Right Side Capital Management

RSCM focuses on funding startups in what the firm views as the most underserved segment of the ecosystem. Right Side Capital Management makes 75 - 100 investments per year in companies that: Are at a development stage prior to full product-market fit; Have capital-efficient business models; Are typically located outside of the SF Bay Area and NYC; Are typically at pre-money valuations from $1M - $3M; Are typically looking for rounds of $50K - $500K. The firm strives to give prospective entrepreneurs a firm YES or NO in less than 2 weeks. RSCM has made approximately 200 investments since the beginning of 2012, and portfolio companies are located in 19 different states. Pre-money valuations and note caps have ranged from $700K to $3.5M. Round sizes have varied from $25K to $1.2M.

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NexusEdge

Pre Seed Round in 2017
NexusEdge Education Inc. designs and develops an artificial intelligence based career navigation platform to help students discover their career paths and assist employers in building a pipeline of candidates that meet their specific expectations. It offers video face to face mentoring, micro-credentialing, LinkedIn learning, and adaptive job board services. The company provides its services to high schools, community colleges, universities, and alumni. NexusEdge Education Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

CloudAdmin.io

Pre Seed Round in 2018
SaaS

AskApro

Convertible Note in 2019
We enable brands to engage in conversational commerce at scale via trusted advocates. Two billion consumers use chat to engage with brands and make purchase decisions. Failing to respond fast enough results in a lost sales and customer churn. A huge component for customer experience is conversational commerce. Leading chat platforms (FB messener, Whatsapp, Wechat) and enterprise software (SFMC, LiverPerson, ZendDesk) ensure that brands are always on and always connected. How can a brand respond at scale with authentically when consumers wanted advice from a person? AI/Chat bots are great for standardized questions based on catalogue data or FAQ's but what consumer actually want is advice from someone knowledgeable. AskAPro is the first distributed chat platform allowing brands to engage in chat at scale (think Uber/Quora) through trusted advocates which are routed in real-time from customers, employees, and brand advocates. Our patented platform if the first to systematically help brands onboard employees, customers, and advocates and dynamically route questions based on specific use cases. Using a mytrustscore ranking system our platform get smarter over time identifying the person to answer questions not unlike how Uber/Lyft look for the right driver.

Freeman Capital

Venture Round in 2021
Diversified investments for a diverse world.

Drishyam.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Drishyam.ai wants to simplify customer support and help enterprises reduce support costs using its deep learning based image recognition platform.

Octi

Convertible Note in 2016
Octi: The first people-powered social AR platform.

Health Cost IQ

Convertible Note in 2021
Health Cost IQ, LLC develops Health Data IQ platform, a software as a service (SaaS) based solution that equips organizations to manage their population’s cost, utilization, and care outcomes. Its solution identifies risk factors present in medically insured populations, analyzes the risks, and provides solutions to help clients minimize those risks and reduce costs. It serves to professional employer organizations, medical management companies, payers and third party administrators (TPAs), and individual brokers. Health Cost IQ, LLC was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.

Vidmaker

Seed Round in 2012
Vidmaker is a collaborative online video editor that makes it easy to work with video anywhere and with anyone. Users can work together in real time with video, images and sound from services like Dropbox and Google Drive, and effortlessly share their projects either on Vidmaker's video platform or YouTube.

ParLevel Systems, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
ParLevel develops hardware and software to provide intelligent solutions to the vending industry. The company's first product, ParLevel Box, retrofits both dinosaur-old vending machines as well as newer machines, and gives them a voice. This device, can connect almost any vending machine in the U.S. This has never been possible before. All of the vending machines' activity is reported to a cloud-based, easy-to-use, and real-time vending management system where vendors can get full insight into their business, reduce operational costs, and maximize profits.

Rocketbook

Seed Round in 2016
Rocket Innovations connects natural writing surfaces to the cloud using your smartphone. Our flagship Rocketbook notebook combines the freedom of pen and paper with the utility of cloud services. It also erases itself in a microwave. The Rocketbook has become one of the most widely funded Indiegogo campaigns ever.

RDnote

Convertible Note in 2020
Nutrition First! Our mission is to empower clinical nutrition care to improve patient outcomes across core settings using technology and data.

Matter.io

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Matter Labs Inc. engages in the small-batch production of metal parts using 3D printing and rapid molding. The company provides a range of base and precious metals, including yellow and white brass, bronze, and sterling silver that are polished and plated in various ways. It serves independent designers and businesses. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a location in New York.

Chroma

Convertible Note in 2016
Chroma Inc. develops Chroma.fund, a crowdfunding platform which issues digital certificates for stocks on the blockchain network. The company's platform provides a marketplace for local investments and helps businesses, loan funds, charitable foundations, and investors. Chroma Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

OnFrontiers

Seed Round in 2016
OnFrontiers builds knowledge networks for distributed businesses seeking to become more agile and competitive. Our product is a SaaS platform customers use to manage their network of go-to experts and also to access new expertise via our expert marketplace.

SkyMul

Seed Round in 2018
SkyMul develops industrial manipulation drones for rebar tying. Its drones helps general contractors build structures. The company is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Growth Geeks

Pre Seed Round in 2015
A growth geek is a hired gun. A marketer with skills. The kind of person that can change the trajectory of a business. Millions of companies across the world are trying to grow, and they need growth geeks. If you have mastered some aspect of modern marketing, anything from paid traffic, to content marketing, to social media, to data scraping, to analytics, or anything in between, then you might have what it takes to be a growth geek.

Headtalk

Seed Round in 2014
Headtalk‘s platform enables a new kind of nonverbal communication with wearable devices.

Big Data for Humans

Convertible Note in 2016
Big Data for Humans Ltd. develops customer marketing platform for supermarkets, fashion and luxury retailers, and airlines. The company offers an automated customer insights engine that uses networks to analyze customers that enable management, marketing department, and data scientists in various businesses. It offers solutions in the areas of personalized campaigns, execute across channels, actionable customer insights, smarter trading, and agile data management. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Dedo

Venture Round in 2016
Dedo provides patient engagement solutions for clinical trials. They are a team of data scientists and engineers who are passionate about using data to create best-in-class consumer experiences. Together with an executive team of healthcare veterans, they are bringing these capabilities to clinical research, development, and commercialization. Their vision is to deliver next-level patient engagement to the world of clinical studies, so that high fidelity data capture becomes seamless and important therapies get to market faster.

Forestry

Seed Round in 2016
Forestry.io’s content management system is meant to simplify posting and updating material processes on static websites. The startup offers a full-featured CMS for your static site with support for Jekyll, Hugo and Git that is suitable in creating documentation sites.

FlexSpace, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
FlexSpace, Inc. operates a platform for companies to visualize, budget, design, and manage their workplace so their space fits the company timeline, budget, and culture. It focus on helping companies to solve problems in various areas that include workspace, operations, productivity, and culture. The company is based in the United States.

motivote

Convertible Note in 2019
Motivote is building a civic engagement platform that helps campaigns, causes and companies increase social impact and mobilize their networks. Our first product uses behavioral nudges to increase voter turnout in elections at all levels.

Foodini

Seed Round in 2013
Foodini is a meal recommendation engine that uses members' food and cooking preferences to customize a weekly meal plan and grocery list for them. To get started, members fill out their food preferences, including likes, dislikes, allergies, and dietary restrictions, on www.foodini.co. Then they enter preferred cooking styles and time-to-table. Foodini's recommendation engine uses these preferences to create a weekly meal plan, including recipes for main dishes, sides, and desserts, plus a grocery shopping list. Members pay a monthly fee to join and can get discount credits for sharing their meal plans with friends on social media or for uploading their own recipes to share with other Foodini users. Foodini was founded in 2012 by Dan Roberts and Dave Shapiro, and is backed by venture capital firm and startup foundry Sandbox Industries.

Decisive

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Decisive is a social content analytics platform that helps brands measure, understand, and benchmark the impact of their social content. Every brand that wants to reach consumers must become a content company. With Decisive, it’s now easy for brands to quickly understand how their content is performing across major social media platforms with one content score, understand how their audience is feeling about their content, and benchmark their content against their competitors’ content.

AdHawk

Convertible Note in 2015
Broadlume, formally AdHawk, is the world’s largest provider of digital technology to the flooring industry. With its family of companies—FloorForce, Creating Your Space, Bridgeway Interactive, and FlooringStores—Broadlume is redefining the way flooring is bought and sold.

PatientOne, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
PatientOne, Inc. develops a platform to improve the surgical episode of care and provide remote patient monitoring services to independent surgeons, surgery centers, and hospitals. Its platform provides patient education, automated notifications, and reminders to keep patients on track, and tools to allow patients and their doctors to stay connected to reduce risks, communication errors, and complications surrounding the surgical process. PatientOne, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Missoula, Montana.

Vertoe

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Vertoe is the world's leading on-demand, short-term storage service that offers 500+ secure locations to store your bags and personal items across 50+ cities. With rates starting at a minimum of $5.95 per day coupled with the best in industry insurance of $5000, you can secure your items affordably and get the freedom to experience anywhere, anytime instantly.

(Un)stuck

Seed Round in 2020
(Un)stuck offers a free brand audit and course recommendation for companies from the leading continuing digital marketing educator.

Branch

Convertible Note in 2016
Branch is the only challenger bank that partners with employers to help working Americans grow financially. Employers turn to Branch not only to help them attract and retain hourly workers but also reduce the costs of paper checks and paycards by offering Branch as a free financial wellness benefit and bank alternative. Employees that sign up with Branch can receive a zero-fee bank account, free instant access to earned wages, and auto-budgeting tools to help them manage their cash flow between paychecks.

Damon Motorcycles

Convertible Note in 2017
Damon is unleashing the full potential of personal mobility for the world’s commuters. With its proprietary electric drivetrain, the company has developed the world’s safest, smartest, fully connected electric motorcycle platform employing radical innovations in battery propagation resistance, sensor fusion and AI. Designed as a platform for worldwide line extension, Damon motorcycles will ship direct to consumer on subscription plans to drive scale. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Damon is a Techstars Mobility company founded by serial entrepreneurs Jay Giraud and Dom Kwong. Damon’s investors include Round 13 Capital, Techstars, Fontinalis, Extreme Venture Partners and Pallasite Ventures.

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.

Polis Tecnologia

Convertible Note in 2016
Polis Tecnologia focused on providing complete solutions in software and services for the interaction, management, and administration of political parties, offices, agencies, and campaigns. The principle of promoting return and transparency for political, public, organizations in general and for the civil society. The company has experience, reliability, and integrity to provide the best service to the institution or the politician who wishes to be recognized as transparent, effective, and ever present administrator. Polis Tecnologia works for society through political bodies, parties and leaderships with the focus on helping the politician with the use of technology and knowledge. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in São Leopoldo, Brazil.

Bloveit, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Bloveit is a date night concierge service that helps busy couples plan awesome dates. The company takes care of recommending the restaurant, curating the meal based on the couple's unique tastes and preferences, pre-ordering, and paying the bill in advance. Its signature no-menu + no-bill experience is designed to help couples sit back, relax, and make the most of their time together.

Rapid RMS

Convertible Note in 2017
Rapid RMS provides point of sale applications. It develops Rapid RMS, a cloud-based iPad point-of-sale system for liquor and convenience stores. The company also sells hardware, including receipt printers, cash drawers, bar code scanners, and keyboards; and offers credit card processing and support services. The company is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Orderly Health

Convertible Note in 2016
Orderly Health, Inc. offers provider data for healthcare clients. It offers OrderlyData that assesses and repairs provider directory that helps plan administrator to improve their accuracy. The company’s OrderlyData ingests and transfers data; leverages public and proprietary data sources ; scores each data source by field (e.g., address) based on its likeliness to be correct; and use non-parametric machine learning algorithms to identify the fields in provider records most likely to be erroneous and update those fields with data. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

OUTRO

Seed Round in 2014
Referral Automation: Unlock the Hidden Value of Your Relationships Say goodbye to the manual process of making or receiving referrals and introductions for sales and recruiting. Their platform and algorithm will do the heavy lifting and streamlines the full process. Outro quickly finds and connects you to new potential clients, employees, partners, investors, & more, within your organization's immediate and extended network, as well as the global Outro community. You have employees, customers, advisors, partners, family & friends who are all willing to make referrals for you, but never have the time or the ability to do it. Outro shows them the people in their networks that match your Request, & gives them the ability to quickly make personalized, high quality introductions, with only a few clicks. Outro makes it incredibly easy for the people who know, trust, & love your business to make high-quality referrals, via our Triple Opt-in™ process - all three individuals pre-approve each introduction. Create your Request to identify whom you would like intros to, and for what purpose. Outro shows your "Connectors" (the people willing to make referrals for you) the "Prospects" in their networks that match your Request. You confirm the match as a good fit (opt-in 1), the Connector approves your Request (opt-in 2), & the Prospect replies "Yes, I'm interested" (opt-in 3), & the introduction is made. Generate Leads, find new Employees, get introduced to Investors and Advisors, recruit Volunteers and Donors, drive traffic to your App or Website, all through trusted friends. Outro Pro includes: • Unlimited user licenses • Unlimited referrals within your company's immediate and extended network of contacts • The ability to upload, automatically enhance, and export your improved Contact data • A built-in Thank You and Rewards Program • CRM Integration • Team Management & Reports Contact them for a demo at www.outro.com/pro Specialties Referral Automation, B2B Leads, Employee Referrals, Sales Referrals, Lead Generation, Triple Opt-in Introductions, Referrals, Sales Automation

GoKid Corporation

Seed Round in 2016
GoKid Corporation develops mobile applications for carpooling for schools, teams, and active families in the United States. The company’s products include GoKid Carpool, an app that facilitates organization and management of carpools; GoKid Connect, a mobility software that connects schools and parents through a web portal and GoKid mobile app; and GoKid for Parents, an app for family carpooling. Its application allows parents to schedule and manage carpools with their trusted network of friends, families, and neighbors; and includes GPS-based tracking of cars, live mapping functionality, in-app texting, and automatic alerts. The company’s application can be accessed through smartphones and desktop. GoKid Corporation was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Detroit, Michigan.

4Degrees AV Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
4Degrees helps professionals build better relationships, and democratize access to social capital - driven by machine learning. The company envisions to equalize opportunity by enabling you to build stronger professional relationships. Its platform identifies the right connections for you to focus on, works with you to strengthen those relationships over time, and helps you activate your network when you need it.

Fancred

Seed Round in 2014
Founded in August 2012 Hossein Kash Razzaghi, Jeremy Merle, and Craig Johnson, and Michael Pan, Fancred's mission is to unite the world's sports fans by creating a new way to consume sports information and interact with other fans and members of their community.

Bark Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
Bark uses AI to detect issues like cyberbullying, suicidal ideation, and school shootings. Bark uses machine learning to detect and proactively alert parents to issues their children face, such as cyberbullying, sexting, and signs of depression and suicidal thoughts. By only showing parents potential problems on their children's social media, text messaging, and email accounts, Bark's approach saves parents valuable time and helps build trust between parent and child.

Chowbotics Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Chowbotics Inc. designs and develops food service robots to prepare food in restaurants, cafeterias, and hotels, as well as food courts in airports, malls, and hospitals. It offers Sally, a salad-making robot. Chowbotics Inc. was formerly known as Casabots, Inc. and changed its name to Chowbotics Inc. in March 2017. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California.

Blueprint Registry, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Blueprint Registry is an innovative ecommerce platform offering users the ability to shop or create a wish list based on the layout of their home. Blueprint Registry started at weddings to prove the concept and has since redefined the experience making gifting more convenient, personal and visual.

Thaddeus Medical Systems, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Thaddeus Medical Systems, Inc. manufactures a temperature-regulating device for transportation of sensitive materials such as blood, bone marrow or lab samples. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Rochester, Minnesota.

RefundNote

Angel Round in 2017
Rapidly is a technology company that develops scalable systems and infrastructure for independent tax and accounting professionals. 50 million Americans depend on an independent tax professional to organize, file, and handle their quarterly and annual tax filings. Rapidly provides an end-to-end solution to take this process from paper to the cloud right out of the box. Rapidly's platform automates tax preparation, verifies tax documents and status of a refund and offers access account managers and reduces errors at tax time, allowing clients to save time and money with a tax filing service. Rapidly was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Fraudmarc, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Anyone can send emails that look like they’re from you. Your employees can get hit by CEO scams, spear phishing, and business email compromise, while your customers may be phished. Not implementing proper security measure leaves your people vulnerable and your business on the line.

SoftLedger

Pre Seed Round in 2018
SoftLedger is a modern full-featured accounting system built for true automation, now with crypto-specific features.

IOpipe

Seed Round in 2016
IOpipe is a serverless DevOps platform handling billions of events monthly to help teams build serverless applications better, faster, and stronger. With a shift in computing moving towards a serverless world, there are new challenges that emerge. They take a customer-centric approach to product building by working closely with their users to solve challenges together. They are building a remote-first, diverse team that is friendly, works hard, and is laser focused on building a great product that is best of breed for serverless application development and operations.

CDL Warrior

Convertible Note in 2015
CDL Warrior is connecting truck drivers and small fleets to the supply chain. They are doing this using the smartphones that truck drivers already own and building tools that help drivers, fleets and shippers improve productivity and communication.

BuyerSight

Pre Seed Round in 2019
BuyerSight is an AI and predictive analytics platform to power sales managers leading teams at scale. BuyerSight collects data from sales reps’ email, calendars, and CRM, and uses AI and natural language processing (NLP) to deliver recommendations and insight to managers of customer-facing teams. Leaders can ensure quality control at scale, discover best practices, and engage in data-driven coaching. BuyerSight is based in New York City and was started by two Harvard classmates with a combined 24 years of B2B sales and software experience.

doDOC Corp.

Seed Round in 2015
doDOC allows several people to work on the same document at the same time. Your team will plan, draft, edit, review and approve documents more than 70% faster. With well-governed workflows and granular permissions down to the paragraph-level, you will obtain a full audit-trail of any document. Founded by MIT alumni in 2015 and headquartered in Boston, doDOC is set to change the content collaboration paradigm by streamlining the writing and management experience, and automating all the technical aspects that undermine productivity. doDOC is a powerful and flexible cloud-based software, scaled to meet the needs of any business, from startups to global companies. Learn more at: https://www.doDOC.com

Omelas, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
Omelas brings together the world's best developers from Google, Facebook, RedHat, PwC and more with field-defining experts in defense, diplomacy, and intelligence to prevent the violence we've seen tear apart communities, stymie development, and spread suffering across the world. We began by applying the tech advertisers use to understand why people become loyal to brands to understand why people become loyal terrorist groups. With foiled attacks and presentations before four national intelligence chiefs under our belts, we expanded to propaganda of al kinds and then to violence of all kinds.

Vyflow

Seed Round in 2020
Vyflow provides a portal for investors to access portfolio company updates, data rooms, financial data, and confidential communications. The San Francisco, California-based company was founded in 2020 by Nikhil Trivedi.

TYFFON Inc.

Convertible Note in 2014
TYFFON Inc. develops entertainment applications. It offers ZombieBooth, an application that converts images into 3D animated image; GenderMorph, a gender morphing application; NecroFace, an application that zombifies faces in a group photo; ScreamFace, an application where people in a photo starts to scream; HalloweenFace, an application that converts people in a photo into Halloween costumes; and After Image Cam, an application that Records the after image of movements in real time. TYFFON Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

AdmitHub, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
AdmitHub, Inc. provides expert admissions guidance on its Website and via SMS to help students communicate with college admissions offices directly. It offers guidance in various categories that include athletics, college search and selection, community college, counselors, financial aid, first gen college, grad school, international, Ivy league, learning accommodations, parents, standardized tests, and transfer. AdmitHub, Inc. is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Firstbase

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Firstbase Inc. operates a platform which enables companies to manage their remote teams. The company provides IT provisioning services, delivery of goods, maintenance and repairs, ongoing culture and perks, collections when a worker leaves, and upgrades at the end of product lifecycle. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

Freight Farms

Venture Round in 2017
Freight Farms create access to food in areas of the world where the climate cannot support traditional farming methods. The Freight Farms' system brings a high volume of fresh, quality, and affordable food within reach of everyone along the food supply chain. By enabling high-yield crop production in any climate, Freight Farms offer an immediate foundation to grow a local food economy and sustainable food system. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Clear Cut

Convertible Note in 2018
The Clear Cut is reinventing the diamond engagement ring shopping experience by delivering one-to-one personalization to their clients through curation and expert advice. Fueled by a growing community of over 75k Instagram followers who are purchasing rings through Instagram, email, texting, and in-person appointments, the company is breathing new life into a broken industry and empowering a new generation of consumers.

Healthie

Seed Round in 2016
Healthie is the HIPAA-compliant EHR & Telehealth platform for nutrition professionals. Healthie's mission is to empower providers with tools that enable effective and efficient patient care. They believe that nutrition plays an incredibly important role in patient lives, and that nutritional care should be available and accessible to as many Americans as possible. Moreover, the workflow of nutritional care is different than traditional medical care, and technology should reflect that - Healthie was built to fulfill the specific needs of this workflow.

WorkBright, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2014
WorkBright is a cloud-based HR software solution for companies with the seasonal, contingent, and high-turnover workforces. It moves the traditionally tedious, paper-heavy process of onboarding a new employee to one that the employee can complete from their phone, tablet, or laptop before their first day of work. Employers can easily stay organized and compliant with an intuitive dashboard to manage their employee files. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Pillar Technologies

Convertible Note in 2016
Pillar Technologies is a real-time risk management platform for general contractors. It helps its users predict and prevent damages. Through the use of on-site sensors, the company monitors for destructive environmental conditions such as fire outbreaks, high humidity exposure, and mold growth. These damages serve as major sources of revenue loss for general contractors and insurance companies. The features of the platform are risk education, failure forecasting, and insurance optimization. Pillar Technologies is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2015 by Alex Schwarzkopf, Sean Iacobone, and Matt Joyal.

Olimpo Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2019
We are going to revolutionize the way athletes’ trainings are planned by giving trainers and athletes the power of objective information regarding the condition and effects of training in athletes’ bodies. We are developing our first product called Apollo 1, that’s a wearable device and mobile app that can provide a deep understanding of the athlete’s legs’ muscles condition before training and the effects of the training on their bodies.

Solstice

Angel Round in 2016
Solstice Power Technologies, Inc. develops customer management software for solar power companies. It provides an online platform for solar marketplace that offers subscriber aggregation and management services to solar developers, utilities, and other providers of shared solar energy. Solstice Power Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Solstice Initiative, Inc. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Narmi

Convertible Note in 2017
Narmi provides superior technology – namely mobile and online banking – to regional and community financial institutions (RCFIs). Banking through these digital channels hasn’t changed in years and has become an antiquated, transactional experience when it should be a high engagement, data-driven experience. With Narmi’s help, RCFIs better compete with mega-banks, challenger banks, and FinTech companies to create a more diverse and engaging financial ecosystem. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.

Twigtale

Convertible Note in 2014
Twigtale is the first company to provide parents with personalized, high-quality, accessible expert advice for every major transition a child undergoes, such as welcoming a new baby, moving, even experiencing death or cancer. The personalized stories are scripted by child development experts, then personalized by parents. The books are engaging for kids and a powerful playbooks for parents. Customers are parents, groups, partners & sponsors.

Hovercast

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Hovercast is an entertainment company that specializes in the fields of the internet of things, marketing, and social media. It also specializes in providing services and solutions in the fields of SaaS, software, and the internet. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Avisare

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Avisare is a universal supplier management portal connecting large corporations with small and mid-sized businesses for pre-vetting and RFP opportunities. We offer suppliers a centralized database to keep their company information updated, and provide the most robust platform to make sourcing a turnkey process.

Spoiler Alert

Convertible Note in 2016
Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based supply chain software company that partners with food manufacturers and grocery distributors to better manage excess and distressed inventory. In working with some of the world’s largest food brands and a national network of discount retailers and hunger relief organizations, Spoiler Alert offers a best-in-class, enterprise software solution and suite of B2B sales management tools that allow suppliers to strengthen their relationships with their customers, bring greater efficiency and accuracy to their surplus inventory management workflows, and keep good food from going to waste. While we care deeply about our customers’ financial and operational improvements, our team’s hearts and minds are motivated by the impact our work has in addressing some of the largest environmental and social opportunities of our generation - at the intersection of food waste, resource deficiency, climate change, affordable nutrition, and hunger. We couldn’t be more excited to be combining critical technology breakthroughs - including workflow automation, augmented intelligence, wholesale ecommerce, traceability, and supply chain management - to an industry that is so critical for daily life. Born out of MIT in 2015, Spoiler Alert is headquartered in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood and is backed by some of the nation's leading food, agriculture, and supply chain investors.

Agreemint

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Through the Agreemint Contract Platform AI, users interact in a more efficient way, creating a contract workflow that delights everyone - legal or non-legal. .

futury

Pre Seed Round in 2017
The technology landscape has changed dramatically in the recent years. New technologies are coming out frequently, and engineers are required to be versatile and treat their career as it was a business – they have to be in constant learning mode, and create their competitive advantage among others. futury brings the power of real-time market analytics to help engineers boost their career. We help them unlock their skills potential and discover future opportunities that will maximize their market value. Our solution aims to put every engineer just clicks away from getting valuable and personalized insights about the ever-growing industry. futury was launched by Amit, Stav, Maor, and David in 2015. It is operated from Tel Aviv, Israel.

Roots Automation

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Roots Automation, Inc. develops digital coworkers to complete common business tasks. It provides digital automation services to insurance, healthcare and financial industry. It offers solutions such as, cloud based digital coworkers, fast & efficient, self learning AI, secure in the cloud and real time management & monitoring. Roots Automation, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Thorium Data

Convertible Note in 2021
Thorium Data is an Information Asset Management (IAM) solution that helps companies better monetize their data. It's the ML-driven IAM platform that gives all your departments – marketing, accounting, finance, analytics and engineering – a single, shared view of their data.

Solstice

Seed Round in 2017
Solstice Power Technologies, Inc. develops customer management software for solar power companies. It provides an online platform for solar marketplace that offers subscriber aggregation and management services to solar developers, utilities, and other providers of shared solar energy. Solstice Power Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Solstice Initiative, Inc. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Piio, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Piio, Inc. develops cloud based real-time image optimization software. It provides image optimization and delivery services for websites and applications, that boosts websites load times and conversion rates. The company understands the context and behavior of users based on the images presented, run cohort tests, and decides what to show next. Piio, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

SoLo Funds Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
Solo is the community bank redefined where users borrow on their own terms and lend to reap the benefits. SoLo provides the science. SoLo Funds is the leading alternative financial solution providing the fastest loan option to borrowers and option for lenders to obtain significant value. SoLo launched as a unique & proprietary lending marketplace and has since grown to a multifaceted advanced community banking solution powered by individual capital and enabled by insurance, banking products, and dynamic A.I. underwriting.

SoHo Token Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Faster Than Light is the Simplest, Fastest Way for Developers and Startups to Run Static Analysis Tests.Soho Token Labs Inc. (doing business as “Faster Than Light”) is the maker of BUGCATCHER (also referred to as “The Bugcatcher” and “BugCatcher”) which is an application designed to help you test your code. In this policy “we”, “us”, etc. refers to Soho Token Labs, Inc., while “BugCatcher” refers to the BugCatcher software. Sites refers to fasterthanlight.dev, bugcatcher.fasterthanlight.dev and any other websites operated by Soho Token Labs, Inc.

CottageClass Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2017
CottageClass is a community marketplace for childhood education. They offer independent teachers the opportunity to build and sustain microschools, extracurricular enrichment, summer camps, and other community based programs for children ages 0-18. They use a data-driven approach to source supply to fill unmet demand in early childhood, afterschool (with 50% unmet demand) and homeschooling (an industry growing at 15% annually) At CottageClass learning experiences are diverse and reflect local and global priorities. They select their teachers based on their particular expertise and on the needs and values of their diverse populations.

Acerta

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Acerta is transforming quality control by leveraging artificial intelligence to help automakers get complex products to market faster and with fewer defects. Our machine learning models are forged from industry experience and driven by data, enabling Acerta’s clients to locate the earliest indicators of future product failures. From reducing scrap and rework rates to accelerating root cause analysis, we provide automotive engineers with the tools to improve throughput and profits.

Jiobit

Convertible Note in 2016
Jiobit is the world's smallest and longest lasting tracking solution. With a Jiobit device and smartphone app, parents (and pet parents) can find their loved ones anywhere: Indoors, outdoors, in over 120 countries and even in multi-level buildings. With weeks of battery life and a durable and discreet design, Jiobit is the world's smallest real-time location tracking product. The mobile app (run through a wireless subscription service) offers the most comprehensive set of monitoring and notification features available on the market. Overall, Jiobit gives parents peace of mind while allowing kids to be kids. The Jiobit team is comprised of seasoned engineers, designers, and marketers with a history of building innovative and disruptive consumer products and businesses. The team has logged a combined 150 patents from previous endeavors and developed and shipped products selling in the millions worldwide. We are proudly headquartered in Chicago, with a development center in Silicon Valley.

Pop-Base

Pre Seed Round in 2018
21st century communication must be interactive, immersive and react directly to the consumer to be future proof, we are the first to build this infrastructure for scale. Good communication is good storytelling and our system superpowers any story. We ware using this power for good by targeting a market with a lot of white space and huge positive impact: Digital Wellness ($575B). We are launching our technology through our first product: Woodland Mysteries: Making wellness information easy to learn, retain, and reference through an immersive, story driven, educational experience for kids ages 4-6. Content is updated through a patented content management system allowing quick and easy distribution of information vetted by experts. Our tech is a railway system. Woodland Mysteries is just the first train to ride it.

Hooks

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Hooks Technologies Inc. designs and develops mobile application which lets users to discover and create push notifications for television, music, sports, social media, and weather updates. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Valid8 Financial

Convertible Note in 2017
Valid8 Automating verified financial intelligence for accounting professionals and decision makers. Oxford University ranks Accounting in the top 4% of professions most likely impacted by automation, A.I., and data science. The $100 Billion (Annual US) Accounting Services industry use processes and procedures grounded by independently sourced, 3rd party verified evidence. The evidence collection process is mostly manual and based on sampling and is the primary reason the industry has lagged adopting data science and modern analytics. VALID8 provides a solution.

Specless, LLC

Seed Round in 2017
A Techstars Chicago 2015 Company Specless empowers publishers and advertisers to evolve beyond standard display ad formats and rich media inventory and begin bringing a more valuable advertising experience to market. Through a proprietary API and creative toolkit, Specless fundamentally separates the specifications of how an ad functions and appears from the creative content itself. This allows publishers to innovate at their own pace by selling differentiated ad formats while simultaneously increasing an advertiser's ability to scale complex creative campaigns across an endless variety of media and platforms.

The Akia Syndicate

Pre Seed Round in 2019
The Akia Syndicate, an artificial-intelligence company, develops artificial intelligence based solutions that assists travelers to connect with hotels. It offers solutions for guest messaging, revenue optimization, web chat, and team chat. The company's solutions offer contactless communication, automated replies, promotions, broadcasting messaging, reputation management, unified inbox, and scheduled messaging. The Akia Syndicate was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Boon

Seed Round in 2016
Boon Company, Inc. operates a referral marketplace that allows users to get paid for referrals. Its platform allows job seekers to create an online portfolio, integrate with LinkedIn, apply to opportunities, and track their applications; and enables employers to post and share job openings, find and identify candidates, accelerate the hiring process, and hire dedicated people. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Culver City, California.

Cogni

Seed Round in 2017
Cogni develops application through which its provides banking services. The company through its digital banking platform provides pan-European businesses with business accounts with multiple currencies linked to artificial intelligence (AI) driven business and financial tools. Cogni was formerly known as Bizbaze. The company is based in New York, New York.

Whistler Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
Honcho keeps companies safe by preventing damaging communications at work. Their software sits on each desktop, alerting them as they are typing in the word choice can be interpreted as inappropriate or risky, based on any of their pre-built Modules. Meanwhile, Honcho's Dashboard tracks and scores each alert for Management, taking into account the full context of the communication occurring before and after the alert. A win-win for the new world they all live in. Clean, thoughtful messaging that keeps employees out of the cross-hairs and companies out of the headlines.

Vertify

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Vertify, Inc. operates an online platform for data integration and management. Its product includes Vertify customer intelligence platform (VCIP), an online platform, which enables users to collect and manage data from enterprise systems. It is used to create connection between marketing and customer relationship management systems and sources of data. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Fueloyal

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Fueloyal developed unique and patented solution called Smart Fuel Cap that solves multi billion annually worth problem of fuel theft and fuel card misuse in trucking industry. Integrated smart hardware (IoT) and software offers trucking companies 100% fuel theft protection. In addition by collecting, managing and using data collected from the sensors installed on the truck smart fuel cap provides powerful fuel purchase optimization technology to change the way trucking companies buy fuel and save them up to $950 per truck/month.

PhoneWagon

Pre Seed Round in 2017
PhoneWagon Inc. develops a call tracking solution for businesses to know which marketing campaigns are generating phone calls. The company's solution helps businesses decide which marketing campaigns are worth investing money in and helps them close more paying customers by knowing which campaigns generate high quality leads. Its solution provides reporting and enterprise-level automation services through dynamic numbers. PhoneWagon Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

It's By U

Seed Round in 2016
It's By U is a do-it-yourself arrangement kit with farm-fresh blooms, by subscription. It's By U kits provide you with pro-quality tools and everything you need to learn how to perfectly arrange the blossoms in gorgeous artisan-made vases. Plus, It's By U also donates a percentage of each sale to Random Acts of Flowers, a charity that up-cycles flowers and distributes them to patients in hospitals and nursing homes.

Hubbli Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
Hubbli Inc. develops and markets communication and information management platform for school administration. It enables school to plan field trips, search for a substitute teacher, and automate entire admission process. The platform also allows users to create communication groups and communicate information in the form of newsletters, text messages, calendar events, and pictures. In addition, the platform also enables users to manage accounts and payments. The company also offers school website management services. Hubbli Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Lightstream

Seed Round in 2015
Lightstream is a small, agile team building a complete evolution of what live video production should be: simple, powerful, collaborative, and most of all, fun. Their products and services transform difficult technical hurdles into streamlined tools, unleashing creativity and empowering broadcasters to focus on their message. They are solving complex and exciting problems that not only drive the direction of their technology and products, but help to define new live streaming standards and technology for the future. At the core of who they are as a team is an immense passion and love for what they make, transparency, personal growth, and #goodvibes. They aredriven not just by their desire to build something truly amazing, but to build a company and culture they can be proud of.

Shopventory

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Shopventory provides inventory management and sales analytics for retailers using Square and PayPal Here for payment processing. Shopventory partners with a user's Square or PayPal Here account and provides inventory management functionality so businesses know stock levels and inventory usage at any given time along with the ability to analyze sales patterns to help increase sales. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Diego, California.

Patri

Convertible Note in 2021
Patri is a software and consulting firm based in Springville, Utah, dedicated to helping companies win more business in the $7 trillion U.S. public sector market through technology, consulting services, and premium memberships. Patri’s Bid Score™ is an innovative SaaS solution powering data-driven opportunity qualification and increasing win rates for top companies in multiple countries.

aiden

Seed Round in 2023
aiden is a fully-automated software deployment, patch management, and compliance solution that enables our team to provide intelligent packaging-as-a-service in a highly-scalable manner. As an IT empowerment solution, aiden enables IT teams to cut down the time and resources it takes to maintain every Windows computer (server, desktop, laptop or Windows mobile) by 75% or more. Adding aiden to your arsenal is like employing a team of top-of-the-line packaging engineers at a fraction of the cost, increasing ROI, and making Windows devices safer from cyber-attacks in less time with greater consistency and reliability. Our intelligent packaging-as-a-service completely eliminates the need for mastering complex packaging software like Flexera. We also help overloaded IT departments and IT service businesses (MSPs & MSSPs) avoid hiring and continually training expensive engineering resources on the tedious work associated with packaging, targeting and task sequencing that goes along with maintaining advanced tools like Microsoft’s Endpoint Manager, HCL’s BigFix, or Tanium. Rather than replace those tools entirely, aiden is designed to work in tandem with any of those tools where they become the scheduling software to run aiden and aiden handles everything else on the endpoint configuration for automated continuous compliance.