Investments: See companies in Purple Arch's portfolio

Sampling of Our Portfolio Companies

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

Upstock Equity System

http://upstock.io

Upstock is an equity compensation management platform that allows businesses to implement and manage an equity structure using fixed and dynamic restricted stock units (RSUs).

Co-Investors

Streamlined Ventures, Founders Fund, Acceleprise, Founders Space

Prima

http://prima.co

Prima offers beauty, bath and health products infused with cannabinoids, or CBD. The company’s products are vegan and cruelty-free and received B Corporation certification and Environmental Working Group verification in 2020.

Co-Investors

Greycroft, Lerer Hippeau, H Ventures

Picnic

http://hellopicnic.com

Picnic builds a modular, easy to use, automated pizza assembly system for restaurants and foodservice customers. It makes consistent, delicious pizza with lower food waste, lower labor costs, and improved safety and cleanliness.

Co-Investors

Thursday Ventures, Vulcan Capital, Creative Ventures, Flying Fish

The Recount

http://therecount.com

The Recount delivers news focused on "corridors of power" in Technology, Business, Culture, and Politics. It curates just the right moments that illuminate the truth, provide shared context, and move the conversation forward.

Co-Investors

Foundry Group, Union Square Ventures, True Ventures, Burda Principal Investments, Correlation Ventures

Willow Innovations, Inc.

http://willowpump.com

The Willow Wearable Breast Pump is the world’s first FDA approved in-bra, hands free, breast pump with 100% spill-proof 360 degree mobility.

Co-Investors

NEA, Endeavour Vision, Pura Vida, Logos, Gaingels

Beam Dental

http://beam.dental

Provider of digital dental benefits. Beam leverages its signature IoT toothbrush for preventative care and consumer behavior insight, embraces technology to achieve lower operating costs, and uses AI for more efficient pricing of its premiums.

Co-Investors

Drive Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Georgian Partners, Mercato Partners

KetoNatural Pet Foods Inc

http://ketonaturalpetfoods.com

Provider of a subscription-based, natural dog food in kibble form with the lowest percentage of carbohydrates on the market today

Co-Investors

Corazon Capital, Spiral Sun Ventures

anzu.io, Inc.

http://anzu.io

Anzu is the world’s most advanced in-game advertising solution that blends real-world brand ads directly into video games, esports tournaments, and live streams, opening up colossal new audiences for brands in unprecedented creative ways.

Co-Investors

HBSE Ventures, Bitkraft, WPP, Sony Innovation Fund, Gaingels, Chicago Cubs

Ocient

http://ocient.com

Ocient offers a big data platform for rapid analysis of the world's largest datasets.

Co-Investors

Greycroft, OCA Ventures, VCapital, Valor Equity, Pritzker Group, In-Q-Tel

One Rail

http://onerail.io

OneRail is a delivery orchestration platform that provides multi-modal delivery automation, optimization and real-time visibility for enterprise clients, all in one place

Co-Investors

Chicago Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Las Olas, Alpine Meridian, CreativeCo Capital

Heaven's Door

http://heavensdoor.com

Heaven’s Door Spirits is an American Whiskey brand endorsed by musician and pop culture icon, Bob Dylan that will marry small batches of premium aged whiskey with the music, writings, and artwork of Dylan.

Co-Investors

MAB Capital

Yumi

http://https://helloyumi.com/

Producer of fresh, organic baby food that is sold directly to the consumer.

Co-Investors

JAZZ Ventures Parnters, August Capital

Axiom Space

http://axiomspace.com

An aerospace company that provides missions to the International Space Station (ISS) while also building the new commercial space station that will replace the ISS.

Co-Investors

C5 Capital, Declaration Partners

Civis Analytics

http://civisanalytics.com

A data science, technology, and consulting company that works across government, non-profit, commercial, and political sectors to help their clients understand the populations they are trying to reach.

Co-Investors

Drive Capital, Verizon Ventures

New Era ADR

http://https://www.neweraadr.com

Developer of a fully-virtual arbitration and mediation platform built to transform the antiquated/slow/expensive process of dispute resolution.

Co-Investors

Motivate Ventures

Centivo

http://centivo.com

A digital-first health insurance company.

Co-Investors

B Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, F-Prime Capital Partners, HarbourVest

Loadsmart

http://loadsmart.com

Developer of an on-demand freight marketplace designed to help shippers move their freight and carriers keep their trucks full.

Co-Investors

Blackrock Innovation Capital Group, Maersk Growth

Refraction AI

http://refraction.ai

Developer of a robotics-as-a-service delivery business using proprietary hardware optimized for last mile package delivery.

Co-Investors

Pillar VC, Trucks VC, eLab Ventures

Verge Genomics

http://vergegenomics.com

Developer of a platform designed to reduce the time and cost of drug discovery primarily focused on neurodegenerative disease including ALS and dementia.

Co-Investors

Threshold Ventures (fka DFJ), Draper Associates, Tao Capital, WuXi Ventures, Lifeforce Capital

FABRIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC

http://meetfabric.com

Fabric is a financial technology company that makes the purchase of life insurance easy and affordable.

Co-Investors

CNO (Washington National Insurance), Bessemer Venture Partners, RGAx, Securian Ventures

Scratch Financial Inc

http://scratchpay.com

A leading provider of point-of-sale financing for veterinary and healthcare clinics

Co-Investors

TTV Capital, Digitalis, Struck Capital, SWS Venture Capital

BlockFi

http://blockfi.com

BlockFi provides diversified financial services for cryptoassets.

Co-Investors

Morgan Creek, Valar Ventures

VENN

http://venn.tv

Developer of a premium esports and gaming content platform that seeks to become the gaming generation’s MTV equivalent.

Co-Investors

Bitkraft

Motorq

http://motorq.co

A connected car data and analytics company that works with car fleet managers to provide a cloud-based middleware software solution.

Co-Investors

Story Ventures, Fraser McCombs, Monta Vista Capital, Avanta Ventures (Corp Venture arm of CSAA Insurance)

Rise Gardens

http://risegardens.com

A developer of hardware and software indoor hydroponic gardening system

Co-Investors

True Ventures

Fernish

http://fernish.co

A premium furniture & decor rental service that makes it effortless to create your home. Pick from a curated selection of furniture essentials, knick-knacks, & things that make you feel good. Pay monthly, decide later what you want to keep or return.

Co-Investors

Khosla Ventures, RET Ventures, Techstars, Jeff Wilke, Spencer Rascoff, Scott Cook

New Culture

http://newculturefood.com

Developer of a new technology to produce cow cheese without the cow

Co-Investors

Bee Partners, SOSV, Bluestein & Associates, Asymmetry Ventures, Evolv Ventures

Forager Logistics

http://foragerlogistics.com

Forager has developed a cross-border freight solution that makes it easier for shippers to transport products to and from Mexico and Canada

Co-Investors

US Venture Partners, Chicago Ventures, Soma Capital, Board of trustees - Leland Stanford Junior University (DAPERI), TFI International

Fauna

http://fauna.com

Developer of a globally-distributed, serverless, cloud database management system (DBMS) built for modern applications

Co-Investors

Madrona Venture Group, GV, CRV

Wasabi

http://wasabi.com

Wasabi provides hot cloud storage intended to compete directly against Amazon’s S3 cloud storage, but performs at 6x speeds and 1/5th the price.

Co-Investors

Forestay Capital

Cube Software

http://cubesoftware.com

A Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) software with a lightweight, user-centric SaaS platform that aims to democratize the FP&A function and transform the back-office of mid-market enterprises into a strategic, agile workplace of the future.

Co-Investors

Bonfire Ventures, PLG Ventures, Techstars

STRIVR

http://strivr.com

STRIVR has built a virtual reality software platform that that allows large organizations to run simulated training programs for its employees covering any and all situations they may encounter on the job.

Co-Investors

Georgian Partners, Great Point Partners, Signia Ventures

Thirty Madison

http://thirtymadison.com

A healthcare company focused on improving how people manage their chronic conditions.

Co-Investors

Polaris Partners, Maveron, Northzone, 137 Ventures, Rosecliff, HillCour Investment Fund, Two River

PartySlate

http://partyslate.com

PartySlate is a marketplace for the events industry. The company's online platform connects event providers with people looking to plan weddings, meetings, and celebrations.

Co-Investors

Revolution's Rise of the Rest, Great North Labs, FJ Labs, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Dundee Venture Capital

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

NextDroid

http://nextdroid.com

An enterprise software business offering a suite of test equipment and software tools that measure the performance of autonomous vehicles

Co-Investors

Fraser McCombs Capital

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

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

ANRA

http://anratechnologies.com

ANRA Technologies provides a cloud-based unmanned air-traffic control platform (UTM) and mobile operating software designed to support commercial drone operations.

Co-Investors

Osage Venture Partners, Dundee Ventures, SaaS 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

HopSkipDrive

http://hopskipdrive.com

Provider of a web and mobile-based platform which offers alternative transportation for children and teens mainly to assist with education.

Co-Investors

Repower Group/Cyrus Capital, Upfront, FirstMark, Greycroft

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

Trifacta

http://trifacta.com

Developer of a cloud data platform designed to improve the efficiency of curating and preparing data, enabling clients to reduce end-to-end reporting time and accelerate customer on-boarding.

Co-Investors

Telstra Ventures, Accel, Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners

LTSE

http://ltse.com

Transforming public stock markets by creating a new stock exchange, with the vision to reduce the focus on short-term pressures & short-term thinking, and instead align companies & shareholders around innovation & investment in long-term value creation

Co-Investors

Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Obvious Ventures, Collaborative Fund

Mahmee

http://mahmee.com

An online provider of a prenatal and postpartum care management platform designed to deliver personalized, ongoing education and live support to new families everywhere.

Co-Investors

Mark Cuban, Revolution Ventures, UpFront Venture Community Fund, Serena Williams, Arlan Hamilton

Parachute Health

http://parachutehealth.com

Parachute Health is a leading ePrescribing platform designed to improve patient care through the transparent and seamless coordination of durable medical equipment and healthcare supplies.

Co-Investors

Insight Venture Partners

Fast Radius

http://Fastradius.com

The leading provider of comprehensive additive manufacturing solutions; from application discovery to product design and testing, to industrial-grade production and global fulfillment.

Co-Investors

UPS, Drive Capital, Jump Capital, SkyDeck Capital

Emerge

http://emergenow.io

A consumer platform enabling the next level of human presence and connection, with a first product that leverages sight, sound, and the sense of touch in XR and digital communications.

Co-Investors

M13, Vulcan, Mundi Ventures

Light Field Lab

http://lightfieldlab.com

A holographic company building next-generation displays capable of projecting 3D holograms without the use of headgear

Co-Investors

Taiwania Capital, Bosch Capital, Khosla Ventures, Sherpa Capital, R7 Partners, Liberty Global Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Hella Ventures

Sense Photonics

http://sense-photonics.com

A LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) company whose ultra-high performance LIDAR system utilizes a proprietary photographic 3D mapping technology that is faster, more accurate, and significantly cheaper than the scanning technology currently available.

Co-Investors

Congruent Ventures, Social Capital, Samsung Ventures, Shell, Illinois Ventures

ConcealFab

http://concealfab.com

ConcealFab is a designer and manufacturer of infrastructure products serving the needs of the Commercial Wireless and Government Telecom sectors.

Wrench

http://getwrench.com

Wrench provides an online platform designed to book appointments for on-site car repairing services.

Co-Investors

Tenaya Capital

Arrive

http://arrive.com

Arrive is a transactional platform that delivers scalable, friction-free drive-up and reservation parking services for consumers and enterprise customers.

Co-Investors

Amazon Alexa Fund, NewSpring Capital, Jump Capital, Baird Capital

Vector Space Systems

http://vector-launch.com

Vector is a rocket launch company that aims to provide cost-efficient and flexible launch options to get hardware into orbit, a key challenge for small satellite providers.

Co-Investors

KODEM Growth Partners, Sequoia, Shasta Ventures, Lightspeed

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

Alviere

http://alviere.com

Provider of a single-integration API, plug & play software service that streamlines and automates the delivery of any financial products.

Co-Investors

Draper Associates, JumpStart NEXT Fund

Rize

http://rizemoney.com

Rize is a "neobanking" platform that seamlessly combines checking, savings, and investing all in one interface allowing customers to organize money according to their needs instead of by account type.

Co-Investors

rizemoney.com

ZeroCater

http://zerocater.com

Zero Cater sources meals from restaurants, caterers, food trucks, etc. in order to offer a wide variety of catered meals and snacks for business customers.

Co-Investors

Cleveland Avenue, Struck Capital, Y Combinator

Xaptum

http://xaptum.com

Xaptum is a Chicago-based Network SaaS / IoT business that markets itself as the worlds "first hardware security provider for the Internet of Things."

Co-Investors

VCapital, LOUD Capital

Leaftail Labs

http://leaftaillabs.com

Leaftail Labs is a mobile, augmented reality gaming company that is developing a location-based immersive game currently titled "Chibis." The game is designed to use location-based tech to recognize and adapt your daily physical routines.

Co-Investors

Shasta Ventures, Sequia Capital (Scout Fund), Maveron Ventures

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

Payzer

http://payzer.com

Payzer is a mobile payment platform for specialty contractors and home service businesses (e.g. HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical).

Co-Investors

Providence Equity, Grotech, Route 66 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

Tethr

http://tethr.com

A communications intelligence platform designed to surface insights from large volumes of customer phone conversations to influence business decisions.

Co-Investors

Grotech Ventures

Intelity

http://intelity.com

Intelity is a cloud-based guest experience and management platform that delivers a friction-free, personalized guest experience while creating operational efficiencies and driving additional revenue.

Co-Investors

Karlani Capital

SonderMind

http://sondermind.com

SonderMind is an behavioral health network that looks to address a three-sided marketplace between consumers, private practitioners, and partners/enterprises using software that has built-in customer support and is tied to medical billing systems.

Co-Investors

Kickstart Seed Fund

New Aera

http://tidalassist.com

New Aera is a medical device company that manufactures innovative products for people suffering from acute respiratory conditions.

Co-Investors

Dan Malven, 1347 Capital

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

SendaRide

http://sendaride.com

A mobile application and cloud-based ridesharing platform that provides on demand and pre-scheduled transportation services for non-emergency medical patients, the elderly, children & preteens.

Co-Investors

I2E, Wasabi Ventures

NeuSpera Medical

http://neuspera.com

NeuSpera is a clinical-stage bioelectronic medicine (electroceuticals) company that develops miniature implantable devices that can be used to treat chronic and debilitating diseases.

Co-Investors

6 Dimensions Capital, Action Potential Venture Capital, Windham Venture Partners, Stanford University Endowment

Smart Wires

http://smartwires.com

A smart grid technology company that manufacturers power flow devices that turn existing transmission lines into dynamic, controllable, and observable “smart wires.”

Co-Investors

3x5 Partners

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

Teal Drones

http://tealdrones.com

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

Co-Investors

Highland Capital, Pelion, NEA, IDO Investments

Exicure

http://exicuretx.com

Developing a new class of immunomodulatory and gene silencing drugs.

Co-Investors

Eric Lefkofsky, Bill Gates, AbbVie Ventures, Katalyst Securities

Innoblative

http://innoblative.com

Medical device company developing specialized electrosurgical devices that innovate multiple surgical procedures.

Co-Investors

Inflection Equity

Vertical Mass

http://site.verticalmass.com

Data management platform for music, entertainment, and sports data.

Co-Investors

Greycroft, Sierra Wasatch (in conjunction with owners of 8 professional sports teams)

NuCurrent

http://nucurrent.com

Leading developer of high-efficiency antennas for wireless power applications.

Co-Investors

Capital Midwest, Lakewest Venture Partners, Independence Equity

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Sampling of Our Portfolio Companies

Upstock Equity System

Prima

Picnic

The Recount

Willow Innovations, Inc.

Beam Dental

KetoNatural Pet Foods Inc

anzu.io, Inc.

Ocient

One Rail

Heaven's Door

Yumi

Axiom Space

Civis Analytics

New Era ADR

Centivo

Loadsmart

Refraction AI

Verge Genomics

FABRIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC

Scratch Financial Inc

BlockFi

VENN

Motorq

Rise Gardens

Fernish

New Culture

Forager Logistics

Fauna

Wasabi

Cube Software

STRIVR

Thirty Madison

PartySlate

Rigetti

NextDroid

Deserve Series C

Plastiq

ANRA

Wheels

HopSkipDrive

True Link Financial

Trifacta

LTSE

Mahmee

Parachute Health

Fast Radius

Emerge

Light Field Lab

Sense Photonics