Craft Ventures

Craft Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in innovative companies across various sectors, including e-commerce, SaaS, and unique market offerings like spacecraft and digital asset services. Founded by a team with extensive entrepreneurial and investment experience, the firm is dedicated to identifying and supporting the next generation of transformative businesses. With a team of 15 investors and operators, Craft Ventures emphasizes a deep respect for founders and their visions, aiming to cultivate companies that have the potential to change the world.

Jeff Fluhr

Partner

Jessica Hoffman

Operating Partner, Marketing & Communications

Ryan Hrabak

Principal

Brian Murray

Partner and COO

204 past transactions

Instawork

Series D in 2023
Instawork is the fastest growing career marketplace for hospitality professionals. We've changed how traditional recruiting works for small businesses (e.g a sign on the window) by turning the process into an automated matching solution. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals, globally. We're rapidly expanding across the US. We're looking for great talent to help us grow and would love to hear from you! Go to www.instawork.com or send us a note at careers@instawork.com

Equals

Seed Round in 2022
Equals is a mobile and web service that helps its users with variables and equations. It was launched by [Infinity Softworks](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/infinity-softworks#/entity) in 1997.

Pave

Series C in 2022
Pave, Inc. operates an online platform that offers tools for real-time compensation transparency and personal funding solutions. Founded in 2012 and based in New York, the company enables organizations to track, measure, and communicate total employee compensation effectively. Pave's services help eliminate the use of spreadsheets for compensation management, leveraging real-time integrations with human resources information systems, applicant tracking systems, and cap tables. By focusing on affordable credit and enhancing compensation decision-making processes, Pave aims to simplify financial management for both individuals and organizations.

Vendr

Series B in 2022
Vendr, Inc. is a Boston-based company that provides a software-as-a-service solution designed to manage the purchasing and renewal processes of software for businesses. Founded in 2018, Vendr specializes in commercial negotiations, renewal management, and contract logistics, enabling companies to streamline their software acquisition efforts. By assisting organizations in purchasing and renewing software, Vendr helps them save both time and money, making it an essential partner for scaling companies. Its services are utilized by a range of fast-growing business-to-business and business-to-consumer companies, highlighting its effectiveness in the software procurement landscape.

Vanta

Series B in 2022
Vanta is security-in-a-box for technology companies, covering everything from laptops to infrastructure, and using a suite of simple, effective, and easy-to-deploy tools.

Two Front

Seed Round in 2022
Two Front Corp. provides virtual consultations by orthodontists. The company develops, owns, and operates a tech-enabled platform for check-ins and tracking. The company’s platform serves kids and adults. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Albany, New York.

Passes

Seed Round in 2022
Passes is a creator platform that allows fans to buy access to exclusive content and experiences. The company develops tools for the web3 creator economy, allowing creators to unlock exclusive content and IRL experiences. Passes was founded in 2022 and is located in Miami, Florida.

Primer

Venture Round in 2022
Primer is a company that provides audience automation, Linkedln automation, and marketing and sales automation. Primer Serve ads only to pre-qualified leads from CRM, boosts ad budget efficiency and conversion rates, and extends reach with nearly identical audiences in FB, Google, and LinkedIn.

Viable

Seed Round in 2022
Viable Fit develops a structured user platform designed to use historical qualitative data to answer new questions instantly. Viable Fit offers a custom-branded survey, measures product/market fits, automatically segments customers into groups, and discovers user feedbacks based on keywords, thereby enabling businesses to get valuable suggestions from customers more accurately.

Bubbles

Seed Round in 2022
Bubbles is a contextual collaboration tool that enables users to communicate asynchronously by tagging content directly on their screens. The platform facilitates discussions in-context through screen, video, and audio messages, allowing team members to capture, comment, and share information without the need for account creation or installation. Bubbles promotes organic growth and viral engagement rather than relying on paid advertising. It is actively engaged on various social media platforms, including Medium, Twitter, and Product Hunt, to enhance its visibility and user interaction.

Loops

Seed Round in 2022
Loops is a startup that created a platform for SaaS startups to send emails.

The Boring Company

Series C in 2022
The Boring Company, founded by Elon Musk in late 2016, specializes in infrastructure and tunnel construction with a focus on developing efficient tunneling methods. The company aims to create an underground transportation network to alleviate surface traffic congestion and improve urban mobility. By leveraging innovative technologies and engineering techniques, The Boring Company seeks to transform the way people travel in densely populated areas.

OpenPhone

Series B in 2022
OpenPhone is a business communication platform that offers a smart phone application designed to provide users with a reliable business phone number without the need for an additional phone or SIM card. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the platform facilitates seamless communication by differentiating between business and personal contacts. It utilizes Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology, allowing users to make calls and send texts over the internet. OpenPhone offers features such as unlimited messaging and calling, call routing, auto-recording of calls, and automated responses to texts and missed calls. The application is available for both mobile and desktop, catering to startups, small businesses, and professionals looking to enhance their communication efficiency.

Lightning Labs

Series B in 2022
Lightning Labs is building the next generation of decentralized, resilient financial infrastructure. We believe systems based on cryptography, blockchains, and smart contracts will enhance financial cooperation around the world in unprecedented ways at scales both large and small. We have developed Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) the most advanced and most developer-friendly implementation of the Lightning Network protocol. Along with Neutrino, an open platform that enables users with mobile devices to conduct blockchain and Lightning Network transactions quickly and easily. We’re hiring. See our open positions: http://lightning.engineering/careers.html Get involved: http://dev.lightning.community/

Arena

Series A in 2022
Arena.im is a cloud-based marketing platform for live experiences. Their mission is to empower media companies to take back ownership of their audience from social networks and grow their community. With Arena.im, publishers, brands and broadcasting companies are capable to significantly increase traffic, engagement and earn revenue. Through an AI technology, Arena.im is capable to aggregate, curate and distribute content in scale to any device, anytime, anywhere. They enable a seamless live experience for sports, news, finance, tech and any other real-time events. Founded in 2016 by Paulo Martins and Rodrigo Reis, Arena.im is a disruptive marketing experience platform that empowers thousands of media companies to provide the best live experience for their audiences directly from their digital properties.

Grata

Series A in 2022
Grata is the first search engine for company discovery, providing a single source of truth to find small to middle market private companies. Grata's next-generation SaaS platform automates the B2B research process on the 30 million businesses in the U.S., helping business development professionals across private equity, banking and recruiting discover companies instantly. Grata indexes billions of sources on the web and has innovated the latest NLP technology. Over 100 customers have transacted over $1 billion dollars with companies they've found through Grata. Grata was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, USA.

Northspyre

Series B in 2022
Northspyre, Inc. develops a cloud-based intelligence platform for real estate professionals. It offers Northspyre that enables real estate professionals to make proactive, data-driven decisions on development, capital, and asset projects across real estate project types. The company’s Northspyre uses automation and data analytics to simplify workflows, save time, eliminate inefficiencies, identify cost-saving opportunities, generate key actionable insights, and increase visibility into project metrics. The company serves owners, developers, and project management firms (or owner's reps), as well as internal corporate and institutional real estate teams. Northspyre, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

ComplYant

Seed Round in 2022
ComplYant is a developer of tax compliance platform for entrepreneurs that provide a simple, accurate way to follow tax deadlines. Its platform helps with tax deadlines, tax budgeting, deciphers tax notices, and manage deadlines for all business tax types. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Streetfair

Seed Round in 2022
Streetfair is an online service that connects home-service providers with neighborhoods.

Atrium

Series A in 2022
Atrium is a San Francisco-based company that leverages data and smart analytics to enhance decision-making within teams. By providing insights that facilitate informed work choices, Atrium aims to transform the way organizations operate. The company has garnered support from prominent investors, including Charles River Ventures and First Round Capital, contributing to its mission of enabling significant improvements in workplace effectiveness.

Woflow

Series A in 2022
Through a combination of pattern recognition AI and human augmentation, we turn flat images into structured data 10X faster and more accurately than manual transcription.

Scratchpad

Series B in 2022
Scratchpad, Inc. is a software company based in Sacramento, California, founded in 2019. It develops an application designed for account executives to streamline their workflow by facilitating note-taking, sales pipeline management, and task organization. The Scratchpad platform allows users to efficiently update their Salesforce pipeline, take detailed sales notes, and manage daily tasks in one integrated view. By combining notes, tasks, and relevant customer context—such as emails, calendar events, and activity history—Scratchpad aims to enhance productivity and improve sales performance for its clients.

Whoosh

Seed Round in 2022
Whoosh is a company that specializes in developing cloud-based software tailored for private golf clubs, focusing on enhancing their operational efficiency and member experiences. The software features a modern and intuitive interface that facilitates staff operations and member bookings, particularly in tee sheet and workflow management. By incorporating insights from leading industry operators, Whoosh aims to streamline club management processes, improve communication between members and staff, and elevate hospitality standards. This comprehensive approach allows golf clubs to run their operations smoothly while providing members with a seamless and enjoyable experience on the course and in the clubhouse.

Spekit

Series B in 2022
Spekit, Inc. is a digital training solutions provider that focuses on enabling employees to effectively learn their tools and adapt to process changes in real-time. Founded in 2018 and based in Denver, Colorado, Spekit offers a range of products, including an Outlook Extension for accessing knowledge directly from users' inboxes, a Salesforce Chrome Extension for integrating guides into various fields, and a Salesforce Data Dictionary for documenting metadata and processes. The platform is designed to support financial services and sales enablement, allowing organizations to streamline employee training through a modern digital adoption framework combined with a contextual knowledge base. This approach caters to the needs of growing and remote teams, providing an efficient solution for continuous learning and support.

Ockam

Series A in 2022
Ockam Inc. provides a server less platform for secure Internet-of-things (IOT) development. The company’s tool enables to interconnect hardware with software services and facilitate the exchange of information within connected systems; manage identities, cryptographic keys, and credentials for devices and services; and optimize connectivity and messaging for the exchange of information between entities and applications. Additionally, it connects application developers and system integrators; hardware and chipset engineers; and cloud service product managers. Ockam Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MetaMap

Series B in 2021
Mati enables builders in fast-growing, underserved regions with the digital identity tools they need to provide better trust-based services to more people. We're making starting this new type of 'Trust Economy' company as simple as setting up a store on Shopify.

CURE: One app, all things health

Pre Seed Round in 2021
CURE Group GmbH is a healthcare on-demand company with the vision to be the easiest access to healthcare services without leaving your home. Today, CURE works with a local pharmacy network and delivers medicine quickly and sustainably. CURE was founded in December 2021 by Ali El-Ali and Manuel Aberle in Berlin. CURE investors include Breega, Craft Ventures, Abstract Ventures, PiLabs, and J12 Ventures, with participation from J Ventures.

Dray Alliance

Series B in 2021
Dray Alliance is disrupting the multi-billion dollar drayage trucking industry with a technology platform that makes deliveries to warehouses simple, predictable, and transparent. Eliminating the friction in each step of the delivery process, Dray Alliance efficiently connects shippers, carriers, and truckers in real time.

First Resonance

Series A in 2021
First Resonance, Inc. is a software company based in Los Angeles, California, that develops a platform designed to enhance the manufacturing process for hardware companies. Founded in 2018, the company offers a tool called ion, which serves as a factory operating system that helps manufacturers manage and track parts and processes from the prototype stage to full-scale production. This platform is utilized by a diverse range of clients, including startups and large manufacturers, to effectively oversee their product development cycles. Notable projects supported by First Resonance include advanced technologies such as NASA's lunar lander, next-generation electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles, and robotic farming systems. The team at First Resonance comprises experienced engineers from leading firms in the manufacturing sector, bringing expertise in hardware, software, and data management to empower clients in their innovative endeavors.

AgentSync

Series B in 2021
AgentSync, Inc. develops salesforce application for carriers and agencies that automates licensing and compliance. It provides real time integration, data security and privacy, producer compliance, bulk processing, producer onboarding, automated license verification, appointment processing, and compliance monitoring. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

CloudTrucks

Series B in 2021
CloudTrucks develops a virtual trucking carrier application designed to reduce operating costs for truck drivers. The platform helps to manage and book loads from brokers and shippers, offer instant payments after load delivery, and access to cheap insurance options, enabling truck owners and operators to strategize their schedule and design a revenue-maximizing driving program. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

bur-image

Seed Round in 2021
Simplified is the all-in-one design platform where freelancers and entrepreneurs can collaborate, scale, and grow their content— effortlessly and beautifully.

Datasembly

Venture Round in 2021
Datasembly, Inc. is a data analytics company based in Washington, D.C., founded in 2014. It specializes in processing web data into structured formats, focusing on grocery and retail pricing information. By aggregating data from numerous grocery delivery and online shopping platforms, Datasembly collects detailed pricing records for products sold in stores on a daily basis. This information is crucial for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, retailers, and quick-service restaurants, allowing them to make informed and efficient business decisions. Utilizing advanced technologies, including natural language processing and machine learning, Datasembly transforms complex, volatile data into customized reports. This data services model supports various applications, including market research and economic indicators, ultimately empowering organizations to navigate the retail landscape effectively.

People Data Labs

Series B in 2021
People Data Labs builds the standard end to end technology platform for enterprise technical teams who are building people data. Leverage our APIs and technology as your people data backend, or access over 1 Billion clean person records as you build internal analysis, predictive modeling, segment data, build recommendations and more.

Sandbox VR

Series B in 2021
Sandbox VR, Inc. is a company specializing in virtual reality games that deliver a premium, immersive experience through advanced VR hardware and real-time motion capture technology. Founded in 2016, it aims to create a unique entertainment medium that closely resembles the fictional holodeck from Star Trek. The company is based in San Mateo, California, and focuses on providing users with a fully engaging virtual environment, setting itself apart in the burgeoning VR industry.

Fingerprint

Series B in 2021
FingerprintJS, Inc. designs and develops browser fingerprinting application programming interface that detects and stops fraud, spam, and account takeovers. The company's API de-identifies the fingerprint from a device by generating a unique identifier of a browser and allows users to detect account fraud, fraudulent payments, and malicious activity on trading, exchange, and transfer. The company offers server-side visitor history API that provides access to suspicious visitor activity, bot probability, and geolocation. The company also provides Webhooks for workflows. It serves developers. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Trellis Research

Series A in 2021
Trellis Research, Inc. is a provider of legal data and analytics specifically designed for law firms. Founded in 2017 and based in Los Angeles, California, the company specializes in offering insights derived from state trial court records. It provides court data, practical judicial biographies, and actionable analytics related to individual judges, making it a valuable resource for litigators. Trellis Research also maintains a searchable database focused on California Superior Court records and judicial analytics, enhancing the ability of legal practitioners to navigate the judicial landscape effectively.

Fellow.app

Series A in 2021
Fellow Insights, Inc. is a cloud-based software company based in Ottawa, Canada, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing tools that assist managers, team leaders, and employees in managing work interactions. Its software facilitates one-on-one meetings, team meetings, peer-to-peer feedback, performance reviews, recognition, and priority settings. Fellow is designed to enhance team dynamics by providing personalized recommendations that support team growth. The platform enables effective check-ins, performance appraisals, and feedback, making it suitable for both small teams and larger organizations. It aims to empower leaders with smart suggestions and tools to improve workplace communication and collaboration.

UserGems

Series A in 2021
UserGems is an AI-powered prospecting solution for revenue teams. By delivering prospects that are most likely to convert, UserGems helps companies drive bigger pipeline, faster sales cycle, and larger deals. Whenever your customers change their jobs, UserGems automatically surfaces them as new prospects to your sales reps. This allows your reps to be in front of the right buyers at the right time, and before the competition is. Leveraging machine learning, UserGems automatically identifies other prospects that look exactly like your best customers. That means you get a complete, up-to-date list of leads that match your ideal customer profile, persona and other key criteria without requiring reps to spends hours on researching.

Culture Biosciences

Series B in 2021
Culture Biosciences, founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing automated bioreactors and tools for fermentation. The company provides a digital bio-manufacturing platform that allows biotech companies to optimize their manufacturing processes, enabling them to bring products to market more efficiently. By utilizing robotic sample handling and cloud-based data monitoring and analysis, Culture Biosciences helps scientists run, monitor, and analyze bioreactors more quickly than traditional methods. This innovative approach supports the biotechnology sector in enhancing productivity and streamlining workflows.

Visor

Seed Round in 2021
Visor is a company that specializes in providing visual planning tools designed to enhance the efficiency of product and engineering teams. Founded in 2016 by Michael Yaroshefsky, Visor offers a spreadsheet-like platform that integrates bidirectionally with Jira, enabling users to customize views for various stakeholders. This tool allows both large and small businesses to effectively plan and track their projects, providing a comprehensive overview of their workflows. Headquartered in New York, Visor aims to streamline project management and improve collaboration within teams.

Viable

Seed Round in 2021
Viable Fit develops a structured user platform designed to use historical qualitative data to answer new questions instantly. Viable Fit offers a custom-branded survey, measures product/market fits, automatically segments customers into groups, and discovers user feedbacks based on keywords, thereby enabling businesses to get valuable suggestions from customers more accurately.

Roboflow

Series A in 2021
Roboflow, Inc. is a software-as-a-service company focused on enhancing computer vision capabilities for software engineers. Founded in 2019 and based in Des Moines, Iowa, Roboflow offers solutions such as Roboflow Organize, which assists developers in managing image datasets and annotations, and Roboflow Pro, designed to facilitate the deployment of computer vision applications using existing engineering resources. The company's tools streamline the creation and organization of datasets, including both image and video data, and employ pre-trained models and artificial intelligence to automate the annotation process. By providing features like dataset management, image transformations, and easy integration, Roboflow enables teams to build computer vision models more efficiently, improving accuracy and reducing common errors that can hinder model performance.

Callin

Series A in 2021
Callin operates as a social podcasting app that lets you create, discover, and enjoy live and recorded content all in one place.

Moesif

Series A in 2021
Moesif Inc. is a San Francisco-based company established in 2016 that specializes in debugging and error analysis for application programming interfaces (APIs). Its flagship platform, Moesif, provides a hosted service for logging and analyzing API requests, enabling users to gain in-depth visibility into API traffic, monitor errors, and identify patterns that may lead to issues. The platform is designed to assist product managers and businesses in understanding customer API usage, thereby enhancing developer experiences and driving greater business value. Moesif's solutions are utilized by notable organizations, including Radar, UPS, and Deloitte, to automate debugging processes and improve overall API performance.

TrustLayer

Series A in 2021
TrustLayer is an insurtech solutions company that automates insurance verification with machine learning & AI and provides real-time updates on the R3 Corda distributed ledger ecosystem. TrustLayer helps companies eliminate error-prone, manual processes and streamline existing workflows to increase insurance compliance and decrease organizational risk. Customers in multiple billion dollar industries such as construction and property management rely on TrustLayer for its ease of use, tracking and verifying certificates of insurance & other business documents, increased vendor compliance, and the ability to utilize their platform for multiple use cases.

SentiLink

Series B in 2021
SentiLink is a technology company that helps you detect and block synthetic identities. The company's technology links with fraudulent crime ring to detect and block synthetic identities by searching for statistical anomalies through real-time application programming interface and risk analyst tools, enabling business clients to identify fake people and other connected fraudulent applications to harm bottom line of the organizations.

ConverseNow

Series A in 2021
ConverseNow Technologies, Inc. develops voice artificial intelligence (AI) based software for quick service restaurants (QSRs) to automate and personalize the ordering process, driving efficiencies, and reducing customer wait times. The company through its platform automates and personalizes restaurant orders in high volume voice channels, including phone, drive thru, self-service kiosks, voice assistants, and voice assisted chat on mobile. ConverseNow Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Austin, Texas. It has an additional location in Gainesville, Florida.

Voiceflow

Series A in 2021
Voiceflow Inc. operates a platform that enables content creators to design, prototype, and monetize voice applications for smart speakers like Alexa and Google Assistant. Founded in 2018 and based in Toronto, Canada, the company provides a user-friendly interface that allows individuals and businesses to build powerful voice applications without the need for coding skills. The platform features a visual programming language with a drag-and-drop interface, facilitating the easy creation and deployment of voice apps. This approach empowers users to develop conversational interfaces efficiently, helping them to leverage voice technology for various applications, including voice shopping.

Orum

Series A in 2021
Orum Inc. develops a speech recognition tool for companies to speck with prospects. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Superplastic

Venture Round in 2021
Superplastic, Inc. is a character-based product and entertainment company founded in 2017 and based in Burlington, Vermont. The company specializes in manufacturing and marketing limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation, featuring unique characters created in collaboration with renowned artists. Superplastic leverages the principles of effort and scarcity to enhance the value of its offerings, creating exclusive works of art for a select audience. The company also operates a platform that engages customers through various media, including animated videos and music, enabling interactions with its synthetic superstars in innovative ways. Products are primarily sold online, reflecting a modern approach to retail and entertainment.

Instawork

Series C in 2021
Instawork is the fastest growing career marketplace for hospitality professionals. We've changed how traditional recruiting works for small businesses (e.g a sign on the window) by turning the process into an automated matching solution. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals, globally. We're rapidly expanding across the US. We're looking for great talent to help us grow and would love to hear from you! Go to www.instawork.com or send us a note at careers@instawork.com

Entera

Series A in 2021
Entera is an online platform founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, that assists users in finding and purchasing residential properties in the United States. The company leverages machine learning and proprietary algorithms to modernize the real estate investment process. By providing a comprehensive suite of intelligent tools and access to tech-enabled local real estate experts, Entera enables investors to efficiently discover, evaluate, and acquire residential real estate. This end-to-end platform facilitates data-driven decision-making and enhances clients' ability to compete effectively in the market, all conducted entirely online.

Cabana

Series A in 2021
Cabana opens up the flexibility of travel plans so that travelers can book once and go anywhere. The company has built out a fleet of upscale custom-made mobile hotel rooms, using 2019 Ford Transit vans, to give travelers the freedom to travel and sleep where they want and when they want. Every element, from the bed to the storage, to the bathroom to the internet, is designed from the ground up for a tailored and premium experience. Simplified lodging often translates to lower quality, but Cabana has taken the luxurious amenities of a thoughtfully designed suite and outfitted it for a small space. Enabled through tech, Cabana brings travelers digital convenience and peace of mind through contact-free check-in. The app lets travelers reserve, check-in, pick-up, and check-out of their mobile hotel room without having to make a pit stop to the front desk.

Hop

Seed Round in 2021
Hop is a developer of a multiplayer browser designed to facilitate online collaboration for team meetings and video streaming. Its platform features a real-time shared browser that allows users to create or join portals remotely. This enables fast and secure connections through screen sharing, voice, and video chat, enhancing the experience of sharing content and collaborating with peers. By offering a dedicated space for users to interact, Hop aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of virtual teamwork.

Compose.AI

Seed Round in 2021
Compose Your AI Chatbot with an ultimate platform to build and launch a customizable chatbot instantly without any coding knowledge

bur-image

Seed Round in 2021
Simplified is the all-in-one design platform where freelancers and entrepreneurs can collaborate, scale, and grow their content— effortlessly and beautifully.

Shef

Series A in 2021
Shef, Inc. is a food delivery service that operates an online marketplace where users can order home-cooked meals. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company enables local cooks to generate income by selling their authentic, homemade dishes to nearby residents. Shef also offers weekly delivery plans to facilitate convenient access to these meals. By connecting home cooks with their communities, Shef fosters a platform that promotes local culinary talent and provides customers with diverse dining options.

Set Labs

Series A in 2021
Set Labs is creating the next generation of finance through crypto-financial primitives. The company is developing tools that enable developers to bundle crypto assets together called Sets, which allow users to create cryptocurrency baskets, baskets of non-fungibles, baskets of on-chain securities, and more.

CMDTY

Series B in 2021
CMDTY Inc. specializes in providing a software platform designed for commodity tracking and logistics companies. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, CMDTY develops solutions that enhance the management of operations and logistics within the physical commodity supply chain. The platform addresses inefficiencies by facilitating real-time interactions between buyers and producers, thereby improving the delivery of advertising and enhancing supply chain resilience and sustainability. Through its digital tools, CMDTY aims to streamline processes related to buying, selling, transporting, and financing commodities, ultimately fostering a more collaborative and effective supply chain environment.

Salted

Seed Round in 2021
Salted is the restaurant group of the future. Learn more at hellosalted.com.

Avenue 8

Series A in 2021
Avenue 8 is a digital and mobile-first residential real estate brokerage for modern agents, helping them to be more entrepreneurial, to close from anywhere, and to keep substantially more of their income. With an emphasis on simplicity and design, the company provides premium services at scale through a mix of automation and human expertise, from marketing a home to making an offer.

Juniper

Seed Round in 2021
Juniper develops a behavioral health practice management software designed to address the logistical challenges faced by clinics. Their platform streamlines operations by integrating various functions, including patient onboarding and billing, into a single system. This integration minimizes the manual effort typically required by clinicians, allowing them to focus more on patient care. The software also emphasizes compatibility with third-party applications, enhancing its functionality and user experience. By providing an efficient IT backbone, Juniper enables clinics to manage their operations effectively, facilitating easy reporting and database management while promoting scalability for future growth.

SnackMagic

Series A in 2021
Treat anyone, anywhere to a personalized snack box with SnackMagic. We’re the only snack delivery service that lets people pick which goodies they get—and we make it simple. Whether you’re sending to one person or 1,000, everyone has the freedom to choose from a unique menu of options. It’s the un-screw-uppable gift everybody loves.

Fold

Series A in 2021
Fold, Inc. operates a platform that enables users to earn bitcoin as cashback when users shop at retailers with their credit card/bitcoin wallet. It offers Fold, an online platform that enables users to sync their credit/debit card/transfer BTC from their bitcoin wallet into a digital gift card on their phone and receive bitcoin cashback instantly. Fold, Inc. was formerly known as Fold and changed its name to Fold, Inc. in January 2018. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Sonar

Series A in 2021
Sonar Software Inc. develops a change management solution that monitors and manages tech stacks. It tracks tech stack implementation and provides visibility into automations and integrations of your customer relationship management (CRM) solutions that enables operations’ professionals and admins to manage tech stack. Sonar Software Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mote

Seed Round in 2021
Mote is a Chrome extension that enables users to add transcribed voice comments to shared documents, enhancing communication and feedback in educational and workplace settings. The software allows users to provide voice notes on documents and assignments, which are transcribed for easy reading or listening by recipients. It also facilitates communication in users' preferred languages, thereby improving the overall effectiveness of feedback. By allowing users to edit transcripts, Mote ensures clarity and precision in communication, making it a valuable tool for teachers and teams aiming to enhance their feedback processes.

TryNow

Series A in 2021
TryNow is a try before you buy software for shopify brands.

Woflow

Seed Round in 2021
Through a combination of pattern recognition AI and human augmentation, we turn flat images into structured data 10X faster and more accurately than manual transcription.

River

Series A in 2021
River Financial Inc. is a financial technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019 by Alexander Leishman and Andrew Benson. The company specializes in providing a platform for individuals and institutions to buy, manage, and sell bitcoin. Its flagship product is a Bitcoin brokerage designed for sophisticated retail investors, offering a high-touch service that prioritizes security and client experience. River Financial's platform includes tools for investment performance, such as cost basis tracking, catering to the needs of its clients in the evolving cryptocurrency market.

Vendr

Series A in 2021
Vendr, Inc. is a Boston-based company that provides a software-as-a-service solution designed to manage the purchasing and renewal processes of software for businesses. Founded in 2018, Vendr specializes in commercial negotiations, renewal management, and contract logistics, enabling companies to streamline their software acquisition efforts. By assisting organizations in purchasing and renewing software, Vendr helps them save both time and money, making it an essential partner for scaling companies. Its services are utilized by a range of fast-growing business-to-business and business-to-consumer companies, highlighting its effectiveness in the software procurement landscape.

AgentSync

Series A in 2021
AgentSync, Inc. develops salesforce application for carriers and agencies that automates licensing and compliance. It provides real time integration, data security and privacy, producer compliance, bulk processing, producer onboarding, automated license verification, appointment processing, and compliance monitoring. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Scope

Seed Round in 2021
Scope is an Implementation-as-a-Service platform that scales and reduces the cost of implementations. With Scope's all in one implementation management platform and expert network, companies can now expand their market, increase time to value and reduce churn with or without their own implementation talent. Started in 2019, Scope is defining the market for implementation as a service.

Goody

Seed Round in 2021
Goody makes sending gifts as easy as sending a text. No address needed. It accepts payments only when the gift is received.

Scratchpad

Series A in 2021
Scratchpad, Inc. is a software company based in Sacramento, California, founded in 2019. It develops an application designed for account executives to streamline their workflow by facilitating note-taking, sales pipeline management, and task organization. The Scratchpad platform allows users to efficiently update their Salesforce pipeline, take detailed sales notes, and manage daily tasks in one integrated view. By combining notes, tasks, and relevant customer context—such as emails, calendar events, and activity history—Scratchpad aims to enhance productivity and improve sales performance for its clients.

Plume Clinic

Series A in 2021
Plume is a health tech company for the transgender community. The company focuses on radically increasing access to care, medication, and products for the trans community, supporting a bold, authentic and healthy lifestyle. Its vision is to make gender-affirming care available to anyone until it transforms healthcare for every trans life.

Bbot

Seed Round in 2021
Bbot, Inc. is a technology company focused on enhancing the ordering and payment processes within the hospitality industry, including bars, restaurants, hotels, breweries, and food halls. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Albany, New York, Bbot offers a configurable platform that enables businesses to implement digital menus and facilitate guest-controlled, contactless ordering and payment systems. This innovation not only streamlines operations but also aims to increase revenue and reduce staffing costs for its clients. By catering to a diverse range of hospitality establishments, Bbot positions itself as a valuable solution in the evolving landscape of the service industry.

Reflect

Seed Round in 2021
Reflect Software Inc. is a developer of an automated web testing platform that enables users to test their websites and web services without writing any code. Founded in 2019 and based in Villanova, Pennsylvania, Reflect offers a cloud-based solution that emphasizes maintainability and minimizes manual workflows. The platform allows users to set up automated end-to-end tests, receive alerts for any errors, and record actions into repeatable tests. It supports various editing modes, including modifying input values and managing visual changes that may impact previous assertions. Additionally, users can delete test steps and create new tests based on existing ones, streamlining the testing process for developers.

Roboflow

Seed Round in 2021
Roboflow, Inc. is a software-as-a-service company focused on enhancing computer vision capabilities for software engineers. Founded in 2019 and based in Des Moines, Iowa, Roboflow offers solutions such as Roboflow Organize, which assists developers in managing image datasets and annotations, and Roboflow Pro, designed to facilitate the deployment of computer vision applications using existing engineering resources. The company's tools streamline the creation and organization of datasets, including both image and video data, and employ pre-trained models and artificial intelligence to automate the annotation process. By providing features like dataset management, image transformations, and easy integration, Roboflow enables teams to build computer vision models more efficiently, improving accuracy and reducing common errors that can hinder model performance.

Bottomless

Series A in 2021
Bottomless is a company that has developed a WiFi-enabled scale designed to enhance the coffee subscription experience. This innovative scale allows users to track their coffee consumption and automatically reorder freshly roasted beans when supplies run low. By syncing with the scale, consumers can specify their preferences, enabling the platform to learn individual caffeine habits and provide personalized coffee selections. This approach ensures that customers receive fresh coffee at optimal times, avoiding the stale offerings typically associated with traditional coffee purchases.

PurpleAir

Seed Round in 2021
PurpleAir is an air quality monitoring network built on a new generation of Internet of Things sensors. They using a new generation of laser particle counters to provide real-time measurement of PM1.0, PM2.5, and PM10. PurpleAir sensors are easy to install and only require a power outlet and WiFi. They also use WiFi to report in real-time to the PurpleAir map. PurpleAir was formed in 2015 and is headquartered in Draper, Utah, USA.

UserGems

Seed Round in 2021
UserGems is an AI-powered prospecting solution for revenue teams. By delivering prospects that are most likely to convert, UserGems helps companies drive bigger pipeline, faster sales cycle, and larger deals. Whenever your customers change their jobs, UserGems automatically surfaces them as new prospects to your sales reps. This allows your reps to be in front of the right buyers at the right time, and before the competition is. Leveraging machine learning, UserGems automatically identifies other prospects that look exactly like your best customers. That means you get a complete, up-to-date list of leads that match your ideal customer profile, persona and other key criteria without requiring reps to spends hours on researching.

Avenue 8

Seed Round in 2020
Avenue 8 is a digital and mobile-first residential real estate brokerage for modern agents, helping them to be more entrepreneurial, to close from anywhere, and to keep substantially more of their income. With an emphasis on simplicity and design, the company provides premium services at scale through a mix of automation and human expertise, from marketing a home to making an offer.

CloudTrucks

Series A in 2020
CloudTrucks develops a virtual trucking carrier application designed to reduce operating costs for truck drivers. The platform helps to manage and book loads from brokers and shippers, offer instant payments after load delivery, and access to cheap insurance options, enabling truck owners and operators to strategize their schedule and design a revenue-maximizing driving program. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ClickUp

Series B in 2020
ClickUp offers a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization. ClickUp belongs to the latter camp, selling a $5 per month per user plan (billed annually), that people access to task management software, docs and wikis, chat, and integrations with a host of other popular tools. It’s a robust set of tools that is malleable depending on the task at hand. The company was founded in 2017 by Zeb Evans and Alex Yurkowski. It is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Pair Team

Seed Round in 2020
Pair Team provides an end-to-end operations platform to automate clinical operations and provide high-touch patient support. The platform monitors health plan and system data to trigger automated workflows that engage patients to schedule clinically impactful visits. Pair Team was founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California.

AgentSync

Seed Round in 2020
AgentSync, Inc. develops salesforce application for carriers and agencies that automates licensing and compliance. It provides real time integration, data security and privacy, producer compliance, bulk processing, producer onboarding, automated license verification, appointment processing, and compliance monitoring. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Minerva

Seed Round in 2020
Minerva is a developer of a process sharing platform used to help capture and share dynamic workflows for any website. Its product allows users to create clickable instructions on properties they don't own and also supports native experiences through their software development kit (SDK) and browser extension that enable businesses to create documentation easily and efficiently. Minerva was founded in 2019 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

OpenPhone

Series A in 2020
OpenPhone is a business communication platform that offers a smart phone application designed to provide users with a reliable business phone number without the need for an additional phone or SIM card. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the platform facilitates seamless communication by differentiating between business and personal contacts. It utilizes Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology, allowing users to make calls and send texts over the internet. OpenPhone offers features such as unlimited messaging and calling, call routing, auto-recording of calls, and automated responses to texts and missed calls. The application is available for both mobile and desktop, catering to startups, small businesses, and professionals looking to enhance their communication efficiency.

Mozart Data

Seed Round in 2020
Mozart Data, Inc. develops and operates an online platform that collects and organizes the data. The company’s platform helps to spin up and run a modern data stack, manage the data warehouse, and build and maintain extract, transform, load (ETL) pipelines. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Superplastic

Series B in 2020
Superplastic, Inc. is a character-based product and entertainment company founded in 2017 and based in Burlington, Vermont. The company specializes in manufacturing and marketing limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation, featuring unique characters created in collaboration with renowned artists. Superplastic leverages the principles of effort and scarcity to enhance the value of its offerings, creating exclusive works of art for a select audience. The company also operates a platform that engages customers through various media, including animated videos and music, enabling interactions with its synthetic superstars in innovative ways. Products are primarily sold online, reflecting a modern approach to retail and entertainment.