Collaborative Fund

Collaborative Fund aims to be the leading source of capital and strategic support for creative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. The fund focuses on two themes: the increasing importance of values as they relate to the decisions people make about who they work for, what they buy, and how they spend their time; and the shift from an economy based on hyper-consumption to one based on Collaborative Consumption. These two forces present a significant opportunity for new technologies, products, and services to reinvent how society conducts business and transform daily lives. According to published reports, investors in the $6 million fund include GM O'Connell, Nicholas Negroponte, Jason Krikorian (co-founder of Sling Media), Ben Goldhirsh (heir to the Inc. Magazine fortune), and Brendan Synnot (founder of the 'Bear Naked' and 'Revelry' brands).

Sophie Bakalar

Partner

Tejinder Gill

Principal

Taylor Greene

General Partner

Morgan Housel

Partner

Josh Lubov

CFO

Craig Shapiro

Founder and Managing Partner

Guy Vidra

Partner

459 past transactions

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.

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.
Mark One Lifestyle, Inc. designs and markets the Vessyl that automatically tracks personal liquid consumption and nutrient data. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Circle Medical

Funding Round in 2018
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.

Outdoor Voices

Venture Round in 2017
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.

Tala

Series A in 2015
Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is oriented around financial services in emerging markets. More than 2 million people have borrowed through Tala’s smartphone app, which provides instant credit scoring, lending, and other personalized financial services in emerging markets. Tala provides personalized loans to approved borrowers and builds digital credit history. The company provides instant loans through a mobile app where the entire process happens, from loan application to funds release and status tracking. Tala was founded on October 1, 2011, and is the global team is headquartered in Santa Monica, with additional offices in Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Sia

Seed Round in 2020
Sia is the leading decentralized cloud storage platform. No signups, no servers, no trusted third parties. Sia leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace that is more robust and more affordable than traditional cloud storage providers.

Designinc.com Corp.

Designinc.com Corp. operates in the telecommunication industry. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Laguna Niguel, California.
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.

Outdoor Voices

Series B in 2016
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.

Good Eggs

Private Placement in 2018
Online market that delivers good groceries to customers' homes throughout the bay area, seven days a week

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.
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.
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.
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.

Paces

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Paces is creating a data platform to provide actionable signals for developers, operators and investors to better understand what and where to profitably build green infrastructure. Paces AI will provide data signals collected across 3,500 US counties, including environmental data, permitting data, zoning data, interconnection data and competition risks. Modeled signals are also provided, such as climate risks, profitability forecasts and parcel ranking. These granular signals are provided at the level of specific land parcels and green infrastructure assets.

Wander

Seed Round in 2012
Wander is a beautiful way to share and experience the world. Founded by Jeremy Fisher, previously founder of Dinevore, and Keenan Cummings. Wander is a TechStars NYC Summer 2012 company.

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.

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.
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.

PeopleGrove

Series A in 2019
Peoplegrove Inc. develops an application to place job seekers with employers through a voting process. It allows users to set up their profiles with the ability to connect with LinkedIn accounts. It enables them to show interest in openings and notifies the company to look at the user’s profile. Peoplegrove Inc. was formerly known as Emjoyment Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.
We Are Set, Inc. is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Tala

Series B in 2017
Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is oriented around financial services in emerging markets. More than 2 million people have borrowed through Tala’s smartphone app, which provides instant credit scoring, lending, and other personalized financial services in emerging markets. Tala provides personalized loans to approved borrowers and builds digital credit history. The company provides instant loans through a mobile app where the entire process happens, from loan application to funds release and status tracking. Tala was founded on October 1, 2011, and is the global team is headquartered in Santa Monica, with additional offices in Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.
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.

Switchboard

Angel Round in 2014
Switchboard is founded on the notion that colleges, universities, independent schools, and organizations need strong communities to help students and alumni succeed. Switchboard helps schools and other organizations create responsive, caring networks where members of their community can find and share transformative opportunities. Their community platform, consulting, and professional development offerings help teams and institutions engage their communities. Switchboard's engagement platform generates meaningful, lasting engagement for dozens of alumni, nonprofit, and industry communities. The company was founded by Mara Zepeda and Sean Lerner in 2012 and is based in Portland, OR, USA.
Impossible Foods Inc. develops and produces meats and cheeses. It recreates meats and dairy products, such as pork and meat burger from greens, seeds, and grains. The company sells its products through restaurants and online in the United States. The company was formerly known as Maraxi, Inc. and changed its name to Impossible Foods Inc. in May 2014. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Redwood City, California.
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.

Taskrabbit

Series B in 2011
TaskRabbit, Inc. operates a same-day service platform that connects clients and taskers. Its platform enable clients to book a tasker for various home services, including minor home repair, mounting and installation, furniture assembly, moving and packing, housecleaning, yard work, and home improvement. TaskRabbit, Inc. was formerly known as RunMyErrand, Inc. and changed its name to TaskRabbit, Inc. in April 2010. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 10, 2017, TaskRabbit, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of INGKA Holding B.V.
Supply, Inc., doing business as Reach Labs, designs and develops wireless power system consists of stations and devices. The platform consists of a combination of antenna systems and proprietary algorithms to wirelessly power remote devices through radio frequency (RF) transmission. Its products include batch systems, link systems, and swarm systems for use in power tools, barcode scanner, health monitors, GPS devices, and agricultural sensors. Supply, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Oakland, California.

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.
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.
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.

Fable

Series A in 2021
Fable, Inc. develops a full-stack web-based motion design platform. It offers Fable, a solution that helps teams animate together by using motion for creative professionals and indie creators by making it easier for beginners to get started, more efficient for pros, and collaborative for teams. The company’s solution also enables users to save projects as GIFs or HD videos. Fable, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.
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.
YouNow is the world's first live social network, empowering users to broadcast themselves from anywhere in real-time. They believe in the unlimited potential of human creativity. In fact, it’s why they come to work every day - to create a powerful platform where anyone can broadcast and express themselves in front of a vast live audience. In a moment when social media and TV are converging, they’re proud to provide a product that fuses the experience of broadcasting, gaming, performing, and social networking, giving direct power to the people and enabling them to discover and create new kinds of interactive content in real-time.

Circle Medical

Private Placement in 2018
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.

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.

Nebulous

Seed Round 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.

Eat Just

Series A in 2013
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.
Simply Gum features all-natural chewing gum made from 6 simple ingredients, with no artificial sweeteners, flavors, colors, or other synthetics. it specializes in the fields of food, healthcare, and beverage. Simply Gum was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.
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.

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.
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.

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.

Quaise, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Quaise, Inc. engaged in the development and commercialization of gyrotron-powered millimeter wave drilling technology to access deep geothermal energy globally. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Immi

Seed Round in 2021
Immi is a food product manufacturer intended to provide instant ramen with low net carb and high protein. The company's products include high fiber, low sodium, plant-based, and keto-friendly instant ramen, providing healthy quick meal to consumers.

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.
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.

Hopscotch

Seed Round in 2014
Hopscotch is a programming app for kids, allowing them to design, code, and share their own art and games. Its iPad app was the first programming language designed for a touchscreen device. Kids learn organically as they create, and the open-ended environment keeps the app compelling each time they return. Hopscotch’s mission is to empower anyone anywhere to create their own technologies.

Lendit

Series B in 2017
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.

Revolution Foods

Venture Round in 2015
Revolution Foods, Inc. produces food for schools and families across the United States. It offers unitized meals, family style meals, and food service products for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and supper The company also provides ready-to-eat meals for lunch, after school snacks, on-the-go boosting products, and sports refreshments. It serves early childhood education, school districts, charter networks, and community and after school youth programs. The company sells its products through grocery stores. Revolution Foods, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Oakland, California.

Mirador

Seed Round in 2014
Mirador Financial, Inc. operates a business lending platform that supports lenders with borrower acquisition, digital application, decisioning, and borrower communication. The platform offers cloud based application process, integration via API, product routing, and policy integration for lending application process. In addition, the company provides digital memo, loan overview, and automated decisions under the approval process. Its platform also has data encryption, security, and automated verification features as well. Mirador Financial, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Portland, Oregon. As of December 5, 2018, Mirador Financial, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of CUNA Mutual Holding Company.

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.

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.

TaxBit, Inc.

TaxBit, Inc. develops cryptocurrency tax automation software. It offers TaxBit that automates cryptocurrency taxes for crypto users, exchanges, and merchants to sync transactions from exchanges and download cryptocurrency tax forms. Its TaxBit allows to run transactions through the U.S. tax code, manage portfolios, produce an audit trail, claim the capital loss deduction, and produce IRS 8949 cryptocurrency tax forms. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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.

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.

Hickies

Venture Round in 2014
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.

makr

Seed Round in 2013
Makr is a design app for next-generation makers: the creative entrepreneur, the DIYer, the next-level home entertainer. Headquartered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we’re inspired every day by our local maker community. We developed Makr specifically for iPad to bring DIY to the 21st century, using digital tech to enrich the handmade movement and our shared love of old-fashioned craft. Makr provides sophisticated design tools – exclusive to professional studio use until now – to the local maker’s workshop and DIYer’s home.

Zebedee

Private Placement 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.
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.

Spacemesh

Private Placement in 2018
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.

TaxBit, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
TaxBit, Inc. develops cryptocurrency tax automation software. It offers TaxBit that automates cryptocurrency taxes for crypto users, exchanges, and merchants to sync transactions from exchanges and download cryptocurrency tax forms. Its TaxBit allows to run transactions through the U.S. tax code, manage portfolios, produce an audit trail, claim the capital loss deduction, and produce IRS 8949 cryptocurrency tax forms. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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.
Citizen Logistics, Inc. designs and develops software that enables web and mobile devices to create community. Citizen Logistics, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Kula Bio

Series A in 2022
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.

Vivian Health

Private Equity Round in 2022
NurseFly, Inc. offers employment services to nurses through their own platform. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. As of June 26, 2019, NurseFly, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of IAC/InterActiveCorp.

Banjo Robinson

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Introducing Banjo Robinson - your child’s new pen pal! A new-to-market subscription which turns writing practice into a magical game for 5-8 year olds.Banjo sends letters, stickers and surprises all year round that introduce children to the wonders of the world, whilst encouraging them to pick up a pencil and start writing (or drawing) a reply. Their hope is that his enthusiasm for travel, humour, kindness and compassion will be a little bit contagious.

Quarterly

Seed Round in 2011
Quarterly, Inc. provides a quarterly subscription service that enables user to receive physical items in the mail from contributors of their choice. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in West Hollywood, California.

Axie Infinity

Series A in 2021
Axie Infinity is a game about collecting and raising fantasy creatures called Axie, on the Ethereum platform. Besides collecting and raising, you can make a team of Axies to battle in the arena. You can also buy, sell, and trade Axies with others on the marketplace.

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).

MakeSpace Labs, Inc.

MakeSpace Labs, Inc. provides storage services. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York with storage service locations in New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, District of Columbia; and Los Angeles, 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.
North American Robotics Corporation manufactures self-cleaning blenders that prepare smoothies and snacks. It also provides cups filled with various fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts for homes or offices. In addition, it rents blenders; and sells cups. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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.
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.
Handshake Development Inc., also known as Handshake Foundation, provides decentralized certificate authority and naming protocol using blockchain technology. The company offers Handshake, a decentralized and permissionless naming protocol compatible with DNS where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing certificate authorities. Its Handshake protocol maintains the root zone file in a decentralized manner, making the root zone uncensorable, permissionless, and free of gatekeepers. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Meddik Incorporated

Meddik Incorporated provides a health network to share and discover health information. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.
AngelList is a platform for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups. AngelList's goal is also to democratize the investment process. In 2014, the company raised $104 million online. It has also funded 243 startups. In 2015, they've made over 548K introductions between job-seekers and companies. Founded by Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant in 2010, AngelList is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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.

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.

WHOOP

Seed Round in 2013
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.

Exo

Series A in 2016
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.

Livepeer

Private Placement 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.

Sawyer

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning. Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educational institutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact. They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible. Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow.
Berkeley Brewing Science Inc. manufactures a strain of brewer’s yeast, which acts as a substitute for hops used in the beer brewing process. The company uses a genome-editing tool to manufacture industrial brewer’s yeast. It serves beer breweries. Berkeley Brewing Science Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.
Skillcrush is an online learning community that conducts classes in design, coding, and other digital skills. Its 3-month Career Blueprints are offered to web designers, web developers, mobile web designers, freelance WordPress developers, and Ruby on Rails developers. In addition to structured lessons, community, and mentorship, Skillcrush also offers live video office hours; downloads, code samples, and cheatsheets; certificate of completion, and recommendation letters. Skillcrush was launched in 2012 by Adda Birnir and its operations are based in New York, United States.
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.

Universe

Venture Round in 2017
Universe is a mobile-based website builder for the social media era, eschewing complicated templates for easily customizable website “filters” that pin trendy designs to a grid pattern where users can drag and drop photos, videos, icons to build up a mobile-optimized website in minutes on the company’s iOS app. It was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
Bond Street Servicing, LLC offers loans to small businesses in America. It offers financing for business expansions, refinancing debts, maintain operational cost, purchasing inventory or equipment, and hiring additional team. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Traptic

Series A in 2021
Traptic is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at their company. They do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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).

Zen99, Inc.

Zen99, Inc. went out of business. Zen99, Inc. provides tools, guides, and advice to help independent and self-employed workers understand taxes and insurance, and maximize their income. It offers 1099 and quarterly tax guides; and tools to keep track of business expenses, such as ridesharing, housekeeper, insurance agent, real estate broker, and delivery driver taxes. The company serves rideshare drivers, delivery drivers, housekeepers, Web developers, photographers, real estate agents, freelancers, and more. Zen99, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Brave Care

Seed Round in 2019
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.