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 iOS

Melodics

Venture Round in 2022
Melodics Limited develops an application that adapts to users abilities and musical tastes to help them get better at pad drumming. It offers music education with tracks, such as hip hop, future beats, footwork, EDM, techno, trap, dubstep, downbeat, jungle, funk, soul, electronic, reggae, rock, jazz, Bmore, electro, classic breaks, and others for playing. The company also allows getting insight into how favorite producers, DJs, and performers structure their tracks and sets. Its application is compatible with iPhone and iPad devices. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

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.

S'More Date

Venture Round in 2022
Imagine a dating app that starts with getting to know a person before swiping on them. Where character is considered before physical attributes, and where profiles are evaluated on the basis of common interests, opinions, and values.

The Breakaway

Seed Round in 2022
The Breakaway is a motivational coaching app tailored for fitness enthusiasts, specifically cyclists. The platform offers features such as smart goals and personalized insights to facilitate user progress. It provides motivational feedback and tips from professional cyclists, which helps users stay focused and enhance their learning experience. By combining expert guidance with personalized coaching, The Breakaway aims to support cyclists in achieving their fitness objectives effectively.

Fever

Series E in 2021
Fever Labs, Inc. operates a mobile application that serves as a social discovery tool, offering users a curated list of local events in various cities, including New York, Madrid, and London. The app provides comprehensive information on a wide range of experiences, such as concerts, exhibitions, parties, comedy shows, and attractions, along with ticket booking options. With a focus on enhancing the Experience Economy, Fever connects over 40 million users monthly with the best local activities, while also empowering event organizers to create original content. Founded in 2011 and initially known as Kzemos, Inc., Fever has established itself as a leader in the digitization of experiences, helping individuals discover and enjoy diverse cultural and entertainment offerings.

The Breakaway

Pre Seed Round in 2021
The Breakaway is a motivational coaching app tailored for fitness enthusiasts, specifically cyclists. The platform offers features such as smart goals and personalized insights to facilitate user progress. It provides motivational feedback and tips from professional cyclists, which helps users stay focused and enhance their learning experience. By combining expert guidance with personalized coaching, The Breakaway aims to support cyclists in achieving their fitness objectives effectively.

AppX

Pre Seed Round in 2021
AppX is a developer of mobile applications that enables social media creators to launch their own personalized apps. Initially focused on educational creators, the company has expanded its services to include gaming and fitness creators as well. Through its platform, AppX allows users to customize their applications by selecting user interfaces and features, as well as entering specific application details. This empowers creators to monetize their audiences through courses and premium content, facilitating a new revenue stream while enhancing their engagement with followers.

Happs

Series A in 2021
Happs is a global community working together to change the face of live news. Happs is a live streaming news platform that covers top stories from around the world. Using Happs app, it alerts the community to global breaking or trending news events — this could be an article, tweet, image, or live video of the event.

IRL

Series C in 2021
IRL is a social planning application designed to facilitate real-life interactions among users. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the app simplifies the process of sending and receiving invitations to social gatherings. It offers users a range of suggestions for activities based on their interests, locations, seasons, and upcoming holidays. In addition to event planning, IRL allows users to anonymously nominate friends for activities suited to their skills. The application also integrates local public events and enables users to sync their calendars with friends while following sports teams, musicians, and local venues. Overall, IRL aims to enhance social connectivity and encourage users to engage in shared experiences.

Bling

Series A in 2021
Bling is a budgeting application aimed at enhancing financial health by offering users innovative tools and insights. It provides up to €100 instantly for various personal needs, helping individuals manage their finances more effectively. The app features anti-overdraft alerts, direct bank balance notifications, and cash flow predictions, allowing users to monitor their spending habits closely. By informing users when to limit expenses or suggesting alternatives to avoid overdrafts, Bling helps prevent financial strain at the end of the month. This approach seeks to offer healthy financial management solutions rather than the punitive measures often associated with traditional banking practices.

IRL

Series B in 2020
IRL is a social planning application designed to facilitate real-life interactions among users. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the app simplifies the process of sending and receiving invitations to social gatherings. It offers users a range of suggestions for activities based on their interests, locations, seasons, and upcoming holidays. In addition to event planning, IRL allows users to anonymously nominate friends for activities suited to their skills. The application also integrates local public events and enables users to sync their calendars with friends while following sports teams, musicians, and local venues. Overall, IRL aims to enhance social connectivity and encourage users to engage in shared experiences.

Citizen

Convertible Note in 2020
Citizen is a free mobile application that notifies its users with safety alerts and real-time incident updates. It is a powerful force for good that has already evacuated people from burning buildings, diverted school buses from nearby terrorist attacks, and, in one instance, led to the rescue of a one-year-old boy from a stolen car. It is a truly unique proposition that provides you with alerts from 911 data that until now has never been made available to the public. The alerts are accompanied by live stories, real-time updates, and user-generated content to provide you with the information you need so you know what’s happening around you rather than having to wonder why police are on your corner or there are helicopters above you. Today, over a million people across the United States have downloaded the app and use it to keep themselves, their families, and their friends safe. Emergency services and community activists alike hail the app as a ground-breaking development in personal and community safety. Over 1 million New Yorkers have citizens, and the app has seen similar growth, usage, and engagement in LA, SF, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The company was founded in 2017 and based in New York City, New York.

YOLO

Series A in 2020
YOLO is an app to send and receive anonymous messages on Snapchat.

Youper

Seed Round in 2019
Youper, Inc. is a company that develops an artificial intelligence-powered health assistant focused on improving and managing emotional and behavioral health. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Youper offers a digital platform that includes a mood tracker, a chat interface, and guided mindfulness exercises. These features provide real-time feedback to help users detect and monitor symptoms of depression, anxiety, and social anxiety. The platform utilizes behavior analytics to enable users to reformulate thought patterns and develop healthier emotional states. With a mission to address the emotional health crisis affecting nearly two billion people worldwide, Youper aims to provide effective and accessible emotional support to users anytime and anywhere.

IRL

Series A in 2019
IRL is a social planning application designed to facilitate real-life interactions among users. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the app simplifies the process of sending and receiving invitations to social gatherings. It offers users a range of suggestions for activities based on their interests, locations, seasons, and upcoming holidays. In addition to event planning, IRL allows users to anonymously nominate friends for activities suited to their skills. The application also integrates local public events and enables users to sync their calendars with friends while following sports teams, musicians, and local venues. Overall, IRL aims to enhance social connectivity and encourage users to engage in shared experiences.

imoji

Venture Round in 2014
Imoji is an application that enables users to transform selfies and other images into personalized stickers for messaging. The app provides a user-friendly interface with tools that allow individuals to zoom, crop, and cut out their images, creating unique emoji-like stickers. In 2017, Imoji was acquired by Giphy, expanding its reach within the digital communication landscape.
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