ARC Angel Fund

ARC Angel Fund invests in seed and early-stage companies with high growth potential. We focus primarily on Software, IT, Internet, Tech-Enabled Services, Business Services, Digital Media, Mobile, Healthcare IT, among others. The Fund has a primary focus towards NYC and the surrounding North-East and Mid-Atlantic area companies. ARC Angel Fund invests in industries with which its members have experience, with investments averaging $50,000 to $150,000, each, over the life of the investment. ARC Angel Fund is a member-led Angel Fund. An Angel Fund is, in essence, a hybrid model between an Angel Group and a Venture Fund. The members of ARC Angel Fund range from experienced Angel Investors and Partners in VC Funds, to executives of successful companies. Their members bring their own expertise to the table and can actively participate as much as they like in the Fund's investment decisions.

Joe Rubin

Founding Member

40 past transactions

Alkemi

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Alkemi AI Inc. develops and provides a non-custodial infrastructure platform for digital assets to connect with exchanges. Its platform facilitates open access to liquidity and streamlined settlement for its customers (institutional capital allocators) and partners (exchange venues and third party providers) for solving the problem of digital asset market inefficiency. The company’s on-chain liquidity protocol is a non-custodial solution for stakeholders to earn incentives on their idle crypto assets while providing the infrastructure required for exchanges to stabilize market prices. Alkemi AI Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Ollie

Venture Round in 2020
Ollie Pets, Inc. engages in preparing and delivering dog food. It offers fresh meals, beef, chicken, turkey, and various recipes. Ollie Pets, Inc. was formerly known as Earnest Food Inc. Ollie Pets, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Crowded

Seed Round in 2016
Crowded.com, Inc. develops and operates an on-demand worker hiring platform. The company enables workers to create and maintain their profile on Crowded.com, get verified, engage in training and assessments, explore potential career paths, and get hired by hourly and on-demand companies. Crowded.com, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Yieldmo

Series A in 2012
Yieldmo is one of the fastest-growing digital advertising and attention analytics companies. Our premium marketplace allows advertisers to create, measure, model, and optimize campaigns for unmatched scale and performance. We ultimately deliver better results by harnessing the power of attention data to drive superior audience engagement and retargeting.

NuLabel

Venture Round in 2011
NuLabel Technologies is a polymer science and engineering innovations company developing innovative label and packaging solutions to help companies cut costs and reduce waste. label has developed patented adhesive and patent-pending hardware technology that uses activatable adhesives to eliminate the need for a label's non-stick liner backing or the need for messy wet glue used in product packaging. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in East Providence, Rhode Island.

imbookin (Pogby)

Series A in 2011
Pogby connects event planners and venues via the web. Pogby’s proprietary venue booking engine, venue management tools and planned customized search components meets an untapped need within a multi-billion dollar industry. Pogby.com will be the premier distribution channel for venues to list and market their availability effectively on line. Initial services enable event planners to view a venue’s availability, configure an event package and book an event space directly from the venue’s site or from a distribution partner site. The base service also offers venues the ability to manage their booking requests, manage their venue spaces and optimize their venue utilization via Pogby’s proprietary venue space management tools. Next release services will enable planners to search, find, compare and rate venues and will provide planners with proprietary tools to help them manage their events more efficiently. Today, the process of finding and booking a venue for an event is highly fragmented, highly manual and unsecure. Planners use multiple means (e.g., spreadsheets, calendar applications, phone, email, fax and in-person visits) to determine availability, reserve and book event space. Similarly, venue managers spend an enormous amount of time, through multiple, manual means , finalizing an event date, event package (menu, options, etc.) and meeting a client’s budget requirements before their space is ever booked. In addition, venue managers do not have an integrated toolset to help them manage their venue’s availability, to organize and respond to inquiries, distribute their product to a global audience, or to enable full transparency of the reservation and booking process in a secure environment. Pogby.com streamlines the fragmented event planning process to a convenient, easy to use, online-software service that results in: reduced time spent on compiling a proposal, increased productivity, and increased client customization for both the venue managers and the planners they support.

BeautyBooked

Seed Round in 2014
BeautyBooked, Inc. operates a Website that allows users to search and book appoints for local day spas and salons. The company’s site allows users to book appointments for blowout, nails, haircut, tanning, facial treatments, massage, hair color, makeup, brows and lashes, bikini wax, body treatment, and laser and medi services. It primarily serves customers in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, and Miami. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York. As of January 19, 2016, BeautyBooked, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of StyleSeat, Inc.

Human Demand

Series A in 2013
Founded February 2012, Human Demand is the leading independent mobile Demand Side Platform (DSP) & Data Management Platform (DMP) company providing mobile audience solutions to advertisers. As a Demand Side Platform (DSP), Human Demand offers agencies and trading desks the industry’s most robust real-time bidding (RTB) self serve platform for mobile ads. The Company leverages its proprietary technology platform to bid on and serve advertisements across all Mobile Ad Exchanges. As a Data Management Platform (DMP), the Company enriches the typical undifferentiated mobile display and video inventory in real time and makes it intensely more valuable. The Company delivers targeted mobile audiences at scale through its proprietary "AppAudience" data, superior location insights, campaign optimization, and visual analytics. Human Demand has a team of 18 and is headquartered in New York City.

Partpic

Seed Round in 2015
Partpic is a visual recognition technology company that allows users to save time and money searching for replacement maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) parts. By allowing users to snap a picture of a part with a smart device, Partpic matches the user generated image with a part and associated specifications.

Lynq

Series A in 2020
Our devices are the first implementation of decentralized, private, secure and portable network. We’re changing how you transmit location data allowing you to communicate for miles without infrastructure and with an unparalleled level of security and privacy. We created unique methods of frequency hopping that allows you to transmit location data in a way that’s unable to be detected and therefore intercepted.

StatSocial

Debt Financing in 2016
StatSocial is a premier provider of social data, enabling brands and publishers to understand, segment, and target their audiences on the web. StatSocial was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York City.

SkyWatch

Seed Round in 2018
SkyWatch provides a digital infrastructure for the distribution of Earth observation data and derived intelligence. It provides developers with the tools they need to cost-effectively add Earth observation data into their applications and workflows. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario.

Sustain

Venture Round in 2018
Sustain is the first brand of all-natural, vagina-friendly essentials. They make everything from tampons to condoms to lubricants. From tampons to condoms, to lubricants, most products contain unhealthy ingredients that can do your body harm. At Sustain, we're committed to always putting your health first, which means our products are better, healthier, and more vagina-friendly than traditional brands. Bonus points that they're better for Mother Earth as well.

Ocrolus

Convertible Note in 2016
Ocrolus is a venture-backed FinTech company that uses Artificial Intelligence and crowdsourcing to automate financial review processes. The Company transforms e-statements, scans, and cell phone images, regardless of quality, into 99+% accurate digital data. It was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, United States.

Offermobi

Seed Round in 2011
OfferMobi.com is the first affiliate network focused on the mobile web. Led by industry veterans and leaders, we strive to bring our partners the very best service, pricing, and overall strategy to ensure growth for everyone. For our Advertisers, we provide the ability to drive high quality, high volume acquisitions with no risk, as our entire network is on a cost per acquisition model. We help with strategy and optimization to ensure the best consumers. For our Affiliates, we give our affiliates the opportunity to generate additional income from their traffic, as we offer a wide Variety of offers, as well as valuable account services and updates. From big brand names to exclusive offers, we have them here.

Bow & Drape

Seed Round in 2014
Bow & Drape is an e-clothier that allows women to design their own clothing. With a few clicks, Bow & Drape guides its shoppers to flattering silhouettes that they can easily modify into unique clothing, using hand-selected silhouettes, colors, and trim. Once the customer decides on her design, her item will be made for her in the USA and shipped to her doorstep.

BeneStream

Seed Round in 2014
BeneStream, Inc. provides programs that allow employees to receive government benefits to which they are entitled, such as food stamps, Medicaid, and child health plus. It offers a Web based interface system for brokers and human resources departments that uses employee payroll data to determine an individual's eligibility for government benefits; and provides an individual with a completed application to be signed and submitted. The company also provides Medicaid screening and enrollment service that identifies employees who qualify for Medicaid and enrolls them in the program. It serves insurance brokers and their clients by helping employers in identifying employees who qualify for the government's insurance programs. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Uptown Network

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Uptown Network is a provider of plug-and-play hospitality solutions and iPad menus. The company's products such as kitchen sync, bar sync, digital menus, direct to consumers from their iPad menu, and virtual wine lockers. It also allows restaurants to edit the menus on the fly, reflecting new items, prices, specials, and availability, without having to launch an entire reprinting. Uptown Network was established in 2011 and is based in Naples, Florida, USA.

Levelset

Series C in 2019
Levelset helps contractors and suppliers get payment under control, promoting smooth payments and successful projects. By connecting to Levelset’s cloud-based platform, contractors and suppliers can make payment processes easy and simple. Users can easily exchange payment documents like lien waivers, pay applications, and preliminary notices, they see a complete picture of who is on their job, and are encouraged with the resources and knowledge they need to be confident in payment. The results are faster payments and fewer surprises. Levelset was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Quick Key

Seed Round in 2014
Quick Key is an app tailor-made for those who want to use data to inform and improve teaching and learning. Quick Key Mobile Learning Platform includes 1:1 online and BYOD assessment app, teacher grading app for paper assessments, Google forms grader, plus it grades gridded response and open response questions online or paper with any mobile device.

First Due

Seed Round in 2018
First Due Size Up is on a mission to end first responder injuries due to a lack of information. The platform programmatically gathers information from online and offline sources, translates that data into an easy-to-consume format and makes it accessible to First Responders at the time of dispatch on any device, completely integrated with 911, Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and customized to the agencies Standard Operating Procedures. Think of us as SaaS+SmartData+EmergencyResponse to reduce cost and save lives.

Lynq

Seed Round in 2017
Our devices are the first implementation of decentralized, private, secure and portable network. We’re changing how you transmit location data allowing you to communicate for miles without infrastructure and with an unparalleled level of security and privacy. We created unique methods of frequency hopping that allows you to transmit location data in a way that’s unable to be detected and therefore intercepted.

Cuebiq

Series A in 2017
Cuebiq Inc. develops and operates a location and data intelligence platform, AudienceQ that provides the advertisers with the facility of offline location analytics of geo-behavioral audiences for cross-platform advertisement targeting, and footfall attribution analysis by observing and analyzing time spent by users at points of interest across the globe. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

Sidecar

Series A in 2014
Sidecar is an e-commerce marketing company that builds the advanced technology retailers need to optimize cross-channel online shopping campaigns. With a team of data science and e-commerce experts, our state-of-the-art machine learning engine, and a massive volume of data, Sidecar is the magic behind retail's most efficient and powerful online shopping campaigns.

Uptown Network

Equity Crowdfunding in 2021
Uptown Network is a provider of plug-and-play hospitality solutions and iPad menus. The company's products such as kitchen sync, bar sync, digital menus, direct to consumers from their iPad menu, and virtual wine lockers. It also allows restaurants to edit the menus on the fly, reflecting new items, prices, specials, and availability, without having to launch an entire reprinting. Uptown Network was established in 2011 and is based in Naples, Florida, USA.

Cirrus Data Solutions

Debt Financing in 2014
Cirrus Data Solutions is a privately-held developer of cloud, data center and storage area network applications for data migration and caching services. The company was founded in 2011 by a group of seasoned veterans each with over 20 years of experience in the computer storage software and financial industries. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Jericho, New York.

Radius8

Seed Round in 2016
Radius8, Inc. develops and provides a software solution that allows users to leverage their customers' existing online behavior to drive them into the store that's nearest to them. Its software digitally targets local customers and drives them into physical stores. The company’s software ensures local customers see local content on their social networks while they search the Web and when they are online. It has a strategic partnership with JRNI Limited. Radius8, Inc. was formerly known as VelocityRetail, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Prognos

Series A in 2011
Prognos is a healthcare AI company focused on eradicating disease by driving decisions earlier in healthcare in collaboration with payers, Life Sciences and diagnostics companies. The Prognos Registry is the largest source of clinical diagnostics information in over 30 disease areas, with over 5B medical records for 100M patients. Prognos has 500 extensive proprietary and learning clinical algorithms to enable earlier patient identification for enhanced treatment decision-making, risk management and quality improvement.

Altruik

Series B in 2011
Altruik was acquired and merged with SearchDex. www.searchdex.com Altruik is focused on making search engine optimization easy and scalable for eCommerce companies and online businesses. By using their technology to increase visibility in the search engines, companies can generate more site traffic, more visits to their content and product inventory pages, and higher click-through rates. Their automated Search Engine Optimization (SEO) solution easily integrates with all Content Management Systems (CMS) and legacy systems and efficiently manages the search engine optimization process. Plus, it offers several advantages over other options by: 1. Handling many of the labor-intensive and tedious tasks associated with implementing site-wide SEO changes. As a result, eCommerce companies and site owners save the time and ongoing cost of ensuring that their site content is visible to prospective customers 2. Ensuring that SEO best practices are implemented in a way that is fully compliant with the search engines 3. Seamlessly overcoming SEO barriers created by a company’s infrastructure, including inflexible legacy or Content Management Systems, limited technology resources, and lack of access to relevant performance and search data

Sidecar

Series A in 2012
Sidecar is an e-commerce marketing company that builds the advanced technology retailers need to optimize cross-channel online shopping campaigns. With a team of data science and e-commerce experts, our state-of-the-art machine learning engine, and a massive volume of data, Sidecar is the magic behind retail's most efficient and powerful online shopping campaigns.

UpNext

Series A in 2011
UpNext is a NYC based startup developing extremely detailed 3D maps for the mobile devices. UpNext currently maps New York City, Boston, DC, San Francisco, Philly, Chicago, Portland and Austin. Within the UpNext 3D Cities iPhone app a complete 3-D representation of each city is offered, down to practically every single building. You can pan and zoom, and click on any building to get a list of the businesses inside. Type in an address and the map flies right to it. If you want to see nearby restaurants, bars, stores, hotels, museums, or sports facilities, you can set a filter to light those things up on the map.

Sustain

Series A in 2016
Sustain is the first brand of all-natural, vagina-friendly essentials. They make everything from tampons to condoms to lubricants. From tampons to condoms, to lubricants, most products contain unhealthy ingredients that can do your body harm. At Sustain, we're committed to always putting your health first, which means our products are better, healthier, and more vagina-friendly than traditional brands. Bonus points that they're better for Mother Earth as well.

Treez

Series A in 2018
Treez, Inc. develops retail management software solution serving the medical marijuana dispensaries in the United States. It offers Treez, an enterprise-grade, business management platform for cannabis cultivation and plant tracking. The company provides its point of sale, integrated payments, and grow and data software solutions for vertical marijuana market ranging from farmers to brands to retailers. Treez, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Oakland, California.

Annum Health

Series A in 2018
Annum Health delivers the modern alternative to traditional rehab for heavy drinking. Co-founded by proven leaders in health care, technology and alcohol treatment, Annum transforms the treatment experience while eliminating profound barriers to care — high cost, personal and professional disruption, and stigma. At a fraction of the price of inpatient care at a traditional rehab facility, Annum’s tech-enabled solution fully integrates therapy, coaching, medication and support over the course of up to a year to help people reach their individual goals.

Kanvas Labs

Seed Round in 2014
Kanvas Labs, Inc. develops a mobile social networking platform that enables users to make social photo stories around real world experiences. Its products include Kanvas that allows users to create sharable content with pictures, texts, stickers and sound. Kanvas Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Tracks Media, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in New York, New York. As of August 31, 2015, Kanvas Labs, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of AOL Inc.

Careerminds Group

Venture Round in 2011
Careerminds is a national provider of affordable, web-based outplacement solutions for companies that are downsizing or reorganizing. They are a team with a passion for developing and sharing practices that help individuals find their professional success. They give people the opportunity to challenge themselves—challenge their minds—and find the courage to grow.

Roboinvest

Angel Round in 2012
Roboinvest is the new way to invest. Roboinvest is a social investing platform that allows you to follow and copy other traders in real-time.

Sidecar

Series A in 2011
Sidecar is an e-commerce marketing company that builds the advanced technology retailers need to optimize cross-channel online shopping campaigns. With a team of data science and e-commerce experts, our state-of-the-art machine learning engine, and a massive volume of data, Sidecar is the magic behind retail's most efficient and powerful online shopping campaigns.

First Due

Seed Round in 2017
First Due Size Up is on a mission to end first responder injuries due to a lack of information. The platform programmatically gathers information from online and offline sources, translates that data into an easy-to-consume format and makes it accessible to First Responders at the time of dispatch on any device, completely integrated with 911, Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and customized to the agencies Standard Operating Procedures. Think of us as SaaS+SmartData+EmergencyResponse to reduce cost and save lives.

Annum Health

Seed Round in 2016
Annum Health delivers the modern alternative to traditional rehab for heavy drinking. Co-founded by proven leaders in health care, technology and alcohol treatment, Annum transforms the treatment experience while eliminating profound barriers to care — high cost, personal and professional disruption, and stigma. At a fraction of the price of inpatient care at a traditional rehab facility, Annum’s tech-enabled solution fully integrates therapy, coaching, medication and support over the course of up to a year to help people reach their individual goals.