The Apple Mafia

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Published

October 10, 2024

In our weekly tech mafia series we cover the biggest tech mafias in Silicon Valley and beyond, taking a closer look at what companies former employees have started, how much money they’ve raised, and who their investors are.

What is a tech mafia group?

Disruptive startups like PayPal have produced a line of ex employees who go on to start their own influential startups. For example, employees who worked at PayPal went on to found companies like LinkedIn and YouTube.

This week we cover the 94 top startups founded by former employees of Apple, including rising stars.

Quick stats on the Apple Mafia:‍

Total number of companies founded: 994
Total amount of money raised: $25 billion

If you missed our previous posts, make sure to check the Twitter Mafia, Lyft Mafia, Stripe Mafia, Netflix Mafia, InstaCart Mafia, Dropbox Mafia, Revolut Mafia,Tesla Mafia,Square Mafia, Reddit Mafia, VMware Mafia, Amazon Mafia, SpaceX, Slack Mafia, OpenAI,Google Mafia, Pinterest Mafia, Shopify Mafia, Coinbase Mafia, Instagram Mafia, Skype Mafia, Qualcomm Mafia, YouTube Mafia and Tinder Mafia articles.

Investing in fellow coworkers' startups, especially as a community or alumni group, is one of the best ways to get in early on deals as well as support the ideas and ventures of people you love and admire. Who knows what's around the corner in your own network and community!

Companies covered:

WhatsApp
LinkedIn
Upstart
Flipboard
Inflection AI
Eagle Eye Networks
Strangeworks
New Relic
User Testing
Tomorrow
Cuyana
Lyft
Salesforce
Gladly
Hometap
Fungible
Motiv
Berbix
Zopper
Humane
RevenueCat
Ripcord
Taulia
Digits
Caffeine
Zeta Global
Latch
Aeva
Voltron Data
Censys
Archipelago
1stdibs
Personalis
Alcatraz AI
Simon Data
Lamda School
Vicarious Surgical
Galileo
Nest Labs
Nautical Commerce
DocuSign
Mixmax
Prize Pool
Ladder
Anomalie
Wristcam
Electric Imp
Owlcam
Clear Blue Technologies
Coin Tracker
June
Enjoy
Barracude Networks
Sentient Technologies
Zumigo
Noteable
908 Devices
TidalScale
Sqreen
Inkling Systems
Barefoot Networks
Wonder Workshop
SessionM
Brit + Co
Peel
Greyscale AI
Cleeng
Misfit Wearables
SnapRoute
Zipari
RideOS
Tasteful
Blurb
Cartera Commerce
Hotmail
#Paid
DeepMap
Narvar
Electronic Arts
Stratoscale
Kairos AR
Alembic
Hemlane
Zarta
Hostfully
Rogue Games
Natalist
Atom Limbs
Joy
Pacto
Suiteness
GameSalad
NuMedii
If You Can

Founder: Brian Acton
Apple Role: Hardware Test Engineer
Capital Raised: $60.3M
Investors: Sequoia Capital
Stage: Series B

Well, we all know WhatsApp!

Upstart

Founder: Dave Girouard
Apple Role: Product Manager
Capital Raised: $144.1M
Investors: First Round Capital
Stage: Series D

Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit.

Inflection AI

Founder: Reid Hoffman
Apple Role: Senior User Experience Architect
Capital Raised: $225M
Investors: Greylock
Stage: Series A

Inflection AI is a machine learning startup that engages in redefining human-computer interaction.

Eagle Eye Networks

Founder: Dean Drako
Apple Role: Technical Project Lead
Capital Raised: $195M
Investors: Accel Partners
Stage: Series E

Eagle Eye utilizes artificial intelligence to provide a purpose-built platform to help businesses improve safety, security, operations, and reduce costs.

Strangeworks

Founder: William Hurley
Apple Role: Research And Development EngineerResearch
Capital Raised: $28M
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Stage: Series A

Strangeworks is an unconventional computing software company based in Austin, TX. Founded by William Hurley, Strangeworks is currently making quantum computing accessible by building and delivering tools for software developers and researchers, and systems management for IT Administrators and CIOs.

New Relic

Founder: Lew Cirne
Apple Role: Senior Software Engineer
Capital Raised: $214.5M
Investors: Benchmark Capital
Stage: Public

New Relic helps engineers and developers do their best work every day — using data, at every stage of the software lifecycle. The world’s best engineering teams rely on New Relic to visualize, analyze and troubleshoot their software.

UserTesting

Founder: Dave Garr
Apple Role: Manager
Capital Raised: $152.7M
Investors: Accel Partners
Stage: Public

UserTesting is fundamentally changing the way digital products and experiences are built and delivered by helping organizations get insights from customers–from creation through execution.

Tomorrow.io

Founder: Itai Zlotnik
Apple Role: Software Development Engineer
Capital Raised: $183.9M
Investors: Canaan Partners
Stage: Series D

Tomorrow.io is the world’s leading Weather and Climate Security Platform, equipping humanity with the weather intelligence needed to thrive and adapt in an era of climate crisis.

Cuyana

Founder: Karla Gallardo
Apple Role: Business Analysis and Strategy, Online Store
Capital Raised: $31.7M
Investors: Greycroft
Stage: Series C

Cuyana creates timeless collections for the modern woman through meticulous design, carefully selected fabrics and simple functionality.

Lyft

Founder: Matt Van Horn
Apple Role: Higher Education Marketing
Capital Raised: $4.9B
Investors: Founders Fund
Stage: Public

Lyft is a taxi service app like Uber.

Salesforce

Founder: Marc Benioff
Apple Role: Intern, Macintosh 68000 Development System
Capital Raised: $65.4M
Investors: Marc Benioff
Stage: Public

Salesforce is a customer relationship management (CRM) platform. They help in marketing, sales, commerce, service, and IT teams work as one from anywhere.

Flipboard

Founder: Evan Doll
Apple Role: Senior iPhone Software Engineer
Capital Raised: $235.5M
Investors: GGV Capital
Stage: Series D

Used by millions of people every day, Flipboard’s mission is be the world’s most valuable platform for the discovery and sharing of stories that help us understand and engage in our world.

Gladly

Founder: Joseph Ansanelli
Apple Role: Product Manager
Capital Raised: $168M
Investors: GGV Capital
Stage: Series D

Gladly is a radically personal customer service platform.

Founder: Reid Hoffman
Apple Role: Senior User Experience Architect
Capital Raised: $154.8M
Investors: Greylock
Stage: Public

LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful.

Hometap

Founder: Andy Miller
Apple Role: Vice President, Mobile Advertising iAd
Capital Raised: $172M
Investors: General Catalyst
Stage: Series B

Hometap offers an alternative to debt for homeowners in need of capital to fund college tuition, new businesses, health care expenses, pay off debt etc.

Fungible

Founder: Bertrand Serlet
Apple Role: SW Engineering
Capital Raised: $310.9M
Investors: Norwest Venture Partners
Stage: Series C

Fungible creates hardware and software platforms for data centers.

Motiv

Founder: Mike Strasser
Apple Role: Product Design Engineer
Capital Raised: $25.7M
Investors: SOSV
Stage: Series A

Motiv developed and commercialized the world’s first activity and sleep tracking wearable in the form of a ring.

Berbix

Founder: Steve Kirkham
Apple Role: Software Engineer Intern
Capital Raised: $11.6M
Investors: Mayfield Fund
Stage: Series A

Berbix makes it easy to verify photo IDs online.

Zopper

Founder: Surjendu Kuila
Apple Role: Software Programmer, IS & T Group
Capital Raised: $100M
Investors: Tiger Global
Stage: Series C

Zopper is an insurance API infrastructure platform connecting insurance carriers with ecosystem partners.

Humane

Founder: Bethany Bongiorno, Imran Chaudhri
Apple Role: Director, Director of Design
Capital Raised: $230M
Investors: Tiger Global
Stage: Series C

Humane is a platform that creates and sells consumer hardware, software, and services.

RevenueCat

Founder: Jacob Eiting
Apple Role: Software Engineer
Capital Raised: $56.5M
Investors: Y Combinator
Stage: Series B

The world's top apps use RevenueCat to build, analyze, and grow subscriptions on iOS, Android, and the web.

Ripcord

Founder: Alex Fielding
Apple Role: Sr. Staff Engineer, Engineering Manager
Capital Raised: $180M
Investors: Lux Capital
Stage: Series B

Ripcord is disrupting the $62 billion document intelligence space with its cutting-edge Document Intelligence as-a-Service platform. Using advanced robotics, machine learning and generative AI in a cloud-based platform, Ripcord digitizes, ingests, classifies, and intelligently extracts and abstracts data from paper and digital records, making them accessible and actionable to enterprise users.

Taulia

Founder: Markus Ament
Apple Role: ReadSoft project supervisor
Capital Raised: $216.7M
Investors: Zouk Capital
Stage: Series F

Taulia enables organizations to turn every invoice into a revenue opportunity while drastically strengthening supplier relationships.

Digits

Founder: Jeff Seibert
Apple Role: Campus Rep, Stanford University
Capital Raised: $97.5M
Investors: Benchmark Capital
Stage: Series C

Digits is an AI company building tools for businesses and finance professionals by leveraging its proprietary technology.

Caffeine

Founder: Ben Keighran, Sam Roberts
Apple Role: Design, Senior User Experience Designer
Capital Raised: $294M
Investors: Greylock
Stage: Series D

Caffeine is changing how people consume live television - making it more friendly, connected, and fun. They’re building a new social broadcasting platform that features world-class content, easy-to-use broadcasting tools, a social and fun viewing experience, and an engaged broadcaster community.

Zeta Global

Founder: John Sculley
Apple Role: CEO, Chairman of the Board
Capital Raised: $602.5M
Investors: GPI Capital
Stage: Public

Zeta is one of the largest marketing cloud firms in consumer marketing-tech. Services include big data analytics and a marketing automation firm.

Latch

Founder: Luke Schoenfelder, Thomas Meyerhoffer
Apple Role: Specialist/Worldwide Government Affairs, Designer
Capital Raised: $342.1M
Investors: Lux Capital
Stage: Public

Latch makes spaces better places to live, work, and visit. Latch is a full-building operating system of software, products, and services designed to make every building better.

Aeva

Founder: Mina Rezk, Soroush Salehian
Apple Role: Sensing Engineering Manager, Product Development
Capital Raised: $368.5M
Investors: Lux Capital
Stage: Public

Aeva’s mission is to bring the next wave of perception to a broad range of applications from automated driving to industrial robotics, consumer electronics, consumer health, security and beyond.

Voltron Data

Founder: Darren Haas
Apple Role: Head of Cloud Engineering
Capital Raised: $110M
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Stage: Series A

Voltron Data is an early-stage company creating high-performance data access and in-memory computing tools based on Apache Arrow to accelerate enterprise data analytics.

Censys

Founder: David Corcoran
Apple Role: Technical Consultant
Capital Raised: $53.1M
Investors: Greylock
Stage: Series B

Censys continually monitors every reachable server and device on the Internet, so you can search for and analyze them in real time.

Archipelago

Founder: Roger Bodamer
Apple Role: VP Product Operations and Development
Capital Raised: $57.2M
Investors: Canaan Partners
Stage: Series B

Archipelago is an AI-driven commercial property risk platform that provides real-time visibility into how to better manage risk, improve portfolio resilience, and create more value in portfolios through intelligent insurance strategies and investments.

1stdibs

Founder: Laurence Forcione
Apple Role: Software Engineer
Capital Raised: $253M
Investors: Spark Capital
Stage: Series D

1stdibs is a leading online marketplace for connecting design lovers with highly coveted sellers and makers of vintage, antique and contemporary furniture, home décor, art, jewelry, watches and fashion.

Personalis

Founder: Atul Butte
Apple Role: Summer Software Engineer, Software Engineer
Capital Raised: $225.1M
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Stage: Public

Personalis is a contract research organization and genome-scale diagnostics services company specializing in genome-guided medicine.

Alcatraz AI

Founder: Vince Gaydarzhiev
Apple Role: New Product Introduction Lead
Capital Raised: $44.9M
Investors: HCVC
Stage: Series A

Alcatraz is revolutionizing the access control experience by autonomously leveraging the unique power of the human face.

Simon Data

Founder: Matt Walker
Apple Role: Data Scientist
Capital Raised: $61.8M
Investors: BoxGroup
Stage: Series C

Simon Data allows direct to consumer brands to seamlessly leverage their data to drive fine-grained segmentation, one-to-one personalization, and cross-channel orchestration across the entire customer lifecycle.

Lambda School

Founder: Caleb Hicks
Apple Role: Sr. Manager, Instructional Design, Worldwide Education Marketing
Capital Raised: $122.1M
Investors: GGV Capital
Stage: Series C

Lambda School is a high impact 9-18 month career and technical program that's free for students until they get a job making >$50k/yr that has placed thousands of students into new careers in tech.

Vicarious Surgical

Founder: Adam Sachs, Sammy Khalifa
Apple Role: Supply Base Engineer, Product Design Engineer
Capital Raised: $185.2M
Investors: Bill Gates
Stage: Public

Vicarious Surgical is revolutionizing the field of surgical robotics. They seek to improve the lives of patients, enhance the ability of surgeons, and expand worldwide access to high-quality care through the use of surgical robotics.

Galileo

Founder: Atindriyo Sanyal
Apple Role: Senior Software Engineer
Capital Raised: $23.1M
Investors: Battery Ventures
Stage: Series A

Galileo is building the first ML data intelligence platform for data scientists working with unstructured data - over 80% of the world's data today. Galileo is currently powering ML teams across the Fortune 500 as well as startups across multiple industries.

Nest Labs

Founder: Matthew Rogers, Tony Fadell
Apple Role: Senior Manager, Advisor to the CEO
Capital Raised: $230M
Investors: Red Sea Ventures
Stage: Series C

Nest Labs is a home automation company manufacturing sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled, self-learning thermostats and smoke detectors.

Nautical Commerce

Founder: Ryan J. Lee
Apple Role: Senior Program Manager, Apple Pay
Capital Raised: $33.2M
Investors: Drive Capital
Stage: Series A

Nautical Commerce is building a complete cloud native marketplace and B2B commerce platform to power the future economy — they are democratizing access to this elusive technology to accelerate the growth of next generation commerce.

DocuSign

Founder: Tom Gonser
Apple Role: Solutions Development Executive
Capital Raised: $536.2M
Investors: Bain Capital Ventures
Stage: Public

DocuSign was started in 2003 with the objective to develop the most usable electronic signature system in the world, and to create a global trust network for documented business transactions.

Mixmax

Founder: Brad Vogel
Apple Role: Engineer
Capital Raised: $13.4M
Investors: Floodgate
Stage: Series A

Mixmax is the easiest-to-use sales engagement platform, transforming the way revenue teams build pipeline, close deals and engage customers. They make life easier for everyone who interacts with customers, not just SDRs, by automating repetitive tasks and streamlining workflows.

PrizePool

Founder: Franklyn Chien, Joe Woo
Apple Role: Senior Manager, Senior Engineering Manager
Capital Raised: $18.6M
Investors: FJ Labs
Stage: Series A

PrizePool is a new fun way to invest in your future where the more money you save, the more chances you have to win real cash prizes adding up to $60,000 every month.

Ladder

Founder: Jeff Merkel
Apple Role: Marketing Manager
Capital Raised: $194M
Investors: Canaan Partners
Stage: Series D

Ladder combines the power of innovative technology with world-class financial and insurance expertise to make it easy for anyone to access life insurance.

Anomalie

Founder: Leslie Voorhees Means
Apple Role: Product Operations Manager: Apple Watch
Capital Raised: $18.1M
Investors: Goodwater Capital
Stage: Series A

Anomalie provides expert style advice, online tools, and best-in-class dressmakers to turn your unique vision into a one-of-a-kind custom wedding dress.

Wristcam

Founder: Shawn Grening
Apple Role: Technical Program Manager
Capital Raised: $76M
Investors: Menlo Ventures
Stage: Series A

Wristcam makes the exclusive camera system for Apple Watch.

Electric Imp

Founder: Hugo Fiennes
Apple Role: iPhone Architecture
Capital Raised: $44M
Investors: Redpoint
Stage: Series C

Electric Imp provides a secure IoT platform, connecting cloud services with the real world.

Owlcam

Founder: Andrew Hodge
Apple Role: Senior Director - iPod Product Development
Capital Raised: $28M
Investors: Menlo Ventures
Stage: Series A

CallPass is a leading provider of advanced commercial IoT, Asset, and Fleet Tracking Solutions while also providing Consumer Dashcams.

Clear Blue Technologies

Founder: Mark Windrim
Apple Role: National Systems Engineering Specialist
Capital Raised: $14.5M
Investors: Flow Capital
Stage: Public

Clear Blue Technologies International combines green energy with the proven advantages of communications and cloud technology to power and control off-grid lighting, security and mobile solutions.

CoinTracker

Founder: Jon Lerner
Apple Role: Software Engineer (Intern)
Capital Raised: $101.6M
Investors: Y Combinator
Stage: Series A

CoinTracker enables seamless cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance.

June

Founder: Matt Van Horn, Nikhil Bhogal
Apple Role: Higher Education Marketing, Software Engineer
Capital Raised: $29.5M
Investors: First Round Capital
Stage: Series C

June is a team on a mission to transform the kitchen. Their first product is the June Intelligent Oven. A built-in camera and sensors makes June able to identify commonly cooked foods, recommend a cooking program and execute to perfection.

Enjoy

Founder: Ron Johnson, Tom Suiter
Apple Role: Senior Vice President, Creative Director
Capital Raised: $310.5M
Investors: Highland Capital Partners
Stage: Public

Enjoy is a technology company that is reinventing “Commerce at Home” by partnering with the world’s premium consumer brands to provide a personalized, high-touch retail experience in the comfort of home. Co-founded by Apple retail strategist, Ron Johnson, Enjoy has pioneered a new retail experience.

Barracuda Networks

Founder: Dean Drako
Apple Role: Technical Project Lead
Capital Raised: $46.4M
Investors: Sequoia Capital
Stage: Series D

Barracuda Networks combines premises-based gateways and software, virtual appliances, cloud services, and comprehensive remote support to deliver comprehensive content security, data protection, and application delivery solutions.

Sentient Technologies

Founder: Adam Cheyer
Apple Role: Engineering Director
Capital Raised: $174.4M
Investors: Horizons Ventures
Stage: Series D

Sentient Technologies is the world’s leading artificial intelligence company specializing in evolutionary intelligence.

Zumigo

Founder: Chirag Bakshi
Apple Role: Director
Capital Raised: $7.7M
Investors: Intel Capital
Stage: Series B

Zumigo is the leading provider of authoritative mobile identity information to seamlessly verify authentic users while preventing fraudsters from creating fake accounts, stealing user credentials, impersonating valid customers and completing costly transactions.

Noteable

Founder: Elijah Meeks
Apple Role: Data Visualization Engineer
Capital Raised: $25.1M
Investors: Bain Capital Ventures
Stage: Series A

Noteable is a collaborative data notebook that enables data-driven teams to use and visualize data together. Its cloud-based and secure deployment options, no-code visualizations, and collaborative environment make it easy for teams to work with data in a single platform.

908 Devices

Founder: Christopher Brown
Apple Role: Platform Architecture
Capital Raised: $66.8M
Investors: SLB
Stage: Public

908 Devices is revolutionizing chemical and biochemical analysis with its simple handheld and desktop devices, addressing critical-to-life applications.

TidalScale

Founder: Ike Nassi
Apple Role: Senior Vice President
Capital Raised: $43M
Investors: Bain Capital Ventures
Stage: Series B

TidalScale is the leading provider of software-defined servers that bring flexibility to modern data centers by right-sizing servers on the fly to fit any data set or workload.

Sqreen

Founder: Jean-Baptiste Aviat
Apple Role: Software Security Engineer, Red Team at Apple Inc.
Capital Raised: $18M
Investors: Y Combinator
Stage: Series A

Sqreen is a SaaS platform that protects web-based applications with no source code modification or traffic redirection. Once deployed, the solution provides real-time monitoring and protection against a large set of web vulnerabilities.

Inkling Systems

Founder: Matt MacInnis
Apple Role: Sr. Manager, International Education Markets
Capital Raised: $102.1M
Investors: Sequoia Capital
Stage: Series E

Inkling helps enterprises better manage and direct the effort of their field workforce. It replaces email, Sharepoint, PDFs, binders, and walkie-talkies with a mobile-first, integrated software solution.

Barefoot Networks

Founder: Dan Lenoski
Apple Role: Vice President of iPhone HW Engineering
Capital Raised: $225.4M
Investors: Sequoia Capital
Stage: Series D

Barefoot Networks sells ultrafast programmable P4 chips for infrastructure.

Wonder Workshop

Founder: Saurabh Gupta
Apple Role: Engineering Manager, iPod Software
Capital Raised: $80.8M
Investors: CRV
Stage: Series C

Wonder Workshop was started with the goal of making programming fun and accessible for every child. Their robots Dash&Dot have won numerous awards, and are used by hundreds of thousands of children all over the world.

SessionM

Founder: Lars Albright
Apple Role: iAd Leadership, Publisher Partnerships & Alliances
Capital Raised: $97.3M
Investors: CRV
Stage: Series E

SessionM is a platform that powers customer engagement for the world's best brands globally driving increased customer retention, more transaction volume and greater brand loyalty.

Brit + Co

Founder: Brit Morin
Apple Role: iTunes
Capital Raised: $42.6M
Investors: Index Ventures
Stage: Seed

Brit + Co is a lifestyle and online learning company providing classes, content, products and experiences geared towards young women with a do-it-herself attitude.

Peel

Founder: Thiru Arunachalam
Apple Role: Product Manager
Capital Raised: $86.7M
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Stage: Series D

Peel Smart Remote turns smartphones into universal remote controls so users can find and tune into any show and control all their household devices.

Greyscale AI

Founder: Don Fotsch
Apple Role: Director, Software
Capital Raised: $20.3M
Investors: Pareto Holdings
Stage: Series A

Greyscale AI builds and manages high performance inspection systems.

Cleeng

Founder: Gilles Domartini, Nicolas Le Gall
Apple Role: Web Sales & Marketing Director, Business Development Manager Europe
Capital Raised: $7.6M
Investors: C4 Ventures
Stage: Series B

Cleeng is the leader in Subscriber Retention Management (SRM™). It's a SaaS, modular, API-based solution made for subscription businesses.

Misfit Wearables

Founder: John Sculley
Apple Role: CEO, Chairman of the Board
Capital Raised: $64.4M
Investors: Norwest Venture Partners
Stage: Series C

Misfit is a Silicon Valley design-led, private company that creates iconic, fashion design wearables using low powered, high technology and incorporates Big Data analytics.

SnapRoute

Founder: Adam Casella, Glenn Sullivan
Apple Role: Senior Network Engineers
Capital Raised: $25M
Investors: Norwest Venture Partners
Stage: Series A

SnapRoute was founded to bring open source Network OS built by operators for operators.

Zipari

Founder: Mark Nathan
Apple Role: Director of Professional Services
Capital Raised: $45M
Investors: Vertical Venture Partners
Stage: Series B

Zipari provides SaaS software products for the health insurance industry.

RideOS

Founder: Chris Blumenberg
Apple Role: Senior Engineering Manager
Capital Raised: $34M
Investors: Sequoia Capital
Stage: Series B

RideOS offers marketplaces/mapping services for ride-hailing fleets, it builds software that enables companies to efficiently move people and things throughout the world.

Tasteful

Founders: Jon Altschuler, Ravi Chittari, Eswar Priyadarshan
Apple Role: Creative Technologist, Sr. Engineering Manager, Senior Director
Capital Raised: $9M
Investors: CRV
Stage: Series A

Tasteful helps you discover healthy food, wherever you go and whatever your needs.

Blurb

Founder: Dan Quine
Apple Role: Senior Engineering Manager
Capital Raised: $24.1M
Investors: Canaan Partners
Stage: Series C

Blurb is a book-making platform and creative community that enables individuals to create, publish, and share or sell high-quality photo books, trade books, magazines, and wall art.

Cartera Commerce

Founder: Kimathi Marangu
Apple Role: Consultant, Online Apple Store
Capital Raised: $37.4M
Investors: Flybridge
Stage: Series D

Cartera Commerce delivers a performance-based platform of offers for card issuers, airline frequent flyer programs and merchants.

Hotmail

Founder: Sabeer Bhatia
Apple Role: Design Engineer
Capital Raised: $3M
Investors: Menlo Ventures
Stage: Seed

Hotmail used to be a popular email service.

#Paid

Founder: Bryan Gold
Apple Role: Specialist
Capital Raised: $21.4M
Investors: Nik Sharma
Stage: Series B

#Paid's creator marketing platform allows brands of every size—from SMB's to Fortune 500's—to authentically collaborate with creators at scale.

DeepMap

Founder: James Wu, Mark Wheeler
Apple Role: TechLead, Senior Scientist
Capital Raised: $92M
Investors: Accel Partners
Stage: Series B

DeepMap is focused on the mapping and localization challenge for autonomous vehicles. They work with leading organizations in the automotive sector across the globe.

Narvar

Founder: Amit Sharma
Apple Role: Product Manager, Apple Online Stores
Capital Raised: $64M
Investors: Haystack
Stage: Series C

Narvar enables seamless post-purchase experiences.

Electronic Arts

Founder: Trip Hawkins
Apple Role: Director of Product Marketing
Capital Raised: $2.2M
Investors: Sequoia Capital
Stage: Public

Electronic Arts develop and deliver games, content, and online services for Internet-connected consoles, mobile devices, and personal computers.

Stratoscale

Founder: Ariel Maislos
Apple Role: Senior Director, Head of Herzeliya Design center
Capital Raised: $69M
Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners
Stage: Series C

Stratoscale delivers AWS compatible infrastructure and services that can be deployed in any enterprise data center. Stratoscale’s solutions include EC2-compatible and Kubernetes applications, S3-compatible, EBS-compatible and EFS-compatible storage, RDS-compatible databases, ELB-compatible load balancers, and EMR-compatible Hadoop.

Rising Stars

Kairos AR

Founder: Amanda McClure
Apple Role: Kronos Scheduler Analyst
Capital Raised: $11M
Investors: True Ventures
Stage: Series B

Kairos is an artificial intelligence company specializing in face recognition.

Alembic

Founder: John Adams
Apple Role: Sr Security Engineer
Capital Raised: $10.9M
Investors: Village Global
Stage: Seed

Alembic is the first marketing event conversion and correlation engine, purpose-built to tie marketing activities to revenue outcomes.

Hemlane

‍Founder: Dana Dunford
Apple Role: WW Financial Planning & Analysis
Capital Raised: $12M
Investors: Prudence
Stage: Series A

Hemlane digitalizes property management to raise the bar for servicing residential rentals. They combine robust technology with a tech-enabled operations team to provide a world class property management solution to real estate investors, property managers, and real estate agents across the US.

Zarta

Founder: Haim Grosman
Apple Role: Software Engineer iOS/OSX
Capital Raised: $5.7M
Investors: a16z
Stage: Seed

Zarta is an ad-free, micro pay-per-view video platform for creator content that empowers video creators to generate revenue on a per-video basis, while fans can support the creators they love and gain access to content that they find valuable.

Hostfully

Founder: Margot Lee Schmorak, Noah Neiman
Apple Role: Marketing Specialist, Global Analytics Manager
Capital Raised: $7.6M
Investors: Precursor Ventures
Stage: Seed

Hostfully's B2B SaaS platform is the core business management software for short term rental property managers. Hostfully distributes rental inventory to Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com, manages payments with Stripe, and provides a personalized guest experience with emails, SMS, and a digital guidebook.

Rogue Games

Founder: Matt Casamassina
Apple Role: Editorial Manager, Games, App Store
Capital Raised: $5.8M
Investors: Runa Capital
Stage: Series A

Rogue Games, founded by industry veterans with more than 150 years of games publishing experience, is a new kind of game company powered by innovative technology and developer-first solutions.

Natalist

Founder: Halle Tecco
Apple Role: Business Development Manager Intern, Mobile App Store
Capital Raised: $5M
Investors: Collaborative Fund
Stage: Seed

Natalist is built on the values of evidence, education, and usability. Natalist offers evidence-based educational resources alongside redesigned fertility and pregnancy essentials.

‍Atom Limbs

Founder: Doug Satzger, Eric Monsef
Apple Role: Industrial Design Creative Lead, Sr. Director
Capital Raised: $7.8M
Investors: Village Global
Stage: Seed

The first artificial human arm, giving 65M+ limb-different people their limbs back. Atom's mission is to unlock human lifespan.

Joy

Founder: Joe Moak
Apple Role: Sr. Product Design Engineer
Capital Raised: $11.1M
Investors: TCG
Stage: Series A

Joy is the trusted parenting platform that provides essential information, memories and services for young families.

Pacto

Founder: Gordon Whitehouse
Apple Role: Senior Product Manager, Marketing Technology
Capital Raised: $6M
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Stage: Seed

Pacto is a Mexico City-based integrated ordering and payments platform for restaurants and bars.

Suiteness

Founder: Kyle Killion
Apple Role: Systems Programmer
Capital Raised: $6M
Investors: Global Founders Capital
Stage: Series A

Suiteness is a free-to-join hotel booking website that offers rooms that connect to suites for half the price of a typical two-bedroom suite for groups of 4 or more.

GameSalad

Founder: Michael A. Agustin
Apple Role: Software Engineer
Capital Raised: $7.4M
Investors: Greycroft
Stage: Seed

GameSalad is funded by Disney's Steamboat Ventures and develops a visual tool for game designers and consumers to make 2D animation and artificial intelligence with no programming required.

NuMedii

Founder: Atul Butte
Apple Role: Summer Software Engineer, Software Engineer
Capital Raised: $5.5M
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Stage: Series A

NuMedii is a biotechnology company that discovers and de-risks effective drugs by translating life sciences big data into therapies.

If You Can

Founder: Trip Hawkins
Apple Role: Director of Product Marketing
Capital Raised: $9.3M
Investors: Greylock
Stage: Series A

97% of school-aged children are playing games. Research also shows that playing video games opens the “learning centers” in children’s brains. The If You Can team has brought together some of the most successful video game creators in history with national experts in SEL to harness this potential.