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 Collaboration

Lumos

Venture Round in 2022
Lumos is an employee identity platform that amplifies every person's and every organization's security, productivity, and collaboration. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Stanford, CA.

Marvin

Pre Seed Round in 2022
UserFocus is a user research platform that helps companies conduct, organize, and analyze user interviews. The company is on a mission to help companies build better products and services for their customers. It promotes user-centricity by making qualitative data readable, reliable, and accessible to not just product teams but to everyone in the organization.

Lovewick

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Lovewick is a relationship application aimed at enhancing the happiness and health of couples through engaging interactions. The platform features an exploratory question game along with a wide array of community-generated ideas for activities, helping couples to foster understanding and appreciation in their relationships. By offering personalized communication topics and activities, Lovewick enables users to set relationship goals, modify behaviors, and deepen their knowledge of one another. This approach not only aims to enrich relationships but also to introduce novelty, ultimately contributing to more fulfilling connections.

Happl

Seed Round in 2021
The community-building and wellbeing platform for the modern workforce

Parlay App Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Parlay App Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a customer collaboration platform aimed at enhancing the interaction between product development teams and their customers. Founded in 2017 and located in Wilmington, Massachusetts, the platform enables users to share ideas, review potential product updates, analyze user sentiment, and assess the effects of future developments. By fostering direct engagement with users, Parlay App Inc. seeks to address common shortcomings in product development processes, moving away from reliance on analytics and support chat systems to promote more meaningful dialogue between creators and consumers. This approach aims to ensure that products are better aligned with user needs and preferences.

Version Story

Seed Round in 2021
Version Story is a software that provides document comparison and collaboration. It enables lawyers to view their document history as a visual map with lines connecting versions that, when clicked, display a redline comparison of the changes made. The company was founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California.

Dock Health

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Dock Health is a Boston-based company that provides a HIPAA-compliant task management and collaboration platform specifically designed for the healthcare sector. Founded in 2016, Dock Health aims to address critical workflow challenges and inefficiencies faced by clinicians and their teams. By facilitating better communication and collaboration through a user-friendly and secure system, Dock Health strives to enhance patient care and ensure that essential tasks are completed effectively. The platform is suitable for healthcare teams of various sizes and specialties, empowering both clinical and administrative staff to work more efficiently within their organizations.

HitRecord

Series A in 2019
HitRecord is an online community platform founded in 2004 by actor and director Joseph Gordon-Levitt, based in Glendale, California. The platform facilitates collaboration among over 100,000 artists across various disciplines, including writers, filmmakers, and musicians. It encourages users to produce and share creative works, with more than 250 new members and over 2,500 new pieces of art added daily. By fostering a collaborative environment, HitRecord operates as a unique production company, allowing individuals to contribute to and engage with a diverse range of artistic projects.

ThinkCERCA

Funding Round in 2018
ThinkCERCA is an education technology company that operates a personalized literacy platform aimed at nurturing critical thinking, reading, and writing skills for students in grades 4-12. The platform emphasizes argumentative writing and facilitates collaborative discussions and debates within classrooms, allowing teachers to design, share, deliver, and assess lessons effectively. With users in all 50 states and over 130 countries, ThinkCERCA has established partnerships with notable organizations in the education sector and has received recognition for its contributions to literacy education, including accolades from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Common Sense's Graphite. By tracking real-time progress in reading and writing, the platform empowers students to engage deeply with various subjects through the process of argumentation.

Our Tandem

Seed Round in 2017
Tandem offers a transformative end to end solution that drives a high performance environment, leaving behind the pain of performance management systems of the past. By allowing employees rate feedback from their leader, HR obtain the unique facility to understand the level of trust employees have in their leaders, the commitment of leaders to growth and development and the top talent that connects people across the business. Through data analytics, Tandem offers both leaders and employees coaching reports to develop their skillsets and track their performance. With an appealing style, Tandem takes a growth-centered approach to 360 feedback, agile goal setting, competency appreciation and personal development. Accessible through mobile or desktop, Tandem brings with it an array of benefits that help build a true learning Organisation, enjoying a rich measurable feedback culture conducive to driving an engaged and committed workforce.

ThinkCERCA

Series B in 2017
ThinkCERCA is an education technology company that operates a personalized literacy platform aimed at nurturing critical thinking, reading, and writing skills for students in grades 4-12. The platform emphasizes argumentative writing and facilitates collaborative discussions and debates within classrooms, allowing teachers to design, share, deliver, and assess lessons effectively. With users in all 50 states and over 130 countries, ThinkCERCA has established partnerships with notable organizations in the education sector and has received recognition for its contributions to literacy education, including accolades from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Common Sense's Graphite. By tracking real-time progress in reading and writing, the platform empowers students to engage deeply with various subjects through the process of argumentation.

ThinkCERCA

Series A in 2015
ThinkCERCA is an education technology company that operates a personalized literacy platform aimed at nurturing critical thinking, reading, and writing skills for students in grades 4-12. The platform emphasizes argumentative writing and facilitates collaborative discussions and debates within classrooms, allowing teachers to design, share, deliver, and assess lessons effectively. With users in all 50 states and over 130 countries, ThinkCERCA has established partnerships with notable organizations in the education sector and has received recognition for its contributions to literacy education, including accolades from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Common Sense's Graphite. By tracking real-time progress in reading and writing, the platform empowers students to engage deeply with various subjects through the process of argumentation.

ThinkCERCA

Seed Round in 2012
ThinkCERCA is an education technology company that operates a personalized literacy platform aimed at nurturing critical thinking, reading, and writing skills for students in grades 4-12. The platform emphasizes argumentative writing and facilitates collaborative discussions and debates within classrooms, allowing teachers to design, share, deliver, and assess lessons effectively. With users in all 50 states and over 130 countries, ThinkCERCA has established partnerships with notable organizations in the education sector and has received recognition for its contributions to literacy education, including accolades from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Common Sense's Graphite. By tracking real-time progress in reading and writing, the platform empowers students to engage deeply with various subjects through the process of argumentation.
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