Atland Ventures

Atland Ventures is a student-run venture capital firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, established in 2016. It focuses on investing in early-stage companies across various sectors, including financial services, edTech, consumer and consumer social, marketing, ad tech, the creator economy, human-computer interaction, and health and wellness. The organization operates independently of the University of Minnesota, meaning it is not supervised or controlled by the institution and the university is not responsible for its actions or statements. Atland Ventures aims to provide valuable support and funding to innovative startups.

Hunter Babcock

Partner

Kiley Giebel

Managing Partner

Cyrus Kian

General Partner

Sunwoo Lee

Managing Partner

Ava Najafi

Managing Partner

Christopher Orza

Managing Partner

Elijah Ward

Managing Partner

Sophia Youngdahl

Managing Partner

5 past transactions

Retrocausal

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Retrocausal builds intelligence augmentation systems that help frontline workers train better, be more efficient at their daily jobs, and improve the processes they drive. Their RetroActivity platform for human activity analysis automatically builds computational models of a complex physical task, given only a handful of recorded demonstrations of the task. Once such a model is built, RetroActivity can finely track the job status from live video, to guide a worker through the task, provide independent training, and perform analytics.

ConverSight

Seed Round in 2020
ConverSight.ai is artificial intelligence and analytics-based platform that uncovers actionable business insights for enterprises through natural language conversations and enables them to take action instantly. The platform generates tremendous efficiencies across organizational hierarchies from junior to senior leadership, reducing our customer report generation costs by over 50%. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Indianapolis.

Juked

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Juked is a platform that aggregates and indexes major esports tournaments from over 35 esports games, providing a centralized destination for fans to discover and watch broadcasts, whether live or on-demand. Founded in 2019 by esports veterans Ben Goldhaber and Chris Chan, Juked offers comprehensive access to related data, including team and player profiles, brackets, standings, and statistics. By consolidating this information, Juked enhances the viewing experience for esports enthusiasts, allowing them to stay informed and engaged with the evolving landscape of competitive gaming.

Kyndoo

Seed Round in 2020
Influencer marketing isn't a tricky business, it's an opaque business. Kyndoo is looking to rip open the shades and let the light in. When their founder, Kelly McDonald, started Kyndoo she believed that there are thousands of amazing and talented influencers out there who care about their audience, the brands they work with and the authenticity of standing behind the products they represent. And what they found from talking with thousands of influencers over the past few years is that Influencers and Brands share the same concerns surrounding #Fakeinfluencers crowding the industry and giving it a bad name. At Kyndoo they've set out to do something about changing that perspective. Kyndoo is bringing the data and the platform to help move the social influence industry from being a marketing "side-hustle" to the highest producing revenue channel at any organization.

SnapShyft

Seed Round in 2018
The SnapShyft Labor Marketplace is a Staffing-as-a-Service software and mobile app connecting food service and food manufacturing businesses with fully vetted & experienced professionals, on-demand. We help fill shifts fast— combining the best attributes of the gig-economy and HR Tech while eliminating bias and discrimination in the process. As the #1 rated most reliable staffing solution in the market the SnapShyft platform is generating positive socio-economic outcomes through empowering businesses to staff-on-the-fly, and tens of thousands of essential workers to have full flexibility to generate income as needed, and the community at large.
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