Gaingels

Founded in 2014, Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate dedicated to supporting the LGBT+ community. It invests globally in companies led by LGBT+ founders or C-suite executives at all stages of growth, focusing on inclusivity and positive social change.

Marc Baum

Investor

David Beatty

Managing Partner

Jesse Curran

Principal

Nancy Fechnay

Venture Partner

Paul Grossinger

Investor

Past deals in Digital Marketing

Momentum

Seed Round in 2024
Momentum is a behavioral-driven fundraising platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in Oakland, California. It enables users to make automatic donations that turn everyday activities into opportunities for charitable giving. By allowing individuals to set predefined giving rules, the platform facilitates donations to a selection of trustworthy nonprofit organizations aligned with users' interests, such as adding a percentage to their restaurant bills to support those in need. Momentum focuses on donor stewardship and impact tracking, ensuring that users can easily contribute to meaningful causes while managing their day-to-day tasks. The company emphasizes evidence-based charity recommendations to maximize the effectiveness of donations.

Mavity

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Mavity is an AI-driven platform designed for creative teams, sales development representatives (SDRs), and marketers. It streamlines workflows from project requests to final asset delivery by combining intelligent task management, automated brief processing, and AI-generated content. This enables teams to focus on driving results while Mavity handles the heavy lifting.

Curastory

Seed Round in 2022
Curastory is a video enablement platform that empowers creators to produce, monetize, and distribute their content across social media. The platform allows users to shoot and edit high-quality videos while providing tools for monetization and analytics. Curastory is notable for being the first programmatic media buying solution specifically tailored for creator ad reads, enabling creators to effectively monetize their shows. Additionally, the platform facilitates the free distribution of videos to various channels, allowing creators to maintain ownership of their stories while offering brands advantages such as price generation, video matchmaking, and attribution tracking. Overall, Curastory aims to enhance the content creation process for individuals and brands alike.

Adwisely

Seed Round in 2022
Adwisely offers an advertising technology platform that runs fully automated, personalized campaigns. The platform analyzes client advertising statistics, campaign goals, and budgets to optimize spend by allocating funds to effective campaigns, enabling businesses to showcase best sellers, complementary products, and new arrivals to existing customers to increase sales. By automating ad creation and optimization, the solution reduces manual effort while improving return on advertising investments.

Astral

Series A in 2022
Astral is an AI‑driven platform that transforms existing content libraries into personalized digital experiences. It automatically generates social media campaigns, email copy, landing pages, and SEO‑optimized blog posts, while providing AI‑powered chat interactions that draw from the user’s own content. The system helps businesses repurpose intellectual property across multiple channels, driving audience growth and new revenue streams. By answering audience questions, creating new content formats, and tailoring marketing campaigns, Astral enables companies to capture and nurture leads, ultimately boosting sales.

Because

Seed Round in 2022
Because is a conversion rate optimization and website personalization platform designed for Shopify merchants. It unifies data from a merchant's tech stack—Shopify, Klaviyo, Yotpo, LoyaltyLion, Recharge, Octane, and others—to deliver dynamic, personalized website experiences that boost conversions. The platform lets site operators update product pages, testimonials, shipping information, promotions, and more without coding, helping small businesses manage their sites efficiently. It targets ecommerce sellers seeking to improve on-site performance and sales, and is used by brands such as TB12, Hello Kitty, Echelon, Duke Cannon, and The Adventure Challenge to achieve higher conversion rates. The goal is to streamline data-driven personalization and optimize the customer journey across product pages and content blocks.

Digiphy

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Digiphy is a SaaS platform that transforms physical products and marketing assets into always-on digital channels. It connects brands directly to consumers, delivering dynamic digital experiences at relevant moments. Digiphy's flexible solution enhances brand storytelling, increases transparency, accelerates sales, and deepens consumer engagement.

Canal

Series A in 2022
Canal specializes in creating a selective network of brands designed to generate innovative revenue streams by reaching consumers at the point they express purchase intent while shopping.

Metadata

Series B in 2022
Metadata, Inc. develops a marketing data analytics platform designed to streamline demand generation for B2B enterprises. The platform supports scheduling campaign amplification to targeted audiences, provides full profile information for new signups, and auto-generates buyer and user personas while offering access to a database of prospects. It enables prospect segmentation by industry, job function, technology stack, and interests, and monitors signups to accelerate pipeline creation and marketing campaigns by applying automation data to targeted advertising. The company also integrates with marketing automation systems such as Salesforce to reduce manual tasks for marketers. Founded in 2015, Metadata, Inc. is headquartered in California. By compiling historical sales data, the platform creates profiles of ideal customers and orchestrates the acceleration of existing opportunities while targeting new accounts, helping B2B teams optimize demand generation and drive more predictable outcomes.

Otis AI

Seed Round in 2021
Otis AI is a digital marketing platform for startups and small businesses that enables planning, launching, and optimizing data-driven campaigns across major social and search channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Google, TikTok, and YouTube. It connects users' existing platforms and uses customer and transaction data to automate marketing activities such as retargeting, online-to-offline attribution, creative optimization, and performance optimization. The platform is designed for ease of use, requiring no special training, and allows campaigns to be created and launched in minutes with messaging tailored to specific business goals and audiences. Otis AI complements its technology with dedicated support to assist users. The platform emphasizes measurable results, aiming to improve return on ad spend and overall ad effectiveness through a data-driven approach that targets the right customers at the right time. It enables cross-channel campaigns and real-time analytics to assess reach and impact.

Wethos

Seed Round in 2021
Wethos Virtual Studios enables solo business owners to expand their capabilities by swiftly assembling teams of skilled creatives and marketers. The platform employs agile methodologies to deliver tailored branding, web development, digital content creation, and growth campaigns in real-time.

Lumanu

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2016, Lumanu develops a digital platform connecting companies with brand ambassadors. It offers solutions like SocialCert for influencer content sharing, Content Manager for ingesting content, and SmartBoost for creating ads using influencer creatives. Serving brand marketers, performance marketers, agency marketers, and creators/influencers, Lumanu operates from Oakland, California with an additional office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Crayon

Series B in 2021
Crayon, Inc. is a market intelligence platform that helps businesses track, analyze, and act on their digital footprints. It provides tools for intelligence analysis, marketing insights, and website inspiration, enabling organizations to gain competitive advantages in their industries. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Crayon serves mid-market and enterprise clients, allowing them to capture and utilize insights that drive measurable business impact. Originally known as M80 Labs, Inc., the company rebranded to Crayon in June 2017.

Malomo

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2018, Malomo is an Indianapolis-based technology company that specializes in transforming shipment tracking into a marketing channel for e-commerce businesses. Its platform enables brands to generate revenue and enhance customer loyalty by integrating branded communication with shipping providers.

Alphaa.io

Seed Round in 2021
Alphaa.io provides a framework for creators and brands to issue multi-utility NFTs, enabling companies to connect physical and digital assets through a white-labeled smart contract solution. Digital certificates of authenticity powered by NFTs allow resale royalties, increase engagement, and provide unique value propositions. The company also operates an online marketplace that connects companies to artists and offers a loyalty program to track customer engagement and reward exclusive perks, using NFTs to track ownership of digital assets and support a gamified approach to loyalty for businesses of all sizes.

Anzu.io

Series B in 2021
Anzu.io, Inc. is an innovative advertising company that specializes in integrating brand advertisements seamlessly into digital game environments, including mobile, PC, console, and the metaverse. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in Berlin, Germany, Anzu provides a non-disruptive in-game ad solution that prioritizes player experience while enabling advertisers to engage with their target audiences programmatically. The company utilizes a patented 3D ad tracking engine for viewability measurement and partners with established AdTech vendors to ensure compliance with industry standards. Anzu's platform supports various game engines and offers developers a comprehensive ad monetization solution, allowing them to enhance revenue through strategically placed ads that align with gameplay. By catering to both brands and game developers, Anzu aims to improve the advertising landscape in gaming, making it more effective for advertisers while enriching the experience for players.

Perksy

Seed Round in 2021
Perksy, Inc. is a consumer research platform based in New York, founded in 2015. The company provides a mobile application that allows users to design custom research questions and collect feedback from respondents. By rewarding users with points for their opinions, Perksy incentivizes consumer participation, thereby enhancing engagement between brands and their target audiences. The platform also offers Perksy Alpha, an enterprise-grade solution designed to deliver detailed analysis and insights. This enables brands to implement marketing campaigns based on hyper-targeted, behavioral, and social insights, ultimately fostering brand growth and improving customer satisfaction. Perksy's approach bridges the gap between companies and consumers, facilitating innovative marketing solutions that drive market reach and enhance customer interaction.

Pico

Venture Round in 2021
Pico, founded in 2016 and based in New York, designs and develops software solutions focused on managing audience relationships for online businesses. The company provides pre-made templates with high-converting sign-in buttons for platforms like Facebook and Google. Pico's offerings cater to various needs, including newsletters, e-commerce, subscriptions, memberships, and donations.

Omaze

Series B in 2020
Omaze operates a unique online platform that combines fundraising for charitable initiatives with exciting prize experiences. It hosts auctions where donors can bid for chances to win once-in-a-lifetime opportunities such as celebrity encounters, luxury items, or exclusive travel packages. Omaze provides comprehensive services including marketing, content creation, technology support, and fulfillment to facilitate these experiences while raising funds for various causes.

Keydabra

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Keydabra is a company that offers a digital intelligence platform focused on enhancing website engagement and conversions. By utilizing advanced AI tools, Keydabra quantifies user experiences and transforms extensive data into actionable insights. The platform measures and scores digital interactions, allowing clients to benchmark and compare engagement across various consumer-facing industries and platforms. This innovative approach helps organizations better understand customer experiences and effectively improve their digital footprint.

TAGS

Seed Round in 2020
TAGS is an innovative e-commerce platform that facilitates shopping through text at sports events and concerts. The platform allows users to shop by utilizing shoppable hashtags, enabling them to quickly purchase products by sending a text message. TAGS streamlines the shopping experience by providing essential product information, including name, price, image, and inventory, all within a branded interface that enhances customer engagement. This approach empowers businesses to manage their e-commerce capabilities and customer relationships effectively without the complexities of maintaining a traditional website or incurring associated costs for updates and advertising.

Kyndoo

Seed Round in 2020
Kyndoo, Inc. is a data intelligence company that operates an online platform designed to enhance the influencer marketing landscape. Founded in 2018 and based in Burlingame, California, with an additional office in Delaware, Kyndoo provides tools and data to help social media influencers professionalize their business and build authentic identities. The platform connects brands with influencers by offering audience authentication, demographics, engagement analytics, and insights into authenticity and performance. Kyndoo aims to address the challenges of fraudulent engagement in the influencer market, helping both influencers and brands navigate concerns about fake influencers. Additionally, the company offers freelance services for influencer marketing campaigns across diverse sectors, including parenting, beauty, travel, and health. By leveraging data and consulting services, Kyndoo aspires to transform influencer marketing from a mere side-hustle into a prominent revenue channel for organizations.

Drop

Series B in 2019
Drop is a consumer rewards platform that uses machine learning to match shoppers with over 400 partner brands, enabling them to earn points, discounts, and cashback on purchases. The service encourages repeat shopping by offering instant rewards and personalized offers. Headquartered in Toronto, Drop serves more than 4 million members across North America and the UK, aiming to improve everyday consumer experiences through its personalized commerce platform.

Banyan

Venture Round in 2018
Banyan, Inc. is a digital marketing and patient engagement company based in Orem, Utah, founded in 2013. It offers a HIPAA-compliant media consent application designed to enhance the online presence of healthcare practices through social media, patient reviews, and accurate online listings. The company's primary products include a patient engagement app that allows authorized sharing of patient photos on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, as well as a review management tool that facilitates the collection and tracking of patient feedback. Banyan also provides personalized website development to strengthen the credibility of medical practices and a listing service that ensures accurate practice information across numerous online directories. Additionally, the company offers coaching to help clients build their brands, attract talent, and improve their online visibility, thereby enhancing patient acquisition and retention. As of May 2019, Banyan operates as a subsidiary of NUVI LLC.

Chicory

Convertible Note in 2017
Chicory is a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to create digital grocery experiences and transforms recipe content into commerce media. It provides the infrastructure for grocery e-commerce transactions across the web and operates a contextual commerce advertising platform for the grocery industry. Its tools help users discover recipes online and generate shopping lists with required ingredients, enabling food retailers to showcase meals and drive online sales.

Chicory

Seed Round in 2015
Chicory is a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to create digital grocery experiences and transforms recipe content into commerce media. It provides the infrastructure for grocery e-commerce transactions across the web and operates a contextual commerce advertising platform for the grocery industry. Its tools help users discover recipes online and generate shopping lists with required ingredients, enabling food retailers to showcase meals and drive online sales.

Averi

Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation. Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growth operation in one seamless experience.

Ceemo

Ceemo automates brand creation for small businesses, startups, non-profits using Crunchbase data and AI algorithms. It applies new brands across marketing materials to launch, run, and grow ventures, supporting fundraising efforts.
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