Differential Ventures

Differential Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that specializes in early-stage investments, including pre-seed and seed funding. The firm focuses on companies that leverage data and machine intelligence, particularly in sectors such as B2B technology, fintech, data analytics, cybersecurity, and mobility. Differential Ventures typically invests between $250,000 and $1 million and aims to support startups with unique advantages in data science and machine intelligence that can transform business operations. While the firm invests globally, it places a particular emphasis on opportunities along the East Coast.

Nick Adams

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Ned Berman

Principal

Melissa Demma

Associate

Tom Driscoll

Principal

Jeremy Kirsch

Operating Partner

Mitchell Kleinhandler

Managing Partner

Tino Kuretu

Analyst

David Magerman Ph.D

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

32 past transactions

Golioth

Seed Round in 2023
Developer of a cloud platform designed to bring IoT protocols into the cloud-native ecosystem. The company's platform offers broad hardware vendor support, connectivity options, secure e2e communication by default, and fleet management, enabling hardware companies to experience quick, easy, secure cloud integration at compile time.

Cyolo

Series B in 2022
Cyolo Security Ltd, founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in developing security solutions that focus on identity-based connectivity and access control. The company offers a Zero Trust Access Solution that enables secure connections for both onsite and remote users to authorized assets within organizational networks, as well as cloud and IoT environments. This platform addresses the need for secure access to applications, servers, and files, regardless of the user's location, including offline networks. Cyolo aims to enhance security while facilitating seamless connectivity across various environments.

Konnecto

Series A in 2022
Konnecto is a software as a service (SaaS) company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based consumer journey analytics. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the platform helps brands engage with customers across various social media channels by providing valuable insights into consumer preferences, attitudes, and behaviors. Konnecto's technology enables brands to gain visibility into the early stages of the consumer journey, allowing them to identify and disrupt competitors' market share. By analyzing data from multiple platforms while ensuring user privacy, Konnecto builds detailed customer profiles that assist brands in crafting targeted marketing strategies and making informed decisions. The company's unique approach to consumer intelligence empowers brands to enhance customer engagement and optimize their marketing efforts.

Retrocausal

Venture Round in 2022
Retrocausal builds intelligence augmentation systems that help frontline workers train better, be more efficient at their daily jobs, and improve the processes they drive. Their RetroActivity platform for human activity analysis automatically builds computational models of a complex physical task, given only a handful of recorded demonstrations of the task. Once such a model is built, RetroActivity can finely track the job status from live video, to guide a worker through the task, provide independent training, and perform analytics.

DeepSurface

Seed Round in 2022
DeepSurface Security is a cybersecurity company based in Portland, Oregon, specializing in automated Predictive Vulnerability Management. The firm provides a suite of tools designed to assist cybersecurity teams in identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing vulnerabilities based on their potential risk to enterprise networks. By utilizing advanced rules for comprehensive context gathering, DeepSurface predicts where attackers could inflict the most damage, thereby streamlining the vulnerability management process. Trusted by enterprise organizations, DeepSurface aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of cybersecurity efforts, enabling teams to focus on critical threats. The company is privately held and has received funding from Cascade Seed Fund, SeaChange Fund, and Voyager Capital.

Parlay App Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Parlay App Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a customer collaboration platform aimed at enhancing the interaction between product development teams and their customers. Founded in 2017 and located in Wilmington, Massachusetts, the platform enables users to share ideas, review potential product updates, analyze user sentiment, and assess the effects of future developments. By fostering direct engagement with users, Parlay App Inc. seeks to address common shortcomings in product development processes, moving away from reliance on analytics and support chat systems to promote more meaningful dialogue between creators and consumers. This approach aims to ensure that products are better aligned with user needs and preferences.

Cyolo

Series A in 2021
Cyolo Security Ltd, founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in developing security solutions that focus on identity-based connectivity and access control. The company offers a Zero Trust Access Solution that enables secure connections for both onsite and remote users to authorized assets within organizational networks, as well as cloud and IoT environments. This platform addresses the need for secure access to applications, servers, and files, regardless of the user's location, including offline networks. Cyolo aims to enhance security while facilitating seamless connectivity across various environments.

Agnostiq

Seed Round in 2021
Agnostiq Inc. is a Toronto-based enterprise technology startup that specializes in security software for quantum cloud computing. Founded in 2018, the company offers solutions designed to ensure the privacy of data and algorithms while enabling users to experiment with quantum processors over the cloud. Agnostiq's software is compatible with current quantum hardware, allowing users to adjust security levels based on their specific needs. By integrating with existing software development kits, Agnostiq provides cross-platform solutions that cater to various cloud service providers. This innovative approach allows privacy-sensitive users to leverage the advantages of quantum computing without compromising their proprietary information.

Konnecto

Venture Round in 2021
Konnecto is a software as a service (SaaS) company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based consumer journey analytics. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the platform helps brands engage with customers across various social media channels by providing valuable insights into consumer preferences, attitudes, and behaviors. Konnecto's technology enables brands to gain visibility into the early stages of the consumer journey, allowing them to identify and disrupt competitors' market share. By analyzing data from multiple platforms while ensuring user privacy, Konnecto builds detailed customer profiles that assist brands in crafting targeted marketing strategies and making informed decisions. The company's unique approach to consumer intelligence empowers brands to enhance customer engagement and optimize their marketing efforts.

Deeplite

Seed Round in 2021
Deeplite is a Montreal-based company specializing in AI-driven optimization software for deep learning applications. Its flagship product, Neutrino, utilizes a proprietary design space exploration approach to automatically optimize deep neural networks (DNNs), making them smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient. This technology addresses common challenges faced by deep learning models, such as their large size, slow processing speeds, and high energy consumption, which can hinder deployment on compact hardware. Deeplite's solutions cater to various sectors, including automotive, smartphones, smart cameras, and IoT devices, enabling the efficient integration of AI technologies in everyday applications. By focusing on scalability and performance, Deeplite aims to make advanced AI accessible and practical for a wide range of users.

Databand

Series A in 2020
Databand is a software company that specializes in providing a development framework and work management platform tailored for machine learning (ML) projects. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in the United States, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, Databand's platform addresses the unique challenges of ML development by offering a system that streamlines the integration, production, and testing of ML pipelines. It enhances visibility for data scientists and engineers, enabling them to build solutions quickly, iterate effectively, and productize improvements. The platform serves as a central monitoring hub, allowing teams to collaborate and manage pipeline run information, metadata, and project metrics in a cohesive manner. This specialized approach helps organizations, ranging from startups to large enterprises, overcome traditional limitations in ML development, ensuring robust data health standards while scaling their infrastructure.

Konnecto

Seed Round in 2020
Konnecto is a software as a service (SaaS) company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based consumer journey analytics. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the platform helps brands engage with customers across various social media channels by providing valuable insights into consumer preferences, attitudes, and behaviors. Konnecto's technology enables brands to gain visibility into the early stages of the consumer journey, allowing them to identify and disrupt competitors' market share. By analyzing data from multiple platforms while ensuring user privacy, Konnecto builds detailed customer profiles that assist brands in crafting targeted marketing strategies and making informed decisions. The company's unique approach to consumer intelligence empowers brands to enhance customer engagement and optimize their marketing efforts.

Cognota

Seed Round in 2020
Cognota, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, offers a cloud-based learning software known as Synapse, designed to enhance the efficiency of corporate learning and development teams. The platform facilitates collaboration between learning designers and stakeholders throughout the learning experience design process, enabling users to create prototypes and use blueprints for effective course development. Synapse streamlines various training processes, including project planning and content design, allowing organizations to gain better visibility into their training needs and consolidate multiple tools into a single platform. This integrated approach ensures that collaboration with subject matter experts is seamless, allowing for efficient knowledge capture and updates. With additional offices in San Diego, California, and Merida, Mexico, Cognota serves clients across various sectors, aiming to empower individuals to learn and grow effectively.

Private AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Private AI Inc., established in 2017 and located in Toronto, Canada, specializes in the development of privacy-preserving machine learning and natural language processing tools. The company aims to create solutions that enhance secure and seamless data analysis, thereby supporting innovative software development while safeguarding user privacy. Through its advanced technologies, Private AI seeks to address the growing demand for data security in various applications, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected during analysis and processing.

Carver Edison

Seed Round in 2020
Carver Edison, Inc. is a financial technology company based in New York that focuses on enhancing employee stock ownership through employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs). Established in 2016, the company offers an ESPP loan program that provides interest-free loans for employees to participate in stock purchase plans. Additionally, Carver Edison delivers customized ESPP education and technology solutions, such as Cashless Participation and Stock Access, which help public companies design, schedule, and implement equity compensation education campaigns. By leveraging these tools, Carver Edison aims to increase stock plan participation rates and facilitate access to stock ownership for employees, ultimately assisting them in building wealth through their company’s stock.

Mona

Seed Round in 2020
Mona Labs Inc. is a company that specializes in developing monitoring solutions for artificial intelligence and data-driven systems. Founded in 2018 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, it offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform called Mona. This platform provides data science teams with the tools to achieve transparency regarding the performance of their data and models in real-world production environments. Mona allows users to define key performance indicators for both data and models, enabling them to track and analyze these metrics over time. The platform addresses critical issues such as data integrity, model bias, and concept drift, helping teams automatically identify and resolve performance problems. Through these capabilities, Mona enhances the operational effectiveness of AI systems by ensuring that they function as intended in dynamic environments.

DrugBank

Grant in 2020
DrugBank is a comprehensive online database that contains information on drugs and drug targets. They organize, collect, and curate all the important information about drugs into a single unified resource. It also combines detailed drug such as pharmacological, pharmaceutical, and chemical data with the comprehensive drug target sequence, structure, and pathway information. DrugBank is widely used by the drug industry, medicinal chemists, pharmacists, physicians, students, and the general public. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Edmonton, AB, USA.

Knockri

Seed Round in 2020
Knockri Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in an artificial intelligence-driven video assessment tool designed to evaluate soft skills in job candidates. Founded in 2016, Knockri's platform helps employers reduce unconscious bias during the hiring process by analyzing both verbal and non-verbal communication through facial recognition technology. The tool quantifies essential soft skills such as confidence and empathy, enabling companies to effectively shortlist the most suitable candidates for interviews. By integrating seamlessly with existing Applicant Tracking Systems, Knockri's solution streamlines the early screening process, ultimately aiming to minimize unsuccessful interviews and promote a fairer hiring environment. The algorithm used by Knockri is intentionally blind to factors such as skin color, race, ethnicity, gender, appearance, and sexual preference, ensuring a focus on candidates' competencies rather than personal characteristics.

Cyolo

Seed Round in 2020
Cyolo Security Ltd, founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in developing security solutions that focus on identity-based connectivity and access control. The company offers a Zero Trust Access Solution that enables secure connections for both onsite and remote users to authorized assets within organizational networks, as well as cloud and IoT environments. This platform addresses the need for secure access to applications, servers, and files, regardless of the user's location, including offline networks. Cyolo aims to enhance security while facilitating seamless connectivity across various environments.

Concertio

Seed Round in 2020
Concertio Inc. specializes in artificial intelligence-driven system performance optimization software, enabling enterprises to enhance computing efficiency while minimizing infrastructure costs. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company offers the Concertio Optimizer, which continuously monitors the interactions between applications and systems, automating parameter tuning throughout development and deployment. Its tools, including Optimizer Studio and Optimizer Runtime, cater to performance engineers and IT professionals by providing an optimization toolkit and a dynamic optimization framework that improve the performance of systems and components in real-time. Concertio's solutions are utilized by prominent industry players such as Intel and Marvell, transforming general-purpose systems into specialized, high-performance configurations tailored to specific workloads.

Mona

Seed Round in 2020
Mona Labs Inc. is a company that specializes in developing monitoring solutions for artificial intelligence and data-driven systems. Founded in 2018 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, it offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform called Mona. This platform provides data science teams with the tools to achieve transparency regarding the performance of their data and models in real-world production environments. Mona allows users to define key performance indicators for both data and models, enabling them to track and analyze these metrics over time. The platform addresses critical issues such as data integrity, model bias, and concept drift, helping teams automatically identify and resolve performance problems. Through these capabilities, Mona enhances the operational effectiveness of AI systems by ensuring that they function as intended in dynamic environments.

Personal AI

Seed Round in 2020
Creation is limited to the memories that you remember. Consumption is limited to the memories you remember to act on. Our goal is to unlock the value captured in the forgotten memories for everyone. We unlock this by creating a Personal AI that is trained entirely on top of your own individual memory so it is authentic to you, your Personal AI is the new medium to create and consume.

Agnostiq

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Agnostiq Inc. is a Toronto-based enterprise technology startup that specializes in security software for quantum cloud computing. Founded in 2018, the company offers solutions designed to ensure the privacy of data and algorithms while enabling users to experiment with quantum processors over the cloud. Agnostiq's software is compatible with current quantum hardware, allowing users to adjust security levels based on their specific needs. By integrating with existing software development kits, Agnostiq provides cross-platform solutions that cater to various cloud service providers. This innovative approach allows privacy-sensitive users to leverage the advantages of quantum computing without compromising their proprietary information.

Pienso

Seed Round in 2019
Pienso is a machine learning platform for non-programmers. Pienso’s end to end Intelligent Development Environment allows non-programming experts to create and train their own machine learning models without the need for external support. Founded in 2016 by Birago Jones, CEO and Karthik Dinakar PH.D, CTO. Pienso is headquartered in the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s New Lab in Brooklyn, New York. For more information visit: http://pienso.com/ and follow @Pienso_ML.

Databento

Seed Round in 2019
Databento is a Boston-based platform founded in 2019 that specializes in providing institutional-quality market and alternative data. The company focuses on delivering both live and historical data through its colocation platform, which simplifies and accelerates access to this information. By automating data licensing processes, Databento significantly reduces onboarding time, allowing clients to efficiently capture and utilize high-fidelity financial data directly from the source. This capability enables businesses and financial institutions to access real-time exchange feeds and vast amounts of historical data while minimizing storage costs and avoiding latency issues.

Concertio

Seed Round in 2019
Concertio Inc. specializes in artificial intelligence-driven system performance optimization software, enabling enterprises to enhance computing efficiency while minimizing infrastructure costs. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company offers the Concertio Optimizer, which continuously monitors the interactions between applications and systems, automating parameter tuning throughout development and deployment. Its tools, including Optimizer Studio and Optimizer Runtime, cater to performance engineers and IT professionals by providing an optimization toolkit and a dynamic optimization framework that improve the performance of systems and components in real-time. Concertio's solutions are utilized by prominent industry players such as Intel and Marvell, transforming general-purpose systems into specialized, high-performance configurations tailored to specific workloads.

Cognota

Seed Round in 2019
Cognota, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, offers a cloud-based learning software known as Synapse, designed to enhance the efficiency of corporate learning and development teams. The platform facilitates collaboration between learning designers and stakeholders throughout the learning experience design process, enabling users to create prototypes and use blueprints for effective course development. Synapse streamlines various training processes, including project planning and content design, allowing organizations to gain better visibility into their training needs and consolidate multiple tools into a single platform. This integrated approach ensures that collaboration with subject matter experts is seamless, allowing for efficient knowledge capture and updates. With additional offices in San Diego, California, and Merida, Mexico, Cognota serves clients across various sectors, aiming to empower individuals to learn and grow effectively.

Databand

Seed Round in 2019
Databand is a software company that specializes in providing a development framework and work management platform tailored for machine learning (ML) projects. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in the United States, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, Databand's platform addresses the unique challenges of ML development by offering a system that streamlines the integration, production, and testing of ML pipelines. It enhances visibility for data scientists and engineers, enabling them to build solutions quickly, iterate effectively, and productize improvements. The platform serves as a central monitoring hub, allowing teams to collaborate and manage pipeline run information, metadata, and project metrics in a cohesive manner. This specialized approach helps organizations, ranging from startups to large enterprises, overcome traditional limitations in ML development, ensuring robust data health standards while scaling their infrastructure.

Nix Software

Seed Round in 2018
NiX Software is a compliance as a service company that specializes in helping businesses navigate the complexities of data compliance in an evolving regulatory landscape. The company offers a security software platform aimed at enhancing personal data privacy. This platform simplifies the management of personal data by integrating customer preferences and consent with the data itself, thereby centralizing the enforcement of policies related to storage, processing, access, sharing, and consolidation. By doing so, NiX Software enables businesses to manage compliance with increasingly stringent privacy regulations while promoting the ethical use of personal data.

DocAuthority

Series A in 2018
DocAuthority is developing a revolutionary document control solution. DocAuthority solves this by automatically discovering and accurately identifying unprotected sensitive documents, thus enabling a broad yet business-friendly security policy. The company introduces a unique approach that enables IT professionals as well as business users to define business aligned security policies to control documents'​ usage throughout the organization.

Ocrolus

Series A in 2018
Ocrolus Inc. is a New York-based fintech company founded in 2014 that specializes in automating manual data processes through its intelligent automation platform. The company's solution captures data from various sources, including e-statements, scanned documents, and cellphone images, achieving over 99% accuracy. By integrating artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing, Ocrolus enables businesses to streamline financial reviews, allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks by reducing the need for manual intervention. Its services are applicable in areas such as loan underwriting, account openings, robotic process automation, auditing, healthcare, and due diligence. The company primarily serves clients within the financial sector, helping them enhance efficiency and mitigate fraud through algorithmic checks and expert reviews.

DocAuthority

Convertible Note in 2017
DocAuthority is developing a revolutionary document control solution. DocAuthority solves this by automatically discovering and accurately identifying unprotected sensitive documents, thus enabling a broad yet business-friendly security policy. The company introduces a unique approach that enables IT professionals as well as business users to define business aligned security policies to control documents'​ usage throughout the organization.
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