August Capital is a venture capital firm headuqatered in San Francisco, California, United States. It was founded by David Marquardt and John Johnston in 1995. The firm specializes in funding companies operating in the software, network, software-as-a-service, semiconductors, optics, and consumer internet sectors. As of September 2019, it has a portfolio of 60 active companies and has sold off its shares in 146 companies.
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Funded Companies
An American global semiconductor and telecommunications company.
GitLab is a web-based open source Git repository manager and collaboration platform with wiki and issue tracking features and built-in CI/CD.
Global company which provides a variety of internet services and mobile applications pertaining to road traffic
A blockchain platform for exchanging financial information without sharing data. It is located in Marina Del Rey, California and was founded in 2017.
WePay is a payment provider company serving online platforms. It participated in the S09 cohort of Y Combinator.
Splunk is a San Francisco-based company that produces software for data analysis.
Avant is a company operating an online platform providing users access to personal loans. It utilizes big data and machine learning algorithms.
Turo is a car sharing marketplace where one can book any car they want, wherever they want it, from a community of local hosts in the US, Canada, UK, & Germany
U.S-based Cisco subsidiary designing fabless silicon photonics semiconductors.
Mavenir Systems is an enterprise software company founded by Rashad A. Jaffery.
Qualcomm Atheros is a San Jose, California-based company founded in 1998 by Teresa H. Meng.
Reputation.com is a Redwood City, California-based company founded by Ross Chanin.
A messaging API for mobile applications and websites
Aardvark is a company founded by Max Ventilla, Bimal Dev M and Damon Horowitz.
Online student lender based in New York and founded in 2012.
Urban Airship is a Portland, Oregon-based company founded in 2009.
Trilliant is a Cary, North Carolina-based smart grid company.
Associated investment funds
People
Abie Katz
Employee
Andrew Anker
Employee
Asha Jadeja Motwani
Investor
Bill Long
Investor
David Hornik
Employee
Howard Hartenbaum
Employee
Oren Jacob
Employee
Reese Jones
Employee
TJ Signa
Employee