Founded in 2011, Social Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm prefers to invest in the healthcare, education, financial services and technology sectors.
Social Capital invests from a balance sheet of permanent capital to help entrepreneurs at all stages and all over the world who prefer to partner with portfolio companies for a longer period. They also use data and machine learning in their investments and to build great companies and help drive their long term success.
Social Capital's investments include Paperflip, Relativity Space, EnjoyHQ, Holloway, AlgoDriven, Talent Garden, mSurvey, Pinpoint, Swarm Technologies and Set Protocol.
Their exited investments include Box, Survey Monkey, Slack, Propeller Health, Costello, Wave, Yammer, Bluecrew, Hinge, Cozy and Base.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Indee Labs focuses on the development of microfluidic vortex shedding for rapidly and efficiently transfecting human primary immune cells with negligible perturbation. The team is focused on developing its core technology for short turnaround chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) development and manufacturing.
Carta (formerly eShares) is a San Francisco based cap table management platform that offers 409A valuations, products for investors and public companies.
A software company making a workplace email communication platform for remote and office work.
Air Map is a drone industry company improving low-altitude-airspace infrastructure to help drone operators can fly safely and legally.
A speciality chemical manufacturing company replacing petroleum-based chemicals with alternatives made from plant-based substitutes.
Nanomedicine company developing vaccines and therapies with cell-specific targeting.
Greenlight Financial Technology is an Atlanta-based company offering a debit cards for kids parents can manage by app.
BetterUp is a mobile-based leadership development platform.
Relativity Space is a company that develops the process of building and flying rockets.
Flatiron Health is a startup that organizes real-time oncology data to help cancer patients and doctors.
NoRedInk is a San Francisco-based e-learning and educational technology company founded in 2012 by Jeff Scheur to help students writing abilities.
A fabless semiconductor company designing the Tensor Streaming Processor, a specialized chipset for deep learning applications. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Mountain View, California.
Zeguro is a cybersecurity company developing a platform for small businesses and its cyber risks.
The only automated financial advisor offering financial planning, investment management and banking-related services all on a mobile app.
Wave Accounting is a Toronto-based financial services and accounting software company.
Glooko is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded in 2011.
DroneSeed is a Seattle-based company that provides automated reforestation services.
Sprig is a San Francisco-based mobile commerce company founded by Matt Kent, Gagan Biyani, Neeraj Berry and Morgan Springer.
A company offering a real estate investment platform
Angaza is an enterprise cloud computing and software development company creating a pay as you go platform for manufacturing and distribution companies to sell their products to customers living off the grid.
Saildrone designs, manufactures and operates a global fleet of wind and solar powered ocean drones, providing in-situ data collection services, global ocean data sets and enhanced weather forecast applications.
A company that participated in the F1 cohort of Y Combinator. It provides financial services to self-employed, freelancers, independent contractors and entrepreneurs
A technology and insurance brokerage company
A company offering personalized texts and schedule text campaigns to customers or leads
Associated investment funds
People
Abhik Pramanik
Employee
Alexandra Brown
Employee
Amit Arora
Employee
Andy Artz
Employee
Andy Taylor
Employee
Arjun Sethi
Employee
Ashley Carroll
Employee
Brigette Lau
Employee
Chamath Palihapitiya
Founder
Chris Ramesh
Employee
Jassim Latif
Employee
Jay Zaveri
Employee
Jeremy Karmel
Employee
Jonathan Hsu
Employee
Kevin Rose
Investor
Mamoon Hamid
Employee
Mark Ayzenshtat
Employee
Ray Ko
Partner
Ryan Purcell
Employee
Ted Maidenberg
Founder
Yao Choong
Employee
Yun-Fang Juan
Employee
