Female Founders Fund

Female Founders Fund is a New York-based venture capital firm established in 2013 that focuses on early-stage investments in technology and related sectors. The firm specifically targets startups founded by women, investing in areas such as e-commerce, media, software, advertising, and emerging technologies like climate tech and generative artificial intelligence. The fund aims to support companies that promote diversity and inclusion, as well as those that address critical sectors like healthcare and financial services. With a commitment to impact investing, Female Founders Fund typically invests between $0.06 million and $1 million per company, seeking to empower female entrepreneurs and foster innovation in the market.

Emily St. Denis

Operating Partner

Anu Duggal

Founding Partner

Adrianna Samaniego

Investor

81 past transactions

Ceremonia

Series A in 2023
Ceremonia is a modern haircare brand that draws inspiration from Latin heritage, aiming to celebrate and empower the next generation of Latinx individuals. Set to launch this fall, the company focuses on providing hair care products designed to nourish the scalp, combat frizz, promote hair growth, and enhance shine. Ceremonia emphasizes the use of sustainable and chemical-free ingredients, allowing users to repair and improve the health of their hair while embracing their natural beauty.

Prismpop

Seed Round in 2022
Prismpop is an online beauty community and social commerce platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in Pasadena, California. The platform facilitates the discovery of beauty products tailored to individual needs, allowing users to engage with content and connect with third-party manufacturers. Through its mobile interface, Prismpop provides a space for users to explore and find personalized beauty solutions while promoting collaboration between consumers and brands.

Boss Beauties

Seed Round in 2022
Boss Beauties is a company dedicated to empowering women and girls, particularly women of color, by providing resources and support for career development. The organization focuses on financial literacy through networking, learning, coaching, and mentoring, helping individuals build essential skills for personal and professional growth. Additionally, Boss Beauties offers a platform that features impact programs, engaging content, and consumer products designed to inspire the next generation of female leaders. One of its innovative approaches includes an NFT collection, which further enables women to shape their careers and foster a sense of community among aspiring professionals. Through these initiatives, Boss Beauties aims to elevate and inspire women, creating opportunities for success in various fields.

Real

Series B in 2022
Real is a mental healthcare platform focused on enhancing mental wellness as a vital aspect of overall wellbeing. The company aims to revolutionize mental health care by developing a member-centered therapy model that is both affordable and effective. Through a combination of digital resources and in-person experiences, Real integrates empathy and design into its approach, providing users with access to research-based therapy tools. This model encourages individuals to reflect on their mental health and take actionable steps towards improvement.

Womp

Seed Round in 2022
Womp is an all-in-one platform that leverages artificial intelligence to facilitate the creation of CAD and 3D models, catering specifically to the needs of 3D printing and new media applications such as web 3D, augmented reality, and virtual reality. The company specializes in 3D scanning, modeling, and printing services, enabling users to create physical objects from digital designs. Womp's technology captures the dimensions of an object, transforming it into a 3D mesh file, which can be printed in a variety of sizes and materials. This comprehensive approach allows customers to easily build intuitive and functional physical representations from their digital models.

Hearth

Seed Round in 2022
Hearth is the future family operating system. Hearth's project management software, facilitated by hardware, is built specifically for families to address the mental load of parenting. Hearth is on a mission to organize, plan, and empower families.

Womp

Funding Round in 2021
Womp is an all-in-one platform that leverages artificial intelligence to facilitate the creation of CAD and 3D models, catering specifically to the needs of 3D printing and new media applications such as web 3D, augmented reality, and virtual reality. The company specializes in 3D scanning, modeling, and printing services, enabling users to create physical objects from digital designs. Womp's technology captures the dimensions of an object, transforming it into a 3D mesh file, which can be printed in a variety of sizes and materials. This comprehensive approach allows customers to easily build intuitive and functional physical representations from their digital models.

SUMA, LLC

Seed Round in 2021
SUMA, LLC is a financial wellness company based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2019. The company focuses on promoting financial inclusion within the Latino community by providing a comprehensive platform that combines digital media, financial technology, and virtual experiences. SUMA aims to educate and empower individuals by offering culturally relevant content and tools that simplify complex topics such as investment and debt management. Its mission is to help Latinos navigate financial challenges, enhance their economic knowledge, and build sustainable wealth, ultimately positioning itself as a trusted resource for fostering financial well-being and prosperity.

HUED

Seed Round in 2021
HUED is a platform that diversifies the patient/doctor connection by connecting patients with diverse healthcare providers.

kenshō

Seed Round in 2021
Kenshō is a health company that lives in LA, operates on the internet, and promotes a whole-person philosophy of care: mind, body, and spirit. The company, founded and led by proven entrepreneurs Krista Berlincourt and Danny Steiner, pairs scientific research with personalization technology to take the guesswork out holistic health, whether you're looking for an honest answer or a trusted provider. Berlincourt is known for nurturing and scaling some of the most loved emerging technology brands like Simple, Acorns, and Microsoft from the ground up. Steiner was a digital innovation change agent at NBC, Conde Nast, and Hulu before breaking into health and wellness with Brami, a venture-backed superfood company.

Wagmo

Series A in 2021
Wagmo, Inc. is a Boston-based company that provides monthly wellness insurance plans specifically designed for pets. Founded in 2017, the company offers reimbursement for routine care services, including vaccinations, grooming appointments, and preventive medications. By leveraging veterinary data, Wagmo enables pet owners to anticipate and manage the costs of care in their area, optimizing the health and well-being of their pets. The service is aimed at making regular pet care more accessible and affordable through its comprehensive wellness plans.

Kindra

Seed Round in 2021
Kindra is a leader in scientifically formulated, estrogen-free, and plant-powered menopause essentials. The brand is also a trusted go-to for reliable information and a supportive community. The vaginal lotion and naturally-derived supplements were created to address some of the most common effects of menopause including sleeplessness, hot flashes, brain fog, vaginal dryness, and more. By approaching menopause thoughtfully and holistically, inside and out, Kindra is an ideal partner on the menopause journey, which many women will experience for up to 40% of their lives.

Fave

Seed Round in 2021
Fave is a social platform dedicated to superfans enabling them to create immersive video content, connect and bond with like-minded fans, compete in fun challenges, exchange both physical and virtual goods in a fan-driven marketplace, and rack up points throughout it all to prove their top fan status, gain recognition in the fandom, and earn exclusive rewards around the artists and creators they love. They also partner with the creators to finally allow them to monetize their fans' activity directly.

Base

Seed Round in 2021
The Future of Health Tracking is here. Test, Track sleep/stress/energy/bio levels, Improve and/or Change, Repeat

Plot

Pre Seed Round in 2020
We’re on a mission to reimagine the classroom. Today’s educators and students need tomorrow’s tools to teach and learn more effectively—from anywhere, in any form. Legacy 'Learning Management Systems' reflect a disappointing status quo: bloated, obsolete, slow, and uninspiring tools that frustrate and discourage, and fail to foster engagement. Unicycle is a classroom operating system created out of the belief that innovation begins with infrastructure. We’re designing a new home for learning exchange that streamlines workflow, creates exponential efficiencies, and empowers teachers and students to communicate, collaborate, and thrive.

Ceremonia

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Ceremonia is a modern haircare brand that draws inspiration from Latin heritage, aiming to celebrate and empower the next generation of Latinx individuals. Set to launch this fall, the company focuses on providing hair care products designed to nourish the scalp, combat frizz, promote hair growth, and enhance shine. Ceremonia emphasizes the use of sustainable and chemical-free ingredients, allowing users to repair and improve the health of their hair while embracing their natural beauty.

Kama

Seed Round in 2020
Kama develops a sexual wellness application. The company is based in USA.

Real

Seed Round in 2020
Real is a mental healthcare platform focused on enhancing mental wellness as a vital aspect of overall wellbeing. The company aims to revolutionize mental health care by developing a member-centered therapy model that is both affordable and effective. Through a combination of digital resources and in-person experiences, Real integrates empathy and design into its approach, providing users with access to research-based therapy tools. This model encourages individuals to reflect on their mental health and take actionable steps towards improvement.

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.

Peanut

Series A in 2020
Peanut App Limited is a social networking platform designed specifically for women, particularly mothers, who are at similar stages in life. Launched in 2016 and headquartered in London, the app facilitates connections among mothers based on shared interests and the ages of their children. Users can create group chats and organize face-to-face meetings, fostering friendships, support, and learning opportunities. The app is available for free on both iOS and Android devices, aiming to provide a safe space for women to connect and engage with one another.

Maven Clinic

Series C in 2020
Maven Clinic Co. operates an on-demand digital care clinic that assists mothers and families during conception, throughout pregnancy, and postpartum. It offers video appointments and private messaging with its women's and family health practitioner network, as well as a family benefits platform. The company also provides its services for IVF and egg-freezing tracks; pregnancy, postpartum, partner, adoption, surrogacy, and loss tracks; and career coaching and support, and customized manager training for HR. It serves individuals, employers, and healthcare professionals. Maven Clinic Co. was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Wagmo

Seed Round in 2019
Wagmo, Inc. is a Boston-based company that provides monthly wellness insurance plans specifically designed for pets. Founded in 2017, the company offers reimbursement for routine care services, including vaccinations, grooming appointments, and preventive medications. By leveraging veterinary data, Wagmo enables pet owners to anticipate and manage the costs of care in their area, optimizing the health and well-being of their pets. The service is aimed at making regular pet care more accessible and affordable through its comprehensive wellness plans.

RadSwan

Seed Round in 2019
RadSwan is a consumer goods company that specializes in providing hair fashion design for black women. The company features a is a socially conscious brand targeting the hair care and protective styling needs of black women with natural hair.

Peanut

Series A in 2019
Peanut App Limited is a social networking platform designed specifically for women, particularly mothers, who are at similar stages in life. Launched in 2016 and headquartered in London, the app facilitates connections among mothers based on shared interests and the ages of their children. Users can create group chats and organize face-to-face meetings, fostering friendships, support, and learning opportunities. The app is available for free on both iOS and Android devices, aiming to provide a safe space for women to connect and engage with one another.

Kikoff

Seed Round in 2019
Kikoff Inc. operates and provides a platform to build credit scores for free. Its platform allows customers to receive funds and build a payment history by paying back each month. The company’s services enable users to build credit scores. Kikoff Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tempest

Series A in 2019
Tempest, Inc. operates an online recovery school that offers a virtual course for people wanting to quit alcohol. It also offers email courses. It offers tools to help participants learn the importance of purpose, meaning, and creativity in living a life without alcohol. Tempest, Inc. was formerly known as Hip Sobriety, Inc. and changed its name to Tempest, Inc. in May 2019. The company founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

kenshō

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Kenshō is a health company that lives in LA, operates on the internet, and promotes a whole-person philosophy of care: mind, body, and spirit. The company, founded and led by proven entrepreneurs Krista Berlincourt and Danny Steiner, pairs scientific research with personalization technology to take the guesswork out holistic health, whether you're looking for an honest answer or a trusted provider. Berlincourt is known for nurturing and scaling some of the most loved emerging technology brands like Simple, Acorns, and Microsoft from the ground up. Steiner was a digital innovation change agent at NBC, Conde Nast, and Hulu before breaking into health and wellness with Brami, a venture-backed superfood company.

Live Tinted

Seed Round in 2019
TINTED is a digital community focused on the representation of all the shades in between. Despite incredible change and moves towards more diversity, many women and others still felt they were missed or looked over even in these progressive beauty spaces. They created TINTED & wanted to reach those people, to hear what they felt was missing, and to learn how they wanted to be represented authentically. They want to share the importance of strong personal identity in order to build out their niche presence in beauty as part of the normal standard – to be seen as fully immersed, and no longer as a token or a checkmark. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

The Wonder

Venture Round in 2019
The Wonder’s design makes clear that the space has been created for families. Members enter to a Dyson-sponsored “stroller valet,” where they can park their strollers in a closet and return to oiled wheels and a full detailing. The parents-only lounge connects to the café—serving wine and “milk flights” of regular, chocolate, and strawberry—through a hidden entrance, so parents don’t have to run past their kids yelling “Mom!” to get a drink. The bathroom boasts a deeper-than-usual sink for cleaning up diaper emergencies and a hand-dryer at kid level. The track list will play clean versions of Beyoncé songs instead of the “Itsy Bitsy Spider.”

Spruce Up

Seed Round in 2019
Spruce Up, Inc. operates as a home furniture and décor retailer. The company offers an Artificial intelligence (AI) and designer powered personalized shopping service for home and design. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Co–Star

Seed Round in 2019
Co–Star is powered by AI that merges NASA data with the insight of human astrologers.Co–Star facilitates new ways to relate to others. It’s a filter to express what can be hard to say of emotions and reactions, strengths and weaknesses, pasts and futures. It’s a tool to connect meaningfully with friends and lovers or to tread lightly with strangers and enemies.

BentoBox

Series B in 2019
BentoBox CMS Inc. develops a mobile operations platform for restaurants to automate tasks, such as updating menus and social media, promoting private events, sharing press, and selling gift cards. The company’s solution offers search engine optimization, social media and newsletter sign-up, and one-click reservations. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Landit

Series A in 2019
Landit is a technology platform that increases the success and engagement of women and diverse groups in the workplace. The market leader in personalized career pathing, Landit creates a turnkey “one size fits one” solution that enables enterprises to attract, develop, and retain high-potential diverse talent. Landit provides each member with a personalized playbook that empowers them with the tools, resources, know-how, and human connections they need to advance and navigate their career path. Key features include building a personal brand, executive coaching, creating a personal board of advisors, curated skill development and mapping to career opportunities.

Billie

Series A in 2019
Billie Inc. is a New York-based wellness company that specializes in manufacturing and retailing shaving products specifically designed for women. Founded in 2015, Billie offers a range of high-quality items, including razors, shaving cream, body wash, body lotion, and accessories like a magnetic holder and razor cartridges. The company is dedicated to providing affordable shaving solutions without the "pink tax," a term that highlights the extra charges often placed on women's grooming products. Billie's mission is to ensure that women receive the same level of attention and quality in shaving supplies that has traditionally been focused on men, promoting a more equitable approach to personal care.

Kin Euphorics

Seed Round in 2018
Kin Euphorics is a New York-based company, founded in 2017, that specializes in non-alcoholic beverages designed to enhance social experiences. The company's offerings include ready-to-drink tonics made from a combination of nootropics, adaptogens, and botanicals. These functional beverages aim to promote a sense of focused relaxation, helping consumers unwind without inducing sleepiness or compromising cognitive function. Kin Euphorics targets individuals seeking a balanced and nourishing alternative to traditional alcoholic drinks, allowing them to enjoy social interactions while supporting their mental well-being.

Tala

Series C in 2018
Tala is a digital finance company that focuses on providing financial services in emerging markets through mobile technology and data science. The company has developed a smartphone app that allows users to access personalized loans, build digital credit histories, and receive instant credit scoring. With over 2 million borrowers, Tala streamlines the loan process from application to fund disbursement and status tracking entirely within the app. Founded in 2011, Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica and operates additional offices in key cities such as Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Billie

Seed Round in 2018
Billie Inc. is a New York-based wellness company that specializes in manufacturing and retailing shaving products specifically designed for women. Founded in 2015, Billie offers a range of high-quality items, including razors, shaving cream, body wash, body lotion, and accessories like a magnetic holder and razor cartridges. The company is dedicated to providing affordable shaving solutions without the "pink tax," a term that highlights the extra charges often placed on women's grooming products. Billie's mission is to ensure that women receive the same level of attention and quality in shaving supplies that has traditionally been focused on men, promoting a more equitable approach to personal care.

Shine

Series A in 2018
Shine is an award-winning self-care app and community for people with anxiety & depression. Our approach to wellness: It isn’t pricey, preachy, or privileged. We pride ourselves on being accessible, actionable, and non-shamey—we believe personal growth starts with accepting who you are today. Our members take care of their mental and emotional health daily with the freemium Shine app. It delivers a new motivational message and meditation each day, plus features a library of 500+ meditations to help them cope with specific feelings and situations. Our premium members also get real-time advice from other Shine members in our private Shine Squad digital community—it’s peer-to-peer support that reminds them they don’t have to go it alone. In just two years since launching, our app already has over 10,000 5-star reviews (1 in 3 call Shine “life-changing”), we were named one of the best self-care apps of 2018 by Apple, and we’ve seen that increased use of Shine is correlated with decreases in both anxiety and depression by up to 35%. Our team is awesome. Our community is incredible. Our movement is massive. And this is just the beginning.

Co–Star

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Co–Star is powered by AI that merges NASA data with the insight of human astrologers.Co–Star facilitates new ways to relate to others. It’s a filter to express what can be hard to say of emotions and reactions, strengths and weaknesses, pasts and futures. It’s a tool to connect meaningfully with friends and lovers or to tread lightly with strangers and enemies.

Spruce Up

Seed Round in 2018
Spruce Up, Inc. operates as a home furniture and décor retailer. The company offers an Artificial intelligence (AI) and designer powered personalized shopping service for home and design. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Peanut

Seed Round in 2017
Peanut App Limited is a social networking platform designed specifically for women, particularly mothers, who are at similar stages in life. Launched in 2016 and headquartered in London, the app facilitates connections among mothers based on shared interests and the ages of their children. Users can create group chats and organize face-to-face meetings, fostering friendships, support, and learning opportunities. The app is available for free on both iOS and Android devices, aiming to provide a safe space for women to connect and engage with one another.

Reaction Commerce

Series A in 2017
Reaction Commerce, Inc. develops an open-source ecommerce platform tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, offering real-time merchandising, pricing, and promotions, along with live monitoring of conversions. The platform includes a wide range of features such as promotion management, bitcoin integration, revision control, backorder capabilities, and native mobile applications. It supports multiple vendors and multi-tenant marketplaces, as well as subscription and digital products. Reaction Commerce is notable for its customizable cloud solution, which is designed for scalability and simplicity, making it accessible to business owners, designers, and developers. The platform is also recognized as the largest JavaScript commerce project on GitHub, with significant developer interest. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Reaction Commerce operates as a subsidiary of The Rocket Science Group, LLC.

Reachify

Venture Round in 2017
Reachify Inc. operates a software buying platform that enables enterprise brands to invest in software solutions, such as website platforms, mobile apps, and web analytics. The company provides intelligence to empower enterprise brands to learn, understand, and engage with technology providers. Its platform enables brands to get a list of vetted technology solutions in various categories, discover what their competitors are using, learn about their suite of offerings and see who are their customers, compare to similar vendors, and get category reports of vendors and market intelligence that helps to understand how to invest. The company also enables technology vendors to update their customer listings, suggest categories as needed, and update general company information. Reachify Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Minibar Delivery

Seed Round in 2017
Minibar Delivery is a service that facilitates on-demand delivery of wine, spirits, beer, and mixers. By connecting consumers with local liquor stores, it allows users to access a wide selection of alcoholic beverages quickly and conveniently. The platform operates in over 30 cities, including major urban areas such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington D.C., Miami, and Dallas. Minibar Delivery provides a personalized shopping experience, enabling customers to enjoy premium products delivered directly to their doorstep.

Winky Lux

Seed Round in 2017
Winky Lux is a line of color cosmetics made from the highest quality ingredients known to woman-kind. All of our products are cruelty free, paraben free, phthalate free, non-toxic and heavily pigmented. We don't test on animals and we insist that our suppliers don't either. They're sustainably made and we strive to create beautiful and unusual colors to stop you in your tracks. Since we sell online, we're able to pass significant savings on to our customers. This allows us to offer a luxury product at a drug store price.

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.

Maven Clinic

Series A in 2017
Maven Clinic Co. operates an on-demand digital care clinic that assists mothers and families during conception, throughout pregnancy, and postpartum. It offers video appointments and private messaging with its women's and family health practitioner network, as well as a family benefits platform. The company also provides its services for IVF and egg-freezing tracks; pregnancy, postpartum, partner, adoption, surrogacy, and loss tracks; and career coaching and support, and customized manager training for HR. It serves individuals, employers, and healthcare professionals. Maven Clinic Co. was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

BentoBox

Series A in 2017
BentoBox CMS Inc. develops a mobile operations platform for restaurants to automate tasks, such as updating menus and social media, promoting private events, sharing press, and selling gift cards. The company’s solution offers search engine optimization, social media and newsletter sign-up, and one-click reservations. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

WayUp

Series B in 2017
WayUp connects students with jobs during and after college -- from summer internships to part-time gigs to full-time jobs after graduation. Businesses post a job to a targeted audience of students at any US college, and students can browse through jobs and apply for free. It was created in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Tala

Series B in 2017
Tala is a digital finance company that focuses on providing financial services in emerging markets through mobile technology and data science. The company has developed a smartphone app that allows users to access personalized loans, build digital credit histories, and receive instant credit scoring. With over 2 million borrowers, Tala streamlines the loan process from application to fund disbursement and status tracking entirely within the app. Founded in 2011, Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica and operates additional offices in key cities such as Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

EntryPoint

Seed Round in 2017
Entrypoint promises an unparalleled immersive web experience with unique applications for everyone from publishers to advertisers to retailers. Creators use our intuitive software to add custom, interactive experiences layered on top of their pre-recorded live-action footage, animations, and 360 livestreams. This enables imaginative storytelling, advertising, and e-commerce possibilities. Once finished, the experience lives on a simple URL, enabling it to be viewed on smartphones and desktop and shareable through social networks. While consumers engage with the content, extensive consumer engagement data is collected to help content-producers make their stories even more compelling.

Reaction Commerce

Venture Round in 2016
Reaction Commerce, Inc. develops an open-source ecommerce platform tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, offering real-time merchandising, pricing, and promotions, along with live monitoring of conversions. The platform includes a wide range of features such as promotion management, bitcoin integration, revision control, backorder capabilities, and native mobile applications. It supports multiple vendors and multi-tenant marketplaces, as well as subscription and digital products. Reaction Commerce is notable for its customizable cloud solution, which is designed for scalability and simplicity, making it accessible to business owners, designers, and developers. The platform is also recognized as the largest JavaScript commerce project on GitHub, with significant developer interest. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Reaction Commerce operates as a subsidiary of The Rocket Science Group, LLC.

Rockets of Awesome

Seed Round in 2016
Rockets of Awesome is a direct-to-consumer kids' apparel brand, designing and selling over-the-top clothes. Rockets of Awesome is reinventing the way parents shop for kids by leveraging technology, data, brand, personalization, and exceptional merchandise.

Boon + Gable

Seed Round in 2016
Boon + Gable is a personal shopping service based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. The company offers a mobile application that enables users to experience personal styling in the comfort of their own homes. By utilizing a recommendation engine named Clark, Boon + Gable curates a selection of clothing items tailored to the client's style profile, size, and budget. Users receive a monthly delivery of hand-picked garments, which they can try on at home with the assistance of a personal stylist. Clients have the option to purchase items they like immediately and return any unwanted pieces, thus transforming the traditional shopping experience.

Primary

Series A in 2016
Primary is making better clothes for kids and building a better experience for busy parents to shop for them. It aims to be the most inclusive kid's clothing brand, offering high-quality essentials at affordable prices. Rather than chasing the trend, Primary offers thoughtfully designed clothing without logos, slogans, or sequins. They take a gender-neutral approach, with a broad range of colors available for babies and kids 0-12, without prescribing what is for girls or boys. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Project September

Seed Round in 2016
Project September Inc. is a New York-based company that operates a mobile shopping app designed to connect fashion and design influencers with their audiences and favorite brands. Launched in 2016, the app allows users to seamlessly transition from social browsing to online shopping by enabling them to tap on images to make purchases instantly. This platform harnesses the power of user-generated fashion content, offering a visually immersive experience that encourages prolonged engagement. Project September transforms the traditional shopping experience into a shoppable digital magazine spread, where users can showcase their work and guide followers to purchase items directly. By integrating content from social media platforms such as Instagram and Pinterest, the app facilitates a deeper connection between consumers and the fashion industry.

Sawyer

Seed Round in 2016
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.

Maven Clinic

Seed Round in 2016
Maven Clinic Co. operates an on-demand digital care clinic that assists mothers and families during conception, throughout pregnancy, and postpartum. It offers video appointments and private messaging with its women's and family health practitioner network, as well as a family benefits platform. The company also provides its services for IVF and egg-freezing tracks; pregnancy, postpartum, partner, adoption, surrogacy, and loss tracks; and career coaching and support, and customized manager training for HR. It serves individuals, employers, and healthcare professionals. Maven Clinic Co. was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Lover.ly

Series A in 2016
Lover.y is the wedding inspiration and content site helping savvy couples plan their weddings online. From thousands of helpful wedding planning articles to their weekly free wedding planning newsletter, couples turn to Loverly as their trusted source for planning their dream wedding.

Zola

Series B in 2015
Zola is the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples' lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology. All in the service of love.

BentoBox

Seed Round in 2015
BentoBox CMS Inc. develops a mobile operations platform for restaurants to automate tasks, such as updating menus and social media, promoting private events, sharing press, and selling gift cards. The company’s solution offers search engine optimization, social media and newsletter sign-up, and one-click reservations. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Tala

Series A in 2015
Tala is a digital finance company that focuses on providing financial services in emerging markets through mobile technology and data science. The company has developed a smartphone app that allows users to access personalized loans, build digital credit histories, and receive instant credit scoring. With over 2 million borrowers, Tala streamlines the loan process from application to fund disbursement and status tracking entirely within the app. Founded in 2011, Tala is headquartered in Santa Monica and operates additional offices in key cities such as Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Culinary Agents

Series A in 2015
Culinary Agents is a website to find career-related information about the hospitality industry. Focused on its mission to help talent succeed in their careers within the hospitality industry, the platform empowers aspiring and existing talent to easily discover and apply to the best jobs. Culinary Agents also provides job marketing, recruiting and employer branding solutions to help businesses hire the best talent. Culinary Agents is committed to a hospitality-driven approach, thoughtful innovation, building meaningful relationships and maintaining integrity. Its growing community spans the U.S., including all levels of talent as well as restaurants, hotels, resorts, catering, foodservice, schools and organizations of all sizes.

Maven Clinic

Seed Round in 2015
Maven Clinic Co. operates an on-demand digital care clinic that assists mothers and families during conception, throughout pregnancy, and postpartum. It offers video appointments and private messaging with its women's and family health practitioner network, as well as a family benefits platform. The company also provides its services for IVF and egg-freezing tracks; pregnancy, postpartum, partner, adoption, surrogacy, and loss tracks; and career coaching and support, and customized manager training for HR. It serves individuals, employers, and healthcare professionals. Maven Clinic Co. was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Handwriting.io

Series A in 2015
Handwriting.io, offers a patented API that enables brands to easily incorporate the company’s proprietary digital handwriting technology into existing mobile apps and websites to deliver personalized communications to customers in a scalable, affordable way. To enhance consumer messaging solutions with a personal touch, Handwriting.io launched its new iOS app, ScribbleChat, an advanced messaging platform to distinguish “handwritten” text, emojis, and interactive animations to more accurately convey emotion in conversations. The company is headquartered in New York. Learn more at handwriting.io and getscribblechat.com.

Ringly

Series A in 2015
Ringly, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in designing and crafting smart jewelry and accessories that connect to mobile devices. Founded in 2013, Ringly integrates wearable technology into fashionable products, allowing users to receive notifications and stay connected while maintaining a stylish appearance. The company emphasizes the seamless blending of technology into daily life, promoting mindfulness and connectivity. Its smart jewelry, made with precious and semi-precious stones, is designed to keep users engaged with their environment and their devices. Since shipping its first product in 2015, Ringly has established itself as a leader in the fashionable wearable technology market, controlling all aspects of its business, including design, software, hardware, and manufacturing.

Culinary Agents

Seed Round in 2015
Culinary Agents is a website to find career-related information about the hospitality industry. Focused on its mission to help talent succeed in their careers within the hospitality industry, the platform empowers aspiring and existing talent to easily discover and apply to the best jobs. Culinary Agents also provides job marketing, recruiting and employer branding solutions to help businesses hire the best talent. Culinary Agents is committed to a hospitality-driven approach, thoughtful innovation, building meaningful relationships and maintaining integrity. Its growing community spans the U.S., including all levels of talent as well as restaurants, hotels, resorts, catering, foodservice, schools and organizations of all sizes.

Eloquii

Series A in 2014
Eloquii Design, Inc. specializes in designing and selling fashion apparel for women, particularly in plus sizes ranging from 14 to 28. Founded in 2012, the company offers a wide array of products, including dresses, tops, pants, skirts, and accessories such as shoes and jewelry. Eloquii operates primarily through its online platform, providing trendy and fast-fashion options to customers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. In addition to its e-commerce presence, the company has a physical store located in Atlanta, Georgia. With headquarters in both New York and Columbus, Ohio, Eloquii aims to deliver contemporary styles while also engaging customers with unique content through its blog and curated catalog. As of late 2018, Eloquii operates as a subsidiary of Walmart Inc.

Lover.ly

Series A in 2014
Lover.y is the wedding inspiration and content site helping savvy couples plan their weddings online. From thousands of helpful wedding planning articles to their weekly free wedding planning newsletter, couples turn to Loverly as their trusted source for planning their dream wedding.

Viyet Inc

Seed Round in 2014
Viyet Inc operates an online platform specializing in the buying and selling of pre-owned luxury designer furniture and home goods. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the company offers a diverse selection of items, including accent chairs, sofas, tables, lighting, and decorative objects, as well as fabrics and wallcoverings. Viyet provides a full-service solution for consignors, managing all aspects of the selling process from photography to delivery. Buyers benefit from access to a curated marketplace featuring vintage and antique pieces. As of February 2018, Viyet Inc functions as a subsidiary of Sotheby's, enhancing its position in the luxury home goods market.

WayUp

Seed Round in 2014
WayUp connects students with jobs during and after college -- from summer internships to part-time gigs to full-time jobs after graduation. Businesses post a job to a targeted audience of students at any US college, and students can browse through jobs and apply for free. It was created in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Women.com

Seed Round in 2014
Women.com is the ultimate destination for women's content, conversation, and community. We created women.com to give you the ability to create and express your own unique voice.

Minibar Delivery

Seed Round in 2014
Minibar Delivery is a service that facilitates on-demand delivery of wine, spirits, beer, and mixers. By connecting consumers with local liquor stores, it allows users to access a wide selection of alcoholic beverages quickly and conveniently. The platform operates in over 30 cities, including major urban areas such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington D.C., Miami, and Dallas. Minibar Delivery provides a personalized shopping experience, enabling customers to enjoy premium products delivered directly to their doorstep.

Manicube

Series A in 2014
Manicube is a company focused on enhancing the personal care experience for working women by providing convenient in-office manicure services. By partnering with corporate HR departments, Manicube brings licensed nail technicians directly to workplaces, allowing employees to enjoy quick, affordable 15-minute manicures in conference rooms or designated employee areas. The service also extends to male grooming, including barbering, across major markets such as New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston. Customers can easily book, modify, and pay for their appointments through the Manicube website, streamlining the process for busy professionals seeking personal care services at their convenience.

Dating Ring

Seed Round in 2014
We are an online dating company that offers matchmaking as a service. Members create a private profile, and then one of our matchmakers chooses a new match each week. This cuts through the inefficiencies of traditional online dating. We are Y Combinator W'14 and live in NYC, SF, Boston, and LA. We have a freemium business model. Paid plans range from $30-$60/month.