Great Oaks Venture Capital

Great Oaks Venture Capital is a New York-based micro-venture capital firm established in 2003, specializing in early-stage investments in the consumer goods, technology, and healthcare sectors. The firm primarily focuses on Seed and Series A funding, making investments ranging from $50,000 to $500,000. Although most of its portfolio companies are located in New York and San Francisco, Great Oaks considers opportunities globally. The firm has invested in a variety of notable startups, including Acorns, Allbirds, and Flatiron Health, demonstrating its commitment to supporting innovative businesses at their inception.

Andrew Boszhardt Jr.

Managing Partner

Andrew Krebs Boszhardt

Founder and Managing Partner

Celine Kwok

Principal and CFO

Henry McNamara

General Partner

Stuart O'Keeffe

General Partner

Raj Sandhu

General Partner

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UnifiHealth

Seed Round in 2021
UnifiHealth is reimagining how health benefits are built and delivered to small businesses. The company was founded in 2019 and based in Columbus, Ohio.

Hatch

Seed Round in 2013
Hatch, Inc. designs and develops sleep products that helps users to develop and maintain natural healthy sleep habits. The company offers products, such as Hatch Grow, a device that track baby’s weight gain, feeding amounts, and diaper changes; Hatch Rest and Rest+; and Hatch Restore, a device with smart light and sleep sounds. It also sell its products online. Hatch, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Cardpool

Seed Round in 2009
Cardpool is a gift card exchange marketplace where anybody can buy, sell, or trade their new or pre-owned gift cards. Customers can buy gift cards up to 30% off their face value, sell their gift cards for up to 90% of their face value in cash, trade their gift cards for an Amazon.com Gift Card, or donate their gift card to charity. Cardpool provides free shipping for both buyers and sellers, a 100-day return policy, and policy of only selling gift cards that have no expiration date and no monthly fees.

Nylas

Series B in 2018
Nylas provides an API platform that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data from any email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world. The solution allows developers to integrate complex, unstructured communications data into their applications in days, providing secure pre-built integrations that are SOC 2 certified, GDPR compliant, Privacy Shield certified, and HIPAA and FINRA-ready.

TwentyEight

Seed Round in 2023
Twentyeight Health is a mission-driven women’s health platform, increasing access to healthcare services, starting with birth control. The company provides online doctor evaluations for birth control prescriptions, quick home deliveries, and secure messaging with doctors. Twentyeight Health also has sex ed content vetted by doctors so women can learn about all their options.

Aerial

Seed Round in 2021
Aerial is the easiest, most accurate way to manage your carbon footprint and sustainable lifestyle. We automatically track your emissions, give you an effortless way to offset them, and offer exclusive insights into how you can live sustainably. Featured in Fast Company, The Weather Channel, Input Magazine, The Future Laboratory, Cool Hunting, Apartment Therapy, The Latch, and others.

CardFlight

Series A in 2015
CardFlight is committed to making payment acceptance easy for business owners. SwipeSimple, our signature product, is used by more than 50,000 small business across the US. Ten of the top 30 merchant acquirers in the US recommend SwipeSimple because the products easy for businesses to use. CardFlight takes pride in building SaaS solutions that are ahead of the curve in technology, reliability, and user experience. Delivering simple payment solutions and quick response to industry shifts, has made us one of the fastest growing companies in America. To learn more about our company and team, visit www.cardflight.com From iOS and Android apps to a Virtual Terminal to EMV and NFC contactless card readers, SwipeSimple products offer just what small businesses need. CardFlight is a PCI Level 1 compliant service provider supporting all major US processors. CardFlight takes pride in building and maintaining solutions that are a step ahead of the curve in technology, reliability, and user experience. As the US leader in EMV Quick Chip enablement, CardFlight makes it easy, accessible, and secure for partners and merchants to accept payments.

Moov

Seed Round in 2020
Moov is a software company that features a software platform for buying and selling preowned manufacturing equipment. Its platform integrates offerings such as payments, logistics, asset management, and other add-ons services. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Trailerpop

Angel Round in 2014
Trailerpop Inc. develops game-driven movie discovery platform for iPad and iPhone. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

me.me

Convertible Note in 2016
Me.me, a meme search engine, has raised $1.5 million in funding. The investors included Arjun Sethi from The Social+Capital Partnership, Peter Rojas from Betaworks Ventures, Danhua Capital and Mirarmar Ventures.Memes are steadily growing in greater and greater popularity. At the start of 2016 the death of a mountain gorilla, called Harambe, at Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden sparked a huge meme movement. According to Google Trends, memes overall growth over the last 10 years shows no signs of decelerating. Others have hinted that memes shaped the outcome of the US election that Donald J. Trump won.“Memes are very rich pieces of media,” Walker continues, “So we use data science and computer vision to make sense of the over millions of memes being found daily. As a result, we’re starting to be able to plot trends and make predictions of future memes.”

ReadMe

Seed Round in 2015
ReadMe.io Co. provides documentation services. It allows users to set up a developer hub; and offers custom JavaScript, custom HTML, user management, two-factor authentication, documentation migration, custom feature development, consultation, and custom themes and layout solutions. The company provides document collaboration, API, markdown-based drag-and-drop document editing, and document versioning solutions, as well as application keys. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Symbiose Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Symbiose Technologies is a communications company that creates AI-powered products that bring unprecedented depth, memory, and serendipity to your conversations. Symbiose is creating the highest-fidelity way to communicate -- a new paradigm for messaging and audio where conversations transform.

Sundays

Series A in 2022
Sundays for Dogs engages in the online retail of dog foods. Its products are made by an air-drying method that gently dehydrates food low and slow to preserve nutrients and flavor while killing germs. The company was co-founded by Tory Waxman and Michael Waxman and is based in New York.

Triumph

Seed Round in 2023
Triumph is a gaming monetization platform provider. They provide iPhone games on one line of code drop-in SDK. They handle the entire tournament stack by player matching, payment, arbitration, and compliance. They transform the game into money tournaments.

Midpoint Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Midpoint Labs enables blockchain developers to create applications that have real function and impact. It believes that the next generation of consumer and enterprise applications will be built on a hybrid backend that combines the blockchain's decentralized nature with the rich ecosystem of existing server-based applications. The blockchain is more than just payments, lending, and DeFi; the infrastructure that supports it should reflect this.

Mortar Data

Seed Round in 2012
Mortar Data Inc. provides a cloud-based service based on the Python programming language and Apache Pig for analyzing huge data sets, which makes Hadoop accessible to audience. It offers recommender systems that allow developers and data scientists to make personal recommendations ranging from digital content to art to friends to clothing for casual and power users. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in New York, New York. As of February 11, 2015, Mortar Data Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Datadog, Inc.

Triumph

Series A in 2023
Triumph is a gaming monetization platform provider. They provide iPhone games on one line of code drop-in SDK. They handle the entire tournament stack by player matching, payment, arbitration, and compliance. They transform the game into money tournaments.

Trulia

Series A in 2005
Online real estate platform for property buyers

Collective Health

Series B in 2015
Collective Health gives companies a smarter alternative to traditional health insurance. Through a cloud-based, integrated health benefits platform, the company enables self-insured employers to get more out of their healthcare investment while taking better care of their people. Collective Health has seen exponential traction in the $1.2 trillion employer-sponsored insurance market -- its membership has grown by 500x in just three sales cycles. Currently, the company covers 70,000 employee and dependent lives across 15 employers; clients include Activision Blizzard, Crossfit, eBay, Palantir and Red Bull. For more information, visit https://www.collectivehealth.com.

Studypool

Seed Round in 2015
Studypool tool that allows students to get tutoring help with all of their academic based questions. Studypool is an online marketplace that connects students with questions with tutors that can help them. Basically, Studypool is like having thousands of friends who are expert tutors that can help you with any question at any time.

GrubMarket

Seed Round in 2015
GrubMarket develops a website where sellers can offer foods and other items at wholesale prices to customers. It offers products such as organic foods, vegetables, gluten-free foods, snacks, drinks, pantries, home goods, health and beauty products, baby and kids' products, pets, non-GMO foods, paleo foods, cholesterol-free, and no trans-fat foods. GrubMarket also offers foods from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants. Mike Xu founded GrubMarket in 2014, with its headquarters in Newark in California with an additional office in San Francisco in California.

MemSQL

Venture Round in 2014
SingleStore is dedicated to helping businesses adapt more quickly, embrace diverse data and accelerate digital innovation by operationalizing all data through one platform for all of their moments that matter. These capabilities are provided as a service in AWS, Azure and GCP and through your own deployments with SingleStore Managed Service and SingleStore DB.

Three Ring

Seed Round in 2013
Three Ring is a provider of enterprise education software for the organization, sharing, and use of multimedia evidence of student growth. It enables students and teachers to seamlessly gather real evidence of learning from the classroom and make it available, privately, and securely online, to whoever needs it.

Truly

Seed Round in 2014
Conversations are the foundation for doing business. Founded in 2013, Truly is the premier enterprise voice system for sales, account management, and customer success teams. Enterprises use Truly to solve their top strategic challenges, from sales performance management to capacity planning, and top tactical issues, they need a phone system that "just works." IT organizations love Truly because it provides high quality service and simple implementation. See what Truly can do for you at www.truly.co

500Friends

Seed Round in 2010
500friends is the trusted provider of next generation loyalty marketing solutions to over 40 of the Internet Retailer 1,000 brands. 500friends is backed by leading institutional investors including Crosslink Capital, Intel Capital, and YCombinator.

Lynx Biosciences

Seed Round in 2021
LynxBiosciences(LynxBio)is a cytomics company focused on transforming the development of blood cancer therapies and delivering precise patient management by identifying the most promising therapeutic options. Many blood cancers are incurable; the standard of care is empirical treatment, typically through a trial and error process. Our initial focus is multiplemyeloma (MM) whereas patients ultimately relapse and undergo on average 5-7 treatments (ranging from $125,000 to $450,000 p.a.)

Olapic

Series A in 2013
Olapic is a visual marketing platform that helps brands reach their consumers visually. With Olapic, users can collect, curate, create, and activate visual content, driving brand engagement to new heights. It is an enterprise, all-in-one user-generated, influencer, and short-form video content platform that provides content and scale users need while ensuring it’s optimized across all its marketing channels. It was established in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

Atom Finance

Seed Round in 2019
Atom Finance, Inc. operates an online investment research platform for individuals. It offers Atom, a platform that provides institutional-quality data, documents, news, and events for companies; and allows users for aggregation and comparison. Atom Finance, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Nylas

Series A in 2015
Nylas provides an API platform that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data from any email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world. The solution allows developers to integrate complex, unstructured communications data into their applications in days, providing secure pre-built integrations that are SOC 2 certified, GDPR compliant, Privacy Shield certified, and HIPAA and FINRA-ready.

Roomi

Seed Round in 2016
Roomi is a free mobile platform that helps people find flexible, affordable co-living solutions. Roomi is a peer-to-peer shared housing marketplace making it safer and easier to rent rooms and find roommates. They are one of the only platforms that does not aggregate listings. Every room rental posted on their platform is user-generated and verified by the Roomi team. Users are able to easily list their empty rooms and potential roommates can browse and apply to move in.

33Across

Series A in 2010
33Across is a technology company focused on solving the challenge of consumer attention for automated advertising. Our Attention Platform is the first programmatic solution to unify high-impact creative, quality supply, and true technology-driven scale. Brands can now deliver superior audience engagement while 33Across publishers benefit from the ability to drive more revenue for every ad placement, resulting in greater efficiency and an enhanced consumer experience..

Replenish

Seed Round in 2014
Replenish manufactures self-cleaning blenders that prepare smoothies and snacks. It also provides cups filled with various fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts for homes or offices.

Autumn

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Autumn is an end-of-life marketplace that connects bereaved people with service providers to manage life after loss. We support consumers with free guides and tools, help end-of-life providers find new customers to grow their business, and change the way the world deals with death.

GrubMarket

Series A in 2015
GrubMarket develops a website where sellers can offer foods and other items at wholesale prices to customers. It offers products such as organic foods, vegetables, gluten-free foods, snacks, drinks, pantries, home goods, health and beauty products, baby and kids' products, pets, non-GMO foods, paleo foods, cholesterol-free, and no trans-fat foods. GrubMarket also offers foods from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants. Mike Xu founded GrubMarket in 2014, with its headquarters in Newark in California with an additional office in San Francisco in California.

StudyBlue

Venture Round in 2015
StudyBlue is a mobile learning platform designed to help students learn the stuff their teachers teach from improving outcomes in and out of the classroom. StudyBlue provides a Digital Backpack for students to store, study, share, compare, and ultimately master course material – working alone or together. Notes with images and audio, cloud storage for notes, personalized practice quizzes, and crowdsourced study guides are among the tools offered.

Mertado

Series A in 2011
Mertado is a social shopping company that lets consumers discover and buy new products within the online communities that they frequent. Mertado mirrors the real world shopping experience by enabling users to discover unique products that meet their lifestyle needs, and adds a social context around these purchases.

ShuttleCloud

Seed Round in 2012
ShuttleCloud Corp. operates ShuttleCloud API platform for migrating email, contacts, and other user data. It offers ShuttleCloud, a migration platform that enables companies to allow their users to import emails and contacts from various Internet service providers, as well as to copy data between email accounts in the United States. ShuttleCloud Corp. was formerly known as Improffice Inc. ShuttleCloud Corp. was founded in 2010 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional office in Madrid, Spain.

VeryApt

Seed Round in 2016
VeryApt Inc., an intelligent search platform company, provides VeryApt, an apartment review community for people who want to make sure their next apartment really feels like home. Its platform helps to explore the area around an apartment by showing nearby grocery stores, restaurants, bars, and public transit stops. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Priori

Series A in 2022
Priori Legal, Inc. develops a legal platform to find, hire, and manage lawyers. The company's platform offers to hire lawyers by submitting a request, receiving matches, hiring the lawyer, and scaling the team. The company's platform also offers document sharing tools, billing and payments, and actionable data insights. Priori Legal, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Cylera

Seed Round in 2018
Our mission at Cylera is to protect healthcare organizations and their patients from those who wish to do them harm. Enabled by our breakthrough technology, we take a patient-centric approach to defend and optimize all of the devices that healthcare providers rely on to provide care including medical devices, operational technology, and enterprise IoT, so that together we can safeguard what matters most.

Mino Games

Seed Round in 2011
Mino Games is a free-to-play mobile gaming studio that produced the top 50 grossing mobile game Mino Monsters, with over 13 million downloads. We create deeply engaging, widely appealing games for millions of fans. We’re currently building our world class development studio in Montreal. We are a small group of passionate engineers, artists and analysts with a mission to create games that millions of people all around the world love to play for years. We are funded by the best angel investors, institutional investors, and gaming companies from across the world. Our third and latest game, Cat Game, has already hit the App Store’s Top 100 Grossing Chart in Canada. The game, currently in soft launch, is showing world class key metrics, and we are expecting it to be a global hit when we launch it by February 2019. We are looking today to grow the team and looking for world class ambitious talent to come join us on the journey, to develop and support this newest title into a global success on both iOS and Android, and help us with future projects as we rapidly grow.

SkyVu AR

Seed Round in 2012
Mobile VR/AR developer & publisher of PlacesVR, a social mixed reality platform, and the BATTLE BEARS games franchise with over 30 million downloads.

Nomad Data

Seed Round in 2021
NoMad Data develops a data management platform that provides differentiated data to help businesses make better decisions. It connects businesses to a world of data for better decision making, marketing, storytelling, customer visibility, and more. The company was founded in 2020 and based in New York.

Careswitch

Seed Round in 2019
CareSwitch, Inc., a professional employer organization, operates as software platform for the home care market. It offers The CareSwitch platform that helps home care agencies to manage payroll, benefits, and employee records to comply with recent changes in federal and state employment laws. The company’s platform also matches caregivers to jobs at the companies. It serves personal care, companionship, home health care, skilled nursing, pediatrics, and hospice markets. CareSwitch, Inc. is based in the United States.

Backflip

Seed Round in 2022
Reinvigorating neighborhoods by supporting real estate entrepreneurs with innovative technology and capital.

Yellowsmith

Seed Round in 2012
Yellowsmith is a community of makers working together to make great jewelry. Each design is created by an undiscovered designer, shaped by our global community, and made in our workshop. Yellowsmith jewelry is sold exclusively through our website and select retail locations. DESIGNED BY YOU. We source designs from designers of all experience levels across the globe. Have an idea for an original piece? Submit it. The next collection could be yours. SHAPED BY OUR COMMUNITY. Our community, made up of designers, creatives and believers, come together to vote, comment and give feedback on every design we make. MADE BY YELLOWSMITH. Yellowsmith makes winning designs in the our workshop and brings the jewelry to you online and through Yellowsmith retailers.

CryptoLeague

Pre Seed Round in 2022
CryptoLeague™, a Miami-based web3 tech company, is empowering web3 investing communities with the tools to accelerate their financial freedom. CryptoLeague is pioneering a new category in investing platforms, by harnessing the wisdom of the crowds in community investing. The founders of CryptoLeague believe that crypto and NFT investing is a community sport, which should be social, accessible, self-governing, competitive, and ultimately rewarding. CryptoLeague is unleashing the power of collaboration and access to quality knowledge in a first-of-its-kind platform; all aimed at generating life-changing investment returns.

SocialSign.in

Venture Round in 2014
Socialsign.in, Inc. provides wireless Internet access at grocery stores, theaters, and other venues where people shop and socialize. The company enables users to log in with their online accounts, and access personalized offers and promotions at its participating venues. It provides its services through various Internet-enabled devices, including computers, tablets, smart phones, and personal Internet devices, as well as through its Website. Socialsign.in, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Zimbio

Series B in 2012
Zimbio are delighted to announce that Livingly Media has been acquired by aufeminin! Read More. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Livingly Media is a digital lifestyle brand that owns and operates three top ranked sites. Zimbio launched in 2006 and quickly became a top entertainment news site. In 2010 they launched StyleBistro, which became a top fashion/beauty/style site. They acquired Lonny Magazine in 2012, re-launched it on their platform as Lonny.com, and grew its audience tenfold to become a top-ranking site in comScore’s home design category. Collectively, their sites reach more than 25 million users and provide them with unmatched depth and breadth of content. Each site captures more pageviews per visit than any other among their respective competitive sets. Brands can connect with their massive audience through any of their platforms – desktop, tablet, mobile – with the help of their creative services team and a suite of proprietary offerings that are built in-house specifically to maximize engagement and awareness. The company has offices in San Carlos, CA, Chicago and New York City, and is venture-backed by Menlo Ventures and Draper Richards.

Oportun

Seed Round in 2006
Oportun is a fintech company that provides financial services from personal loans to financial resources. The company's mission-based technology-powered approach is designed to be inclusive, affordable, and empowering. It lends money to hardworking, low-to-moderate-income individuals and helps customers move forward in their lives, demonstrate their creditworthiness, and help establish the credit history they need to access new opportunities. Oportun was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California.

Immuto Scientific

Seed Round in 2021
Immuto Scientific is a biotechnology services company that provides analytical insights to pharmaceutical companies for drug discovery.

LOFTY

Seed Round in 2014
Lofty is an expert-reviewed, online marketplace for valuable fine art, antiques and collectibles. Each Lofty item is reviewed and valued by Lofty's carefully selected network of experts, which includes qualified appraisers, current and former auction house specialists, reputable dealers, and other art world professionals with decades of experience evaluating items in their specialties. They believe buying art and antiques should come with complete peace of mind, and stand behind this commitment with a 5-year Authenticity Guarantee and a 100% Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee within seven days of delivery. Building sustainable, trusting relationships with clients is Lofty’s top priority.

Leverage

Venture Round in 2022
LVRG, Inc. develops and operates an artificial intelligence based vendor relationship management platform for providing procurement professionals with the data and information for engaging suppliers and delivering purchasing decisions. Its products include intelligent relationship mapping, automated supplier pages, and compliance monitoring and enforcement. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Workrise

Seed Round in 2014
RigUp is a technology company that develops a platform to support the energy workforce. Its platform serves as a marketplace for services and skilled labor in the energy industry. It also enables the energy industry companies to empower contact workers in oil and gas, solar, and wind. Its solution has expanded into equipment and vendor management, as well as on-demand, app-based service fulfillment, bringing cost savings, and operational efficiencies to energy companies across the United States. RigUp was founded in 2014 by Michael Witte, Sandeep Jain, and Xuan Yong and it is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Sequel.io

Seed Round in 2021
Introvoke Inc. develops an online live streaming platform for videos and events. It offers Introvoke, a SaaS platform that enables users to host and view live events, webinars, sessions, and conferences; and online ticket payment and repayment. The company also provides Introvoke Streamer, a mobile application to go live for virtual events. Its platform is used in virtual events, hybrid events, enhanced chat, virtual networking, and video library applications. Introvoke Inc. was formerly known as Eleat Lunch Inc. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Jose, California with an additional office in Medford, Massachusetts.

Collective Health

Series B in 2015
Collective Health gives companies a smarter alternative to traditional health insurance. Through a cloud-based, integrated health benefits platform, the company enables self-insured employers to get more out of their healthcare investment while taking better care of their people. Collective Health has seen exponential traction in the $1.2 trillion employer-sponsored insurance market -- its membership has grown by 500x in just three sales cycles. Currently, the company covers 70,000 employee and dependent lives across 15 employers; clients include Activision Blizzard, Crossfit, eBay, Palantir and Red Bull. For more information, visit https://www.collectivehealth.com.

CropSafe

Seed Round in 2022
A simple online platform utilizing satellite imagery to accurately detect and predict impending diseases within your crops, providing relief solutions directly to the landowner.

Wyre

Seed Round in 2014
Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate. Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges. Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

Allbirds

Series A in 2016
Allbirds, Inc. manufactures and sells footwear. It offers wool runners, tree runners, tree loungers, tree skippers, and wool loungers, and insoles for men and women; and kid’s footwear. The company sells its products through its stores and retail stores in the United States and internationally, as well as online. Allbirds, Inc. was formerly known as Bozz, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

GrubMarket

Series B in 2018
GrubMarket develops a website where sellers can offer foods and other items at wholesale prices to customers. It offers products such as organic foods, vegetables, gluten-free foods, snacks, drinks, pantries, home goods, health and beauty products, baby and kids' products, pets, non-GMO foods, paleo foods, cholesterol-free, and no trans-fat foods. GrubMarket also offers foods from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants. Mike Xu founded GrubMarket in 2014, with its headquarters in Newark in California with an additional office in San Francisco in California.

Nodal

Seed Round in 2022
Nodal is a decentralised freelancer hiring marketplace, connecting employers and freelancers.  Nodal deploys proprietary ledger technology to automate HR processing, invoicing and timesheets. Nodal will use an AI-led algorithm that will allow employers to search for talent via multiple data points, slashing the time and expenses associated with wrong hires. Nodal is financing a new freelancer economy by charging no commission to freelancers and guaranteeing weekly payments.

Bespoke Post

Seed Round in 2013
Goods and guidance for the modern man, delivered monthly. We aim to upgrade a guy's day-to-day life through our themed boxes full of enviable gear – shaving sets, shoe shine kits, home bar essentials, and lots more – plus a full shop of uniquely cool standalone products. Here's how it works: at the beginning of each month, you'll get an email with a full look inside the box we've selected for you based on what we think you'll enjoy. You're free to tweak colors and sizes, add on extra goods, or skip it at no cost – whatever you want. And there's always free shipping, easy returns, and no hassles, ever. See you on the inside.

LVL6

Seed Round in 2012
LVL6 creates social mobile games on Android and iOS.

Applauze

Series A in 2013
Applauze, formerly 955Dreams Inc., is a new age publishing company. They publish magical titles on mobile devices. Their latest product, called Applauze launched in March of 2013, is an iOS app that presents users with thousands of events happening every day, from concerts and theater productions to sports games and community events. The service is available across 41 U.S. cities and 5 Canadian cities. Applauze finds tickets from primary sellers, as well as secondary markets like StubHub, and uses data analytics and machine learning to recommend relevant events to users, who can easily purchase tickets via the app and also share their event with friends. Applauze is a small group of hackers and designers who are working on mobile products that will engage and excite you. They love what they do and their users love the products they've built. Their designs are executed at a very high standard and their apps are educational and highly immersive at the same time. Applauze has raised money from Mitch Kapor and 500 Startups.

Forte

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Forte, through its platform, offers vocational training services to individuals at negligible or no taxation cost. It serves individuals, governments, and investors. Forte was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Roomi

Series A in 2017
Roomi is a free mobile platform that helps people find flexible, affordable co-living solutions. Roomi is a peer-to-peer shared housing marketplace making it safer and easier to rent rooms and find roommates. They are one of the only platforms that does not aggregate listings. Every room rental posted on their platform is user-generated and verified by the Roomi team. Users are able to easily list their empty rooms and potential roommates can browse and apply to move in.

Genies

Series A in 2015
Genies is a mobile app company that allows users to clone themselves. Through their Avatar Agency, consumer product, and SDK, Genies has set the foundation for swift, widespread adaptation of avatars in society, business, and culture. With over a million clothing and facial options provided, users can create their Genie to represent themself however they’d like. Genies was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Venice, California, United States.

Tentrr

Series A in 2018
Tentrr is an online discovery platform for the outdoors anchored by the largest network of remarkable privately-owned personal campsites. They empower individual landowners to create remarkable outdoor experiences for their guests through a marketplace of unique products and services. And they take responsibility for every adventure by also connecting campers with the best local activities and events. Through Tentrr campers can easily find and customize an individual outdoor experience. Tentrr was founded in 2015 in New York by Michael D'Agostino.

Pulsar AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
We help you overcome robotic process automation challenges by evaluating every aspect of data flow to glean AI solution that is right for your business

Sweeten

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Founded in 2011 by trained architects, Sweeten brings trust and technology to the $320B residential renovation industry. Sweeten connects renovators with projects to the best local general contractors, then provides support until the project is completed. The service has been called “Best Contractor Locator" (New York Magazine), "The Renovation Game-Changer" (Domino) and one of "America's Hottest New Companies" (Inc.). With nearly $900M in renovation deals posted, we're building the go-to marketplace to help people renovate fearlessly. Check us out on the Today Show here: https://www.today.com/video/this-woman-built-a-multimillion-dollar-company-in-her-own-backyard-1183478339854

20n

Seed Round in 2015
At 20n, They use algorithms to engineer microbes. Specifically, their algorithms engineer microbes to make chemicals. Like yeast produces alcohol during beer brewing, their engineered microbes will produce chemicals with therapeutic health and industrial biotech applications. The best illustration of this DARPA-backed technology is the bacteria They engineered to produce Paracetamol (also known as acetaminophen, and sold under the brand name Tylenol). Aside from this bacteria, there is no known natural way of producing acetaminophen. They are building data mining technology that will allow us to enable the bioproduction of a whole spectrum of valuable molecules. Below is the map of every chemical that can be made biologically, as discovered by 20n's algorithms.

CoVenture

Seed Round in 2015
CoVenture invests in technology through multiple strategies. Our unique capital base allows us to invest in early-stage companies, in special situations, and in emerging assets. We provide and manage alternative direct credit opportunities, create quantitative trading strategies in cryptocurrencies and invest in early-stage technology companies.

Peek

Venture Round in 2013
Peek is a travel activities marketplace based in San Francisco, California. Peek makes the world's tours and activities easily bookable -- anytime, anywhere. Their technology empowers operators to better manage and grow their businesses. Peek's trusted marketplace connects people with everyday adventures that create lasting memories. The Peek.com website and mobile app are marketing channels that generate new customers by making thousands of activities bookable online.

GiveGab

Seed Round in 2013
GiveGab helps nonprofits go beyond basic fundraising to raise more, engage more, and do more in a fun, simple, and social platform. We help these nonprofits build long-lasting relationships for repeat giving. We provide all aspects of online fundraising including: a.) general donations, b.) event fundraising, c.) p2p and team based fundraising, d.) days of giving e.) general crowdfunding campaigns f.) donor CRM. We make campaign managers and p2p fundraisers successful using automated coaching features. We make THE ASK easy and fun. Additionally, we help nonprofits engage their supporters through volunteer management features for long-term repeat giving.

MobileIgniter

Convertible Note in 2013
MobileIgniter is a leader in the Internet of Things space. We provide Device to Decision® solutions based on Fortune 500 experience identifying opportunity, embedding connectivity, and creating the key web and mobile interfaces to complete the circuit.

Ibotta

Series B in 2014
Ibotta is an application that pays its users for shopping online or in store. Users of the app can earn money by uploading pictures of their receipt or linking a loyalty account for select retailers to earn receipt-free. The company partners with leading brands and retailers to offer real cash back on groceries, travel, electronics, clothing, gifts, home, and office supplies, dining out, and much more. Ibotta was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Allergy Amulet

Seed Round in 2020
Allergy Amulet is the world’s smallest and fastest consumer food allergen sensor, testing for common allergenic ingredients in seconds. Whether it’s on a keychain, a necklace, a wristband, or in a pocket, Allergy Amulet’s sleek and portable design allows users to savor life’s important moments, safely and simply. Food allergies affect 32 million Americans and between 220-520 million people globally. That’s 1 in 13 children and 1 in 10 adults. Allergy Amulet has the potential to improve the quality of life for the millions of people living with food allergies or intolerances.

HowGood

Series A in 2017
HowGood, Inc. provides food product rating services for grocers. Its research provides shoppers with information about food and allows them to make informed purchasing decision. The company also recognizes producers to meet set standards. It caters to products including bread, baking supplies, coffee, condiments, dairy, dried food drinks, eggs, grains and beans, meat and seafood, oil and vinegar, pasta, agricultural produce, raw food, snacks, sweeteners, sweets, and tea. The in-store ratings can be found on shelves of stores and via mobile app also. HowGood, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Crimson Hexagon

Series B in 2012
Crimson Hexagon helps global brands better understand their consumers. With instant access to the world’s largest volume of unstructured text and images across social, online public, and enterprise-held data sources, Crimson Hexagon’s AI-powered consumer insights platform allows clients to analyze audiences, track brand perception and campaign performance, and even detect competitive and market trends. Their clients include Anheuser-Busch InBev, Adidas, General Mills, Paramount Pictures, Starbucks, and Twitter.

TRAVO

Seed Round in 2015
TRAVO, Inc. operates in the technology industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Counsyl

Funding Round in 2010
As of July 31, 2018, Myriad Women's Health, Inc. was acquired by Myriad Genetics, Inc.

Kickback

Seed Round in 2014
Kickback, Co. builds products for the esports industry. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Sherman Oaks, California.

Care at Hand

Seed Round in 2013
Care At Hand, Inc. develops a mobile-based electronic health records and workflow automation software for home health care agencies. It uses evidence-based predictive algorithms on mobile devices to transform point-of-care observations by home health aides into clinically relevant alerts to clinicians. The company is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 14, 2016, Care At Hand, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Mindoula Health, Inc.

Weller Snacks

Private Placement in 2019
Weller Snacks produces snacks and coconut bites. The company is based in the United States.

Petal

Private Placement in 2018
Petal Card, Inc. provides and issues credit cards to people who do not have a traditional credit history, students, and immigrants. It offers Petal Visa, a credit card and through its machine learning, it analyzes users' digital financial records which allows them to offer higher credit limits and lower rates than competing cards. The company also provides an application to make payments. Petal Card, Inc. was formerly known as CreditBridge, Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Knock

Seed Round in 2016
Knock is an online home selling platform that makes buying or selling a home simple and certain. Launched by founding team members from Trulia.com, the company uses data science to price homes accurately, technology to sell homes quickly and a dedicated team of professionals to guide homeowners through the selling process.

Blast

Private Placement in 2018
Blast helps gamers save and win money by playing their favorite games. Blast believes that building wealth should be easy and fun. That’s why the team was set out on a mission to bring harmony to the worlds of gaming and money. Using Blast, gamers can save in two ways. The first is by siphoning off money (ranging from one cent to ten cents) while they play games. They can also make money for trying new games and advancing in levels in the popular games they’re already playing. For gaming companies, Blast is another way to encourage players to stick around by offering small financial rewards for their game play. For Blast users, the idea is that they can save money while playing their favorite online games.

Soil Connect

Venture Round in 2020
Soil Connect Services, Inc. develops an application for soil transport and management. The company through its platform connects individuals with excavators, contractors, builders, landscapers, and other building professionals. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Plainview, New York.

Splitwise

Seed Round in 2014
Splitwise, Inc. provides an expense-sharing tool to organize household and other shared expenses, such as rent, bills, travel IOUs, and other random transactions. The company offers a Web tool that allows roommates to track apartment spending on utilities, rent, grocery trips, and other expenses. Its platform is accessed on iPhone, Android, or computer. Splitwise, Inc. was formerly known as SplitTheRent.com. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

Source4Style

Seed Round in 2012
Source4Style is an online tradeshow for materials sourcing in the fashion & design industry. Through a custom B2B ecommerce platform, designers can search, discover and source inspirational materials from suppliers around the globe. The Source4Style marketplace currently reaches designers in 76 countries and suppliers in 25 countries.

Pay By Group

Seed Round in 2014
Pay By Group's white-label checkout solution is the fastest way for any merchant to integrate group-payment and installment capabilities into their online checkout. Our clients span travel, e-commerce, and healthcare and love the fact we increase conversions by 27% or more for this highly lucrative business segment.

Knock

Series A in 2017
Knock is an online home selling platform that makes buying or selling a home simple and certain. Launched by founding team members from Trulia.com, the company uses data science to price homes accurately, technology to sell homes quickly and a dedicated team of professionals to guide homeowners through the selling process.

Sapho

Series B in 2017
Sapho empowers employees with a modern portal experience that surfaces personalized and relevant tasks and data using micro-apps. Sapho micro apps are built by IT on top of existing systems using pre-built templates and a drag-and-drop micro app builder. These micro apps available on any device, intranet, or messenger provide employees proactive notifications about interesting system data, actions that need to be completed, and changes in business data that require attention. It was founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.

Tentrr

Seed Round in 2016
Tentrr is an online discovery platform for the outdoors anchored by the largest network of remarkable privately-owned personal campsites. They empower individual landowners to create remarkable outdoor experiences for their guests through a marketplace of unique products and services. And they take responsibility for every adventure by also connecting campers with the best local activities and events. Through Tentrr campers can easily find and customize an individual outdoor experience. Tentrr was founded in 2015 in New York by Michael D'Agostino.

IMRSV

Debt Financing in 2012
IMRSV is a technology company using computer vision for real-world, real-time data analysis. IMRSV's Cara software is a breakthrough in perceptive computing. Cara turns any webcam into an intelligent sensor enabling new methods of interacting with objects and spaces. Using a basic webcam, anyone can anonymously measure audience gender, age, attention time and glances in real world environments. Use cases include adaptive advertising, retail analytics and internet of things applications. Based in New York City with offices in Singapore, the company is privately backed by various investors.

AllWork

Seed Round in 2019
AllWork, Inc. develops a platform that connects freelancer talent with brands and retailers. The company provides solutions, which includes recruiting, scheduling, training, communications, payments, budgeting, planning, reporting, and human resource administration. It also offers AllWork mobile application which gives managers the ability to improve coverage and make scheduling adjustments for their freelance talent. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.