Blisce

Blisce Advisors and Blisce US - are growth stage venture investment firms focused on helping entrepreneurs build mission-driven global consumer brands and technology companies (Early Growth - Pre-IPO). Regulatory Disclosure: The Blisce Group is an international investment management group that focuses on private equity and venture capital opportunities in technology companies and startups. The Blisce Group includes Blisce Advisors, which operates in Paris and provides direct advisory services to the Blisce Group’s clients, and Blisce US LLC, which operates in New York and focused on venture capital investment opportunities, at times on behalf of the Blisce Group. Within the Blisce Group, Charles-Henri Prevost, Alexandre Mars, Romain Sion, Romain Dovilliers, Anne-Claire Colomb, are personnel solely of Blisce Advisors, and Sam Giber & Himanish Shah are personnel solely of Blisce US LLC. The holdings identified on this page are intended to represent the current and historical investments of the Blisce Group and its partners. As such, these holdings may not represent all of the investments that have previously been purchased or sold by the Blisce Group. Furthermore, these holdings include without distinction both the proprietary investments of the Blisce Group and investments on behalf of its clients. It should not be assumed that recommendations made or investment opportunities available to clients in the future will be commensurate or profitable or otherwise will equal the performance of the holdings identified on this page.

Sam Giber

General Partner

50 past transactions

Dapper Labs

Series D in 2021
Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot, uses blockchain technology to bring NFTs and new forms of digital engagement to fans around the world. Since it was founded in 2018, Dapper Labs has given consumer enthusiasts a real stake in the game by bringing them closer to the brands they love, building engaged and exciting communities for them to contribute to, and producing new pathways for them to become creators themselves.

Empower

Series B in 2021
Empower is a high-growth financial technology company on a mission to solve access to affordable credit for everyday Americans. We dream up and launch one-of-a-kind features that help our members get money instantly whenever they need it, save for the future, and rewrite their financial story. Our members see Empower Cash Advance as a life-saver, Empower Automatic Savings as a game-changer, and the new Empower Thrive line of credit as a lifeline to low-cost borrowing and the only practical path to building credit.

Wecasa

Series A in 2021
Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionals Wecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut, beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals.

Redesign Health

Venture Round in 2021
Redesign Health is a company that powers innovation in healthcare by developing technologies, tools, and insights that lower the barriers to change across the industry. Since 2018, exceptional founders have built over two dozen companies at Redesign Health, impacting more than ten million lives across many aspects of the healthcare ecosystem including cancer care, teleradiology, COVID-19 testing, metabolic health, and more.

Forward

Series D in 2021
Forward is a startup redesigning the way healthcare is delivered using all the technologies healthcare has neglected such as sensors, mobile, and AI. Forward was founded in January 2016 by former executives and engineering leaders from Google and Uber and led by serial entrepreneur Adrian Aoun. Forward is funded by investors and entrepreneurs including First Round Capital, Eric Schmidt (Google/Alphabet chairman), Marc Benioff (Salesforce founder), Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Joshua Kushner (Oscar co-founder), and Garrett Camp (Uber co-founder).

Imperfect Foods

Series D in 2021
Imperfect Foods provides grocery delivery service rescuing and redistributing food across multiple grocery categories – including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Imperfect Foods has remained hyper focused on eliminating food waste and supporting farmers and producers when it comes to excess and imperfect products. The company now rescues and redistributes food across multiple grocery categories - including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Its performance and agility during the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates that this mission-driven model is poised for success in the long term. -

Too Good To Go

Venture Round in 2021
Too Good To Go ApS is a company based in Copenhagen, Denmark, founded in 2015. It operates a mobile application designed to combat food waste by connecting consumers with restaurants and food businesses that have surplus food. The app allows users to purchase unsold food at reduced prices, helping to prevent perfectly good meals from being discarded. Too Good To Go aims to raise awareness about food waste and promote sustainable consumption practices, thereby fostering a more responsible approach to food production and consumption. By linking customers with food that would otherwise go to waste, the platform empowers individuals to make a positive impact on the environment while enjoying quality food at a lower cost.

Too Good To Go

Venture Round in 2021
Too Good To Go ApS is a company based in Copenhagen, Denmark, founded in 2015. It operates a mobile application designed to combat food waste by connecting consumers with restaurants and food businesses that have surplus food. The app allows users to purchase unsold food at reduced prices, helping to prevent perfectly good meals from being discarded. Too Good To Go aims to raise awareness about food waste and promote sustainable consumption practices, thereby fostering a more responsible approach to food production and consumption. By linking customers with food that would otherwise go to waste, the platform empowers individuals to make a positive impact on the environment while enjoying quality food at a lower cost.

Too Good To Go

Venture Round in 2021
Too Good To Go ApS is a company based in Copenhagen, Denmark, founded in 2015. It operates a mobile application designed to combat food waste by connecting consumers with restaurants and food businesses that have surplus food. The app allows users to purchase unsold food at reduced prices, helping to prevent perfectly good meals from being discarded. Too Good To Go aims to raise awareness about food waste and promote sustainable consumption practices, thereby fostering a more responsible approach to food production and consumption. By linking customers with food that would otherwise go to waste, the platform empowers individuals to make a positive impact on the environment while enjoying quality food at a lower cost.

Headspace

Series C in 2020
Headspace specializes in providing mental healthcare, including coaching therapy, psychiatry, and meditation mindfulness tools. Headspace offers a variety of features designed to enhance mental well-being and mindfulness. The app provides a broad selection of guided meditations led by experts, including co-founder Andy Puddicombe, to help users reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate mindfulness. In addition to meditation, Headspace includes tools specifically for sleep, such as "Sleepcasts," soundscapes, and guided sleep meditations to assist users in falling asleep more easily. Beyond these offerings, the company provides mindfulness programs that apply to various aspects of daily life, including work, relationships, and health. Headspace has also expanded its focus to cover overall mental health, offering content to help manage anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. Additionally, Headspace partners with companies through its corporate wellness programs, providing resources to improve employee productivity and well-being.

MWM

Series B in 2020
MWM, the leading publisher of creative apps, was established in 2012 and boasts over 600 million downloads globally. The company is committed to pushing the boundaries of innovation and is dedicated to developing internal AI technologies to create user-friendly products. MWM's portfolio includes popular apps such as edjing MIX, Color Pop AI, Stemz, Moments, among others.

Headspace

Series C in 2020
Headspace specializes in providing mental healthcare, including coaching therapy, psychiatry, and meditation mindfulness tools. Headspace offers a variety of features designed to enhance mental well-being and mindfulness. The app provides a broad selection of guided meditations led by experts, including co-founder Andy Puddicombe, to help users reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate mindfulness. In addition to meditation, Headspace includes tools specifically for sleep, such as "Sleepcasts," soundscapes, and guided sleep meditations to assist users in falling asleep more easily. Beyond these offerings, the company provides mindfulness programs that apply to various aspects of daily life, including work, relationships, and health. Headspace has also expanded its focus to cover overall mental health, offering content to help manage anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. Additionally, Headspace partners with companies through its corporate wellness programs, providing resources to improve employee productivity and well-being.

Brut

Series B in 2019
Brut is an international video content publisher, focused on news and feature-based, short-form content. They cover topics from politics to technology and social justice, culture and more. Brut videos are viewed more than 400 million times a month and touch more than 150 million worldwide. Brut. is a global media company that creates short-form video content for audiences around the world. With offices on two continents, Brut. publishes content daily in three languages and across eight social platforms generating over 500MM views a month.

Dice

Series B in 2019
DICE was founded in London in 2014, DICE helps fans discover and buy tickets to live shows and streams all over the world. Available in the UK, US, France, Italy, Spain, India, and Australia, and accessible to fans globally through its live stream offering, DICE is on a mission to get people out more.

Dice

Series B in 2019
DICE was founded in London in 2014, DICE helps fans discover and buy tickets to live shows and streams all over the world. Available in the UK, US, France, Italy, Spain, India, and Australia, and accessible to fans globally through its live stream offering, DICE is on a mission to get people out more.

Candid

Series B in 2019
At Candid, we believe dental professionals and their patients deserve more than what other clear aligner systems provide. That’s why we created CandidPro™: a total orthodontic solution that brings clinical support, connected treatment technology, and high-touch service into any practice. Start getting more from your clear aligner partner at candidpro.com.

HUBBLE

Venture Round in 2018
See, Easy. We believe buying contact lenses and glasses should be simple. Full stop. That’s why our goal is to deliver the easiest, most hassle-free contact lens and glasses experience in the world. Here’s how we see it at Hubble Contacts. If you’re spending all your time arguing with customer service reps, endlessly searching for the right pair of glasses, or trying to remember to reorder your contacts before they run out (again), you’re not focused on all the things the world has to offer. Like that incredible sunset outside your window, the text convos on your phone that make you laugh (until you cry), or the gummy, toothless grin smiling at you from across her highchair. Hubble Contacts was created out of the desire to make contact lenses accessible and affordable to as many people as possible. Over the years, we have continued to evolve and adapt to the changing needs of our customers, and expand our product line along the way to also include high quality eyeglasses and sunglasses. With a passion for eye care and a dedication to customer service, our mission remains making a difference in the industry. So, let Hubble’s world-class team take care of you — and your contacts and glasses. And you? You keep your eyes on the prize.

Candid

Convertible Note in 2018
At Candid, we believe dental professionals and their patients deserve more than what other clear aligner systems provide. That’s why we created CandidPro™: a total orthodontic solution that brings clinical support, connected treatment technology, and high-touch service into any practice. Start getting more from your clear aligner partner at candidpro.com.

Bird

Series C in 2018
Bird operates a micro-mobility platform that offers electric vehicle-sharing services, aiming to provide affordable and sustainable transportation solutions to communities worldwide. The platform enables users to create profiles, facilitating the sharing of personal electric vehicles, including electric bicycles. By coordinating with cities, Bird enhances access to environmentally friendly local transport, thereby contributing to the reduction of traffic congestion and promoting responsible alternatives to traditional motor vehicles.

MYCS

Series B in 2018
MYCS was co-founded in Berlin by serial entrepreneurs Christoph Jung, Kachun To, Claudio Bredfeldt and Kai Sap in May 2014. Their vision was to create a new buying experience in the furniture segment and to make customisation the new normal. MYCS’ photorealistic 3D online configurator has revolutionised the customisation experience for the consumer. The start-up launched its online platform in mid-2015 and closed the first year with a run rate of €5m. Every third existing customer returns to MYCS within an 18-month period.

Knotel

Series B in 2018
Knotel is the world’s flexible workspace platform that matches, tailors, and manages space for customers. Knotel caters to established and growing companies, giving them the freedom to focus on their business, culture, and people. With over 5 million square feet across 300+ locations in four continents, Knotel is transforming commercial real estate and moving companies forward.

Stadium Goods

Convertible Note in 2018
Stadium Goods is an online marketplace for sneakers and apparel with a brick and mortar store in soho, NYC. It is a U.S.-based company doing business globally that was founded in 2015 by John McPheters and Jed Stiller.

Harry's

Series D in 2017
Harry's is a developer of an online platform used to sell shaving equipment and accessories for men. It designs and manufactures its own line of razors and replacement blades, as well as other shaving consumables, and offers its products a-la-carte via its online store or through a subscription model that enables consumers to meet their grooming essentials needs online.

LE TOTE

Series C in 2017
Le Tote is an online fashion subscription service that delivers rental fashion directly to women’s doors. Its analytical, data-driven approach to retail aims to fundamentally transform the next generation of commerce. Leveraging more than 2B customer data points, the proprietary style and personalization engine is fully powered by algorithms, and supported by custom-built, end-to-end technology and logistics solutions. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Casper

Series C in 2017
Casper is a sleep startup that launches a comfortable mattress sold directly to consumers, eliminating commission ­driven, inflated prices. Casper's mattresses are developed in-house by a team of product engineers with experience from IDEO. The company developed a line of core sleep products, including the Casper pillow, sheets, foundation, bed frame, duvet, and a dog mattress. The startup was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, United States.

All Turtles

Venture Round in 2017
All Turtles makes products first and companies later. It partners with founding teams to solve everyday problems with practical AI. Its products include Butter.ai, Disco, DoNotPay, Edwin, Leade.rs, Octane AI, Replika, Spot, and Sunflower Labs.

Adore Me

Secondary Market in 2017
Adore Me is a disruptive lingerie e-commerce startup headquartered in New York, NY. The company has over 130 employees between the US and Europe, and has raised $11.5M in VC funding. Adore Me customers can shop online and in person at the Adore Me showroom located in NYC and in select retail stores. With sizes from petite to plus, Adore Me is an inclusive intimates brand that designs for every woman, and every style. Product categories include bras & panties, swim, corsets, sleepwear, lingerie. Each month, Adore Me releases a new collection of 50-60 new designs to its urban Millennial customer base. Adore Me models have been Instagram influencer Iskra Lawrence and Sports-Illustrated swimsuit model Nina Agdal. Adore Me was founded to shake up the lingerie industry, lower its prices, speed up its fashion, and make it accessible to everyone. The company was recognized as one of the 11 retailers who won the 2017 Customer Engagement Awards, was awarded New York’s Fastest-Growing Companies from Crain’s in 2016 and received the Top Retailers to Watch honor in 2016 from Business Insider.

Managed by Q

Series C in 2016
Managed by Q makes it easy to run an office. Known as the operating system for offices, Q saves businesses and employees valuable time by providing a range of subscription and on-demand services, from cleaning and maintenance to supply replenishment and wellness. Today, the Managed by Q technology platform connects thousands of businesses to the services required to seamlessly run their workspaces. The company is committed to spreading a mission of economic empowerment, by creating good jobs for its Operators and providing opportunities for small business to flourish. With operations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, Managed by Q is redefining the way the world works.

Teads

Secondary Market in 2016
Teads is a leading player in the digital advertising sector, specializing in outstream video advertising. Founded in 2011 and based in New York, the company has developed a comprehensive supply side platform that allows publishers and brands to generate and monetize video inventory. This is achieved through a combination of programmatic buying, direct sales strategies, and partnerships with third parties. Teads offers innovative advertising formats and tools, including inRead formats and advanced targeting capabilities, which enhance the user experience while providing premium inventory for advertisers. With a workforce of over 600 employees across 27 global offices, Teads is recognized for its commitment to creating sustainable advertising solutions that respect user engagement. In 2017, the company became part of the Altice Group, further expanding its reach in the media and advertising landscape.

Spotify

Secondary Market in 2016
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. Users can browse through the interface by artist, album, genre, playlist, record label, and direct searches. It also enables individuals to create, share, and edit playlists with other users. If users want recommendations, they can integrate their system with Last.fm, an application that provides music recommendations based on listening history. The radio feature installed in Spotify creates random playlists for its users that are related to preferred artists. Spotify is available for mobile device platforms such as Android, Blackberry, Boxee, iOS, Linux, MeeGo, Squeezebox, Windows mobile, and more.

Placemeter

Venture Round in 2016
Placemeter is an urban intelligence platform. We quantify modern cities worldwide. Our platform leverages proprietary computer vision technology to make sense of both archival and live video streams. First, Placemeter detects hidden patterns in pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Then, we predict how those patterns will evolve over time. The result is stronger businesses, safer streets and highly innovative neighborhoods. The answers you need are all around us. Quantify your world at http://www.placemeter.com.

Managed by Q

Series B in 2016
Managed by Q makes it easy to run an office. Known as the operating system for offices, Q saves businesses and employees valuable time by providing a range of subscription and on-demand services, from cleaning and maintenance to supply replenishment and wellness. Today, the Managed by Q technology platform connects thousands of businesses to the services required to seamlessly run their workspaces. The company is committed to spreading a mission of economic empowerment, by creating good jobs for its Operators and providing opportunities for small business to flourish. With operations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, Managed by Q is redefining the way the world works.

Spotify

Secondary Market in 2016
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. Users can browse through the interface by artist, album, genre, playlist, record label, and direct searches. It also enables individuals to create, share, and edit playlists with other users. If users want recommendations, they can integrate their system with Last.fm, an application that provides music recommendations based on listening history. The radio feature installed in Spotify creates random playlists for its users that are related to preferred artists. Spotify is available for mobile device platforms such as Android, Blackberry, Boxee, iOS, Linux, MeeGo, Squeezebox, Windows mobile, and more.

Boxed

Series C in 2016
Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers. It also offers a cutting-edge mobile app that allows consumers direct-to-their-door access to all of their favorite warehouse club products, without membership fees. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.

CaaStle

Series A in 2015
CaaStle pioneered the “Clothing as a Service” (CaaS) model. Through a proprietary, turnkey, and cloud-based fully-managed service supporting major retail brands, CaaStle delivers the platform, technology, reverse logistics, operations, and data to create a new relationship between retailers and consumers: A shared economy experience driven by access to apparel that complements traditional ownership.

BlaBlaCar

Series D in 2015
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling community, connecting people looking to travel long distances with drivers going the same way. They travel together and share the costs of the journey. The platform is engineered to create a secure, trust-based community with declared identities and full member profiles. Members can even specify how chatty they are from “Bla” to “BlaBlaBla”, hence the name BlaBlaCar. BlaBlaCar is creating a global people-powered network with a trusted community of drivers and passengers. Backed by Accel Partners, Insight Ventures, Index Ventures, Lead Edge Capital, Baring Vostok and ISAI, it operates in 22 countries across Europe, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil and India. The site and free mobile apps provide a range of features to create a secure, trust-based community and easy connections between drivers and passengers. BlaBlaCar is based in Paris with offices across a dozen of countries.

Casper

Series B in 2015
Casper is a sleep startup that launches a comfortable mattress sold directly to consumers, eliminating commission ­driven, inflated prices. Casper's mattresses are developed in-house by a team of product engineers with experience from IDEO. The company developed a line of core sleep products, including the Casper pillow, sheets, foundation, bed frame, duvet, and a dog mattress. The startup was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, United States.

Teads

Secondary Market in 2015
Teads is a leading player in the digital advertising sector, specializing in outstream video advertising. Founded in 2011 and based in New York, the company has developed a comprehensive supply side platform that allows publishers and brands to generate and monetize video inventory. This is achieved through a combination of programmatic buying, direct sales strategies, and partnerships with third parties. Teads offers innovative advertising formats and tools, including inRead formats and advanced targeting capabilities, which enhance the user experience while providing premium inventory for advertisers. With a workforce of over 600 employees across 27 global offices, Teads is recognized for its commitment to creating sustainable advertising solutions that respect user engagement. In 2017, the company became part of the Altice Group, further expanding its reach in the media and advertising landscape.

Harry's

Series C in 2015
Harry's is a developer of an online platform used to sell shaving equipment and accessories for men. It designs and manufactures its own line of razors and replacement blades, as well as other shaving consumables, and offers its products a-la-carte via its online store or through a subscription model that enables consumers to meet their grooming essentials needs online.

Pinterest

Secondary Market in 2015
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas. It helps its users to discover and do what they love including recipes, arts and crafts, clothing, and home projects. Its site and app allow its users to save and post images on different boards, categorized and curated to each user's individual tastes. Users can also follow boards created by other users, and re-post items to their own boards.

Spotify

Secondary Market in 2014
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. Users can browse through the interface by artist, album, genre, playlist, record label, and direct searches. It also enables individuals to create, share, and edit playlists with other users. If users want recommendations, they can integrate their system with Last.fm, an application that provides music recommendations based on listening history. The radio feature installed in Spotify creates random playlists for its users that are related to preferred artists. Spotify is available for mobile device platforms such as Android, Blackberry, Boxee, iOS, Linux, MeeGo, Squeezebox, Windows mobile, and more.

Kik

Series C in 2014
Kik was founded in 2009, when a small group of University of Waterloo students decided to build a company that would shift the center of computing from the PC to the phone. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company now has more than 100 employees working on Kik, a chat app that lets users connect with people, services, and businesses. Kik is backed by major venture capitalists and has raised $120.5M to date. Its VCs are the same firms that first helped Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and others become household names. China's Tencent, maker of WeChat, is a strategic investor. Kik has more than 300 million registered users. According to a study by Frank N. Magid Associates, Kik users spend 35 minutes per session in the app. More than 40% of young Americans are actively using Kik as their primary messenger app.

Placemeter

Series A in 2014
Placemeter is an urban intelligence platform. We quantify modern cities worldwide. Our platform leverages proprietary computer vision technology to make sense of both archival and live video streams. First, Placemeter detects hidden patterns in pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Then, we predict how those patterns will evolve over time. The result is stronger businesses, safer streets and highly innovative neighborhoods. The answers you need are all around us. Quantify your world at http://www.placemeter.com.

Pinterest

Series F in 2014
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas. It helps its users to discover and do what they love including recipes, arts and crafts, clothing, and home projects. Its site and app allow its users to save and post images on different boards, categorized and curated to each user's individual tastes. Users can also follow boards created by other users, and re-post items to their own boards.

Alibaba Group

Secondary Market in 2014
Alibaba Group operates as an online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers. It provides various e-commerce activities, including retail and wholesale transactions. It also offers cloud computing and digital media services. Alibaba Group serves industries such as retail, logistics, and technology.

feedly

Seed Round in 2014
Our mission is to connect professionals to the content they need to get ahead and become better at what they do. We believe that reading opens doors, whether that’s performing better at work, mastering a craft or learning something new. Feedly is the app that connects curious minds with the blogs, websites and sources of content they are most passionate about. Feedly Cloud is the infrastructure that powers feedly, and an ecosystem of 200+ reading apps (http://feedly.com/apps.html). feedly Cloud is two-sided market place which connects publishers to intent readers.

Pinterest

Series E in 2013
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas. It helps its users to discover and do what they love including recipes, arts and crafts, clothing, and home projects. Its site and app allow its users to save and post images on different boards, categorized and curated to each user's individual tastes. Users can also follow boards created by other users, and re-post items to their own boards.

Gwynnie Bee

Venture Round in 2013
Gwynnie Bee is an online fashion retailer that offers a clothing rental subscription service for women. Gwynnie Bee is on a mission to help women in discovering, experiencing, and enjoying great clothing without boundaries. Gwynnie Bee offers all of the best that fashion has to offer, without the stress.

Pinterest

Series D in 2013
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas. It helps its users to discover and do what they love including recipes, arts and crafts, clothing, and home projects. Its site and app allow its users to save and post images on different boards, categorized and curated to each user's individual tastes. Users can also follow boards created by other users, and re-post items to their own boards.

Placemeter

Pre Seed Round in 2012
Placemeter is an urban intelligence platform. We quantify modern cities worldwide. Our platform leverages proprietary computer vision technology to make sense of both archival and live video streams. First, Placemeter detects hidden patterns in pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Then, we predict how those patterns will evolve over time. The result is stronger businesses, safer streets and highly innovative neighborhoods. The answers you need are all around us. Quantify your world at http://www.placemeter.com.
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