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 high-quality, highly-diversified venture portfolios for our investors.

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)

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

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

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

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

Hydrow

http://hydrow.com

Hydrow has developed a connected fitness platform that initially is focused around a rower.

Co-Investors

L Catterton

Optimus Ride

http://optimusride.com

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

Co-Investors

Noeteny, 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

WorldCover

http://worldcovr.com

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

Co-Investors

MS&AD Ventures

Zeus

http://zeusliving.com

Zeus provides expertly appointed, full-service corporate housing units for today’s global professional.

Co-Investors

Initialized Capital, Airbnb, Comcast 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

Alba

http://alba-app.com

Alba allows parents from Latin America to instantly book trusted caregivers from their social networks and experience every step of their loved one’s care.

Co-Investors

Dadneo Capital, Carao Ventures

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

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

Freebird

http://getfreebird.com

Freebird is a provider of a mobile re-booking tool designed to allow disrupted travelers instantly book a new ticket on any airline at no additional cost in the event of a flight cancellation, four-hour delay, or missed connection.

Co-Investors

Amex Ventures, Accomplice, General Catalyst, Citi Ventures

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

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

Dane Creek Capital

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

Sunfolding

http://sunfolding.com

Sunfolding has a proprietary solar tracker that reduces installation time, lowers maintenance cost and improves land utilization for solar plants. Their technology replaces motors, gears, dampers, batteries, grease and bearings with a single component.

Co-Investors

Energy Innovation, Y Combinator Continuity

SHINE Medical Technologies

http://shinemed.com

SHINE is an advanced manufacturing company dedicated to being the world leader in the safe, clean and affordable production of medical isotopes for heart disease and cancer treatment elements.

Co-Investors

Jubilant Draximage

Accolade

http://accolade.com

Accolade has developed a personalized health and benefits platform designed to improve the experience, outcomes, and cost of healthcare.

Co-Investors

Andreessen Horowitz, Comcast Ventures, McKesson Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Accretive Capital

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

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

Microsoft Ventures, Highland Capital

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

Twenty20

http://twenty20.com

Twenty20 provides a marketplace for crowdsourced imagery. The company connects brands and creative agencies with authentic, real-world imagery crowdsourced from users around the world.

Co-Investors

Canaan Partners

Heal

http://getheal.com

Heal provides doctors at your home or office for a low flat rate or as an In Network Provider from several insurance companies and Medicare.

Co-Investors

Fidelity Management

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

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

Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, Y Combinator

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

PastureMap

http://pasturemap.com

Grazing management and ranching software designed to improve cattle grazing and achieve grass fed certifications.

Co-Investors

OVO Fund, Stanford StartX

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

Deserve

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

Aspect Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Pelion Venture 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

Mythical Games

Influence

Pienso

Pared

Wheels

E25Bio

FarmWise

Hydrow

Optimus Ride

Jebbit

Spruce Up

Populus

WorldCover

Zeus

OpenGov

CumulusDS

Alba

Vyrill

Sorcero

Clear Labs

Getaway

Honor

Sana.IO

RealSelf

Freebird

Algorand

OpenInvest

Tamr

CommonBond

CNEX Labs

Dataminr

PetPlate

Vesper Technologies

Verity Studios

Sunfolding

SHINE Medical Technologies

Accolade

Unity Biotechnology

RapidSOS

GrubMarket

Twenty20

Heal

Agile Stacks

Horsepower Technologies

Relayr

Rigetti

Lumiata

Prenav

Teal Drones

Sentenai