Human Ventures

Human Ventures is a business creation platform based in New York, founded in 2015. It combines a venture fund, startup studio, and corporate agency to support the development of new businesses. The firm focuses on investing in the technology, media, and health and wellness sectors, providing both capital and resources to help startups grow and succeed.

Chris Collins

Principal

Heather Hartnett

CEO and General Partner

Michael Jurek

Director of Finance

Elise King

Senior Associate

Michael Letta

COO and General Partner

Joe Marchese

Founder and Executive Chairman, Build Partner

Pratap Penumalli

Partner

46 past transactions

Parento

Venture Round in 2023
Parento, Inc. specializes in providing parental leave insurance and support programs tailored for employers. Founded in 2019 and based in Wilmington, Delaware, the company offers a platform that facilitates paid parental leave, allowing employees to take up to 16 weeks off. Its services include employer insurance for maternity and paternity leave, new parent coaching, and HR support for managing paid leave budgets. By using a B2B model, Parento provides predictable pricing based on employee salaries and existing leave policies, thereby helping companies in states such as Texas, Illinois, Arizona, Colorado, and Virginia enhance employee retention, productivity, and overall workplace satisfaction.

Hazel

Venture Round in 2023
Hazel is a personal care brand focused on addressing the issue of female incontinence through innovative disposable underwear designed specifically for women. The company emphasizes fit, function, and aesthetics, utilizing new materials and techniques to create a product that resembles traditional underwear while offering the practicality of disposability. By incorporating natural fibers, Hazel aims to provide women with a discreet, fashionable, and functional alternative, ultimately enhancing their confidence. The brand is set to launch its products later this fall, catering to a growing market in the realm of women's health and personal care.

Adelaide

Seed Round in 2022
Adelaide brings fairness and transparency to a digital marketplace damaged by easily gamed metrics. It’s our mission to quantify the true value of media, so marketers can invest more confidently and create incentives in the market for high quality consumer attention. They believe that all media has value but most of it is incorrectly priced. Adelaide helps media buyers find bargains and avoid waste by moving past the simplistic binary models of hygienic verification tools. If you’re a brand, they’ll build you a custom fast moving media metric trained to proxy your outcomes. If you’re an agency or media buying platform, they’ll help tune planning, buying and measurement to deliver maximum value to your clients. They don’t work with media sellers. Their fierce independence gives us objectivity that is lacking in the market. Whether you’re looking to double the impact of your existing media budget or cut waste and increase overall marketing efficiency, Adelaide can help you invest in digital media more confidently.

Teal

Seed Round in 2022
Teal Labs, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in providing an online platform for career navigation and development. Established in 2019, Teal offers a range of services aimed at assisting individuals in their job search and career advancement. The platform includes features such as resume consultations, job listings, and tailored application processes. Additionally, Teal provides email and chat-based career support, along with community engagement opportunities including weekly events, group coaching, and virtual networking. Users can access a wealth of resources, including career content, templates, and a video library dedicated to career growth. By equipping individuals with the necessary tools and support, Teal empowers them to advocate for themselves and build meaningful careers.

Whoosh

Seed Round in 2022
Whoosh is a company that specializes in developing cloud-based software tailored for private golf clubs, focusing on enhancing their operational efficiency and member experiences. The software features a modern and intuitive interface that facilitates staff operations and member bookings, particularly in tee sheet and workflow management. By incorporating insights from leading industry operators, Whoosh aims to streamline club management processes, improve communication between members and staff, and elevate hospitality standards. This comprehensive approach allows golf clubs to run their operations smoothly while providing members with a seamless and enjoyable experience on the course and in the clubhouse.

Groundswell

Seed Round in 2021
Groundswell provides a SaaS platform for philanthropic giving, which enables companies to fund personal donor-advised funds for each employee. Employee users are also provided with tools such as tax-free investment opportunities, customized giving opportunities, frictionless donation options, and centralized impact reporting.

Tia

Series B in 2021
At Tia, we believe that the healthcare system was not built with women in mind. Today, considering that women control 80% of healthcare dollars in the U.S., Tia is seizing the opportunity to build a new, distinctly female model of care digitally and physically. Tia is backed by leading healthcare and consumer funds, including Torch Capital, Define Ventures, Homebrew, Threshold Ventures, and Acme Ventures.

Steno

Seed Round in 2021
Steno Agency, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that specializes in court reporting and litigation support services for law firms. Founded in 2018, the company provides a comprehensive suite of services, including remote depositions, videography, and interpretation, along with an online dashboard that allows clients to track upcoming jobs and access previous cases. Steno's unique offering includes a non-recourse deferred payment process called DisbursePay, which helps clients manage financial challenges associated with legal proceedings. By focusing on innovation and exceptional customer service, Steno aims to enhance the efficiency of the litigation process while ensuring reliable and accessible support for its clients.

Evvy

Seed Round in 2021
Evvy is a company focused on enhancing female health by providing at-home vaginal microbiome testing. Its mission is to address the gender health gap by identifying and utilizing overlooked biomarkers within the female body, particularly those related to the vaginal microbiome. The testing process employs metagenomic sequencing to analyze individual health symptoms and risks, offering personalized reports that empower women with valuable insights into their bodies. Through this approach, Evvy aims to facilitate better understanding and management of women's health issues.

Elektra Health

Seed Round in 2021
Elektra Health is a next gen healthcare platform for the tens of millions of women currently and soon to be navigating perimenopause & menopause. 80% of women report that menopause significantly disrupts their life – symptoms include anxiety, depression, loss of libido/painful sex, brain fog, joint pain & more – but 75% of those who seek help don’t receive appropriate care. Elektra was founded to solve this problem.

Tiny Organics

Series A in 2021
Tiny Organics Inc. is a baby wellness company that specializes in personalized nutrition for infants and toddlers. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, Tiny Organics offers a variety of organic, nutrient-rich finger foods that are designed by neonatal nutritionists and chefs to expand children's palates. The company provides a user-friendly online platform where customers can take a quiz to select meals tailored to their children's needs, with shipping services for convenience. By emphasizing a whole food foundation, Tiny Organics aims to foster healthier eating habits from a young age, promoting the development of preferences for vegetables and reducing the risk of chronic diseases and obesity in adulthood. The company has gained recognition in prominent publications and has attracted investments from notable figures in the industry.

Bikky

Seed Round in 2021
Bikky is a customer engagement platform designed specifically for restaurants. It consolidates customer data from multiple ordering channels, allowing restaurants to run automated and highly-targeted marketing campaigns. By focusing on enhancing customer relationships, Bikky aims to support restaurants in growing their businesses through effective communication via text and email.

Toucan

Seed Round in 2021
Toucan develops a Google chrome extension for learning new languages and communicating with others. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Spiritune

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a data-driven music application intended to offer a scientific approach to balanced mental health. The company's application uses principles of music therapy and neuroscience to reduce stress, regulate emotions, boost productivity, and induce sound sleep, enabling users to overcome anxiety through the power of audio.

Realworld

Seed Round in 2021
Realworld is a platform designed to help make smart, informed decisions about finances, health, and life's big moments. This empowers young people with the knowledge they need. They have interviewed thousands of college students, twenty-somethings, employers, academics, and subject-matter experts about life in the real world to ensure this wasn’t just an “us problem.” It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

Quantime

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Quantime is transforming the way professionals and teams manage their time with an innovative AI-driven calendar application. This platform consolidates tasks and meetings from various services into a single interface, allowing users to efficiently prioritize their responsibilities. By triaging work and estimating the effort required for each task, Quantime generates tailored work plans to ensure that unused time is effectively utilized. Additionally, the app conducts daily check-ins to help reschedule tasks as needed, ensuring that nothing is overlooked. By streamlining the planning process from several hours to just minutes each week, Quantime enables users to reclaim valuable time and concentrate on what truly matters in their personal and professional lives.

Movo

Seed Round in 2021
Shift One is a marketplace for skilled labor in warehouse, logistics, and assembly. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Casa Komos Beverage Group

Seed Round in 2021
Provider of alcoholic beverages based in New York City, New York. The company offers a specialty cocktail made with blue agave tequila mixed with grapefruit juice, agave nectar, and sparkling water as well as a tequila made from blue agave aged for months after two distillations in greek white wine barrels, providing customers with a smooth and premium drink.

Change

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Change is a donation platform that simplifies the process of corporate giving by allowing brands to integrate a donation option directly at checkout. This service alleviates the challenges of connecting with and vetting nonprofit organizations, saving brands time and resources. The platform offers features such as donation processing, curated nonprofit selections, and real-time analytics, which help brands to measure their impact effectively. Additionally, Change enhances engagement by providing shareable content, enabling brands to connect with their audience in a meaningful way. Through these offerings, Change powers the giving economy and supports brands in making a significant social impact.

Spora Health

Seed Round in 2020
Spora Health, Inc. is a telemedicine provider based in San Francisco, California, established in 2019. The company focuses on creating health solutions that acknowledge the lived experiences of patients. It offers treatments across various medical areas, including allergies, cold and flu, infections, digestive issues, musculoskeletal problems, reproductive health, and skin conditions. Spora Health employs machine learning technology to assess patient risk profiles and identify chronic conditions such as pre-diabetes, hypertension, and emphysema. The platform facilitates communication between patients and a care team comprised of doctors, nurse practitioners, and nutritionists, allowing individuals to receive effective healthcare advice conveniently.

Hark

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of hearing aids designed to help deaf people and provide convenient and affordable hearing care. The company offers a variety of hearing care services, including online hearing tests, and provides custom-fit and over-the-counter hearing aids that can be controlled via the mobile application, enabling customers to get the hearing care they need without having to go to a doctor's office.

Encantos

Seed Round in 2020
Encantos Media Studios is an entertainment and educational company based in Culver City, California, with additional offices in Los Angeles and New York. Founded in 2015, Encantos creates a diverse range of content, including apps, books, toys, and videos, aimed at empowering creatives to tell their stories. The company connects children with skilled storytellers through an online platform designed to teach essential 21st-century skills. Encantos has garnered recognition through numerous awards and accolades from prestigious organizations such as CNN, Forbes, and The New York Times, highlighting its commitment to quality educational content and innovation in children's media.

Kindred

Seed Round in 2020
Kindred is a professional network aimed at equipping executives for the future of socially responsible business. Founded in 2020, the organization focuses on issues such as diversity, equity, inclusion, sustainability, and mental health, helping members bridge the gap between intention and action. Kindred provides access to a collaborative network of peers, renowned experts, and essential resources, empowering leaders to make informed decisions that positively impact society and the environment. The network has attracted a diverse membership from prominent companies, including Allbirds, B Lab, Chobani, and LinkedIn. Additionally, Kindred Events, LLC, the company's event organizing arm, specializes in facilitating business transformation events for corporate, nonprofit, and cultural leaders, further enhancing its mission to foster purpose-driven leadership.

Ritual

Seed Round in 2020
Operator of a personalized well-being platform intended to connect customers with well-being practices. The company's platform offers customized well-being assessment tools to discover one's needs and encapsulates elements of mental, emotional, spiritual, and social health through meditation, prayer, and journaling, enabling customers to feel centered, nourished, and purposeful in their daily lives.

Valence Community

Seed Round in 2019
Valence Community operates an online platform dedicated to connecting, showcasing, and empowering the global black professional community. Founded in 2019 and based in Los Angeles, the platform facilitates career opportunities and venture creation by linking users with companies and resources. Valence also offers mentorship options, enabling members to serve as coaches for one another, thereby fostering a supportive environment for professional development. Through inspirational storytelling and structured community engagement, Valence aims to demystify advancement pathways and promote economic and social progress among black professionals worldwide.

Paloma Health

Seed Round in 2019
Paloma Health is an online medical practice focused on providing specialized care for hypothyroidism, a chronic condition affecting approximately 25 million Americans. The company aims to improve patient satisfaction by offering a convenient and effective treatment experience. Paloma Health utilizes telemedicine to connect patients with expert doctors and nutritionists who offer personalized care, including evidence-based treatment approaches and dietary guidance. The service integrates at-home thyroid test kits with ongoing physician consultations, ensuring continuous remote care and easy access to a dedicated team of thyroid specialists. This model allows patients to manage their condition from the comfort of their own homes, enhancing both the quality and accessibility of care for those struggling with hypothyroidism.

Kinema

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Kinema is building the world's largest network of alternative theaters - enabling organizers across the world to host unique events in-person and online.

WaitWhat

Series A in 2019
WaitWhat is a media invention company that invents boundary-breaking and profitable media properties that change the cultural landscape. It creates and owns premium, original, genre-defining content. The company also creates media properties that can scale horizontally beyond its first format. By contrast, WaitWhat creates new categories with their content, at production values that have become the reference point for quality. The company develops, produces, and distributes wholly-owned media properties with the specific purpose of creating new genres, categories, and formats of content that scale.

Weldon

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Weldon offers evidence-based solutions and parental coaching for parents of kids age 1 to 12. We're on a mission to help parents raise great children.

We The Village

Seed Round in 2019
Operator of addiction recovery programs intended to support people struggling with addiction. The company's platform provides answers to questions about addiction and substance use as well as access to professional addiction specialists, enabling users to better support their loved ones wrestling with substance use.

Girlboss

Venture Round in 2018
Girlboss Media, Inc., founded by Sophia Amoruso in 2014 and based in Los Angeles, operates a community focused on empowering women through engaging content and experiences. The company publishes a variety of materials on topics such as work, money, wellness, beauty, and personal growth via its website, Girlboss.com, and a newsletter. Additionally, it has revived Amoruso's podcast to further connect with its audience. Girlboss aims to inspire action and redefine success for women, creating a supportive environment for those pursuing their aspirations. As of December 2019, Girlboss operates as a subsidiary of Attention Capital.

Paloma Health

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Paloma Health is an online medical practice focused on providing specialized care for hypothyroidism, a chronic condition affecting approximately 25 million Americans. The company aims to improve patient satisfaction by offering a convenient and effective treatment experience. Paloma Health utilizes telemedicine to connect patients with expert doctors and nutritionists who offer personalized care, including evidence-based treatment approaches and dietary guidance. The service integrates at-home thyroid test kits with ongoing physician consultations, ensuring continuous remote care and easy access to a dedicated team of thyroid specialists. This model allows patients to manage their condition from the comfort of their own homes, enhancing both the quality and accessibility of care for those struggling with hypothyroidism.

Octi

Seed Round in 2018
Octi: The first people-powered social AR platform.

Girlboss

Seed Round in 2017
Girlboss Media, Inc., founded by Sophia Amoruso in 2014 and based in Los Angeles, operates a community focused on empowering women through engaging content and experiences. The company publishes a variety of materials on topics such as work, money, wellness, beauty, and personal growth via its website, Girlboss.com, and a newsletter. Additionally, it has revived Amoruso's podcast to further connect with its audience. Girlboss aims to inspire action and redefine success for women, creating a supportive environment for those pursuing their aspirations. As of December 2019, Girlboss operates as a subsidiary of Attention Capital.

Iconery

Seed Round in 2017
Iconery, Inc. is an online marketplace based in Venice, California, that specializes in jewelry, catering to enthusiasts in the United States. Founded in 2014, the company provides a diverse range of products, including stud earrings, stackable rings, and necklaces. It operates as a subsidiary of Heartbeat and serves as an influencer commerce platform, collaborating with celebrities, influencers, and brands such as Rashida Jones, Michelle Branch, and Goop. Iconery offers a curated selection of fine jewelry from established and emerging high-end designers, featuring various metals and gemstones, all at accessible price points. This approach positions Iconery as a significant player in the luxury jewelry market, appealing to a wide audience.

Inkwell

Seed Round in 2017
Inkwell is a leading provider of recruiting and staffing services that specializes in flexible job opportunities for highly accomplished candidates. The company aims to transform the workplace by promoting flexibility, diversity, and meaningful employment. Inkwell connects businesses of all sizes with top-tier talent for business-critical roles, focusing on project-based work that aligns with both employer needs and candidate preferences. In addition to job matching, Inkwell offers a community of experienced professionals, career strategy guidance, and a referral program that enables employers to access diverse candidate networks at scale. This approach allows for a more dynamic and adaptable workforce, catering to the evolving demands of the modern job market.

Clark

Angel Round in 2017
Clark, Inc. operates an online platform designed for independent educators and tutors, providing a virtual assistant that manages daily activities through SMS, email, and a mobile application. The platform facilitates connections between tutors, students, and parents, allowing for efficient communication and progress reporting. Additionally, Clark offers various support services for tutors, including scheduling sessions and ensuring timely payments. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company aims to streamline operations for individual tutors and larger tutoring agencies, enabling them to focus on teaching rather than administrative tasks. As of September 2019, Clark, Inc. functions as a subsidiary of Noodle Education, Inc.

Token

Seed Round in 2017
Token is your personal gifting assistant. We make it simple to give thoughtful gifts through our free mobile app. Tap in a few details about who you’d like to give to, and our team of talented Gift Experts — equipped with A.I. tools — hand-pick several gifts just for them. Make your selection, and your gift will promptly be delivered in impressive gift wrap. Whether for love and respect, admiration, or gratitude, giving with Token is the easiest way to strengthen your relationships with the people that matter.

Reserve

Series B in 2017
Reserve Media, Inc. operates a digital dining concierge service that connects restaurants with diners. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, the company offers a platform that allows customers to discover restaurants, make reservations, receive personalized service, and facilitate seamless payment. By partnering with notable restaurateurs, Reserve aims to enhance the dining experience while helping restaurants manage their reservations more effectively, reduce cancellations, and gain valuable customer insights. The platform also enables restaurants to maintain customer databases and manage their tables, ultimately improving customer relationships. As of November 2018, Reserve operates as a subsidiary of Resy Network, Inc.
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