• Zenreach

  Participated · Series B · Jul 2016

  Zenreach supplies businesses with a Wi‑Fi router that prompts customers to register with an email address, phone number or Facebook account. The product builds a customer database that lets merchants create targeted promotions and segment messages for new, loyal or lapsed customers. Because Zenreach can recognize registered devices, it helps businesses measure when marketing efforts actually bring people back into stores. The company reports it collects an average of 10 email addresses per day for each business and says the solution works across industries including coffee shops, doctor offices, spas and auto repair. Zenreach has made notable hires recently, including former Groupon VP Zach Finley and Derek Seibert, who held a number of roles at Uber. The company recently raised a $30M Series C and has now raised a total of $80M. Zenreach provides Wi‑Fi hardware to restaurants and coffee shops on a monthly subscription basis and helps merchants run email promotions using the address customers sign up with when they log on. The company says it has built up firewalls to make its public Wi‑Fi extra secure. Zenreach tracks a metric it calls the “walk through rate,” which tells merchants when customers return because phones will default to previously used Wi‑Fi. Founder and CEO Jack Abraham says the company builds a set of tools and a platform entirely around merchants’ needs and is helping power the free Wi‑Fi wave for consumers. Zenreach positions itself as merchant‑first compared with consumer‑focused services like Yelp and Foursquare. The company has grown to about 150 employees in roughly three years. Adentro has raised $106.72M over seven funding rounds. The company's most recent financing was a $12.72M Series C - III on November 13, 2023. Deal-structure records are available for four funding rounds, including a Series C entry dated March 23, 2017. Adentro has 18 listed investors, and 8VC is recorded as a participant in the Series C - III round. The most recent post-money valuation on record is from July 2016, when it was listed at $50–$80M.

• Tempo Automation

  Participated · Series A · Jun 2016

  Tempo Automation offers a turnkey circuit board manufacturing solution that allows manufacturers to upload a CAD and receive a finished circuit board in as little as three days. Its services are tailored for low-volume manufacturers and serve customers across aerospace, consumer electronics, automotive, and medical technology. The company centers software automation and an interconnected smart factory to accelerate production and improve customer experience. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Tempo recently raised $45 million in a Series C. The company said it will use the Series C to hire and to develop software intended to make its manufacturing process quicker and more accurate. Its prior institutional financing was a $20 million Series B in 2018. Tempo Automation offers quick-turn prototype manufacturing, converting design files into physical circuit boards with a three-day turnaround. The company built an automated process optimized for low-volume runs rather than high-volume production lines. Tempo’s stated mission is to let electronics development move as fast as software development, and it focuses on startups and new IoT manufacturers. Its offering was well received, attracting customers from early hardware startups to unnamed large consumer electronics companies. Demand has exceeded capacity—the company says its factory was blown out in a matter of months and is already at capacity. Tempo plans to use new funding to improve and expand its current manufacturing facility to address that constraint.

• Guildery

  Participated · Seed · May 2015

  Guildery sells digitally printed fabrics and home accessories such as pillows, drapes, ottomans and lampshades through an online storefront. Its online editor lets users virtually drape fabrics over items and place pieces side-by-side, and upcoming tools will let consumers customize fabric colors using pre-configured palettes or their own colors. The company built backend automation to take in artwork and automatically generate patterns and color variations, enabling hundreds of thousands of combinations per pattern. At launch it offered 40,000 SKUs and has grown licensed designers to over 100, expanding its print selection; shoppers can also request printed fabric samples and swatch books. Guildery is pursuing a retail strategy with a pop-up shop in Los Altos, Calif., and a shop-within-a-shop pilot at Anyon Atelier in San Francisco for wholesale customers. Pricing sits at the higher end of the market similar to Restoration Hardware; the company declined to disclose customer counts or sales volume, and it currently employs a team of ten full-time staff.

• Fatherly

  Led · Seed · Apr 2015

  Fatherly was created by Mike Rothman and Simon Isaacs and launched after several months in beta to serve new and expecting fathers with tailored parenting content. The site publishes expert-driven articles and features contributors including Esther Perel, Stewart Friedman, and Timothy Dahl, plus interviews such as one with Malala Yousafzai’s father. Content ranges from practical gear recommendations to expert answers for kids’ questions, and the founders plan personalization via an age-based sign-up option (not yet enabled). Fatherly also incorporates an e-commerce component that sends age-specific product recommendations to subscribers. The team includes two full-time editors based in a New York City office and a broader network of contributors producing most content. The company recently completed a seed funding round, providing early financial backing for growth.

• DroneDeploy

  Participated · Series A · Mar 2015

  DroneDeploy provides an enterprise-grade platform that captures aerial and ground-level visual data to produce maps, 3D models, and analytics for industries including construction, energy, agriculture, property, logistics, and insurance. The company has expanded beyond aerial capture to include imagery from ground-based cameras and recently updated features such as 360 Walkthrough and Vertical Flight. DroneDeploy reported 259% annual growth in enterprise use in 2020 and strong adoption among Fortune 500 customers, and it cites thousands of European users. It has achieved enterprise security certifications including ISO-27001 and SOC 2 Type 1 attestation. The company plans to use new funding to expand products beyond drones, accelerate its expansion into Europe (including launching an EMEA office), and explore strategic acquisition opportunities. DroneDeploy provides an enterprise-grade drone software solution used by more than 5,000 customers across oil & gas, construction, mining, solar, agriculture, insurance, wind, and search & rescue. Led by co-founder and CEO Mike Winn, the San Francisco-based platform has been used to map more than 100 million acres. The company offers a suite of tools for enterprise drone operations and has announced partnerships with Airbus and Skydio. DroneDeploy plans to use its recent funding to expand internationally, move into new industries, and further build out its offerings for customers. The round brought the company’s total funding to $90m, reflecting its growth and scale in enterprise drone workflows. DroneDeploy is the largest cloud-based drone data platform with a community of 30,000 users that has mapped 30 million acres in 180 countries across 400,000 job sites. The platform delivers professional-grade imagery and analysis, 3D modeling, and a real-time mapping product (Live Map) that stitches RGB and thermal imagery on the edge using iOS devices. Its App Market hosts more than 80 software integrations and the company offers enterprise cloud capabilities for scaling and securing drone operations. DroneDeploy has growing adoption in Energy, Construction, and Agriculture and has developed strategic partnerships with SoftBank, Accenture, and The Climate Corporation. The company raised $25M in a Series C and reports total equity investment raised of over $56M. It plans to use the funds to expand its ecosystem, accelerate industry-focused solutions, and invest heavily in artificial intelligence to build new workflows. DroneDeploy offers a SaaS platform that lets users plan flights, pilot drones singly or in fleets, and gather and analyze imagery to produce detailed maps and 3-D models. The technology is used across industries—most commonly in agriculture, construction, and roof inspections—and has been deployed in 130 countries. Its platform has been used to map more than 5 million acres internationally and has been applied to specialized use cases such as crash-site imaging, landfill volume measurement, and locating shallow graves. The company was founded in 2013 via AngelPad by Mike Winn, Jono Millin, and Nicholas Pilkington; Mike Winn is CEO. DroneDeploy plans to use new funding for hiring, product development, and sales and marketing, and to add more access and controls for large teams. The firm envisions making UAVs and the data they gather useful for any business and potentially integrating with autonomous ground robots. DroneDeploy provides a cloud-based SaaS platform and mobile apps that autonomously pilots drones, captures aerial imagery, and processes that data into maps and 3D models for customers in farming, construction, and mining. The platform simplifies flight planning and automates photogrammetry so users can launch flights from a mobile device and receive processed maps in minutes. Core features today focus on large-area mapping, volumetric estimates, and delivering shareable, actionable imagery; the product starts at $99 per month and is just exiting beta with an initial U.S. focus. The company plans to add deeper data processing and automated change-detection features — for example, notifying rail companies of obstructions or reporting daily changes on construction sites. DroneDeploy announced a partnership with drone maker DJI to broaden hardware compatibility and market reach. The startup is using new funding to scale operations and build the additional platform features it describes.

No current team members are available.