Howbout is a social planning application that helps users coordinate events with friends. It uses smart scheduling technology to find suitable times for all attendees and allows users to share calendars, events, and reminders.
FirmPilot
Series A in 2024
FirmPilot is a technology company that specializes in providing an AI-driven marketing platform tailored for law firms. The platform is designed to automatically generate search-engine-optimized content, enabling firms to enhance their online presence and attract more clients. FirmPilot's features include automated blog content creation through intelligent analysis tools, competitor tracking, and insights that suggest relevant content. Additionally, it offers the capability to automate social media posts and analyze advertisement performance across various channels. By centralizing marketing activities, FirmPilot aims to help law firms increase leads while reducing overall marketing costs.
FirmPilot
Series A in 2024
FirmPilot is a technology company that specializes in providing an AI-driven marketing platform tailored for law firms. The platform is designed to automatically generate search-engine-optimized content, enabling firms to enhance their online presence and attract more clients. FirmPilot's features include automated blog content creation through intelligent analysis tools, competitor tracking, and insights that suggest relevant content. Additionally, it offers the capability to automate social media posts and analyze advertisement performance across various channels. By centralizing marketing activities, FirmPilot aims to help law firms increase leads while reducing overall marketing costs.
Queue
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Queue provided a platform to track movies and shows across various streaming services and share recommendations with friends.
ThisThat
Seed Round in 2024
Founded in 2017 in Edinburgh, UK, ThisThat designs and develops a social polling app that enables users to ask questions, share opinions, follow profiles, and compare products or services side-by-side. The platform facilitates informed decision-making by providing tools for user-generated content and informational summaries.
Muzz is a global dating app tailored for Muslims, facilitating connections and marriages within the community. With over 8 million members worldwide and a success rate of over 400,000 matches, Muzz has made a significant impact on the global Muslim demographic. Founded by Shahzad Younas, formerly a Vice President at Morgan Stanley, Muzz is headquartered in London with a team of over 65 employees. The app offers features such as private chatting, photo sharing, and planned meet-ups to help users find compatible partners.
The Lobby
Seed Round in 2023
The Lobby is a video shopping platform that connects top fashion brands with influencers, creating an engaging shopping experience reminiscent of QVC combined with TikTok. Tailored for young professionals, The Lobby simplifies the shopping process by introducing new and emerging brands weekly. Customers can request items to be delivered to their offices for a week-long trial period without any upfront fees, allowing them to experience products before making a purchase. This innovative try-before-you-buy model eliminates the risks associated with online shopping, making it a convenient and inspiring option for consumers.
Hummingbirds
Seed Round in 2023
Hummingbirds operates a SaaS-enabled marketplace that connects brands with hyperlocal content creators and influencers to produce authentic, city-specific social media content. The platform enables brands to discover local creators, collaborate on campaigns for products, services, or events, and leverage neighborhood-based authentic storytelling to drive peer engagement and action.
Elenas
Convertible Note in 2023
Elenas is a leading social commerce platform in Latin America that enables women to launch and grow online businesses from home. The platform offers a digital storefront, client management tools, and support for product sourcing, delivery, and payment collection, allowing users to focus on sales. Through direct sales catalogs and social media channels such as WhatsApp and Facebook, Elenas connects tens of thousands of women in Colombia and over 11 million across the region with a wide range of branded cosmetics, beauty, and lifestyle products. Sellers can offer customers discounts on major brands while earning supplemental income, making Elenas a key facilitator of home‑based entrepreneurship for women throughout the region.
Postilize
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Postilize is an AI software development company that provides tools designed to enhance social media engagement, specifically on platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter. Utilizing generative AI, Postilize offers features focused on intelligent engagement, assisting businesses in identifying and interacting with influencers to strengthen their brand presence. The company's solutions aim to help enterprises build a loyal customer base and effectively scale their operations. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, Postilize transforms the way businesses manage their social media strategies.
Boardible
Venture Round in 2023
Boardible is a startup transforming board gaming by offering a digital platform for playing and enjoying games with friends or family remotely. It provides publishers an efficient tool to develop digital versions of their games, while gamers can access a variety of titles through a monthly subscription, streamable on any smart TV without needing a console or PC.
Storybeat
Seed Round in 2023
Storybeat is a Madrid-based technology company that builds an all-in-one image editing application powered by artificial intelligence to help users generate and share high-quality, short-lived social content. The platform enables creation of AI avatars and stories using built-in templates, presets, music, and effects, and supports publishing across social networks. It positions itself as a creative tool and community, offering education, resources, and connections to help creators, including photographers, develop their skills and realize their ideas. Founded in 2018 by Jaime de Ascanio, Storybeat aims to simplify content creation for a broad audience of creators seeking expressive, shareable content.
Midnight
Seed Round in 2022
Midnight is a company focused on creating Web3 games that feature "eternal stories" and provide players with immersive, never-ending experiences. It operates as a gaming and social hub, as well as a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Midnight offers a diverse range of entertainment options, including free-to-play and premium games, all built on a Web3-based system. This approach allows users to engage in continuous gameplay and participate economically within the ecosystem. Through its innovative platform, Midnight aims to redefine the gaming experience by combining engaging narratives with interactive social elements.
Elenas is a leading social commerce platform in Latin America that enables women to launch and grow online businesses from home. The platform offers a digital storefront, client management tools, and support for product sourcing, delivery, and payment collection, allowing users to focus on sales. Through direct sales catalogs and social media channels such as WhatsApp and Facebook, Elenas connects tens of thousands of women in Colombia and over 11 million across the region with a wide range of branded cosmetics, beauty, and lifestyle products. Sellers can offer customers discounts on major brands while earning supplemental income, making Elenas a key facilitator of home‑based entrepreneurship for women throughout the region.
Imbella
Seed Round in 2022
Imbella is a reselling platform that enables users to start their own businesses with no upfront costs. It enables users to browse quality fashion and home products from the world's best suppliers, share and sell to customers via WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, and earn high-profit margins.
Vienna Hypertext
Seed Round in 2022
Vienna is a smart canvas for ideas. It is a place to collect thoughts and everything that comes with photos, videos, code, music, files, and, of course, text. They serve services for creators, students, and teams to build and discover ideas.
Neol is a learning and talent platform that enables tokenized, cohort-based learning for creative leaders and teams. It convenes a global community of creatives, innovators, and change-makers in web3 to learn, collaborate, and shape futures together. The platform supports organizational design, leadership development, brand design, campaign management, and behavioral marketing, connecting businesses with relevant talent to tackle challenges and solve problems through project-based work within a decentralized network.
Branch Technologies was founded in 2020 under the visionary leadership of our esteemed CEO, Dayton Mills. Our sole purpose is to explore and develop groundbreaking ideas that seamlessly merge the worlds of social apps and gaming, redefining the very fabric of interactive entertainment.
We invest in people who have surmounted many obstacles yet remain steadfast with an unwavering determination to cultivate the remarkable and enduring.
Our culture of relentlessly pursuing excellence has earned us a globally recognized reputation as innovators at the forefront of gaming.
AngelList
Series B in 2022
AngelList is a U.S.-based platform founded in 2010, connecting startups with angel investors and job-seekers. It facilitates fundraising, recruitment, and product launches, supporting millions of users worldwide. The company has backed over 20 unicorns and helped launch more than 100,000 products.
Sendbox
Seed Round in 2021
Sendbox is a platform that facilitates e-commerce on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. It offers infrastructure for shipping, secure escrow payments, and merchant discovery services to businesses and customers across North America, Europe, and Africa.
Timeleft
Seed Round in 2021
Timeleft is a technology company that operates a platform facilitating social connections based on shared values and aspirations. It offers mobile applications enabling users to curate lists of experiences, which are then aggregated onto personal profile pages. This allows individuals to meet and communicate with like-minded others, fostering new relationships centered around common goals and interests.
Favo is a supermarket shopping community that facilitates connections between local entrepreneurs and neighbors. The platform enables users to shop at wholesale prices while eliminating delivery costs and order management challenges through popular social media channels. By providing a streamlined and efficient buying experience, Favo allows customers to generate income without any upfront investment, fostering a sense of community and supporting local businesses.
Founded in 2016, Sendoso is a global platform that enhances customer engagement by integrating digital and physical sending strategies. It enables businesses to stand out with new ways to engage customers throughout the buyer's journey, improving relationships and increasing effectiveness of go-to-market programs.
Founded in 2011, Elmenus operates a food discovery platform that helps users find nearby restaurants and top dishes based on user ratings. It serves over 1 million monthly users across Egypt.
Demo.cracy
Convertible Note in 2021
Demo.cracy is a subscription-based social media network for connecting, learning, and sharing.
Famosos
Seed Round in 2021
A Latin American platform facilitating engagement between fans and Hispanic celebrities. It serves as a marketplace where businesses can hire celebrities for personalized video interactions.
Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho connects manufacturers, wholesalers, and suppliers with resellers who use social media platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook to sell products to their network of friends and family.
The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
Draft operates as a marketing agency specializing in content creation and distribution. It offers services such as content marketing, social media management, search engine optimization (SEO), and professional writing for businesses seeking to enhance their online presence and engagement with customers. The company uniquely employs blockchain technology to facilitate its job marketplace platform, connecting freelance writers and clients efficiently.
Elenas is a leading social commerce platform in Latin America that enables women to launch and grow online businesses from home. The platform offers a digital storefront, client management tools, and support for product sourcing, delivery, and payment collection, allowing users to focus on sales. Through direct sales catalogs and social media channels such as WhatsApp and Facebook, Elenas connects tens of thousands of women in Colombia and over 11 million across the region with a wide range of branded cosmetics, beauty, and lifestyle products. Sellers can offer customers discounts on major brands while earning supplemental income, making Elenas a key facilitator of home‑based entrepreneurship for women throughout the region.
Memmo.me is a fan engagement platform that facilitates personalized video messages from a variety of public figures, including actors, athletes, musicians, and influencers. The company provides a web-based service that enables fans and businesses to request customized video greetings from their favorite celebrities, enhancing connections between them. By leveraging this unique video operating platform, Memmo.me supports brands in improving their sales and marketing efforts while also fostering greater engagement with employees and audiences.
Favo is a supermarket shopping community that facilitates connections between local entrepreneurs and neighbors. The platform enables users to shop at wholesale prices while eliminating delivery costs and order management challenges through popular social media channels. By providing a streamlined and efficient buying experience, Favo allows customers to generate income without any upfront investment, fostering a sense of community and supporting local businesses.
Tertulia
Seed Round in 2020
Tertulia is a technology company that operates an application focused on book discovery and engagement. The app aggregates book mentions and conversations from various online platforms, including social media, podcasts, and websites. It provides users with personalized book recommendations and curated discussions about books. Additionally, Tertulia offers integrated book purchasing features, allowing customers to buy and have books delivered directly through the app.
BrandTotal
Series B in 2020
BrandTotal Ltd operates a marketing intelligence platform that focuses on dark marketing, enabling businesses to gain insights into their competitors' strategies and performance. Founded in 2016 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company leverages cyber security, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to analyze digital channels and consolidate data into actionable marketing campaigns. By providing real-time visibility into competitors' social media activities and marketing efforts, BrandTotal empowers marketing teams to identify threats and opportunities within the digital landscape. This capability allows organizations to adjust their strategies dynamically, ensuring they remain competitive and agile in a rapidly evolving market.
Chingari
Seed Round in 2020
Chingari is a short-form video platform that enables users to create, edit, browse, and share videos. It offers video search, editing tools, browsing, and instant sharing to social networks, enabling creators to showcase talent and creativity through audio clips, stickers, and photos. Accessible on Android devices, the platform connects Indian creators with audiences, with revenue primarily generated through in-app advertising.
Draft
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Draft operates as a marketing agency specializing in content creation and distribution. It offers services such as content marketing, social media management, search engine optimization (SEO), and professional writing for businesses seeking to enhance their online presence and engagement with customers. The company uniquely employs blockchain technology to facilitate its job marketplace platform, connecting freelance writers and clients efficiently.
The Lobby
Seed Round in 2019
The Lobby is a video shopping platform that connects top fashion brands with influencers, creating an engaging shopping experience reminiscent of QVC combined with TikTok. Tailored for young professionals, The Lobby simplifies the shopping process by introducing new and emerging brands weekly. Customers can request items to be delivered to their offices for a week-long trial period without any upfront fees, allowing them to experience products before making a purchase. This innovative try-before-you-buy model eliminates the risks associated with online shopping, making it a convenient and inspiring option for consumers.
Founded in 2016, Sendoso is a global platform that enhances customer engagement by integrating digital and physical sending strategies. It enables businesses to stand out with new ways to engage customers throughout the buyer's journey, improving relationships and increasing effectiveness of go-to-market programs.
BrandTotal
Series A in 2018
BrandTotal Ltd operates a marketing intelligence platform that focuses on dark marketing, enabling businesses to gain insights into their competitors' strategies and performance. Founded in 2016 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company leverages cyber security, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to analyze digital channels and consolidate data into actionable marketing campaigns. By providing real-time visibility into competitors' social media activities and marketing efforts, BrandTotal empowers marketing teams to identify threats and opportunities within the digital landscape. This capability allows organizations to adjust their strategies dynamically, ensuring they remain competitive and agile in a rapidly evolving market.
Hometalk LLC, established in 2011 and based in New York City, operates an online platform dedicated to inspiring and facilitating do-it-yourself (DIY) home improvement projects. With a global community of over 13 million active members generating approximately 40 million monthly visits and 300 million monthly pageviews, Hometalk has emerged as the world's leading DIY Home & Garden knowledge hub. The platform connects homeowners, bloggers, and professionals to share ideas, ask questions, and learn from each other, all aligned with Hometalk's mission to empower individuals to enhance their living spaces through affordable and creative DIY projects.
Muzz is a global dating app tailored for Muslims, facilitating connections and marriages within the community. With over 8 million members worldwide and a success rate of over 400,000 matches, Muzz has made a significant impact on the global Muslim demographic. Founded by Shahzad Younas, formerly a Vice President at Morgan Stanley, Muzz is headquartered in London with a team of over 65 employees. The app offers features such as private chatting, photo sharing, and planned meet-ups to help users find compatible partners.
Traction
Convertible Note in 2016
Traction, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that offers a platform designed to enhance multi-channel marketing efforts for its clients. The Traction platform addresses various marketing needs, including web development, mobile applications, content creation, e-commerce solutions, content marketing, and demand generation. By providing tailored support, Traction aims to optimize marketing budgets and improve the effectiveness of campaigns for businesses.
Virool, Inc. is a video advertising platform that specializes in native video advertising for brand marketers. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York, St. Petersburg, Toronto, and Los Angeles, Virool allows brands to host videos, design campaigns, target specific audiences, and analyze results online. The platform serves both advertisers and publishers, offering a supply-side solution for publishers to optimize revenue and a programmatic distribution system for advertisers to enhance brand impact. Virool's technology empowers clients to engage audiences effectively through mobile devices and social media, utilizing programmatic strategies to ensure that video content reaches the right viewers at the right time. Over its history, Virool has facilitated video promotion for over 30,000 global advertisers, including major brands such as Coca-Cola and Disney, and has partnered with more than 100,000 online and mobile publisher properties.
SelfMade
Seed Round in 2016
SelfMade operates a technology platform that transforms and shares images on social media. It offers professional photo editing services and social media support to help members grow their online following. The company's app provides access to its follower growth technology, allowing users to determine their brand aesthetic, growth strategy, and posting schedule.
Olapic Inc. operates a visual marketing platform that transforms consumer-generated photos and videos into valuable brand assets for marketing and e-commerce. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Cordoba, Argentina, and London, the company specializes in collecting, curating, and analyzing visual content from social media. Olapic's services enhance brand and retailer engagement by creating authentic marketing experiences that drive sales and improve campaign performance. The platform supports various sectors, including apparel, beauty, and travel, and offers features such as predictive consumer-generated ads and Instagram shopping. As of late 2020, Olapic functions as a subsidiary of Social Native LLC.
Meme is a New York-based company that specializes in designing, developing, and publishing social casino games. Its portfolio includes the popular Xtreme Slots, which is played globally, offering an engaging and social experience for mobile players across various countries. Meme's games are designed to be accessible on all major mobile and computing platforms, catering to a diverse audience and ensuring that users of all ages can enjoy their gaming applications. The company focuses on creating enjoyable, interactive experiences that foster social connections among players.
55social
Seed Round in 2011
55social is a content optimization platform for social networks that helps brands manage their social media and analyze their results. It also helps firms reach out and monetize their social media.
The company was founded in 2011 by IG Expansion, Brazilian entrepreneurs and Redpoint Ventures to provide tech-based solutions for the Brazilian social media market, which was, and still is, growing. The company has offices in Brazil and Argentina. Its Brazilian office has commercial and customer service operations, with approximately 40 employees. In Argentina, is located the software development operations, with approximately 30 employees.