Goodwater Capital

Goodwater Capital is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that targets early-stage investments in consumer technology and related sectors, including housing, financial services, consumer products and services, healthcare, food, transportation, education, and entertainment. It backs exceptional entrepreneurs who create products and platforms that consumers love, with a focus on solving pressing problems and shaping the culture and global economy. Through its investments, Goodwater aims to enable startups capable of delivering broad, measurable improvements in billions of lives, reflecting a commitment to long-term positive impact.

Jing Cao

Investor

Timothy Chang

Investor

Alex Chen

Investor

Chi-Hua Chien

Managing Partner

Kate Cobb

Investor

Past deals in SME

Payhere

Series B in 2024
Payhere is a fintech company that specializes in providing card terminals and online payment gateway services tailored for various industries. The company has developed an online payment platform that addresses the challenges faced by small business owners and seeks to innovate the offline payment market. By offering a comprehensive gateway for digital transactions, Payhere connects consumers and sellers, facilitating seamless financial interactions. Its solutions enable businesses, including franchisees, to accept multiple payment methods, thereby enhancing customer convenience and promoting financial growth.

Payhere

Series B in 2023
Payhere is a fintech company that specializes in providing card terminals and online payment gateway services tailored for various industries. The company has developed an online payment platform that addresses the challenges faced by small business owners and seeks to innovate the offline payment market. By offering a comprehensive gateway for digital transactions, Payhere connects consumers and sellers, facilitating seamless financial interactions. Its solutions enable businesses, including franchisees, to accept multiple payment methods, thereby enhancing customer convenience and promoting financial growth.

Patika

Seed Round in 2022
Patika is a financial technology company dedicated to supporting African microenterprises in transitioning to the digital economy. It offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that assists small businesses in managing their financial operations. This includes tracking customer debt, facilitating repayments, and overseeing cash flow. By providing tools for receivable automation and payment services, Patika enables microenterprises to efficiently record their income, expenses, and repayments, thereby maintaining a comprehensive digital record of their financial health.

GroMo

Series A in 2022
GroMo is a fintech marketplace that empowers individuals in India to become micro-entrepreneurs by selling a variety of financial products, including insurance policies, credit cards, savings accounts, and loans. The platform allows users to partner with banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) to distribute these products, enabling them to earn substantial income with no initial investment. GroMo provides a user-friendly mobile app that facilitates sales from anywhere, offering features such as instant payouts, training and certification programs, customer management tools, and robust customer support. With over 1.4 million partners, GroMo aims to financially empower its users, allowing them to earn over INR 1 lakh monthly by leveraging the app's capabilities. This innovative platform not only simplifies the sales process but also fosters a community of individuals who can enhance their financial knowledge and grow their businesses through referrals and personalized engagement.

PayO

Pre Seed Round in 2022
PayO is an Accounting and payments application that enables simplified billing, easy stock management, payment collections, and supplier payments for small businesses.

Nano Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
VUI provides Flexible Payroll (EWA) solutions, income statistics, and employee financial management education through a technology platform.

Patika

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Patika is a financial technology company dedicated to supporting African microenterprises in transitioning to the digital economy. It offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that assists small businesses in managing their financial operations. This includes tracking customer debt, facilitating repayments, and overseeing cash flow. By providing tools for receivable automation and payment services, Patika enables microenterprises to efficiently record their income, expenses, and repayments, thereby maintaining a comprehensive digital record of their financial health.

Mewt

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2021, Mewt is an Indian fintech company that simplifies business banking for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). It aggregates accounts from state-run banks, private banks, and neo banks into a single account, enabling fast transfers and QR code-based payments.

HelloSubs

Venture Round in 2022
HelloSubs is the future of substitute teaching. We ensure schools & districts have the coverage they need while providing great opportunities to new, and experienced substitute teachers.

Treinta

Series A in 2022
Treinta is a digital ledger app tailored for Latin American microbusinesses. It enables users to record transactions by assigning products from their inventory, providing real-time insights into business metrics. By using Treinta, owners can save up to 30 minutes daily in bookkeeping tasks and enhance efficiency by over 30%. Currently, it serves microbusinesses transitioning from pen-and-paper tracking methods.

So-Col

Seed Round in 2022
So-Col is a pioneering platform facilitating direct connections between content creators and their fans. It leverages blockchain technology to bridge Web2 identities to Web3, enabling creators to monetize their content and build communities by converting social media posts into non-fungible collectibles.

Startup oi

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Startup oi operates as a talent matching and job search platform for engineers. It connects engineers with companies by building a professional and social tech community that complements traditional networks. The platform supports career development through job search, online learning, mentorship, and guidance, while enabling engineers to pursue various interests and build their careers within a global community.

Numida

Seed Round in 2022
Numida Technologies is a digital financial institution based in Kampala, Uganda, founded in 2015. The company specializes in serving micro- and small businesses in East Africa by offering application software that helps these enterprises maintain up-to-date digital financial records. Numida's proprietary credit scoring system enables it to provide unsecured growth and working capital loans to businesses, which not only results in high portfolio yields but also significantly impacts the livelihoods of borrowers. The platform aims to lower risks and costs for lending institutions, leading to improved lending terms for borrowers and fostering a thriving small business sector that creates employment, increases tax revenues, and enhances living standards for entrepreneurs and their staff.

Kilo

Seed Round in 2021
Kilo operates a business-to-business e-commerce platform that connects wholesalers with micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. The company's platform is designed to digitize the local retail value chain by providing retailers with access to essential tools for price, assortment, and inventory management. By focusing on small and medium-sized retailers, Kilo enhances their ability to manage businesses across multiple sales channels. The platform fosters a network effect that promotes growth for both supply and demand, thereby creating a more efficient and responsive retail environment.

StowNest Storage

Seed Round in 2021
StowNest Storage offers household storage, luggage office storage, and business storage services. StowNest redefines the relationship between a client's space and belongings, so they can spend less time managing their things and more time living their life. We are solving the on-demand storage needs for SMEs and Startups by being their Warehouse Partners. We also offer Self Service Private Lockers to address the luggage storage needs of traveller under the name of KLOAK

Nomod

Seed Round in 2021
Nomod is a financial technology company established in 2019 and headquartered in London. It specializes in creating a financial operating system tailored for innovative businesses in emerging markets. Nomod's suite of payment tools and financial services simplifies the management of business transactions, allowing entrepreneurs and startups to efficiently handle their finances. The platform enables users to easily sign up and begin accepting card payments both in-person and online, thereby supporting the growth and development of businesses in these regions.

Udhaar Book

Seed Round in 2021
Udhaar Book is a developer of a digital ledger application designed to assist small businesses in managing their financial records. The platform provides an online ledger that enables users to track outstanding debts and maintain accounts with customers and suppliers. It features tools for recording financial transactions and sending automated reminders to customers, which helps improve collection rates and enhance cash flow. By simplifying the management of credit, Udhaar Book aims to facilitate hassle-free financial operations for small businesses.

Flexi Salary

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Flexi Salary is a financial services company based in Gurugram, Haryana. It offers an innovative salary wallet platform that enables employees to access their earned income early, fostering happier work environments and potentially reducing attrition rates for organizations.

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.

Pideaky

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pideaky is a payment and collection platform designed to enhance cash flow for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) through embedded finance solutions. Utilizing artificial intelligence, Pideaky's technology accelerates the onboarding and underwriting processes, making them six times faster than traditional methods, while also streamlining payment collections to be three times quicker than manual efforts. In addition to its payment functionalities, Pideaky offers a point-of-sale system that digitizes business operations by organizing and tracking sales and inventory, updating catalogs for order management, and facilitating online payment transactions. This comprehensive approach enables businesses to improve their operational efficiency and increase revenue through digital transformation.

Titipku

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Titipku is an online shopping application designed to meet the everyday needs of consumers by facilitating access to local markets. The platform emphasizes a hyperlocal shopping experience, enabling users to purchase from shops and markets in their immediate vicinity. By targeting sub-district areas, Titipku aims to support micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia, promoting their growth and digital transformation. The company provides an online marketplace that connects these small businesses with customers, thereby enhancing the overall economic landscape. Through its services, Titipku strives to empower local enterprises and ensure that consumers can easily access essential items from nearby sources.

LemFi

Seed Round in 2021
LemFi provides multi-currency accounts and a platform for international payments and global account management. The service enables individuals and businesses to hold funds in multiple currencies, manage their finances across borders, and send money internationally with low transfer fees. LemFi supports payments to more than 20 countries and emphasizes seamless, cost-efficient cross-border transactions without monthly subscription charges.

NextPay

Seed Round in 2021
NextPay offers an alternative to traditional bank accounts for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Its platform enables companies to generate digital invoices for customer payments, manage cash flow, and make bulk payments to employees, suppliers, or service providers.

BukuWarung

Series A in 2021
BukuWarung is a technology company focused on providing digital infrastructure for Indonesia's 60 million micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The company offers a platform that enables users to efficiently manage their businesses through features such as digital bookkeeping, online storefronts, and payment processing. By facilitating the recording of daily financial transactions, including sales and customer accounts, BukuWarung helps small businesses maintain accurate sales records, issue bills via messaging applications, and generate daily business reports. The platform aims to empower MSMEs by enhancing their financial awareness and enabling effective business management through technology.

Nano Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
VUI provides Flexible Payroll (EWA) solutions, income statistics, and employee financial management education through a technology platform.

GroMo

Funding Round in 2021
GroMo is a fintech marketplace that empowers individuals in India to become micro-entrepreneurs by selling a variety of financial products, including insurance policies, credit cards, savings accounts, and loans. The platform allows users to partner with banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) to distribute these products, enabling them to earn substantial income with no initial investment. GroMo provides a user-friendly mobile app that facilitates sales from anywhere, offering features such as instant payouts, training and certification programs, customer management tools, and robust customer support. With over 1.4 million partners, GroMo aims to financially empower its users, allowing them to earn over INR 1 lakh monthly by leveraging the app's capabilities. This innovative platform not only simplifies the sales process but also fosters a community of individuals who can enhance their financial knowledge and grow their businesses through referrals and personalized engagement.

NextPay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
NextPay offers an alternative to traditional bank accounts for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Its platform enables companies to generate digital invoices for customer payments, manage cash flow, and make bulk payments to employees, suppliers, or service providers.

Kilo

Seed Round in 2021
Kilo operates a business-to-business e-commerce platform that connects wholesalers with micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. The company's platform is designed to digitize the local retail value chain by providing retailers with access to essential tools for price, assortment, and inventory management. By focusing on small and medium-sized retailers, Kilo enhances their ability to manage businesses across multiple sales channels. The platform fosters a network effect that promotes growth for both supply and demand, thereby creating a more efficient and responsive retail environment.

Tide

Convertible Note in 2018
Tide is a UK-based fintech company specializing in business banking services for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Its platform offers streamlined business accounts and administrative solutions, such as seamless integration with accounting systems, to help SMEs save time and money. Tide's advanced technology is tailored to the needs of SMEs, making it a leading challenger in the UK's SME banking sector. The company is committed to serving SMEs exclusively, focusing on their unique requirements.

Stylemyle

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Stylemyle is an online luxury fashion marketplace that connects independent multi-brand boutiques and designers with consumers seeking contemporary luxury apparel and accessories. The platform specializes in selling overstock collections, allowing luxury fashion brands to effectively manage their unsold inventory. By providing digital tools and a dedicated sales channel, Stylemyle empowers boutique retail partners to reach a global audience of luxury fashion enthusiasts. The marketplace features a wide range of products, including dresses, jackets, bottoms, tops, workwear, and various accessories such as shoes, bags, and jewelry. In addition to facilitating sales, Stylemyle promotes sustainability by giving overstock luxury items a second chance, benefiting both consumers and the environment.
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