Victress Capital

Victress Capital is a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 2016. The firm focuses on investing in technology-enabled consumer startups that are led by diverse leadership teams. By leveraging over 40 years of combined experience in consumer operations and investing, Victress Capital provides capital and resources to support the growth of visionary founding teams in the consumer sector. The firm employs a diversified investment strategy, aiming to foster innovation and drive success within its portfolio companies.

Wood Cashman, Lori

Managing Partner

Kate Castle

Partner

Suzanne Morris

General Partner

Suzanne Norris

Managing Partner

31 past transactions

Recurate

Series A in 2022
Operator of a resale marketplace intended to resell and promote used products directly in the store. The company's marketplace allows customers to promote the used products via social channels to drive new traffic to the store and offers features including brand protection, multiple customizations, and customer support, enabling customers to resell products they previously bought from an online store.

Lucra Sports

Series A in 2022
Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports.

Droplette

Series B in 2021
Droplette is their patent-pending transdermal delivery system for delivery of drugs up to 60% larger than current treatments deep into skin over large surface areas. Their unique device is painless, contact free, portable and generates no disposables. It is designed to deliver antibiotics for serious ulcers and skin infections, reducing risk secondary complications or antibiotic resistance. Future applications include localized delivery of chemotherapeutics for skin cancer and drugs for anti-aging.

Vincere Health

Seed Round in 2021
Vincere Health Inc. is a health technology company based in Allston, Massachusetts, founded in 2019 at the Harvard Innovation Labs and backed by Techstars. The company has developed an application designed to assist users in quitting smoking and making healthier lifestyle choices. This application utilizes a combination of incentives, behavioral nudges, and evidence-based interventions, allowing users to set personal goals and monitor their progress. Users engage with the application by using an attachable breathalyzer device to verify their adherence to smoking cessation goals. Additionally, they can receive financial rewards for reducing their smoking habits and achieving cessation. Through these methods, Vincere Health aims to address significant healthcare challenges by promoting positive behavior change.

Rae Wellness

Series A in 2021
Rae Wellness develops and produces a diverse range of vegan, non-GMO, and gluten-free supplements focused on beauty, health, and hormonal wellness. Its product offerings include capsules, powders, and tinctures, which are available for purchase online. Founded in 2019, Rae Wellness is based in Minnesota and emphasizes a commitment to high-quality ingredients in its formulations.

Rae Wellness

Series A in 2021
Rae Wellness develops and produces a diverse range of vegan, non-GMO, and gluten-free supplements focused on beauty, health, and hormonal wellness. Its product offerings include capsules, powders, and tinctures, which are available for purchase online. Founded in 2019, Rae Wellness is based in Minnesota and emphasizes a commitment to high-quality ingredients in its formulations.

Alyce

Series B in 2021
Alyce, Inc. operates an AI-driven platform designed to enhance sales and marketing efforts through personalized gifting solutions. Founded in December 2015 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers SWAG SELECT, an online tool that facilitates the selection and distribution of gifts via direct mail from an extensive catalogue. Alyce's platform focuses on one-to-one gifting and account-based marketing, utilizing personal social data to identify optimal gifts for recipients. It manages the entire process, including orders, shipping, and reporting, for a wide range of gift quantities. The approach aims to foster genuine relationships, achieving significantly higher account penetration and pipeline growth compared to traditional methods. Alyce's solutions are designed to make B2B gift-giving straightforward, effective, and measurable, all while being provided at no cost to users.

Rae Wellness

Funding Round in 2020
Rae Wellness develops and produces a diverse range of vegan, non-GMO, and gluten-free supplements focused on beauty, health, and hormonal wellness. Its product offerings include capsules, powders, and tinctures, which are available for purchase online. Founded in 2019, Rae Wellness is based in Minnesota and emphasizes a commitment to high-quality ingredients in its formulations.

Vincere Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Vincere Health Inc. is a health technology company based in Allston, Massachusetts, founded in 2019 at the Harvard Innovation Labs and backed by Techstars. The company has developed an application designed to assist users in quitting smoking and making healthier lifestyle choices. This application utilizes a combination of incentives, behavioral nudges, and evidence-based interventions, allowing users to set personal goals and monitor their progress. Users engage with the application by using an attachable breathalyzer device to verify their adherence to smoking cessation goals. Additionally, they can receive financial rewards for reducing their smoking habits and achieving cessation. Through these methods, Vincere Health aims to address significant healthcare challenges by promoting positive behavior change.

Alyce

Series A in 2019
Alyce, Inc. operates an AI-driven platform designed to enhance sales and marketing efforts through personalized gifting solutions. Founded in December 2015 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers SWAG SELECT, an online tool that facilitates the selection and distribution of gifts via direct mail from an extensive catalogue. Alyce's platform focuses on one-to-one gifting and account-based marketing, utilizing personal social data to identify optimal gifts for recipients. It manages the entire process, including orders, shipping, and reporting, for a wide range of gift quantities. The approach aims to foster genuine relationships, achieving significantly higher account penetration and pipeline growth compared to traditional methods. Alyce's solutions are designed to make B2B gift-giving straightforward, effective, and measurable, all while being provided at no cost to users.

Blume

Seed Round in 2019
ElleBox provides organic feminine hygiene subscription box service.

Blume

Seed Round in 2019
ElleBox provides organic feminine hygiene subscription box service.

Droplette

Seed Round in 2019
Droplette is their patent-pending transdermal delivery system for delivery of drugs up to 60% larger than current treatments deep into skin over large surface areas. Their unique device is painless, contact free, portable and generates no disposables. It is designed to deliver antibiotics for serious ulcers and skin infections, reducing risk secondary complications or antibiotic resistance. Future applications include localized delivery of chemotherapeutics for skin cancer and drugs for anti-aging.

WaitWhat

Series A in 2019
WaitWhat is a media invention company that invents boundary-breaking and profitable media properties that change the cultural landscape. It creates and owns premium, original, genre-defining content. The company also creates media properties that can scale horizontally beyond its first format. By contrast, WaitWhat creates new categories with their content, at production values that have become the reference point for quality. The company develops, produces, and distributes wholly-owned media properties with the specific purpose of creating new genres, categories, and formats of content that scale.

Lia

Seed Round in 2018
LIA Diagnostics Inc. is a company that specializes in developing and supplying innovative pregnancy test kits. Founded in 2015 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the company focuses on addressing key challenges associated with traditional pregnancy tests, namely privacy, usability, and sustainability. LIA Diagnostics stands out in the market by offering flushable test kits, which enhance user experience while promoting environmentally friendly practices.

Summersalt

Series A in 2018
Summersalt, LLC, based in Clayton, Missouri, specializes in designing, manufacturing, and selling women's apparel, particularly swimwear. Established in 2017, the brand initially focused on creating swimwear from recycled materials, offering designer-quality products at accessible prices. Over the years, Summersalt has expanded its product line to include activewear, loungewear, travel wear, and sleepwear, all characterized by a modern and sophisticated style. The company's designs are informed by extensive data analysis, utilizing measurements from over 10,000 women to ensure an impeccable fit. Summersalt has quickly gained recognition and a loyal customer base, receiving accolades from prominent fashion publications such as ELLE, Vogue, and People. The brand primarily sells its products through its online platform.

Harper Wilde

Seed Round in 2018
Harper Wilde, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that operates an online platform specializing in lingerie shopping. Founded in 2016, the company focuses on providing high-quality, fairly-priced products, with prices nearly half of those offered by its competitors. Harper Wilde emphasizes purposeful designs and curated options that simplify the shopping experience for customers while also reducing production costs. This approach allows the company to pass savings onto consumers. In addition to its product offerings, Harper Wilde is dedicated to empowering women and supporting the next generation of female leaders.

Summersalt

Seed Round in 2018
Summersalt, LLC, based in Clayton, Missouri, specializes in designing, manufacturing, and selling women's apparel, particularly swimwear. Established in 2017, the brand initially focused on creating swimwear from recycled materials, offering designer-quality products at accessible prices. Over the years, Summersalt has expanded its product line to include activewear, loungewear, travel wear, and sleepwear, all characterized by a modern and sophisticated style. The company's designs are informed by extensive data analysis, utilizing measurements from over 10,000 women to ensure an impeccable fit. Summersalt has quickly gained recognition and a loyal customer base, receiving accolades from prominent fashion publications such as ELLE, Vogue, and People. The brand primarily sells its products through its online platform.

Copper Cow Coffee

Seed Round in 2018
Copper Cow Coffee is a premium specialty coffee company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in Vietnamese coffee products. Founded in 2018, the company focuses on providing accessible, high-quality coffee through innovative packaging and modern design. Copper Cow Coffee sources its beans from sustainable, organic farms in Vietnam, ensuring that its offerings support environmentally-conscious practices. The brand is known for its specialty Vietnamese lattes, which are sweetened with condensed milk and contain no artificial flavors or preservatives. By selling its products online, Copper Cow Coffee aims to make authentic Vietnamese coffee experiences available to customers throughout the United States.

Dough

Seed Round in 2017
Dough is a membership community where people can discover and save on products made by women. The company's mission is to drive purchase power and awareness towards women owned businesses to create economic equality. It also build an inclusive movement, representing all female entrepreneurs and the brands that are built to create a society where women are equally represented in the boardroom, c-suite, and beyond. Dough was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Petpocketbook

Seed Round in 2017
Developer of a pet management software created to simplify the lives of pet people. The company's pet management software provides automation and administrative management which automate the paperwork, scheduling, simplifies the client management, automate digital payment processing and invoicing, enabling people to keep their pets happy and have calm time.

Novopyxis

Seed Round in 2017
Novopyxis Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2013. The company specializes in developing innovative anti-inflammatory therapeutics and medical devices aimed at treating neurological and metabolic conditions associated with inflammatory complications, such as ALS and cystic fibrosis. Its flagship therapeutic, which activates the anti-inflammatory receptor AT2R, has shown cardioprotective and neuroprotective properties and has received orphan designation from the FDA for pediatric cardiomyopathy. Additionally, Novopyxis has developed a proprietary transdermal delivery system that allows for painless, contact-free administration of large molecules, DNA/RNA, and proteins. This system has applications in treating various disorders and is currently being advanced in partnership with Leo Pharma for medical dermatology uses. The company has garnered several accolades, including recognition from MassBio and the CASIS-Boeing Prize for Technology in Space, underscoring its commitment to addressing diseases with limited treatment options.

Auratec

Seed Round in 2017
Aurate Inc. manufactures jewelry women. The company sells its products through retail stores and online. It offers gold, rose gold, silver, and diamond jewelries, which includes rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelet, and anklet. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York.

AudPop

Seed Round in 2017
AudPop operates as a platform that connects filmmakers with brands, facilitating the creation of high-quality video content through contests, challenges, and festivals. The company enables brands to crowd-source engaging video content from a diverse global collective of filmmakers, enhancing their digital marketing efforts. Filmmakers can gain exposure and opportunities such as cash prizes, distribution, and festival screenings. AudPop's platform allows audiences to participate by voting on submitted films, thereby fostering a community-driven approach to content creation. Founded in 2013 and based in Missoula, Montana, AudPop has collaborated with notable brands such as 20th Century Fox, Southwest Airlines, and GoDaddy, providing them with a turn-key solution for their video marketing needs.

Jam Music

Seed Round in 2017
Jam Music is an app to listen music and chat with friends.

The Nue Co.

Seed Round in 2017
The Nue Co. was born after a trip to Copenhagen inspired them to create a supplement brand founded on two danish principles, simplicity and creativity. Their lab has over 20 years experience and is based in Cambridge, England. Rather than working with harsh, isolated vitamins they choose to work with powerful organic foods high in specific vitamins or minerals. Every ingredient they use is completely traceable and of the highest standard. They never add fillers of any type, making their blends potent and pure.They limit the use of plastic packaging and are focused on minimising their carbon footprint.

Mented Cosmetics

Seed Round in 2017
Mented is a luxury beauty company targeted to women of color. It is a premium beauty line that believes every woman should be able to find herself in the world of beauty. Offering nude lipstick and nail polish shades made especially for Black and Brown beauties, Mented Cosmetics believes that when it comes to beauty, no one deserves to be an afterthought.

Werk

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Werk is the first and only people analytics software that helps companies improve their flexibility performance through data. Through a proprietary assessment methodology and analytics dashboard, Werk delivers the insights companies need to understand current flexibility baseline and gaps, the highest ROI flex investments to close those gaps, and the impact of flexibility on their most important business metrics. Learn more at Werk.co

Daily Harvest

Seed Round in 2016
Daily Harvest, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in offering frozen whole ingredient meals, including smoothies, harvest bowls, flatbreads, soups, bites, oat bowls, chia bowls, and lattes. Founded in 2014, the company focuses on providing convenient and nutritious food options that cater to the needs of modern consumers. Daily Harvest sells its products exclusively online, allowing customers to stock their freezers with a variety of clean, ready-to-eat meals that can be quickly prepared and easily replenished as needed. The company aims to promote healthy eating by ensuring that consumers have access to wholesome food choices.

coUrbanize

Seed Round in 2016
coUrbanize Inc. operates an online community engagement platform that connects real estate developers and municipal planners with local residents. Founded in 2013 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the platform allows developers and urban planners to share project information through visualizations and descriptions while facilitating feedback and discussions with community members. By providing a suite of online tools for communication and reporting, coUrbanize helps project teams enhance public engagement, streamline the feedback process, and ultimately increase the likelihood of project approval. The platform aims to save time and reduce costs associated with development projects by fostering a collaborative environment between developers and the communities they serve.

Moxxly

Seed Round in 2016
Moxxly takes the guesswork out of modern motherhood through beautiful, connected devices. Moxxly’s first product is a smart, stylish, and high performing breast pump system that enables today’s mobile mom to pump wherever she is, with her shirt on, while receiving real-time data about her breastmilk supply. Moxxly is female-founded, San Francisco-based, and a proud alum of PCH International's Highway 1 hardware incubator as well as a current participant in Stanford's StartX accelerator.
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