Deepwork Capital

FAN Fund is an early stage fund that focuses on the underserved market of Florida and invests in high growth companies in the technology and life science sectors. We take a hands-on approach throughout our investment process and look for win-win opportunities. This investment philosophy is beneficial to both our investors and companies in our pipeline and portfolio. We originated as an angel group populated by successful entrepreneurs and executives, many of whom engage as advisors and friends of the fund, and frequently help and mentor companies in our network.

Benjamin Patz

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

58 past transactions

Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals

Series A in 2021
Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals Inc., a small drug development company, develops neuroprotection therapies for traumatic brain injuries (TBI), concussions, acute ischemic stroke, neurodegenerative disorders, and other injuries to the brain. It offers AST-004, a novel small molecule for acute administration of patients that protects and repairs neurons that are damaged by selectively stimulating astrocytes. Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

HypGames, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
HypGames, Inc. develops fantasy sports platform that delivers season-long games based on sports leagues. Its platform allows players to improve their roasters from a full catalog of professional sport and esports leagues, including pro football, baseball, esports’ League of Legends, and hockey. Its application allows earning collectibles to complete collection sets. Its platform enables users to showcase their sports knowledge and skills to win collectibles in their sports leagues. HypGames, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Longwood, Florida.

Intelligent Observation, Inc

Seed Round in 2023
Intelligent Observation, Inc develops an automated hand hygiene tracking system that allows hospitals to track handwashing compliance of staff. It offers integrated personal smart badge and location-aware readers equipped with Near Field Magnetic Induction (NFMI) technology. The company also operates a platform that provides real-time individual alerts. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Miami, Florida.

Elevated Careers

Series A in 2018
Elevated Careers is the first ever all-in-one employee engagement, employment branding, and hiring platform that can not only assess an organization's culture, but also match job candidates to companies based on culture, skills, and personality fit using the same methodology.

Streann Media

Series A in 2019
Streann is the leading white label OTT Platform provider with unique technology in the world. Our enterprise SaaS platform allows video content owners to launch next generation video streaming platforms like Netflix, Youtube, Hulu, Amazon Video with their own content for live streaming, VOD, DVR, awarded monetization features and engagement tools, to be deployed and ready to market in less than two weeks. Create your own TV network, build your audience and monetize. Our platform will help you manage all your audio and video content for web, Mobile, Roku, AppleTV, Fire TV, Virtual Reality. We give you the tools to create your own App design without needed to call a developer. Your content, your creativity, your Network!

Hook Security Inc

Seed Round in 2023
Hook Security, a cybersecurity SaaS training company, is introducing a new and better way to train all organizations to recognize security threats. We are motivated by the simple vision that everyone, everywhere, will recognize and respond to manipulation by technology. Our core productized services include phishing simulations, detailed reporting, API interfaces into cybersecurity stacks, and email client plugins that train users on counterfeit emails at the point of use. We are pioneering Psychological Security (psysec) as the next evolution of Information Security (infosec).

Urban SDK, Inc

Seed Round in 2021
Urban SDK, a Techstars company, is a next generation planning tool that helps smart cities transform mobility, transportation, sustainability and safety operations with real-time location analytics. We connect public agencies, policy makers, and the community with better data to make more informed policy and budgeting decisions. We enable customers to quickly gather, analyze, and visualize performance indicators to make decisions with a higher degree of confidence.

Xendoo

Series A in 2022
Xendoo is an innovative cloud-based bookkeeping and accounting platform focused on helping small businesses. The fintech company provides small business owners with accessibility to CPAs, predictability of pricing, and speed to their numbers delivered through a technology foundation. Xendoo is reshaping the accounting industry, leveraging technology to deliver financial peace of mind to small business owners so they can focus on doing what they do best – running their business. For more information, visit www.xendoo.com.

Home Lending Pal

Convertible Note in 2022
Home Lending Pal built the first Automated Mortgage Advisor that simulates buying a home with multiple lenders to determine mortgage approval odds and affordability impact based on lifestyle. HLP merges online data from trusted sources to streamline application, reduce the need to scan paper documents, and simplify the home buying process with data-driven workflows, AI and blockchain technology. We educated borrowers on homeownership options while collecting underwriting documents at scale for lenders.

Abfero Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Abfero Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company, develops therapies for iron metabolism diseases. It offers SP-420, an iron chelator therapies for patients suffering from transfusion-related iron-overload, age-related macular degeneration, and neurodegenerative diseases. The company’s SP-420 enters the retina, removes iron, and prevents retinal degeneration. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Home Lending Pal

Seed Round in 2022
Home Lending Pal built the first Automated Mortgage Advisor that simulates buying a home with multiple lenders to determine mortgage approval odds and affordability impact based on lifestyle. HLP merges online data from trusted sources to streamline application, reduce the need to scan paper documents, and simplify the home buying process with data-driven workflows, AI and blockchain technology. We educated borrowers on homeownership options while collecting underwriting documents at scale for lenders.

Imperative Group, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Imperative is a fully automated peer coaching technology platform. The video-based peer coaching experience enables every employee to be an effective coach with no training through a dynamic and structured online environment. Imperative makes the benefits of coaching accessible to ten times as many employees for the same cost as traditional coaching. The platform is being deployed by leading employers to address the needs of the new workforce and boost employee retention, development, productivity, and fulfillment. Imperative, a certified B Corp, was founded in New York City and is headquartered in Seattle. Imperative's customers range from Sony Music and MetLife to Zillow and Airbnb. The company was founded by Aaron Hurst and Arthur Woods in 2014.

PikMyKid

Venture Round in 2016
PikMyKid is a comprehensive school safety system that ensures student safety & increases teacher efficiency while engaging over 85% of the parents & reducing traffic around schools. Main features include- dismissal automation, parent communication, liability mitigation, Safety Panic Button and Anonymous TipLine. PikMyKid is currently in 32 states and 6 different countries with over 250,000 users. PikMyKid has the ability to create the maximum socio-economic impact within the school community and improve safety at various levels at a minimal upfront cost. With PikMyKid, research has shown that schools have consistently observed reduced traffic congestion, increased carpooling among parents, and created safer processes for kids to walk home after-school, thus creating a more healthy and sustainable school communities.

Grove Biopharma

Convertible Note in 2022
Grove Biopharma is a biotechnology company offering a materials science solution to peptide therapeutic challenges, focused on the discovery and development of a novel class of “protein-like polymers” to treat significant unmet medical needs in chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases.

Aegle Therapeutics Corporation

Convertible Note in 2022
Aegle Therapeutics Corporation, a biotechnology company, develops extracellular vesicles (EVs) from allogeneic bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells to treat dermatological conditions. It solution is used in burns and epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a rare pediatric connective tissue disorder, and to prevent scarring. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Arlington, Massachusetts with an additional office in Miami, Florida.

HCW Biologics

Series B in 2019
HCW Biologics Inc. develops immunotherapy platforms to activate the immune system to disrupt the links between aging and disease. It develops treatments to tackle cancer and other diseases associated with aging. The company also develops immunotherapy candidates to address chronic inflammation through inflammasome modulation and senescent cell clearance. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Miramar, Florida

Abfero Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Abfero Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company, develops therapies for iron metabolism diseases. It offers SP-420, an iron chelator therapies for patients suffering from transfusion-related iron-overload, age-related macular degeneration, and neurodegenerative diseases. The company’s SP-420 enters the retina, removes iron, and prevents retinal degeneration. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

HypGames, Inc.

Series A in 2017
HypGames, Inc. develops fantasy sports platform that delivers season-long games based on sports leagues. Its platform allows players to improve their roasters from a full catalog of professional sport and esports leagues, including pro football, baseball, esports’ League of Legends, and hockey. Its application allows earning collectibles to complete collection sets. Its platform enables users to showcase their sports knowledge and skills to win collectibles in their sports leagues. HypGames, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Longwood, Florida.

TAO Connect

Series A in 2017
TAO Connect, Inc. is committed to reducing mental health disparities by bringing affordable, effective, and accessible treatment to people who have had limited access in the past.

PikMyKid

Series B in 2021
PikMyKid is a comprehensive school safety system that ensures student safety & increases teacher efficiency while engaging over 85% of the parents & reducing traffic around schools. Main features include- dismissal automation, parent communication, liability mitigation, Safety Panic Button and Anonymous TipLine. PikMyKid is currently in 32 states and 6 different countries with over 250,000 users. PikMyKid has the ability to create the maximum socio-economic impact within the school community and improve safety at various levels at a minimal upfront cost. With PikMyKid, research has shown that schools have consistently observed reduced traffic congestion, increased carpooling among parents, and created safer processes for kids to walk home after-school, thus creating a more healthy and sustainable school communities.

Grove Biopharma

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Grove Biopharma is a biotechnology company offering a materials science solution to peptide therapeutic challenges, focused on the discovery and development of a novel class of “protein-like polymers” to treat significant unmet medical needs in chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases.

Artist Growth

Venture Round in 2021
Artist Growth, LLC is a groundbreaking mobile software platform that gives both amateurs and professional management companies the tools to manage and track daily tasks, coordinate multi-dimensional projects, and grow a business steadily – all in one robust interface. The platform uses proprietary technology to integrate finances, gig calendars, inventory, industry contacts, social media, performing rights organizations, and other leading 3rd party music technology services. It puts the business of artist development into the cloud, makes it mobile, and provides the most integrated career and data management experience on the web today.

TSOLife

Venture Round in 2021
TSOLife is a technology startup focused on preserving personal legacies and stories for future generations. TSOLife helps assisted living organizations leverage technology to capture, preserve, and share the rich life stories of the seniors in their care. The vision of TSOLife is that one day, no grandchild will ever have to wonder what their grandparent was like.
Global Safety Management (GSM) is a SaaS-based compliance company that is fundamentally changing the way companies handle chemical and product safety information. GSM is a leader in providing solutions for safety data sheet (SDS) authoring, management and translation services. With over a decade of experience helping manufacturers, distributors and end users stay compliant, GSM takes over the burden of safety data sheet regulatory compliance so our clients can focus on their core business.
Aegle Therapeutics Corporation, a biotechnology company, develops extracellular vesicles (EVs) from allogeneic bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells to treat dermatological conditions. It solution is used in burns and epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a rare pediatric connective tissue disorder, and to prevent scarring. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Arlington, Massachusetts with an additional office in Miami, Florida.

Allergy Amulet

Seed Round in 2020
Allergy Amulet is the world’s smallest and fastest consumer food allergen sensor, testing for common allergenic ingredients in seconds. Whether it’s on a keychain, a necklace, a wristband, or in a pocket, Allergy Amulet’s sleek and portable design allows users to savor life’s important moments, safely and simply. Food allergies affect 32 million Americans and between 220-520 million people globally. That’s 1 in 13 children and 1 in 10 adults. Allergy Amulet has the potential to improve the quality of life for the millions of people living with food allergies or intolerances.

HypGames, Inc.

Series A in 2017
HypGames, Inc. develops fantasy sports platform that delivers season-long games based on sports leagues. Its platform allows players to improve their roasters from a full catalog of professional sport and esports leagues, including pro football, baseball, esports’ League of Legends, and hockey. Its application allows earning collectibles to complete collection sets. Its platform enables users to showcase their sports knowledge and skills to win collectibles in their sports leagues. HypGames, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Longwood, Florida.

AireHealth

Seed Round in 2020
AireHealth is a nebulizer and medical app that provides patient engagement and medication adherence tracking.

Imperative Group, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Imperative is a fully automated peer coaching technology platform. The video-based peer coaching experience enables every employee to be an effective coach with no training through a dynamic and structured online environment. Imperative makes the benefits of coaching accessible to ten times as many employees for the same cost as traditional coaching. The platform is being deployed by leading employers to address the needs of the new workforce and boost employee retention, development, productivity, and fulfillment. Imperative, a certified B Corp, was founded in New York City and is headquartered in Seattle. Imperative's customers range from Sony Music and MetLife to Zillow and Airbnb. The company was founded by Aaron Hurst and Arthur Woods in 2014.

EternaTear

Series A in 2020
EternaTear, Inc. develops artificial tear solution that provides lubrication for dry eyes. It provides EternaTear, an artificial tear for people who suffer from the progressive dry eye. It provides therapy for dry eye using a novel and proprietary mechanism to supplement all three layers of the tear film and bind them together on the ocular surface. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

FattMerchant, Inc.

Series B in 2017
FattMerchant, Inc. provides online credit card processing services. The company allows business owners to gain access to credit card processing at direct cost. It offers virtual terminal solution that processes and manages telephone and face-to-face transactions in real-time; point of sale retail solutions; E-commerce solutions; and NPC mobile card reader that allows users to accept payments. FattMerchant, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

NanoPhotonica Inc.

Series A in 2017
NanoPhotonica Inc. provides nanomaterials and production techniques for displays, solar panels, and other electronic device industries to improve the characteristics of optoelectronic devices. Its material also acts as a barrier to moisture and oxygen permeation that prevents premature degradation of organic material layers and creates improvements to the lifetime of a device. NanoPhotonica Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida with a research lab in Gainesville, Florida.

Xendoo

Seed Round in 2019
Xendoo is an innovative cloud-based bookkeeping and accounting platform focused on helping small businesses. The fintech company provides small business owners with accessibility to CPAs, predictability of pricing, and speed to their numbers delivered through a technology foundation. Xendoo is reshaping the accounting industry, leveraging technology to deliver financial peace of mind to small business owners so they can focus on doing what they do best – running their business. For more information, visit www.xendoo.com.

Homee

Seed Round in 2017
Homee, Inc. provides a mobile application that connects enterprises, customers, and service providers in a home service transaction. Its technology platform allows users to find and hire handyman, plumbers, electricians, HVAC service providers, and others. The company serves homeowners, renters, and property managers. Homee, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Tampa, Florida.

Elevated Careers

Seed Round in 2016
Elevated Careers is the first ever all-in-one employee engagement, employment branding, and hiring platform that can not only assess an organization's culture, but also match job candidates to companies based on culture, skills, and personality fit using the same methodology.

Homee

Series B in 2019
Homee, Inc. provides a mobile application that connects enterprises, customers, and service providers in a home service transaction. Its technology platform allows users to find and hire handyman, plumbers, electricians, HVAC service providers, and others. The company serves homeowners, renters, and property managers. Homee, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Tampa, Florida.
Global Safety Management (GSM) is a SaaS-based compliance company that is fundamentally changing the way companies handle chemical and product safety information. GSM is a leader in providing solutions for safety data sheet (SDS) authoring, management and translation services. With over a decade of experience helping manufacturers, distributors and end users stay compliant, GSM takes over the burden of safety data sheet regulatory compliance so our clients can focus on their core business.

HCW Biologics

Series C in 2020
HCW Biologics Inc. develops immunotherapy platforms to activate the immune system to disrupt the links between aging and disease. It develops treatments to tackle cancer and other diseases associated with aging. The company also develops immunotherapy candidates to address chronic inflammation through inflammasome modulation and senescent cell clearance. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Miramar, Florida

Urban SDK, Inc

Seed Round in 2020
Urban SDK, a Techstars company, is a next generation planning tool that helps smart cities transform mobility, transportation, sustainability and safety operations with real-time location analytics. We connect public agencies, policy makers, and the community with better data to make more informed policy and budgeting decisions. We enable customers to quickly gather, analyze, and visualize performance indicators to make decisions with a higher degree of confidence.
Aegle Therapeutics Corporation, a biotechnology company, develops extracellular vesicles (EVs) from allogeneic bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells to treat dermatological conditions. It solution is used in burns and epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a rare pediatric connective tissue disorder, and to prevent scarring. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Arlington, Massachusetts with an additional office in Miami, Florida.

FattMerchant, Inc.

Series A in 2016
FattMerchant, Inc. provides online credit card processing services. The company allows business owners to gain access to credit card processing at direct cost. It offers virtual terminal solution that processes and manages telephone and face-to-face transactions in real-time; point of sale retail solutions; E-commerce solutions; and NPC mobile card reader that allows users to accept payments. FattMerchant, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

NanoPhotonica Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
NanoPhotonica Inc. provides nanomaterials and production techniques for displays, solar panels, and other electronic device industries to improve the characteristics of optoelectronic devices. Its material also acts as a barrier to moisture and oxygen permeation that prevents premature degradation of organic material layers and creates improvements to the lifetime of a device. NanoPhotonica Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida with a research lab in Gainesville, Florida.

INTECROWD

Seed Round in 2016
INTECROWD LLC designs and deploys workday services to support customer payroll integrations. The company offers various services that include workday integration analysis, design, development, and maintenance with a focus on payroll; release management strategy and planning; integration regression testing; integration and HR/IT ecosystem strategy consulting; and leverage workday cloud connect and workday studio. It also develops solutions to maintain solutions and provide support for integration testing, as well as updates for new Workday releases. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

Homee

Series A in 2018
Homee, Inc. provides a mobile application that connects enterprises, customers, and service providers in a home service transaction. Its technology platform allows users to find and hire handyman, plumbers, electricians, HVAC service providers, and others. The company serves homeowners, renters, and property managers. Homee, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Tampa, Florida.

Distrx

Seed Round in 2016
distrx provides businesses a way to welcome you with a Bluetooth beacon handshake and greeting in the form of special offers and promotions.Search for districts and participating businesses, and browse promotions before you go, then use location-based services to receive promotions and offers automatically as you are greeted by each business.

Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals

Series A in 2020
Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals Inc., a small drug development company, develops neuroprotection therapies for traumatic brain injuries (TBI), concussions, acute ischemic stroke, neurodegenerative disorders, and other injuries to the brain. It offers AST-004, a novel small molecule for acute administration of patients that protects and repairs neurons that are damaged by selectively stimulating astrocytes. Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

NanoPhotonica Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
NanoPhotonica Inc. provides nanomaterials and production techniques for displays, solar panels, and other electronic device industries to improve the characteristics of optoelectronic devices. Its material also acts as a barrier to moisture and oxygen permeation that prevents premature degradation of organic material layers and creates improvements to the lifetime of a device. NanoPhotonica Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida with a research lab in Gainesville, Florida.

FattMerchant, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
FattMerchant, Inc. provides online credit card processing services. The company allows business owners to gain access to credit card processing at direct cost. It offers virtual terminal solution that processes and manages telephone and face-to-face transactions in real-time; point of sale retail solutions; E-commerce solutions; and NPC mobile card reader that allows users to accept payments. FattMerchant, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

RepScrubs

Series A in 2018
RepScrubs is a time-sensitive vendor attire that assists hospitals' in increasing infection prevention and vendor management protocols while reducing costs. The RepScrubs system includes an automated, cashless disposable scrub dispensing system (ScrubPort) that is placed in the hospital, and vendor tracking reports for hospital staff, that provide real-time reports about who has been to the operating room. RepScrubs offers healthcare facilities the monetary relief of having to supply scrub sets, coveralls, and lab coats to vendors visiting sterile departments. The RepScrubs program shifts this ongoing expense to the vendor and ensures every vendor entering a sterile patient care area is wearing clean scrubs dispensed from its onsite ScrubPort. RepScrubs was founded in 2013 and is based in Sanford, Florida, United States.

PikMyKid

Venture Round in 2017
PikMyKid is a comprehensive school safety system that ensures student safety & increases teacher efficiency while engaging over 85% of the parents & reducing traffic around schools. Main features include- dismissal automation, parent communication, liability mitigation, Safety Panic Button and Anonymous TipLine. PikMyKid is currently in 32 states and 6 different countries with over 250,000 users. PikMyKid has the ability to create the maximum socio-economic impact within the school community and improve safety at various levels at a minimal upfront cost. With PikMyKid, research has shown that schools have consistently observed reduced traffic congestion, increased carpooling among parents, and created safer processes for kids to walk home after-school, thus creating a more healthy and sustainable school communities.

AireHealth

Seed Round in 2019
AireHealth is a nebulizer and medical app that provides patient engagement and medication adherence tracking.

Elevated Careers

Angel Round in 2016
Elevated Careers is the first ever all-in-one employee engagement, employment branding, and hiring platform that can not only assess an organization's culture, but also match job candidates to companies based on culture, skills, and personality fit using the same methodology.

TAO Connect

Series A in 2016
TAO Connect, Inc. is committed to reducing mental health disparities by bringing affordable, effective, and accessible treatment to people who have had limited access in the past.