Bam Ventures

BAM Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and growth capital investments. The firms seeks to invest in companies with focus on energy, healthcare, financial technology, social, stealth and media sectors. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in Los Angeles and Southern California. BAM Ventures was founded in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Richard Jun

Co-Founder and MD

Brian Lee

Co-Founder and MD

Maurice Maschmeyer

Investor

Shamin Walsh

MD

Past deals in Hawaii

Chalk

Seed Round in 2018
Chalk is a communication application designed to help users to talk instantly.

NerdWallet, Inc.

Series A in 2014
NerdWallet, Inc. develops online tools that provide information, insights, and consumer-driven advices about personal finance to consumers. Its tools help consumers to navigate and get clarity about their personal finance decisions in the areas of credit card, banking, mortgage, insurance, loan, investing, small business, healthcare, education, and shopping aspects. NerdWallet, Inc. was formerly known as KSquared Capital Management LLC. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mented Cosmetics, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Mented is a luxury beauty company targeted to women of color. It is a premium beauty line that believes every woman should be able to find herself in the world of beauty. Offering nude lipstick and nail polish shades made especially for Black and Brown beauties, Mented Cosmetics believes that when it comes to beauty, no one deserves to be an afterthought.

Sway

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Sway offers regenerative design solutions for plastic pollution using seaweed to create compostable replacements for single-use plastics. The company was co-founded by Julia Marsh, Matt Mayes, and Leland Maschmeyer and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Upcomer

Seed Round in 2018
Upcomer is a new platform for esports fans to stay updated and engaged with esports. We're building a new kind of esports community and our mobile apps are currently rated 4.8/5 from 5K+ ratings. Try our product at www.upcomer.com

Alchemy 43

Seed Round in 2015
Alchemy 43 provides beautification services. Its services include wrinkle relaxing, fill, sculpting, and lash enhancement services. The company also provides compounds and treatments. Alchemy 43 is based in Beverly Hills, California.

treet

Seed Round in 2021
Treet helps apparel brands become more circular and control their secondhand market by launching a peer-to-peer resale marketplace. Treet Marketplaces operate as second sites where their customers can buy and sell used items from each other in exchange for cash or credit back to the brand. Treet handles all of the logistics and support while brands share in the profit.

Zola

Series D in 2018
Zola is the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples' lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology. All in the service of love.

Reel

Seed Round in 2018
Reel is a platform for debt-free shopping. We make it simple to pay for what you want in installment savings. From a new pair of shoes to an Apple Watch, we help you save a little everyday, while giving you inspirations and price alerts. Our objective is to help millennials, the most credit adverse generation with the highest consumption power, achieve their goals while avoiding the burden of unnecessary debt.

TomoCredit

Seed Round in 2021
TomoCredit is building the next generation credit card designed for Millennials with no credit history or credit score by analyzing alternative data sources through its proprietary algorithm. founding team is made up of immigrant founders who all felt the challenge of getting a credit card as foreign nationals. The team is comprised of alum from Coinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund and Google and have attended schools including MIT and UC Berkeley.

NestEgg

Seed Round in 2020
NestEgg is a real estate company providing an app that helps busy rental property owners to manage their properties. The app gives owners on-demand access to real experts help them manage their properties, save time with effortless maintenance coordination, maintenance by Pros owners can trust at discounted rates, and bring certainty to the property's cash flow with rent in the account. The company was founded by Eachan Fletcher, Amie O' Donohue, and Jeff Slipko in 2017 in Chicago, Illinois.

Jaanuu, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Jaanuu was founded to reimagine the multi-billion dollar medical apparel market via the industry's first contemporary, Antimicrobial-finished products. Since its launch, Jaanuu has sold product around the globe and has quickly become the fastest growing company in its category. For more information, please contact support@jaanuu.com.

Sundays For Dogs, Inc.

Series A in 2022
Sundays for Dogs engages in the online retail of dog foods. Its products are made by an air-drying method that gently dehydrates food low and slow to preserve nutrients and flavor while killing germs. The company was co-founded by Tory Waxman and Michael Waxman and is based in New York.

Honey

Seed Round in 2014
Designed to help consumers save time and money, Honey’s 10 million users worldwide, shop over 30,000 retailers knowing that Honey is finding the best deals and coupons for their everyday needs. The free browser extension automatically finds and applies coupons at checkout, it also helps users save money on Amazon by showing price history, best price detection and a product called Droplist that watches select products and sends notifications when it drops below a selected price.

Breathwrk, Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Breathwrk, Inc. develops and operates a breathing exercises related guidance application. The company’s mobile application offers science-backed breathing exercises for mental and physical wellness and promotes breath work to help users reduce anxiety, sleep disorders, athletic performance issues, low energy, excess stress, panic attacks, a racing mind at night, lack of focus, and bliss. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Venice, California.

Forevernote

Seed Round in 2018
Forevernote is an easy, convenient, and affordable way for everyone to preserve and share their life stories as keepsake quality books.

Comparably

Series A in 2015
Comparably provides the most accurate and comprehensive compensation and culture data, to understand employees' true value and needs to make work better.

Flyp

Series A in 2022
Got used clothes? Let a Pro sell it for you.

Rael

Seed Round in 2018
Rael Inc. researches, develops, and sells natural and organic feminine care products. It offers pads, liners, and tampons made from organic cotton. The company sells its product online. Rael Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Buena Park, California.

Mented Cosmetics, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Mented is a luxury beauty company targeted to women of color. It is a premium beauty line that believes every woman should be able to find herself in the world of beauty. Offering nude lipstick and nail polish shades made especially for Black and Brown beauties, Mented Cosmetics believes that when it comes to beauty, no one deserves to be an afterthought.

WTHN LLC

Seed Round in 2018
Wthn is a natural wellness brand offering herbal medicine & acupuncture treatments. The brand makes acupuncture and herbs accessible to everyone and aims to demystify and educate its clients around the benefits of natural healing. Its mission is to help others heal their bodies and relax their minds in order to lead happier, healthier, and more fulfilled lives every day by stimulating and unlocking the body’s natural healing defenses. Michelle Larivee and Shari Auth founded the brand in New York, New York in 2017.

IMMORTALS

Seed Round in 2015
Immortals, LLC forms professional gaming teams that participates in esports events built around games, such as League of Legends, Dota 2, and Counter-Strike. It also operates mobile esports, including Clash Royale and Arena of Valor. Immortals, LLC was formerly known as Team 8 eSports, LLC and changed its name to Immortals, LLC in October, 2015. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

PayEngine

Series A in 2022
PayEngine is the unique payments platform designed to help vertical market software vendors maximize payment revenue, eliminiate liability and reduce complexity, and own and improve customer experience. With PayEngine's platform, software vendors can set their own rates over interchange, control margins and retain the majority of their profits; eliminate MOR liability and dispute management, PCI/data security and compliance issues; and integrate with APIs, drop-in widgets and customizable UI.

Zola

Series D in 2018
Zola is the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples' lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology. All in the service of love.

Arsenic

Seed Round in 2018
Arsenic is a mobile-first, user-submission based platform. Its youth-driven, provocative lifestyle has given it incredible strength amongst millennials. It's been described as "Maxim for the Snapchat generation". ArsenicTV has higher daily viewership on Snapchat than E!, MTV2, ESPN2, CNN or Oxygen have on cable. At the current pace of growth, ArsenicTV viewership will be larger than MTV in less than 3 months. Instagram engagement is stronger than many legacy brands such as, Esquire, Maxim, Vice, Vanity Fair and People. Arsenic has a strong celebrity user-base, including Justin Bieber, Kevin Hart, Trey Songz, Calvin Harris, Skrillex, and Travis Barker.

Educast

Series A in 2015
EdTech

Birdy Grey

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Direct-to-consumer bridal startup providing millennial bridal parties with aspirational gowns at affordable prices.

Gamevice, Inc.

Series A in 2015
Gamevice is a US based award winning design and engineering business creating touch screen tablets and game controllers. Gamevice has offices in Hong Kong, London, and new offices opening in Shenzhen China. Its corporate head office is based in Los Angeles as is the R&D and support center.

NestEgg

Series A in 2020
NestEgg is a real estate company providing an app that helps busy rental property owners to manage their properties. The app gives owners on-demand access to real experts help them manage their properties, save time with effortless maintenance coordination, maintenance by Pros owners can trust at discounted rates, and bring certainty to the property's cash flow with rent in the account. The company was founded by Eachan Fletcher, Amie O' Donohue, and Jeff Slipko in 2017 in Chicago, Illinois.

Vrai, LLC

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Vrai is the first-and-only USDA Organic Ready-to-Drink (RTD) Premium Hard Seltzer available in the market today. Made with a mixed assortment of premium spirits infused with natural flavors, Vrai's portfolio of premium RTD alcoholic beverages delivers a taste experience that is unmatched by a cocktail bar. For more information, please visit www.drinkvrai.com.

Flow

Venture Round in 2015
Flow provides a turn-key platform for e-commerce companies to go global, capturing international demand for their products. The platform enables merchants to simply configure their cross-border supply-chain requirements and immediately fulfill their overseas demand. Flow can be used by e-commerce companies of any size and both as a complete, end-to-end solution or as a modular unbundled product. Using the Flow platform the experience of buying and selling internationally is as easy as domestic for both merchants and consumers.

Sagely Naturals

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Sagely Naturals is bringing an intentional state of wellbeing to your world, naturally.

Start Engine

Seed Round in 2014
StartEngine Crowdfunding, Inc. is a startup accelerator specializing in technology sector. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Streamup

Seed Round in 2015
Streamup, Inc. operates a live video streaming platform. Its platform enables to browse various television channels; notifies when favorite channels go live; allows chatting/interacting together with broadcasters and viewers; and facilitates to share on Facebook, Twitter, and more. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Miami, Florida.

Clique

Series B in 2015
Recently named to Fast Company’s list for the World's Most Innovative Companies in 2017, Clique is a global media, marketing, and consumer brands company. Through its brands—Who What Wear, MyDomaine, Byrdie, CollegeFashionista, and Obsessee—CMG combines the power of data science with its expert editorial team to create content and products that millennial women and Gen Z girls crave. CMG’s two key marketing offerings, CMG Studios (an in-house creative agency) and INF Network (representing 55+ top bloggers and influencers), deliver integrated and native advertising programs, all while inspiring consumers to discover and shop. In early 2016, CMG launched its first clothing, shoes, and accessories line exclusively with Target under the Who What Wear brand, and it continues to be a top performer for the mega-retailer.

Outdoor Voices

Series B in 2016
Outdoor Voices, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells athletic apparel. It offers sports bras, tops, sweatshirts, jackets, leggings, pants, and tonal sets for women; and tees, sweatshirts, jackets, shorts, pants, objects, and tonal sets for men. The company sells its apparel through its retail shops, as well as online in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Outdoor Voices, Inc. was formerly known as T.Haney Active Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Retention Science

Series A in 2014
Retention Science specializes in retention marketing, with a focus on targeting, engaging, and retaining customers. Its data-driven SaaS-based Retention Marketing platform predicts customer behavior and delivers targeted multi-channel communications that increase revenue and encourage customer advocacy. It makes sophisticated data science and marketing automation simple to use for all marketing teams. Retention Science powers marketing campaigns for Target, Neiman Marcus, The Honest Company, and has been featured in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and CNN.

PayEngine

Seed Round in 2021
PayEngine is the unique payments platform designed to help vertical market software vendors maximize payment revenue, eliminiate liability and reduce complexity, and own and improve customer experience. With PayEngine's platform, software vendors can set their own rates over interchange, control margins and retain the majority of their profits; eliminate MOR liability and dispute management, PCI/data security and compliance issues; and integrate with APIs, drop-in widgets and customizable UI.

Wildfire Systems

Series A in 2021
Wildfire is on a mission to reward organic commerce everywhere. We help companies monetize their users with white-label cash back and coupon services. Wildfire makes it easy for our partners’ users to save money and earn cash back from their favorite apps and websites.

Candidate

Seed Round in 2021
Candidate, Inc. operates as an online staffing and recruiting company. The company operates an online marketplace that incentivizes every person to be a recruiter for their network. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

DOTS Technology Corp

Series A in 2016
DOTS (Detection On The Spot) is changing the field of point of care detection with a revolutionary diagnostics platform with consumer and industrial applications. For the millions of consumers with food allergies, DOTS is creating a food allergen detection system to test food on the spot, provide more information for better decisions, and improve overall quality of life .

Sagely Naturals

Seed Round in 2019
Sagely Naturals is bringing an intentional state of wellbeing to your world, naturally.

Synergy Fuels

Seed Round in 2015
Development & innovation of profitable advanced energy technologies. Including technologies reducing energy demand, as well as low-emissions / low-energy production of hydrogen, petroleum, diesel fuel, clean water, long-term power, and independent energy sites. Current products are patented, post-revenue, zero-emissions, zero-landfill, scalable solutions to address global energy needs.

Penrose Hill

Venture Round in 2015
Penrose Hill is an independent winery that eliminates the middleman to give customers exclusive access to small-batch wines. Penrose Hil transforms the wine market by empowering consumers to experience wine in a whole new way through their flexible subscription-based service model customizes wine shipments according to the individual member’s taste, schedule, and budget. They launched Firstleaf as their premier wine service in partnership with Time Inc. across the magazine conglomerate’s portfolio of leading publications, a multiplicity of marketing channels, and a vast subscriber base. Penrose Hill was founded by Philip James in 2015 in California.

Hollar Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Hollar is an online dollar store that features toys, apparel, electronics, beauty, accessories, party supplies, to home essentials. Its products include unique curated gift and party collections. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in California, United States.

fuboTV

Series A in 2015
fuboTV Inc. develops a live streaming platform that bundles live sport and entertainment channels, featuring live soccer matches, news, club videos, series, documentaries, and more. Its service can be accessed via TVs, tablets, mobile devices, and desktop computers. fuboTV Inc. was formerly known as S.C. Networks, Inc. and changed its name to fuboTV Inc. in July 2015. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Jupiter, Florida. fuboTV Inc. operates as a subsidiary of fuboTV Inc.

Gavelytics

Seed Round in 2018
Gavelytics Legal AI-driven litigation analytics start-up .Gavelytics is using artificial intelligence to identify the tendencies of judges. Gavelytics provide key, actionable insights that help litigators win more motions, win more cases, and win more business.

InSync

Seed Round in 2021
InSync is a product of InSync.AI Inc. (formerly known as ShopInSync Inc), that offers a platform that enables brands and retailers to develop deep, contextual, human-like assistants that work across platforms and applications. Our goal is to help our partners provide their customers with the superior customer experience and drive higher conversions, using our technologies that comprise of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Context Management, Bot Engine, Deep Search etc.

Bump

Seed Round in 2018
BUMP is a social peer-to-peer marketplace for authentic streetwear and sneakers. Shopping has always been a social activity for older generations used to go to the mall sharing recommendations, opinions, and just generally having fun with friends. Online shopping killed this and they're bringing it back for Gen Z. On BUMP users can build up their public profiles, follow & message anyone on the platform, and even create & share their own group chats. This social experience means kids can hang out, build their online identity which in turn drives transactions. Founded in 2016 and based in London, They're already backed by leading names in venture capital including Kleiner Perkins, e.ventures, and Y Combinator.

Art of Sport

Seed Round in 2018
Art of Sport is a direct-to-consumer body care company that makes body and skin care products engineered to power all athletes. Formulated from the ground up by the world's leading athletes and skincare scientists, Art of Sport sells its lineup of deodorant, bodywash, soap, sunscreen and pain cream products to customers in the United States directly through www.artofsport.com. Art of Sport was founded in 2018 by Matthias Metternich, Brian Lee and Founding Partner Kobe Bryant. The team partnered with other world-class athletes from across sports to help inform the Art of Sport product family, including NBA MVP James Harden, MLB World Champion Javier Baez, NFL Wide Receiver Juju Smith-Schuster, Surf Champion Sage Erickson, Supercross World Champion Ken Roczen and Skating Legend Ryan Sheckler.

Dropoff, Inc.

Series A in 2014
Dropoff, Inc. provides courier services to businesses across various industries in the United States. It offers same-day last mile delivery services for various packages ranging from cupcakes to prescription medications; and fleet replacement services. The company offers delivery services in Austin, Dallas, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, Orange County, Orlando, Phoenix, San Diego, San Jose, and Tampa. It serves businesses in retail, healthcare, food and grocery, business services, and commercial and industrial sectors. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Rael

Series A in 2018
Rael Inc. researches, develops, and sells natural and organic feminine care products. It offers pads, liners, and tampons made from organic cotton. The company sells its product online. Rael Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Buena Park, California.

Silversheet

Seed Round in 2015
Silversheet revolutionizes how healthcare facilities manage their workforce, and how healthcare professionals manage their own careers. They've started by tackling a complex and critical part of the daily workflow – physician credentialing. Currently, healthcare administrators are faced with endless paperwork, faxing, and nagging and physicians are on their own to figure out the complex credential renewal process and stay up-to-date at each facility where they maintain privileges. Silversheet is a breath of fresh air. Facilities can add a new physician in minutes, automatically verify their credentials, and invite doctors to join, empowering them to maintain their qualifications and keep facilities up-to-date and in compliance.

Skubana

Angel Round in 2014
Skubana is a distributed order management platform powering fulfillment, inventory, and business intelligence for brands looking to achieve multi-channel profitability. Skubana synchronizes data from sales channels, warehouses, 3PLs, POS systems and more so merchants can stay focused on providing the best customer experience.

Gamevice, Inc.

Series A in 2017
Gamevice is a US based award winning design and engineering business creating touch screen tablets and game controllers. Gamevice has offices in Hong Kong, London, and new offices opening in Shenzhen China. Its corporate head office is based in Los Angeles as is the R&D and support center.

Great Jones

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Great Jones is a modern kitchen company that marries substance with style. Our mission is to equip, encourage, and inspire people to cook more frequently, even if that means just frying an egg. We designed our collection with the support of some of the top leaders in food and fashion in America and produced it with the highest quality standards.

Birdy Grey

Seed Round in 2019
Direct-to-consumer bridal startup providing millennial bridal parties with aspirational gowns at affordable prices.

Harper Wilde

Seed Round in 2018
Harper Wilde owns and operates an online portal for shopping lingerie. The company is committed not only to lifting up ladies, but also to lifting up the future generation of leading ladies. Harper Wilde's purposeful designs and curated options not only make things easier for customers, but also allow us to save money in production costs and pass those savings onto their customers. In this way, they empower women by providing them with more fairly-priced products, at nearly half of what competitors charge.

Tapatalk

Seed Round in 2014
Tapatalk is a social app that aggregates discussions from forums all over the internet, which enables enthusiasts around the world to interact and share their hobbies and passions. Members can keep up with countless topical discussions about their interests and interact using a variety of posting and messaging features. Tapatalk not only delivers the best interest based discussions in a streamlined, unified mobile experience, but also creates an engaging eco-system for users to discover new interests as well. Used and endorsed by hundreds of thousands of internet communities worldwide, Tapatalk is the premier application for enthusiasts of all types to share their passions and hobbies online.

Honey

Series A in 2016
Designed to help consumers save time and money, Honey’s 10 million users worldwide, shop over 30,000 retailers knowing that Honey is finding the best deals and coupons for their everyday needs. The free browser extension automatically finds and applies coupons at checkout, it also helps users save money on Amazon by showing price history, best price detection and a product called Droplist that watches select products and sends notifications when it drops below a selected price.

Elliot Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Hello I am Elliot Inc. develops and operates e-commerce management platform and marketplace. The company provides a platform, which offers solution to centralize customer, order, and product management. It connects and provides real-time access to online and offline channels, with support in different languages and currencies. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

MileZero Corporation

Debt Financing in 2015
MileZero is developing a Logistics Cloud that enables both traditional retailers and digital pioneers to compete in an era of rapid change and shifting consumer preferences, driven by the proliferation of mobile and on-demand services.

Player Omega

Seed Round in 2019
Player Omega is a community-focused event that encourages gamers to join together for an immersive experience of open-bracket tournaments.

Sundays For Dogs, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Sundays for Dogs engages in the online retail of dog foods. Its products are made by an air-drying method that gently dehydrates food low and slow to preserve nutrients and flavor while killing germs. The company was co-founded by Tory Waxman and Michael Waxman and is based in New York.

Away

Seed Round in 2015
Away is a modern travel and lifestyle brand. The company is a vertically-integrated company offering beautiful, high-quality luggage at an affordable price point. Away designs special objects for modern travel. It started with luggage, designed with thoughtful features that solve real travel problems—for life. Now all that’s left is the world in front of you and the people you share it with. Because getting Away means getting more out of every trip to come.

Reel

Seed Round in 2019
Reel is a platform for debt-free shopping. We make it simple to pay for what you want in installment savings. From a new pair of shoes to an Apple Watch, we help you save a little everyday, while giving you inspirations and price alerts. Our objective is to help millennials, the most credit adverse generation with the highest consumption power, achieve their goals while avoiding the burden of unnecessary debt.

Tala

Series A in 2015
Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is oriented around financial services in emerging markets. More than 2 million people have borrowed through Tala’s smartphone app, which provides instant credit scoring, lending, and other personalized financial services in emerging markets. Tala provides personalized loans to approved borrowers and builds digital credit history. The company provides instant loans through a mobile app where the entire process happens, from loan application to funds release and status tracking. Tala was founded on October 1, 2011, and is the global team is headquartered in Santa Monica, with additional offices in Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Vow To Be Chic

Series A in 2016
Vow To Be Chic offers designer bridesmaid dress & Little White Dress rentals online, bringing cost savings and convenience to the bridesmaid experience. The total cost of being a bridesmaid averages $1,700, not to mention the countless hours spent planning and attending various events. Spending a few hundred dollars to buy a bridesmaid dress that will be worn only once is a source of tension between brides and bridesmaids. Coordinating dress selection, fitting, and purchasing for multiple bridesmaids located across the country also poses significant challenges.

Kona Deep

Series A in 2017
Kona Deep represents a completely new category of water: deep ocean water replete with a unique blend of naturally occurring deep ocean electrolytes. Kona Deep is sourced from the deep ocean waters of Hawaii, 3000 feet beneath the ocean surface, where cold, pressure and natural minerals combine to create an exceptionally high quality water. Once brought to the surface, the water is desalinated and bottled at the source with absolutely nothing added.

AssetAvenue

Seed Round in 2014
AssetAvenue is a financial services company that offers an online lender for real estate investment properties. Its online platform and proprietary data models enable the company to deliver new benchmarks for transparency and flexibility. The company provides borrowers and brokers with faster and more flexible funding solutions than traditional banks. AssetAvenue was established in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Kona Deep

Series B in 2019
Kona Deep represents a completely new category of water: deep ocean water replete with a unique blend of naturally occurring deep ocean electrolytes. Kona Deep is sourced from the deep ocean waters of Hawaii, 3000 feet beneath the ocean surface, where cold, pressure and natural minerals combine to create an exceptionally high quality water. Once brought to the surface, the water is desalinated and bottled at the source with absolutely nothing added.

Snapwire

Seed Round in 2014
Snapwire Media Inc. operates a platform that connects visionary mobile and social photographers with brands, publishers, small businesses, and creative people around the world. The company provides Snapwire that allows buyers to post their image requests; and photographers to create and submit those images that match the buyer’s vision. It also offers Snapwire's iOS application for photographers. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Santa Barbara, California.

Wildlink

Seed Round in 2019
Wildlink is a platform that monetizes social messaging and peer-to-peer communications.

Jaanuu, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Jaanuu was founded to reimagine the multi-billion dollar medical apparel market via the industry's first contemporary, Antimicrobial-finished products. Since its launch, Jaanuu has sold product around the globe and has quickly become the fastest growing company in its category. For more information, please contact support@jaanuu.com.

BeTheBeast Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
BeTheBeast Inc. provides online recruitment services for high school athletes who want to be recruited to a college team. It offers college playing level rating system, online college matching system, college directories, extensive digital athletic resumes, recruiting methodologies, college coach communication tools, and progress tracking and coaching services for high school athletes. The company also provides various solutions for parents, high school coaches and athletic directors, and college coaches. BeTheBeast Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Manhattan Beach, California.

Modern Animal

Seed Round in 2019
Modern Animal, Inc. operates a veterinary clinic and provides home clinic services. The company provides an online mobile applications for its customers. It offers wellness, surgery, dentistry, ultrasound, radiology, diagnostics, nutrition, walk-in (no appointment) ,drop off service ,lab testing emergency, laser, and acupuncture services. Additionally, It provides memberships, unlimited exams, 24/7 virtual care, in-app prescription requests, and delivery, and more. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Mobcrush

Seed Round in 2014
Mobcrush, Inc., a technology and entertainment company, develops a live streaming application and community for gamers. It offers Mobcrush, a mobile application that connects gamers worldwide. The company’s application enables users to create and broadcast the gameplay live from the phone or tablet; watch and hang out with creators and tune in for epic events and eSports competitions; and connect and chat with a community of players that love the same games. Mobcrush, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

NeuroGum, LLC

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Getting into the right mental state is crucial for achieving our goals. We want to perform at our best, work smarter and stay inspired but how do we navigate the ups and downs of life without getting distracted, overwhelmed and off track? At Neuro, we get the mental game and how it’s played. That’s why we create products to help shift your mindset with ease and flow. Our refreshing gum and mints are shortcuts to the ideal state of mind, delivering just the right amount of what you need to energize, calm, and focus your mind in the moment. No matter what you’re up to in life, it all starts with the mind. Neuro is in your pocket and in your corner so you can feel your best and do more.

PowFolio

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Graphite Comics is an ad and subscription supported comic book reader and publishing platform for iOS and Android devices.

ClassPass Inc.

Series B in 2015
ClassPass Inc. provides an online fitness class booking service. It offers an online subscription service that provides access to a network of boutique fitness studios and gyms, including cycling, Pilates, yoga, strength training, dance, martial arts, and more. ClassPass Inc. was formerly known as Classtivity Inc. and changed its name to ClassPass Inc. in March 2014. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York. It has locations in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Oceania.

Daily Harvest

Series B in 2017
Daily Harvest, Inc. offers frozen whole ingredient smoothies. The company offers smoothies, harvest bowls, flatbreads, soups, bites, oat bowls, chia bowls, and lattes. It sells its products online. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Wondery

Series A in 2018
Wondery Inc., a content producer and publisher, specializes in mobile and on-demand audio storytelling solutions. The company focuses on creating and curating audiotape original, scripted, and real-life programs focusing on crime, love, mystery, and conspiracy. It creates and curates podcasts to connect wonderers and brands to a world of entertainment. The company also provides a mobile application to follow favorite podcasts, discover new ones, and organize them by channels. Wondery Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in West Hollywood, California.

Honor Technology, Inc.

Series A in 2015
Honor Technology, Inc. owns and operates an online portal which connects in-home caregivers, seniors, and their families in California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Ohio, and Michigan. The company offers seniors an Honor Frame, which lets them know who the caregiver is and when he or she is arriving. It screens and matches caregivers to seniors based on their expertise, and families are shown who took care of their family and what activities they did, and how long the caregiver was at the home. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

INTURN

Series A in 2016
INTURN is an enterprise solution providing custom solutions to efficiently convert slow-moving and excess inventory. The company's first vertical focus is specifically built for fashion and apparel brands. This marketplace provides automated tools to replace what is a manual, painstaking, error-prone process. The result is a solution that provides a powerful opportunity to increase profitability. INTURN is designed and led by retail industry veterans and technology experts.

WTHN LLC

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Wthn is a natural wellness brand offering herbal medicine & acupuncture treatments. The brand makes acupuncture and herbs accessible to everyone and aims to demystify and educate its clients around the benefits of natural healing. Its mission is to help others heal their bodies and relax their minds in order to lead happier, healthier, and more fulfilled lives every day by stimulating and unlocking the body’s natural healing defenses. Michelle Larivee and Shari Auth founded the brand in New York, New York in 2017.

Versed

Series A in 2018
Versed is a cosmetic company that offers a clean skincare brand in retail and direct-to-consumer channels. The company combines community-powered development with retail know-how to incubate and scale the next generation of vertical beauty brands. They offer affordably priced, clean skincare brands in retail and direct-to-consumer channels. Versed was founded in 2018 and is based in West Hollywood, California, United States.

UCode

Seed Round in 2014
UCode operates an after-school learning center that teaches children between the ages of 6 and 16 how to code. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Beverly Hills, California.

Inspire

Series A in 2015
At Inspire, we’re a team of purpose-driven avengers on a mission to democratize clean power. A venture-backed start-up founded by alumni of some of the fastest growing and most successful energy companies around.

Candidate

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Candidate, Inc. operates as an online staffing and recruiting company. The company operates an online marketplace that incentivizes every person to be a recruiter for their network. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Sleek

Pre Seed Round in 2020
We're a deep learning startup that cracks the code on wait times by fusing various different data sources. Our patent-pending AI technology draws on deep learning to provide virtual queuing solutions —saving customers the inconvenience of waiting in lines, as well as unlocking new streams of revenue for these super popular merchants and event organizers. Serving over 20k+ businesses - we are a team of 8, backed by Tier-1 investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, BAM & StartX (S20 batch) and are started by a team of ForbesU30 founders, both being ex-Google & ex-Stanford engineers.

Homelister

Seed Round in 2019
HomeLister Inc. operates an online real estate brokerage platform. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Foodstirs

Seed Round in 2015
Foodstirs® Junk-Free Bakery™ was founded by parents Galit Laibow, Greg Fleishman, & Sarah Michelle Gellar. Foodstirs Junk-Free Bakery’s mission is to help people connect through the power of better-for-you sweet baked goods reinvented for today’s sweet tooth. Everything they make is lower sugar and USDA organic including baking kits, mixes, and the market's first packaged BFY ready-made donuts, muffins, and brownies.

Korbit

Series A in 2014
Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.

Cotopaxi

Seed Round in 2014
Cotopaxi is a direct-to-consumer, outdoor gear, and apparel company with a social-focused mission of eradicating extreme poverty. Every piece of gear is tied to a humanitarian cause in the world’s poorest countries. Every pack provides between one and three weeks of education to a child, the sale of a water bottle provides six months of clean water and all apparel is tied to health related projects. Cotopaxi's aim is to help the world's poorest of the poor and to provide transparency by showing the exact impact of donations. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Art of Sport

Series A in 2020
Art of Sport is a direct-to-consumer body care company that makes body and skin care products engineered to power all athletes. Formulated from the ground up by the world's leading athletes and skincare scientists, Art of Sport sells its lineup of deodorant, bodywash, soap, sunscreen and pain cream products to customers in the United States directly through www.artofsport.com. Art of Sport was founded in 2018 by Matthias Metternich, Brian Lee and Founding Partner Kobe Bryant. The team partnered with other world-class athletes from across sports to help inform the Art of Sport product family, including NBA MVP James Harden, MLB World Champion Javier Baez, NFL Wide Receiver Juju Smith-Schuster, Surf Champion Sage Erickson, Supercross World Champion Ken Roczen and Skating Legend Ryan Sheckler.

Grin Gaming

Seed Round in 2020
Grin Gaming is a high-frequency trading platform built for real-time sports and eSports wagering. Our AI-driven event detection and AI-driven live odds setting allow fans to compete on every single play of their favorite live sterams.

Rael

Seed Round in 2017
Rael Inc. researches, develops, and sells natural and organic feminine care products. It offers pads, liners, and tampons made from organic cotton. The company sells its product online. Rael Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Buena Park, California.

DyshApp

Seed Round in 2016
Tired of studying menus? Looking for the best burger around? Instantly find the best dishes at a specific restaurant or search for the best of a dish nearby. Game changer!

Kitterly

Seed Round in 2019
Kitterly, Inc. retails knitting and crochet kits online. The company offers kits in the areas of adult socks; baby, child, and women cardigans; hats, pullovers, and vests; baby blankets, dresses, and socks; blankets, booties, camisoles, and capelets; child dresses and shrugs; and women pullovers. It also provides cowls, dog sweaters, dresses, fingerless gloves, fingerless mitts, gloves, hats, headbands, infinity scarves, legwarmers, mittens, ornaments, ponchos, pullovers, rompers, shawls, shorts, shrugs, skirts, sleeveless pullovers, socks, toys, tunics, and wraps; and unisex cardigans and hats. Kitterly, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Switch

Seed Round in 2014
Switch is a smart, addictively simple job hunting app that is reinventing the way you browse and find your next job. Powered by intelligent machine-learning algorithms, Switch recommends the best opportunities for your specific profile and interests, daily. On Switch, you can connect directly with hiring managers in real-time, without missing a beat. Switch is discreet, easy-to-use, and the most effective job discovery app on the market. Thousands of job seekers already use Switch's iOS app to get hired by world-leading companies like Walmart, Staples, Accenture, Nationwide, Facebook, Dropbox, eBay, Amazon, and more. Download the app and import your professional profile in seconds. Receive daily recommendations of jobs. Swipe right to like a job and apply immediately. Connect and interact with employers and hiring managers via in-app chat. Your personal information and email address always stay private and are not shared with recruiters. Learn more... http://switchapp.com/ http://switchapp.com/download http://switchapp.com/employers/

The Seventh Spark Company

Seed Round in 2018
The Seventh Spark Company designs and develops digital solutions for communities and organizations. The company creates mobile applications to bring community together anywhere and anytime and produce cause based giving campaigns and events. Additionally, it provides marketing services, such as public relations, customer relationship management, media strategy, and promotional campaigns. The Seventh Spark Company also offers content strategy, production, filming, editing, and live streaming events. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Nowsta

Venture Round in 2015
Nowsta is an all-in-one software for hourly and event-based workforces, providing scheduling, time tracking, and fintech solutions. It helps employers become better managers by giving them the tools they need to seamlessly manage their hourly workforce. The company is building a platform that leverages advancements in machine learning and payments technology to reimagine the way companies communicate with, and pay their hourly wage employees. Nowsta was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Nowsta

PathSpot Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
PathSpot Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures a system controlled by a software that protects restaurants and their customers from the threat of food-borne illness. It utilizes a unique algorithm for filtering, processing, and analyzing fluorescent light to scans an employee's hands to detect pathogens that cause food borne illness. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York City, New York.

Shani Darden Skincare, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Shani Darden Skincare, Inc. manufactures and distributes skincare products. The company’s products include serums, cleansers, devices, exfoliants, eye care products, LED, lip care, masks, moisturizers, sunscreens, supplements, toners. It distributes its products through an online platform. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

The Inside

Seed Round in 2018
The Inside is a home furnishings brand that unlocks your shortcut to a chic home, for every style and budget. We believe in the joy of decorating, and that creating the home of your dreams — and having a great time doing it — should be an accessible experience to everyone, not just a few. Our mission is to make furniture fun, with access to more design for more value. With a revolutionary and sustainable supply chain fueled by digital printing and made-to-order manufacturing, The Inside celebrates a wide range of colors, textures, and patterns — offering custom furniture for a cookie cutter price.

fuboTV

Convertible Note in 2015
fuboTV Inc. develops a live streaming platform that bundles live sport and entertainment channels, featuring live soccer matches, news, club videos, series, documentaries, and more. Its service can be accessed via TVs, tablets, mobile devices, and desktop computers. fuboTV Inc. was formerly known as S.C. Networks, Inc. and changed its name to fuboTV Inc. in July 2015. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Jupiter, Florida. fuboTV Inc. operates as a subsidiary of fuboTV Inc.

URWelcome Technologies

Seed Round in 2014
Welcome Technologies is a platform dedicated to connecting the 250 million global immigrant communities with the information, products, and services they need to thrive in a new country. Today, the company has an unparalleled reach of over 9M immigrants a year and a membership of nearly 2M active users. Its platform combines the power of technology and security to provide its members with trusted, customized solutions across sectors such as Finance, Education, Healthcare, Telecommunication, and Government Services. Founded by immigration and technology experts, Welcome Tech is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Vyng

Seed Round in 2017
Vyng has built a next-generation Caller ID platform that visualizes every call. Vyng is helping start better conversations between friends, family, and businesses for the next half billion smartphone users in India and beyond. Vyng boasts 4 billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2018. The company has raised $7MM and is backed by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Sequoia Capital partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe.

Great Jones

Seed Round in 2018
Great Jones is a modern kitchen company that marries substance with style. Our mission is to equip, encourage, and inspire people to cook more frequently, even if that means just frying an egg. We designed our collection with the support of some of the top leaders in food and fashion in America and produced it with the highest quality standards.

Comparably

Venture Round in 2016
Comparably provides the most accurate and comprehensive compensation and culture data, to understand employees' true value and needs to make work better.

Reel

Seed Round in 2018
Reel is a platform for debt-free shopping. We make it simple to pay for what you want in installment savings. From a new pair of shoes to an Apple Watch, we help you save a little everyday, while giving you inspirations and price alerts. Our objective is to help millennials, the most credit adverse generation with the highest consumption power, achieve their goals while avoiding the burden of unnecessary debt.

SkinTe

Seed Round in 2018
SkinTē is a deliciously potent combination of tea, collagen, and smart ingredients designed to boost your skincare.

INTURN

Seed Round in 2015
INTURN is an enterprise solution providing custom solutions to efficiently convert slow-moving and excess inventory. The company's first vertical focus is specifically built for fashion and apparel brands. This marketplace provides automated tools to replace what is a manual, painstaking, error-prone process. The result is a solution that provides a powerful opportunity to increase profitability. INTURN is designed and led by retail industry veterans and technology experts.

Kanga

Seed Round in 2018
Kanga 2 is a free new tab extension that brings all the best gaming content to you.

Kitterly

Seed Round in 2018
Kitterly, Inc. retails knitting and crochet kits online. The company offers kits in the areas of adult socks; baby, child, and women cardigans; hats, pullovers, and vests; baby blankets, dresses, and socks; blankets, booties, camisoles, and capelets; child dresses and shrugs; and women pullovers. It also provides cowls, dog sweaters, dresses, fingerless gloves, fingerless mitts, gloves, hats, headbands, infinity scarves, legwarmers, mittens, ornaments, ponchos, pullovers, rompers, shawls, shorts, shrugs, skirts, sleeveless pullovers, socks, toys, tunics, and wraps; and unisex cardigans and hats. Kitterly, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Calidad Beer

Seed Round in 2018
Calidad Beer is a beverages company.

Bringhub

Seed Round in 2015
Bringhub is a contextual marketing platform that enables digital media and marketers to drive product discovery and sales. We have developed the most comprehensive contextual analysis and optimization engine on the market. We call it Sweeten.

Hellocafe

Seed Round in 2014
Hellocafe is a mobile app that connects people at cafes for conversation in a second language. Users are able to meet with Coaches who approach learning in a social way. Once a meeting time and place is requested, Coaches respond so that the preferred one can be selected. Right now, the marketplace supports the learning of English in Seoul, and our goal is to help people achieve fluency through lifestyle rather than curriculum. 헬로카페는 사람들이 카페에서 만나 서로 외국어로 대화할 수 있도록 연결시켜주는 모바일 애플리케이션입니다. 사용자들은 '코치'들과 어울리는 과정에서 자연스럽게 언어를 배울 수 있습니다. 원하는 시간과 장소에서 미팅을 요청한 후, 자신이 선호하는 코치를 선택하는 방식입니다. 현재는 서울 지역과 영어 스피킹에 한하여 서비스를 제공하고 있으며, 헬로카페의 목적은 고정된 커리큘럼이 아닌 일상속에서 언어 실력을 향상시킬 수 있도록 도와주는 것입니다.

Vow To Be Chic

Seed Round in 2014
Vow To Be Chic offers designer bridesmaid dress & Little White Dress rentals online, bringing cost savings and convenience to the bridesmaid experience. The total cost of being a bridesmaid averages $1,700, not to mention the countless hours spent planning and attending various events. Spending a few hundred dollars to buy a bridesmaid dress that will be worn only once is a source of tension between brides and bridesmaids. Coordinating dress selection, fitting, and purchasing for multiple bridesmaids located across the country also poses significant challenges.

Modern Animal

Seed Round in 2019
Modern Animal, Inc. operates a veterinary clinic and provides home clinic services. The company provides an online mobile applications for its customers. It offers wellness, surgery, dentistry, ultrasound, radiology, diagnostics, nutrition, walk-in (no appointment) ,drop off service ,lab testing emergency, laser, and acupuncture services. Additionally, It provides memberships, unlimited exams, 24/7 virtual care, in-app prescription requests, and delivery, and more. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Girlboss

Seed Round in 2017
Girlboss Media, Inc., doing business as Girlboss, operates a community of women to inform, entertain, and inspire action through the content published and experiences. The company comprises a website, Girlboss.com, a newsletter, as well as the resurrection of Amoruso’s podcast. The company publishes information on work, money, wellness, beauty, life, and portraits. Girlboss Media, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California. As of December 17, 2019, Girlboss Media, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Attention Capital.

BizCounsel

Series A in 2018
BizCounsel was created to give small businesses legal advice and quality legal work for a fraction of what it used to cost. Combining efficient technology and experienced business attorneys turns out to be a good thing!

The Encore Company

Seed Round in 2018
The Encore Company is a startup studio that builds market disruptive businesses that can scale globally out of Korea. Encore finds categories where Korea is a trend-leader or has a competitive advantage, tests product market fit quickly, and uses its global network to expand to other markets. Encore is started by the founders of TMON (a leading e-commerce platform in Korea) and Pikicast (a leading news & entertainment app in Korea). Other members of Encore and its portfolio companies have experience in some of the top VC-backed startups in Korea. Given the team’s deep experience, Encore’s companies can iterate with speed & agility and make fewer execution mistakes.