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Design Is
The Way To Design is the first guidebook to this new world and this new understanding of design.
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Uber, a San Francisco-based technology startup, is innovating at the intersection of lifestyle and logistics.
Netflix [NFLX] is the world’s leading streaming network with over 83M members in 190 countries.
AdRoll is creating the most effective and cost efficient form of marketing for businesses of all sizes since the advent of search marketing.
Bolt Threads is spinning the future of high performance fabrics.
Chegg [CHGG] helps students save time, save money, and get smarter.
Lending Club [LC] is the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, making credit affordable and investing more rewarding.
LendingHome combines technology with an experienced team to create a seamless, transparent mortgage process for homebuyers, realtors, and investors.
Localytics' goal is to help customers build stronger relationships with their mobile and web app users through our analytics and marketing platform.
MobileIron [MOBL] provides the secure foundation for companies around the world to transform into mobile-first organizations.
Skycure is the most compelling and comprehensive protection in enterprise mobile security.
Sunrun [RUN] helps homeowners get solar energy that is perfect for their home and lifestyle, simply and quickly.
TubeMogul [TUBE] is going to revolutionize video advertising.
Rappi is a marketplace for restaurants and supermarkets. Delivering with impressive logistics in under 15 minutes, in emerging markets.
Uber, a San Francisco-based technology startup, is innovating at the intersection of lifestyle and logistics.
adRise is the largest connected TV content distribution and monetization platform.
Find the perfect pet sitter near you. With DogVacay, your pet stays in a sitter’s home or yours, whether you’re traveling or just out for the day.
Ebates (acquired by Rakuten) rewards consumers with cash back on purchases while providing access to thousands of coupons, discounts, and deals.
ForUs is fixing retirement in America, one small company at a time. A financial technology shop that’s expanding Americans’ access to 401K.
Homesuite is an online marketplace for furnished housing. HomeSuite makes money from a user committing to a unit.
Kik lets you connect with friends, groups, and the world around you through chat.
Motif is an online trading platform built around you and your insights. Built for the way you see the world.
Peerspace is an online marketplace for unique and undiscovered locations. Peerspace is an online marketplace for unique and undiscovered locations.
Pocket (acquired by Mozilla) is an application that allows users to save and retrieve documents and videos from websites.
Sunrun [RUN] helps homeowners get solar energy that is perfect for their home and lifestyle, simply and quickly.
Aquion Energy's patented Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI™) technology is a unique saltwater battery chemistry made from abundant, nontoxic materials.
Autogrid empowers winners of the energy world.
Azure Power’s mission is to be the lowest cost energy producer in the world.
EnerNoc offers technology-enabled energy management solutions for utilities and grid operators that deliver energy.
Sentient Energy designs and builds the MM2 line monitor for use by electric utilities worldwide.
Silver Spring Networks offers Smart Energy Platform™, enabling utilities to improve energy efficiencies, enhance services, and reduce costs.
Sunrun [RUN] helps homeowners get solar energy that is perfect for their home and lifestyle, simply and quickly.
Auxmoney allows you to borrow money today. Private investors fund your loan in seconds - you can get money in the next 48 hours.
BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized block chain platform powering crypto-currency applications reliably and at-scale.
ForUs is fixing retirement in America, one small company at a time. A financial technology shop that’s expanding Americans’ access to 401K.
Guardian Analytics provides real-time omni-channel fraud prevention solutions to protect online, mobile, wire and ACH channels.
LendingHome combines technology with an experienced team to create a seamless, transparent mortgage process for homebuyers, realtors, and investors.
Lending Club [LC] is the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, making credit affordable and investing more rewarding.
Motif is an online trading platform built around you and your insights. Built for the way you see the world.
Ondeck is a technology-enabled financial platform that provides loan financing to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Sunrun [RUN] helps homeowners get solar energy that is perfect for their home and lifestyle, simply and quickly.
Cliqr (acquired by Cisco) provides application defined cloud management. Cliqr makes the cloud all about the application, not the infrastructure.
Carbon Black (acquired by Carbon Black, inc.) leads a new era of endpoint security.
Coverity (acquired by Synopsys) finds critical defects and security weaknesses in code as it’s written.
Cyphort is transforming malware security to advance your business agility from next generation advanced persistent threats.
Fastback Networks provides mobile infrastructure to deliver new services and tap new markets for mobile applications.
ForgeRock develops open source identity management solutions for the enterprise and government organizations.
MobileIron [MOBL] provides the secure foundation for companies around the world to transform into mobile-first organizations.
PrivateCore (acquired by Facebook) enables private computing in the cloud by validating and securing OpenStack servers.
Skycure is the most compelling and comprehensive protection in enterprise mobile security.
SpringCM is an enterprise content management company providing cloud document management and workflow solutions for businesses.
Venafi is the Immune System for the internet, protecting the foundation of all cybersecurity—keys and certificates—so they can’t be misused.
ZeroStack provides IT resources without IT overhead. We have built a new cloud model that combines public-cloud-like operations with on-premises infra
Uber, a San Francisco-based technology startup, is innovating at the intersection of lifestyle and logistics.
Find the perfect pet sitter near you. With DogVacay, your pet stays in a sitter’s home or yours, whether you’re traveling or just out for the day.
Homesuite is an online marketplace for furnished housing. HomeSuite makes money from a user committing to a unit.
LendingHome combines technology with an experienced team to create a seamless, transparent mortgage process for homebuyers, realtors, and investors.
Lending Club [LC] is the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, making credit affordable and investing more rewarding.
Ondeck is a technology-enabled financial platform that provides loan financing to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Peerspace is an online marketplace for unique and undiscovered locations. Peerspace is an online marketplace for unique and undiscovered locations.
Wevorce offers web-based technology and a community of trained attorneys, counselors, and other experts to help couples divorce amicably.
adRise is the largest connected TV content distribution and monetization platform.
AdRoll is creating the most effective and cost efficient form of marketing for businesses of all sizes since the advent of search marketing.
Aggregate Knowledge (acquired by Neustar) offers a customer an exact science to pinpoint where to reach highest performing customers in one platform.
Conviva addresses the changing business of television with a big data platform enabling online video providers to deliver the best viewing experience.
Custora is a predictive marketing platform built for e-commerce teams. Our software analyzes data to predict how customers will behave in the future.
FreeWheel (acquired by Comcast) provides enterprise level solutions to enable the video industry to thrive in an increasingly complex ecosystem.
Immersv is a virtual reality discovery and advertising platform, founded by the team that created the largest app distribution platform on facebook.
Only InsideView embeds all three essential elements of actionable market intelligence into your sales and marketing workflow.
Localytics' goal is to help customers build stronger relationships with their mobile and web app users through our analytics and marketing platform.
Responsys (acquired by Oracle) is cloud software and services company helping brands manage their digital relationships across email, mobile and web.
TubeMogul [TUBE] is going to revolutionize video advertising.
Yozio is a mobile growth engineering company providing an advanced analytics, organic growth marketing platform for mobile marketers.
Guardian Analytics provides real-time omni-channel fraud prevention solutions to protect online, mobile, wire and ACH channels.
Only InsideView embeds all three essential elements of actionable market intelligence into your sales and marketing workflow.
Localytics' goal is to help customers build stronger relationships with their mobile and web app users through our analytics and marketing platform.
Mode Analytics provides online services for analyzing data.
Moxie is changing the way eCommerce is done by anticipating what customers want, and engaging with them through the entire digital journey.
Phantom is the 1st Purpose-Built, Community-Powered Security Automation & Orchestration Platform.
Pocket (acquired by Mozilla) is an application that allows users to save and retrieve documents and videos from websites.
Skycure is the most compelling and comprehensive protection in enterprise mobile security.
Trufa delivers True Finance Applications, employing big data and predictive analytics to help companies unlock cash.
Visier is a cloud-based analytics platform enabling HR professionals to answer critical workforce strategy questions.
Yozio is a mobile growth engineering company providing an advanced analytics, organic growth marketing platform for mobile marketers.
ZeroStack provides IT resources without IT overhead. We have built a new cloud model that combines public-cloud-like operations with on-premises infra
Ideas
We think the sturdiest foundation on which to build a company is knowledge, insight, and a unique point of view.
research / 04.27.17
The Way to Design
It's a journey, a creative expedition. And I've written this book to help you find your way.
news / 04.26.17
The Case Against Empathy
Designers love to tout their ability to empathize with users. But too much empathy can kill a company. Here’s what to do instead.
news / 12.13.16
Quora Session with Steve Vassallo
I’ve been working on a months-long research project on this question &, more broadly, the role of design & of designer founders in the tech ecosystem.
Blog / 04.27.17
Introducing The Way to Design
It's been a long road getting from there to here, but without further ado, allow me to humbly present … The Way to Design.
Blog / 02.27.17
Designer Dialogues: Nate Weiner, Founder and CEO @ Pocket
Let’s start with the big news: Pocket is being acquired by Mozilla, and will continue on as a wholly-owned, independent subsidiary.
People
We’re experienced entrepreneurs who understand the challenges of building a company. Let us help you build yours.
Events
We host a wide range of events, from talks to dinners to summits, helping to inspire and connect the brightest minds in the country.
FC Supper Club
April 4 / 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Menlo Park
Foundation Capital and DCVC are hosting a small group of investors (10-12) for a dinner on April 4th and would love for you to join. Our special guest for this dinner is Steve Kaplan of Chicago Booth Business School, who was our professor and is THE world-renowned researcher of the venture industry.
