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Collaborative Fund, founded in 2010 by Craig Shapiro in New York, is an investment firm that focuses on supporting creative entrepreneurs in technology and media. The fund emphasizes two primary themes: the rise of the creative class and the shift toward collaborative consumption. These themes highlight the growing importance of values in consumer and employment decisions, as well as the transition from a hyper-consumption economy to one centered on collaboration. Collaborative Fund seeks to be a key source of capital and strategic support for businesses that aim to innovate and positively impact society. The fund has attracted investments from notable figures, including individuals with backgrounds in media and entrepreneurship, further enhancing its potential to influence the future of business and daily life.

Sophie Bakalar

Venture Partner

Tejinder Gill

Principal

Morgan Housel

Partner

Josh Lubov

CFO

Craig Shapiro

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Guy Vidra

Partner

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Spacemesh is a fair blockmesh operating system designed to run general-purpose smart contracts at web-scale. It is powered by a novel consensus protocol that is secure, proof of work free and highly incentive-compatible. Spacemesh is designed to create a highly-decentralized p2p blockchain computer formed by individuals from around the globe running Spacemesh on their desktop PCs at home. Spacemesh is as a free open source software that aims to become a core Internet protocol for blockchain computation.
Porter Road Butcher Meat Co., LLC operates a butcher shop that offers meat products in Nashville. It offers local and grass fed meats, beef, poultry, pork, lamb, eggs, dairy products, and cheese. The company is based in Nashville, Tennessee.
ProFounder Financial, Inc. operates a crowd funding platform that enables entrepreneurs to raise investment capital from friends, family, and community members. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Keep

Venture Round in 2020
Keep helps contracts harness the full power of the public blockchain by enabling deep interactivity with private data. It is an off-chain container for private data. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in George Town, Midland.

Science Exchange

Private Placement in 2019
Science Exchange is the world’s leading R&D Services Management company, empowering research organizations to accelerate science and drive more innovation success. The Science Exchange Marketplace improves R&D productivity by automating many collaborative tasks between buyers and providers, such as obtaining quotes, managing projects and processing payments, all with rigorous data security and regulatory compliance embedded throughout.
The Farmer's Dog delivers balanced and freshly made pet food, tested on humans, using human-grade USDA production facilities and ingredients. Meal plans are customized according to its users’ dogs’ profile and the meals are pre-made and pre-portioned. The food is delivered to its users within days of cooking. The vet-developed are complimented with timely deliveries to make sure that their users never run out of food. The Farmer's Dog is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014 by Jonathan Regev and Brett Podolsky.

Nebulous

Private Placement in 2019
Nebulous, Inc. operates and builds blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. It offers Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace; Skynet, a decentralized CDN and file sharing platform for devs; and SiaStream that provides cheap storage for media files using cloud storage technology to provide fast streaming. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Bright Exchange Sociedad Anonima Promotora de Inversion de Capital Variable provides solar energy solutions for families in Mexico. The company designs and installs solar panel plant through a solar subscription service. Its service includes a solar energy production guarantee, insurance, maintenance, and constant tracking. The company is based in Mexico City, Mexico.
Circle Medical provides primary care Doctors in-person at your home or work. Your care will be led by one of their board-certified physicians, all of whom were selected for their experience and patient-centered approach. Doctor visits are insured under most plans. Using the app, you may scan your insurance card to check for eligibility and coverage. Doctors are available in San Francisco including evenings and weekends.

Envizzo

Seed Round in 2019
Envizzo is a one-stop online marketplace for real estate operators. We help real estate developers and large property managers decorate and furnish their homes. The marketplace has 40,000+ products curated from 300+ partners. To help our partners, we also offer a number of services including interior design and white glove delivery & assembly.

Oula Health

Private Placement in 2020
Oula is redesigning maternity care from the ground up. Its modern maternity center combines the best of obstetrics and midwifery care to deliver a more evidence-based and personalized pregnancy experience. From its collaborative medical team, welcoming clinic, and remote care platform, we are setting a new standard for pregnancy that unifies modern medicine and human intuition. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Iodine

Seed Round in 2014
Iodine mines clinical data to help consumers make better decisions about drugs. They crunch open government datasets (FDA, CMS, VA) to create targeted, actionable tools that drive better decisions, better adherence, and better outcomes. Iodine addresses a massive need among Internet users: 23% are searching for drug information, and half of these are unsatisfied by what they find. Market incumbents WebMD (150M page views/month) and Drugs.com (50M page views/month) are designed to *not* serve user needs - they're designed to serve ad inventory aniodined hide the info users seek.
Zendrive Inc. develops traffic data tracking application for mobile phones. It offers Zendrive, an application that tracks speed, location, direction, and acceleration of traffic using smartphone sensors. The company provides traffic and driving information to users based on the accumulated data. The company was formerly known as Inner Circle Technologies, Inc. Zendrive Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Brimstone Energy

Series A in 2022
Brimstone Energy is a hardware cleantech startup that aims to reduce CO2 emissions through innovative technologies.
InVenture Capital Corporation, doing business as Tala, develops a mobile application for underwriting micro-loans. The company offers a mobile based application, Tala, which aggregates customer credit points through financial transactions and builds customized credit score for issuing loans. It operates in East Africa and Southeast Asia. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Santa Monica, California. It has additional offices in Kenya, Tanzania, the Philippines, Mexico, and India.

Kula Bio

Seed Round in 2021
Kula Bio specializes in sustainable, biological solutions for modern agriculture. It energizes nitrogen-fixing microbes to produce organic fertilizer. By rewiring the energy flow from the sun to soil, they are disrupting synthetic fertilizer to eliminate the division between affordable practices and stewardship of our land, sea, and air. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Tagomi Systems Inc.

Tagomi Systems Inc. offers electronic brokerage services to investors of Bitcoin, Ether, and other digital assets. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.
Gumroad, Inc. owns and operates an online service platform through which users can buy, sell, and stream creative content such as, mixtapes, music albums, movies, design templates, source codes, and merchandise. The platform helps users to sell by uploading a file and generating a shortened link to be shared on social media. Buyers then pay by credit card and receive a link to content via email. Gumroad, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ami

Seed Round in 2022
Ami is a human-centric mental wellness platform that provides employees with one-click mental health coaching by connecting them with relevant coaches.

Daily Harvest

Series A in 2017
Daily Harvest, Inc. offers frozen whole ingredient smoothies. The company offers smoothies, harvest bowls, flatbreads, soups, bites, oat bowls, chia bowls, and lattes. It sells its products online. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.
Genius Media Group, Inc. owns and operates an online platform for rap lyrics. The company’s platform also features charts and videos and enables contributors, editors, and musicians who sign up to discuss and deconstruct their favorite songs with fans all around the world. The company was formerly known as Rap Genius. Genius Media Group, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Brave Care, Inc. offers urgent pediatric health care services. It provides treatment for allergies, asthma, cough and whooping cough, ear pain, eye problems, fever, light sedation for painful procedures, minor fracture care, minor head trauma, pediatric specific laboratory services, pediatric specific on-site x-ray, rashes, stitches, sore throats, sports physicals, stomach aches, strains and sprains, tissue glue wound closure, and urinary tract infection. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

The Noun Project, Inc.

The Noun Project, Inc. provides an online service that provides users access to a collection of icons uploaded by designers from around the world. It offers The Noun Project, a collaborative place where visual language is shared and created. The company’s service is used by educators, designers, developers, and businesses. The Noun Project, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

StarkWare

Private Placement in 2018
StarkWare Industries Ltd develops software and hardware for generation and verification of computational integrity proofs for general computations. The company offers STARK, which is a zero-knowledge proof protocol with applications, including transparent privacy in blockchains, increased transaction throughput, and off chain computation. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Netanya, Israel.

STEM

Series B in 2017
Kano Computing Limited develops and delivers Kano, a computer and coding kit for children of all ages. The company’s kit is used by children as young as 8 to make games, synth music, animate characters, and others. It also offers Motion Sensor Kit, a learn-to-code product that uses a USB sensor to translate motion, such as a hand waving or leg kicking, into data. The company sells its products online; and exports internationally. Kano Computing Limited was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Flip

Seed Round in 2018
Flip is a marketplace for rental housing. Small and medium-sized landlords use Flip to find tenants and manage their properties. Renters use Flip to get out of unwanted lease contracts and into new places.
Algorand, Inc. owns and operates a decentralized digital currency and transactions platform. It offers Algorand Standard Asset in Layer-1, Atomic Transfers, and Algorand Smart Contracts at Layer-1. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Oula Health

Seed Round in 2020
Oula is redesigning maternity care from the ground up. Its modern maternity center combines the best of obstetrics and midwifery care to deliver a more evidence-based and personalized pregnancy experience. From its collaborative medical team, welcoming clinic, and remote care platform, we are setting a new standard for pregnancy that unifies modern medicine and human intuition. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Meddik

Seed Round in 2012
Meddik is a better way to search for health information and find support. It is a place to 1. ask questions and get answers from people who've been there 2. share your wisdom and stories with those who need advice 3. learn from the collective experience of people like you We're all connected by our health experiences -- when we get sick, when we're injured, or when we care for a loved one. Now what if you could tap into each other's experiences and difficulties? What if you could learn what a procedure would be like before you went through it? Or if you could best know what product to buy from people who've been there? What if by sharing your experience and a small amount of advice, you could prevent millions of other people from going through the struggles you did? When information is democratized, everyone gets better, faster. Join us.

Hippo Harvest

Seed Round in 2021
Hippo Harvest develops an agriculture technology to help scale sustainable agriculture. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Half Moon Bay, California.

Diferente ≠

Seed Round in 2023
Mercado Diferente is a mission-driven Brazilian foodtech created with a purpose: give everyone access to healthy foods while fighting food waste in Latin America. By rescuing organic items considered "imperfect" and directly sending them to consumers, they are able to offer up to 40% off traditional retail prices. Founded by Eduardo Petrelli (ex-James Delivery), Saulo Marti (ex-Olist), Paulo Monçores (ex-VTex) & Walter Rodrigues (ex-Rappi), Mercado Diferente is backed by major investors such as Maya Capital, Collaborative Fund, GFC and unicorn founders like Matias Muchnick (founder of NotCo), Abhi Ramesh (founder of Misfits Market), Hamish Shepard (founder of HelloFresh) and Tiago Dalvi (founder of Olist).
Our mission is to build a food system where everyone is eating well. Eating well means eating food that nourishes our bodies. Eating food that strengthens the planet. Eating food that tastes exceptionally good—and is JUST for all. Our technology, which is based upon understanding plants from every corner of the planet, enables consumers, food manufacturers, and the largest retailers around the world to offer better, healthier products, at a more affordable cost.
Nebulous, Inc. operates and builds blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. It offers Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace; Skynet, a decentralized CDN and file sharing platform for devs; and SiaStream that provides cheap storage for media files using cloud storage technology to provide fast streaming. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Earnest Operations LLC provides student loan refinancing, private student loans, and personal loans. Its private student loans include undergraduate private student loans, graduate private student loans, cosigned private student loans, business school loans, medical school loans, and law school loans. Its personal loans include credit card consolidation, engagement ring, home improvement, moving and relocation, vacation, and wedding loans. It serves clients in the United States through its platform. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of November 3, 2017, Earnest Operations LLC operates as a subsidiary of Navient Corporation.

Assembly

Seed Round in 2013
Assembly is a web collaboration platform that enables users to develop apps, widgets, platforms, and APIs with the help of other users. It is a global community that connects designers, developers, coders, writers, marketers, and more with each other and enables them retain the ownership of their software and receive profit for their contributions. The entire process is a collaborative effort, including vision, development, design, and marketing. Each product has App Coins, which are earned by contributing work. Assembly was launched by Dave Newman, Matthew Deiters, and Chris Lloyd in 2013 and is operated from California, United States.
HICKIES Inc. manufactures and markets shoe laces. The company offers regular, loose, and tight fit elastic lacing systems. Its products are used in running, golf, tennis, and fitness shoes. The company sells products through retail stores and online. HICKIES Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Blue Bottle Coffee

Series A in 2012
Blue Bottle Coffee is a coffee roaster and retailer platform that delivers coffee subscriptions to doorsteps nationwide. Blue Bottle Coffee is a passionate team of hundreds around the world, united by the simple purpose of getting great coffee to everyone who asks for it whether that be in our cafes or at home. Blue Bottle is headquartered in Oakland, California, and has retail and business operations in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo.
WAVE Meditation Inc. develops and offers subscription based mobile application software and manufactures connected foam cushion for at-home meditation. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

ZELP

Series A in 2021
ZELP ltd. manufactures a ethane reduction wearable device. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Ingredient 1, Inc. provides an online application that enables to explore food based on ingredients, allergens, nutrition, certifications, and taste profile for various natural and specialty products. It enables to find food and trending products based on users’ personalized diet and desired flavors. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Therma

Venture Round in 2021
Therma Holdings is a mechanical, electrical, plumbing and controls services company focused on designing, building, and servicing complex systems in mission-critical facilities. Therma has in-house engineering, design, fabrication, process piping, controls, pre-fabrication and installation capabilities.
Upstart Network, Inc. develops and operates a peer-to-peer online lending marketplace that serves as a platform for obtaining fixed rate personal loans. Its model considers credit history, education, area of study, and employment history to lend money to borrowers. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Mateo, California. Upstart Network, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Upstart Holdings, Inc.
Elevate Labs, LLC offers a mobile personal brain trainer application. Its application provides training activities for various skills, including memory, agility, inversion, connotation, comprehension, focus, processing, visualization, syntax, context, refinement, brevity, error avoidance, precision, clarity, synthesis, conversion, discounting, proportion, tipping, pronunciation, name recall, estimation, and eloquence. The company is based in San Francisco, California.
Yup Technologies Inc. develops an iOS and Android app that provides on demand tutoring for math and science through mobile chat. It offers Yup, a mobile tutoring app that instantly connects students with expert tutors; and enables tutors to provide academic support for students to solve their chemistry, math, and physics problems. The company was formerly known as MathCrunch Services and changed its name to Yup Technologies Inc. in April 2016. Yup Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Walker & Company

Seed Round in 2013
Our vision is to build the world’s most consumer-centric health & beauty products company. We want to completely reinvent the way our community learns about, purchases and enjoys health and beauty products. We’ll do this by developing, designing and testing products and services specifically tailored to our community's needs and delivering on the promise of great customer service and a simple shopping experience.
Gobble helps busy professionals easily cook dinner in just 10 minutes with 1 pan. The company designs gourmet dinner kits and completes all the sourcing and prepwork - washing, chopping, marinating, & sauce-making - so all one has to do is combine the ingredients together in one pan and be a dinner hero. Fresh ingredients are sourced locally from sustainable and humane Bay Area farmers. The menu offers six new and different dinner kits every week. Each customer has complete control over their menu and schedule. Dinner kits are delivered to customers in a recyclable and refrigerated box. Gobble is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Poolus

Series A in 2017
Poolus Inc. designs and develops ride sharing application that provides real time carpool matching services through smart phone. The company provides application for passengers and drivers. It also provides driver certification program. Poolus Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Flipside Crypto

Seed Round in 2019
Flipside Crypto, Inc. operates a crypto currency information platform that provides business intelligence for blockchain organizations. The company offers cryptocurrency management services, including cryptocurrency acquisition, digital walleting, custody services, community tools, and portfolio dashboards for investors. It offers data models to evaluate liquid crypto assets and offers investment portfolios related to cryptocurrencies. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Order

Series B in 2022
Negotiatus Corp. develops online purchasing software. It offers Negotiatus that enables businesses to place orders, control spend, and submit payment across every vendor. The company’s Negotiatus helps operations and finance teams spend less time placing orders. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Spruce Holdings

Series A in 2018
Spruce Holdings Inc. provides title insurance, coordination, escrow, and recording services for real estate companies and mortgage lenders through its software. It operates as a third party that helps to coordinate transactions between homeowners and their lenders or real estate institutions. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with hub locations in Plano, Texas; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Santa Barbara, California.
Coin Metrics Inc., an online publisher of blockchains and cryptocurrency, provides market and network data, analytics, and research to the community and other industries. It offers CM Network Data Pro, a data feed of crypto network data for institutions that features historical data aggregated daily/block-by-block for various top assets with new assets and metrics added on regular release cycles. The company also provides CM Market Data Feed, a solution that offers trade, candle, and order book data standardized to a common schema across various crypto exchanges; and CM Reference Rates, a solution that represents a fixed pricing of one unit of an asset quoted in U.S. dollars for various assets. Coin Metrics Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Good Eggs

Seed Round in 2011
Online market that delivers good groceries to customers' homes throughout the bay area, seven days a week

Quaise

Series A in 2022
Quaise is an energy company pioneering millimeter wave drilling technology to access deep geothermal energy. Quaise is developing and commercializing novel millimeter wave drilling systems to harness geothermal energy around the globe, overcoming the geographic constraints limiting this energy source today.
Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. The company's community offers classes on any type of skill, from baking cupcakes to raising startup capital to varying fields in design, business, and technology, enabling members to harness their creative power and learn skills in an enhanced way. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.
Chia Network Inc. develops a blockchain-based transaction and cryptocurrency platform. It provides Chialisp, a smart transaction programming language that unlocks the security, transparency, and ease of use of cryptocurrencies. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Inbox Health's mission is to greatly reduce the administrative waste in healthcare, by streamlining the patient billing and payment experience. Their product is a patient billing and communication platform that uses patient data to tailor a billing process specific to the patient’s situation and behavior patterns.

Diferente ≠

Seed Round in 2022
Mercado Diferente is a mission-driven Brazilian foodtech created with a purpose: give everyone access to healthy foods while fighting food waste in Latin America. By rescuing organic items considered "imperfect" and directly sending them to consumers, they are able to offer up to 40% off traditional retail prices. Founded by Eduardo Petrelli (ex-James Delivery), Saulo Marti (ex-Olist), Paulo Monçores (ex-VTex) & Walter Rodrigues (ex-Rappi), Mercado Diferente is backed by major investors such as Maya Capital, Collaborative Fund, GFC and unicorn founders like Matias Muchnick (founder of NotCo), Abhi Ramesh (founder of Misfits Market), Hamish Shepard (founder of HelloFresh) and Tiago Dalvi (founder of Olist).

Exo

Seed Round in 2014
Exo is a producer and provider of protein bars made from cricket flour. Its protein bars are a combination of cricket flour with organic ingredients such as raw cacao, dates, almond butter, and coconut to create a bar that is high in protein, low in sugar, nutritionally dense, and packed with omega 3 fatty acids, iron, and calcium that enable users to get sports bar that is free of sugar, gluten, grains, dairy, soy, and artificial preservatives. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Outschool connects motivated learners, parents, and teachers together to create great learning experiences. Their mission is to build the biggest and best global school by offering unique online classes from hundreds of independent teachers. Outschool teachers may be certified teachers, artists, scientists, or other adults with expertise or interest in teaching. It was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Dandelion Energy

Private Placement in 2019
Dandelion Energy offers affordable geothermal heating and cooling installations. Dandelion Energy's home geothermal system replaces your home’s existing air conditioning and heating equipment with a powerful heat pump and safe, underground pipes that move heat between the earth and home. Kathleen Hannun and Rajeez Quazi founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Palo Alto in California.
Lendit is the leading personal loan oriented marketplace lending company in Korea that operates fully online and manages a marketplace platform where investors can provide capital to people seeking loans. Through our advanced risk ranking algorithm and cost- effective operational process, borrowers can access to an appealing interest rate and investors can enjoy ‘high and stable’ yield. We offer borrowers an APR between 4.5% and 18.0%, and investors an average return of 10.66%. By transforming the traditional banking system, we aim to help both borrowers and investors to achieve financial goals.
Lovevery, Inc. manufactures play products for babies. It offers Play Gym, a toy consisting of a ball, batting ring, teether, teething rings, and cards designed to encourage learning at different stages in a child’s early development providing babies with what they want to see, touch, and do as their brains and bodies develop and sense of self starts to emerge. It also sells its products online. The company was formerly known as SmartFamily, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Boise, Idaho.

Zebedee

Seed Round in 2019
Zebedee, Inc. operates a platform for integrating bitcoins into digital gaming environments. It offers ZEBEDEE platform that allows the limited use of bitcoins by game developers to process in-game microtransaction payments for their users. The company’s ZEBEDEE allows its members to send and receive bitcoin microtransactions within their games; enables game developers to enable their users to receive and send bitcoin micropayments within their games; and store limited quantities of bitcoin. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Bond Street

Seed Round in 2014
Bond Street is a startup focused on transforming small business lending through technology, data, and design. Small business owners are the foundation for growth in the economy, and yet today’s banking system has left them behind. It is building a better future where access to financing is simple, transparent, and fair. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Livepeer, Inc. develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet. It provides an open platform that gives broadcasters, developers, and users the ability to get content and message out. The company combines a blockchain based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server. It provides a decentralized video live streaming platform with the peer-to-peer networks and the blockchain. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Dandelion Energy

Series A in 2019
Dandelion Energy offers affordable geothermal heating and cooling installations. Dandelion Energy's home geothermal system replaces your home’s existing air conditioning and heating equipment with a powerful heat pump and safe, underground pipes that move heat between the earth and home. Kathleen Hannun and Rajeez Quazi founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Palo Alto in California.

Designinc.com Corp.

Designinc.com Corp. operates in the telecommunication industry. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Laguna Niguel, California.
Luminopia, Inc. develops virtual reality medical software for the treatment of lazy eye. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Step

Private Placement in 2019
Step is the next generation financial services company building the best banking experience to help teens and young adults achieve financial independence and knowledge at an earlier age. Step is founded by a team with 50+ years in combined financial technology experience. The company's mission is to create a bank that gives you the tools to become smarter with your money and reward you along your financial journey.
Fourpost Inc. owns and operates a collection of studio shops, eateries, and events which provides a space for consumers and brands to connect. The company allows brands from local businesses and startups to connect and build relationships under one roof. Fourpost Inc. also operates a SaaS platform through which members have access to tools and resources like dedicated onboarding and account management, business training, calendars and event bookings, and billing. The company was incorporated in 2018 nad is based in New York, New York.

Joyable

Series A in 2015
Joyable provides the most effective and affordable online solution for overcoming social anxiety. Based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), it's proven to reduce social anxiety in a convenient and private setting. Joyable's technology makes it easy to start, and its coaches help ensure that clients finish.

By Chloe

Venture Round in 2018
by CHLOE. aims to share delicious, wholesome, plant-based food that fuels and energizes without compromising flavor, taste or satisfaction. Their chef-driven vegan menu features locally-sourced ingredients in their most natural form to create inspired dishes, made 100% by us daily. We are passionate about feeding their customers hearty, nourishing meals made from whole ingredients that can have a positive impact on their overall mind, body and health.

Natural Fiber Welding

Series B in 2022
Natural Fiber Welding develops a technology that can use plants and natural fibers to make textiles and other durable items. By working with plant based fibrous materials, the company's scientists and engineers are creating new opportunities to improve and leverage plentiful and renewable resources on the planet for applications associated with synthetic products. It is NFW's goal to develop solutions that can be implemented by communities across the economic spectrum using abundant local resources to develop sustainable, scalable products that minimize processing and cost while improving quality and usability. NFW was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Peoria, IL, USA.

Pinch

Seed Round in 2018
Pinch makes it easy to build its clients' credit history just by paying their rent. For no extra money, Pinch helps you beef up your credit score without going into debt. Not too long ago, paying rent didn’t have much to do with your credit score. Of course, not paying rent could always (and still can) damage your credit score. But what happens when you pay your rent on time? Legally speaking, absolutely nothing. Nada. The good news? Credit bureaus and credit scoring companies are realizing that those who can pay rent on time month after month are likely to also handle credit responsibly, and things are changing in America. Studies have shown that after reporting rent, 100% of tenants who were previously unscorable had a credit score. And almost 3/4 of those studied experienced a credit score increase.

True Link Financial

Seed Round in 2015
True Link is a diversified financial services firm dedicated to protecting and increasing our customers' independence and quality of life. True Link provides greater independence and autonomy to people who are at financial risk when engaging with the world.

Ours

Seed Round in 2022
Ours specializes in providing premarital counseling services.
OLIPOP, Inc produces digestive health beverages. It offers sparkling tonics for digestive health with fiber, prebiotics, and botanical extracts. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Oakland, California.

Precious

Seed Round in 2018
Precious uses AI to create the perfect album of your children growing up. Parents take 1000's of photos & videos of their kids every year. The Precious iPhone app uses computer vision to scan a parent's messy camera roll, find the meaningful moments of their kids, and create adorable artwork for the parent to enjoy every day. The company has over 55,000 paying subscribers, over $180,000 in monthly recurring revenue, and is profitable.
Science Exchange is the world’s leading R&D Services Management company, empowering research organizations to accelerate science and drive more innovation success. The Science Exchange Marketplace improves R&D productivity by automating many collaborative tasks between buyers and providers, such as obtaining quotes, managing projects and processing payments, all with rigorous data security and regulatory compliance embedded throughout.

Noon Energy

Seed Round in 2021
Noon Energy develops a flow battery technology that enables economical long-duration energy storage. The company's design will allow intermittent renewable electricity sources, such as solar and wind, to meet continual demand. Noon Energy was founded in 2018 and based in Palo Alto, California.

Livepeer

Series A in 2019
Livepeer, Inc. develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet. It provides an open platform that gives broadcasters, developers, and users the ability to get content and message out. The company combines a blockchain based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server. It provides a decentralized video live streaming platform with the peer-to-peer networks and the blockchain. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.
Bond Street Marketplace, Inc. offers term loans to small businesses in the United States. It finances clients for helping them to hire additional employees, open a new space, and purchase equipment or inventory. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Sweetgreen

Series A in 2010
Sweetgreen, Inc. owns and operates a chain of restaurants in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, and District Of Columbia. It also sells gift cards, canvas totes, tees, tanks, beanies, snapbacks, hoodies, and posters online. Sweetgreen, Inc. has a strategic partnership with FoodCorps. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Culver City, California.

Sawyer

Series A in 2017
Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning. Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educational institutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact. They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible. Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow.
Spruce Holdings Inc. provides title insurance, coordination, escrow, and recording services for real estate companies and mortgage lenders through its software. It operates as a third party that helps to coordinate transactions between homeowners and their lenders or real estate institutions. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with hub locations in Plano, Texas; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Santa Barbara, California.

Outdoor Voices

Series A in 2015
Outdoor Voices, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells athletic apparel. It offers sports bras, tops, sweatshirts, jackets, leggings, pants, and tonal sets for women; and tees, sweatshirts, jackets, shorts, pants, objects, and tonal sets for men. The company sells its apparel through its retail shops, as well as online in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Outdoor Voices, Inc. was formerly known as T.Haney Active Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Whoop, Inc. manufactures and sells wearable fitness sensors for athletes to monitor the heart rate and movement during workouts. It offers bands, gears, upper arm sleeves, tops, t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, hats, gift cards, accessories, and other products, as well as men’s joggers. The company sells its products online. Whoop, Inc. was formerly known as Bobo Analytics, Inc. and changed its name to Whoop, Inc. in December 2013. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Quaise

Seed Round in 2020
Quaise is an energy company pioneering millimeter wave drilling technology to access deep geothermal energy. Quaise is developing and commercializing novel millimeter wave drilling systems to harness geothermal energy around the globe, overcoming the geographic constraints limiting this energy source today.

Dandelion Energy

Series B in 2021
Dandelion Energy offers affordable geothermal heating and cooling installations. Dandelion Energy's home geothermal system replaces your home’s existing air conditioning and heating equipment with a powerful heat pump and safe, underground pipes that move heat between the earth and home. Kathleen Hannun and Rajeez Quazi founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Palo Alto in California.

Edticket

Series A in 2017
Edticket is a school bus sharing company in South Korea. Its bus sharing service Shuttle Tayo caters kindergarten and academy buses that helps reduce costs for businesses and increases safety for students. It was launched to help support educational institutions that struggle to maintain older vehicles and don’t have enough staff to act as safety monitors on each bus, as required by law. Shuttle Tayo buses come with their own drivers and safety monitors, and the sharing of vehicles can be managed by institutions through a scheduling and management system.
Roam is a coliving and coworking community testing the boundaries between work, travel, and life adventure. It also provides communal living spaces around the world. The company provides everything from redundant fiber lines to multiple providers, Cisco Meraki gear, universal power outlets, and Eames  aluminum office chairs. They provide sheets, towels, and all the other little things you need to feel at home and that include a media center, pool, shared kitchen, and event space. Roam was founded on January 22, 2015, and is headquartered in New York, USA.

Particle Health

Series A in 2020
Particle Health is an API designed for healthcare innovators that gives access to vital medical data. It manages patient consent, giving investigators, underwriters, and administers a single-point clearinghouse for clinical health data, without the need for a third party. Particle Health has been offering their platform and API to any healthcare organizations participating in COVID-19 screening. Particle Health was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, United States.
Prime Roots offers plant and protein based food products. The company offers vegetarian-based fungi super protein food products, including salmon burger, which replicates taste, texture, and nutrition of meat and seafood products. It also organizes food events for its members. The company serves the food sector. Prime Roots was formerly known as Terramino Inc. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Porter Road Butcher Meat Co., LLC

Private Placement in 2018
Porter Road Butcher Meat Co., LLC operates a butcher shop that offers meat products in Nashville. It offers local and grass fed meats, beef, poultry, pork, lamb, eggs, dairy products, and cheese. The company is based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Scopely, Inc. develops mobile and tablet touchscreen-based games for casual and core gamers worldwide. It offers fleet command games; and game design, live, marketing, analytics, business development, advertising, and other services. Scopely, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Culver City, California.
Particle Health is an API designed for healthcare innovators that gives access to vital medical data. It manages patient consent, giving investigators, underwriters, and administers a single-point clearinghouse for clinical health data, without the need for a third party. Particle Health has been offering their platform and API to any healthcare organizations participating in COVID-19 screening. Particle Health was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, United States.
Step is the next generation financial services company building the best banking experience to help teens and young adults achieve financial independence and knowledge at an earlier age. Step is founded by a team with 50+ years in combined financial technology experience. The company's mission is to create a bank that gives you the tools to become smarter with your money and reward you along your financial journey.
SnowShoeFood Inc. develops a piece of plastic with secret digital identities that interact with touchscreens. Its product bridges physical items and digital assets ranging from toys that unlock video game characters to gift/credit cards for digital currencies. The company also provides a software that identifies stamps when touched to the screen of multi-touch devices (iPhones, smartphones, or tablets); and an application program interface that processes the stamp interactions and determines the stamp being used by the users. It serves developers, entrepreneurs, and makers. SnowShoeFood Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Portland, Oregon.