Benjamin Lynett

Founder and General Partner

20 past transactions

PullRequest

Series A in 2018
PullRequest is passionate about code quality. From static analysis to an on-demand network of code review experts, we help development teams ship code faster, with improved quality and lower costs. Based in Austin, Texas and the San Francisco Bay Area, PullRequest was founded in May 2017 and went through the YCombinator (S17) accelerator program.

Reliefwatch

Seed Round in 2019
Sokowatch revolutionizes access to essential goods and services by connecting small shops to the digital economy. Through individual agents equipped with proprietary mobile data-collection tools, Sokowatch increases sales and market coverage for companies in emerging markets. It enables informal retailers to order products at any time via SMS or mobile app, and receive free same-day delivery to their store. This makes it easier for shopkeepers to source goods and helps manufacturers ensure that their products are consistently available to consumers. Sokowatch evaluates retailers to provide them with access to credit and other financial services typically not available to informal businesses. Sokowatch's systems track real-time sales and orders across thousands of stores. Access to market trends and purchasing habits enables manufacturers to tailor their marketing strategies and allows Sokowatch to offer personalized promotions and business insights to individual retailers.

PullRequest

Seed Round in 2017
PullRequest is passionate about code quality. From static analysis to an on-demand network of code review experts, we help development teams ship code faster, with improved quality and lower costs. Based in Austin, Texas and the San Francisco Bay Area, PullRequest was founded in May 2017 and went through the YCombinator (S17) accelerator program.

Kisan Network

Seed Round in 2020
Kisan Network is a tech-enabled supply chain startup focused on agriculture. It is an enabled and fully integrated PAN India Agri produce supply chain connecting marginal farmers directly to businesses. The company started in 2016 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

WaystoCap Sarl

Seed Round in 2017
WaystoCap is a B2B marketplace where businesses in Africa can buy and sell products. Beyond just product discovery and verification, WaystoCap helps businesses in obtaining financing and insurance, managing their shipments, and ensuring payments security. WaystoCap facilitates the whole trading operation so that its buyers can find the most competitive products and obtain financing; and its suppliers can access new markets and trade in a secure environment.

Wakie

Seed Round in 2016
Wakie develops mobile applications. The company offers mobile applications for real live human wake up calls through a community of people waking people. Wakie’s applications include Budist, a Russian-language wake-up app and Wakie, an international version of the wake up service. The company was formerly known as Budist.ru LLC. Wakie was founded in 2011 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

Protonet

Seed Round in 2016
Protonet provides a cloud-based social project management and collaboration platform that integrates your communications, files, and project management tasks in a single place.

Simbi

Seed Round in 2016
Simbi is an online marketplace that runs on talents, services, and skills, not cash, credit, or check. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, Simbi provides a way for freelancers and independent workers to turn their unbooked hours into real economic value. Simbi simultaneously increases the size of the economy while supporting small-scale entrepreneurs to do the flexible work they love.

NanoNets

Seed Round in 2017
NanoNets is machine learning API for developers which requires 1/10th of data and no machine learning expertise to train a model. Upload the data, wait for a few minutes and get a model you can query over their easy to use cloud API. Often companies do not have enough data to train a machine learning model on their own using state of the art algorithms as well as don't have enough data scientists to work on those problems. NanoNets solves both these problems for companies.

Tizeti Network Limited

Seed Round in 2017
Tizeti provides broadband internet services to densely populated urban centers in Africa. Tizeti is leveraging the large wireless capacity available with Wi-Fi and plummeting cost of solar panels to create a low CAPEX/OPEX network of owned and operated towers to offer disruptive, customer-friendly pricing for unlimited internet service right across Africa.

OpenInvest

Seed Round in 2017
OpenInvest is a Public Benefit Corporation and asset manager that uses technology to mainstream customized ethical investing. OpenInvest is a YCombinator and Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup powering the post-fund future. Their team of senior technologists from the hedge fund industry and civil society leaders is first tackling under-served markets in customized ESG asset management. With seed funding, the team has built fully integrated and proprietary direct-indexing construction, management, trading, proxy voting, and UX systems that now serve thousands of customers. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Tizeti Network Limited

Series A in 2018
Tizeti provides broadband internet services to densely populated urban centers in Africa. Tizeti is leveraging the large wireless capacity available with Wi-Fi and plummeting cost of solar panels to create a low CAPEX/OPEX network of owned and operated towers to offer disruptive, customer-friendly pricing for unlimited internet service right across Africa.

Luminostics, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Luminostics, Inc. develops a smartphone-based adaptor to access molecular-level health information through 15-minute DIY disease testing. It serves healthcare professionals and consumers. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Copia PBC

Seed Round in 2016
Copia PBC operates an online platform that helps connect businesses with excess food to people in need. The company’s platform matches businesses that have surplus food with nearby shelters, organizations, and low income communities in real time. Its platform streamlines critical connections between those with excess food, such as restaurants, markets, and banquets; and those in need, such as food banks, homeless shelters, and human service organizations. The company serves clients in Mountain View, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Palo Alto, San Jose, Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland. Copia PBC was formerly known as Feeding Forward, Inc. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Flutterwave Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Flutterwave provides a payment service for global merchants and payment service providers. It provides technology, infrastructure, and services to enable global merchants, payment service providers, and helps banks and businesses build secure and seamless payment solutions for their customers by smoothening the exchange of funds. The company was founded in 2016 by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Olugbenga Agboola and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Reliefwatch

Seed Round in 2018
Sokowatch revolutionizes access to essential goods and services by connecting small shops to the digital economy. Through individual agents equipped with proprietary mobile data-collection tools, Sokowatch increases sales and market coverage for companies in emerging markets. It enables informal retailers to order products at any time via SMS or mobile app, and receive free same-day delivery to their store. This makes it easier for shopkeepers to source goods and helps manufacturers ensure that their products are consistently available to consumers. Sokowatch evaluates retailers to provide them with access to credit and other financial services typically not available to informal businesses. Sokowatch's systems track real-time sales and orders across thousands of stores. Access to market trends and purchasing habits enables manufacturers to tailor their marketing strategies and allows Sokowatch to offer personalized promotions and business insights to individual retailers.

Notabene, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Notabene helps financial companies comply with new, global regulations for crypto transactions. We are the first platform that provides full compliance with the Travel Rule. Our current offering consists of a unified API and dashboard helping compliance officers within crypto businesses manage risk for both Travel Rule and non-custodial transactions. We provide our customers with access to the widest reach of crypto businesses for them to interact with. We not only simplify compliance for them but also bring more confidence to transactions on their platforms - ultimately helping them grow the number of transactions and thus their business.

ABL Space Systems

Venture Round in 2020
ABL Space Systems was founded by former SpaceX engineering leaders in 2017 to develop low-cost launch vehicles for the small satellite industry. ABL is headquartered in El Segundo, California, where it has 30,000 square feet of facilities for research, development, and production. ABL is a privately-owned corporation backed by a premier group of private equity investors

wifi.com.ng

Seed Round in 2017
TIZETI (wifi.com.ng) has been deploying high speed internet access to estates, offices, multi-tenant building using next generation wi-Fi technology. They deploy unlimited internet to residential and business customers which allow customers get the full benefit of the internet with no data or time caps. They also offer VOIP and Video on Demand services.

Supply, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Supply designs wirelss charging technology that remotely powers devices from a distance. In contrast to traditional induction-charging mats, Supply wireless transmits power at longer ranges similar to Wi-Fi.