Buddy.ai
Seed Round in 2024
Buddy.ai is an innovative company that offers a voice-based virtual tutoring platform designed to teach English to children worldwide. Utilizing proprietary speech and virtual human technologies, Buddy.ai addresses language learning challenges by providing an engaging and adaptive learning experience through a cartoon character tutor. The platform enables users to give children unlimited speaking practice, making it a cost-effective alternative to traditional tutoring. With a focus on native Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Polish speakers, Buddy.ai aims to make English language learning accessible to millions, with plans to expand into additional languages. The company has achieved significant market presence, ranking in the Top 10 of the App Store’s Kids and Education charts in various countries across Latin America and Europe. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Buddy.ai has generated over $4.5 million in sales and is recognized with multiple international awards for its contributions to educational technology.
Astrix Health
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Astrix Health, headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City and London, specializes in AI-driven procurement solutions for healthcare providers. The company employs generative AI to analyze vast amounts of data from various sources, delivering actionable pricing insights for medical supplies, equipment, and pharmacy orders. This enables providers to secure better deals from reputable vendors, optimizing their procurement processes. Astrix's team comprises experts from renowned institutions like Palantir, Oxford, Duke Health, and MedStar Health. The company is backed by Y Combinator and operates globally.
Welltory
Convertible Note in 2024
Welltory is a technology company that develops an AI-powered all-in-one wellness application. The app measures stress and energy, tracks sleep quality and physical activity, and provides personalized guidance by analyzing data from wearables, devices, and apps. Its proprietary algorithms interpret user information to generate insights, supporting users in managing health and well-being. The platform relies on science-backed research, including publications and university collaborations, to underpin its guidance. It serves millions of users worldwide and aims to help individuals sustain long-term health through continuous monitoring and actionable recommendations.
Bloom is a financial technology company that provides a secure wallet hub for trading tokens and NFTs, enabling users to discover new decentralized applications and optimize their DeFi investments. The platform is described as offering innovative, fair, responsible and inclusive financial products, aimed at widening access to digital finance while simplifying crypto activity for a broad user base.
Shmoody
Seed Round in 2023
Shmoody is a mobile application that supports mental health, focusing on depression, anxiety, and related conditions. The platform offers cognitive behavioral therapy-based programs, mood-boosting tools, community-based support, and weekly challenges designed to prompt action and personal development. It aims to improve users' mood in the short term while elevating overall well-being over time. Shmoody was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Texas, United States.
Hallow is a Catholic prayer and meditation app that hopes to help folks grow closer to God. It helps in finding peace, deepen the relationship with God, and sleeping soundly every night.
It was founded in 2018 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Champions Round
Series A in 2023
Champions Round, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that develops a gaming application focused on football and esports. Founded in 2018, the company aims to enhance the spectator experience for sports fans, particularly targeting Generation Z. Its application allows users to participate in fantasy leagues and tournaments, answer live questions, earn points, and win cash prizes. By facilitating individual participation in leagues without the need for group assembly, Champions Round lowers barriers to entry and encourages wider engagement in sports gaming. The application is available on the App Store, reflecting the company's commitment to accessible and interactive sports entertainment.
Cheese is a California-based fintech company focused on helping individuals build credit and grow savings through simple, automated solutions. It develops a credit-building financial application that provides digital banking services and debit cards to customers with no credit history, enabling them to establish and improve credit scores while meeting personal financial needs, with an emphasis on serving underbanked communities.
Nyble
Funding Round in 2023
Helping people build their financial tomorrow.
Treepz is a technology-driven transportation company focused on enhancing mobility across Africa. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Ontario, Canada, Treepz operates in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya, providing users with a reliable and comfortable commuting experience. Its application allows users to book trips for daily, inter-city, or corporate travel at the tap of a button. The platform offers features such as vehicle assistants, licensed drivers, and e-wallet payments, ensuring that users can book and pay for fast and convenient trips in real-time. Through its innovative approach, Treepz aims to create a safer and more efficient transportation system for commuters in the region.
Finfree
Venture Round in 2023
Finfree is a next-generation social trading platform designed to connect traders with like-minded analysts and communities, facilitating participation in both local and US stock markets. The platform targets millennials, who often prefer self-directed investment strategies and online social interactions. Finfree offers a comprehensive investment application that provides users with valuable resources to learn about the stock market, including stock financials, ratio chart reviews, and portfolio performance tracking. By focusing on education and community engagement, Finfree aims to empower millennials to make informed investment decisions and work towards achieving financial independence.
Castor is a fintech company based in Mexico, established in 2021, that focuses on improving financial stability for workers by offering automated savings tools and access to earned wages before the traditional payday. The platform enables users to save effectively and avoid debt by providing liquidity between paychecks without incurring interest charges. Castor's services include facilitating savings, making service payments, and offering free access to a portion of wages on a daily basis. By implementing these features, Castor aims to strengthen the financial well-being of its clients and help them manage their finances more effectively.
Pinemelon
Venture Round in 2023
Pinemelon operates a locally focused online marketplace and app that links farmers and local shops to consumers for same-day delivery. The platform acts as a vertically integrated local food system, offering organic and fresh items such as fruits, vegetables, bread, dairy, beverages, meat, and seafood sourced from nearby markets. The company emphasizes sustainable, healthy choices by enabling customers to buy directly from local producers and shops. It began operations in Denver, Colorado in 2022 and intends to expand to 30 or more mid-size U.S. cities, building a global platform to support local food ecosystems.
Bopdrop
Venture Round in 2023
Bopdrop is a music sharing application founded in 2019 and based in Chicago. The platform enables users to discover and share music with friends, highlighting the music that matters most to their networks, and supports offline listening by downloading tracks.
Loopie
Venture Round in 2023
Loopie is a laundry delivery service that leverages a peer-to-peer managed marketplace model to offer a fast and cost-effective alternative to traditional wash and fold services. Founded in 2018 in Seattle, Loopie's innovative platform transforms idle washers and dryers into revenue-generating assets by connecting consumers and businesses with certified laundry providers. The service enables users to have their laundry picked up, washed, dried, folded, and delivered within hours, enhancing convenience and efficiency. Since its launch, Loopie has successfully expanded to six additional markets and has achieved over $1.25 million in early sales, supported by more than $2.25 million in early-stage and venture capital funding.
Action Face
Venture Round in 2023
Action Face specializes in creating personalized 3D avatars and action figures using advanced AI technology. With a seamless process that begins with a simple selfie, users can generate customizable 3D representations of themselves for use in various applications, including augmented reality videos and collectible figurines. The company enhances the user experience by allowing for creative fantasy customization, enabling individuals to design unique avatars that reflect their personalities. Action Face has gained significant recognition, having won the Best Startup in Entertainment and Gaming at SXSW 2022, and has partnered with prominent organizations such as the NBA and Hewlett Packard. Through innovative technology and a focus on memorable life events, Action Face commemorates special moments by transforming user images into engaging, bespoke digital and physical products.
Baselane
Venture Round in 2022
Baselane is a banking and finance platform for landlords and real estate investors in the United States. It integrates users' bank accounts with expense management, rent collection, bookkeeping, cash flow tracking and performance analytics, delivering tailored financial services, automated tools and actionable insights to save time, improve financial visibility and help grow investment portfolios. The company serves more than 12 million landlords and real estate investors who own over 25 million homes, empowering independent property owners to manage finances efficiently and increase returns.
Wallbit
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Wallbit is a global neobank offering USD and EUR accounts, debit cards, access to US investments, and local currency transactions through a single app. It caters to individuals living outside the US who require international banking services.
The Lanby
Seed Round in 2022
The Lanby is a healthcare members club founded in 2019 and based in New York, focused on enhancing the primary care experience for its members. The company offers a hospitality-led multidisciplinary care membership service that prioritizes patient-centered care. Members are assigned a lead physician, wellness advisor, and concierge manager, who collaborate to address various aspects of the patient journey. This comprehensive approach includes unlimited visits and consultations, personalized care plans, access to specialists, and wellness programming. The Lanby aims to reclaim the value of primary care by providing evidence-based wellness assessments and programming, ensuring that clients receive tailored support for their health and well-being.
Buildspace
Seed Round in 2022
Buildspace is a New York-based learning platform focused on educating crypto developers. The company provides resources and training to help developers create smart contract systems, enabling them to establish NFT trading centers and build applications on the web3 framework. Through its platform, Buildspace empowers developers to design and deploy customized projects, fostering innovation in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.
LIT Videobooks
Venture Round in 2022
LIT Videobooks is a New York‑based startup founded in 2018 by Ronak Seth that converts bestselling non‑fiction titles into immersive video books, or “videobooks.” The company targets visual learners, offering a binge‑watch experience that blends narration, animation, and interactive elements. LIT partners directly with more than 100 authors across business, marketing, finance, economics, psychology, self‑help, parenting, health, and wellness, and its production team includes Emmy‑award‑winning producers and animators. All videobooks are distributed exclusively on LIT’s platform, with new releases added each month and a forthcoming all‑access subscription planned. The firm is a fast‑growing, venture‑capital‑backed venture.
Revero is an online clinic specializing in treating chronic conditions through a root-cause approach. It offers personalized treatments for autoimmune and metabolic conditions via nutrition therapy and remote medical care, aiming to improve patients' blood sugar levels, metabolic health, reduce inflammation, and restore gut health.
Grouport
Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2019, Grouport offers online group therapy services, making mental health treatment more accessible for chronic psychological disorders.
Hiki
Funding Round in 2022
Hiki, Inc. operates a mobile application designed specifically for the autistic community, facilitating friendship and dating among neurodivergent adults. Launched in 2016 and based in Asheville, North Carolina, Hiki was developed in collaboration with autistic adults to ensure its features are sensory aware and effectively address their unique needs. The application allows users to create profiles, engage in private messaging, and connect with others in their geographical area, fostering a supportive social ecosystem. As the first platform of its kind, Hiki aims to empower autistic individuals to find friendship, love, and community in a safe and inclusive environment.
Afloat
Venture Round in 2022
Afloat is a marketplace that empowers local businesses and brands through its curated gifting platform. It connects consumers with the best local shops for same-day gift delivery, currently operating in Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Atlanta, Nashville, Kansas City, and Wichita.
Gimme Radio
Venture Round in 2022
Gimme Radio, Inc. is a digital music platform founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, that caters specifically to metal music enthusiasts. It offers a unique online radio station featuring a curated selection of tracks, hand-picked by musicians, music journalists, and industry tastemakers. The platform also includes Gimme Live, which allows listeners to interact with DJs through online chat. In addition to streaming, Gimme Radio sells music-related merchandise such as CDs, tapes, t-shirts, posters, and record players, creating a comprehensive community experience for passionate music fans. By focusing on underserved genres, Gimme Radio positions itself as a dedicated destination for fans who seek a more specialized music experience.
Snowball Wealth
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Snowball Wealth, Inc. is a financial management company based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2018. It specializes in providing personalized guidance for student loans and broader financial planning, focusing on debt management, retirement, and investment strategies. The company has developed a mobile platform that combines community engagement, social challenges, and AI-driven planning to assist users in addressing financial challenges. By fostering an open dialogue around debt, income, and investing, Snowball Wealth aims to alleviate the stigma associated with these topics. Its innovative approach empowers individuals to make informed financial decisions, manage their student debt effectively, and build generational wealth through tailored advice and resources.
Delight
Venture Round in 2022
Delight is a dating service established in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco. The company offers an app that facilitates meaningful connections by allowing users to date one person at a time. This approach focuses on fostering deeper relationships, as users engage with individuals who are also seeking serious commitments. Delight aims to create a more intentional dating experience, helping users find compatible partners in a straightforward and effective manner.
Jamble
Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2021, Jamble is a San Francisco-based platform that facilitates the buying and selling of used clothing. It employs live streaming technologies to enhance resellers' efficiency and offers users an engaging shopping experience.
The Nudge
Series A in 2022
Founded in 2017, The Nudge is a San Francisco-based company that operates a mobile application designed to encourage city exploration. It sends subscribers text messages containing personalized activity plans, such as brunch ideas or hike suggestions, fostering real-life experiences and local discovery.
WaveAI
Venture Round in 2022
WaveAI specializes in AI-powered music creation technology. Founded in 2017, it offers ALYSIA, an AI app generating original lyrics and melodies, and LyricStudio, an AI-driven lyrics writing assistant for professionals.
iollo
Venture Round in 2022
iollo, founded in 2022 and based in San Francisco, offers metabolomics testing to support wellbeing and aging. The company develops at-home blood test kits that monitor biomarkers across heart, kidney, liver function, the microbiome, and metabolic health, measuring molecules in blood to provide personalized insights. Its service links biomarker data to dietary, behavioral, and therapeutic interventions, delivering recommendations aimed at improving wellness and managing aging. iollo emphasizes convenient, at-home testing and automated interpretation to help individuals make informed lifestyle choices and track health over time.
Roforco
Venture Round in 2022
Roforco is an accelerator for Roblox game developers that provides funding, resources, and hands-on support to help games succeed. Founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, the company was created by co-founders Artem and Brain, who have extensive game-making experience and have worked on top grossing titles. Before launching the accelerator, Roforco operated as a game studio with a portfolio reaching tens of millions of plays and thousands of concurrent users, and it collaborated with major brands such as Unilever on a branded game with over 50 million plays. In 2022, Roforco joined a well-known startup accelerator and secured seed funding from prominent investors, which complemented its developer-focused program. The organization focuses on supporting Roblox creators through funding, mentorship, and operational assistance to scale their titles.
Accountable
Venture Round in 2022
Accountable is a financial service company that focuses on handling costs for hosts of holiday rentals.
Founded in 2017, Ceresa is a leadership development company based in Austin, Texas. It offers a data-driven platform that delivers personalized, whole-person leadership journeys tailored to diverse aspiring leaders.
Spora Health
Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2019, Spora Health is a San Francisco-based telemedicine provider specializing in primary care for people of color. It offers treatments for various conditions such as allergies, infections, and skin issues, using machine learning-driven technology to predict patient risk profiles.
ALPHS is a fast-growing privately held organization with a business valuation of $7 million as of 2023, Forbes estimated. The inspirational success story of the empire redirects to Ashini Gogoi, an ex-Meta employee, who haphazardly started it as a lifestyle community on Instagram in January 2021 as per an investigation by CNN—Forbes declared that he is a young yet enigmatic self-made CEO.
Following his vision in August 2020, Ashini managed to take a loan capital of US$40,000 from his friends and family, his company started making headlines in major publications for the first time in November 2022, when the company signed a contract with the American rapper, Wiz Khalifa. The company is listed as a high-profile organization on Crunchbase and is actively offering its services in Tier 1 countries as of 2023—a statistical analysis showed that 87% of its customer base is women from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy. The company's website gets active during major festivals only and consumers can purchase for a limited duration of seven days, hence selling out very quickly—their most affordable models that hold their value start between $850 and $1,200.
"ALPHS Inc. is one of the most secretive young companies in corporate history next to the giant Rolex," says the American business newspaper, The Wall Street Journal. Reports suggest that Ashini took down several notable articles including Forbes, CNN, WSJ—while his organization was under suspicion by April 2023—the company claimed that their products were meticulously made and they had consistently maintained their values. The company has drawn criticism from multiple sources, with questions raised about its secretive nature, and faced numerous allegations on whether their business was legal—including a handful of law firms in the financial investigation—a rigorous background check was done which publicized that they operate as an online retailer—with the approval of the Jewelers Vigilance Committee—the materials used by the company were declared legitimate in October 2022. The company also produces high-quality films titled, "Inspired by best-selling novels" for customer retention and is investing enormous funds in the development of artificial intelligence.
ALPHS headquarters were officially shifted from Hyderabad, India to Milan, Italy in March 2023 under the guidance of Y Combinator, the lead investor of the company. As of 2023, the company has reportedly signed agreements with eleven prominent stars and models for endorsing its products.
Bloom is a financial technology company that provides a secure wallet hub for trading tokens and NFTs, enabling users to discover new decentralized applications and optimize their DeFi investments. The platform is described as offering innovative, fair, responsible and inclusive financial products, aimed at widening access to digital finance while simplifying crypto activity for a broad user base.
Bloom is a financial technology company that provides a secure wallet hub for trading tokens and NFTs, enabling users to discover new decentralized applications and optimize their DeFi investments. The platform is described as offering innovative, fair, responsible and inclusive financial products, aimed at widening access to digital finance while simplifying crypto activity for a broad user base.
Smart Plate
Venture Round in 2022
SmartPlate, Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in smart nutrition technology. The company has developed an intelligent nutrition platform that utilizes advanced photo recognition and artificial intelligence to identify, analyze, and track meals. This technology offers users immediate nutritional information about the food on their smart plate, allowing them to make informed dietary choices. In addition to meal analysis, SmartPlate provides a service that delivers healthy ingredients and recipes directly to customers' homes. This comprehensive approach enables users to better manage their food intake and adjust their eating habits to meet specific health objectives.
Maven Pet
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Maven is a SaaS pet tech startup that provides a personal vet to track the pet’s safety and health 24/7.
It focuses on using technology to improve the quality of life for pets, as well as offering pet owners peace of mind and a way to keep track of their pet's safety, health, and well-being on a continual basis through their own personal veterinarian.
It was started by the founders of Findster Technologies in 2021 and is based in the US and Portugal.
Afriex
Venture Round in 2022
Afriex Inc. is a mobile payment application developer based in Oakland, California, specializing in overseas money transfer services. Founded in 2019, the company offers a digital wallet application that allows users to send and receive money globally, utilizing stablecoins to ensure fast and cost-effective remittance solutions. Afriex supports transactions to over 30 countries, enabling users to make payments and manage their finances more efficiently at current exchange rates, while also providing various withdrawal options to enhance the user experience.
Tingo
Venture Round in 2022
Tingo is a California-based company that operates a social dialer application. Currently, it is in stealth mode, indicating that it is likely in the early stages of development and not publicly disclosing specific details about its offerings or business model. The company's focus on creating a social dialer suggests an emphasis on enhancing communication through social interactions, although further information about its features and functionalities remains undisclosed.
Pigeon is an interpersonal finance app that makes it easier for anyone to create and keep track of loans with others. The leading solution for interpersonal loans, Pigeon is the smartest way to lend money to friends, family, and loved ones. Pigeon is helping millions around the world by providing everyday people with customizable technology and personalized education that eases the emotional pains of lending and borrowing money between individuals who care about each other.
Pigeon was founded by Brian Bristol in 2020 and is based in Miami, Florida.
YUR Inc., established in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, specializes in designing and developing software solutions that merge virtual reality (VR) with fitness and health tracking. The company's core product is a mobile companion application that integrates with VR games, tracking calories burned during gameplay, making workouts more engaging and enjoyable.
The AIR App
Venture Round in 2022
The AIR App is a platform that combines the concepts of social networking for athletic opportunities, exposure, and recruiting.
The AIR App was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Texas, USA.
Nestlings
Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2018, Nestlings is a global platform that connects international students with top universities in the US, Canada, and UK. It streamlines application processes, manages workflows, facilitates student-school interactions, and offers third-party services for a seamless study abroad experience.
Beem is a fintech company using AI to bridge the gap between income cycles for low-to-middle-income individuals. It offers instant cash access without interest or credit checks, enabling users to manage expenses more effectively and affordably.
Waffle Labs
Convertible Note in 2022
Waffle Labs, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in developing financial services software to assist customers in managing their investments. In addition to its investment management solutions, Waffle Labs operates an insurance platform that provides customizable insurance plans across various categories, including renters insurance, pet insurance, personal cyber insurance, and term life insurance. Through its innovative offerings, the company aims to enhance the financial security and investment strategies of its clients.
Jerry is a technology-driven platform that helps drivers manage car ownership. It uses an AI-powered insurance comparison engine to simplify finding affordable car insurance and also enables refinancing auto loans, tracking driving scores, and gaining transparency into maintenance and repair costs. By combining insurance, financing, maintenance, and safety insights, the service aims to streamline the ownership experience for U.S. customers. The platform serves more than five million users and seeks to provide clarity and efficiency in choosing coverage, arranging loans, and understanding vehicle costs.
Gaggle Studios
Venture Round in 2022
Gaggle Studios is a game developer focused on a video chat-integrated gaming platform. The company builds playable games that enable users to chat and communicate in real time while they play, creating immersive social gaming experiences that connect friends and family. Its offerings include a voice-chat integrated social deception game, illustrating the blend of communication and gameplay.
Scriptco
Venture Round in 2022
Scriptco is a pioneering membership-based wholesale pharmacy offering generic medications at their actual cost, with no markup. Its primary revenue source is membership fees, ensuring transparency and affordability for users.
Koshex is a personal finance and wealth management service established in 2020 and headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The company focuses on automating wealth creation for Indian millennials by offering data-driven insights into their daily finances, enabling them to save more effectively and make informed investment decisions. Its innovative platform facilitates automated investing in various assets, including mutual funds, digital gold, and sectors such as technology, clean energy, automobiles, and US equities. By providing users with tools to understand money movement in real-time and evaluate potential investment outcomes, Koshex empowers customers to explore diverse investment opportunities tailored to their financial goals.
Fit!
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Fit! is a Sports and Fitness startup that offers fitness programs through apps. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Bring Me That
Venture Round in 2022
Bring Me That is a technology platform that facilitates online food ordering from a wide range of delivery restaurants throughout the United States, including those without their own online ordering systems. This innovative service addresses a significant gap in the market, as over 100,000 delivery restaurants do not offer online ordering. Currently, Bring Me That enables customers to order from more than 40,000 restaurants across all 50 states, with plans to expand access to nearly 100,000 restaurants. The platform allows users to select from local dining options and provides a seamless delivery experience, complete with secure payment methods, thereby enhancing convenience and efficiency in food ordering.
Ender is a venture-backed startup based in Austin, Texas, focused on enhancing employability for children before they reach adulthood. The company has developed a competition platform that incentivizes kids to build apps, games, websites, and other real-world projects by offering cash prizes. This innovative learn-to-earn model allows children to create a portfolio while earning money, fostering both skill development and financial literacy. With a team of dedicated professionals from the fields of game development, education, engineering, and design, Ender aims to empower the next generation through practical experience and competitive engagement.
Revero
Venture Round in 2022
Revero is an online clinic specializing in treating chronic conditions through a root-cause approach. It offers personalized treatments for autoimmune and metabolic conditions via nutrition therapy and remote medical care, aiming to improve patients' blood sugar levels, metabolic health, reduce inflammation, and restore gut health.
Emobi
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Emobi is the leading EV charging ecosystem that delivers a single point of integration. The company’s products offer instant access to a vast network of charging stations and e-mobility partners through its advanced AI and data refinement models. As the largest roaming ecosystem in North America, Emobi enables Plug & Charge technology, facilitating automatic charging identification between EVs and chargers.
Stock Unlock
Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2021, Stock Unlock is a New York-based company that operates a stock analysis platform. This platform aims to demystify investing and promote financial literacy by providing users with access to financials, trends, ratios, and other relevant benchmarks. It enables clients to research stocks and track portfolios, thereby enhancing their investment capabilities.
Gauss
Venture Round in 2022
Gauss is a financial technology company based in New York City, founded in 2021. It offers a mobile application that helps users manage their credit card debt while building wealth. By monitoring linked credit cards, Gauss automatically pays off high-interest balances, which can save consumers significant amounts in interest payments. This service not only accelerates bill repayment but also aids in improving users' credit ratings. Additionally, Gauss provides low-interest credit lines to refinance costly credit card debt, allowing consumers to transform liabilities into assets with minimal disruption to their financial situations.
Float Health
Venture Round in 2022
Float Health is a digital health company that provides on-demand nursing services at patients’ homes through a mobile platform. The service connects consumers with nurses for home visits and manages scheduling, vetting, and administrative tasks such as charting and insurance invoicing to streamline care. Founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, the company aims to enable in-home treatment by coordinating nursing support and related care tasks for patients and families.
Bundil
Venture Round in 2022
Bundil is a fintech platform that converts spare change from everyday credit or debit card purchases into cryptocurrencies and other financial tools. The service automatically tracks spending, rounds purchases to the nearest dollar, and invests the resulting spare change into the user’s preferred digital asset. It operates as an automated micro-investing solution compatible with hundreds of banks, enabling users to establish saving and investing habits without active management. Bundil’s approach simplifies cryptocurrency participation by letting users accumulate investments over time through small, automated contributions tied to their everyday spending.
Discotech
Venture Round in 2022
Discotech provides a mobile platform that helps users discover nightlife venues, reserve guest lists, book tables, and purchase tickets for nightclubs, concerts, and festivals in the United States. Founded in 2013 and based in Los Angeles, the service connects users directly with venues to streamline admissions and seating while giving venues a way to manage reservations and inventory. The platform addresses fragmentation and inefficiencies in the nightlife industry by offering a unified app for planning events, accessing guest lists, and obtaining entry, including VIP experiences through the app.
Ramper
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Ramper is a company founded in 2022 and based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on simplifying access to blockchain applications. It offers a software solution designed to facilitate the onboarding of users to web3, allowing individuals without any cryptocurrency background to access applications easily. By employing a one-click wallet and login system, Ramper enables developers to streamline the onboarding process, thereby reducing friction and promoting wider adoption of web3 technologies.
Stairs Financial
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Stairs Financial is a company dedicated to assisting young Americans in purchasing their first homes. It offers a financial platform that combines financial advice with real estate listings, allowing users to evaluate their eligibility for various properties. By identifying homes based on individual financial situations, Stairs Financial connects users with relevant government grants, loans, and tax incentives. This integrated approach enables potential homeowners to plan effectively and make informed decisions regarding their property purchases.
Ivee specializes in providing wellness and intravenous (IV) treatment services delivered directly to patients' homes. The company focuses on making health services more accessible by offering on-demand IV therapy for various needs, including detoxification, immune support, and productivity enhancement. Patients can conveniently book these IV therapy sessions online, eliminating the need to travel for wellness and ancillary care. Through its innovative delivery infrastructure, Ivee aims to redefine the way individuals receive health treatments, emphasizing comfort and accessibility.
Empowerly
Seed Round in 2022
Empowerly, Inc. is an education technology company based in San Mateo, California, that specializes in personalized college counseling and tutoring services for students in grades 7-12, as well as transfer and graduate students. Formerly known as Synocate, the company utilizes a data-driven approach to provide tailored college application counseling, connecting students with trained counselors who cater to their individual needs. Empowerly's platform operates on a team-based human intelligence model, facilitating personalized guidance for college admissions and career planning. By leveraging expert recommendations, Empowerly aims to help students achieve their goals of acceptance into preferred universities and securing internships, ultimately empowering them to succeed in their academic and professional journeys.
Founded in 2020 and based in New York, Forte is a company that uses advanced audio and video conferencing technology to enhance online music education. Its platform aims to expand access to trusted, high-quality music teachers globally.
Captain Experiences
Seed Round in 2022
Austin-based Captain Experiences facilitates convenient online booking of guided outdoor sports experiences, initially focused on fishing. Their platform enables users to search for trips by location, group size, target species, price, and more, ensuring a hassle-free connection with Damn Good Guides in the field.
InstaMed
Venture Round in 2022
InstaMed Communications, LLC, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, operates a healthcare payments network that connects providers, payers, and consumers through a unified cloud-based platform. The company offers several products, including InstaMed Online for Providers and InstaMed Online for Payers, both of which facilitate secure management of healthcare payment transactions with role-based security. Additionally, InstaMed Connect integrates healthcare payments into existing IT applications via APIs. By streamlining electronic transactions and consolidating payment processes, InstaMed aims to reduce the risks and complexities associated with multiple payment vendors, ultimately enhancing consumer satisfaction and enabling providers to collect payments more efficiently. As of 2019, InstaMed operates as a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association.
Finch is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that provides an innovative online trading platform designed to simplify investing. Founded in 2019, Finch allows users to earn investment returns by automatically investing their cash balances into a diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tailored to their individual risk profiles. This unique approach ensures that users’ entire balance is actively working for them from the outset. Additionally, Finch offers instant access to funds, including those that are invested, enhancing liquidity for users. The platform also features a rewards card that enables customers to earn cash back on purchases, which can be automatically reinvested to foster financial growth. Through these services, Finch aims to make investing accessible and straightforward for its users.
Zumper is an online and mobile rental platform that enables renters to search for apartments, houses, rooms, and condos for rent in the United States. The platform provides landlords and agents with leasing tools to manage listings and optimize leasing, while multifamily communities can advertise to reach prospective tenants. Renters can search real-time listings, apply for rentals through the app, and filter results by location, price, bedroom count, pet requirements, and amenities. The company also offers Instarent, a digital leasing solution, and positions itself to make renting as easy as booking a hotel, serving as one of North America's leading privately owned rental platforms.
AmorSui
Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2020, AmorSui is a pioneering company specializing in the design and innovation of medical gowns and lab jackets for healthcare professionals. Their products are antimicrobial, static-resistant, protective against bodily fluids, reusable, and recyclable.amorSui delivers premium quality, comfortable, and eco-friendly PPE made and sourced entirely in the USA.
Empowerly
Venture Round in 2021
Empowerly, Inc. is an education technology company based in San Mateo, California, that specializes in personalized college counseling and tutoring services for students in grades 7-12, as well as transfer and graduate students. Formerly known as Synocate, the company utilizes a data-driven approach to provide tailored college application counseling, connecting students with trained counselors who cater to their individual needs. Empowerly's platform operates on a team-based human intelligence model, facilitating personalized guidance for college admissions and career planning. By leveraging expert recommendations, Empowerly aims to help students achieve their goals of acceptance into preferred universities and securing internships, ultimately empowering them to succeed in their academic and professional journeys.
Gobillion
Seed Round in 2021
Gobillion is a social e-commerce platform founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in New Delhi and Bangalore, India. The company focuses on transforming the online shopping experience by facilitating group purchases through its "Team Buy" model. This innovative approach allows users to create shopping rooms with friends and family, enabling them to collectively buy groceries and household essentials. By leveraging the power of group buying, Gobillion helps customers save money on their purchases, making everyday shopping more economical and social.
Soundbrenner
Debt Financing in 2021
Soundbrenner Limited, founded in 2014, is a company based in Berlin, Germany, with additional offices in Hong Kong and Los Angeles. It specializes in manufacturing wearable smart devices tailored for musicians, notably a vibrating metronome that helps users feel the beat and tempo of their music. Soundbrenner also offers the Metronome by Soundbrenner application, designed to enhance musical skills through engaging practice experiences. The company has shipped over 80,000 wearables and is available in music stores across more than 40 countries. Its mobile apps are utilized by over 500,000 musicians monthly, reflecting its mission to make music practice enjoyable and rewarding.
HOKALI
Pre Seed Round in 2021
HOKALI operates an online marketplace platform that connects US schools with instructors for after-school activities. It simplifies sales, scheduling, paperwork, insurance, and support tasks, offering a variety of programs such as sports, dance, visual arts, and more.
Comun
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Comun is a digital banking platform that offers FDIC-insured deposit accounts and a Visa debit card via a mobile app, serving Latino users in the United States. The service enables quick online applications, access to a wide ATM network, bilingual customer support, and built-in fraud protection. It supports free and instant transfers through its internal payments platform and allows paycheck deposits up to two days early when Direct Deposit is connected. The platform aims to provide everyday financial transactions such as deposits and transfers, promoting financial stability and greater financial freedom for its target community.
TriplePlay
Seed Round in 2021
TriplePlay is a Toronto-based company founded in 2020 that offers a virtual social network designed to facilitate connections among users through interactive gaming and video-based communication. The platform allows individuals to engage in one-on-one or group conversations, participate in workshops, panel discussions, and live demonstrations, as well as enjoy games together. With features that support private conversations and customization options, TriplePlay aims to create a more natural and engaging social experience for its users.
Eastern Standard Times
Seed Round in 2021
Eastern Standard Times, established in 2020 and headquartered in West Hollywood, California, is a prominent media company under the parent firm EST Media. It operates as a global platform focused on sharing untold stories from Asia, particularly targeting Gen Z audiences. Eastern Standard Times aims to bridge Eastern and Western youth cultures through its innovative content, which includes premium long-form storytelling. The company develops, finances, and produces web-optimized video content that challenges existing narratives about Asian people and culture, facilitating a deeper understanding and appreciation of these stories both domestically and within the diaspora. By connecting audiences with diverse narratives, Eastern Standard Times plays a vital role in the evolving landscape of media entertainment.
Treepz is a technology-driven transportation company focused on enhancing mobility across Africa. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Ontario, Canada, Treepz operates in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya, providing users with a reliable and comfortable commuting experience. Its application allows users to book trips for daily, inter-city, or corporate travel at the tap of a button. The platform offers features such as vehicle assistants, licensed drivers, and e-wallet payments, ensuring that users can book and pay for fast and convenient trips in real-time. Through its innovative approach, Treepz aims to create a safer and more efficient transportation system for commuters in the region.
Billdr is a home renovation marketplace based in Montreal, Toronto, and Chicago that streamlines the renovation process for both homeowners and general contractors. The company serves as a trusted partner, offering homeowners personalized support throughout the entire renovation journey. By utilizing a mobile application, general contractors gain access to pre-qualified leads and specialized tools for generating quotes, managing invoices, and facilitating payments, fostering a regulated and efficient marketplace. Billdr aims to transform the home renovation experience by providing comprehensive assessments and detailed estimates prior to matching homeowners with certified contractors, ultimately enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of renovation projects.
Cash Flow Portal
Seed Round in 2021
Cash Flow Portal is a technology company specializing in real estate syndication software. It facilitates the connection between sponsors (general partners) and investors across the United States by streamlining capital raising processes. The platform enables sponsors to efficiently present new deals, share documents, administer property information, and manage fundraising efforts. This helps syndicators attract investment for their projects from accredited investors while simplifying operational tasks.
Snowball Wealth
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Snowball Wealth, Inc. is a financial management company based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2018. It specializes in providing personalized guidance for student loans and broader financial planning, focusing on debt management, retirement, and investment strategies. The company has developed a mobile platform that combines community engagement, social challenges, and AI-driven planning to assist users in addressing financial challenges. By fostering an open dialogue around debt, income, and investing, Snowball Wealth aims to alleviate the stigma associated with these topics. Its innovative approach empowers individuals to make informed financial decisions, manage their student debt effectively, and build generational wealth through tailored advice and resources.
Just Vertical
Seed Round in 2021
Just Vertical is a Canadian company specializing in hydroponic systems that enable users to grow herbs and produce at home. Their system uses vertical growing techniques and requires no soil, promoting sustainable and convenient urban agriculture.
Mentorcam
Seed Round in 2021
Mentorcam is a platform that connects individuals with mentors and experts for one-on-one guidance and advice. Through a video messaging app, users can obtain personal messages from renowned experts and public figures, or engage in consultations to discuss fundraising, user acquisition, sales strategies, and other business challenges. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, Mentorcam aims to help small business owners and professionals access expert advice to accelerate growth.
Pager, Inc. is a company that operates an on-demand service platform designed to connect patients with healthcare services in various settings including homes, offices, and hotels. The company offers a mobile application that facilitates access to urgent care for a range of conditions such as infections, respiratory issues, and allergies. In addition to its core services, Pager provides nurse chat, teleconsultation, screening, vaccination, and prescription delivery. The company's mission focuses on improving healthcare accessibility, lowering costs, and simplifying care navigation through a flexible platform that integrates artificial intelligence and service teams. Amidst its extensive offerings, Pager supports over 15 million individuals across the United States and Latin America, enabling coordinated care that enhances patient engagement and decision-making. Incorporated in 2013 and headquartered in New York, Pager was previously known as techCare, Inc. before rebranding in 2014.
Baubap
Venture Round in 2021
Baubap is a Mexican fintech that develops a microlending platform to offer instant personal loans through a mobile application with a streamlined, document-light application process. Founded in 2018 by Luis Villarreal, Roberto Salcedo, and Conrad Wilkinson Schwarz, Baubap focuses on accessible lending by enabling users to apply for loans anytime and anywhere.
Rinse
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Rinse was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Dime
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Dime is a digital platform that provides creators to turn their content into digital collectibles and trade them in the market at a reasonable price. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Koshex
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Koshex is a personal finance and wealth management service established in 2020 and headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The company focuses on automating wealth creation for Indian millennials by offering data-driven insights into their daily finances, enabling them to save more effectively and make informed investment decisions. Its innovative platform facilitates automated investing in various assets, including mutual funds, digital gold, and sectors such as technology, clean energy, automobiles, and US equities. By providing users with tools to understand money movement in real-time and evaluate potential investment outcomes, Koshex empowers customers to explore diverse investment opportunities tailored to their financial goals.
Jerry is a technology-driven platform that helps drivers manage car ownership. It uses an AI-powered insurance comparison engine to simplify finding affordable car insurance and also enables refinancing auto loans, tracking driving scores, and gaining transparency into maintenance and repair costs. By combining insurance, financing, maintenance, and safety insights, the service aims to streamline the ownership experience for U.S. customers. The platform serves more than five million users and seeks to provide clarity and efficiency in choosing coverage, arranging loans, and understanding vehicle costs.
Novakid is a San Francisco-based online English school for children, offering full-immersion language learning through 1:1 live lessons with native or near-native teachers, small-group speaking practice, gamified content, and self-learning apps. Catering to children roughly aged 2 to 14, its curriculum aligns with CEFR standards and combines storytelling, games, and real-time conversation to develop language and cognitive skills while complementing school learning. The platform aims to prepare youngsters for future academic, career, and travel opportunities and seeks to foster a global community of young English learners.
Super Seguros
Series A in 2021
Founded in 2019, Super Seguros is an innovative insurance company based in Mexico City. It specializes in developing radical insurance products, utilizing automated assessment technology to enable customers to purchase policies and receive coverage promptly.
Yummy Inc. is a food delivery application company founded in 2020 by Vicente Zavarce, with its headquarters located in San Francisco, California, and an additional office in Caracas, Venezuela. The Yummy app operates across Latin America, allowing users to order and pay for meals through both mobile and web platforms. It offers various payment options, including foreign credit cards and cash, making it convenient for users to enjoy their food at their preferred locations.
IRL is a social messaging application founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California. The app facilitates event discovery and planning, enabling users to manage their social calendars effectively. It allows individuals to follow friends, join interest-based groups, and engage in chats. Users can create groups centered around their interests, fostering connections with like-minded individuals and enhancing existing relationships. The platform supports event creation, allowing users to invite group members and plan activities easily. Additionally, IRL integrates local public events and enables users to follow sports teams, musicians, celebrities, and local venues, streamlining the process of sending and receiving invitations to social gatherings.
Clearing
Seed Round in 2021
Clearing is a digital healthcare platform built to serve the more than 50M chronic pain sufferers in the United States. In partnership with leading physicians and researchers at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the Hospital for Special Surgery, and with significant funding from top-tier investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Founders Fund, Breyer Capital, and a host of leading healthcare and consumer entrepreneurs (including the founders of Hims, Seamless Grubhub, Flatiron Health, Forward Health, Curology and more) we are on a mission to provide patients with access to comprehensive, opioid-free pain relief.
Ancana is a proptech company that facilitates fractional ownership of vacation homes worldwide. It partners with developers to offer managed properties, handling complexities while users enjoy seamless scheduling.
Ceresa
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2017, Ceresa is a leadership development company based in Austin, Texas. It offers a data-driven platform that delivers personalized, whole-person leadership journeys tailored to diverse aspiring leaders.
Breach Insurance
Seed Round in 2021
Founded in Boston in 2018, Breach Insurance specializes in developing, underwriting, and distributing insurance solutions tailored to the digital asset marketplace. The company focuses on protecting against losses due to cryptocurrency exchange hacks, offering an intuitive dashboard for policy setup, customization, and claims submission.