Avalanche VC

Avalanche VC is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in New York, New York. The firm focuses on investing in technology companies that are poised to transform various sectors, particularly in the areas of future of work, learning technology, government technology, and the ownership economy. By targeting innovative companies, Avalanche VC aims to support advancements that enhance how individuals learn, earn, and engage with ownership.

Katelyn Donnelly

Founder and Managing Partner

Martin Smith

Venture Partner

40 past transactions

Starbridge

Seed Round in 2025
Starbridge is an AI-powered platform that enables businesses to efficiently secure contracts in the state, local, and education sectors, allowing governments to solve problems faster and more effectively.

Civic Marketplace

Seed Round in 2024
Civic Marketplace is a digital platform that streamlines public procurement processes for government agencies. By offering an AI-driven marketplace with a searchable database, it enables these agencies to efficiently discover and purchase technology solutions while ensuring legal compliance. The platform not only simplifies purchasing decisions but also fosters local economic growth by providing opportunities and access to historically underutilized businesses. Through its innovative approach, Civic Marketplace enhances the ability of agencies to make informed and efficient choices in their procurement activities.

Feature

Seed Round in 2024
Feature is an innovative entertainment studio focused on transforming television into immersive metaverse experiences. By utilizing blockchain and proprietary technologies, the company enhances marketing, engagement, and loyalty among audiences. Feature's patent-pending web3 video stack enables creators to convert passive viewers into identifiable users, thereby fostering a direct connection between creators, brands, and their audiences. The company also provides interactive minting capabilities, blockchain-enabled gaming, and social media integration, allowing for the development of Web3 native content tailored to engage users across new digital platforms.

CyberNut

Pre Seed Round in 2024
The CyberNut missions are deep-rooted in a profound understanding of education and technology.

Ednition

Seed Round in 2024
Ednition is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company specializing in providing a rostering infrastructure and automation platform tailored for the edtech industry. Their platform offers real-time security posture monitoring, ensuring compliance with SOC2 reports and attestations. Key features include rostering, data integration, interoperability, and the creation of enterprise data pipelines, enabling edtech developers to build and scale their applications efficiently.

Offered.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Elevate your job search with the latest AI technology and expert recruiter support

Kepler Savings

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Kepler Savings is a company that specializes in providing innovative retirement savings solutions for both W2 employees and 1099 workers. It has developed a mobile application that facilitates the creation of personalized retirement plans. The platform automates the setup process, allowing users to link any debit or credit card to their accounts. By doing so, Kepler enables wage workers and their employers to accumulate cashback from everyday purchases, thereby enhancing their savings for retirement. This approach not only simplifies the retirement planning process but also encourages consistent saving habits among users.

Elixir

Seed Round in 2023
Elixir is a decentralized protocol that facilitates algorithmic market-making across both centralized and decentralized exchanges. It is designed to enhance composability for integrations, allowing retail users to engage in market-making activities and potentially earn profits. Additionally, Elixir provides projects and trading venues with access to active market-making services for their trading pairs, thus promoting liquidity and efficiency in the market. The protocol emphasizes computational security, ensuring that transactions and market activities are conducted safely and reliably.

GitPOAP

Seed Round in 2022
GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that enables users to showcase their contributions and achievements through blockchain-based badges. The platform utilizes a proof of attendance protocol that provides cryptographic verification of off-chain accomplishments, allowing individuals to create a public and immutable record of their work. These badges are accessible to anyone, facilitating recognition and fostering community engagement among contributors and repository owners. By providing a transparent way to acknowledge contributions, GitPOAP aims to nurture and grow collaborative efforts within various projects.

Prisms VR

Seed Round in 2022
Prisms VR is a STEM education platform based in San Francisco, California, founded by Anurupa Ganguly. The company specializes in creating immersive educational experiences using virtual reality technology. Its software features modules designed to provide realistic 3D environments that facilitate problem-solving and enhance understanding of complex concepts. These modules support content remediation and reinforce lessons learned in class, making them valuable for both in-person and remote learning settings. The platform aims to assist teachers and parents in teaching and fostering spatial thinking skills in students, ultimately enriching the educational experience.

Boundless Life

Seed Round in 2022
Boundless Life, established in 2021 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, specializes in creating global living communities for families seeking a nomadic lifestyle. The company designs and operates thoughtfully curated destinations worldwide, offering private homes, co-working spaces, an experiential learning school system, and locally integrated recreational facilities. This holistic approach enables families to live, learn, work, and explore diverse cultures sustainably.

Sparkwise

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Sparkwise is an online learning platform that focuses on enabling professionals to master skills collaboratively through interactive group challenges. The platform is designed to provide a high-impact learning experience while maintaining scalability, allowing for quality education that is accessible to a broad audience. By leveraging AI-driven technology, Sparkwise facilitates active group learning, promoting practice and insight among participants. The company combines its extensive expertise in adult learning with innovative approaches to create engaging, hands-on experiences that align with individual passions and purposes. This ensures that learning is not only effective but also accessible, fostering meaningful connections and collaboration among users.

FIRST

Pre Seed Round in 2022
A remote company providing software to delivery services offers businesses a single API to tap into any fleet and Delivery Command Center to manage delivery at scale

Chainstarters

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Chainstarters is a cloud infrastructure provider focused on optimizing the development process for software engineers and agencies. By offering a web implementation platform that eliminates the need for dev-ops, the company enables developers to create and scale innovative technologies efficiently. Chainstarters' platform includes a range of features such as instant launch capabilities, branded experiences, digital asset creation, utility integration, and an analytics dashboard. This comprehensive approach allows businesses to enhance customer loyalty, improve engagement, gather reliable data, and strengthen partnerships. As a result, Chainstarters helps its clients save up to 75% in development costs and reduces the product development lifecycle by more than 50%, empowering the development community to achieve groundbreaking outcomes.

Prof Jim

Venture Round in 2022
Prof Jim is an educational platform founded in 2020 and located in Sunnyvale, California. The company aims to transform the education sector through the use of artificial intelligence. It offers a range of online educational courses, all managed and enhanced by AI technology, which facilitates improved learning experiences for students. This innovative approach enables learners to pursue their education remotely, making it particularly relevant during the challenges posed by the pandemic. Prof Jim's commitment to leveraging advanced technology positions it as a significant player in the evolving landscape of education.

Kurios

Seed Round in 2021
Kurios is a Y Combinator-backed company that specializes in delivering cohort-based online courses focused on digital business skills in Latin America. The company offers training programs in areas such as Product Management, Growth, and Digital Management, taught by industry professionals from leading global tech firms like Amazon, Stripe, and Uber. Kurios serves a diverse clientele, including major enterprises such as Walmart Mexico, Femsa, and Bancolombia, by providing flexible and interactive training that empowers professionals and organizations to thrive in the digital age.

Passage Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Creators of Puller AI. Empowering enterprises with cutting-edge technology in Al, data management, and blockchain. Puller AI (www.puller.ai) empowers non-technical business users to independently access data and transform it into analytics-ready formats, without relying on IT or data engineering. Built by veterans in Commercial Data & AI, Puller AI streamlines the journey from raw data to actionable insights — enabling a more efficient, data-driven decision-making culture.

OpenAxis

Pre Seed Round in 2021
OpenAxis creates an automated chart based on the data provided and also allows users to browse the datasets. In addition, it offers analytics services.

Zest

Seed Round in 2021
Zest is a DAO toolkit developing firm that helps to create and manage enterprise-ready DAOs.

Systematic Ventures

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Systematic Ventures uses machine learning and AI to let you see deeper into private markets

Hammr

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Hammr Inc. is a professional network and workforce management platform focused on the construction industry. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hammr connects construction companies, professionals, general contractors, and subcontractors with skilled trades and job opportunities. The platform offers a suite of services, including time tracking, payroll, benefits, and compliance, enabling clients to efficiently manage their back office operations. By facilitating connections and collaboration among industry professionals, Hammr aims to inspire and streamline the hiring process, ultimately supporting the growth and branding efforts of its users.

Genus AI

Seed Round in 2021
Genus AI is a London-based company founded in 2016 that operates an artificial intelligence platform designed to enhance customer engagement for direct-to-consumer and e-commerce brands. The platform utilizes advanced machine learning and neuroscience techniques to generate product catalog images, seed audiences, and create copy and video content, facilitating efficient growth across various social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, and X. With a focus on simplifying access to AI solutions, Genus AI's platform is structured into a Creative Hub, Audience Hub, and Reporting Hub, allowing marketers to effectively improve key business performance metrics. In 2023, the platform generated 10 million product images, demonstrating its capacity to support leading global brands in their marketing efforts.

Humanly.io

Seed Round in 2021
Humanly.io is a hiring platform that specializes in screening and scheduling job candidates through an AI-based system. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, Humanly engages with candidates visiting a company’s job pages and social media, facilitating their qualification and addressing their inquiries. This innovative technology allows organizations to enhance candidate conversion rates across various recruitment channels while significantly reducing the time spent by human resources on each open role. With its focus on efficiency and automation, Humanly streamlines the hiring process for businesses, making it easier to manage candidate interactions at scale.

Edgi Learning

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Edgi Learning is a New York-based company that develops a digital platform aimed at enhancing learning and studying experiences for high school students. The platform offers engaging and accessible education through a combination of short-form videos covering diverse topics such as artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, cryptocurrency, and geopolitics. In addition to video content, Edgi Learning incorporates bite-sized quizzes that help learners retain information more effectively, facilitating faster learning and improved productivity. By focusing on modern educational needs, Edgi Learning aims to support students in achieving their academic goals.

Ednition

Funding Round in 2021
Ednition is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company specializing in providing a rostering infrastructure and automation platform tailored for the edtech industry. Their platform offers real-time security posture monitoring, ensuring compliance with SOC2 reports and attestations. Key features include rostering, data integration, interoperability, and the creation of enterprise data pipelines, enabling edtech developers to build and scale their applications efficiently.

Whalesync

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Whalesync is a developer of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that facilitates seamless data synchronization across various tools. The platform allows enterprises to effortlessly sync business data between applications such as Airtable, Webflow, and Notion. By simplifying the data synchronization process, Whalesync empowers users to unlock advanced functionalities that traditionally required engineering expertise and complex data pipelines. This includes capabilities like generating content management system (CMS) pages for search engine optimization, setting up internal tools, and creating no-code applications. Ultimately, Whalesync enables businesses to manage their data more efficiently, allowing for automation and streamlined operations directly from a spreadsheet interface.

Upright Education

Seed Round in 2021
Upright Education is an educational organization founded in 2021 and based in Burlington, Vermont. The company collaborates with colleges and universities to address the technology skills gap and prepare adults for future employment opportunities. Upright Education offers a range of courses focused on high-demand skills, including software development, UX and UI design, front-end coding, client-side scripting, database development, agile development, and design thinking. Through its platform, the organization aims to empower institutions with digital workforce programs that facilitate learning and equip students with the necessary skills for high-growth careers in the technology sector.

Brite

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Brite is an educational platform focused on empowering communities to teach coding to children. It offers a comprehensive curriculum, tools, and resources, incorporating interactive gaming elements to engage young learners and enhance their coding skills. By supporting educators, academies, and community organizations, Brite aims to make computer science education accessible and enjoyable, enabling users to teach coding in an effective and entertaining manner.

Rand

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Rand is an NFT platform focused on the Algorand blockchain, facilitating the buying, selling, and distribution of non-fungible tokens. The company provides tools for users to create, research, manage, collect, and trade digital assets efficiently. By leveraging Algorand's technology, Rand aims to enhance community experiences in the digital asset space, positioning itself as a trusted home for NFT enthusiasts and collectors.

Upstock

Seed Round in 2021
Upstock is a cloud-based platform that provides innovative tools for equity management, enabling companies to effectively share ownership with their employees. Founded in 2015 and based in Norway, Upstock addresses the needs of the vast majority of businesses that lack access to traditional equity systems. Its user-friendly system simplifies the management of restricted stock units (RSUs) and facilitates real-time tracking of equity value, empowering employees to think and act like co-owners. By streamlining equity plan creation and communication, Upstock significantly reduces legal costs and administrative burdens for companies. This approach helps businesses attract, motivate, and retain talent by fostering a culture of ownership, resulting in improved employee retention and engagement.

Acclinate

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Acclinate is a high-growth company that focuses on enhancing diversity and representation in genomic research and clinical trials through its digital health platform. By leveraging machine learning and predictive analytics, Acclinate automates the processes of identifying, educating, engaging, and retaining diverse participants for genomic studies. This approach not only empowers communities to take proactive steps towards better health but also helps biopharmaceutical research organizations reduce the overall costs associated with drug development. Through sustained engagement and AI-driven insights, Acclinate aims to transform the landscape of clinical research and improve health outcomes for underrepresented populations.

Worksphere

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Worksphere helps companies manage a hybrid workplace where employees work in-office or remote. The company automates desk reservations, team scheduling, and gives companies data usage to right-size their office.

Level

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We are on a mission to empower people to build microbusinesses with the financial Operating System they need to thrive. By building this financial OS supported by tailored financial services, we are playing an influential role in creating a world in which the smallest businesses have the biggest opportunities.

Continuum

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Continuum is a pioneering learning platform that focuses on vocational education by offering short, engaging courses in a format similar to TikTok videos. As the first tokenized learn-to-earn platform, it incentivizes both content creators and learners through the earning of cryptocurrency and NFTs for their participation and engagement. The platform is accessible on various devices, including web, iPhone, and Android, and serves a global audience, with users in 107 countries. By making vocational learning fast, enjoyable, and socially interactive, Continuum aims to enhance educational accessibility and foster a vibrant community of learners.

LoanSense

Seed Round in 2021
LoanSense is a debt management platform focused on assisting borrowers in reducing student loan debt and facilitating homeownership. The company collaborates with networks in mortgage technology and mortgage brokerages to streamline the mortgage process for student loan debtors. Through its platform, LoanSense offers personalized financial planning by helping users set goals and create tailored plans aimed at improving their debt-to-income ratios. The platform also provides advisory services and monthly payment calculations, empowering borrowers to navigate student loan servicing and expedite mortgage closings effectively.

Pencil Spaces

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pencil Spaces is a technology company focused on enhancing the online learning experience for both educators and learners. It operates an online tutoring platform designed to simplify the digital classroom environment. The platform provides users with free profiles, resource libraries, and various tools to facilitate online education. By leveraging artificial intelligence and promoting deep collaboration, Pencil Spaces aims to make education more productive and effective. Through its innovative offerings, the company seeks to create a more engaging and organized learning experience for tutors and their students.

The Social Institute

Pre Seed Round in 2020
The Social Institute is an education technology company that provides digital learning experiences designed for both in-person and remote delivery. Their platform offers a range of services including keynote speeches, interactive workshops, school curricula, brand consulting, and a digital educational platform for parents. The company's core focus is empowering students to navigate their social world positively by teaching assertive strategies to manage the key factors influencing their social development.

Attention Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Attention Labs specializes in real-time audio routing technology, enabling seamless, echo-free communication across various devices and environments. Their patented AI-driven solution processes spatial and audio data to detect conversation groups in under 50 milliseconds, facilitating side conversations and personalized audio focus among both in-office and remote participants. Recognized by Product Hunt as a top audio and voice product in 2021, the company offers advanced audio APIs for communication platforms, supporting interactions across wearables and enhancing hybrid work experiences.

Tribute

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Tribute Co. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in workplace mentorship solutions, primarily focused on supporting women. Founded in 2018, the company offers a peer-to-peer mentorship application that connects employees through shared life experiences and personal stories. Its enterprise SaaS platform is designed to facilitate corporate mentoring programs, making it easier for organizations to foster authentic connections between mentors and mentees. Tribute's innovative approach not only enhances team collaboration and productivity but also provides employers with valuable insights to track diversity and inclusion initiatives. By redefining mentorship, Tribute aims to create a more engaged and successful workforce.

Next Gen HQ

Seed Round in 2019
Next Gen HQ is a company focused on empowering individuals to take control of their careers through innovative skill-building tools. It develops a proprietary mobile application designed to provide young people with resources and a supportive community that fosters an entrepreneurial mindset. The platform offers various services, including guidance on identifying realistic job opportunities, building a personal brand, securing paid speaking engagements, leveraging social media, authoring books, managing office tasks, and expanding professional networks. By combining digital learning with in-person experiences, Next Gen HQ aims to equip aspiring entrepreneurs with the essential skills and knowledge needed for personal and professional success.
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