Equal Opportunity Ventures

Equal Opportunity Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2019. The firm focuses on incubation, early stage, and seed investments, primarily targeting businesses that promote economic mobility and increase opportunities in the United States. It invests across a diverse range of sectors, including business products, services, consumer products, financial services, healthcare, information technology, big data, and artificial intelligence. Equal Opportunity Ventures aims to support entrepreneurs in building commercially viable companies that contribute to the broader economic landscape.

Justina Gallegos

Partner

Taran Raghuram

Associate

Ian Richardson

Partner

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Stepful

Seed Round in 2023
Stepful is a platform that enables individuals with only a high school diploma to train for and secure entry-level positions in the healthcare sector. It offers online courses, hands-on clinical sessions, and job placement assistance.

Headroom

Seed Round in 2023
Headroom is a San Francisco-based developer of an artificial intelligence powered virtual meeting platform designed to reduce distraction and automate routine meeting tasks. The platform provides transcripts, automatically generated summaries with highlights, gesture recognition, and optimized video quality to support remote collaboration. It also includes features such as alert observers and built-in gesture-based approvals that let participants indicate responses without unmuting, helping teams notice questions or excitement in real time. Headroom aims to enable users to focus on relationships, creative thinking, and problem solving while AI handles the routine aspects of meetings.

Headroom

Series A in 2022
Headroom is a San Francisco-based developer of an artificial intelligence powered virtual meeting platform designed to reduce distraction and automate routine meeting tasks. The platform provides transcripts, automatically generated summaries with highlights, gesture recognition, and optimized video quality to support remote collaboration. It also includes features such as alert observers and built-in gesture-based approvals that let participants indicate responses without unmuting, helping teams notice questions or excitement in real time. Headroom aims to enable users to focus on relationships, creative thinking, and problem solving while AI handles the routine aspects of meetings.

Forage

Series A in 2022
Forage is a payments company that enables merchants to accept EBT SNAP payments through a unified API, facilitating transactions in online and in-person settings and expanding access to essential goods for customers using government assistance. The platform provides pre-built checkout components, rapid USDA certification, fraud protection, and real-time analytics to support reliable and compliant EBT processing. By simplifying payment acceptance, Forage helps merchants reach a broader customer base while supporting food security initiatives and inclusive commerce. The solution combines seamless integration with ongoing support to help merchants navigate regulatory requirements associated with government benefits programs.

KaiPod Learning

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2021, KaiPod Learning provides in-person learning pods for online learners and homeschoolers. These pods offer enrichment activities, academic support, and socialization opportunities, guided by experienced coaches.

Intus Care

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2018, Intus Care develops a platform that connects home care providers with patients. Its application uses machine learning to predict hospital readmissions and risks, enabling efficient tracking of care providers and high-risk patient identification.

JobGet

Seed Round in 2020
JobGet Inc. is a mobile hiring application and job search platform based in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 2017. It serves as a marketplace connecting employers and job seekers, facilitating direct communication through messaging, scheduling meetings, and conducting video interviews. The platform is particularly focused on the retail and hospitality industries, significantly accelerating the job search process by reducing the timeline from weeks to mere minutes. JobGet has gained recognition as a top-rated application on both iOS and Android, assisting thousands of job seekers in engaging with prominent employers.

JobGet

Seed Round in 2020
JobGet Inc. is a mobile hiring application and job search platform based in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 2017. It serves as a marketplace connecting employers and job seekers, facilitating direct communication through messaging, scheduling meetings, and conducting video interviews. The platform is particularly focused on the retail and hospitality industries, significantly accelerating the job search process by reducing the timeline from weeks to mere minutes. JobGet has gained recognition as a top-rated application on both iOS and Android, assisting thousands of job seekers in engaging with prominent employers.

Intus Care

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2018, Intus Care develops a platform that connects home care providers with patients. Its application uses machine learning to predict hospital readmissions and risks, enabling efficient tracking of care providers and high-risk patient identification.

Haven Connect

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2014, Haven Connect is a Berkeley-based company that develops an online platform connecting affordable housing property managers with low-income applicants. The platform digitizes paper applications and integrates them with online submissions, enabling seamless management of waitlists.
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