Propel Capital Network

Propel Capital Network, LLC is a venture capital firm based in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2008. The firm specializes in early-stage and growth capital investments, focusing on both non-profit and for-profit organizations, as well as political entities, primarily within the United States. Propel Capital aims to support innovative leaders and initiatives that promote social equity and address critical global challenges. It provides flexible and patient capital to organizations at pivotal moments in their development, demonstrating a high risk tolerance for novel approaches and significant investments. The firm often seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies to enhance its influence and oversight.

Sarah M. Williams

CEO

11 past transactions

Hypertype

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Developer of sales communication software designed to send emails at a better speed and quality The company's software scientifically validates past performing emails in the industry and topics that provide a shortlist of recommended emails in real-time, it provides pre-filled conversations from past learnings and continuous automatic content improvement via machine learning and automatically checks tones and sentiments, enabling clients to get fresh content and sentiment check to close more deals.

A-B Partners

Seed Round in 2020
Provider of public relations and content strategy services intended to transform politics and the economy. The company's services offer fully integrated communications practice and the creation of new narratives about people, power, and social change, enabling clients to change the possibilities for policymaking and human understanding.

Opus

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Opus offers a training solution that meets frontline workers where they are. It provides companies with a single engagement platform designed to deliver frictionless, accessible, engaging training for frontline workers so that they are more productive, happier, and increase their work value. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Wethos

Seed Round in 2019
Wethos is a developer of a virtual studio designed to support small business owners in pricing complex projects with confidence. Its platform utilizes agile methodologies to create brands, websites, digital content, and growth campaigns tailored to each client's unique requirements. By rapidly assembling flexible teams of vetted creative and marketing professionals, Wethos enables businesses to address quickly changing challenges and optimize their revenue potential.

Mursion

Series A in 2019
Mursion is the virtual reality environment where professionals practice and master the complex interpersonal skills necessary to be effective in high-stress professions. Used by a wide range of innovative organizations in healthcare, education, hospitality, finance, and other corporate sectors, Mursion delivers customized virtual reality simulations that recreate the most demanding interpersonal challenges that professionals confront on the job every day.

Selected

Seed Round in 2018
Selected, Inc. is a recruiting platform dedicated to connecting K-12 teachers with schools that align with their preferences in various urban areas, including New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Founded in 2016 and based in New York, the company offers its services free of charge to teachers, aiming to enhance teacher retention and improve hiring practices, particularly in high-need communities. Selected's innovative platform utilizes profile-matching technology to facilitate the job search process, allowing educators to access information about numerous public and private independent schools. Through this approach, Selected strives to create meaningful matches between teachers and schools, ultimately benefiting both educators and the educational institutions they serve.

Mijente

Venture Round in 2018
Mijente Inc. is a Chicago-based organization founded in 2015 that focuses on social justice for the Latinx and Chicanx communities. It operates both online and offline, blending digital organizing with creative media to mobilize activists. Mijente organizes the Lánzate conference, which addresses essential issues such as criminal justice, immigration, education, LGBTQ rights, race and ethnicity, labor, and climate change. The organization provides an action hub that enables users to launch online campaigns, fostering engagement and activism among immigrant and U.S.-born Latina/o and Chicana/o individuals. Through its multifaceted approach, Mijente serves as a political home for those advocating for a radical Latinx agenda.
Sister District Project, Inc. operates a network of local teams that matches volunteers in safe blue places to support state elections. The company runs political campaigns and programs including get out the vote, text-banking, postcards, phone-banking, canvassing, events support, and district campaign committees. The company is headquartered in Walnut, California.

Root Capital

Grant in 2016
Root Capital is a non-profit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1999. It focuses on supporting economically vulnerable communities in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia by providing financial resources, training, and market connections to small and growing agricultural enterprises. These businesses, which often struggle to secure financing from traditional banks, play a vital role in purchasing crops such as coffee, cocoa, and grains from smallholder farmers. By investing in these agricultural enterprises, Root Capital aims to foster rural prosperity and transform local communities, thereby creating a sustainable impact in the regions it serves. The organization has additional offices in Costa Rica, Kenya, Nicaragua, Senegal, and Mexico.
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