Communitas Capital Partners

Communitas Capital Partners, established in 2017 and located in New York, is a venture capital firm founded by three former CEOs with extensive experience in investment, operations, and financial services. The firm focuses on investing in innovative and impactful companies across a range of sectors, including financial services, information technology, cybersecurity, real estate technology, cryptocurrency, insurance technology, climate technology, e-commerce, education technology, human resource technology, legal technology, mobile commerce, and ridesharing. In addition to traditional venture capital investments, Communitas aims to democratize access to venture funding through its crowd-syndication solution, enabling accredited investors, family offices, and ultra-high net worth individuals to invest on equal terms with institutional investors.

Peter Lee

Operating Partner

Duncan L. Niederauer

Co-Founder and Partner

Parker Odrich

Vice President

Tom Glocer

Co-Founder

29 past transactions

Gravity

Series A in 2025
Gravity Climate provides a software platform designed for carbon management, specifically tailored for industrial businesses and their supply chain partners. The platform helps companies measure, manage, and reduce their carbon emissions, facilitating a clear and actionable climate strategy. Gravity Climate's tools support decarbonization efforts by streamlining carbon accounting processes and offering insights to advance industrial sustainability goals.

Abstract

Seed Round in 2025
Abstract is a SaaS (Software as a Service) company in the Gov and Legal Tech sectors. Our product Abstract AI, has two tiers: Abstract California and Abstract Enterprise. Abstract AI is a project management & intelligence platform for understanding the impact of government policies on business and communities, as well as a tool to help improve those policies. Abstract leverages AI models, and proprietary data processing tech, to uncover risk & opportunity that current & changing government policy poses for an organizations product, assets, investments, labor-force, manufacturing, etc…

Vortexa

Series C in 2024
Vortexa Ltd is a London-based company that specializes in providing real-time data and analytics for the energy and freight industries, particularly focusing on crude oil and refined products such as diesel, jet fuel, gasoline, and LPG. Founded in 2016, Vortexa offers a comprehensive platform that tracks the movement of energy commodities along trading routes, providing users with a cargo-by-cargo view. This platform utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze and interpret data from various sources, allowing traders, analysts, and freight professionals to gain insights into the past, present, and future flow of oil globally. By delivering intelligent data insights, Vortexa empowers its clients to make informed trading decisions in complex and opaque markets.

Articul8

Seed Round in 2024
Articul8 operates as a Generative AI enterprise software company focused on helping organizations.

Necto

Seed Round in 2023
Necto is a technology company that operates a secure API aggregator platform, designed to modernize global treasury operations. Its core product is a multi-bank premium API aggregator, which normalizes and standardizes banking data, providing clients with a comprehensive, real-time view of their cash management positions and enabling them to manage and initiate payments efficiently.

Vortexa

Venture Round in 2023
Vortexa Ltd is a London-based company that specializes in providing real-time data and analytics for the energy and freight industries, particularly focusing on crude oil and refined products such as diesel, jet fuel, gasoline, and LPG. Founded in 2016, Vortexa offers a comprehensive platform that tracks the movement of energy commodities along trading routes, providing users with a cargo-by-cargo view. This platform utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze and interpret data from various sources, allowing traders, analysts, and freight professionals to gain insights into the past, present, and future flow of oil globally. By delivering intelligent data insights, Vortexa empowers its clients to make informed trading decisions in complex and opaque markets.

Entrio

Seed Round in 2023
Entrio is the pioneer of Responsible Tech Adoption, helping financial institutions to manage and streamline their use of technology with a Live Solutions Catalog. The company’s innovative approach ensures optimized spending, efficient tech use and reuse, and a transparent tech ecosystem, leading to agility and sustainable growth in the financial sector.

Spiral

Series A in 2023
Spiral is the award-winning personalized banking platform that enables banks and credit unions to grow deposits and attract new account holders through financial wellness and community impact. With Spiral, financial institutions can positively impact the lives of their account holders and their communities through any online bank account, debit card, or credit card. Thus, Spiral makes it simple for financial institutions to drive positive change and empower millions of people to build better lives and positively impact their communities. Spiral is spearheaded by fintech serial entrepreneur Shawn Melamed, a former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley's Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices. Their mission-driven team has deep banking, nonprofit, and fintech expertise, including Jim Rosenthal, the former COO of Morgan Stanley, who is part of Spiral's board.

Finery Markets

Seed Round in 2022
Finery Markets is an institutional-focused over-the-counter electronic marketplace that specializes in providing trading solutions for the cryptocurrency sector. Founded in 2019, the company operates a multi-dealer platform that facilitates high-performance trading with deep institutional liquidity and firm quotes. It offers a comprehensive suite of services throughout the entire trade lifecycle, including price intelligence, pre-trade risk management, position management, risk controls, and cost analysis. The platform's non-custodial settlement model and flexible infrastructure enable users to access global liquidity providers through a single entry point via API and graphical user interface. Additionally, Finery Markets provides a white-label solution tailored for prime brokers, OTC desks, and exchanges aiming to enhance their client offerings while maintaining a low-touch approach. The company is distinguished by its robust infrastructure, boasting a 99.99% uptime and full automation to support its clients effectively.

Tweed

Seed Round in 2022
Tweed offers a white-label wallet solution designed to simplify the integration of web3 experiences for platforms and brands. The company's plug-and-play infrastructure includes self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features, and a robust payment system, allowing clients to onboard users with minimal friction. By prioritizing user experience while maintaining security and ownership, Tweed enables businesses to enhance engagement and sales. The architecture of Tweed’s solution is built to comply with regulatory standards, undergoing regular legal audits to relieve clients of the associated burdens. Currently operating in stealth mode, Tweed is focused on providing a seamless and immersive web3 experience for its partners.

Coin Metrics

Series C in 2022
Coin Metrics Inc. is a provider of blockchain and cryptocurrency data analytics, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2017, the company specializes in delivering market and network data, analytics, and research to various industries and institutions involved in crypto-assets. Its offerings include the CM Network Data Pro, which provides comprehensive historical data on top cryptocurrency assets, and the CM Market Data Feed, which standardizes trade, candle, and order book data from multiple exchanges. Additionally, Coin Metrics offers CM Reference Rates, which present fixed asset pricing in U.S. dollars. By focusing on transparency and actionable data, Coin Metrics aims to empower individuals and organizations to make informed financial decisions related to cryptocurrencies.

AbbeyCross

Pre Seed Round in 2022
AbbeyCross is a business-to-business platform that operates as a trading and compliance venue for deliverable emerging market currencies. Its primary focus is to enhance the market infrastructure by connecting payment banks with suppliers of emerging market trading and settlement services. The company collaborates with global banks and financial services providers to eliminate inefficiencies within the currency payment industry. AbbeyCross aims to provide clients with improved currency liquidity, price transparency, and access to vital market data, thereby addressing the complexities of a fragmented market.

Graphite

Series A in 2021
Graphite, Inc. is a technology platform that facilitates an online marketplace connecting organizations with a vetted pool of finance and consulting professionals for project-based work. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York and Boston, Graphite enables companies across various industries, including financial services, healthcare, technology, and telecommunications, to access specialized expertise on demand. By providing a streamlined way for organizations to engage top-tier consultants and executives, Graphite helps alleviate bandwidth constraints and drive significant organizational change, allowing clients to innovate more rapidly and enhance business performance. Formerly known as SpareHire, Inc., Graphite rebranded in July 2019, reflecting its commitment to providing high-quality consulting services tailored to the needs of its clients.

FinLync

Venture Round in 2021
FinLync is a fintech company that specializes in addressing complex financial requirements through its ERP native applications and API connectivity. The company aims to transform corporate finance and treasury operations by aggregating global banking APIs, which facilitate embedded real-time payments and cash management. This innovation enables treasurers to optimize cash flow, streamline decision-making, and reduce the resources necessary for managing intricate financial tasks. FinLync serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 2000 and Fortune 500 companies, and has a global presence with employees from 11 countries and offices located in Singapore, Los Angeles, New York, and Paris.

Coin Metrics

Series B in 2021
Coin Metrics Inc. is a provider of blockchain and cryptocurrency data analytics, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2017, the company specializes in delivering market and network data, analytics, and research to various industries and institutions involved in crypto-assets. Its offerings include the CM Network Data Pro, which provides comprehensive historical data on top cryptocurrency assets, and the CM Market Data Feed, which standardizes trade, candle, and order book data from multiple exchanges. Additionally, Coin Metrics offers CM Reference Rates, which present fixed asset pricing in U.S. dollars. By focusing on transparency and actionable data, Coin Metrics aims to empower individuals and organizations to make informed financial decisions related to cryptocurrencies.

Symbiont

Venture Round in 2021
Symbiont.io, Inc. is a financial technology company that specializes in developing a smart contracts platform tailored for institutional applications of blockchain technology. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Amsterdam, the company provides a comprehensive infrastructure for capital markets. This includes a unified ledger for sharing business logic and market data, as well as the Symbiont Assembly platform, which facilitates the issuance, tracking, and management of financial instruments such as loans, securities, and commodities. By enabling complex financial instruments to exist within a decentralized blockchain network, Symbiont aims to enhance transparency, reduce risk, and lower costs for financial institutions and government entities. The company has established partnerships with industry leaders, including Vanguard and the State of Delaware, to drive innovation and improve operational efficiency in the capital markets sector.

Spiral

Venture Round in 2021
Spiral is the award-winning personalized banking platform that enables banks and credit unions to grow deposits and attract new account holders through financial wellness and community impact. With Spiral, financial institutions can positively impact the lives of their account holders and their communities through any online bank account, debit card, or credit card. Thus, Spiral makes it simple for financial institutions to drive positive change and empower millions of people to build better lives and positively impact their communities. Spiral is spearheaded by fintech serial entrepreneur Shawn Melamed, a former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley's Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices. Their mission-driven team has deep banking, nonprofit, and fintech expertise, including Jim Rosenthal, the former COO of Morgan Stanley, who is part of Spiral's board.

Premise Data

Series E in 2021
Premise Data Corporation, established in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing a data and analytics platform. This platform, Premise Ground Truth, offers end-to-end data collection, quality assurance, and analysis. It provides insights into price changes, location discovery, retail audits, asset condition monitoring, movement patterns, logistics, risk indicators, and sentiment surveys. Additionally, it facilitates geospatial mapping and infrastructure impact measurement. Premise serves international organizations for investment and policy decisions.

iCreditWorks

Seed Round in 2021
iCreditWorks is a financial technology company that specializes in streamlining the loan application process for dental patients. It offers a mobile application that enables users to apply for loans conveniently through their web browsers or mobile devices. The platform facilitates direct communication via electronic means, making it easier for consumers to select loan options and connect with lenders. By focusing on the dental sector, iCreditWorks aims to enhance point-of-care lending, allowing patients to secure funding for dental treatments at the time they need it. The company's approach provides a simple, seamless, and secure experience for users seeking financial assistance for dental care.

Coin Metrics

Series A in 2020
Coin Metrics Inc. is a provider of blockchain and cryptocurrency data analytics, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2017, the company specializes in delivering market and network data, analytics, and research to various industries and institutions involved in crypto-assets. Its offerings include the CM Network Data Pro, which provides comprehensive historical data on top cryptocurrency assets, and the CM Market Data Feed, which standardizes trade, candle, and order book data from multiple exchanges. Additionally, Coin Metrics offers CM Reference Rates, which present fixed asset pricing in U.S. dollars. By focusing on transparency and actionable data, Coin Metrics aims to empower individuals and organizations to make informed financial decisions related to cryptocurrencies.

Alchemy

Venture Round in 2019
Alchemy Insights, Inc. is a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that serves hedge funds and financial institutions. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for analyzing blockchain data, including on-chain data, market trends, and community activity. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to help users identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain, thereby aiding in sales, security, and strategic decision-making. Alchemy's emphasis on providing developers with essential tools allows for the creation of scalable and reliable decentralized applications without the complexities of managing blockchain infrastructure. The company is backed by notable organizations and individuals, reflecting its prominent position in the blockchain space.

SHOWFIELDS

Seed Round in 2019
Showfields, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in New York, operates a direct-to-consumer retail outlet that showcases innovative brands. The company presents a unique retail concept aimed at engaging consumers with emerging brands and artists. By offering flexible prime location spaces and customizable design services, Showfields creates an inviting environment for customers to discover and shop. The platform leverages retail technology to enhance the brand experience, allowing businesses to unlock new offline growth channels while providing shoppers with a distinctive and interactive shopping experience.

ComplyAdvantage

Series B in 2019
ComplyAdvantage is a provider of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology, focused on mitigating risks associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, and corruption. The company offers a unique global, real-time database that enables over 500 enterprises across 75 countries to assess the risk of their business relationships. By identifying tens of thousands of risk events daily from millions of structured and unstructured data points, ComplyAdvantage equips organizations with the necessary insights to manage their exposure to financial crime effectively.

Credit Benchmark

Series C in 2018
Credit Benchmark Limited is a financial data analytics company based in London, with an additional office in New York. Founded in 2012, the company specializes in aggregating and anonymizing credit risk estimates from various market participants, primarily banks. It provides a unique source of credit risk data that includes probability of default and loss given default metrics for sovereigns, corporations, banks, and non-bank financial entities. Credit Benchmark's platform supports risk management and capital allocation decision-making by offering insights into both rated and unrated entities. Additionally, the company operates secure hosting and data transmission platforms that adhere to stringent information security standards, catering to the needs of global financial institutions.

Datavore

Seed Round in 2018
Datavore is a data analytics software company established in 2014, specializing in organizing, exploring, analyzing, and visualizing data from various internal and external sources. The company's platform is designed to collect and tag data with classifications, rules, and relationships, thereby facilitating in-depth analytics and visualizations for financial analysts. Datavore's team possesses extensive experience in the financial services sector, having previously worked at notable firms such as Goldman Sachs, Thomson Reuters, and Ernst & Young. This expertise informs their innovative approach to data analytics, enabling clients to gain valuable insights from complex data sets.

Gloat

Series A in 2017
Gloat is an innovative Internal Talent Marketplace that empowers organizations to unlock and utilize the hidden potential of their workforce. Through its AI-driven platform, Gloat matches employees' skills and aspirations with suitable internal career opportunities, fostering personalized career development in real time while maintaining user anonymity. This approach not only supports individual career growth but also enhances organizational agility and visibility. Gloat is utilized by prominent companies around the globe, with deployments in over 120 countries, including major brands such as Unilever, PepsiCo, and HSBC. By providing valuable insights and data-driven recommendations, Gloat enables individuals to make informed career decisions and helps managers identify the right candidates for various roles within their organizations.

Street Context

Venture Round in 2017
Street Context is a company that specializes in email intelligence software designed specifically for global capital markets. The platform uses smart data technology and machine learning to help firms manage their email infrastructure more effectively. By matching the right client with the right content, Street Context enables buy- and sell-side teams to focus on high-value conversations, cutting through the chaos of emails to act quickly and decisively. This software integrates seamlessly with existing systems and ensures rigorous cybersecurity measures, helping clients eliminate information overload, improve engagement, and increase cost-effectiveness. The company serves 150 firms across 21 countries, providing them with timely and streamlined data to maximize their time and make every conversation count.

CoLoadX

Seed Round in 2016
CoLoadX is an online high-frequency freight marketplace that simplifies the logistics process by offering instant search, booking, and tracking solutions through a comprehensive cargo visibility system. The platform is designed to enhance efficiency for both buyers and sellers in the freight industry, eliminating the need for traditional communication methods such as phones, faxes, and emails. By leveraging real-time data, CoLoadX enables clients to gain valuable insights into the status of their shipments and historical trends, thereby improving decision-making and operational effectiveness. Recognized for its innovative approach, CoLoadX was selected for the 2019 Freightwaves FreightTech 100 Award, highlighting its role in driving disruption within the freight sector.
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