ReadMe helps companies improve developer experience (DX) by creating interactive, centralized hubs for API documentation. The platform includes features like OpenAPI integration, live API testing, code samples, and usage analytics — enabling teams to streamline developer onboarding and maintain high-quality API experiences.
Sector: Technology
Xoom
Xoom is a digital money transfer company that allows users to securely transfer money online. Xoom went public in 2013 and was then acquired by PayPal in 2015.
A Fidelity Ventures investment. Fidelity Ventures was a venture capital investment group affiliated with F-Prime until 2010.
AppsFlyer
AppsFlyer is a mobile advertising measurement platform that allows app marketers to measure their user acquisition campaigns in real-time.
An Eight Roads investment. Eight Roads is F-Prime’s sister venture capital investment group, with which F-Prime collaborates on investments outside of the Americas and Europe.
* Denotes activity with the investment team prior to joining F-Prime.
Neo4j
Neo4j is the leading graph database platform that drives innovation and competitive advantage at Airbus, Comcast, eBay, NASA, UBS, Walmart and more. Thousands of community deployments and more than 300 customers harness connected data with Neo4j to reveal how people, processes, locations and systems are interrelated. Using this relationships-first approach, applications built using Neo4j tackle connected data challenges including artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and master data.
An Eight Roads investment. Eight Roads is F-Prime’s sister venture capital investment group, with which F-Prime collaborates on investments outside of the Americas and Europe.
* Denotes activity with the investment team prior to joining F-Prime.
Alibaba
Alibaba is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals. Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) went public in 2014.
An Eight Roads investment. Eight Roads is F-Prime’s sister venture capital investment group, with which F-Prime collaborates on investments outside of the Americas and Europe.
Stride Health
Stride Health is an early-stage healthcare IT company developing a multi-carrier, private health insurance marketplace for the individual segment.
Shervin Ghaemmaghami
Shervin joined F-Prime in 2012 to help start the technology fund. He focuses on startups building tools for scientists (e.g., Benchling, BenchSci, Albert), engineers (e.g., ReadMe, Codeship – acquired by CloudBees, Cloudant – acquired by IBM), and modern fintech infrastructure (e.g., Recurly – acquired by Accel-KKR).
Shervin began his venture career at Polaris Partners and previously held operating roles at The Atlantic and several MIT spinouts. He also worked for McKinsey & Company in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Middle East. Shervin was born and raised in London, and has undergraduate and master’s degrees in Engineering from both the University of Cambridge and MIT.
Recurly
Recurly provides a cloud-based platform that automates subscription billing, payment processing, and revenue optimization for businesses operating on recurring revenue models. Its features include plan and pricing configuration, subscriber management, payment orchestration, churn mitigation tools, and analytics dashboards. Designed to integrate with various payment gateways and business systems, Recurly supports companies in managing and scaling their subscription operations efficiently.
FutureAdvisor
FutureAdvisor is an online Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) that provides mass affluent investors with low cost, personalized portfolios through an easy-to-use and intuitive user experience. FutureAdvisor was acquired by BlackRock in 2015.
Cloudant
Cloudant is a fully managed NoSQL Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) built on Apache CouchDB, designed to handle the demands of modern web and mobile applications. It offers multi-master replication, real-time indexing, and geospatial querying, enabling developers to build scalable and resilient applications without the overhead of database administration.