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2048 Ventures

2048 Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that focuses on investing in technology companies across the United States, particularly in cities such as New York, Boston, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Austin, Atlanta, and Nashville. The firm aims to partner with both first-time and repeat founders, emphasizing a first-time founder mindset. 2048 Ventures is open to being the first institutional check for startups, providing both capital and hands-on assistance at the earliest stages of development. The firm looks for companies that demonstrate differentiation and defensibility through technology, seeking founder-market fit, vision, and early traction with products and customers. Its investment portfolio encompasses both B2B and B2C sectors, including enterprise SaaS, artificial intelligence, fintech, health-tech, cybersecurity, hardware, genomics, and various marketplace models.

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Zann Ali

Principal

Daniella Cohen

Senior Associate

Alex Iskold

Founder and Managing Partner

Neha Khera

General Partner

Julie Wolf Ph.D

Principal

123 past transactions

PathSpot

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

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.

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.

Flyp

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Got used clothes? Let a Pro sell it for you.

Nextmv

Private Placement 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.

Carma Community

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Carma Community is an early-stage VC-backed startup building the next generation of powerful SaaS platforms to power the growth of Web3.

ApertureData

Seed Round in 2022
We manage visual data so companies can make machines learn better

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.

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.

Ratio.City

Private Placement 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.

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.

Centro Commerce

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Centro is a tool designed to help merchants consolidate and synchronize operational data into a single dashboard. They automatically collect and consolidate data from multiple sources and also provide insights into inventory, purchases, and sales, enabling businesses to manage inventory efficiently and increase revenue.

Tangram Vision

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.

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.

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.

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.

BioBox

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a unified genomic data analytics platform designed to support research projects from raw sequencing data to publication. The company's platform advances research productivity, connects project insights, analyzes next-gen sequencing data, and applies the knowledge in interactive real-world research projects, enabling researchers, clinicians, and scientists to accelerate research programs for drug development and diagnostics.

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.

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

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.

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.

CoolR

Seed Round in 2020
CoolR, an IT products and solutions company, develops sensing technologies and connectivity solutions. The company offers CoolBeacon, a sensing technology solution; Tack, a wireless device to monitor cooler health, usage, and customer behavior; and Vista, an image platform that detects out of stocks, planogram non-compliance, foreign product, and pricing inaccuracies. It also offers cellular, WIFI, and Bluetooth, and connectivity solutions. CoolR is based in Chantilly, Virginia.

Carma Community

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Carma Community is an early-stage VC-backed startup building the next generation of powerful SaaS platforms to power the growth of Web3.

Ripple AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
AI-based ad-tech solution developer.

mealco

Seed Round in 2020
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.

GlossGenius

Series A in 2020
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.

CoolR

Seed Round in 2021
CoolR, an IT products and solutions company, develops sensing technologies and connectivity solutions. The company offers CoolBeacon, a sensing technology solution; Tack, a wireless device to monitor cooler health, usage, and customer behavior; and Vista, an image platform that detects out of stocks, planogram non-compliance, foreign product, and pricing inaccuracies. It also offers cellular, WIFI, and Bluetooth, and connectivity solutions. CoolR is based in Chantilly, Virginia.

Taste

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Taste is an online marketplace where you can order ready-to-eat dinners from great restaurants, shipped nationwide. The next time you want to have a nice dinner at home, instead of cooking for hours or getting low quality take out, you can order a nice multi-course dinner from Taste to enjoy with friends or loved ones.

Wareclouds

Seed Round in 2023
Wareclouds puts ecommerce products in their customers hands in a fast and cheap way, by using peoples idle space and time. This people store products and assemble orders in their house, and move packages in their free time.

Frate

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Enabling retailers to drop ship returns from customer-to-customer.

H2Ok Innovations

Venture Round in 2023
Using artificial intelligence and data science to empower communities with the knowledge for sustainable access to clean water.

Stabl

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Stabl is a recovery services company that offers post operative rehabilitation out of the clinic and into the patients living rooms. The company uses real time motion feedback to facilitate and monitor home exercise rehabilitation. Their platform offers a validated recovery protocol, analysis of data through custom reports and dashboards, and remote patient monitoring.

Stratagen Bio

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Stratagen Bio’s oxygen sensing technology was developed in labs at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. We are committed to developing high impact technologies to enable clinicians to make more informed treatment decisions and improve patient care.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

FemTherapeutics Inc.

Seed Round in 2023
FemTherapeutics Inc. is a Montreal-based medical device company with a mission to personalize therapeutics in women’s health. FemTherapeutics has developed an artificial intelligence platform that leverages patient data to design novel medical devices, and offer customization to achieve better clinical outcomes. Our first product involves the customization of gynecological prosthetics (or vaginal pessaries) to improve the management of Pelvic Floor Disorders in women.

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

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

Private Placement 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.

Turbodega

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.

Propensity

Private Placement 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.

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.

Daily Blends AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Healthy meals, Automated fridge, and Grab and go

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.

Propensity

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.

Wirestock

Seed Round in 2022
Wirestock LLC provides a platform that enables stock photographers to upload and sell photos on content marketplaces. Its platform also enables users to manage and track the licensing of their content; and analyze performance of their content from different agencies in a dashboard. Wirestock LLC was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Smart City, Malta.

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.

Flyp

Seed Round in 2021
Got used clothes? Let a Pro sell it for you.

ConverseNow

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.

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.

ConverseNow

Private Placement 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.

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

Private Placement 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.

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.

Airspace Link

Private Placement 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.