Newark Venture Partners

Newark Venture Partner Labs is an accelerator specializing in startup, seed and series A, and incubation investments. The firm does not invest in idea and b-plan-only stage start-ups. The firm seeks to invest in technology sector which includes marketplaces, business to business (B2B), business to consumer (B2C), and internet of things (IoT). It does not invest in clean tech, pharma drug, med device, and store front. The firm provides initial grant of $0.08 million with a follow-on investment up to $1 million. The firm tends to take 6% equity stake in the company. It seeks to invest $10 million per year into companies. Newark Venture Partner Labs was founded in 2015 and is based in Newark, New Jersey.

Daniel Borok

Managing Partner

Kiswana Browne

Senior Associate

Vaughn Crowe

Managing Partner

Joanne Lin

Principal

Chika Ogele

Associate

Kevin Petry

Director of Sales Growth

Sean Simons

Associate

Allison Williams

Principal

Tom Wisniewski

Managing Partner

173 past transactions

Clearstep

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Clearstep Inc. develops and operates an integrated platform for symptom checking, care routing, and population-level intelligence. It offers Clearstep, a platform that is used for disease management; and enables doctors to visualize their patient populations via business intelligence. Clearstep Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

ClockWork Logistics Systems, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
ClockWork Logistics Systems, Inc. develops and provides sensor-based product monitoring platform and deployable Internet of things (IoT) for road transportation industry. Its could-based platform and mobile application enable its users to collect real-time, actionable data and communicate with other devices through a Bluetooth connection. The company's product offers off the shelf sensors to monitor temperature and light from inside the truck trailer and customizable mobile applications to provide user interface. ClockWork Logistics Systems, Inc. was formerly known as SensorTransport, Inc. and changed its name to ClockWork Logistics Systems, Inc. in September 2020. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Elk Grove, California with an additional office in Newark, New Jersey.

ClassTag

Seed Round in 2018
The free ClassTag service transforms the way teachers connect with parents, allowing them to save time and focus on classroom education and activities rather than preparing and distributing parent notes and communications. With ClassTag, teachers can reach parents in over 50 languages through any channel including online, via email or text message, and even paper printouts. The cloud-based ClassTag platform inspires and rewards parent engagement with ClassTag Rewards, full of classroom supplies and learning products for the classrooms.

Time Study

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Time Study offers a time intelligence platform that uses machine intelligence to activate and transform enterprise time data into real-time insights on how time is spent and its impact on workforce effectiveness, operational efficiency and compliance. The team is led by 3x entrepreneur and computer scientist Kishau Rogers; she is joined by an experienced team bringing many years of collective experience growing & building enterprise software solutions. Time Study is currently in use in over 30 leading U.S. health organizations.

Augmented Review

Seed Round in 2019
Augmented Review helps to review and validate 3D designs in real-time augmented reality. Augmented Review is a design collaboration platform using augmented reality to streamline the complex and time-consuming process to design and launch a new physical product. Augmented Review saves cost and effort of imaging, prototyping and mockups. Also, it offers accurate design feedback easily.

Navinata Health

Convertible Note in 2015
Navinata Health, Inc operates Pharma-MD, a knowledge exchange platform designed to optimize 2-way knowledge exchange between pharma and physicians with a primary focus on cancer, heart disease, and neurological disorders. Its platform enables to share insight and educational needs via short insight studies; learn about innovative therapies; and connect w/experts. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Orai

Seed Round in 2019
Enterprises use Orai to run communication and soft skill training in a cost effective and scalable manner. Orai is an AI speech coach that helps people become more effective and confident communicators. We have over 300k users on our iOS and Android app, and to date Orai has given AI-driven feedback on over 2M recordings.

Meet Cute

Series A in 2020
Meet Cute is a podcast company that focuses on romantic comedies. Meet Cute produces and distributes original romantic comedies in podcast form that focus on “providing the happiness and hope that have become synonymous with the timeless genre. The company was launched in December 2019 and based in New York City, New York.

Ziel

Seed Round in 2017
Ziel provides athletic apparel designed to help athletes stay fit. The company's athletic apparel includes all apparel on-demand right here in the USA and uses machine learning to generate bespoke brand designs, enabling athletes to browse, find and purchase sports apparel and accessories.

LendingFront

Series A in 2019
LendingFront, Inc. provides cloud based lending platform to banks and financial institutions. The company offers services, such as application management, data management, underwriting, automated lending process, loan life cycle monitoring, loan accounting system, and customer information system solutions. LendingFront, Inc. is based in New York, New York.

Sonoro

Seed Round in 2020
Sonoro is a global media company creating premium, Spanish-language audio content. It collaborates with world-class storytellers to create content across a range of verticals that can be distributed broadly. Sonoro was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, CA, and with an office in Mexico.

Sounder

Private Placement in 2020
Sounder.fm is a platform that helps audio creators manage, market, and measure their audio content. Sounder offers free hosting, transcription, Pinpoint Audio Search, and analytics to help the user grow its audience. It aims to drive creativity and make audio better for everyone. The company was founded in 2019 and based in New York, New York.

1Huddle

Seed Round in 2017
1Huddle, Inc. provides staff training and consulting services worldwide. The company provides its services through an interactive cloud based training game for coaching sales and customer service issues. It offers its services for organizations in professional sports, college/university, health/fitness, fundraising/development, real estate, finance, government, retail/service, media, and other sectors. 1Huddle, Inc. was formerly known as Sales Huddle Group, Inc. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

Mobot

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Mobot is a computer software company that specializes in providing an on-demand testing platform. It helps organizations in a range of industries, including mobile and e-commerce, IoT, medical devices and digital health with automated functional testing of their mobile products and connected peripherals. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Optimal Dynamics

Private Placement in 2020
Optimal Dynamics, Inc. develops artificial intelligence (AI) based software that provides carriers with load recommendations. The company provides SMART-TL, an application that automates the process of searching for loads and recommends loads to the right carrier. It serves the logistics and supply chain sector. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

DocDelta

Seed Round in 2017
DocDelta operates a talent search engine for the healthcare industry. Its platform harnesses the power of big data and predictive algorithms to help healthcare institutions in finding, recruiting, and retaining healthcare providers. The company is based in New York, New York.

Mobot

Seed Round in 2019
Mobot is a computer software company that specializes in providing an on-demand testing platform. It helps organizations in a range of industries, including mobile and e-commerce, IoT, medical devices and digital health with automated functional testing of their mobile products and connected peripherals. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, United States.

LendingFront

Seed Round in 2018
LendingFront, Inc. provides cloud based lending platform to banks and financial institutions. The company offers services, such as application management, data management, underwriting, automated lending process, loan life cycle monitoring, loan accounting system, and customer information system solutions. LendingFront, Inc. is based in New York, New York.

ABF Creative

Private Placement in 2019
A major multiethnic podcast network that bridges the gap between culture and media. Through it's original and branded podcast slate ABF Creative aims to impact 100 million people of color through audio.

Ursa

Seed Round in 2017
Ursa Tech, Inc. designs and develops an application software to transcribe live conversations to texts. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Big Cloud Analytics, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Big Cloud Analytics, Inc., doing business as EVO¯, provides predictive analytics technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) enabled biometric data. It offers EVO¯, an off-the-shelf health engagement platform and data insights that allows insurers to track member behaviors and improve upon existing risk assessment models. The company’s mobile application communicates with wearable IoT devices via Android or Apple iOS smartphone and reads human physiological, psychological, and metaphysical data points through that device to encourage users on their wellness journey. It serves life and health insurance, pharma, senior living, hospital, and other healthcare organizations, as well as employers for population health management. Big Cloud Analytics, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
MoCaFi is a developer of a personal finance platform designed to leverage mobile technologies, data analytics, and strategies to improve the financial behaviors of underbanked communities. The company's platform offers financial products and services in the areas of check cashing, custom loans, debit cards, financial literacy, data analytics, and personal finance via its mobile application and financial card, enabling users to check their balance, cash their paychecks and send money safely at no extra cost.

Botmock

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Botmock is a codeless rapid prototyping tool for conversational apps. Our customers are able to prototype, test and ideate their customer experiences for platforms like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Facebook Messenger, SMS and more, using our WYSIWYG editing experience. They are also able to work collaboratively with their teams and stakeholders in collecting feedback in one centralized location.

Time Study

Seed Round in 2019
Time Study offers a time intelligence platform that uses machine intelligence to activate and transform enterprise time data into real-time insights on how time is spent and its impact on workforce effectiveness, operational efficiency and compliance. The team is led by 3x entrepreneur and computer scientist Kishau Rogers; she is joined by an experienced team bringing many years of collective experience growing & building enterprise software solutions. Time Study is currently in use in over 30 leading U.S. health organizations.

Veritonic

Seed Round in 2018
Veritonic, Inc. develops and offers a marketing analytics platform for commercial sound, providing artificial intelligence metrics and marketing response data. The company measures, compares, and tests music, videos, voiceovers, jingles, and audio logos with specific audience segments to discover qualitative and quantitative marketing responses. It caters to the advertising industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

GitLinks

Seed Round in 2017
GitLinks Inc. develops an open source monitoring platform for developers and corporations. The company's solutions include Policy Engine, which automates legal compliance; Live Inventory, which gives a list of all open source components and needed version updates, operational risks, and version updates; Security, which monitors and locate known security vulnerabilities; Licenses, which automates legal compliance; and Trends, which visualizes the status of open source code in trend charts on the portal. GitLinks Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Ejenta

Private Placement in 2018
Ejenta offers an AI platform based on exclusively licensed NASA technology and 20 years of research in intelligent agents, human-robot interaction, and security. The platform integrates wearable and environmental sensors that gather real-time behavior data, with a team of agents running in the cloud. It enables users to interact with their own personal agents via mobile devices, natural language, and chat interfaces.

Inpensa

Series A in 2018
Inpensa is focused on helping corporate executives make better investments through strategic plannig, ROI analysis and benefits realization. ​ Inpensa is an innovative SaaS Technology company focused on delivering solutions to organizations to better define project spend through strategic planning and prioritization, review and analyze via business case management, and track the value received even beyond the life of the investment. Inpensa was founded by thought leaders (who were practioners) from leading Fortune 500 Firms. The team collectively brings an array of expertise in various fields including Financial Management, Project Portfolio Management, Enterprise Cost Optimiztion and others. The solutions developed at Inpensa is purpose built to solve complex problems in streamlined and simple way.

ClassTag

Private Placement in 2019
The free ClassTag service transforms the way teachers connect with parents, allowing them to save time and focus on classroom education and activities rather than preparing and distributing parent notes and communications. With ClassTag, teachers can reach parents in over 50 languages through any channel including online, via email or text message, and even paper printouts. The cloud-based ClassTag platform inspires and rewards parent engagement with ClassTag Rewards, full of classroom supplies and learning products for the classrooms.

MindRight Health

Private Placement in 2019
MINDRIGHT HEALTH, INC. provides mental health coaching over text messages to enable communities to heal from trauma. The company's counseling system matches the profile of a user to a specific coach who further provides solutions and guidance to the user. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Newark, New Jersey.

Vydia

Seed Round in 2016
VYDIA, Inc., doing business as VYDIA, develops and operates a centralized platform for video creators to manage their content. The company allows music creators, video creators, and agencies to publish, protect, monetize, and distribute their visual content through its platform. The company offers services, such as monetization analytics, multi-network publishing, rights management, VYDIA mobile, and agency accounts. The company serves multi-platinum artists, social influencers, independent musicians, breakout discovery acts, and entertainment outlets. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Freehold, New Jersey.

Ride Health

Series A in 2020
Ride Health LLC develops a SaaS product platform which enables healthcare providers to schedule, request, and pay for rides on behalf of patients to and from medical appointments. The platform allows coordinators to schedule patient rides in advance or on-demand, sends text message updates and reminders to patients throughout the process, and gives coordinators real-time insight on transportation costs and usage. Ride Health LLC was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

1Huddle

Private Placement in 2019
1Huddle, Inc. provides staff training and consulting services worldwide. The company provides its services through an interactive cloud based training game for coaching sales and customer service issues. It offers its services for organizations in professional sports, college/university, health/fitness, fundraising/development, real estate, finance, government, retail/service, media, and other sectors. 1Huddle, Inc. was formerly known as Sales Huddle Group, Inc. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

Hyr

Private Placement in 2018
Hyr connects businesses and workers to fill any shift, at any time, at the best possible price. On the flip side, our fully mobile platform allows talented, driven workers an option to choose their hours and pick up shifts in a pinch.  We play upon a growing restlessness among a younger generation, who value time over money. And value experiences over things. The Bucket List Generation — who are being defined by what you’re working for, not where you work. We also believe that these workers deserve benefits, so have created a form of benefits that are portable for 1099 worker’s entire working life.

Pair Team

Seed Round in 2021
Pair Team provides an end-to-end operations platform to automate clinical operations and provide high-touch patient support. The platform monitors health plan and system data to trigger automated workflows that engage patients to schedule clinically impactful visits. Pair Team was founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California.

CaliberMind

Seed Round in 2020
CaliberMind is a B2B Customer Data Platform that powers Revenue Marketers at mParticle, Fidelis Cybersecurity, Datavail and other mid-market enterprises, with the data, business intelligence, and automation they need to grow revenue faster, together with sales. The platform lets marketing and ops teams answer simple business questions and automate manual workflows with 1-click: Which marketing programs generate the most revenue? How is my marketing campaign performing? How fast are we driving revenue through the pipeline? How's our close rate trending over time? Unlike CRM reporting and expensive, general BI tools that take months to implement, run on bad/ partial data and require data analytics skills, CaliberMind can be implemented in one hour by marketing and ops managers. The platform has 10x faster time-to-insights at 10% of the cost of traditional IT/ BI solutions.

Optimal Dynamics

Seed Round in 2020
Optimal Dynamics, Inc. develops artificial intelligence (AI) based software that provides carriers with load recommendations. The company provides SMART-TL, an application that automates the process of searching for loads and recommends loads to the right carrier. It serves the logistics and supply chain sector. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Futurestay

Venture Round in 2016
Futurestay is a smart way for vacation rentals to connect to everything that matters: channels, guests, payments, and their own website and brand. Futurestay has over 110,000 vacation rentals in 120 countries and is the leading independent vacation rental business solution. It uses Smart Connections to list the property on Airbnb, HomeAway, and Booking.com.

Designity

Seed Round in 2018
Our founder shahrouz started Designity after he got his masters in Design and Technology from Parsons The New School in New York. After his frustration with our educational system, he made Designity to help design students gain real-world experiences by completing design projects under creative director supervision. Today Designity is more than a platform for design students. As of now we have about 6,500 verified U.S based Designers ranging from students to senior designers and even professional designers. We also have more than 20 creative directors who supervise designers for quality assurance. Since we have such a huge pool of verified local talent in our network, we offer 82 different design categories from web design, explainer video, business collateral, and even paid social media campaigns.

CircleLink Health

Seed Round in 2017
CircleLink Health offers telephone nursing for chronic care management and behavioral health integration. It allows providers to improve health and earn new medicare payments up to $60K/year per doctor. CircleLink makes it easy by handling patient targeting, enrollment, and integration with various EHRs so doctors can stay on one system. CircleLink uses 100% registered nurses for meaningful remote patient engagement on physicians' behalf.

Sounder

Seed Round in 2020
Sounder.fm is a platform that helps audio creators manage, market, and measure their audio content. Sounder offers free hosting, transcription, Pinpoint Audio Search, and analytics to help the user grow its audience. It aims to drive creativity and make audio better for everyone. The company was founded in 2019 and based in New York, New York.

Inpensa

Venture Round in 2017
Inpensa is focused on helping corporate executives make better investments through strategic plannig, ROI analysis and benefits realization. ​ Inpensa is an innovative SaaS Technology company focused on delivering solutions to organizations to better define project spend through strategic planning and prioritization, review and analyze via business case management, and track the value received even beyond the life of the investment. Inpensa was founded by thought leaders (who were practioners) from leading Fortune 500 Firms. The team collectively brings an array of expertise in various fields including Financial Management, Project Portfolio Management, Enterprise Cost Optimiztion and others. The solutions developed at Inpensa is purpose built to solve complex problems in streamlined and simple way.

EVO

Venture Round in 2019
EVO is an application that provides its users with personalized and realistic wellness improvement experience. EVO, previously Big Cloud Analytics, leads the market in real-time predictive analytics technology for the IoT enabled biometric data. The company was recognized in 2015 by Intel as a Health Innovation Award Finalist and by CIO Review as one of the Top 100 most promising companies in Big Data globally. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Caliber UX, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Caliber UX, Inc., doing business as CaliberMind, develops the business to business (B2B) marketing intelligence software. Its platform CaliberMind uses artificial intelligence (AI) to connect, analyze, and activate data to acquire new buyers, grow revenue, and improve the customer experience and enables B2B marketers to optimize pipeline and revenue growth through the customer data platform. Caliber UX, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

WearAway

Seed Round in 2017
WearAway, Inc. develops and operates an online wardrobe rental portal for film, TV, music, and advertising professionals. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York. As of January 14, 2019, WearAway, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Grin, Inc.

Brahmin Solutions

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Brahmin Solutions LLC develops inventory management software for small to medium commerce businesses, including wholesale, manufacturing, distribution, retail, offline, and marketplace. Its software is used in inventory control, order management, order fulfillment, multichannel management, wholesale, purchasing, purchase receipts, returns, accounting, warehouse management, barcode scanning, batch and expiry tracking, serial number tracking, manufacturing, and analytics and reporting areas. Brahmin Solutions LLC was founded in 2015 and is based in New Milford, Connecticut with an offshore office in India

Futurestay

Private Placement in 2020
Futurestay is a smart way for vacation rentals to connect to everything that matters: channels, guests, payments, and their own website and brand. Futurestay has over 110,000 vacation rentals in 120 countries and is the leading independent vacation rental business solution. It uses Smart Connections to list the property on Airbnb, HomeAway, and Booking.com.

1Huddle

Series A in 2018
1Huddle, Inc. provides staff training and consulting services worldwide. The company provides its services through an interactive cloud based training game for coaching sales and customer service issues. It offers its services for organizations in professional sports, college/university, health/fitness, fundraising/development, real estate, finance, government, retail/service, media, and other sectors. 1Huddle, Inc. was formerly known as Sales Huddle Group, Inc. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

Surround Insurance

Seed Round in 2021
Surround designs customer-centric insurance products for modern lifestyles. The company’s first offering is a subscription starter pack of insurance coverages for young, urban professionals who rent, share, borrow, and freelance.

Gearflow

Seed Round in 2021
Our mission is to enable and preserve industrial entrepreneurship. We are the first online marketplace for all things construction equipment parts; acting as the outsourced parts and tool manager for the great contractors of America. The $200B+ construction equipment industry in the US consists of thousands of suppliers that are inaccessible or poorly represented online. These suppliers are in desperate need of an e-commerce platform that works for them. Contractors make 17-20 calls per week to find the parts they need. Manufacturers have billions of dollars of parts inventory sitting on their shelves. Aftermarket part supplier's core business is selling their specific niche. These factors combine to form a highly-fragmented industry with a massive amount of supply and demand and product-knowledge gaps. Gearflow is filling this information gap both online and offline. Thank you for visiting our Crunchbase page. If you'd like to learn more please contact me directly at luke@gearflow.com

Riskcast Solutions

Private Placement in 2019
Riskcast Solutions, Inc. designs and develops software for the construction industry. It offers various features, such as tracking labor, material, daily logs, and equipment. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Vikar Technologies, LLC

Pre Seed Round in 2020
We provide people centric innovation to reinvent your business for the digital age.

CaliberMind

Seed Round in 2018
CaliberMind is a B2B Customer Data Platform that powers Revenue Marketers at mParticle, Fidelis Cybersecurity, Datavail and other mid-market enterprises, with the data, business intelligence, and automation they need to grow revenue faster, together with sales. The platform lets marketing and ops teams answer simple business questions and automate manual workflows with 1-click: Which marketing programs generate the most revenue? How is my marketing campaign performing? How fast are we driving revenue through the pipeline? How's our close rate trending over time? Unlike CRM reporting and expensive, general BI tools that take months to implement, run on bad/ partial data and require data analytics skills, CaliberMind can be implemented in one hour by marketing and ops managers. The platform has 10x faster time-to-insights at 10% of the cost of traditional IT/ BI solutions.

Padinmotion

Seed Round in 2017
PadInMotion was founded by 3 entrepreneurs – a cardiologist, an executive and a finance professional who set out on a journey to make the hospital experience better. Drawing on their collective experience, they developed the world’s first patient engagement system that leverages the power of tablet technology.

Upsider

Private Placement in 2018
Upsider, Inc. develops a recruiting management system that uses artificial intelligence to identify the eligible candidates for a role, and marketing automation to streamline the outreach process. Its product offers features, such as screening, data aggregation, and recruiting process in one place. Upsider, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Newark, New Jersey.

Galactic Fog

Venture Round in 2016
Galactic Fog IP, Inc. develops a cloud-native management platform for companies to build future-proofed applications. The company offers lambda application server, a lambda service that runs on .Net, Javascript, Java, Scala, Ruby, and Python lambdas to integrate with other systems, including message queuing or notification systems. It also provides container management solutions; policy engine that allows users to control various aspects of lambda and container deployment and usage; and integration services. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in South Orange, New Jersey.

Sounder

Seed Round in 2020
Sounder.fm is a platform that helps audio creators manage, market, and measure their audio content. Sounder offers free hosting, transcription, Pinpoint Audio Search, and analytics to help the user grow its audience. It aims to drive creativity and make audio better for everyone. The company was founded in 2019 and based in New York, New York.

Orbita

Private Placement in 2020
Orbita is the leading digital platform for voice and chatbot virtual assistant solutions in healthcare. Orbita powers omni-channel virtual assistants, bots, and other conversational experiences that improve patient engagement, reduce costs of care, and improve outcomes. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdcL0Oc_9L6CbTS7DeZ6UBg

Bowtie

Seed Round in 2016
Bowtie Labs, Inc. develops and offers an AI receptionist for appointment-based businesses. The company offers Bowtie, an AI receptionist for businesses that chats with customers to book appointments, answer questions, and more. It allows clients to convert missed calls to customers with Bowtie’s intelligent auto-replies. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in New York, New York. As of May 7, 2019, Bowtie Labs, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of MINDBODY, Inc.

Trendalyze

Seed Round in 2017
Trendalyze Inc. develops Internet of things (loT) data analytics, monitoring, and visualization software solutions. The company offers data visualization software, pattern discovery and search platform, pattern monitoring and alert system, and collaboration portal. Trendalyze Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Newark, New Jersey.

Veritonic

Series A in 2022
Veritonic, Inc. develops and offers a marketing analytics platform for commercial sound, providing artificial intelligence metrics and marketing response data. The company measures, compares, and tests music, videos, voiceovers, jingles, and audio logos with specific audience segments to discover qualitative and quantitative marketing responses. It caters to the advertising industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Riskcast Solutions

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Riskcast Solutions, Inc. designs and develops software for the construction industry. It offers various features, such as tracking labor, material, daily logs, and equipment. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

PeopleJoy

Seed Round in 2018
PeopleJoy is a financial wellness benefits provider for the modern workforce.PeopleJoy helps CEOs and HR grow their businesses by attracting and retaining their most valuable resource. People. Their unique benefits help you develop a stronger employer/employee relationship, by addressing the financial wellness needs of your employees outside of work. Your employees become more committed to you because of shared values and commitment to their financial wellbeing. Through the increased retention, recruiting, and productivity gains of partnering with PeopleJoy, you can maximize your ROTI (return on talent investment).

Clearstep

Private Placement in 2020
Clearstep Inc. develops and operates an integrated platform for symptom checking, care routing, and population-level intelligence. It offers Clearstep, a platform that is used for disease management; and enables doctors to visualize their patient populations via business intelligence. Clearstep Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

StackSource

Seed Round in 2018
StackSource Inc. owns and operates an online platform that connects borrowers, property owners, and lenders for commercial real estate loans. Its platform allows property owners to find the lenders for commercial real estate investment, enables mortgage brokers and debt teams to centralize and track process, and allows commercial real estate lenders to access pre-processed lending opportunities from brokers and sponsors. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

ABF Creative

Seed Round in 2019
A major multiethnic podcast network that bridges the gap between culture and media. Through it's original and branded podcast slate ABF Creative aims to impact 100 million people of color through audio.

Ocean Freight Exchange

Seed Round in 2021
Ocean Freight Exchange Inc. develops a cloud based predictive analytics platform to help dry bulk and tanker markets to optimize vessel chartering. Its platform offers an online e-auctioning marketplace to list cargoes for auction that enables ship owners and charterers to buy, track, and trade in cargoes and ships. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in El Segundo, California with additional offices in Singapore; and Guadalajara, Mexico.

Speak2 Software

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Speak2 Software LLC provides voice command software for senior citizens. It helps the user to requests for housekeeping, food service or other non-health care activities, which is directly allot to the right people through voice command. Speak2 Software uses common off shelf devices such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Morganville, New Jersey.

Dream Forward

Seed Round in 2016
Meet the Dream Forward 401(k). Top investment choices, no hidden fees, no conflicts of interest, and new technology to boost the savings rate of employees. We use new A.I. to help get people over whatever excuse(s) keep them from saving for retirement. Check out our site at - http://www.dreamforward.io or email us at Hello@DreamForwardFinancial.com.
POM Partners provides life and workforce safety solutions through its security platform that pioneers leading-edge personal and enterprise-level security innovation to mitigate security risk

SIRL

Seed Round in 2019
SIRL is an indoor GPS and analytics platform that precisely locates people and products inside stores to improve customer experience, increase conversion and reduce costs.

Agilis Chemicals

Seed Round in 2020
Agilis is a commerce platform purpose-built for the chemical industry. With Agilis, global chemical producers and distributors can launch their own cloud-based branded e-commerce portals, fully optimized and equip with modern marketing tools and analytics. Agilis offers chemical suppliers an easy and cost-effective way to attract and engage customers via secure digital sales and marketing channels. Headquartered in Newark, NJ, Agilis combines industry experience and technology expertise in building advanced, scalable technology solutions.

MindRight Health

Seed Round in 2020
MINDRIGHT HEALTH, INC. provides mental health coaching over text messages to enable communities to heal from trauma. The company's counseling system matches the profile of a user to a specific coach who further provides solutions and guidance to the user. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Newark, New Jersey.

Orbita

Venture Round in 2018
Orbita is the leading digital platform for voice and chatbot virtual assistant solutions in healthcare. Orbita powers omni-channel virtual assistants, bots, and other conversational experiences that improve patient engagement, reduce costs of care, and improve outcomes. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdcL0Oc_9L6CbTS7DeZ6UBg

Bixby

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Bixby is a real estate technology company focused on improving quality of life in residential and commercial properties. Our technology enables management teams to create a more connected, efficient, and sustainable experience for building occupants by streamlining communication, maintenance, payments, services, and all other aspects of the built environment to a single digital interface. Bixby's mission is to improve comfort & convenience in cities and communities by leveraging technology that redefines the way we live, work, and interact with the physical spaces around us. Bixby was founded in 2016 and is used in over 2,000 properties across the US and Canada.

Seamless.AI

Seed Round in 2017
Seamless.ai provides a sales automation software intended to organize contacts and make them universally accessible and useful. Artificial intelligence that finds perfect email addresses, phone numbers and insights for all professionals powers its sales automation software, enabling users to automate their process of list building, contact research, data entry, and other forms of busy work that is necessary for sales.

Alphachannel

Seed Round in 2016
Alphachannel, Inc. connects brand marketers with production partners to create and manage technology-based marketing content. It offers CMO-enablement tool for discovering marketing engagements and sourcing digital content formats, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, wearable technology, chatbots, and brand integrations for brands, agencies, and publishers. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Radius8

Seed Round in 2016
Radius8, Inc. develops and provides a software solution that allows users to leverage their customers' existing online behavior to drive them into the store that's nearest to them. Its software digitally targets local customers and drives them into physical stores. The company’s software ensures local customers see local content on their social networks while they search the Web and when they are online. It has a strategic partnership with JRNI Limited. Radius8, Inc. was formerly known as VelocityRetail, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

MindRight Health

Pre Seed Round in 2019
MINDRIGHT HEALTH, INC. provides mental health coaching over text messages to enable communities to heal from trauma. The company's counseling system matches the profile of a user to a specific coach who further provides solutions and guidance to the user. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Newark, New Jersey.

ClassTag

Seed Round in 2020
The free ClassTag service transforms the way teachers connect with parents, allowing them to save time and focus on classroom education and activities rather than preparing and distributing parent notes and communications. With ClassTag, teachers can reach parents in over 50 languages through any channel including online, via email or text message, and even paper printouts. The cloud-based ClassTag platform inspires and rewards parent engagement with ClassTag Rewards, full of classroom supplies and learning products for the classrooms.

ClockWork Logistics Systems, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
ClockWork Logistics Systems, Inc. develops and provides sensor-based product monitoring platform and deployable Internet of things (IoT) for road transportation industry. Its could-based platform and mobile application enable its users to collect real-time, actionable data and communicate with other devices through a Bluetooth connection. The company's product offers off the shelf sensors to monitor temperature and light from inside the truck trailer and customizable mobile applications to provide user interface. ClockWork Logistics Systems, Inc. was formerly known as SensorTransport, Inc. and changed its name to ClockWork Logistics Systems, Inc. in September 2020. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Elk Grove, California with an additional office in Newark, New Jersey.

PeduL

Seed Round in 2019
Operator of an online education crowdfunding platform created to change the way collage fee is funded. The company's education crowdfunding platform provides an opportunity to raise capital for higher education dedicated to alleviating the financial burdens of higher education, enabling students fundraise money for higher education

Navinata Health

Convertible Note in 2016
Navinata Health, Inc operates Pharma-MD, a knowledge exchange platform designed to optimize 2-way knowledge exchange between pharma and physicians with a primary focus on cancer, heart disease, and neurological disorders. Its platform enables to share insight and educational needs via short insight studies; learn about innovative therapies; and connect w/experts. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Mobot

Private Placement in 2018
Mobot is a computer software company that specializes in providing an on-demand testing platform. It helps organizations in a range of industries, including mobile and e-commerce, IoT, medical devices and digital health with automated functional testing of their mobile products and connected peripherals. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, United States.

TalentWall

Seed Round in 2019
TalentWall, Inc. develops web based Applicant Tracking systems (ATS) for corporate recruiters. The platform allows converting application tracking systems candidate data into a card. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ride Health

Private Placement in 2020
Ride Health LLC develops a SaaS product platform which enables healthcare providers to schedule, request, and pay for rides on behalf of patients to and from medical appointments. The platform allows coordinators to schedule patient rides in advance or on-demand, sends text message updates and reminders to patients throughout the process, and gives coordinators real-time insight on transportation costs and usage. Ride Health LLC was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

AeroFarms

Series C in 2017
AeroFarms is an urban agricultural company with a mission to transform agriculture by building and operating environmentally responsible farms throughout the world. It provides an aeroponic growing system that grows and produces with neither soil or sun, in any location. This is all possible due to the nature of their modular stackable systems which are easy to store as well as enabling of local production of pesticide-free, greens. This allows the food production system to become more sustainable, efficient, and safe by creating commercial-scale farming in urban centers. AeroFarms was founded in 2004 and is based in Newark, New Jersey. It is a recipient of the Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies for 2018 and 2019. The company was also among the Inc Magazine's "25 Most Disruptive Companies" for the year 2017.

1Huddle

Series A in 2020
1Huddle, Inc. provides staff training and consulting services worldwide. The company provides its services through an interactive cloud based training game for coaching sales and customer service issues. It offers its services for organizations in professional sports, college/university, health/fitness, fundraising/development, real estate, finance, government, retail/service, media, and other sectors. 1Huddle, Inc. was formerly known as Sales Huddle Group, Inc. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

Riskcast Solutions

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Riskcast Solutions, Inc. designs and develops software for the construction industry. It offers various features, such as tracking labor, material, daily logs, and equipment. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Vectorly

Private Placement in 2019
Vectorly is a video compression startup from MIT, whose vector encoding technology can compress videos by up to 50x while also improving visual quality. Vector encoding is particularly effective for animations, screencasts and anything not recorded with a video camera (10 to 15% of video on the internet). Video platforms can license their software or use their APIs to compress their videos, reducing CDN costs and improving end-user experience. Vectorly was formerly known as "dot Learn".

StrongArm Tech

Grant in 2012
StrongArm Tech is a safety science company that develops data collection, assessment, and safety solutions for the industrial worker. It offers a risk monitoring device that uses machine learning to capture and analyze physiological and environmental risk; and FUSE Risk Management Platform which is a cloud-based IoT enabled software informed by an array of motion-interpreting sensors that allow organizations to monitor, assess, and intervene. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Mobility Capital Finance, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
MoCaFi is a developer of a personal finance platform designed to leverage mobile technologies, data analytics, and strategies to improve the financial behaviors of underbanked communities. The company's platform offers financial products and services in the areas of check cashing, custom loans, debit cards, financial literacy, data analytics, and personal finance via its mobile application and financial card, enabling users to check their balance, cash their paychecks and send money safely at no extra cost.

Claim it!

Seed Round in 2017
Claim it! is a social marketplace mobile app that breaks down the walls between people and brands, available through the Apple App Store and coming soon to Google Play.

FreightFlows

Pre Seed Round in 2020
FreightFlows, Inc. provides maritime market intelligence for traders, shippers, owners, and brokers. It develops a data platform to source, synthesize, and analyze current market data that allows customers to optimize operational decision-making and risk management. The company’s platform allows users to explore market, port, and fleet activity trends; identify vessel availability; identify vessel routes and ETA; and gain visibility into commodity cargoes and trade activities. In addition, it provides market analysis services to trade in futures markets, reduce commercial risk, and hedge against freight rate volatility. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Caliber UX, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Caliber UX, Inc., doing business as CaliberMind, develops the business to business (B2B) marketing intelligence software. Its platform CaliberMind uses artificial intelligence (AI) to connect, analyze, and activate data to acquire new buyers, grow revenue, and improve the customer experience and enables B2B marketers to optimize pipeline and revenue growth through the customer data platform. Caliber UX, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

FleetOps

Private Placement in 2020
FleetOps develops an application, which helps to connect freight from brokers and shippers. The company provides tailored analytics and KPI's specific to carrier trucking operations. FleetOps was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.