Simon AI is the first and only enterprise customer data platform with a fully-integrated marketing cloud. Moving beyond the limitations of both categories, Simon’s platform empowers businesses to leverage enterprise-scale big data and machine learning to power customer communications in any channel. Simon’s unique approach allows brands to develop incredible personalization capabilities without needing to build and maintain massive bespoke data infrastructure.
Sector: Technology
Unison
Unison is the leading provider of home ownership investments, modernizing home financing through long-term partnerships. Unison works with lenders, regulators and institutional investors to integrate home ownership investing into the U.S. housing finance system. Unison HomeBuyer helps purchasers buy the home they want with less debt and risk, typically by doubling the down payment. The larger down payment makes it easier to qualify for a loan, increases buying power, lowers the monthly payment and/or allows a buyer to reserve cash. Unison HomeOwner provides current homeowners with cash to eliminate debt, remodel, pay for school, invest or use as a cash cushion, without the added debt or payments of a home equity loan or HELOC.
Benchling
Benchling is the industry-leading software platform for life science R&D. Purpose-built for biologics, Benchling combines an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), and a molecular biology design suite into a single, unified, cloud-based platform. It’s trusted by over 200,000 scientists — from pioneering academics and high-growth startups to all of the world’s top 50 biopharma companies.
Papaya Payments
Papaya Payments is a free and easy way to pay your bills. Just snap a photo of a paper bill and Papaya will automatically validate it and facilitate your payment.
Rachel Feely-Kohl
Rachel Feely-Kohl joined F-Prime in January 2018, where she leads the platform team for the tech fund. Prior to F-Prime Rachel spent four years in Chicago supporting community growth and expansion for high-growth companies, including WeWork and Startup Institute. Immediately prior to joining F-Prime, Rachel was the Head of Community for FinTEx Chicago, a FinTech industry association, where she oversaw program development and membership. She began her career working for non-profits, where she helped launched entrepreneurial-focused community programs in the US and abroad.
Rachel received her BA in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland-College Park.
Jay Farber
Jay Farber is a Venture Partner at F-Prime, where he leads early-stage investments in FinTech and SaaS companies. Jay joined F-Prime in 2015. He has led or participated in investments in Ashby, Papaya Payments, AvantStay, Quovo, Snapsheet, Vestwell, and System2.
Jay is also General Manager of the technology (GPX) business at Juniper Square, a leading institutional fund administrator and technology provider to VC, PE, and PERE funds. Juniper Square’s clients manage more than $1T in investor capital.
Jay is physically a Bay Area resident and culturally a Seattleite, but has invested across the country and does not hold the Patriots fandom of his F-Prime colleagues against them (mostly).
Lighthouse
Lighthouse (formerly OTA Insight) is the leading commercial platform for the travel & hospitality industry. We transform complexity into confidence by providing actionable market insights, business intelligence, and pricing tools that maximize revenue growth. We continually innovate to deliver the best platform for hospitality professionals to price more effectively, measure performance more efficiently, and understand the market in new ways. Trusted by over 65,000 hotels in 185 countries, Lighthouse is the only solution that provides real-time hotel and short-term rental data in a single platform. We strive to deliver the best possible experience with unmatched customer service. We consider our clients as true partners—their success is our success.
Threat Stack
Threat Stack enables growth-driven companies to scale securely and meet complex cloud security needs by identifying and verifying insider threats, external attacks, and data loss in real time. With a comprehensive approach to intrusion detection, Threat Stack empowers security and operations to better manage risk and compliance across their entire infrastructure, including cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and containerized environments. Threat Stack was acquired by F5 Networks in 2021.
Axoni
Axoni is a New York-based technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure with clients that include many of the world’s largest financial institutions and capital markets infrastructure companies. Founded in 2013 by a team of distributed ledger technology experts, the company offers blockchain infrastructure, distributed application development, and workflow automation tools.
Optimus Ride
The unique makeup of the Optimus Ride team includes over 30 years of shared experience on the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research in self-driving technologies, electric vehicles, mobility-on-demand and other transportation systems. The team also has a decade of industrial and entrepreneurial experience spanning manufacturing robots, medical robots, shared vehicle fleet management and urban design. Building on this significant knowledge, the company will continue to leverage the latest advances in complex sensor fusion, mapping, computer vision and machine learning to ultimately deploy a new form of transportation system that enables safe, sustainable and equitable mobility access. This company was acquired by Magna in 2022.