Empire Angels

Empire Angels is a Member-led, NYC seed fund and angel group of young professionals investing in early-stage ventures. The company operates funds that invest by majority vote, as well as a diverse network of young professionals who invest directly in companies they’re excited about. It was founded in 2012 and is located in New York, New York.

Graham Gullans

Co-Founder and Partner

31 past transactions

Enertiv

Grant in 2021
Enertiv is a real estate technology company that transforms building data into asset value. Our platform streamlines building operations by digitizing the physical infrastructure of commercial real estate portfolios. We collect better data, faster and more affordably than anyone else, enabling owners and operators to eliminate waste within their largest and most controllable operating expenses. In addition to utilizing existing data sources, we deploy IoT devices to continuously track every critical piece of equipment, tenant space, and indoor environmental condition to enable operators to ensure peak performance of their assets around the clock.

Superpedestrian

Series C in 2019
Superpedestrian is a venture-backed robotics company that develops lightweight electric vehicles with integrated online platforms. It provides a wealth of data to enhance cycling, from physical wellness to safety. The Copenhagen Wheel is now in mass production and shipping in volume. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Zoomcar

Debt Financing in 2018
Zoomcar is the marketplace for car sharing in emerging markets, with over 20,000 cars on its technology-driven platform across India, Southeast Asia, and Egypt. Zoomcar empowers host entrepreneurs to safely and easily share their cars to earn additional passive income. Guests in the Zoomcar community enjoy a diverse, affordable selection of cars to unlock memorable driving experiences with friends and family. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Zoomcar employs over 300 people and operates in 50 cities across India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Egypt. Uri Levine, the co-founder of mobility unicorns Waze and Moovit, currently serves as Zoomcar’s Chairman of the Board.

Weven

Angel Round in 2018
Weven is a two-sided venue management system that generates dynamic planning experiences for clients. Weven saves venue operators time, lowers costs and creates happier clients. The venue management system leverages venue specific data, spatial parameters, owner preferences and more to generate a personalized planning account for each client, specific to their venue, event size, date, budget and more.

Fundation

Debt Financing in 2018
Our Mission Empower the small business economy by enabling banks, B2B vendors and suppliers and the other critical institutions that SMBs rely on. Our Story "Fundation was founded on the premise of re-engineering the credit delivery process to small businesses through technology and advanced analytics. Over time we did just that by combining the talents of professionals with deep financial services and lending expertise with building a platform on modern digital technology. Today, companies ranging from super regional banks to community banks to a variety of B2B companies trust us to be their exclusive partner to serve their small business clients. Our innovation agenda is always determined by a simple foundation - what can we do to enhance our partners' ability to serve their small business clients better." Sam Graziano | Chief Executive Officer

Orionis Biosciences

Series B in 2018
Orionis Biosciences operates in the healthcare industry focusing on the biotechnology business and innovation. The company is an early-stage drug discovery and development biotechnology company fueled by a suite of disruptive technologies to advance innovative medicines for the treatment of diseases with high unmet medical needs – with an initial internal focus in oncology and immunotherapies. Orionis Biosciences has research facilities in the Boston area (Headquarters in Waltham, MA, USA) and Ghent (Belgium), and is operated by a world class team of entrepreneurs, scientists and transatlantic network of investors, in concert with strategic research and development collaborations. The latter includes collaborations with VIB (Belgium), Orionis Biosciences co-founding institution.

Mirow

Convertible Note in 2018
Mirow is an award-winning start-up in retail and hospitality space featured in Financial Times and a part of Retail Tech Map by CB Insights. Mirow develops smart mirrors-as-a-service for the fitting rooms that help customers to get AI-driven recommendations, call for assistance and get their items in desired size or color, and provide improved quality of service, confirmed sales uplift and completely unique big data on customer behavior and identity. List of our clients include top level brands and we're currently expanding both in the US and the EU.

Popsy

Angel Round in 2018
Popsy is one the fastest growing AI-powered mobile application to buy & sell locally building the next generation of classifieds. You can buy everything from electronics, to baby clothing, housing, cars and furniture. Using Artificial Intelligence, selling any item is as simple as taking a photo. Popsy's image recognition technology suggests in real time a title, price and category.
Farmer Willie's Alcoholic Ginger Beer based on the secret, homemade recipe of Farmer Willie Fenichel.

Enertiv

Seed Round in 2017
Enertiv is a real estate technology company that transforms building data into asset value. Our platform streamlines building operations by digitizing the physical infrastructure of commercial real estate portfolios. We collect better data, faster and more affordably than anyone else, enabling owners and operators to eliminate waste within their largest and most controllable operating expenses. In addition to utilizing existing data sources, we deploy IoT devices to continuously track every critical piece of equipment, tenant space, and indoor environmental condition to enable operators to ensure peak performance of their assets around the clock.

Zest Tea

Seed Round in 2017
Zest Tea produces high caffeine teas designed for mental clarity and energy. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Kenzen

Seed Round in 2016
Kenzen’s Mission is to harness the power of physiology data to predict and prevent industrial workforce injuries and improve productivity.

Enertiv

Seed Round in 2016
Enertiv is a real estate technology company that transforms building data into asset value. Our platform streamlines building operations by digitizing the physical infrastructure of commercial real estate portfolios. We collect better data, faster and more affordably than anyone else, enabling owners and operators to eliminate waste within their largest and most controllable operating expenses. In addition to utilizing existing data sources, we deploy IoT devices to continuously track every critical piece of equipment, tenant space, and indoor environmental condition to enable operators to ensure peak performance of their assets around the clock.

Zoomcar

Series B in 2016
Zoomcar is the marketplace for car sharing in emerging markets, with over 20,000 cars on its technology-driven platform across India, Southeast Asia, and Egypt. Zoomcar empowers host entrepreneurs to safely and easily share their cars to earn additional passive income. Guests in the Zoomcar community enjoy a diverse, affordable selection of cars to unlock memorable driving experiences with friends and family. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Zoomcar employs over 300 people and operates in 50 cities across India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Egypt. Uri Levine, the co-founder of mobility unicorns Waze and Moovit, currently serves as Zoomcar’s Chairman of the Board.

Juno

Series A in 2016
Juno is a fresh approach to ride sharing. By leading with its values and putting drivers first, it will pave the way for better rider experiences. Launching in New York spring 2016

BEGiN

Series B in 2016
BEGiN is an education technology company focused on creating engaging learning products for young children. It aims to enhance early childhood education by offering a library of interactive stories designed to foster a love for reading while developing essential skills. The company has established partnerships with notable children's brands such as Sesame Workshop, LEGO Ventures, Gymboree Play and Music, and Fisher-Price, further enriching its educational offerings. Co-founded by Neal Shenoy, Noelle Millholt, and Stephanie Dua, BEGiN has received recognition as one of Crain’s 100 Best Places to Work in New York City. Its flagship product, Speakaboos, provides a reading application that features bedtime stories, nursery rhymes, and songs, contributing to its mission of delivering high-quality education to children everywhere.

BEGiN

Series B in 2016
BEGiN is an education technology company focused on creating engaging learning products for young children. It aims to enhance early childhood education by offering a library of interactive stories designed to foster a love for reading while developing essential skills. The company has established partnerships with notable children's brands such as Sesame Workshop, LEGO Ventures, Gymboree Play and Music, and Fisher-Price, further enriching its educational offerings. Co-founded by Neal Shenoy, Noelle Millholt, and Stephanie Dua, BEGiN has received recognition as one of Crain’s 100 Best Places to Work in New York City. Its flagship product, Speakaboos, provides a reading application that features bedtime stories, nursery rhymes, and songs, contributing to its mission of delivering high-quality education to children everywhere.

Mah Ze Dahr

Seed Round in 2016
Conceived, built and run by lovers and purveyors of food, Mah-Ze-Dahr Bakery transports the curious on a delectable journey of mystery and desire that will elevate the baked good to a piece of comforting decadence that can be experienced every day. In Urdu, the word mazedar describes the taste essence of food, its flavor and magic that make it delicious. This one word captures the life of a taste experience, unique to each person but cohesive in its stories. It represents something that one cannot describe but wants to experience over and over again. Like the meaning of Mah-Ze-Dahr, the bakery is a culmination of years of traveling the world and experiencing people through their food, decades of culinary and restaurant experience, and the staunch belief that what you eat changes who you are.

Imperative

Seed Round in 2015
Imperative Group, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a peer coaching platform aimed at enhancing employee engagement and fulfillment. Founded in 2014 and based in Seattle, the platform allows employees to become effective coaches without the need for extensive training, utilizing a structured, video-based environment. This innovative approach makes coaching accessible to a significantly larger number of employees compared to traditional methods, thereby supporting organizations in addressing the evolving needs of the workforce. Imperative offers various tools and programs, including the Certified Purpose Leaders program, which equips organizations to integrate purpose into their talent strategies, and Individual and Team Purpose Profiles that help employees and teams identify intrinsic motivations. The platform is widely adopted by notable companies, enhancing career development, team dynamics, and talent acquisition.

Zoomcar

Venture Round in 2015
Zoomcar is the marketplace for car sharing in emerging markets, with over 20,000 cars on its technology-driven platform across India, Southeast Asia, and Egypt. Zoomcar empowers host entrepreneurs to safely and easily share their cars to earn additional passive income. Guests in the Zoomcar community enjoy a diverse, affordable selection of cars to unlock memorable driving experiences with friends and family. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Zoomcar employs over 300 people and operates in 50 cities across India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Egypt. Uri Levine, the co-founder of mobility unicorns Waze and Moovit, currently serves as Zoomcar’s Chairman of the Board.

Zoomcar

Series A in 2014
Zoomcar is the marketplace for car sharing in emerging markets, with over 20,000 cars on its technology-driven platform across India, Southeast Asia, and Egypt. Zoomcar empowers host entrepreneurs to safely and easily share their cars to earn additional passive income. Guests in the Zoomcar community enjoy a diverse, affordable selection of cars to unlock memorable driving experiences with friends and family. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Zoomcar employs over 300 people and operates in 50 cities across India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Egypt. Uri Levine, the co-founder of mobility unicorns Waze and Moovit, currently serves as Zoomcar’s Chairman of the Board.

Socure

Series A in 2014
Socure provides artificial intelligence for digital identity verification, fraud prevention, and sanction screening.

The Infatuation

Seed Round in 2014
The Infatuation is a website, app, newsletter, and recommendation platform designed for finding the perfect restaurant for every situation. The Infatuation doesn't take restaurant comps, doesn't take invites, and always tells it like it is. The platform operating in New York, Los Angeles, London, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Atlanta, Washington DC, Austin, and other major cities in US.

LiftMetrix

Seed Round in 2014
LiftMetrix instantly creates a customized social media marketing plan to drive key business objectives. LiftMetrix optimizes the value of growing investment in social marketing by turning raw measurement data into specific ROI metrics and recommendations. It also moves well beyond social analytics and superficial metrics to a deeper level of business intelligence. With LiftMetrix, you finally have a proven, powerful way to ensure that the social marketing spending impacts business.

StatSocial

Angel Round in 2013
StatSocial is a premier provider of social data, enabling brands and publishers to understand, segment, and target their audiences on the web. StatSocial was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York City.

Zoomcar

Seed Round in 2013
Zoomcar is the marketplace for car sharing in emerging markets, with over 20,000 cars on its technology-driven platform across India, Southeast Asia, and Egypt. Zoomcar empowers host entrepreneurs to safely and easily share their cars to earn additional passive income. Guests in the Zoomcar community enjoy a diverse, affordable selection of cars to unlock memorable driving experiences with friends and family. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Zoomcar employs over 300 people and operates in 50 cities across India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Egypt. Uri Levine, the co-founder of mobility unicorns Waze and Moovit, currently serves as Zoomcar’s Chairman of the Board.

basno

Series A in 2013
Basno is a place where people create and collect digital badges. Digital badges people are proud to own. Badges for every accomplishment, skill, commitment and expertise.

Zoomcar

Convertible Note in 2013
Zoomcar is the marketplace for car sharing in emerging markets, with over 20,000 cars on its technology-driven platform across India, Southeast Asia, and Egypt. Zoomcar empowers host entrepreneurs to safely and easily share their cars to earn additional passive income. Guests in the Zoomcar community enjoy a diverse, affordable selection of cars to unlock memorable driving experiences with friends and family. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Zoomcar employs over 300 people and operates in 50 cities across India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Egypt. Uri Levine, the co-founder of mobility unicorns Waze and Moovit, currently serves as Zoomcar’s Chairman of the Board.

Human Demand

Series A in 2013
Founded February 2012, Human Demand is the leading independent mobile Demand Side Platform (DSP) & Data Management Platform (DMP) company providing mobile audience solutions to advertisers. As a Demand Side Platform (DSP), Human Demand offers agencies and trading desks the industry’s most robust real-time bidding (RTB) self serve platform for mobile ads. The Company leverages its proprietary technology platform to bid on and serve advertisements across all Mobile Ad Exchanges. As a Data Management Platform (DMP), the Company enriches the typical undifferentiated mobile display and video inventory in real time and makes it intensely more valuable. The Company delivers targeted mobile audiences at scale through its proprietary "AppAudience" data, superior location insights, campaign optimization, and visual analytics. Human Demand has a team of 18 and is headquartered in New York City.

MyDROBE

Seed Round in 2012
MyDROBE's smartphone application solves two problems that everyone faces on a daily basis: what am I going to wear and what products should I buy. Based on the user's style and the brands that they like, MyDROBE creates the ultimate taste graph in fashion to power it's Personalized Recommendation Engine to suggest products to buy, outfits to wear, and other people to follow. By simplifying, enhancing and personalizing the users experience, MyDROBE takes the war out of your wardrobe.
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