Backend Capital

Backend Capital is a venture capital firm based in Hollywood, Florida, founded in 2019. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, primarily targeting companies led by exceptional engineers. Backend Capital focuses on making minority investments across seed, early-stage, and later-stage opportunities, aiming to support innovative talent and foster growth within the technology sector.

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Tarsal

Seed Round in 2024
Tarsal is a developer of a data pipeline platform focused on the secure movement of data. The company's technology enables clients to ingest and normalize security data from various sources, applying standardized fields such as IP addresses and domain names to log records. Tarsal’s platform facilitates the filtering, enriching, and routing of data, allowing for centralized logging that can be reliably loaded into desired destinations. This streamlined approach is designed to meet the specific needs of security teams by providing a fully managed and user-friendly data pipeline solution.

Usage AI

Venture Round in 2023
Usage AI is a platform designed to help companies optimize their cloud expenditures, particularly on AWS, by identifying significant savings opportunities. The company leverages millions of data points collected from its opt-in users, allowing it to uncover savings that are often overlooked by manual analysis. Onboarding with Usage AI is efficient, taking less than 15 minutes for clients. Users benefit from an average of 35% in monthly AWS savings, alongside the flexibility of reservation discounts. Companies can also sell their reservations back to Usage AI after just 30 days, combining the advantages of deep discounts with on-demand flexibility.

Spline

Seed Round in 2023
Spline is a design tool that facilitates 3D and 2D modeling, specifically tailored for designers, developers, and teams engaged in digital projects. The platform allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on 3D designs directly within a web browser, supporting real-time collaboration for multiple users on the same project. Spline's capabilities enable the development of interactive 3D prototypes suitable for both web and mobile applications. The tool simplifies the design process by allowing the creation and publication of three-dimensional text and basic geometric shapes, while also providing options for importing models and editing materials. With versatile export functionalities, Spline ensures that designs can be easily shared across various platforms, enhancing usability and accessibility for its users.

Humans Anonymous

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Humans Anonymous is an anonymous live audio platform that facilitates safe spaces for individuals to share their struggles, seek advice, and support each other within communities of people with similar life experiences.

BNTO

Seed Round in 2022
BNTO is an AI-driven subscription platform offering personalized fashion experiences. It integrates new purchases, rentals, and resales using ALMA.AI, its proprietary AI solution for optimizing supply and demand. This enables efficient inventory management, reduces waste, and increases profitability while providing consumers with more fashion options.

Indexer.xyz

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Indexer.xyz is an developer platform providing a middleware for applications and blockchains to efficiently communicate with one another. Our goal is to accelerate Web3 adoption be helping developers go-to-market quicker with their products leveraging our API as the backend of their applications.

Alexandria Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2022
The infrastructure layer for web3 e-books.

Pave

Series C in 2022
Pave operates an online platform that facilitates affordable personal credit. Additionally, it offers an end-to-end compensation management platform for companies, ensuring fair and transparent compensation practices.

Myria

Seed Round in 2022
Annually, the wealthiest 300,000 people spend $1.3 million each on their lifestyle, but still struggle to find everything they want. - The most sought-after products, services, and experiences are never listed online. - Private events, private clubs, and numerous other categories are not accessible. - The best people don't need the web to find clients or jobs. Myria is a private marketplace & community where all participants are fully vetted. Our offers are exclusive and otherwise unavailable online. Myria helps off-market sellers reach the nicest, richest, and most quailed buyers on Earth. In turn, we help the world’s most successful people find the best of everything and get the most out of life.

Switchboard

Seed Round in 2022
Switchboard is the first error monitoring and incident response platform for Zapier and Make (formerly Integromat). its goal is to become the operating system for non-technical teams building dashboards, systems, and processes.

Myria

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Annually, the wealthiest 300,000 people spend $1.3 million each on their lifestyle, but still struggle to find everything they want. - The most sought-after products, services, and experiences are never listed online. - Private events, private clubs, and numerous other categories are not accessible. - The best people don't need the web to find clients or jobs. Myria is a private marketplace & community where all participants are fully vetted. Our offers are exclusive and otherwise unavailable online. Myria helps off-market sellers reach the nicest, richest, and most quailed buyers on Earth. In turn, we help the world’s most successful people find the best of everything and get the most out of life.

Sonr

Seed Round in 2022
Sonr is a technology company focused on software development, web design, information technology, networking, and blockchain solutions. It develops a data delivery protocol for Web3 that integrates identification, discovery, and transmission to enable seamless decentralized experiences. The platform combines a peer-to-peer network with a Cosmos-powered blockchain and built-in decentralized identity, providing developers with tools to create peer-to-peer decentralized applications and enabling users to maintain control over their digital identity.

No Code Ops

Seed Round in 2022
No Code Ops creates internal tooling to build systems and speed up performance without relying on code.

Huddle

Seed Round in 2021
Huddle is a platform designed to connect startups with skilled creators for various project needs, including pitch decks, branding, and mobile app development. By matching founders with creators based on industry, timeline, and budget, Huddle streamlines the hiring process. The platform also manages payment processing and contracts, allowing for flexibility in compensation, such as sweat equity. This approach enables startups to collaborate effectively with experienced freelancers while conserving their financial resources. Huddle fosters an environment that supports teamwork between founders and their freelance teams, ultimately helping to bring innovative ideas to fruition.

Pallet

Seed Round in 2021
Pallet is an infrastructure platform that enables communities and creators to build native recruiting experiences and connect businesses with talent from those communities. It lets communities monetize by posting jobs or recommending candidates, while also providing a job search portal through which corporate organizations can access pools of talent offered by creators and professional communities, with the aim of simplifying and accelerating the hiring process.

Clever Harvest

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Clever Harvest is a data-driven company that specializes in generating real-time inventory of essential crops worldwide. Unlike competitors that primarily focus on farm production services and yield-enhancing technologies, Clever Harvest leverages its local relationships to provide training in precision agriculture and production data for the initial stages of food production. The company has developed a real-time analytics platform that brings the food supply chain online, offering booking and coordination services specifically for sustainable olive oil production. By utilizing this platform, Clever Harvest enables clients to access real-time harvesting data and address gaps in agricultural supply chains, while also creating a digital marketplace that facilitates global crop trade.

Replay

Seed Round in 2021
Replay is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2021 that specializes in a debugging platform tailored for web developers. Its innovative browser records all necessary contexts to facilitate quicker bug resolution, allowing team members to navigate directly to any point in the execution. The platform enables users to record bugs, share them with their development teams, and utilize familiar browser development tools for inspection and analysis. By providing features such as the ability to add Console logs on the fly, Replay enhances collaboration and efficiency in the debugging process.

Playbook

Seed Round in 2021
Playbook organizes, shares, and collaborates on creative files and projects with clients and teams. In addition to integrating current storage and streamlining file management, the company's software can automatically import, tag, and organize creative files, allowing clients to maintain their blogs and websites without worrying about file management.

Senpai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
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Passbird Research

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Passbird Research is at the forefront, re-writing the internet, the digital infrastructure, and economics. They provide software companies that would come to read about a decade later in internet history books.

Secureframe

Series A in 2021
Secureframe provides a compliance automation platform that helps organizations achieve and sustain information security and privacy standards. The platform automates security audits and continuous monitoring to simplify compliance with standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR, supporting service providers in securely managing data and protecting client privacy. Thousands of fast-growing companies rely on Secureframe to streamline their compliance programs and maintain up-to-date certifications, enabling them to build trust with customers. Founded and based in San Francisco, the company focuses on delivering automated, ongoing compliance across global frameworks.

Sunroom

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Sunroom is an application designed for women and non-binary individuals to monetize their creative content. The platform provides tools for content management, allowing users to create and distribute their work while building a subscriber base. By facilitating revenue generation from various sources, Sunroom empowers its users to transform their creative endeavors into sustainable businesses.

Shadow

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Shadow is an exclusive networking platform that uses real-time and location to connect thousands of young professionals, creatives, and industry event-goers in major cities such as LA, Miami, New York, London, and more.

SKAEL

Seed Round in 2020
SKAEL, Inc. is a technology company that operates an online digital workforce platform designed to enhance business efficiency through intelligent cognitive automation. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, SKAEL develops a hyper-automation platform that integrates automation and conversational AI technologies to create digital employees. This platform enables companies to automate repetitive tasks across various applications, data sources, and documents, thereby streamlining workflows and minimizing human error, bias, and delays. Its features include plug-and-play integration with existing back-end systems, data flow engines, and digital assistant services, which collectively empower organizations to optimize their operations and improve decision-making through predictive and prescriptive insights.

Secureframe

Seed Round in 2020
Secureframe provides a compliance automation platform that helps organizations achieve and sustain information security and privacy standards. The platform automates security audits and continuous monitoring to simplify compliance with standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR, supporting service providers in securely managing data and protecting client privacy. Thousands of fast-growing companies rely on Secureframe to streamline their compliance programs and maintain up-to-date certifications, enabling them to build trust with customers. Founded and based in San Francisco, the company focuses on delivering automated, ongoing compliance across global frameworks.

Titan

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Top 1% coaches for top 1% performers. Titan matches VC-backed founders with world-leading executive coaches and performance psychologists to maximize their performance - and the performance of their business. We have raised $5.7mm from top executives at Google, PayPal, Lyft, and AirBnB and investors who previously funded Square, Instacart, Twilio, GrubHub, StitchFix, OpenDoor, and SpaceX. You can learn more about Titan here: https://www.withtitan.com/

Farmako

Seed Round in 2020
Farmako is a technology company based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, founded in 2019. It specializes in developing a centralized digital medical record system that allows users to store and manage their health information securely. The system facilitates the delivery of medicines and enables patients to digitally keep their lab reports and prescriptions from various healthcare providers. Additionally, Farmako offers management solutions for hospitals and pathology labs, helping them streamline their internal operations. By providing structured health records accessible to authorized medical professionals, Farmako enhances the efficiency of healthcare delivery and improves patient care.

Firstbase

Seed Round in 2020
Firstbase operates a platform that streamlines remote team management. It provides IT provisioning services, delivery of goods, maintenance and repairs, ongoing culture support, collections upon employee departure, and lifecycle upgrades.

Popshop Live

Seed Round in 2020
Popshop Live is a mobile platform enabling individuals to create and host live shopping channels, engaging viewers globally in real-time. Users can interact, shop directly from broadcasters, and access past shows.

koodos labs

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Koodos Labs is a digital platform focused on empowering users to manage their personal data and improve their online experiences. The company develops innovative products that facilitate personal data management and secure integrations, allowing individuals and developers to take control of their digital lives. By fostering data portability, Koodos Labs aims to enhance user autonomy in navigating the increasingly complex digital landscape.

Solid Financial Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Solid Financial Technologies, Inc. is a San Mateo, California-based company that specializes in providing a modern banking platform designed for small businesses and e-commerce platforms. Founded in 2018, Solid enables these businesses to offer banking services directly to their customers through an integrated suite of fintech solutions. The platform allows users to quickly create bank accounts and payment cards, facilitating the embedding of banking services within various applications and marketplaces. By offering a fully managed infrastructure, Solid supports companies in launching compliant and user-friendly fintech products, enhancing their overall business management capabilities.

Pave

Seed Round in 2020
Pave operates an online platform that facilitates affordable personal credit. Additionally, it offers an end-to-end compensation management platform for companies, ensuring fair and transparent compensation practices.

Ramp

Venture Round in 2020
Ramp offers a comprehensive financial operations platform designed for businesses seeking to streamline their financial tasks. The platform includes corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, and accounting integrations, assisting organizations in managing their finances efficiently.

LatchBio

Pre Seed Round in 2020
LatchBio is a biotechnology company founded in 2021 by Alfredo Andere, Kyle Giffin, and Kenny Workman. It focuses on developing a data infrastructure aimed at supporting the open-source biocomputing revolution. The company provides a bioinformatics platform specifically designed for cell and gene therapy startups, offering a modern cloud computing stack that enables biotech labs to manage and execute custom workflows, pipelines, and machine learning models. This platform allows scientists to create bioinformatic queries efficiently, without requiring command-line expertise or the burdens of complex system setups. By streamlining data integration and computational processes, LatchBio helps biotech companies accelerate therapeutic discovery and reduce engineering costs.

Passbird Research

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Passbird Research is at the forefront, re-writing the internet, the digital infrastructure, and economics. They provide software companies that would come to read about a decade later in internet history books.

RoboTire

Pre Seed Round in 2020
RoboTire, Inc. is an innovative company that specializes in automated vehicle maintenance services, focusing on the swift replacement of tires for autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2018 by Victor Darolfi, the company is headquartered in San Carlos, California. RoboTire utilizes advanced robotics, software, and computer vision to enhance the efficiency of tire replacement, allowing for the simultaneous change of all four tires in approximately ten minutes. This technology benefits service centers, dealers, and garage owners by significantly reducing the time required for tire maintenance, thereby optimizing operational productivity and streamlining automotive service processes.

Firstbase

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Firstbase operates a platform that streamlines remote team management. It provides IT provisioning services, delivery of goods, maintenance and repairs, ongoing culture support, collections upon employee departure, and lifecycle upgrades.

Defy Gravity

Seed Round in 2019
Saas hardware design and collaboration

Flipmass

Series A in 2019
The influencer platform - we help social media influencers make money.

Queue

Seed Round in 2019
Queue LLC is a technology company based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2018. It specializes in developing an application that enables real-time feedback on multimedia content, including video, audio, and images. The company's flagship product, QueueGG, is a mobile application designed for video editors, esports teams, UI/UX researchers, and graphic designers, facilitating efficient collaboration and feedback processes. Queue also provides a white-labeled platform for agencies, allowing them to sell services, gather client feedback, and integrate client portals into their websites. With over 60,000 active teams globally, Queue has established itself as a leading platform for creative collaboration, significantly reducing review cycles and enhancing the quality of deliverables for its users.

Dover

Seed Round in 2019
Dover is a recruitment services provider based in the United States, specializing in an automated hiring platform designed to facilitate efficient candidate sourcing and scheduling for organizations. The company aims to assist businesses in achieving their hiring objectives across various roles, including engineering, product, marketing, sales, legal, and finance. Dover's platform utilizes advanced technologies to understand the necessary skill sets for each position, thereby enhancing the engagement in outbound recruiting with minimal human intervention. Additionally, the company offers a suite of free tools that help organizations source candidates, manage applications, and maintain organization throughout the recruiting process. Through these services, Dover enables companies to optimize their hiring practices and improve operational margins.

Cabin

Seed Round in 2019
Cabin Technologies, Inc. is a hospitality transportation company that provides overnight bus rides featuring private cabins for passengers traveling up to 500 miles in the United States. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, Cabin offers a unique travel experience by combining transportation and accommodation into one service. Passengers benefit from spacious and comfortable sleeping cabins, along with amenities such as attendants, luggage allowances, nighttime tea, morning coffee, ear plugs, and free Wi-Fi. This innovative approach addresses the challenges of regional travel by allowing individuals to maximize their time, effectively transforming long-distance travel into a seamless and enjoyable experience. The company has garnered support from prominent investors in Silicon Valley, reinforcing its mission to enhance travel efficiency and comfort.

Blair

Seed Round in 2019
Blair is a company that specializes in providing accessible financing options for students and educational institutions through Income-Share Agreements (ISAs). Its platform allows students to pursue their education without the burden of upfront costs, making higher education more attainable. By facilitating ISAs, Blair helps schools attract and retain talented students, creating a mutually beneficial relationship that emphasizes a commitment to student success. This innovative approach aims to address financial barriers in education, enabling students to focus on their studies while ensuring that schools can support their educational missions effectively.

Ramp

Seed Round in 2019
Ramp offers a comprehensive financial operations platform designed for businesses seeking to streamline their financial tasks. The platform includes corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, and accounting integrations, assisting organizations in managing their finances efficiently.

Port

Pre Seed Round in 2019
A modern business immigration law firm

Ramp

Seed Round in 2019
Ramp offers a comprehensive financial operations platform designed for businesses seeking to streamline their financial tasks. The platform includes corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, and accounting integrations, assisting organizations in managing their finances efficiently.

Ethel's Club

Seed Round in 2019
Ethel's Club is a social and wellness platform dedicated to supporting creators of color by providing an inclusive space that fosters healing, creativity, and connection. The organization offers a multi-purpose environment that includes a workspace, event space, a café, and a boutique, all designed to celebrate and uplift people of color. Members have access to motivational speakers, performances, and exhibitions while engaging in guided conversations and wellness activities. Ethel's Club aims to empower its community by facilitating meaningful interactions and helping creators monetize their work, all tailored to promote joy and personal growth.

Yobs

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Yobs Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence-driven human capital management solutions, offering a voice and video platform to analyze behavioral intelligence and soft skills. Founded in 2016 and based in Los Angeles, California, Yobs enables organizations to enhance their hiring processes by instantly recording, transcribing, and analyzing interviews conducted via video conferencing platforms. Their technology transforms audio and video content into actionable insights, providing valuable data on candidates' behavior, personality, and cultural fit. By integrating seamlessly with applicant tracking and human resource information systems, Yobs facilitates a more efficient and effective hiring experience, allowing companies to reduce time and costs associated with traditional assessment methods while achieving robust, scalable results.
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