Coughdrop Capital

Coughdrop Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015, with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The firm primarily focuses on investing in pre-seed and seed-stage startups across various sectors and industries. Coughdrop Capital aims to support innovative founders with ambitious plans, and while it appreciates warm introductions, it does not require them to consider potential investments.

Stu Smith

Co-Founder and General Partner

34 past transactions

Pluie

Venture Round in 2022
Pluie is a manufacturer and provider of self-sanitizing changing tables for public restrooms. It uses UV-C light, which is known to kill 99.9% of germs and safely kill Staph, E. coli, RSV, Salmonella, Kleb, Influenza, and COVID-19. Their table also offers a plush foam bed, retractable safety strap, and convenient bag holders. Pluie was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois.

LvlUp Ventures

Seed Round in 2022
LvlUp Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2019. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage companies, specifically from pre-seed to Series A, across a variety of sectors including artificial intelligence, gaming and esports, consumer products, sustainability, infrastructure, web 3.0, technology, software as a service, entertainment technology, fintech, and health tech. LvlUp Ventures operates primarily in the United States, Canada, Israel, England, and France. In addition to financial investment, the firm offers personalized, hands-on support and acceleration services to its portfolio clients, ensuring they receive tailored assistance to help them grow and succeed.

Uncovered

Venture Round in 2022
Operator of a cold case platform intended to solve murder and mystery cases. The company combines data, analytics, and a growing community of citizen detectives, advocates, and true-crime enthusiasts, helping families to find the intersection of justice, peace, and closure.

MessageParty

Pre Seed Round in 2022
MessageParty is a new kind of mobile blogging service. Users can create and consume content from mobile browsers, a native iphone app, or the web.

Wayfinder

Series A in 2022
Project Wayfinder designed for all students to develop lives of meaning and purpose.

Project Admission

Seed Round in 2021
Project Admission, Inc. operates an online platform dedicated to the purchase, sale, and distribution of digital tickets. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, the company aims to enhance the ticketing experience by providing tools for tracking the ownership history of tickets. This feature not only facilitates better management of ticket transactions but also opens avenues for increased revenue and marketing opportunities. By expanding the distribution of tickets and creating a comprehensive interest graph that extends beyond just event attendees, Project Admission seeks to leverage data collection to improve overall engagement within the ticketing ecosystem.

Serve Robotics

Seed Round in 2021
Serve Robotics is shaping the future of delivery by connecting people with what they need locally via robots that are designed to serve people.

Party Round

Seed Round in 2021
Party Round builds better tools for the founders.

Ryze

Seed Round in 2021
Ryze Financial Inc. is a cryptocurrency investment platform that specializes in helping users accumulate and utilize Bitcoin. Founded in 2019 and based in Johns Creek, Georgia, the company develops real-time market data software that identifies investment trends and constructs personalized portfolios. Ryze offers tools for automated investment and portfolio diversification while providing an interactive dashboard for live portfolio tracking. Its technology simplifies the investment process by analyzing market data and tailoring investment decisions to match individual risk profiles, enabling customers to effectively grow and protect their wealth.

Dianthus

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Dianthus is the only AI-first E-commerce company – built from the ground up to help small to medium E-commerce brands.

Short Story

Seed Round in 2021
Short Story, Inc. is an online personal styling service dedicated to petite women, offering a curated selection of clothing that includes tops, jeans, dresses, and more. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company aims to provide a shopping experience tailored specifically to the needs of petite women, ensuring they have access to high-quality, on-trend styles without compromising on fit or quality. By listening to client preferences, Short Story delivers personalized style boxes directly to customers' doors, helping them discover new trends and evolve their personal style. The company seeks to empower its clients by enhancing their shopping experience, allowing them to look and feel fabulous while enjoying more time for their personal interests.

Sail

Seed Round in 2021
Sail is a developer of a collaborative workspace environment designed to enhance online experiences through multiplayer features. The platform provides users with a clean and powerful interface that facilitates idea sharing, project collaboration, and collective creativity. By enabling individuals to work together seamlessly across the internet, Sail aims to empower users to engage with the web in a more interactive and unified manner.

Kick

Seed Round in 2021
Kick is a financial app that helps solopreneurs and creators to save an income and expenses. The app connects one or more bank or credit cards and have Kick auto-scan their past 18 months of transactions for tax write-offs. Kick is based in Palo Alto, California.

Panobi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Panobi is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company operating in stealth mode, focused on providing an organizational growth platform for product and marketing teams. The platform integrates experimentation, metrics, and reporting into a single solution, allowing users to streamline their growth processes. By delivering real-time data, Panobi helps clients identify patterns and gain contextual insights across their projects. This approach significantly reduces the time spent on manual tasks, ultimately enhancing productivity for its users.

Benable

Seed Round in 2021
Benable is a recommendation platform designed to facilitate the sharing of curated suggestions among users. It allows individuals to create organized lists of recommendations, which can be easily shared with friends, followers, or clients. The platform emphasizes trust by enabling users to receive recommendations from their social circles, promoting collaborative input on shared lists. This user-friendly approach fosters connections and enhances decision-making through collective insights.

Symbl.ai

Venture Round in 2020
Symbl.ai Inc. is a Seattle-based company that offers a conversational intelligence platform designed for developers and businesses to enhance communication across various channels. The platform utilizes a suite of APIs that leverage advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze natural human conversations in real time. This analysis provides actionable insights and outcomes without requiring prior training data, wake words, or custom classifiers. Symbl.ai aims to simplify the process of creating conversation-driven experiences, enabling clients to deploy conversational intelligence at scale. Originally founded as Rammer Technologies Inc. in 2018, the company rebranded to Symbl.ai in March 2020.

Sacra

Seed Round in 2020
Sacra provides a digital platform for researching information on the private markets. The company monitors and facilitates liquidity in late-stage VC secondary transactions. Its platform offers research on venture capital and private equity firms, enabling clients to make proper decisions when investing in the private markets.

Vitable, LLC

Seed Round in 2020
Vitable, LLC is a healthcare provider based in Woodlyn, Pennsylvania, founded in 2019, that focuses on offering acute and preventive health coverage to under-insured Americans. The company aims to improve the traditional urgent care experience, which often involves long wait times and inadequate service. Vitable provides a range of services, including telemedicine, concierge urgent care, and various health screenings, all designed to prioritize patient convenience and satisfaction. By delivering quality care directly to patients' homes and maintaining transparency in billing, Vitable seeks to enhance the overall healthcare experience. Additionally, the company offers tailored solutions for businesses and specialized services for children, emphasizing its commitment to accessible and personalized healthcare.

Atomic

Seed Round in 2020
Atomic is a marketing training and consulting company that offers easy-to-follow, and useful marketing training.

Mood Health

Venture Round in 2020
Mood is making high-quality mental health care affordable, convenient, and accessible to all. By using technology to connect individuals with experts in psychiatry and therapy, Mood puts authentic human relationships at the center of the care experience. This results in positive long-term outcomes for clinicians and the people they care for.

Zaraz

Seed Round in 2020
Zaraz is a software company founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in optimizing website performance by enhancing the loading process of third-party tools. By integrating a single line of code, Zaraz can make websites approximately 40% faster, resulting in improved conversion rates and better SEO rankings. Its third-party management system is designed to boost web performance metrics across various industries, including e-commerce, publishing, gaming, and B2B. The company offers a robust web infrastructure that allows businesses to seamlessly incorporate a range of third-party services, such as data and analytics tools, marketing technologies, customer relationship management systems, and advertising technologies, without compromising website speed.

Fast

Series A in 2020
Fast's mission is to make buying online faster, safer and easier for everyone. Its Fast Login and Fast Checkout products enable a one-click sign-in and purchasing experience that makes it easier for people to buy and merchants to sell. The company's products work on any browser, device or platform to deliver a consistent, stress-free purchasing experience. Fast is entirely consumer-focused and invests heavily in its users' privacy and data security. Headquartered in San Francisco, Fast is a privately held company funded by Stripe, Index Ventures, Susa Ventures, Global Founders Capital and Brian Sugar – who also serves on the board. To learn more, visit fast.co.

Nira

Seed Round in 2020
Nira is a real-time access control system that enhances visibility and management of access to company documents within Google Workspace. The platform consolidates documents from various cloud applications, allowing users to organize, search, and manage their files in a single interface. By providing insights into who has access to specific documents, Nira enables organizations to effectively oversee document creation, sharing, and storage. This comprehensive system ensures that users maintain complete control over their company information while streamlining document organization.

Weatherwax Bio

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Weatherwax Bio develops the next generation of induced-proximity medicines. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Practice

Seed Round in 2019
Practice's tools will help you fulfill your potential as a coach. With all your clients' details at your fingertips, you'll never lack the right information when you need it.

Housable

Pre Seed Round in 2019
The leading ADU Marketplace for California

Fast

Seed Round in 2019
Fast's mission is to make buying online faster, safer and easier for everyone. Its Fast Login and Fast Checkout products enable a one-click sign-in and purchasing experience that makes it easier for people to buy and merchants to sell. The company's products work on any browser, device or platform to deliver a consistent, stress-free purchasing experience. Fast is entirely consumer-focused and invests heavily in its users' privacy and data security. Headquartered in San Francisco, Fast is a privately held company funded by Stripe, Index Ventures, Susa Ventures, Global Founders Capital and Brian Sugar – who also serves on the board. To learn more, visit fast.co.

Ware

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Ware is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in artificial intelligence software for automating warehouse inventory management. By utilizing autonomous drones equipped with machine learning technology, Ware addresses critical challenges within the $1.9 trillion warehousing industry. The company's innovative solutions enhance operational efficiency, improve inventory accuracy, and optimize workflows for clients, including major third-party logistics providers and global brands. With partnerships, such as one with Skydio, and backing from Bloomberg Beta, Ware aims to help businesses reduce costs and streamline their inventory tracking processes.

Ever Loved

Seed Round in 2019
Ever Loved, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2017 that operates a comprehensive marketplace for funeral services and products. The company provides a platform that simplifies the funeral planning process, allowing customers to connect with suitable service providers, share important information with friends and family, and raise funds to cover expenses. By offering straightforward and transparent services, Ever Loved aims to reduce the stress families face during emotionally challenging times, enabling them to honor their loved ones more effectively.

Dreamship

Seed Round in 2019
Dreamship is a print-on-demand platform designed for e-commerce merchants focused on enhancing the end buyer experience. By connecting these merchants to a network of vetted suppliers and technology partners, Dreamship facilitates access to a range of print-on-demand products and rapid delivery services. The platform aims to support merchants in scaling their businesses through a data-driven experience, ultimately helping them grow in competitive markets.

Dreamship

Seed Round in 2018
Dreamship is a print-on-demand platform designed for e-commerce merchants focused on enhancing the end buyer experience. By connecting these merchants to a network of vetted suppliers and technology partners, Dreamship facilitates access to a range of print-on-demand products and rapid delivery services. The platform aims to support merchants in scaling their businesses through a data-driven experience, ultimately helping them grow in competitive markets.

Lattice

Seed Round in 2016
Lattice is a people management platform that helps organizations enhance employee engagement and performance. It combines continuous performance management with employee feedback, providing real-time analytics that generate actionable insights. This enables HR and People teams to support managers in developing their leadership skills and fosters a culture of high performance among employees. The platform streamlines the performance management process, allowing companies to efficiently conduct performance reviews and track employee goals throughout the year. Targeting primarily medium-sized organizations, Lattice aims to transform workplaces into environments where employees can thrive and succeed.

Superhuman

Venture Round in 2015
Superhuman Labs Inc., founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, develops an advanced email application designed to enhance user productivity and streamline email management. The application incorporates features such as AI-driven triage, undo send, follow-up reminders, scheduled messages, and read statuses, which collectively aim to transform the user experience and improve efficiency. Superhuman distinguishes itself from traditional email clients by focusing on speed, elegance, and advanced functionality, allowing users to handle their emails more effectively. The founding team has a proven track record in the tech industry, having previously established successful ventures like Rapportive, which was acquired by LinkedIn. Superhuman has garnered support from prominent investors in Silicon Valley and New York City, positioning itself as a leader in the email application market.
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