Finli is the payment management system for service businesses. We help them get paid timely, easily and affordably. We are ideal for small business owners, freelancers, independent workers, professional coaches/trainers, home services providers and more.
Kerecis develops patented fish-skin products to heal the human body. Because no disease-transfer risk exists between cold-water fish and humans, the Kerecis fish skin is only gently processed and retains its similarity to human skin, making it an ideal substitute for human skin. More than 50 studies have been done on Kerecis technology. Those studies include two double-blind, comparative, randomized control trials, where fish skin treatment was more efficacious than mammalian-based treatments. Kerecis is also developing products for areas such as oral surgery, plastic surgery, and neurological applications. The company's products utilize multiple patented fish-skin and fatty-acid technologies to protect and regenerate tissue.
Goodr is a sustainable food surplus management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger. They provide an end-to-end solution for businesses seeking to earn money from their edible food waste by donating it to local nonprofit organizations. Their platform provides the logistics, analytics, and security for businesses to earn deductions under the PATH act in compliance with the Internal Revenue Services. Goodr’s blockchain-enabled platform also provides an IRS audit-friendly donation record, real-time food waste analytics, and community impact reports. Their model aims to provide a triple-win situation: improve the business’ bottom line through tax deductions, reduce greenhouse emissions from landfills, and use edible food waste to reduce hunger.
DEM BioPharma is an immuno-oncology company that is working to eradicate cancer by targeting novel innate immune system checkpoints.
Proximie is a health technology platform that enables surgeons to virtually attend operating theaters to visually guide complex surgeries. Proximie combines human expertise with the power of augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to allow a surgeon to remotely watch an operation and use their hands to demonstrate things to the surgeon conducting the operation, who sees the remote surgeon on a screen. This platform aims to democratize access to the most up-to-date and skilled knowledge on surgery practice, by helping surgeons advise each other from different parts of the world. The company was founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016 and is headquartered in London, England.
Planet FWD specializes in developing a regenerative food platform. Planet FWD's carbon-neutral food products intended to reverse climate change. The company uses regenerative ingredients and compostable packaging enabling consumers to reduce the carbon footprint from the atmosphere and consume climate-friendly products.
Deel is a payroll and compliance platform that offers hiring, human resources, and payroll services to both workers and contractors. Deel's platform integrates contracts, payments, and taxes into a single interface, allowing clients to access contractual and compliance processes while providing a better experience for foreign contractors. The company aims to streamline every aspect of hiring and managing a global team, making it easier to pay and onboard employees worldwide.
Spotlight Therapeutics is a developer of gene editing therapeutics intended to edit specific cell populations directly in the body. The company's therapeutics are used to create next-generation programmable nucleases that can selectively target and edit cells, enabling physicians to treat their patient in an enhanced way.
PrognomiQ is a technology company that focuses on transforming early disease detection and treatment through multi-omics data. The company generates extensive proteomic, genomic, and metabolomic data to provide insights into complex diseases, aiming to improve patient outcomes. PrognomiQ's innovative approach facilitates the development of advanced test products that enhance the understanding and management of health conditions.
Aurora Solar Inc. is a software company focused on the solar industry, providing a cloud-based platform that supports solar photovoltaic (PV) engineering design, workflow management, and customer acquisition. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers tools that utilize satellite imagery and lidar data to create detailed 3D models of terrains and buildings. This technology allows users to accurately assess rooftop dimensions and slopes, streamlining the planning and installation process for solar panels. Aurora Solar's software is utilized by a diverse range of clients, including independent installers, module manufacturers, and large contractors, enhancing their capabilities in solar design and sales.
Getlabs is the leading platform for at-home diagnostics. Healthcare organizations use Getlabs to send mobile phlebotomists to patients’ homes and collect labs, vitals, and advanced diagnostics. By leveraging Getlabs, partners can improve patient adherence and close gaps in care with same-day, nationwide availability. Our team has raised $50M from strategic investors including the two largest diagnostic laboratories in the United States, Labcorp and Quest. Getlabs’ mission is to save lives by expanding access to diagnostics for everyone.
Mos offers financial solutions that feature checking accounts, debit cards, and access to financial aid advisors designed for students. With tools to simplify the financial aid system and find students more money for school, Mos is the financial solution that meets every step of the way on their financial journey. Mos is on a mission to tear down financial barriers to opportunity.
Resonant Link delivers 5x faster and highly efficient wireless power for applications big to small, from massive industrial trucks to medical devices smaller than a fingernail. Resonant Link’s mission is to provide fast, safe, and reliable wireless power to help people, businesses, and the planet thrive.
Vibrant Planet provides land management services and technology solutions to accelerate land restorations. The company collaborates with scientists, land management leaders, and policymakers to build a cloud-based system that informs and facilitates collaborative planning. Vibrant Planet was founded in 2004 by Allison Wolff and is based in Incline Village, Nevada.
Handshake is a career network designed for students and recent graduates to find job opportunities. It has a community of over 10 million users from 1,400 educational institutions, including colleges and boot camps. The platform connects these individuals with more than 750,000 employers, covering various sectors. It aims to facilitate access to career resources for both students and employers.
Lyra helps companies improve access to effective, high-quality mental health care for their employees. Lyra's matching technology and innovative digital platform connect members to a curated network of top therapists and coaches, which results in 3x more people receiving care and 7x better outcomes than traditional plans and EAPs. Members can find the right personalized care, match with the right provider for their needs, and feel motivated and supported throughout the entire treatment journey.
Tune Therapeutics strives to develop paradigm-changing cell and gene therapies that leverage epigenetic programming for the treatment of devastating diseases.
Clade Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and delivering scalable, off-the-shelf, next-generation stem-cell-based medicines. The company was incorporated in 2020 and has been operating in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Amplify Education is leading the way in creating next-generation curriculum and assessment programs. Its captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Its formative assessment products turn data into practical instructional support to help all students build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of its programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student.
Saildrone designs and manufactures wind and solar-powered autonomous surface vehicles called Saildrones, which make cost-effective ocean data collection possible at scale. Saildrone builds high-resolution ocean datasets, working with governments and private companies around the globe. The company's vehicles collect data that provides unprecedented intelligence for climate, mapping, and maritime security applications and have sailed over 500,000 nautical miles and spent more than 13,000 days at sea. Saildrone believes that better inputs in planetary models in turn yield better outputs and that the new insights gained in weather forecasting, carbon cycling, global fishing, and climate change will have a tremendous impact on humanity.
Praxis reimagines corporate bias training, integrating research-backed curriculum with cutting-edge VR technology. Praxis Labs advances diversity and inclusion outcomes through perspective-taking VR-based unconscious bias training. It was established in 2019 and is based in Stanford, California.
Syndio is a technology company that helps companies measure, achieve, and sustain workplace equity. Syndio’s mission is to empower employers to eradicate unlawful pay disparities due to gender, race, and ethnicity and make ongoing compensation decisions that are consistent and equitable. Syndio customers drastically reduce legal risk, save millions in ongoing remediation, and create a positive brand reputation, which helps attract and retain top talent at every level of the business. Over time, we help companies close their pay gap. Syndio is proud to partner with brands – including Salesforce, Nordstrom, General Mills, Nerdwallet, Match Group and many more – who are leading the way in equity and setting the standard for workplace fairness. Syndio pay equity analysis software helps companies quickly analyze and resolve pay gaps, empowering them to do the right thing while doing what’s best for their business. The company license software to companies that are serious about equal pay and help them find and fix pay equity issues, and stay in compliance over time.
Seven Starling is a digital clinic uniquely focused on treatment for perinatal mental health conditions like postpartum depression and anxiety. Through a combination of individualized therapy, peer support, and medication, its evidence-based care model is backed by research that shows that 90% of patients will feel better within 3 months.
Walking Fish Therapeutics is developing a platform to harness B cells’ capability to activate the immune system in the treatment of cancer, and to serve as in vivo protein factories that produce replacement proteins for deficiency diseases, regenerative proteins, and engineered antibodies.
Panorama Education brings the power of data to education through a SaaS platform used by hundreds of school districts across the US. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Panorama Education is a data analytics company for K-12 education. They help school districts, charter networks, and state governments conduct surveys of students, parents, teachers, and staff. Their classroom surveys collect feedback about individual teachers, and their school surveys gather data about the school environment and administrators. They believe that stakeholder feedback is a powerful professional development tool, and they believe that stakeholder surveys--when done correctly--make educator evaluation systems fairer and more effective.
Infinite Canvas is a publisher for user-generated, creator-led games.
Gusto is a company that provides a cloud-based platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses to manage payroll, benefits, and human resources. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Denver, Gusto offers an array of services including payroll processing, health benefits, workers' compensation, and time tracking. The platform allows employers and employees to access payroll information from various devices, enabling features such as browsing pay stubs, reviewing tax forms, and verifying personal details. Gusto caters to a diverse clientele, including startups, coffee shops, medical practices, creative agencies, and law firms, aiming to simplify the administrative tasks associated with employee management.
Redwood Materials creates a circular supply chain to drive down the environmental footprint and cost of lithium-ion batteries and the electric vehicles and sustainable energy storage systems they power. Founded by JB Straubel, the Nevada-based company is offering large-scale sources of domestic anode and cathode materials produced from recycled batteries. Redwood receives ~10 GWh of end-of-life batteries annually for recycling, which are then refined and remanufactured into critical battery materials. The company plans to ramp production of anode and cathode components in the U.S. to 100 GWh annually by 2025, enough to produce more than one million electric vehicles a year.
WaitWhat is a media invention company that invents boundary-breaking and profitable media properties that change the cultural landscape. It creates and owns premium, original, genre-defining content. The company also creates media properties that can scale horizontally beyond its first format. By contrast, WaitWhat creates new categories with their content, at production values that have become the reference point for quality. The company develops, produces, and distributes wholly-owned media properties with the specific purpose of creating new genres, categories, and formats of content that scale.
Mnemo Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that offers to develop immune based therapies, including cell therapies. Its EnfiniT platform is a drug discovery engine that uses a class of antigens with a suite of technologies for tumors.
Private Equity Round in 2021
Formative is an ed-tech company that offers a real-time assessment platform. The platform for real-time formative assessments is a free student response system for digital classrooms. Their web-based software found at goformative.com allows live data analytics on any homework, classwork, or assessment in order to help teachers, parents and schools guarantee student growth in the moments when it matters most.
Synthekine is an engineered cytokine therapeutics company that creates selective immunotherapies to improve cancer and inflammatory disease treatment paradigms. Using knowledge of cytokine structure and function, the company develops therapeutics that maximize cytokine efficacy while avoiding toxic side effects. Synthekine is developing a broad and deep pipeline of product candidates by leveraging principles of cytokine partial agonism and immunological specificity across multiple protein engineering platforms. Modified cytokines, cytokine-enhanced cell therapies, and surrogate cytokine agonists are among the novel immunotherapies.
Guild's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs, and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and careers. It offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with their tech-enabled student advising model.
Handshake is a career network designed for students and recent graduates to find job opportunities. It has a community of over 10 million users from 1,400 educational institutions, including colleges and boot camps. The platform connects these individuals with more than 750,000 employers, covering various sectors. It aims to facilitate access to career resources for both students and employers.
Goodr is a sustainable food surplus management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger. They provide an end-to-end solution for businesses seeking to earn money from their edible food waste by donating it to local nonprofit organizations. Their platform provides the logistics, analytics, and security for businesses to earn deductions under the PATH act in compliance with the Internal Revenue Services. Goodr’s blockchain-enabled platform also provides an IRS audit-friendly donation record, real-time food waste analytics, and community impact reports. Their model aims to provide a triple-win situation: improve the business’ bottom line through tax deductions, reduce greenhouse emissions from landfills, and use edible food waste to reduce hunger.
Boundless operates in two distinct sectors: education and immigration services. In the education sector, Boundless Learning, Inc. offers an online platform that provides a wide range of study materials, including content in subjects such as accounting, biology, history, and computer science, along with quizzes and PowerPoint templates. The platform aims to enhance the accessibility and utility of open educational resources for students. In the immigration sector, Boundless empowers families by offering tools, information, and personalized support to help them navigate the immigration system efficiently and affordably. The company's platform connects immigrants with resources, including access to immigration lawyers and online filing options. Founded in 2011 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Boundless has expanded its focus to include immigration services since its inception in 2017, with headquarters in Seattle, Washington.
Nithio Holdings is an energy finance company focused on the off-grid sector in Africa. Nithio is an energy finance platform that provides services to distributed energy service companies, capital providers, governments, and other stakeholders in the distributed solar energy sector in Africa. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.
Unite Us is a veteran-led technology company that builds coordinated care networks connecting health and social service providers together. The company helps systems and communities efficiently deliver care and services by inter-connecting providers across communities, seamlessly integrating the social determinants of health into patient care. Providers across the continuum and community are able to externally refer and track every patient’s total health journey while reporting on all tangible outcomes across a full range of services in a centralized, cohesive, and collaborative ecosystem. This social infrastructure helps communities move beyond legacy resource directories, and transform their ability to measure impact, improved health, and outcomes at scale. The company was founded in 2013 by military veterans Dan Brillman and Taylor Justice in New York, New York.
We are in a moment in history where entrepreneurs have disproportionate influence on everything from the social problems they work on to what they consume, practice, believe, and desire. As Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Square, recently declared on the cover of Forbes, "the most efficient means to spread an idea today is corporate structure." Moreover, according to the Kauffman Foundation, 54% of millennials have started an organization or have the desire to start one. Given all of this, we believe the future of our world depends largely on the ventures the next generation creates. To create an institution for this context, we've created Praxis as a venture group, structured as a non-profit, that focuses on equipping and resourcing a growing portfolio of faith-motivated entrepreneurs who have committed their lives to cultural and social impact, renewing the spirit of their age one organization at a time. Praxis was conceived in 2010 by Dave Blanchard, then a Principal Designer at IDEO and Josh Kwan, the Director of International Giving for the David Weekley Family Foundation, and developed in collaboration with Q, a learning community that mobilizes Christians to advance the common good in society. Each year, Praxis welcomes 12 businesses and 12 nonprofits into their two Accelerator programs, where they provide the top-decision makers in these organizations with the knowledge, network, and personal discipleship necessary to build sustainable, high-impact organizations. In summer of 2014, they'll also launch Praxis Academy, a summer program focused on training Christ-following undergraduates at the intersection of faith, startups, and culture. Academy graduates will have a chance to apply for their Future Founders program, where they'll have an unique opportunity to do a summer apprenticeship with their Accelerator alumni.
Praxis reimagines corporate bias training, integrating research-backed curriculum with cutting-edge VR technology. Praxis Labs advances diversity and inclusion outcomes through perspective-taking VR-based unconscious bias training. It was established in 2019 and is based in Stanford, California.
Brightwheel is a software platform for preschools, childcare providers, camps, and afterschool programs that helps teachers to manage their day and communicate with parents, gives parents deeper insight into what their children are learning, and automates the process of managing operations for administrators.
Syndio is a technology company that helps companies measure, achieve, and sustain workplace equity. Syndio’s mission is to empower employers to eradicate unlawful pay disparities due to gender, race, and ethnicity and make ongoing compensation decisions that are consistent and equitable. Syndio customers drastically reduce legal risk, save millions in ongoing remediation, and create a positive brand reputation, which helps attract and retain top talent at every level of the business. Over time, we help companies close their pay gap. Syndio is proud to partner with brands – including Salesforce, Nordstrom, General Mills, Nerdwallet, Match Group and many more – who are leading the way in equity and setting the standard for workplace fairness. Syndio pay equity analysis software helps companies quickly analyze and resolve pay gaps, empowering them to do the right thing while doing what’s best for their business. The company license software to companies that are serious about equal pay and help them find and fix pay equity issues, and stay in compliance over time.
PosiGen is a provider of residential renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions. We are a Third Party Ownership company (TPO), which allows us to offer renewable energy systems and energy efficiency retrofits to the people who need it most: Low- to moderate-income homeowners. Our mission is to help these low- to moderate-income individuals, families, and businesses achieve greater fiscal autonomy and energy independence by lowering their utility bills. At its core, PosiGen is a young social enterprise with an enormous ambition: To increase the financial autonomy of low- to moderate-income homeowners nationwide, by decreasing their dependence on utility-provided energy.
Planet FWD specializes in developing a regenerative food platform. Planet FWD's carbon-neutral food products intended to reverse climate change. The company uses regenerative ingredients and compostable packaging enabling consumers to reduce the carbon footprint from the atmosphere and consume climate-friendly products.
Planet FWD specializes in developing a regenerative food platform. Planet FWD's carbon-neutral food products intended to reverse climate change. The company uses regenerative ingredients and compostable packaging enabling consumers to reduce the carbon footprint from the atmosphere and consume climate-friendly products.
Nana Services, Inc. is a technology-driven company specializing in appliance repair services, offering solutions for various household appliances such as refrigerators, dishwashers, ovens, and washers through its Nana Home platform. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Alameda, California, the company addresses the growing demand for skilled tradespeople by providing a free online vocational school, known as Nano Academy, that equips individuals with hands-on repair skills. Graduates of this program are not only offered initial employment opportunities but are also supported in advancing their careers through Nana's AI-powered marketplace, which connects customers with qualified professionals. Through these initiatives, Nana aims to create a sustainable pipeline of skilled workers while addressing the challenges of unemployment and underemployment in the United States.
Angaza provides a technology that enables businesses to provide affordable life-changing products to people in emerging markets. The company's comprehensive pay-as-you-go platform is used by manufacturing and distribution companies around the world to sell life-changing products to the next billion off-grid consumers. It aims to end poverty by enabling universal access to transformative products, services, and information. With affordable access to livelihood necessities like solar lights and clean cookstoves, people without access to credit or traditional banking services can start on a path to financial inclusion. Angaza was established in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Handshake is a career network designed for students and recent graduates to find job opportunities. It has a community of over 10 million users from 1,400 educational institutions, including colleges and boot camps. The platform connects these individuals with more than 750,000 employers, covering various sectors. It aims to facilitate access to career resources for both students and employers.
PrognomiQ is a technology company that focuses on transforming early disease detection and treatment through multi-omics data. The company generates extensive proteomic, genomic, and metabolomic data to provide insights into complex diseases, aiming to improve patient outcomes. PrognomiQ's innovative approach facilitates the development of advanced test products that enhance the understanding and management of health conditions.
Seer is a developer of a life sciences and health data platform intended to facilitate early, pre-symptomatic detection of chronic life-threatening diseases. The company's platform captures and translates molecular insights from the proteome with improved accuracy and speed, enabling healthcare professionals to detect cancer and neurological diseases, drive earlier treatment and improve patient outcomes.
Shattuck is a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing its proprietary Agonist Redirected Checkpoint (ARC) platform, a novel class of dual-function fusion proteins with applications in oncology and autoimmune disease. The company’s lead program, SL-279252 (PD1-Fc-OX40L), is being studied in a Phase I trial in collaboration with Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Its technology focuses on immuno-oncology research targeted towards patients with many cancer types, including melanoma, lung, and bladder, by endowing one molecule with multiple functions, with applicability across the entire spectrum of human disease that enables medical researchers to find a quick and painless detection of malignancy for later-stage cancer patients.
Syndio is a technology company that helps companies measure, achieve, and sustain workplace equity. Syndio’s mission is to empower employers to eradicate unlawful pay disparities due to gender, race, and ethnicity and make ongoing compensation decisions that are consistent and equitable. Syndio customers drastically reduce legal risk, save millions in ongoing remediation, and create a positive brand reputation, which helps attract and retain top talent at every level of the business. Over time, we help companies close their pay gap. Syndio is proud to partner with brands – including Salesforce, Nordstrom, General Mills, Nerdwallet, Match Group and many more – who are leading the way in equity and setting the standard for workplace fairness. Syndio pay equity analysis software helps companies quickly analyze and resolve pay gaps, empowering them to do the right thing while doing what’s best for their business. The company license software to companies that are serious about equal pay and help them find and fix pay equity issues, and stay in compliance over time.
Mos offers financial solutions that feature checking accounts, debit cards, and access to financial aid advisors designed for students. With tools to simplify the financial aid system and find students more money for school, Mos is the financial solution that meets every step of the way on their financial journey. Mos is on a mission to tear down financial barriers to opportunity.
BioLite is a dynamic, rapidly growing, and profitable social enterprise that develops, manufactures and markets consumer energy products for off-grid communities around the world. Over the last three years, our team has tripled, and sales have doubled each year. Their business serves two distinct markets: 1) developing world families living in energy poverty, and 2) outdoor enthusiasts seeking fuel-independent cooking and power. They address these markets simultaneously through parallel innovation: by incubating core technologies that can serve users in both markets, they are able to re-invest near-term revenue to solve long-term, high-impact problems. Developing World: Half the planet still cooks on indoor open wood fires and the toxic smoke they emit kills nearly 4 million people every year, twice as many as malaria. BioLite has developed an advanced, affordable, clean- burning stove that combines unprecedented emissions reductions with economically valuable electricity generation. The HomeStove™ is capable of reducing indoor smoke by more than 90% while cutting fuel use in half. By providing their largely off-grid customers with the ability to charge cell phones and LED lights, our stoves create economic incentive for purchase and continued use, ensuring sustainable delivery of their health and environmental benefits.
The Athletic is an online media company that specializes in online news publishing for the sports industry. It features a web-based platform that utilizes news and updates about athletes and season updates for sports such as basketball and football. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Seer is a developer of a life sciences and health data platform intended to facilitate early, pre-symptomatic detection of chronic life-threatening diseases. The company's platform captures and translates molecular insights from the proteome with improved accuracy and speed, enabling healthcare professionals to detect cancer and neurological diseases, drive earlier treatment and improve patient outcomes.
Optimus Ride is a self-driving vehicle company based in Boston, MA. It designs technologies to enable efficient, sustainable, and equitable mobility systems and solutions. As an MIT spinoff company, it combines over 30 years of interdisciplinary university research in self‑driving technologies (DARPA Urban Challenge), electric vehicles (CityCar), and Mobility-on-Demand Systems. The team includes decades of industrial and entrepreneurial experience that combines manufacturing robots, urban design, and shared vehicle fleet management.
OZY Media is a premium media and entertainment company for curious people — across TV, events, podcasts, and news. The company's mission is to help the curious see the world more broadly and more boldly by vaulting them ahead of the traditional news cycle and introducing them to the New and the Next – rising stars, fresh trends, provocative ideas, and boundary-pushing culture. OZY introduces an audience of 50 million to narratives that defy convention, change perspectives and ignite ideas — online, on-air, and in person. The company was launched in 2012 and is based in Mountain View, California.
Seer is a developer of a life sciences and health data platform intended to facilitate early, pre-symptomatic detection of chronic life-threatening diseases. The company's platform captures and translates molecular insights from the proteome with improved accuracy and speed, enabling healthcare professionals to detect cancer and neurological diseases, drive earlier treatment and improve patient outcomes.
Panorama is a software company that offers a number of business intelligence (BI) solutions.
Kerecis develops patented fish-skin products to heal the human body. Because no disease-transfer risk exists between cold-water fish and humans, the Kerecis fish skin is only gently processed and retains its similarity to human skin, making it an ideal substitute for human skin. More than 50 studies have been done on Kerecis technology. Those studies include two double-blind, comparative, randomized control trials, where fish skin treatment was more efficacious than mammalian-based treatments. Kerecis is also developing products for areas such as oral surgery, plastic surgery, and neurological applications. The company's products utilize multiple patented fish-skin and fatty-acid technologies to protect and regenerate tissue.
Seer is a developer of a life sciences and health data platform intended to facilitate early, pre-symptomatic detection of chronic life-threatening diseases. The company's platform captures and translates molecular insights from the proteome with improved accuracy and speed, enabling healthcare professionals to detect cancer and neurological diseases, drive earlier treatment and improve patient outcomes.
Boom Supersonic is a commercial airplane manufacturer that builds 65- to 88-seat supersonic airliners. Boom Technology is making supersonic passenger travel into reality by making a supersonic airliner. Boom was founded on the philosophy that they need to overcome the challenges to supersonic passenger flight, not surrender to them. They're making supersonic aircraft affordable for business travel. Their ultimate goal is a routine supersonic flight for everyone. Boom Supersonic is redefining what it means to fly in a commercial aircraft by building Overture, its Mach-2.2.
Pop-Up Magazine is the world’s first live magazine, created for a stage, a screen, and a live audience. Pop-Up Magazine is a live magazine — an evening of new, reported stories, photography, film, radio, and music, all mixed together. We don’t post any video or audio online. You have to be there to see it.
Aclima is a climate-tech company that focuses on mapping and analyzing air pollution through advanced measurement and analysis platforms. Aclima measures air pollution and greenhouse gases at unprecedented scales and block-by-block resolution. Their professional analytics software, Aclima Pro, translates billions of scientific measurements into environmental intelligence for governments, companies, and communities. Aclima is a purpose-driven technology company catalyzing bold climate action that protects public health, reduces emissions, and delivers clean air for all—investors, including Social Capital, Kapor Capital, and the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund back them.
LearnPlatform is the edtech effectiveness system used by school districts, states, higher ed institutions, and their partners to organize, streamline, and rapidly analyze the impact of their technology and teaching practices. Over 150,000 educators across thousands of schools use LearnPlatform's free and paid services to save time, save money, and improve outcomes. The company delivering ground-breaking tools that save money, improve learning, and build the capacity of hundreds of thousands of educators and their organizations.
Carbon provides printing solutions for products that outperform. The company helps businesses develop better products and bring them to market in less time. Carbon is a venture-backed company. They serve industries including automotive, consumer, industrial, life sciences, and dental.
Panorama Education brings the power of data to education through a SaaS platform used by hundreds of school districts across the US. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Panorama Education is a data analytics company for K-12 education. They help school districts, charter networks, and state governments conduct surveys of students, parents, teachers, and staff. Their classroom surveys collect feedback about individual teachers, and their school surveys gather data about the school environment and administrators. They believe that stakeholder feedback is a powerful professional development tool, and they believe that stakeholder surveys--when done correctly--make educator evaluation systems fairer and more effective.
Optimus Ride is a self-driving vehicle company based in Boston, MA. It designs technologies to enable efficient, sustainable, and equitable mobility systems and solutions. As an MIT spinoff company, it combines over 30 years of interdisciplinary university research in self‑driving technologies (DARPA Urban Challenge), electric vehicles (CityCar), and Mobility-on-Demand Systems. The team includes decades of industrial and entrepreneurial experience that combines manufacturing robots, urban design, and shared vehicle fleet management.
Nautilus Data Technologies Nautilus waterborne data center facilities are constructed on ocean-going barges. The barges are former military or construction ships with a 40 to 50 year extended life that are in robust working condition and meet all Coast Guard certifications. Nautilus’ first barge is currently under construction at California’s Mare Island where Nautilus has successfully validated its first proof of concept prototype data center. The proof of concept went through a certified third party data center pre-commissioning process and was validated by the engineering firms – Jacobs Engineering and Critical Engineering Group. Since it is five times more efficient to cool using water versus moving air, Nautilus’ patented cooling technology leverages the natural water that the barge safely rests on and allows the company to offer customers a high-density computing data center environment. Specifically, the waterborne data center can be configured and operated with up to 800 server racks deployed in less than six months anywhere around the world. Nautilus’ cloud solution automates the infrastructure in an open source environment agnostic to any data center, cloud or application. Additionally, Nautilus’ DCIM solution is predictive with integrated artificial intelligence that self heals and provides military-grade security. The Nautilus approach competes directly against the traditional or conventional data center approach by reducing the build time from two years to only six months. The green data center build by Nautilus has 19,000 tons of lower emissions (equivalent to approximately 3600 cars) as compared to the conventional data center. With a potential 50% annual energy savings, the Nautilus design could save clients up to $4 million in energy use cost. All of this is supported with our Patent- pending technology specific to Data Center Vessel, Modularity, Cooling System and Thermal Containment, Intelligent Power Management and DCIM with Predictive Analytics.
Macro is a disruptive media company focused on the multicultural market. Macro specializes in creating film, television and digital content for a multicultural audience. The company works to marry gifted storytellers with the sorely-needed capital to bring their stories to life, and doing so across traditional and unconventional platforms and distribution channels.
Private Equity Round in 2017
Truphone provides mobile network services. It has built state-of-the-art SIM software, intuitive management platforms. Truphone also enables other mobile operators to rapidly roll out support for eSIM enabled devices. With Truphone, enterprises and individuals are benefiting from our international SIM cards and worldwide subscriptions, providing global mobility.
Angaza provides a technology that enables businesses to provide affordable life-changing products to people in emerging markets. The company's comprehensive pay-as-you-go platform is used by manufacturing and distribution companies around the world to sell life-changing products to the next billion off-grid consumers. It aims to end poverty by enabling universal access to transformative products, services, and information. With affordable access to livelihood necessities like solar lights and clean cookstoves, people without access to credit or traditional banking services can start on a path to financial inclusion. Angaza was established in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Equity Crowdfunding in 2017
BioLite is a dynamic, rapidly growing, and profitable social enterprise that develops, manufactures and markets consumer energy products for off-grid communities around the world. Over the last three years, our team has tripled, and sales have doubled each year. Their business serves two distinct markets: 1) developing world families living in energy poverty, and 2) outdoor enthusiasts seeking fuel-independent cooking and power. They address these markets simultaneously through parallel innovation: by incubating core technologies that can serve users in both markets, they are able to re-invest near-term revenue to solve long-term, high-impact problems. Developing World: Half the planet still cooks on indoor open wood fires and the toxic smoke they emit kills nearly 4 million people every year, twice as many as malaria. BioLite has developed an advanced, affordable, clean- burning stove that combines unprecedented emissions reductions with economically valuable electricity generation. The HomeStove™ is capable of reducing indoor smoke by more than 90% while cutting fuel use in half. By providing their largely off-grid customers with the ability to charge cell phones and LED lights, our stoves create economic incentive for purchase and continued use, ensuring sustainable delivery of their health and environmental benefits.
MycoTechnology utilizes fungi-based food-processing platforms to transform the flavor and value of agricultural products. The platform can be used to solve a variety of challenges faced by the food, beverage, and flavor industries. MycoTechnology has released ClearTaste, an all-natural, GMO-free, organic bitter blocker that is Kosher and Halal certified. ClearTaste improves the flavor of various agricultural products. MycoTechnology also engages in fermenting agricultural products with strains of gourmet fungi. The company offers myceliated chocolate as well as robusta and arabica coffee beans. It develops and licenses technology to the industry to naturally improve the flavor of robusta and arabica coffee. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Aurora, Colorado.
Color is a complete platform for healthcare delivery from population genomics programs to high-throughput COVID-19 testing, Color provides the technology and infrastructure for large-scale health initiatives. Equitable, accessible healthcare programs. We bring together everything that’s required to run a large-scale healthcare program for your business, school, or state. Color’s products and services allow you to provide access to preventive healthcare programs whether your population is in one office or spread out across the country.
Gimlet Media is a developer of a digital media network platform that focuses on producing quality narrative podcasts and episodes, offering users an option to share, subscribing, and downloading them that enable clients to deliver powerful and engaging stories while expanding their brand outreach. Gimlet Media was founded in 2014 and is Brooklyn, New York.
The Atlantic is a magazine that provides its readers with information and articles related to literature, political science, cultural trends, technology, entertainment, economy, and foreign affairs. Initially founded as a literary and cultural commentary magazine, The Atlantic has also published commentaries on major issues related to political affairs. It also provides its readers with editorials and articles related to social experiments, current affairs and its effect on the world, global trends, education, and more. Its online magazine features video clips related to each of its categories. The Atlantic is written in the American English writing style and it has been awarded a number of national magazine awards. It is a monthly magazine founded by Francis H. Underwood, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Atlantic was founded in 1857 and it is currently based in Washington, D.C. It is a subsidiary of Atlantic Media.
Within is the premier destination for innovative, entertaining, and informative story-based virtual reality and augmented reality. We bring together the best immersive experiences from the world's finest VR/AR creators—from gripping tales set in worlds of pure imagination to documentaries taking you further inside the news than ever before. Within supports all major headsets, including Oculus Quest, Rift, HTC Vive, Sony PlayStation VR, and Samsung Gear VR. To get started experiencing our ever-growing roster of content, just download our app for iPhone or Android today.
Neighborly Corporation is a holding company based in Waco, Texas, that operates a diverse network of service-based franchises across multiple countries. Founded in 1970, it began as a single brand and has since expanded to encompass 21 distinct franchise organizations, providing a wide range of residential and commercial services. These services include plumbing, cleaning, electrical repairs, HVAC maintenance, and landscaping, among others. Neighborly aims to support franchise owners with comprehensive resources and a strong commitment to its core values. The company has approximately 4,300 franchises and is actively involved in the franchise community, participating in associations such as the International Franchise Association. Neighborly also emphasizes its role in enhancing the quality of life for homeowners and businesses by delivering reliable maintenance and repair solutions.
OpenGov is a provider of modern cloud software that enables government operations for local governments and state agencies. The company's software is designed specifically for the public sector's particular budgeting, procurement, and community development requirements.
Color is a complete platform for healthcare delivery from population genomics programs to high-throughput COVID-19 testing, Color provides the technology and infrastructure for large-scale health initiatives. Equitable, accessible healthcare programs. We bring together everything that’s required to run a large-scale healthcare program for your business, school, or state. Color’s products and services allow you to provide access to preventive healthcare programs whether your population is in one office or spread out across the country.
Axios is a new media company delivering vital, trustworthy news and analysis in the most efficient, illuminating and shareable ways possible. The company offers a mix of original and smartly narrated coverage of media trends, tech, business, and politics with expertise, voice, and smart brevity on a new and innovative mobile platform. Axios, the Greek word for worthy, provides only content worthy of people's time, attention, and trust. Axios publishes news, as well as focuses on business, technology, politics, science, and media trends. It also served as a farm team for political reporters who have since gone on to high-profile spots at outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post.
In collaboration with teachers, parents, and students FreshGrade was created for the classroom as an all-inclusive assessment, documentation and communications platform for teachers. FreshGrade facilitates greater parental engagement and student development in a way that mirrors how people communicate and use technology today.
Ellevation is an information technology company that features a web-based software platform specifically designed for ELL educators and English learners. Ellevation specializes in the fields of education, e-learning, and language learning. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Revolution Foods delivers ready-to-eat meal kits for school children and families. It offers breakfast, lunch, snack, and supper meals. Revolution Foods’s lunch and supper options include spaghetti and meatballs, vegetarian macaroni and cheese, turkey and cheese sandwich, chicken noodle and vegetable soup, buffalo chicken sandwich, chicken caesar salad, beef and cheese lasagna, cheeseburger, and more. Its breakfast options include Honey S’wheat Rev-O’s cereal, fruit, and milk; freshly baked banana muffin, fruit, and milk; apple cinna-grins cereal, fruit, and milk; Turkey and cheese English muffin, fruit, and milk; and more. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Oakland, California.
Udacity develops an online learning platform offering programs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics sector, as well as data science, autonomous systems, and cloud computing. It offers nanodegree programs such as front-end and senior web developer, full-stack web developer, data analyst, machine learning engineer, iOS and Android developer, programming introduction, tech entrepreneur, iOS app development beginning, Ruby beginning, and 2D mobile game developer courses. Udacity's online courses teach the skills that industry employers need and deliver credentials endorsed by employers. The company aims to democratize education making it affordable and accessible to get the jobs they desire to improve their lives. David Stavens, Mike Sokolsky, and Sebastian Thrun founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.
Rubicon is a digital marketplace for waste and recycling. They provide innovative software-based products for businesses and governments. They focus on developing software solutions that bring new transparency to the waste and recycling industry, encouraging customers to make data-driven decisions that lead to more efficient and effective operations as well as more sustainable outcomes.
Private Equity Round in 2015
Macro is a disruptive media company focused on the multicultural market. Macro specializes in creating film, television and digital content for a multicultural audience. The company works to marry gifted storytellers with the sorely-needed capital to bring their stories to life, and doing so across traditional and unconventional platforms and distribution channels.
In collaboration with teachers, parents, and students FreshGrade was created for the classroom as an all-inclusive assessment, documentation and communications platform for teachers. FreshGrade facilitates greater parental engagement and student development in a way that mirrors how people communicate and use technology today.
CrowdMed is revolutionizing healthcare by harnessing ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to help solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online. After 4 years of development and refinement, CrowdMed’s patented prediction market technology can uncover diagnoses to real-world medical cases that have stumped doctors for years. Instead of relying on individual physicians, CrowdMed harnesses the collective intelligence of thousands of Medical Detectives to produce astonishingly accurate and insightful diagnostic suggestions. Their goal is to be relied upon by millions of patients as a trusted source of medical answers. They combine the collective knowledge of human diagnosticians with the speed and convenience of the Internet.
PosiGen is a provider of residential renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions. We are a Third Party Ownership company (TPO), which allows us to offer renewable energy systems and energy efficiency retrofits to the people who need it most: Low- to moderate-income homeowners. Our mission is to help these low- to moderate-income individuals, families, and businesses achieve greater fiscal autonomy and energy independence by lowering their utility bills. At its core, PosiGen is a young social enterprise with an enormous ambition: To increase the financial autonomy of low- to moderate-income homeowners nationwide, by decreasing their dependence on utility-provided energy.