Joanne Wilson

Angel Investor, Blogger, Co-Founder Womens Entrepreneur Festival

34 past transactions

Misen

Venture Round in 2020
Misen manufactures and sells quality tools that are essential for great cooking. The company combines thoughtful design, premium materials, and honest pricing to bring customers knives and cookware that have won over professional and amateur cooks alike. The company's kitchen knife is a Japanese-style blade crafted with premium materials and its skillets are made from stainless steel to even heat distribution and retention, allowing chefs and cooking enthusiasts to be creative and versatile in the kitchen and produce better quality food.

BEBOE

Venture Round in 2020
BEBOE is a provider of sophisticated cannabis products intended to heighten individualized social settings. The company's sophisticated cannabis products are produced with attention to detail in all aspects of production, from package design to the product's unique blend of THC and CBD, enabling consumers to have a unique experience and education in the world of cannabis.

Evrnu

Series A in 2019
Evrnu is a textile innovations company producing engineered fiber made from discarded clothing. Its multiple lifecycle fiber technologies are used to create engineered fibers with extra environmental advantages that create a circular ecosystem.

Swoonery

Venture Round in 2019
Swoonery a luxury e-commerce platform that aggregates top international fine jewelry brands and guides users through an intuitive shopping experience that removes the obstacles to buying jewelry online. By solving consumers problems (inconvenience, difficult discovery, uncertainties about sizing and gift-giving), they roll-up demand and provide brands with a powerful marketing and customer acquisition platform that is optimized for sales.

SoundGuard

Venture Round in 2019
SoundGuard creates the world's first and only soundproofing paint. It is also eco-friendly (low-VOC) and very easy to apply using the proper equipment. Their high-performance architectural coating has been independently and scientifically proven to reduce sound transmission through interior walls by an average of 90% making it the closest thing to soundproof paint that has ever been created. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Manufactured

Seed Round in 2018
Manufactured manufactures, finances and distributes products in 20 industries across 25 countries. Since its launch in 2019, MFD has managed over $140M of GMV.

True Gault

Venture Round in 2018
True Gault is a web-based, direct-to-consumer custom-fit high heel company that allows women to create 3D scans of their feet from their iPhones. The process takes less than 15 minutes, bringing you gorgeous shoes that fit anytime, any place. Once the measurements were sent to True Gault, they store it in their database for customers to shop and order at any time, without the need to scan their feet again. By downloading the app and taking a series of pictures, users can choose from a selection of 20 styles, pick a color, a heel height (currently 2” or 4”), pay $250 and then wait three to four weeks for their biometrically unique shoes to arrive from the factory in Spain.

Mimi Hearing Technologies

Series A in 2018
Mimi is the world's leading company for digital hearing tests and sound personalization. The Mimi apps are medical devices in Europe (CE, class 1). With over one million hearing test app downloads from 150 countries, it creates the world’s largest database of digital hearing profiles. With Mimi Defined™, a technology for sound personalization could be developed, which - despite the imperfections of human hearing - can optimize the individual hearing experience for everyone. Our software can be integrated into any audio product, from headphones to TVs, smartphones or streaming services. Mimi Hearing Technologies products and integrations have won numerous prestigious international awards, including the CES Innovation Award in Las Vegas (2019 & 2018), the Sonar+D Award for Innovation in Barcelona (2017), the StartUps & Developer Award at the San Francisco Music Tech Summit (2017), the IFA Berlin Prize for Audio Innovation (2017), first place in the Cannes Midem lab competition in the category "Music Discovery" (2016), and the company was a finalist at the Techcrunch Disrupt New York Startup Battlefield in 2014. More information at www.mimi.io

coUrbanize

Venture Round in 2018
coUrbanize is an online community engagement platform connecting real estate developers and municipalities with residents. It gives real estate and planning teams a suite of online tools to manage information and communication for a project. Their technology and services are engineered to help project teams increase engagement from a broader audience while saving time and money. Founded in 2013, coUrbanize is based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Threes Brewing

Venture Round in 2018
Threes Brewing is an online beverage retail platform. Their platform enables customers to purchase crafted beers, gins, spirits, malts, and other alcoholic beverages online or in drinking rooms, enabling them to experience crafted beer at an affordable price. They offer delivery services.

eCreditHero

Venture Round in 2018
Credit Hero is a platform for financial empowerment geared to the needs of working people.

Tagsmart

Venture Round in 2018
Tagsmart offers an all-round complete art authentication solutions, designed for artists, collectors and sellers of art. Endorsed and used by leading and upcoming artists, Tagsmart Certify uses DNA tagging technology to identify artworks alongside a unique system for issuing Certificates of Authenticity. These services are fully integrated with a secure digital platform which enables artists to verify the authenticity of their artworks and create an accredited chain of provenance.

Mah Ze Dahr

Venture Round in 2018
Conceived, built and run by lovers and purveyors of food, Mah-Ze-Dahr Bakery transports the curious on a delectable journey of mystery and desire that will elevate the baked good to a piece of comforting decadence that can be experienced every day. In Urdu, the word mazedar describes the taste essence of food, its flavor and magic that make it delicious. This one word captures the life of a taste experience, unique to each person but cohesive in its stories. It represents something that one cannot describe but wants to experience over and over again. Like the meaning of Mah-Ze-Dahr, the bakery is a culmination of years of traveling the world and experiencing people through their food, decades of culinary and restaurant experience, and the staunch belief that what you eat changes who you are.

Knowsy

Venture Round in 2017
Knowsy mission is to educate, inspire and entertain viewers by creating smart and short videos that help you know it all.

Shelfmint

Venture Round in 2017
Shelfmint is on a mission to disrupt food/beverage distribution.

It's By U

Seed Round in 2017
It's By U is a do-it-yourself arrangement kit with farm-fresh blooms, by subscription. It's By U kits provide you with pro-quality tools and everything you need to learn how to perfectly arrange the blossoms in gorgeous artisan-made vases. Plus, It's By U also donates a percentage of each sale to Random Acts of Flowers, a charity that up-cycles flowers and distributes them to patients in hospitals and nursing homes.

WorthFM

Venture Round in 2017
WorthFM (Worth Financial Management) is a digital investing platform designed to engage and educate women as their investments grow. Our mission is to show a measurable increase in her future savings and net worth by applying her individual personality traits and motivations to how we display and deliver advice and guidance. WothFM is led by two entrepreneurs running successful businesses tailored towards women. Amanda Steinberg, Founder of DailyWorth.com, a financial media business, has amassed a following of 1.2M female subscribers since 2008. Michelle Smith is the CEO of Source Financial Advisors with $600M AUM, and customers comprising 95% High Net Worth divorced women.

RockPaperRobot

Venture Round in 2017
RockPaperRobot is an engineering and design firm that sits at the intersection of decor, art, and technology. Increasing the versatility, utility, and personalization of residential and commercial spaces, their offerings are more experience than object. They relish in defying expectations through artful execution with a staunch allegiance to utility, (apparent) simplicity, and technical excellence. As designers and scientists, they have created a work environment for ourselves in which their lives and creative minds are fully realized as individuals and as a team.

Kollecto

Venture Round in 2017
Kollecto is a fine arts company that helps its users to build an art collection by pairing them with personal art advisors. It allows its users to upload their art and paintings online that helps the artist to connect to a potential buyer. Kollecto was founded by Tara Reed in January 2014.

It's By U

Seed Round in 2016
It's By U is a do-it-yourself arrangement kit with farm-fresh blooms, by subscription. It's By U kits provide you with pro-quality tools and everything you need to learn how to perfectly arrange the blossoms in gorgeous artisan-made vases. Plus, It's By U also donates a percentage of each sale to Random Acts of Flowers, a charity that up-cycles flowers and distributes them to patients in hospitals and nursing homes.

Arlo Skye

Angel Round in 2016
Arlo Skye is a New York-based direct to consumer luggage brand. The company has developed a cult following in the art and design world. The brand has been covered in over 50 publications including The Wall Street Journal, T: New York Times Style Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Bloomberg, Time Magazine, Vogue, Wallpaper. It has collaborated with name brands including Audi and Sight Unseen to create limited edition travel pieces.

THRONE

Venture Round in 2016
THRONE's growing community and mobile application platform encourages the buying, selling and discovery of sneakers and streetwear.

Octavia Wellness

Seed Round in 2016
Octavia Wellness is a company dedicated to offering safe and legal options for cannabis.

This Saves Lives

Venture Round in 2016
This Saves Lives make delicious, non-GMO, gluten-free snack bars.

Naja

Venture Round in 2016
Naja is a brand of luxury lingerie. It offers a range of bras: eco-friendly, t-shirt bras, bralettes, unlined, lace, and basic; and knickers: eco-friendly, cheeky knickers, bikinis and briefs, hi-waisted, lace, and basic. It also offers collections such as Courtesan, Summer Whites, Isle of Scilly, Kaleidoscope, Get Happy, Swinging London, Andalusia, Noir de Noirs, Secret Life of Sparrows, Swim, and more. Naja was founded by Catalina Girald and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Ratter

Venture Round in 2016
Ratter is a tabloid-style site founded by AJ Daulerio

Tactile Finance

Venture Round in 2016
Tactile Finance's tools help professionals provide a simple, visual and effective way to let clients achieve their financial objectives and save a lot of money during the home financing process. Home buyers and home owners have very little visibility and understanding into the financing behind buying a home. They solve that problem by providing tools that makes it easy for them to see what’s going on with their investment.

Rick's Picks

Venture Round in 2016
Rick's Picks is a producer of hand-packed and all-natural pickles, made in a season with produce from local farmers. The pickles that the company offers come in 12 varieties and are artisanal and hand-processed instead of going through an industrial process. Rick Field and Lauren McGrath started the business in Brooklyn, New York in 2014.

Clutter

Series A in 2015
Clutter is a provider of on-demand storage and moving services used to help customers store their physical belongings. The company aims to consistently provide hassle-free and affordable services by investing in exceptional people, smart technology, and pristine spaces. Clutter was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Culver City, California.

Sweeten

Seed Round in 2015
Sweeten delivers a superior renovation experience, by personally matching vetted general contractors to each project, while offering guidance and financial protection—at no cost to the homeowner. The company simultaneously delivers general contracting firms an efficient growth engine, by streamlining marketing, lead acquisition, and bidding, and by vetting all renovation projects for budget and readiness. Sweeten’s sophisticated digital platform empowers homeowners and contractors alike with transparency, data, and an expansive online library of renovation knowledge. Sweeten’s general contractors excel at transformative renovations of all types, with budgets from $15,000 to over $3 million. Sweeten launched in 2011, with headquarters in New York, NY. The company has expanded into ten major American cities. bit.ly/Sweeten-Today-Show

Mercaris

Series A in 2014
Mercaris is a market data service and online trading platform for organic, non-GMO, and certified agricultural commodities. The development of non-GMO and organic agriculture is at a critical point. While some resources are in place to educate consumers, address public policy, and support scientific research on sustainable agricultural crops, far less emphasis has been placed on the market infrastructure upon which participants, from producers to retailers, depend. Mercaris was formed to address the lack of basic market data available to participants in the organic and non-GMO supply chain. Mercaris products and services allow subscribers to access an expanded pool of buyers and sellers, apply data to business planning and strategic decision-making, reduce transaction costs, and decrease financial risk.

Justworks

Series A in 2014
Founded in 2012, Justworks makes it easier to start, run, and grow a business. Through our software and as a partner, we help our entrepreneurs take care of their teams, streamline their operations, and navigate the complex aspects of managing a workforce with confidence. Our flexible platform empowers them to assemble powerful self-service capabilities to meet their payroll, tax, HR, and compliance needs. Plus, we’ve got their back with 24/7 human support, on-demand expertise, and access to high-quality benefits designed for the modern workforce.

Spring

Series A in 2014
Spring is a retail company that sells a wide range of items from apparel to home and garden items. It is a shopping application for iOS devices. Spring enables its users to follow the brands they love as well as purchase new arrivals, exclusives, and one-of-a-kind products. The company originally operated as Jello Labs and announced the name change in July 2014. Spring was founded by David Tisch, Alan Tisch, and Octavian Costache in New York.

Royal Palms Shuffleboard

Venture Round in 2013
Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club is a vintage-Florida-inspired Shuffleboard Nightclub perched on the sandy shores. Lounge in its canvas cabanas, sway to the DJ spinning old soul 45's, play a round of bingo on its stage, challenge someone to a game of oversized Connect Four and deck out in the photo booth while enjoying its roster of properly tropical drinks made with house-made syrups, fresh fruits, and small-batch spirits. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Brooklyn and Chicago.
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