BoxGroup

Founded in 2009 and based in New York City, BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund focusing on pre-seed to Series A rounds. It invests globally, with a primary focus on New York City, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles. The firm typically allocates between $50,000 and $250,000 per investment across various sectors including consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, life science, marketplace, synthetic biology, and climate.

Brian Aledort

CFO

Zodi Chalat

Investor

Adina Davis

Investor

Claire Goldsmith

Investor

Disha Karale

Investor

Past deals in Messaging

Summer Health

Series A in 2024
Summer Health facilitates convenient access to high-quality healthcare professionals via text messaging. It provides expert advice and reliable answers to users' health concerns.

Async

Seed Round in 2023
Async is a voice communications platform that frees up calendars and emails by enabling asynchronous voice messages that can be read, shared, and reacted to. The tool manages voice messages across platforms, helping users replace quick calls and back-and-forth exchanges with asynchronous voice messaging.

Summer Health

Seed Round in 2022
Summer Health facilitates convenient access to high-quality healthcare professionals via text messaging. It provides expert advice and reliable answers to users' health concerns.

Loops

Seed Round in 2022
Loops is a SaaS company that provides automated messaging and newsletter services. Its platform offers a block editor for email creation, code editor based on Studio, pre-built templates, and facilitates sending email newsletters, automated messages, and one-off campaigns.

Command AI

Series A in 2022
Command AI is a user assistance platform designed to enhance the experience of end-users through AI-driven chat and in-product guidance. The company's technology integrates a search interface into web-based applications, allowing users to access various functionalities using simple keywords. This enables product, marketing, and customer success teams to provide onboarding support, quick actions, relevant content, and powerful search capabilities without disrupting the user experience. By focusing on user engagement and satisfaction, Command AI helps businesses achieve their goals by prioritizing end-user needs.

Command AI

Seed Round in 2021
Command AI is a user assistance platform designed to enhance the experience of end-users through AI-driven chat and in-product guidance. The company's technology integrates a search interface into web-based applications, allowing users to access various functionalities using simple keywords. This enables product, marketing, and customer success teams to provide onboarding support, quick actions, relevant content, and powerful search capabilities without disrupting the user experience. By focusing on user engagement and satisfaction, Command AI helps businesses achieve their goals by prioritizing end-user needs.

Alloy Automation

Seed Round in 2021
Alloy Automation is a no-code platform that facilitates the creation and management of integrations for various software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Launched in 2019, Alloy enables businesses to efficiently connect sales, marketing, customer support, and messaging applications while automating complex workflows without the need for coding. This approach allows companies to streamline operations, reduce manual tasks, and focus on growth. Alloy's platform is utilized by notable clients, including Amazon and Gorgias, to expedite the deployment of user-facing integrations, offering a significant advantage over in-house development. The company has received substantial backing from prominent investors, including a16z and Y Combinator.

HAGS

Seed Round in 2020
HAGS is a digital platform designed for high school students, leveraging the popularity of Snapchat to create engaging experiences tailored for Gen-Z. The company collaborates with over 200 high school ambassadors across the United States to develop products and offerings that resonate with this demographic. HAGS is set to launch its innovative digital classrooms in beta at six high schools in California, allowing students to interact with their peers in a virtual school environment. The platform also enables students to sign friends' yearbooks digitally, enhancing the social experience within the school day through creative and fun interfaces.

Huddl

Seed Round in 2020
Huddl Inc., established in 2016 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, operates in the artificial intelligence sector. The company's primary business is developing a mobile application that employs AI technology to facilitate real-time sharing of text messages during meetings, enhancing productivity and engagement among users.

Dandy

Seed Round in 2019
Dandy is a live dating app that builts to solve the problem of immense time and effort required by existing online dating experiences. It allows USC students to virtually connect through instant messages, without needing to meet in person. The live dating app emulates raw human behavior, as it gives students a convenient way to connect, by addressing issues of unreliability and privacy on current dating apps

Highrise

Seed Round in 2018
Highrise is a creative mobile community where people create avatars, express themselves, and make friends. Its platform includes built-in user-generated avatars that let its users engage in real-time virtual chats, read reviews, surf across the latest news feed and keep in touch with their friends to customize and self-designed games, enabling users to make new friends, host real-time games and create fun contents for publicizing. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Stedi

Seed Round in 2017
Stedi, Inc. is a business-to-business messaging platform focused on facilitating transactions through a modern, API-first clearinghouse. Founded in 2016 and based in Boulder, Colorado, Stedi provides a digital mailbox and various services, including tax rate notifications, insurance plan descriptions, air shipment information, and business entity filings. The platform supports both healthcare technology companies and established businesses by enabling the exchange of critical transactions through modern API interfaces as well as traditional real-time and batch EDI processes. Stedi is committed to enhancing communication and efficiency in business transactions across various sectors.

Angel.ai

Series A in 2015
Angel.ai, founded in February 2015, offers a text message-based personal concierge service that enables users to make various requests at any time of day. Utilizing Human Assisted Artificial Intelligence, the service connects clients with trained operators who assist with tasks such as ordering food, making restaurant reservations, and booking hotels or travel tickets. Angel.ai operates with a focus on user convenience, fulfilling on-demand requests without charge, aside from possible service costs, markups, or hidden fees. This approach allows clients to save time and streamline their everyday activities through simple text messages.

Superhuman

Seed Round in 2014
Superhuman is a software platform that enhances email productivity through an advanced application designed for electronic mailing services. It integrates seamlessly with Gmail, offering features such as AI writing assistance, summarization, and social insights. Users can utilize shortcuts to manage their inbox effectively, including the ability to snooze conversations and prioritize important messages. This focus on streamlining email workflows aims to provide a more efficient and organized experience for individuals seeking to improve their communication and productivity.

Dasher

Seed Round in 2014
Dasher is a messaging platform founded in 2013 and headquartered in the United States. The company's application focuses on enhancing communication among users by offering a variety of features, including live location sharing, map sharing, GIFs, and photos. It also enables users to conduct polls within their groups and delete messages after sending them. Additionally, Dasher integrates peer-to-peer payments through a partnership with Venmo, allowing seamless financial transactions among users. The platform is designed to keep individuals connected with friends and family while providing an array of interactive tools to enrich their social experience.

Genies

Seed Round in 2014
Genies empowers individuals to create personalized digital avatars for expression across social media and messaging platforms. It offers tools for users to design avatars, avatar fashion lines, worlds, and interactive experiences, enabling brands to drive engagement through exclusive digital goods.

Carnival

Seed Round in 2013
Founded in 2008, Carnival is a New York-based company that provides a mobile marketing platform enabling brands and agencies to engage users with interactive messages and analytics within their mobile apps.

Tomfoolery

Convertible Note in 2013
Tomfoolery is a mobile app lab founded by ex-Yahoo and AOL execs committed to making enterprise solutions more consumer-friendly. Its debut app is the conversation platform Anchor. Anchor allows users to share files from Box.com and Dropbox, syncs with Evernote, and lets companies create company directories on the platform — a listing of all employees who are on Anchor — which can be used to find email and phone details, as well as link for chatting.

Lua Technologies

Seed Round in 2013
Lua Technologies, Inc. provides enterprise collaboration solutions that empower mobile workforces by giving users access to the people and information they need to complete tasks from the field or the office. The platform enables cross-department access, real-time messaging and conference calling with read receipts, and secure file sharing with data stored in secured colocation facilities alongside government, banking, and Fortune 500 data. It serves Hollywood sets, professional sports franchises, technology and financial companies, and supports HIPAA compliant messaging for healthcare workflows. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York.

Koa.la

Series A in 2013
Koala develops a photo-sharing application which can be integrated into smartphone messenger. Koala was formerly known as Albumatic Inc. and changed its name to Koala in November 2013. It was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tomfoolery

Seed Round in 2013
Tomfoolery is a mobile app lab founded by ex-Yahoo and AOL execs committed to making enterprise solutions more consumer-friendly. Its debut app is the conversation platform Anchor. Anchor allows users to share files from Box.com and Dropbox, syncs with Evernote, and lets companies create company directories on the platform — a listing of all employees who are on Anchor — which can be used to find email and phone details, as well as link for chatting.

Thanx

Seed Round in 2012
Thanx is a guest engagement platform for offline businesses, including brick-and-mortar retailers, restaurants, and malls, that links purchases from card networks to a CRM and marketing automation suite. The platform enables data capture from card transactions, personalized customer interactions, and loyalty programs through messages, email marketing, and real-time feedback tools, along with revenue reporting and online ordering integrations. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thanx helps merchants improve retention and revenue by turning purchase data into personalized engagement across channels.

Customer.io

Pre Seed Round in 2012
Customer.io is a software-as-a-service marketing automation platform that enables businesses to send triggered messages based on user behavior. It collects and processes user activity data via on-site JavaScript and a REST API, then applies rules to segment audiences and tailor outreach, such as re-engagement prompts for users who have not logged in recently. The platform delivers targeted emails, push notifications, messages, and newsletters to encourage actions, grow engagement, and support subscriptions. It provides analytics to measure campaign effectiveness and supports iterative optimization of messaging. By combining behavior-driven targeting with cross-channel delivery, Customer.io helps teams build relationships with users and improve customer success and revenue.

GroupMe

Series B in 2011
GroupMe Inc. is a New York-based company that develops and operates a group messaging application designed to facilitate communication among users, including those without smartphones. Launched in 2010, the platform allows users to easily connect with friends, family, and coworkers through push notifications or SMS. GroupMe's services include group messaging, conference calling, and location and photo sharing, enabling seamless interaction within social networks. Since its inception, the company has experienced significant growth, processing billions of messages and expanding its team to 25 employees. Acquired by Skype Global, GroupMe operates with a degree of autonomy, maintaining an entrepreneurial culture while aiming to become a primary communications provider for a large user base.

GroupMe

Series A in 2010
GroupMe Inc. is a New York-based company that develops and operates a group messaging application designed to facilitate communication among users, including those without smartphones. Launched in 2010, the platform allows users to easily connect with friends, family, and coworkers through push notifications or SMS. GroupMe's services include group messaging, conference calling, and location and photo sharing, enabling seamless interaction within social networks. Since its inception, the company has experienced significant growth, processing billions of messages and expanding its team to 25 employees. Acquired by Skype Global, GroupMe operates with a degree of autonomy, maintaining an entrepreneurial culture while aiming to become a primary communications provider for a large user base.

Routine

Routine is a productivity-focused desktop application designed to assist busy professionals in managing their tasks and schedules more efficiently. It functions as a central operating system for productivity, allowing users to quickly capture notes, schedule meetings, and organize tasks from various applications such as Slack, Gmail, and Notion through a single keyboard shortcut. Routine emphasizes personal time management by accommodating users' preferences for various activities—such as focus time, administrative tasks, and team meetings—thus enabling a more customized approach to task management. By providing a streamlined way to define routines and allocate time slots for different responsibilities, Routine helps entrepreneurs, investors, and executives maintain control over their professional and personal commitments, ultimately enhancing their overall productivity.
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