Social Leverage

Social Leverage invests in exceptional entrepreneurs in the technology space. We partner with promising companies, bringing our own entrepreneurial expertise, relationships, and marketing experience to the fore. Our portfolio companies benefit from our hands on involvement in all stages of development. More pointedly, social leverage is about leveraging our extensive network of industry relationships and expertise to help grow great companies and build great products. We are actively investing across the US. Our typical investment size is 500,000 to 750,000. We look for a strong management team, and investment premise that caters to powerful demographic trends, visibility on revenue models, and an investment group we can be proud of; in some cases, we will be happy to put together that group.

Gary Benitt

Managing Partner

Howard Lindzon

Founder, Managing Partner

Tom Peterson

Founder, Managing Partner

128 past transactions

Carpay

Series A in 2021
Carpay automates loan servicing for Buy Here Pay Here (BHPH) dealers, and gives BHPH borrowers transparency and control over their auto loans.

ADstruc

Seed Round in 2010
ADstruc is an Out-of-Home media specialist bringing unprecedented ease and efficiency to media planning and buying. The company's comprehensive workflow software, Drive, automates OOH planning for agencies and advertisers. Project X, ADstruc’s managed services division, provides an innovative, audience-focused approach to outdoor advertising, leveraging data for brands to build awareness and increase engagement with consumers. ADstruc was established in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

Desk.com

Series B in 2011
Desk.com is an online customer service software and support ticket help desk application for small business and fast-growing companies. It offers its application for e-mail, social media, chat, discussion board, and phone support. The company provides its collaboration tools and mobile application to solve customer problems. Formerly known as Assistly, Desk.com was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. It operates as a subsidiary of Salesforce.com, Inc..

beehiiv

Seed Round in 2022
Beehiiv is the publishing and newsletter platform built by creators for creators.

Nayya

Series A in 2021
Nayya uses AI and data science to personalize the way that employees choose and use their existing employee benefits. The company's platform analyzes millions of provider data points to make Smart Recommendations for a given procedure and network while providing doctors with the details of patients upon arrival, thereby enabling customers to have access to high quality, low-cost care.

Secfi

Series A in 2019
Secfi, Inc. provides pre-wealth advisory solutions. It offers options exercise and shareholder financing solutions. The company also provides equity planning tools that provide recommendations to help private company shareholders make financial decisions for their equity from offer to IPO. Secfi, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Distil, Inc.

Series A in 2013
Distil Networks specializes in bot detection and mitigation focused on stopping automated attacks to make the web more secure. With Distil, users can automatically block 99.9% of malicious traffic without impacting legitimate users. Distil web security defends websites against web scraping, competitive data mining, account takeovers, transaction fraud, unauthorized vulnerability scans, spam, man-in-the-middle attacks, digital ad fraud, and denial of service. Distil API Security protects public and partner-facing APIs against developer errors, integration bugs, automated scraping, and web and mobile hijacking. Distil Analyst Managed Service brings human intelligence to the science of bot mitigation.

1upHealth

Seed Round in 2019
1upHealth is a health-tech company that builds products for the future of healthcare where value-based care, along with patient and provider applications are the norm. It aims to bridge the gap between patient-centered data and provider needs by using patient-generated data to enable applications to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs. Founded in 2017, 1upHealth is based in Boston, MA.

Rally

Series A in 2018
Rally is an app that allows members of all income levels to buy and sell equity shares in collectible assets including sports cards & memorabilia, classic cars, graded comic books, vintage watches, wine, first edition literature, and one-of-a-kind investment-grade items from the past and present. The company is driven by a mission to democratize alternative investments like these, providing access, liquidity, and transparency to markets that have traditionally only been available to a select few. Rally Rd. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

Koyfin

Seed Round in 2019
Koyfin, Inc. operates an online financial data and analytics platform that provides market insights through tools focused on dashboards, graphs, and other data visualizations to financial and investment professionals. Its platform enables investors to track and understand macro data across various asset classes, including equities, exchange-traded funds (ETF), mutual funds, fixed income, indices, currencies, commodities, and global economic data. Koyfin, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Email Copilot

Seed Round in 2013
Embarke increases engagement and revenue for marketers with 15 minutes of integration and a simple click of a button. We automatically deliver messages when each individual user is most likely to engage, and with content they actually care about. This optimization is automatic (set-it-and-forget-it), and has resulted in 5%-20% increases in opens and clicks.

StayTuned

Seed Round in 2019
StayTuned Digital, Inc. provides content delivery services to content creators. The company’s services include platforms integrations, content marketing, and analyzing the impact across content types and channels. StayTuned Digital, Inc. is headquartered in New York, New York.

Robinhood

Series B in 2015
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application. Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt established the company in Menlo Park, California in 2013.

Email Copilot

Seed Round in 2013
Embarke increases engagement and revenue for marketers with 15 minutes of integration and a simple click of a button. We automatically deliver messages when each individual user is most likely to engage, and with content they actually care about. This optimization is automatic (set-it-and-forget-it), and has resulted in 5%-20% increases in opens and clicks.

TRIPP

Series A in 2021
TRIPP inc. develops and offers a virtual reality (VR) game, or experience that focuses on changing the way a person feels. The product/ experience have a combination of audio and visual elements, gameplay mechanics, and meditation. It taps into research that shows that digital and interactive experiences can have an effect on the brain. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California with a satellite development office in Chicago, Illinois.

Kustomer

Series B in 2018
Kustomer is the omnichannel SaaS CRM platform reimagining enterprise customer service to deliver standout experiences. It scales to meet the needs of any contact center and business by unifying data from multiple sources, enabling companies to deliver service and support through a single timeline view. Kustomer is the core platform of some of the leading customer service brands like Ring, Glovo, Glossier, Sweetgreen, Away, Rent the Runway, and UNTUCKit. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

SparkFin

Angel Round in 2015
SparkFin is a San Diego, California based fintech company that created the first natively mobile stock discovery platform to instantly create, share, and find stock ideas. According to a statement, the firm will continue its operations and join the pre-existing StockTwits San Diego team.

Betaworks

Series B in 2010
Founded in 2008, Betaworks is a New York-based private equity firm, targeting early-stage investments in technology companies.

Bitly

Series A in 2009
Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels. Through branded bitlinks, mobile deep linking, and omnichannel campaign tracking, the platform offers a complete marketing solution to drive customer experiences. Using HTTP 301 redirects for its links, companies can use their own custom domains to generate shortened links. This allows the company to push brand awareness on services such as Twitter but use the Bitly engine to generate the shortened URLs and track marketing metrics. Bitly was launched in July 2008 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver.

Apptentive

Seed Round in 2012
Apptentive, Inc. develops a mobile customer engagement software/customer feedback and analytics platform that helps companies to listen to, engage with, and retain their customers. Its software gives brands a way to identify who to talk to, engage user segments, and mobilize customers to take action through in-app messages, surveys, ratings prompts, notes, and analytics. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Ticketfly

Series A in 2010
Ticketfly, a subsidiary of Eventbrite, is a technology company reimagining the live event experience for promoters and fans. Its powerful ticketing, digital marketing, and analytics software helps promoters sell more tickets, streamline operations, and increase revenue per attendee, while its consumer tools make it easy for fans to find and purchase tickets to great events across North America. Since 2008, more than 1,200 leading venues and promoters have partnered with Ticketfly, including Merriweather Post Pavilion, the Brooklyn Bowl, Central Park SummerStage, Pitchfork Music Festival, and Burning Man. Ticketfly is led by Andrew Dreskin, co-founder of TicketWeb, the first company to ever sell tickets online. In 2014, Ticketfly crossed the $1B mark in transaction volume and in 2015 it was named one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies in Music." On October 7, 2015, Ticketfly announced its acquisition by music streaming service Pandora in a $335 million cash and stock deal. On June 9th, 2017, Pandora sold Ticketfly to its largest competitor, Eventbrite for $200 million.

WHIFF Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
WHIFF, Inc. provides fragrances for celebrities, influencers, and brands. It sells its products online. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Diego, California.

Revolv

Seed Round in 2012
Revolv is a monitoring and control system that allows users to control their connected devices from a single hub. It provides a home monitoring and control solution that connects various wirelessly-enabled household items. The solution connects hundreds of wirelessly-enabled household items that are readily available from retailers such as Amazon, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Best Buy, and intelligently integrates them regardless of different manufacturers or wireless protocols used. Revolv’s gateway and web services allow homeowners to manage and control their devices from their smartphones, home, or away. The company’s cloud-based software connects with various wireless products such as lights, locks, sensors, and streaming entertainment systems; and enables consumers to setup communicating products, and automate and control them from an application on various mobile devices. Revolv was formerly was founded in 2012 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Kustomer

Seed Round in 2015
Kustomer is the omnichannel SaaS CRM platform reimagining enterprise customer service to deliver standout experiences. It scales to meet the needs of any contact center and business by unifying data from multiple sources, enabling companies to deliver service and support through a single timeline view. Kustomer is the core platform of some of the leading customer service brands like Ring, Glovo, Glossier, Sweetgreen, Away, Rent the Runway, and UNTUCKit. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Stackin'

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Stackin' is the simplest entry point into finance with over one million subscribers and a mission to empower people to improve their financial lives via text message. Stackin' provides the necessary tools & curated products for a younger generation of consumers to build healthy financial habits over time in a fun, entertaining, judgement-free relationship. Powered by a custom messaging platform, data, machine learning and human touch, their personalized messages educate subscribers on how to save money, reduce debt and start investing.

Videolicious

Venture Round in 2013
Videolicious is the pioneer of video automation, transforming personalities into powerful messages for enterprise b2b sales and marketing organizations.

BillGuard

Series A in 2010
BillGuard was a personal finance company that developed a mobile app enabling users to better control and secure their money. Available on both iOS and Android platforms, the application enabled users to access detailed spend analytics, credit scores, charge details, transaction maps, and data breach alerts in one smart box. The app also drew upon a combination of crowdsourced feedback from its users, data from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, complaints posted across the internet, and its own algorithms to determine what charges to bring to users’ attention via email and smartphone push alerts. Founded in April 2010 by serial entrepreneur Yaron Samid and Raphael Ouzan, the company was based in New York and Tel Aviv and was acquired by Prosper Marketplace in Oct 2015 for $45M.

Life360

Series A in 2011
Life360, Inc. develops and delivers a mobile application in the United States and internationally. It offers Life360 application for families that provides communications, driving safety, and location sharing information. The company was formerly known as LReady, Inc. and changed its name to Life360, Inc. in October 2011. Life360, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ONtheGO Platforms

Seed Round in 2014
OnTheGo Platforms, Inc. provides gesture-recognition software for smartglasses and other mobile devices. It offers BrainWave, an Ari-powered app that allows users to control music players; Ari, which uses proprietary computer vision software to turn any Android device with a camera into a virtual touch interface; and Ari SDK, which integrates into applications allowing users to control an array of devices and applications with natural hand gestures. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. As of 2015, OnTheGo Platforms, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Atheer, Inc.

Desk.com

Series A in 2010
Desk.com is an online customer service software and support ticket help desk application for small business and fast-growing companies. It offers its application for e-mail, social media, chat, discussion board, and phone support. The company provides its collaboration tools and mobile application to solve customer problems. Formerly known as Assistly, Desk.com was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. It operates as a subsidiary of Salesforce.com, Inc..

Retrofit

Venture Round in 2012
Retrofit, Inc. provides personalized and holistic weight management solutions and disease prevention products that transform lives and workplaces. It offers metabolic syndrome, diabetes prevention, healthy weight, healthy living, personalized coaching, smart app and dashboard, self-monitoring devices, interactive classes, and online community solutions. The company serves employers and individuals. Retrofit, Inc. was formerly known as Strong Suit Wellness LLC. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of April 17, 2018, Retrofit, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Livongo Health, Inc.

Logixboard

Series A in 2021
Logixboard is a cloud platform transforming how the $2 trillion freight forwarding industry operates. Firms currently use paper, spreadsheets, and email to track their customers’ shipments and provide visibility to shippers. They are encumbered by low-tech, hard-to-use solutions that are inefficient and costly. Logixboard's platform integrates with existing back-office applications and serves as a digital customer engagement layer, empowering freight forwarders to do their work more efficiently. It helps companies better manage and control their freight operations.

Secfi

Seed Round in 2018
Secfi, Inc. provides pre-wealth advisory solutions. It offers options exercise and shareholder financing solutions. The company also provides equity planning tools that provide recommendations to help private company shareholders make financial decisions for their equity from offer to IPO. Secfi, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

FullContact

Seed Round in 2011
FullContact create an amazing customer experience with SaaS-based identity resolution and consumer insights. Using unique data insights and a patented identity graph, they enable brands to create a sustainable advantage by improving their customer experience across all touchpoints. They resolve identities across internal silos and enrich contact records with unparalleled data dimensions so brands can instantly recognize and authentically engage with their customers across channels.

ProducePay

Seed Round in 2015
Produce Pay was first conceived at Cornell University. With strong support from experienced faculty and the student body, it was able to rapidly gain momentum. Produce Pay obtained recognition from Cornell’s entrepreneurial community and was soon dubbed "The Next Johnson Start-Up," in reference to Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management.

1upHealth

Series A in 2020
1upHealth is a health-tech company that builds products for the future of healthcare where value-based care, along with patient and provider applications are the norm. It aims to bridge the gap between patient-centered data and provider needs by using patient-generated data to enable applications to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs. Founded in 2017, 1upHealth is based in Boston, MA.

DailyWorth

Venture Round in 2011
DailyWorth.com, Inc. operates a platform to receive daily emails filled with financial and career advice, thought-provoking articles, and an occasional kick in the pants for women. It sends emails on money, including tips on savings, investing, credit and debt, taxes, insurance, and real estate; work, such as career advice, job search, negotiating, running a business, and freelancing; and life, which include finding a balance, education, health, travel, inspiration, and giving. The company also sends family advice, including marriage, kids, relationships, and elder care services; retirement tips, including estate planning and IRA and 401 (K); and tools, such as MoneyClarity, MoneyType, and WorthFM; and digital reviews. DailyWorth.com, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York.

Stocktwits

Series B in 2021
StockTwits, Inc. operates a financial communications platform for the financial and investing community to share ideas, news, and information. The company offers StockTwits, a specialized communications platform built around individual stock tickers that provides a natural channel to ensure that companies get their messages out, as well as $TICKER streams that consist of ideas, links, charts, and other financial data. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in New York, New York.

Unbounce

Venture Round in 2011
Unbounce Marketing Solutions Inc. provides self-serve hosted services that enable marketers to create, publish, and test landing pages. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Blog Talk Radio

Series B in 2010
BlogTalkRadio, founded in 2006, is a site where anyone can set up a podcast or "radio talkshow" over the web. Users are given a phone number and can allow anyone to join (and optionally participate) in the call.

Ticketfly

Series B in 2011
Ticketfly, a subsidiary of Eventbrite, is a technology company reimagining the live event experience for promoters and fans. Its powerful ticketing, digital marketing, and analytics software helps promoters sell more tickets, streamline operations, and increase revenue per attendee, while its consumer tools make it easy for fans to find and purchase tickets to great events across North America. Since 2008, more than 1,200 leading venues and promoters have partnered with Ticketfly, including Merriweather Post Pavilion, the Brooklyn Bowl, Central Park SummerStage, Pitchfork Music Festival, and Burning Man. Ticketfly is led by Andrew Dreskin, co-founder of TicketWeb, the first company to ever sell tickets online. In 2014, Ticketfly crossed the $1B mark in transaction volume and in 2015 it was named one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies in Music." On October 7, 2015, Ticketfly announced its acquisition by music streaming service Pandora in a $335 million cash and stock deal. On June 9th, 2017, Pandora sold Ticketfly to its largest competitor, Eventbrite for $200 million.

TrueFacet

Series A in 2016
TrueFacet, Inc. operates an online marketplace for buying and selling jewelry and watches. The company offers new and pre-owned rings, earrings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces, cufflinks, and brooches; and watches for men and women. It serves buyers and sellers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Alpaca

Series A in 2020
Alpaca API enables developers to build investing apps, brokerage services, trading algorithms that can access the market for commission-free. Alpaca is a technology company headquartered in the bay area California and a team of diverse background individuals with deep financial and technology expertise, backed by some of the top investors in the industry globally. We are proud to be supported by the love of enthusiastic community members on various platforms. (Securities by Alpaca Securities LLC http://alpaca.markets/#disclosures)

Payitoff

Seed Round in 2021
Payitoff develops API tools that provides money-saving guidance and automatic action. Its tool offers debt assessment, automatic enrollment, and customer empowerment. The company is based in New York, New York.

Gotrade

Seed Round in 2021
Gotrade is a mobile brokerage that allows people from over 170 countries to invest in the US stock market for just $1.

RadPad

Seed Round in 2013
RadPad is a developer of a property searching mobile application used to find new apartments, condos, or homes. It is an end-to-end rental marketplace focused around people. Renters use RadPad to find a place, sign their lease, and pay rent. Landlords use RadPad to list places, sign leases electronically, and accept rents.

Kustomer

Series C in 2019
Kustomer is the omnichannel SaaS CRM platform reimagining enterprise customer service to deliver standout experiences. It scales to meet the needs of any contact center and business by unifying data from multiple sources, enabling companies to deliver service and support through a single timeline view. Kustomer is the core platform of some of the leading customer service brands like Ring, Glovo, Glossier, Sweetgreen, Away, Rent the Runway, and UNTUCKit. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

klout

Series B in 2011
Klout measures influence based on the ability to drive action across the social web. Any person can connect their social network accounts and Klout will generate a score on a scale of 1-100 that represents their ability to engage other people and inspire social actions. Klout enables everyone to gain insights that help them better understand how they influence others. Klout also provides people with opportunities to shape and be recognized for their influence.

Mio

Seed Round in 2016
Based in Austin, Texas, Mio is the leading provider of messaging interoperability solutions. Mio Universal Channels enable intercompany collaboration by connecting users on Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Webex Teams. By enabling external contacts to chat in Universal Channels, everyone can share files, reply to threads, and edit messages—all from their tool of choice. The company, founded by Tom Hadfield and James Cundle, has raised $12m from investors including Goldcrest Capital, Eniac Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, and Capital Factory. Ready to chat better, together? Install directly at www.m.io

Carpay

Seed Round in 2020
Carpay automates loan servicing for Buy Here Pay Here (BHPH) dealers, and gives BHPH borrowers transparency and control over their auto loans.

TrueFacet

Venture Round in 2015
TrueFacet, Inc. operates an online marketplace for buying and selling jewelry and watches. The company offers new and pre-owned rings, earrings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces, cufflinks, and brooches; and watches for men and women. It serves buyers and sellers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Direct Match

Series A in 2016
Direct Match Holdings Inc., a FINRA registered broker-dealer, offers central limit order book (CLOB) in the U.S. Treasury market. It offers CLOB for cash the U.S. Treasuries to provide a centralized platform for government debt trading. It provides trading in a CLOB for the U.S. Treasury notes and bonds. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

ADstruc

Series A in 2010
ADstruc is an Out-of-Home media specialist bringing unprecedented ease and efficiency to media planning and buying. The company's comprehensive workflow software, Drive, automates OOH planning for agencies and advertisers. Project X, ADstruc’s managed services division, provides an innovative, audience-focused approach to outdoor advertising, leveraging data for brands to build awareness and increase engagement with consumers. ADstruc was established in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

Foodzie

Seed Round in 2008
Foodzie is an online marketplace where consumers can discover and buy food directly from small artisan producers. The Foodzie technology makes it simple for small producers to sell their products online and aggregate all these products within a marketplace that makes it easy for "foodies" to discover the very best food. They focus on gourmet foods and organic health foods.

Beyond Pricing

Venture Round in 2016
Beyond Pricing is the most popular revenue management and dynamic pricing software for the $100B vacation rental and homesharing market. Their software integrates with leading listing sites like Airbnb and VRBO, as well as the largest property management systems like HomeAway Software and Streamline, allowing property owners and managers to harness their big data machine learning algorithms to automatically adjust and update their prices everywhere they list.

CommLoan

Seed Round in 2016
CommLoan.com LLC provides a commercial lending solution that matches borrowers with lenders. It offers a commercial underwriting pricing index data platform that allows clients to bring commercial lending opportunities to their customers. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Cursive Labs

Series A in 2015
Creating Meaningful Ventures Through Equal Parts Art & Science. Cursive Labs is a team of passion-fueled designers, developers and business people driven to create meaningful companies that solve real problems in evolving industries.

Beyond Pricing

Seed Round in 2015
Beyond Pricing is the most popular revenue management and dynamic pricing software for the $100B vacation rental and homesharing market. Their software integrates with leading listing sites like Airbnb and VRBO, as well as the largest property management systems like HomeAway Software and Streamline, allowing property owners and managers to harness their big data machine learning algorithms to automatically adjust and update their prices everywhere they list.

Prompt

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Prompt App, Inc. provides Web-based application integration and data linking services. The company develops a text interface for various services, including commerce, home automation, information, and productivity tools. It allows users to send simple text commands to access services, make purchases, and control IoT devices through SMS, Slack, Telegram, Web, HipChat, Kik, and command line. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Sequel.io

Seed Round in 2021
Introvoke Inc. develops an online live streaming platform for videos and events. It offers Introvoke, a SaaS platform that enables users to host and view live events, webinars, sessions, and conferences; and online ticket payment and repayment. The company also provides Introvoke Streamer, a mobile application to go live for virtual events. Its platform is used in virtual events, hybrid events, enhanced chat, virtual networking, and video library applications. Introvoke Inc. was formerly known as Eleat Lunch Inc. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Jose, California with an additional office in Medford, Massachusetts.

LiveStories

Seed Round in 2015
LiveStories drives outreach and better decisions using civic data—how communities live, learn, work, and play. Its all-in-one data platform makes it easy to analyze local data, get benchmarks, and create interactive stories. Its customers span government, public health, and business, including the AARP, Gates Foundation, Americans for Non-Smokers' Rights, California Health and Human Services Agency, Maricopa County, and many local health departments.

Fanium

Seed Round in 2012
Fanium, Inc. develops an application that enables users to predict what will happen in TV shows and win cash prizes. The company also runs contests. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Ticketfly

Seed Round in 2009
Ticketfly, a subsidiary of Eventbrite, is a technology company reimagining the live event experience for promoters and fans. Its powerful ticketing, digital marketing, and analytics software helps promoters sell more tickets, streamline operations, and increase revenue per attendee, while its consumer tools make it easy for fans to find and purchase tickets to great events across North America. Since 2008, more than 1,200 leading venues and promoters have partnered with Ticketfly, including Merriweather Post Pavilion, the Brooklyn Bowl, Central Park SummerStage, Pitchfork Music Festival, and Burning Man. Ticketfly is led by Andrew Dreskin, co-founder of TicketWeb, the first company to ever sell tickets online. In 2014, Ticketfly crossed the $1B mark in transaction volume and in 2015 it was named one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies in Music." On October 7, 2015, Ticketfly announced its acquisition by music streaming service Pandora in a $335 million cash and stock deal. On June 9th, 2017, Pandora sold Ticketfly to its largest competitor, Eventbrite for $200 million.

Logixboard

Series B in 2022
Logixboard is a cloud platform transforming how the $2 trillion freight forwarding industry operates. Firms currently use paper, spreadsheets, and email to track their customers’ shipments and provide visibility to shippers. They are encumbered by low-tech, hard-to-use solutions that are inefficient and costly. Logixboard's platform integrates with existing back-office applications and serves as a digital customer engagement layer, empowering freight forwarders to do their work more efficiently. It helps companies better manage and control their freight operations.

1upHealth

Series B in 2021
1upHealth is a health-tech company that builds products for the future of healthcare where value-based care, along with patient and provider applications are the norm. It aims to bridge the gap between patient-centered data and provider needs by using patient-generated data to enable applications to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs. Founded in 2017, 1upHealth is based in Boston, MA.

PlaceIQ

Seed Round in 2011
For brands seeking to understand consumer behavior, PlaceIQ connects physical and digital activities across time, space, and mobile devices to uncover opportunities to learn and connect with audiences. PlaceIQ is a powerful, location-based audience and insights platform that organizes a wide variety of consumer activity data around a precise location-base map at a massive scale. PlaceIQ uses its detailed understanding of location and consumer activity to reach a targeted audience, and also to derive powerful insights about consumer behavior to inform market and business strategies for national brands. The company is headquartered in New York City and also has offices in Palo Alto, Chicago, and Detroit.

ProducePay

Series A in 2017
Produce Pay was first conceived at Cornell University. With strong support from experienced faculty and the student body, it was able to rapidly gain momentum. Produce Pay obtained recognition from Cornell’s entrepreneurial community and was soon dubbed "The Next Johnson Start-Up," in reference to Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Logixboard

Seed Round in 2019
Logixboard is a cloud platform transforming how the $2 trillion freight forwarding industry operates. Firms currently use paper, spreadsheets, and email to track their customers’ shipments and provide visibility to shippers. They are encumbered by low-tech, hard-to-use solutions that are inefficient and costly. Logixboard's platform integrates with existing back-office applications and serves as a digital customer engagement layer, empowering freight forwarders to do their work more efficiently. It helps companies better manage and control their freight operations.

SendHub

Seed Round in 2012
SendHub is the Phone System for the Mobile World. There's no hardware, setup is instant and it scales elastically with a single click. Users are given a phone number in any area code, they can use from any device: Web, iPhone, Android, Feature Phones and via our API. Businesses can add lines for everyone on their team for free, with complete transparency and powerful analytics on every aspect of your telecommunication. Additional Features: Auto Attendant, Call Transfer, Company Directory, Contact Sharing, Voicemail Transcription, Text Marketing & Group Texting, Free Internal Communication.

eToro

Venture Round in 2023
eToro is a social trading investment network that enables users to watch the financial trading activities of other users, copy them, and make their own trades. The company’s product, OpenBook and WebTrader, allows traders to learn from each other, share live trading information, and capitalize on their collective power. Launched in 2007, the company has registered offices in Cyprus, Israel, and the United Kingdom.

Wholi

Seed Round in 2016
Wholi is a collection of lists of people for the startup community in London. It is solving people search online using a combination of web-scale data gathering, indexing, natural language processing, machine learning, and graph networks.

Cosaic

Series B in 2019
Cosaic is a software developer that offers products such as the financial charting software and a smart desktop platform. The company offers ChartIQ, crowdsourced analytics, and financial visualization platform that allows clients to create responsive and interactive charting experiences for their end-users. It is focused on building HTML5 financial charting and data visualization tools for brokerages, individual traders, institutional trading desks, financial portals, and independent trading platforms. It maintains partnerships with Xignite, OpenFin, StockTwits, Estimize, Autochartist, and Thomson Reuters. Megan Read, Dan Schleifer, and Terry Thorsen incorporated the company in 2012 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Crowdability

Seed Round in 2014
Crowdability, Inc., a financial media company, provides individual investors with education, information, and insight into opportunities in the equity crowdfunding market. Its Website and email newsletter aggregate and organize deals from crowdfunding platforms. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Rally

Series B in 2020
Rally is an app that allows members of all income levels to buy and sell equity shares in collectible assets including sports cards & memorabilia, classic cars, graded comic books, vintage watches, wine, first edition literature, and one-of-a-kind investment-grade items from the past and present. The company is driven by a mission to democratize alternative investments like these, providing access, liquidity, and transparency to markets that have traditionally only been available to a select few. Rally Rd. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

Nayya

Series B in 2021
Nayya uses AI and data science to personalize the way that employees choose and use their existing employee benefits. The company's platform analyzes millions of provider data points to make Smart Recommendations for a given procedure and network while providing doctors with the details of patients upon arrival, thereby enabling customers to have access to high quality, low-cost care.

Civic

Seed Round in 2016
Civic's blockchain based ecosystem gives businesses and individuals the tools to control and protect identities. They believe identity should be convenient, safe and secure, and put users in control. Civic allows people to control the use of their identity information. They use cutting edge identity verification technology to secure and protect personal information transfer. Having conducted a successful token sale in June 2017, they set their sights on building identity.com, an open source, first-of-its-kind marketplace for identity verification services built on blockchain. They are a team spanning five countries with one common goal: to revolutionize identity.

Robinhood

Series A in 2014
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application. Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt established the company in Menlo Park, California in 2013.

RadPad

Seed Round in 2014
RadPad is a developer of a property searching mobile application used to find new apartments, condos, or homes. It is an end-to-end rental marketplace focused around people. Renters use RadPad to find a place, sign their lease, and pay rent. Landlords use RadPad to list places, sign leases electronically, and accept rents.

ProducePay

Series B in 2018
Produce Pay was first conceived at Cornell University. With strong support from experienced faculty and the student body, it was able to rapidly gain momentum. Produce Pay obtained recognition from Cornell’s entrepreneurial community and was soon dubbed "The Next Johnson Start-Up," in reference to Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Joist

Seed Round in 2013
Joist is a new tool for contractors that allows you to estimate, invoice, record payments, and manage projects from your iPhone/iPad and the web. Features: - Include your company logo for professional estimates and invoices - Build a list of commonly used items to quickly create estimates and invoices - Calculate estimates fast - Print or email estimates and invoices on the spot - Convert estimates into invoices - Record payments right then and there - Manage and store your client information - Export everything into your accounting program With Joist you can calculate and send estimates on the spot to your client. Issue invoices and record payments. And export all of the information to your preferred accounting system.

Orchard Platform

Seed Round in 2013
About Orchard Orchard Platform has built a centralized marketplace where loan originators and institutional investors can come together to explore and evaluate opportunities for funding, buying, and selling loans. By providing a global network of institutional buyers and sellers with high-quality data services, advanced analytics and reporting, and robust capital management tools through an innovative, end-to-end platform, Orchard has created a smarter way for participants in the private credit markets to interact, evaluate deals, and move forward with simple and complex transactions more efficiently. Orchard Platform does not provide legal advice, tax advice, or accounting advice. Before making any investment or executing any transaction, you should consult with your legal, tax, and accounting advisors with respect to the suitability, value, and risk of such investment or transaction. Investment advisory services are provided to clients by Orchard Platform Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in New York, N.Y. Orchard produces the Orchard U.S. Consumer Marketplace Lending Index—the only industry-wide direct lending performance benchmark—and has been named one of the Next Billion Dollar Startups by Forbes. The commentary and insights posted on its blog, and the data and research available to everyone on its platform, have cemented Orchard as a thought leader in its industry. For more information, visit www.orchardplatform.com. About Orchard Platform Markets, LLC Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orchard App Inc., and is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. The mission of Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is to provide a transparent, technologically optimized platform for loan originators and institutional investors to safely and securely connect, evaluate potential deals, and move forward with multiple types of transactions. For more information, visit www.orchardplatformmarkets.com.

ClearServe

Series A in 2015
ClearServe Holdings, LLC provides a wealth management platform. It offers Platform Normalization Engine that handles and aggregates information across a variety of disparate data sources; Alternatives Tracking System that handles various asset classes, such as hedge funds, private equity, and real estate; and investor-level statements. It serves family offices, multi-managers, and private investors. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

Colingo

Seed Round in 2013
Colingo, Inc. provides a platform to learn English with fun. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Even Financial

Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2015, Even Financial is an NYC based fintech company focused on evolving how financial institutions connect with consumers and provide them the best product recommendations at the right moment, facilitating an on-demand and personalized customer acquisition experience across the entire financial services ecosystem. The Even platform serves as a trusted intermediary for financial institutions - including Prosper, Lending Club and Marcus by Goldman Sachs - that helps find consumers and distribute their products digitally. Even’s industry-leading search, comparison and recommendation API is an infrastructure layer that enables hundreds of diverse partners - including Credit.com, Transunion, Money Under 30, Credit Sesame and The Penny Hoarder - to power comprehensive personal finance websites, mobile apps and other offerings with a modern platform that is proven to accelerate customer acquisition through optimal product recommendations, lowering cost of acquisition and maximizing monetization. Even Financial is based in New York.

GoInstant

Seed Round in 2011
GoInstant Co-browsing allows two or more people to browse the web together in a real-time interactive session. All participants that join a co-browse session can click, scroll, type and browse at the same time. Co-browsing does not require any downloads or plugins to work; all users need is a web browser. A co-browse session can be used to co-browse any website for customer support, sales, e-commerce, training and more. Sign up at http://goinstant.com to be notified as new accounts become available.

Stackin'

Seed Round in 2017
Stackin' is the simplest entry point into finance with over one million subscribers and a mission to empower people to improve their financial lives via text message. Stackin' provides the necessary tools & curated products for a younger generation of consumers to build healthy financial habits over time in a fun, entertaining, judgement-free relationship. Powered by a custom messaging platform, data, machine learning and human touch, their personalized messages educate subscribers on how to save money, reduce debt and start investing.

ProducePay

Seed Round in 2016
Produce Pay was first conceived at Cornell University. With strong support from experienced faculty and the student body, it was able to rapidly gain momentum. Produce Pay obtained recognition from Cornell’s entrepreneurial community and was soon dubbed "The Next Johnson Start-Up," in reference to Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Cosaic

Seed Round in 2014
Cosaic is a software developer that offers products such as the financial charting software and a smart desktop platform. The company offers ChartIQ, crowdsourced analytics, and financial visualization platform that allows clients to create responsive and interactive charting experiences for their end-users. It is focused on building HTML5 financial charting and data visualization tools for brokerages, individual traders, institutional trading desks, financial portals, and independent trading platforms. It maintains partnerships with Xignite, OpenFin, StockTwits, Estimize, Autochartist, and Thomson Reuters. Megan Read, Dan Schleifer, and Terry Thorsen incorporated the company in 2012 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

awe.sm

Venture Round in 2011
Measures the performance of social marketing campaigns

Sapho

Seed Round in 2014
Sapho empowers employees with a modern portal experience that surfaces personalized and relevant tasks and data using micro-apps. Sapho micro apps are built by IT on top of existing systems using pre-built templates and a drag-and-drop micro app builder. These micro apps available on any device, intranet, or messenger provide employees proactive notifications about interesting system data, actions that need to be completed, and changes in business data that require attention. It was founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.

GiveForward

Venture Round in 2011
GiveForward Inc. owns and operates a Website that provides personalized fundraising Webpages to raise money for loved ones during times of need. It offers GiveForward, a fundraising support system that provides online fundraising pages, allowing friends and family to raise money directly for a loved one when they need it the most. The company helps people raise funds online for various things, such as general medical expenses, chemotherapy, transplants, funeral expenses, and disaster-relief. It provides its online fundraising tools to individuals and non-profit organizations. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of March 29, 2017, GiveForward Inc. operates as a subsidiary of YouCaring Dot Com, LLC.

Stocktwits

Venture Round in 2016
StockTwits, Inc. operates a financial communications platform for the financial and investing community to share ideas, news, and information. The company offers StockTwits, a specialized communications platform built around individual stock tickers that provides a natural channel to ensure that companies get their messages out, as well as $TICKER streams that consist of ideas, links, charts, and other financial data. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in New York, New York.

Alpaca

Series A in 2019
Alpaca API enables developers to build investing apps, brokerage services, trading algorithms that can access the market for commission-free. Alpaca is a technology company headquartered in the bay area California and a team of diverse background individuals with deep financial and technology expertise, backed by some of the top investors in the industry globally. We are proud to be supported by the love of enthusiastic community members on various platforms. (Securities by Alpaca Securities LLC http://alpaca.markets/#disclosures)

Naritiv

Seed Round in 2015
Naritiv is a mobile media company born on Snapchat. We are building ongoing programming and large audiences on Snapchat for brands as well as our owned and operated channels all involving our creators who see over 20 billion views per month. Our partners have access to our unique technology and reporting capabilities on both Snapchat as well as the other platforms our content spreads to (such as Twitter and Instagram).

Payitoff

Seed Round in 2019
Payitoff develops API tools that provides money-saving guidance and automatic action. Its tool offers debt assessment, automatic enrollment, and customer empowerment. The company is based in New York, New York.