Ecosystem Ventures

Ecosystem Ventures is a venture capital investment and strategic consulting firm that offers related consultation services to seed stage companies. It is dedicated to building sustainable companies around significant technologies and innovative business ideas. The firm invests in companies during the seed round and works with entrepreneurs to grow their businesses until the first large institutional investment (Series A). It offers its business consulting support and services in the American, Indian, and European markets. Founded in 2005, Ecosystem Ventures is based in San Francisco, California.

Alex Fries

General Partner

Ernesto Paiz

Partner

23 past transactions

Lo! Foods

Seed Round in 2021
India is the diabetes and heart attack capital of the world. Scientific research today concludes that all the above are primarily lifestyle-based diseases - in effect, they are caused due to our diet and habits. Latest research points to a diet high in Carbohydrates being a potential reason for these.

Mindler

Seed Round in 2021
A venture run by alumni from Harvard, ISB, IIT and world’s leading psychometrician; Mindler is a comprehensive career guidance & mapping platform used by both students & career coaches/ counsellors. We at Mindler aim to revolutionize the unorganized career counselling sector in India and make scientific career guidance accessible to millions of students across the country.

Investiere AG

Series A in 2014
Verve Ventures is the leading European startup investment platform for qualified and institutional investors. Our fully digital platform enables private investors to build a diversified portfolio with investments starting at CHF/EUR 10'000. Since its launch in 2010, Verve Ventures has invested more than EUR 130 million in over 100 startups. Our community consists of 5’000 registered qualified private investors, family offices and pension funds. Several institutional investors such as a large Swiss pension fund and numerous corporates also rely on our expertise to invest in the most promising startups. Verve Ventures is backed by Switzerland's third-largest bank, Zürcher Kantonalbank. We have a dedicated investment team based in Zurich, Lausanne, Berlin, Paris and Cambridge, that screens thousands of startups each year and selects the top 1% after a rigorous due diligence process. We are reshaping the European venture capital landscape and granting investors superior access to this traditionally intransparent asset class. We source the best deals, structure rounds and enable our investors to participate in the most competitive startup deals.

Simplibuy Technologies

Seed Round in 2013
Simplibuy Technologies Pvt. Ltd. provides Wicfy, a tool to find and share best prices and stores. Its portal offers price comparison solutions, as well as enables customers to express discoveries, happiness, ecstasy, delights, and frustrations about shopping, sales, sellers, or products; engages with other people who interact and respond to questions and queries; and personalizes shopping experience. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Pune, India.

Saarthi Pedagogy

Seed Round in 2021
We are India's fastest growing Pedagogy company, serving school as an academic growth partner and providing 360° solutions to schools on academic content (Textbook/worksheet/academic publications), learning management system and PPAP Rote free pedagogy. For more than a decade, Saarthi Pedagogy has supported efforts to improve teaching - learning process in schools. Research confirms that the most important factor contributing to a student's success in school is the quality of teaching. At Saarthi, we ensure that Teachers continue to strengthen their practice throughout their career by getting best in class Pedagogy, Content and Learning management system

VoiceBase

Series A in 2010
VoiceBase is defining the future of deep learning and communications by providing unparalleled access to spoken information for businesses to make better decisions. With flexible APIs, pre-built dashboards, developers and enterprises build scalable solutions with VoiceBase by embedding speech-to-text, conversational analytics, and predictive analytics capabilities into any big voice application. VoiceBase’s customers and partners include Tableau, Amazon Web Services, The Home Depot, Twilio, Vonage/Nexmo and Nasdaq. The company is privately held and is based in San Francisco, California. For more information on VoiceBase visit www.voicebase.com

Dekko

Seed Round in 2012
Dekko Inc., an augmented-reality startup company, develops smartphone software that places digital content into the real world. The company’s portfolio includes an operating system for mobile developers to create 3-D applications for wearable devices. The company’s software re-connects users to their imaginary friends and connects them to online social networks. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

PlaySpan

Venture Round in 2008
A payment platform to handle transactions in online games, digital media and social networks

Visually

Seed Round in 2011
Visually is the content creation platform that enables businesses to connect with their audiences through engaging, beautiful visual content. The world’s top brands rely on us for premium videos, infographics, ebooks, presentations, web interactives and more — created fast and cost-effectively. With over 1000 certified creative professionals, our clients get access to the best designers, writers, researchers, and developers available, with a wide range of skills to support their business needs. Using our easy-to-use online collaboration platform, clients work closely with their team and enjoy a high-degree of creative control. And they are supported every step of the way—from talent assignment to creative direction—to create content that connects and converts.

Jeeng

Seed Round in 2011
PowerInbox is bringing real-time capabilities to static mail programs. PowerInbox provides an easy to implement solution that combines real-time capabilities, dynamic animation, device and geographic targeting with personalization to ensure higher click through rates. PowerInbox works with existing mail programs and is a platform that marketers, agencies or email service providers can use to deliver creative and effective programs. The company is backed by several leading VCs.

Veenome

Angel Round in 2011
Veenome automatically translates videos into data at a very large scale to help Ad Networks and Publishers lift their CPMs through targeting, reduce fraud through viewability detection and eliminate brand safety/objectionable content concerns. Specifically the data that we create from these videos includes: IAB Category, IAB Subcategory, Brand Safety Category, Viewability(Player size, player page position, autoplay and muting detection), Duration, Player Size, Media Size, Media Type, Media URL, Page URL and FPS

Wicfy Vaporizers

Seed Round in 2013
Wicfy Vaporizers is a shopping discovery platform

Simplibuy Technologies

Seed Round in 2013
Simplibuy Technologies Pvt. Ltd. provides Wicfy, a tool to find and share best prices and stores. Its portal offers price comparison solutions, as well as enables customers to express discoveries, happiness, ecstasy, delights, and frustrations about shopping, sales, sellers, or products; engages with other people who interact and respond to questions and queries; and personalizes shopping experience. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Pune, India.

SpeEdLabs

Seed Round in 2022
SpeEdLabs is to provide a top-notch, technology-based Learning and Practice platform to students at an affordable price, thus empowering every student to grow into their full potential.

DRAFT

Seed Round in 2011
DRAFT is a daily fantasy sports company (DFS). On DRAFT, players do simple drafts (unlike the salary cap format) just like the ones they do at the beginning of their season long leagues, but lasting one day or week, and taking only minutes to complete. DRAFT brings DFS back to what it should have been, a simple, fair and fun game, that was designed for this regulatory environment -- with player's chances of winning on DRAFT being almost 3X better than on FanDuel or DraftKings. DRAFT is backed by Upfront Ventures, The Chernin Group and more.

GeoIQ.io

Seed Round in 2022
Map-based intelligent platform with single-click access to street-level location data - demographics, competitions, movements - for retail.

NoiseToys

Seed Round in 2011
NoiseToys is building mobile applications around content discovery. NoiseToys is currently working on Apptitude, a friends-based app discovery service that lets you see which iPhone apps your friends have. It's available at http://www.apptitu.de Previously, NoiseToys released Hitmaker, a game around music promotion, at TechCrunch Disrupt. Hitmaker reached #9 overall in the App Store in October 2010 and currently has over 150,000 users.

rVita

Angel Round in 2007
rVita's goal is to make alternative therapy search easier, separating science from the snake oil. rVita brings Web 2.0 technologies — mashups, user generated content, and community — to integrative medicine making it easy for consumers to search therapies that have good chance of success. The site's key features include reputable content about integrative therapies, a trusted practitioner network, and valuable peer-to-peer and expert feedback about what remedies really work. Armed with these powerful tools, consumers can effectively compare treatments and select the best ones for their condition.

Autonet Mobile

Venture Round in 2010
Autonet Mobile is an Internet-based telematics and applications service designed for your vehicle. Founded in 2005 and based on a technology platform designed to maintain wireless connectivity to vehicles in motion, Autonet Mobile has already secured OEM partnerships with several of the world's largest automotive manufacturers.

MicroVentures

Seed Round in 2011
MicroVentures is an online equity crowdfunding platform enabling angel investors to connect with startups to raise capital. It connects accredited investors with startups, businesses, and services looking to raise funds or participate in select secondary market opportunities. The company provides founders access to early-stage capital and accredited investors opportunities to invest in private equity. It prefers to invest in companies from the software, technology, telecommunications, and media sectors. MicroVentures was established in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

DailyCred

Seed Round in 2011
DailyCred Inc. designs and develops applications to manage users for website and applications. The company provides customer relationship management and back office; application programming interface (API) information; and secure authentication applications. DailyCred Inc. was formerly known as Shopobot Inc. and changed its name to DailyCred Inc. in January 2011 to reflect its new business. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.