Matt Oppenheimer created Remitly to help the millions of immigrants around the world who make the huge sacrifice of leaving their families behind to live and work in another country. These unsung heroes deliver on their promises to take care of those they love and provide them with upward mobility, improving their quality of life. Remitly is based in Seattle, WA. We first invested in Remitly in 2012, leading their Seed round just as the company was lighting up their first remittances corridor. We were impressed with Matt and Josh’s vision to disrupt a very large global market with a customer-first, mobile-first solution, combined with their early demonstration of an ability to execute against that vision despite significant entry barriers. Remitly has raised over $150M and provides immigrants with a best-in-class remittances experience across over 300 corridors at a rate of over $5B in remittances annually.

With a global network of tens of millions of devices and the world’s most comprehensive mobile data set, Lookout provides powerful threat protection that makes mobile devices more secure.

We first invested in Lookout in January 2009. The modern smartphone era was just starting. We met John Hering and Kevin Mahaffey in a loft in LA. We were impressed with how well this young team understood the security challenges mobile presented and how it was different from PC security. They went on to quickly dominate the consumer mobile security space with more than 100M installs and in the process raised over $400M in capital. Lookout is poised to similarly dominate the much larger enterprise space.

Boundless empowers families to navigate the immigration system more confidently, rapidly, and affordably.

Founder Xiao Wang’s family came to the US from China when he was very young, spending five months of rent money on immigration lawyers because they weren’t privy to the complex system. This experience—a pain felt by millions of families worldwide—was one Boundless set out to fix.

Recruiting for scarce engineering talent is time-consuming, inconsistent, and impossible to scale. When childhood friends James Wu and Allen Lu saw the challenges enterprises experienced building machine learning and data science teams, they decided to build a technical screening tool that expedites and improves the candidate hiring process.

Blink’s vision is to develop software to provide precise gaze tracking on current generation phones and laptops. The technology can be used for secure authentication, UX improvements, e-commerce, and other use cases.

Boundless empowers families to navigate the immigration system more confidently, rapidly, and affordably. Founder Xiao Wang’s family came to the US from China when he was very young, spending five months of rent money on immigration lawyers because they weren’t privy to the complex system. This experience—a pain felt by millions of families worldwide—was one Boundless set out to fix.

Carbitex is bringing to market a unique, flexible carbon fiber composite technology, initially focusing on the performance footwear market. The company currently has three platform technologies: CX6, AFX, and DFX. CX6 is truly flexible carbon fiber and serves as a replacement for leather and technical fabrics. AFX is the company’s asymmetrically flexible fabric that flexes in some directions but not in others. DFX offers dynamic flexibility so that the material changes stiffness as it flexes.

Cash makes cashless payments easy by providing a P2P and P2M platform that allows the user to make secure and seamless transactions without need for a credit or debt card.

Comet is developing a tool to run, visualize, control and collaborate on the AI model construction process. It aims to automate data scientists’ workflow, which a manual process today. Co-founders Gideon Mendels and Nimrod Lahav are optimizing the complex process machine learning specialists use to run their experiments. Comet allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models creating efficiency, transparency, and reproducibility.

When brothers Fahim and Naeem ul Haq were unable to find continuing education platforms to learn new coding techniques, languages, and skills, they decided to start their own. Educative’s courses contain quizzes and coding challenges that dynamically match the ability of the learner. When we invested in Fahim and Naeem in 2018, the two founders had bootstrapped the business to meaningful revenue.

Falkon AI helps data analysts see and explain trends in their metrics. They do this by codifying relationships between metrics, continuously monitoring and automatically detection trends, and generating explanations for trends.

Fresh Chalk provides a faster and more efficient way to find everything from doctors to plumbers to landscapers to photographers. The platform allows users to share and search through service providers recommended by their friends.

Ganaz is the people platform for the North American agriculture and food processing industries. It provides onboarding, training, communication, analytics and soon financial services. Founder Hannah Freeman brings prior experience at Fair Trade to building a platform that serves both workers and employers in the agricultural space.

Give InKind is a social platform for coordinating community support in times of need. Give InKind offers a care calendar, crowdfunding, and wish list feature to help individuals and families get the support they need most.

Derek Edwards and Mark Sten founded Globys to help telecom service providers deliver a digital billing experience for their most valuable business customers. Today, the Globys’ suite of products enables business customers of all sizes to self-serve and securely transact with their telecommunications providers.

Adam Lieb has been building gaming communities since he was 11 years old. He founded Innervate to help game publishers build relationships with their players via robust online communities and a custom-built marketing toolkit.

JetClosing was founded to create a less stressful, more transparent process for consumers buying a home, leveraging systems, processes, and technology. The team at JetClosing is committed to a seamless experience for both buyers and real estate professionals alike.

With a global network of tens of millions of devices and the world’s most comprehensive mobile data set, Lookout provides powerful threat protection that makes mobile devices more secure. We first invested in Lookout in January 2009. The modern smartphone era was just starting. We met John Hering and Kevin Mahaffey in a loft in LA. We were impressed with how well this young team understood the security challenges mobile presented and how it was different from PC security. They went on to quickly dominate the consumer mobile security space with more than 100M installs and in the process raised over $400M in capital. Lookout is poised to similarly dominate the much larger enterprise space.

Owlet was founded to drive better care for babies in the home by empowering parents with the right information at the right time. When founder Kurt Workman and his wife decided to have kids, he was concerned about the potential of a hereditary heart condition that could impact their children and decided to build a technology to help monitor infants while they slept. Owlet has since grown into one of the top parenting brands.

Pluto is a spatial communications service whose singular mission is to create a more personally connected world, uninhibited by physical boundaries. With Pluto, you’ll be able to communicate, collaborate, and connect with anyone anywhere, as if you were together in person. With a strong background in gaming, the founding team of Forest Gibson, Jared Cheshier, John Vechey, Jonathan Geibel are driving communication and connection for future generations. We invested in Pluto based on their transcendent vision for a new communication platform based on emerging VR and AR technologies.

Matt Oppenheimer created Remitly to help the millions of immigrants around the world who make the huge sacrifice of leaving their families behind to live and work in another country. These unsung heroes deliver on their promises to take care of those they love and provide them with upward mobility, improving their quality of life. Remitly is based in Seattle, WA. We first invested in Remitly in 2012, leading their Seed round just as the company was lighting up their first remittances corridor. We were impressed with Matt and Josh’s vision to disrupt a very large global market with a customer-first, mobile-first solution, combined with their early demonstration of an ability to execute against that vision despite significant entry barriers. Remitly has raised over $150M and provides immigrants with a best-in-class remittances experience across over 300 corridors at a rate of over $5B in remittances annually.

ResponseLink is a medical alert company whose product offering encompasses a variety of wearable devices for seniors coupled with a monthly subscription arrangement that enables contact with a call center in the event of a medical emergency.

Ripl was created to empower every small-business owner to build an amazing brand, with simple and intuitive business tools that help them market their business on social media. When we first met Paul Ingalls and Andrew Wright, we were impressed with their passion to build be the “social media marketing tool in the pocket of every small business owner.”

Showdigs connects prospective tenants with skilled, licensed real-estate agents to provide on-demand property tours, relieving property managers of a time-consuming and often geographically dispersed part of their workflow. Prior to founding Showdigs, Kobi was the co-founder and CEO of another company in the Proptech space (ActiveBuilding), which he bootsrapped to a successful exit in 2013 to RealPage.

Founded by Sandi Lin and Jason Stewart, Skilljar is the leading customer training platform for companies to accelerate product adoption and increase customer retention. Their mission is to empower Customer Training and Enablement teams to successfully onboard, engage and retain customers. At our first meeting, Sandi’s commitment and deep understanding of her business and her customers left a lasting impression on our team. Since leading the company’s Seed round, we have continued to be impressed by the team’s ability to scale and grow a meaningful business in a space that is ripe for innovation and disruption.

Spiral helps businesses sift through and act on massive amounts of customer feedback data. Spiral is developing a platform to organize and leverage large data sets of customer feedback to help companies identify actionable insights to improve their products. These insights that are not easily identifiable by a human simply reading through reviews.

Viva provides voice and a variety of data services to its mobile customers over its 3G-enabled GSM and 4G LTE networks. It is investing in its LTE network to support increased usage and broadband access, which is particularly nascent in Bolivia and present significant opportunities for short- and long-term growth.

Watchful is a competitive intelligence platform providing organizations with valuable in-app insights, allowing them to better understand the competition and gain a competitive edge.

2degrees provides wireless communications for New Zealand consumers and businesses and broadband network connectivity through fiber network assets to support a range of voice, data, and networking for New Zealand consumers, businesses, and governments.

Founded by Sandi Lin and Jason Stewart, Skilljar is the leading customer training platform for companies to accelerate product adoption and increase customer retention. Their mission is to empower Customer Training and Enablement teams to successfully onboard, engage and retain customers. At our first meeting, Sandi’s commitment and deep understanding of her business and her customers left a lasting impression on our team. Since leading the company’s Seed round, we have continued to be impressed by the team’s ability to scale and grow a meaningful business in a space that is ripe for innovation and disruption.

Owlet was founded to drive better care for babies in the home by empowering parents with the right information at the right time.

When founder Kurt Workman and his wife decided to have kids, he was concerned about the potential of a hereditary heart condition that could impact their children and decided to build a technology to help monitor infants while they slept. Owlet has since grown into one of the top parenting brands.

When brothers Fahim and Naeem ul Haq were unable to find continuing education platforms to learn new coding techniques, languages, and skills, they decided to start their own. Educative’s courses contain quizzes and coding challenges that dynamically match the ability of the learner. When we invested in Fahim and Naeem in 2018, the two founders had bootstrapped the business to meaningful revenue.