Tofu is a company that specializes in providing a marketing tool designed to create hyper-personalized, multichannel campaigns for B2B marketing teams. The platform enables users to generate on-brand content that can be scaled across various marketing initiatives. Tofu's marketing playbook automatically ingests and updates critical information about a company's brand, messaging, target personas, and industries, facilitating strategic initiatives and enhancing content scalability. This comprehensive approach not only streamlines the campaign creation process but also aims to improve conversion rates for businesses.
Efficient Capital Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Efficient Capital Labs is a provider of capital services specifically tailored for B2B SaaS businesses that have a significant operational presence in India while generating revenue primarily from the US and other leading markets. The company focuses on offering non-dilutive capital financing, acting as a direct lender to streamline the underwriting process. This approach allows Efficient Capital Labs to deliver transparent and clear product terms, enabling businesses to achieve their financing goals effectively. By facilitating fast, seamless, and cost-effective access to capital, the company positions itself as a modern solution for SaaS businesses seeking to grow without compromising equity.
Cartwheel
Seed Round in 2024
Cartwheel specializes in on-demand delivery management software that caters to a variety of sectors, including courier services, restaurants, and medical deliveries. The company's platform enhances businesses' delivery infrastructure by offering logistics data analytics, warehouse management, and asset tracking services. This enables clients to optimize their dispatch schedules, delivery routes, and overall capacity management while maintaining brand identity and control over their data. Cartwheel has established integrations with numerous platforms, such as Olo and ezCater, and counts well-known brands like P.F. Changs, Portillo's, and Charleys Philly Steaks among its clientele. The company focuses on helping businesses either launch their in-house delivery services or improve their existing third-party delivery systems, ultimately leading to significant cost savings.
Apty Inc. is a developer of a digital adoption platform (DAP) that assists enterprises in enhancing the utilization of their software and optimizing complex business processes. Founded in 2017 and based in Frisco, Texas, Apty's platform provides on-screen guidance, usage analytics, and automation to support users in navigating new software applications and adhering to essential processes. By integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence, Apty enables organizations to improve productivity while minimizing training costs and software inefficiencies. The platform is designed for seamless integration with existing workflows and does not require code changes, making it accessible for various enterprise needs. Trusted by prominent companies such as Delta Airlines and Boeing, Apty serves nearly one million users each month, emphasizing the importance of effective software usage in achieving operational success.
Sunnyside
Series A in 2023
Sunnyside is a company that develops an alcohol tracking application aimed at helping individuals cultivate healthier drinking habits. The app provides users with a personalized plan tailored to their existing drinking behaviors and specific goals. It includes features such as daily text reminders to encourage users to monitor and limit their alcohol consumption. By utilizing this app, users can experience benefits such as reduced weekly alcohol intake, improved sleep quality, enhanced dietary choices, financial savings, and an overall increase in well-being.
Highlight
Series A in 2023
Highlight is a market research platform established in 2020 and based in New York, New York. It specializes in facilitating efficient and scalable at-home product testing. The platform allows brands to seamlessly distribute products and collect data from a diverse, vetted community of engaged consumers. This approach enables companies to obtain high-quality product insights at scale, enhancing their ability to make informed decisions based on real consumer feedback.
Wally Health
Seed Round in 2023
Wally Health is a personalized dental care provider that offers expert-led services in the comfort of patients' homes. Founded in 2019 by Stipe Latkovic and Tyler Burnett in Boston, Massachusetts, the company leverages technology to improve dental care accessibility. Wally Health aims to connect clients with top dentists while maintaining clear and affordable pricing. By focusing on user-friendly design and enhanced engagement between patients and healthcare professionals, Wally Health strives to simplify and enhance the dental care experience for its clients.
Strongsuit
Seed Round in 2022
Strongsuit is a professional task management service designed to assist busy individuals in balancing their work and personal lives. By combining technology and predictive analytics with personalized human support, Strongsuit acts as a chief-of-staff for households, alleviating the mental load associated with managing various responsibilities. The company's platform anticipates users' needs and helps them complete tasks, enabling professionals to focus on their careers while effectively managing their personal affairs. This approach not only enhances productivity but also contributes to employee retention by providing a valuable resource for managing life outside of work. Through its services, Strongsuit aims to empower individuals to achieve success both professionally and personally.
Welcome is a virtual events platform that specializes in creating comprehensive and immersive online experiences. Founded in 2019 and based in Denver, Colorado, Welcome aims to enhance the quality of virtual events by providing tools that allow users to design and execute events that rival productions from Hollywood studios. The platform addresses common challenges associated with virtual events, ensuring that technical mishaps do not detract from the overall experience. By focusing on high-quality production values, Welcome helps organizations deliver memorable and engaging virtual experiences that reflect positively on their brands.
Sunnyside
Seed Round in 2022
Sunnyside is a company that develops an alcohol tracking application aimed at helping individuals cultivate healthier drinking habits. The app provides users with a personalized plan tailored to their existing drinking behaviors and specific goals. It includes features such as daily text reminders to encourage users to monitor and limit their alcohol consumption. By utilizing this app, users can experience benefits such as reduced weekly alcohol intake, improved sleep quality, enhanced dietary choices, financial savings, and an overall increase in well-being.
The Cru
Seed Round in 2022
The Cru Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in developing a networking platform specifically for women. It provides peer coaching services designed to facilitate personal and professional growth. The Cru aims to simplify the networking process by creating a supportive environment where women can connect with like-minded peers. Through its platform, the company fosters collaboration, enabling women to share experiences and insights to help one another achieve their goals.
Ramped is a job-skilling platform focused on early-career professionals, designed to connect them with employers seeking trained and vetted talent. The platform aims to cultivate a new generation of workforce-ready individuals by providing accessible education and skill development. It seeks to address the limitations of traditional resumes by breaking inherent biases and facilitating connections between jobseekers and reputable companies. Through its innovative approach, Ramped enhances the employability of early-career talent while meeting the hiring needs of top employers.
Sawyer is a marketplace focused on enriching childhood experiences, connecting children, parents, and providers through an innovative platform. The company offers a comprehensive suite of technology solutions designed to enhance the online registration and booking processes for various enriching activities, such as yoga, dance, and arts and crafts classes. By empowering small business owners, non-profits, and educational institutions with tools for business intelligence and community engagement, Sawyer facilitates growth and impact in the early childhood development sector. The platform also aids parents in navigating the diverse landscape of children's activities, making it easier to discover and book local experiences that foster a love of learning. Sawyer's mission is to transform perceptions of education, emphasizing that meaningful learning extends beyond academic performance to include joyful discovery and adventure, ultimately preparing children for their future.
Brave Care
Series B in 2021
Brave Care, Inc. specializes in urgent pediatric health care services, providing treatment for a wide range of conditions such as allergies, asthma, cough, ear pain, eye problems, fever, minor fractures, and more. The company also offers pediatric-specific laboratory services and on-site x-ray facilities. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Brave Care operates primary and urgent care clinics designed exclusively for children in Oregon and Texas. In addition to in-person care, Brave Care provides pediatric advice to parents through its website and mobile app, supporting families nationwide in promoting their children's well-being.
Tinycare is a network of modern, micro daycare centers focused on serving infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in San Francisco. Founded in 2018 by Michael Lai, the company aims to provide the safest and cleanest licensed daycare environments while offering high-quality early childhood education. Tinycare employs a progressive approach to learning, ensuring that each child has the opportunity to reach their full potential. This commitment not only supports child development but also provides parents with peace of mind regarding their children's care.
Underground Cellar
Series A in 2021
Underground Cellar is an online marketplace based in San Francisco that specializes in premium wine discovery and purchasing. The platform features daily themed offerings highlighting specific wineries, regions, or varietals, and enhances the consumer experience by providing random rewards in the form of free bottle swaps for rare and private-stash selections from esteemed wineries. Users can easily buy wines from various winery partners and have the option to accumulate and store up to 500 bottles in optimal conditions within a state-of-the-art wine cellar situated in California's wine country. This service allows wine enthusiasts to build their own collections and enjoy convenient home delivery.
Deep Sentinel
Series A in 2021
Deep Sentinel Corp. is a company specializing in the development of artificial intelligence-based home protection systems. Founded by David Selinger in 2016 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with a research and development office in Taiwan, the company focuses on creating advanced crime prevention devices. Its product lineup includes security cameras, alarms, and camera hardware that leverage deep learning and computer vision technologies. These systems are designed to analyze video streams and contextual information in real time, allowing for the detection of potential threats to residential and business properties. By enabling proactive intervention before a crime occurs, Deep Sentinel aims to enhance the safety of families and businesses.
Grin Technologies Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in Sacramento, California, specializes in influencer marketing software. Its platform, GRIN, facilitates direct-to-consumer brands in discovering, recruiting, and managing authentic relationships with influencers. The software suite includes tools for relationship management, campaign execution, product seeding, content management, and performance analytics, enabling brands to build genuine connections with influencers to drive brand awareness and sales.
MilkRun, Inc. is an online platform that facilitates direct grocery purchases from farmers and producers, allowing consumers to buy a variety of products including bakery items, meat, seafood, and beverages. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Canby, Oregon, the company serves as a retail channel for small and mid-sized producers, enabling them to connect directly with their customers. Through its end-to-end solution, MilkRun enhances the distribution and fulfillment of locally sourced goods, significantly improving efficiency for producers by utilizing a pre-industrial distribution model tailored for local food systems.
Underground Printing
Series A in 2021
Underground Printing, founded in 2001 by Rishi Narayan and headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, specializes in custom-designed apparel and promotional products. The company offers a variety of services, including embroidery, digital printing, and screen printing, catering to a diverse range of items such as t-shirts, outerwear, sportswear, and promotional materials like pens and magnets. Through its online platform, customers can easily select designs, obtain quotes, and place orders for personalized products. Underground Printing aims to provide high-quality, customized clothing solutions at competitive prices, serving both individual and business needs.
Brave Care
Series A in 2021
Brave Care, Inc. specializes in urgent pediatric health care services, providing treatment for a wide range of conditions such as allergies, asthma, cough, ear pain, eye problems, fever, minor fractures, and more. The company also offers pediatric-specific laboratory services and on-site x-ray facilities. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Brave Care operates primary and urgent care clinics designed exclusively for children in Oregon and Texas. In addition to in-person care, Brave Care provides pediatric advice to parents through its website and mobile app, supporting families nationwide in promoting their children's well-being.
Prodigy Software Inc. operates an online checkout platform designed to enhance the car buying experience by integrating seamlessly with dealership infrastructure and financial institutions. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Prodigy provides auto dealers with a modern, streamlined digital sales solution that improves efficiency and customer satisfaction. The platform allows customers to complete parts of the purchasing process online or in-store, ensuring real-time synchronization of information to eliminate redundant data entry. By connecting car buyers with dealers, as well as lenders and credit bureaus, Prodigy aims to facilitate increased car sales and operational efficiency for dealers.
Homelister
Seed Round in 2020
Homelister Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, operates an online real estate brokerage platform. This platform empowers homeowners by providing tools and professional assistance to sell their homes swiftly and conveniently. Homelister enables users to list their properties on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and major real estate websites, offering varying levels of assistance throughout the process. Users can opt for additional services like offer negotiation and professional photography, with the platform facilitating a more affordable alternative to traditional local agents by leveraging digital management tools from listing to closing.
Tinycare
Seed Round in 2020
Tinycare is a network of modern, micro daycare centers focused on serving infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in San Francisco. Founded in 2018 by Michael Lai, the company aims to provide the safest and cleanest licensed daycare environments while offering high-quality early childhood education. Tinycare employs a progressive approach to learning, ensuring that each child has the opportunity to reach their full potential. This commitment not only supports child development but also provides parents with peace of mind regarding their children's care.
Tinycare
Seed Round in 2020
Tinycare is a network of modern, micro daycare centers focused on serving infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in San Francisco. Founded in 2018 by Michael Lai, the company aims to provide the safest and cleanest licensed daycare environments while offering high-quality early childhood education. Tinycare employs a progressive approach to learning, ensuring that each child has the opportunity to reach their full potential. This commitment not only supports child development but also provides parents with peace of mind regarding their children's care.
AdQuick, Inc. is a marketplace that facilitates the buying and selling of outdoor advertising services. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the company offers a self-service platform that enables users to select locations, plan data-driven campaigns, and measure advertising effectiveness. AdQuick's services encompass a diverse range of advertising formats, including billboards, bulletins, posters, wall scapes, benches, transit shelters, bus wraps, airports, and digital transits. The platform aggregates options from various vendors, allowing users to compare choices based on their specific requirements, while also providing media owners the tools to manage inventory and send proposals to clients.
Serial Box is an entertainment company that provides serialized entertainment for readers and listeners. The company creates short, immersive stories that you can listen to or read. They produce completely original series and tell official new stories around story worlds like BBC's Orphan Black and characters like Marvel's Black Panther and Jessica Jones. Serial Box is designed for consumption on smartphones in either an audiobook or e-book format, users can read or listen to each weekly episodic installment. It produces original fiction with a focus on science fiction, fantasy, mystery, crime, and thrillers. The users can use the Serial Box mobile app to access both audio and text and even toggle between them. Serial Box was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States
Underground Cellar
Seed Round in 2019
Underground Cellar is an online marketplace based in San Francisco that specializes in premium wine discovery and purchasing. The platform features daily themed offerings highlighting specific wineries, regions, or varietals, and enhances the consumer experience by providing random rewards in the form of free bottle swaps for rare and private-stash selections from esteemed wineries. Users can easily buy wines from various winery partners and have the option to accumulate and store up to 500 bottles in optimal conditions within a state-of-the-art wine cellar situated in California's wine country. This service allows wine enthusiasts to build their own collections and enjoy convenient home delivery.
Grin Technologies Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in Sacramento, California, specializes in influencer marketing software. Its platform, GRIN, facilitates direct-to-consumer brands in discovering, recruiting, and managing authentic relationships with influencers. The software suite includes tools for relationship management, campaign execution, product seeding, content management, and performance analytics, enabling brands to build genuine connections with influencers to drive brand awareness and sales.
Resolve
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Resolve operates a B2B payments platform that facilitates 'buy now, pay later' transactions for business purchases. It enables merchants to offer risk-free, extended payment terms to their clients, thereby enhancing sales and cash flow. Resolve serves manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors across various sales channels, including e-commerce checkouts. The company's platform uses non-traditional underwriting data to authorize delayed payments, assuming all repayment risks within the credit period. Backed by prominent investors such as PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, Resolve aims to bridge the gap between buyers and sellers in the B2B sector.