Gaingels

Gaingels is a venture capital investment firm founded in 2014 and based in Burlington, Vermont. It specializes in investing in companies led by LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders across various stages of growth, as well as in established firms aiming to create more inclusive teams. With a global portfolio of over 130 companies and $70 million in investment capital deployed, Gaingels actively supports its portfolio by helping to identify and recruit diverse talent for leadership roles. The firm fosters a vibrant community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who are united in their mission to drive positive social change through business and successful investments.

Marc Baum

Investor

Jesse Curran

Principal

Ashley Flucas

Venture Partner

Max Frenkel

General Partner

Todd Havill

Research Operations and Principal, Investment

Surya Jayaweera

Angel Investor

Jennifer Jeronimo

CEO and General Partner

Jake Prigoff

General Partner

Peter Steinberg

General Partner

Alexandra Tanner

Investor

Lorenzo Thione

General Partner

Past deals in Augmented Reality

Toybox

Venture Round in 2022
Toybox offers a 3D printing experience that allows children to create personalized toys at home. The company provides kits that include a compact printer, non-toxic plastic material, and mobile applications, enabling kids to easily print a wide variety of toys using their creativity. This innovative approach allows children to engage in imaginative play while learning about technology, all without the need for prior training. Toybox aims to make the process of toy creation accessible, fun, and safe for young users.

Strivr

Series B in 2022
STRIVR is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality, customer experience, and athlete performance. It transforms the way companies train and develop their employees by using virtual reality to simulate real-world and on-the-job situations designed for enhanced learning to help companies grow.

Playhouse

Seed Round in 2022
Playhouse is a mobile application focused on enhancing the experience of discovering real estate. The app allows users to browse video listings of properties for sale, providing clear insights into various real estate options. By integrating property and neighborhood data with an engaging full-screen video feed, Playhouse enables customers to explore homes and their surroundings in a more dynamic and informative manner. This approach aims to simplify the real estate search process and improve consumer engagement with available properties.

DNABLOCK

Seed Round in 2022
DNABLOCK is leading the way to personalized entertainment, interaction, and inclusion by removing the barriers of 3D content creation. Our platform and REPLIKANT™ animation engine allows creatives, brands, and individuals the ability to generate bespoke, high-quality, digital beings without prohibitive post-production costs or specialized 3D programming knowledge. Our platform supports the exporting of content onto ANY device, making it simple to create fulfilling interactions with an enormous reach. We operate a scalable, high-end, computer graphics pipeline. This pipeline, combined with advanced machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis, is our recipe for engaging, real-time, interactive, digital beings and the future of digital interface. As a forward-thinking company, we have focused on likeness protection and ownership; adding authentication mechanisms to guarantee control and transparency.

Raydiant

Series B in 2022
Raydiant, Inc. specializes in creating connected experiences for brick-and-mortar businesses through its cloud-based digital signage technology. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the company provides a platform that allows users to display digital content on any HDMI-equipped TV, facilitating the presentation of announcements, promotions, and menus. Raydiant’s solutions cater to a variety of industries, including banking, healthcare, retail, and education. The platform enables businesses to enhance customer engagement by transforming standard displays into interactive media, offering features such as videoconferencing, in-store music, and easy content creation through drag-and-drop tools. This technology empowers businesses of all sizes, from local cafes to large enterprises, to create memorable in-store experiences that drive sales and customer interaction.

Azarus

Seed Round in 2022
Azarus, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that develops an automated video game challenges platform designed to enhance interaction between gamers and streamers. Incorporated in 2018, Azarus offers a unique "smart-challenge" system that fosters dynamic engagement within the gaming community. The platform allows streamers to reward viewers with tokens for correctly answering real-time questions related to their streams. This innovative approach not only facilitates new gameplay mechanics but also provides gamers with opportunities for additional revenue generation. Azarus aims to redefine the relationship between streamers and their audiences by creating a more interactive and rewarding experience in the gaming landscape.

Limbix

Series A in 2021
Virtual is a developer of prescription digital therapeutics platform intended to help mental health treatment. The company's tool adheres to strict compliance with FDA quality management standards and also is put through rigorous research trials and in certain cases is paired with existing pharmacological treatments, as well as uses virtual reality to administer VR exposure therapy, assign CBT assessments or exercises and track patient progress, enabling patients to overcome anxiety, phobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder easily.

Overplay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a game engine designed to make videos interactive. The company's engine leverages artificial intelligence technology to build creative games related to racing a car or motorcycle, jumping from roof to roof, hurtling down a mountain on skis or mountain bikes or piloting drones through an abandoned building and brands can also create playable games ads based on any video content at a fraction of the cost and time currently required to make them, enabling users to make content more entertaining and engaging.

Genies

Series B in 2021
Genies, Inc. is a mobile application company based in Venice, California, that specializes in the creation of personalized digital avatars. Founded in 2017, Genies allows users to design their own avatars with a wide range of clothing and facial options, enabling them to express their identity in social media and messaging platforms. The company also offers an Avatar Agency and SDK, facilitating the integration of avatars into various aspects of culture and commerce. In addition to avatar creation, Genies develops a social sharing application targeted at college students, allowing them to share experiences and engage with brands. This platform enables students to earn recognition through snaps (likes) from peers and redeem them for rewards, while brands can connect with this desirable demographic. Genies aims to enhance user engagement and provide brands with opportunities to sell exclusive digital goods through their interactive avatar experiences.

Genies

Series B in 2021
Genies, Inc. is a mobile application company based in Venice, California, that specializes in the creation of personalized digital avatars. Founded in 2017, Genies allows users to design their own avatars with a wide range of clothing and facial options, enabling them to express their identity in social media and messaging platforms. The company also offers an Avatar Agency and SDK, facilitating the integration of avatars into various aspects of culture and commerce. In addition to avatar creation, Genies develops a social sharing application targeted at college students, allowing them to share experiences and engage with brands. This platform enables students to earn recognition through snaps (likes) from peers and redeem them for rewards, while brands can connect with this desirable demographic. Genies aims to enhance user engagement and provide brands with opportunities to sell exclusive digital goods through their interactive avatar experiences.

CivilGrid

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Agora is a construction intelligence platform combining layers of utility, environmental, and geotechnical project site data. We aggregate and curate datasets that developers, engineers, and construction companies need to make critical planning and project implementation decisions. By partnering with local utilities and agencies, we gain access to the most current GIS datasets. These datasets help you accelerate project due diligence, reduce utility research and project engineering cost, and improve risk identification and construction planning.

Yaza

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We are a mission-driven PBC creating tools for the truthful and secure exchange of information through video. We developed a technology we call Certified Reality(tm) which authenticates the time and place of each video and prevents tampering. Our solution is as simple as it is foolproof: tethered content. Our first application is yaza, a map-based video storytelling app that realtors use to record immersive home and neighborhood tours. The authenticity of these narrated tours builds trust with remote buyers and helps realtors sell more homes. It is a realtor-centric market network that combines the viral nature of social messaging with a marketplace that becomes defensible at scale due to network effects. Trends in e-commerce point to the rise of social selling and market networks, where trusted friends or influencers guide purchases rather than star ratings by strangers. The real estate market invented social selling, with Realtors being the original influencers. Yet, ironically, most proptech business models count on cutting realtors out. Yaza is different. We put realtors front and center, a unique approach that is winning praise from customers and industry press alike. ( www.yaza.io/press ) Beyond the experience of our team, our secret sauce is the aforementioned Certified Reality. It has enabled new use cases around remote property management and allows us to reach international buyers and properties, currently untapped by existing proptech leaders. Try yaza free on the App Store here: http://bit.ly/yazaApp

Raydiant

Series A in 2021
Raydiant, Inc. specializes in creating connected experiences for brick-and-mortar businesses through its cloud-based digital signage technology. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the company provides a platform that allows users to display digital content on any HDMI-equipped TV, facilitating the presentation of announcements, promotions, and menus. Raydiant’s solutions cater to a variety of industries, including banking, healthcare, retail, and education. The platform enables businesses to enhance customer engagement by transforming standard displays into interactive media, offering features such as videoconferencing, in-store music, and easy content creation through drag-and-drop tools. This technology empowers businesses of all sizes, from local cafes to large enterprises, to create memorable in-store experiences that drive sales and customer interaction.

Augmedix

Series B in 2019
Augmedix, Inc. is a technology-driven company that specializes in remote medical documentation and real-time clinical support. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Augmedix offers an application that transforms clinician-patient conversations into medical documentation, allowing healthcare providers to concentrate on patient care rather than electronic health record (EHR) data entry. The service utilizes wearable technology, including Google Glass and smartphones, to facilitate this process, enabling clinicians to review and finalize documentation seamlessly. Augmedix caters to both large healthcare organizations and individual practitioners, charging service fees for subscription to its documentation and support offerings. The company also has additional offices in Menlo Park, California, and Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Lucid Sight

Series B in 2019
Lucid Sight, Inc. is a computer software company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in the design and development of virtual reality games and applications. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on creating immersive entertainment experiences using emerging technologies, including virtual reality, augmented reality, and blockchain. Lucid Sight develops innovative monetization and marketing platforms intended for brands and game developers, as well as tools and plug-ins for virtual reality developers. By leveraging these technologies, the company aims to enhance the gaming experience through engaging multiplayer adventure and sports games. Its products are available through a catalog that serves both developers and advertisers.

Lucid Sight

Series A in 2016
Lucid Sight, Inc. is a computer software company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in the design and development of virtual reality games and applications. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on creating immersive entertainment experiences using emerging technologies, including virtual reality, augmented reality, and blockchain. Lucid Sight develops innovative monetization and marketing platforms intended for brands and game developers, as well as tools and plug-ins for virtual reality developers. By leveraging these technologies, the company aims to enhance the gaming experience through engaging multiplayer adventure and sports games. Its products are available through a catalog that serves both developers and advertisers.

Lucid Sight

Seed Round in 2015
Lucid Sight, Inc. is a computer software company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in the design and development of virtual reality games and applications. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on creating immersive entertainment experiences using emerging technologies, including virtual reality, augmented reality, and blockchain. Lucid Sight develops innovative monetization and marketing platforms intended for brands and game developers, as well as tools and plug-ins for virtual reality developers. By leveraging these technologies, the company aims to enhance the gaming experience through engaging multiplayer adventure and sports games. Its products are available through a catalog that serves both developers and advertisers.
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