• Lastline

  Participated · Equity · Nov 2024

  Lastline offers an advanced malware defense platform that inspects network traffic, attachments and URLs in an elastic, cloud-centric sandbox analysis environment. Its next-generation sandbox uses full system emulation and cloud-based threat analysis to detect zero-day threats, advanced persistent threats (APTs), advanced targeted attacks (ATAs) and advanced malware that evade signature-based antivirus and first-generation sandboxing. The platform is deployed with Global 2000 enterprises and managed security service providers across North America, Europe and Asia. Lastline emphasizes protection against threats entering networks via web, file and email channels without relying on traditional signature-based approaches. The company plans to continue serving a rapidly growing global enterprise customer base and to advance partnerships to improve information security and threat intelligence worldwide, including expanded reach into Japan and the broader Asia‑Pacific market. Financially, the company has raised capital across prior rounds and announced additional funding to support growth. Lastline develops advanced malware protection and breach-detection solutions, with its flagship product Lastline Enterprise positioned as an industry-leading automated malware analysis platform. The product is used directly by Global 5000 customers, through managed security service providers, and integrated into other vendors' solutions. Independent tests cited in the article (NSS Labs 2016 and The Forrester Wave™) recognize Lastline for high detection effectiveness and strong market standing. The company reports 100% annual growth since Lastline Enterprise was introduced in 2013 and expanded its distribution in 2016 to include direct enterprise sales. Lastline says it will use new capital to accelerate go-to-market efforts, expand sales and marketing, and bolster its development organization to advance its breach-detection vision. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. Lastline is a malware protection service offering solutions to protect businesses from persistent threats (APTs), targeted attacks, and zero-day threats in real time. The company uses a "correlation engine" that correlates, aggregates, and prioritizes security events to provide situational awareness and actionable threat intelligence. Founded in 2012 by computer science professors from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Northeastern University, Lastline positions itself as a direct competitor to FireEye. The company announced a $10 million funding round led by Redpoint Ventures and e.ventures and said Redpoint partner John Welecka will join its board. Lastline plans to use the new capital to focus on its sales strategy and to further develop the malware and threat-detection technology at the core of its products. In its announcement the company argued that malware authors are becoming increasingly sophisticated at evading automated analysis and signature-based tools, and that its technology is designed to address those evasion techniques.

• Claap

  Participated · Seed · Jun 2021

  Claap is an asynchronous meeting platform that combines short video updates with collaboration features to replace many real-time meetings. Users can record brief videos, allow others to comment on specific parts, and set due dates for responses so teams can work without synchronous calls. The product integrates with workplace tools such as Trello and Jira so decisions and project updates are recorded and discoverable. A private beta launch is planned for this month and the company intends to sell a subscription with a sliding scale based on team size. Claap was founded by Robin Bonduelle and Pierre Touzeau, who bring product and marketing experience from startups and companies including Ogury, Rocket Internet and 360Learning. The company positions itself as a European challenger to reduce Zoom meeting fatigue for remote-first teams.

• Keeper

  Participated · Series A · Apr 2021

  Keeper Tax is an app that helps gig, creator-economy and freelance workers identify and maximize tax deductions and write-offs by automatically connecting to users' financial accounts and monitoring purchases. The platform uses AI and machine-learning to surface possible write-offs and plan finances. It serves workers across driving and delivery services, freelance and consulting roles, social/content creators, and online gamers. The app is available on the App Store with a 14-day free trial; subscriptions cost $16/month and tax filing through the app is $89. Led by founder and CEO Paul Koulick, Keeper Tax plans to grow its team, hire customer support, build out AI capabilities to support more types of 1099 job roles, and expand its user base in the U.S. and abroad. Keeper builds a tax product for gig economy workers that monitors expenses year-round to identify tax write-offs and save users money. The service connects to customers' accounts through Plaid and sends daily SMS prompts to capture potential deductions, estimating average savings of $173 per month per user. By March the team had developed a full product and accumulated 200 paying customers. Keeper plans to begin offering a quarterly tax filing service in June and a full-year tax-filing service next year. Founders Paul Koullick and David Kang, childhood friends and former debate partners, run the San Francisco company and intend to use new funding to expand the team and scale customer acquisition to 10,000 users in the next 18 months.

• Fetch

  Participated · Series D · Apr 2021

  Fetch is a rewards app that lets consumers earn Fetch Points and helps brands create lifelong customers. Led by CEO and founder Wes Schroll and based in Madison, WI, Fetch aggregates consumer purchase data using AI and machine-learning technologies. The company captures more than $152 billion in transactions annually; users have submitted over 5 billion receipts and earned nearly $910 million in rewards. Fetch plans to use the financing to expand on four axes: product innovation to enhance user experience and partner success, further development of its proprietary AI/ML technologies, investment in growing the app’s user base, and hiring talent to support hypergrowth. The app is available on the App Store and Google Play Store. Fetch Rewards is a consumer-rewards app that gives users rewards when they snap a photo of a receipt or submit an eReceipt, and it partners directly with brands to deliver those offers. Led by CEO and founder Wes Schroll, the app has 13 million active users who have submitted more than 2 billion receipts and earned more than $340 million in rewards points. The company works with over 500 global brands and recently surpassed $100 billion in annualized gross merchandise value (GMV). Fetch intends to use new funding to accelerate growth and continue building a digital loyalty and marketing platform. The company raised $240 million in equity and debt at a valuation of more than $2.5 billion, bringing total funding to over $500 million. The product emphasizes user engagement across grocery, retail, restaurant and online purchases by incentivizing submission of every receipt, paper and digital. Fetch Rewards operates a consumer-loyalty and retail-rewards app that lets shoppers earn free rewards by snapping photos of receipts or submitting electronic receipts. Led by founder and CEO Wes Schroll, the company launched in 2017 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin, with offices in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. The app has been downloaded more than 19 million times and has nearly 7 million active users. To date Fetch has processed nearly a billion receipts and has delivered more than $120 million in savings to its shoppers. The company says it will use the newly raised funds to continue to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Total funding to date stands at $328 million following the latest round. Fetch Rewards is a consumer app that lets shoppers earn free rewards by scanning every receipt after they shop; the app finds savings and rewards for purchases. Founded in 2017 and led by founder Wes Schroll, the company has recorded more than 16 million downloads and over 5.5 million active users. Fetch has processed more than 700 million receipts to date and has delivered nearly $100 million in savings to its shoppers. The company is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin and also maintains offices in Chicago, New York City and San Francisco. Financially, the company has raised $118 million in total funding to date. The product focus is on driving consumer savings and engagement through receipt scanning and targeted rewards.

• Staffbase

  Participated · Equity · Mar 2021

  Staffbase provides a platform for internal communications that lets teams craft, send and measure the impact of messages via an email app, intranet tools and an employee app. Its suite can integrate with existing tools or serve as a replacement, and it specifically targets internal communications teams rather than general collaboration products. The company serves 2,000 enterprise customers covering about 13 million workers. Staffbase plans to use new funding to build more integrations and functionality, with a particular focus on integrating Microsoft 365, and to continue expanding its business from its base in Chemnitz, Germany. The roadmap may extend into workplace training and gamification over time, though the company has not yet entered that area. The company was valued at $1.1 billion following the round. Staffbase provides an intranet-style internal communications platform that combines mobile employee apps and intranets into a single solution. The platform integrates with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and Slack to support enterprise communications workflows. Founded in Chemnitz, Germany in 2014, Staffbase has onboarded more than 1,000 clients including Adidas, Audi, Ikea, Johns Hopkins University and Volvo. The company employs 450 people across 11 locations, with offices in London, New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam and Berlin. In March it merged with Canadian internal-communications provider Bananatag to expand its offerings. Staffbase recently raised a $145M growth round to accelerate its expansion, particularly in North America. Staffbase is a mobile-first employee communication and experience platform that centralizes company news, HR services and internal processes to reduce reliance on email and legacy intranets. The platform was developed with non-desk workers in mind and has since broadened to include a sophisticated desktop experience while retaining its mobile-first ease of use. It integrates with HR platforms and Office 365 and is positioned as a front-end layer for employee communication and engagement. Staffbase was founded in 2014 in Chemnitz, Germany and now operates with more than 200 employees across seven locations, including a HQ in New York. The company cites extensive customer deployments — for example, DHL is rolling out Staffbase to more than 350,000 employees across hundreds of locations in over 200 countries — and emphasizes high customer satisfaction and usage rates. To date Staffbase has raised $35 million in total funding. Staffbase provides a mobile intranet app that enables companies to manage corporate news, forms, documents, calendars and shift plans via an intuitive user interface. The platform focuses on non-desk workers, home-office employees and others without direct access to the internal company network. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Dr. Martin Böhringer. Customers include Siemens, Viessmann and T-Systems MMS. Staffbase raised €2.02m in a Series A round to support growth and product development. It intends to use the funds to expand in the US, open a branch office in New York, internationalize its marketing and sales teams, and further develop the platform.

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