Rick Lewis

General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners

📍 Menlo Park, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 22 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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6
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Board Member
Jun 2024
The Enterprise Web Agent company. Our AI agents run complex business workflows at web scale millions of times to deliver measurable outcomes.
Board Member
Oct 2023
Darwinium is built for security and fraud leaders to better protect end user accounts without compromising online experience or privacy. Digital account security remains an unsolved problem. Businesses are currently relying on legacy solutions that were built to protect high-risk touchpoints - such as onboarding or login - but are repeatedly breached by fraudsters targeting new vulnerabilities in the customer journey. The speed and efficacy of attacks have increased, facilitated by AI tooling and human click farms. Businesses are restricted by siloed systems, multiple disparate solutions, and privacy constraints that fraudsters bypass. Darwinium is a cyberfraud prevention platform that unites digital security with fraud prevention to detect intent online. It provides complete visibility of user behavior across every digital touchpoint, giving businesses the agility and control to protect end user accounts from fraud, scams and abuse. Real-time analytics are combined with the ability to decision and act on intelligence immediately. One Darwinium customer protected 20 individual touchpoints, across 8 user journeys, in just 1 month, removing reliance on engineering resource to deploy new solutions. The entire ecosystem is designed to maintain the privacy and security of end users, only ever using a truly anonymized version of encrypted data. This same data has been used to build proprietary “digital signatures”: a unique way to better recognize returning users based on their previous behaviors. This approach removes the reliance on fixed pieces of information relating to devices or identities which introduce high levels of friction and false positives. Another Darwinium customer increased returning user recognition to 99.95% using Darwinium’s digital signatures. Prior to Darwinium, the co-founding team co-founded, built and scaled ThreatMetrix, the Digital Identity Company, that sold to LexisNexis Risk Solutions in 2018.
Board Member
Apr 2021
Supporting your employees’ lives just got a lot easier. Create equity across your global team and give them the freedom to choose what aspects of their life they want 1:1 support and guidance via video call. After all, everyone is unique! Powered by a global, culturally diverse community of specialists covering nearly 1000 categories, including topics such as physical fitness, mental well-being, leadership coaching, ERG support, diversity & inclusion, and more. Employees have the freedom to explore and amplify their lives wherever they are, whenever they want. Enjoy an employee benefit that gives you the freedom to keep your budgets tight and consistent across your global enterprise. With TaskHuman’s unlimited pricing model, every member of your organization can engage in limitless ways to address their goals privately and confidentially with unlimited 1:1 sessions, group sessions, and in-app content. Gaining new insights with employee utilization and feedback are important for any successful benefit. Our team works hand in hand with you to provide clear and custom metrics on usage and educational resources to provide guidance and transparency to ensure your team is successful and highly engaged.
Board Member
Dec 2020
Mealogic empowers businesses to deliver chef-crafted, nutrition-led meals through our end-to-end commerce solution. Our turnkey platform combines innovative technology, a national chef network, and nationwide delivery, enabling partners to launch and scale personalized meal programs easily. Transform your communitys nutrition journey with us. https://www.mealogic.com/contact-us
Board Member
Nov 2020
Oliver Space is on a mission to elevate the home furnishing experience through beautiful furniture, amazing service, and flexibility to fit your life. Create a space you love with the ability to buy new or refurbished pieces, delivery and assembly in days, and the ability to trade-in your items for credit. Currently available in the Bay Area, LA Metro, San Diego, Dallas-Forth Worth, Austin, and Seattle. Stay tuned for more!
Board Member
Oct 2020
The Stensul Email and Landing Page Creation Platform™ dramatically reduces creation time - by up to 90% - so teams can better focus on improving email and landing page performance. Stensul streamlines collaboration and simplifies the creation process for all marketers, so they can create emails and landing pages that drive stronger results. Stensul integrates with all leading ESPs/MAPs, workflow platforms, image libraries, live content, link tracking, and messaging platforms. Top brands that trust Stensul to solve their most demanding creation problems include AAA, BambooHR, Bisnow, BMW, Cisco, Demandbase, Equifax, Flywire, MURAL, and Yahoo.
Board Member
Mar 2020
Arrive Logistics has acquired the Cross-Border business of Forager. For continued and expanded cross-border solutions, please visit www.arrivelogistics.com to connect with the Arrive Cross-Border Team.
Board Member
May 2019
Rimeto was acquired by Slack (https://www.rimeto.com/announcement) Our mission is to help people collaborate at work - to empower people with access to information, enable them to build great things together, and help them feel truly connected to their colleagues. We build people-centric tools for the modern workplace - beautiful, powerful and flexible. We believe that work is better when information is easily accessible, searchable and actionable. Everyone should be able to see across their organization and tap into collective knowledge. Starting with an advanced directory, we're creating a platform around the enterprise graph. We're hiring full stack engineers, designers, sales leaders, and more. Learn more: www.rimeto.com/careers
Board Member
Dec 2017
Forward-thinking brands like Everlane, Levis, and REVOLVE choose Happy Returns. Together, we retain revenue, reduce costs, give shoppers choice, and make their supply chains sustainable—ultimately making returns beautiful for retailers, shoppers, and the planet. Learn more at www.happyreturns.com.
Board Member
Mar 2017
Entelo is a recruitment partner that has reinvented what it means to source, engage, and hire underrepresented talent. Entelo technology eliminates hiring fire drills by helping companies proactively find, connect with, and hire skilled, underrepresented talent. Unlike tech companies that only provide a database of names, we are experts in recruiting, DEI sourcing and branding. We streamline and automate candidate networking, ensuring candidates are engaged with your brand through authentic communications and touchpoints. In the end, you gain a pipeline of qualified, engaged candidates who are ready for hire when you are.
Board Member
May 2016
Welcome to Primary. Every color for every kid. Shop for babies and kids, not boys and girls. Anything goes because everything goes.
Board Member
Nov 2014
Pluto TV, a Paramount Company, is the leading free streaming television service delivering hundreds of live linear channels and thousands of titles on-demand to a global audience. The Emmy ® award-winning service curates a diverse lineup of channels, in partnership with over 400 international media companies, offering a wide array of genres, languages and categories featuring movies, television series, sports, news, lifestyle, kids and much more. Pluto TV can be easily accessed and streamed across mobile, web and connected TV devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Pluto TV’s growing international footprint extends across three continents and over 35 markets. We are always looking for the brightest new talent to join us on our mission of entertaining the planet. Check out the Pluto TV careers section for currently open roles.
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May 2012
Part of the Airbnb family, HotelTonight is a hotel-booking service focused on making last-minute trips easy and fun, offering travelers seamless, on-demand booking for boutique and independent hotels. Through features such as Daily Drop, personalized daily hotel deals, HotelTonight uses innovation to enable travelers to plan less and live more, while providing hotels new ways to sell inventory. Launched in 2011, HotelTonight is available on iOS, Android, and at hoteltonight.com.
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Dec 2011
The Zero-Party Data Platform The Wayin Platform makes it easy for non-technical marketers to create engaging, interactive experiences that collect zero-party data at speed and scale across all digital channels. Marketers can select from over 85+ different interactive marketing experiences with data capture mechanics that offer a value exchange in return for zero-party data. These experiences can be rapidly configured and published to any digital channel, whether owned, earned or paid, from websites to microsites, mobile apps to in-venue screens, social stories to ad units, and many more. The Wayin Platform captured over 1.2 billion zero-party data records in the last 2 calendar years alone. 1.2 billion preference insights, purchase motivations and intentions that empower marketers to deliver powerful, personalized campaigns that drive sales and conversions.
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Dec 2011
Edison Software is a consumer technology company creating artificial intelligence to transform the way people communicate. Edison has developed a suite of AI-based apps and services: -Edison Mail, an email app for Android and iOS devices, makes email faster, simpler and smarter. Edison Mail helps consumers better manage subscriptions, travel, expenses, and receipts. -Edison Trends, launched in July 2017, provides consumer brands and other enterprise customers unique insights on consumer purchasing trends. -Edison API is a developer tool offering unique email parsing and classification technology powered by state-of-the-art AI technology. Based in San Jose, California, Edison is backed by Mayfield and U.S. Venture Partners. For more information about Edison visit www.edison.tech. Download Edison Mail now from the App Store and Google Play! Follow us on Twitter: @Edison_Apps and @EdisonTrends Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EdisonApps
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2024
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Jun 2024
The Enterprise Web Agent company. Our AI agents run complex business workflows at web scale millions of times to deliver measurable outcomes.
2023
Board Member
Oct 2023
Darwinium is built for security and fraud leaders to better protect end user accounts without compromising online experience or privacy. Digital account security remains an unsolved problem. Businesses are currently relying on legacy solutions that were built to protect high-risk touchpoints - such as onboarding or login - but are repeatedly breached by fraudsters targeting new vulnerabilities in the customer journey. The speed and efficacy of attacks have increased, facilitated by AI tooling and human click farms. Businesses are restricted by siloed systems, multiple disparate solutions, and privacy constraints that fraudsters bypass. Darwinium is a cyberfraud prevention platform that unites digital security with fraud prevention to detect intent online. It provides complete visibility of user behavior across every digital touchpoint, giving businesses the agility and control to protect end user accounts from fraud, scams and abuse. Real-time analytics are combined with the ability to decision and act on intelligence immediately. One Darwinium customer protected 20 individual touchpoints, across 8 user journeys, in just 1 month, removing reliance on engineering resource to deploy new solutions. The entire ecosystem is designed to maintain the privacy and security of end users, only ever using a truly anonymized version of encrypted data. This same data has been used to build proprietary “digital signatures”: a unique way to better recognize returning users based on their previous behaviors. This approach removes the reliance on fixed pieces of information relating to devices or identities which introduce high levels of friction and false positives. Another Darwinium customer increased returning user recognition to 99.95% using Darwinium’s digital signatures. Prior to Darwinium, the co-founding team co-founded, built and scaled ThreatMetrix, the Digital Identity Company, that sold to LexisNexis Risk Solutions in 2018.
2021
Board Member
Apr 2021
Supporting your employees’ lives just got a lot easier. Create equity across your global team and give them the freedom to choose what aspects of their life they want 1:1 support and guidance via video call. After all, everyone is unique! Powered by a global, culturally diverse community of specialists covering nearly 1000 categories, including topics such as physical fitness, mental well-being, leadership coaching, ERG support, diversity & inclusion, and more. Employees have the freedom to explore and amplify their lives wherever they are, whenever they want. Enjoy an employee benefit that gives you the freedom to keep your budgets tight and consistent across your global enterprise. With TaskHuman’s unlimited pricing model, every member of your organization can engage in limitless ways to address their goals privately and confidentially with unlimited 1:1 sessions, group sessions, and in-app content. Gaining new insights with employee utilization and feedback are important for any successful benefit. Our team works hand in hand with you to provide clear and custom metrics on usage and educational resources to provide guidance and transparency to ensure your team is successful and highly engaged.
2020
Board Member
Dec 2020
Mealogic empowers businesses to deliver chef-crafted, nutrition-led meals through our end-to-end commerce solution. Our turnkey platform combines innovative technology, a national chef network, and nationwide delivery, enabling partners to launch and scale personalized meal programs easily. Transform your communitys nutrition journey with us. https://www.mealogic.com/contact-us
Board Member
Nov 2020
Oliver Space is on a mission to elevate the home furnishing experience through beautiful furniture, amazing service, and flexibility to fit your life. Create a space you love with the ability to buy new or refurbished pieces, delivery and assembly in days, and the ability to trade-in your items for credit. Currently available in the Bay Area, LA Metro, San Diego, Dallas-Forth Worth, Austin, and Seattle. Stay tuned for more!
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