Baroda Ventures

Baroda Ventures is a Los-Angeles-based venture capital firm that focuses on pre-seed and seed stage investments in the consumer internet, e-commerce, mobile, SaaS, and digital media industries. It prefers to invest in companies based in Los Angeles. It is also open to investments in later stage companies and companies in hardware, cleantech, and healthcare sectors. The firm prefers to invest $0.1 million and $5 million. Baroda Ventures was founded by David C. Bohnett in 1998 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.

David Bohnett

Founder

49 past transactions

Fluence

Seed Round in 2022
Fluence offers continuing education and certificate programs in psychedelic integration and psychedelic-assisted therapy. Our programs are designed for licensed professionals and advanced graduate students who have an opportunity to work with patient populations. Although none of our courses have specific prerequisites, a basic working knowledge of the mental health field and practice of psychotherapy is helpful. Our programs are interactive; we engage in discussion, demonstration, self-reflection exercises, and role plays. Some of our classes and programs are reserved for licensed clinicians, but many are open to anyone who wishes to attend.

Hedgehog

Seed Round in 2021
Hedgehog is a portfolio manager and trading application for crypto currencies. With Hedgehog, users can trade on any exchange, track all their wallets, and learn about cryptocurrency.

Vestaboard

Seed Round in 2020
Vestaboard develops an internet-connected display intended to help design and provide information through wall-hanging screens. Vestaboard's product is a smart messaging display that can be controlled from anywhere, it takes automated updates from apps and can support enterprise-level solutions via the API, enabling commercial and residential costumers to share massages using a split-flap screen.

HelloTech

Venture Round in 2019
HelloTech is changing the way consumers purchase and get support for new technology. Utilizing a background-checked, vetted on-demand workforce, HelloTech provides in-home support and consultation for consumers looking to manage and upgrade the technology within their homes. Founded in 2014, HelloTech is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Pathmatics

Corporate Round in 2018
Pathmatics is a marketing platform that gives visibility to the digital ad performance of brands, their competitors, and entire industries. It turns the world’s marketing data into actionable insights as consumption rapidly shifts to digital, media decisions have become too complex and opaque. It brings together display, social, video, mobile, and native advertising data, helping users to optimize media and marketing decisions. Brands and agencies get access to the creative used by all advertisers, spend and impression data, and path from publisher to viewer. This empowers them to minimize waste from their budgets, better position their marketing, and predict the next moves of their competitors. Pathmatics data powers Nielsen’s digital ad intelligence offering, Kantar Media’s Facebook intelligence, and is used by agencies like Mindshare, Mediacom, and Possible. Pathmatics was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and is backed by Upfront Ventures, BDMI, and Baroda Ventures.

RevolutionCredit

Seed Round in 2017
RevolutionCredit is a behavioral data and analytics firm in consumer credit. Its products deliver real-time behavioral scores to creditors at the point of transaction. These scores improve lenders’ ability to risk-segment consumers and nudge consumers toward measurable improvements in their financial behaviors. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Field Day

Seed Round in 2017
Field Day's nationwide marketplace of local marketers enables enterprise brands to activate their story to drive local demand for their products and services. With over 10,000 ambassadors, Field Day offers the highest average hourly wage for side hustlers looking to activate local programs for their favorite national brands. Customers include Panera Bread, Square, Blaze Pizza, US Cellular and 50+ national brands.

unGlue

Seed Round in 2017
unGlue helps kids better manage their time on connected devices.

TRAVO

Seed Round in 2015
TRAVO, Inc. operates in the technology industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Reveal

Seed Round in 2015
Reveal is a social network where friends can ask users questions, either anonymously or as themselves, and users can answer them with a photo or video revealing their opinions. It is available for Android and iOS devices. Reveal Coin (RVL) is the currency of attention on Reveal issued by the Stellar network or by inviting friends to join Reveal. Users can earn Reveal Coin by posting content that gets likes from other users. Once a week the app adds up all the likes and sends out Reveal Coin as an appreciation for their contributions. Reveal was launched by Matt Ivester and Josh Beal, and is operated from San Francisco, California.

Local ID

Seed Round in 2015
Local ID is a cloud-based intelligence platform that provides multi-unit brands with the data, tools, and process to build a dynamic local marketing playbook. The company provides its customers with unprecedented visibility into the identity of every store, including the opportunities, and marketing activities that surround them. Founded in 2014 by Alex Nocifera, Andrea Shuff, Jason McDonnell, and Manjunath P Reddy.

HelloTech

Seed Round in 2015
HelloTech is changing the way consumers purchase and get support for new technology. Utilizing a background-checked, vetted on-demand workforce, HelloTech provides in-home support and consultation for consumers looking to manage and upgrade the technology within their homes. Founded in 2014, HelloTech is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.

BLADE

Seed Round in 2015
BLADE is a technology-powered, short-distance aviation company committed to reducing travel friction by enabling cost-effective air transportation alternatives. They leverage their technology to enable travelers to utilize and enjoy air travel. BLADE arranges on-demand charter and scheduled flights across a diverse accessible fleet of helicopters, jets, turboprops, and seaplanes. BLADE operates in New York City, Long Island and the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC, and many other locations.

Gem

Seed Round in 2015
Gem is a cryptocurrency wallet and blockchain platform. Their seasoned team of cryptocurrency software architects and blockchain engineers are building apps for the next generation of consumers, offering secure ways to participate in the digital marketplace. They support payment methods that allow trading options for users.

Bridg

Series A in 2015
Bridg is a customer data platform that empowers marketers to better understand and reach customers using SKU-level insights.

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.

DSTLD

Series A in 2014
DSTLD [‘distilled’] designs and delivers premium denim and luxury essentials without retail markup, offering premium product for about 1/3 the traditional price, thanks to its direct-to-consumer business model. As its name suggests, DSTLD is careful to introduce only the most perfect and fundamental pieces within a highly edited color palate - only black, white, grey, and denim - to reinforce its mission to ‘distill’ the business of luxury essentials. It’s focused on crafting items that coincide with the LA denim culture but with a restrained, modern feel. Accordingly, the label maintains an edgy, clean, and sophisticated aesthetic, and boasts the highest level of premium design. All of DSTLD’s products are produced in the most sought after facilities in North America and Italy utilizing the finest materials from Japan, Italy, and the United States.

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.

Policygenius

Seed Round in 2014
Policygenius is the online insurance marketplace combining cutting-edge technology with the expertise of real licensed agents to help people get the coverage they need to protect their family, property, and finances with confidence. Since 2014, we've served as a resource for millions of people on their insurance journeys, and we've placed more than $160 billion in coverage. Policygenius was founded in 2014 and has headquarters in New York, New York and Durham, North Carolina, United States.

ID90T

Series B in 2013
"ID90T is revolutionizing airline employee travel by providing online shopping, reservation and ticketing tools, employee-only deals and discounts, and easy-to-implement technology that results in significant cost savings for our airline clients and increased employee satisfaction."

Chromatik

Series A in 2013
Chromatik connects the world's musicians. Their applications enable millions of musicians to play, learn, and share their favorite music through sheet music, guitar tabs, lyrics, and more. Chromatik was acquired by TakeLessons (https://TakeLessons.com) in April 2017.

Amplify.LA

Funding Round in 2013
Amplify is a pre-seed fund in Venice, CA dedicated to backing strong teams at the earliest stages and supporting from first check to exit. The firm was founded in 2011, and has backed dozens of companies, which together have raised over half a billion dollars in funding, with exits to Apple, Google, FanDuel and others.

DSTLD

Seed Round in 2013
DSTLD [‘distilled’] designs and delivers premium denim and luxury essentials without retail markup, offering premium product for about 1/3 the traditional price, thanks to its direct-to-consumer business model. As its name suggests, DSTLD is careful to introduce only the most perfect and fundamental pieces within a highly edited color palate - only black, white, grey, and denim - to reinforce its mission to ‘distill’ the business of luxury essentials. It’s focused on crafting items that coincide with the LA denim culture but with a restrained, modern feel. Accordingly, the label maintains an edgy, clean, and sophisticated aesthetic, and boasts the highest level of premium design. All of DSTLD’s products are produced in the most sought after facilities in North America and Italy utilizing the finest materials from Japan, Italy, and the United States.

Pathmatics

Seed Round in 2013
Pathmatics is a marketing platform that gives visibility to the digital ad performance of brands, their competitors, and entire industries. It turns the world’s marketing data into actionable insights as consumption rapidly shifts to digital, media decisions have become too complex and opaque. It brings together display, social, video, mobile, and native advertising data, helping users to optimize media and marketing decisions. Brands and agencies get access to the creative used by all advertisers, spend and impression data, and path from publisher to viewer. This empowers them to minimize waste from their budgets, better position their marketing, and predict the next moves of their competitors. Pathmatics data powers Nielsen’s digital ad intelligence offering, Kantar Media’s Facebook intelligence, and is used by agencies like Mindshare, Mediacom, and Possible. Pathmatics was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and is backed by Upfront Ventures, BDMI, and Baroda Ventures.

Lettuce

Seed Round in 2012
Lettuce is a simple order management system with a mobile sales app enabling your business to capture, track, and process orders anywhere in real time. We primarily focus on small and medium sized businesses.

PlumTV

Venture Round in 2012
Plum TV is a premium local cable TV network creating original programming for some of the nations most affluent communities. These communities currently include Aspen, Vail, Telluride, Sun Valley, Miami Beach, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and The Hamptons. It's programming is distributed via Comcast, Cablevision, Hulu, and YouTube.

Fab

Series C in 2012
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

Pocket Change

Series A in 2012
Pocket Change is a universal loyalty currency earned across mobile apps that can be spent on anything from digital to physical goods. They focus on financial education for students, educators, and communities. Their products include foster care, kinship, independent living programs, summer camps, summer learning programs, professional development for educators, and more.

MNTN

Venture Round in 2012
MNTN Performance TV is a Connected TV advertising platform that offers a suite of targeting, measurement, and automated optimization technology designed to deliver the results marketers expect from their performance channels. Our mission isn’t just to ensure your TV campaigns hit your goals, it’s to leave a lasting impact that helps you drive business for years to come.

Lifecrowd

Series A in 2012
Lifecrowd, a Santa Monica-based social activities discovery site. Life Crowd is a marketplace for social activities connecting people, interests and culture. Lifecrowd inspires its online community to experience life offline by providing a platform for both discovering and hosting local activities. By integrating individual social graphs, user reviews, and personalized recommendations, Lifecrowd super-charges your social calendar.

HipSwap

Venture Round in 2012
HipSwap is a mobile and web market place, offering antiques and art; apparel and accessories for babies, kids, women, and men; bikes; cars and trucks; collectibles; computers and electronics; furniture; home decor and accents; household products; jewelry; accessories; shoes for men and women; women’s bags; music, DVDs, and books; musical instruments; pets; sports equipment; and other products. It allows its users to shop over 4 million fashion items from over 50 marketplaces with one simple search. It also enables a person, merchant, stylist, artist, or designer to sell products to friends, customers, fans, or neighbors; and allows buyers to purchase items using PayPal or credit cards. HipSwap was founded by [Rob Kramer](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/rob-kramer-5) and is based in Los Angeles, C.A.

Healthvana

Seed Round in 2012
For updated info, please go to our LinkedIn page (inaccurate and unchangeable data on CrunchBase) - Feb. 9, 2023

Fab

Series B in 2011
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

MNTN

Series B in 2011
MNTN Performance TV is a Connected TV advertising platform that offers a suite of targeting, measurement, and automated optimization technology designed to deliver the results marketers expect from their performance channels. Our mission isn’t just to ensure your TV campaigns hit your goals, it’s to leave a lasting impact that helps you drive business for years to come.

nprogress

Seed Round in 2011
nProgress is the creator of ntro, a mobile social discovery platform for iPhone and Android. ntro is a social discovery smartphone app that helps you discover and connect with nearby people who share your interests, whether it’s food trucks, TechCrunch or zombies. Simply enter your interests or download them from Facebook – ntro connects you to other people who like the same things and lets you know if you have any friends in common. ntro is available for free on iPhone and Android in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. The app will expand to more cities soon. Get more info at www.ntro.com

Pocket Change

Seed Round in 2011
Pocket Change is a universal loyalty currency earned across mobile apps that can be spent on anything from digital to physical goods. They focus on financial education for students, educators, and communities. Their products include foster care, kinship, independent living programs, summer camps, summer learning programs, professional development for educators, and more.

Science

Series A in 2011
Science identifies entrenched markets and societal shifts and invests in disruptive companies with new ideas and highly focused teams. The company has co-founded and invested in more than 60 companies, including DollarShaveClub, DogVacay, HelloSociety, FameBit, Mammoth Media, Pray, and PlayVS among others."

Fab

Seed Round in 2011
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

Fab

Seed Round in 2010
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

Fab

Seed Round in 2010
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

MNTN

Seed Round in 2010
MNTN Performance TV is a Connected TV advertising platform that offers a suite of targeting, measurement, and automated optimization technology designed to deliver the results marketers expect from their performance channels. Our mission isn’t just to ensure your TV campaigns hit your goals, it’s to leave a lasting impact that helps you drive business for years to come.

Affordit

Seed Round in 2009
Affordit.com is a financial technology company that easily connects to existing loan origination platforms. It analyzes the customers’ credit and provides actionable solutions to optimize the customers’ credit profile. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.

OVGuide

Series A in 2009
OVGuide provides guidance through the entire life cycle of an online video via its service on OVGuide.com and livematrix.com. OVGuide.com is THE destination site to discover, via search or browse tools, and then consume free high quality online videos, while Live Matrix is the schedule of the Live Web and currently powers Facebook's live streaming directory. OVGuide.com is the largest independent online video guidance site and has the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to online video, including TV shows, full-length movies, and clips from hundreds of sources. The site has over 40 million topic pages covering over 20 categories. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the privately held company is backed by Baroda Ventures. Content discovery features include content browsing tools, movie/TV browse tools, editor's pick videos, and listings of real-time keyword searches. The site receives 12 million unique visitors every month and was once named by Time Magazine as a Top 10 Best Website of the year. More recently, OVGuide has released apps on iOS, Android and Roku which have been downloaded more than 3 million times. The app is soon to be released on Kindle Fire, SambaTV and Google Glass.

Perquest

Series B in 2007
Perquest is redefining workforce solutions through technology, service and process innovations. They are serious about service: Perquest is dedicated to making service their competitive advantage. They are committed to service at the highest levels of our organization, and have established a service culture, and tools, that allow us to live and breathe "service" every day. Specifically, they are integrated advanced customer relationship (CRM) technology into offering and made it accessible to everyone: employees, customers and partners. This enables maximum transparency between your organization and theirs; through highly secure Client Portal, you can contact Perquest and get a response within minutes. Perquest makes it easy: The company philosophy is exactly that: "Make it easy." That's why they deliver a mix of high-touch, full-service managed payroll and SaaS-based premier HR applications that are extremely easy to use — by anyone. The solutions are rock-solid: Reliability is the hallmark of Perquest workforce solutions. Market-proven to meet the demands of mid-size companies like yours, they deliver a single platform that integrates the workforce solutions you need with the CRM capabilities Perquest leverages to provide the utmost in service.

MediaVast

Series C in 2006
MediaVast provides visual content and related services to print and online media, advertising agencies, broadcast networks, mobile carriers, communication agencies, and other publishing enterprises. It offers a digital photo agency and wire service. The company also provides media companies with access to celebrity, music, and fashion photography. It also operates a stock photo agency that specializes in the licensing and syndication of celebrity portraiture. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in Los Angeles, Miami, Las Vegas, Atlanta, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Hamburg, Shanghai, Madrid, and Amsterdam. As of April 25, 2007, MediaVast, Inc. is a subsidiary of Getty Images, Inc.

MediaVast

Series B in 2003
MediaVast provides visual content and related services to print and online media, advertising agencies, broadcast networks, mobile carriers, communication agencies, and other publishing enterprises. It offers a digital photo agency and wire service. The company also provides media companies with access to celebrity, music, and fashion photography. It also operates a stock photo agency that specializes in the licensing and syndication of celebrity portraiture. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in Los Angeles, Miami, Las Vegas, Atlanta, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Hamburg, Shanghai, Madrid, and Amsterdam. As of April 25, 2007, MediaVast, Inc. is a subsidiary of Getty Images, Inc.

PlanetOut

Series D in 2001
PlanetOut, Inc. is a leading global online media company serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered, or LGBT, community, a market with reported buying power of approximately $485 billion annually in the United States alone. Their network of websites, including their flagship websites Gay.com and PlanetOut allows their members, or those visitors who registered on their websites by providing them with a name, e-mail address and other personal data, to connect with other members of the LGBT community around the world. According to Nielsen NetRatings, in June 2004, Gay.com ranked second in terms of average time online per person and sixteenth in terms of visits per person among all websites measured. They generate most of their revenue from subscription fees for premium membership services that they offer in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish to their members who identify themselves as residing in more than 100 countries. They also generate revenue from online advertising and e-commerce targeted to the LGBT community.

MediaVast

Venture Round in 2000
MediaVast provides visual content and related services to print and online media, advertising agencies, broadcast networks, mobile carriers, communication agencies, and other publishing enterprises. It offers a digital photo agency and wire service. The company also provides media companies with access to celebrity, music, and fashion photography. It also operates a stock photo agency that specializes in the licensing and syndication of celebrity portraiture. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in Los Angeles, Miami, Las Vegas, Atlanta, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Hamburg, Shanghai, Madrid, and Amsterdam. As of April 25, 2007, MediaVast, Inc. is a subsidiary of Getty Images, Inc.

gay.com

Series A in 2000
Gay.com is the largest online community of gay men. Gay.com is the best gay dating website for gay men looking for a connection. Discover local gay guys in their free gay chat rooms where singles mingle in the digital world. Make virtual reality an actual reality in the world’s largest online community of gay guys. Millions have logged onto their free gay website to find romance, love, and more with other local gay men. Browse hot bodies as well as the hottest news that is relevant to members of the gay community.
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