Portfolio Companies Excelling in Rising Target Markets

It’s been a great year of impact and accomplishments. The Rising Tide team hosted its Annual Meeting in Menlo Park, California that embraced the event theme: Innovate, Imagine, Inspire. Attendees had opportunities to connect with entrepreneurs, family offices, portfolio founders, ecosystem partners, and Rising Tide’s Investment Team. Topics of discussion covered industry developments, fund performance, strategic partnership opportunities, and startup companies’ progress. Portfolio founders shared their areas of expertise and success stories in the following investment themes: Blockchain, Financial Technology, Healthcare and Deep Technology. Over 15 CEOs/Founders elaborated how they are building companies posed for exponential growth. The Rising Tide team elaborated on its investment strategy that is focused on fundamental technology breakthrough and post investment, governance is entirely focused on helping in value creation, business expansion, strategic partnerships, and exits in reasonable time frames. 2019 and beyond carry the promise of continued cooperation, success and advancement for our thriving ecosystem, hopefully to have a larger impact on lives and livelihoods.

• Activ Surgical Raises $11M to Improve Surgery Outcomes with Computer Vision, link here
• Amberdata Joins Symphony Partner Ecosystem, Launching Crypto Bot at Innovate New York, link here
• Atia Vision Announces Upcoming Presentations Highlighting Modular Presbyopia-Correcting Intraocular Lens Technology, link here
• Brave reaches 8 million monthly active users and delivers nearly 400 privacy-preserving ad campaigns, link here
• Blockstack’s STX Token Now Traded on Binance and HashKey Pro, link here
• Castle Unveils Industry-First Adaptive Authentication at the Edge to Protect Customer Accounts, link here
• CryptoKitties maker Dapper Labs raises $11M to build a blockchain for gaming and entertainment, link here
• Dapper Labs Announces Flow, A New Blockchain by the Creators of Cryptokitties, link here
• Evonetix expands facilities and relocates to central Cambridge, UK, link here
• Exo Imaging Emerges from Stealth Mode with $35M Series B Financing Round to Advance Development of the Exo Ultrasound Platform, link here
• Immersv raises $10.5M to shake up mobile advertising with some VR flair, link here
• Kelzal Perception Appliances Leverage Proprietary Novel Third Generation Neural Network Technology, link here
• Loop Genomics Launches New First of its Kind Transcriptomics Service Combining Probe Capture, Single-Cell and Long-Reads, link here
• Messari Disclosures Registry Tops 50 Cryptocurrencies With 11 New Additions, link here
• Metawave Wins Telecom Council’s SPIFFY Award for “Best Mobile Opportunity”, link here
• Metawave Delivers ECHO™ & TURBO™ 5G Platforms for Economical, Efficient Deployment, link here
• Molecular Assemblies Announces $12.2 M Series A Financing to Advance Enzymatic DNA Synthesis for Life Sciences and Data Storage, link here
• NXM Unveils Autonomous Security Platform for IoT Devices Enabling Them to Manage Security and Data Privacy Without Human Oversight, link here
• Opus 12 is one startup on a mission to convert CO2 into useful products, link here
• Precision NanoSystems to Launch the Revolutionary Ignite™, link here
• Quanergy’s Industry Leading M8 LiDAR Sensor Chosen by Mapping Partner Geodetics for its Geo-MMS System, link here
• RBC Signals Announces Second SBIR Phase I Award by U.S. Air Force, link here
• TAE Life Sciences Announces Scientific Advisory Board to Advance Cancer Research in Boron-Neutron Capture Therapy, link here
• Teampay Raises $12M in Series A Funding, link here
• Womply Launches API Developer Platform to Supercharge Software for Local Businesses, link here

Enabling Women to Become Catalysts for Change Far Beyond Their Own Fields

How Women Lead is a champion for promoting the voices of all women and propelling their leadership forward. The organization brings together influential women in an inclusive and highly supportive community to provide a platform for thought leadership, to collaborate, and to share resources and stories. By training and connecting diverse women executives from the corporate, public, philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, How Women Lead enables women to become catalysts for change far beyond their own fields. Dr. Ossama Hassanein, Chairman Rising Tide, was a keynote speaker at the San Francisco Annual Breakfast attended by over 600 like-minded advocates. How Women Lead is the Bay Area partner for 2020 Women on Boards, a national effort to increase the percentage of women on U.S. company boards to 20% or greater by 2020.