Creative software, document services. NASDAQ: ADBE. Acquired Omniture $1.8B 2009 (becoming Adobe Analytics).

Los Angeles CA. Secure document sharing and virtual data room for M&A/dealmaking. Co-founded by Eric M. Jackson (PayPal, author of The PayPal Wars).

San Francisco CA. Social enterprise developing low-cost infant warmers for premature/low-birth-weight babies in developing countries. Co-founded by Jane Chen (TED2012 Senior Fellow), Naganand Murty, Linus Liang, Rahul Panicker. 1M+ babies impacted in 25 countries. Series A: Vinod Khosla Impact Fund 2012. Marc Benioff angel investor 2014. Jane Chen subsequently moved to King River Capital (VC investor).

Collaborative design platform. San Francisco CA. Sequoia + Greylock + Index Ventures. Adobe attempted acquisition ($20B) blocked by regulators 2023. Raised $300M Series E 2025 at $12.5B.

Software development platform; Microsoft acquired 2018; a16z led $100M Series A in 2012 (Peter Levine)

San Francisco CA. DevSecOps platform — source code management, CI/CD, security scanning in one platform. IQT portfolio (George Hoyem board). NASDAQ: GTLB. $1.9B ARR (2024). Used by IC/DOD for secure software development pipelines. FedRAMP authorized. Open-source core. Competes with GitHub (Microsoft).

AI writing assistant. San Francisco CA. General Catalyst + IVP. 30M+ daily users. $13B valuation. Raised $200M 2019.

Connected workspace / all-in-one productivity tool. San Francisco CA. First Round Capital + Sequoia. 100M+ users. $10B valuation. Raised $275M Series C 2023.

PeopleReign is an agentic AI platform founded in 2020 that automates IT and HR employee service, delivering instant issue resolution and reducing ticket volume by up to 65%. The company is headquartered in California and serves enterprise customers seeking to lower the cost of employee support.

Connected operations platform for physical industries. San Francisco CA. General Catalyst + Andreessen Horowitz. IPO Dec 2021 at $11.4B. IoT sensors + fleet management.

Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2018 by John Vrionis and Jyoti Bansal. The firm leads seed rounds in enterprise AI software startups and is known for a proprietary playbook to help portfolio companies achieve product-market fit.