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Venture Capital Funding Survey, Third Quarter 2015

VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDING, THIRD QUARTER 2015


This is a listing of many of the Bay Area firms that received venture capital financing between
July 1 and Sept. 30, 2015. Most of the data was compiled from a survey conducted by
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association
in conjunction with the Mercury News.
In the case of some investments there may have been other participants in the round who are not
credited. Also, the amounts listed may not include all venture funding the company received during
the quarter.
*Indicates this is a seed or first-round infusion of money from venture capitalists. These
companies may have received money previously from other investors and aren't necessarily startups.
BIOTECHNOLOGY / HEALTH
Name

23andMe

Afferent Pharmaceuticals

Alector

City

Stage

Mountain View Later Stage

San Mateo

San Francisco

Amount

Investors

Description

MPM Capital, New


Enterprise Associates,
$79,076,000 undisclosed firm

Genetic information services

Expansion

New Leaf Venture Partners,


Tekla Healthcare Investors, Clinical-stage
$54,999,700 undisclosed firms
biopharmaceutical company

Early Stage

Google Ventures, Mission


Bay Capital, OrbiMed
Advisors, Polaris Venture
Partners, Topspin Partners,
$32,275,000 undisclosed firm
Biotech company

Clinical-stage medical
technology company

Channel Medsystems

San Francisco

Early Stage

Aperture Venture Partners,


Boston Scientific, InCube
Ventures, Longwood
Founders Management,
Scientific Health
Development, Third Point
$23,866,200 Ventures

Chrono Therapeutics

Hayward

Later Stage

5AM Ventures, Canaan


$17,691,000 Partners, undisclosed firm

Pharmaceutical company

Early Stage

Adams Street Partners,


BlackRock, F Hoffmann La
Roche AG, OrbiMed
Advisors, Rock Springs
Capital Management,
$74,999,600 undisclosed firms

Clinical-stage
biopharmaceutical company

Early Stage

Frazier Healthcare Partners,


undisclosed firm, Versant
$25,500,000 Ventures
Products and services

Corvus Pharmaceuticals

Gritstone Oncology*

Burlingame

San Francisco

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Gynesonics

Nurix

Redwood City

San Francisco

Orbus Therapeutics*

Aptos

Later Stage

Abingworth Management,
Advanced Technology
Ventures, Correlation
Ventures, Endeavour Vision
SA, HBM Healthcare
Investments AG, Hercules
Technology Growth Capital,
InterWest Partners,
Women's healthcare
$43,144,000 undisclosed firm
company

Expansion

Column Group, Third Rock


$17,033,000 Ventures

Early Stage

Adams Street Partners, HIG


Capital, Longitude Capital
Management Co,
$18,000,000 undisclosed firm
Biopharmaceutical company

Develops small molecules


that modulate the ubiquitin
proteasome system

PokitDok

San Mateo

Expansion

Lemhi Ventures, New


Atlantic Ventures, Rogers
Ventures, Subtraction
$34,003,200 Capital, undisclosed firm

Procept BioRobotics*

Redwood City

Early Stage

$42,000,000 Novo A/S, undisclosed firms Medical device company

Health marketplace for


consumers to shop for
treatments and services

Protagonist Therapeutics

Menlo Park

Later Stage

Canaan Partners, Foresite


Capital Management,
Johnson & Johnson
Innovation-JJDC, Lilly
Ventures Management Co.,
RA Capital Management,
Starfish Ventures Pty,
Peptide and peptidomimetic
$17,500,100 undisclosed firms
therapeutics company

SFJ Pharmaceuticals

Pleasanton

Expansion

$27,125,000 Undisclosed firms

Stem CentRx

South San
Francisco

Early Stage

$250,000,000 Undisclosed firm

Specialty pharma company

Therapies for cancer patients

BUSINESS SERVICES
Name

City

Stage

Adara*

Mountain View Later Stage

Bromium

Cupertino

Expansion

Amount

Investors

Description

August Capital
Management, Morgenthaler
Ventures, ONSET
Ventures, Questmark
$23,000,000 Partners, undisclosed firm Internet company

$19,266,000 Undisclosed firms

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Endpoint security products

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Cinarra Systems

CloudFlare

Confluent

Flexport*

Fundbox

Santa Clara

San Francisco

Early Stage

Expansion

Mountain View Early Stage

San Francisco

San Francisco

Almaz Capital Partners,


Siguler Guff & Co.,
$20,000,100 Softbank Capital Partners

Mobile technology company

Google Capital
Management Co.,
Greenspring Associates,
New Enterprise Associates,
Qualcomm Ventures,
undisclosed firms, Union
Square Ventures, Utah
Web performance and
$110,000,000 Ventures, Venrock
security company
Benchmark Capital
Management Gesellschaft
MBH In Liqu, Index
$24,000,000 Ventures

A real-time data platform


built around Apache Kafka

Early Stage

Bloomberg BETA, Ceyuan


Ventures Management,
Cherubic Venture Partners,
Felicis Ventures, Fenway
Summer Ventures, First
Round Capital, Founders
Fund, Fuel Capital
Management Co.,
FundersClub, Google
Ventures, Susa Ventures,
undisclosed firm, Y
Customs brokerage and
$20,000,500 Combinator
freight forwarder

Early Stage

Bezos Expeditions,
Blumberg International
Partners, Entree Capital,
General Catalyst Partners,
Khosla Ventures, Spark
$50,000,000 Capital, undisclosed firms

Financial solution for cash


flow gaps

Insideview Technologies

San Francisco

Later Stage

Big Sky Partners,


Emergence Capital
Partners, Foundation
Capital, Rembrandt Venture Customer relationship
Management, Split Rock
management (CRM)
$17,500,000 Partners, Tudor Ventures
intelligence

Leadspace

San Francisco

Later Stage

Battery Ventures,
$18,000,000 undisclosed firm

SaaS analytics platform for


B2B marketing

Premise Data

San Francisco

Early Stage

$50,000,000 Valor Equity Parters

Technology company

Expansion

Adams Street Partners,


Crosslink Capital, Draper
Esprit, Harmony Partners,
Industry Ventures, Trinity
$25,102,800 Ventures

Digital advertising network

RadiumOne

San Francisco

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WebAction

Palo Alto

Early Stage

Intel Capital, Panorama


Point Partners, Summit
Real-time Big Data server
$20,000,000 Partners, undisclosed firms provider

CONSUMER GOODS / SERVICES


Name

A Medium

Coursera

CoverHound

Enjoy Technology

Lightco

MassDrop.com

Omada Health

City

San Francisco

Stage

Early Stage

Mountain View Early Stage

San Francisco

Menlo Park

Palo Alto

San Francisco

San Francisco

Amount

Investors

Description

Andreessen Horowitz,
Google Ventures, Greylock
Partners, Obvious Ventures
Management, undisclosed
$57,000,000 firms
Publishing platform

GSV Capital, International


Finance, Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers, Learn
Capital Venture Partners,
New Enterprise Associates,
$49,041,000 undisclosed firm
Online education company

Expansion

American Family Ventures,


Blumberg International
Partners, Core Innovation
Capital I, RRE Ventures,
Digital platform for
Route 66 Ventures,
comparing and buying
$33,300,000 undisclosed firm
insurance

Early Stage

Highland Capital Partners,


Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
$50,000,000 Byers, undisclosed firm

E-commerce company

Early Stage

Bessemer Venture
Partners, Charles River
Ventures, CrunchFund,
Formation 8 Partners,
StepStone Group,
$24,999,800 undisclosed firms

Reimagining the art and


science of photography

Early Stage

August Capital
Management, Cowboy
Capital, First Round Capital, Online communities for
$40,000,000 Mayfield Fund
enthusiasts and hobbyists

Expansion

Andreessen Horowitz, GE
Ventures, Kaiser
Permanente Ventures,
Norwest Venture Partners,
Rock Health, U.S. Venture Digital behavioral medicine
$48,000,000 Partners, undisclosed firms company

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Personalized Beauty
Discovery

Shift Technologies

Social Finance

StyleSeat

San Mateo

San Francisco

San Francisco

San Francisco

Thredup

San Francisco

Expansion

Early Stage

Expansion

SherpaVentures, Tpg
$100,000,000 Growth
Draper Fisher Jurvetson,
Highland Capital Partners,
$50,000,000 undisclosed firm

Baseline Ventures, Doll


Capital Management,
Institutional Venture
Partners, Third Point
Ventures, undisclosed
firms, Wellington
$1,000,000,000 Management Co.

Community for sharing


beauty products through
video

Car-buying and selling


marketplace

Peer-to-peer lending
solutions provider

Expansion

Cowboy Capital, Lightspeed


Management Co., Shanghai
Fosun Capital Investment
Management Co., Slow
Online destination for beauty
$25,000,000 Ventures
and wellness professionals

Expansion

Highland Capital Partners,


Redpoint Ventures, Trinity
Ventures, undisclosed firm, Women's and kids' clothing
$78,300,000 Upfront Ventures
brands

Thumbtack

San Francisco

Expansion

Google Capital
Management Co., Sequoia
Capital, Tiger Global
Management, undisclosed
$125,000,000 firm

Ticketfly

San Francisco

Expansion

$50,000,000 Riverwood Capital Group

Ticketing, marketing and


analytics tools

Early Stage

Collaborative Fund, First


Round Capital, Khosla
Ventures, Third Point
$35,000,000 Ventures

Funding platform and


mentoring network

Food delivery

Upstart Network

Palo Alto

Online marketplace and


review site for local services

Zesty*

San Francisco

Early Stage

Forerunner Ventures,
Founders Fund, Index
$19,563,900 Ventures

zozi com

San Francisco

Expansion

500 Startups, Dolby Family Website that focuses on


$30,000,000 Ventures, undisclosed firms deals for local activities

HARDWARE / INSTRUMENTS
Name

Carbon3D

City

Redwood City

Stage

Early Stage

Amount

Investors

Google Ventures,
$100,000,000 undisclosed firms

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Description
3D printing technology,
continuous liquid interface
production

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Jaunt

Palo Alto

Expansion

Highland Capital Partners,


Redpoint Ventures, Tpg
$66,700,200 Growth, undisclosed firms

Tascent*

Los Gatos

Early Stage

$18,500,000 Tano Capital

Tintri

Mountain View Expansion

Insight Venture Partners,


Lightspeed Management
Co., Menlo Ventures, New
Enterprise Associates,
$125,000,000 Silver Lake Partners+I25

Immersive media format for


virtual reality (VR)
applications
Biometric and identity
products

Producer of storage for


virtualization and cloud
environments

NETWORKING / TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Name

Blue Jeans Network

City

Stage

Mountain View Expansion

Amount

Investors

Accel Partners & Co.,


Battery Ventures, Glynn
Capital Management, New
Enterprise Associates,
Norwest Venture Partners,
Quadrille Capital SAS,
$76,500,100 undisclosed firms

Description

Video conferencing service

ENERGY / INDUSTRIAL
Name

Auris Surgical Robotics

EHang

City

San Carlos

San Carlos

Stage

Later Stage

Amount

Investors

Lux Capital, Mithril Capital


Management, NaviMed
Capital Advisors,
$150,000,000 undisclosed firm

Early Stage

GGV Capital, LeBox


Capital, Shenzhen Oriental
Fortune Capital Co.,
$42,000,000 undisclosed firm

Description

Robotics technology for


medical applications

Technology company

Primus Power

Hayward

Expansion

Chrysalix Energy Venture


Capital, DBL Investors, I2Bf
Global Ventures,
$25,000,000 undisclosed firm
Energy storage systems

Skycatch

San Francisco

Early Stage

$22,046,000 Avalon Ventures

Unmanned aerial vehicle


(UAV) solution

Stem

Millbrae

Expansion

$29,394,000 Undisclosed firm

Energy solutions company

View

Milpitas

Later Stage

Madrone Capital Partners,


$121,000,000 undisclosed firms

Glass company

SEMICONDUCTORS
Name

Bitfury USA

City

San Francisco

Stage

Expansion

Amount

Investors

Georgian Co-investment
Fund, undisclosed firm,
$20,000,100 iTechCapital

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Description

Bitcoin infrastructure
provider

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Cavendish Kinetics

Crossbar

San Jose

Santa Clara

Radio frequency microelectro-mechanical system


radio components

Later Stage

$36,000,000 Undisclosed firm

Expansion

Artiman Management, CBC


Capital, Correlation
Ventures, Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers, Korea
Investment Partners Co.,
Northern Light Venture
Capital Development, SAIF
Partners, Suzhou Oriza
Holdings Co., TAO Venture
Capital Partners,
undisclosed firm, University Resistive random-access
$34,180,300 of Michigan
memory technology

Sensity Systems

Sunnyvale

Expansion

Cisco Investments, GE
Ventures, Simon Venture
$36,000,000 Group, undisclosed firm

Silicor Materials

San Jose

Later Stage

Hudson Clean Energy


$105,000,000 Partners, undisclosed firm

Light Sensory Networks


Solar silicon and aluminumbased byproducts

SOFTWARE
Name

Agora Labs

City

Palo Alto

Stage

Later Stage

Correlation Ventures, GGV


Capital, Institutional Venture
Partners, Kleiner Perkins
Security information and
Caufield & Byers, Trident
event management (SEIM)
$46,050,000 Capital
solutions

Appcelerator

Mountain View Later Stage

Base CRM

BrightBytes

Later Stage

Mountain View Expansion

San Francisco

Description

Early Stage

San Mateo

Foster City

Investors

GGV Capital, IDG Capital


Partners, Morningside
Group, SIG Capital
Partners, Shunwei Capital
$20,000,000 Partners

Alienvault

Apttus

Amount

Early Stage

Sierra Ventures,
$27,500,000 undisclosed firm
K1 Capital Advisors,
Salesforce Ventures,
$108,000,000 undisclosed firms

Web-based service to collect


and organize products

Enterprise mobile application


development platform

Enterprise class software as


a service (SaaS) application

Hyde Park Venture


Partners, Index Ventures,
Tenaya Capital, undisclosed Cross-platform CRM tool for
$30,000,000 firm
sales teams
Bessemer Venture
Partners, Insight Venture
Partners, Learn Capital
Venture Partners, Rethink
$30,000,000 Education LP

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Learning analytics company

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Chain

Datameer

Demandbase

Discern Group*

DoubleDutch

Duetto Research

San Francisco

San Francisco

San Francisco

San Francisco

San Francisco

San Francisco

Early Stage

Partners with various


Capital One Co., Citi
organizations to build
$27,388,800 Ventures, undisclosed firms blockchain networks

Expansion

Citi Ventures, Kleiner


Perkins Caufield & Byers,
Next World Capital,
Redpoint Ventures,
Singapore Technologies
Telemedia Pte, Top Tier
Capital Partners,
$40,000,100 undisclosed firm

Later Stage

Adobe Systems, Altos


Ventures, Costanoa
Venture Capital,
Greenspring Associates,
Jackson Square Ventures,
Sageview Capital,
Salesforce Ventures, Scale
Venture Partners, Split
Real-time targeting and
$30,000,000 Rock Partners
personalization platform

Data analytics solutions

PaaS-based solution
delivering data within
business framework

Expansion

$20,000,000 Artiman Management

Early Stage

Bessemer Venture
Partners, Index Ventures,
KKR & Co.I58, undisclosed Data-driven mobile social
$43,033,200 firm
event applications

Early Stage

Accel Partners & Co.,


Altimeter Capital
Management, Battery
Ventures, Icon Ventures,
$30,000,000 undisclosed firms

Hotel executives with


solutions to optimize
demand

Exabeam

San Mateo

Early Stage

Aspect Ventures, Icon


Ventures, Norwest Venture User behavior analytics
$25,000,100 Partners, undisclosed firm solutions for security

Expensify

San Francisco

Expansion

Expense management
$17,500,000 Openview Venture Partners service

Cloud acceleration platform


Digital social magazine

Fastly

San Francisco

Expansion

Amplify Partners, August


Capital Management,
Battery Ventures, IDG
Ventures USA, O'Reilly
Alphatech Ventures,
$75,000,000 undisclosed firm

Flipboard

Palo Alto

Expansion

$50,000,000 Undisclosed firm

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GitHub

Granular

Intercom

San Francisco

San Francisco

San Francisco

Expansion

Andreessen Horowitz,
Institutional Venture
Partners, Sequoia Capital,
$251,000,000 Thrive Capital Partners

Expansion

Andreessen Horowitz, Fall


Line Capital GP, Google
Ventures, H Barton Asset
Management, Khosla
Ventures, Tao Capital
$21,058,800 Partners, undisclosed firm

Agricultural technology
company

Expansion

Bessemer Venture
Partners, Social+Capital
Partnership, undisclosed
$35,000,100 firm

Computer software and ipad


applications

Software services company

Kahuna

Palo Alto

Early Stage

Felicis Ventures, Sequoia


Capital, Softtech VC,
Tenaya Capital, undisclosed Mobile marketing
$45,000,000 firm
automation solutions

Luminate Wireless*

Cupertino

Early Stage

Correlation Ventures,
$30,000,000 undisclosed firm

Lyft

San Francisco

Later Stage

$100,000,000 Undisclosed firm

Car-sharing application

Medallia

Palo Alto

Later Stage

$150,000,000 Sequoia Capital

Customer experience
management software

Mirantis

Netskope

Okta

Mountain View Later Stage

Los Altos

San Francisco

Distributed mobile services


network

August Capital
Management, Goldman
Sachs & Co, Insight
Venture Partners, Intel
Capital, Sapphire Ventures,
undisclosed firm,
Openstack cloud and openWestSummit Capital
source application
$99,999,900 Management
infrastructure

Early Stage

Accelerated Venture
Partners, Lightspeed
Management Co.,
Social+Capital Partnership, Cloud app analytics and
$75,000,000 undisclosed firm
policy company

Expansion

Altimeter Capital
Management, Andreessen
Horowitz, Glynn Capital
Management, Greylock
Partners, Khosla Ventures,
Sequoia Capital,
Enterprise-grade identity
$75,000,100 undisclosed firm
management service

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Origami Logic

Menlo Park

Early Stage

Palantir Technologies

Palo Alto

Later Stage

Paxata

Radius Intelligence

Scality

Seventh Shield

Super Evil Mega

Tanium

Twilio

Redwood City

San Francisco

San Francisco

Menlo Park

San Mateo

Emeryville

San Francisco

Accel Partners & Co., Duff


Ackerman & Goodrich, Icon
Ventures, Lightspeed
Management Co., Next
Visual analytical products for
$25,000,000 World Capital
business users
$450,000,000 Founders Fund

Data analysis software

Early Stage

Accel Partners & Co., EDB


Investments Pte, Toba
Capital, undisclosed firm,
$18,000,000 Walden International

Expansion

AME Cloud Ventures,


Bluerun Ventures,
Formation 8 Partners,
Founders Fund, The, Glynn
Capital Management,
Salesforce Ventures,
Predictive marketing
$50,000,300 undisclosed firm
software

Expansion

Bpifrance Investissement
SAS, Galileo Partners,
Idinvest Partners SA, Iris
Capital Management SAS,
Menlo Ventures, Omnes
Capital SAS, undisclosed
$45,000,000 firms

Expansion

Credit Suisse Private


Equity, Greylock Partners,
Icon Ventures, Kraft Group,
Lightspeed Management
Database management
$75,000,000 Co., undisclosed firm
application

Early Stage

Index Ventures, Korea


Investment Partners Co.,
$26,000,000 undisclosed firms

Later Stage

Andreessen Horowitz,
Institutional Venture
Partners, T. Rowe Price
Threshold Partnerships,
$128,000,000 TPG Capital Management

Endpoint security and


systems management
company

Expansion

Altimeter Capital
Management, Fidelity
Investment Funds II,
Salesforce Ventures, T.
Rowe Price Threshold
Partnerships, undisclosed
$130,000,000 firms

Business communications
solutions

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Adaptive data preparation


platform for the enterprise

Software-based petabytescale storage

Online products and services

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vArmour Networks

Mountain View Early Stage

Vectra Networks

San Jose

WSO2

Mountain View Later Stage

Zephyr Health

Zscaler

San Francisco

San Jose

Expansion

$28,748,000 Undisclosed firms

Software defined security


(SDSec) for virtualized data
centers

AME Cloud Ventures, Accel


Partners & Co., Duff
Ackerman & Goodrich, IA
Ventures, Intel Capital,
Juniper Networks Inc,
Security platform that
$35,142,800 Khosla Ventures
leverages data analytics

Toba Capital, undisclosed


$20,041,000 firm

Open-source middleware
platforms for web services

Expansion

Google Ventures, Icon


Ventures, Kleiner Perkins
$17,477,100 Caufield & Byers

Data analytics for life


science companies

Expansion

EMC Ventures, Google


Capital Management Co.,
Lightspeed Management
$110,000,000 Co., Tpg Growth

Cloud security company

Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree Report, Data: Thomson Reuters

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