West

West is a venture studio that specializes in the end-to-end process of designing, building, and launching purpose-driven brands. It enables companies to define and defend their market opportunity with a brand people love. The company's brand studio creates work to deliver results for startups for a combination of fees and equity and its venture fund selectively invests in our studio clients. West Ventures was established in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Gym+Coffee

Venture Round in 2022
Gym+Coffee is an Irish-owned and Irish-designed athleisure clothing company. It aims to create a brand that inspires people to Make Life Richer, as well as a community centered on this passion. It aspires to be a brand that represents this movement, creates new opportunities for people to socialize and exercise, and further promotes this way of life.

Altro (fka Perch)

Series A in 2022
Altro helps you build your credit with everyday payments and subscriptions. We help you earn credit by counting the recurring payments and subscriptions you’re already making. Our free Altro app allows you to easily link these recurring payments to leverage unseen and uncounted payments that build your credit score. Build credit and your financial power with the free Altro app and make every payment count.

Cor

Series A in 2022
COR helps you implement globally-proven healthy lifestyle practices, then shows you a totally new type of data about how your body responds. Optimize your lifestyle and discover the impact of different daily customs with precise, science-based self-knowledge.

Statespace

Series C in 2021
StateSpace provides performance analytics and a suite of tools for casual gamers and esports athletes to maximize their potential. It uses cognitive science and artificial intelligence to revolutionize the way humans improve. Leveraging expertise as neuroscientists, data scientists, video game developers, and computer visionaries, the products bring much needed standardized performance analytics to train.It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

VergeSense

Venture Round in 2020
VergeSense is the leading workplace analytics platform trusted by enterprises across the globe. Businesses use VergeSense to transform their static office into a dynamic workplace that matches today's employee needs and expectations. Its AI-driven platform includes intelligent sensors that measure how space is used in real-time. That data is analyzed in a workplace analytics dashboard and integrated into essential hybrid work software applications, like room and desk booking, room availability, employee mobile apps, IWMS and BMS tools and more. Companies use VergeSense to reduce or reinvest real estate, improve building operations, and create spaces where employees can thrive. The impact is reduced costs, higher productivity, improved culture and employee retention, and better sustainability.

Proxy

Series B in 2020
Proxy designs and builds privacy-first, human-led identity technologies. Proxy provides a smartphone-enabled digital identity that enables the user to authenticate and interact with all devices. Products include Proxy ID, Proxy Health, and Proxy Access in addition to a suite of next generation hardware that enable credentialed access to be secure, private, and contactless. Proxy is on a mission to empower every person on the planet with a unique identity signal they own and control. The signal, emitted from a smartphone, allows people to securely authenticate to any device or service, similar to a universal single-sign-on for the physical world. Today, large enterprises like Vornado, Cloudflare and the Empire State Realty Trust enable their employees, contractors, visitors, and tenants to use their Proxy for frictionless access through secured doors, elevators, and turnstiles, and to create personalized experiences throughout the workplace. With Proxy, users own their identity and have complete control over their privacy and personal data. Proxy has been named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2020, Forbes' The Next Billion Dollar Start-up, and CNBC's Upstart 100 list in 2019. Denis Mars is the CEO of Proxy, which he co-founded with CTO Simon Ratner. Mars and Ratner believe that technology should empower humans, rather than make humans beholden to it. They believe that technology should be used to make our everyday experiences in the physical world frictionless. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Remrise

Seed Round in 2019
Remrise is a health, wellness, and fitness company that specializes in manufacturing plant-powered sleep formulas and tools to help its clients improve their sleep. It provides an online marketplace that allows people to purchase organic sleeping supplements online. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Copia

Seed Round in 2019
Every day in America, they waste 3X more food than there are mouths to feed. It is not a lack of food that is the issue, but rather an ineffective distribution of that food. Hunger is not a scarcity problem, it's a logistics problem. For the first time ever, they can effectively donate prepared and highly perishable food to those who need it when they need it most. Copia is a for-profit company that has built technology allowing food donors (e.g., food management companies like corporate cafeterias, universities, hospitals, grocers, caterers etc.) to easily request pickups of their surplus food, have it matched, and safely delivered to non-profits in need. With Copia, partnering businesses can now seamlessly access significant tax savings, dramatically reduce food waste through data and analytics on surplus, and remove CO2 from the atmosphere, all while feeding the neediest in their community.

Kopa

Seed Round in 2019
Kopa is a marketplace for furnished rentals and compatible housemates to foster community and enhance personal and professional connections. We believe that exploration and community make people whole. Kopa exists to inspire people to get out of their comfort zones, to form lasting relationships, and to live fuller lives.

Torch

Series A in 2019
Torch is a leadership development platform with integrated coaching, software, and feedback to raise high performers to the next level. It was founded by a team of executive coaches and experienced psychologists who are passionate about helping senior leaders perform at their highest level. Torch is on a mission to empower leaders to build high growth, high-performance cultures by building the awareness and skills required to manage and lead effectively. Our proven model blends human intelligence and digital technology to accelerate talent development and deliver measurable leadership outcomes.

Katalyst

Seed Round in 2019
We remove the barriers to fitness to help everyone reach their full potential.

WOM Protocol

Seed Round in 2018
WOM Protocol is a user-generated marketing channel that leverages an effective form of marketing. The company gives brands, content creators, publishers, and social networks a way to monetize word-of-mouth recommendations on any app or platform.

Newfront

Series B in 2018
Newfront is an insurance company that provides risk control, risk analytics, and benchmarking claims advocacy.

Haiku

Seed Round in 2018
Haiku exists to unify design and code: to power new creativity. We believe that better products happen with diverse teams. We believe that code & design are creative. We believe that unifying design & development can power creativity — and can create new things. We believe that design & code are more dynamic, more expressive, more efficient, and more creative — together.

Tentrr

Series A in 2018
Founded in 2015, Tentrr connects those seeking the respite and adventure of the outdoors with private landowners and unique, exclusive opportunities to camp in State Parks. Tentrr offers over 1,000 ready-to-go campsites in 44 states. The Tentrr platform is revolutionizing the campsite booking process, providing new income streams for land trusts and landowners, supporting local economies, conserving natural lands, boosting tourism, and getting more people outdoors. Reservations can be booked on Tentrr.com and via popular travel sites like Air BnB, Tripadvisor, Expedia and VRBO. Tentrr is an American company based in New York.

Prelude Fertility

Venture Round in 2017
Prelude Fertility is a reproductive health and technology company with a network of fertility clinics throughout the United States. Prelude mission is to educate women and men about their reproductive health and provide them with the best options, science, and care so they have the opportunity to become a parent when they are ready. Martin Varsavsky came up with the idea for Prelude Fertility in 2015 and the following year obtained funding from Lee Equity Partners to begin the business. Prelude Fertility began with the acquisition of Reproductive Biology Associates of Atlanta and its sister company, My Egg Bank North America, in 2016. Since then, the Prelude Network has expanded to include dozens of clinics across the United States. In October 2018, Prelude partnered with NYU’s Langone Health to expand its fertility services. In March 2019, the Prelude Network partnered with Inception Fertility to create the largest network of fertility clinics in the United States. Prelude Fertility prides itself on enhancing fertility technology and extending the timeframe in which women can have healthy babies. Home to the largest egg donor bank in North America, Prelude offers clients access to more donor eggs than any other clinic in America. Prelude was founded on the idea that clients shouldn’t have to work with multiple companies to achieve their reproductive goals. Prelude’s services include IVF, embryo creation and transfer, egg freezing, egg storage, genetic testing and egg donation.
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