MergeLane

MergeLane invests in high-potential startups and venture capital funds with at least one female leader. Since its 2015 founding, MergeLane has invested in 44 companies and recruited a network of 300 mentors and 600 investors. MergeLane leverages this network, its focus on Conscious Leadership, and the MergeLane Funderator to prove that diverse leadership teams drive superior investor returns. MergeLane is an on-ramp for the extraordinary.

Elizabeth Kraus

Chief Investment Officer

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Intelligems

Seed Round in 2023
IntelliGems is Online stores are leaving money on the table by pricing inefficiently. We run A/B tests to find the optimal price to maximize sales and margin.

Mapistry

Seed Round in 2020
Mapistry is a business intelligence platform for driving smarter environmental and safety decisions. The world’s leading industrial companies use our cloud-based software and mobile app to prevent risk by empowering teams to connect, collaborate, and take action around compliance through a single, easy-to-use dashboard. Visit www.mapistry.com/info to see a demo.

Bazooka Tango

Seed Round in 2020
Bazooka Tango is a mobile gaming company that creates blockchain multiplayer online tactical card games. Combining deep publishing expertise with the creative muscle behind the mobile esport Vainglory, the company has decades of experience building and scaling hit games across PC, mobile, and console. With multiple titles set for release across key core gaming genres, its network of games will shape the future of competitive play.

Twofold Spaces

Seed Round in 2019
Originally invented to solve the problems arising from working in increasingly crowded places, our mission is more important than ever. Existing furniture does not provide the flexibility, safety and functionality that offices and home spaces need in a post-Covid world. Covid has accelerated a shifting trend of how and where we work overnight. Companies need flexible furniture that allows companies to scale and provide workspaces as and where needed. Twofold’s solutions are on-demand, mobile and flexible, responding to companies’ and users’ needs. Made in Portland, Oregon.

Hostfully

Seed Round in 2019
Hostfully helps vacation rentals companies earn more revenue and deliver a 5-star guest experience. The property management software platform distributes listings to Airbnb, HomeAway, Booking.com, and TripAdvisor, and also automates operations including payments (Stripe) and accounting (Quickbooks). Hostfully's market-leading digital guidebook platform gives travelers local recommendations and essential property information. These help managers of 10,000 properties in 80 countries around the world make vacation rental travel smoother and more delightful.

Pana

Series A in 2019
Pana is a computer software company that specializes in mobile, online travel, and mobile commerce. The company is driven by its mission is to make travel simple, personal, and delightful. From an app, they make booking travel as easy as texting a friend, provide white-glove care for the highs and lows of travel, and offer travel perks, rewards, and experiences. Pana was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Paladin

Venture Round in 2018
Paladin creates an easy way for lawyers to find cases they’re passionate about and to capture impact data for the benefit of all. It helps legal teams sign up for pro bono opportunities, enables coordinators to track the lawyers’ work, and which captures some of the stories and impact that the lawyers are making through their efforts. Paladin was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, USA.

Mapistry

Seed Round in 2018
Mapistry is a business intelligence platform for driving smarter environmental and safety decisions. The world’s leading industrial companies use our cloud-based software and mobile app to prevent risk by empowering teams to connect, collaborate, and take action around compliance through a single, easy-to-use dashboard. Visit www.mapistry.com/info to see a demo.

Locumunity

Seed Round in 2018
Locumunity creates a centralized search tool that efficiently matches temporary doctors (aka locums) to physicians, clinics or hospital facilities. They eliminate the need for a recruitment agency. They are unique in that their Locums/employers connect via a two-way search using their matching algorithm, instead of a passive job posting board. Another way to think about us is that they’re the tinder/match.com of medicine versus being craigslist.

Shinesty

Venture Round in 2017
Shinesty is a vintage clothing brand that aims to bring an outlandish collection of clothing. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Kidizen

Series A in 2017
Kidizen is the peer-to-peer marketplace for parents to shop and sell kids' clothing, shoes, accessories, and more.

Tinyhood

Seed Round in 2017
Tinyhood offers online courses, one-on-one consultations, and moderated communities. It was founded by two moms, engineers with an ability and passion to create something truly good.

Mylestone

Seed Round in 2017
The pictures of your greatest memories are likely stored somewhere just out of reach. Maybe in an old photo album lost in the basement - or maybe indiscernible from the 3,000 other pictures on your phone, buried in streams on Facebook, or auto saved to a massive photo storage account. But what if you could access stories generated from those pictures simply by talking to Alexa? With Mylestone, all you have to do is say “Alexa, tell me a story about Mom.” and voila, memories of loved ones at your beck and call.

BizXPro Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
BizXPro has developed a technology to help automate and facilitate requests for IT projects. A simple to use tool where in a few clicks, a business user has access to a list of qualified IT providers that will help to address their needs within 2 business days. BizXPro helps SMBs match with top rated IT and development providers. The automated process will ensure IT requests are sent to multiple providers selected by the business user to best support outlined requirements. And verified testimonials will further ensure the peace of mind of working with credible providers. BizXPro - your FREE source to trusted IT providers! www.bizxpro.com

MentalHappy

Venture Round in 2017
MentalHappy, a Y Combinator backed startup working to create a better world of mental health but not just with therapists or apps - with real tools and connection to a community of peers and professionals.

Tousled.me

Seed Round in 2017
The winner of AngelHack, Tousled lets you enjoy the moment in style. We help you look your best, no matter the occasion, by bringing beauty professionals direct to your door. As an online marketplace, Tousled offers a variety of on-demand beauty services, connecting our clients with talented freelance beauty professionals. Book Beauty today at http://tousled.me As a creative marketplace we believe in empowered artists & fair commission rates. We help beauty professionals build a following by promoting their name & talent. Tousled is currently available in the Seattle and the surrounding metro area, offering blowouts, hair styles & makeup. The inspiration for Tousled came from the recent burst of sharing economy apps, which tap into local micro-communities and connect them with each other. At it's core, Tousled is truly a work of passion for its founders - do what you love

EVmatch

Pre Seed Round in 2017
EVmatch is an electric vehicle charging company focused on increasing EV charging reliability, accessibility, and interoperability. Its software solutions empower multi-family and commercial property owners, utilities, and homeowners to bring affordable, shared, and reservable EV charging to their communities. Coupled with integrated Level 2 smart charging stations and a patented EV charging adapter, EVmatch’s software provides the most flexible and unified charging solution for managed and shared charging.

Helper Helper

Venture Round in 2017
Helper Helper is a SaaS platform for high schools and colleges to track student-athlete volunteer hours. The developer of a collaborative community application designed to connect students to meaningful volunteer experiences. The company's community service application coordinates and tracks student volunteer hours and simplifies the organization's efforts for volunteer coordinators, enabling volunteers to easily find and schedule events.

Hired on Demand

Seed Round in 2017
Hired on Demand Is a marketplace for construction companies to staff commercial construction projects with available, vetted labor on demand.

Warriorfy

Seed Round in 2017
Warriorfy is a learning community to build personal empowerment through changing one's mindset around food and body.

SpaceiShare Inc

Seed Round in 2017
SpaceiShare is a transactional marketplace for storage. We connect people who NEED space with people who HAVE space. Airbnb has made people comfortable sharing their homes with people. Now they can share their homes with boxes too. So, here’s the problem. People have stuff….LOTS OF IT, and they need a place to put it all. Traditional self-storage facilities are expensive and most are inconveniently located. By creating a web platform to connect people who NEED space with people who HAVE space, not only are we solving the issues that storage renters face today, but we are creating an opportunity for people with space. For renters, they now have an easy way to find storage solutions in their communities and can save up to half of what traditional self-storage facilities cost. For space owners, they now have a new possibility of making money from space they already had. Our mission is to create an online community where people can share space in a safe, trusted and reliable environment.

BallotReady

Seed Round in 2017
BallotReady is an online, non-partisan voter guide for local elections. It provides easy-to-digest information about all candidates and referendums on a user’s ballot. BallotReady was launched in January 2015.

Sitter

Seed Round in 2017
Sitter is an easy app for offering book caregivers for local nanny agencies. The company's business management platform, Sitter Pro, is a robust backend and consumer-facing app that streamlines temporary care operations. It is revolutionizing the care industry by giving companies, big and small, the technology needed to compete in today's world. The Sitter is a mobile app that significantly reduces the time and resources required to manage a care business so business owners can focus on what matters - providing great care and growing their business. Sitter's business management platform, Sitter Pro, is a robust backend and consumer-facing app that streamlines temporary care operations.

P2Binvestor

Series A in 2016
P2Binvestor is here to help small and medium-sized businesses solve these issues and thrive in an increasingly complex business funding environment. They supply working capital to growing businesses-secured by a company’s receivables—at very competitive rates. Borrowing from asset-backed lending and factoring, their crowdfunding model functions like a revolving line of credit funded by an investor crowd that is interested in helping businesses create jobs and fuel the economy while earning a fair return.

Pana

Seed Round in 2016
Pana is a computer software company that specializes in mobile, online travel, and mobile commerce. The company is driven by its mission is to make travel simple, personal, and delightful. From an app, they make booking travel as easy as texting a friend, provide white-glove care for the highs and lows of travel, and offer travel perks, rewards, and experiences. Pana was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Alchemie Solutions

Seed Round in 2016
Alchemie is creating a new path for student understanding and assessment by combining interactive digital tools with machine learning and data analytics.

Pana

Funding Round in 2016
Pana is a computer software company that specializes in mobile, online travel, and mobile commerce. The company is driven by its mission is to make travel simple, personal, and delightful. From an app, they make booking travel as easy as texting a friend, provide white-glove care for the highs and lows of travel, and offer travel perks, rewards, and experiences. Pana was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

BallotReady

Seed Round in 2016
BallotReady is an online, non-partisan voter guide for local elections. It provides easy-to-digest information about all candidates and referendums on a user’s ballot. BallotReady was launched in January 2015.

LittleLane

Seed Round in 2016
LittleLane gives parents access to the best local kids activities. Families can explore a variety of new options seamlessly with LittlePass.

Cabsolutely

Seed Round in 2016
Cabsolutely gives a tech upgrade for the taxi industry: with a dispatch system as a service for Companies to manage Drivers and handle traditional phone calls, mobile apps for Drivers to navigate from Passenger to Passenger and a unified multi-platform mobile app for Passengers who prefer using mobile apps to get around - this way we make the industry finally able to compete with ride-sharing.

Shinesty

Seed Round in 2016
Shinesty is a vintage clothing brand that aims to bring an outlandish collection of clothing. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Hidrate

Seed Round in 2016
Hidrate creates a smart water bottle that tracks users’ hydration over time and syncs with their phones to remind them to drink water. Its objective is to make healthy hydration habits easy and fun. It automatically generates how much water its users should drink per day while reminding them when to drink, and tracks their progress. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

TapInfluence

Series B in 2016
TapInfluence was founded in 2009 with a singular purpose – to facilitate real conversations between people and brands by tapping into the power of digital influencers and their authentic, trusted content – allowing consumers, influencers and brands to Get Heard. Data-led and tech-powered, TapInfluence is redefining marketing and driving brand success by directly tying online conversations to commerce, with more expertise than any other influencer marketing platform on the market. TapInfluence helps brands increase market share and grow revenue by delivering scalable reach, optimal engagement, consumer trust and unprecedented ROI. Using TapInfluence’s leading-edge SaaS platform, marketers can automate the time-consuming process of identifying and engaging with relevant digital influencers, as well as collaborating with them to create compelling content that motivates consumers to take action. TapInfluence’s customers include a who’s who of leading brands, such as Kraft, Horizon Organics and P&G, and agencies such as Golin, RhythmOne and Ignite Social Media. Through Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, Vine and blogs, TapInfluence reaches over 1 billion consumers. TapInfluence is headquartered in the entrepreneurial heart of the vibrant “silicon mountains” of Boulder, Colorado, with a second hub in Mountain View, California The company is driven by a culture that rewards talent, grit and hustle, and every employee is committed to helping marketers, influencers and consumers Get Heard. TapInfluence is venture-funded and privately held.

ParkiFi

Series A in 2016
ParkiFi is making parking less of a hassle with their real-time parking occupancy and payment platform. Approximately one out of three cars on the road in downtown Denver is actively looking for a parking spot. Finding that spot takes an average of fifteen minutes of avoidable driving. It was created to take this stress out of people’s lives and reduce the environmental impact of driving. With the ParkiFi app, users simply input an address into the real-time parking map and the app’s parking spot finder directs them to open spaces in garages and lots and automatically allows users to pay for parking via the app at select locations. Metered street parking will be added in 2017. The iOS and Android app launched in downtown Denver in November 2016 and will roll out in other Denver neighborhoods and nationwide in 2017. ParkiFi was recognized as a 2016 “Denver Gazelles” company by the Denver Office of Economic Development. The company has raised $13.5 million in venture capital to-date. To learn more, visit www.parkifi.com and follow ParkiFi on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. It is a Denver-based technology company founded in 2014 by Ryan Sullivan and Rishi Malik in response to a critical insight into downtown traffic.

Hatch Marketing Plans

Seed Round in 2016
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Alchemie Solutions

Seed Round in 2016
Alchemie is creating a new path for student understanding and assessment by combining interactive digital tools with machine learning and data analytics.

Condense Cloud

Seed Round in 2016
CloudForest Software was founded and continues to be built with passion by building industry veterans who hope to help their colleagues make smarter, better building decisions. Their name came from the natural places they hope can thrive alongside a better built environment. CloudForest Software Inc has offices in Austin, TX and Louisville, CO. They'd love to hear from you. Please contact us by clicking here. They're looking for interested users willing to share feedback with us. For a limited time, you can subscribe for free. They will contact you to help you use the tool and ask for your thoughts and feedback.

Atlas Vault

Seed Round in 2016
They are striving for this vision and working towards this mission by helping enterprises understand their vendor risk and by making it easier for their vendors to complete difficult assessments based on accepted cyber security standards like the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. They are passionate about educating all companies, large and small, about cyber risk so that they can move the needle on cyber safety in their world and make it easier for companies to trust each other.

Healthiest

Seed Round in 2016
Healthiest Inc is dedicated to helping consumers shop for healthy products. The Healthiest chrome extension allows consumers to find the healthiest alternatives when shopping on Amazon.

Globig

Seed Round in 2016
Globig makes it easy for international companies to manage their GDPR and global data compliance, international employees, customers, professional services, and global back office all in one secure SaaS platform. The scalable software makes it easy for enterprises of all sizes to be compliant and effective when doing business abroad.

Startwise

Seed Round in 2016
Startwise makes revenue sharing investment deals accessible to everyone. Startwise is a revenue sharing marketplace where everyone regardless of their income and investment expertise can become an investor in companies they care about, starting just $100. The model is simple: invest a $100 into a deal, the company will then pay a fixed % of revenue every 3 months until you have reached the maximum payout in a range between $110 - $250 depending on deal terms. Empower people, not banks. Investing made simple.

BallotReady

Seed Round in 2016
BallotReady is an online, non-partisan voter guide for local elections. It provides easy-to-digest information about all candidates and referendums on a user’s ballot. BallotReady was launched in January 2015.

ZelosDx

Seed Round in 2016
ZelosDx develops blood testing products to help researchers make breakthrough discoveries in brain health and disease. They offer research collaborators the ability to licence and adapt proprietary technology for blood testing kits and automated laboratory equipment, as well as pharmaceutical collaborators seeking biomarker technology for drug discovery tools.

idaciti

Seed Round in 2015
idaciti offers a SaaS platform that provides insight to public financial and non-financial data.

Mapistry

Seed Round in 2015
Mapistry is a business intelligence platform for driving smarter environmental and safety decisions. The world’s leading industrial companies use our cloud-based software and mobile app to prevent risk by empowering teams to connect, collaborate, and take action around compliance through a single, easy-to-use dashboard. Visit www.mapistry.com/info to see a demo.

Sugarwish

Seed Round in 2015
Sugarwish were two busy moms, trying to get their endless list of “to do’s” done, (and hopefully, done well). One of us managed a growing business in Denver, and the other managed a household with 3 active boys. With 5 kids between us, neither of us needed anything else to do. Still, they just couldn’t resist trying to find a way to create what they had been looking for. Gift giving is something that most of us deal with monthly, weekly, or even daily (during certain parts of the year). With friends, family members, teachers, and business colleagues…the list of “receivers” seems endless.

QuickZip

Seed Round in 2015
QuickZip sells quilts, sheets, bumpers, and mattress pads. They specialize in designing crib covers, which are designed and manufactured in parts and attached with zips. Their offerings include bed sheets, duvet covers, pillowcases, and mattress pads.

Mapistry

Seed Round in 2015
Mapistry is a business intelligence platform for driving smarter environmental and safety decisions. The world’s leading industrial companies use our cloud-based software and mobile app to prevent risk by empowering teams to connect, collaborate, and take action around compliance through a single, easy-to-use dashboard. Visit www.mapistry.com/info to see a demo.

QuickZip

Seed Round in 2015
QuickZip sells quilts, sheets, bumpers, and mattress pads. They specialize in designing crib covers, which are designed and manufactured in parts and attached with zips. Their offerings include bed sheets, duvet covers, pillowcases, and mattress pads.

idaciti

Seed Round in 2015
idaciti offers a SaaS platform that provides insight to public financial and non-financial data.

Sugarwish

Seed Round in 2015
Sugarwish were two busy moms, trying to get their endless list of “to do’s” done, (and hopefully, done well). One of us managed a growing business in Denver, and the other managed a household with 3 active boys. With 5 kids between us, neither of us needed anything else to do. Still, they just couldn’t resist trying to find a way to create what they had been looking for. Gift giving is something that most of us deal with monthly, weekly, or even daily (during certain parts of the year). With friends, family members, teachers, and business colleagues…the list of “receivers” seems endless.

Mapistry

Seed Round in 2015
Mapistry is a business intelligence platform for driving smarter environmental and safety decisions. The world’s leading industrial companies use our cloud-based software and mobile app to prevent risk by empowering teams to connect, collaborate, and take action around compliance through a single, easy-to-use dashboard. Visit www.mapistry.com/info to see a demo.

Havenly

Seed Round in 2015
Havenly is the most delightful way to design spaces in your home, on any budget. Partner with an interior designer to create a beautiful design based on your unique style and space. You can then buy what you love directly through Havenly's platform with access to hundreds of retailers and the guaranteed best prices.

Haspoa

Seed Round in 2015
Haspoa has emerged from CloudBase Services, one of the leading system design and development firms, to focus on business intelligence platform space. Over the past ten years, hundreds of companies – including ATT and Pepsi – have chosen CloudBase Services to create interactive dashboards and customized relational databases.

TomboyX

Seed Round in 2015
TomboyX operates as a retail clothing company that primarily sells underwear and apparel for living without labels. It also offers bras, boxers, trunks, shorts, hats, socks, and underwear. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Zaza

Seed Round in 2015
Zaza Raw Founder, Elisabeth Saucier, grew up with friends and family calling her Zaza. Her nutritional needs, culinary expertise and love for a challenge inspired the launch of the business and the creation of each product. As my kids were growing up, they noticed certain foods were causing among other discomforts, stomach aches, ear infections, rashes and lethargy. Some reactions were much more obvious than others which complicated the discovery of the food allergies. One of the greatest comforts of motherhood is having healthy, happy children. While cooking raw, vegan and gluten free food takes planning and time, it is worth the effort to see my children energetic and happy after each meal. Once they identified and eliminated gluten, soy, and dairy, my kids and I needed to figure out how to navigate the daily challenges of a specialized diet. I wanted my kids to be able to go to a friend’s birthday party and share the joy of cupcakes and other desserts. When I discovered that raw food was gluten free, dairy free and amazingly good I began creating kid friendly vegan, raw desserts. I spent a few years challenging myself to create healthier and more interesting raw desserts. In 2011, I started Zaza Raw to make raw, vegan, gluten free, dairy free, and soy free dessert available to others.
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