Tenacity Venture Capital

Tenacity Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in Palo Alto, California. The firm focuses on investing in technology companies across various sectors, including artificial intelligence, fintech, hardware, logistics, marketplaces, mobile gaming, robotics, and software as a service (SaaS). However, it excludes investments in medtech, security, and cryptocurrency. Tenacity Venture Capital primarily targets opportunities in North America and the United Kingdom, aiming to provide funding in the range of $1 million to $3 million for promising startups.

Ben Narasin

Founder and General Partner

16 past transactions

MIDAS Technologies

Seed Round in 2023
MIDAS Technologies provides digital payment solutions in Mexico. Aiming to bring traceability to consumer purchase data by providing technology to retailers to reward their customers with cashback on every purchase and creating cash user profiles through its loyalty program as a service.

Fanki

Seed Round in 2023
Fanki is a developer of a blockchain application tailored for the sports industry, focused on enhancing the fan experience both inside stadiums and remotely. The company has created a comprehensive digital ecosystem that connects sports fans with sports organizations, offering a wide array of products and services. These include a digital wallet, a personalized Mastercard, loyalty programs, and unique perks and experiences. Fanki's platform not only facilitates transactions but also introduces new revenue streams for sports organizations through the use of cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens. By enabling federations, leagues, and sports clubs to engage with their fans more deeply, Fanki helps to foster a stronger relationship between sports entities and their supporters.

Fynn

Seed Round in 2023
Fynn is a company that specializes in providing loan services tailored specifically for school students. Unlike federal loan programs or other private lenders, Fynn offers private loans with distinct terms, repayment options, and rates. The company focuses on supporting students pursuing trade and vocational education by underwriting loans based on the students' future potential. Fynn aligns its interests with both schools and students to ensure comprehensive support from enrollment through to employment, aiming to help customers achieve long-term financial stability through accessible education financing.

Nevly

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Nevly is a personal finance fintech platform dedicated to enhancing the financial well-being of underserved consumers by leveraging technology. The company offers innovative solutions that address four key needs: credit improvement, everyday banking, payments, and wealth management. Nevly's products are designed to be transformative and customer-centric, providing data-driven, personalized recommendations through an artificial intelligence-powered platform. This includes structured credit repair tools, budget-building resources, lending products, tailored wealth management services, and in-app brokerage services. The goal is to help consumers improve their financial health more efficiently and cost-effectively than traditional methods.

Nevly

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Nevly is a personal finance fintech platform dedicated to enhancing the financial well-being of underserved consumers by leveraging technology. The company offers innovative solutions that address four key needs: credit improvement, everyday banking, payments, and wealth management. Nevly's products are designed to be transformative and customer-centric, providing data-driven, personalized recommendations through an artificial intelligence-powered platform. This includes structured credit repair tools, budget-building resources, lending products, tailored wealth management services, and in-app brokerage services. The goal is to help consumers improve their financial health more efficiently and cost-effectively than traditional methods.

Manufactured

Venture Round in 2022
Manufactured is a company that specializes in manufacturing, financing, and distributing products across 20 industries in 25 countries. Established in 2019, it has successfully managed over $140 million in gross merchandise value. The company has developed an inventory success platform that provides a range of services tailored for both B2B and direct-to-consumer customers. These services include inventory financing, purchase order financing, and factoring, as well as comprehensive manufacturing and sourcing solutions. By focusing on optimizing cash flow, preventing inventory stockouts, and facilitating the procurement of large wholesale purchase orders for distributors and retailers, Manufactured enhances the overall manufacturing process for its clients.

Arkestro

Series A in 2022
Arkestro is a technology company specializing in predictive procurement software designed to enhance savings and supply chain performance for businesses. Their platform pre-embeds preferred outcomes into any system or process, allowing companies to orchestrate activities across various systems using instant forecasts and real-time collaboration. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Arkestro's cloud-based automated negotiation software optimizes procurement savings and increases vendor participation, leading to significant cost reductions in managed services and raw materials solicitations.

Thena

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Thena is a customer engagement platform that focuses on enhancing communication between businesses and their B2B customers through popular messaging applications like Slack and Teams. Founded by Ankit Saxena, Mike Molinet, Govind Kavaturi, and Unmukt Raizada, Thena aims to streamline customer interactions by consolidating communication channels and automating various tasks. The platform integrates seamlessly with internal tools, providing clients with account intelligence that facilitates the management of customer escalations and enables teams to track and analyze customer behavior effectively. Notable clients of Thena include Branch, Embrace, Mixpanel, WorkRamp, and Spotdraft, showcasing its capability to support diverse businesses in improving their customer service and engagement analytics at scale.

ProductWind

Seed Round in 2022
ProductWind is an influencer marketing platform focused on enhancing brand promotion and online retail performance. The company collaborates with brands to identify, negotiate, and assess influencers, facilitating the launch of effective influencer marketing campaigns. By generating trackable attribution links and claim codes for each influencer, ProductWind enables clients to measure the impact of their campaigns accurately. With extensive experience from numerous campaigns, the platform identifies which influencers are most likely to drive sales. Additionally, ProductWind assists in creating optimal product pages by leveraging influencers who specialize in producing engaging lifestyle content, participating in Amazon Live events, and crafting Amazon Posts. Through these services, ProductWind aims to bolster its clients' online retail success.

Kapital Bank

Seed Round in 2022
Kapital is a fintech company focused on providing digital financial services to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), freelancers, and startups. Its platform simplifies financial processes, allowing clients to manage their treasury effectively and gain visibility into their financial activities. By offering tools for corporate spending, payroll distribution, and supplier payments all in one place, Kapital enables businesses to maintain control over their finances without the need to outsource these functions. The company aims to foster the growth of its clients by providing them with inclusive financial products that support their income and expense management, ultimately accelerating their growth potential.

Tradeteq

Series A in 2022
Tradeteq, established in 2016 and headquartered in London, operates a digital platform that connects investors and corporates in the trade finance sector. The platform facilitates negotiation, credit analysis, and management of trade finance investments, enabling originators to present portfolios and find funding, while funders can diversify their originator base and access new assets. It offers tools for market discovery, portfolio evaluation, transaction execution, and risk monitoring, all supported by AI-powered credit analytics and reporting services.

STOCS

Pre Seed Round in 2022
STOCS is global operating system and data driven marketplace for: • Retailers and brands • Third party logistics companies • International buyers STOCS OS helps them manage their surplus stock (returns, overstocks and damaged products) more efficiently, at speed and scale using proprietary automated data analytics. Our marketplace optimizes the recoverable value of these goods, providing greater transparency, trust, confidence and convenience for sellers, 3PLs and buyers to sell, source, transact and ship cross border.

CoFi

Seed Round in 2022
CoFi is a digital platform designed to enhance the construction lending process through integrative business software. The platform automates and modernizes the construction payment process, effectively addressing inefficiencies and providing greater predictability and consistency for residential and commercial projects. By streamlining payment management, CoFi enables banks and private lenders to efficiently manage and scale their construction portfolios. Additionally, the platform empowers contractors by facilitating project funding that is backed by on-demand payments, thereby improving their financial flexibility and access to necessary resources.

Vendelux

Seed Round in 2022
Vendelux is a company that offers an AI-powered event intelligence platform aimed at enhancing marketers' decision-making regarding event attendance, sponsorship, and hosting. By integrating customer relationship management (CRM) data with a proprietary database of over 30,000 events, the platform enables users to identify prospects, customers, and competitors at various industry gatherings. Vendelux's solution assists marketers in optimizing their engagement strategies by highlighting key events where their target audiences are present, thus maximizing the impact and return on investment of their event-related activities.

Branch

Secondary Market in 2021
Branch is a technology company that specializes in deep linking solutions, aimed at enhancing interactions between brands and users across digital platforms. Its innovative technology facilitates user-to-user referral programs, incorporating features such as rewarded referrals, content sharing, deep views, download banners, and personalized onboarding. Branch's services enable businesses to improve customer experiences while providing the tools necessary for measuring and optimizing campaign performance. Recognized by prominent brands like Instacart, Western Union, NBCUniversal, Zocdoc, and Sephora, Branch is positioned as a trusted partner for growth-driven teams seeking to maximize the effectiveness of their digital strategies.

Manufactured

Seed Round in 2021
Manufactured is a company that specializes in manufacturing, financing, and distributing products across 20 industries in 25 countries. Established in 2019, it has successfully managed over $140 million in gross merchandise value. The company has developed an inventory success platform that provides a range of services tailored for both B2B and direct-to-consumer customers. These services include inventory financing, purchase order financing, and factoring, as well as comprehensive manufacturing and sourcing solutions. By focusing on optimizing cash flow, preventing inventory stockouts, and facilitating the procurement of large wholesale purchase orders for distributors and retailers, Manufactured enhances the overall manufacturing process for its clients.
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