Castle operates an application to create and develop interactive cards. It offers a digital editor for designing and game development.
Bodily
Convertible Note in 2023
Bodily specializes in designing and providing women's undergarments tailored to support postpartum recovery, breastfeeding, and other bodily changes. The company combines evidence-based research with design-led products to cater to new mothers' needs.
Freemodel
Series A in 2023
Freemodel offers pre-renovation services for residential properties to support agents and homeowners in preparing homes for sale. The company manages the renovation process to maximize sale price while reducing complexity and upfront capital requirements. Its services include selecting finish materials and colors, preparing construction documentation and build schematics, creating dynamic visualizations, and organizing permit plans for each project, enabling property owners to manage and finance remodels and pre-sales preparations.
ROOM is a startup that specializes in reshaping the modern workspace. It designs a modern workplace system through flexible alternatives that make more room for people at work and also build prefabricated, self-assembled, sound-proofed, ventilated, and powered booths. It enables users to make extra room in the budget without compromising quality and provides employees with a place to take a video call or get some uninterrupted time to focus on work.
The company was co-founded by Morten Meisner-Jensen and Brian Chen in 2018.
Freemodel
Series A in 2023
Freemodel offers pre-renovation services for residential properties to support agents and homeowners in preparing homes for sale. The company manages the renovation process to maximize sale price while reducing complexity and upfront capital requirements. Its services include selecting finish materials and colors, preparing construction documentation and build schematics, creating dynamic visualizations, and organizing permit plans for each project, enabling property owners to manage and finance remodels and pre-sales preparations.
Creative Fabrica
Series B in 2023
Founded in 2016, Creative Fabrica is a Dutch company that operates an online marketplace for fonts, graphics, craft designs, and premium content created by designers. It offers tools such as Fontcloud and Shapecloud for font management and generation, enabling users to purchase these services through affordable subscriptions.
kitchX is a Düsseldorf-based provider of home-renovation advisory services focused on kitchens. It offers end-to-end renovation management covering design, planning and execution of kitchen fittings and interior design. The company combines proprietary conversational commerce technology and planning software to deliver a customized home renovation experience, enabling customers to plan and realize their dream kitchens through an integrated service.
Creative Fabrica
Series B in 2022
Founded in 2016, Creative Fabrica is a Dutch company that operates an online marketplace for fonts, graphics, craft designs, and premium content created by designers. It offers tools such as Fontcloud and Shapecloud for font management and generation, enabling users to purchase these services through affordable subscriptions.
Assembly OSM
Series A in 2022
Assembly OSM designs and constructs high-rise buildings using innovative building systems. Founded in 2020, the company delivers architecturally distinctive structures that are efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective. Assembly OSM's approach significantly reduces construction time and improves cost certainty compared to conventional methods.
Bodily
Venture Round in 2022
Bodily specializes in designing and providing women's undergarments tailored to support postpartum recovery, breastfeeding, and other bodily changes. The company combines evidence-based research with design-led products to cater to new mothers' needs.
NADUVI
Convertible Note in 2022
NADUVI is an online marketplace specializing in furniture and interior products sourced from various leading brands. The platform focuses on offering overstock items, including furniture, bathroom fittings, and designer lighting, allowing customers to access high-quality home and living products at competitive prices. By facilitating direct shipping from sellers to consumers, NADUVI streamlines the distribution process, reducing unnecessary stops and costs associated with traditional retail channels. This model not only enhances efficiency but also enables customers to realize their interior design concepts with a curated selection of products while brands benefit from a platform to reach a broader audience.
Treasury.Space
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Treasury develops a curated platform that allows metaverse builders to connect directly with architects, designers, and other creators. The metaverse platform offers an asset hub for metaverse creators and builders to get access to premium spatial environmental assets, helping creators, owners, and society as a whole build new sustainable value.
Superside
Series A in 2021
Superside is an on-demand freelancer agency that connects businesses with pre-qualified professionals for various tasks such as graphic design, web design, translation, transcription, data entry, consulting, content writing, and more. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Packhelp is a company that specializes in providing customized packaging solutions. Founded in 2015, it offers an online platform that allows customers to create, order, and manage fully custom-branded packaging. The company caters to a wide range of clients, from small businesses to large enterprises, with services including local deliveries of small quantities to global procurement of large volumes. Packhelp's offerings include Packhelp Studio, an online editor for small businesses, instantly purchasable products starting from 30 pieces, and Packhelp Plus, which assists mid-market companies in scaling their packaging needs. With over 50,000 customers from more than 30 countries, Packhelp serves notable brands such as BMW, H&M, Google, L’Oreal, T-Mobile, Uber, Bolt, Wrangler, and many local European champions.
Material Bank
Secondary Market in 2021
Material Bank is a digital platform facilitating connections between design professionals and brands in the architecture and design industry. It offers a streamlined way for designers to discover, search, and sample materials from hundreds of brands. Orders placed by midnight are delivered in a single box the next day, free of charge for design professionals.
Genially is a leading platform in interactive visual communication, offering an all-in-one online tool for creating engaging presentations, infographics, quizzes, and more. The platform allows users to enrich their content with interactivity and animation effects, making it accessible for individuals without design or programming skills. With over 1,000 customizable templates, users can easily produce striking visual media that captivates audiences. Genially caters to a diverse community of millions, including business professionals, educators, marketers, and designers, and is utilized by well-known companies such as Hulu, Danone, Michelin, and Heineken. The platform aims to transform the way information is communicated, allowing for impactful engagement through easily distributable, layered content.
Genially
Secondary Market in 2021
Genially is a leading platform in interactive visual communication, offering an all-in-one online tool for creating engaging presentations, infographics, quizzes, and more. The platform allows users to enrich their content with interactivity and animation effects, making it accessible for individuals without design or programming skills. With over 1,000 customizable templates, users can easily produce striking visual media that captivates audiences. Genially caters to a diverse community of millions, including business professionals, educators, marketers, and designers, and is utilized by well-known companies such as Hulu, Danone, Michelin, and Heineken. The platform aims to transform the way information is communicated, allowing for impactful engagement through easily distributable, layered content.
NADUVI is an online marketplace specializing in furniture and interior products sourced from various leading brands. The platform focuses on offering overstock items, including furniture, bathroom fittings, and designer lighting, allowing customers to access high-quality home and living products at competitive prices. By facilitating direct shipping from sellers to consumers, NADUVI streamlines the distribution process, reducing unnecessary stops and costs associated with traditional retail channels. This model not only enhances efficiency but also enables customers to realize their interior design concepts with a curated selection of products while brands benefit from a platform to reach a broader audience.
Creative Fabrica
Series A in 2021
Founded in 2016, Creative Fabrica is a Dutch company that operates an online marketplace for fonts, graphics, craft designs, and premium content created by designers. It offers tools such as Fontcloud and Shapecloud for font management and generation, enabling users to purchase these services through affordable subscriptions.
Inkbox is a Toronto-based company that offers semi-permanent tattoos designed to resemble real tattoos without permanence. The tattoos use an organic fruit-based formula that lasts about two weeks and can be applied at home without needles. Customers can choose designs from an active artist community or create their own, enabling at-home customization. The concept originated when brothers Tyler and Braden Handley discussed avoiding the regret of permanent ink, leading to the development of a product that captures the look and feel of a traditional tattoo for a temporary timeframe.
Twine
Venture Round in 2020
Twine Ltd operates an online platform that connects companies with a network of over 200,000 creative freelancers, including musicians, filmmakers, designers, and photographers. Founded in 2014 and based in Manchester, United Kingdom, Twine simplifies the process of hiring creative talent by allowing companies to easily write project briefs and access a curated selection of high-quality freelancers. This marketplace supports various creative projects, such as logo design, explainer videos, and custom illustrations, enabling businesses to find the right talent efficiently. For freelancers, Twine offers the opportunity to take control of their work by choosing projects that interest them and building their portfolios through collaboration with other creatives worldwide.
ROOM is a startup that specializes in reshaping the modern workspace. It designs a modern workplace system through flexible alternatives that make more room for people at work and also build prefabricated, self-assembled, sound-proofed, ventilated, and powered booths. It enables users to make extra room in the budget without compromising quality and provides employees with a place to take a video call or get some uninterrupted time to focus on work.
The company was co-founded by Morten Meisner-Jensen and Brian Chen in 2018.
Advisable
Seed Round in 2020
Advisable operates a freelance marketplace and digital agency that connects organizations with freelance marketing professionals. The platform uses in-house technology to match clients with suitable marketing specialists, enabling them to identify, screen, and hire freelancers. In addition to the marketplace, Advisable provides web and concept design, digital marketing, technical implementations, tailor-made solutions, social media, digital strategy consulting, and usability services to support client projects.
Genially is a leading platform in interactive visual communication, offering an all-in-one online tool for creating engaging presentations, infographics, quizzes, and more. The platform allows users to enrich their content with interactivity and animation effects, making it accessible for individuals without design or programming skills. With over 1,000 customizable templates, users can easily produce striking visual media that captivates audiences. Genially caters to a diverse community of millions, including business professionals, educators, marketers, and designers, and is utilized by well-known companies such as Hulu, Danone, Michelin, and Heineken. The platform aims to transform the way information is communicated, allowing for impactful engagement through easily distributable, layered content.
Advisable
Seed Round in 2020
Advisable operates a freelance marketplace and digital agency that connects organizations with freelance marketing professionals. The platform uses in-house technology to match clients with suitable marketing specialists, enabling them to identify, screen, and hire freelancers. In addition to the marketplace, Advisable provides web and concept design, digital marketing, technical implementations, tailor-made solutions, social media, digital strategy consulting, and usability services to support client projects.
Founded in 2014, HomeLane is a Bangalore-based company specializing in personalized home interior solutions. With over 21,000 projects completed nationwide, they offer custom design services at no additional cost.
Ask Lorem
Seed Round in 2018
Lorem Technologies, Inc., established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, operates an on-demand freelance marketplace called Lorem. This platform connects non-technical business owners with skilled web developers and designers globally, facilitating swift project collaborations within 10 minutes. The company's mission is to empower business owners and promote freelancing as the future of work.
The/Studio
Series A in 2018
The/Studio is a company that specializes in providing a user-friendly platform for businesses, organizations, and individuals to manufacture custom products easily. Founded by Joseph Heller, The/Studio operates as a manufacturing platform designed to make production accessible to anyone. Through its network of factories worldwide, the company offers quick turnaround times, competitive pricing, and eliminates minimum order quantities (MOQs). This allows customers to manage the entire process from custom design to production using advanced technology on a cloud-based management platform, ensuring trust in the supply chain while enabling clients to focus on brand execution and quality.
Inkbox is a Toronto-based company that offers semi-permanent tattoos designed to resemble real tattoos without permanence. The tattoos use an organic fruit-based formula that lasts about two weeks and can be applied at home without needles. Customers can choose designs from an active artist community or create their own, enabling at-home customization. The concept originated when brothers Tyler and Braden Handley discussed avoiding the regret of permanent ink, leading to the development of a product that captures the look and feel of a traditional tattoo for a temporary timeframe.
Thursday Boot Company
Series A in 2018
Thursday Boot Company designs, manufactures, and distributes boots for men and women and offers accessories such as boot brushes, belts, leather balms, socks, hats, leather card holders, t-shirts, and gift cards through its online store. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, the company focuses on durable, versatile footwear with features like studded rubber outsoles, comfort strips, cork-bed midsoles, full glove leather interior lining, and Goodyear welt construction to provide well-made boots at reasonable prices.
Renoviso, Inc. is a home renovation company based in North Andover, Massachusetts, established in 2014. The firm specializes in providing a seamless renovation experience by utilizing technology to offer homeowners customized online pricing for a range of products, including windows, doors, and hardwood flooring. Renoviso manages the entire renovation process from initial measurement and product selection through to professional installation, ensuring transparency and a high level of customer satisfaction. Its innovative approach has garnered positive reviews from homeowners across eastern New England, highlighting its commitment to quality service at competitive prices.
Dots is a mobile game studio based in New York City, known for creating engaging games such as Dots and Two Dots. The company develops mobile games that provide a cross-platform gaming experience, allowing users to play on both Android and iOS devices. With a focus on minimalist artwork and thoughtful design, Dots aims to deliver beautiful gameplay that invites players to explore visually stunning landscapes. The studio's philosophy emphasizes connectivity, encouraging users to experience a unique journey through its games.
Couple specializes in lab-grown diamond rings sold online. It simplifies the process by eliminating the complexities of the traditional mined diamond market.
Inkbox is a Toronto-based company that offers semi-permanent tattoos designed to resemble real tattoos without permanence. The tattoos use an organic fruit-based formula that lasts about two weeks and can be applied at home without needles. Customers can choose designs from an active artist community or create their own, enabling at-home customization. The concept originated when brothers Tyler and Braden Handley discussed avoiding the regret of permanent ink, leading to the development of a product that captures the look and feel of a traditional tattoo for a temporary timeframe.
Renoviso, Inc. is a home renovation company based in North Andover, Massachusetts, established in 2014. The firm specializes in providing a seamless renovation experience by utilizing technology to offer homeowners customized online pricing for a range of products, including windows, doors, and hardwood flooring. Renoviso manages the entire renovation process from initial measurement and product selection through to professional installation, ensuring transparency and a high level of customer satisfaction. Its innovative approach has garnered positive reviews from homeowners across eastern New England, highlighting its commitment to quality service at competitive prices.
ShineOn
Seed Round in 2016
ShineOn is an on-demand jewelry manufacturing platform and e-commerce company that enables individuals to create and sell custom jewelry. Founded in 2016 by Eric Toczko, ShineOn aims to establish the world's largest jewelry retail network by partnering with approximately 3,000 Shopify store owners who utilize the ShineOn Jewelry app to manage their businesses. This innovative platform empowers sellers to design unique jewelry pieces and reach a broader audience, fostering entrepreneurship in the jewelry market.
Renoviso
Seed Round in 2015
Renoviso, Inc. is a home renovation company based in North Andover, Massachusetts, established in 2014. The firm specializes in providing a seamless renovation experience by utilizing technology to offer homeowners customized online pricing for a range of products, including windows, doors, and hardwood flooring. Renoviso manages the entire renovation process from initial measurement and product selection through to professional installation, ensuring transparency and a high level of customer satisfaction. Its innovative approach has garnered positive reviews from homeowners across eastern New England, highlighting its commitment to quality service at competitive prices.
eve Sleep
Seed Round in 2015
Eve Sleep is a direct-to-consumer sleep brand focusing on the design, branding, marketing, and sale of a broad range of sleep products across the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, other parts of Europe, and international markets. The product line includes mattresses, bed frames, pillows, bedding, sleep accessories, and child and baby cot mattresses and bedding. The company sells its products through online channels and retail partnerships. Founded in 2014 and based in London, Eve Sleep aims to provide accessible, quality sleep solutions through a streamlined shopping experience.
PLAE is a lifestyle footwear company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2012. The company specializes in designing shoes that cater to the unique needs of children's feet, promoting healthy development through footwear that is eco-friendly, breathable, and washable. PLAE's products are engineered for durability and flexibility, featuring interchangeable tabs that allow customization for various foot shapes. The company's mission is to celebrate individuality and encourage fearless exploration, aiming to redefine the concept of play and challenge age-related limitations. By focusing on the natural contour of children's feet, PLAE ensures that their footwear supports healthy growth while providing comfort and a sense of joy.
Sprig is a product development lifecycle research platform that aims to enhance user experiences through actionable insights. Founded in April 2013 by Morgan Springer, Neeraj Berry, Matt Kent, and Gagan Biyani, the company is based in San Francisco, United States. Sprig offers tools for concept and usability testing, as well as in-product surveys, allowing businesses to gather valuable feedback on new ideas, designs, and prototypes, as well as existing product experiences. Notable companies, including Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, and Loom, utilize Sprig's services to improve their products and better meet user needs.
Havenly
Seed Round in 2015
Havenly offers online interior design services. Users connect with professional designers through style surveys and photo uploads, collaborate on designs, visualize rooms, seek advice, and purchase furniture and decor directly from the platform at guaranteed best prices.