Right Side Capital Management

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, established in 2010. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, focusing exclusively on the pre-seed round of technology startups. Right Side Capital Management aims to support companies with capital-efficient business models that are typically located outside major hubs like the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. The firm invests in a range of technology sectors, including internet and cloud technologies, and operates primarily within the United States and Canada, with occasional investments in Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. Right Side Capital Management conducts 75 to 100 investments annually, with portfolio companies spanning 19 states. The firm seeks to provide a clear response to entrepreneurs within two weeks, with investments generally ranging from $50,000 to $500,000 and pre-money valuations between $1 million and $3 million.

Kevin Dick

Managing Partner

Dave Lambert

Managing Director

David Lambert

Founder and Managing Director

Jeff Pomeranz

Managing Director

Paul Swiencicki

Growth Partner

Past deals in Messaging

Stackin

Series A in 2019
Stackin' is the simplest entry point into finance with over one million subscribers and a mission to empower people to improve their financial lives via text message. Stackin' provides the necessary tools & curated products for a younger generation of consumers to build healthy financial habits over time in a fun, entertaining, judgement-free relationship. Powered by a custom messaging platform, data, machine learning and human touch, their personalized messages educate subscribers on how to save money, reduce debt and start investing.

Answerable

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.

Answerable

Pre Seed Round 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.

Courier

Convertible Note in 2019
Courier provides an API that enables developers to manage and route user notifications across various communication channels, such as email and messaging platforms. By leveraging user engagement data and online status, the API optimizes notification delivery, ensuring that messages reach users through the most effective medium. The company's notification management software allows clients to create reusable messages that can be customized for different channels, facilitating timely and targeted communication. Over the years, Courier has adapted to technological advancements while maintaining a stable management approach, emphasizing the importance of customer success. The company has developed long-lasting relationships with its largest clients, continually collaborating to meet their evolving needs.

Bitesize

Convertible Note in 2018
Bitesize, Inc. operates a two-way messaging platform designed to facilitate personal dialogue between brands and consumers. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in the United States, the company utilizes an artificial intelligence platform that enables the batch sending and receiving of messages while organizing responses by context, keyword, and sentiment. Bitesize serves various industries, including automotive, home services, healthcare, and entertainment. The platform aims to create engaging and interactive conversations, allowing brands to build meaningful relationships with consumers and enhance sales. By addressing the growing demand for personalized interactions, Bitesize offers marketers the ability to provide genuine one-on-one conversation experiences to a large audience.

Flikshop

Convertible Note in 2018
Flikshop allows users to be able to build a personalized postcard from the Flikshop mobile app that will be mailed via USPS to ANY prison inmate in the US. Users download the mobile app or go to www.flikshop.com to build a postcard with a personalized photo, add a quick note, and key in the inmate's name and inmate number. Flikshop takes care of the rest for $0.99 per postcard, and that includes the postage. Within 2-4 days the inmate will receive a REAL postcard from the loved one.

Chatcast

Convertible Note in 2018
Chatcast turns Messaging Apps into your most powerful marketing tool

Stackin

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

Community

Convertible Note in 2017
Shimmur is a new social engagement platform that makes two-way communication between influencers and their followers simple, effective, and scalable.

On Second Thought

Convertible Note in 2017
On Second Thought Inc. is a technology company that has developed an application enabling users to undo and edit messages before they reach the recipient's phone. Founded in 2014, the company is based in Washington, D.C. Its application, available for iOS devices, facilitates sending and receiving SMS and MMS messages, group messaging, and automatic synchronization of contacts and conversations. The patented technology allows users to delay or recall messages and peer-to-peer payments, giving them the ability to correct inaccuracies or reverse transactions before they are finalized. This functionality enhances user control over communication and financial interactions, addressing common issues associated with sending unintended messages or payments.

Purple

Seed Round in 2016
Purple is a conversational media platform that connects individuals who are passionate about a topic, to curious people who want to learn about it. Their platform allows users to create channels about a topic where they send out interactive stories, and cover exciting events live through messaging. Here is a demo video of our politics channel so you can see how the service works on SMS.

Lifecycle

Convertible Note in 2016
Lifecycle is a customer engagement platform founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in event-based, outbound communication, enabling businesses to acquire, convert, and retain customers effectively. Lifecycle provides tools for digital businesses to create optimized messaging campaigns that reach users through mobile messaging channels. By analyzing user interactions with web and mobile applications, the platform allows businesses to test and measure the effectiveness of their communications, ensuring the right content is delivered to the appropriate users at the right time and on the right devices.

Spoken

Convertible Note in 2016
Spoken, Inc. is a company that developed a mobile messaging application designed to connect users with native English-speaking coaches for personalized business English lessons. Founded in 2016 and based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Spoken allows users to schedule lessons at their convenience, enabling them to learn at their own pace and interact with coaches as needed. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of lessons, reducing wasted time typically associated with traditional learning methods. By facilitating one-on-one interactions with trained U.S.-based instructors through a mobile interface, Spoken aims to make English coaching more affordable and accessible for its users.

Karmies

Convertible Note in 2016
Karmies, Inc. operates a platform that enables users to send and receive interactive custom emojis, facilitating a novel way for brands to engage with mobile users. The Karmies SDK allows publishers to seamlessly integrate these interactive emojis into their existing applications. Additionally, the platform features branded emojis that include custom content such as traditional ads and sponsored material linked to specific locations. Karmies also offers a unique feature called Karmies Secret Emojiallows, enabling users to embed secret images and text within emojis for private sharing. Founded in 2013 and based in Denver, Colorado, Karmies aims to provide an innovative mobile advertising solution that effectively connects brands to users who may be resistant to conventional advertising approaches.

Jumble

Convertible Note in 2015
Jumble helps businesses to quickly secure their 75 billion daily emails by providing integrated one click end-to-end encryption. For businesses that need to protect their email data, Jumble is an email encryption product that integrates with their existing email account. Unlike existing solutions, Jumble provides simple and fast end-to-end encryption to all email accounts resulting in complete security without the time. Jumble’s one-click email encryption product simplifies the process by managing the cryptographic keys. On desktop, it works as an extension to existing email accounts while on mobile it works as a mail client. Unregistered users can securely decrypt an email behind the security of their “three lines of defence”. Jumble saves businesses time and money while providing peace of mind that their data is secure in the event of data breach. Jumble’s users are typically regulated and/or required to comply with data protection laws. Some users are simply security conscious and are using Jumble to upgrade their defence infrastructure to protect their business against the risk of a cyber-attack.

Lifecycle

Seed Round in 2015
Lifecycle is a customer engagement platform founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in event-based, outbound communication, enabling businesses to acquire, convert, and retain customers effectively. Lifecycle provides tools for digital businesses to create optimized messaging campaigns that reach users through mobile messaging channels. By analyzing user interactions with web and mobile applications, the platform allows businesses to test and measure the effectiveness of their communications, ensuring the right content is delivered to the appropriate users at the right time and on the right devices.

Remesh

Seed Round in 2015
Remesh Inc. operates an AI-powered platform that facilitates live conversations with customers or employees, allowing users to engage with up to 1,000 participants simultaneously. Founded in 2013 and based in the United States, the company focuses on gathering and analyzing audience responses in real-time. This technology enables organizations to quickly collect valuable insights and opinions, empowering them to make more informed business decisions. By integrating artificial intelligence with market research, Remesh provides a unique solution for advertisers and brands to understand the collective thinking of their target audiences, thus enhancing their ability to communicate effectively and respond to consumer needs.

Stream

Seed Round in 2015
Stream.io, Inc. specializes in developing an open-source platform that enables the creation of customizable newsfeeds and messaging applications. The company provides a range of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow product teams to implement chat features and activity feeds tailored to their specific needs. Its offerings include flat feeds for displaying followed content, aggregated feeds for grouping similar content, notification feeds for site alerts, and profile pages for user activity storage. Stream's solutions cater to various sectors, including finance, healthcare, dating, education, and social networking, facilitating community engagement. Established in 2014, the company is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with an additional office located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Stream’s products are recognized for their scalability and security, serving over a billion end-users globally.

Blink

Convertible Note in 2014
Blink is an enterprise communication platform that enhances the digital experience for frontline workers, such as nurses, bus drivers, construction personnel, and supply chain operators, who play a crucial role in the economy. Designed for users who are often away from traditional computer settings, the app has been adopted by over 60,000 individuals in more than 100 companies across the UK, US, and Australia. Users engage with the Blink app frequently throughout the day, addressing a significant gap in support and resources for the 70% of the workforce that comprises frontline employees. Blink aims to improve employee morale and retention, having achieved a 26% reduction in staff turnover and doubled employee satisfaction within its client organizations. The platform provides an all-in-one solution that digitizes frontline operations, ensuring that essential information and tools are readily accessible. With a strong recommendation rate among users, Blink is committed to empowering and equipping frontline workers to enhance their productivity and engagement.

FoxType

Seed Round in 2014
FoxType offers tools and solutions that assist its users to compose emails. FoxType was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lassy Project

Convertible Note in 2014
Lassy Project is a free service that gives parents and guardians the ability to notify an entire local community about their missing child or at-risk adult in seconds. With the single push of a button that sends a text alert, parents and guardians can mobilize a trusted group of family, friends, and neighbors immediately to help with their search. This group of community members is called their “network” and they are the most important asset users have if a loved one goes missing. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Longmont, Colorado.

Hollerback

Convertible Note in 2014
Hollerback Inc. is a mobile application company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that specializes in facilitating communication through video messages. By offering a platform designed to enhance personal connections, Hollerback aims to make staying in touch with others more enjoyable and straightforward. The application focuses on providing a user-friendly experience for sending video greetings, allowing users to express themselves in a dynamic way.

Kato

Seed Round in 2013
Kato is fixing the problem of business communication - enabling teams to communicate faster and more efficiently, reduce email overload and easily access their organizational knowledge. We're on a mission to make life a little better -- to make our jobs easier and more pleasurable, to help businesses work more efficiently, to improve how we communicate with each other. Kato brings the power of text, voice and video to team communication and intelligently manages information coming from other services, preventing data silos while reducing organizational noise. Companies large and small are more efficient and productive using Kato, both internally and with external partners, vendors and customers. Kato makes it possible to bypass the email blackhole and communicate with customers and partners in real-time. Organizations send less email and leverage knowledge better with Kato’s best-in-class search. We're built for business, with enterprise-grade security and administrative control. No hardware to maintain, software to update, or database to backup. It’s for distributed teams and remote workers, small businesses and large multi-nationals, and everything in between.

Nveloped

Seed Round in 2012
Nveloped was founded by Tripp Parker.

Lua

Seed Round in 2012
Lua specializes in powering HIPAA compliant messaging for the healthcare industry. It offers a mobile coordination solution that provides immediate access to the people and information needed to get a job done, anywhere. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Canary Calendar

Seed Round in 2012
Canary is a calendar app for the iPhone that helps Google Calendar users efficiently schedule meetings. People often check their mobile calendars to find time to schedule meetings, but are forced to wait until they reach their computer to actually send their guest an invitation. From Canary’s unique calendar interface, users can send their availability to anyone in seconds, allowing guests to select a time and automatically schedule a meeting on both calendars—with just one click. Canary puts an end to the back-and-forth of scheduling via email, resulting in quicker turnaround times and higher response rates. Canary lets you plan faster, to do more.
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