Goodwater Capital

Goodwater is a venture capital firm based in Burlingame, California, founded in 2014. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, primarily targeting consumer technology startups. Goodwater aims to support exceptional entrepreneurs by providing the necessary capital and resources to help them solve significant problems and develop their businesses. The firm invests in a variety of sectors, including housing, financial services, healthcare, food, transportation, education, and entertainment, with the intention of empowering innovative companies that are reshaping consumer experiences. Goodwater Capital manages its investments through funds that can allocate substantial amounts to individual companies, reflecting its commitment to fostering growth in the consumer technology landscape.

Jing Cao

Investor

Timothy Chang

Investor

Alex Chen

Investor

Chi-Hua Chien

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Kate Cobb

Investor

Anna Consani

Investor

Jordan Dale

Investor

Kanishk Desai

Investor

Robert Farb

Investor

Patrick Granahan

Investor

Daryl Hansen

Investor

Alden Harwood

Investor

Sophie Hoffman

Investor

Coddy Johnson

Partner

Hatim Ketty

Partner

Hatim Khety

Partner

Eric J. Kim

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Soobin Kim

Investor

Danielle Kling

Operating Partner

Nicholas Kridler

Investor

Jessica Lee

Investor

Adam Levinson

Investor

Yao Li

Principal

Olivia Li

Investor

Nikhil Lingireddy

Investor

Jin Suk Oh

Partner

Karthika Purushothaman

Investor

Scott Shiao

Principal, Investment Team

Vivek Subramanian

Partner and Chief Product Officer

Nathan Tien

Principal

Matt Turk

Investor

Past deals in Social Network

Block Party

Seed Round in 2022
Block Party is a technology company focused on combating online harassment and abuse through its consumer application. Established in 2018 and based in Las Vegas, Nevada, the company provides tools designed to help users manage their online experiences. Its platform features lockout and notification filters that allow individuals to mute unwanted notifications and control interactions on social media. By employing both manual controls and machine learning-based models, Block Party empowers users to filter spam and trolls, aiming to create a more positive and less toxic internet environment.

Bloom

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of web hub designed for exchanging tokens and collectibles, discovering new dApps, and enhancing DeFi portfolio management. The company's platform provides a social feed where users receive new web three recommendations by connecting with friends and following influencers, enabling users with additional functionality to the wallet including microtransactions, transaction expiration times, native tokens, and NFTs.

Bloom

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of web hub designed for exchanging tokens and collectibles, discovering new dApps, and enhancing DeFi portfolio management. The company's platform provides a social feed where users receive new web three recommendations by connecting with friends and following influencers, enabling users with additional functionality to the wallet including microtransactions, transaction expiration times, native tokens, and NFTs.

Studyverse

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Studyverse enables students to create virtual study rooms to help them study and chill in peace, with friends, classmates, and study buddies. To improve students' focus, Studyverse employs scientific methods such as social accountability and mimicry. Students can use Studyverse to personalize their study environment.

DigsConnect

Seed Round in 2022
DigsConnect is a leading student accommodation marketplace based in Cape Town, South Africa, established in 2017. The platform facilitates connections between property owners and student tenants, as well as between students seeking roommates. By providing a user-friendly interface, DigsConnect enables students to find affordable and safe accommodation options near educational institutions. The company aims to foster a community where individuals can discover suitable living arrangements while building lasting friendships. With a focus on real-time accommodation searches, DigsConnect is committed to addressing the specific needs of its users, ensuring a streamlined experience in the often challenging process of finding student housing.

Well Traveled

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a members-only social platform intended for travelers, foodies, and adventure seekers. The company's platform offers young professionals, travelers, foodies, and adventure seekers a private membership community, to discover, plan and book incredible trips, find and share insider travel information and trending spots, helping users with travel planning services, and find the right accommodations to create memories.

S'More Date

Venture Round in 2022
Imagine a dating app that starts with getting to know a person before swiping on them. Where character is considered before physical attributes, and where profiles are evaluated on the basis of common interests, opinions, and values.

Sēkr

Seed Round in 2022
Sēkr develops an app called The Vanlife App, which helps every road traveler find their way to free camping, resources, and outdoor community. The Vanlife App guides travelers to their next best adventure with the its social features that allow them to find and connect with other travelers nearby and detailed user reviews.

So-Col

Seed Round in 2022
So-Col is a social media platform that facilitates connections between content creators and their fans by bridging traditional web2 social channels with the emerging web3 environment. The platform offers tools that enable content creators to monetize their work and foster community engagement. Utilizing blockchain technology, So-Col employs a decentralized ID protocol that allows creators and influencers to transform their social media content into non-fungible collectible items. This innovative approach not only enhances the interaction between creators and their audiences but also provides new opportunities for revenue generation within the digital landscape.

Lumina

Seed Round in 2022
Operator of a job community platform intended to easily and safely connect productive workers with a variety of job opportunities. The company's platform provides a community-based recruitment and benefits system that provides information on job vacancies that match the background and interests of job seekers, enabling job seekers to have full access to various job opportunities quickly and securely.

Startup Oi

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Startup Oi is a job search platform dedicated to connecting engineers with potential employers worldwide. The platform seeks to bridge the gap left by traditional social networks by creating a professional and social community tailored specifically for engineers. It offers a comprehensive range of services, including job placement, e-learning opportunities, mentorship connections, and career development resources. Additionally, Startup Oi fosters social interactions among engineers, allowing them to engage in shared interests while navigating their professional journeys. This approach not only enhances the job search experience but also supports engineers in their overall growth and development within the industry.

Facily

Series D in 2021
Facily is a social commerce marketplace in Latin America. The platform focuses on low-ticket items, delivering great prices and differentiated logistics to lower income neighbourhoods, leveraging learnings from China. Facily offers a unique experience by bringing the opportunity to buy together with friends directly from producers and manufacturers, having fun playing with freemium features. Facily also promotes community buying by leveraging local leaders and influencers.

Gobillion

Seed Round in 2021
Gobillion operates a social e-commerce platform that facilitates group purchasing for groceries and household essentials. Through its "Team Buy" model, the platform allows users to create shopping rooms with friends and family, enabling them to buy items together. This collaborative approach not only enhances the shopping experience but also helps customers save money by leveraging the benefits of group buying. By making e-commerce more social, Gobillion aims to transform how consumers shop for everyday essentials.

Tagg

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Tagg is the most comprehensive digital representation of a user's identity, strictly for them and their community. Tagg allows its users to create their own personalized digital space where students can express who they are, along with all the moments that comprehensively define them. This exclusive space will allow students to find friends, dates, groups, and even study partners within their school community.

Frich

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Frich makes money social. It is the first social finance app empowering Gen Z to take control of their personal finances by setting spending goals together with friends using gamification and social media elements.

Eastern Standard Times

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a global media entertainment platform intended to share stories and build an entertainment bridge between Eastern and Western youth cultures. The company develops, finances, and produces premium, web-optimized, video content that challenges narratives about Asian people and culture both at home and throughout the diaspora, providing customers with untold stories from Asia to the world.

Breakthru

Seed Round in 2021
SportsHi connects student-athletes to colleges and amazing opportunities like scholarships. Our mission is to encourage high school students to play sports by creating a community where all student-athletes can grow. We know the positive impact high school sports can have in the classroom and in your day-to-day life. By creating SportsHi, we want to send more of our youth to higher education.

CyberConnect

Seed Round in 2021
CyberConnect is building the open social graph modular web3 applications. Cyberconnect invest in web3, Cryptocurrency & blockchain.

OurSpace

Seed Round in 2021
OurSpace is a local discovery app that provides high quality city content from architects, travel writers, and photographers.

Seek

Seed Round in 2021
Seek is a content platform that connects tastemakers in the consumer leisure space with millions of consumers seeking trusted and relevant recommendations on where to eat, drink and spend their leisure time. Consumers have access to trusted and vetted recommendations from like-minded experts while tastemakers can showcase and monetize their expertise and passion. Seek currently has thousands of recommendations from tastemakers around the world.

ADPList

Seed Round in 2021
ADPList is on a mission to democratize mentorships for all. A community based on connection and inclusivity — a platform where people can find, book and meet mentors around the world. At ADPList, we believe in inspiring shared conversations led by our mentors.

Happs

Series A in 2021
Happs is a global community working together to change the face of live news. Happs is a live streaming news platform that covers top stories from around the world. Using Happs app, it alerts the community to global breaking or trending news events — this could be an article, tweet, image, or live video of the event.

IRL

Series C in 2021
IRL is a social planning application designed to facilitate real-life interactions among users. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the app simplifies the process of sending and receiving invitations to social gatherings. It offers users a range of suggestions for activities based on their interests, locations, seasons, and upcoming holidays. In addition to event planning, IRL allows users to anonymously nominate friends for activities suited to their skills. The application also integrates local public events and enables users to sync their calendars with friends while following sports teams, musicians, and local venues. Overall, IRL aims to enhance social connectivity and encourage users to engage in shared experiences.

Commit

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a professional network platform intended to build a community of mission-driven and entrepreneurial engineers. The company's platform provides real-time peer-to-peer support, career development resources including mentorship and coaching and full-stack career transition services, enabling engineers to pave a new career path with access to startup opportunities while helping companies to find talented engineers.

Famosos

Seed Round in 2021
Famosos.com operates a celebrity interaction platform that connects fans with their favorite artists, celebrities, and influencers. The platform specializes in creating personalized videos tailored for various occasions, allowing users to receive or gift exclusive content messages. With a commitment to delivering these personalized videos in less than seven days, Famosos enhances the fan experience by providing direct engagement with well-known personalities. This service caters to individuals looking for unique and memorable ways to celebrate special moments through personalized celebrity content.

NoCap

Seed Round in 2021
Provider of the online event stream and venue services intended to allow fans to book and watch concerts. The company's services help people buy tickets for a wide range of live events and shows, venues, and concerts, enabling customers to enjoy and watch their favorite bands and shows.

OP3N

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2021 as a subsidiary of EST Media Holdings, OP3N is a global Web3 superapp that integrates communication, connection, and commerce within a unified interface, facilitating on-chain interactions. The company aims to foster a more decentralized and democratized creator economy by consolidating essential tools for minting, sharing, and engaging with digital goods and tokens. OP3N's leadership team, which includes media executive Jaeson Ma and development executive Eric Tu, brings extensive experience from the entertainment, gaming, and technology sectors. The company is committed to creating community-driven entertainment experiences and has established partnerships for various projects, including collaborations with Tokyo fashion label AMBUSH, an intergalactic children's book by Grimes, and a musical film with Simon Fuller. OP3N is headquartered in Los Angeles and focuses on empowering artists to directly engage with their fans through token-gated access, all within a Web3 framework.

IRL

Series B in 2020
IRL is a social planning application designed to facilitate real-life interactions among users. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the app simplifies the process of sending and receiving invitations to social gatherings. It offers users a range of suggestions for activities based on their interests, locations, seasons, and upcoming holidays. In addition to event planning, IRL allows users to anonymously nominate friends for activities suited to their skills. The application also integrates local public events and enables users to sync their calendars with friends while following sports teams, musicians, and local venues. Overall, IRL aims to enhance social connectivity and encourage users to engage in shared experiences.

IRL

Series A in 2019
IRL is a social planning application designed to facilitate real-life interactions among users. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the app simplifies the process of sending and receiving invitations to social gatherings. It offers users a range of suggestions for activities based on their interests, locations, seasons, and upcoming holidays. In addition to event planning, IRL allows users to anonymously nominate friends for activities suited to their skills. The application also integrates local public events and enables users to sync their calendars with friends while following sports teams, musicians, and local venues. Overall, IRL aims to enhance social connectivity and encourage users to engage in shared experiences.

Amino

Series C in 2018
Amino Apps is a mobile community platform that connects individuals through shared interests and passions. Established in 2011, the platform facilitates a network of communities where users can explore, discover, and engage deeply with various topics. Through features such as chat, blogs, and polls, Amino enables users to unite with like-minded individuals from around the world, fostering interaction and collaboration within these interest-based groups.

Rabbit

Series B in 2017
Rabbit, Inc. is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, that has developed a web and mobile application designed for users to share and watch shows and videos with friends in real-time or asynchronously. Founded in 2011, Rabbit enables users to connect through social media platforms like Facebook, facilitating group chats and content sharing. The platform allows users to create virtual rooms where they can watch YouTube videos, TV shows, movies, and listen to music together, regardless of their physical locations. This innovative approach to video communication fosters social interaction and content discovery, making it easier for friends to engage with each other while enjoying their favorite media. Rabbit has received backing from notable venture capital firms, indicating strong investor confidence in its potential for growth.

Amino

Series B in 2016
Amino Apps is a mobile community platform that connects individuals through shared interests and passions. Established in 2011, the platform facilitates a network of communities where users can explore, discover, and engage deeply with various topics. Through features such as chat, blogs, and polls, Amino enables users to unite with like-minded individuals from around the world, fostering interaction and collaboration within these interest-based groups.
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