Notation Capital

Notation Capital is a Brooklyn-based venture capital firm established in 2014 that specializes in pre-seed and early-stage investments, primarily focusing on technology, health, and logistics sectors in the United States. The firm typically invests between $0.1 million and $0.2 million in funding rounds, with total investments generally not exceeding $0.4 million. Notation Capital emphasizes collaboration with technical founding teams, often engaging with startups that are pre-market or pre-product. Through its community-driven approach, Notation Capital supports portfolio companies by providing both capital and resources to facilitate their go-to-market strategies and scaling efforts, while fostering connections among founders, advisors, and a broader network.

Nicholas Chirls

Co-Founder & Partner

Alex Lines

Partner

Past deals in New York

Talos

Series B in 2022
Talos Trading, Inc. is a technology provider focused on the institutional trading of digital assets, facilitating a comprehensive trading lifecycle that includes pre-trade price discovery, order routing, execution, and settlement. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company offers a platform that connects various participants in the crypto ecosystem, including institutional investors, prime brokers, exchanges, OTC desks, lenders, and custodians. This infrastructure enables clients to efficiently execute, analyze, and settle trades across spot, futures, and foreign exchange markets. Talos Trading's solutions support real-time price streaming, portfolio accounting, and liquidity access, catering to the needs of its diverse clientele in the rapidly evolving digital asset market.

Celeri

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Celeri provides an API solution that makes it simple for companies to offer instant money transfer to their customers

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.

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.

Toolio

Series A in 2021
Toolio is a cloud-based merchandising platform designed to assist retailers in navigating the complexities of the retail landscape. The platform automates essential workflows and provides real-time insights, enabling remote collaboration among teams. By leveraging machine learning and predictive analytics, Toolio offers valuable insights and facilitates streamlined merchandising operations, which helps retailers make informed, data-driven decisions regarding their merchandise. Founded by a team of former Walmart professionals, Toolio operates globally with headquarters in New York City and an office in Istanbul. The company is supported by prominent venture capitalists and apparel industry executives, reflecting its commitment to enhancing retail operations.

Norby

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

Talos

Series A in 2021
Talos Trading, Inc. is a technology provider focused on the institutional trading of digital assets, facilitating a comprehensive trading lifecycle that includes pre-trade price discovery, order routing, execution, and settlement. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company offers a platform that connects various participants in the crypto ecosystem, including institutional investors, prime brokers, exchanges, OTC desks, lenders, and custodians. This infrastructure enables clients to efficiently execute, analyze, and settle trades across spot, futures, and foreign exchange markets. Talos Trading's solutions support real-time price streaming, portfolio accounting, and liquidity access, catering to the needs of its diverse clientele in the rapidly evolving digital asset market.

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.

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.

Grapevine

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

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.

Norby

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

Talos

Venture Round in 2020
Talos Trading, Inc. is a technology provider focused on the institutional trading of digital assets, facilitating a comprehensive trading lifecycle that includes pre-trade price discovery, order routing, execution, and settlement. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company offers a platform that connects various participants in the crypto ecosystem, including institutional investors, prime brokers, exchanges, OTC desks, lenders, and custodians. This infrastructure enables clients to efficiently execute, analyze, and settle trades across spot, futures, and foreign exchange markets. Talos Trading's solutions support real-time price streaming, portfolio accounting, and liquidity access, catering to the needs of its diverse clientele in the rapidly evolving digital asset market.

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.

Amperon

Seed Round in 2020
Amperon Holdings, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in New York, specializes in developing predictive tools for energy retailers and grid operators. The company utilizes smart meters to gather real-time energy data, providing insights with 15-minute resolution for various ratepayers, including residential, commercial, and industrial users. By leveraging this data, Amperon creates operational grid intelligence tools powered by artificial intelligence, which help utilities and energy retailers better manage grid volatility caused by factors such as climate disasters and global pandemics. With a significant number of smart meters installed across the country, Amperon aims to transform the energy sector and facilitate the transition to a smarter grid infrastructure.

Kinvolved

Venture Round in 2020
Kinvolved, Inc. is a technology company that develops mobile and web applications to facilitate communication between schools and families, aiming to improve student attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism. Its flagship application, KiNVO, allows schools to send messages to entire classrooms or individual parents regarding attendance, behavior, grades, and school updates. The platform also provides tools to analyze attendance trends, flag chronically absent students, and generate communication reports. Kinvolved targets schools and after-school programs, particularly in underserved communities across the United States. By combining technology with expert consulting and community engagement, the company seeks to enhance educational outcomes and foster economically viable communities. Founded in 2012 and based in New York, Kinvolved is focused on creating solutions that support district leaders, school principals, teachers, and parents in their efforts to improve student engagement and success.

Bison Trails

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.

Redesign Science

Seed Round in 2019
Redesign Science Inc is a biotechnology company based in New York, established in 2017, that specializes in small molecule drug discovery. The company employs advanced techniques, including first-principles physics and artificial intelligence, to simulate protein targets at the atomic level. This approach allows Redesign Science to identify subtle drug opportunities that conventional computational models may overlook. By focusing on the development of first-in-class small molecules, the company aims to address emerging and challenging targets associated with significant unmet medical needs. Their innovative methodologies not only enhance the understanding of biological pathways and disease mechanisms but also drive the commercialization of new therapeutic solutions.

Seasons

Seed Round in 2019
Seasons is a fashion rental platform that offers a mix of luxury apparel. The company was founded in 2019 by Regy Perlera and is headquartered in New York, United States.

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.

Livepeer

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.

Stellar Health

Seed Round in 2019
Stellar Health, LLC, founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, is a cloud-based platform focused on enhancing value-based care (VBC) for primary care providers. The platform empowers these providers to improve patient outcomes by offering real-time information and actionable incentives aimed at optimizing care quality and patient journeys. By facilitating better engagement between providers and patients, Stellar Health seeks to bridge the incentive gap between healthcare providers and payors, helping to achieve VBC objectives effectively. Through its innovative approach, Stellar Health aims to support providers in navigating the complexities of healthcare transitions and high-value referrals.

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.

Bison Trails

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.

Zipdrug

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

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.

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.

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.

Amperon

Seed Round in 2018
Amperon Holdings, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in New York, specializes in developing predictive tools for energy retailers and grid operators. The company utilizes smart meters to gather real-time energy data, providing insights with 15-minute resolution for various ratepayers, including residential, commercial, and industrial users. By leveraging this data, Amperon creates operational grid intelligence tools powered by artificial intelligence, which help utilities and energy retailers better manage grid volatility caused by factors such as climate disasters and global pandemics. With a significant number of smart meters installed across the country, Amperon aims to transform the energy sector and facilitate the transition to a smarter grid infrastructure.

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.

ARTA

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.

ARTA

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.

Wallaroo

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.

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.

Simple Health

Series A in 2017
Simple Health, founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, offers a mobile application designed to enhance access to women's health care, particularly in the areas of birth control and contact lens prescriptions. The platform facilitates online medical visits and prescription services, allowing users to conveniently renew their contact lens prescriptions and receive monthly deliveries of birth control and other health products. By integrating medical consultations with product delivery, Simple Health aims to simplify and improve the affordability of health care for women.

Bulletin

Seed Round in 2017
Bulletin, Inc. is a wholesale marketplace that connects individual designers and brands with retailers, facilitating the sale of a diverse range of products online, including home decor, kitchen items, bedding, furniture, lighting, jewelry, and cards. In addition to its online platform, Bulletin also provides shared storefronts and utilizes vacant commercial spaces to showcase and sell the works of emerging designers in person. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, Bulletin aims to create a community that supports premium brands while offering a unique shopping experience.

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.

Uru

Seed Round in 2016
Uru, Inc. develops content-aware video advertising solutions that leverage computer vision and machine learning. Founded in 2016 and based in New York, the company offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables creators and publishers to identify objects, themes, and monetization opportunities within videos. This platform also allows for the integration of brand graphics, enhancing the advertising experience. Additionally, Uru provides an API that facilitates monetization for video player platforms, enabling users to access Uru's services directly from their content management systems. By serving publishers, creators, and brands, Uru aims to create impactful, brand-safe advertising opportunities that connect brands with visual content effectively.

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.

nTopology

Convertible Note in 2016
nTopology, Inc. develops engineering design software that enhances manufacturing processes. Its primary offering, nTopology, allows engineers to create lightweight and optimized parts tailored to functional requirements. The software integrates design, simulation, and advanced manufacturing into a cohesive workflow, addressing geometry bottlenecks and enhancing team collaboration. Key features include Lightweighting, Architected Materials, Topology Optimization, Additive Manufacturing, and Design Analysis. nTopology's tools enable precise control over spatial variations, facilitating a broader range of designs and effective utilization of analysis data. The company serves various industries, including aerospace and defense, medical, automotive, consumer products, and education. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, nTopology aims to redefine engineering design tools for advanced manufacturing.

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

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.

Timber

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.

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.

Podia

Angel Round in 2016
Podia is an online platform that enables creators to build customized storefronts for selling digital products, including online courses, webinars, and downloads. Established in 2014 and headquartered in New York, Podia offers a user-friendly course builder and a suite of marketing tools designed to enhance sales from pre-launch to post-purchase. These tools include email marketing, a live chat widget, and affiliate marketing features, allowing users to effectively engage with their audience and grow their businesses. By providing these resources, Podia supports tutors and creators in reaching a wider student base and maximizing their online presence.

Simple Health

Seed Round in 2016
Simple Health, founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, offers a mobile application designed to enhance access to women's health care, particularly in the areas of birth control and contact lens prescriptions. The platform facilitates online medical visits and prescription services, allowing users to conveniently renew their contact lens prescriptions and receive monthly deliveries of birth control and other health products. By integrating medical consultations with product delivery, Simple Health aims to simplify and improve the affordability of health care for women.

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.

Zipdrug

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.

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.

Zipdrug

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.

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.