Fantail Ventures

Fantail Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm established in 2008 that focuses on investing in and advising early-stage companies. The firm specializes in sectors such as data and analytics, digital media, e-commerce, fintech, financial technologies, digital assets, automation, marketplaces, and wellness. By leveraging its expertise, Fantail Ventures aims to support innovative startups that are poised for growth in these dynamic industries.

Jonty Kelt

Founder

49 past transactions

Cynamics

Venture Round in 2021
Cynamics is a network detection and response solution built for MSPs, MSSPs, and companies of all sizes. It provides threat prediction and full visibility - at speed and scale - using proprietary algorithms in conjunction with advanced AI and machine learning. The company's network Blueprint technology makes use of advanced sampling techniques are used to reduce network resource demand, so that only 1% of network traffic provides 100% visibility. It includes novel algorithms for a new type of transfer learning - normalizing various client networks to create a single, 'basic fundamental'.

NewStand

Series B in 2021
New Stand is a rapidly expanding convenience and engagement platform that blends physical touchpoints with digital perks and location-based media to be consistently helpful and engaging in people’s lives.

Paxos

Series D in 2021
Paxos is a regulated financial institution building infrastructure to enable movement between physical and digital assets. The company takes a two-pronged approach of establishing regulatory designations that give it access to the current financial infrastructure and the ability to develop innovative products. This allows Paxos to operate as a gateway between traditional finance and the digital future. Paxos was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Percent

Series A in 2021
Percent has created the modern credit marketplace, empowering investors, borrowers, and underwriters with innovative technology to increase the speed and velocity of transactions at a fraction of the cost. The company’s core infrastructure delivers public market efficiencies to the analog private credit market by powering the sourcing, structuring, syndication, surveillance and servicing of private credit transactions from beginning to end. Founded in 2018, Percent’s platform is becoming the market standard for asset-based and corporate lending, powering over $1.2 billion in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar private credit industry. For additional information, please visit www.percent.com and follow the company on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Noggin

Venture Round in 2021
Noggin is a management and organisational resilience company engaged in managing organisational disruptions. Clients can manage any kind of risk, hazard, or incident using the company's platform, which offers security incident reports, situational awareness, and incident reporting dashboards.

Robinhood

Venture Round in 2021
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application.

ECOMI TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.

Venture Round in 2021
ECOMI is a technology company based in Singapore which aims to lead the way in the emerging digital collectibles space, as well as protection of digital assets. We offers a one-stop-shop for digital collectibles through the VE-VE app bringing pop culture and entertainment into the 21st century. ECOMI sees digital collectibles as a new asset class which offers intellectual property owners the opportunity for new revenue streams in the digital landscape. Digital streaming, gaming, in-app purchasing has become a multi billion-dollar market and the next to join this digital trend is the pop culture and collectibles industry.

Instnt

Series A in 2020
Instnt's AI eliminates fraud risks and transfers losses to the insurance market through a unique partnership with three global A-rated insurers, saving businesses millions in operational and treasury losses.

Givewith

Venture Round in 2020
Givewith is a social impact technology company that delivers sales and procurement differentiators in the form of curated social impact programs. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas, United States.

Jasper

Venture Round in 2020
Jasper is an experienced partner for sophisticated capital seeking exposure to commercial real estate in Australia and New Zealand. Jasper provides proprietary deal flow, intelligent analysis, and on-the-ground asset management.

Underline Infrastructure

Seed Round in 2020
Underline Infrastructure operates as a full-service solution to deliver an open-access fiber network. Its full-service offering accelerates deployment reduces the burden on local governments and provides an option for community ownership where desired.

Percent

Seed Round in 2020
Percent has created the modern credit marketplace, empowering investors, borrowers, and underwriters with innovative technology to increase the speed and velocity of transactions at a fraction of the cost. The company’s core infrastructure delivers public market efficiencies to the analog private credit market by powering the sourcing, structuring, syndication, surveillance and servicing of private credit transactions from beginning to end. Founded in 2018, Percent’s platform is becoming the market standard for asset-based and corporate lending, powering over $1.2 billion in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar private credit industry. For additional information, please visit www.percent.com and follow the company on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Peregrine

Series A in 2020
Peregrine creates technology to help public safety agencies make data-driven decisions, power the operations, and maintain strong community relationships. Its software fuses disconnected data across secure networks and empowers public safety leaders with new ways to search, analyze, and collaborate. The company delivers industry-leading privacy and security controls to help government institutions unlock complex data workflows, enable new types of public-private partnerships, and build trust with the communities they serve.

Instnt

Seed Round in 2020
Instnt's AI eliminates fraud risks and transfers losses to the insurance market through a unique partnership with three global A-rated insurers, saving businesses millions in operational and treasury losses.

BraveHeart Wireless

Venture Round in 2020
BraveHeart Wireless is a medical device company that offers a snap-and-go cloud API to integrate the sensors and the cloud platform into an application. They provide a growth platform for patients.

Square Roots Urban Growers

Venture Round in 2019
Square Roots Urban Growers is a farming accelerator that assists companies in creating local food businesses. It provides fresh, wholesome food to cities all year while also training future generations of farmers.

EVR Foods (Lavva)

Venture Round in 2019
EVR Foods is a producer of plant-based foods intended to offer nourishing and functional food alternatives. Their products are naturally dairy-free, soy-free, and gluten-free and have a blend of creamy, sprouted pili nuts, and prebiotic-rich plantains, enabling consumers to adopt healthy eating habits without compromising on taste.

MonetaGo

Venture Round in 2019
MonetaGo is a financial technology provider, creating and deploying networks that provide network participants a common platform to reduce error and fraud, while also synchronizing and enhancing workflows. The company launched live with clients in March 2018, and since then has amassed agreements, contracts and commercial working relationships with SWIFT, Reserve Bank of India, HSBC, Citi, R3, Wipro and many more multinational financial institutions. The Total Addressable Market for their platform and services runs to multibillions of dollars, and they are fast approaching a massive growth inflection point. The Global financial eco-system still currently relies on excel, fax and couriers to manage unnecessarily complex workflows, that also greatly increase the opportunity for error, fraud and inertia – market acceptance of these concerns is ubiquitous, and MonetaGo is prime placed to provide solutions. Further, the company’s initial offering leverages worldwide political and regulatory mandates to help bring credit to the underserved micro, small and medium sized business sector, while also allowing banks and lending institutions to extend their books of business in to these markets. The company has grown its business by offering incremental products and platforms to their bank clients in India, Latin America, and will look to extend their reach to EMEA, APAC and the US in the coming years. The company has a multi-product and worldwide opportunity to rapidly evolve the way banks, financial institutions, and regulatory authorities manage their workflows, reduce error and fraud. The Total Addressable Market for the company’s initial two products show a path to $300m in gross revenues alone in a handful of years, but when incremental products and asset markets are added there is a clear billion dollar opportunity being unlocked by MonetaGo.

Waldo

Venture Round in 2019
Waldo sells the highest quality contact lens, without the hassle or the price tag - straight to your door. Waldo daily contact lenses include a super fine edge design, greater moisture for maximum comfort and UV protection. No longer are contact lenses banished to the confines of a bathroom cabinet, instead Waldo lenses come beautifully packaged and arrive at our customer’s door each month or within 48 hours from placing an order online. Get ready to see happiness!

Candid

Venture Round in 2019
At Candid, we believe dental professionals and their patients deserve more than what other clear aligner systems provide. That’s why we created CandidPro™: a total orthodontic solution that brings clinical support, connected treatment technology, and high-touch service into any practice. Start getting more from your clear aligner partner at candidpro.com.

BABE Wine

Venture Round in 2019
BABE Wine is a wine manufacturing company. The team launched BABE, a sparkling wine in a can that is changing the beverage game by making wine more accessible to everyone, everywhere. Now they have teamed up with Anheuser-Busch InBev to go worldwide.

Zype

Venture Round in 2019
Zype provides the infrastructure for digital video with a cloud-based platform to manage and distribute enterprise-grade video across the web, mobile, TV, and social media. Offering both developer-friendly tools such as customizable APIs as well as turnkey solutions for OTT apps and linear/FAST channels, Zype’s SaaS solutions enable video creators or distributors to quickly build, launch and manage superior video products at scale.

Otherland

Seed Round in 2019
Otherland is a digitally-native candle brand that transforms homes into an expressive world. Otherland creates toxin-free environments in their homes, which is why each hand-poured candle contains no parabens, sulfates, or phthalates and is always cruelty-free. Otherland infuses homes with the energy of art, design, and fragrance.

Blue Canoe Learning

Seed Round in 2019
Blue Canoe is an artificial intelligence (AI) B2B company that increases business productivity by improving the pronunciation and business communication of non-native English speaking employees. Blue Canoe uses a proven brain-science methodology, and scales it with speech recognition and machine learning, to create engaging mobile games that effectively help learners communicate clearly with colleagues and customers. Learners track their progress over time with an objective pronunciation score for continuous improvement. Blue Canoe partners with ESL programs and teachers, who include the app as part of their solution. Investors include Tsingyuan Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Kernel Labs, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and more.

MoneyLion

Series C in 2019
MoneyLion is a mobile banking and financial membership platform that offers mobile banking, lending, and investment solutions. The company utilzies analytics and machine learning-based technology to gain a 360-degree view of its users’ personal finances, enabling uniquely personalized advice and underwriting. With its built-in system of rewards, points, and incentives, MoneyLion encourages good financial behavior and better financial outcomes.

Whip Around

Series A in 2019
Whip Around is an award winning, easy to use fleet maintenance software company that connects drivers, mechanics and fleet managers to improve the uptime of vehicles and equipment. Founded in 2016, we are on a mission to keep the world’s fleets moving.

QuickFrame

Venture Round in 2019
QuickFrame's intelligent video platform reduces the time, cost, and subjectivity of traditional video creation, empowering you to do more with video.

Narrative Science

Venture Round in 2019
Narrative Science Inc. specializes in natural language generation (NLG) technology that transforms data into intelligible narratives. The company offers two primary products: Quill, an automated narrative generation platform for enterprise reporting, and Lexio, which integrates with various data sources like Salesforce and Google Analytics to provide actionable insights. By leveraging artificial intelligence, these platforms convert complex data into easily understandable reports, enabling users with limited analytics skills to grasp the underlying stories in their data. Narrative Science serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, marketing, and manufacturing, facilitating improved communication and decision-making through data-driven narratives. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company has established strategic partnerships to enhance its offerings and reach a broader audience.

Percent

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Percent has created the modern credit marketplace, empowering investors, borrowers, and underwriters with innovative technology to increase the speed and velocity of transactions at a fraction of the cost. The company’s core infrastructure delivers public market efficiencies to the analog private credit market by powering the sourcing, structuring, syndication, surveillance and servicing of private credit transactions from beginning to end. Founded in 2018, Percent’s platform is becoming the market standard for asset-based and corporate lending, powering over $1.2 billion in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar private credit industry. For additional information, please visit www.percent.com and follow the company on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Fero Labs

Venture Round in 2018
Fero Labs is an actionable machine learning software for improving processes and increasing the quality of manufacturing facilities. Fero Labs prides itself on increasing factories’ profits by combining their existing data with the latest advances in the field of data science. By utilizing Fero, the automated machine learning software, Fero Labs’ customers understand the root causes of the problems leading to process and quality issues. Armed with new insights into their production, factories resolve the underlying issues leading to continuous process improvement. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Epicured

Venture Round in 2018
Epicured is a subscription meal delivery service that specializes in low-FODMAP and gluten-free prepared foods. Their platform offers a gluten-free, healthy, digestion-friendly, and low-food-map menu, enabling consumers to improve their metabolism and get a meal compliant with their treatment plans. It delivers science-based nutrition solutions to combat chronic disease.

TYME Food

Venture Round in 2018
TYME Food is the simplest method to eat healthily. It is entirely plastic-free and made from plants. meals that are prepared and ready to eat and are delivered weekly to the door.

KitSplit

Seed Round in 2018
KitSplit is a venture-backed startup re-imagining the Hollywood production studio as a local marketplace. We enable all visual storytellers, regardless of background and budget, to become their own studio with access to world-class gear and services. Today we are the largest rental marketplace and community for gear rentals. Forbes and Fast Company have called us "the AirBNB of cameras." But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Ultimately we're building a one-stop shop for visual content creators to get everything they need including gear, locations, and services. We are looking for high-caliber, visionary, creative, and genuine people to build their careers with us.

Evernym

Venture Round in 2017
Evernym is building the next generation of identity infrastructure for the world, enabling trusted peer interactions between individuals, organizations, and things. Having created and released Sovrin, the first open-source distributed ledger network dedicated to self-sovereign identity, Evernym works with leading companies, institutions and NGOs to create and deploy new private-by-design solutions which give the individual true control and ownership of their personal data.

QuickFrame

Convertible Note in 2017
QuickFrame's intelligent video platform reduces the time, cost, and subjectivity of traditional video creation, empowering you to do more with video.

Conversion Logic

Series A in 2017
Conversion Logic operates as a machine learning-powered marketing analytics for the enterprise. With the XC Logic platform powered by our award-winning machine learning framework and its professional services expertise, they enable marketing efficiency, optimization, and scale by delivering predictive and valuable insights in real-time.

Fero Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Fero Labs is an actionable machine learning software for improving processes and increasing the quality of manufacturing facilities. Fero Labs prides itself on increasing factories’ profits by combining their existing data with the latest advances in the field of data science. By utilizing Fero, the automated machine learning software, Fero Labs’ customers understand the root causes of the problems leading to process and quality issues. Armed with new insights into their production, factories resolve the underlying issues leading to continuous process improvement. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Better.com

Series B in 2017
Better.com democratized the home-financing ecosystem, replacing it with a digitized process that eliminates commissions, fees, unnecessary steps, and time-wasting branch appointments. In addition to providing mortgage rates in seconds, Better.com’s platform offers a digital marketplace featuring competitive quotes from an array of insurance providers for the seamless purchase of a homeowner's insurance policy and instant access to leading real estate agents across the country. To date, Better.com has done $7.9B in home loans and $1B in insurance.

Stacks

Series A in 2017
Blockstack is a decentralized computing network that puts users in control of their data and login. It’s the easiest way to build decentralized apps that can scale. Blockstack enables engineers to build secure, privacy-focused applications: users are in control of their data instead of storing it with large tech companies. Over 120 independent developer teams have built apps on Blockstack.

Relay Delivery

Venture Round in 2017
We are on a mission to make food deliveries better. Relay is a technology company that is empowering restaurants to take back ownership of their customers and provide an elevated courier service, and, in turn, provides couriers with industry leading pay and flexibility. Relay's proprietary logistics engine is changing how local economies operate and how goods criss-cross through your city. Relay's goal is to bring efficiencies of scale to delivery and push down the cost of delivery for merchants and customers while simultaneously providing a top tier courier experience. We are based in NYC and currently operate in NYC, NJ, Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago, and Washington DC. We fulfill millions of deliveries a year using our distributed network of couriers. Additionally, our software provides a unified management system for orders across all delivery platforms and a scalable courier force to ensure on-time delivery no matter the circumstance.

Swyft

Series A in 2016
Swyft’s high-profile automated retail channel expands your sales, increases profits and enhances your brand through consistent user experiences that you will be proud of. Swyft is the disruptive turn-key automated retail channel for brands, retailers, franchise vend operators and enterprises to innovatively engage with users. Our solution incorporates specifically designed automated retail hardware, a robust and scalable SaaS platform that leverages the Internet of Things, and finely-tuned managed services to ensure a scalable, cost-effective, and efficient go-to-market implementation.

Chronos

Seed Round in 2016
Chronos is a little disk that fits on the bottom of your fancy watch with “micro-suction” and offers notifications in the form of little blinking LEDs and vibrations. You can even tap your watch face to activate the device, allowing you to silence incoming calls or control music playback. Like the Kisai Link, the Chronos is supremely limited in its interface options makes it extremely compelling for folks who want to wear nice watches and not get bogged down by notifications.

Posse

Seed Round in 2010
Posse they provide their users with the opportunity to discover and share recommendations for food retailers worldwide.

Narrative Science

Venture Round in 2010
Narrative Science Inc. specializes in natural language generation (NLG) technology that transforms data into intelligible narratives. The company offers two primary products: Quill, an automated narrative generation platform for enterprise reporting, and Lexio, which integrates with various data sources like Salesforce and Google Analytics to provide actionable insights. By leveraging artificial intelligence, these platforms convert complex data into easily understandable reports, enabling users with limited analytics skills to grasp the underlying stories in their data. Narrative Science serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, marketing, and manufacturing, facilitating improved communication and decision-making through data-driven narratives. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company has established strategic partnerships to enhance its offerings and reach a broader audience.

The Trade Desk

Seed Round in 2010
The Trade Desk is a technology company that empowers buyers of advertising. The Trade Desk provides a self-service platform that enables ad buyers to manage data-driven digital advertising campaigns using their own teams across various advertising formats, including display, video, and social, and on a multitude of devices, including computers, mobile devices, and connected TV.

WikiMart

Seed Round in 2009
Wikimart is an online marketplace for Russia and Russian speaking countries. It's a B2C platform where any retailer in Russia can open an e-shop for free and start selling online. Wikimart charges participated retailers 3% final value fee and provides them with a large number of services including order-fulfillment interface, accounting and legal support, ecommerce marketing tools. The company was founded in 2008 and sets a goal to become a dominant ecommerce marketplace on the territory of the former Soviet Union.

Devpost

Series A in 2009
Devpost inspires software developers to build great software. They power the majority of virtual and in-person software competitions around the globe. Companies pay them to engage and market their tools to the world's developers. Their mission is rooted in the belief that technology and bring about important change and improve lives.

Magnetic

Seed Round in 2009
Magnetic is a AI company with a marketing platform for enterprises, brands and agencies. Our ad solutions help marketers find, keep and bring back customers. These solutions are powered by our unique data including purchase intent data from more than 450,000 partner sites, shopping profiles of over 250 million individuals, and behavioral insights across a billion active devices. Headquartered in New York City, Magnetic also has offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Boston, Atlanta and San Francisco. Additionally, Magnetic has offices in Europe and Canada. For more information please visit www.magnetic.com.
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