• Lexigram

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2016

  Lexigram provides an on-demand SaaS platform that applies natural language processing to unstructured health data and exposes results through APIs. The company launched its first API that ingests free-text notes, PDFs and faxes and offers access to a knowledge graph tied to BioPortal. Lexigram grew out of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research; CEO Paul Alexander and cofounders Manuel Salvadores and Paea LePendu worked on BioPortal at Stanford. About one year old, the startup is initially shipping NLP and plans to bring its full data-processing pipeline online next year, which will include machine learning. It is targeting smaller healthcare providers that lack in-house data scientists and aims to enable analytics and clinical decision support on previously unusable EHR data. As an introductory offer it is giving three months free to the first 100 customers, after which customers will pay a monthly subscription fee. The company recently closed a $2 million seed financing to support product rollout.

• Apptopia

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2016

  Founded in 2011, Apptopia offers a machine-learning powered platform that collects and analyzes billions of complex data points to surface competitive signals from mobile apps and connected devices. The platform is used by brands and financial firms to generate insights on consumer behavior and intent. Customers named in the article include Google, Visa, Coca-Cola, Target, Zoom, NBC, Unity Technologies, Microsoft, Adobe, Glu, Andreessen Horowitz and Facebook. The company recently launched a mobile intelligence app in the Bloomberg App Portal on the Bloomberg Terminal to enable traders and portfolio managers to access app data within Bloomberg. Leadership is shifting: founder Eliran Sapir is transitioning to chairman and former COO Jonathan Kay will become CEO. Apptopia says it will use new funding to continue to expand operations and its business reach. Apptopia evolved from an app-resale marketplace into an app intelligence platform that provides app-store stats, detailed usage metrics (daily/monthly active users, sessions, session time, retention), SDK visibility, and in-app advertising insights. Its customers include Google, Facebook, Pinterest, NBC Universal, Philips, Deloitte, Telerik, Fyber, Airpush, Chartboost, Startapp, SendGrid and over two dozen VC firms. Pricing starts at $79 per month for smaller developers and scales to over $5,000 per month for advertising and API access. After pivoting to app intelligence in June 2015, the company reported rapid MRR growth—$30K MRR within 60 days, $70K MRR within 120 days, and said it has since quadrupled that level. Boston-headquartered Apptopia has a 43-person team and plans to double headcount over the next year with a focus on sales and marketing. In January it plans to roll out version two of its platform, adding optimization tools to make its data actionable and speed decision-making. Apptopia operates a marketplace that lets developers sell mobile apps and other bits of source code and manages the entire transfer process with the appropriate app stores. The company takes a 10% transaction fee and keeps about 8% after roughly 2% in credit-card fees. Sale prices reported range from $500 to $150,000, with the highest completed sale to date at $13,000 and an average sale of $4,500 that the company expects to climb to around $6,000–$7,000 within a few months. Sales have doubled month-over-month for the past three months, moving from $25,000 to $50,000 and now on track to break $100,000 in the current month. Apptopia is preparing R&D-backed monetization initiatives, including a second monetization strategy focused on driving user activity that is in testing and slated to launch in a couple of months. To support those efforts it is hiring for UI/UX, a Director of Product, and two developer sales/evangelist roles, and plans integration with analytics provider Flurry within a week or two. Apptopia is building a marketplace to broker the sale of mobile apps, including source code and the app-store transfer process. The site connects buyers and sellers, handles the transfer with the app store, and charges a transaction fee plus a listing fee. The company has already brokered a sale valued at over $15,000 and had about 30 more deals lined up for its February launch. Apptopia expects most app sale prices to be in the $6,000–$15,000 range (with typical ranges of $5,000–$50,000). Its fee model takes 10% of the transaction price and is expected to retain roughly 8% after credit-card fees; the first 200 developers to sign up will have their listing fee waived. The founders are Jonathan Kay and Eli Sapir, who brought prior startup and product experience to the effort.

• Preply

  Participated · Seed · Jun 2016

  Founded in 2013, Preply operates an online marketplace that matches language learners with a network of more than 100,000 self-employed tutors. The platform has recently integrated artificial-intelligence features, such as automated lesson summaries, personalized homework, and improved student–tutor matching, to enhance consistency while keeping tutors at the core of its offering. The company reports twelve consecutive months of positive EBITDA, reflecting improving unit economics as it scales. Preply employs roughly 750 people across offices in Barcelona, London, New York, and Kyiv, with about 150 team members continuing to work from the Ukrainian capital despite the war. Management is actively hiring additional AI talent to deepen product capabilities and sees the long-term future of learning as “human-guided and amplified by AI.” Fueled by its latest financing, the company is now valued at $1.2 billion and is beginning to explore, albeit without a set timeline, the possibility of an eventual public listing.

• Eversports

  Led · Seed · Oct 2015

  Eversport is an Austrian platform that enables athletes to search for and book sports facilities such as football pitches, tennis courts, and bowling alleys. Founded in 2013, the site currently lists more than 30,000 venues. CEO and co-founder Hanno Lippitsch said the company has raised $1 million in seed funding. The capital will be used to develop Eversport’s mobile app, expand into new markets with the Netherlands next, and build sales teams in Germany. The company positions itself as a marketplace for booking sports facilities and aims to scale its reach internationally.

• Typeform

  Participated · Series A · Sep 2015

  Typeform builds a design-led "conversational" data collection platform that includes customizable forms, quizzes, Typeform Chat and VideoAsk to enable interactive customer engagement. The company uses AI/ML (notably the AI model GTP-3 per the company) for personalization and speech-to-text across multiple languages. Typeform says it generated $70M ARR in 2021, has 125,000+ paying customers and produces 500M+ interactions annually. It operates a largely remote team of about 450 employees and offers a freemium model that drives organic growth and upsells. Product and GTM plans include more product development, accessibility improvements, additional integrations, enhanced analytics/visualization, and global team expansion to scale marketing-tech adoption. Typeform provides a conversational forms platform that presents questions one at a time to create more engaging, interactive data-collection experiences. The product is offered on a freemium model with APIs and developer tools, and the company has focused on integrations with other platforms. Typeform reports a 57% average conversion rate on its forms and has about 30,000 paying customers, along with many more free users. The startup has roughly 170 employees and says it is "almost" profitable. Management is exploring AI to personalise experiences and is expanding analytics and developer-facing features to drive deeper into international markets, especially the U.S. Typeform builds touchscreen-optimized, conversation-style forms and surveys designed for mobile devices. The company rethought traditional web forms and introduced mobile-optimized layouts and flows last year. Partners can use Typeform as the back-end to power surveys or registration forms on their sites and apps. Typeform raised $15 million in its first official round of funding to support product development and marketing. The company plans to hire up to 100 people in Barcelona and open an office in San Francisco. David Okuniev is a cofounder and co-chief executive. Typeform builds device-agnostic online surveys and forms that present one question at a time to improve user experience and completion rates. The product emphasizes design flexibility, cross-device responsiveness and features such as Logic Jump and a Calculator with Stripe integration to support payments. Typeform exited beta in February and plans to release an open API for developers to programmatically build forms. The company reports an average 55% completion rate and that 40% of respondents use mobile devices. As of August 2014 it had 100,000 users, 160,000 Typeforms created, 13 million unique visits and 7 million responses. Customers include Uber, Facebook, Adobe, Airbnb, WeTransfer, BBC, New York Times and the Financial Times. Typeform builds an online platform that enables users to create personalized forms and surveys. Its product lets users customize typography, color, images and videos and is designed to work on any device. The product is currently in a free beta phase. Typeform raised €550k in funding and intends to use the proceeds to continue developing and to launch the product. The company was founded in early 2012 by Robert Munoz and David Okuniev. It is hiring backend and frontend developers.

No current team members are available.