Global Founders Capital

Global Founders Capital (GFC) is a venture capital firm established in 2013 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The firm is stage agnostic, meaning it invests in companies at various stages of development, from early-stage ventures to those preparing for an initial public offering. GFC focuses on empowering talented entrepreneurs and seeks investment opportunities in sectors such as internet, retail, financial software, media, communication, and information technology. With a global perspective, GFC aims to support innovative companies across all continents.

Oliver Samwer

Co-Founder & Investor

Marc Samwer

Co-Founder & Advisor

Past deals in US East Coast

StepChange

Seed Round in 2023
StepChange is building a state-of-the-art urban sustainability platform that helps these environmentally conscious consumers to calculate, understand and track their environmental footprints using sophisticated science-based techniques. We guide our users through personalized missions to reduce their environmental impact, provide them with targeted opportunities to financially support best-in-class sustainability projects in their community (tree plantation, carbon capture, etc.) and offer curated access to certified sustainable brands.

Ranger Station

Seed Round in 2022
Ranger Station specializes in modernizing home insurance through a digital platform that enhances the capabilities of insurance agents. By offering a range of affordable and quality personal insurance products, Ranger Station aims to ensure the safety and security of households. The proprietary platform empowers agents to better serve their clients by providing essential tools and resources that facilitate education and informed decision-making regarding personal risk management. Through this approach, Ranger Station seeks to build stronger relationships between agents and customers, ultimately fostering a more secure environment for modern families.

Pebble

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of financial software designed to plan personal finance. The company's platform converts clients' cash into USDC, a digital stablecoin backed by traditional reserves of cash and treasuries, and holds cryptocurrencies, enabling users to get options that involve much less risk to deposit their fiat currency into their accounts.

Candor

Seed Round in 2022
Candor is a professional network focused on how people work, showing how someone is in Slack, whether they’re a morning person or night owl, and how they like to get feedback.

Onyx Private

Seed Round in 2022
Onyx Private is a modern and more accessible private bank for the new generation of young professionals, investors, and entrepreneurs. We offer a premium and digital banking experience with a white-glove concierge service for all your personal finance, wealth and lifestyle needs.

GamerGains Lab

Seed Round in 2022
GamerGains Labs is the first-ever token and cryptocurrency-based play and earn platform serving traditional gamers – a community of hundreds of millions of people around the world that enjoy playing on PCs and consoles such as Xbox and PlayStation. Offering an easy-to-use interface, the innovative platform will allow members to earn crypto with confidence through an automated contest lifecycle, which is impartial, transparent, and features instant payout settlement.

Shaped

Seed Round in 2022
Shaped is a software design firm founded in 2021 and based in New York. The company specializes in developing APIs that enhance content discovery, social feeds, and customer communication. Utilizing deep-learning technology, Shaped's platform incorporates artificial intelligence and machine learning to create personalized feeds, notifications, and recommendations for applications and websites. This enables businesses to better understand user engagement and preferences, ultimately driving increased interaction and potential sales.

Archbee

Seed Round in 2022
Archbee is an information technology company founded in 2019 and based in Delaware, United States. It specializes in providing developer tools focused on enhancing knowledge management and collaboration for engineering teams. The company's platform features a documentation portal that enables users to edit and collaborate on documents, integrate with communication tools like Slack, and manage tasks and challenges effectively. By facilitating real-time information sharing, Archbee supports engineers in their planning and project execution, ensuring that new employees can access vital knowledge and details efficiently.

Neura Health

Seed Round in 2022
Neura Health is a venture-backed startup with a mission to improve access and quality of care for neurologic conditions. Our longer-term vision is to find cures by learning from the experience of every neurology patient. We were inspired to create Neura because of two key problems in neurology: access and quality. Access is sub-par because there are not enough neurologists in the country, so the average wait time is 35 days, with patients often having to travel hours to access the right specialist. Quality is sub-par because diagnoses are currently based on self-reported data with significant recency bias.

Mantra Health

Series A in 2022
Mantra Health is a developer of a mental healthcare platform specifically designed to cater to students. The platform provides access to psychiatric care, free online assessments, and scheduled initial video consultations, allowing students to receive personalized care plans. By facilitating treatment in a comfortable and accessible manner, Mantra Health aims to enhance the mental well-being of students, making it easier for them to seek help and manage their mental health from the convenience of their homes.

Hyperscience

Series E in 2021
Hyperscience is a technology company that develops AI-based enterprise software designed to automate office work processes. The software uses machine learning to process structured and semi-structured documents, automate data entry, extract key details from invoices, and reconcile compliance-driven data to enable businesses to streamline complex processes automatically and increase productivity. It aims to modernize mission-critical processes and operations for organizations and governments. Krasimir Marinov, Peter Brodsky, and Vladimir Tzankov founded the company in 2014 and headquartered in New York, New York.

Dash

Convertible Note in 2021
Spektra is building APIs and tools that make it possible for businesses to accept and disburse Mobile Money payments from and to multiple providers and currencies within minutes, NOT months, without dealing with Mobile Network operators at all. With a few lines of code, a single tap or click, your customers can pay you with our seamless and easy to use products on the web, mobile, and in-app.

Parallel Learning

Seed Round in 2021
Parallel is the first tech-forward provider of learning assessments and treatment solutions for students with learning differences. The company specializes in virtual neurodevelopmental assessments, evidence-based instruction and therapy for conditions such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and executive dysfunction. Parallel enables students to get to the root of the problem and provides them the resources and encouragement to succeed in the classroom by helping them build confidence, strength and strategies to work around weaknesses.

Quo Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Nillify employs powerful data analytics to allow users to build a financial backup plan with just their data.

Velvet

Venture Round in 2021
Velvet is a liquidity platform for venture capital.

TalentHack

Series A in 2021
TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry. They exist to redefine what a career in fitness can be, by providing opportunities to propel you forward. It takes hours for companies to find a single potential lead, let alone a candidate. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, NY, United States

Dash

Venture Round in 2021
Spektra is building APIs and tools that make it possible for businesses to accept and disburse Mobile Money payments from and to multiple providers and currencies within minutes, NOT months, without dealing with Mobile Network operators at all. With a few lines of code, a single tap or click, your customers can pay you with our seamless and easy to use products on the web, mobile, and in-app.

Centaur Labs

Series A in 2021
Our platform uses trained professionals to analyze medical images and videos, enabling our customers to build new technologies and treatments to detect and fight disease.

Mixlab

Series A in 2021
Mixlab, Inc. is a compounding pharmacy that specializes in creating customized medications for pets. Founded in 2017 and located in New York, the company tailors medication ingredients, strengths, forms, and flavors to meet the unique needs of animals. By integrating advanced technology and focusing on customer experience, Mixlab enhances the processes for veterinarians while ensuring that pet owners receive personalized and satisfying care for their pets.

Bankuish

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bankuish is a technology platform where gig workers and freelancers leverage their work history data to demonstrate their creditworthiness. Users gain access to a marketplace of preapproved offers from national banks tailored to their unique profile as well as tools to grow their credit score. The company helps banks gain new customers, manage risk, and improve customer relationships. The Bankuish Score has been used to de-risk thousands of individuals while maintaining a default rate well below the industry standard. Bankuish was established in 2020 with its headquarters in New York City and Mexico City.

HonestRobin

Seed Round in 2021
HonestRobin provides financial education and access to no-interest cash advance and FDIC insured & high-interest saving accounts. Through our gamified tools and weekly rewards(upto $10 Million), We encourage users to save and invest.

Kafene

Series A in 2021
Kafene is a mission driven startup with the goal of empowering flexible ownership for the customers that need it most. Backed by some of the top VCs in fintech, Kafene brings flexible payment options to products like furniture, appliances, electronics, musical instruments, and jewelry while protecting consumers from the traps of traditional debt products. If a consumer can no longer make payments on their merchandise, Kafene understands. The consumer can simply return the item with no obligation and no residual debt. This freedom is powered by a best in class consumer facing technology platform that includes app-based point of sale virtual wallets and AI based underwriting.

Sundayapp

Seed Round in 2021
Sundayapp is a fully integrated solution built for restaurants, bars, pubs, cafés, and hotels customers to pay for their food via a QR code. It is built by restaurateurs for restaurateurs to connect the front and back-of-house operations and to deliver the fastest payment method. It was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

KUDO

Series A in 2021
KUDO, Inc., also known as Kudo Technologies, is a New York-based company that specializes in a multilingual online meetings platform. Founded in 2016, KUDO offers a language as a service (LaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) solution designed to facilitate global communication. The platform enables video conferencing with integrated support for interpreters and multiple audio streams, making it easier for teams and businesses to engage with diverse audiences. KUDO's offerings include multilingual live events, web conferencing, and language-ready tools that can be embedded into existing systems. The platform is accessible from standard computers and smartphones, allowing participants and interpreters to connect from anywhere in the world, thereby enhancing the ability of organizations to communicate effectively in multiple languages.

seer

Seed Round in 2021
A SaaS-based sales and communication platform for Luxury retailers that enables sales associates to seamlessly and meaningfully connect their customers to relevant inventory, enabling them to more easily reach and exceed their sales goals.

Parallel Learning

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Parallel is the first tech-forward provider of learning assessments and treatment solutions for students with learning differences. The company specializes in virtual neurodevelopmental assessments, evidence-based instruction and therapy for conditions such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and executive dysfunction. Parallel enables students to get to the root of the problem and provides them the resources and encouragement to succeed in the classroom by helping them build confidence, strength and strategies to work around weaknesses.

TalentHack

Seed Round in 2021
TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry. They exist to redefine what a career in fitness can be, by providing opportunities to propel you forward. It takes hours for companies to find a single potential lead, let alone a candidate. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, NY, United States

Arist

Seed Round in 2020
Arist Holdings, Inc. develops text message learning platform. The company serves to Fortune 500 companies and governments to teach and train employees, entirely via text message. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Welcome Homes

Seed Round in 2020
Welcome Homes is an online residential real estate platform founded in 2020 and based in New York, New York. The company specializes in the design, customization, and sale of contemporary residential properties, allowing home buyers to engage in the building process. By offering a more seamless and transparent approach to home buying, Welcome Homes aims to transform the traditional real estate experience, making it easier for individuals to realize their home ownership dreams.

Welcome

Seed Round in 2020
Welcome designs and develops offer management and compensation platform for human resource (HR) team. Its platform helps to collaborate, approve workflow across the team, access real time insights, get notifications on candidate engagement, and set clear expectations about the role, compensation, equity, benefits, and mission. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in New York, New York.

Arist

Seed Round in 2020
Arist Holdings, Inc. develops text message learning platform. The company serves to Fortune 500 companies and governments to teach and train employees, entirely via text message. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Recora Health

Seed Round in 2020
Recora Health is a healthcare platform established in 2020 and headquartered in New York, USA, that focuses on cardiac recovery for older adults. The company provides a comprehensive approach to rehabilitation, combining coaching, guided exercise, and personalized care to support individuals recovering from cardiac events. By facilitating recovery at home, Recora Health aims to help patients regain confidence, foster community connections, and enhance motivation during their rehabilitation journey. The platform addresses various barriers that may hinder patients' ability to maintain their health, ultimately promoting a holistic integration of exercise, wellness, and medical care tailored to those in need.

Welcome

Seed Round in 2020
Welcome designs and develops offer management and compensation platform for human resource (HR) team. Its platform helps to collaborate, approve workflow across the team, access real time insights, get notifications on candidate engagement, and set clear expectations about the role, compensation, equity, benefits, and mission. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in New York, New York.

KUDO

Seed Round in 2020
KUDO, Inc., also known as Kudo Technologies, is a New York-based company that specializes in a multilingual online meetings platform. Founded in 2016, KUDO offers a language as a service (LaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) solution designed to facilitate global communication. The platform enables video conferencing with integrated support for interpreters and multiple audio streams, making it easier for teams and businesses to engage with diverse audiences. KUDO's offerings include multilingual live events, web conferencing, and language-ready tools that can be embedded into existing systems. The platform is accessible from standard computers and smartphones, allowing participants and interpreters to connect from anywhere in the world, thereby enhancing the ability of organizations to communicate effectively in multiple languages.

Baton

Series A in 2020
Baton Technologies, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in business software automation. Founded in 2018, it offers a software-as-a-service platform designed to streamline and manage the software implementation process for clients. Baton aims to enhance the post-sales implementation experience by providing tools that facilitate organization and communication, particularly through the use of email, spreadsheets, and regular updates. As an early-stage startup, Baton focuses on improving efficiency in the implementation phase, allowing customers to navigate the complexities of software deployment more effectively.

Goodpath

Seed Round in 2020
Goodpath is a telehealth startup based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, dedicated to assisting individuals in managing common health conditions. The company offers personalized self-care programs designed to enhance the lives of those dealing with chronic conditions. These programs are tailored based on individual lifestyle and health history, incorporating aspects such as nutrition and supplements, fitness, mindfulness, and guidance. By providing doctor-approved treatments, Goodpath aims to enable users to follow effective health strategies and achieve improved health outcomes.

Tarci

Seed Round in 2020
Tarci, founded in 2018 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, specializes in providing sales and marketing insights through big data and artificial intelligence. The company focuses on delivering leads that enhance B2B sales by enabling users to effectively target their ideal audience. Tarci's solutions assist businesses in engaging prospects before they begin their purchasing journey, facilitating quicker customer onboarding, identifying at-risk customers, and mitigating accounts receivable challenges. By offering a seamless approach tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, Tarci helps sales and marketing teams connect with customers at optimal times, leading to significantly improved outcomes.

Bravo Sierra

Series A in 2020
Bravo Sierra is the first military-native performance wellness company, pioneering a user-driven performance personal care and nutrition organization developed within the U.S. military community. Powered by the insight generated through social manufacturing including direct collaboration with its core community of 1,000 U.S. military active duty service members, the company delivers performance goods with unprecedented responsiveness and accuracy for those who serve and for the benefit of all. Designed to support and enhance today's ultra-active lifestyle and engineered with critically relevant innovation and stress-tested in the field, the products include first-to-market technologies and formulas that are clean, vegan, and cruelty-free. Bravo Sierra is built around a revenue share model contributing 5% of all sales to the Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) program, which offers a complete range of community support and quality of life programs for members of the U.S. Armed Forces, their families, retirees, and veterans.

CUUP

Series A in 2020
CUUP Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in manufacturing and selling bras for women through online channels. Founded in 2017 by Kearnon O'Molony and Abby Morgan, CUUP focuses on providing a collection of flattering, comfortable, and unrestrictive bras designed for all women. The company's mission emphasizes the importance of comfort, fit, and aesthetic, aiming to deliver essential lingerie that meets the diverse needs of its customers.

Life House

Series B in 2020
Life House is creating a network of lifestyle hotels that are more experiential and more affordable through a powerful software-enabled brand & management platform. Our proprietary software materially reduces the costs of operating a hotel and increases revenues, delivering superior returns to our hotel owners (we do not own or invest in real estate).

Otherland

Seed Round in 2019
Otherland is a direct-to-consumer company that specializes in manufacturing scented candles. Established in 2017 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the brand focuses on creating products that enhance the ambiance of homes through unique fragrances. Otherland retails its candles online via its website, aiming to provide customers with an expressive and immersive sensory experience.

Knotel

Series C in 2019
Knotel is a flexible workspace platform that provides tailored office solutions for established and growing companies. Founded in 2016, Knotel aims to offer businesses the flexibility to scale according to their unique needs. With over 5 million square feet of space across more than 300 locations worldwide, Knotel is focused on transforming commercial real estate. The company employs an in-house team of architects, interior designers, and workplace strategists to customize each workspace, allowing clients to concentrate on their core operations and culture.

Bravo Sierra

Seed Round in 2019
Bravo Sierra is the first military-native performance wellness company, pioneering a user-driven performance personal care and nutrition organization developed within the U.S. military community. Powered by the insight generated through social manufacturing including direct collaboration with its core community of 1,000 U.S. military active duty service members, the company delivers performance goods with unprecedented responsiveness and accuracy for those who serve and for the benefit of all. Designed to support and enhance today's ultra-active lifestyle and engineered with critically relevant innovation and stress-tested in the field, the products include first-to-market technologies and formulas that are clean, vegan, and cruelty-free. Bravo Sierra is built around a revenue share model contributing 5% of all sales to the Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) program, which offers a complete range of community support and quality of life programs for members of the U.S. Armed Forces, their families, retirees, and veterans.

Verb Energy

Seed Round in 2019
Verb Energy, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in Lexington, Massachusetts, specializes in the production of caffeinated energy bars. The company's flagship product, the Verb Caffeinated Energy Bar, is designed to provide a healthy and convenient source of energy. Each bar incorporates caffeine derived from organic green tea, combined with carbohydrates and protein to ensure prolonged energy release. Verb Energy aims to deliver tasty and nutritious energy products that cater to a wide audience, promoting a lifestyle of health and vitality while remaining affordable.

Mixlab

Seed Round in 2019
Mixlab, Inc. is a compounding pharmacy that specializes in creating customized medications for pets. Founded in 2017 and located in New York, the company tailors medication ingredients, strengths, forms, and flavors to meet the unique needs of animals. By integrating advanced technology and focusing on customer experience, Mixlab enhances the processes for veterinarians while ensuring that pet owners receive personalized and satisfying care for their pets.

Centaur Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Our platform uses trained professionals to analyze medical images and videos, enabling our customers to build new technologies and treatments to detect and fight disease.

Away

Series D in 2019
Away is a modern travel and lifestyle brand. The company is a vertically-integrated company offering beautiful, high-quality luggage at an affordable price point. Away designs special objects for modern travel. It started with luggage, designed with thoughtful features that solve real travel problems—for life. Now all that’s left is the world in front of you and the people you share it with. Because getting Away means getting more out of every trip to come.

TheGuarantors

Series B in 2019
TheGuarantors is a FinTech company that offers innovative risk and financial solutions for the real estate ecosystem. With a focus on data and industry expertise in real estate, risk, and finance, TheGuarantors has created winning opportunities for landlords, leasing staff, brokers, renters, and tenants by taking the risk out of the leasing process and making it more efficient at the same time. While Guaranti solves for risk on the multifamily side, Securiti is bringing office landlords and tenants closer together by making the security package cheaper and easier to buy. We are rethinking industry inefficiencies and market needs to create solutions where everyone wins. TheGuarantors were named to CNBC's 2018 Upstart 100 list of promising startups to watch.

Solidus Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Solidus Labs, Inc. develops a market surveillance and compliance software that detects, addresses, investigates, and reports market manipulations in digital asset trading. The company's software utilizes machine learning and offers case management, alerting, multi-layered customizability, and regulatory reporting services. It caters to digital asset broker dealers, market makers, hedge funds, and centralized and decentralized exchanges. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York City, New York.

Hyperscience

Series B in 2019
Hyperscience is a technology company that develops AI-based enterprise software designed to automate office work processes. The software uses machine learning to process structured and semi-structured documents, automate data entry, extract key details from invoices, and reconcile compliance-driven data to enable businesses to streamline complex processes automatically and increase productivity. It aims to modernize mission-critical processes and operations for organizations and governments. Krasimir Marinov, Peter Brodsky, and Vladimir Tzankov founded the company in 2014 and headquartered in New York, New York.

Mantra Health

Seed Round in 2019
Mantra Health is a developer of a mental healthcare platform specifically designed to cater to students. The platform provides access to psychiatric care, free online assessments, and scheduled initial video consultations, allowing students to receive personalized care plans. By facilitating treatment in a comfortable and accessible manner, Mantra Health aims to enhance the mental well-being of students, making it easier for them to seek help and manage their mental health from the convenience of their homes.

REZI

Series A in 2018
REZI a rental company that uses our proprietary analytics, technology and financial products to improve the rental experience for landlords and tenants alike.

Away

Series C in 2018
Away is a modern travel and lifestyle brand. The company is a vertically-integrated company offering beautiful, high-quality luggage at an affordable price point. Away designs special objects for modern travel. It started with luggage, designed with thoughtful features that solve real travel problems—for life. Now all that’s left is the world in front of you and the people you share it with. Because getting Away means getting more out of every trip to come.

Boatsetter

Series A in 2018
Boatsetter is a boat rental community connecting boat owners, boat captains, and anyone who seeks a water-full experience. Boatsetter.com offers a unique Boat sharing marketplace that will, for the first time, make boat rentals accessible to consumers regardless of their boating experience. We have created a catalyst for growth by unlocking the 95% idle capacity of privately owned vessels, which in turn helps boat owners realize returns on their boat investments. Our distinct approach combines best-in-class collaborative market tools from companies like Airbnb (home rentals) and Uber (professional drivers) to create the only model capable of bringing the “new sharing economy” to the marine industry. We’ve assembled a uniquely qualified team of marine professionals, tech start-up veterans, and car rental industry experts to bring today’s collaborative “sharing” economy to the boating industry. We have significant traction and have established a national network of marine-industry businesses that are partnering with us on an exclusive basis to roll out the platform in the US.

Quadpay

Seed Round in 2018
Quadpay (ASX: Z1P) is a leading US-based installment payment platform, providing consumers with a simple, transparent, and financially responsible alternative to traditional credit. Quadpay is reinventing the payments landscape with its focus on innovation and customer-centricity, enabling more than millions of customers to pay in four interest-free installments over six weeks. The company’s market-leading app enables seamless integration for merchants and the ability for customers to shop online and in-store interest-free, not just with Quadpay’s thousands of integrated merchants, but with leading global retailers.

SidelineSwap

Series A in 2018
SidelineSwap, LLC operates an online marketplace to buy, sell, and trade sporting goods. The company offers lacrosse, hockey, soccer, skiing, baseball, softball, basketball, football, golf, snowboarding, and other sports products. It offers new, used, and vintage apparel, electronics, field hockey, figure skating, fitness, racquet sports, running, and skateboarding products. SidelineSwap, LLC was founded in 2012 and is based in Franklin Square, New York.

Fithouse

Seed Round in 2018
Provider of fitness studio-style programs intended to make fancy fitness classes affordable. The company's fitness studio offers yoga, dance, high-intensity interval training, pilates and barre classes all under one roof, conducted by instructors from top studios, enabling users to get access to convenient, flexible exercise and stay fit at an affordable cost.

Life House

Series A in 2018
Life House is creating a network of lifestyle hotels that are more experiential and more affordable through a powerful software-enabled brand & management platform. Our proprietary software materially reduces the costs of operating a hotel and increases revenues, delivering superior returns to our hotel owners (we do not own or invest in real estate).

Verb Energy

Seed Round in 2018
Verb Energy, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in Lexington, Massachusetts, specializes in the production of caffeinated energy bars. The company's flagship product, the Verb Caffeinated Energy Bar, is designed to provide a healthy and convenient source of energy. Each bar incorporates caffeine derived from organic green tea, combined with carbohydrates and protein to ensure prolonged energy release. Verb Energy aims to deliver tasty and nutritious energy products that cater to a wide audience, promoting a lifestyle of health and vitality while remaining affordable.

SidelineSwap

Seed Round in 2017
SidelineSwap, LLC operates an online marketplace to buy, sell, and trade sporting goods. The company offers lacrosse, hockey, soccer, skiing, baseball, softball, basketball, football, golf, snowboarding, and other sports products. It offers new, used, and vintage apparel, electronics, field hockey, figure skating, fitness, racquet sports, running, and skateboarding products. SidelineSwap, LLC was founded in 2012 and is based in Franklin Square, New York.

Life House

Seed Round in 2017
Life House is creating a network of lifestyle hotels that are more experiential and more affordable through a powerful software-enabled brand & management platform. Our proprietary software materially reduces the costs of operating a hotel and increases revenues, delivering superior returns to our hotel owners (we do not own or invest in real estate).

TheGuarantors

Series A in 2017
TheGuarantors is a FinTech company that offers innovative risk and financial solutions for the real estate ecosystem. With a focus on data and industry expertise in real estate, risk, and finance, TheGuarantors has created winning opportunities for landlords, leasing staff, brokers, renters, and tenants by taking the risk out of the leasing process and making it more efficient at the same time. While Guaranti solves for risk on the multifamily side, Securiti is bringing office landlords and tenants closer together by making the security package cheaper and easier to buy. We are rethinking industry inefficiencies and market needs to create solutions where everyone wins. TheGuarantors were named to CNBC's 2018 Upstart 100 list of promising startups to watch.

Dynamic Yield

Series C in 2017
Dynamic Yield Ltd. is a technology company that specializes in an AI-powered personalization platform designed to enhance customer engagement by delivering individualized experiences across various touchpoints, including web, mobile, email, kiosks, and IoT devices. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company's platform integrates data management capabilities that provide a unified view of the customer, enabling marketers to create highly targeted digital interactions. Dynamic Yield's solutions encompass areas such as segmentation, omnichannel personalization, optimization, behavioral messaging, and product recommendations. The platform allows users to launch personalization campaigns, conduct A/B testing, and utilize machine learning for smartly triggered communications. Serving over 300 brands globally, Dynamic Yield caters to diverse industries, including e-commerce, media, travel, and gaming, as well as B2C and B2B markets. As of March 2019, Dynamic Yield operates as a subsidiary of McDonald's Corporation.

Revere

Seed Round in 2017
Revere is a sports nutrition company focused on providing natural, plant-based products designed for both elite athletes and casual fitness enthusiasts. The company's offerings include energy drink powders that are vegan, non-GMO, and free from gluten, soy, and dairy, featuring ingredients such as sweet potato, pomegranate, beetroot, and green tea. These formulations aim to enhance performance, aid in recovery, and reduce soreness, allowing consumers to achieve their fitness goals effectively. Revere operates as a direct-to-consumer business, delivering its products in convenient single-serving packets to ensure accessibility and ease of use. With a commitment to quality and a mission to optimize human performance, Revere is actively addressing the growing nutritional supplement market. The company has successfully secured funding to support its innovative approach to nutrition for modern fitness.

Away

Series B in 2017
Away is a modern travel and lifestyle brand. The company is a vertically-integrated company offering beautiful, high-quality luggage at an affordable price point. Away designs special objects for modern travel. It started with luggage, designed with thoughtful features that solve real travel problems—for life. Now all that’s left is the world in front of you and the people you share it with. Because getting Away means getting more out of every trip to come.

Goldbelly

Series A in 2017
Goldbelly is an online platform for specialty food makers and artisans. Goldbelly's online marketplace connects local food providers to eaters and sources iconic, regional, and local foods from all kinds of cuisines across the country with tools for ordering and doorstep delivery, allowing small businesses to reach new customers and grow their revenue.

Knotel

Series A in 2017
Knotel is a flexible workspace platform that provides tailored office solutions for established and growing companies. Founded in 2016, Knotel aims to offer businesses the flexibility to scale according to their unique needs. With over 5 million square feet of space across more than 300 locations worldwide, Knotel is focused on transforming commercial real estate. The company employs an in-house team of architects, interior designers, and workplace strategists to customize each workspace, allowing clients to concentrate on their core operations and culture.

Fithouse

Angel Round in 2017
Provider of fitness studio-style programs intended to make fancy fitness classes affordable. The company's fitness studio offers yoga, dance, high-intensity interval training, pilates and barre classes all under one roof, conducted by instructors from top studios, enabling users to get access to convenient, flexible exercise and stay fit at an affordable cost.

Dynamic Yield

Series C in 2016
Dynamic Yield Ltd. is a technology company that specializes in an AI-powered personalization platform designed to enhance customer engagement by delivering individualized experiences across various touchpoints, including web, mobile, email, kiosks, and IoT devices. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company's platform integrates data management capabilities that provide a unified view of the customer, enabling marketers to create highly targeted digital interactions. Dynamic Yield's solutions encompass areas such as segmentation, omnichannel personalization, optimization, behavioral messaging, and product recommendations. The platform allows users to launch personalization campaigns, conduct A/B testing, and utilize machine learning for smartly triggered communications. Serving over 300 brands globally, Dynamic Yield caters to diverse industries, including e-commerce, media, travel, and gaming, as well as B2C and B2B markets. As of March 2019, Dynamic Yield operates as a subsidiary of McDonald's Corporation.

SidelineSwap

Seed Round in 2016
SidelineSwap, LLC operates an online marketplace to buy, sell, and trade sporting goods. The company offers lacrosse, hockey, soccer, skiing, baseball, softball, basketball, football, golf, snowboarding, and other sports products. It offers new, used, and vintage apparel, electronics, field hockey, figure skating, fitness, racquet sports, running, and skateboarding products. SidelineSwap, LLC was founded in 2012 and is based in Franklin Square, New York.

Away

Series A in 2016
Away is a modern travel and lifestyle brand. The company is a vertically-integrated company offering beautiful, high-quality luggage at an affordable price point. Away designs special objects for modern travel. It started with luggage, designed with thoughtful features that solve real travel problems—for life. Now all that’s left is the world in front of you and the people you share it with. Because getting Away means getting more out of every trip to come.

AND CO

Seed Round in 2016
AND CO is a smartphone-based application that enables its users to create invoices, file expenses, and manage projects. The application creates its users invoices for them, tracks their payments, and keeps track of their billing schedules. It also connects with its clients’ business bank accounts to automatically track, reconcile, and categorize their expenses. AND CO facilitates a portfolio of services such as serving as a personal chief operator, simplifying tax time and invoicing, and the provision of automated expense tracking and day-to-day advice on deductions.

Angel.ai

Series A in 2015
Founded in February 2015, GoButler is a messaging-based, on-demand service that operates as a digital personal assistant, using Human Assisted Artificial Intelligence (HAAI) to fulfill requests 24/7, 365 days a year. GoButler takes the time and inconvenience out of everyday tasks, fulfilling on-demand requests, from food delivery and travel bookings to restaurant reservations and more. GoButler searches the web, compares prices, reads reviews and orders, using the best services at the most reasonable costs. The service saves users valuable time, getting them the things they need, when they want them, all conveniently via text message. In September 2016, there were rumors that Angel.ai had been acquired by Amazon. An Amazon spokesperson however stated on 21 September 2016: “Amazon did not acquire Angel.ai. We made an individual hire of [former Angel.ai CEO] Navid Hadzaad. His title is Product Lead, New Initiatives.”

Highwinds

Venture Round in 2008
Highwinds Network Group, Inc. is a prominent provider of content delivery network (CDN), storage, analytics, and cloud-based IP services. Founded in 2002 and based in Winter Park, Florida, the company offers a variety of solutions to enhance content delivery, including HTTP caching, secure delivery of digital assets, and a programmable CDN with custom logic. Highwinds also features specialized platforms such as a Game Delivery Network for online games and EveryStream for over-the-top video delivery. Their Highwinds Cloud Storage supports online storage needs, while Full Site Acceleration optimizes the delivery of multimedia content. The company serves diverse sectors, including media, gaming, advertising, and software, catering to both domestic and international clients. As of 2017, Highwinds operates as a subsidiary of StackPath, LLC.