Golden Seeds
Golden Seeds LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in start-up, early stage, and growth capital investments. The firm does not invest in ventures with a large real estate component, television or radio programs, film, theater or art productions, and companies domiciled outside of the United States. The firm primarily focuses on consumer products, software, Internet, B2B & B2C technology, healthcare, consumer products industries and life sciences companies. The firm typically invests between $1 million and $5 million per round in companies with valuation less than $5 million. The firm seeks to invest in consumer products companies with revenue over $1000000 with gross margin over 40%. It will invest in only women-owned and women-led companies with a woman as a founder and/or a woman in a C--Level position with a significant equity ownership. The firm seeks to invest in companies which have at least one or two paying clients and their product is in beta (versus alpha) stage of development and has been developed with input from clients or potential clients. It prefers for companies to have already secured an investment from a local angel group or venture capital firm when they are applying from outside the New England or Mid Atlantic regions. The firm seeks to invest in companies that are C-corporation or willing to convert into the same. It may co-invest alongside other investors. The firm exit its investment within five to seven years. Golden Seeds LLC was founded in August 2004 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Jo Ann Corkran
Manages Deal Flow and Is A Partner In the 2011 Golden Seeds Fund and the Golden Seed Venture Fund
103 past transactions
Hive Media
Series A in 2011
Hive Media, a San Carlos, CA-based company that creates social media games. Led by CEO Brian Laing, Hive Media creates social media games that allow fans to extend their engagement and live their favorite hit movies, TV series or brands via Facebook, iPad and mobile devices. The company selects shows that have significant brand recognition, large ardent fan bases, and high profile marketing and ad sales programs.
Consensus Point
Series B in 2012
Consensus Point is provider of prediction market technology. Since its founding, Consensus Point has been a pioneer in the prediction market business. In fact, their Chief Scientist, Robin Hanson, is known as "the father of modern prediction markets." They built their reputation working with enterprise clients such as GE, Best Buy and Motorola. Their experience with these Fortune 500 companies helped us develop a proven and solid foundation for Huunu, their new research and media prediction market platform.
Today, Consensus Point partners with the consulting, media, and research industries to tap into "the wisdom of the crowd" to predict future events and market preferences. One of Huunu's clear differentiators is increased respondent engagement. Huunu is changing the way that market research is done by using gaming techniques to engage panels and communities to share insights and information.
Work Truck Solutions, Inc.
Series A in 2014
Work Truck Solutions, Inc. develops marketing and lead generation tools to help commercial vehicle buyers in finding their work truck. The company offers dealer software solutions, and upfitter marketing and display tools. It serves original equipment manufacturers, body and equipment manufacturers, distributors and installers, and commercial vehicle dealers from various brands across the United States. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Chico, California with additional locations in Michigan and Texas.
Wisegate
Series B in 2014
Wisegate is a practitioner-based IT research service that lets qualified senior IT professionals freely share information without the influence of analysts, vendors, media or advertisers - like a crowd-sourced version of Gartner, but no vendors allowed.
Using a crowdsourcing model and advanced algorithms, Wisegate gives senior technology professionals trusted, timely and relevant access to the most authentic intelligence about IT: the collective knowledge and experience of their peers. Wisegate offers honest, pragmatic information and advice based on the real-world experiences of veteran IT professionals. No analyst theories or vendor bias; just clear and straightforward insight directly from experienced technology leaders.
Avaxia Biologics, Inc.
Series B in 2012
Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops oral antibody therapeutics. It offers gastrointestinal diseases, such as inflammatory bowel diseases, celiac disease, necrotizing enterocolitis, radiation syndrome, oral mucositis, and diabetes and obesity. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. has a strategic collaboration with Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Circle33 LLC.
Language I/O
Seed Round in 2019
The future of translation is conversational and Language I/O’s proprietary machine translation optimization technology ensures that every conversation is understood. Our machine translation optimizer can translate difficult to translate user generated content such as jargon, slang, abbreviations and misspellings in 150 languages over chat, email, article and social support channels. Language I/O seamlessly integrates within all major CRMs and also provides an API. Finally, we let customers decide whether to use professional human linguists, our machine translation optimizer, or a combination of the two.
Kinnos Inc.
Series A in 2020
Kinnos Inc. manufactures a powdered additive for infectious disease decontamination. The company provides Highlight, a patent-pending additive for disinfectants. It also provides real-time color-change feedback to enforce thoroughness of cleaning. In addition, it also provides Highlight Wipes, a wipe dispensing machine and Highlight Powder, a disinfectant additive. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Open Road Integrated Media
Series B in 2011
Open Road Integrated Media is a prestige content brand delivering digital experiences that entertain and inform readers around the world. Its network of digital properties produces compelling stories that keep audiences engaged—across devices and around the world. The Open Road brands include Early Bird Books, a daily eBook deals newsletter and website; The Lineup, for fans of true crime, horror, the mysterious, and the paranormal; The Portalist, for fans of science fiction, fantasy; Murder & Mayhem, for fans of mystery and thriller; The Archive, for fans of history and non-fiction; and A Love So True, for fans of romance; and Open Road Media, a global eBook publisher whose catalog includes legendary authors such as William Styron, Alice Walker, Pat Conroy, Gloria Steinem, Octavia Butler, John Jakes, Pearl S. Buck, Walker Percy, Ruth Rendell, and Sherman Alexie.
Consortia Health Holdings, LLC
Seed Round in 2017
Consortia Health Clinical Continence Services offer a powerful combination of the most advanced testing systems and highly trained technicians to help you diagnose and treat incontinence right in your office.
Strategikon Pharma, Inc.
Seed Round in 2020
Strategikon Pharma, Inc. designs and develops a software that synchronizes sponsor and provider outsourcing processes. It offers Clinical Maestro, a transaction room that uses collaborative technology infrastructure and standardized bid grid language to create a shared virtual transaction environment. The company's software is also used for clinical financial management, vendor performance metrics management, portfolio analytics, CRO and clinical vendor oversight, clinical outsourcing, and contract lifecycle management. In addition, it offers consulting services to newly established clinical business operations. Strategikon Pharma, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Rafael, California.
EcoTensil
Angel Round in 2013
EcoTensil has reinvented the disposable spoon. In one fun fold, pleasingly smooth paperboard EcoTensil products transform into the most sustainable, highly space efficient, and brandable utensils available.
Strategikon Pharma, Inc.
Series A in 2021
Strategikon Pharma, Inc. designs and develops a software that synchronizes sponsor and provider outsourcing processes. It offers Clinical Maestro, a transaction room that uses collaborative technology infrastructure and standardized bid grid language to create a shared virtual transaction environment. The company's software is also used for clinical financial management, vendor performance metrics management, portfolio analytics, CRO and clinical vendor oversight, clinical outsourcing, and contract lifecycle management. In addition, it offers consulting services to newly established clinical business operations. Strategikon Pharma, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Rafael, California.
Joylux
Series A in 2017
Joylux is a health and wellness company that specializes in women's health and wellness. The company is committed to finding scientific solutions that are noninvasive, effective, and affordable to help improve all aspects of a woman’s intimate life.
The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
AboutOne
Series A in 2011
AboutOne.com is a secure and easy-to-use online family management journal that helps busy families manage what matters most: family memories and household information. AboutOne.com was designed to help manage this information in a fun and fast way.
AnaOno
Seed Round in 2022
Amplified Sciences LLC
Seed Round in 2021
Amplified Sciences is a molecular diagnostics company unlike other diagnostics companies due to their ultra-sensitive molecular sensing technology with composition of matter IP exclusively licensed from Purdue University. The technology is disease state agnostic, can detect to the single molecule level, scales easily to point of care, and provides a very favorable cost structure for their platform of reagents. The first application – early detection of pancreatic cancer - is an assay that will quickly prove the investment thesis due to large unmet medical need and a favorable reimbursement path. The team has delivered a working prototype and published proof of concept data.
Zenflow, Inc.
Series B in 2021
Zenflow, Inc. develops and markets a spring device that provides relief for permanent BPH symptoms in men. The company provides solutions for urinary obstruction without destroying tissues. It offers its products for patients and urologists. The company was formerly known as Torix Medical, Inc. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Senscio Systems
Seed Round in 2014
Senscio Systems develops information systems that organize and process data to provide insights for decision making. It focuses on intelligence management for the U.S. government and personal healthcare management for consumers. The company offers Egret, a software system that systematically analyzes electronic fund transfer data to identify organizations that exhibit behaviors indicative of money laundering. It is also developing Ibis, an interactive care management system that helps patients follow their daily care plan at home and manage their chronic illnesses; and Kiwi, a sensor-rich pair of slippers to detect an increased risk of falls. In addition, it develops custom decision support applications for government and corporate use.
The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Boxborough, Massachusetts.
Proseeder Technologies, Inc.
Angel Round in 2016
ProSeeder's technology is privately labeled and easily configurable for corporations to manage and report on initiatives, acquisitions, investments, partnerships, and other corporate development activities. Its platform empowers corporations with adaptive tools for collaboration, diligence, and execution; quantifying strategic ROI of investments & partnerships that supercharge corporations' efforts to innovate iteratively.
It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Language I/O
Series A in 2022
The future of translation is conversational and Language I/O’s proprietary machine translation optimization technology ensures that every conversation is understood. Our machine translation optimizer can translate difficult to translate user generated content such as jargon, slang, abbreviations and misspellings in 150 languages over chat, email, article and social support channels. Language I/O seamlessly integrates within all major CRMs and also provides an API. Finally, we let customers decide whether to use professional human linguists, our machine translation optimizer, or a combination of the two.
Day Zero Diagnostics Inc.
Venture Round in 2022
Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) is developing a new class of diagnostic that enables a physician to switch from broad spectrum antibiotic therapy to a targeted antibiotic in 5 hours rather than the 2-5 days that it typically takes today. Unlike other molecular diagnostics that can only detect a handful of specific targets, DZD uses the entire genomic sequence and our proprietary Keynome™ algorithm to identify a comprehensive range of bacterial pathogens and their resistance characteristics within hours.
datacy
Seed Round in 2021
Datacy provides ready to use, structured, and accurate consumer insights data that are tailor-made to business needs, and offered in real-time. Our data is sourced by the consumers, who sell it directly to businesses via our data marketplace, making our sourcing and exchange process 100% regulatory compliant and ethical.
Meetcaregivers
Seed Round in 2021
MeetCaregivers is on a mission to bring high-quality in-home care, additional services, products, and technology tools for all seniors’ care needs.
Making it easier for seniors to access all the resources they need to age healthy and happily at home.
Bergen Medical Products
Series A in 2014
Bergen Medical Products, Inc. develops and manufactures surgical medical device products. It markets its products through distributors and independent manufacturer representatives. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey.
Wisegate
Series A in 2013
Wisegate is a practitioner-based IT research service that lets qualified senior IT professionals freely share information without the influence of analysts, vendors, media or advertisers - like a crowd-sourced version of Gartner, but no vendors allowed.
Using a crowdsourcing model and advanced algorithms, Wisegate gives senior technology professionals trusted, timely and relevant access to the most authentic intelligence about IT: the collective knowledge and experience of their peers. Wisegate offers honest, pragmatic information and advice based on the real-world experiences of veteran IT professionals. No analyst theories or vendor bias; just clear and straightforward insight directly from experienced technology leaders.
Rapt Media, Inc.
Series A in 2013
Rapt Media (formerly FlixMaster) is a cloud-based platform that enables businesses and entrepreneurs to create interactive videos for marketing, education, entertainment, selling, and training purposes and interact with their customers online. The company also offers solutions in the areas of creative services, branching, link outs, site pairing, and strategy aspects. The videos are available on browsers, tablets, and handheld devices.
Rapt Media was launched by Erika Trautman and Cameron McCaddon in 2011 and is operated from Colorado, United States.
Modumetal, Inc.
Venture Round in 2015
Modumetal has enabled a revolutionary new class of nanolaminated materials with broad application in structural, corrosion and high temperature performance of coatings, bulk materials and parts
Modumetal is based on the interaction of different materials at their interfaces. By laminating metals, Modumetal creates a new way to influence material properties. By growing metal using low-cost electrochemical methods, Modumetal enables a whole new class of applications of these materials.
Modumetal is currently producing nanolaminated alloys for applications in construction, energy and aerospace markets.
Pomp & Whimsy Inc.
Seed Round in 2021
Pomp and Whimsy is a winery company that specializes in manufacturing, distribution, and sales of wines and spirits. It features a lightly sweetened and infused spirit that was easier on the palate than the dry (unsweetened, undiluted) gin.
Hatsize Learning
Series A in 2010
Hatsize Learning Corporation provides cloud-based training labs for software and IT hardware products worldwide. It delivers hands-on software and hardware training sessions for technology and training organizations. The company offers an integrated and cloud-based training lab platform that enables organizations to move their instructor-led and self-paced IT training to the cloud. Its solutions include VMware, Citrix, academic, and custom labs. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Calgary, Canada.
ZineOne, Inc.
Series A in 2018
ZineOne, Inc. provides customer engagement platform based on artificial Intelligence to obtain insights into visitor behavior and provides predictive recommendations while they are engaged with the brand. Its solutions include predictive personalization, in-the-moment predictive engagement, channel agnostic marketing, customer data management, testing and experience optimization, single customer view services. It serves financial services, retail, and quick service restaurant sectors. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.
Alcatraz AI
Series A in 2022
Alcatraz AI replaces badging as an access point identification method by leveraging facial recognition, 3d sensing, and AI. The company builds a facial authentication platform using AI and 3D sensing to enable a highly secure and frictionless entry into physical locations.
Alcatraz AI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in California, USA.
CNote
Series A in 2022
CNote is an investment platform that earns a better return while investing in the causes and communities that matters.
CNote rewards great savers with alternative financial vehicles that earn more - safely and simply. Their first product, CNote Savings, helps good savers earn up to 2.5% annual return -- that's 35x more than a traditional savings account.
The was founded in 2016 by two women with decades of experience working in finance, venture capital, and private equity. CNote is headquartered in Oakland, California.
Nanodropper
Seed Round in 2021
Nanodropper is an affordable, universal eyedrop bottle adaptor that decreases the volume of oversized drops to reduce the waste and cost of eye medications.
NovaTract Surgical
Series A in 2012
NovaTract Surgical, Inc., a medical device company, focuses on developing solutions for improving current practices in minimally invasive surgery. It develops NovaGrasp, a laparoscopic tethered grasper that is used as a single-use device for tissue and organ retraction in minimally invasive surgical procedures; and NovaTract, a laparoscopic dynamic retractor for use in colorectal, urologic, gynecologic, and robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgeries. The company serves surgeons and hospitals. NovaTract Surgical, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Madison, Connecticut.
Modumetal, Inc.
Venture Round in 2012
Modumetal has enabled a revolutionary new class of nanolaminated materials with broad application in structural, corrosion and high temperature performance of coatings, bulk materials and parts
Modumetal is based on the interaction of different materials at their interfaces. By laminating metals, Modumetal creates a new way to influence material properties. By growing metal using low-cost electrochemical methods, Modumetal enables a whole new class of applications of these materials.
Modumetal is currently producing nanolaminated alloys for applications in construction, energy and aerospace markets.
Language I/O
Series A in 2021
The future of translation is conversational and Language I/O’s proprietary machine translation optimization technology ensures that every conversation is understood. Our machine translation optimizer can translate difficult to translate user generated content such as jargon, slang, abbreviations and misspellings in 150 languages over chat, email, article and social support channels. Language I/O seamlessly integrates within all major CRMs and also provides an API. Finally, we let customers decide whether to use professional human linguists, our machine translation optimizer, or a combination of the two.
Kuli Kuli
Series B in 2019
Kuli Kuli produces nutritional moringa products in the United States. It offers moringa bars, moringa powders, green energy shots, herbal teas, and sampler packs.
Kuli Kuli sells its products through retail stores, as well as online. Anne Tsuei, Jordan Moncharmont, Lisa Curtis, and Valerie Popelka founded Kuli Kuli on September 21, 2011, with its headquarters in Oakland in California.
Oculogica
Series A in 2019
Oculogica is a medical device manufacturing company that specializes in the fields of neuro-diagnostics, brain injury, TBI, concussion, and eye-tracking. The company's EyeBOX device is the only baseline-free test authorized by the FDA as an aid in the diagnosis of concussion, also known as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). It requires no baseline data nor individual calibration, and therefore results cannot be influenced by patient will.
Oculogica was established in 2013 and is based in New York, NY, United States.
MeetElise
Seed Round in 2019
MeetElise is an AI company on a mission to make good housing affordable to all. Elise tracks all of your leads for you and instantly responds to new inquiries, schedules viewings, and consistently follows up with each and every prospect to make sure no lead is lost.
Bone Health Technologies
Venture Round in 2021
Bone Health Technologies specializes in developing medical devices designed for low bone mass. Its solution is a gentle mechanical stimulation that mimics weight-bearing exercise, providing an effective non-drug intervention. It offers the OsteoBoost device that relies on safe, natural, and effective whole-body vibration technology using vibrational energy to turn stem cells into the bone using the same mechanisms as physical exercise.
The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
DEVCON DETECT
Seed Round in 2018
DEVCON Detect Inc develops fraud detection and protection software for the digital advertising industry. It offers DEV/CON software for reviewing advertisings, identifying anomalies, and risk evaluation; reviewing advertising tech tags and integrations, revenue analysis of advertising networks, log reports related to unauthorized code, recommendations for repair, and revenue analysis post repair. The company’s software is also used for identifying internal and external exploits, managing systems access, personnel management, migrating advertising campaigns to the new advertising servers, migrating the site to the new server, and court-ready documentation. In addition, its software is used for removing unauthorized code from site, server, and integrated advertising tech; and code monitoring, alerts, one-touch lockdown, code containment and removal, and revenue monitoring and optimization. DEVCON Detect Inc was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Memphis, Tennessee with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia; and London, United Kingdom.
BoardBookit
Series A in 2018
BoardBookit, Inc. develops a board portal software for companies and boards of directors to simplify and enhance their board meetings and communications. It offers BoardBookit, a board room empowerment platform that provides secure tools to enhance information sharing, communication, and decision making between companies and their boards of directors. The company serves customers in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. BoardBookit, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Fashion Playtes
Series B in 2012
FashionPlaytes is a provider of an information service used to serve girls. Its service offers the latest reviews and recommendations of fashion, bars, restaurants, and more, thus enabling businesses to increase their reach.
Gummicube Inc.
Seed Round in 2015
Gummicube Inc. provides application store optimization and intelligence software and services to growth marketers and application developers. The company offers application store optimization services to increase downloads by finding audience, improve conversions, manage mobile application marketing and ASO, and provide additional resources to improve conversion; and DATACUBE application store intelligence software to manage application store optimization and mobile marketing. It also provides application review services that help application developers understand audience by their feedback and promote organic growth; and application focus group services that provide user feedback, behavior insights, marketing direction, active users, and download rates. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Source4Style
Seed Round in 2012
Source4Style is an online tradeshow for materials sourcing in the fashion & design industry.
Through a custom B2B ecommerce platform, designers can search, discover and source inspirational materials from suppliers around the globe.
The Source4Style marketplace currently reaches designers in 76 countries and suppliers in 25 countries.
Oculogica
Seed Round in 2016
Oculogica is a medical device manufacturing company that specializes in the fields of neuro-diagnostics, brain injury, TBI, concussion, and eye-tracking. The company's EyeBOX device is the only baseline-free test authorized by the FDA as an aid in the diagnosis of concussion, also known as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). It requires no baseline data nor individual calibration, and therefore results cannot be influenced by patient will.
Oculogica was established in 2013 and is based in New York, NY, United States.
Style for Hire
Venture Round in 2011
Style for Hire operates a stylist agency in the United States. It offers personal styling services, including stylist introduction, closet audit, closet shopping, personal shopping, custom appointment and package, presentation and styling party, and special project and event services. Style for Hire is based in Brooklyn, New York. It has a location in Washington, District of Columbia.
HitFix
Series B in 2013
HitFix is the premiere brand for 18-34 year old fans to discover what's next in entertainment news around movies, music, TV and events.
HitFix leads the conversation in entertainment news by uniquely combining original video and breaking news with a hands-on planning tool. HitFix’s insider journalists help guide entertainment choice, while its localized Event Calendar lets fans discover what’s next in entertainment before their friends. HitFix reaches the highly sought after 18-34 year old demo which has attracted the attention of top entertainment advertisers and commanded premium CPMs. HitFix delivers breaking news, original video and engaging technology across website, mobile, digital Out Of Home and social platforms reaching 51+ Million users each month.
DxUpClose
Series A in 2012
DxUpClose, Inc. is young company developing a point-of-care bacterial diagnostic that will perform an antibiotic sensitivity test in sixty minutes.
The product is designed to screen for specific bacteria, regardless if the sample has the targeted bacteria, it will count the bacteria that are there and perform antibiotic sensitivity tests - all within sixty minutes. At the end of the test, the product will securely send a list of effective antibiotics to the Healthcare worker’s email or smartphone, so results can be rapidly interpreted by a physician who can then either write a prescription or ePrescribe the appropriate antibiotic. This will reduce the delay in optimal patient care present today by one to three days. Their device is designed to weigh less than sixteen ounces, fit in a pocket, run on batteries and survive temperature extremes, making it easy to transport while still retaining its diagnostic reliability.
Little Pim
Series C in 2013
Little Pim Corporation develops foreign language learning programs for kids. The company provides Spanish, French, Chinese, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, and Hebrew language learning programs. It markets and sells language learning video series, flashcard sets, books, and music products online. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in New York, New York.
Donde Search
Series A in 2019
Donde Fashion, Inc. designs and develops a visual shopping application that allows users to search for items using visual prompts, rather than text phrases. The application allows users to search across multiple brands using filters for clothing type, color, length, pattern, price, and brand. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
Triptrotting
Series A in 2012
Triptrotting is a venture backed travel company that matches travelers and locals based on similar interests. It is an online community and its application “Wist” helps its users feel like locals anywhere they go, whether in an unknown neighborhood in their own city or far away land.
This new application of Triptrotting uses a combination of contextual, personalized, and social data to create unique and most relevant recommendations for every user.
Triptrotting is headquartered in San Francisco, C.A. with additional offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington D.C., Boston, and Chicago. It was founded in 2011.
HitFix
Series A in 2011
HitFix is the premiere brand for 18-34 year old fans to discover what's next in entertainment news around movies, music, TV and events.
HitFix leads the conversation in entertainment news by uniquely combining original video and breaking news with a hands-on planning tool. HitFix’s insider journalists help guide entertainment choice, while its localized Event Calendar lets fans discover what’s next in entertainment before their friends. HitFix reaches the highly sought after 18-34 year old demo which has attracted the attention of top entertainment advertisers and commanded premium CPMs. HitFix delivers breaking news, original video and engaging technology across website, mobile, digital Out Of Home and social platforms reaching 51+ Million users each month.
The Audience Awards
Seed Round in 2017
The Audience Awards, LLC operates as a mediator for filmmaker and opportunity, audience and high-quality content, and visionary brands and talented storytellers. Its platform provides filmmakers opportunities to connect with brands and fund their film careers; allows audiences to vote favorite films; and connects filmmakers to brands to provide story-driven content through video contests and film challenges providing brand engagement and social media visibility. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Missoula, Montana.
RenovoRx
Series B in 2014
RenovoRx, Inc., a medical device company, develops solutions for targeted delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents to selected sites in the peripheral vascular system. It develops endovascular catheters, including RenovoCath for the visceral and peripheral vascular system. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Altos, California.
LearnVest, Inc.
Seed Round in 2009
LearnVest, Inc. owns and operates a personal finance and lifestyle Website for women. Its Website provides content, tools, support, and financial planning services that help women to tackle their finances. The company’s Website educates subscribers of money and lifestyle tips for living on a budget. In addition, it covers topics ranging from following a budget and paying down student loans to planning wallet friendly dinner parties for friends and plotting strategies to ask for a raise. LearnVest, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.
Open Road Integrated Media
Series C in 2013
Open Road Integrated Media is a prestige content brand delivering digital experiences that entertain and inform readers around the world. Its network of digital properties produces compelling stories that keep audiences engaged—across devices and around the world. The Open Road brands include Early Bird Books, a daily eBook deals newsletter and website; The Lineup, for fans of true crime, horror, the mysterious, and the paranormal; The Portalist, for fans of science fiction, fantasy; Murder & Mayhem, for fans of mystery and thriller; The Archive, for fans of history and non-fiction; and A Love So True, for fans of romance; and Open Road Media, a global eBook publisher whose catalog includes legendary authors such as William Styron, Alice Walker, Pat Conroy, Gloria Steinem, Octavia Butler, John Jakes, Pearl S. Buck, Walker Percy, Ruth Rendell, and Sherman Alexie.
Groupize, Inc
Series A in 2017
Groupize.com helps the hotel industry attract group travelers by providing automated shopping, booking, collaboration, and planning. It has developed technology for the hotel industry to take control of their online group revenues. The company's technology allows hotels to capture more groups and lessens the burden on hotels and group travel planners by automating tedious tasks associated with automated shopping, booking, collaborating, and modifications.
Groupize’s technology is currently being licensed and used by one of the world’s largest hotel chains to power the online groups and meetings section of several of their brands. Groupize is also actively forming relationships with other major hotel chains and travels web sites to license white label groups and meeting software.
PromoJam
Series A in 2012
The PromoJam Social Marketing Platform provides enterprise businesses a comprehensive and powerful social marketing suite to reach users everywhere - both online and offline.
With PromoJam, businesses can easily launch engaging promotions that spark conversations and consumer engagement across multiple social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn and Foursquare at once.
PromoJam is used by many of the biggest brands and artists in the world to build, launch and track social media promotions that reach new and existing customers. Customers include: NBC Universal, Office Max, Blackberry, The North Face, Clear Channel Radio, Paramount Home Entertainment, Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Pearl Jam.
Fashion Playtes
Series A in 2010
FashionPlaytes is a provider of an information service used to serve girls. Its service offers the latest reviews and recommendations of fashion, bars, restaurants, and more, thus enabling businesses to increase their reach.
Cadenza Innovation
Series A in 2016
Cadenza Innovation provides patented Li-ion battery design and architecture for a license to global manufacturers. Its cell design combines the best properties from wound jelly rolls and large prismatic cells and allows for game-changing high energy density at low cost for EV, PHEV, and grid markets.
The company is driven by a mission to deploy its innovation, intellectual property, field-proven operational, and mass production expertise, along with its key technology partners to build Cadenza Innovation into a global technology leader in energy density, lowest cost, and safety.
Cadenza Innovation was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Wilton, Connecticut.
BentoBox CMS Inc.
Series A in 2017
BentoBox CMS Inc. develops a mobile operations platform for restaurants to automate tasks, such as updating menus and social media, promoting private events, sharing press, and selling gift cards. The company’s solution offers search engine optimization, social media and newsletter sign-up, and one-click reservations. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.
Donde Search
Seed Round in 2015
Donde Fashion, Inc. designs and develops a visual shopping application that allows users to search for items using visual prompts, rather than text phrases. The application allows users to search across multiple brands using filters for clothing type, color, length, pattern, price, and brand. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
Cirrus Identity, Inc.
Seed Round in 2016
Cirrus Identity is the Swiss army knife of cloud-hosted digital identity management solutions. Our solutions are best in class for integrating social login (Google, Facebook, LinkedIn) with enterprise Web Single Sign-On. This greatly streamlines access for "guest" account holders, such as contractors and volunteers in enterprise. Common higher education users include alumni, parents, and applicants. We have 40 enterprise customers including some of the top universities in the country, including Yale, the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon and Brown University.
Kinnos Inc.
Venture Round in 2020
Kinnos Inc. manufactures a powdered additive for infectious disease decontamination. The company provides Highlight, a patent-pending additive for disinfectants. It also provides real-time color-change feedback to enforce thoroughness of cleaning. In addition, it also provides Highlight Wipes, a wipe dispensing machine and Highlight Powder, a disinfectant additive. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
ROAR Augmented Reality Platform
Seed Round in 2020
PerformLive is a purpose-driven community for Creators & Sellers to monetize their talent and products via interactive live stream.
It combines the power of live interaction, augmented reality, social selling & live commerce, all in one platform.
StellarEmploy
Seed Round in 2018
StellarEmploy is transforming how companies hire hourly workers. Our hiring platform uses AI and machine learning to learn the true indicators of job performance and satisfaction unique to each position. We generate quality candidate recommendations by using existing employee performance data to identify the skills, motivations, and preferences of each role. The result is more engaged recruits who stay 30% longer and are 10% more productive.
Avaxia Biologics, Inc.
Series B in 2013
Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops oral antibody therapeutics. It offers gastrointestinal diseases, such as inflammatory bowel diseases, celiac disease, necrotizing enterocolitis, radiation syndrome, oral mucositis, and diabetes and obesity. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. has a strategic collaboration with Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Avaxia Biologics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Circle33 LLC.
Bespoke Global
Angel Round in 2011
Bespoke Global, Inc. engages in the online retail of home furnishings. Its product categories include desks, seating products, tables, lighting products, case goods, rugs, accessories, textiles, wall coverings, and beds/bedding products. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.
ROAR Augmented Reality Platform
Seed Round in 2020
PerformLive is a purpose-driven community for Creators & Sellers to monetize their talent and products via interactive live stream.
It combines the power of live interaction, augmented reality, social selling & live commerce, all in one platform.
CourseHorse
Seed Round in 2012
CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering the path to personal enrichment.
It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
ColorModules
Series A in 2012
ColorModules is an early stage start-up which has created a patent-pending search technology that recommends products to consumers based on "visual" characteristics and preferences, such as color. ColorModules sets out to alleviate the common shopping frustration of searching dozens or hundreds of items to find the right product. Currently, ColorModules focuses on the visually-driven beauty, fashion, and home décor industries.
Its first website, PlumPerfect.com, is for beauty shoppers. Users can take and upload a photo, and the service recommends for them colors and products.
Trusted Hands Network
Seed Round in 2013
Trusted Hands Network is a co-op advertising network that delivers personalized recommendations of carefully pre-screened home care solutions for high-quality providers of home health care products and services. It connects the power of television and internet advertising and uses live agents to qualify every call.
Each network member of Trusted Hands Network is requested to meet the highest standards of excellence and in exchange for a monthly fee, gets a flow of qualified leads that are theirs to work exclusively. It also empowers people needing in-home assistance to live longer, healthier, more independent lives through its products and solutions.
Trusted Hands Network was founded in 2010 by [Karissa Price](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/karissa-price) and is based in Hacienda Heights, C.A.
Carnegie Speech
Series A in 2007
Carnegie Speech Company, Inc., a speech assessment and tutoring software company, provides speech training technology to help to speak English clearly. It offers Carnegie Speech Assessment, which rate the proficiency of spoken English; Native Accent, which teach to pronounce English clearly; and YOUTH Database, a set of recordings of children reading words, phrases, and sentences in English. The company serves BPO and education markets.
Carnegie Speech Company, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Groupize, Inc
Series A in 2014
Groupize.com helps the hotel industry attract group travelers by providing automated shopping, booking, collaboration, and planning. It has developed technology for the hotel industry to take control of their online group revenues. The company's technology allows hotels to capture more groups and lessens the burden on hotels and group travel planners by automating tedious tasks associated with automated shopping, booking, collaborating, and modifications.
Groupize’s technology is currently being licensed and used by one of the world’s largest hotel chains to power the online groups and meetings section of several of their brands. Groupize is also actively forming relationships with other major hotel chains and travels web sites to license white label groups and meeting software.
HarQen
Series A in 2010
HarQen unleashes the richness of information trapped inside conversations — transforming voice into actionable insights. Founded in 2007, HarQen's award-winning Intelligent Voice Services enables meetings, interviews and other conversations to be captured, enriched and shared, improving collaboration and productivity. HarQen is also a founding member of the Hypervoice Consortium. Hypervoice is an emerging model for organizing and navigating voice conversations. The technology within Symposia, HarQen's second application, showcases the first example of Hypervoice capabilities for use in enterprise social collaboration.
Oculogica
Seed Round in 2016
Oculogica is a medical device manufacturing company that specializes in the fields of neuro-diagnostics, brain injury, TBI, concussion, and eye-tracking. The company's EyeBOX device is the only baseline-free test authorized by the FDA as an aid in the diagnosis of concussion, also known as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). It requires no baseline data nor individual calibration, and therefore results cannot be influenced by patient will.
Oculogica was established in 2013 and is based in New York, NY, United States.
Day Zero Diagnostics Inc.
Seed Round in 2017
Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) is developing a new class of diagnostic that enables a physician to switch from broad spectrum antibiotic therapy to a targeted antibiotic in 5 hours rather than the 2-5 days that it typically takes today. Unlike other molecular diagnostics that can only detect a handful of specific targets, DZD uses the entire genomic sequence and our proprietary Keynome™ algorithm to identify a comprehensive range of bacterial pathogens and their resistance characteristics within hours.
RenovoRx
Series C in 2015
RenovoRx, Inc., a medical device company, develops solutions for targeted delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents to selected sites in the peripheral vascular system. It develops endovascular catheters, including RenovoCath for the visceral and peripheral vascular system. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Altos, California.
Honestly Now, Inc.
Seed Round in 2011
Honestly Now, Inc. provides banking and credit information from a library of resources. It provides information about banks, including addresses, phone numbers, and hours of working; credit unions; ATM locations; routing numbers; swift BIC codes; small business banking; community and agricultural banking; and holidays and opening times to make better financial decisions. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Pound Ridge, New York.
Groupize, Inc
Series A in 2013
Groupize.com helps the hotel industry attract group travelers by providing automated shopping, booking, collaboration, and planning. It has developed technology for the hotel industry to take control of their online group revenues. The company's technology allows hotels to capture more groups and lessens the burden on hotels and group travel planners by automating tedious tasks associated with automated shopping, booking, collaborating, and modifications.
Groupize’s technology is currently being licensed and used by one of the world’s largest hotel chains to power the online groups and meetings section of several of their brands. Groupize is also actively forming relationships with other major hotel chains and travels web sites to license white label groups and meeting software.
Work Truck Solutions, Inc.
Series B in 2017
Work Truck Solutions, Inc. develops marketing and lead generation tools to help commercial vehicle buyers in finding their work truck. The company offers dealer software solutions, and upfitter marketing and display tools. It serves original equipment manufacturers, body and equipment manufacturers, distributors and installers, and commercial vehicle dealers from various brands across the United States. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Chico, California with additional locations in Michigan and Texas.
Cognition Therapeutics
Series B in 2015
Cognition Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage neuroscience company. It develops drugs to restore normal cellular damage responses in neurodegenerative and neuro-ophthalmic disorders. It offers CT1812, an oral brain-penetrant small molecule drug to restore the damaged cellular processes that drive diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, dry age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD), geographic atrophy and other conditions. Cognition Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Turpitude
Series A in 2011
Turpitude provides clients, including developers, publishers and property holders, with AAA game design consulting services along with creating games as well.
HarQen
Series B in 2011
HarQen unleashes the richness of information trapped inside conversations — transforming voice into actionable insights. Founded in 2007, HarQen's award-winning Intelligent Voice Services enables meetings, interviews and other conversations to be captured, enriched and shared, improving collaboration and productivity. HarQen is also a founding member of the Hypervoice Consortium. Hypervoice is an emerging model for organizing and navigating voice conversations. The technology within Symposia, HarQen's second application, showcases the first example of Hypervoice capabilities for use in enterprise social collaboration.
Tivic Health
Seed Round in 2019
Tivic Health is a bioelectronic therapeutics company. We translate neuroscience into consumer-friendly medical devices, expanding the role of bioelectronic therapies in the healthcare ecosystem.
Their first innovation, ClearUP™ Sinus Pain Relief, delivers temporary relief of sinus pain. It’s a small handheld device that’s easy to use, re-usable, and clinically proven. The company received FDA Clearance January 2, 2019 and will be shipping product in September 2019.
RenovoRx
Series D in 2018
RenovoRx, Inc., a medical device company, develops solutions for targeted delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents to selected sites in the peripheral vascular system. It develops endovascular catheters, including RenovoCath for the visceral and peripheral vascular system. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Altos, California.
Consensus Point
Venture Round in 2012
Consensus Point is provider of prediction market technology. Since its founding, Consensus Point has been a pioneer in the prediction market business. In fact, their Chief Scientist, Robin Hanson, is known as "the father of modern prediction markets." They built their reputation working with enterprise clients such as GE, Best Buy and Motorola. Their experience with these Fortune 500 companies helped us develop a proven and solid foundation for Huunu, their new research and media prediction market platform.
Today, Consensus Point partners with the consulting, media, and research industries to tap into "the wisdom of the crowd" to predict future events and market preferences. One of Huunu's clear differentiators is increased respondent engagement. Huunu is changing the way that market research is done by using gaming techniques to engage panels and communities to share insights and information.
Cognition Therapeutics
Series A in 2011
Cognition Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage neuroscience company. It develops drugs to restore normal cellular damage responses in neurodegenerative and neuro-ophthalmic disorders. It offers CT1812, an oral brain-penetrant small molecule drug to restore the damaged cellular processes that drive diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, dry age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD), geographic atrophy and other conditions. Cognition Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
RippleNami
Seed Round in 2017
RippleNami frees users from information silos, making big data relevant, decipherable and actionable. The cloud-based, device-agnostic and cost-effective platform can be customized to control access to valuable data with specific profiles and permission levels. The only traceability and transparency solution of its kind, RippleNami helps deliver real-time information on any device, allowing users the power to easily solve problems, make critical decisions and collaborate like never before.
RenovoRx
Series A in 2013
RenovoRx, Inc., a medical device company, develops solutions for targeted delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents to selected sites in the peripheral vascular system. It develops endovascular catheters, including RenovoCath for the visceral and peripheral vascular system. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Los Altos, California.
Constant Therapy, Inc.
Series A in 2016
Constant Therapy, Inc. provides a science-based mobile solution for personalized and continuous therapy tools to patients with traumatic brain injury, stroke, aphasia, and learning disabilities. It offers NeuroPerformance Engine, an analytics engine that creates personalized exercises for patients improving their cognitive, language, and learning skills continuously and transforming the delivery of brain rehabilitation. The company’s application also provides tasks, such as auditory, naming, phonological, reading, writing, production, attention, visual, memory, problem solving, and everyday skills. It serves clinicians, special educators, and patients. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Newton, Massachusetts. As of May 31, 2017, Constant Therapy, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Digital Health Corp.
Triptrotting
Series A in 2012
Triptrotting is a venture backed travel company that matches travelers and locals based on similar interests. It is an online community and its application “Wist” helps its users feel like locals anywhere they go, whether in an unknown neighborhood in their own city or far away land.
This new application of Triptrotting uses a combination of contextual, personalized, and social data to create unique and most relevant recommendations for every user.
Triptrotting is headquartered in San Francisco, C.A. with additional offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington D.C., Boston, and Chicago. It was founded in 2011.
Lark Technologies, Inc.
Venture Round in 2013
Lark Technologies, Inc. develops a chronic disease prevention and management platform. It offers Lark, a digital platform that provides personalized coaching to help people manage and prevent chronic diseases, such as for diabetes, prediabetes, and hypertension. The company’s application also provides user activity, sleep, and nutrition data. It serves employers and health plans. Lark Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Mountain View, California.
Amplified Sciences LLC
Seed Round in 2020
Amplified Sciences is a molecular diagnostics company unlike other diagnostics companies due to their ultra-sensitive molecular sensing technology with composition of matter IP exclusively licensed from Purdue University. The technology is disease state agnostic, can detect to the single molecule level, scales easily to point of care, and provides a very favorable cost structure for their platform of reagents. The first application – early detection of pancreatic cancer - is an assay that will quickly prove the investment thesis due to large unmet medical need and a favorable reimbursement path. The team has delivered a working prototype and published proof of concept data.
Playrific
Series A in 2014
Playrific assets have been acquired by 18moons, inc. since January 2017.
Playrific Mobile Apps are the fastest, most cost-effective way for brands to reach and engage with youth consumers.
Kids love our interactive, entertaining, educational apps, and continue exploring them for weeks and months – far longer than average.
Brands such as Toys “R” Us, SeaWorld Kids & Bean Sprouts & 48 others depend on us for mobile strategies and apps that extend and deepen their engagement with young brand fans.
Our COPPA-compliant publishing platform provides usage-based insight that uniquely helps brands identify, understand and serve consumer preferences.
Carnegie Speech
Series B in 2012
Carnegie Speech Company, Inc., a speech assessment and tutoring software company, provides speech training technology to help to speak English clearly. It offers Carnegie Speech Assessment, which rate the proficiency of spoken English; Native Accent, which teach to pronounce English clearly; and YOUTH Database, a set of recordings of children reading words, phrases, and sentences in English. The company serves BPO and education markets.
Carnegie Speech Company, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
HitFix
Seed Round in 2009
HitFix is the premiere brand for 18-34 year old fans to discover what's next in entertainment news around movies, music, TV and events.
HitFix leads the conversation in entertainment news by uniquely combining original video and breaking news with a hands-on planning tool. HitFix’s insider journalists help guide entertainment choice, while its localized Event Calendar lets fans discover what’s next in entertainment before their friends. HitFix reaches the highly sought after 18-34 year old demo which has attracted the attention of top entertainment advertisers and commanded premium CPMs. HitFix delivers breaking news, original video and engaging technology across website, mobile, digital Out Of Home and social platforms reaching 51+ Million users each month.
Grasshopper Bank
Private Equity Round in 2019
Grasshopper Bank, National Association provides commercial banking products and services to businesses in New York and other markets in the United States. The company offers term loans, lines of credit, and owner-occupied real estate and asset-based lending. It also offers deposit products and online banking. The company was formerly known as New York Venture Bank, NA. Grasshopper Bank, National Association is headquartered in New York, New York.
Saladax Biomedical, Inc.
Series C in 2010
Saladax develops rapid blood tests for point-of-care and for laboratory analyzers for use in psychiatry and oncology. The firm has been supplying laboratories and clinicians worldwide with revolutionary diagnostic solutions for more than 15 years.
Paradigm4 Inc.
Series A in 2015
Paradigm4 Inc. develops analytics software for massive data sets. It offers an analytics platform that enables scientists, data scientists, bio-informaticians, analysts, and researchers to solve their analytical problems in industries ranging from pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare to insurance and telematics, energy research, and finance. The company also distributes scientific data management and analytics software platform of other developers. Paradigm4 Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.
nVision Medical
Series A in 2013
NVISION MEDICAL Corporation operates in the healthcare sector. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Saratoga, California.
nVision is a privately-held medical device company dedicated to filling the void in women’s health innovation.
Since its founding in 2011, the company has relentlessly focused on developing devices to enable clinicians to assess the health of previously inaccessible parts of the female reproductive tract.
