Goodwater Capital

Goodwater is a venture capital firm based in Burlingame, California, founded in 2014. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, primarily targeting consumer technology startups. Goodwater aims to support exceptional entrepreneurs by providing the necessary capital and resources to help them solve significant problems and develop their businesses. The firm invests in a variety of sectors, including housing, financial services, healthcare, food, transportation, education, and entertainment, with the intention of empowering innovative companies that are reshaping consumer experiences. Goodwater Capital manages its investments through funds that can allocate substantial amounts to individual companies, reflecting its commitment to fostering growth in the consumer technology landscape.

Jing Cao

Investor

Timothy Chang

Investor

Alex Chen

Investor

Chi-Hua Chien

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Kate Cobb

Investor

Anna Consani

Investor

Jordan Dale

Investor

Kanishk Desai

Investor

Robert Farb

Investor

Patrick Granahan

Investor

Daryl Hansen

Investor

Alden Harwood

Investor

Sophie Hoffman

Investor

Coddy Johnson

Partner

Hatim Ketty

Partner

Hatim Khety

Partner

Eric J. Kim

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Soobin Kim

Investor

Danielle Kling

Operating Partner

Nicholas Kridler

Investor

Jessica Lee

Investor

Adam Levinson

Investor

Yao Li

Principal

Olivia Li

Investor

Nikhil Lingireddy

Investor

Jin Suk Oh

Partner

Karthika Purushothaman

Investor

Scott Shiao

Principal, Investment Team

Vivek Subramanian

Partner and Chief Product Officer

Nathan Tien

Principal

Matt Turk

Investor

Past deals in Collaborative Consumption

Worldpackers

Venture Round in 2022
Worldpackers is an online marketplace that connects travelers with hosts worldwide, facilitating the exchange of skills for accommodation. Founded in 2013, the platform aims to enhance travel accessibility by fostering collaboration and genuine relationships within a community of like-minded individuals. Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Worldpackers allows users to discover unique locations while offering their skills in return for lodging, thereby enabling profound cultural experiences. The company was inspired by the personal journeys of its founders, Riq Lima and Eric Faria, who both sought to explore the world through meaningful interactions and resourcefulness. Worldpackers promotes a model of travel that emphasizes learning and cultural exchange, making it a valuable resource for those looking to immerse themselves in different cultures while minimizing travel costs.

Gecko

Venture Round in 2022
Gecko is a simple, easy to use rental marketplace that: - helps people hire hard to get items easily to create unforgettable experiences - helps people make extra cash off items gathering dust in their home

AutoCoin

Pre Seed Round in 2022
AutoCoin bridges the gaps of centralized & decentralized finance and makes it easy for you to take part in an emerging market with the help of your next ride.

Musicasa

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Musicasa operates a community-driven marketplace designed to connect emerging musicians with music enthusiasts through intimate concerts held in private homes. By facilitating matches between home hosts and artists, Musicasa enables the organization of intimate concert experiences for small audiences, typically up to 40 attendees. The platform supports both virtual and in-person events, providing musicians with valuable exposure and new monetization opportunities. Musicasa aims to create meaningful connections among participants, fostering a vibrant community while also addressing the needs of over 3 million undiscovered musicians seeking performance opportunities.

Split

Venture Round in 2022
Split is an application for iPhone and Android users that pay cashback evenly to those who share and shop them. Through the Split’s Chrome Extension, users of the app can earn automatically as they share and shop online. Once they've earned enough, they can cash it all out to the PayPal account of their choice. Split was launched in 2015 by Alex Stone.

Well Traveled

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a members-only social platform intended for travelers, foodies, and adventure seekers. The company's platform offers young professionals, travelers, foodies, and adventure seekers a private membership community, to discover, plan and book incredible trips, find and share insider travel information and trending spots, helping users with travel planning services, and find the right accommodations to create memories.

The Verticale

Venture Round in 2022
Operator of a digital retailer platform intended for the new era of consumers where people can discover innovative, value-driven brands. The company's platform uses a dynamic approach that merges content and commerce, enabling consumers with a new shopping experience centered around newness, brand affinity, and conscious consumerism.

So-Col

Seed Round in 2022
So-Col is a social media platform that facilitates connections between content creators and their fans by bridging traditional web2 social channels with the emerging web3 environment. The platform offers tools that enable content creators to monetize their work and foster community engagement. Utilizing blockchain technology, So-Col employs a decentralized ID protocol that allows creators and influencers to transform their social media content into non-fungible collectible items. This innovative approach not only enhances the interaction between creators and their audiences but also provides new opportunities for revenue generation within the digital landscape.

Outlines

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Manufacturer of home goods intended to empower consumers to reduce their plastic waste. The company provides sustainable home essentials of various types such as shower liners and body buffer systems with free recycling, offering consumers environmentally conscious products of next-gen circular economy models and innovative product designs.

Facily

Series D in 2021
Facily is a social commerce marketplace in Latin America. The platform focuses on low-ticket items, delivering great prices and differentiated logistics to lower income neighbourhoods, leveraging learnings from China. Facily offers a unique experience by bringing the opportunity to buy together with friends directly from producers and manufacturers, having fun playing with freemium features. Facily also promotes community buying by leveraging local leaders and influencers.

Gobillion

Seed Round in 2021
Gobillion operates a social e-commerce platform that facilitates group purchasing for groceries and household essentials. Through its "Team Buy" model, the platform allows users to create shopping rooms with friends and family, enabling them to buy items together. This collaborative approach not only enhances the shopping experience but also helps customers save money by leveraging the benefits of group buying. By making e-commerce more social, Gobillion aims to transform how consumers shop for everyday essentials.

Frich

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Frich makes money social. It is the first social finance app empowering Gen Z to take control of their personal finances by setting spending goals together with friends using gamification and social media elements.

Clupp

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Save money | save lives | just by driving! CLUPP is a mobile app that rewards good driving with points that can be redeemed for amazing rewards, such as fuel, insurance, car wash, car shops, parking, restaurants, etc. The better you drive, the more points you earn, the more you save money and lives.

StowNest

Seed Round in 2021
Provider of on-demand, valet self-storage services intended to assist customers to store their physical belongings. The company's platform facilitates valet customers to schedule item pickup, maintain a visual catalog of stored belongings, and schedule delivery of items to their homes or business, enabling consumers to manage valuables and other items in a safe, affordable, and convenient manner.

Postmoda

Seed Round in 2021
Postmoda operates as a peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace specializing in luxury, designer, and vintage clothing. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company provides a platform where users can rent items directly from one another, enhancing sustainability in the fashion industry. The service allows consumers to browse and book their selections through an application, with options for both renting and lending clothing. Items can be returned to local dry cleaners, which serve as fulfillment centers, facilitating a convenient and eco-friendly rental experience. Postmoda aims to transform traditional fashion consumption by promoting a circular economy and reducing waste.

Seek

Seed Round in 2021
Seek is a content platform that connects tastemakers in the consumer leisure space with millions of consumers seeking trusted and relevant recommendations on where to eat, drink and spend their leisure time. Consumers have access to trusted and vetted recommendations from like-minded experts while tastemakers can showcase and monetize their expertise and passion. Seek currently has thousands of recommendations from tastemakers around the world.

Ituloh!

Pre Seed Round in 2021
The first video commerce app for Indonesia! Ituloh is a localized, community-based visual recommendation engine activating millions of KOLs while allowing shoppers to complete the loop from browsing, discovery to purchase across lifestyle categories.

Ancana

Seed Round in 2021
Ancana is a real estate marketplace that facilitates fractional ownership of luxury vacation homes, primarily in Mexico. By offering a model that allows individuals to own a share of a property, Ancana simplifies the complexities associated with purchasing and maintaining a second home. Customers can enjoy the benefits of ownership, such as utilizing the property, receiving rental income, and benefiting from potential appreciation, while local partners manage the properties and assist with scheduling stays. This approach democratizes access to luxury vacation homes, enabling more people to experience the joys of owning a piece of paradise without the burdens typically associated with full ownership.

Leap Club

Seed Round in 2021
Leap Club is a curated marketplace for ethical and earth friendly products. All products and brands on Leap Club are tagged and scored for their impact on society and environment so that you can make positive choices about what to buy. We believe that each and every one of us can do our part in creating a better world through the small choices we make each day – what we buy, what we eat, what we wear. At Leap Club we want to make it very easy for you to buy products that align with your values.

TodosComemos

Seed Round in 2020
TodosComemos is a meal kit delivery service based in Bogotá, Colombia, offering ready-to-cook meal kits and a marketplace for purchasing premade meal ingredients in Bogotá and Ciudad de México. Founded in 2020, the company sources food directly from production facilities to provide affordable meal kits. Its platform delivers pre-portioned ingredients along with recipes that can be refrigerated and stored for extended periods, facilitating easy preparation of home-cooked meals. This service not only simplifies meal preparation for customers but also supports food producers by enabling their growth.
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