as Chime, Webflow, Rippling, Grail(acquired by Illumina), Weee, Replit, Turing, Dfinity, OmiseGo, Oasis Labs, Wetravel, AIFI.io, Wyze, Avail MedSystems and Beacons.ai.

Amino Capital

Whoa Ventures is an investment platform dedicated to helping founders from idea to IPO.

Whoa Ventures

Lightbank VC is a $380M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social (NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Clearcover, Extend and Expel.

Lightbank

Interplay is a startup ecosystem where ideas scale. Our mission is to accelerate humankind’s potential by streamlining the journey of the entrepreneur.  Our ecosystem consists of five business lines that fall under three divisions: Capital, Studio, and Platform. Capital: Our venture capital arm invests in early stage, technology-enabled businesses in North America. We back startups that have demonstrated quantifiable financial and operational fundamentals, including a scaling customer base, early product-market fit and real revenue growth. Separately, our family office provides members full-service portfolio construction and investment management, with an emphasis on alternative assets via direct and fund investments. Additionally, members receive advisory-services for estate planning, philanthropic engagement, emergency planning, and tax optimization. Studio: We cofound and incubate companies. When we cofound a company, we’re typically starting from scratch – taking our own ideas and building them out of our foundry. Through our incubator, we support the growth of other teams by providing mentorship, enabling them to scale their company. Platform: Our platform consists of five service companies that provide core operating business solutions, including accounting, marketing, legal, professional development and outsourcing. In addition to the above services, we create educational content to help founders turn their vision into reality. Our two flagship pieces of content are a podcast that focuses on integral startup lessons for founders and a book about the rules of fundraising. We also manage a number of startup communities, including the largest entrepreneurship community associated with Columbia University called the Columbia Venture Community. To learn more visit our website and engage with us at interplay.vc/engage.

Interplay

Charge Ventures

Weekend Fund is a venture capital and angel investing firm focused on making early-stage investments. The firm invests across geographies and industries with a particular interest in audio and voice products, tools for distributed teams and remote workers, and low-code/no-code projects. It was established in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Weekend Fund

Crossbeam Venture Partners (Crossbeam) is a venture capital firm that invests in Pre-Seed to Series A startups building tomorrow's economy. Focused on the themes of Platform Economies, Emerging Forms of Media, FinTech, Novel Asset Classes, and more, Crossbeam is built to back companies of the next-generation economy utilizing unique structures, credit, or novel business models.

Crossbeam Venture Partners

Divergent Capital is a venture capital firm providing financial services. It is a private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which have demonstrated high growth.

Divergent Capital

Honeystone ventures is an early-stage software fund that focuses on pre-seed and seed funds. The company is based in Palo Alto, California.

Honeystone Ventures

We invest in Pre-Seed to Series A and our platform connects companies with LPs & Founders to fulfil requests

Beyond Capital

Beresford Ventures, LLC funds early-stage startups all over the world. Our first seed fund financed 25 startups in their pre-seed and seed rounds. Beresford Ventures II backed 36 startups, and Beresford Ventures III was recently launched. Beresford Ventures Growth backs companies in their institutional rounds. We target disruptive technologies across sectors. Beresford Ventures is not open to outside investors.

Beresford Ventures

Justpoint

Justpoint is the artificial intelligence-powered platform connecting people with the right litigation attorney and tools. Using predictive analytics rather than billboards, Justpoint brings transparency, simplicity, and credibility to the process of finding litigators in the personal injury space. For attorneys, Justpoint takes on back-office tasks while creating efficiencies in the discovery process so they can quickly understand a claim's merit and obtain the best results. With over 1000 law firms, more than 300,000 historical claims, and operations in 33 states, Justpoint’s team of attorneys, engineers, and doctors are dedicated to increasing access to justice. For more information visit https://justpoint.com.

<div><p>Justpoint is the artificial intelligence-powered platform connecting people with the right litigation attorney and tools. Using predictive analytics rather than billboards, Justpoint brings transparency, simplicity, and credibility to the process of finding litigators in the personal injury space. For attorneys, Justpoint takes on back-office tasks while creating efficiencies in the discovery process so they can quickly understand a claim's merit and obtain the best results. With over 1000 law firms, more than 300,000 historical claims, and operations in 33 states, Justpoint’s team of attorneys, engineers, and doctors are dedicated to increasing access to justice. For more information visit https://justpoint.com.</p></div>

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

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    Justpoint is the artificial intelligence-powered platform connecting people with the right litigation attorney and tools. Using predictive analytics rather than billboards, Justpoint brings transparency, simplicity, and credibility to the process of finding litigators in the personal injury space. For attorneys, Justpoint takes on back-office tasks while creating efficiencies in the discovery process so they can quickly understand a claim's merit and obtain the best results. With over 1000 law firms, more than 300,000 historical claims, and operations in 33 states, Justpoint’s team of attorneys, engineers, and doctors are dedicated to increasing access to justice. For more information visit https://justpoint.com.
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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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Anecdotes

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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

Platforms that connect lawyers to clients (includes online listing, reputation, comparison, and booking systems) and those that support networking among lawyers.

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