Investments: See companies in Castor Ventures's portfolio

Sampling of Our Portfolio Companies

Castor Ventures invests in a broad range of venture-backed companies to build
diversified venture portfolios invested alongside established venture firms.

Ayar Labs

http://ayarlabs.com

An in-package optical I/O company that aims to make data transmission more efficient by replacing traditional copper wires with interconnects that move data using light waves.

Co-Investors

Downing Ventures, Blue Sky Capital, Intel Capital, Playground, Founders Fund, Rising Tide, Applied Materials, Lockheed Martin, SG Innovate, TechuVentures, GlobalFoundries

Enable

http://enable.com

Developer of an enterprise platform intended to help manage complex trading agreements with suppliers and customers.

Co-Investors

Menlo Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Rising Tide VC

BlockFi

http://blockfi.com

BlockFi provides diversified financial services for cryptoassets.

Co-Investors

Morgan Creek, Valar Ventures

Pie Systems (Pie VAT)

http://pievat.com

Developer of an end-to-end digital platform designed for the value-added tax (VAT) reclaim process.

Co-Investors

Green Visor Capital (GVC), Builders VC, Digital Garage Ventures, Bumble Ventures

Unlearn AI

http://unlearn.health

A computational science company that builds machine learning platforms to create biological digital twins for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.

Co-Investors

8VC, DCVC, Mubadala

Emissary

http://emissary.io

Emissary is a human intelligence network. Their platform, the Emissary Exchange, connects enterprise sales and marketing professionals directly to a community of over 12,000 talented senior and C-level executives who have recently worked at their most imp

Co-Investors

G20 Ventures, Andy Ory, Dino Di Palma, Bruce Clark

RapidSOS

http://rapidsos.com

RapidSOS technology platform provides direct data link from millions of connected devices (smartphones, wearables, connected cars, and home IoT) to 911 and first responders.

Co-Investors

Transformation Capital, C5 Capital, Playground Global, Highland Capital Partners

Brio Systems

http://brio-systems.com

A health management company focused on predicting a person’s future health by measuring the impact of lifestyle changes to "nudge" changes in behavior

Co-Investors

One Way Ventures

Rigetti

http://rigetti.com

A full-stack quantum computing startup, focused on designing and manufacturing superconducting quantum integrated circuits and building software to enable quantum computing, as well as integrating its systems directly into existing cloud infrastructure.

Co-Investors

Bessemer Venture Partners

Teraki

http://teraki.com

An AI & IoT company that develops and produces intelligent edge processing software initially targeted to the automotive industry.

Co-Investors

Horizons Ventures, American Family Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Innogy Ventures

Gatik.AI

http://gatik.ai

Autonomous vehicles for B2B short-haul logistics

Co-Investors

Wittington Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Dynamo, AngelPad, Trucks VC, Fontinalis, Fuji America Corporation

Medivis

http://medivis.com

A medical technology company that uses augmented reality and artificial intelligence to facilitate advanced medical imaging and surgical visualization.

Co-Investors

Vectr, Initialized Capital

PetPlate

http://petplate.com

A pet food delivery company that provides healthy, all-natural and customized meals for dogs. Based on the size and breed, PetPlate creates a meal plan according to your dog's specific profile and needs.

Co-Investors

DFE Capital Management, 301 INC (venture capital arm of General Mills)

Excision Bio

http://excisionbio.com

Developer of advanced gene editing therapeutics created to offer safe and efficacious medicines that will eradicate or disrupt viral infections.

Co-Investors

Norwest Venture Partners, ARTIS Ventures, Silver Ridge Capital Partners, Abstract Ventures, Gaingels, Oakhouse Partners

Ozone

http://ozone.ai

A data privacy company that enables users to protect and encrypt their data while creating a secondary market for users to monetize their anonymized data by selling to trusted partners including advertisers and merchants.

Co-Investors

LAUNCH (Jason Calacanis), Season Two Ventures, Primera Capital, Ten Holdings

Jock Market

http://jockmkt.com

Jock Market allows users to trade shares based on daily fantasy sports players for cash. Users can feel the action of the game by trading real-money shares with other users in real-time.

Co-Investors

Accomplice, Will Ventures, Tim McSweeney

Openprise

http://openprisetech.com

Developer of a cloud-based data automation platform intended to leverage open data and open web technology on a single platform.

Co-Investors

Bloomberg Beta, TsingYuan Ventures, Team Builder Ventures

Capella Space

http://capellaspace.com

Capella Space is creating a cost-effective SAR satellites able to see through clouds, at night, and even underground. Traditional imaging satellites use natural light optical where the range of visibility and detail are typically limited.

Co-Investors

Data Collective (DCVC), Spark Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Cota Capital

Notable Labs

http://notablelabs.com

Drug development platform built to rapidly identify and advance cancer therapeutics at a fraction of traditional costs

Co-Investors

B Capital Group, Lifeforce Capital, Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Builders VC, Industry Ventures

Mythical Games

http://mythical.games

Next-generation game technology platform company enabling true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets.

Co-Investors

Javelin Venture Partners, Struck Capital, Galaxy EOS VC, Fidelity (Devonshire)

Plastiq

http://plastiq.com

E-commerce payment platform that allows users to pay with credit cards where cards are not accepted.

Co-Investors

B Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Accomplice, Bling Capital, Khosla

Deserve Series C

http://deserve.com

Deserve offers credit cards—no credit history or deposit required—using machine learning and many non-traditional data points that correlate to the user's credit worthiness

Co-Investors

Goldman Sachs PSI, Sallie Mae, Pelion, Accel, Aspect, Mission Holdings

Influence

http://influence.co

Developer of a public, online platform designed as the first vertical professional community (VPC) to discover and connect influencers, brands, and agencies

Co-Investors

Bonfire Ventures, ACT, Next10 Ventures, SPHV

Motif Foodworks

http://madewithmotif.com

Motif FoodWorks is an ingredients innovation company dedicated to reshaping the landscape of food through bio-science and technology.

Co-Investors

Breakthrough Energy Ventures, General Atlantic, Viking Global Investors, Louis Dreyfus Company, Anchorage Capital Group, Fonterra Ventures, CPT Capital

Pienso

http://pienso.com

A machine learning platform designed to facilitate, manipulate, and manage the interaction between algorithms and their data

Co-Investors

Differential Ventures

Pared

http://pared.com

A restaurant staffing technology platform that serves as an on-demand tool for restaurant owners and operators to find and hire restaurant staff.

Co-Investors

Calibrate Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Uncork, True Ventures, Precursor Ventures

What3Words

http://what3words.com

what3words mission is to become a global addressing standard, so everyone, everywhere has a reliable address. In doing this, what3words makes world an easier, more efficient and safer place.

Co-Investors

Daimler, Sony, Fraser McCombs, Intel Capital, SAIC Technologies

Wheels

http://takewheels.com

Wheels operates a global network of shared electric bikes that offer the convenience of micro-mobility alongside market-leading safety and stability.

Co-Investors

DBL Ventures, Crosscut Ventures, Tenaya Capital, Bullpen Capital, 3L Capital, Wavemaker Partners

True Link Financial

http://truelinkfinancial.com

True Link provides payment cards, investment management, and other financial services for older adults, people with disabilities, and people recovering from addiction.

Co-Investors

Khosla Ventures, QED, Nippon Life, Deciens Capital, Exor Seeds, Trusted Insight, Initialized Capital, Collaborative Fund, Radicle Emerging Impact Fund, AngelList

E25Bio

http://e25bio.com

A medical device company developing a finger-stick blood diagnostic test designed to detect dangerous mosquito-borne diseases within minutes. The test can be used at home, pharmacy, or clinic.

Co-Investors

The Engine

FarmWise

http://farmwise.io

Develops farming robots to facilitate autonomous cultivation and organic farming with the mission of building sustainable farming at scale.

Co-Investors

Calibrate Ventures, Playground

X-Mode

http://xmode.io

X-Mode’s location data platform creates a living map of consumers, helping businesses understand the places people go and providing key information to decision-makers in advertising, financial services, insurance and smart cities.

Co-Investors

Origin Ventures, Build Group

Optimus Ride

http://optimusride.com

Self-driving vehicle technologies designed to enable safe, sustainable and equitable mobility services in geo-fenced environments.

Co-Investors

Neoteny, Emerson Collective, Fraser McCombs Capital

Jebbit

http://jebbit.com

A mobile marketing solution designed to collect and activate the most relevant consumer data through innovative mobile experiences.

Co-Investors

Spruce Up

http://getspruceup.com

A personalized shopping service intended to help consumers in designing their homes.

Co-Investors

Two Sigma, Madrona, Peterson

Populus

http://populus.ai

Analytics software provider of mobility data, including car sharing, ride hailing, and bike/scooter sharing, to key stakeholders managing urban transportation systems.

Co-Investors

Precursor Ventures

Rhone

http://rhone.com

Men's high performance active-wear and brand.

Co-Investors

L Catterton, M3 Ventures, Equinox

WorldCover

http://worldcovr.com

WorldCover provides crop insurance to smallholder farmers in Africa and around the world.

Co-Investors

MS&AD Ventures

OpenGov

http://opengov.com

OpenGov develops software for public sector budgeting, reporting, and open data access, while providing an easy to use visualization tool to encourage citizen engagement and enhance transparency.

Co-Investors

Emerson Collective, Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Thrive Capital

CumulusDS

http://cumulusds.com

CumulusDS is an Internet of Things platform designed to manage end-to-end workflow. The company's platform collects and structures data from digitally-enabled tools to verify the quality and duration of a task.

Co-Investors

Shell Ventures

Alpaca

http://alpaca.casa

Alpaca helps renters and landlords through the process by using AI to better match tenants and rental businesses.

Co-Investors

Lightspeed Venture Partners, Correlation Ventures, Canaan Partners

Vyrill

http://vyrill.com

Developer of an artificial intelligence tool designed to focus on video insights, licensing, and content marketing.

Co-Investors

Long Venture Capital, Panache Venture Capital

Sorcero

http://sorcero.com

Sorcero is artificial intelligence company that empowers employees to access their company’s knowledge more efficiently and effectively.

Co-Investors

Pearl Investment Partners, Sparkfund Executive Leadership Syndicate

Clear Labs

http://clearlabs.com

Clear Labs enables stronger food safety and quality programs by providing comprehensive, genomics-based testing and cutting-edge data science.

Co-Investors

Menlo Ventures

Getaway

http://getaway.house

Getaway develops and operates a growing portfolio of "tiny houses", located within a short drive of major cities offering its customers a way to completely disconnect while enjoying short vacations in nature.

Co-Investors

L Catterton

Honor

http://joinhonor.com

Honor is a software and tech-enabled services company that utilizes AI to improve in-home senior care. The company's mission is to provide high-quality non-medical home care for the increasing market of older adults.

Co-Investors

Andreessen Horowitz, Naspers, Thrive Capital, 8VC

Circle

http://circle.com

Circle is a cryptocurrency-focused finance company intended to utilize blockchain technology to allow users and customers to send, receive and invest in cryptocurrency assets around the world.

Co-Investors

General Catalyst, Accel, IDG, Oak, Breyer Funds, Goldman Sachs

Sana.IO

http://sana.io

Sanai.io is creating neuro-modulation technology for managing sleep and chronic pain.

Co-Investors

Founders Fund

RealSelf

http://realself.com

RealSelf is the leading marketplace for the medical aesthetics market. It is a platform for people to learn about cosmetic procedures, share experiences, and connect with providers.

Co-Investors

Elephant, The Capital Group Companies

Algorand

http://algorand.com

Algorand is a next generation blockchain technology centered around a novel, more scalable, faster, and more efficient consensus protocol based on Proof-of stake (PoS).

Co-Investors

Union Square Ventures, Pillar, Foundation Capital, Wing VC

OpenInvest

http://openinvest.co

OpenInvest is dedicated to using technology to bring honesty and transparency to financial services, while making socially responsible investing easy and more accessible.

Co-Investors

QED, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator

Tamr

http://tamr.com

Tamr is an enterprise software company designed to tackle large-scale data management challenges in organizations with extreme data volume and variety.

Co-Investors

NEA, GV

CommonBond

http://commonbond.co

A student loan platform, refinancing student loans for young working adults, providing in-school loans for college and graduate students, and offering student loan benefit programs to employers.

Co-Investors

Fifth Third Capital

CNEX Labs

http://cnexlabs.com

CNEX Labs is a data storage solutions company that manufactures high-performance semiconductors and software for cloud, hyper-scale and enterprise data centers.

Co-Investors

Dell Ventures

Dataminr

http://dataminr.com

Dataminr is the world's leading real-time information discovery platform, leveraging AI/machine learning in detecting and disseminating critical events for businesses and governments.

Co-Investors

IVP, Venrock, Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs

Vesper Technologies

http://vespermems.com/

Vesper is the leader in piezoelectric micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) microphones for consumer applications. The company's superior microphone design aims to bring studio quality acoustics into handheld and IoT devices.

Co-Investors

American Family Ventures, Sands Capital Ventures, Accomplice

Verity Studios

http://veritystudios.com

Verity’s technology enables the safe use of large numbers of drones indoors and above people for verticals including entertainment and industry. The company's Synthetic Swarm drone show combines its proprietary software with its new LucieTM micro drones.

Co-Investors

Fontinalis Partners, Sony

Unity Biotechnology

http://unitybiotechnology.com

Unity Biotechnology is a developer of small molecule medicines that potentially halt, slow, or reverse age-associated diseases, while restoring human health.

Co-Investors

Fidelity, ARCH Ventures, Venrock, Founders Fund

GrubMarket

http://grubmarket.com

GrubMarket is a leading online farm-to-table eCommerce platform for wholesome, fresh, organic produce, and foods conveniently delivered to end customers at affordable prices.

Co-Investors

GGV Capital, Global Founders Capital, Y Combinator, Sound Ventures, Battery Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures

Agile Stacks

http://agilestacks.com

Agile Stacks provides automated cloud development and deployment services intended to reinvent how enterprises implement clouds.

Co-Investors

Canaan Partners

Horsepower Technologies

http://horsepowertech.com

Animal healthcare and biotech company intended to combat equine lameness.

Co-Investors

Accomplice, MassVentures

Relayr

http://relayr.io

Relayr has developed an industrial IoT middleware platform designed to facilitate interoperability through industrial-grade platforms.

Co-Investors

HSB, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Munich Venture Partners, Munich RE

Lumiata

http://lumiata.com

Lumiata is a healthcare-focused artificial intelligence platform company optimizing healthcare delivery to individuals, supporting prediction of patient-specific clinical trajectories, and driving population healthcare management.

Co-Investors

Khosla Ventures

Prenav

http://prenav.com

Developer of precision-guided drones designed to help in infrastructure inspection.

Co-Investors

Crosslink Capital, Pear Ventures, NTT Docomo Ventures, WI Harper Group

Teal Drones

http://tealdrones.com

Drones designed to improve augmented reality, security, and inspections.

Co-Investors

Highland Capital, Pelion, NEA, IDO Investments

Sentenai

http://sentenai.com

Sentenai has created a data cloud infrastructure to deliver automated data engineering for data science and machine learning applications.

Co-Investors

Mass Ave Capital, Founder Collective, Flybridge Capital, Hyperplane

Consumer Physics

http://consumerphysics.com

Sells SCIO, first sensor that hovers over and determines quality and content of foods and substances on iPhones for consumers and industry.

Co-Investors

Khosla, Third Point, ML Capital, Grove Partners

Trocafone

http://trocafone.com

Developer of an e-commerce marketplace designed to buy and sell used electronics.

Co-Investors

Sallfort, 500 Startups, Lumia Capital, Quasar Ventures, Barn Investments, FundersClub, Rocketship.vc

ScanTrust

http://scantrust.com

Non-forgeable digital fingerprint to identify and locate products with a smartphone anywhere in the supply chain.

Co-Investors

Credit Suisse, Helvetica Capital, Innogy Ventures, SOSV Ventures

Celularity

http://celularity.com

Celularity has developed cellular therapies and biomaterials from the placenta to amplify the body’s ability to fight disease, heal, and regenerate itself.

Co-Investors

United Therapeutics, Sorrento Therapeutics, Celgene, Section 32, and Genting Group

Manus Bio

http://manusbio.com

Manus is a biotech/biosynthetics company that sustainably manufactures natural chemicals and plant oils via fermentation.

Co-Investors

415 Investments, NXT Ventures

C2Sense

http://c2sense.com

Developer of a gas sensing technology designed to transform smell into real-time data that can be accessed remotely.

Co-Investors

MIT's The Engine Fund, Boston Millennia Partners Fund, Thiel Foundation

Respiratory Motion

http://respiratorymotion.com

Revolutionary non-invasive direct respiratory monitoring, like an EKG for the lungs.

Co-Investors

Jean Hammond/Golden Seeds, Easton Capital, Mehta Ventures, Boston-area Angels group

Humatics

http://humatics.com

Humatics has developed breakthrough radar-based technology that enables ultra-low-cost millimeter scale positioning, thereby creating a new category of micro-location.

Co-Investors

Fontinalis Partners, Airbus Ventures, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Ray Stata

Smartvid.io

http://smartvid.io

Smart AI-based identification of safety and machine-trained incidents at construction sites.

Co-Investors

Autodesk, Borealis Ventures

Replenish

http://getreplenish.com

The first self-cleaning appliance that instantly prepares healthy smoothies and snacks.

Co-Investors

Tandem Capital, Kainos Capital

Domo

http://domo.com

Domo develops intuitive software for enterprise users, that connects employees with disparate data that resides in silos across their organization, to improve business results.

Co-Investors

Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark Capital, SV Angel, IVP, Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions, Greylock Partners, TPG Growth, BlackRock

Akselos

http://akselos.com

Next-generation engineering simulations for offshore oil & gas, and power system industries, making digital twins a reality.

Co-Investors

EuroUS Ventures; FortiCap; Shell Ventures; Innogy Ventures; David Brown, Swiss Angel Investor of the Year (2016)

Ready4

http://ready4.com

Machine learning-based, gamified testing smartphone apps.

Co-Investors

Atlas, Accomplice, Square Peg Ventures

DataXu

http://dataxu.com

dataxu is a next-gen marketing and analytics platform that enables marketers to better understand and engage consumers in a programmatic world.

Co-Investors

Accomplice, Flybridge Capital, Menlo Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, Sky

EverQuote

http://everquote.com

Online auto insurance marketplace

Co-Investors

Link Ventures, Savano Capital Partners, Second Alpha Partners, Stratim Capital

Kinsa

http://kinsahealth.com

Kinsa is creating the world's first real-time map of human health.

Co-Investors

KPCB, GSR, FirstMark, Founder Collective

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The Castor Portfolio

Sampling of Our Portfolio Companies

Ayar Labs

Enable

BlockFi

Pie Systems (Pie VAT)

Unlearn AI

Emissary

RapidSOS

Brio Systems

Rigetti

Teraki

Gatik.AI

Medivis

PetPlate

Excision Bio

Ozone

Jock Market

Openprise

Capella Space

Notable Labs

Mythical Games

Plastiq

Deserve Series C

Influence

Motif Foodworks

Pienso

Pared

What3Words

Wheels

True Link Financial

E25Bio

FarmWise

X-Mode

Optimus Ride

Jebbit

Spruce Up

Populus

Rhone

WorldCover

OpenGov

CumulusDS

Alpaca

Vyrill

Sorcero

Clear Labs

Getaway

Honor

Circle

Sana.IO

RealSelf

Algorand