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.

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

OpenGov

http://opengov.com

Developer of a cloud-based software built exclusively for public sector budgeting and performance.

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 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

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

Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity

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 Studios is a provider of indoor drone shows. The company's product Synthetic Swarm, is a drone show system that combines its proprietary software with its new LucieTM micro drones.

Co-Investors

Fontinalis Partners

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

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 is developing an emergency technology platform, capable of predicting and preempting emergencies before they occur.

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

Zeus

http://zeusliving.com

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

Co-Investors

Initialized Capital

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

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

Heal

http://getheal.com

Founded in 2014, Heal has delivered 45,000 doctor house calls that have driven over $31M in healthcare cost savings in just 2.5 years. Heal has built technology to lower healthcare OpEx by 65%.

Co-Investors

Fidelity Management

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

Rigetti Computing designs and manufactures superconducting quantum integrated circuits and builds software to enable quantum computing and integrate its systems directly into existing cloud infrastructure.

Co-Investors

Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, Y Combinator, Nimble Ventures, VY Capital

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

Biochem manufacturer that makes cost-effective, sustainable natural ingredients from plants via an innovative fermentation technology.

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

SaaS platform for business intelligence, analysis, and collaboration.

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; 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

Petabyte-scale marketing platform that enables brands to better understand and engage consumers via programmatic technologies.

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

Populus

OpenGov

CumulusDS

Alba

Vyrill

Sorcero

Clear Labs

Getaway

Honor

Sana.IO

RealSelf

Freebird

OpenInvest

Tamr

CommonBond

CNEX Labs

Dataminr

PetPlate

Vesper Technologies

Verity Studios

Sunfolding

SHINE Medical Technologies

Accolade

Unity Biotechnology

RapidSOS

GrubMarket

Zeus

Twenty20

Agile Stacks

Horsepower Technologies

Heal

Relayr

Rigetti

Lumiata

Prenav

Teal Drones

Sentenai

PastureMap

Consumer Physics

Deserve

Trocafone

ScanTrust

Celularity

Manus Bio

C2Sense

Respiratory Motion

Humatics

Smartvid.io

Replenish

Domo