Color
Color is a health technology company that makes population-scale healthcare programs accessible, convenient, and cost-effective for everyone. We work with employers, labor unions, national health initiatives, governments, and public health institutions to provide the tools for preventive health and disease management, including cancer early detection, screening, and care management. We look for cancer. We look out for people. Our cancer prevention and screening program in partnership with the American Cancer Society helps employers and unions take action against cancer—significantly impacting the lives of employees and members while reducing cancer-related costs. Across everything we do, Color delivers healthcare where life happens. We show up at work, in communities, at churches, or at home. We integrate into our partners’ existing ecosystems and make care cohesive. Our robust clinical capabilities, including lab networks, medical supply chains, and providers, help us activate care anywhere.
Founding Year
2014
Headquarters
Burlingame
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United States
Sector(s)
Health
Funding State
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Series B+
Exited
Total Funding Amount
$482.00M
Funds that Investested
Quiet Capital
Move the world further, faster, with quiet capital by investing in technology businesses early to create long-term value.
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8VC
Technology and life sciences investment firm that builds and invests in the world’s most ambitious companies. 8VC partners with elite founders to build transformational technologies that create long-term economic and societal value.
Pre-Seed
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Series A
Series B+
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Shasta Ventures
Early-stage fund with a 15-year track record of investing in innovative early-stage startups across the tech stack.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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SVA
Pre-Seed
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Emerson Collective
Multi-stage venture fund led by Laurene Powell Jobs and focused on accelerating the growth of companies positively impacting the world
Pre-Seed
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Series A
Series B+
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SciFi VC
Max and Nellie Levchin’s venture fund that partners with exceptional founders solving hard problems that require intense curiosity, intellectual depth, and often, science.
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General Catalyst
We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.
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Series A
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Pegasus Tech Ventures
Pegasus Tech Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based global venture capital firm.
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Series A
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Kindred Ventures
Seed-stage venture capital fund that back visionary and dedicated founders who want to solve the most important problems and vastly improve people’s lives around the world. Kindred tries to gain an edge over competitors is by moving as close to the concept stage as possible — even helping to form startups.
Pre-Seed
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AME Cloud Ventures
Founded by Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang, AME Cloud Ventures invests in seed to later-stage tech companies that build infrastructure and value chains around data.
Pre-Seed
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Series A
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Caffeinated Capital
$50M seed-stage operator fund led by Raymond Tonsing. Thesis and stage agnostic firm. They typically partner with founders at the inception stage and invest throughout the life of the company.
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Series A
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Khosla Ventures
Broadly, a venture we back offers one or more of the factors: 1. Significant technology or business model innovation 2. “Black Swan” ideas with significant upside or a significantly better mousetrap 3. Large markets, either existing or newly enabled by the innovation at hand 4. Short innovation cycles 5. Upfront risk
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Homebrew
Homebrew is a seed-stage fund that provides operational expertise for entrepreneurs building the bottom-up economy. They invest in mission-driven founders who embrace big – big ideas, big impact, big risk.
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CRV
Invests in early-stage investments in technology companies with conviction since 1970.
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Investors that Investested
Steve Jang
Founder & Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures
Back in 2009, Steve began angel investing in startups while also building his own products in the consumer social space the first company was Uber, where he was a founding advisor and early investor. Fast forward to 2014, Steve started Kindred Ventures originally as a solo angel fund with a dozen prior angel investments and the passion to help other founders. Since then, Steve and Kanyi have partnered to design and build a new seed venture capital platform which both invests and forms startups. Steve focuses his investment and formation work in crypto/web3, marketplaces, connected hardware/software, developer tools, and sustainability/climate-tech, and has backed over 11 unicorn companies and projects with a total market capitalization over $150B, including Coinbase, Uber, DYDX Protocol, Mobilecoin, Mina Protocol, Braintrust, Nervos Network, Postmates, Poshmark, Color Health, Zymergen and Tonal.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Max Levchin
Founder & General Partner, SciFi VC
Co-founder and CEO of Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM) Co-founder of PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL)
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Ruchi Sanghvi
Founder , South Park Commons
First female executive at Dropbox and served as their Vice President of Operations. She came to Dropbox through its acquisition of Cove, a company she founded in 2011. Prior to that Ruchi was the first female engineer at Facebook, and was instrumental in implementing the first versions of key features like News Feed, Facebook Platform, Facebook Connect and Privacy.
Pre-Seed
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Series A
Series B+
Raymond Tonsing
Founder and Managing Partner, Caffeinated Capital
A San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Founder and Managing Director of Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm. Specialties include Venture Capital, Growth Capital, Secondaries, Private Equity, Equity & Debt Financing.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Avichal Garg
Managing Partner, Electric Capital
Avichal Garg’s tour through tech began at Google, and he landed at Facebook in 2012 after the social-media giant bought Spool, his mobile bookmarking startup. At Facebook, he led product management for a 400-engineer team. His investing career involved a brief stint at Y Combinator, after which he struck out on his own to build Electric Capital, a firm that invests across fintech and crypto. He’s now among the beneficiaries of a wave of capital pouring into Web3 — a catchall term for crypto, blockchain, and metaverse companies — with two newly closed funds worth $1 billion.
Pre-Seed
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Lee Linden
Managing Partner, Quiet Capital
Previously lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card. Lee also founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform which allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burden of physical mailing addresses. Karmawas acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale. Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms.
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Series A
Series B+
Laurene Powell Jobs
Founder and President, Emerson Collective
Powell Jobs shapes the vision of Emerson Collective, reviews impact, amplifies the momentum of its partners, and sets the operational direction of the organization. Many of the priorities championed by Emerson Collective are formed by the work of College Track, a program Powell Jobs founded in 1997 to prepare disadvantaged high school students for success in college. Today Powell Jobs is president of College Track’s board of directors, which now works with more than 2,000 students from Oakland, San Francisco, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Aurora, Colorado. In addition to her work with Emerson Collective and College Track, she serves on the boards of directors of NewSchools Venture Fund, Teach for All, OZY Media, Conservation International and Stanford University. She also is a member of the Chairman’s advisory board of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Pre-Seed
Seed
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Series B+
Dr. Ling Wong
Founder and General Partner, Highbury Group
Dr. Ling Wong is Founder and General Partner of Highbury Group and Sea Lane Ventures. Prior to Highbury, she served at the Gates Foundation where she helped to establish a $1.5B global investment portfolio. Dr. Wong has partnered with over fifteen $1B+ companies, including: Devoted Health, Orca Bio, Collective Health, Color, Apeel, Shape, Stripe, Offer Up, Rappi, Branch Metrics, Notion, Modern Animal, Wheel and Satellite Bio. Notable exits include: Anacor Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Pfizer for $5.2B), Genocea Biosciences (NASDAQ: GNCA), Visterra (acquired for $430M), Slack (NYSE: WORK), Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), and recently Singular Genomics (NASDAQ: OMIC).
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