CoVenture

CoVenture is a venture capital firm based in Miami, Florida, founded in 2014. The firm specializes in investing across the capital stack of tech-enabled companies, often serving as the first source of institutional equity and debt financing. CoVenture focuses on a variety of sectors, including financial services, new forms of media, and platform economies, while remaining open to investing in emerging industries. As a Registered Investment Adviser, CoVenture is dedicated to supporting the growth of innovative businesses through strategic financial partnerships.

Dan Bailey

Managing Director

Michael Breitstein

Principal

Glen Chesir

Partner and Board Member

Brian Harwitt

Partner

Graham Kohan

Managing Director

Elizabeth Ostrander

Partner and COO

Isaac Strulowitz

CFO

Lei Tie

Managing Director

34 past transactions

Constrafor

Debt Financing in 2022
Constrafor is a SaaS and fintech innovator purpose-built for construction. Constrafor is setting new standards of productivity and cost-efficiency for the way GCs and subcontractors manage essential back-office tasks and financial transactions. For general contractors, Constrafor’s cloud platform streamlines and standardizes subcontractor procurement and administration, including contracts, COIs, invoices and payments, and diversity procurement – all in one place. For subcontractors, the platform offers fast and cost-effective receivables financing, including an Early Pay Program (EPP) that shortens the invoice payment cycle, frees up cash, and allows them to take on more projects.

Captain

Debt Financing in 2022
Captain is a fintech platform that helps homeowners rebuild faster after natural disasters by paying general contractors upfront.

Spotter

Series D in 2022
Spotter is a platform for Creators, providing services and software designed to accelerate growth for the world’s best Creators and brands. Creators working with Spotter can access the capital, knowledge, community, and personalized AI software products they need to succeed. With unique knowledge of how Creators work, the resources they need to grow, and the challenges they face, Spotter is empowering top YouTube Creators to succeed. Spotter has already deployed over $940 million to YouTube Creators to reinvest in themselves and accelerate their growth, with plans to reach $1 billion in investment by 2024. With a premium catalog that spans over 725,000 videos, Spotter generates more than 88 billion monthly watch-time minutes, delivering a unique scaled media solution to Advertisers and Ad Agencies that is transparent, efficient, and 100% brand safe. For more information about Spotter, please visit https://spotter.com.

Embrace Software

Debt Financing in 2021
Embrace Software is a company focused on the acquisition and operation of niche software. Embrace acquires and operates niche software that provides industry specific solutions. We believe best practices followed by enterprise software are equally relevant for small software businesses.

Benitago Group

Series A in 2021
Benitago creates, acquires, and grows Amazon businesses. They began when they created their first product to alleviate their own back pain. They take a scientific approach to product creation— lean, data-driven, and iterative. Custom-coded algorithms automate its marketing, finance, and supply chain — unlike any small operator. Over time, they have fully bootstrapped a proprietary scalable platform to launch and operate Amazon brands.

Gravitiq

Seed Round in 2021
Gravitiq scale the best e-commerce health & personal care brands and are driven to help everyone take control of their health. Gravitiq is the center of both the Amazon third-party seller space and the online health movement.

ProducePay

Series C in 2021
Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providing unprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.

Acquco

Series A in 2021
Acquco is an E-commerce platform that focuses on acquiring and growing Amazon Marketplace businesses.

Conjure

Debt Financing in 2020
Conjure is an online furniture rental company that serves as an alternative to furniture ownership. It recently raised $9 million in seed funding, both equity and debt financing to advance its mission. The round included $4 million in equity led by Pillar VC and RiverPark Ventures, while $5 million in debt financing was led by CoVenture. It was founded by Daniel Ramirez and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Stem Disintermedia

Venture Round in 2020
Stem Disintermedia Inc. develops a distribution platform and payments solution tailored for independent musicians, teams, and record labels. The platform, known as Stem, simplifies the management of revenue splits among collaborators, providing artists with valuable insights into their earnings and performance data across multiple streaming services. It allows users to customize their dashboards and offers assistance with release strategies and connections to a broader creative community. Additionally, Stem aggregates earnings from various platforms, facilitates contract creation, and ensures timely payments and statements to all stakeholders involved in a project. Founded in 2015 in Los Angeles, California, Stem Disintermedia aims to clarify the complexities of revenue management in the music industry, ensuring fair compensation for all contributors.

ProducePay

Debt Financing in 2019
Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providing unprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.

Remodelmate

Seed Round in 2019
Get unbiased, transparent pricing from local home remodeling contractors, and pay securely online with metered payments. Self-manage your home renovation with project milestones, or book a remodelmate Concierge to manage the whole thing for you. The better way to renovate.

Tagomi

Venture Round in 2019
Tagomi is a cryptocurrency trading platform that provides access to priced liquidity, low commissions, and maximized client return. The company's platform uses advanced routing tactics and execution algorithms to analyze real-time and historical data to decide where and when to trade, enabling clients to reduce trading costs and keep more of their returns.

Returnly

Series A in 2019
Returnly is the provider of digital return experiences for direct-to-consumer brands. Returnly is the only return solution that lets customers get the right item before returning the wrong one. The result is a world-class shopping experience with an average consumer satisfaction score (CSAT) of 91%. Returnly has also developed a turn-key solution around its financial technology that includes returns management tools as well as hosted and fully brandable end-customer touchpoints like package tracking, online returns and exchanges and Green Returns.

Clearco

Series A in 2018
Clearco is an online financial platform that provides growth capital to e-commerce and B2B companies. It utilizes proprietary software and data science models to identify high-growth funding opportunities and also offers funding in exchange for a steady revenue share of earnings. It also allows startups to avail an alternative source of funding for their fast-growing businesses without diluting equity.

ProducePay

Series B in 2018
Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providing unprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.

Focusmate

Seed Round in 2018
Focusmate is a remote coworking community where people get things done together. It changes the way of work by connecting other professionals who have committed to being accountable for finishing their most important work. The Focusmate virtual coworking model is rooted in evidence-based approaches to productivity and systems of accountability developed by executive and leadership coaches. It also helps independent workers eliminate procrastination by providing live, peer accountability over 1-hour video sessions. In 2017, Taylor Jacobson founded it in New York, New York.

Teampay

Seed Round in 2018
Teampay’s award-winning platform helps larger SMBs and middle-market businesses across industries manage expenses. By streamlining the purchase process across virtual and physical cards, invoices, and reimbursements, Teampay makes company purchases easy for employees and finance teams alike.

Secfi

Seed Round in 2018
Secfi is trusted by thousands of startup employees for equity planning and financing. We’re the first to provide a proprietary suite of equity planning tools, 1:1 guidance with licensed equity strategists and a set of financing products that enable employees to own a stake in the company they helped build. We also provide company-wide education for startups at all stages to help their team make the best decision for their own situation. Currently, we have worked with employees from more than 80% of all U.S. unicorns. For more information, please visit www.secfi.com.

Love Stories TV

Seed Round in 2018
Love Stories TV is a video-powered marketplace for wedding planning. We connect couples with the ideas, products, and services they need for their weddings. We connect wedding businesses with a pipeline of customers.

Finova Financial

Venture Round in 2017
Finova Financial is a socially responsible lender that provides fast affordable loans based on the equity in your car, to the 70 million financially underserved Americans that spend $138 billion in fees and interest annually. Finova’s Car Equity Line of Credit (C-LOC) costs 70% less than the current national average, provides instant access to capital, and a 12-month pathway back to financial health, online, mobile, anywhere, 24/7. Finova clients benefit from the ability to complete the loan process online, instant approval decisions and same day cash funding. The Finova client portal provides personalized access to our financial dashboard allowing real time management of your financial health. Payments can be made from the convenience of any computer or mobile device and at 32,000 US retail locations. Successful payment history provides declining rates, the opportunity to establish and build credit, along with access to additional funds on demand. Finova provides an immediate solution to our clients’ credit needs, the ability to monitor their progress in real time, which when coupled with Finova’s ongoing financial education provides a pathway to improved economic health. The Finova C-LOC is the first of many digital financial service products we will launch to address the unfulfilled needs of financially underserved Americans. At Finova we are in the business of relationships, not transactions. Our clients tell us Finova is the first positive relationship they have with any financial services provider. This is our passion and what drives us forward.

ExecThread

Venture Round in 2017
Our vision is of a business world in which the best career opportunities are equally accessible. We believe senior-level roles should be accessible to all qualified professionals, not just a chosen few. ExecThread’s curated marketplace of crowdsourced career opportunities at the C-Suite & Board level, which are contributed by >750k of the world’s best professionals, connects the best & brightest from all backgrounds with the world’s best job opportunities.

Vidcode

Seed Round in 2017
Vidcode is an award-winning software that teaches students computer programming through their favorite hobby: video-making. Project-oriented lessons allow students to create memes, video filters, interactive games, virtual reality and beyond with real programming languages. Vidcode offers full semester coding courses that prepare students for AP CS. Voted Best Learning Site 2015 by Common Sense Media

KidPass

Seed Round in 2017
KidPass is the leading destination for parents to discover and book amazing children’s activities.

ProducePay

Series A in 2017
Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providing unprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.

ProducePay

Debt Financing in 2017
Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providing unprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.

Teampay

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Teampay’s award-winning platform helps larger SMBs and middle-market businesses across industries manage expenses. By streamlining the purchase process across virtual and physical cards, invoices, and reimbursements, Teampay makes company purchases easy for employees and finance teams alike.

Finova Financial

Venture Round in 2016
Finova Financial is a socially responsible lender that provides fast affordable loans based on the equity in your car, to the 70 million financially underserved Americans that spend $138 billion in fees and interest annually. Finova’s Car Equity Line of Credit (C-LOC) costs 70% less than the current national average, provides instant access to capital, and a 12-month pathway back to financial health, online, mobile, anywhere, 24/7. Finova clients benefit from the ability to complete the loan process online, instant approval decisions and same day cash funding. The Finova client portal provides personalized access to our financial dashboard allowing real time management of your financial health. Payments can be made from the convenience of any computer or mobile device and at 32,000 US retail locations. Successful payment history provides declining rates, the opportunity to establish and build credit, along with access to additional funds on demand. Finova provides an immediate solution to our clients’ credit needs, the ability to monitor their progress in real time, which when coupled with Finova’s ongoing financial education provides a pathway to improved economic health. The Finova C-LOC is the first of many digital financial service products we will launch to address the unfulfilled needs of financially underserved Americans. At Finova we are in the business of relationships, not transactions. Our clients tell us Finova is the first positive relationship they have with any financial services provider. This is our passion and what drives us forward.

ProducePay

Seed Round in 2016
Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providing unprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.

Greycork

Seed Round in 2016
Greycork offers a range of interior design, home and garden design, and accessories for homes. It was launched by John Humphrey and Bruce Kim in 2013.

Finova Financial

Seed Round in 2016
Finova Financial is a socially responsible lender that provides fast affordable loans based on the equity in your car, to the 70 million financially underserved Americans that spend $138 billion in fees and interest annually. Finova’s Car Equity Line of Credit (C-LOC) costs 70% less than the current national average, provides instant access to capital, and a 12-month pathway back to financial health, online, mobile, anywhere, 24/7. Finova clients benefit from the ability to complete the loan process online, instant approval decisions and same day cash funding. The Finova client portal provides personalized access to our financial dashboard allowing real time management of your financial health. Payments can be made from the convenience of any computer or mobile device and at 32,000 US retail locations. Successful payment history provides declining rates, the opportunity to establish and build credit, along with access to additional funds on demand. Finova provides an immediate solution to our clients’ credit needs, the ability to monitor their progress in real time, which when coupled with Finova’s ongoing financial education provides a pathway to improved economic health. The Finova C-LOC is the first of many digital financial service products we will launch to address the unfulfilled needs of financially underserved Americans. At Finova we are in the business of relationships, not transactions. Our clients tell us Finova is the first positive relationship they have with any financial services provider. This is our passion and what drives us forward.

TresseNoire

Seed Round in 2015
TresseNoire gives curly girls their own beauty pro in their pocket - available 24/7! Our stylist team and tech analyzes users' hair, skin and lifestyle goals to coach them through a personalized/customized beauty care regimen of products and services.

ProducePay

Seed Round in 2015
Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providing unprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.
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