Background Capital

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AudioShake helps makes audio more usable for both humans and machines through its sound separation technology, enabling a wide range of content workflows across the media, entertainment, and speech industries.

Flipturn is a technology company that offers an industry-leading EV fleet charging management platform trusted by Fortune 500 fleets. The platform helps manage charging operations, minimize utility costs, and improve charger uptime.

Commons is a sustainable lifestyle app that empowers users to make financial choices that are better for themselves, their communities, and the planet. The app helps users track, budget, save, and shop sustainably, promoting a lifestyle that prioritizes environmental responsibility and financial well-being.

Select Star is an intelligent data discovery platform that simplifies data exploration and documentation, providing automated data cataloging, lineage, and semantic models.

GitLaw is a company specializing in advanced legal data management.

Parallel provides web search and research APIs specifically designed for AI agents, enabling them to efficiently retrieve and process information from the web.

Visia Health is an innovative healthcare provider focused on delivering advanced health solutions to everyone.

Reveri is a hypnosis app that provides self-hypnosis and guided hypnotherapy sessions to help individuals manage pain, reduce stress and anxiety, improve sleep, and overcome addictions.

ShoppingGives is a cause marketing software solution that enables businesses to integrate charitable giving into their customer journey, allowing consumers to support nonprofits through their purchases.

Emperia is a commerce-driven platform that empowers creators, studios and enterprises to build cross-device virtual worlds. The platform marries the reach and accessibility of e-commerce and gaming; adding a layer of user engagement, personalization and data monitoring.

Thrive Capital operates with a deliberately low-profile, secretive brand and attribution-free team model while making a small number of very large, high-conviction bets and stepping in as an anchor investor during market stress. The firm combines early-stage investing with multi-billion-dollar growth rounds from the same platform while maintaining a small, elite partnership and hybrid identity as both investor and operator through company-building efforts.

Data-driven search fund led by Yohei Nakajima and Jessica Jackley that proactively sources deals and targets under-networked, execution-focused founders. They generate ~90% of their pipeline through systematic outbound sourcing rather than warm introductions, focusing on introverted technologists, non-tech industry veterans, and heads-down operators.