Nirav Bisarya

We invest early (pre-seed) in exceptional entrepreneurs building a better future. FFC is uniquely suited to excel in pre-seed Venture Capital for three reasons: 1. Over the past 20 years, we built a network that delivers early access to high-quality startups. 2. We have proprietary software that automatically screens 100s of companies per month. 3. We’ve seen it all, as investors, mentors, and operators. We love working with startups.

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).

Inspired by Californias record drought, Flume began with three college students who wanted to empower homeowners to better see and conserve water. By providing homeowners with access to real-time water use information, Flume helps customers save water, save money and protect their home. The Flume® Smart Water System consists of an easy-to-install sensor that adapts to most existing home water meters, a bridge and an app to communicate water use to the homeowner in real-time. We are a lean startup of business-minded innovators located in San Luis Obispo. We are fast-paced and looking for individuals who want to be part of our growing company.

Enabling electrification for all ⚡

We’re redefining what timing can do. In a world scaling faster than ever, from AI data centers to 5G base stations to autonomous platforms, timing and synchronization have become mission critical. Legacy analog clocks can no longer keep pace. That is why we built a fully digital architecture based on CMOS technology. It delivers femtosecond level jitter, unmatched stability, and the flexibility to scale across a wide range of applications. We do more than provide industry leading multi-gigahertz performance. We work side by side with engineers at the core of system design to simplify integration and overcome the limitations of traditional solutions. Our clocks are made for rugged environments, real world demands, and the most advanced platforms on the planet. With agile design and scalable deployment, Mixed-Signal Devices is synchronizing the fastest systems in the world.

Ubiquity Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California focused on early-stage investments in promising deep technology companies. Leveraging over a decade of institutional venture capital experience, Sunil Nagaraj leads Ubiquity Ventures to fund startups pushing software beyond the screen with a focus on smart hardware and machine intelligence applications. With the Ubiquity Extended Team of over 50 experts with a range of technical and marketing expertise, Ubiquity Ventures is able to deliver superior returns, provide funding and development assistance to promising companies to position them for accelerated growth. See more details on the Ubiquity Ventures website at http://www.ubiquity.vc.

IrishAngels is a Notre Dame inspired angel investing group for experienced operators, executives, and founders who want to invest thoughtfully in early-stage companies and stay meaningfully involved beyond the check. Our investors share a common foundation through the University of Notre Dame and a belief that early-stage investing works best when capital and community come together. We invest primarily at the seed stage across B2B and consumer technology, partnering closely with founders and co-investors we respect. Since 2012, IrishAngels has deployed over $65 million into more than 100 companies. More importantly, we’ve built an active, engaged community of over 250 angels who bring operating experience, pattern recognition, and long-term perspective to the companies we support. IrishAngels aims to be a trusted partner to founders and a credible co-investor to the broader venture ecosystem. Headquartered in Chicago, with members across the U.S.

Loft builds the space infrastructure that lets any company, government or institution harness the benefits of space. We have developed a standardized satellite platform that can be configured to fly any customer mission. With our own hardware and software abstraction layers on top of a commodity satellite bus, our platform is truly turnkey and plug-and-play.

Particle is the leading application infrastructure for intelligent devices, helping thousands of companies bring intelligence to the edge. Particle provides everything you need to deploy software and models to an Edge AI, edge computing, or IoT product in one tightly-integrated platform. As part of Digi International, Particle continues its mission to make IoT accessible and scalable for businesses of all sizes. For more information, visit particle.io.

Dusty Robotics is the best solution to ensure design integrity in the field through automated layout and a streamlined BIM-to-field process. Dusty delivers a combination of hardware, software, and services that fit seamlessly into existing construction work processes by printing digital models directly on the jobsite floor with 1/16" accuracy based directly on Revit or AutoCAD models. Dusty has enabled contractors to print over 100 million square feet of layout across thousands of buildings and is trusted by leading general contractors such as DPR, McCarthy, and Skanska as well as trade contractors in framing, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing.

Our mission is to make global trade so easy that there will be more of it.

Cells are the basic unit of life. They power everything we do, and unlocking their secrets is the key to advancing our knowledge of every facet of biology, from development to disease. Our single cell, spatial, and in situ tools enable researchers to answer pressing questions about cells and their functional contributions to oncology, immunology, neuroscience, and much more—as evidenced by more than 5,500 publications citing our technology. We are dedicated to building the best products, delivering the best customer experience, and creating the best team to fuel new scientific discovery, no matter how challenging. And we won’t stop until all of the cells’ secrets are revealed.

Secure Out of Band Collaboration Built for the Real-World Risks Enterprises Face. Designed for critical infrastructure, leveraged by organizations across sectors. “ArmorText excels at enabling out-of-band communications… [and] is a great fit for security operations, incident response communications and collaboration, as well as multi-organization threat intelligence sharing.” -- The Forrester Wave™: Secure Communications, Q3 2022

Main Street Hub is now a part of GoDaddy. Were the marketing platform for local businesses. Utilizing our proprietary technology, we integrate social media, customer reviews, and email marketing to help local businesses get more customers and keep them coming back, while saving them valuable time. Headquartered in Austin, Texas and backed by leading investors, Main Street Hub was founded in 2010 and has more than 600 team members. We serve 10,000 local business customers across the country and have published more than 10 million messages on social media and review sites. Main Street Hub has been named one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine, the fastest growing startup and one of the Best Places to Work in Austin by the Austin Business Journal, and a Top Workplace by the Austin American-Statesman.

We invest early (pre-seed) in exceptional entrepreneurs building a better future. FFC is uniquely suited to excel in pre-seed Venture Capital for three reasons: 1. Over the past 20 years, we built a network that delivers early access to high-quality startups. 2. We have proprietary software that automatically screens 100s of companies per month. 3. We’ve seen it all, as investors, mentors, and operators. We love working with startups.

The Black Pine Circle School LinkedIn Group is for the school’s alumni, past faculty, staff, and friends to reunite and stay in touch with one another and the school. Black Pine Circle is an independent school for kindergarten through 8th grade in Berkeley, California, whose mission is to create a learning community that encourages humanity, empathy, moral depth, cultural understanding, and freedom in intellectual pursuits. Our goal is to create lifelong learners through an inquiry-based Socratic education that places equal emphasis on academics and the arts.

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).

Inspired by Californias record drought, Flume began with three college students who wanted to empower homeowners to better see and conserve water. By providing homeowners with access to real-time water use information, Flume helps customers save water, save money and protect their home. The Flume® Smart Water System consists of an easy-to-install sensor that adapts to most existing home water meters, a bridge and an app to communicate water use to the homeowner in real-time. We are a lean startup of business-minded innovators located in San Luis Obispo. We are fast-paced and looking for individuals who want to be part of our growing company.

Coral EV is a full service provider of commercial EV charging solutions serving the mid Atlantic. Our Charging as a Service (Caas) offering is the low-risk, all-inclusive way to give your tenants and visitors the latest charging technologies. One monthly subscription fee includes hardware installs, ongoing maintenance, and our intuitive software management tools. Our sister company Coral Reef Partners was established over a decade ago to provide some of the most cutting edge technologies in collecting, storing and distributing solar power. Our work with corporations, and municipalities shined a light on another growing need - EV charging infrastructure. We formed Coral EV to service those needs, and a more sustainable road ahead.