Impact America Fund
Impact America Fund is an investment firm that is catalyzing the economic liberation of underserved communities in America.
They see tremendous creativity, drive, skill, resilience, and opportunity in communities and sectors that are traditionally overlooked and undervalued.
They invest in businesses with “inherent impact,” whereby the design of their business models and products creates shared value for their consumers, workers, suppliers, investors, and other key stakeholders.
They back entrepreneurs whose lived experiences deepen both their impact-orientation and understanding of the structural problems they are solving.
29 past transactions
Esusu Financial
Series A in 2021
Esusu is the leading financial technology platform that leverages data solutions to empower tenants and improve property performance. Esusu’s rent reporting platform captures rental payment data and reports it into the credit bureaus, enabling tenants to build credit while helping property owners increase revenue, lower evictions, and fill vacancies.
Esusu’s renter ecosystem covers over 500,000 units in 35 states across the United States. Learn more at www.esusurent.com and follow us on Facebook @myesusu and on Twitter @getesusu.
Mindright Health, Inc.
Seed Round in 2022
MINDRIGHT HEALTH, INC. provides mental health coaching over text messages to enable communities to heal from trauma. The company's counseling system matches the profile of a user to a specific coach who further provides solutions and guidance to the user. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Newark, New Jersey.
Esusu Financial
Seed Round in 2020
Esusu is the leading financial technology platform that leverages data solutions to empower tenants and improve property performance. Esusu’s rent reporting platform captures rental payment data and reports it into the credit bureaus, enabling tenants to build credit while helping property owners increase revenue, lower evictions, and fill vacancies.
Esusu’s renter ecosystem covers over 500,000 units in 35 states across the United States. Learn more at www.esusurent.com and follow us on Facebook @myesusu and on Twitter @getesusu.
Upswing
Series A in 2021
Upswing providing a highly flexible and personalized experience to learners and coaches. The company's online academic coaching platform offers students with the ability to select coaches based upon various criteria including price, quality, subjects and previous experiences with other students, thereby enabling students to select coaches and learn from them.
Each session is recorded, aggregated, and reported back to admins so they can become equipped with the tools necessary to help fight student attrition. The data science behind our sessions enables early alerts and predictive measures to better ensure student success.
Camino Financial, Inc.
Seed Round in 2016
Camino Financial, Inc. operates an online platform for small businesses that provides advice on securing capital and building business credit. Its platform provides access to business funding and assists its clients in applying for various funding products, including term loans, SBA express loans, merchant cash advances, and invoice financing. The company also offers financial services, including credit analytics and technical assistance. Camino Financial, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
HandUp.
Funding Round in 2015
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, HandUp aims to partner with non-profit human services organizations to raise money online. These organizations can fundraise for things like special programs, client needs, and program and operational expenses. With HandUp, users can donate to a specific person via their web profile or SMS, learn about their story and needs, and hear updates on their progress. Fulfillment partners and retailers on the ground ensure members use donations on basics like food, clothing, and housing. The company was founded in June 2013.
Esusu Financial
Seed Round in 2020
Esusu is the leading financial technology platform that leverages data solutions to empower tenants and improve property performance. Esusu’s rent reporting platform captures rental payment data and reports it into the credit bureaus, enabling tenants to build credit while helping property owners increase revenue, lower evictions, and fill vacancies.
Esusu’s renter ecosystem covers over 500,000 units in 35 states across the United States. Learn more at www.esusurent.com and follow us on Facebook @myesusu and on Twitter @getesusu.
The Labz
Funding Round in 2021
The Labz creative collaboration and documentation administrative platform that makes the process of intellectual property protection, attribution, contribution and ownership rights painless. While creators create and collaborate in our workspace using our modular tools, we track all of their contributions, automate their ownership percentage calculations and auto-generate forms such as copyrights making the content creation to the ownership documentation process seamless, instant, and memorialized using Blockchain technology.
SMBX, Inc.
Seed Round in 2021
SMBX, Inc. operates an online funding portal, which offers a small business marketplace network for buying and selling small business financial securities and bonds. The company’s portal enable users to discover and invest in businesses and enables small businesses to offer bonds directly to the public without banks and standard regulatory fees. It also operates a mobile application to provide its services. SMBX, Inc. was formerly known as Peerhood, LLC. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Mindright Health, Inc.
Seed Round in 2020
MINDRIGHT HEALTH, INC. provides mental health coaching over text messages to enable communities to heal from trauma. The company's counseling system matches the profile of a user to a specific coach who further provides solutions and guidance to the user. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Newark, New Jersey.
Mayvenn
Series B in 2018
Mayvenn enables Stylists to sell products directly to their clients without the upfront costs and burdens of holding inventory.
At Mayvenn, they are creating the future of salon retail - one hairstylist at a time. Their mission is to empower hairstylists and salon professionals while changing the way people purchase hair extensions and interact with hair companies.
They've experienced tremendous growth since their founding in 2013. oTheir platform has grown into a nationwide movement of over 50,000+ stylists, hundreds of thousands of customers, and millions of dollars invested back into salons across the country.
Upswing
Venture Round in 2019
Upswing providing a highly flexible and personalized experience to learners and coaches. The company's online academic coaching platform offers students with the ability to select coaches based upon various criteria including price, quality, subjects and previous experiences with other students, thereby enabling students to select coaches and learn from them.
Each session is recorded, aggregated, and reported back to admins so they can become equipped with the tools necessary to help fight student attrition. The data science behind our sessions enables early alerts and predictive measures to better ensure student success.
SMBX, Inc.
Seed Round in 2020
SMBX, Inc. operates an online funding portal, which offers a small business marketplace network for buying and selling small business financial securities and bonds. The company’s portal enable users to discover and invest in businesses and enables small businesses to offer bonds directly to the public without banks and standard regulatory fees. It also operates a mobile application to provide its services. SMBX, Inc. was formerly known as Peerhood, LLC. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
SoLo Funds Inc.
Seed Round in 2019
Solo is the community bank redefined where users borrow on their own terms and lend to reap the benefits. SoLo provides the science. SoLo Funds is the leading alternative financial solution providing the fastest loan option to borrowers and option for lenders to obtain significant value. SoLo launched as a unique & proprietary lending marketplace and has since grown to a multifaceted advanced community banking solution powered by individual capital and enabled by insurance, banking products, and dynamic A.I. underwriting.
The Labz
Seed Round in 2021
The Labz creative collaboration and documentation administrative platform that makes the process of intellectual property protection, attribution, contribution and ownership rights painless. While creators create and collaborate in our workspace using our modular tools, we track all of their contributions, automate their ownership percentage calculations and auto-generate forms such as copyrights making the content creation to the ownership documentation process seamless, instant, and memorialized using Blockchain technology.
CareAcademy
Series B in 2022
CareAcademy.co, Inc. operates an online training platform for senior home care agencies and caregiver agency teams. The company offers evidence-based online classes for in-home caregivers. It provides online training programs for caregiver agencies, and professional and caregiver certifications. CareAcademy.co, Inc. was formerly known as Sittercycle.com, Inc. and changed its name to CareAcademy.co, Inc. in 2014. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Guardians Collective
Seed Round in 2021
Guardians Collective provides a community platform for parenting. Its platform harnesses the power of dialogue through mobile technology to eliminate early learning gaps and erase institutionalized boundaries, enabling parents and early educators to collaborate, connect and support each other.
DuckDuckGo
Secondary Market in 2020
We're the Internet privacy company for everyone who's had enough of hidden online tracking and wants to take back their privacy now.
For over a decade, we've built products, created new technology, and worked with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all. Every day, millions of people rely on our free all-in-one solution to stay private online.
In one download we deliver privacy, simplified. Try DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials on Safari, Firefox, & Chrome and the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser for iOS or Android today.
ConnXus
Seed Round in 2015
ConnXus supplier management solutions simplify the complexities of global supply chains and allow buyers to achieve their goals of responsible and sustainable sourcing. ConnXus is a NMSDC, CPUC, CAMSC and State of Ohio-certified minority-owned business enterprise based in Mason, Ohio with local, regional and international capabilities.
Winnie
Series A in 2019
Winnie, Inc. operates an online childcare marketplace for parents to discover local daycares and preschools in the United States. It offers Winnie that is used by parents to learn about programs of daycares and preschools, including detailed descriptions, photos, tuition information, licensing status, availability data, and more. The company’s Winnie is used by childcare providers to fill their open spaces, build their wait lists, and get support and resources to run their business. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
ConnXus
Series A in 2016
ConnXus supplier management solutions simplify the complexities of global supply chains and allow buyers to achieve their goals of responsible and sustainable sourcing. ConnXus is a NMSDC, CPUC, CAMSC and State of Ohio-certified minority-owned business enterprise based in Mason, Ohio with local, regional and international capabilities.
Mayvenn
Convertible Note in 2017
Mayvenn enables Stylists to sell products directly to their clients without the upfront costs and burdens of holding inventory.
At Mayvenn, they are creating the future of salon retail - one hairstylist at a time. Their mission is to empower hairstylists and salon professionals while changing the way people purchase hair extensions and interact with hair companies.
They've experienced tremendous growth since their founding in 2013. oTheir platform has grown into a nationwide movement of over 50,000+ stylists, hundreds of thousands of customers, and millions of dollars invested back into salons across the country.
PawnGuru.com
Series A in 2018
PAWNGURU, INC. operates an online platform to buy, sells, and pawn used goods for pawnshops and their customers. Its platform enables customers to pawn electronics, jewelry, musical equipment, musical instruments, precious metals, power tools, fur coats, vehicles, watches, antiques, and furniture. The company is based in Detroit, Michigan.
PawnGuru.com
Seed Round in 2015
PAWNGURU, INC. operates an online platform to buy, sells, and pawn used goods for pawnshops and their customers. Its platform enables customers to pawn electronics, jewelry, musical equipment, musical instruments, precious metals, power tools, fur coats, vehicles, watches, antiques, and furniture. The company is based in Detroit, Michigan.
Flockjay
Series A in 2021
Flockjay is a $0-upfront online academy that empowers diverse jobseekers with the tools and training they need to break into tech. Our mission is to make tech accessible for people from underrepresented communities.
CareAcademy
Series A in 2020
CareAcademy.co, Inc. operates an online training platform for senior home care agencies and caregiver agency teams. The company offers evidence-based online classes for in-home caregivers. It provides online training programs for caregiver agencies, and professional and caregiver certifications. CareAcademy.co, Inc. was formerly known as Sittercycle.com, Inc. and changed its name to CareAcademy.co, Inc. in 2014. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
ConnXus
Series A in 2018
ConnXus supplier management solutions simplify the complexities of global supply chains and allow buyers to achieve their goals of responsible and sustainable sourcing. ConnXus is a NMSDC, CPUC, CAMSC and State of Ohio-certified minority-owned business enterprise based in Mason, Ohio with local, regional and international capabilities.
SoLo Funds Inc.
Series A in 2021
Solo is the community bank redefined where users borrow on their own terms and lend to reap the benefits. SoLo provides the science. SoLo Funds is the leading alternative financial solution providing the fastest loan option to borrowers and option for lenders to obtain significant value. SoLo launched as a unique & proprietary lending marketplace and has since grown to a multifaceted advanced community banking solution powered by individual capital and enabled by insurance, banking products, and dynamic A.I. underwriting.