2048 Ventures
Why We Exist: At 2048 Ventures our mission is to partner with both first-time and repeat founders with the first-time founder mindset, to provide capital and hands-on help at the earliest stage. We are happy to be the first institutional check, and leverage our network of advisors and investors to help you take your startup to the next level.
Where We Invest: 2048 Ventures is based in NYC, but we are geo-agnostic in terms of where we invest. Most of our investments will be in NYC, Boston and Emerging Tech Cities like Atlanta, Austin, Toronto/Waterloo, Nashville, Pittsburgh and more.
What We Look For: We are looking for founders who are creating companies that have differentiation and defensibility through technology. We look for founder-market-fit, vision, and early product and customer traction. We invest in both B2B and B2C: Enterprise SaaS, AI/ML, Fin-tech, Health-tech, Cybersecurity, Dev tools, Hardware, Genomics, Marketplaces, and B2C/D2C businesses differentiated through technology.
63 past transactions
Ratio.City
Pre Seed Round in 2019
RATIO.CITY Inc. develops a platform that provides online mapping and analysis tools to check potential development locations to its clients. It offers three-dimensional building massing for low rise, medium rise, and high-rise guidelines. It includes data and technology for real estate industry projects. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Dathic
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Dathic, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence and data analytics software for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. The company offers Dathic growth, Dathic locator, consultancy, and Dathic ads products and services. It helps companies sell and advertise their products to Hispanic consumer. Dathic, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.
ConverseNow Technologies, Inc.
Seed Round in 2020
ConverseNow Technologies, Inc. develops voice artificial intelligence (AI) based software for quick service restaurants (QSRs) to automate and personalize the ordering process, driving efficiencies, and reducing customer wait times. The company through its platform automates and personalizes restaurant orders in high volume voice channels, including phone, drive thru, self-service kiosks, voice assistants, and voice assisted chat on mobile. ConverseNow Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Austin, Texas. It has an additional location in Gainesville, Florida.
Eli
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Eli enables women to take control of their health across their lives, by providing them with powerful information on their daily hormone profile.
We develop an at-home device to monitor hormones in saliva and an app to provide personalized insights.
Eli's initial focus is to give women a no-compromise option to own their fertility and contraception decisions.
MindMate Ltd.
Seed Round in 2019
MindMate Inc. designs and develops a mobile application for patients suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia. It offers insight on mental stimulation; puzzles, games, and other mentally invigorating tasks; recipes and nutrition advice; exercises; and reminiscence therapy to store memories. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Santa Monica, California.
ConverseNow Technologies, Inc.
Seed Round in 2020
ConverseNow Technologies, Inc. develops voice artificial intelligence (AI) based software for quick service restaurants (QSRs) to automate and personalize the ordering process, driving efficiencies, and reducing customer wait times. The company through its platform automates and personalizes restaurant orders in high volume voice channels, including phone, drive thru, self-service kiosks, voice assistants, and voice assisted chat on mobile. ConverseNow Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Austin, Texas. It has an additional location in Gainesville, Florida.
Gybe
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gybe helps protect and improves water resources globally starting at the community and local level.
Gybe provides water quality information that's scalable. The company uses satellite imagery and proprietary ground-based hardware to transform the management, conservation, and restoration of aquatic ecosystems. It uses analytics and measurement technology that is scalable, accurate and available continuously.
The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
Airspace Link
Series B in 2022
Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services.
It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.
PathSpot Technologies, Inc.
Series A in 2022
PathSpot Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures a system controlled by a software that protects restaurants and their customers from the threat of food-borne illness. It utilizes a unique algorithm for filtering, processing, and analyzing fluorescent light to scans an employee's hands to detect pathogens that cause food borne illness. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York City, New York.
Vitally
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Vitally, Inc. develops an analytics platform for B2B businesses. The company’s product includes Vitally which enables SaaS companies track the product metrics critical to customer retention alongside the impact their post-sales process has on those metrics. Further, the company offers analytics tools, success metrics, and indicators to locate customers, as well as provides insights into each customer's engagement with the product. Additionally, it automatically highlights opportunity or risk states which the customers transition in to. Vitally, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.
GlossGenius, Inc.
Seed Round in 2019
GlossGenius, Inc. develops a set of online tools for beauty professionals. Its tools enable users to showcase their portfolio of work; send automatic appointment reminders to clients; build email templates to send to their clients; manage busy schedule; and accept payments, deposits, and appointment bookings. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.
Ettos
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Ettos.co was created as a solution to the lack of online accessibility to all beauty products consumed in Latin America.
Vitally
Seed Round in 2019
Vitally, Inc. develops an analytics platform for B2B businesses. The company’s product includes Vitally which enables SaaS companies track the product metrics critical to customer retention alongside the impact their post-sales process has on those metrics. Further, the company offers analytics tools, success metrics, and indicators to locate customers, as well as provides insights into each customer's engagement with the product. Additionally, it automatically highlights opportunity or risk states which the customers transition in to. Vitally, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.
H2Ok Innovations
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Using artificial intelligence and data science to empower communities with the knowledge for sustainable access to clean water.
Turbodega S.A.C.
Seed Round in 2021
TURBODEGA S.A.C. develops the mobile application platform for retailers and distributors to digitize and optimize the inventory and supply chains. Its platform uses artificial intelligence (AI) that automates orders, optimizes inventory using AI and tracks daily sales in real-time. TURBODEGA S.A.C. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Santiago de Surco, Peru.
Inso Biosciences
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Inso Bio is a Cornell University-based early-stage biotech company that develops platform technology for biological sample processing. Headquartered in Ithaca.
Turbodega S.A.C.
Convertible Note in 2020
TURBODEGA S.A.C. develops the mobile application platform for retailers and distributors to digitize and optimize the inventory and supply chains. Its platform uses artificial intelligence (AI) that automates orders, optimizes inventory using AI and tracks daily sales in real-time. TURBODEGA S.A.C. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Santiago de Surco, Peru.
Ten Little
Seed Round in 2019
Ten Little develops healthy shoes for children. Approved Vegan by PETA, Ten Little's products are cruelty-free, made without animal products or by-products. The company uses PVC- and phthalate-free PU vegan leather for the shoe uppers. The outsoles are made with natural rubber from the milk of the Hevea tree, the insoles include recycled rubber, and the shoe linings are made from cotton.
Humane Genomics
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Humane Genomics Inc develops precision virus-based therapies for the treatment of cancer. The company provides therapies for dogs. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in West Hollywood, California.
Ribbit
Pre Seed Round in 2020
We are creating the world's first pilot-less airline, and we believe everyone should have the freedom to improve their own lives. Giving everyone access to good transportation is how we make that dream a reality.
nextmv
Series A in 2021
nextmv.io inc. designs and develops real time decision automation platform for developers to test, encode, and manage logistics algorithms. The platform provides services, such as simulation engine, an on-demand simulation engine for customer use cases and re-usable simulation system; staging environment, an environment for testing multiple algorithms against each potential scenario and estimates individual and aggregate KPIs; decisions models, an algorithms for automated decision making in the use cases; algorithm selection; and real time sampling. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Addapptation Inc.
Seed Round in 2020
Addapptation is a UX Platform that completely redesigns Salesforce.com and turns it into a strategic platform for business.
It specializes in the fields of Salesforce, CRM, app development, and design.
It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Acorn Finance
Seed Round in 2019
Acorn Finance provides clients a fully managed professional service to secure competitive funding offer available from the market. Acorn Finance organizes any property valuations, insurances, and legal support necessary to complete the transaction. They will fully package and submit the lending proposal to ensure the clients funding application is processed quickly and efficiently with funds available in the shortest possible time.
soona
Series B in 2022
Soona Co. provides photography and videography production services. It operates social-media studios that provide same day photos and videos. The company serves influencers and small brands that promote their products on social media. Soona Co. was founded in 2018 and is based in Denver, Colorado with studios in Austin, Texas; Denver, Colorado; and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Lendflow
Series A in 2021
Lendflow provides tools to allow software companies to launch great business credit products. We provide a lending widget and API to best-in-class lending infrastructure that software companies can quickly integrate into their website or app so their business users can apply for, receive and monitor business financing.
OceanSync
Pre Seed Round in 2022
OceanSync has developed a ship-based automated weather station to transfer environmental data in real-time from a fleet of ocean-going vessels.
Impacked
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Impacked is the first venture-backed marketplace built specifically for primary packaging. They're building the place to source every primary package on the planet, for the planet.
With technology, Impacked is modernizing packaging sourcing to make it easier for brands and suppliers to connect and collaborate, all in one place.
Valist
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Universal package management, code signing, and strong access control. Distribute executable binaries, NPM packages, Docker images, and much more using p2p technologies.
Ten Little
Seed Round in 2019
Ten Little develops healthy shoes for children. Approved Vegan by PETA, Ten Little's products are cruelty-free, made without animal products or by-products. The company uses PVC- and phthalate-free PU vegan leather for the shoe uppers. The outsoles are made with natural rubber from the milk of the Hevea tree, the insoles include recycled rubber, and the shoe linings are made from cotton.
ConverseNow Technologies, Inc.
Series A in 2021
ConverseNow Technologies, Inc. develops voice artificial intelligence (AI) based software for quick service restaurants (QSRs) to automate and personalize the ordering process, driving efficiencies, and reducing customer wait times. The company through its platform automates and personalizes restaurant orders in high volume voice channels, including phone, drive thru, self-service kiosks, voice assistants, and voice assisted chat on mobile. ConverseNow Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Austin, Texas. It has an additional location in Gainesville, Florida.
Airspace Link
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services.
It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.
Tangram Robotics
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Tangram Vision is building the infrastructure layer for vision-enabled products like robots, drones and industrial automation. Tangram makes it simple to integrate sensors, build apps with their data, and optimize their stability and performance over the entire product lifecycle.
Tangram Robotics
Seed Round in 2021
Tangram Vision is building the infrastructure layer for vision-enabled products like robots, drones and industrial automation. Tangram makes it simple to integrate sensors, build apps with their data, and optimize their stability and performance over the entire product lifecycle.
Lendflow
Series A in 2021
Lendflow provides tools to allow software companies to launch great business credit products. We provide a lending widget and API to best-in-class lending infrastructure that software companies can quickly integrate into their website or app so their business users can apply for, receive and monitor business financing.
Airspace Link
Seed Round in 2020
Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services.
It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.
soona
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Soona Co. provides photography and videography production services. It operates social-media studios that provide same day photos and videos. The company serves influencers and small brands that promote their products on social media. Soona Co. was founded in 2018 and is based in Denver, Colorado with studios in Austin, Texas; Denver, Colorado; and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Airspace Link
Seed Round in 2019
Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services.
It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.
Eli
Seed Round in 2020
Eli enables women to take control of their health across their lives, by providing them with powerful information on their daily hormone profile.
We develop an at-home device to monitor hormones in saliva and an app to provide personalized insights.
Eli's initial focus is to give women a no-compromise option to own their fertility and contraception decisions.
soona
Seed Round in 2019
Soona Co. provides photography and videography production services. It operates social-media studios that provide same day photos and videos. The company serves influencers and small brands that promote their products on social media. Soona Co. was founded in 2018 and is based in Denver, Colorado with studios in Austin, Texas; Denver, Colorado; and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Ware
Seed Round in 2020
Ware deploys autonomous, self-flying drones—combined with machine learning—inside warehouses to automate their inventory tracking. Designed to solve some of the $1.9 trillion warehousing industry’s most pressing issues, Ware’s product helps their customers operate more efficiently. A partner of Skydio and funded by Bloomberg Beta, Ware works with the world’s largest 3PL’s and global brands to improve their accuracy, workflows, and save money.
nextmv
Pre Seed Round in 2019
nextmv.io inc. designs and develops real time decision automation platform for developers to test, encode, and manage logistics algorithms. The platform provides services, such as simulation engine, an on-demand simulation engine for customer use cases and re-usable simulation system; staging environment, an environment for testing multiple algorithms against each potential scenario and estimates individual and aggregate KPIs; decisions models, an algorithms for automated decision making in the use cases; algorithm selection; and real time sampling. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Ratio.City
Seed Round in 2019
RATIO.CITY Inc. develops a platform that provides online mapping and analysis tools to check potential development locations to its clients. It offers three-dimensional building massing for low rise, medium rise, and high-rise guidelines. It includes data and technology for real estate industry projects. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
mealco
Seed Round in 2021
Mealco is a food-tech startup that offers delivery-native food brands. The company is driven by a mission to promote a better way of life for people globally through the power of healthy eating.
Lantern.co
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Lantern is a public benefit corporation that provides a single source of guidance for navigating life before and after a death. It offers free, custom roadmaps to make sure you or a loved one have everything in order. Whether you're pre-planning or have recently lost someone, Lantern has all of the tools, resources, and services you need to confidently manage the process while coping with the loss of a loved one.
nplex biosciences
Pre Seed Round in 2019
NPlex Biosciences develops a proteomic technology platform designed to understand, detect, and treat diseases with DNA nanotechnology. NPlex's platform and research provides cost-effective measurement of protein data with sample, fits seamlessly within industry cytometers for high-throughput analysis, and development of custom protein panels.
It allows nanotechnology developers and businesses to bring improvement in existing instrument, workflow, and bring automation in the system.
nextmv
Seed Round in 2020
nextmv.io inc. designs and develops real time decision automation platform for developers to test, encode, and manage logistics algorithms. The platform provides services, such as simulation engine, an on-demand simulation engine for customer use cases and re-usable simulation system; staging environment, an environment for testing multiple algorithms against each potential scenario and estimates individual and aggregate KPIs; decisions models, an algorithms for automated decision making in the use cases; algorithm selection; and real time sampling. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.