Access Ventures, established in 2013 and headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, is a private operating foundation and impact investment firm. It works to foster systemic change in communities, aiming to create an inclusive and creative economy that benefits all people. The firm invests across various asset classes and sectors, supporting organizations of all sizes, from startups to enterprises, in the private, public, and social sectors. Its investment portfolio spans creative arts, innovative finance, strategic real estate, and technology for social good. Access Ventures also provides micro and secured loans, grants, equity, and debt to support its mission.
RADICL Defense focuses on providing military-grade cybersecurity solutions tailored for small and medium-sized businesses. The company specializes in safeguarding clients against advanced cyber threats and ransomware, particularly those associated with national security interests. By delivering robust protection against nation-state level cyberattacks, RADICL Defense aims to enhance the security posture of organizations that are critical to national defense and security sectors.
Locad
Series A in 2023
Locad is a logistics provider that supports e-commerce brands in the Asia-Pacific region by offering a cloud-based supply chain solution. Its technology platform enables seamless inventory synchronization across various online sales channels and facilitates end-to-end order fulfillment through a network of warehouses and carriers in countries such as Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Australia. By leveraging a geographically distributed warehousing infrastructure, Locad allows brands to store products closer to their customers, resulting in quicker delivery times and reduced shipping costs. The platform provides easy integration with sales channels and offers on-demand capacity, making it adaptable to the varied needs of clients. With hundreds of brands utilizing its services, Locad aims to enhance shipping efficiency, lower expenses, and support significant business growth.
Quota Lab
Series A in 2022
Quota Lab is a financial infrastructure company that connects the capital flows of all ventures & startups, general partners (GPs), and limited partners (LPs) to build a venture capital market infrastructure and create a new financial ecosystem.
CoolMate
Series A in 2022
Coolmate is a Vietnamese menswear brand that specializes in a diverse range of apparel and accessories for men, including sportswear, office attire, and everyday styles. The company operates exclusively online through its own e-commerce website and popular platforms within Vietnam. Headquartered in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Coolmate focuses on the design, weaving, dyeing, cutting, and finishing of products such as t-shirts, underwear, shorts, joggers, caps, and belts. By offering fashionable products at reasonable prices, Coolmate aims to provide a straightforward shopping experience for men seeking to enhance their style.
Pion
Series A in 2021
Pion Corporation is a marketing technology company specializing in video intelligence. It offers "Vispot," an AI-driven platform for video creation and ad automation. This application is designed to assist video creatives by providing automated services for video production and optimization. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Pion enables businesses to enhance their marketing capabilities and streamline the video advertising process.
Breef
Debt Financing in 2021
Breef is a marketing agency platform that connects brands with boutique agencies to fulfill their digital and creative needs. Founded in New York by George Raptis and Emily Bibb, Breef allows users to post projects and find suitable agencies for various purposes, including digital marketing, web development, paid advertising, branding, creative campaigns, and public relations. The platform streamlines the process of finding and engaging with agencies, enabling clients to save time and resources on their advertising campaigns.
Goldfinch
Venture Round in 2021
Goldfinch is a credit platform that offers crypto loans without collateral. It also offers capital in a digital currency by expanding access to capital in emerging markets and offers a stable yield to the lenders, enabling the empowerment of financial inclusion in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2020 by Mike Sall and Blake West.
EZ Chow
Venture Round in 2021
EZ Chow Inc. specializes in designing and developing digital ordering software tailored for restaurants and hospitality clients. Founded in 2015 and based in New Albany, Indiana, the company provides a multi-channel ordering platform that integrates seamlessly with existing point-of-sale systems. This application adheres to brand standards and guidelines, allowing for efficient order placement and management. Additionally, EZ Chow offers a hotel and resort ordering integration platform, enhancing the service experience for both customers and businesses. By enabling restaurants and hospitality organizations to control their ordering processes through dynamic tools, EZ Chow aims to elevate brand value and drive sales growth.
Ethic
Series B in 2021
Ethic is a company that develops a technology platform focused on simplifying financial planning and portfolio management. The platform utilizes data-driven investment consulting technology to create sustainable investment portfolios. It is designed to minimize tracking errors relative to established passive indices, allowing family offices, health advisers, and endowment foundations to offer tailored sustainability insights and efficient passive portfolio construction for their clients.
Resonate Recordings
Debt Financing in 2021
Resonate Recordings is a podcast production company based in Louisville, Kentucky, dedicated to simplifying the podcasting process for creators. Since its establishment in 2014, the company has focused on providing comprehensive services that cover all aspects of podcast production, including recording, editing, launching, and distribution. Resonate combines a skilled team of audio engineers and branding experts to ensure that clients can produce high-quality episodes with minimal hassle. Their approach emphasizes building lasting partnerships with clients rather than merely transactional relationships, further enhancing the podcasting experience. By leveraging innovative technology and a commitment to quality, Resonate aims to help podcasters effectively convey their unique creative visions to their audience.
Kare Mobile
Convertible Note in 2021
Kare Mobile Inc. specializes in mobile dental services, offering an innovative application that connects patients with dentists based on their location, availability, insurance, and specific dental procedures needed. Founded in 2017 and based in Louisville, Kentucky, the company aims to enhance access to oral healthcare by providing on-demand services through its mobile platform. By focusing on convenience and accessibility, Kare Mobile strives to deliver comprehensive dental care while addressing the diverse needs of patients, regardless of their socioeconomic status.
Pav*r
Equity Crowdfunding in 2021
Pav*r is a web-based application designed to help small businesses optimize their calendar management by transforming calendar data into actionable insights. The platform allows users to categorize events, organize time efficiently, and export calendar information, including categories and labels, to an online sheet. Additionally, Pav*r provides visualization tools through reports that facilitate the management of essential event details in a centralized location. By leveraging valuable calendar data, Pav*r enables businesses to grow and scale effectively.
FlavorCraft
Debt Financing in 2021
FlavorCraft is a provider of contract and private labeling services tailored for the foodservice industry, established in 2006 in Louisville, Kentucky. The company specializes in offering a comprehensive range of services, including startup guidance, product development, nutritional analysis, fulfillment, logistics, floor stock arrangements, and warehousing. These services are designed to assist restaurants, food producers, and retailers in adapting swiftly to market demands, managing operating costs, and enhancing overall business efficiency. By leveraging its expertise, FlavorCraft supports clients in navigating the complexities of the foodservice landscape.
Amplify Louisville
Debt Financing in 2021
Amplify Louisville is an organization focused on fostering entrepreneurship by providing a comprehensive ecosystem for startups and founders. The company assists clients in exploring innovative ideas, building effective solutions, and launching products, ultimately facilitating business growth. They offer consulting services tailored to meet the diverse needs of their customers, who can reach out for support via phone, email, and online applications.
Stay Clean
Equity Crowdfunding in 2021
Stay Clean is a cloud-based clinical treatment platform based in Louisville, Kentucky, founded in 2017. The company focuses on providing therapeutic counseling to individuals struggling with substance use disorder, including alcoholism and addiction. Its platform aims to enhance patients' health and wellness by offering clinical treatment that helps them manage negative emotions without turning to harmful behaviors, such as substance abuse.
Sampingan
Series A in 2021
Sampingan is an Indonesian company founded in 2018, headquartered in Jakarta with an additional office in Singapore. It operates a mobile application that connects businesses with selected and trained freelancers for task-based jobs. The platform enables users to find temporary work opportunities, facilitating a seamless connection between businesses and individuals seeking to complete specific tasks.
Along
Seed Round in 2021
Online video platform focused on creators
Studio HQ
Seed Round in 2021
Studio was designed to help creative freelancers take their careers to the next level with personal development, accountability, and community. Studio helps its members overcome self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and lack of clarity through expert-led workshops and Power Groups.
Clover Learning
Debt Financing in 2020
Clover Learning specializes in online medical education by offering video-based training, certification exam preparation, and continuing education products tailored for healthcare students and professionals. Founded in early 2017, the company has quickly emerged as a leading provider in its field, delivering an advanced learning platform that allows for asynchronous learning through various subscription models, one-time payments, and institutional licenses. Clover Learning's innovative courses utilize animations, images, and mental hooks to enhance comprehension of complex medical concepts. Its client base includes prestigious institutions such as MD Anderson, Mayo Clinic, and Concentra Health, as well as numerous colleges and health systems across the United States, Canada, and internationally.
BrainSTEM University
Pre Seed Round in 2020
BrainSTEM University is an EdTech startup that provides a STEAM-based curriculum through its Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). The company focuses on enhancing education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by offering an online platform that teaches subjects such as programming, robotics, engineering, and aerospace. By utilizing a gamified approach, BrainSTEM University aims to engage students and enhance their learning experience, allowing them to connect with relevant technological advancements and the broader school community.
MoxieGirl
Pre Seed Round in 2020
MoxieGirl helps to improve mental and behavioral health of teen girls.
Briocare
Pre Seed Round in 2020
BrioCare is a company that specializes in personalized engagement and care support for older adults. It offers a comprehensive range of services, including family care, elderly care, virtual home care, dementia care, and senior caregiving solutions. Utilizing an artificial intelligence-driven platform, BrioCare aims to enhance the quality of life for seniors by employing voice technology to alleviate caregiver anxiety. The platform provides caregivers with complete control and access to scheduled care events, along with daily reports on seniors' activities and well-being. Additionally, it offers health tips and relevant content, fostering increased social interactions for seniors in their daily lives.
Roborus
Seed Round in 2020
Roborus, founded in 2016 in Seoul, South Korea, specializes in smart ordering SaaS solutions that leverage facial recognition and advanced AI technology to enhance customer experiences in the restaurant industry. The company’s system automates customer identification and utilizes machine learning to analyze data such as visit frequency, consumption patterns, and average spending. This allows businesses to offer personalized services by recommending menu items tailored to individual customer profiles. With a team boasting over 50 years of experience in AI, robotics, and international business, Roborus aims to help restaurants save time, increase profits, and gain deeper insights into their customer base. The company is recognized as a graduate of the METRO Accelerator Powered by Techstars.
Stuccco
Seed Round in 2020
Stuccco is a virtual staging and interior design company that transforms how real estate professionals and homeowners approach property marketing and design. By allowing realtors to submit photos of vacant properties, Stuccco provides photo-realistic renderings of furniture and decor within 24 hours, enhancing the appeal of listings and facilitating quicker sales at higher prices. The company also offers online interior design services, where homeowners can connect with professional designers to create tailored room designs based on their preferences and budget, with a turnaround time of 14 days or less. Additionally, Stuccco creates 3D models of home goods for retailers, which are integrated into virtual staging to promote products precisely when potential buyers are most engaged. This innovative approach disrupts traditional in-person staging and interior design methods, providing efficient and cost-effective solutions for real estate teams, homeowners, and retailers alike.
SplitPass
Pre Seed Round in 2020
SplitPass operates a peer-to-peer marketplace that enables users to buy and sell unused memberships, packages, reservations, and appointments. By creating a secondary marketplace, the platform enhances flexibility for its customers, allowing them to monetize unused days of their existing memberships. SplitPass supports a variety of offerings, including gym and spa memberships, coworking memberships, travel passes, and dinner reservations. This innovative approach helps individuals make the most of their investments in services they may not fully utilize.
Unitonomy
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Unitonomy is a holding company focused on culture management software, aiming to enhance organizational culture and collaboration through its innovative startups, including Glvvv and OrgVitals. The company develops tools that augment communication and provide people analytics, allowing organizations to track collaborative performance, employee experience, and overall culture. By leveraging data-driven insights, Unitonomy enables companies to improve productivity and foster a more effective work environment.
Unitonomy
Equity Crowdfunding in 2020
Unitonomy is a holding company focused on culture management software, aiming to enhance organizational culture and collaboration through its innovative startups, including Glvvv and OrgVitals. The company develops tools that augment communication and provide people analytics, allowing organizations to track collaborative performance, employee experience, and overall culture. By leveraging data-driven insights, Unitonomy enables companies to improve productivity and foster a more effective work environment.
EdjSports
Series A in 2020
EdjSports is a data science firm specializing in prescriptive analytics for the sports industry. The company offers a sports analytics platform that leverages proven predictive and prescriptive analytical models alongside custom software solutions. By analyzing comprehensive datasets, EdjSports aids teams in making informed decisions that enhance their chances of success in various strategic situations. This empowers clients to improve their competitive advantage, ultimately influencing their overall performance and profitability. The focus on data-driven insights equips sports organizations with the necessary tools to optimize decision-making processes.
EdjSports
Series A in 2020
EdjSports is a data science firm specializing in prescriptive analytics for the sports industry. The company offers a sports analytics platform that leverages proven predictive and prescriptive analytical models alongside custom software solutions. By analyzing comprehensive datasets, EdjSports aids teams in making informed decisions that enhance their chances of success in various strategic situations. This empowers clients to improve their competitive advantage, ultimately influencing their overall performance and profitability. The focus on data-driven insights equips sports organizations with the necessary tools to optimize decision-making processes.
Seoul Robotics
Series A in 2020
Seoul Robotics specializes in developing advanced Lidar perception software and 3D computer vision devices aimed at enhancing the capabilities of autonomous vehicles, robots, and smart city applications. The company’s technology enables these systems to detect, classify, track, and predict the behavior of various targets and objects within their environment. By integrating sophisticated sensors and platforms, Seoul Robotics facilitates a deeper understanding of surroundings for self-driving cars and autonomous robots, ultimately contributing to safer and more efficient navigation and operation in complex settings.
Cornbread Hemp
Seed Round in 2020
Cornbread Hemp specializes in producing premium cannabidiol (CBD) consumer products designed to promote wellness. The company offers a range of full-spectrum and flower-only hemp products, including gummies, oils, and capsules. All products are made from organically grown hemp sourced from local farmers, ensuring adherence to health and legal guidelines. Cornbread Hemp aims to provide high-quality natural remedies in response to the oversaturation of the market with lower-quality corporate CBD offerings, believing that access to effective natural medication is essential for improving quality of life.
Handshake
Seed Round in 2020
Handshake, established in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, offers a decentralized naming protocol built on blockchain technology. It provides an alternative to traditional certificate authorities, enabling a peer-to-peer network to manage the root zone file, making it uncensorable and free of gatekeepers.
Eco
Seed Round in 2020
Eco is a financial technology company that focuses on enhancing the value of money through innovative software solutions. As a founding contributor to the Eco Protocol, it aims to reshape traditional banking and reward systems. The company has developed Bend, a platform that seeks to improve users' financial experiences by maximizing the utility and effectiveness of their money. Eco's mission centers on empowering individuals to expect more from their financial transactions, ultimately striving to redefine the relationship between people and their money.
VeXeRe.Com
Venture Round in 2019
VeXeRe.com is the largest online bus ticket platform in Vietnam, established in 2013 and headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City. The platform facilitates convenient booking for passengers by partnering with over 1,000 bus companies, covering routes within Vietnam and extending to neighboring countries. VeXeRe.com provides a comprehensive service that includes access to ticket prices, schedules, and reviews of bus operators, allowing customers to make informed decisions. In addition to offering a user-friendly online booking experience, the company supports various payment methods, including online payments, bank transfers, and payments at convenience stores, enhancing accessibility for travelers throughout the region.
Seoul Robotics
Seed Round in 2019
Seoul Robotics specializes in developing advanced Lidar perception software and 3D computer vision devices aimed at enhancing the capabilities of autonomous vehicles, robots, and smart city applications. The company’s technology enables these systems to detect, classify, track, and predict the behavior of various targets and objects within their environment. By integrating sophisticated sensors and platforms, Seoul Robotics facilitates a deeper understanding of surroundings for self-driving cars and autonomous robots, ultimately contributing to safer and more efficient navigation and operation in complex settings.
Nervos
Seed Round in 2019
Nervos Network is a blockchain technology company established in 2018 and headquartered in Hangzhou, China. It offers a hybrid solution that integrates a public blockchain with an application chain, enabling enterprises to build and deploy decentralized applications without needing to fully commit their technology stack to the blockchain. The Nervos CKB (Common Knowledge Base) serves as its layer 1, proof-of-work public blockchain protocol, which allows for the secure storage of various crypto-assets while supporting smart contracts and layer 2 scaling solutions. The platform's unique design emphasizes security, immutability, and decentralization, positioning itself as a sustainable multi-asset store of value. It also facilitates the capture of total network value through its native token, CKByte, and a network of interoperable protocols, promoting a robust open ecosystem for developers and enterprises alike.
Drivetime
Series A in 2019
Drivetime, Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in designing and developing interactive audio games for the entertainment industry. Founded in 2018, Drivetime offers a unique online platform that allows users to engage in trivia and other games while driving, promoting a hands-free and non-distracting gameplay experience. This innovative approach enables players to connect with friends, family, and co-workers through voice-driven challenges, making driving time more enjoyable and interactive.
Ethic
Series A in 2019
Ethic is a company that develops a technology platform focused on simplifying financial planning and portfolio management. The platform utilizes data-driven investment consulting technology to create sustainable investment portfolios. It is designed to minimize tracking errors relative to established passive indices, allowing family offices, health advisers, and endowment foundations to offer tailored sustainability insights and efficient passive portfolio construction for their clients.
Bolt Labs
Seed Round in 2019
Bolt Labs, Inc. is a company based in Baltimore, Maryland, that specializes in developing privacy-focused solutions for digital asset management. Founded in 2018, Bolt Labs provides a lightning network protocol that supports privacy-preserving micropayments and non-custodial trading with centralized exchanges, alongside private decentralized exchanges. The company's secure computation solutions, utilizing multi-party computation (MPC), protect users' assets by ensuring confidentiality and integrity while preventing misuse or theft. Additionally, Bolt Labs is working on the zkChannels L2 protocol, which aims to create a scalable and user-friendly payment infrastructure that integrates with existing payment networks, including public blockchains. This innovation is designed to help merchants comply with emerging privacy regulations while enhancing customer privacy through secure transactions. Overall, Bolt Labs is focused on building a secure, usable, and scalable infrastructure for digital asset management.
Flexa
Initial Coin Offering in 2019
Flexa is a developer of a payment application that facilitates point-of-sale transactions using various cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ether, bitcoin cash, and litecoin. The application allows consumers to make purchases through a unique flex code, enabling a secure and fraud-proof payment experience without the need for liquid cash. In addition to its payment services, Flexa emphasizes consumer data privacy, offering users the ability to share personal information selectively and audit their data sharing at any time. This level of control supports dynamic loyalty and marketing initiatives, ensuring that customers remain central to the transaction process while minimizing transaction times. Overall, Flexa aims to enhance the retail payment experience by integrating cryptocurrency into everyday transactions.
Public Market
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Public Market is restoring the Commercial Commons by building an open, transparent, and competitive architecture for marketplace eCommerce.
Paykii
Seed Round in 2018
Paykii Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based company that offers a cross-border bill payment platform, allowing individuals living abroad to easily pay utility bills for their families in their home countries. By connecting remittance providers with utility companies globally, Paykii facilitates direct payment of expenses through a single transaction hub. The platform ensures secure transactions using bank-level security measures, including HSN authentication, 256-bit encryption, and SSL/TLS secured communication. Designed primarily for money transfer operators, banks, and mobile money operators, Paykii's services enable real-time account information and rapid payment processing, making it convenient for users to manage their financial obligations from abroad.
Fig Loans
Seed Round in 2018
Fig Loans, established in 2015 and based in Sugar Land, Texas, is a financial services company specializing in providing affordable loans and financial stability products to low-income individuals and families in Texas. It offers emergency loans, payday loan alternatives, and auto title loans, with a focus on flexible repayment plans and building credit. Fig Loans partners with local organizations like Family Houston to provide loans that are significantly cheaper than traditional alternatives, aiming to help borrowers overcome financial emergencies and work towards a better financial future.
Virtuous Software
Seed Round in 2018
Virtuous Software is a customer relationship management software solution that helps charities raise more money. Its platform aims to help organizations build better relationships with donors and streamline their fundraising efforts. Virtuous focuses on creating tools that enhance donor engagement, improve retention, and increase donations. Virtuous provides a customer relationship management (CRM) system specifically tailored for nonprofit organizations. This system helps manage donor data, track interactions, and segment audiences for targeted communication. Additionally, the platform allows nonprofits to track donor contributions, manage gift records, and analyze donor behavior to foster more meaningful relationships. Virtuous also offers tools to automate marketing campaigns, including email marketing, social media integration, and personalized communication strategies, enabling nonprofits to engage donors effectively.
Basis
Seed Round in 2018
Basis, established in 2017 and headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, specializes in developing an algorithmic cryptocurrency protocol. This protocol is designed to stabilize purchasing power by automatically adjusting the supply of its cryptocurrency, similar to how central banks manage fiscal debt.
Brushfire Interactive
Funding Round in 2017
Brushfire is a full service digital agency specializing in consumer-focused software development. Our team of industry leading technologists shares a passion for creating revolutionary mobile, web, and social experiences. Brushfire has helped redefine digital experiences for entertainment clients such as Showtime and TNT, Fortune 500 companies such as EDMC and Trimble, and non-profits like Compassion International and the International Justice Mission. Brushfire inspired products have received numerous awards such as Apple's App Design of the Year, NRB Mobile Initiative of the Year, 3 Apple Hall of Fame Apps, and a NY Times Top 10 App. Our work has also been featured on CNN, Forbes, USA Today, and Wired Magazine.
Catchafire
Series B in 2017
Catchafire, Inc. is an online platform based in New York that connects skilled professionals with nonprofits and social enterprises seeking to enhance their capacity for social good. Established in 2009, the company aims to provide meaningful pro bono experiences that empower volunteers and support the missions of various organizations. Catchafire's offerings include projects in areas such as infographic design, website visual design, bookkeeping, and brand messaging. Additionally, the company collaborates with businesses to develop and implement skills-based employee volunteer programs. As a certified B-Corporation, Catchafire is dedicated to fostering a community focused on effective volunteerism and driving positive change within the social sector. The company also has an office in San Francisco, California.
MobileServe
Seed Round in 2017
MobileServe LLC is a mobile application developer headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, specializing in volunteer management for various organizations, including businesses, Greek organizations, non-profits, schools, and universities. Launched in 2015, MobileServe offers a platform that enables users to track, report, and measure their volunteer service hours and social impact within the community. The application allows users to record and verify their service activities, providing comprehensive reports that detail hours worked, dates, times, and locations. It also facilitates connections among users through features like leaderboards and event check-ins, while enabling the sharing of service stories via social media using photos and infographics. By streamlining the communication of social impact, MobileServe fosters greater engagement in volunteerism across diverse groups.
Ethic
Seed Round in 2016
Ethic is a company that develops a technology platform focused on simplifying financial planning and portfolio management. The platform utilizes data-driven investment consulting technology to create sustainable investment portfolios. It is designed to minimize tracking errors relative to established passive indices, allowing family offices, health advisers, and endowment foundations to offer tailored sustainability insights and efficient passive portfolio construction for their clients.
Fig Loans
Seed Round in 2016
Fig Loans, established in 2015 and based in Sugar Land, Texas, is a financial services company specializing in providing affordable loans and financial stability products to low-income individuals and families in Texas. It offers emergency loans, payday loan alternatives, and auto title loans, with a focus on flexible repayment plans and building credit. Fig Loans partners with local organizations like Family Houston to provide loans that are significantly cheaper than traditional alternatives, aiming to help borrowers overcome financial emergencies and work towards a better financial future.
Upsie Technology
Seed Round in 2016
Upsie Technology Inc. operates a mobile application that simplifies the process of purchasing extended warranties for consumer electronics and durable goods. Founded in 2015 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Upsie allows users to buy warranties for a range of products, including televisions, laptops, home appliances, and more, at competitive prices without the typical sales pitches or markups. The app provides users with transparent pricing and coverage options, enabling them to easily compare warranties. Additionally, it allows for the storage of digital receipts and tracking of warranty expirations, streamlining the management of product protection. Users can purchase coverage, initiate claims, and even scan barcodes while shopping to check warranty availability for specific items.
Virtuous Software
Seed Round in 2016
Virtuous Software is a customer relationship management software solution that helps charities raise more money. Its platform aims to help organizations build better relationships with donors and streamline their fundraising efforts. Virtuous focuses on creating tools that enhance donor engagement, improve retention, and increase donations. Virtuous provides a customer relationship management (CRM) system specifically tailored for nonprofit organizations. This system helps manage donor data, track interactions, and segment audiences for targeted communication. Additionally, the platform allows nonprofits to track donor contributions, manage gift records, and analyze donor behavior to foster more meaningful relationships. Virtuous also offers tools to automate marketing campaigns, including email marketing, social media integration, and personalized communication strategies, enabling nonprofits to engage donors effectively.
Hot Chicken Takeover
Funding Round in 2016
Hot Chicken Takeover LLC operates a chain of fast-casual restaurants specializing in Nashville-style hot chicken, which is known for its distinctive cayenne-infused paste. Founded in 2013 and based in Columbus, Ohio, the restaurant offers a variety of meal options, including chicken with sides such as bread and pickles. The dining experience emphasizes community, featuring long communal tables where customers can enjoy their meals together and partake in complimentary iced tea, creating an atmosphere reminiscent of a backyard gathering. Hot Chicken Takeover aims to provide not just a meal, but a sense of connection among its patrons.
Bright Funds
Seed Round in 2016
Bright Funds, Inc. is a philanthropic platform founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California. The company focuses on enhancing individual and workplace giving by managing funds for selected nonprofits that address critical social issues such as environmental protection, access to clean water, basic education, poverty alleviation, accessible healthcare, and disaster response. Bright Funds provides tools for program administration and employee engagement, enabling companies to implement effective corporate social responsibility strategies. Through its platform, it offers managed donation disbursement and real-time analytics, helping employees track their social impact and connect with causes that matter to them. This approach empowers everyday donors to become strategic philanthropists and fosters meaningful contributions to communities both locally and globally.
MobileServe
Seed Round in 2016
MobileServe LLC is a mobile application developer headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, specializing in volunteer management for various organizations, including businesses, Greek organizations, non-profits, schools, and universities. Launched in 2015, MobileServe offers a platform that enables users to track, report, and measure their volunteer service hours and social impact within the community. The application allows users to record and verify their service activities, providing comprehensive reports that detail hours worked, dates, times, and locations. It also facilitates connections among users through features like leaderboards and event check-ins, while enabling the sharing of service stories via social media using photos and infographics. By streamlining the communication of social impact, MobileServe fosters greater engagement in volunteerism across diverse groups.
Quotanda
Seed Round in 2015
Quotanda is a lending as a service (LaaS) platform that specializes in providing student loan services aimed at democratizing access to education. The company offers a comprehensive online lending platform that enables various organizations, including lenders, educational institutions, and community foundations, to quickly establish affordable education loan programs in any country and currency. Quotanda's technology streamlines the entire lending process, managing all aspects of online lending programs for its partners. This includes program setup, marketing, compliance, credit origination, loan disbursement, and ongoing servicing, such as interest and principal collection, as well as default management. By improving financing options, Quotanda helps students secure loans for their educational pursuits, fostering greater affordability in education.
Vault
Seed Round in 2015
Vault is a technology company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in a comprehensive platform designed to address the challenges of student loan management. Founded in 2013, Vault offers an intuitive web-based tool that provides a secure experience for employees, helping them navigate their student loan debt and achieve financial freedom. The platform allows employers to contribute to their employees' debt repayment, enhancing talent acquisition and retention strategies. By simplifying repayment scenarios and assisting in the identification of suitable plans, Vault empowers both employers and employees to foster enduring relationships. Additionally, the company supports employees in managing their student debt while simultaneously building their retirement savings.
Gowild
Seed Round in 2015
Shenzhen Gowild Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., established in 2013 and headquartered in Shenzhen, China, specializes in the manufacturing of consumer electronics. The company produces a range of innovative products, including smart speakers, artificial intelligence-based housekeeping robots, and holographic AI devices. With a strong emphasis on artificial intelligence and advanced technologies, Gowild aims to blend technology and design, creating fashionable and functional products. The company is committed to exploring the potential of AI to enhance everyday life and believes that the integration of artificial intelligence will play a crucial role in shaping the future.
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