ToneTag is a digital payments startup focused on creating a mobile payment platform that provides cashless and contactless payment services across various devices. The platform leverages data-over-sound technology to facilitate contactless money withdrawals at ATMs and enables cashless transactions at toll plazas, parking facilities, and railway ticket counters. Additionally, ToneTag offers an inventory management system for merchants, enhancing their operational efficiency. The company collaborates with the National Payments Corporation of India to support UPI123 Pay, a payment system designed for feature phones, ensuring that users can make secure proximity payments regardless of data connectivity.
Valilly
Venture Round in 2021
Valilly is a developer of a talent acquisition platform aimed at transforming the human resources technology landscape. The company has created the Valilly Talent Intelligence platform, which integrates talent management solutions with artificial intelligence and machine learning. This innovative system allows human resource professionals and hiring managers to efficiently identify and select qualified candidates tailored to their specific needs. By automating the search and sorting processes, Valilly significantly reduces the time and costs associated with traditional recruitment methods. The platform not only streamlines the hiring process but also enhances the overall effectiveness of talent sourcing, helping organizations better manage their human resource expenditures. With a commitment to overcoming current challenges in talent management, Valilly aspires to become a leading force in the HR Tech industry, continually pushing the boundaries of innovation to provide its clients with superior hiring solutions.
Pyxis AI
Venture Round in 2021
Pyxis.ai provides artificial intelligence, sentiment analysis, video intelligence, insight analytics, marketing research, enterprise insight platform, martech, and insight technology services. They also provide domain-specific and proprietary models.
Radius8
Venture Round in 2020
Radius8 is a Location Engagement Platform that offers a SaaS solution designed to enhance the shopping experience by providing businesses with the ability to showcase relevant content and updates on their websites based on consumer location and proximity to physical stores. The platform facilitates hyperlocal shopping experiences by enabling retailers to tailor their offerings to local trends and customer preferences within specific geographic areas. Additionally, it helps businesses identify potential customers based on past sales data and effectively communicate information about promotions and trends. Radius8's implementation process is streamlined, typically taking less than 30 days, allowing clients to quickly leverage local data to increase customer engagement and drive conversions.
U GRO Capital
Venture Round in 2019
U GRO Capital is a fintech platform that specializes in providing both secured and unsecured loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across eight key sectors, including Healthcare, Education, Chemicals, Food Processing/FMCG, Hospitality, Electrical Equipment and Components, Auto Components, and Light Engineering. The company aims to meet the capital needs of these businesses by offering tailored financing solutions that leverage sector-specific knowledge. U GRO Capital is committed to building a comprehensive SME financing platform, supported by a fully integrated technology and analytics infrastructure to enhance its lending processes and customer service.
GVNG
Venture Round in 2019
GVNG is a technology platform designed to simplify charitable giving for individuals and businesses. It enables users to manage donations efficiently while fostering connections with brands and influencers focused on addressing significant global issues. By addressing the complexities that often hinder charitable actions, GVNG provides a user-friendly interface that combines the functionalities of donor-advised funds and crowdfunding tools into a streamlined Charitable Account. This platform empowers clients to engage in philanthropy quickly and affordably, effectively functioning as a personal charitable foundation without the associated costs and administrative burdens of traditional nonprofit management.
Saykara
Seed Round in 2018
Saykara, Inc. is a healthcare technology company based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2015. The company focuses on addressing physician burnout and enhancing productivity through its voice-enabled mobile app, Kara, which serves as an ambient and autonomous AI assistant. Kara significantly reduces the time physicians spend on charting by 70% and completely eliminates after-hours charting, while also improving the quality and completeness of clinical notes by 25%. By liberating physicians from tedious data entry and computer screens, Saykara enables more personalized and less rushed patient interactions. The technology is specialty agnostic and scalable, offered through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription model. Saykara's solutions leverage advancements in voice recognition and machine learning to streamline workflows and improve patient care.
Joinery
Seed Round in 2018
Joinery is an online platform designed to simplify the apartment renting process by facilitating direct connections between renters. It allows new tenants to engage with departing tenants, bypassing traditional real estate brokers. This peer-to-peer rental model aims to create a more enjoyable, cost-effective, and equitable leasing experience for users. Through its innovative approach, Joinery enhances the efficiency of finding housing by enabling renters to connect directly, streamlining the transition for both parties involved.
ToneTag
Corporate Round in 2018
ToneTag is a digital payments startup focused on creating a mobile payment platform that provides cashless and contactless payment services across various devices. The platform leverages data-over-sound technology to facilitate contactless money withdrawals at ATMs and enables cashless transactions at toll plazas, parking facilities, and railway ticket counters. Additionally, ToneTag offers an inventory management system for merchants, enhancing their operational efficiency. The company collaborates with the National Payments Corporation of India to support UPI123 Pay, a payment system designed for feature phones, ensuring that users can make secure proximity payments regardless of data connectivity.
SquareFoot
Series A in 2018
SquareFoot is a commercial real estate listing platform designed to assist companies in finding suitable office spaces. It focuses on providing a seamless and user-friendly experience throughout the leasing process, from initial search to lease negotiation and contract signing. By combining proprietary technology with a knowledgeable brokerage team, SquareFoot modernizes the traditionally cumbersome leasing process. The company emphasizes flexibility in lease options and prioritizes transparency, catering specifically to the needs of growing businesses that seek the right office environment. Its responsive team works diligently to connect prospective tenants with landlords and other service providers, ensuring that clients can easily navigate the real estate market.
ToneTag
Venture Round in 2018
ToneTag is a digital payments startup focused on creating a mobile payment platform that provides cashless and contactless payment services across various devices. The platform leverages data-over-sound technology to facilitate contactless money withdrawals at ATMs and enables cashless transactions at toll plazas, parking facilities, and railway ticket counters. Additionally, ToneTag offers an inventory management system for merchants, enhancing their operational efficiency. The company collaborates with the National Payments Corporation of India to support UPI123 Pay, a payment system designed for feature phones, ensuring that users can make secure proximity payments regardless of data connectivity.
Faircent operates a peer-to-peer lending platform that connects borrowers directly with lenders, bypassing traditional financial intermediaries like banks. By eliminating the high margins that banks typically charge due to their significant overhead costs, Faircent offers a more cost-effective solution for both parties. Borrowers benefit from lower interest rates, while lenders can achieve better returns on their investments compared to conventional savings accounts. The platform facilitates a virtual marketplace where users can negotiate loan terms and conditions directly, fostering a more straightforward and efficient lending process.
ScoreData
Seed Round in 2017
ScoreData Corporation is a global data analytics company based in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Pune, India. Founded in 2012, the company specializes in providing predictive analytics solutions that enhance customer engagement for various industries, including banking, financial services, insurance, telecommunications, and retail. Its flagship product, ScoreFast, is a self-learning predictive analytics platform that enables businesses to develop robust applications for churn management, customer retention, credit risk management, fraud detection, and more. The platform facilitates collaboration between business managers and data scientists, allowing for the rapid deployment of predictive applications across multiple channels, such as in-store, mobile, and cloud-contact centers. By utilizing machine learning and open-source technologies, ScoreData's solutions not only improve the quality of customer interactions but also minimize the cost of ownership for predictive applications.
Cuebiq Inc. is a data intelligence company based in New York that specializes in location analytics and consumer behavior insights. Founded in 2011, it operates the AudienceQ platform, which enables advertisers to access offline location analytics and geo-behavioral data for effective cross-platform advertising and footfall attribution analysis. By examining the time users spend at various points of interest, Cuebiq provides businesses with valuable insights into real-world consumer behaviors and trends. The company's offerings include audience targeting, campaign attribution, performance analytics, and location insights for marketing, retail, and publishing sectors. Additionally, Cuebiq supports retailers with footfall analysis and site selection, while providing publishers with audience segmentation and data monetization services.
Annum Health, Inc., established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, specializes in modern, tech-enabled rehabilitation services for individuals struggling with heavy drinking. The company, co-founded by experts in healthcare, technology, and alcohol treatment, offers a comprehensive, year-long program that integrates therapy, coaching, medication, and online support at a significantly lower cost than traditional inpatient rehab. This approach aims to eliminate barriers such as high cost, disruption to personal and professional life, and stigma, providing a more accessible and effective path to recovery.
Payzer is a developer of a mobile and internet payment application designed to facilitate payments and provide credit with instant approvals. Its cloud-based platform enables customers to accept credit cards, debit cards, and electronic checks both in the field and at their home offices. With features that include real-time tracking, Payzer's solution helps contractors manage their operations more efficiently, allowing them to streamline their payment processes and enhance business growth.
Ocrolus
Convertible Note in 2016
Ocrolus Inc. is a technology company that specializes in document automation for the financial sector. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, the company offers an intelligent automation platform that analyzes financial documents, enabling clients to automate manual data processes and enhance operational efficiency. Its solutions capture data from various sources, including e-statements and scanned documents, while performing algorithmic checks alongside reviews by fraud specialists. Ocrolus's platform supports a range of applications, including loan underwriting, account openings, and auditing, thereby facilitating credit decisions within fintech, mortgage, and banking industries. The company serves notable clients such as PayPal, Brex, and SoFi, and has raised over $100 million from leading fintech investors to bolster its innovative offerings.
Degreed, Inc. is a lifelong learning platform that enables individuals and organizations to track, discover, and recognize learning and skill development. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with additional offices in Salt Lake City, New York, and Leiden, the Netherlands, Degreed provides tools for companies to build skills within their teams. The platform allows employees to create skill profiles and connect to a wide range of learning resources, including courses, videos, articles, books, podcasts, and expert insights. Additionally, Degreed offers solutions like Degreed Career Mobility, which helps HR leaders and managers adapt to changing market demands by matching employees with in-demand skills to relevant projects, assignments, and job opportunities. This comprehensive approach promotes career mobility and facilitates continuous learning within organizations.
Avlino
Venture Round in 2016
Avlino, Inc. specializes in big data analytics solutions, offering tools that enable businesses to view, analyze, and make informed decisions based on their data. The company's flagship products include Alenza, an Analytics as a Service platform that delivers marketing insights, and Acelero, a software designed to optimize big data processing efficiency. Avlino's solutions are user-friendly, catering to individuals without coding skills or prior business intelligence experience, and empowering them to act as "citizen data scientists." Additionally, the company provides consulting services that encompass training, proof-of-concept, solution architecture, deployment, and ongoing support. Established in 2013 and headquartered in Holmdel, New Jersey, Avlino serves various industries, including food and beverage, energy, healthcare, retail, media and entertainment, financial services, transportation, and construction.
DropThought
Convertible Note in 2015
DropThought, Inc. is a software company that specializes in feedback management and analysis, enabling businesses to engage with customers and employees in real-time. Founded in 2011 and based in Santa Clara, California, DropThought offers an Instant Feedback Platform that allows companies to gather, respond to, and analyze feedback through various channels, including a mobile app, embedded API integrations, and on-site tablet devices. Its services include a robust Analytics Dashboard and a mobile application for managers, which provide instant notifications and insights, facilitating immediate responses to feedback. Additionally, the platform features text analytics capabilities that track customer experience metrics over time, helping businesses identify improvement opportunities. DropThought also supports social media marketing by allowing companies to promote positive customer feedback online.
Planted
Debt Financing in 2014
Planted Inc. is a recruitment platform based in New York that connects recent graduates with junior-level, non-technical roles and internships at high-growth companies. The company specializes in various positions, including customer service, sales, operations, business development, marketing, and analytics. Planted operates as a talent community, offering young professionals a space to develop their careers through meaningful job opportunities while assisting hiring managers in finding suitable candidates for their teams. By focusing on long-term career growth, Planted aims to provide curated job opportunities that positively influence the professional trajectories of its members over the years.
MoviePass
Series A in 2014
MoviePass Inc. was a subscription-based ticketing service in the United States that allowed customers to watch movies in theaters at a fixed monthly price. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the service enabled users to check into their chosen theaters using a mobile application, facilitating social sharing of their movie experiences and ratings. MoviePass aimed to provide access to a wide range of theatrical releases without blackout dates, enhancing the movie-going experience for its subscribers. However, the company faced significant financial challenges and filed for voluntary liquidation under Chapter 7 in January 2020, subsequently entering joint administration with its parent company.
LiftMetrix
Seed Round in 2014
LiftMetrix, Inc. is a business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-health company based in New York, specializing in social media marketing analytics. The company provides an innovative platform that transforms social media data into actionable insights, allowing clients to measure the return on their social media investments effectively. LiftMetrix offers customized social media marketing plans aligned with specific business objectives, moving beyond basic analytics to deliver deeper business intelligence. Its services include web-based tools for cancer care management, clinical information systems, and data warehousing support, catering to health plan members and various stakeholders in the healthcare sector. Through its comprehensive approach, LiftMetrix aims to maximize the effectiveness of social marketing campaigns and ensure that investments in this area yield measurable business impact.