Precursor Ventures

Precursor Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. Specializing in pre-seed and seed-stage investments, the firm focuses on early-stage companies primarily in the consumer, digital health, education, fintech, marketplace, and software sectors. Precursor Ventures emphasizes investing in B2B and B2C applications, including hardware, and prefers to target opportunities within the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Toronto, while remaining open to other regions. The firm typically invests between $0.1 million and $0.25 million per company. Precursor Ventures prioritizes investing in people over products, reflecting its commitment to supporting entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of their journeys.

Marina Girgis

Senior Associate

Charles Hudson

Founder and Managing Partner

Ashtan Jordan

Principal

Ayanna Kerrison

Senior Associate

309 past transactions

AudioShake

Seed Round in 2023
Audioshake is a technology company that specializes in music stem creation, enabling musicians, audio engineers, and producers to unlock new opportunities for their music. Utilizing patented AI technology, Audioshake can deconstruct songs into their individual components, or stems, even if the original recordings were not multi-tracked. This capability allows for innovative applications such as remixes, mash-ups, and instrumentals, as well as re-mastering and noise reduction in live recordings. By transforming traditional audio into more interactive and accessible formats, Audioshake enhances the monetization potential for artists and content creators, while also facilitating diverse workflows in sound separation and lyric transcription.

Campus

Series A in 2023
Campuswire is a real-time messaging platform designed specifically for college classes, aimed at enhancing communication between students and educators. The platform facilitates class discussions, question-and-answer sessions, and announcements, ultimately optimizing the teaching and learning experience. By integrating both synchronous and asynchronous messaging features, Campuswire promotes increased student collaboration and simplifies educators' workflows. Its user-friendly interface, inspired by social media, enables professors to efficiently share important information, engage in online discussions, and privately communicate with individual students. Through its innovative approach, Campuswire is committed to addressing challenges in educational communication and fostering a more collaborative learning environment.

Pico

Series A in 2023
Pico is a company that designs and develops audience relationship management software solutions tailored for online businesses. Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, it provides pre-made templates equipped with high-converting Facebook and Google sign-in buttons. Pico's platform caters to various sectors, including newsletters, e-commerce, subscriptions, memberships, and donations. Its services are particularly beneficial for small and midsize businesses that aim to foster close-knit communities around content and identity, such as local newsrooms, trade publications, and non-profit organizations.

Buildstock

Funding Round in 2022
Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for Purchasing Orders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.

The Chief Navigators

Funding Round in 2022
Create helps companies ship new products 10x faster through a code generation system that lets them share the code for common use cases and access to a global pool of developers supercharged with this system.

Snoots

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Snoots operates as a unique members-only primary care clinic, providing unlimited healthcare services for a monthly fee. In addition to its primary care offerings, Snoots has developed a comprehensive pet care platform that focuses on the wellness and treatment of pets. This platform encompasses a range of veterinary services, including digital follow-ups, appointment summaries, health check-ins, dermatology care, an on-site pharmacy, nutritional support, and behavioral counseling. By integrating these services, Snoots enables pet owners to manage their pets' health efficiently and conveniently.

Bloom

Seed Round in 2022
Bloom is a dating community that creates a secure online environment for sex-positive, gay, and edge-of-culture individuals. Based in Oakland, California, and initially known as Together, this YCombinator-backed startup focuses on facilitating social connections through organized group dates in parks. Members specify their preferences for potential partners, and Bloom arranges meetups involving 6 to 8 participants, fostering a welcoming atmosphere. The platform emphasizes a strong culture of consent and relies on referrals, ensuring that users can safely and comfortably engage with new friends and partners.

Bloom

Seed Round in 2022
Bloom is a dating community that creates a secure online environment for sex-positive, gay, and edge-of-culture individuals. Based in Oakland, California, and initially known as Together, this YCombinator-backed startup focuses on facilitating social connections through organized group dates in parks. Members specify their preferences for potential partners, and Bloom arranges meetups involving 6 to 8 participants, fostering a welcoming atmosphere. The platform emphasizes a strong culture of consent and relies on referrals, ensuring that users can safely and comfortably engage with new friends and partners.

Akin Mental Health

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Akin Mental Health provides education, skill building, coaching, and peer support for families who are struggling to navigate mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression, and related illnesses.

Clutch

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2020 by Madison Long and Simone May, Clutch is the digital marketplace connecting creators with businesses. With our people-first platform, creators have the opportunity to monetize their unique talents and passions by helping businesses with their content creation needs. We are currently focused on connecting Gen-Z student creators with small businesses and national brands in need of digital marketing. We believe that by giving creators access to remarkable digital work opportunities with businesses, creators and businesses thrive. Our vision is to build a world where authentic, engaging work supports a more sustainable, equitable lifestyle.

Torpedo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Torpedo operates a commerce platform designed to enhance the food ordering experience while minimizing delivery costs. The platform enables users to initiate or join group orders, allowing them to share the expense and save money. Additionally, Torpedo incorporates a social aspect, letting users see what their friends are ordering in real time and either tag along or promote their own choices. The platform also features challenges that reward users with bytes, which can be redeemed for meals, further incentivizing group participation. By facilitating these interactions, Torpedo not only helps users reduce their food expenses but also provides valuable insights to businesses, aiding in revenue growth.

Charter

Seed Round in 2022
Publisher of email newsletter intended to transform every workplace and catalyze organizations where all workers thrive. The company publishes a newsletter and other content, hosts events for workplace decision-makers, and offers an online training program on hybrid work, enabling businesses to have a tactical playbook for what work can and should be.

Finix

Venture Round in 2022
Finix Payments, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides a payment infrastructure platform designed to help businesses manage and monetize their payment processes effectively. Founded in 2015, Finix offers a range of services, including a payment facilitator platform that includes features such as tokenization, merchant onboarding, reporting, reconciliation, settlements, and chargeback management. The company enables businesses to avoid the complexities and costs associated with developing an in-house payment system. Additionally, through a partnership with Visa, Finix facilitates real-time push-to-card payments, enhancing the efficiency of disbursements. Finix's solutions aim to improve the payment experience for both businesses and their customers, recognizing the critical role that effective payment technology plays in driving revenue.

Brkaway

Funding Round in 2022
Brkaway is a platform that facilitates connections between brands and content creators, focusing on the production of short-form video content tailored for social media channels such as TikTok and Instagram Reels. By providing software that streamlines the content creation process, Brkaway allows brands to efficiently acquire the video material they require while ensuring that creators are compensated for their work. This model not only enhances the collaboration between brands and creators but also simplifies ongoing branded content production, making it accessible and effective for both parties involved.

Goodr

Venture Round in 2022
Goodr Inc. is a sustainable food surplus management platform that utilizes technology to mitigate food waste and address hunger. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company offers a real-time food rescue application that assists businesses in managing their edible food waste. Through its platform, Goodr enables businesses to donate surplus food to local nonprofit organizations while providing logistics, analytics, and security to ensure compliance with tax regulations. The software offers insights into food waste patterns, real-time donation tracking, and community impact reports, which help organizations quantify their contributions. Goodr’s blockchain-enabled platform also ensures an IRS audit-friendly record of donations, fostering a transparent process. By facilitating these donations, Goodr aims to create a triple-win scenario: enhancing the financial benefits for businesses through tax deductions, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from landfills, and alleviating hunger in communities.

Aidaly

Seed Round in 2022
Operator of a recruitment platform intended to hire family caregivers. The company's platform pays family caregivers and provides coaching, community, and financial services to help strengthen social safety nets and prevent the adverse health effects of financial shocks, enabling elderly people to be assisted by someone they can trust and also providing monetary compensation to the family caregivers.

Reflex

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an online platform designed to connect top retail associates with retailers when they need staffing help. The company allows retailers to fulfill their staffing needs for callouts, no-shows, holidays, omnichannel support, and hiring challenges and allows workers to find nearby retail shifts with clothing brands they prefer, enabling retailers with staffing needs on demand in a flexible manner.

Moonlight

Funding Round in 2022
Moonlight is a social space for transformative rituals between friends and practitioners. The exploration of facets of themselves by archetypes and visual storytelling, and this therapeutic ritual, offer perspectives that can be life-changing.

YardKit

Funding Round in 2022
YardKit is a company that specializes in outdoor living space renovations, aiming to simplify and make these projects more affordable for homeowners. It offers a comprehensive 5-step kit that includes yard kit applications, remote design landscape plans, and design kits. These products are crafted by licensed landscape architects, allowing homeowners to efficiently transform their yards by following a straightforward process. YardKit's offerings cater to the needs of individuals looking to enhance their exterior spaces with professional guidance and practical solutions.

Hostfully

Seed Round in 2022
Hostfully helps vacation rentals companies earn more revenue and deliver a 5-star guest experience. The property management software platform distributes listings to Airbnb, HomeAway, Booking.com, and TripAdvisor, and also automates operations including payments (Stripe) and accounting (Quickbooks). Hostfully's market-leading digital guidebook platform gives travelers local recommendations and essential property information. These help managers of 10,000 properties in 80 countries around the world make vacation rental travel smoother and more delightful.

Paisa

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Paisa focuses on enhancing financial security for families reliant on remittances. The company has developed a credit platform that aims to improve financial health by utilizing the remittance cash economy to bolster digital financial services. It provides business-to-business lines of credit to remittance agencies, helping them address liquidity challenges. Additionally, Paisa offers microloans directly to remittance recipients, facilitating easier access to loans for individuals who depend on these funds. Through this approach, Paisa seeks to create a more robust financial infrastructure that supports both businesses and consumers in the remittance ecosystem.

Bravado

Series B in 2022
Bravado Network, Inc. is an online community platform designed specifically for sales professionals. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides a range of online tools and hosts in-person events aimed at empowering its members. Bravado focuses on helping sales professionals enhance their personal brands, connect with peers, and improve their skills in the sales field. Through its community-driven approach, Bravado seeks to amplify the voices of sales professionals and foster a supportive environment for career growth and development.

Noyo

Series B in 2022
Noyo Technologies, Inc. is a company that has developed an online platform designed for health insurance companies, brokers, and employers. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Durham, North Carolina, Noyo's platform facilitates the enrollment process for insurance products, enables document submission, and allows for premium payments. The company uses API-based data exchange to modernize the insurance experience, streamlining operations for its customers.

Canopy

Funding Round in 2022
Canopy makes it easy for employees to get to net zero carbon at home.

Koban

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Koban is a fintech company that aims to reduce complexity and revolutionize the way money works in Latam. The majority of Latin Americans that remain unbanked and the existing banking customers deserve a better choice. They offer their users digital financial services that are easy to use, innovative and accessible to move, transact, save and understand money all in a highly secure digital platform. In Koban they put customers first. They are passionate about empowering people’s financial lives through technology and design and driven by their mission to promote financial inclusion in their countries.

Brilliant Illustrations

Funding Round in 2022
Developer of bible study platform designed to reimagine texts for modern times. The company's platform integrates comics, groups, and gamification using new living translations of the scriptures, enabling users to get visualizations of the stories within the pages.

ndaOK

Funding Round in 2022
ndaOK is an automated platform designed specifically for processing nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) using artificial intelligence. The platform simplifies the execution of NDAs by automating the identification of key terms and ensuring compliance with organizational standards. It can review, edit, and approve agreements, offering a faster, more reliable, and cost-effective alternative to traditional attorney-based processing. By streamlining the NDA process, ndaOK alleviates the challenges typically associated with managing these agreements, enabling companies to efficiently handle their confidentiality needs without the usual complexities.

Unschedule

Funding Round in 2022
Unschedule is a communications tool that assists users in managing and having meaningful conversations that should take place outside of the calendar. Unschedule is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2021.

Carbon Collective

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an online investment platform designed to offer sustainable and green investment services. The company's platform offers low-fee and diversified investment portfolios built for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, enabling users to reinvest in the companies solving climate change.

Aunt Flow

Series A in 2022
Aunt Flow Corp. is a company based in Columbus, Ohio, that manufactures and supplies menstrual products, including tampons and pads made from 100% organic cotton. Founded in 2018, Aunt Flow is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to essential menstrual products. The company sells its products directly to consumers online and partners with businesses and schools to provide free access through wall-mounted dispensers. For every tampon purchased, Aunt Flow donates one to a menstruator in need within the United States, reinforcing its mission of community support. In addition to menstrual products, Aunt Flow also offers branded apparel and merchandise, such as shirts, sweatshirts, and menstrual guides, contributing to a broader conversation about menstrual health and accessibility.

Meter Feeder

Seed Round in 2022
Meter Feeder's mission to provide a low cost payment and enforcement solution for small to mid-sized governments. A fast set up process and geolocation get new users paid and on their way fast. MeterFeeder works with customers' current infrastructure. Users don't need to purchase any new meters or kiosks, growing the base of people more willing to pay via electronic payments.

Sawa Credit

Seed Round in 2022
Sawa Credit, founded in 2020 and based in Castro Valley, California, is developing a technology platform that leverages behavioral science and machine learning to support borrowers through a community-oriented system. The company focuses on providing solutions in mortgage lending and mortgage servicing, aiming to enhance the borrowing experience by integrating innovative technology with an understanding of borrower behavior.

Canua

Funding Round in 2022
Canua is a personal finance automation platform designed to assist individuals in managing their financial lives more efficiently. By integrating live data connections from various global banks, brokerages, and crypto exchanges, Canua provides users with informative dashboards and timely recommendations. The platform enables clients to automate recurring investing, saving, and tax-related tasks, which helps streamline their financial management. With powerful triggers and automations, Canua empowers users to understand their financial situations better and take actionable steps toward wealth generation and tax compliance. Overall, Canua aims to save customers time and effort while enhancing their financial well-being.

Gated

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an email management platform designed to enable the user to control when, how, and by whom they are marketed. The company's platform integrates seamlessly with the workflow, trains itself on email interactions, and sends an automatic challenge email to unknown senders, enabling clients to reduce the unwanted emails in their inboxes.

Stashpad

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Bytebase app is the evolution of the legal notepad. Bytebase is designed for busy professionals who don’t have time for sophisticated notes methodologies and is the fastest way to create and share notes as they work, without leaving the keyboard. In Bytebase, notes are separated into small, self-contained units called bytes. Users can enter data and paste in code, text, or whatever they want to save. They can share it with others and create separate notebooks for each project. More important, each note can act as a link to another note, allowing to nest information within other pieces of information. To use it, users can simply paste in code snippets and text into the “No Man’s Land” area and then move it into separate projects later. A feed lets users send notes, called bytes, to co-workers within Bytebase. They can also add large text chunks called BigBytes. They can also make outlines and to-do lists in the app.

Opaper

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Opaper specializes in automating operational processes for restaurants and cafes, facilitating everything from order management to in-restaurant dining experiences. By implementing Opaper's system, clients can enhance operational efficiency, reduce expenses, and better utilize their workforce. Additionally, Opaper offers e-commerce technology that assists businesses in managing online sales and transactions through social media platforms, eliminating the need for traditional spreadsheets. This comprehensive approach helps clients increase sales, streamline their operations, and foster customer loyalty, ultimately supporting the growth of their businesses.

Noula

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Noula Health is a digital health company that provides personalized reproductive health information and support made accessible through at-home testing. También en español.

KAV

Funding Round in 2022
KAV Sports, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, specializes in the manufacturing of custom bike helmets that prioritize fit, safety, and performance. The company employs a digital manufacturing process that integrates proprietary software, artificial intelligence, and optimized hardware to create helmets tailored to individual athletes' needs. This innovative approach aims to enhance protection and reduce the risk of brain injuries associated with sports-related trauma, thereby promoting athlete safety through advanced technology and design.

Runner

Funding Round in 2022
Operator of a recruitment platform intended to connect startups with operations people looking for part-time work. The company's platform seeks to combat some tensions in early-stage startup building by helping them to add people that the team needs fractionally, along with helping individuals to curate their career path, enabling startups to get access to desired talents they need for growing their business.

Epoch

Seed Round in 2022
EPOCH automates social impact programs for HR teams, empowering employees to be happier and more productive. We partner exclusively with top community organizations, personally curates relevant opportunities to employees, and handles logistics end-to-end to put together an event for the workplace. This reduces a 10+ hour process to 0 hours for HR teams. Our vision is to eliminate the hassle of event planning at the workplace for any activity and every employee.

Anyroad

Series B in 2022
AnyRoad Inc. operates a cloud-based platform that facilitates experience relationship management (ERM) for brands worldwide. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, AnyRoad connects tourism customers with professional tour providers, enabling users to discover, book, and participate in tours across various locations, including Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, and Israel. The platform also assists companies in optimizing offline branded experiences by integrating with customer relationship management, loyalty, and point-of-sale systems. This integration allows brands to measure the impact of experiential marketing campaigns on consumer behavior and brand loyalty. AnyRoad's clientele includes notable companies such as Budweiser, Honda, Michaels, and Tabasco, demonstrating its effectiveness in enhancing brand perception and revenue through experiential marketing.

Credrails

Seed Round in 2022
Credrails is a financial technology company that provides infrastructure for open banking in Africa. Its technology connects banks, mobile money services, and other financial data sources into a single application programming interface (API). This integration facilitates interoperability and enables efficient money movement across various channels, supporting the growth of Africa's digital economy. By offering a unified platform, Credrails equips businesses with the tools they need to develop innovative fintech solutions.

Kraftful

Seed Round in 2022
Kraftful Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing management software tailored for manufacturers of smart home devices. Founded in 2019, Kraftful focuses on creating mobile applications that facilitate user engagement and drive sales of smart home products, including smart lights, thermostats, and various appliances. The company has a proven track record of delivering award-winning applications for both iOS and Android platforms, assisting major appliance and consumer electronics brands in their digital transformation efforts.

Navier

Seed Round in 2022
Manufacturer of a hydrofoil electric boat intended to make waterways as accessible as roadways. The company's boat represents a solid rebuke of conventional wisdom that delivers silent, eco-friendly electric operation without sacrificing performance and utility, its hydrofoils make it fly over waves, enabling individuals to soar above the waves in comfort.

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.

Pixm

Seed Round in 2022
Pixm, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in New York that specializes in developing artificial intelligence technologies aimed at preventing phishing breaches. Founded in 2013, Pixm employs visual recognition to identify zero-day phishing attacks, effectively scrutinizing every webpage for brand and login impersonations without relying on traditional whitelisting methods. The company's services encompass anti-phishing, email security, computer vision, and deep learning, providing comprehensive security solutions for businesses and organizations to enhance their website, network, and computer security.

Saga

Seed Round in 2021
Saga is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in an application designed to help families preserve the life stories of their loved ones through audio recordings. The application creates a private family channel where these narratives are stored in a podcast format. Users can record these stories by conferencing in multiple family members, allowing for a collective and immersive storytelling experience. This functionality enables families to capture and save cherished memories, which can be downloaded and revisited later, fostering a sense of nostalgia and connection among family members.

Speak_

Funding Round in 2021
Speak_ is a community of software engineers that provides online programs for preparation for its clients for tech interviews at companies. The company provides courses both for hard and soft skills, coding assessments, and curated resources. Speak was established in 2021 by Andrea Guendelman in Boulder, Colorado.

Influent

Funding Round in 2021
Provider of marketing services intended to help creators to compare payments. The company offers services like brand analysis, talent sourcing, strategy and optimization of content performance, helping creators get a fair value for their work, and brands to run campaigns or content creation on social media.

Fireside

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a next-generation podcast platform intended for creators to bring the audience into the story through live, interactive, virtual shows. The company's platform is made for podcasting and conversing with listeners through said podcasts, enabling podcast hosts to distribute shows everywhere with the click of a button, understand what their audiences want more of with sophisticated analytics, and connect with those audiences in real-time.

Wicked Saints

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wicked Saints is a game studio that focuses on creating interactive media using behavioral technology to engage users in meaningful ways. Emerging from Niantic's incubator, the company has developed a prototype for World Reborn, the first adventure activism game that combines narrative storytelling with augmented reality (AR). This innovative platform allows players to embark on real-life quests, merging the digital and physical worlds. Wicked Saints aims to leverage AR as a tool that not only entertains but also fosters personal growth and positive change in the community, appealing to a generation concerned about mental health and global issues. Through its unique approach, Wicked Saints provides immersive experiences that encourage players to actively contribute to their surroundings while enjoying a captivating gaming experience.

Cobalt Marketplace

Seed Round in 2021
Cobalt Marketplace operates a platform that facilitates the connection between brands and customers by enabling creators to bring their products to market. The platform provides comprehensive support for idea development, allowing users to find and hire vetted experts for product design and manufacturing. Additionally, Cobalt Marketplace offers sourcing options for fulfillment and e-commerce solutions, assisting creators in transforming their unique ideas—ranging from custom products to specialty blends—into market-ready offerings. By leveraging global innovations, Cobalt Marketplace enhances opportunities for both brands and consumers, fostering a dynamic marketplace for new products.

3GO

Pre Seed Round in 2021
3GO’s cybersecurity-as-a-service for individuals and small businesses eliminates risks and builds resilience through next generation technology, human coaching and ML-driven action plans and threat detection.

Buffalo Market

Series A in 2021
Operator of grocery company intended to supply fresh organic premium products. The company offers a range of products including meat, seafood, eggs, dairy, and fruits from local suppliers, farmers, butchers, bakers, and fishermen which are transported to the fulfillment center where they are packed in bags, boxes, and coolers, providing consumers with quality and fresh goods at affordable rates.

Heart to Heart

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Heart to Heart is an audio-first dating app aiming to bring back some intimacy to the process of finding the right person for next foray.

Windsor

Seed Round in 2021
Windsor is a developer of a video personalization platform aimed at helping growing companies maintain a personal connection with their users. Utilizing artificial intelligence, Windsor's platform edits videos to create the impression that each video was recorded individually, enhancing the authenticity of customer interactions. This innovative approach enables clients to better understand their users and effectively close sales deals by delivering tailored video content that resonates with their audience.

AudioShake

Seed Round in 2021
Audioshake is a technology company that specializes in music stem creation, enabling musicians, audio engineers, and producers to unlock new opportunities for their music. Utilizing patented AI technology, Audioshake can deconstruct songs into their individual components, or stems, even if the original recordings were not multi-tracked. This capability allows for innovative applications such as remixes, mash-ups, and instrumentals, as well as re-mastering and noise reduction in live recordings. By transforming traditional audio into more interactive and accessible formats, Audioshake enhances the monetization potential for artists and content creators, while also facilitating diverse workflows in sound separation and lyric transcription.

Praxis Labs

Series A in 2021
Praxis Labs advances diversity and inclusion outcomes through perspective-taking VR-based unconscious bias trainings.

Shop Latinx

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Operator of an online marketplace intended to sell lifestyle products designed by and for the Latinx community. The company's marketplace offers clothing, jewelry, art and collectibles, footwear, and cosmetics, enabling people to shop for a wide variety of products online.

Relevvo

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a cold-outreach platform intended to improve go-to-market productivity for businesses. The company uses machine learning to offer personalized messaging tuned to prospective buyers' current situations and needs, enabling sellers to be more precise in their targeting and increase sales.

MashApp Music

Funding Round in 2021
People love creation and sharing apps. Instagram lets everyone feel like a pro photographer. TikTok lets everyone feel like a filmmaker. But why isn’t there an app that lets everyone feel like a music producer? MashApp's mission is to make music creation fun for non-musicians. We believe one way to do that is to let people play with their favorite music. We think people have always done this through DJ'ing, mix tapes, mashups and karaoke. We believe that new A.I. technologies will take this type of musical play to another level. We want this new creative play to be a great experience for fans and artists. You can mashup popular songs, share your creations with friends via messaging apps, listen to mashups from the MashApp community, and follow your favorite creators.

Epoch AI

Funding Round in 2021
Epoch AI is an integration platform for game development that helps game developers and studios build, deploy, and iterate on games. They provide tests for a build, share links with testers, screen record tests, organize tests, and flag and issue comments.

CodeSee

Seed Round in 2021
CodeSee is a developer of cloud-based data visualization software that facilitates a comprehensive understanding of code for developers and development teams. By analyzing the data flowing through a system, CodeSee creates an updated map of the system architecture, its components, and their interconnections. This allows developers to explore their codebase at both a high level and in detail, enhancing their ability to grasp how code and functionality relate to one another. The platform aims to transform developers from feeling like outsiders to becoming high performers, thereby expediting the development process and improving overall productivity.

Nomad Homes

Series A in 2021
Nomad Homes creates a digital platform that uses technology to help people in Europe and the Middle East to buy and rent homes. It was incorporated in 2019 by its co-founders Helen Chen, Daniel Piehler, and Damien Drap.

Dispatch Goods

Seed Round in 2021
Dispatch Goods Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in manufacturing reusable steel containers and boxes designed for the food delivery ecosystem. Founded in 2018, the company aims to eliminate single-use, disposable foodware by providing sustainable packaging solutions for restaurants, food trucks, and meal delivery services. Through its innovative reverse logistics platform, Dispatch Goods enables customers to choose sustainable delivery options via food delivery apps, facilitating the transition to a reuse model. The containers can be used for both hot and cold food, allowing businesses to reduce costs and minimize their environmental impact by utilizing collected and sanitized packaging.

Halfdays

Seed Round in 2021
Fashion meets function outdoor apparel for women

Ease

Seed Round in 2021
DocSpace is modernizing the traditional medical practice formation process with a platform that automates and provides a turn-key solution for doctors to form and manage a medical practice. DocSpace is an end-end solution delivering online practice management with on-demand access to medical co-working office space eliminating the requirement for long-term leases and contracts. DocSpace provides the ultimate service of freedom, flexibility, and autonomy without any of the traditional practice overhead.

LingoHealth

Pre Seed Round in 2021
LingoHealth is a digital health platform designed to assist family members in supporting the health of their aging loved ones, particularly focusing on multilingual families. Recognizing that multilingual caregivers are significantly more involved in caregiving than their English-fluent counterparts, LingoHealth offers tools that enhance visibility into the necessary steps for appropriate care. The platform enables families to navigate healthcare options effectively and ensures that immigrant patients receive support in their preferred language and cultural context. By doing so, LingoHealth aims to improve engagement in care and promote better health management for seniors.

Elroy Air

Series A in 2021
Elroy Air, Inc. is an aerospace and logistics company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2016. The company develops autonomous aircraft systems capable of delivering goods, focusing on logistics, robotics, and air transportation. Its innovative aerial cargo delivery system features rotor-based vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities, transitioning to wing-based cruise flight for long-range operations. Elroy Air's delivery drones are designed to transport heavy cargo over long distances, making them suitable for commercial, humanitarian, and military applications. The aircraft can efficiently serve remote areas with challenging infrastructure, providing rapid humanitarian aid and resupply for military operations while minimizing costs and environmental impacts compared to traditional aircraft. This technology enables businesses to enhance their express delivery options, particularly in the middle mile of the logistics chain.

Tribe

Funding Round in 2021
Tribe is an e-fitness platform founded in 2020 by Justin Marston and based in Austin, Texas. The application caters to boutique studios and local gyms, enabling them to offer a digital workout experience. Tribe provides online and live workout classes, along with functional training, allowing users to engage with local fitness communities. The platform aims to replicate the in-person boutique experience by facilitating connections and interactions among members, ensuring that users can enjoy a sense of community similar to that found in physical fitness locations.

Tribe XR

Venture Round in 2021
Tribe XR Inc. is a software company based in San Mateo, California, focused on providing a platform for learning real-world skills through virtual and augmented reality. Founded in 2017, Tribe XR specializes in music production and DJing, enabling users to upload their music, perform live, and take lessons to enhance their DJ skills. The platform features a virtual mentor that introduces the basics of DJing and offers realistic practice on virtual decks. The learning experience is enriched by masterclasses from renowned DJs and partnerships with industry experts and electronic music schools. Tribe XR is also developing a self-serve immersive learning platform that allows organizations and individuals to create, broadcast, and monetize VR and AR lessons, extending its educational offerings beyond music. This approach leverages the effectiveness of experiential learning, which has been shown to solidify knowledge more effectively than traditional educational methods.

Intellimize

Series B in 2021
Intellimize, Inc. specializes in personalizing websites to enhance conversion rates and drive revenue growth through machine learning. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company automates website optimization, enabling marketers to deliver tailored experiences for each visitor across different devices. Intellimize's platform stands out by using artificial intelligence to continuously learn and adapt, allowing for real-time personalization that surpasses traditional A/B testing and rules-based approaches. By focusing on individual visitor experiences, Intellimize helps businesses achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness in their marketing efforts, ultimately leading to increased customer acquisition and revenue generation.

Daylight

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a digital banking platform designed to serve LGBTQ+ people. The company's platform offers prepaid cards, tools, advice, and cashback for spending at queer bars and allied businesses, enabling users to expand their financial skills and plan for their future while helping the LGBTQ+ community.

The Beans

Seed Round in 2021
The Beans is a financial planning platform that aims to simplify the journey to financial success. Founded on September 15, 2016, by Matthieu Tourne and Melissa Gail Pancoast, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The platform utilizes visual tools involving dried beans and corn to provide an engaging and accessible approach to wealth management. By offering proactive and positive support, The Beans helps users alleviate financial stress, allowing them to concentrate on their passions and interests.

Blue Truck

Funding Round in 2021
Blue Truck is a logistics provider that specializes in white glove delivery services for home furnishings entrepreneurs. By offering tech-enabled logistics solutions, the company enhances the last-mile delivery experience, allowing retailers and businesses to seamlessly integrate the transportation of bulky items into their operations. Its services range from threshold delivery to white-glove assembly, ensuring that customers receive direct support throughout the process. This focus on improving logistics empowers businesses to prioritize sales and merchandising while making logistics a competitive advantage.

Pastel

Funding Round in 2021
Pastel provides an AI-assisted inbox that consolidates customer communication for local businesses, enhancing service quality and operational efficiency. By integrating emails, texts, and calls into a single platform, Pastel allows small and medium-sized businesses, as well as startups, to streamline customer support and sales processes. The AI technology also facilitates auto-drafting of responses, saving valuable time for teams while improving overall communication effectiveness.

Kudos

Seed Round in 2021
Kudos is a Boston-based company that specializes in the manufacture of natural disposable diapers for babies. Founded in 2019 by Amrita Saigal, Kudos produces diapers made from biobased, renewable materials, including cotton liners, which are designed to be chemical-free and non-toxic. The company's products cater to parents seeking eco-friendly and safe options for their children, particularly for those with sensitive skin. With a focus on clean and environmentally responsible baby care, Kudos aims to provide effective absorption and overnight protection in its diaper offerings.

Funomena

Funding Round in 2021
Funomena is an independent game studio based in downtown San Francisco, California, founded in January 2013 by Robin Hunicke and Martin Middleton. The studio focuses on creating experimental and engaging video games that provide playful and emotional experiences across various platforms, including mobile and PC. Funomena aims to demonstrate the positive impact of games on society through its projects, which include a mostly-unannounced commercial game and a collaborative initiative with UC Davis and the National Science Foundation. The company continues to explore innovative concepts and is set to reveal a new game at IndieCade, reflecting its commitment to engaging gameplay and creative development.

Fifty Five Financial

Funding Round in 2021
Fifty Five Financial is a creator of a website marketplace platform with an automobile buying service similar to priceline. Users can quickly analyze, buy, and sell old automobiles using a site. They assist users in trading their cars.

Dopple

Funding Round in 2021
Dopple, Inc. is an online platform that specializes in selling children’s clothing, shoes, and accessories. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, Dopple offers a unique shopping experience for parents. By completing a brief questionnaire, parents receive personalized product selections, referred to as "drops," which they can choose to purchase while returning any unwanted items using a prepaid mailer. The platform focuses on providing stylish and durable outfits from various brands at affordable prices, thereby saving parents time and money while also enabling brands to effectively reach a wider audience of millennial parents.

Quadrant Eye

Seed Round in 2021
Quadrant Eye is focused on transforming eye care through innovative remote examination services. The company has developed a platform that enables patients to access instant and reliable eye exams from the comfort of their homes. This platform facilitates the screening, diagnosis, and management of various eye conditions, including cataracts, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy. By offering remote solutions, Quadrant Eye aims to improve treatment accessibility for patients dealing with low-acuity and chronic eye issues, such as nearsightedness and diabetic eye disease.

Elis

Funding Round in 2021
Stealth audio startup.

Pair Eyewear

Series A in 2021
Pair Eyewear makes wearing prescription and nonprescription glasses and sunglasses exciting, empowering and playful for children. Pair believes glasses for children can be more than a static medical device. Glasses can be a canvas on which children express their evolving interests and growing personalities. Through an e-commerce platform, Pair is redesigning the glasses experience, making it engaging for children and painless for parents. Pair Eyewear is redefining the eyewear experience for children by bringing continual customizability, freedom of choice, and affordability to kids' glasses.

Guava

Pre Seed Round in 2021
[Guava](http://guavabank.com) is a digital bank designed for and by Black small business owners. We are tackling the racial wealth gap head-on by facilitating the development, growth and resilience of our small businesses, the backbone of our communities.

Manara

Seed Round in 2021
Manara is dedicated to bridging the gap between talented software engineers and their ideal employment opportunities, with a focus on the Arab tech sector. The company identifies and thoroughly vets undiscovered talent, providing a platform for computer science students and software engineers in Arabic-speaking regions, particularly Palestine. Manara runs training programs aimed at enhancing skills and fostering diversity, especially among women, who represent a significant portion of computer science graduates in Palestine. By connecting qualified individuals with global tech companies, Manara facilitates both onsite and remote job placements, ultimately contributing to the growth of the tech industry in the region while empowering individuals to advance their careers.

Anyroad

Series A in 2021
AnyRoad Inc. operates a cloud-based platform that facilitates experience relationship management (ERM) for brands worldwide. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, AnyRoad connects tourism customers with professional tour providers, enabling users to discover, book, and participate in tours across various locations, including Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, and Israel. The platform also assists companies in optimizing offline branded experiences by integrating with customer relationship management, loyalty, and point-of-sale systems. This integration allows brands to measure the impact of experiential marketing campaigns on consumer behavior and brand loyalty. AnyRoad's clientele includes notable companies such as Budweiser, Honda, Michaels, and Tabasco, demonstrating its effectiveness in enhancing brand perception and revenue through experiential marketing.

Afriex

Seed Round in 2021
Afriex Inc. is a company based in Oakland, California, founded in 2019, that specializes in developing a mobile payment application aimed at facilitating overseas money transfers. The platform allows users to send and receive money globally, utilizing stablecoins to provide a fast and cost-effective remittance service to over 30 countries. The application offers features for sending, receiving, and making payments at current exchange rates, along with various withdrawal options to enhance user convenience. Afriex aims to streamline cross-border transactions, making it easier for individuals to manage their finances internationally.

Populus

Seed Round in 2021
Trusted by more than 70 cities around the world, Populus is a comprehensive digital solution that empowers cities to manage their streets, and develop data-driven policies with access to data from mobility operators (shared bikes, scooters, and cars).

Epoch

Pre Seed Round in 2021
EPOCH automates social impact programs for HR teams, empowering employees to be happier and more productive. We partner exclusively with top community organizations, personally curates relevant opportunities to employees, and handles logistics end-to-end to put together an event for the workplace. This reduces a 10+ hour process to 0 hours for HR teams. Our vision is to eliminate the hassle of event planning at the workplace for any activity and every employee.

Praxis

Seed Round in 2021
Praxis, founded in 2010 and based in New York, is a non-profit venture group dedicated to supporting faith-motivated entrepreneurs who aim to create cultural and social impact. It provides resources and guidance through its Accelerator programs, which admit 12 businesses and 12 nonprofits annually, focusing on equipping decision-makers with essential knowledge, networks, and personal discipleship to build sustainable organizations. In addition to its Accelerator programs, Praxis also runs a venture studio program to foster innovative ideas. The organization collaborates with Q, a community that encourages Christians to contribute to the common good, and plans to launch Praxis Academy, a summer program aimed at training undergraduates at the intersection of faith, startups, and culture. Graduates of the Academy will have the opportunity to participate in the Future Founders program, offering summer apprenticeships with alumni from the Accelerator.

Praxis Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Praxis Labs advances diversity and inclusion outcomes through perspective-taking VR-based unconscious bias trainings.

Zeta

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zeta is a financial money management platform aimed at helping couples manage their finances collaboratively. The platform offers a range of features designed to facilitate financial planning and management, including tracking bank accounts, setting shared and personal budgets, managing split transactions, and sending bill reminders. Additionally, Zeta provides money coaching to support couples in achieving their financial goals. By combining technology with practical financial advice, Zeta seeks to empower American couples to better understand their finances, from budgeting for significant life events to managing everyday expenses, ultimately fostering healthier financial habits and stronger relationships.
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