Basecamp Fund

Basecamp is an early-stage venture capital fund established in 2019 and based in New York, New York. It is a corporate venture arm of Alumni Ventures and focuses on investing in companies at the pre-seed and seed stages across various sectors, including technology, healthcare, finance, logistics, media and entertainment, and climate. Basecamp aims to support audacious entrepreneurs addressing significant challenges in large markets. The fund collaborates with leading funds, accelerators, and incubators to identify promising startups during their formative stages. With a robust network and a team of over 50 investment professionals, Basecamp is equipped to provide valuable resources and support throughout the entrepreneurial journey without taking board seats in the companies it funds.

Catherine Lu

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Banana

Seed Round in 2024
Banana is an ML API for developers to run ML workloads from a single line of code, without any learning curve.

Niche

Venture Round in 2023
Niche is a social application that reinvents the way people connect and build community. It is a members-only club for the user's communities, groups, and hobbies.

Gordy Health

Seed Round in 2023
Gordy Health is a virtual care provider specializing in blood pressure management to reduce the risk of serious health complications such as heart attacks, strokes, and kidney failure. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Pasadena, California, the company offers a healthcare platform that allows users to manage their blood pressure from home. This platform provides direct access to heart specialists, facilitates easy scheduling of virtual appointments, and includes features such as real-time diagnostics, prescription delivery, and continuous monitoring and medication adjustments. By focusing on proactive management of high blood pressure, Gordy Health aims to help individuals lead healthier lives and extend their longevity.

Alephee

Venture Round in 2023
Aleph is a company that provides a cloud-based platform aimed at enhancing e-commerce for brands, particularly in the Aftermarket Automotive industry. It facilitates visibility into online sales across various marketplaces, including Mercado Libre, Amazon, and Shopee. By enabling brands to connect with resellers, Aleph allows for the sharing of catalogs and inventory, which helps increase sales and market share while optimizing logistics costs. The platform standardizes distributor catalogs and integrates supply and online sales processes, allowing companies to list their products on e-commerce sites and receive automatic updates on stock and pricing. This comprehensive approach connects the commercial chain, ultimately driving revenue growth for its users.

Comet Rocks

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Comet Rocks is a developer of an embedded e-commerce platform that enables brands to directly engage with and sell to customers. The platform features shoppable media and embeddable stores, facilitating the creation of micro-stores with express checkout capabilities across various online applications. This approach allows brands to maintain consistency and control in their online presence while fulfilling orders efficiently. By integrating these capabilities, Comet Rocks enhances the ability of clients to sell directly within publisher applications, ultimately increasing conversion rates.

Databrain

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Databrain is an AI-powered embedded analytics platform founded in 2022 by Rahul Pattamata and Vysakh Sreenivasan. The company provides tools that enable businesses of all sizes to easily create and share reports with customers, vendors, and employees. Its platform is designed to sync data with enterprise data warehouses, customer data platforms, and customer relationship management systems. By facilitating direct communication with customers through email and other third-party tools, Databrain enhances the efficiency of data management and reporting processes for organizations.

Zenskar

Seed Round in 2022
Zenskar develops a billing and pricing infrastructure for SaaS companies that offer usage-based pricing.

Composer

Seed Round in 2022
Composer is a Toronto-based company that provides an artificial intelligence-powered trading platform designed to transform the landscape of active trading. Founded in 202, the platform allows users to create, test, and manage automated investment strategies without the need for coding skills. By streamlining the process for retail traders, Composer aims to enhance investment opportunities and facilitate better returns for its users.

Monterey AI

Venture Round in 2022
Monterey AI is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2022 that specializes in product development through advanced artificial intelligence software. It provides a copilot solution that enhances product velocity for rapidly growing teams by replacing traditional documentation with use case-centric workflows. This approach aids product leads in strategizing, measuring, and aligning their efforts while uncovering product dependencies and interconnectivity. Monterey AI also focuses on establishing user feedback channels to collect and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data, helping organizations derive actionable insights to boost engagement and reduce customer churn.

Duplo

Seed Round in 2022
Duplo is a financial technology company focused on providing embedded payment solutions for B2B businesses in Africa. The company offers a platform that enables businesses to automate payment inflows, reconcile transactions at scale, and manage mass payouts efficiently. Through its APIs and user interfaces, Duplo facilitates the collection and attribution of cashless payments, addressing various payment operations needs for its clients. Additionally, the platform allows businesses to enhance their financial service offerings to customers, streamlining the overall payment process in the region.

Here

Seed Round in 2022
Here Holdings, LLC is a company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in producing cold press juices, dips, and spreads. Its product lineup features a variety of juices made from ingredients such as pineapple, celery, apple, turmeric, and kale, among others. In addition to juices, Here Holdings offers a selection of dips, including black bean tomato, edamame pea sesame, and spinach mushroom. The company emphasizes the use of Midwest produce, reflecting its commitment to quality and local sourcing. Here Holdings aims to foster trust and transparency while serving the community through its food and beverage offerings.

Makelog

Seed Round in 2022
Makelog makes it easy to create, centralize, and share product updates with your customers and internal teams.

Titan

Seed Round in 2022
Top 1% coaches for top 1% performers. Titan matches VC-backed founders with world-leading executive coaches and performance psychologists to maximize their performance - and the performance of their business. We have raised $5.7mm from top executives at Google, PayPal, Lyft, and AirBnB and investors who previously funded Square, Instacart, Twilio, GrubHub, StitchFix, OpenDoor, and SpaceX. You can learn more about Titan here: https://www.withtitan.com/

ChangeEngine

Seed Round in 2022
ChangeEngine develops software designed to enhance internal communication and streamline the employee experience within organizations. By integrating existing HR systems, ChangeEngine automates various labor-intensive tasks involved in the design and execution of people programs, which often span across multiple teams and tools. This approach allows companies to manage their employee engagement initiatives more effectively, reducing the manual effort required to maintain these programs over time. ChangeEngine aims to empower people leaders to sustain the utilization of their initiatives, demonstrate their value to executive leadership, and secure additional resources for innovative people programs. Ultimately, the company's goal is to transform how organizations treat employees, positioning them as internal customers and fostering a more engaged and productive workforce.

Solid World

Seed Round in 2022
Solid World is a company focused on revolutionizing the carbon credit market by integrating artificial intelligence and web3 technologies to enhance transparency and accessibility. Founded in October 2021, it aims to address the challenges of underperforming carbon projects and the illiquidity of carbon investments. Solid World facilitates the pre-sale of carbon credits, allowing project developers to secure reliable financing while creating a liquid marketplace that connects carbon suppliers, distributors, and liquidity providers. This marketplace ensures price discovery and mitigates risks associated with carbon investments. By leveraging a specialized blockchain infrastructure and collaborating with leading companies in the sector, Solid World de-risks carbon investments and accelerates capital deployment for carbon projects. The company has established a world-class team with extensive industry and blockchain expertise, positioning itself with a first-mover advantage in developing forward carbon credit infrastructure and innovative financial solutions.

Here

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Here Holdings, LLC is a company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in producing cold press juices, dips, and spreads. Its product lineup features a variety of juices made from ingredients such as pineapple, celery, apple, turmeric, and kale, among others. In addition to juices, Here Holdings offers a selection of dips, including black bean tomato, edamame pea sesame, and spinach mushroom. The company emphasizes the use of Midwest produce, reflecting its commitment to quality and local sourcing. Here Holdings aims to foster trust and transparency while serving the community through its food and beverage offerings.

Koxa

Venture Round in 2022
Koxa is a fintech company based in New York, founded in 2020, that specializes in developing an API platform designed to integrate accounting software with corporate bank accounts. The platform provides cloud-based tools that facilitate functions such as identity management, customer request approvals, and security operations, allowing banks and financial institutions to streamline their treasury-related activities. By connecting enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems with accounting solutions, Koxa enhances operational efficiency in the financial sector.

SupplyHound

Seed Round in 2022
SupplyHound is a marketplace designed to streamline the delivery of construction materials, catering to the needs of contractors and vendors alike. Established in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform enables contractors to maintain skilled labor on job sites, thereby enhancing productivity and profitability. For vendors, SupplyHound offers a means to lower their sales costs and elevate customer satisfaction. By managing the flow of material orders and facilitating on-demand delivery, SupplyHound improves the efficiency of both construction and supplier operations, making it easier for all parties involved to access essential building supplies.

Pariti

Seed Round in 2021
Pariti is a platform designed to assist businesses in underserved markets by connecting them with expert freelancers and providing access to essential resources. It helps these businesses navigate challenges related to capital access, talent acquisition, and international expansion. By facilitating connections with handpicked experts, Pariti not only offers advisory services but also enables these professionals to actively contribute to achieving the businesses' goals. Additionally, Pariti features a money management application that integrates with users' bank accounts and credit cards to deliver a comprehensive overview of their financial status, forecast upcoming income and expenses, and offer proactive spending advice. This dual approach empowers both businesses and individuals, fostering growth and financial well-being.

Composer

Seed Round in 2021
Composer is a Toronto-based company that provides an artificial intelligence-powered trading platform designed to transform the landscape of active trading. Founded in 202, the platform allows users to create, test, and manage automated investment strategies without the need for coding skills. By streamlining the process for retail traders, Composer aims to enhance investment opportunities and facilitate better returns for its users.

Integry

Seed Round in 2021
Integry.ai specializes in providing integration solutions for SaaS companies, enabling seamless connections with over 250 applications. Its platform allows users to import and sync data or establish custom workflows in just 15 minutes. By managing the entire integration process—from authentication to custom field mapping—Integry simplifies the user experience. As a no-code, low-code tool, it offers rapid iteration on integration designs, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness. The platform empowers product teams to create tailored integration experiences, facilitating quicker setup and higher success rates for applications. Through these capabilities, Integry supports companies in building, deploying, and managing integrations within a customized marketplace.

Humanly.io

Seed Round in 2021
Humanly’s conversational AI engages with every single candidate. By automating the repetitive candidate screening and selection tasks, you reclaim valuable time. And by creating visibility into the interview, you make more confident and equitable hiring decisions using clear-cut evidence. The company was founded in 2019 and is Co-Headquartered in Seattle, Washington , and Sacramento, California.

LingoHealth

Pre Seed Round in 2021
LingoHealth is a digital health platform aimed at assisting family members in supporting the health of their aging loved ones, particularly within multilingual households. By addressing the unique needs of families who speak languages other than English, LingoHealth provides tools that enhance caregiver engagement and improve communication about health care options. The platform empowers family advocates with crucial information to navigate the complexities of care and helps direct their loved ones to the most appropriate health services. This focus on cultural context and language accessibility positions LingoHealth as an essential resource for immigrant families managing the health of elderly relatives.

Shakudo

Seed Round in 2021
Shakudo is a company that offers an end-to-end machine learning platform aimed at simplifying the management of data stacks for artificial intelligence teams. By creating compatibility among various top-tier data tools, Shakudo enhances the reliability and performance of data management while reducing costs. The platform allows AI teams to efficiently transition from ideation to production, enabling them to scale and customize clusters with minimal coding. This capability empowers data science and machine learning teams to deliver tangible products rather than mere experimental outcomes, thereby decreasing their dependency on engineering resources to bring research to market.

Waivr

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Waivr is a financial technology company focused on enhancing payment processes for merchants through real-time transactions. It develops a debit payments infrastructure that facilitates account-to-account consumer-to-business payments. By allowing users to complete purchases using their credentials, Waivr efficiently validates fund availability and initiates payments, ensuring that funds are disbursed instantly to the merchant's account. This system not only streamlines transactions but also helps reduce involuntary churn for merchant sellers, improving the overall payment experience for both consumers and businesses.

Marine Snow

Seed Round in 2021
Marine Snow is a music-streaming platform that serves as a social network for music enthusiasts. It offers users the ability to listen to a diverse selection of both classic and contemporary songs while fostering community engagement through music discussions and interactive features. The platform emphasizes active listening and personalized experiences, allowing users to connect with friends and family over shared musical interests. Additionally, it incorporates unique artistic elements to inspire creativity and strengthen community bonds among its users.

Mayan

Seed Round in 2021
Mayan is a developer of a growth automation platform that supports online sellers in enhancing their business performance through data-driven solutions. The platform offers a range of services including sales reporting, inventory management, keyword analysis, pay-per-click optimization, and inventory optimization. By utilizing these tools, sellers can accelerate their growth, improve their return on marketing investments, and reduce the risk of inventory stock-outs. Overall, Mayan's technology empowers clients to optimize their brand equity and increase revenue effectively.

Green Check Verified

Convertible Note in 2021
Green Check Verified provides dispensaries with the tools they need to access local banking services and get back to business. It provides a RegTech platform that enables transparent, verifiable, compliant banking for cannabis industry. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in North Haven, Connecticut.

Expectful

Seed Round in 2021
Expectful is a digital health and wellness platform focused on supporting women throughout their reproductive journey, specifically before, during, and after pregnancy. The app offers a range of resources, including guided meditations, mindfulness exercises, and expert advice tailored to the needs of expectant and new mothers. By providing a non-pharmacologic and accessible solution, Expectful aims to alleviate prenatal and postpartum stress, ultimately enhancing maternal and infant health outcomes. Its research-backed approach ensures that users receive effective tools to navigate the mental and emotional challenges associated with pregnancy and early motherhood.

Gilded

Seed Round in 2021
Gilded is a company focused on enabling a more interconnected workforce through the use of web3 technology. Established in 2018, Gilded provides organizations with a comprehensive decentralized operations solution designed to simplify the complexities associated with crypto payments and financial reporting. The company offers a suite of crypto accounting tools that encompass bookkeeping, invoicing, payments, financial reports, tax compliance, and security, allowing businesses to seamlessly integrate digital assets into their existing accounting processes. With a diverse client base of 130 customers that includes crypto startups, NFT marketplaces, play-to-earn guilds, decentralized autonomous organizations, miners, and accounting firms, Gilded aims to facilitate the growth and scalability of its clients in the evolving digital economy.

Bandit ML

Seed Round in 2020
Bandit ML, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing machine learning applications aimed at enhancing user retention and sales for e-commerce businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Bandit ML was established by a team of engineers with backgrounds at prominent tech companies such as Facebook, Uber, and Twitter. The company's tools are designed to be accessible for businesses of all sizes, enabling them to leverage advanced technology to improve their customer engagement and sales performance.

Arrive Outdoors

Seed Round in 2020
Arrive Outdoors, Inc. is an outdoor gear rental company based in Santa Monica, California. Founded in 2017, the company offers an online platform where customers can rent a wide range of outdoor equipment from leading brands. Its product offerings include camping sets, tents, sleeping bags, camp furniture, sleeping pads, electronics, and health and safety gear. In addition to its rental services, Arrive Outdoors provides personalized customer support to assist shoppers in selecting the right gear and offers packing tips and tools tailored to their destinations. Previously known as Coozie Outdoors, Inc., the company rebranded to Arrive Outdoors, Inc. in March 2020.

Sukha

Venture Round in 2020
Sukha is an assistant for flow that helps you reach your flow state and stay there longer. The Sukha Company was previously known as Centered.

Health Note

Seed Round in 2020
Health Note is an AI chatbot platform that streamlines the process of collecting patient information and creating physician notes, thereby enhancing clinic workflows. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform allows patients to engage in their own care by providing pre-visit information through a simple SMS link, eliminating the need for app downloads or sign-ins. This frictionless, platform-agnostic solution integrates seamlessly with electronic medical record systems, facilitating the documentation of physician-patient interactions and improving overall healthcare efficiency.

Prevu

Seed Round in 2019
Prevu, Inc. is a real estate technology company based in New York, founded in 2015. It operates a digital platform designed to enhance the homebuying experience by providing users with control, transparency, and significant savings. The platform allows homebuyers to browse listings and receive expert advice from dedicated salaried agents. A key feature of Prevu's service is the commission rebate, which enables customers to save on their purchase price when buying or selling real estate. By offering a seamless, end-to-end buying experience, Prevu aims to make the homebuying process more accessible and affordable for individuals.

Levee

Seed Round in 2019
Levee is a technology company based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2016. It has developed a platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to connect informal, unskilled workers with formal job opportunities that offer greater security and higher pay. The company's solutions cater to C-Level executives and human resources professionals across various sectors, including retail, food services, and healthcare. Levee's approach combines data science, automation, and recruitment marketing to streamline the hiring process for frontline workers. By enhancing efficiency and productivity, Levee aims to reduce absenteeism and improve overall employee engagement and turnover rates, enabling businesses to build a more effective workforce.

Apprentice Health

Seed Round in 2018
Apprentice Health is a predictive analytics firm focused on enhancing the efficiency of healthcare systems by providing targeted interventions. Founded by Rajiv Sivendran and Artur Menzeleev and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company develops a comprehensive operations platform aimed at increasing patient access, improving the patient experience, and reducing clinical staff burnout. By analyzing current workflows, Apprentice Health identifies inefficiencies and offers actionable recommendations to optimize scheduling, staffing, and facility utilization. This approach not only aims to elevate patient and staff satisfaction but also to lower operational costs, ultimately enabling healthcare providers to serve more patients effectively.
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