Website: https://squareup.com/
Sector: FinTech
Founding Year: 2009
Square, Inc. is a financial services, merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company based in San Francisco, California. They believe the economy is better when everyone has access, and when everyone has room to grow. No one should be left out because the cost is too great or the technology too complex. They build easy tools to empower and enrich people. Tools that shorten the distance between having an idea and making a living from it.
Website: https://www.technobuffalo.com/
Sector:Tech Digital Media
Founding Year: 2009
TechnoBuffalo is a leading website offering tech reviews, editorials and user-generated content for tech enthusiasts. TechnoBuffalo was acquired by Mobile Nations in 2019.
Website: https://www.upsidefoods.com/
Sector: Cell-cultured Meat
Founding Year: 2015
Upside Foods, founded by Dr. Uma Valeti and formerly known as Memphis Meats, is a pioneer in the cell-cultured meat industry. The company most recently announced that its first product to market will be cell-cultured chicken, and that its pilot manufacturing facility is underway.
Website: https://www.zeel.com/
Sector: Health Tech
Founding Year: 2010
Zeel is the largest mobile Massage On Demand company, with over 9,000 therapists in 70+ cities. Zeel delivers the best-licensed massage therapists to your home, hotel, workplace, or event. With Zeel, you get everything you want in a massage: quality, convenience, access, value, and security.
Website: https://kychospitality.com/
Sector: Hospitality Tech
Founding Year: 2016
Revolutionizing the hotel industry with big data and artificial emotional intelligence. KYC harnesses AEI for hotel industry management that creates individualized experiences for guests in an effort to build brand loyalty.
Website: https://www.originprotocol.com/en
Sector: Blockchain Tech
Founding Year: 2017
The sharing economy without intermediaries - Origin is a protocol for creating sharing economy marketplaces using the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS.
Website: https://futureoceans.com/
Sector: Environmental
Founding Year: 1999
Future Oceans core mission is the protection of all marine wildlife. They believe that the best rewards are those that make an impact. Future Oceans positively impacts Whale, Dolphin and Porpoise (Cetacean) populations all over the world. When Future Oceans profits, marine wildlife profits.
Website: http://www.matthewkenneycuisine.com/
Sector: Food Service
Founding Year: 2009
Matthew Kenney Cuisine is a multifaceted company specializing in plant-based living throughout several unique markets. Kenney has 15 restaurants operating on five continents, with 9 additional restaurants underway. Matthew Kenney is one of the world’s first leading chefs at the forefront of plant-based cuisine, an author of 12 cookbooks, and a culinary educator.
Website: http://www.atlasobscura.com/
Sector: Travel Digital Media
Founding Year: 2009
Atlas Obscura is the definitive guide to the world's wondrous and curious places. In an age where everything seems to have been explored, and there is nothing new to be found, Atlas Obscura celebrates a different way of looking at the world. Atlas Obscura is for people who still believe in discovery.
Website: https://hintbox.ai/
Sector: FinTech
Founding Year: 2013
HintBox is the World's first Behavioral A.I. platform to help Americans with their finances. Their platform empowers users to understand their financial habits, correct their biases and improve their investment returns.
Website: https://www.tasteofblue.com/
Sector: Consumer Tech
Founding Year: 2012
Taste of BLUE is a membership offering luxury travel, perks and exclusive access to elite events. Catering to entrepreneurs, business professionals, and those searching for premier lifestyle services on a global scale.
Website: https://www.truveris.com/
Sector: Health Tech
Truveris brings transparency to the prescription drug ecosystem through data-driven innovation. Truveris’ platform offers customers – from the individual patient to employers to pharmacy benefits stakeholders and manufacturers – the data and insights they need to effectively and efficiently manage the rising costs and market access strategies.
Website: https://www.kineuphorics.com/
Sector: Alternative beverages
Founding Year: 2017
Kin is a New York-based alternative beverage company launched in 2018 by entrepreneur Jennifer Batchelor. Kin’s Euphoric beverages have been heavily lauded in the media for taste, quality, and versatility as an alcohol-free adult beverage. The products are based on lipospheric, nootropic, botanic, and adaptogenic formulas that offer uplifting effects.
Website: http://www.prolacta.com/
Sector: Health Tech
Founding Year: 1999
Prolacta’s mission is to make a meaningful difference in the lives of thousands of the most vulnerable infants through world-class research and innovative products. Prolacta Bioscience is a privately held, life sciences company. They create specialty formulations made from human milk for the nutritional needs of premature infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICU).
Website: https://www.beyondmeat.com/
Sector: Food Tech
Founding Year: 2009
Beyond Meat is planting The Future of Protein. Delicious, 100% plant-based products without the health and other downsides of animal protein.
Website: https://www.bondpets.com/
Sector: Food 2.0 / Environment / Health
Bond Pet Foods Inc. (Bond), a US-based company working with biotechnology to make nutritious, animal-free and protein-rich pet food. Bond was co-founded by CEO Rich Kelleman and CTO Pernilla Audibert in 2017. Employing the same fermentation technology that is used to produce ingredients for cheese making and insulin for diabetics, Bond is adjusting the process to instead harvest high-quality meat proteins like chicken, turkey, beef and fish, but without the animal.
Website: https://us.memebox.com/
Sector: Cosmetics
Founding Year: 2012
Memebox has found the secret to discovering new makeup & skincare trends. Memebox is a community-based platform connecting beauty lovers from around the world. Memebox helps beauty obsessed users discover cutting-edge beauty products from around the globe.
Website: http://www.modaoperandi.com
Sector: Consumer Tech
Moda Operandi is the global destination for luxury fashion, providing bespoke access, brand discovery, and unparalleled curation. In homage to the history of couturiers who showcased their creations in trunks to elite clientele, Moda Operandi is the only online retailer to invite clients to pre-order next season’s looks straight from the runway. And for those who can’t wait, they offer an expertly curated in-season boutique.
Website: https://plantbasednews.org/
Sector: Media
Founding Year: 2017
Plant Based News is a mission-driven, award-winning resource creating awareness about ethical consumerism, sustainability, and plant-based lifestyles.
Website: https://www.furahaa.com/
Sector: Hospitality and hospitality supply
Founding Year: 2015
The Furahaa Group, a mission-led collection of companies, is comprised of three entities that are B2C and B2B respectively primarily focusing on plant-based supply chain as well as one consumer-facing plant-based arm.
Website: https://geltor.com/
Many of the foods we love, the medicines we need, and the cosmetics we use daily rely on a single ingredient—gelatin. For hundreds of years, humans have scavenged animal scraps to obtain gelatin. Geltor has developed a method to make real gelatin, without the animal.
Website: https://www.panteracapital.com/
Sector: Blockchain Technology Fund
As the first U.S. Bitcoin investment firm, Pantera Capital is the leading blockchain investment firm and one of the largest institutional owners of cryptocurrencies. Exclusively focused on investing in blockchain technologies, the Pantera team is experienced in both traditional finance and emergent blockchain technology. Having strong relationships with some of the most promising entrepreneurs and other top investors in the space, Pantera is fulfilling its strategic investment philosophy by building a diversified portfolio and bringing industry-specific value-add resources to its portfolio companies.
Website: https://casper.com/
Sector: Mattresses / Consumer Tech
An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Ordered online and delivered in a box, the pressure-relieving memory foam and a breathable, springy layer come together to create a perfect sleep surface and a perfect buying experience.
Website: https://www.frontiercargroup.com
Sector: Consumer / Automotive Tech
Frontier Car Group (FCG) builds and runs marketplaces focused on the auto sector in emerging markets. The goal of FCG is to increase efficiency in these markets through technology and infrastructure creation.
Website: http://proof.vc/
PROOF is an access strategy, only making investments in companies which are fast-growing, already successful category leaders in financing rounds that are led by top venture capital funds. These hard-to-access investments are sourced through a network of 35 micro-VC and small early stage venture funds across the US. PROOF is able to invest in these highly competitive financing rounds because of a network of VCs who have the pro rata right to invest, but are unable to fund their full pro rata percentage. By sharing economics with them, PROOF creates aligned incentives and achieves unparalleled access to the best venture-backed companies.
Website: https://casetext.com
Sector: Legal
Casetext has grown into one of the most popular resources in the legal community. Casetext pairs free legal research and publishing so you can search state and federal cases, statutes, and regulations, for free, annotated by insights from the country’s leading attorneys, law firms, and academics.
Website: http://www.flyzipline.com
Sector: Drones / Healthcare
Zipline is a next-generation logistics company. A Zip is a small UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) designed with a high level of safety, to revolutionize rural healthcare by carrying vaccines, medicine, or blood to low access areas. A fleet of Zips is able to provide a population of millions. No roads, no problems.
Website: https://www.appzen.com/
Sector: FinTech
Founding Year: 2012
AppZen is an artificial Intelligence powered SaaS solution for automating enterprise back office processes.
Website: https://www.signifyd.com/
Sector: Internet / E-Commerce Security
The Signifyd standalone risk and guaranteed fraud-prevention platform assists customer service agents who review e-commerce transactions for fraud, providing a 100% financial guarantee against fraud or chargebacks on every approved order.
Website: https://www.yubico.com
Sector: Consumer Tech
Yubico makes authentication and encryption hardware designed to make secure online identities truly ubiquitous. Their products secure access to computers, online services, and servers.
Website: https://carta.com
Sector: Enterprise Fintech
Founding Year: 2012
Carta is building a global ownership management platform to help companies, investors, and employees manage their equity.
Website: https://www.skillz.com/
Sector: eSports
Founding Year: 2012
Skillz is a leading mobile eSports platform connecting the world’s 2.6 billion mobile games through competition.
Website: https://www.dailypay.com
Sector: FinTech
Founding Year: 2015
DailyPay is a financial solutions company that reduces employee turnover by letting employees control when and how often they're paid.
Website: https://www.arcadiapower.com
Sector: Renewable Energy & FinTech
Founding Year: 2014
Arcadia Power is a nationwide home energy platform providing clean energy and savings.
Website: https://www.bird.co/
Sector: Mobility Tech
Founding Year: 2017
Bird operates as a dockless electric scooter company developing a vehicle sharing platform. They work closely with cities to help make transportation better and more environmentally friendly.
Website: https://www.clutter.com/
Sector: Storage
Founding Year: 2013
Clutter is a tech-enabled storage company that lets you store extra stuff without actually leaving your house. With Clutter, all your stored items are ready to view online, and getting them out of storage is as easy as ordering a pizza.
Website: https://www.twosixlabs.com/
Sector: Cyber Security
Founding Year: 2005
Two Six Labs pushes the boundaries of the possible to protect the future. They design innovative solutions to complex challenges in cyber security, advanced analytics, and tactical mobility. Two Six Labs empowers customers’ critical missions, expanding operational capabilities and bringing new technologies to market.
Website: https://www.truedata.co/
Sector: Advertising
Founding Year: 2013
Twine, now known as TrueData, is a mobile data platform that works with app publishers who generate mobile data and the companies who need data for ad targeting.
Website: https://tala.co/
Sector: FinTech
Founding Year: 2011
Tala is mobile technology and data science company that is revolutionizing financial services in emerging markets.
Website: https://www.ripplefoods.com/
Sector: Food Tech
Founding Year: 2014
Ripple Foods makes non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar.
Website: https://ro.co/
Sector: Health Care
Founding Year: 2017
Ro is a healthcare technology company with a mission to provide personalized healthcare to everyone on the planet. Ro has three end-to-end verticals: Rory (women’s health), Roman (men’s health), and Zero (fighting addiction).
Website: https://ride.shuttl.com/
Sector: Mobility
Founding Year: 2015
Shuttl provides an app-based office shuttle service to make daily commute safe, reliable, affordable and dignified for everyone.
Website: https://turtletree.co/
Sector: BioTech
Founding Year: 2019
TurtleTree, a biotech company using cell-based technology to create sustainable food and dairy, aims to one day provide millions access to its sustainable, reliable and higher quality dairy and infant nutrition products.
Website: https://mokufoods.com/
Sector: Food Tech
Founding Year: 2019
Moku Foods is a provider of vegan jerky intending to offer cruelty-free plant-based meat products
Website: https://www.trifacta.com/
Sector: Big Data
Founding Year: 2012
Trifacta enables anyone to efficiently explore and prepare data by utilizing machine learning to provide a breakthrough UX and architecture.
Website: https://www.bluenalu.com/
Sector: Food Tech
Founding Year: 2017
BlueNalu’s mission is to be the global leader in cellular aquaculture, providing consumers with great tasting seafood products that are healthy for people, humane for sea life, and sustainable for our planet.
Website: https://360vuz.com/
Sector: Immersive tech
Founding Year: 2017
Founded in 2017, the 360VUZ teleporter mobile app has been adopted in more than 25 countries and leverages immersive media such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and extended reality (XR) to disrupt the telecommunications market.
Website: https://www.rebellyous.com
Sector: Food Tech
Founding Year: 2017
Rebellyous Foods, founded by Christine Lagally, is a Seattle-based company creating groundbreaking manufacturing technology for plant-based meats.
Website: https://microgenesis.net/
Sector: BioTech
Founding Year: 2020
Microgenesis uses a non-invasive detection of infertility associated with imbalances of the microbiota, then accordingly prescribes a drug-free treatment to increase the chance of a natural pregnancy.
Website: https://kenota.com/
Sector: BioTech
Founding Year: 2014
Kenota Health develops next-generation rapid point-of-care system intended to be used for allergy testing in humans. Kenota's diagnostic tools are safe, simple, and offer a cheaper alternative to allergy testing using a thorough non-invasive technology, enabling physicians to improve patient outcomes.
Website: https://veggiegrill.com/
Sector: Hospitality
Founding Year: 2006
Veggie Grill is the largest, most influential vegan and vegetarian restaurant company in the United States, created by T.K. Pillan, Kevin Boylan, and co-founder Ray White. Based in Santa Monica, the company has won several consumer and business awards.
Website: https://backtotheroots.com/
Sector: Agriculture
Founding Year: 2009
Back to the Roots, founded by Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora, has evolved from urban mushroom farming to a thriving business on a mission to undo food and reconnect families to it through fun, innovative, and delicious Ready to Grow and Ready to Eat products. The company most recently expanded its range through a new organic seed line and a new line of environmentally-conscious peat-free soil products.
Website: https://www.carbixcorp.com/
Sector: Environmental Engineering
Founding Year: 2020
Carbix transforms atmospheric carbon dioxide into carbonates to build industrial products. Its novel bioreactor takes enriched CO2 from power and cement plants and in just hours converts it into cement and aggregates for the $900 billion construction industry, and home and yard goods for consumers looking to support the environment with their purchasing power.
Website: https://www.ampaire.com/
Sector: Electric aviation
Founding Year: 2016
Ampaire is revolutionizing aviation with electric power. The company flight plan ‘for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond’ allows Ampaire to deliver electrified aircraft to airlines, manufacturers, and other customers far sooner. In doing so, the company gains essential experience toward the development of clean-sheet aircraft designs, leveraging technological advances, and following the fastest, most reliable path to industry adoption. Ampaire was acquired by Surf Air Mobility in 2021.
Website: https://www.blueplanetecosystems.com/
Sector: Sustainable protein
Founding Year: 2018
Blue Planet Ecosystems applies proprietary technology to produce sustainable seafood.
Website: https://odeko.com/
Sector: B2B software
Founding Year: 2019
Odeko builds mobile ordering and supply chain management software for coffee shops and cafés, with nightly delivery and restocking of cafe essentials. Okedo helps small businesses increase revenue, lower expenses, and reduce environmental footprint.
Website: https://www.onepointone.com
Sector: AgTech
Founding Year: 2017
OnePointOne (OPO) is a developer of an automated indoor farming platform that supplies fresh food and technology to retail and beyond. It automates the vertical farming process to fill the globally widening gap between supply and demand for fresh produce. With a sophisticated, proprietary, and competitively-distinct combination of plant science, robotics, farming, and machine learning technologies, OPO’s automated farming platform will support the cultivation requirements of dozens of industries.
Website: https://eatwellgroup.com
Sector: Food Tech
Founding Year: 2021
A fully integrated plant- based ‘seed to market’ company, with the goal of ensuring that you Eat Well.
Website: https://overtime.tv/
Sector: Sports network
Founding Year: 2016
Overtime is the leading brand for the next generation of sports fans. As both a publisher and an influencer, Overtime has built an inclusive world by giving a platform to the sports community.
Website: https://www.eclipsefoods.com/
Sector: Food Tech
Founding Year: 2019
Eclipse Foods is the leader in sustainable, plant-based dairy products that are indistinguishable from conventional dairy, created using proprietary food technology.
Website: https://blacksheepfoods.com
Sector: Food Tech
Founding Year: 2019
Based in San Francisco, California, Black Sheep Foods seeks to be the world leader in plant-based wild and heritage meats.
Website: https://kueski.com/
Sector: Fintech
Founding Year: 2012
Kueski is the largest online consumer lender in Mexico, providing financial services for users who are ineligible for traditional bank loans. Due to its technology and data analysis criteria, the company has positioned itself as a market leader.