Notation Capital

Notation Capital is a pre-seed venture capital firm that work with technical founding teams. Notation Capital focus on early-stage technical teams, often pre-market or even pre-product, primarily in New York, and provide capital and support to help go-to-market and scale the company. Notation Capital is a community of people helping one another succeed. This includes the founders of portfolio companies, advisors, LPs, and broader network.

Nicholas Chirls

Partner

Alex Lines

Partner

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Radar Relay

Seed Round in 2017
Radar Relay is a next generation cryptocurrency exchange technology that leverages blockchain and the 0x protocol to trade Ethereum based tokens directly from Web3 or Hardware wallets. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Norby

Seed Round in 2021
Norby is an audience relationship toolkit built for creators and brands.

Bison Trails Co.

Seed Round in 2019
Bison Trails allows the user to run secure infrastructure on multiple blockchains. The company's technology platform provides enterprise-grade security, multi-cloud and multi-region distribution, and a 99.99% uptime guarantee for node operators. Its aim is to strengthen the entire blockchain ecosystem, by providing a robust and secure infrastructure for the blockchain pioneers of tomorrow.

Amperon

Seed Round in 2020
Amperon is a provider of smart meters to deliver real-time energy data forecasts. There over 70M smart meters currently installed in the country, collecting 15 minute resolution electricity data for every type of ratepayer (including residential, commercial, and industrial). The data has been relatively untapped for the past decade, and Amperon is leveraging it to charge forward and bring AI to the energy world to usher in the smart grid of the future.

Arta Shipping, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
ARTA is a digital platform and API delivering global white glove logistics and services. We are enabling the next generation of ecommerce by providing logistics automation technology for the $25b white glove logistics space. For more information, visit shiparta.com.

neMedIO

Venture Round in 2019
Nemedio is a medical device manufacturing company that provides solutions to accelerate development times for medical technologies. It also provides the framework, process, tools, knowledge, and connections to go from prototype to market for traditional, high-tech, and robotic medical devices. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

neMedIO

Seed Round in 2019
Nemedio is a medical device manufacturing company that provides solutions to accelerate development times for medical technologies. It also provides the framework, process, tools, knowledge, and connections to go from prototype to market for traditional, high-tech, and robotic medical devices. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Simple Contacts Inc.

Series A in 2017
Simple Contacts Inc. provides Simple Contacts, a mobile application that helps users to renew their contact lens prescription. Its application provides a vision exam and issues a prescription for purchase of corrective contact lenses. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Livepeer, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Livepeer, Inc. develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet. It provides an open platform that gives broadcasters, developers, and users the ability to get content and message out. The company combines a blockchain based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server. It provides a decentralized video live streaming platform with the peer-to-peer networks and the blockchain. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Kinvolved

Venture Round in 2020
Kinvolved is a developer of a social enterprise platform designed to improve student attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism. The company's platform combines web, mobile and tablet technology tools with expert consulting and community engagement events, enabling schools to increase funding, create more economically viable communities and improve graduation rates.

Bumpers, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Bumpers develops an iOS app that allows users to make apodcast direct from their mobile devices, using the phone's built-in microphones.

Arta Shipping, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
ARTA is a digital platform and API delivering global white glove logistics and services. We are enabling the next generation of ecommerce by providing logistics automation technology for the $25b white glove logistics space. For more information, visit shiparta.com.

Circle

Venture Round in 2020
Circle is a community platform that brings together the creators' discussions, memberships, and content. The company was founded by Sid Yadav, Rudy Santino, and Andrew Guttormsen.

Toolio

Series A in 2021
At Toolio, we're on a mission to help retailers navigate the complex, competitive and ever-changing retail landscape. Toolio is a cloud-based Merchandising Platform that automates critical workflows, provides real-time insights, and enables remote collaboration, empowering retailers to make faster, data-driven decisions about their most important (and expensive) asset—merchandise. Toolio is a global operation with headquarters in NYC and offices in Istanbul, built by an ex-Walmart team of second-time entrepreneurs and backed by top VCs and apparel industry executives.

Talos Trading

Series B in 2022
Talos Trading is an institutional technology infrastructure provider that connects all crypto ecosystem participants to support a full trading lifecycle. Talos Trading is based in New York, NY and was co-founded by Anton Katz and Ethan Feldman in 2018.

Parsec

Series A in 2020
Parsec empowers people to connect to their work, games, and friends from anywhere, on any device. Parsec for Teams lets artists, animators, developers, and designers across the creative industries use their powerful PCs and VMs from anywhere, across any device. Our silky smooth, 60FPS+, 4K interactive remote access tools are used by leaders in games, animation, film, broadcast, architecture, and more. Millions of people use Parsec to access their games on the go. Share a link and you’re playing with friends and family.

Circle

Series A in 2021
Circle is a community platform that brings together the creators' discussions, memberships, and content. The company was founded by Sid Yadav, Rudy Santino, and Andrew Guttormsen.

oscoin

Venture Round in 2018
Oscoin aims to build a decentralized network between open source software and developers that would allow for a fair economy for the development and maintenance of the world’s open source software, independent of gatekeepers.

evaluate.market

Pre Seed Round in 2021
NFT Valuation Platform and Community

TruStory

Seed Round in 2018
TruStory is a social network that enables productive debate. To make progress on any issue, we need to learn from different perspectives, find common ground, and have the humility to change our minds. Our mission is to make the Internet more open-minded by incentivizing people to hear all sides of a debate.

Arta Shipping, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2016
ARTA is a digital platform and API delivering global white glove logistics and services. We are enabling the next generation of ecommerce by providing logistics automation technology for the $25b white glove logistics space. For more information, visit shiparta.com.

Spruce Holdings

Seed Round in 2016
Spruce Holdings Inc. provides title insurance, coordination, escrow, and recording services for real estate companies and mortgage lenders through its software. It operates as a third party that helps to coordinate transactions between homeowners and their lenders or real estate institutions. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with hub locations in Plano, Texas; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Santa Barbara, California.

NuCypher

Initial Coin Offering in 2019
NuCypher develops a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform for big data. The company offers Hadoop, a product for sharing sensitive data in compliance with governance and residency requirements. Its big data encryption layer enables organizations to use military-strength encryption to protect large and distributed data sets in the cloud or on-premise from internal and external threats, as well as protects big data applications by using organization’s existing access policies. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

ShineOn Corp.

Seed Round in 2016
ShineOn is an e-commerce platform that empowers the creation and sale of jewelry. The company is building the world's largest jewelry retail network via it's 3,000 Shopify store owners who power their jewelry businesses through the ShineOn Jewelry app==> sellers.shineon.com ShineOn was founded by Eric Toczko in 2016.

Sawyer

Series A in 2021
Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning. Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educational institutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact. They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible. Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow.

Bison Trails Co.

Series A in 2019
Bison Trails allows the user to run secure infrastructure on multiple blockchains. The company's technology platform provides enterprise-grade security, multi-cloud and multi-region distribution, and a 99.99% uptime guarantee for node operators. Its aim is to strengthen the entire blockchain ecosystem, by providing a robust and secure infrastructure for the blockchain pioneers of tomorrow.

Talos Trading

Series A in 2021
Talos Trading is an institutional technology infrastructure provider that connects all crypto ecosystem participants to support a full trading lifecycle. Talos Trading is based in New York, NY and was co-founded by Anton Katz and Ethan Feldman in 2018.

Irene Retirement

Seed Round in 2017
The truth is, it’s getting harder for senior homeowners to get by these days. Even though they worked hard to care for their home and their retirement, the cost of living and healthcare has ballooned over the past 20 years. So far, there have only been a few solutions for older adults to attain additional funds when needed during their retirement. They could sell their home, take out additional mortgages that put them in debt, or continue to work to make ends meet. After watching family and friends struggle as seniors and researching the extent of the problem, they were shocked to find the situation many older Americans face these days. They wondered if he could find another option—a way of giving seniors debt-free funding that would empower them and give them the opportunity to enjoy their retirement with dignity and freedom. This is how Irene was born.

Zipdrug, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Zipdrug, Inc. develops an application that helps to order prescribed medications. The company’s application eliminates waiting time at the pharmacy. It offers its application for consumers and healthcare providers. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York. As of July 6, 2020, Zipdrug, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of IngenioRx, Inc.

Timber Technologies, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Timber Technologies, Inc., doing business as Timber.io, develops an application that aggregates and processes logs that helps users to understand how their app is performing. Timber Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Technologies, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Bedford, New York.

GitDuck, Inc

Seed Round in 2020
Screen and code sharing platform for developers.

Zipdrug, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Zipdrug, Inc. develops an application that helps to order prescribed medications. The company’s application eliminates waiting time at the pharmacy. It offers its application for consumers and healthcare providers. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York. As of July 6, 2020, Zipdrug, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of IngenioRx, Inc.

Bison Trails Co.

Seed Round in 2018
Bison Trails allows the user to run secure infrastructure on multiple blockchains. The company's technology platform provides enterprise-grade security, multi-cloud and multi-region distribution, and a 99.99% uptime guarantee for node operators. Its aim is to strengthen the entire blockchain ecosystem, by providing a robust and secure infrastructure for the blockchain pioneers of tomorrow.

Parsec

Seed Round in 2017
Parsec empowers people to connect to their work, games, and friends from anywhere, on any device. Parsec for Teams lets artists, animators, developers, and designers across the creative industries use their powerful PCs and VMs from anywhere, across any device. Our silky smooth, 60FPS+, 4K interactive remote access tools are used by leaders in games, animation, film, broadcast, architecture, and more. Millions of people use Parsec to access their games on the go. Share a link and you’re playing with friends and family.

Arta Shipping, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
ARTA is a digital platform and API delivering global white glove logistics and services. We are enabling the next generation of ecommerce by providing logistics automation technology for the $25b white glove logistics space. For more information, visit shiparta.com.

Sawyer

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning. Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educational institutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact. They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible. Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow.

Bulletin

Seed Round in 2017
Bulletin, Inc. develops and operates a wholesale marketplace where individual designers and brands sell their products online. The company sells home decor products, such as prints, planters, kitchen items, bedding, decor, furniture, goods, lighting, jewelry, and cards online. In addition, the company hosts shared storefronts and vacant commercial spaces, as well as fills them with emerging designers' works to sell their products in person. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

ChargeLab

Seed Round in 2021
ChargeLab Inc. develops and manufactures electronic vehicle charging stations. It also develops electronic vehicle charging management platform, which connects, monetize, and control charging stations. It caters to Government of Canada, multi-national REITs, parking operators, property managers, and more. ChargeLab Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Norby

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Norby is an audience relationship toolkit built for creators and brands.

Parsec

Series B in 2020
Parsec empowers people to connect to their work, games, and friends from anywhere, on any device. Parsec for Teams lets artists, animators, developers, and designers across the creative industries use their powerful PCs and VMs from anywhere, across any device. Our silky smooth, 60FPS+, 4K interactive remote access tools are used by leaders in games, animation, film, broadcast, architecture, and more. Millions of people use Parsec to access their games on the go. Share a link and you’re playing with friends and family.

Amperon

Seed Round in 2018
Amperon is a provider of smart meters to deliver real-time energy data forecasts. There over 70M smart meters currently installed in the country, collecting 15 minute resolution electricity data for every type of ratepayer (including residential, commercial, and industrial). The data has been relatively untapped for the past decade, and Amperon is leveraging it to charge forward and bring AI to the energy world to usher in the smart grid of the future.

Podia

Angel Round in 2016
Podia is an operator of an online storefront for online courses and digital products. It provides customized and easy-to-use content for free providing tutors with a website, course builder, and online tools to help them grow their businesses and reach more students. Podia was established in 2014 and is headquartered in New York.

Redesign Science

Seed Round in 2019
They efficiently simulate protein targets at the atomic level to reveal hidden, subtle drug opportunities that fall outside the capability and scope of alternative computational models.Basic science is proliferating with new understanding of biological pathways and disease mechanisms. New technologies are needed to solve emerging challenges and to commercialize new opportunities.

Uru, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Uru, Inc. develops content-aware video advertising solutions. The company’s SaaS lets creators and publishers to identify the objects, themes, and monetization opportunities inside a video, as well as makes pairing them with brand graphics; and API lets video player platforms to empower their users to monetize and video publishers consumer Uru directly from inside their content management system. It serves publishers and creators, and brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Zipdrug, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Zipdrug, Inc. develops an application that helps to order prescribed medications. The company’s application eliminates waiting time at the pharmacy. It offers its application for consumers and healthcare providers. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York. As of July 6, 2020, Zipdrug, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of IngenioRx, Inc.

Field Complete Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
FieldComplete is building the next generation of field service software from the inside out. Developed by a team of founders with collectively over 30 years of experience in real estate, property maintenance, building, and development, FieldComplete was created to fill a widening gap in the market between what service providers needed to be successful and the tools available to help them manage their businesses. It specializes in the fields of clean energy, construction, and enterprise software. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

StreetCred

Seed Round in 2018
StreetCred Labs, Inc. develops blockchain based mapping software for location data. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Sawyer

Series A in 2019
Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning. Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educational institutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact. They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible. Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow.

Sawyer

Seed Round in 2016
Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning. Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educational institutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact. They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible. Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow.

Talos Trading

Venture Round in 2020
Talos Trading is an institutional technology infrastructure provider that connects all crypto ecosystem participants to support a full trading lifecycle. Talos Trading is based in New York, NY and was co-founded by Anton Katz and Ethan Feldman in 2018.

Amplifunds

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Grapevine is a collaborative giving platform where people give with people.

Hickory

Pre Seed Round in 2015
We're a fast-growing Y-Combinator (S15) backed startup, based in New York. Hickory is the only training tool focused on retention, turning Sales and Customer Service staff into brand experts. The app predicts when a rep will forget what they’ve learned, and schedules review exercises tailored to their strengths and weaknesses to prevent that from happening.

Circle

Seed Round in 2021
Circle is a community platform that brings together the creators' discussions, memberships, and content. The company was founded by Sid Yadav, Rudy Santino, and Andrew Guttormsen.

ChargeLab

Seed Round in 2020
ChargeLab Inc. develops and manufactures electronic vehicle charging stations. It also develops electronic vehicle charging management platform, which connects, monetize, and control charging stations. It caters to Government of Canada, multi-national REITs, parking operators, property managers, and more. ChargeLab Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Stellar Health, LLC

Seed Round in 2019
Stellar Health is a point-of-care, cloud-based platform that activates primary care providers to achieve value-based care (VBC) goals that improve patient outcomes, such as improving quality scores and optimizing the patient care journey through transitions of care and high-value referrals. The Stellar platform helps primary care providers continually engage with their patients by providing them real-time information and tangible action-based incentives for improving quality of care. Stellar Health’s mission is to enable all providers to engage and succeed in VBC by bridging the incentive gap between providers and payors. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

nTopology, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2016
nTopology, Inc. develops and builds engineering design software and tools for manufacturing. It offers nTopology, an engineering software that enables engineers to create lightweight and optimized parts with their functional requirements. Its toolkit includes Lightweighting; Architected Materials; Topology Optimization; Additive Manufacturing; and Design Analysis. The company through its nTop platform removes geometry bottlenecks in design by achieving workflows and improving team collaboration. It serves aerospace and defense, medical, automotive, consumer products, and education industries. nTopology, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

NuCypher

Venture Round in 2018
NuCypher develops a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform for big data. The company offers Hadoop, a product for sharing sensitive data in compliance with governance and residency requirements. Its big data encryption layer enables organizations to use military-strength encryption to protect large and distributed data sets in the cloud or on-premise from internal and external threats, as well as protects big data applications by using organization’s existing access policies. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

CARMERA

Venture Round in 2017
CARMERA provides real-time 3D maps and navigation-critical data for autonomous vehicles, as well as 3D scene reconstruction and site analytics data for professionals in architecture, construction, real estate and other built environment segments. CARMERA operates an owned and professionally crowdsourced vehicular sensor network built from the ground up, that gathers continually updated 3D scene, change detection and analytics data. Our machine vision and geospatial data pipelines extract rich texture and insight for autonomous vehicles and built environment data customers, while helping make vehicles on city streets safer and adhering to privacy best practices. CARMERA’s mission is to automate cities by maintaining the world’s most robust real-time, street-level intelligence platform and to make it accessible to anyone.

Wallaroo Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Our mission is to provide an Enterprise AI Platform to enable clients to deploy ML & Analytics projects into production quickly, at scale, and at low cost.

Simple Contacts Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Simple Contacts Inc. provides Simple Contacts, a mobile application that helps users to renew their contact lens prescription. Its application provides a vision exam and issues a prescription for purchase of corrective contact lenses. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Clora, LLC

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Clora, LLC through its platform provides executive search services for life sciences companies. The platform allows companies to search, screen, and engage with life science consultants. Clora, LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

neMedIO

Venture Round in 2018
Nemedio is a medical device manufacturing company that provides solutions to accelerate development times for medical technologies. It also provides the framework, process, tools, knowledge, and connections to go from prototype to market for traditional, high-tech, and robotic medical devices. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Bumpers, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Bumpers develops an iOS app that allows users to make apodcast direct from their mobile devices, using the phone's built-in microphones.

Commonwealth Crypto

Seed Round in 2017
Commonwealth Crypto is developing technology to allow traders to maintain custody of their coins while trading at a cryptocurrency exchange. Their technology ensures that no one, even a compromised or hacked exchange, has the power to take custody of a trader’s digital assets. Instead, traders can keep their coins securely housed in their wallet or custodial service, even as they trade.Their technology is compatible with top cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin and ZCash.